WoW Hotfixes - 8 January

Community General Discussion
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Hopefully this means less unintended pulls in waycrest manor.

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I hope so too.

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Ret paladin is a joke

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December 12, 2023

Achievements

  • Fixed a bug that prevented Assassin Bounties from progressing the Bounty Hunting and Band of Brothers

Dungeons and Raids

  • Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope
    • Tindral Sageswift
      • Fire Beam number of beam spawns per pulse reduced to 6 (was 8).
      • Fiery Growth duration increased to 20 seconds (was 16 seconds) in Mythic difficulty.
      • Lingering Cinder duration reduced to 2 seconds (was 3 seconds).
      • Pulsing Heat damage reduced by 33%.
      • Fiery Vines health reduced by 7% in Mythic difficulty.
      • Addressed an issue where Mass Entanglement can fail to root tank players.
      • Addressed a performance issue that caused a server delay at the start of the encounter.

Items and Transmog

  • Ashes of the Embersoul will now reset its cooldown when a raid encounter ends.
  • Ember of Nullification is now an eligible item for all Agility and Strength specializations.
  • Spiked Counterweight damage increased by 20%.
  • Xeri’tac’s Unhatched Egg Sac summon is now affected by secondary stats.
  • Wyrm’s Bountiful Chest can now be purchased from Archdruid Hamuul Runetotem, as intended.
  • Nature’s Cradle should now work on Renown items purchased from Moon Priestess Lasara.
  • Nature’s Cradle should now work on Dream Wardens Renown items that were converted at the Catalyst.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented Emerald Blossom Dreamstone from unlocking certain expected PvP appearances.

