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Hotfixes: October 14, 2024

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October 15, 2024

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Here you’ll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: The War Within, Cataclysm Classic, Season of Discovery, WoW Classic Era, and Hardcore. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.

Hotfixes

October 14, 2024

Achievements

The achievements Vox Arachni, True Strength, and The Grand Tapestry should now trigger as expected.

Classes

Mage
- Fire
  - Corrected an issue with Controlled Destruction’s damage bonus to Ignite.

Warlock
- Demonology
  - Fixed an issue where Ruination and Infernal Bolt could not be interrupted.

Delves

Defeating Zekvir in his Lair now rewards Crests and Valorstones once per character per week.

Dungeons and Raids

Wrath of the Lich King Timewalking
- Fixed an issue where Titan Prison Fragment cannot be looted if Yogg-Saron was already killed this week.

The Dawnbreaker
- Rasha’nan will no longer continue fighting the player after being brought below 60% health.
- Resolved an issue causing Encroaching Shadows to be removed by immunity effects.

Siege of Boralus
- Resolved an issue causing Fiery Ricochet to not apply its damage over time if a target was far away.
- Resolved an issue that caused Sighted Artillery to not target players farther away from Dread Captiain Lockwood.

Stonevault
- Resolved an issue causing summons such as Auto-Hammers from destroying Volatile Spikes on E.D.N.A

Nerub-ar Palace
- Queen Ansurek
  - Frothy Toxin damage reduced by 15% on Heroic difficulty.
  - Gloom Blast damage reduced by 15% on Heroic difficulty.
  - When calculating applications of Frothy Toxin, only living players are now counted towards the maximum possible application amount on Heroic and Mythic difficulties.
  - On Mythic difficulty:
    - Queen Ansurek’s health reduced by 5%.
    - Frothy Toxin damage reduced by 26.7%.
    - Silken Tomb health reduced by 20%.
    - Wrest damage (Intermission) reduced by 25%.
    - Grasping Silk maximum size reduced by 10%.
    - Shadowgate cast time increased by 20%.
    - Gloom Blast damage reduced by 25%.
    - Acolyte’s Essence periodic damage reduced by 15%.
    - Essence Scarred duration reduced by 50%.
    - Royal Condemnation damage reduced by 10%.
    - Summoned Acolyte health and Dark Barrier shield amount reduced by 15%.
    - Royal Shackle health reduced by 15%.

Player versus Player

Resolved an issue that allowed Battleground Blitz to grant progress towards the Vicious Skyflayer mount while below the required rating.

October 10, 2024

Classes

Warlock
- Demonology
  - Fixed an issue where summoning Vilefiend, Charhound, or Gloomhound would break opposing players stealth.

Warrior
- Fury
  - Mountain Thane: Fixed a bug that could cause Bloodthirst to fail to proc Thunder Blast in some cases if the player had swapped from the Protection specialization.

Dungeons and Raids

Runed Crests are now awarded up to Mythic+7.

Gilded Crests are now awarded beginning at Mythic+8.

Increased the duration of the buffs granted by Xal’atath’s Bargain Affixes to 30 seconds (was 20 seconds).
- Developers’ notes: We’ve been closely monitoring the impact of the bonuses provided by Xal’atath’s Bargain affixes, and we’re increasing their overall power level on players. We will continue to monitor the effectiveness of these buffs as well as the challenges these affixes present.

Xal’atath’s Guile now increases enemy health and damage by 10% (was 20%).
- Developers’ notes: With the increase to the buffs granted to players by Xal’atath’s Bargain we’re reducing the effectiveness of of Xal’atath’s Guile, to allow players to push deeper into the Keystone system with current item levels.

The Dawnbreaker
- Resolved an issue causing the previsual for Dark Orb on Anub’ikkaj to scale with player size.

Mists of Tirna Scithe
- Dodgeball will no longer inflict damage to illusions or adds created by Xal’atath.

Siege of Boralus
- Resolved an issue allowing Chopper Redhook to be pulled by spells such as Halo, and Starfall.

Nerub-ar Palace
- Silken Court
  - Corrected issues causing Anub’arash to not burrow during the first intermission and failing to cast Spike Storm in the second intermission.

Player versus Player

Fixed an issue causing the Rated PvP tab to be unintentionally grayed-out.

Professions

Delver’s Pouch of Reagents sold by Sir Finley Mrrgglton at the Delver’s Headquarters in Dornogal now costs 500 Undercoin (was 1500) and contains 3 random Delve reagents (was 2).

Profaned Tinderbox can now be purchased from Blacksmithing Supplies vendors Borgos and Sofee Batalsworn in exchange for 3 Ringing Deeps Ingots, or 3 Vial of Kaheti Oils, or 3 Viridian Charmcaps, or 3 Gloomfathom Hides.

October 9, 2024

Dungeons

City of Threads
- Void puddles will no longer spawn if the boss is immediately reset during the Coaglamation fight.
- Fixed an issue that caused Echoing Shade and Nx’s Duskbringer to instantly deal damage instead of fading at the end of the Fangs of the Queen encounter

The Dawnbreaker
- When modified by Xal’atath’s Bargain: Devour, the amount of healing Rasha’nan can receive has been adjusted to be more appropriate for the encounter.

Player versus Player

Paladin
- Retribution
  - Templar: Fixed a bug preventing recent PvP tuning from taking effect.

Season of Discovery

Fixed an issue where Envenom was not increasing Instant Poison’s frequency unless the Rogue was also using Deadly Brew. It will now always increase the chance properly.

Cataclysm Classic

It is no longer possible for a Paladin to have Beacon of Light active while not talented into it. If the talent is lost, Beacon of Light will cancel itself within a few seconds.

October 8, 2024

Classes

Death Knight
- Blood
  - San’layn: Vampiric Strike damage increased by 30%.
  - San’layn: Infliction of Sorrow now deals 20% of the remaining disease damage to the enemy when it extends its duration (was 15%).
  - San’layn: Infliction of Sorrow now deals 130% of the remaining disease damage to the enemy when it consumes it (was 100%).
  - San’layn: Visceral Strength now grants 12% Strength for 12 seconds (was 8% Strength for 8 seconds).
  - San’layn: Frenzied Bloodthirst now increases the damage of Death Strike by 6% per stack (was 5%).

Demon Hunter
- Havoc
  - Aldrachi Reaver: Wounded Quarry damage increased by 100%.
  - Aldrachi Reaver: Warblade’s Hunger damage increased by 100%.
  - Aldrachi Reaver: Reaver’s Glaive damage increased by 15%.
- Vengeance
  - Mastery: Fel Blood effectiveness increased by 20%.
  - Shattered Souls healing per soul increased to 7% of recent damage taken (was 6%).
  - Soul Barrier base absorb value increased by 50% and absorb value per soul increased by 100%.

Druid
- Feral
  - Wildstalker: Chance for Bloodseeker Vines to grow on a single target is unchanged, but slightly increased when Rip and Rake are on multiple targets.
  - Wildstalker: Bursting Growth damage increased by 10%.
- Restoration
  - All healing increased by 5%. Does not affect PvP combat.
  - Cenarion Ward healing increased by 40%.

Evoker
- Augmentation
  - Blistering Scales grants allies 20% of your armor (was 30%).
- Devastation
  - Flameshaper: Consume Flame damage increased by 25%.
  - Flameshaper: Engulf damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat.
- Preservation
  - Flameshaper: Engulf healing increased by 20%.
  - Flameshaper: Consume Flame healing reduced by 50%.

Hunter
- Beast Mastery
  - Basilisk Collar damage bonus per damage over time effect reduced to 2%/4% (was 5%/10%).
  - Kill Command damage increased by 18%.
  - All damage dealt by you and your pet’s abilities increased by 8%.
    - Developers’ notes: We’ve adjusted the values for the baseline buff up, to better reach our target goals. Our intended tuning change for Beast Mastery is intended to be relatively neutral for single target, while increasing AoE performance, which was behind where it should be.
- Survival
  - Nerub-ar Palace 2-Set Bonus: Now increases Wildfire Bomb damage by 8% (was 5%).
  - Nerub-ar Palace 4-Set Bonus: Now increases Raptor Strike/Mongoose Bite damage by 20% on targets affected by Wildfire Bomb (was 10%).

Mage
- Hero Talents
  - Frostfire: Frostfire Bolt damage increased by 15%.
  - Frostfire: Frostfire Infusion damage increased by 50%.
  - Frostfire: Frostfire Empowerment damage bonus increased to 60% (was 50%).
  - Frostfire: Frost Mastery now grants 2% Mastery (was 1% Mastery).

Monk
- Hero Talents
  - Master of Harmony: Stored Vitality causes an additional 40% healing and damage (was 25%).
- Brewmaster
  - Mastery of Harmony: Coalescence now causes Aspect of Harmony to increase damage and healing taken by 20%.
  - Master of Harmony: Chi Wave and Chi Burst deals 100% increased damage (was 50%).
  - Master of Harmony: Overwhelming Force increased to 20% (was 15%).
  - Master of Harmony: Balanced Stratagem increases damage to 5% (was 3%).
- Mistweaver
  - Mastery of Harmony: Fixed an issue that caused Coalescence to not increase the healing taken during Aspect of Harmony.
  - Master of Harmony: Coalescence now causes Aspect of Harmony to increase damage and healing taken by 20% (was 30%).
    - Developer’s note: After fixing a bug that prevented Coalescence healing taken effect from functioning, we found that we needed to reduce its effectiveness a bit.
  - Aspect of Harmony now stores 30% of healing done (was 20%).
- Windwalker
  - Conduit of the Celestials: Celestial Conduit now scales its damage with Mastery: Combo Strikes.

Paladin
- Holy
  - Lightsmith: Awakening now causes Blessing of the Forge to spawn a Sacred Weapon when extending the duration of Avenging Wrath.
  - Lightsmith: Hammer and Anvil’s healing effect radius increased to 20 yards (was 5 yards).
  - Lightsmith: Hammer and Anvil’s healing increased by 150%.
  - Lightsmith: Divine Guidance effect increased by 50%.
  - Fixed a bug causing Dawnlight to not have its healing reduced beyond 5 targets.
  - Dawnlight healing increased by 30%.
    - Developers’ notes: We’re correcting the bug with Dawnlight and compensating with a buff to its healing to keep its value in raid close to its current performance, while giving it increased performance in 5 party group content.
- Protection
  - All ability damage increased by 6%.
  - Word of Glory healing increased by 20%.
  - Light of the Titans now heals over 10 seconds (was 15 seconds).
  - Faith in the Light duration increased to 6 seconds (was 5 seconds).
  - Lightsmith: Sacred Weapon damage and healing increased by 30%.
  - Lightsmith: Forge’s Reckoning damage increased by 30%.
  - Lightsmith: Blessed Assurance increases the damage of your next Crusader Strike/Hammer of the Righteous/Blessed Hammer by 200% (was 100%).
  - Lightsmith: Divine Guidance damage and healing increased by 50%.
  - Lightsmith: Hammer and Anvil damage increased by 40%.
  - Lightsmith: Sanctification grants 2% increased primary stat (was 1%).
- Retribution
  - Templar: Shake the Heavens lasts for 10 seconds (was 8 seconds).
  - Templar: Sanctification duration increased to 12 seconds (was 10 seconds).
  - Templar: Final Reckoning now increases the damage of Hammer of Light by 30% (was 15%).
  - Templar: Hammer of Light main target damage increased by 25%.
  - Templar: Hammer of Light secondary target damage increased by 75%.
  - Templar: Light’s Deliverance now triggers at 50 stacks (was 60).
  - Templar: Undisputed Ruling grants 15% Haste for 8 seconds (was 12% Haste for 6 seconds).
  - Templar: Wrathful Descent now deals 125% of the Empyrean Hammer damage to nearby enemies (was 100%).
  - Templar: Empyrean Hammer now benefits from Penitence and Burn to Ash.

Priest
- Shadow
  - Mind Blast damage increased by 10%.
  - Shadow Word: Death damage increased by 10%.
  - Void Bolt damage increased by 10%.
  - Shadowy Apparition damage increased by 10%.
  - Voidweaver: Entropic Rift damage increased by 10%.
  - Voidweaver: Void Blast damage increased by 20%.
  - Voidweaver: Collapsing Void damage increased by 10%.
  - Voidweaver: Void Flay damage increased by 10%.
  - Voidweaver: Inner Quietus now increases Vampiric Touch and Shadow Word: Pain damage by 25% (was 20%).

Rogue
- Hero Talents
  - Deathstalker: Follow the Blood effect now requires 2 targets afflicted with Rupture (was 3 targets).
- Assassination
  - Caustic Spatter poison damage dealt to nearby targets reduced to 40% (was 45%).
  - Nerub-ar Palace 2-Set Bonus: Chance to trigger Vile Tincture increased.
  - Nerub-ar Palace 2-Set Bonus: Vile Tincture’s poison damage buff now correctly affects Envenom, Kingsbane, and appropriate Hero Talent effects.
  - Nerub-ar Palace 4-Set Bonus: Thrombotic Tincture now correctly applies upon gaining 5 stacks of Vile Tincture (was 6 stacks).
  - Developer’s note: We expect these changes to result in a net increase in overall damage, weighted heavily towards single target.
- Outlaw
  - All ability damage increased by 4%.
  - Dispatch damage increased by 6%.
  - Precise Cuts bonus to Blade Flurry damage per missing target increased to 4% (was 2%).
- Subtlety
  - Black Powder damage increased by 35%.

Shaman
- Restoration
  - Earthen Harmony now causes Earth Shield to reduce damage taken by 3% (was 5%). Does not affect PvP combat.
  - Acid Raid damage reduced by 20%.

Warlock
- Demonology
  - Pact of the Ered’ruin Doomguards deal 20% increased damage.
  - Grimoire: Felguard now increases the damage of the summoned Felguard by 60% (was 45%).
  - Felguard damage increased by 10%.
  - Gloomhound’s Gloom Slash damage increased by 20%.

Warrior
- Hero Talents
  - Colossus: Arterial Bleed causes Colossal Might to increase the damage dealt by Deep Wounds and Rend by 3% per stack (was 2%).
  - Colossus: No Stranger to Pain increases total damage ignored by Ignore Pain by 20% (was 15%).
  - Mountain Thane: Lightning Strikes damage increased by 25%.
  - Mountain Thane: Ground Current damage increased by 25%.
  - Mountain Thane: Thorim’s Might causes Lightning Strikes to generate 3 Rage (was 5).
  - Mountain Thane: Thorim’s Might increases Revenge, Raging Blow, and Execute damage by 25% (was 15%).
  - Slayer: Culling Cyclone bonus Bladestorm damage reduced to 10% (was 20%).
  - Slayer: Opportunist now increases the damage and critical strike damage of your next Overpower or Raging Blow by 20% (was 30%).
- Fury
  - Nerub-ar Palace 2-Set Bonus: Bloodthirst increases the damage of your next Rampage by 15% (was 10%). Does not affect PvP combat.
  - Nerub-ar Palace 4-Set Bonus: When Raging Blow resets its own cooldown, the damage of your next Bloodthirst is increased by 20%, stacking up to 2 times (was 10%). Does not affect PvP combat.
  - Mountain Thane: Crashing Thunder causes Thunder Clap to generate 8 Rage (was 5).
  - Mountain Thane: Strength of the Mountain increases Bloodthirst and Rampage damage by 30% (was 20%).
- Protection
  - Mountain Thane: Thunder Blast generates 8 Rage (was 10).

