Season of Discovery Hotfixes - 22 May

WoW Classic Season of Discovery
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S03 - Item - RAQ - Paladin - Retribution 3P Bonus]While a one-handed weapon is equipped, Crusader Strike now unleashes the Judgement effect of your Seals, but does not consume the Seal.
Item Set: Battlegear of Eternal Justice: 3 pieces

S03 - Item - T1 - Paladin - Retribution 6P Bonus] deal 15% less damage, but now persist for 6 seconds after you cast another Seal, or until you cast a third Seal. Your Judgements can now trigger multiple Seals if active.

15% dmg nerf so from 5k holy dmg in 1 gcd now its 4250!!? Great nerf blizz next time act like you nerfed flame shock by buffing its dmg by 20% wont you?

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Got flamed by a 400gs warrior for not helping him kill a decked paladin outside ubrs yesterday. All i could do was type “xD” in chat

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mate maybe you should go touch grass for a day or two, take a break you know?

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April 3, 2025

Season of Discovery

  • Developers’ note: The changes below went live with this week’s realm restarts.
  • The stun during the Kel’thuzad encounter on Hard Mode 4 can no longer be immuned.
  • Kel’thuzad now correctly comes back up with full health regardless of debuffs placed on him during the transition phase.
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may i inquire about the change to shamans 2-handed mastery rune?
seems weird to nerf a bottom performing spec.
can you give us a clue as to why this is in the plans?

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April 7, 2025

Season of Discovery

  • World buffs and world buff consumables no longer work in Battlegrounds.
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is this it, is this all the strength you can muster against hunter one shots?

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This has nothing to do with hunters…
Its all about making premades less painfull for solo queuers

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that’s not what I was getting at, you can include this and nerf hunter’s numbers. but clearly wbs being used in bgs is a pressing matter, according to blizzard.

488

we go live on the patch for NA but not EU?

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April 11, 2025

Season of Discovery

  • Fizzlefuse will now sell ammunition to players right away.
  • Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the quest “Loss” in Eastern Plaguelands to stall.
  • World Buff consumables now cost 5 Commendations each (was 25).
  • Fixed an issue causing the locked doors in New Avalon to not be able to be opened when players are wearing the Scarlet Disguise and have the Scarlet Key in their inventory.
  • Consumable Tinkerboxes can now be activated while Shapeshifted.
  • Classes
    • Priest
      • Vampiric Embrace will now heal the priest for twice as much as they heal others.
      • Vampiric Embrace in Season of Discovery can no longer roll a critical result.
    • Rogue
      • The Tank Rogue Tier-2.5 2-piece bonus will no longer sometimes prevent Blade Flurry from activating. Strikes of the Sinister now has a lower priority than Blade Flurry.
  • Karazhan Crypts
    • The Burning Webs from the Creeping Malison encounter in Karazhan Crypts will no longer hit players in Kharon’s room after the encounter is completed.
  • Naxxramas
    • The Unholy Weapon enemies in Naxxramas will no longer gain twice the % damage increase from Authority of the Frozen Wastes.
  • Scarlet Enclave
    • Health values for non-boss enemies have been significantly reduced across the entire raid.
    • The locations of the Mage Tower and Guard Tower lieutenants before the Beatrix encounter now spawn at the base of their towers.
    • Removed some of the Artillery enemies around the Blacksmith.
    • Beatrix
      • The utility, healing, and disruption spells used by Beatrix’s troops have either been cut or reduced in effectiveness. Affected spells include Concussion Shot, Disarm, Shield Slam stun, and Polymorph.
      • Beatrix’s health reduced by 5%.
      • Adjusted the timing and overlap of her Class Call spells. For example, there are now 4 waves of Scarlet Infantry during Scarlet Phalanx (was 6), 4 waves of Scarlet Cavalry during Thundering Hooves (was 5), and slightly less overlap between Mortar Combat from the Artillery into the Meteor from Scarlet Mages.
      • Adjusted the Out of Bounds triggers that could result in a Scarlet Phalanx (Infantry Class Call) gap forcing players to walk out of bounds and take unnecessary damage.
    • Caldoran
      • Fixed an issue that could result in Caldoran becoming stuck if players entered the Radiant Portal after resurrecting.
    • Solistrasza
      • Fixed an issue that caused “Aberrant Bloat” to have no spell icon.
      • Fixed an issue that caused Solistrasza’s “Radiant Light” to erroneously display.
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April 14, 2025

