WoW Hotfixes - Updated 18 April

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Can I invade the Academy of Arcane Arts and Sciences located in stormwind?

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Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

March 23, 2023

Characters

  • Fixed an issue where player titles were not properly displaying above their character.

Classes

  • Demon Hunter
    • Havoc
      • Fixed an issue that caused Blind Fury (Talent) to provide incorrect bonus values.
  • Priest
    • Holy
      • Healing and damage from Divine Image should now be properly attributed to the Priest who summoned it.
  • Shaman
    • Restoration
      • Resolved an issue causing Swirling Currents to not properly benefit Cloudburst Totem. The aura tooltip will be incorrect until next patch.
  • Warlock
    • Affliction
      • Fixed an issue where Corruption was dealing an extra damage tick on application.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Mythic+
    • Spiteful Affix
      • Fixed an issue where Spiteful Shades would leave behind a silhouette after dying.

Enemies and NPCs

  • Forbidden Reach
    • Reduced Bonesifter Marwak’s base health by 20%.
    • Fixed an issue where some of the Furbolg’s dialogue would display incorrectly.

Items and Rewards

  • Primordial Stones
    • Cold Frost Stone effect increased by 12%.
    • Deluging Water Stone effect increased by 22%.
    • Desirous Blood Stone effect increased by 18.5%. Decreased trigger rate.
    • Echoing Thunder Stone effect increased by 12%.
    • Excluding Steam Stone effect increased by 25%.
    • Flame Licked Stone effect increased by 12%.
    • Freezing Ice Stone effect increased by 12%.
    • Gleaming Iron Stone effect increased by 12%.
    • Humming Arcane Stone - Fixed an issue that caused it to trigger more than intended.
    • Indomitable Earth Stone effect increased by 12%.
    • Pestilent Plague Stone effect increased by 72%.
    • Raging Magma Stone effect increased by 12%.
    • Searing Smokey Stone effect increased by 34%.
    • Shining Obsidian Stone effect increased by 12%.
    • Storm Infused Stone effect increased by 34%.
    • Wild Spirit Stone effect increased by 50%.
      • Developers’ note: The intent here is to bring other Primordial Stones up to the competitive level where the Humming Arcane Stone is currently performing. Although, a portion of this level of performance can be attributed to a bug, even when fixed the Humming Arcane Stone was still the top performer. With these changes we’re hoping to make other combinations more viable in comparison, but not necessarily overtake it over from being the best option. In addition, area of effect stones have gotten a considerable increase to their output.

Quests

  • Fixed an issue causing players to remain phased in the Lion’s Pride Inn, after completing the Human Heritage questline.

Zskera Vaults

  • The chains to lower chests in Zskera Vaults will no longer appear erroneously after the chest has been lowered and looted.
  • The Primordial Earth Cache locked by a Runic Puzzle should now work correctly.
  • The creature that is slain to satisfy “Secure the Vault” on that week’s quest should no longer respawn.
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Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

March 24, 2023

Classes

  • Paladin
    • Retribution
      • Fixed an issue causing Retribution Aura to sometimes fail to trigger.
  • Warlock
    • Fixed an issue where Demonic Inspiration would still be applied after logging out and resummoning your demon.
    • Demonology
      • Fixed an issue where non-primary pets would benefit from Demonic Inspiration.

Forbidden Reach

  • Developers’ note: In an effort to be clear about its availability, an existing once-per-day bonus amount of Elemental Overflow per rare elite in the Forbidden Reach has been changed to be awarded from the creature’s respective daily Bonus Objective quest. This should result in roughly the same amount of Elemental Overflow awarded per first-time kill, but now it should be better communicated how often this bonus amount is offered.
  • The Morqut Hearth Totem now has 5 charges before the item is fully consumed.

Quests

  • Fixed an issue where the quest “Primordial Answers” was unintentionally sharable.
    • Developers’ note: The quest “Primordial Answers” was never meant to be sharable and is now marked as such. Unfortunately, if you picked up the quest via a share, Earthcaller Yevva will not be in your vault and the quest cannot be completed with her. You can gain the quest again and complete it in a future vault when she appears for you.
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still nothing about the class hall issue :frowning:

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How long are you gonna let retri paladins in this state? its actually an insult to the other classes.