Items and Rewards

Zekvir’s Lair no longer rewards Great Vault credit.

Addressed an issue with “Special Assignment” World Quests rewarding additional Great Vault credit.

Player versus Player

Crests now drop from Rated PvP activities. Weathered Harbinger Crests are now rewarded by Combatant 1 activities. Carved Harbinger Crests are now rewarded by Combatant 2, Challenger 1, and Challenger 2 activities. Runed Harbinger Crests are now rewarded by Rival 1 and Rival 2 activities. Gilded Harbinger Crests are now rewarded by Duelist and Elite activities.

Battleground Blitz
- In Eye of the Storm, the first bases will spawn 20 seconds after the match starts (was 15 seconds), and after a flag is turned in, active bases will alternate after 20 seconds (was 15 seconds).

Death Knight
- Unholy
  - Death Coil damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
  - Virulent Plague damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
  - Frost Fever damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
  - Blood Plague damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.

Demon Hunter
- Havoc
  - All ability damage increased by 4% in PvP combat.
  - Immolation Aura damage increased by 13.6% in PvP combat.

Druid
- Feral
  - Ferocious Wound (PvP Talent) now decreases maximum health by 3% per stack (was 5%).
- Restoration
  - Tranquility healing increased by 30% in PvP combat.
  - Mana regeneration now reduced by 40% in PvP combat (was 50%).

Hunter
- Survival of the Fittest now provides 25% damage reduction in PvP combat (was 30%).
- Survival Tactics (PvP Talent) now has a 2 second duration (was 3 seconds).
- Hero Talents
  - Dark Ranger: Smoke Screen now applies Survival of the Fittest at 50% effectiveness in PvP combat.
  - Sentinel: Don’t Look Back effectiveness reduced by 50% in PvP combat.

Mage
- Frigid Winds is now 50% effective in PvP combat.
- Arcane
  - Arcane Missiles damage increased by 35% in PvP combat (was 20%).
  - Arcane Orb damage increased by 40% in PvP combat (was 30%).
- Fire
  - Pyroblast damage increased by 20% in PvP combat.
  - Fireball damage increased by 150% in PvP combat (was 100%).
  - Scorch damage increased by 300% in PvP combat (was 200%).
  - Ignite damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  - World in Flames (PvP Talent) now increases Flamestrike damage by up to 50% (was 100%).
  - Glass Cannon (PvP Talent) now decreases health by 30% (was 15%) and increases the damage done by Scorch, Fireball, and Ignite by 20% (was 30%).

Shaman
- Healing Stream Totem healing increased by 15% in PvP combat.
- Elemental
  - Lightning Bolt damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  - Chain Lightning damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  - Tempest damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
- Restoration
  - Healing Wave healing increased by 10% in PvP combat.
  - Healing Surge healing increased by 10% in PvP combat.

Warlock
- The effectiveness of Demon Skin’s armor bonus is no longer reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
- Demonic Resilience now reduces the damage taken by your primary pet by an additional 67% in PvP combat.
- Affliction
  - Malevolent Visionary damage reduced by 30% in PvP combat.
  - Shadowbolt Volley damage reduced by 25% in PvP combat.
  - Soul Harvester: Wicked Reaping damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat.
  - Soul Harvester: Soul Anathema damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat.
  - Soul Harvester: Demonic Soul damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat.
- Demonology
  - Demonbolt damage increased by 40% in PvP combat.

Warrior
- Defensive Stance now reduces damage taken by 15% in PvP combat (was 10%).
- Arms
  - Execute damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  - Mortal Strike damage increased by 55% in PvP combat (was 35%).
  - Master and Commander now reduces the cooldown of Rallying Cry by 120 seconds (was 90 seconds) and increases its effect by an additional 10% (was 15%).
- Protection
  - Execute damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.

Season of Discovery

Battlegrounds
- Arathi Basin and Warsong Gulch now award more Marks of Honor to the losing team when the match ends, based on the performance of the losing team.
- The losing team will always get 1 Mark of Honor, plus 1 extra for each flag capture in Warsong Gulch, or for each 600 resources earned in Arathi Basin.
- The winning team will now always receive 4 Marks of Honor.

Mage
- Fixed a problem with the Tier 2 Mage 6-piece damage set bonus that caused Fireball damage to not be increased unless the Mage was within 24 yards of the target. It will now work properly at any range.

Priest
- Mind Spike now properly consumes charges from the Zandalarian Hero Charm.

Rogue
- The Venomous Totem will now properly increase the chance for Instant Poison to trigger from Deadly Brew (when no poison is applied).

Cataclysm Classic

Priest
- Fixed an issue with the range on Atonement’s healing.

October 7, 2024

Classes

Warlock
- Demonology
  - Fixed an issue where Empowered Legion Strike would be consumed by other abilities.

Dungeons and Raids

The Dawnbreaker
- Addressed an issue where Void Emissary can cause Speaker Shadowcrown to reset.

Items and Rewards

In Mythic+ dungeons, Mace of Transformed Bone now provides a consistent amount of Strength.

Gear purchased from Renown quartermasters can no longer be disenchanted.

The Wrath of the Lich King Timewalking quest “Disturbance Detected: Ulduar” will now reward 300 badges for repeat completions. As before, it rewards 500 badges the first time on your account.

The Wrath of the Lich King Timewalking quest “The Unstable Prism” will now reward 200 badges for repeat completions. As before, it rewards 500 badges the first time on your account.
- Developers’ notes: Now that Timewarped Badges are Warbound, we want the activity of playing alts to provide a modest bonus. Some players are holding a great many badges, and we hope the upcoming Timewalking vendor updates will provide an outlet for them. We will continue to watch how this economy goes in a Warbound world. Future Timewalking weeks will also have their version of this quest updated.

Player versus Player

Fixed an issue where the flag in Eye of the Storm could be picked up while immune after being dropped.

Mage
- Frost
  - Fixed an issue where Mages could stand inside their Ice Wall to avoid line of sight.

Season of Discovery

Prince Thunderaan’s Squall now increases in damage every cast, his Chain Lightning should no longer fail to cast, the damage of his Lightning Cloud and Cyclonic Winds has been increased, and Lightning Cloud now afflicts damage more frequently.

Players may now learn both Armorsmithing and Weaponsmithing at the same time.

The Blackwing Lair Trials can no longer be disabled once Nefarian has been defeated.

October 3, 2024

Classes

Evoker
- Augmentation
  - Fixed a Scalecommander issue where Mass Eruption would amplify the number of targets struck by the Overlord talent.
  - Fixed an issue where Overlord could apply Bombardments to enemy targets if Mass Eruption was active.

Delves

Fixed an issue where Brann’s Gathering Tools could fail to gather rewards.

Dungeons and Raids

Affixes
- Xal’atath’s Bargain now affects the cooldowns of additional spells.

Grim Batol
- Addressed an issue where Drahga Shadowburner’s encounter can reset unexpectedly.

The Dawnbreaker
- Addressed an issue where Void Emissary can cause Speaker Shadowcrown to reset.

Siege of Boralus
- Addressed an issue where Dread Captain Lockwood can have second wave of adds spawn during intermission.

Items

Ovi’nax’s Mercurial Egg effects increased by 5%.

Cataclysm Classic

Players must now kill Daakara to complete Zul’Aman via the Random Dungeon Finder tool and receive Valor Points.

Druid
- The fiery cat form from Fandral’s Flamescythe no longer cancels on leaving combat.

WoW Classic Era

Hunter
- Efficiency now properly decreases the mana cost of Raptor Strike.

October 2, 2024

Classes

Warlock
- Destruction
  - Fixed a Diabolist issue where Ruination would consume Crashing Chaos.

Delves

Earthcrawl Mines
- Increased Web General Ab’enar’s fire area of effect visual on Burning Cart to match its damaging area of effect.

Dungeons and Raids

Mythic+ Affixes
- Xal’atath’s Bargain: Voidbound no longer increases Void Emissary health.
  - Developers’ notes: This was a reversal of a change we recently made. Blessing from Beyond still grants players 50% increased cooldown reduction.

Items

Fixed an issue where purchasing Shackled Shadow would remove Vermillion Imperial Lynx from Auralia Steelstrike’s offerings.

Player versus Player

Fixed an issue where quest credit was not being properly granted for “Preserving Solo”.

Professions

Jewelcrafting
- Fixed an issue that prevented Magnificent Jeweler’s Setting and Nerubian Gemweaver from functioning on Timewalking Raid items. This fix is not retroactive.

Season of Discovery

Fixed an issue where the changing of the Bonus Weekly Affix didn’t align correctly with regional weekly reset times.

Blackwing Lair
- Fixed an issue that would cause players killed in the first phase of the Nefarian fight to be ineligible for the bonus chest loot.
- Fixed an issue that occasionally prevented Nefarian from respawning after the raid wiped in Phase 2.

Priest
- Fixed the trinket Cassandra’s Tome so that critical strike chance is increased every time Penance heals or deals damage (was the first per cast), Holy Nova will always consume a charge, even if it only heals, and Circle of Healing will now benefit from the increased critical strike chance and consume the effect when it does.
- Inner Focus now properly increases the critical strike chance of Circle of Healing.

Shaman
- The Static Shock rune no longer requires multiple players to obtain.

Warrior
- Fixed an issue with the tooltips on Booming Voice and Thunder Clap not updating to the intended functionality.

October 1, 2024

Classes

Evoker
- Preservation
  - Consume Flame no longer gains double benefit from Versatility.
  - Fixed an issue where Consume Flame was gaining more benefit than intended from Attuned to the Dream.

Warlock
- Diabolist: Fixed an issue where Overlord, Mother of Chaos, or Pit Lord could aggro nearby enemies.
- Diabolist: Fixed an issue where Flames of Xoroth was providing much higher of a benefit than intended.
- Hellcaller: Fixed an issue where Xalan’s Ferocity was providing much higher benefit than intended.
- Hellcaller: Fixed an issue where Xalan’s Cruelty was providing much higher benefit than intended.
- Demonology
  - Fixed an issue where Houndmaster’s Gambit was not appearing on Dreadstalkers.
  - Fixed an issue where Demonic Brutality was not functioning.
  - Fixed an issue where Improved Demonic Tactics would not increase your pet’s critical strike chance.
- Destruction
  - Fixed an issue where Avatar of Destruction would consume 2 stacks of Crashing Chaos.

Delves

Fixed an issue where Brann’s Gathering Tools could fail to gather rewards.

The following list of delve sourced reagents can now be found in any delve’s Heavy Trunks:
- Profaned Tinderbox
- Viridian Charmcap
- Ringing Deeps Ingot
- Gloomfathom Hide
- Vial of Kaheti Oils

Dungeons and Raids

Mythic+ Affixes
- Updated Xal’atath’s Bargain: Voidbound’s aura description to correctly reflect the cooldown reduction granted.

Grim Batol
- Drahga Shadowburner
  - Improved the visibility of Twilight Wind.
  - Movement speed of the Twilight Wind reduced by 15%.
  - Movement speed reduction to players inside the area trigger reduced to 10%.
  - Fixed an issue that allowed players to be hit multiple times by a Twilight Wind.
- Mutated Hatchling
  - Melee damage reduced by 66%.
  - Melee attacks can no longer critically strike.
- Valiona
- Erudax
  - Abyssal Corruption now targets 2 players (was 3).
- Twilight Lavabender
  - Scorching Heat’s damage reduced by 25%.

Mists of Tirna Scithe
- Addressed an issue where Volatile Acid could not be removed by Magic immunities.

Siege of Boralus
- Scrimshaw Gutter
  - No longer flees at low health.
- Chopper Redhook
  - Players now gain a short immunity to Irontide Cleaver’s Heavy Slash after suffering from Iron Hook.
- Irontide Raider and Ashvane Commander
  - Adjusted the timings of Iron Hook and Azerite Charge.

The Dawnbreaker
- Fixed an issue where players couldn’t fly after defeating Anub’ikkaj and before engaging in combat with Rasha’nan.
- Rashanan
  - Fixed an issue where Shadowstep and Feral Lunge couldn’t be used during phase 2.

The Stonevault
- Rocksmasher
  - Now casts Smash Rock less frequently.
- Turned Speaker
  - Now casts Censoring Gear less frequently.
- Void Speaker Eirich
  - Fixed an issue where Entropy can spawn in the air if the targeted player is jumping.

Nerub-ar Palace
- Broodtwister Ovi’nax
  - Broodtwister Ovi’nax health reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Experimental Dosage duration increased to 8 seconds on Mythic difficulty.
  - Poison Burst cast time increased to 4 seconds on Mythic difficulty.
  - Volatile Concoction periodic damage reduced by 30% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Mutation: Accelerated increases movement speed of Blood Parasites by 10% every 2 seconds (was every 1 second) on Heroic and Mythic difficulties.
  - Blood Parasites are no longer immune to crowd control while casting Infest.
  - Fixed an issue where Blood Parasites would sometimes melee players.
  - Vile Discharge damage reduced by 20% on Mythic difficulty.
- Nexus-Princess Ky’veza
  - Health reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Chasmal Gash now persists through death on all difficulties.
  - Assassination damage reduced by 20% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Twilight Massacre damage reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Queensbane damage over time effect reduced by 17% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Queensbane expiration damage reduced by 25% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Starless Night damage reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Eternal Night damage reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Fixed an issue causing Assassination and Twilight Massacre to pierce some immunities on all difficulties.
- The Silken Court
  - Motes will now spawn more reliably at each player’s exact location.
- Queen Ansurek
  - Adjusted the visual of Web Blades to more closely match the damage event timing.
  - Fixed an issue specific to Raid Finder that sometimes caused pets and guardians to not follow their owner when traveling between platforms in Phase 2.

Items

Aberrant Spellforge damage and Haste effects increased by 5%.

Ovi’nax’s Mercurial Egg effects increased by 5%.

Throngus’s Finger dodge increased by 25%.

Overclocked Gear-a-Rang Launcher damage increased by 5%.

Twin Fang Instruments damage increased by 10%.

High Speaker’s Accretion intellect effect increased by 25%.

Player versus Player

Mage
- Frost
  - Ice Wall can no longer be used in the capital city Dornogal.

Season of Discovery

Blackwing Lair
- Cloak of Draconic Might and Essence Gatherer have been updated to their intended item level 75 (was item level 70).
  - For Cloak of Draconic Might, this increased its armor and stats slightly.
  - For Essence Gatherer, this increased its damage and stats slightly.

Molten Core
- Shazzrah will no longer create two clones on Heat 3.