Season of Discovery

  • Druid
    • Starsurge rune ability damage increased 182%.
    • Starsurge cooldown reduced to 6 seconds (was 10 seconds).
    • Starsurge mana cost reduced to 1% of base mana (was 3% of base mana).
  • Hunter
    • Flanking Strike now gains the benefit of weapon enhancements like sharpening stones, is now on global cooldown, and is now properly treated as a melee attack, letting it benefit from attack power and combat modifiers to dodge, parry, block, crit, hit, etc.
    • Flanking Strike is now prevented by Pacify.
    • Flanking Strike now requires a weapon equipped.
    • Flanking Strike pet damage is now properly treated as a melee attack, with same benefits as listed above for the hunter’s damage.
    • All damaging Hunter pet abilities now gain damage from Attack Power based on their Focus costs. Hunter pets no longer gain any spell damage.
      • Developers’ notes: Pets that cast spells such as scorpid poison or Lightning Breath were scaling too well and pets using physical abilities were scaling too little. We’ve now normalized the amount of attack power gained, to scale with the focus cost of individual pet abilities. This means that abilities with a higher focus cost, that are cast less often, will receive more benefit from attack power per attack than abilities with a lower focus cost that can generally be used more often. Overall this should level out the damage and reduce situations where some abilities were scaling too much or too little with hunter attack power.
    • Scorpid poison now distributes the additional damage it gains from attack power evenly over each stack of Scorpid Poison on the target.
      • Developers’ notes: Previously, Scorpid poison received most of its benefit from the Hunter’s attack power in the very first stack. Now the additional damage gained from the controlling hunter will not be gained until the full 5 stacks of poison are on the target. This increases the ramp time a bit and makes it less immediately deadly in PvP.
    • Pets now gain 30% of the hunter’s armor (was 45%) and 20% of the hunter’s stamina (was 45%).
      • Developers’ notes: Hunter pets were gaining far too much durability from hunter stats, to the point where some pets could get more than double the health and armor of a well-geared level 25 player. We still want dedicated hunters to have the ability to tank certain dungeon and raid encounters, but pets shouldn’t be so effective that they become the objectively correct choice.
    • Aspect of the Lion has been redesigned and will now function as an Aura.
      • Developers’ notes: This means that it is possible to have Aspect of the Lion up in addition to another aspect, such as Aspect of the Hawk. As an offset to the lower amount of damage that some hunter pets will deal, and to make talents such as Improved Aspect of the Hawk more attractive to Hunters using Aspect of the Lion, we’re shifting Aspect of the Lion into an aura rather than an aspect. This change will go into effect with scheduled weekly maintenance tomorrow, but the tooltip will not yet change. In a later hotfix, we’ll rename relocalize Aspect of the Lion to “Heart of the Lion” and update the tooltip.
  • Priest
    • Priest Homunculi damage increased by 100%.
    • Void Plague damage increased by 200%.
    • Twisted Faith now increases damage done by Mind Blast and Mind Flay by 50% (was 20%) on targets afflicted with Shadow Word: Pain.
  • Rogue
    • Saber Slash, Shiv, and Main Gauche will now properly consume Remorseless Attacks.
    • Saber Slash’s tooltip fixed; damage not reduced.
    • Saber Slash damage is now properly considered a Bleed and benefits from the Mangle debuff. Note: Bleed-immune creatures will no longer be affected by it.
  • Shaman
    • Lava Lash damage increased to 150% weapon damage (was 100% weapon damage).
    • Lava Lash mana cost reduced to 1% of base mana (was 4%).
    • Overload now has a 50% chance to trigger (was 33%).
    • Dual Wield Specialization now grants 10% increased chance to hit while dual-wielding.
  • Boon of Blackfathom world buff adjusted. It now provides 3% spell hit and 25 spell power buff addition to the other physical damage and movement speed effects (was spell crit).
    • Developers’ notes: Spellcasters in general are struggling a bit in BFD, mostly due to poor scaling without spellpower and a higher requirement of spell hit to reliably hit creatures 2+ levels above the caster. Keep those Chronoboons handy and don’t stand in the fire and lose your buff!
  • Blackfathom Deeps
    • Elemental Resistances lowered in Blackfathom Deeps to levels more appropriate for a level 25 Raid.
      • Gelihast Shadow Resist lowered to 25 (was 75).
      • Lorgus Jett Nature Resist lowered to 25 (was 75).
      • Twilight Lord Kelris Shadow and Arcane Resist lowered to 25 (was 75).
        • Phantasmal Priestess all Resist lowered to 0 (was 75), so it’s no longer bad news if double casters are sent down to the dream in Phase 1.
      • Invading Nightmare Shadow and Fire Resist lowered to 25 (was 75).
      • Void Elementals Shadow Resist lowered lowered to 25 (was 75).
      • Corrosive Droplets Nature Resist lowered to 25 (was 75), and Frost Resist lowered to 0 (was 25).
  • Battle for Ashenvale
    • Battle for Ashenvale camps will no longer delay their spawn if players are nearby.
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December 13, 2023

Classes

  • Paladin
    • Protection
      • Amirdrassil 4-piece: Fixed an issue causing Cleansing Flame to not trigger from Lay on Hands.
  • Rogue
    • Damage dealt from Shadow Blades, Blade Flurry, and Sanguine Blades will now be logged correctly when buffed by an Augmentation Evoker.
  • Warlock
    • Demonology
      • Fixed an issue that allowed several Immutable Hatred attacks to be queued up prior to combat.
      • Fixed an issue where Wild Imps summoned via Spiteful Reconstitution would stray from the Warlock.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope
    • Fixed an issue that could prevent Gnarlroot, Igira, and Smolderon from leashing as expected.

Items

  • Incandescent Essence will now be soulbound when used. It is no longer usable on Account Bound items and its combat effects will only trigger for level 70 characters.

Quests

  • Fixed an issue that could prevent completion of “Step Into the Life”.

