HOTFIXES

February 20, 2024

WoW Classic: Season of Discovery

• Increased the number of crafting materials found in Boxes of Gnomeregan Salvage and slightly increased the drop rate of Grime-Encrusted Salvage throughout Gnomeregan.
• Druid
  • Berserk now also increases the number of targets struck by Lacerate while it is active.
  • Starsurge bonus damage to Starfire increased to 80% (was 66%). Corrected a bug causing this bonus damage to be lower than intended at level 40.
  • Swipe now scales with attack power, gaining 10% of attack power as damage.
  • Threat caused by Swipe greatly increased.
  • Rip duration increased to 16 seconds (was 12 seconds).
• Hunter
  • Raptor Strike damage when the Melee Specialist rune is active is now normalized weapon damage.
• Paladin
  • Fixed an issue where Fiery Weapon enchantment and Seal of Martyrdom were triggering each other. Neither can be triggered by the other any longer.
  • Fixed an issue where Fiery Blaze and Fiery Weapon enchantments could trigger or be triggered by Sea...

February 12, 2024

Dungeons and Raids

• The Everbloom
  • Fixed an issue where Rockspine Stinger’s Venom Burst could be applied to non-player targets.

Quests

• Fixed an issue preventing progress as intended on the legendary questline “Handling It”.

Hotfixes

February 12, 2024

WoW Classic: Season of Discovery

• You can now get a new Squall-breakers Potion from Rau Cliffrunner in Freewind Post upon accepting the quest “Calm Before the Storm”.
• Recipe: Lesser Arcane Elixir is now bind-on-pickup.
• The Battle for Ashenvale weekly quests “Clear the Forest!” and “Repelling Invaders” now grant full XP and reputation rewards, through level 40.
• The Ashenvale Rallying Cry world buff is now usable through level 39.
• The Spark of Inspiration world buff now correctly increases +healing.
• Item requirements for the quests “Power of da Wind”, “Power of da Earth”, and “Power of da Water” have been reduced.
• Druid
  • Starsurge base damage reduced by 35%, and its benefit from bonus spell damage effects reduced to 42.9%, matching other instant spells.
  • Starsurge now provides a new effect: your next Starfire cast within 15 seconds deals 66% increased damage.
  • Fixed an issue with Enhanced Restoration preventing Nourish from gaining increased healing from Rejuvena...

February 8, 2024

Achievements

• Support Your Local Artisans now requires donations totaling 50,000 gold (was 70,000) to the Artisan’s Consortium.

Classes

• Shaman
  • Resolved an issue causing Earth Shield casts from another Shaman to sometimes override Earth Shield.

Dungeons and Raids

• Darkheart Thicket
  • Addressed an issue where Archdruid Glaidalis can fail to use Grievous Leap on a player standing on top of a nearby object.
  • Addressed an issue in Archdruid Glaidalis’s encounter where Nightmare Abominations can be stuck in a state of evasion when spawned on top of an elevated surface.
• Dawn of the Infinite: Galakrond’s Fall
  • Addressed an issue where Dazhak’s Incinerating Blightbreath can fizzle if the targeted player dies during Dazhak’s charge.
  • Addressed an issue where Chronofade is not considered an AoE effect.
• The Everbloom
  • Addressed an issue in the Ancient Protectors encounter where Dulhu’s Noxious Charge can still go off if he dies while casting.

Player versus Player

• Priest...

February 1, 2024

Achievements

• Fixed an issue in which the achievement Battle Mender: Season 3 was not providing progress.

Classes

• Mage
  • Shifting Power’s visual will now appear smaller and should be less disruptive for the Mage’s allies.

Dungeons and Raids

• Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope
  • Fyrakk the Blazing
    • Flamebound and Shadowbound are no longer private auras.
    • Developers’ notes: We’ve observed that the common strategy for players executing the Flamebound and Shadowbound mechanics on Mythic Fyrakk involves cumbersome addon/macro setup and execution. Our goal with this change is to remove this burden for players who are progressing on this encounter and refocus the challenge on the gameplay.
• Blackrook Hold
  • Fixed an issue where the enemies around Lady Velendras Ravencrest do not have linked aggro.
• Dawn of the Infinite: Galakrond’s Fall
  • Fixed an issue where Manifested Timeways can occasionally cast Unwind during keystones.
• The Everbloom
  • Fixed an issue where the Ancient Pr...