Mage
- Fixed an issue where the tier 1 6-piece armor set bonus was cancelling Mage Armor and Molten Armor buffs when the Mage traveled between zones and instances.
- Players are now able to restart “Essence of Fire” quest after abandoning it. Additionally, “Essence of Fire” can be picked up from Jennea Cannon or Oran Snakewrithe if previously abandoned, so long as players retain an item from that quest.

Warlock
- Doan Karhan can now be spoken to outside of Demon Fall Canyon regardless of which step of “The Final Test” the player is on.
- Abandoning “The Final Test” won’t destroy the Scythe of Chaos now.

September 30, 2024

Classes

Mage
- Alliance mages can now use the Mosswool Polymorph variant, as intended.

Delves

Heavy Trunks in a Tier 6 delve now have a chance to grant 1 to 2 reagents (was 1 only).

Heavy Trunks in a Tier 7 delve now have a chance to grant 1 to 3 reagents (was 1 only).

Heavy Trunks in a Tier 8 delve and above now have a chance to grant 2 to 3 reagents (was 1 only).

Fixed an issue where fleeing Nightfall Initiates could fail to count for defeating an enemy group influenced by Zekvir.

Dungeons

The Stonevault
- The door to Master Machinists will no longer erroneously close for players before starting the fight.

Quests

Reduced the health, armor, and damage of Lord Banehollow for the quest “When Revenge Burns Green”.

Season of Discovery

Losses in Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin again award 1 Mark of Honor (was 2).
- Developers’ notes: We’ve ended this experiment, as it provided too much incentive to lose quickly and get into another match.

Blessing of Shirvallah should no longer buff the bad guys in Zul’Gurub.

Addressed an issue that could cause the Cenarion Hold hitching post to be unusable during the hunter quest “Everyone Knows That Bugs Can’t Fly.”

Blackwing Lair
- Fixed an issue that occasionally prevented the Trials from triggering after a soft reset in Blackwing Lair.
- Vaelastrasz the Corrupt
  - Players’ own bonus damage modifiers will no longer amplify the damaging effects of Burning Adrenaline.

September 27, 2024

Achievements

Guilds can no longer earn faction-specific achievements that do not match the guild’s faction.
- Developer’s note: This should fix the occasional achievement spam for Diplomacy, United Nations, Dungeon Diplomat, Pandaren Embassy, and Ambassadors.

Classes

Evoker
- Augmentation, Devastation
  - Fixed an issue where canceling Deep Breath with Maneuverability could cause the Evoker to briefly fly in place.

Warlock
- Diabolists’ Overlord, Mother of Chaos, and Pit Lord should now attack the target of the spell that summoned them.
- Fixed an issue where Shared Fate would be applied to the warlock’s current target, rather than the target of the spell that activated its effect.

Delves

Reduced enemies’ health and damage for solo healers.

Brann no longer uses Thirty Yards of Rope to dispel pets.

Zekvir’s Lair
- Zekvir’s damage and health has been reduced for both difficulties.
- Horrendous Roar is now a 2.5 second cast time for both difficulties (was 2.4 seconds and 2.25 seconds).
- Web Terror’s hatch time increased.
- Web Terror’s Web Blast cast time increased.
- Web Terrors now spawn randomly in the room rather than based off of Zek’vir’s current position.
- Spittle and Regenerating Carapace’s recast times now change while solo to better match each specialization’s interrupt cooldowns.
- Fixed an issue where Web Terrors would not despawn when the encounter ended.
- The damage of Angler’s Web has been reduced.
- Claw Smash’s visuals have been updated.
- Fixed an issue where Aspect of the Turtle did not work against Claw Smash.
- Fixed an issue where Claw Smash and Angler’s Web visuals would not display during the precast.

Dungeons and Raids

Xal’atath’s Bargain: Oblivion
- Addressed an issue where Crystal of Oblivion can sometime fail to path to its target.

Siege of Boralus
- Fixed an issue that caused Dreadcaptain Lockwood to use Gut Shot unexpectedly when disembarking from the ship.

Nerub-ar Palace
- Queen Ansurek
  - Acolyte’s Essence periodic damage reduced by 12.5% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Royal Condemnation damage reduced by 8% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Demonic Gateway, Transcendence spirit, Spirit Link Totem, and Wind Rush Totem are no longer moved unexpectedly during certain moments of the encounter.
  - Fixed issue in Mythic difficulty where warning visualization effects for Shadowgates would sometimes fail to appear after the first cast.

Season of Discovery

The Druid weapon Gla’sir will now pick damage targets of its damage effect based on the target’s location instead of the Druid’s own location. The range for the healing effect has been increased to 40 yards.

Fixed an interaction issue with Tidal Waves Shaman rune and Chain Heal. Chain Heal will no longer sometimes not generate a charge of Tidal Waves.

The quest “The Price of Hope” is no longer required to be completed to start the quest “Our Wayward Friend” at Katherine the Pure to start the Horn of Lordaeron.

Blackwing Lair
- Victor Nefriendius now despawns during the Razorgore encounter.
- Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented the first door in Blackwing Lair from opening after wiping on Broodlord Lashlayer.
- Fixed an issue that allowed Nefarian’s initial Shadow Flame spell to affect player pets.

September 26, 2024

Classes

Priest
- Void Leech no longer interrupts eating or drinking.

Delves

Fixed an issue where the Fungal Footpads could make you jump backwards.

Fungal Footpads now heal for a percentage amount of your maximum health. The tooltip will be corrected in a future patch.

Dungeons and Raids

The Stonevault
- Chi Burst is no longer able to pull enemies through the walls prior to killing E.D.N.A.

Nerub-ar Palace
- Rasha’nan
  - Fixed a bug that could allow Rasha’nan to become unkillable if defeated at specific moments.
- Queen Ansurek
  - Addressed an issue where Expulsion Beam visual was notably delayed in disappearing if the caster died mid-cast.

Events

Hallowfall Fishing Derby
- Derby Marks for catching each fish while the Derby Dasher aura is active are now character-specific, instead of shared between your Warband (20 Marks per character).
- Captain Oathmyt’s “Hallowfall Fishing Derby” quest is now character-specific, instead of shared between your Warband.
- “Hallowfall Fishing Derby” quests now award 10 Mereldar Derby Marks per completion.
- “Hallowfall Fishing Derby” quests now give the option of either 2 Soaked Journal Entries, 2 Algari Seekerthreads, or 2 Algari Anglerthreads per completion.
- Fish specific pools such as the Royal Ripple and Swarm of Slum Sharks will now persist longer when found.

Items

Feral Hide Drums no longer work on players above level 70.

September 25, 2024

Companion Pets

Players should now correctly be awarded the Lil’ Bonechewer pet for the achievement Worm Theory. This applies retroactively.

Lil’ Bonechewer may only be obtained per-account and can no longer be caged.

Dungeons and Raids

Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
- Ki’katal the Harvester
  - Resolved an issue where Cultivated Poisons would apply some of its effect through immunities.
  - Resolved an issue where Cultivated Poisons would remain after the encounter ended.

City of Threads
- Izo, the Grand Splicer
  - Splice duration reduced to 6 seconds (was 9 seconds).

The Necrotic Wake
- Zolramus Gatekeeper’s Wrath of Zolramus damage reduced by 25%.
- Zolramus Gatekeeper’s enemy forces contribution increased.
- Surgeon Sitchflesh
  - Stitchflesh’s Creation’s Festering Rot periodic damage reduced by 20%.

Siege of Boralus
- Dread Captain Lockwood
  - Dread Captain Lockwood no longer faces players during Mass Bombardment.
  - Clear the Deck now has a cast visual.
- Viq’goth
  - Addressed an issue where Viq’goth can benefit from Xal’atath’s Bargain: Oblivion.
  - Addressed an issue where Oblivion Crystals can spawn on water or inside terrain.

The Stonevault
- Void Bound Howlers will now properly reset their health when leaving combat.

Nerub-ar Palace
- Broodtwister Ovi’nax
  - Reduced the health of Colossal Spiders for lower group sizes.
  - Reduced the health of Blood Parasites for lower group sizes.
  - Reduced the health of Voracious Worms for lower group sizes.
  - Increased the cast time of Poison Burst for lower group sizes.
  - Reduced the number of targets for Sticky Web for lower group sizes.
  - Reduced the damage over time of Volatile Concoction for lower group sizes.
- Nexus-Princess Ky’veza
  - Reduced the health of Nexus-Princess Ky’veza for lower group sizes.
  - Reduced the damage of Assassination for lower group sizes.
  - Reduced the damage of Queensbane for lower group sizes.
  - Reduced the damage of Starless Night for lower group sizes.
  - Reduced the damage of Regicide for lower group sizes.
- Queen Ansurek
  - Frothy Toxin and Gloom Touch (explosion) damage reduced for lower group sizes.
  - Gloom Touch (DoT) damage reduced for lower group sizes.
  - Chamber Guardian, Chamber Expeller, Devoted Worshipper, and Royal Shackles health reduced for lower group sizes.
  - Grasping Silk no longer spreads from corpses.
  - Fixed an issue causing Frothy Toxin to sometimes apply fewer applications than intended on Mythic difficulty.

Player versus Player

Fixed a bug that caused Forged Weapons of Conquest to not respect retroactive Conquest gains in certain cases.

Added a progress bar to Forged Weapon of Conquest.
- Developers’ notes: Thanks to player reports, we were able to identify an issue with retroactive progress tracking that did not occur during our initial testing. Affected players will simply need to pay a visit to Dornogal and possibly log out and back into the game to update your achievement criteria progress and, if eligible, receive the achievement.

Rogue
- Subtlety
  - Fixed an issue that caused the Subtlety Rogue class set bonus to not be decreased in PvP Combat.

Quests

Taters should be easier to find now for “Tater Trawl”.

September 24, 2024

Classes

Death Knight
- Rider of the Apocalypse: Trollbane’s Icy Fury slows targets by 40% (was 70%).

Druid
- Feral
  - Rampant Ferocity now damages enemies within 8 yards of the Druid when using Ferocious Bite, instead of enemies within 8 yards of the target.
  - Developers’ note: This change is intended to give Feral Druids more control over which enemies Rampant Ferocity’s AOE hits and avoid cases where hitting a large boss with Ferocious Bite wouldn’t hit other nearby enemies.
- Restoration
  - All healing increased by 4%. Does not apply to PvP combat.

Hunter
- Fixed an issue causing Kodo Tranquilizer to dispel two magic effects in addition to making Tranquilizing Shot affect nearby targets.
- Beast Mastery
  - Beast Cleave damage increased to 90% (was 80%).
  - Kill Cleave damage increased to 90% (was 80%).

Mage
- Fire
  - Flamestrike damage increased by 15%.
  - Phoenix Flames damage increased by 20%.
  - Living Bomb damage increased by 10%.
- Frost
  - Glacial Spike damage increased by 20%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
  - Ray of Frost damage increased by 15%. Does not apply to PvP combat.

Priest
- Shadow
  - All damage increased by 4%.

Dungeons

Siege of Boralus
- Iron Tide Raider health reduced by 15%.
- Bilge Rat Buccaneer health reduced by 10%.
- Irontide Waveshaper health reduced by 20%.
- Ashvane Sniper health reduced by 10%.
- Scrimshaw Enforcer health reduced by 20%.
- Bilge Rat Tempest’s Choking Waters cast time increased.
- Iron Tide Raider’s Iron Hook ability cooldown increased.
- Iron Tide Raider’s Iron Hook maximum range decreased.
- Bilge Rat Demolisher Crushing Slam’s damage ignores armor and its damage has been reduced by 40%.
- Bilge Rat Demolisher health reduced by 10%.
- Hadal Darkfathom
- Viq’Goth
  - Demolishing Terror’s Slam no longer knocks players back.
  - Demolishing Terror’s Slam damage now ignores armor.
  - Fixed an issue that caused the area effect when dispelling Putrid Waters to not scale in Mythic keystones.
  - Developers’ notes: The intent of these changes is to balance the overall length of the dungeon against the timer, while rewarding players for prioritizing high-threat enemies. The adjustments to Viq’goth aim to even out damage across all armor types and eliminate a frustrating aspect of the encounter.

Grim Batol
- Twilight Warlock’s Enveloping Shadowflame now targets 1 player (was 2).
- Mutated Hatchling’s Shadow Wound increases Shadow damage taken by 3% per application (was 5%).
- Faceless Corruptor’s Corrupt cast time increased and damage reduced by 10%.
- Twilight Destroyer’s Twilight Ember area denial no longer inflicts damage instantly when stepping into the area.
- Erudax
  - Reduced the visual scale of Erudax to improve visibility during the encounter.
  - Players afflicted with Depth’s Grasp have a brief immunity to Void Tendrils upon expiration.
  - Improved the visibility of Void Tendrils.
  - Mutated Hatchling’s Shadow Wound increases Shadow damage taken by 3% per application (was 5%).

Mists of Tirna Scithe
- Mistcaller
  - Improved the visibility of the Vulpin summoned by Freeze Tag.
  - The range of Patty Cake has been increased.

Necrotic Wake
- Addressed an issue where players can be targeted by affixes while on their way back to the top platform during Nalthor the Rimebinder.

The Stonevault
- Master Machinists
  - Ability timing has been adjusted to prevent a potentially unfair overlaps between Exhaust Vents and Blazing Crescendo.
  - Molten Metal cast time increased to 3 seconds (was 2 seconds).
  - Silenced Speaker now inflicts damage every 3 seconds (was every 1.5 seconds).

Items

Treacherous Transmitter – Cryptic instructions are now more reliably completable when used on transports such as the Dawnbreaker.

Player versus Player

The “Weapons of Conquest” quest for free PvP weapons has been replaced with the Forged Weapons of Conquest achievement found under Feats of Strength -> PvP. Progress towards this achievement can be tracked by viewing the Conquest currency and is retroactive.

The Forged Weapons of Conquest achievement grants two Forged Gladiator’s Weapon Tokens which can be exchanged with Lalandi at the Contender’s Gate for free PvP weapons of your choice. 2 tokens for 2-handed weapons and 1 token for 1-handed weapons.

To help offset the need for Fury Warriors’ need for two 2-handed weapons, their strength weapon choices will only cost 1 token.

Death Knight
- Unholy
  - Doomburst causes Death Coil to burst 2 Festering Wounds (was 3).

Demon Hunter
- Havoc
  - Demon’s Bite damage increased by 10% in PvP combat.
  - Demon Blades damage increased by 10% in PvP combat.
  - Chaos Strike/Annihilation damage increased by 10% in PvP combat.
  - Blade Dance/Death Sweep damage increased by 10% in PvP combat.

Druid
- Feral
  - Sabertooth now increases the damage of Ferocious Bite by 10% (was 15%) and increases the damage of Ferocious Bite per periodic effect by 2% (was 3%) in PvP combat.
  - Taste for Blood now increases the damage of Ferocious Bite by 6% (was 12%) in PvP combat.
  - Rip damage increased by 25% in PvP combat (was 15%).
  - Rake initial damage increased by 25% (was 15%) and its periodic damage increased by 10% (was -6%) in PvP combat.

Evoker
- Devastation
  - Eternity Surge damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.