Season of Discovery

  • The Sunlight sword no longer scales with spell power. It now inflicts physical damage (was holy damage).
  • Khonsu’s auto attack damage can no longer be mitigated by armor and deals less base damage.
  • Dedicated Sunglasses can now be toggled on and off with the /flex emote.
  • Players who have lost their Dedication effect but carry a Linkue Combatant Icon will have their aura restored the next time they use the item.
  • A random Darkmoon Faire card will now appear in Damaged Undermine Supply Crates and Wartorn Undermine Supply Crates.
  • [With realm restarts] The Scarlet Junkbox from the weekly quest in New Avalon will now always contain only one Jostled Chalice Fragment (was a chance at multiples). The amount of Fragments needed to complete a Crusader’s Chalice has been reduced to 3 (was 6).
    • Developers’ notes: This should allow players a more consistent way to get Tier Tokens and pieces outside of the raid every 3 weeks.
  • Classes
    • Druid
      • The Restoration Druid T3 2-piece bonus will now correctly allow multiple Druids with the set bonus to cause the effect on the same target.
    • Paladin
      • Hammer of the Righteous now deals 4x weapon dps (was 3x).
      • Hammer of the Righteous now strikes 3 additional targets (was 2).
      • Avenger’s Shield now benefits from the Precision talent for its hit chance.
      • Avenger’s Shield now gains 3% chance to hit when Defense Specialization is engraved.
        • Developers’ notes: This is to counter the fact there is no other way to add additional hit to it through Weapon Skill.
    • Shaman
      • [With realm restarts] The T3 Enhancement Shaman 2-piece bonus now requires the player to have the Static Shock rune engraved. The tooltip will be updated at a later date.
  • Blackrock Depths
    • Ever After can now be completed in group sizes larger than two players.
  • Scarlet Enclave
    • Caldoran can no longer have his power drained or burned.
    • Herod can no longer have his power drained or burned.
    • Fixed an issue that allowed Solistrasza’s “Cremation” spell to be interrupted.
    • Fixed an issue that would cause Lightgorged Whelps to erroneously trigger Solistrasza’s encounter record.
    • Balnazzar’s Screeching Fear cast time increased to 2.5 seconds.
    • Balnazzar will now berserk at 10 minutes.
    • Sleep is no longer able to be canceled or removed early.
    • The patrol after the Reborn Council should no longer pull through the wall.
    • Beatrix and add health reduced by 25%.
    • Beatrix will only spawn two sets of adds and perform two class calls before becoming active (down from 3 and 3)
    • Beatrix enrage timer increased to 10 minutes.
    • Ranged adds will run in a little further towards players after spawning before casting ranged spells
    • Stock Break will now properly grant damage immunity during its duration
    • Rose’s Thorn timer has been adjusted to better alternate and not overlap with Stock Break
    • Rose’s Thorn Charge speed is slightly slower
    • Beatrix should not melee during or immediately after Rose’s Thorn
    • Rose’s Thorn, Confession, and Scarlet Arrows damage reduced.
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April 15, 2025

Season of Discovery

  • Exquisite Spices from the Scarlet Junkbox are no longer Bind-on-Pickup. This does not retroactively apply to previously obtained Exquisite Spices.
  • Condemnation will now activate its effect when abilities such as Insect Swarm and Shadow Word: Pain are cast.
  • Classes
    • Priest
      • Spirit of Redemption will no longer prevent the use of Darkmoon Card: Twisting Nether.
    • Shaman
      • For players to adjust to the set bonus change, the Naxxramas Tier vendor for Shamans will now offer an exchange from the Enhancement Tier to the Tank Tier. This is a one-way exchange and will no longer be available after April 28.
  • Scarlet Enclave
    • Alexei the Beastlord
      • Enervate and Enkindle can no longer target pets.
      • Enkindle and Enervate now ignore line-of-sight.
    • Balnazzar
      • Sleep now grants players damage immunity.
      • The carrier of Carrion Swarm now has a visible debuff.
    • Lillian Voss
      • Ambition no longer increases her casting speed.
      • Immolation Aura no longer targets pets.
      • Intoxicating Venom should no longer dispel anything other than itself.
      • Putress’ Poison Bolts during berserk now ignore line-of-sight.
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warlock/hunter pets just took stacks they shouldn’t and die so easily so its all good now. but now the raid has to play the fissure game.

