WoW Hotfixes - 7 May

[Gilvion-ravencrest]

@Дробовик-deathguard

What “yours” you mean? Have you seen me involved in bot-farming or what?

Or you want to spit out some cool racist joke, but too shy?
Don’t be shy, that kind of humor is kinda acceptable on that forum and in the game, I am facing with it everyday.

I even help you where to start: I am Greek from Odessa city, Ukraine.
C’mon, wear on your colored wig, red nose and make us laugh.

Calm down, and stop thinking everything revolves around you, every country has a funny stereotype, that’s how humor works.

We are here to talk about balancing number in our favourite video game, not about political or racial topics, grow up or get off the forums pls.

[Aundra-nordrassil (Aundra)]

@Gilvion-ravencrest

every country has a funny stereotype

Yeah like we britz are waking the streets in top hat, monocle and cockney accent…

[Gilvion-ravencrest]

really? for me its for sure the accent and the funny action people do to other people with the funny little pointy things in their hand for little to no reason…

But yeah tea is a thing too for sure.

I mean I’m german, the amount of times I was called the funny word is countless, but it’s simply a part of being from somewhere, just comes with the gig

[Ortokolo-silvermoon]

@Linxy

Opera Hall: Westfall Story

• Defeating Toe Knee too quickly will no longer prevent the encounter from continuing.

Whatever you did, please roll it back, now the encounter cannot be finished! even while doing the same tactic from before Does Not Work

Now we take Toe Knee down to 30% for Murloc, then we do the same to Murloc and when we take one out none of them go to their place, Toe Knee doesn’t even stop fighting.
Please Roll Back The Old Bug! or please let AI do your jobs too

Adding: Tried one shotting Toe Knee and then the murloc, their rp went on but nope encounter is still going

[Rhavaniel-dunemaul]

Give unholy Boneshield passively by consuming festering wounds with scourge strikes.

Give frost dk unbreakable armor passively when you spec into it.

There you go guys, I fixed DK in pvp.

[Kaivax]

January 30, 2024

Achievements

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

Classes

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

Dungeons

• Atal’Dazar
  • Addressed an issue where the Rezan encounter can unexpectedly reset.
• Dawn of the Infinite: Rise of Murozond
  • Addressed an issue where the visual for Spark of Tyr does not snap to ground.
  • Addressed an issue where Spark of Tyr will immediately trigger if the target has immunity.
• Everbloom
  • Addressed an issue with the Ancient Protectors encounter where players can get stuck in combat and unable to release if Dulhu is pulled out of the boss area.
  • Addressed an issue where Witherbark can be pulled out of the encounter area.

Items

• Fixed an issue where immunity effects on the player could prevent Fyrakk’s Tainted Rageheart from dealing damage to enemies.
• The Verdant Gladiator’s Shotel cosmetic should now be purchasable from Glamora.

Player versus Player

• Iridal, the Earth’s Master damage-on use-effect now deals 10% of its damage (was 30%) in PvP combat.
• Death Knight
  • Unholy
    • Resolved an issue causing Outbreak to not apply Virulent Plague to enemy totems, Psyfiend, and Observer.

[Linxy]

February 1, 2024

Achievements

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

Classes

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

Dungeons and Raids

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

Pet Battles

• Fixed an issue causing several multi-hit Battle Pet abilities to have a chance to ignore on-death passives such as Undead or Mechanical resurrection.

Player versus Player

• Fixed an issue causing Stoneform and Fireblood to trigger a longer cooldown for Gladiator’s Medallion than intended.

[Aundra-nordrassil (Aundra)]

@Linxy

Fixed an issue where the mages before Archmage Sol were not resetting their health after they left combat.

That wasn’t an issue… that was god intervention to help the players this is a huge nerf.

[Annaconda-ragnaros]

@Linxy

• Flamebound and Shadowbound are no longer private auras.
• Developers’ notes: We’ve observed that the common strategy for players executing the Flamebound and Shadowbound mechanics on Mythic Fyrakk involves cumbersome addon/macro setup and execution. Our goal with this change is to remove this burden for players who are progressing on this encounter and refocus the challenge on the gameplay.

Frankly the same argument could be made for every private aura in the game as they’ve all been countered by the same type of “It’s on me!” macro and weakaura which replaces the challenge with annoyance.

I’m curious so see how the devs intended for such mechanics to be handled though. They can’t be solved through communication as it involves too many people within a short timeframe, and doing callouts for over 100+ pulls will burn out anyone. “Just wing it” adds too much RNG to a content where consistency = progress.
I have this image in my head where we beat a smolderon’s fireball type mechanic by forming a line to determine the soak order, or walk up to whom we see as the impostor in the SL “among us minigame” and nuking whoever’s surrounded etc… But then I return to reality where there’s so much stuff to dodge nonstop, (and so little time to handle the mechanic) that this isn’t feasible.

I’m guessing this is the result of the “arms race” that was most likely started by the playerbase long ago when addons trivialized mechanics that didn’t really require them in the first place, and has since escalated to “You want challenge? We’ll give you challenge!”.

Anyway, I’m just curious whether private auras will become a new direction or a dead end.

[Kaivax]

February 6, 2024

Classes

• Shaman
  • Primordial Wave now travels faster to its target.