Mage
- Frostfire: Frostfire Bolt damage increased by 100% in PvP combat (was 75%).
- Frostfire: Frostfire Empowerment increases Frostfire Bolt damage by 30% in PvP combat (was 50%).
- Arcane
  - Arcane Blast damage increased by 45% in PvP combat (was 15%).
  - Arcane Missiles damage increased by 20% in PvP combat.
  - Arcane Barrage damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  - Magi’s Spark is now 50% effective in PvP combat.
- Fire
  - Fireball damage increased by 100% in PvP combat (was 35%).
  - Greater Pyroblast cast time reduced to 4 seconds (was 4.5 seconds) but it now deals 30% of its target’s maximum health in damage (was 35%).
- Frost
  - Ice Lance damage increased by 25% in PvP combat (was 45%).
  - Frostbolt damage increased by 150% in PvP combat (was 118%).
  - Ray of Frost damage increased by 5% in PvP combat.
  - Ice Barrier absorb amount is now decreased by 40% in PvP combat (was 25%).

Monk
- Mistweaver
  - Enveloping Mist healing increased by 20% in PvP combat.
  - Vivify primary healing increased by 20% in PvP combat.

Paladin
- Holy
  - Mana regeneration reduced by 20% in PvP combat (was 35%).
  - Holy Shock healing increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  - Word of Glory healing increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  - Holy Light healing increased by 20% in PvP combat.

Priest
- Discipline
  - Weal and Woe’s bonus to Power Word: Shield is now 50% effective in PvP combat.
- Holy
  - Holy Word: Serenity healing increased by 40% in PvP combat.
  - Holy Word: Sanctify healing increased by 40% in PvP combat.
- Shadow
  - Perfected Form now increases damage dealt during Voidform by 10% in PvP combat (was 20%).

Rogue
- Subtlety
  - Reverberation now increases Echoing Reprimand damage by 50% in PvP combat (was 70%).

Professions

Engineering
- Fixed an issue that caused Pausing Pylon to only affect party members instead of an entire raid.

Quests

Slaying Azj-Kahet’s world boss, Orta, The Broken Mountain, will now contribute to the Severed Threads Pact weekly quests.

User Interface

Dungeon Finder
- Addressed an issue where key level does not automatically populate for Siege of Boralus.

Cataclysm Classic

Players can again interact with Complimentary Brewfest Sampler in Durotar as intended.

September 23, 2024

Achievements

Swift has been replaced by Bobbin for completing the achievement Itsy Bitsy Spider.

Classes

Death Knight
- Frost
  - An issue causing Frost Strike to not benefit from Razorice when Shattered Blade consumes it has been resolved.
- Unholy
  - Raise Abomination will now correctly take reduced damage from area of effect damage

Mage
- Spellslinger: Splinterstorm will now find a valid target within range to fire at if your current target is not valid.
- Sunfury: Spellfire Spheres will now generate every 8 seconds while out of combat.
- Sunfury: Spellfire Sphere out of combat generation cap increased to 5 if Rondurmancy is talented.

Monk
- Mastery of Harmony: Overwhelming Force now correctly grants vitality, and is now triggered by Teachings of the Monastery.
- Fixed an issue that caused Chi Burst to stop healing after healing more than 20 targets.

Shaman
- Enhancement
  - [With realm restarts] With 2 stacks of Tempest available, Primordial Wave will now cause you to cast additional Lightning Bolts as intended, instead of casting additional Tempests.

Delves

Unbreakable Iron Idol no longer activates from player pets.

Nightfall Sanctum
- Fixed an issue where the Cult Leaders could stay in combat with Great Kyron, preventing players from releasing if they died.

The Underkeep
- Removed a small amount of ice crystals from the boss fight to provide a little more room to maneuver.
- Adjusted locations of ice crystals to provide more space within the boss fight area.

Dungeons and Raids

Mythic+
- Addressed an issue where Xal’atath’s Bargain affixes can target players in unintended situations.
- Mists of Tirna Scithe
  - Fixed an issue where the dungeon shortcuts required Dragon Isle Herbalism instead of Khaz Algar Herbalism.
- Siege of Boralus
  - Addressed an issue where Heavy Ordnance triggered by adds can cause them to cast Iron Hook on Mythic difficulty.
  - Dread Captain Lockwood
    - Addressed an issue where Dread Captain Lockwood cannot be snared by some class spells.
    - Addressed an issue where players can get stuck in combat if the party is defeated during intermission.
- The Dawnbreaker
  - Addressed an issue where Rasha’nan could parry.
- The Necrotic Wake
  - Fixed an issue causing Xandria to animate incorrectly while throwing her Spear of Courage at Amarth.
- The Stonevault
  - Skarmorak
    - If the boss becomes affected by Cosmic Ascension, they now longer cast a third Crystalline Smash in a cycle.

Nerub-ar Palace
- Sikran
  - Sikran will now properly reset if players attempt to drag him across the bridge.
- Broodtwister Ovi’nax
  - [With realm restarts] Colossal Spider health reduced by 25% on Mythic difficulty.
  - [With realm restarts] Blood Parasite health reduced by 21% on Mythic difficulty.
  - [With realm restarts] Healing absorb effect of Unstable Infusion reduced by 12.5%.
- The Silken Court
  - Fixed an issue with Piercing Strike debuff not increasing Piercing Strike’s damage. Piercing Strike debuff now persists through death.
- Queen Ansurek
  - Fixed a situation that could cause Queen Ansurek to continue casting Paralyzing Waves throughout Phase 2.
  - Fixed an issue where the visual of a Chamber Expeller’s Expulsion Beam could sometimes be incorrectly aligned with the actual damage zone, and also sometimes move slightly during the cast.
  - Fixed an issue where Death Knight’s Anti-Magic Shell could sometimes prevent players from traveling through an Abyssal Conduit.

Events

Orange Brewfest Bulwark and Homebrewer’s Sampling Mantle will now refund for Brewfest Prize Tokens.

“Bar Tab Barrel” in Lorel’s Crossing will now count for the Trading Post activity to complete Brewfest quests.

Player versus Player

[With realm restarts] Deephaul Ravine is now available in Battleground Blitz and Rated Battleground modes.

The Weapons of Conquest quest for free PvP weapons has been replaced with the Forged Weapons of Conquest achievement found under Feats of Strength -> PvP. Progress towards this achievement can be tracked by viewing the Conquest currency and is retroactive.
- The Forged Weapons of Conquest achievement grants two Forged Gladiator’s Weapon Tokens which can be exchanged with Lalandi at the Contender’s Gate for free PvP weapons of your choice: 2 tokens for 2-handed weapons and 1 token for 1-handed weapons.
  - To help offset the need for Fury Warriors’ need for two 2-handed weapons, their Strength weapon choices will only cost 1 token.
- [With realm restarts] Fixed an issue that prevented Vicious Jeweler’s Setting from functioning on PvP class set helms purchased from Ab’xal.

Death Knight
- Unholy
  - Fixed an issue where Defile was not visible to enemies in PvP.

Mage
- Spellslinger: Arcane and Frost Splinter damage no longer breaks breakable crowd control.
- Spellslinger: Arcane and Frost Splinters no longer apply Embedded Splinters to enemies that are in breakable crowd control.
- Spellslinger: Embedded Arcane and Embedded Frost Splinters are now removed upon breakable crowd control application.
  - Developers’ notes: Splinters from a Splinterstorm will continue to break breakable crowd control, since those are directed and intentional.

Paladin
- Protection
  - Fixed an issue that caused Guardian of the Forgotten Queen to sometimes not function.

Professions

Patron Orders
- All customers (except for the Artisan’s Consortium) now have a chance to provide basic reagents.
- Increased the likelihood for all customers to provide basic reagents.
- Lowered the quality requirement on many potential orders that grant specialization points by 1.
- Addressed several rare cases where a customer could request a minimum quality for items without quality.
- Removed several abnormally expensive orders from the pool of potential Patron Orders, such as Alchemy Cauldrons, Engineering Toys, and Darkmoon Sigils.
  - Developers’ notes: All of the above changes only apply to newly created orders, existing orders should remain unchanged.

Quests

Knicknack should now be visible to level 80 players if her quest was shared or if someone in a warband has completed her quest previously.

September 19, 2024

Delves

Fixed an issue where disconnecting or logging off in a bountiful delve would fail to spawn the bountiful chest upon later completing the delve.

Concoction: Kiss of Death now requires players administering the antidote to jump instead of using the trinket again.

Earthcrawl Mines
- Rail Carts will no longer affect player pets.

Dungeons and Raids

Necrotic Wake
- Addressed an issue where Stichflesh’s Creation’s Meat Hook can affect unintended units.

Nerub-ar Palace
- Queen Ansurek
  - Infest will no longer fail to cast if the Queen’s target dies during the cast sequence.

Events

Resolved an issue where the map tooltip for the Theater Troupe event was displaying incorrect information about the current play.

Items and Rewards

Spymaster’s Web active effect is now removed upon starting an encounter or Mythic+ dungeon.

Treacherous Transmitter shared cooldown increased to 30 seconds.

Player versus Player

Resolved an issue that prevented Battleground Blitz from granting progress towards the Vicious Skyflayer mount.

Quests

Players will no longer be blocked from completing “A Shot at the Top” if they engage Abductor Arzda from too far a distance.

Fixed an issue causing credit to not be granted to players in raid groups during certain Worldsoul weekly wrapper quests.

The Coreway Repair Rig in the “Coreway Maintenance Request” World Quest now properly transitions into flight mode, allowing it to fly down the Coreway.

“Hallowfall Fishing Derby” can now be completed on multiple characters, awarding 3 Mereldar Derby Marks.

“Klaskin’s Great Escape” wrap-up events should no longer block players who wander off without watching the resolution of Klaskin and his wife.

The quests that lead to story mode for Nerub-ar Palace should now display on the zone map if players have ‘Local Story’ enabled in their map filters.

September 18, 2024

Achievements

Fixed an issue where the cosmetic rewards for Nemesis and Let Me Solo Him were not delivered upon defeating Zek’vir. Those that have not received their rewards are able to obtain them by re-defeating Zek’vir on any difficulty.

The First Echo, A Series of Echoes, and Many Echoes are now credited to players in raid groups.

Classes

Death Knight
- Exterminate aura now has a 30-second duration and is now cleared at the start of raid encounters Mythic+ dungeons.

Hunter
- Raptor Strikes and Mongoose Bites empowered by Merciless Blows should no longer cleave to stealthed or breakable crowd-controlled enemies.

Priest
- Holy
  - Archon: Fixed an issue causing Resonant Energy and Shock Pulse to not stack properly when Halo is cast by multiple Priests.

Mage
- Frostfire: Fixed an issue that caused Frostfire Bolt to not deal its damage if its missile lands on targets out of line of sight.
- Hyperthermia will now guarantee Heating Up, Hot Streak, and critical strikes when casting Flamestrike.
- Icy Veins no longer consumes Ice Floes.
- Living Bomb can no longer hit or spread to dead targets.
- Living Bomb’s explosion will no longer damage breakable crowd-controlled targets.
- Living Bomb will prefer being applied to targets not in breakable crowd control.
- Fixed an issue that allowed Arcane Mages to generate 2 Spellfire Spheres at once.
- Burden of Power can no longer be instantly consumed by the Arcane Blast that proc’d it.

Delves

Fixed an issue where learning Relicblood of Zekvir would prevent other curios from dropping.

Fixed an issue where Reno Jackson could become uninteractible if hit by a Sporbit’s explosion.

Kobold Delves
- Resolved an issue where the Enchanted Candle or Air Totem could despawn upon picking it up.

Fungal Folly
- Kasthrik will no longer lie to you when you successfully complete his puzzle.

Skittering Breach
- Adjusted Light Dash to feel more responsive in the Shadow Realm variant. The distance Light Dash will go is shorter, but the cooldown to use each charge is faster.
- Light Dash should hit Grasping Shadow’s even if the player is a few feet above it.

Dungeons

Grim Batol
- Addressed an issue where Forgemaster Throngus’ Molten Pool visual can fail to appear on stairs.

Mists of Tirna Scithe
- Tred’ova’s selection circle now correctly matches the range it can be attacked from.

Events

Resolved an issue where the map tooltip for the Theater Troupe event was displaying incorrect information about the current play.

Items and Rewards

Necrotic Wake Challenger’s Cache now correctly awards Crests.

Fixed an issue that could prevent alts from getting a valorstone discount from a main character’s high weapon item level in some circumstances.

Addressed an issue preventing some Veteran world equipment from being able to convert to Tier.

Fateweaved Needle and Fateweaved Mallet no longer scale with Haste.

Tanks are now ineligible for Need rolls on melee damage trinkets such as Skyterrors’s Corrosive Organ and Void Reaper’s Contract. Tanks will no longer find them in their Great Vaults without switching to an appropriate damage loot specialization.

Player versus Player

Warlock
- Affliction
  - Fixed an issue causing Tormented Crescendo procs to remove Stealth from nearby enemies.

Professions

Alchemy
- Fixed a bug that caused Algari Alchemist Stone to offer substantially less primary stat on proc than intended.

Quests

Inscription contracts for additional reputation from World Quests should now properly function with Skyriding World Quests in Khaz Algar.

Bags of Seeds now drop more often on the quest “Seeds of Salvation” in Hallowfall.

User Interface

The battle pet Mister Muskoxeles now appears properly in Collections.

September 17, 2024

Classes

Death Knight
- San’layn: Vampiric Strike chance to trigger increased to 25% (was 10%).
- San’layn: Frenzied Bloodthirst damage of Death Coil and Death Strike increased by 5% per stack (was 4%).
- San’layn: Visceral Strength grants 8% Strength (was 6%).
- San’layn: Fixed an issue with Visceral Strength modifying base Strength instead of total Strength.
- Blood
  - San’layn: Vampiric Strike damage increased by 20%.
  - San’layn: Infliction of Sorrow deals 15% of the remaining damage-over-time damage (was 10%).

Demon Hunter
- Havoc
  - Fixed an issue that caused Eye Beam’s damage to be reduced beyond 1 target instead of 5.
  - Fixed an issue that prevented Eye Beam from benefitting from Isolated Prey’s damage bonus.
  - Fixed an issue that prevented Eye Beam from benefitting from Chaotic Disposition’s damage bonus.

Druid
- Balance
  - All ability damage increased by 6%.
  - Starsurge damage increased by 16%.
  - Starfall damage increased by 20%. Not applied to PvP combat.
  - Elune’s Chosen: Lunar Calling increases Starfire’s damage to its primary target by 80% (was 65%). The bonus remains 50% in PvP combat.
- Feral
  - Bloodtalons and Lion’s Strength no longer also increase the damage of Rampant Ferocity.
    - Developers’ note: In response to feedback that this change reduced the value of maintaining Rip and complicated using Bloodtalons in AOE, we are reverting this change.
  - All ability damage increased by 3%.
  - Rip damage increased by 6%.
  - Ferocious Bite damage increased by 3%.
  - Feral Frenzy damage increased by 10%.
  - Druid of the Claw: Ravage damage increased by 3%.
- Restoration
  - All healing increased by 8%. Does not affect PvP combat.
  - Wrath damage increased by 20%.
  - Starfire damage increased by 20%.
  - Starsurge damage increased by 20%.