The Vial of Endless Draconic Scales should now be added to the toybox to those who were affected.

January 23, 2024

Classes

• Paladin
  • Holy
    • Fixed an issue that caused Consecrations from Righteous Judgment to be despawned by new Consecrations.
    • Fixed an issue that caused Blessing of Autumn to not reduce the cooldown of Avenging Wrath.
• Warlock
  • Demonology
    • Fixed an issue where Wild Imps summoned by Spiteful Reconstitution would fixate on far away targets.

Dungeons

• Mythic+
  • Dawn of the Infinite: Rise of Murozond
    • Valow, Timesworn Keeper health reduced by 16%.
    • Lerai, Timesworn Maiden health reduced by 16%, and Ancient Radiance recast time increased.
    • Spurlok, Timesworn Sentinel health reduced by 16%, and Shrouding Sandstorm’s recast time increased.
    • Tyr, the Infinite Keeper Radiant Barrier damage absorb reduced by 15%.
    • Infinite Riftmage health reduced by 10%, and Infinite Burn recast time increased.
    • Time-Lost Battlefield Battle Senses / Thirst for Battle damage reduced by 20%, and Bladestorm movement reduction increased from 33% to 50%.
    • Chrono-Lord Deios Temporal Breath initial d...

Hello, it’s me again!

Thank you for the reports on Vial of Endless Draconic Scales not being added to your toyboxes after the realm restarts. We’re working on a fix to address this issue and we’ll be sure to let you know when the fix is live.

Here are today’s hotfixes and the hotfixes that will be going live with this week’s realm restarts:

January 22, 2024

Achievements

• Fixed an issue where kills on Evokers did not count towards the achievement It Takes Class.

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Developers note: Changes are live after realm restarts.
  • Blood
    • Bone Shield now grants armor based on 80% of Strength (was 70%).
  • Frost
    • All damage dealt increased by 4%. Not applied to PvP combat.
  • Unholy
    • All damage dealt by you and your pet’s abilities increased by 4%. Not applied to PvP combat.
• Druid
  • Developers note: Changes are live after realm restarts.
  • Feral
    • Rip damage increased by 10%. Not applied to PvP combat.
    • Rake periodic damage increased by 5%. Not applied to PvP combat.
    • Primal Wrath damage increased by 10%. Not applied to PvP combat.
    • Feral Frenzy damage increased by 5%. Not applied to PvP combat.
    • Lunar Inspiration damage increased by 10%.
    • Rampant Ferocity damage increased by 25%.
  • Restoration
    • Swiftmend now costs 1.4% bas...

Added a few additional PvP tuning changes with this week’s realm restarts:

Player vs. Player Changes

• Druid
  • Bear Form now increases armor by 175% in PvP (was 220%).
• Shaman
  • Elemental
    • Armor reduced by 12.5% in PvP.
• Warlock
  • Demon Skin increases armor by 22.5%/45% in PvP (was 45%/90%).
• Warrior
  • Armored to the Teeth effectiveness increased by 45% in PvP.

Hello dragonriders!

We’ve heard your concerns about the Manuscript of Endless Possibilities and will be changing it into an account bound toy. While we get that change ready, the option to purchase the Manuscript of Endless Possibilities will be disabled in the next few hours once you’ve acquired it with one of your characters. Any character who has the Manuscript of Endless Possibilities purchased before our change will automatically be given the toy!

Hotfixes

January 30, 2024

Achievements

• The Title and Achievement Champion of the Dragonflights are now available to those who have completed the quest “Fair Skies and Strong Winds”.
• Adjusted Sergeant Quackers’ responsiveness so that he is now more lenient with the number of nearby ducks he requires before joining the fight for Ducks in a Row.

Classes

• Shaman
  • Resolved an issue causing Poison Cleansing Totem to not ignore line of sight.
  • Elemental
    • Corrected an issue where your character could sometimes get stuck in a state where they cannot use Lava Burst when previously having been talented into Elemental Blast.
    • Resolved an issue causing Primordial Bond to be incorrectly removed when an elemental dies or despawns while another elemental is active.

Dungeons

• Atal’Dazar
  • Addressed an issue where the Rezan encounter can unexpectedly reset.
• Dawn of the Infinite: Rise of Murozond
  • Addressed an issue where the visual for Spark of Tyr does not snap to ground.
  • Addressed an issue where...