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Take a look at the hotfixes for Dragonflight:

March 27, 2023

Classes

  • Death Knight
    • Frost
      • [With realm restarts] All ability damage reduced by 3%.
  • Druid
    • Balance
      • Denizen of the Dream’s trigger rate was unintentionally increased. It has been restored to its intended value.
    • Restoration
      • Fixed an issue that caused Forest’s Flow to not properly extend heal over time effects on allies.
  • Evoker
    • Fixed an issue where empower spells could fail to auto-fire at Rank 1 when released prior to that point.
    • Fixed an issue preventing Oppressing Roar’s cooldown from being reduced when dispelling Enrage effects with the Overawe talent.
  • Hunter
    • Beast Mastery
      • [With realm restarts] Kill Command damage reduced by 10%.
    • Marksmanship
      • [With realm restarts] All ability and pet damage reduced by 4%.
    • Survival
      • [With realm restarts] Mongoose Bite damage reduced by 10%. This does not affect PvP combat.
  • Paladin
    • Retribution
      • Fixed an issue that caused Fading Light’s value to be higher than intended for Retribution Paladins.
  • Warlock
    • Developers’ note: We’re modifying the output of Grimoire of Sacrifice to bring it in line with the output of Warlock demons. At the end of the day Warlock is a pet-centric class and while we want there to be an option to opt-out of your pet, we don’t want it to always be the clear answer.
    • [With realm restarts] Wrathful Minion now increases the damage of Grimoire of Sacrifice by 10% (was 15%).
    • [With realm restarts] Demonic Inspiration now increases the damage of Grimoire of Sacrifice by 10% (was 15%).
    • [With realm restarts] Grimoire of Sacrifice damage reduced by 15%.
    • Affliction
      • Developers’ note: With the removal of less impactful talents in both their class and specialization trees, Affliction received a lot of additional damage options that have increased their damage beyond what was intended. We’re making these adjustments to bring them in line with other damage dealers.
      • [With realm restarts] Damage done by spells and abilities reduced by 2%.
      • [With realm restarts] Darkglare damage reduced by 20%.
    • Demonology
      • Developers’ note: We’re targeting Demonology’s multi-target profile with these adjustments to bring them closer to other damage dealers. We will continue to watch both single-target and multi-target performance, along with the output of new talents and adjustments delivered in 10.0.7, and make further adjustments down the road if needed.
      • [With realm restarts] Demonic Strength now increases the damage of Felstorm by 300% (was 400%). This does not affect PvP combat.
      • [With realm restarts] Dreadbite damage reduced by 10%. This does not affect PvP combat.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Temple of the Jade Serpent
    • Wise Mari
      • Freezing Ice Stone (Primordial Stone) triggers no longer disrupt the direction of Wash Away casts.
  • Zul’Gurub
    • The Archaeology skill requirement for the Cache of Madness event has been reduced to 1 (was 225).
    • Brazier of Madness, Shattered Hakkari Bijou, and Fragmented Hakkari Bijou no longer have a level requirement.
    • Warblades of the Hakkari, Reborn are now bind on account (was bind on pickup) to allow anyone to acquire the appearances regardless of who their blacksmith is.
    • Fixed an issue that allowed the Brazier of Madness to be lootable prior to completing Relics of a Fallen Empire.
  • Zul’Aman
    • Fixed an issue that allowed Bijous and Coins to drop in the instance.

Enemies and NPCs

  • Fael’lin
    • Hellfire Walls will now correctly display the cast bar.
    • Living Fuse will no longer target player’s pets.

Items and Rewards

  • Fixed an issue where Primordial Stones were pulling enemies that you were not in combat with.

Player versus Player

  • Paladin
    • [Live March 24] Crusader’s Reprieve healing reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
    • Protection
      • [Live March 24] Judgment of Light healing reduced by 35% for Protection Paladins in PvP combat.
    • Retribution
      • Developers’ note: Retribution Paladins have been heavily overperforming in PvP with their recent 10.0.7 changes. We’re primarily targeting their burst damage, passive survivability, and PvP talents that we feel are contributing too much overall damage.
      • [Live March 24] Judgment of Light healing reduced by 35% for Retribution Paladins in PvP combat.
      • [Live March 24] Inquisitor’s Ire effectiveness reduced by 40% in PvP combat.
      • [Live March 24] Fading Light effectiveness reduced by 50% for Retribution Paladins in PvP combat.
      • [Live March 24] Justicar’s Vengeance now deals 15% additional damage to stunned targets in PvP combat.
      • [Live March 24] Justicar’s Vengeance healing reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
      • [Live March 24] Blessing of Dawn effectiveness reduced by 25% for Retribution Paladins in PvP combat.
      • [Live March 24] Divine Arbiter direct damage reduced by 25% in PvP combat.
      • [Live March 24] Vanguard of Justice effectiveness reduced by 25% in PvP combat.
      • [Live March 24] Empyrean Legacy increases the damage of Divine Storm by 15% in PvP combat (was 25%).
      • [Live March 24] Luminescence (PvP Talent) now increases damage and healing by 2% (was 4%).
      • [Live March 24] Lawbringer (PvP Talent) now deals 2% of maximum health (was 4%).
      • [Live March 24] Fixed an issue that caused Avenging Wrath’s 75% PvP multiplier to not function for Retribution Paladins.
  • Shaman
    • Precognition will no longer be activated when players are successfully interrupted while affected by Tranquil Air Totem.