Evoker
- Disintegrate damage increased by 10%.
- Devastation
  - Eternity Surge damage increased by 10%.

Mage
- Living Bomb’s explosion visual now only plays on the unit that is the Living Bomb, rather than each unit damaged by its explosion.
- Hyperthermia will now guarantee Heating Up, Hot Streak, and critical strikes when casting Flamestrike.
- Icy Veins no longer consumes Ice Floes.
- Living Bomb can no longer hit or spread to dead targets.
- Arcane
  - Arcane Blast damage reduced by 5%.
  - Arcane Missiles damage reduced by 8%.
  - Sunfury: Meteorite damage reduced by 15%.
  - Sunfury: Burden of Power damage bonus for Arcane Blast reduced to 20% (was 30%).
  - Sunfury: Burden of Power damage bonus for Arcane Barrage reduced to 20% (was 30%).
  - Fixed an issue that allowed Arcane Mages to generate 2 Spellfire Spheres at once.
- Fire
  - All ability damage increased by 6%.
  - Living Bomb damage increased by 25%.

Monk
- Mistweaver
  - All healing increased by 3%.
  - Tiger Palm damage increased by 15%. Does not affect PvP combat.
  - Rising Sun Kick damage increased by 15%. Does not affect PvP combat.
  - Fixed an issue that caused Restoral to incorrectly dispel magic effects.
- Windwalker
  - Darting Hurricane’s passive trigger rate reduced by 50% and it now reduces the global cooldown by 0.25 seconds (was 0.5 seconds).

Paladin
- Holy
  - All healing reduced by 6%. Does not affect PvP combat.
  - Judgment damage increased by 60%.
  - Crusader Strike damage increased by 60%.
  - Hammer of Wrath damage increased by 20%.
  - Avenging Crusader transfer amount reduced to 260% (was 420%).
  - Holy Prism single target damage increased by 100% and area-of-effect damage increased by 50%.
- Retribution
  - Herald of the Sun: Dawnlight damage reduced by 15%.

Priest
- Discipline
  - Fixed an issue where Devour Matter would cause Shadow Word: Death to incorrectly trigger a much higher amount of Atonement healing than intended.
- Shadow
  - All damage increased by 6%.
  - Psychic Link now inflicts 25% of its direct damage to targets afflicted by Vampiric Touch (was 30%).

Rogue
- Trickster: Activating Coup de Grace no longer grants 1 second of immunity that prevents player actions for the duration.
- Outlaw
  - All ability damage reduced by 4%.
  - Melee auto attack damage reduced by 8%.
  - Dispatch damage reduced by 10%.
  - The War Within Season 1 2-set bonus now grants listed abilities a 35% chance to deal 30% increased damage as Shadow (was 20% chance, 15% damage)
  - The War Within Season 1 4-set bonus for Between the Eyes increased to 15% damage per stack, up to 4 stacks (was 6%, 3 stacks)

Shaman
- Enhancement
  - All ability damage increased by 4%.
  - Witch Doctor’s Ancestry now reduces the cooldown of Feral Spirit by 1 second whenever you gain a Maelstrom Weapon stack (was 2 seconds).
  - The War Within Season 1 2-set bonus now increases the damage of Stormstrike, Lava Lash, Ice Strike, and Crash Lightning 10% (was 6%).
- Restoration
  - Lava Burst damage increased by 12%.
  - Lightning Bolt damage increased by 12%.
  - Chain Lightning damage increased by 12%.

Warlock
- Demonology
  - Demonbolt damage increased by 20%.
  - Pact of the Ered’ruin summoned Doomguard damage increased by 45%.
  - Felguard damage increased by 15%.
- Destruction
  - All ability damage increased by 6%.
  - Dimensional Rift damage increased by 40%.
  - Channel Demonfire damage increased by 40%.

Warrior
- Colossus: Mountain of Muscle and Scars increases damage dealt by 5% (was 4%).
- Colossus: Damage dealt by Demolish’s two initial strikes increased by 20%.
- Mountain Thane: Thunder Blast, Lightning Strikes, and Ground Current damage increased by 6%.
- Arms
  - Bladestorm damage reduced by 10%.
- Fury
  - All ability damage reduced by 3%.
  - Bladestorm damage reduced by 10%.
  - Odyn’s Fury damage reduced by 15%.
  - Mountain Thane: Strength of the Mountain increases Bloodthirst and Rampage damage by 20% (was 15%).

Delves

Numerous ‘bolt’ type spells (ex. Web Bolt) will no longer be immediately recast upon being interrupted and their range has been reduced.

In Kobold Delves, increased the cooldown of Scratch.

In Fungarian Delves, reduced the damage of Invasive Sporecap’s Fungal Breath and Fungal Bloom, and Bogpiper’s Sporesong now has an initial cast before the channel so that casters can prepare for its silencing effect.

In Kobyss Delves, Undersea Abomination’s Fungal Infection can no longer be interrupted, Deepwater Makura’s Bubble Surge cast time has been increased, and Kobyss Necromancer’s Defiling Breath’s area effect now more closely matches its visual.

In Nerubian Delves, Web Bolt’s snaring effect has been removed from non-bosses, and Stinging Swarm damage has been reduced.

Zekvir’s Influence
- The health and damage of the special invasion creatures in Tier 9 and above have been reduced to more closely match the difficulty of lieutenants.

Dungeons and Raids

On Normal and Heroic difficulties, dungeon bosses other than the final boss no longer drop Valorstones.

Ara-kara, City of Echoes
- Ki’katal the Harvester
  - Erupting Webs stun duration reduced to 3 seconds (was 6 seconds).
  - Erupting Webs damage reduced by 18%.
  - Grasping Blood is now susceptible to interrupt effects.

Dawnbreaker
- There is now a Worn Anvil to repair next to Arathi Lamplighter on the Dawnbreaker.

Mists of Tirna Scithe
- Mistcaller
  - Addressed an issue where Dodgeball was inflicting damage to unintended targets.

Siege of Boralus
- Irontide Waveshaper’s Watertight Shell cast time increased to 3 seconds.
- Bilge Rat Buccaneer’s updated all visuals associated with Banana Rampage.
- Players can now use both Alliance and Horde portal to enter the dungeon.
- Leaving Siege of Boralus now puts players at the correct exit location based on their factions.
- Jaina Proudmoore now teleports players to the correct exit location based on their factions.
- Chopper Redhook
  - Added various visual improvements for the encounter.

Nerub-ar Palace
- Becoming a slime from drinking an Unstable Mixture can now be dispelled.
- Nerubian Ballistas in The Swaying Span now properly fire their loaded projectiles.
- Queen Ansurek
  - Fixed an issue that caused an inconsistency with Feast’s healing absorb effect, where it would unexpectedly fail to apply through immunities after the Queen’s first usage of the ability.

Items

Ara-Kara Sacbrood – Primary stat reduced by 5%.

Burin of the Candle King – Absorb increased by 15%.

Cinderbrew Stein – Primary stat increased by 5%, absorb increased by 20%.

Cirral Concoctory – Effects increased by 5%.

Gale of Shadows – No longer continually plays a visual on the player each time a new stack is applied.

Harvester’s Edict – Damage and Mastery effect increased by 5%.

Mereldar’s Toll – Versatility effect increased by 8%.

Overclocked Gear-A-Rang – On-use damage increased by 10%.

Ovi’nax’s Mercurial Egg – Fixed an issue where buff values differed slightly from their expected amounts.

Refracting Aggression Module – Absorb increased by 25%.

Scrapsinger’s Symphony – Absorb increased by 15%.

Shadow-Binding Ritual Knife – Primary stat reduced by 5%.

Shining Arathor Insignia – Damage and healing reduced by 10%.

Sikran’s Endless Arsenal – Damage effects increased by 5%.

Spare Meat Hook and Bottled Flayedwing Toxin now correctly deal reduced damage for tank specializations.

Spymaster’s Web – Intellect on use reduced by 5%.

Swarmlord’s Authority – Absorb increased by 20%.

Tome of Light’s Devotion – Absorb and Armor increased by 15%.

Twin Fang Instruments – Damage increased by 8%.

Viscous Coaglam – Effect increased by 5%.

Player versus Player

Death Knight
- Frost Fever damage is no longer increased in PvP combat (was 25%).
- The icon for Lesser Anti-Magic Shells from Vestigal Shell has been updated to be distinct from regular Anti-Magic Shell.
- Rider of the Apocalypse: Horsemen’s Aid effectiveness reduced by 50% in PvP combat.

Demon Hunter
- Havoc
  - The Hunt damage and damage-over-time are now reduced by 15% in PvP combat (was 28%).

Evoker
- Disintegrate damage is no longer increased by 20% in PvP combat.
- Preservation
  - Living Flame healing reduced by 20% in PvP combat.

Hunter
- Beast Mastery
  - Kill Command damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  - Cobra Shot damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  - Kill Shot damage increased by 40% in PvP combat.
  - Barbed Shot damage increased by 20% in PvP combat.

Monk
- Mistweaver
  - Peaceweaver (PvP Talent) now reduces the cooldown of Revival by 30 seconds (was 60 seconds).
- Windwalker
  - Communion with Wind damage increase is no longer reduced in PvP combat (was reduced by 50%).
  - Shado-Pan: Wisdom of the Wall’s Shadow damage is reduced by 50% in PvP combat.

Paladin
- Holy
  - Sanctified Plates now increases Armor by 20%, Stamina by 10%, and area-of-effect damage reduction by 6% in PvP combat.
  - Divine Protection’s damage reduction increased by 50% in PvP combat.
- Protection
  - Ardent Defender’s damage reduction increased by 50% in PvP combat.

Rogue
- Reverberation damage bonus for Echoing Reprimand reduced to 70% in PvP combat (base 100%).

Shaman
- Enhancement
  - Stormstrike damage increased by 20% in PvP combat.
  - Windstrike damage increased by 20% in PvP combat.
  - Ice Strike damage increased by 40% in PvP combat.
  - Frost Shock damage increased by 40% in PvP combat.
  - Fire Nova damage increased by 40% in PvP combat.
  - Lava Lash damage increased by 20% in PvP combat.

Warlock
- Affliction
  - Corruption damage reduced by 10% in PvP combat.
  - Shadow Bolt damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
  - Unstable Affliction damage increased by 30% in PvP combat.
  - Unstable Affliction backlash damage increased by 25%.
  - Hellcaller: Wither damage reduced by 10% in PvP combat.
  - Soul Harvester: Necrolyte Teachings now increases the damage of Shadow Bolt and Drain Soul by 10% in PvP combat (was 20%).
- Destruction
  - Chaos Bolt damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  - Incinerate damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  - Soul Fire damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  - Decimation now reduces the cast time of Soul Fire by 60% in PvP combat (was 80%).
  - Hellcaller: Wither damage reduced by 30% in PvP combat.
  - Diabolist: Ruination damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.

Professions

Alchemy
- Fixed a bug that caused Algari Potion Cauldrons to sometimes offer fewer charges than specified in the tooltip.

September 16, 2024

Classes

Death Knight
- Rider of the Apocalypse: Apocalyptic Conquest now correctly modifies total Strength (was modifies base Strength).
- San’layn: Visceral Strength now correctly modifies total Strength (was modifies base Strength).
- Blood
  - Bloodied Blade now correctly modifies total Strength (was modifies base Strength).
- Mage
  - Fixed an issue that caused Frostfire Bolt to consume Ice Floes when instant cast from Frostfire Empowerment.
  - Fixed an issue that caused Ice Wall to not be reduced by Elemental Affinity for Fire Mages.

Paladin
- Holy
  - Fixed an issue that caused Light of the Martyr to grant a larger absorb than expected from level scaling.

Rogue
- Deathstalker: Corrected an issue where Singular Focus was not correctly scaling in legacy content.
- Subtlety
  - Deathstalker: Deathstalker’s Mark and Darkest Night now correctly interact with Animacharged Combo Points granted by Echoing Reprimand.

Warlock
- Ritual of Doom summoned Doomguard damage reduced by 90%.
  - Developers’ notes: While sacrificing your friends can be entertaining, we’d prefer it to not be the optimal means to play. We’ve decreased the throughput of Ritual of Doom to ensure that warlocks don’t need to pay such a hefty tithe to perform optimally.

Delves

Developers’ notes: We’ve been closely monitoring progress in Delves, and we’ve seen that the median time to complete a Delve at higher tiers has been longer than we’d like for the majority of classes. We’ll continue to evaluate what might be needed to maintain difficulty across the tiers while also shaping the overall time that Delves take to complete.

Reduced the health of bosses, lieutenants, rares, and unique objective creatures.

Fixed a bug that could make Brann much stronger than intended.

Increased Brann’s damage and healing by 125% across all tiers.

Increased Brann’s damage reduction so that he takes 80% less damage.

Earthcrawl Mines – Lamplighter Variant
- Lowered the difficulty of enemies attacking players during the wave defense portion.

Kriegval’s Rest
- Lowered the size of ambush groups while defending Pagsly.

The Waterworks
- Lowered the size of ambush groups at the end of one of the variants.
- Lowered the size of specific spawn groups throughout the map to 3 enemies (was 6 to 7 enemies per spawn group).
- Fixed an issue where Pagsly and Karnk would not respawn if a player died while in a group.

Dungeons and Raids

Nerub-ar Palace

Fixed an issue that allowed Hungering Bellows to be mitigated by physical resistance effects.

Reduced the damage of Hungering Bellows by 15%.
- Developers notes: Hungering Bellows is meant to ignore physical resistance, similar to other ‘sonic’ effects. The damage has been reduced slightly to compensate for some of this change.

Ulgrax now enrages a few seconds after ‘Feeding Frenzy’ resolves for the fourth time.

The Silken Court
- Fixed a timing issue causing Stinging swarm stacks to duplicate or become lost.
- Fixed an issue where binding webs from Web Vortex would occasionally not stop Reckless Charge.
- Corrected an issue where Takazj will move out of the middle before casting Shatter Existence during the first intermission.
- Queen Ansurek
  - Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause Froth Vapor to not apply on targets.

Items

Fixed an issue where Radiant Echoes were not dropping for some players.

Professions

Engineering
- Concealed Chaos Module embellishment
  - Fixed a bug that prevented the slow from working as expected.
  - Added visual and audible feedback when a mine is detonated.
  - The effect now respects the target limit specified in the tooltip.

September 13, 2024

Achievements

Players will now earn the achievements Harbinger of the Weathered, Harbinger of the Carved, and Harbinger of the Runed immediately upon outgrowing the use of those crests.

Classes

Demon Hunter
- Vengeance
  - Shattered Souls missiles will no longer display for allies.

Druid
- Feral
  - Fixed a bug preventing Ferocious Bite from damaging crowd-controlled targets.

Evoker
- Devastation
  - Fixed an issue where Mass Disintegrate was not benefiting properly from Iridescence or Titanic Wrath.
- Preservation
  - Cycle of Life no longer accumulates healing done to pets and guardians.