Season of Discovery

  • Population adjustments have been made to layers in the Ashenvale PvP event which should result in an improved experience for players.
  • Ashenvale progress should be much more consistent.
    • Developers’ notes: In a future hotfix, the Battle for Ashenvale progress will no longer reset to 0% when the final layer on the server finishes their battle.
  • Runes sold at the Honored tier of Azeroth Commerce Authority and Durotar Supply and Logistics reputation are now sold at the Friendly tier.
  • Drop rates for higher-level Waylaid Supplies have been slightly raised and unfulfillable Waylaid Supplies have been removed.
  • The gold prices of several runes and rune related items have been reduced.
  • Blackfathom Deeps
    • The waterfalls at the entrance to the Lorgus Jett encounter now properly despawn after he is defeated.
    • Dream Eater should no longer kill you if you’re pulled into the second phase of the Twilight Lord Kelris fight while still afflicted by the aura.
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December 14, 2023

Classes

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

Dungeons and Raids

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

Season of Discovery

  • Healing Rain will no longer interrupt the auto-attack swing timer of the casting Shaman every time it heals.
  • Living Flame will now cease to spread and deal damage if the Mage caster no longer has the rune equipped.
  • Regeneration and Mass Regeneration will now properly consume Arcane Blast when they benefit from it, regardless of the Mage’s healing targets.
  • Mage Temporal Beacon will now also heal based on damage done by Arcane wands.
  • The radius of healing for Mass Regeneration has been increased to 30 yards (was 15 yards).
  • Battle for Ashenvale
    • The Priestess of the Moon Felore Moonray and Far Seer Kazragore are now spawned in Ashenvale while the Battle for Ashenvale is inactive, and are available to turn in quest items. Felore Moonray can be found in the inn in Astranaar, and Kazragore can be found in the inn in Splintertree Post. During the battle, they will move to their respective battlefield positions.
    • [With realm restarts] Fixed an issue where progress for the Battle for Ashenvale could be reset repeatedly by battles ending at different times on different layers.
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December 18, 2023

Classes

  • Priest
    • Shadow
      • Resolved an issue causing the Death’s Torment buff from the Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope 4-piece set bonus to be removed at the start of dungeon encounters.
    • Warlock
      • Demonology
        • Hand of Gul’dan will no longer interrupt all nearby enemy players who are eating or drinking.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope
    • Fixed an issue where Raid Finder: Fate of Amirdrassil could port you to the wrong location.
  • Blackrook Hold
    • Bonebreaking Strike no longer stuns pets.
  • Dawn of the Infinite: Murozond’s Rise
    • Fireball, Serrated Arrows, and Serrated Axe will now clean up after the encounter ends.
  • The Everbloom
    • Fixed an Ancient Protectors issue where Dulhu’s Noxious Charge can fail to create Noxious Discharge if the target is directly under the boss.
    • Addressed an Ancient Protectors issue where Noxious Discharge can spawn above ground.
  • Waycrest Manor
    • Addressed a Heartsbane Triad issue where Sisters without the iris can quickly melee nearby targets upon being interrupted.
    • Addressed a Soulbound Goliath issue where Soul Thorns’ health is scaling with Fortified instead of Tyrannical.

Items

  • Flourishing Dream Helm now accepts PvP item-level optional reagents as intended.
    • Developers’ notes: As a reminder, the potency of this embellishment is reduced in PvP like other embellishments.

Season of Discovery

  • The Battle for Ashenvale will now progress about 50% faster than previously.
  • The reputation gain for participating in killing an enemy Keeper of the Grove or Blade Master has been increased to 400 (was 200).
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Shadowy Figure in Alterac Mountains to not be seen by players who should otherwise be able to see them.
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December 19, 2023