Quests

  • “Brew for the Ages” should now correctly point to the Zskera Vault door to find the recipe pages, in case you have not unlocked that vault door yet.
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lol the nerfs are in and rets are still trucking everything.

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Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

March 28, 2023

Classes

  • Druid

    • Balance
      • Updated the Denizen of the Dream Faerie Dragons to reduce how often they unintentionally engage enemies. They will now enter stealth or invisibility if the caster does, and they now spawn closer to the caster.
      • Starfall damage increased by 13%.
      • Starfall no longer deals damage once when it is first cast.
        • Developers’ note: The above changes address a bug. Starfall deals damage once when initially applied. When it is refreshed, it updates the existing Starfall instead of creating a new instance. Thus, those subsequent Starfall casts do not get the damage of the initial hit. This change removes the initial hit and adds the damage it would deal across all Starfall’s other ticks. As a player, you will notice slightly more delay before Starfall deals damage, but its damage overall will be increased when cast multiple times.

  • Paladin

    • Fixed an issue causing Divine Purpose to sometimes be incorrectly consumed by an Afterimage trigger.
    • Fixed an issue causing Fading Light to sometimes apply an absorb with no value.

  • Priest

    • Holy
      • Fixed a bug causing Symbol of Hope to reduce the cooldown of both Divine Protection and Shield of Vengeance for Retribution Paladins. It will now only reduce the cooldown of Divine Protection.
    • Shadow
      • Addressed an issue causing Mind Blasts queued after a Mind Spike to not properly reduce the cast time of Mind Blast with Mind Melt talented.

Player versus Player

  • Classes
    • Mage
      • Fixed an issue that caused Frozen Orb’s duration to be longer or shorter than intended.
    • Priest
      • Shadow
        • Fixed an issue causing Psyfiend to be usable during Dispersion.
    • Warlock
      • Affliction
        • Fixed an issue causing Soul Swap Exhale to bypass spell reflection and spell redirect mechanics. The initial cast of Soul Swap will continue to bypass these effects.
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still nothing on class hall problems ?

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Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

March 29, 2023

Classes

  • Druid
    • Fixed an issue causing Ursoc’s Fury to generate an incorrect absorb value.
  • Monk
    • Mistweaver
      • Fixed an issue that caused the additional Tiger Palm from Awakened Faeline to sometimes not cast while changing facing or moving out of melee range.
  • Paladin
    • Fixed an issue causing some Paladins to fail to obtain their Charger.
  • Priest
    • Shadow
      • Fixed an issue causing Idol of Y’Shaarj to not trigger its Enrage removal effect against creatures affected by Enrage from the Raging Affix in Mythic+ Dungeons.
  • Warlock
    • Affliction
      • Fixed an issue where Soul Flame damage did not match the amount described in the tooltip.
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I would like to express my opinion on the continuous changes on the Hunter BM class which are clearly far-fetched. On March 8th the buffs related to 25% damage for the barbed shout and 20% for the kill command were announced but subsequently denied by reducing them by 12% ​​and 10% respectively. The legendary bow is also nerfed. Subsequently, the bm hunter is subjected to yet another nerf of 10% of the kill command.
I am astonished by these changes and I don’t understand why the developers don’t make this class competitive like others such as Dh.Shammy enh,Pala Retry,lock destruction etc. It is undeniable that the Hunter bm is not at all competitive in Aoe compared to other classes and it is very frustrating to be invited to pug for 22 keys. Not to mention the issue of defensive cds that are not up to par with those of other game classes. Me, as a player who has been playing Wow for many years I would like the developers to take the problem of the hunter class seriously because many people complain about it and the developers seem not to perceive the negative feedback. And this, in my opinion, is very serious and not a case the Hunter Bm has been placed in the tier set list D, precisely because it is a class left to itself without correct modifications being made which make it a competitive class compared to the other classes. I hope that the above written is from warning for timely interventions by the developers rather than proceeding with the usual and useless weakening that preclude the pleasure of playing onwner class.
Thanks for the attention

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Hello, thx for the bug fixing, much appreciated :slight_smile: Could we have a little more details about this fix :

  • Druid
    • Fixed an issue causing Ursoc’s Fury to generate an incorrect absorb value.