January 8, 2024

Classes

• Demon Hunter
  • Vengeance
    • Fixed an issue that prevented Volatile Flameblood’s Fury generation from correctly randomizing each time it triggers.

Dungeons and Raids

• Dawn of the Infinite: Galakrond’s Fall
  • Blight of Galakrond
    • Fixed an issue where the slimes that revive Dazhak and Loszkeleth could sometimes melee players.

Season of Discovery

• [With weekly restarts] The Battle for Ashenvale now has minimum and maximum times between battles. It will now never restart sooner than about 2 hours after its last start, and will not take longer than about 3 hours since its last start. If player activity is very low or very high, the percentage progress will be sped up or slowed down to match those time constraints.
• [With weekly restarts] Battle for Ashenvale quests “Clear the Forest!” and “Repelling Invaders” now award 1000 reputation (was 200).

January 8, 2024

Season of Discovery

• [With weekly restarts] The Battle for Ashenvale now has minimum and maximum times between battles. It will now never restart sooner than about 2 hours after its last start, and will not take longer than about 3 hours since its last start. If player activity is very low or very high, the percentage progress will be sped up or slowed down to match those time constraints.
• [With weekly restarts] Battle for Ashenvale quests “Clear the Forest!” and “Repelling Invaders” now award 1000 reputation (was 200).

January 5, 2024

Dungeons and Raids

• Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope
  • Fyrakk
    • Developers’ note: Fyrakk poses unique problems for smaller groups in Flexible Raid difficulties. The following changes are intended to narrow the gap in difficulty among group sizes.
    • Aflame now targets fewer players.
    • Screaming Soul health reduced for smaller group sizes.
    • Spirit of the Kaldorei health reduced for smaller group sizes.
    • Blaze damage reduced for smaller group sizes.
    • Corrupt absorb value reduced for smaller group sizes.

Season of Discovery

• Crafted Void-Touched Armor on-use effects are now exclusive with each other and share a cooldown.

January 5, 2024

Season of Discovery

• Crafted Void-Touched Armor on-use effects are now exclusive with each other and share a cooldown.

January 2, 2024

Items

• Fixed an issue that was causing Ms. Xiulan’s Blackmarket goods to not be available in some regions.

Season of Discovery

• Two additional Spirit Healers will be present during the Battle for Ashenvale in the northwest of the zone.

January 2, 2024

Season of Discovery

• Two additional Spirit Healers will be present during the Battle for Ashenvale in the northwest of the zone.

The Seeds of Renewal PTR has been updated with the following changes:

USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY

• All appearances received from quest rewards will now have a chat message.
• Interacting with the Auction House quantity field should now be a much more consistent experience.
• All toasts can now be immediately dismissed with a right click. This includes toasts that appear near the top-center of the screen, such as Great Vault unlocks.
• Artwork for the leader ability toggle in Follower Dungeons has been updated.
• Edit Mode Frame Snapping Improvements:
  • Can now snap a frame to any intersection of grid lines.
  • Can now snap a frame’s center to any grid line (previously only available for center purple grid lines).
  • Edges of frames can now snap to the horizontal and vertical center lines regardless of whether the grid is enabled.

December 14, 2023

Classes

• Druid
  • Feral
    • Heart of the Wild no longer unintentionally grants Combo Points to Feral Druids.
  • Guardian
    • Fixed an issue causing Blazing Thorns and Dream Thorns to clear when engaging a Mythic+ boss.
    • Fixed an issue causing Blazing Thorns to proc on targets which were not in combat with the player.

Dungeons and Raids

• Darkheart Thicket
  • Addressed an issue where Tormented Bloodseeker’s Darksoul Bite is draining more health than intended in Mythic+ difficulties.
• Waycrest Manor
  • Addressed a Heartsbane Triad issue where Sisters without the iris can quickly melee nearby targets upon being interrupted.

Season of Discovery

• Healing Rain will no longer interrupt the auto-attack swing timer of the casting Shaman every time it heals.
• Living Flame will now cease to spread and deal damage if the Mage caster no longer has the rune equipped.
• Regeneration and Mass Regeneration will now properly consume Arcane Blast when they benefit from it, regardless of the Mage...