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why only tank from enha tier? Elemental is using 2 set as well as bis, and was whole last phase… we do not want to become tanks.

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really bro?

first you gut 2h rune and alpha rune AND way of earth health bonuses, and now this?
what is this, the fun police?

and what about my sharpened chitin armor kit that i put on my t3 enh tier gloves?
are you gonna refund the 400g that’s worth or allow the enchant to carry over on the swap?

can you guys do us a favor and think these things through before taking actions like this please?
jesus christ.

maybe we should all just spec elemental and get it over with, as you seem to abundantly favor that spec and hate tank and enhancement with the fury of a thousand suns.

and like the guy above pointed out; why would you not allow enhance > elemental swap as well?

this is wack af ngl.

UPDATE: apparently you can indeed swap from enh > ele as well, they just forgot to mention that in bluepost, like usual.
still wack tho.

UPDATE2: Thanks blizzard, the nerf to lightning shield t3 2p enhancement bonus has set me back no less than 3 phases worth of BIS gear in 4 of my slots as i now had to **** around with what gear i had stored in my bank to repair the damage you did to my current setup.

it is truly LOVELY that i lose my 400g armor kit enchant by token of swapping my item on top of also being relegated to putting on tier 2 gear just to optimize my character’s stats and set bonuses as i had previously turned in all my 2.5 tier tokens for dps gear, seeing as you added the shoulder rune enchant system last phase, which made 2.5 tank gear obsolete all of last phase.

do you have any idea how much damage you did to shamans everywhere with this garbage change?!
get your :poop: together man.

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April 17, 2025

Season of Discovery

  • The effects of the Conundrum wand will no longer occasionally fall off.
  • Hunter
    • Explosive Shot now correctly benefits from the Moral Shots talent and deals increased critical strike damage.
    • Explosive Shot will not benefit from the Scarlet Enclave 2-set Ranged bonus.
    • Explosive Shot’s damage over time portion can no longer return a Miss, but the initial application of Explosive Shot still can.
  • Rogue
    • The Fallen Regality set will now correctly restore energy to the Rogue after casting Crimson Tempest.
  • Shaman
    • Enhancement Tier 3 pieces can now also be traded for Elemental Tier 3 pieces until April 28.
  • Warrior
    • The Scarlet Enclave Protection Warrior 2-set bonus has had its damage on Shockwave increased to 60% (was 35).
    • Warriors in Season of Discovery now have an additional 10% reduction to damage taken while in Defensive Stance.
    • Threat generated by the Furious Thunder Rune increased to 75% (was 50%).
    • The attack power ratio of Thunder Clap in Season of Discovery has been increased to 7% (was 5%).
    • Thunder Clap now uses your Ranged hit chance to land and can return a Miss (was Spell hit chance and can return a Resist).
    • Engraving Defense Specialization onto your Ring will grant your Thunder Clap 3% increased chance to hit, to make up for the fact that Weapon Skill does not affect it normally.
    • Thunder Clap is now capable of landing a critical strike. Because of this, Thunder Clap now benefits from Impale.
      • Developers’ notes: Just to be clear and set expectations with interactions, Thunder Clap will not apply Deep Wounds upon landing a Critical Strike.
    • Devastate’s damage per stack of Sunder has been increased to 15% (was 10%).
      • Developers’ notes: Currently Devastate is weaker than a basic attack, this should bring it more in line as a filler without being overtaken by Thunder Clap as a way to deal damage.
  • Scarlet Enclave
    • Scarlet Arrow, Multi-Shot, Aimed Shot, Holy Cleave, Ignite Flesh, Wild Fissure, Peeled Secrets, and Unstable Concoction will no longer deal damage to pets.
    • Balnazzar
      • You can no longer release during the ending RP of the Balnazzar encounter.
      • Players who are dead will now be teleported with the rest of the raid when the RP at the end of the Balnazzar encounter finishes.
      • Beatrix’s portion of the RP before the Prison should now be visible to players even if they are farther away.
      • Balnazzar’s encounter should now always result in a lootable chest even if everyone dies during the ending of the encounter.
      • If there are remaining Lightbearers at the end of the fight, they will now correctly despawn.
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April 21, 2025