After the fix, will the absorb increase, decrease or did it fix a very specific problem that we are unlikely to encounter on a regular basis ? Thanks !

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Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

March 30, 2023

Classes

  • Warlock
    • Affliction
      • Fixed an issue where Soul-Eater’s Gluttony would not reduce the cooldown of Soul Rot if damage was absorbed.
    • Demonology
      • Fixed an issue where Umbral Blaze’s damage would not increase with a second rank.

Items and Rewards

  • Fixed an issue where the Phoenix Wishwing pet would not properly appear in the pet journal.
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my class hall issues are fixed , thanks

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Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

March 31, 2023

Classes

  • Paladin
    • Holy
      • Fixed an issue that caused the cooldowns of Judgment and Crusader Strike to not be reduced by Avenging Crusader.
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Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

April 3, 2023

Classes

  • Evoker
    • Fixed an issue causing Ancient Flame to incorrectly be consumed by instant-cast Living Flames, such as from the Burnout talent or Lifespark set bonus.
  • Paladin
    • Fixed an issue with the timing of Eye of Tyr’s floating combat text.

Player versus Player

  • Classes
    • Paladin
      • Fixed an issue causing Retribution Aura to trigger from incorrect amounts of incoming damage.
      • [With weekly restarts] Judgments of the Pure (PvP Talent) now causes Judgment casts on an enemy to cleanse 1 Poison, Disease, and Magic effect they have caused on you (was allies within your aura).
        • Developers’ note: With Judgment’s cast frequency increasing in patch 10.0.7, Judgments of the Pure has been overperforming as a PvP talent. In a hotfix being applied this upcoming Tuesday, the talent will only apply to the Paladin and no longer have its effect applicable to allies.

Quests

  • Heritage
    • During “The New Clessington Estate,” Cecilia Clessington will no longer accuse the player of smelling like rotten blubber when provoked.
  • Ohn’ahran Plains
    • Fixed an issue causing some players to be unable to interact with the Waygate at the Shady Sanctuary.
    • The “Waygate Travel” debuff received from using the waygates will now continue to expire while the player is offline.
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When are you fixing Ret paladin in PvP?

It needs a COMPLETE overhaul in PvP.

It has ruined the game for many people, look at the statistics for 3s.

For context, in the last 24 hours there was 6,192 Ret paladin games.

The total amount of games for DK, DH, feral, balance druid, devastation evoker, hunter, all 3 mage specs, ww, shadow priest, ele shaman, enhance shaman and all 3 rogue specs is 4,899.

You think these numbers are okay? It’s absurd.

It is simply impossible to play 3s currently if you aren’t a Ret or play with a Ret, Ret/war and Ret/demo (probably Ret hunter after the change to judgement of the pure) are literally 99% of games.

I watched a streamer yesterday at 2.5 play Ret war rsham and out of 42 games all 42 had a Ret paladin.

If you think this is okay then I don’t know what to say to you.

There has never been a spec more dominant than this, it goes past the meta, it isn’t the ‘favorable’ way to play as it’s the only way to play.

I was farming glad wins pre Ret buff, I’m now 2.2(dropped 300 rating) because I don’t play with a Ret, the game is completely unplayable, yes I’ve unsubbed but I enjoy(ed) the game and want to get glad again this season for the mount.

Blizzard, there has been a lot of mistakes this season, we had weeks of not being able to queue every Wednesday on EU, we’ve had bugs such as retribution aura 100% uptime, deathbolt hitting for 2 million+ due to legacy scaling for locks, we’ve had a class dominant meta(assa rogues) but nothing comes close to this.

Fix rets and give people a fair shot at glad again this season.

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Absolutely important and necessary hotfix, I’m so glad Blizzard has its priorities in order.

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It should be 1 poison disease OR magic effect and needs to have cd for at least 10s or something how many times i need to cast immolate vs ret in a single game this is absurd …and whats up with that non stop unrelenting dps do you even play ur own game ?

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Who got offended