Classes

  • Demon Hunter
    • Sigil of Flame damage reduced by 10%.
    • Havoc
      • Collective Anguish (talent) damage from summoned Fel Devastation reduced by 10%.
      • Ragefire (talent) damage stored from Immolation Aura critical strikes reduced to 30% (was 35%).
      • A Fire Inside (talent) chance to reset Immolation Aura reduced to 25% (was 30%).
  • Evoker
    • Devastation
      • Pyre damage increased by 15%. Does not apply to PvP.
      • Damage of all spells and abilities increased by 3%. Does not apply to PvP.
    • Preservation
      • Resonating Sphere once again applies Echo to the first 5 allies it passes through (was 3).
      • Developers’ notes: Resonating Sphere was recently reduced as part of a broad AoE healing reduction pass. After watching the change play out, we’re not happy with the resulting gameplay – particularly in dungeons, where it doesn’t cover your whole party.
  • Mage
    • Arcane
      • Arcane Blast damage increased by 6%. Does not apply to PvP.
      • Arcane Missiles damage increased by 10%. Does not apply to PvP.
    • Fire
      • Fire Blast damage increased by 12%. Does not apply to PvP.
      • Pyroblast damage increased by 5%. Does not apply to PvP.
      • Fireball damage increased by 10%. Does not apply to PvP.
      • Flamestrike damage increased by 12%
      • Intensifying Flame now increases Ignite damage by 25% (was 15%).
    • Frost
      • Frostbolt damage increased by 15%. Does not apply to PvP.
      • Ice Lance damage increased by 12%. Does not apply to PvP.
      • Flurry damage increased by 10%. Does not apply to PvP.
      • Glacial Spike damage increased by 6%. Does not apply to PvP.
  • Monk
    • Windwalker
    • Developers’ notes: We continue to keep an eye on Windwalker damage, and feel they need a second incremental improvement to their relative performance. This round of tuning focuses on payoff for successfully executing the bonus effects of the Mystic Heron’s Discipline tier set, as well as increasing the damage of rotational Chi spenders in Rising Sun Kick and Fists of Fury.
      • Spinning Crane Kick damage increased by 20%.
      • Blackout Kick damage increased by 10%.
      • Rising Sun Kick damge increased by 8%. Does not apply to PvP.
      • Fists of Fury damage increased by 8%. Does not apply to PvP.
      • Blackout Reinforcement increased to 250% (was 200%).
      • Glory of the Dawn damage increased by 12%.
      • Dance of Chi-Ji bonus increased to 300% (was 200%).
    • Mistweaver
      • Unison now heals a second injured ally for 35% of the amount healed (down from 50%). Does not apply to PvP.
      • Enveloping Breath healing reduced by 10%. Does not apply to PvP.
      • Essence Font healing reduced by 8%. Does not apply to PvP.
  • Paladin
    • Retribution
      • All ability damage increased by 3%.
  • Priest
    • Shadow
      • Psychic Link now causes direct damage spells to inflict 25% of their damage on all other targets afflicted by your Vampiric Touch (was 15%).
    • Holy
      • All healing increased by 3%. Does not apply to PvP.
      • Prayer of Mending healing increased by 15%. Does not apply to PvP.
  • Rogue
    • Assassination
      • All ability and melee auto-attack damage reduced by 3%. Does not apply to PvP.
  • Shaman
    • Elemental
      • Earthquake damage increased by 50%.
    • Enhancement
      • Elemental Warding now reduces magic damage taken by 3%/6% (was 2%/4%).
      • Developers’ notes: This is aimed at improving Enhancement’s survivability in all content.
    • Restoration
      • Torrent now increases the initial heal of Riptide by 15%/30% (was 10%/20%). Does not apply to PvP.
      • Healing Surge healing increased by 17%. Does not apply to PvP.
      • Healing Stream Totem healing increased by 12%. Does not apply to PvP.
  • Warlock
    • Affliction
      • Seed of Corruption damage increased by 10%.
      • Soul Rot now applies to up to 4 additional targets (up from 3).
      • Dark Harvest now increases critical strike and haste by 4% per target (up from 2.5%).
    • Destruction
      • Rain of Fire damage increased by 12%.
      • Cataclysm damage increased by 25%.
      • Immolation damage from Infernal and Blasphemy increased by 25%.
      • Immolate damage increased by 10%.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope
    • Fyrakk The Blazing
      • Removed the first instance of Blaze from intermission on Mythic difficulty.
      • Increased the cast time of Searing Screams to 4 seconds (was 2) on Mythic difficulty.
      • Reduced the health of Screaming Souls by 20% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Smolderon
      • Fixed an issue with Seeking Infernos that allowed threat information to be generated from them.
      • Reduced the number of Seeking Infernos that spawn each set to 3 (was 4).
      • Reduced the number of Flame Waves that spawn from Overheated targets to 4 (was 5) on Mythic difficulty.