Monk
- Mistweaver
  - Fixed an issue that caused Jade Bond’s increase to Yu’lon’s Soothing Breath to not function in some scenarios.

Paladin

Protection
- Fixed an interaction causing Judgment to trigger Righteous Protector’s cooldown reduction when Bastion of Light was active.
- Fixed an interaction causing Bastion of Light’s stacks to not be consumed when Shining Light was active.

Retribution
- An issue causing Empyrean Hammer to not function on training dummies has been resolved.
- Instrument of Retribution will no longer trigger Dawnlight.
- An issue causing Instrument of Retribution to trigger Avenging Wrath when talented into Crusade (and vice versa) has been resolved.

Shaman
- Fixed an issue causing Farseer Ancestor spells to have a damage reduction adjustment applied twice to their spells.
- Corrected an issue where Stormbringer Tempest would consume multiple stacks when striking multiple enemy targets.
- Fixed an issue causing Mastery: Elemental Overload to not increase damage from all pets.
- Elemental
  - Fixed an issue causing Mastery: Elemental Overload to not increase damage from all pets.

Warlock
- Increased the threat generation of voidwalkers’ and felguards’ Threatening Presence.

Delves

Addressed scaling issues causing enemies in Delves to deal more damage than intended, especially for groups and tanks.
- Developers’ notes: Over the last day, we’ve sought to address the unintended circumstance where certain group compositions made the health of enemies lower than they would be if you went into a Delve by yourself. We also tried moving some of the harder affixes from first appearing in Tier 9 and above into Tier 8. The results were not what we hoped for. We’ve now brought enemy damage back down closer to our targets, the most-difficult affixes have been sent back to Tier 9, and scaling adjustments should make group and solo play less lethal.

Nightfall Sanctum
- Resolved an issue where players could get stuck in combat after dying to Speaker Davenruth.

The Underkeep
- Reduced Crazed Abominations’ health.

The Waterworks
- Waxface’s Throw Wax damage done reduced by ~15%.
- Waxface should not immediately begin casting a new spell upon completion of Noxious Gas.

Dungeons and Raids

Nerub-ar Palace
- Silken Court
  - When Binding Webs is broken by immunity, it will now correctly remove it from ally and they will no longer falsely appear connected.
  - Triggering intermissions while a boss is stunned will no longer cause Anub’arash or Takazj to stay during the other’s intermission.

Events

Awakening the Machine
- Addressed an issue causing the Awakened Phalanx to become stuck in an unattackable state.

Items and Rewards

Class Set items purchased with Web-Wrapped Curio or Mark of the Spelunker Supreme should now be refundable.

Fixed a bug where reaching Renown Rank 11 with the Council of Dornogal was not presenting a quest with Carved Harbinger Crests as a reward.

Warbound-until-Equipped gear obtained from seasonal legacy dungeons should now have correct item levels. This fix is retroactive.

Quests

Pale Weavelashers should now respawn accordingly in the Silken Ward, improving the local quests and the World Quest “Enforcer Extermination”.

“Zekvir, Hand of the Harbinger” no longer requires that you complete the Delve seasonal journey.

In Azj-Kahet, “Special Assignment: A Pound of Cure” has been adjusted to be faster to complete.

September 12, 2024

Delves

Fixed a bug causing bosses to scale incorrectly with more players.

Increased the health scaling of enemies in Delves while grouped with other players.

Reduced the damage scaling of many enemy abilities in Delves while grouped with other players.

Adjusted enemy targeting preferences in Delves.
- Developers’ notes: Our goal is to match the difficulty of solo and group play as much as possible in Delves. When looking at data on group delves, we noticed unexpectedly low combat times coupled with unexpectedly high lethality. We identified the root cause of this issue and corrected it. This fix will increase the health scaling of enemies per additional player present, but we are also reducing the damage scaling of many abilities to compensate.

Zekvir’s influence has grown stronger, introducing a new enemy variant in Delve Tier 8.

Fixed an issue where the health bar UI could fail to display values correctly in Zekvir’s Lair while in a group.

Revives Remaining has changed to Lives Remaining. Now any time a player dies, the counter is reduced (was any time a player releases spirit). In addition, reaching a checkpoint will now provide +1 life.
- Developer’s note: This mechanic was proving to be confusing in its functionality, making it a mistake to release spirit when playing with certain compositions. This change should make the experience more consistent regardless of group size or makeup.

September 11, 2024

Classes

Mage
- Frost
  - The Death’s Chill aura will now be removed alongside Ice Form.
  - Frost Splinterstorm will now correctly apply Winter’s Chill to shielded targets.

Delves

Fixed an issue causing some trinkets to drop for the wrong specialization in Delves.

Fixed an issue where killing a group buffed by Zekvir’s Influence could fail to count for extra rewards.

Fixed an issue where Web Spreaders can target stealthed and invisible players.

Weekly Quest delve icons have been moved slightly to make it easier to see if a delve is bountiful or not.

Tak-Rethan Abyss
- Added an exit button to the Kobyss Killer vehicle.

Dungeons and Raids

Nerub-ar Palace
- Fixed an issue where the Caustic Skyrazor in the Ascending Reach could sometimes fail to Wicked Dive the platform.
- Resolved an issue where some abilities could unintentionally pull creatures in the pulsing pit.
- Rasha’nan
  - Resolved an issue which could cause Rasha’nan to become unkillable upon death.
  - Resolved an issue where Infested Spawn could spawn after Rasha’nan’s death.
- The Silken Court
  - The fight will now correctly go to the next phase if boss health is lowered very quickly.

Events

Players in a raid group should now get World Quest credit when killing the World Bosses in each zone.

The Aggregation of Horrors world boss in the Ringing Deeps should no longer react to players while its shield is up.

Fixed an issue where Memory of Clodgran holograms were not respawning during the Theater Troupe play “Forget Me Not.”

Fixed an issue where too many enemies could spawn during the Theater Troupe play “Cruelty of Dornic.”

Items and Rewards

Fixed an issue where class set tokens were Bind-on-Pickup, rather than Warbound-until-Equipped as intended.

Fixed an issue that caused Warbound-until-Equipped gear from seasonal legacy dungeons to generate at lower item levels than intended.
- Developers’ notes: This fix is not retroactive. We hope to be able to address the low ilvl items in an upcoming hotfix.

Player versus Player

Resolved an issue where “Preserving in Arenas” was not correctly incrementing quest credit.

Professions

Alchemy
- Meticulous Experimentation will no longer allow you to experiment with herbs that have no possible discoveries until all discoveries are found. Wild Experimentation remains unchanged due to specialization benefits.
- [With realm restarts] The achievement Overflowing Algari Flasks should no longer require a criteria that does not exist.
- Potions – Bulk Production (20) now grants Fleeting Healing Potions to classes (not specializations) that can never use mana when crafting Algari Mana Potion, Slumbering Soul Serum, or Cavedweller’s Delight.

Engineering
- Crowd Pummeler 2-30 now requires a confirmation prompt to learn. The cooldown of Invent is now 20 hours (was 24 hours).
- Inventor’s Guile now persists through death and cannot be right-clicked off.

Herbalism
- Fixed an issue where the Artisan Gardening Hat was preventing equipping Alchemy Profession Hats and vice versa.

Quests

Fixed an issue where enemies were not respawning quickly enough for the quest “No More Bread”.

Arathi Supplies now last for twice as long once spawned for “Recovery Job” and are placed in more centralized locations.

Season of Discovery

Crimson Tempest can no longer be used unless the primary target is within melee range.

September 10, 2024

Achievements

Fixed an issue that resulted in the Machine-Warden title being incorrectly granted to all players. It is now properly granted by the achievement It’s Not Much, But It’s Honest Work.

General’s Scouting Shadecaster has been removed from the achievement Itsy Bitsy Spider.

Classes

Death Knight
- An issue causing Trollbane’s Icy Fury to display as snare mechanic on creatures that are immune to snares has been resolved.

Monk
- Fixed an issue where Clarity of Purpose was not correctly triggered by Gusts of Mist from several spells.

Shaman
- Stormbringer
  - An issue causing Arc Discharge to make Lightning Bolt deal damage as though Maelstrom Weapon was spent has been resolved.

Warlock
- Demonology
  - Fixed an issue where Succulent Soul would be consumed by an already cast Hand of Gul’dan.

Delves

Combat resurrections are now a shared resource, starting with 1 charge and recharging every 10 minutes.

Reduced the maximum stack count of the Rage-Filled Idol to 10 (was 20).

Fixed an issue that caused the Rage-Filled Idol to interrupt Brann when he wants to eat food and rest.

Fixed an issue where Rage-Filled Idol did not properly rank up.

Fixed an issue where Glibb could aggro enemies that aren’t in combat.

Reduced the amount of health and damage that delve enemies increase by when other players are added to the group.

Fixed an issue where Brann could create a campfire while standing in Nerubian webs.

Increased the cooldowns of Brann’s interrupt, stun/root clear, and dispel.
- Developers’ notes: When internally playtesting higher tier delves and Zekvir’s Lair, we felt that Brann was providing too much output. While Brann should feel useful with these abilities, we don’t want him to completely trivialize the mechanics and challenges players face.

Dungeons

Item level 350 is now required to queue for Random The War Within dungeons.

The Dawnbreaker
- The flight speed of Steady Flight has been increased while in the Dawnbreaker dungeon.
- Anub’ikkaj now spawns in a fixed location and no longer patrols.
- The 3 lieutenants that empower Anub’ikkaj now have updated map markers.
- Removed the map markers for Mereldar Holdout points.
- Updated The Dawnbreaker marker icon.

Items and Rewards

Turning in wax to Middles in Gundargaz now awards 5 Valorstones (was 10). Additionally, after the first 25 turn-ins per week (on each character), each subsequent wax turn-in will award the player with Resonance Crystals instead.

Draconic Gladiator’s Tabard from Dragonflight Season 4 should now use the correct icon.

All healer specializations may now roll need on Spymaster’s Web and acquire it from their Great Vault. Fixed an issue where some spells (such as Judgment) would not trigger its effects.

Player versus Player

Vicious Bloodstone can now sometimes drop from end-of-match victory boxes.

Reduced the cost of Glorious Contender’s Strongbox purchases to 3500 (was 5000).

Forged Competitor’s Heraldry drops from Glorious Contender’s Strongboxes have been slightly reduced.

Reduced the cost of the Vicious Jeweler’s Setting to 5000 Honor and 3 Vicious Bloodstones (was 9750 Honor and 2 Vicious Bloodstones).
- Developers’ notes: This change is a net 2250 reduction in total honor cost if purchased outright. By moving the remaining 2500 into an additional Vicious Bloodstone, we hope to keep the excitement of Vicious Bloodstone drops high while allowing players to purchase, trade, or gift this reagent. As a reminder, Vicious Bloodstones are not soulbound and can be purchased with honor directly or can sometimes drop from War Mode activities and end-of-match victory boxes.

Professions

Blacksmithing
- Fixed an issue with Dredger’s Plate Breastplate not getting skill from proper sources.

Enchanting
- Added a Shatter recipe to Khaz Algar Enchanting, allowing you to turn Gleaming Shards into Storm Dust. The quality of Gleaming Shard limits the quality of Storm Dust you can get from the Shatter, with the quality of Storm Dust otherwise determined by a combination of your Enchanting skill and Uncommon Utilitarian specialization.

Quests

Fixed an issue with “Delver’s Call” quests where the quest log would display a different amount of XP rewarded while in a delve.

The quest “Searching the Web” for the questline “Grieve and Weave” is now available to Warband characters who have not finished the overall campaign.

Races

Earthen now have an additional racial, Quiet Contemplation. Take a load off your feet and enjoy your newfound freedom to see the world while recovering your health and mana out of combat.

September 9, 2024

Classes

Evoker
- Evokers who used a level 60 Boost now correctly know all core Evoker and Dracthyr abilities.

Monk
- Mistweaver
  - Gusts of Mists cast on yourself should now be correctly increased by Mantra of Purity.

Paladin
- Fixed a bug that caused Hammer of Light to not go away as expected.

Shaman
- Stormbringer
  - You can now accumulate up to 2 stacks of the buff that replaces Lightning Bolt with Tempest.
- Elemental
  - Stormkeeper now has a maximum stack size of 3. Stormkeeper still only generates 2, and the Rolling Thunder hero talent will only generate 1.

Warlock
- Fixed an issue where Blackened Soul unintentionally had internal cooldown of 5 seconds.
- Hellcaller
  - Fixed an issue where spending Soul Shards while talented into Blackened Soul would break all instances of stealth.
- Affliction
  - Fixed an issue where Vile Taint would not grant a stack of Wither if Blackened Soul is talented.
- Demonology
  - Fixed an issue where Succulent Soul would be consumed by Spiteful Reconstitution.
- Destruction
  - Fixed an issue where the duration of Wither would not increase after refresh.

Delves

Addressed an issue causing players to sometimes receive duplicate Curios.

Mycomancer Cavern
- Removed the step to speak to your companion after being hit with the strange mushroom.

Events

During the “The Cruelty of Dornic” step in the Theatre Troupe event, no more than 10 players will summon orbs.

Items and Rewards

Players can now get their Earth-Encrusted Gem from Auditor Balwurz for having reached renown 8 with the Council of Dornogal.

Fixed a bug that was causing some cosmetic items from previous expansions to incorrectly drop for the wrong class or spec, and in some cases for multiple items to drop when only one was intended.

Player versus Player

Fixed an issue causing Vicious Flasks to be removed when entering Arena Skirmishes.

Several class pet nameplates for guardians and other temporary summons are now hidden in PvP.

Quests

Respawn rates for creatures needed for the world quest “Claimed Salvage” have been improved.

The Lost Diary found in Hallowfall now begins the correct quest.

Cataclysm Classic

Fixed a bug preventing Sensiria in Feralas from showing up as expected.

September 6, 2024

Achievements

Fixed an issue preventing the completion of Deephaul Ravine Shutout.

Fixed an issue where looting Mislaid Curiosities did not grant credit for the achievement, I’m not a Thief, I’m a Treasure Hunter.

Characters

Archmage Khadgar should appear in the Violet Citadel for players progressing through Legion content.

Classes

Druid
- Adjusted Druids’ steady flight so that their speed better matches that of mounts.

Evoker
- Scalecommander
  - Fixed an issue where Deep Breath with Maneuverability would apply Terror of the Skies twice to enemy targets.

Monk
- Fixed an issue causing Aspect of Harmony to deal unexpectedly high damage.

Paladin
- Fixed an issue that caused modifiers such as Avenging Wrath and Mastery: Highlord’s Judgment to not affect Touch of Light’s damage effect.
- Fixed an issue that caused Incandescence’s damage to not be increased by modifiers such as Avenging Wrath and Mastery: Highlord’s Judgment.
- Fixed an issue causing Consecration’s friendly effects to only apply to a single paladin when multiple were grouped together.
- Fixed an issue causing Righteous Judgment to cause Consecration to sometimes not grant its friendly effects.
- Retribution
  - Fixed an issue allowing targets to use Grounding Totem or Blink out of Hammer of Light.