Dungeons and Raids

• Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope
  • The Hall of Fame is full, and Mythic difficulty is now available to cross-realm raid groups.
  • Fyrakk the Blazing
    • Reduced the number of Aflame targets from 4 to 3 on Mythic difficulty.
    • Fyrakk health reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Burning and Dark Colossus health by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Spirit of the Kaldorei health reduced by 20% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Darnassian Ancient health reduced by 20% on Mythic difficulty.
    • The Heart of Amirdrassil now begins stage two with 60% health remaining.
    • Reduced the number of Corrupted Seeds created from 2 to 1.
  • Temple of Ahn’Qiraj
    • The Prophet Skeram now properly respawns when the encounter is reset.
  • Vault of the Incarnates
    • Resolved an issue that could cause the Primal Council to not cast spells.
  • Dawn of the Infinite: Galakrond’s Fall
    • Addressed an issue where Dazhak can sometimes snap to target player on death while channeling Incinerating Blightbreath.

Items

• Matrix Restabilizer all effects reduced by 20%.

[Uda-uldum]

@Linxy

Shaman

• Primordial Wave now travels faster to its target.

I appreciate all the buffs to RShaman, but we need more than just 5% buffs and damage increases to make us playable in M+.

We could use a talent rework that’s for sure… but since we wont be getting it any time soon before S4 if I may suggest:

Non-talent related changes:

• Make Lava Surge procs off the GCD.
• Make Storm Keeper instant cast.
• Buff Earthern Harmony to give a 12-15% DR (~ double its contribution) and make it an off GCD cast.

That would kind of solve our main issues: (A) we lack a way to do damage AND heal at the same time (unlike DPriest, MW, and RDruid). (B) a lack of external (unlike the meta classes above).

So we would weave damage automatically, AND, as a replacement for a true external we get a “mini version” of it, but with out a CD. But -6% is not enough.

It would also not impact our raid HPS too much, which is what would happen if you buff us once again to make it a played spec in M+.

But PW travel time definitely is not the answer. Thats for sure.

@Bellinator-tarren-mill

how it’s possible that a Resto shaman get’s a 5% buff, and is already one of the top healers. They only need to use 1 button for damage, and do high damage, and still get damage buffs.

You sir dont get RShaman. In M+ we cant cut it. And the Raid season is over by the way, so now its M+ season.

We did not need a strict 5% HPS buff, we just needed something to address our other core issues: (A) we are not a haste spec and (B) lack of external CDs

and (C) impossibility to do damage and heal at the same time.

Which explains your comment: It does NOT matter if RShaman DPS is 1 button, or if that 1 button does a ton of damage. If you have to spend ALL your GCDs to keep the party alive, then your overall DPS = 0. Thats the issue.

[Linxy]

February 8, 2024

Achievements

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

Classes

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

Dungeons and Raids

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

Player versus Player

• Priest
  • Shadow
    • Resolved an issue causing the Shadow Amirdrassil 4-set bonus to not be consumed when landing a killing blow on some pets and totems.
• Shaman
  • Resolved an issue causing some spells to kill Grounding Totem without directly targeting the totem.
  • Resolved an issue causing redirected damage over time effects to apply to Grounding Totem. Grounding Totem is once again immune to debuff effects.

[Alduhr-sylvanas]

The February 8 hotfix broke “To The Test: Rune of Shadowbinding” and the previous tethercoil quest part of the legendary questline, impossible to make progression.

[Decepto-hellscream]

Just a quick reminder that we pay a sub fee for this game. Applying a hotfix that practically disables the quest for a legendary, which has a low drop chance anyway and not fix the problem after over 24 hours is abysmal. Please do better blizzard.

[Linxy]

February 12, 2024

Dungeons and Raids

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

Quests

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

[Uda-uldum]

I was somehow expecting some more balance tuning for shamans.

But who am I to guess that the reason that does not happen is because of your precious MDI tournament…

[Linxy]

February 14, 2024

Dungeons and Raids

• Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope
  • Tindral Sageswift
    • Addressed an issue where players who teleport out of the raid before the encounter ends can sometimes cause them to be stranded in The Great Sea.
• Atal’Dazar
  • Addressed an issue where a mind-controlled Dazar’ai Confessor’s Dispel can remove an ally’s Challenger’s Might.
• Darkheart Thicket
  • Removed randomized spawn of enemies before Archdruid Glaidalis.
• Dawn of the Infinite: Rise of Murozond
  • Addressed an issue where Grommash Hellscream can melee players while leaping in the air before Bladestorm.
  • Addressed an issue where Battle Senses can trigger from Shockwave.
• Waycrest Manor
  • Addressed an issue where Heartsbane Triad’s associated auras can fail to fall off.
  • Addressed an issue where Sister Solena does not lose the Soul Manipulation debuff if the mind-controlled player dies.
  • Addressed an issue where Pallid Gorgers can sometimes melee players during Ravaging Leap.
  • The spawning of Heartsbane Runeweavers and Heartsbane Soulcharmers are now consistent each week.

Love is in the Air

• Fixed an issue causing Love is in the Air daily quests to be removed from the quest log when logging out.

[Uda-uldum]

Can you please fix random targeting of certain skills…

And the double tap of Manifested Timeways… please…

And the crazy HP scale of Irridicron…

Among other things…

Also, can you please put MDI players on separate servers? So the rest of us dont have to wait for the event to finish to get the needed balance tuning? Please…

[Örnieball-draenor]

Now all you have to do is fix the drop-rate for it so that the rest of us peasants can have a chance to enyoy what’s left of this patch before we have to replace it.

[Linxy]

February 16, 2024

Dungeons and Raids

• The Everbloom
  • Addressed an issue where Witherbark can reset during the encounter.
• Throne of the Tides
  • Addressed an issue where Naz’jar Tempest Witch can cast Lightning Surge while mind-controlled.
• Waycrest Manor
  • Addressed an issue where Pallid Gorger can ignore players and run away.
  • Reduced Pallid Gorger’s melee damage by 66%.
  • Heartsbane Triad
    • Added an additional safeguard to ensure Aura of Dread is removed.