Season of Discovery

  • [With realm restarts] The Portable Cannon item will now deal its damage to targets even if they are Immune to the stun portion of the effect.
  • The Vanquished Tentacle of C’thun and the Eye of Mar’li have been added to the list of items that cannot be used while in a neutral area like Cenarion Hold or Light’s Hope Chapel.
  • The Scarlet Base Camp is now considered a neutral area where certain effects and spells, like Homunculi, cannot be used.
  • Classes
    • Hunter
      • Carve will now benefit from effects that reference a “Strike” type ability (was not a Strike previously).
    • Mage
      • Deep Freeze will now correctly have its damage increased by 20% per stack of Glaciate (was 10% per stack).
      • The Balefire Bolt debuff that increases the damage of Balefire Bolt by 25% per stack now also increases the damage of your Pyroblast by the same percent**.**
    • Paladin
      • Increases and decreases to Judgement will no longer affect Seal of Command.
    • Priest
      • Vampiric Embrace will no longer be subject to the healing reduction players experience in PvP.
      • Developers’ notes: This was making Vampiric Embrace much weaker than intended, due to the initial spell dealing less damage and then being reduced further by the healing reduction.
    • Rogue
      • The base physical damage reduction from Just a Flesh Wound has been reduced to 20% (was 30%).
      • Developers’ notes: We’ve lowered the flat damage reduction portion of Just a Flesh Wound. When this was increased (when the defense scaling was introduced), this number being 30% was used to help bridge the shift from tanking in damage gear to tanking in tank gear. We feel enough time has passed to lower this number, as players have had adequate access to gear they could swap over to or get a new set of if they had geared for damage.
    • Shaman
      • The Scarlet Enclave Elemental 2-piece set bonus will no longer chain to other targets while Burn is engraved (was casting a Flame Shock tick that chained even to targets that didn’t have a Flame Shock active and also chaining multiple times across targets if Chain Lightning was the triggering spell).
      • The Scarlet Enclave Elemental 2-piece set bonus will now correctly mirror the damage of a Flame Shock tick (was treating some bonuses as multiplicative instead of additive, resulting in more damage than a normal Flame Shock tick).
      • The Scarlet Enclave Elemental 2-piece set bonus will no longer play a Flame Shock animation from the caster whenever it activates.
      • The Scarlet Enclave Elemental 2-piece set bonus will now correctly strike targets with an instant tick of Flame Shock that are out of normal Flame Shock range of 20 yards (was: enemies needed to be within the normal Flame Shock).
    • Warlock
      • Shadow Bolt Volley now causes Shadow Bolt to deal 30% reduced damage (was 5%).
      • Shadow Bolt Volley no longer deals reduced damage if there is only one target that is struck by your Shadow Bolt cast (was: always deals reduced damage while the rune is engraved).
  • Scarlet Enclave
    • Mason the Echo
      • The Berserk timer has been increased to 7 minutes.
      • Scarlet Cannonballs are now properly removed when the boss leashes and resets.
    • Alexei the Beastlord
      • Enervate and Enkindle have had their periodic damage reduced slightly.
      • The spell visuals for Wild Fissure have been improved.
    • Reborn Council
      • Blast Wave’s vertical arc from the knockback has been lessened.
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lmao that nerf shadowbolt voley is so ridiculous.

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lets go baby, manual dot application + haunt for aoe fights ! bc that is fun, according to blizzard.