Priest
- Discipline
  - Voidweaver
    - Void Blast will no longer be incorrectly increased by the Holy version of Twilight Equilibrium.

Shaman
- Elemental
  - Corrected an issue where damage dealt by Tempest or Tempest Overload was not properly contributing to Lightning Rod damage when talented into Conductive Energy Hero Talent.

Warlock
- Affliction
  - Fixed an issue where Wither did not benefit from Death’s Embrace.
- Diabolist
  - Fixed an issue where you could not queue Hand of Gul’dan while casting Ruination.

Delves

Fixed an issue where specific items weren’t dropping from Nerubian delves.

Fixed an issue where sporbits could fail to die upon exploding.

Earthcrawl Mines
- Earthen can now ingest nearby minerals when clicking on Brann’s campfire for health and mana regen.
- Fixed an issue that caused the quest to not complete when finishing the delve.
- Fixed an issue where using the flamethrower torch did not grant credit for destroying webs.

Kriegval’s Rest
- Added a button in the scenario tracker to allow players to drop the Enchanted Candle if they’re holding one.

The Waterworks
- Added a button in the scenario tracker to allow players to drop an Air Totem if they’re holding one.

Dungeons

Priory of the Sacred Flame
- Arathi Footman
  - Mortal Strike maximum stacks reduced to 10 on Normal difficulty.
  - Defend cooldown increased on Normal difficulty.
- Arathi Knight
  - Disrupting Shout cast time increased to 3 seconds on all difficulties (was 2 seconds).
- Ardent Paladin
  - Sacred Toll damage reduced by 20% on Normal difficulty.

Items

Changed the unlock rank for the Nerubian Pheromone Secreter at Adventurer 1 to be renown 7 (was renown 6).

Pet Battles

Players may now search for PvP pet battles on the Isle of Dorn.

Player versus Player

Rated Battleground Blitz now contributes to Legion Artifact appearance progress.

Death Knight
- Blood
  - Heart Strike no longer deals increased damage in PvP (was +20%).
- Frost
  - Enduring Strength no longer has reduced effectiveness in PvP (was -20%).
  - Obliterate no longer deals increased damage in PvP (was +20%).
- Unholy
  - Bursting Sores no longer deals reduced damage in PvP (was -11%).
  - Virulent Plague no longer deals reduced damage in PvP (was -5%).
  - Epidemic no longer deals reduced damage in PvP (was -8%).

Professions

Fixed an issue where the Hideseeker’s Tote recipe was not available for Crafting Orders.

Quests

The Quest “Defender of the Flame” should now reward a Lamplighter Supply Satchel.

Resolved an issue where multiple beetles would be spawned for “Scarab Scouting” and “Truffle Shuffle”.

September 5, 2024

Classes

Demon Hunter
- Sigil of Doom now overrides Sigil of Flame while Precise Sigils is talented.
- Aldrachi Reaver
  - The global cooldown triggered by Reaver’s Glaive is now reduced by Haste.
  - Warblade’s Hunger is now correctly triggered by Annihilation.

Mage
- Spellslinger
  - Splinters generated from Shifting Shards will no longer target enemies that are stealthed.

Monk
- Brewmaster
  - Fixed an issue causing Face Palm to grant an incorrect amount of cooldown reduction.

Paladin
- Retribution
  - Fixed an issue that caused Sacrosanct Crusade to disappear when Shield of Vengeance was cast.

Shaman
- Elemental
  - Fixed an issue where a Tempest Overload could damage creatures that were not within line of sight to the target of your Tempest ability.
  - Fixed an issue where Tempest Overload did not properly benefit from the Stormcaller hero talent.

Warlock
- Demonology
  - Fixed an issue where Empowered Legion Strike would persist through death and resummon.
  - Empowered Legion Strike now lasts 20 seconds.

Delves

Reduced the size of Brann’s click area, so that you can more easily click on other things Brann might be standing next to.

Fixed an issue where Brann could target out of combat enemies with Gryphadin’s Battle Harness.

Brann is dodgier. That’s the note.

Dwarven Medicine will now be cast when off cooldown rather than when a player is missing health.

Relic of Uldum and Bag of Snacks can now affect player pets.

Dungeons

Cinderbrew Meadery, Darkflame Cleft, The Dawnbreaker, and City of Echoes are now available while leveling new characters for players that have completed the campaign.

The Dawnbreaker
- Druids can now use flight form in The Dawnbreaker dungeon while in combat.

Flying

Fixed an issue where flying on the Beledar’s Spawn mount could cause framerate to drop.

If you die in Draenor, your temporary spectral mount will no longer use skyriding.

Items

Lowered the rarity of the Lamplighter Supply Satchel from Epic to Uncommon to better reflect its contents, which have not changed.

Hanna’s Locket toy now has a longer cooldown and cannot be used in combat or dungeons.

Player versus Player

Paladin
- Retribution
  - Ultimate Retribution has been removed as a PvP talent option.

Quests

Vanishing Stalkers now spawn much more reliably for “Lynx Rescue”.

“A Tide Needing Turned” should now properly show the starting location on the Dornogal map.

World Quests should now award Spark of War for the “Sparks of War” weekly quests.

Fixed an issue where, after the weekly reset, players were unable to choose a different Severed Threads Pact.

Greatly increased experience rewards for all “Delver’s Call” quests.

All “Delver’s Call” quests can now be picked up in their respective Delves and can now be acquired in Adventure Mode.

New “Delver’s Call” quests have been added for Earthcrawl Mines, the Waterworks, Nightfall Sanctum, and the Underkeep.

Races

Increased the effect of the Earthen Well Fed secondary stat bonus.

Belga’s gems are now edible to Earthen, with improved quality and greatly reduced costs.

Cataclysm Classic

Fixed issue with Guild Herald and Guild Page not being able to be learned by multiple characters of the same faction on a given account. Players affected by this bug can now buy these pets from a Guild Vendor at a discounted price. Players who were unaffected will still pay full price.

September 4, 2024

Classes

Evoker
- Scalecommander
  - Fixed an issue where players could be slowed during Deep Breath while talented into Maneuverability.
  - Fixed an issue where Bombardments would occasionally fail to proc while talented into Extended Battle.

Mage
- Spellslinger
  - Volatile Magic no longer hits out-of-combat or crowd-controlled targets.

Monk
- Chi Burst no longer consumes both stacks of its activation buff when cast with 2 stacks.

Paladin
- Dawnlight’s damage now correctly scales with Retribution’s Mastery.
- Dawnlight’s damage can now correctly critically strike.
- Dawnlight’s AoE healing no longer double dips with Versatility.
- Sun’s Avatar damage now correctly scales with Retribution’s Mastery.
- Sun’s Avatar and Dawnlight’s AoE no longer deal damage to enemies out of line-of-sight.
- Retribution
  - Fixed an issue causing Mastery: Highlord’s Judgment to not increase damage from Seal of the Crusader.

Warlock
- Diabolist
  - Fixed an issue where your Pit Lord could be summoned without their portal visual.

Delves

Brann now has an equal amount of attack, spell, and ranged attack power relative to all classes he’s joining, and his stats now increase as expected when the player-character is buffed.

Brann should no longer sometimes miss his attacks.

Quests

Added a visual 1-hour timer to Hallowfall Fishing Derby quests.

September 3, 2024

Achievements

Corrected an issue preventing Buddy System from being immediately granted when completed.

Auction House

Resolved issues causing the Auction House to experience degraded performance.

Classes

Death Knight
- Frost
  - Frost Strike damage reduced by 6%. Does not apply to PvP.
  - Obliterate damage reduced by 6%. Does not apply to PvP.
  - Icy Death Torrent damage reduced by 10%.
  - Glacial Advance damage reduced by 10%. Does not apply to PvP.

Druid
- Balance
  - Umbral Intensity increases the damage of Wrath by 20/40% (was 25/50%) and Starfire by 15/30% (was 50%).
  - Starsurge damage increased by 12%.
  - Starfall damage increased by 20%.
  - Harmony of the Heavens increases Eclipse power by 2% per proc, max 6% (was 1% per proc, max 5%).
- Feral
  - Bloodtalons and Lion’s Strength now also increase the damage of Rampant Ferocity.

Evoker
- Devastation
  - Damage of all spells and abilities increased by 6%.
  - Firestorm damage increased by 20%
  - Firestorm duration reduced to 10 seconds (was 12 seconds).
- Flameshaper
  - Engulf damage increased by 30%.

Hunter
- An issue causing Unnatural Causes to not function with multiple Hunters has been resolved.
- Sentinel damage is now increased by Unnatural Causes.
- Pack Leader
  - Vicious Hunt damage increased by 10% for Beast Mastery.
  - Vicious Hunt damage decreased by 10% for Survival.
    - Developers’ notes: When Vicious Hunt’s damage reaches a certain point, it can cause Kill Command to dominate Survival’s rotation. This adjustment and subsequent compensation are meant to ensure Pack Leader Survival Hunters are utilizing the other tools at their disposal.
  - Howl of the Pack critical strike damage bonus increased to 5% for Beast Mastery (was 3%).
  - Howl of the Pack critical strike damage bonus increased to 11% for Survival (was 7%).
  - Furious Assault damage bonus increased to 60% for Survival (was 30%).
  - Cull the Herd damage over time increased to 60% for Survival (was 30%).

Mage
- Fire
  - Living Bomb damage increased by 30%.
  - Pyroblast damage increased by 5%.
  - Flamestrike damage increased by 10%.
- Frostfire
  - Frostfire Bolt damage increased by 25% for Fire.
- Sunfury
  - Burden of Power can no longer be double dipped by spell queueing.
  - Arcane Phoenix damage dealt reduced by 10% for Arcane.
  - Arcane Soul base duration reduced to 2 seconds (was 3 seconds).

Monk
- Fixed an issue that caused Chi Burst’s damage to cancel Spinning Crane Kick and Celestial Conduit.
- Windwalker
  - Tiger Palm now has a 1-second cooldown while Darting Hurricane’s effect is active.
  - Fixed an issue that caused Gale Force to not copy damage from Thunderfist.

Paladin
- Retribution
  - Mastery: Highlord’s Judgment reduced by 10%. For example, at level 80, 180 Mastery rating now grants 1.35% Mastery (was 1.5%).
  - All Holy spell damage increased by 5%.

Priest
- Discipline
  - Oracle Discipline priests’ Preventive Measures now increases Power Word: Shield absorption by 40% (was 25%). Does not apply to PvP.
  - Atonement healing increased by 100% outside raid (was 70%). Does not apply to PvP.
  - Fixed an issue where Atonement critical healing was not increased by the correct amount outside of raid.
  - Shadow Word: Pain and Purge the Wicked damage increased by 20%.
- Shadow
  - Voidweaver Shadow priests’ Void Blast damage increased by 20%.

Rogue
- Corrected an issue that prevented multiple Subtlety Rogues from applying Deathstalker’s Mark to the same target.

Shaman
- Elemental
  - Mastery: Elemental Overload’s bonus to all Elemental and Physical damage increased by 35%.
  - All damage reduced by 6%.
  - Stormbringer
    - Tempest now deals 65% of its damage to enemies near its primary target (was 50%).
    - Tempest now deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
- Enhancement
  - All damage reduced by 4%.
  - Elemental Blast damage increased by 12%.
  - Stormbringer
    - Tempest now deals 65% of its damage to enemies near its primary target (was 50%).
    - Tempest now deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
  - Totemic
    - Tremor damage increased by 10%.
    - Searing Volley damage increased by 80%.

Warlock
- Affliction
  - Fixed an issue where Malevolence would break enemy players out of stealth.
  - Fixed an issue where Volatile Agony area damage ignored line of sight.
- Destruction
  - All ability damage increased by 5%.

Delves

Reduced the damage of Fungal Breath from the Invasive Sporecap rare.

The bountiful icon on the scenario objective UI now hides upon looting the locked treasure chest to better indicate that you’ve collected your rewards.

Fixed an issue with Brann’s sleep schedule.

Dungeons

City of Threads
- Fixed an issue where players were losing their earned Pheromone buffs and being attacked by the citizens.

Events

Awakening the Machine
- Medpack ground duration increased to 2 minutes (was 1 minute).
- Automatic Ironstrider damage decreased by 17%.
- Malfunctioning Pylon damage decreased by 20%.
- Nullification Barrier duration decreased to 2 minutes.
- Addressed an issue where Nullification Barrier could persist after combat.

Items

Charged Runeaxe Intellect granted has been increased to align with other similar items.

Congealed Cinderbrew Cinch now uses its intended appearance which can be collected.

Player versus Player

Corrected an issue where War Mode World Quests may display no reward for completion.

Druid
- Rip damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
- Rake damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
- Balance
  - Lunar Calling now increases Starfire damage by 50% in PvP combat (was 65%).
  - Umbral Embrace now increases the damage of Wrath and Starfire by 40% in PvP combat (was 75%).
- Feral
  - Taste For Blood’s damage increase to Ferocious Bite during Tiger’s Fury is decreased by 50% in PvP combat.
  - Saber Jaws effectiveness now reduced by 50% in PvP combat.

Mage
- Frost
  - Ice Lance damage increased by 45% in PvP combat (was 75%).

Monk
- Master of Harmony
  - Manifestation is now 50% effective in PvP combat.
- Brewmaster
  - Chi Burst damage reduced by 30% for Brewmaster Monks in PvP combat.
- Mistweaver
  - Peaceweaver now reduces the cooldown of Revival by 33% (was 50%).
  - Life Cocoon is now 30% more effective in PvP combat.
  - Enveloping Mist can no longer be dispelled.

Priest
- Holy
  - Prayer of Mending healing increased by 65% in PvP combat.

Shaman
- Enhancement
  - Lava Lash damage increased by 60% in PvP combat.
  - Stormstrike and Windstrike damage increased by 60% in PvP combat.
  - Windfury Attack damage increased by 60% in PvP combat.

Warrior
- Thunderous Roar damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
- Arms
  - Auto attack damage no longer decreased by an additional 12% in PvP combat.
- Fury
  - Odyn’s Fury damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat.

Professions

Fixed an issue where one of the Profession specialization tomes purchased in the City of Threads with Kej were unable to be used in specific orders.

Fixed an issue where the Tailoring Weekly Quest “Tailoring Services Requested” which would be dropped upon logout.

Quests

The “Behind Closed Doors” questline can now be completed by any character once The Ringing Deeps campaign has been completed at least once on the account.

The Recall Lisky button will now clean up and go away after the quest “Lisky Business” is turned in.

Fixed an issue where multiple players couldn’t sit and listen at the same time during “One Last Story”.

The scenario “The Light in the Dark” should no longer occasionally get stuck on the first step if Faerin is too far away.

After finishing the War Within campaign, you can now find Alleria Windrunner in the Foundation Hall in Dornogal and ask her to show what happened during the finale. This will play the cutscene from the final chapter.

August 29, 2024

Characters

Fixed an issue where Chasm Makers in Azj-Kahet could get stuck in combat.

Classes

Demon Hunter
- Aldrachi Reaver
  - Fixed an issue with Art of the Glaive not respecting line-of-sight.
  - Fixed an issue with Preemptive Strike not respecting line-of-sight.

Evoker
- Preservation
  - Fixed an issue where Lifespark and Call of Ysera were incorrectly increasing the healing of Living Flames cast by Afterimage and Leaping Flames if the buff was active when they occurred.

Rogue
- Deathstalker
  - Fixed an issue where rogues fighting low-health enemies could find themselves in a state where Darkest Night was not correctly applied.

Delves

Fixed an issue where the player’s health bar could get in the way of some mini-game puzzles.

Earthcrawl Mines
- Fixed an issue preventing players from entering the main room.

Tak-Rethan Abyss
- The “Niffen’s Aid” ability will no longer aggro neaby enemies.

Dungeons

Cinderbrew Meadery
- Fixed an issue where a Brew Drop reaching I’pa sometimes shielded the boss for an incorrect value and didn’t inflict party damage.

Events

Fixed an issue where quest objective objects were not appearing on the step ‘Very Important Earthen’ during the Theater Troupe event.

Items and Rewards

Ravenous Honey Buzzer is now usable while you’re shapeshifted.

Shadowed Essence damage is now properly reduced for tank and healer specializations.

Player versus Player

Warlock
- Fixed an issue where Infirmity would not clear after a Battleground or Arena ends.

Professions

The Severed Threads Pact buffs “Weaver’s Tutelage” and “Weaver’s Prodigy” will now properly enhance the players’ crafting and profession abilities.

Jewelcrafting
- Improved the rate of prospecting gems for Bismuth, Ironclaw Ore, and Aqirite. This affects both baseline chances as well as the increase based on item quality.

Quests

Trying to abandon “Special Assignment: Bombs from Behind” should no longer teleport you back to the Weaver’s Lair.

Players who abandoned the quest “Gear Enchanting” can now successfully complete the quest again. From now on, the quest will auto complete if the player has already cast “Enchant Ring – Glimmering Haste” item given by the quest.

Fixed an issue where Bushy Weeds creatures were not repopulating quickly enough on “Thespians at the Proscenium”.

Players who enter the “Awakening the Machine” event, qualify for the weekly quest “Gearing Up for Trouble,” and have not previously picked up the quest will have it pushed to them.

The quest “Renown of Khaz Algar” has been removed from the War Within Campaign and is now available to characters with any of the Khaz Algar renown factions below level 4.

User Interface

Players who have the “Arc Emitter” extra action Button on their screen can resolve the issue if they relog.

August 28, 2024

Achievements

Khaz Algar Lore Hunter has been temporarily removed. We will fix and restore this Achievement in a future patch.

Characters and NPCs

Adjusted the scaling of enemies in War Within leveling content to increase their health, bringing the duration of combat more in line with expected WoW behavior. This change is most noticeable at level 70, and has a reduced impact as your level increases. Enemies at level 80 and above are unchanged.
- Developers’ notes: We’ve seen data and heard a great deal of feedback that players coming into Khaz Algar with endgame Dragonflight gear were extremely powerful relative to that initial content. It is entirely intended that effort put into gearing translates into a significant combat advantage at the start of a new expansion, but the values we’ve been seeing are extreme, often not even allowing time for normal combat rotations. This disparity also caused mixed-level groups to experience skewed results, with lower-level players contributing drastically more than level 80s.

Classes

Death Knight
- Blood
  - An issue causing The Blood is Life to not take line-of -sight into account has been resolved.
  - An issue causing Dancing Rune Weapon to not function in the second phase of the Rasha’nan fight in The Dawnbreaker has been resolved.
- Frost
  - An issue causing Trollbane’s Icy Fury not taking line of sight into account has been resolved.

Evoker
- Evokers that have been boosted are now able to access their Specializations and Talent window.
- Chronowarden
  - Fixed an issue where Instability Matrix was not reducing the cooldown of empower spells when Tip the Scales was used.

Hunter
- Sentinel is now removed from player controlled units upon being crowd controlled.
- Marksmanship
  - Volley no longer prevents Marksmanship Hunters from auto-attacking.

Mage
- Sunfury
  - Gravity Lapse now properly targets 5 units.
  - Gravity Lapse now deals its damage immediately if it is cast on a unit that is immune to Roots.
  - Gravity Lapse now properly affects nearby units, even if its primary target is immune to Roots.

Paladin
- Templar
  - An issue with Zealous Vindication casting Empyrean Hammer on secondary targets instead of the main target has been resolved.

Shaman
- Restoration
  - Fixed an issue causing Primordial Wave to benefit from Undulation at the incorrect time. The bonus healing will now benefit while the Undulation bonus is active and a Healing Wave is cast.

Warrior
- Protection
  - Fixed an issue that could allow Into the Fray to stack higher than intended.

Delves

You can now call Brann Bronzebeard to gather near you from the Explorers’ League Supplies if he manages to wander off on his own.

While Brann works on improving his ability dodging skills, the amount of damage that he takes from enemies has been reduced.

Corrected an issue where Companion Experience items can persist in the inventory instead of being consumed upon loot.

Earthcrawl Mines
- Fixed an issue where players could end up being feared through a door, causing progress to be blocked.

The Waterworks
- Fixed an issue where Karnk and Pagsly would not follow the player properly.

Events

Fixed an issue where enemies on the step Deal with Drunks could get stuck at 1% health during the Theater Troupe event.

Flying

Skyriding is now available in Isle of Dorn after “Secure the Beach” has been completed at least once on the account.

Items and Rewards

The Azj-Kahet Nerubian Pheromone Secreter now becomes available at Renown 7 (was Renown 6).

Unique, one-time lootable treasures in Azj-Kahet are no longer on a 60-90 minute public respawn. They now spawn for and are available personally for each player until looted.

Fixed an issue with Sureki Zealot’s Insignia where healing from player pets and guardians was not reattributed to their owning player when granting Sureki Zealot’s Oath.

Reinforced-Wax Plating damage reduction reduced by 50%.

Antique Bronze Bullion may now be deleted.

For a limited time, Awakened Vendors in Valdrakken are still available for those who have bullion to trade away.

The Nerubians got in trouble for the price of their translation potion. Potion of Polymorphic Translation: Nerubian is now available for 33 kej (was 500).

Pet Battles

Hallowed Glowfly no longer incorrectly appears in The Ringing Deeps.

Waxwick is no longer tradeable.

Player versus Player

Brawl: Deepwind Dunk has been replaced with Brawl: Comp Stomp this week, it will return in the normal slot next brawl rotation.

Resolved an issue that caused enemies in Epic Battlegrounds to have more health and deal more damage than intended.

Sergeant Wilson and Nassar have arrived in the Contender’s Gate in Dornogal for players of questionable repute to sign up as a Mercenary in battlegrounds.

Professions

Darkmoon Faire profession quests no longer give Artisan’s Acuity.

Darkmoon Faire profession quests now also grant Dragon Isles specialization knowledge for players who know the associated Skill Line. This is not displayed in the list of possible rewards to maintain UI tidiness.

Fixed an issue preventing weekly Enchanting quests from being available.

Alchemy
- Algari Potion Cauldron and Algari Flask Cauldron no longer require Artisan’s Acuity to craft.
- Algari Potion Cauldron’s charges have been increased to 80 (was 40). The cost to craft has been adjusted by a similar proportion.
- The cost of Meticulous Experimentation has been increased, its cooldown reduced to 20 hours (was 24 hours) and it now guarantees a recipe when used.
  - Developers’ notes: We saw feedback regarding the cooldown increase here and felt it was unnecessary when paired with the improvements to Wild Experimentation. Rather than increase it, it has been decreased to 20 hours to give some flexibility for tight play schedules.
- Wild Experimentation has had its success chances slightly increased, and failure chances slightly reduced.
- Recent Catastrophe’s duration has been reduced to 10 minutes (was 15 minutes).
- Formulated Courage now prevents explosions when performing Wild Experimentation.
- Increased the chance to discover recipes with Thaumaturgy.
- Fixed a bug that caused Vicious Flask honor gains to stop functioning and display tooltip errors upon dying.

Quests

On’heia was missing from the wildcamp for quest “Open Communications” for some players. He has seen fit to return.

Addressed an issue preventing intended steps for “Awakening the Machine” while Speaker Kuldas was a questgiver.

Fixed an issue where some Legion quests were unable to be completed once The War Within had been started.

Made placing Meaty Bait optional for the quest “In a Pinch.” The boss will now respawn if he hasn’t been killed but the meat has been placed. Moved a Deepflayer’s flying path away from the boss so it would stop engaging him.

Quests that grant rewards from the renown track should now be available without being level 80.

August 27, 2024

Achievements

Worm Theory is no longer missing its quest criteria.

Classes

Death Knight
- Deathbringer
  - An issue causing Painful Death to reduce the cost of Obliterate/Marrowrend by 2 Runes instead of 1 has been resolved.
- Frost
  - Resolved an issue causing Frostwelp’s Aid talent to display 0%.

Evoker
- Chronowarden
  - Fixed an issue where Temporality and Motes of Acceleration talents would not function when Hover was cast mid-air.

Hunter
- Survival
  - Grenade Juggler Explosive Shot procs no longer proc from Explosive Shot.
  - Grenade Juggler now procs from Wildfire Bomb casts rather than on damage dealt (after a brief delay).
  - Relentless Primal Ferocity will now increase the effectiveness of existing Tip of the Spear stacks when the player casts Coordinated Assault and will appropriately remove the bonus when Coordinated Assault ends.

Mage
- Spellslinger
  - Arcane Orb can no longer damage enemies through walls.
  - Controlled Instincts can no longer damage enemies through walls.

Rogue
- Deathstalker
  - Resolved a timing issue where Deathstalker’s Mark applied from Stealth or Shadow Dance was being overwritten by Deathstalker’s Mark applied by an active Darkest Night.

Shaman
- Stormbringer
  - An issue causing Thorim’s Invocation to switch to Lightning Bolt when Tempest is cast on multiple targets has been resolved.

Warlock
- Hellcaller
  - Fixed an issue where Soul Fire and Cataclysm would consume much more mana than intended when Wither is known.

Delves

Brann should no longer be able to target crowd-controlled enemies.

Fixed an issue where the Fungal Footpads ability would not work for Demon Hunters or Evokers while within Tak-Rethan Abyss or the Sinkhole.

Resolved an issue where the Reformed Fury could despawn immediately upon defeating Speaker Davenruth in Nightfall Sanctum.

Dungeons

City of Threads
- After defeating Izo, the Grand Splicer, players can now drink Unstable Mixture to return to the dungeon entrance.

Events

Fixed an issue where enemies were not granting audience approval during the “The Cruelty of Dornic” Theater Troupe play.

Fixed an issue where rewards for the Theater Troupe event were delayed until the next task was completed.

Items

Emerald and Draconic Marks of Mastery can now be destroyed or vendored.

The pre-season Heroic dungeon reward item-level has been increased to Explorer 4/8 (was Adventurer 1/8).

Fixed several plate items that were incorrectly using Agility/Intellect stats, such as Long-Forgotten Girdle and Scrit’s Handmade Girdle.

Pets

Trogolofrog no longer can spawn with an empty breed.

Player versus Player

Demon Hunter
- Sigil of Spite (Talent) damage no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 20%).
- Soul Rending (Talent) effect now reduced by 17% in PvP combat (was 40%).
- Havoc
  - Chaos Strike/Annihilation damage no longer increased in PvP combat (was 10%).
  - Throw Glaive damage no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 10%).
  - Soulscar (Talent) effect no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 8%).
  - Essence Break (Talent) damage no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 10%).
  - Fel Barrage (Talent) damage no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 20%).

Quests

The map icon for the quests “A Concerned Friend” and “The Last Mage” should no longer remain on the map after you have completed the questlines.

Fixed a bug causing objectives for “Something’s Fishy” to unintentionally be faction-locked.

Fixed an issue causing players to be able to be attacked while completing the quest “Rise of the Reckoning.”

Destroying “Radiant Fuel Crystals” while on the quest “Shadows Below” should no longer prevent quest completion.

During “Alluring Offer”, the Beguiling Lure may now be used while stealthed.

Players should now see the Stormriders and can continue to progress through “After the Storm”.

Interacting with objects during “The Day the Stoneheads Came” should now make them uninteractive, as normal.

Fixed an issue where players who had already acquired a Restored Coffer Key before starting the quest “Bountiful Delves” were still being asked to acquire a key for the first step. Brann has eased up on things and will now count that for the quest step.

Now, the entirety of “Bountiful Delves” will auto-complete if a player has already opened a bountiful chest in a Delve before starting the quest.

Increased the gold and experience awards earned from Bonus Objectives.

User Interface

Level 80 Rare enemies will no longer display an icon on the minimap for players below level 77.

Itching Waters insect visuals now only show for the player who’s been targeted.

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Characters

Warband Mentored Leveling can no longer be canceled.

Fixed an issue that allowed players to disable experience gain at level 70 instead of the intended 69 and below.

Some auctioneers in Dornogal have moved downstairs in the auction house.

Classes

Death Knight
- Soul Rupture now correctly applies the 5% damage reduction debuff.

Mage
- Arcane
  - Fixed an issue that caused Touch of the Magi and Magi’s Spark to deal more damage than intended.

Monk
- Master of Harmony
  - Fixed an issue with the number of Hero Talent points Master of Harmoany monks had while leveling.

Rogue
- Deathstalker
  - Fixed an issue that caused some sources of increased Shadow damage to not increase Deathstalker Plague damage effects.

Delves

Fungal Folly
- Fixed an issue where Kasthrik couldn’t be interacted with.
- Sporbits now die upon exploding.

Kriegval’s Rest
- Fixed an issue that could cause Tomb-Raider Drywhisker to despawn during the cast of Ground Slam.

The Sinkhole
- Increased the duration for which you can hold your breath while under the effects of Kobyss Hex.

Events

Fixed an issue where enemies were not granting audience approval during the “The Cruelty of Dornic” Theater Troupe play.

Items

The first piece of gear to drop from a Lamplighter Supply Satchel each week will be Warbound until Equipped and drop at Adventurer 1.

The Handful of Humming Shinies, Pile of Humming Shinies, Big Pile of Humming Shinies, and Gem-Studded Candelabra can now be opened to claim their contents.

Player versus Player

Items
- Lava-forged Cogwheel damage reduced by 70% in PvP combat.
- Storm Defender’s Axe damage reduced by 70% in PvP combat.
- Fearbreaker’s Echo damage reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
- Arathi Demolotion Charge damage reduced by 70% in PvP combat.

Professions

Fixed an issue where Sharpen Your Knife and Carve Meat would be consumed when skinning trivial enemies.

Quests

The Resting Blade should now be collectable on the quest “In the Right Hands”.

Striking Steel: “Spice up your Life” and “Eagle Eye, Eagle Die” are now available after a day, rather than a week. It is intentional that there is a break between part 1 and part 2 of the quest chain.

Void Ambush should no longer persist indefinitely as players progress through “Kaheti Hospitality”.

“Laws Apply to All” and “You No Take Plunder!” should now show the correct turn in location.

The hotfix notes for the previous patch can be found here.

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