Player versus Player

  • Gladiator’s Distinction (Trinket Set Bonus): Primary stat for DPS and tank specializations is now increased by 12% (was 20%) when in Arenas, Battlegrounds, and War Mode.
  • Druid
    • Balance
      • Stellar Flare backlash damage increased by 8%.
    • Feral
      • Regrowth healing is no longer reduced in PvP Combat (was reduced by 20%).
  • Hunter
    • Marksmanship
      • Aimed Shot now deals 40% additional damage in PvP (was 25%).
      • Rapid Fire now deals 30% additional damage in PvP (was 20%).
  • Paladin
    • Holy
      • Mana regeneration is now reduced by 35% in PvP combat (was 25%).
  • Shaman
    • Enhancement
      • Healing Surge healing is now increased by 5% in PvP combat (was reduced by 12%).
      • Control of Lava (Flame Shock backlash damage) damage increased by 8%.
    • Elemental
      • Searing Flames now has a 40% chance to generate Maelstrom in PvP combat (was 100%).
      • Rolling Magma is now 60% effective in PvP combat.
      • Control of Lava (Flame Shock backlash damage) damage increased by 8%.
    • Restoration
      • Healing Tide Totem health increased by 30%.
  • Rogue
    • Subtlety
      • The Amirdrassil Class Set 2-piece bonus is now 30% effective in PvP combat (was 50%).
      • Eviscerate damage reduced by 7.5%.
  • Warlock
    • Affliction
      • Unstable Affliction backlash damage increased by 8%.
      • Dark Harvest is now 75% effective in PvP combat.
    • Destruction
      • Chaos Bolt damage is now increased by 70% in PvP combat (was 75%).
      • Shadowburn damage is now increased by 10% in PvP combat (was 15%).
      • Flashpoint is now 50% effective in PvP combat.

Season of Discovery

  • Mage
    • Living Flame now benefits from and consumes Arcane Blast.
  • Paladin
    • Avenger’s Shield’s movement slow is now properly considered a Snare and can be removed by effects that remove movement impairing effects.
    • Mana granted by Seal of Martydom to party and raid members has been increased. Seal of Martyrdom now grants all party and raid members 20% of damage the Paladin takes from the seal (was 10%).
  • Rogue
    • Blade Dance has been updated to grant 10% parry at all ranks, rather than increasing parry chance per combo point. The only effect of more combo points is now increased duration.
  • Shaman
    • Mana granted by Shamanistic Rage to party and raid members has been increased. Shamanistic Rage now grants party and raid members 20% of the mana gained by the Shaman (was 10%).
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December 21, 2023

Characters

  • Apothecary Lee in Dalaran should now have his shoulders looking like they’re supposed to.

Quests

  • Players should now be able to speak with Vormu and turn in “Disturbance Detected: Black Temple”.

Season of Discovery

  • Druid
    • Lacerate base cost reduced 10 Rage (was 15).
    • Mangle (Bear) base cost reduced to 15 Rage (was 20).
  • Priest
    • Shadow Word: Death base damage increased by 103% and the bonus damage it receives from spell power has been increased by 50%.
  • Shaman
    • Shamanistic Rage now always grants 6% of the caster’s spell damage as mana, as intended.
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January 2, 2024

Items

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

Season of Discovery

  • Two additional Spirit Healers will be present during the Battle for Ashenvale in the northwest of the zone.
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January 5, 2024

Dungeons and Raids

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

Season of Discovery

  • Crafted Void-Touched Armor on-use effects are now exclusive with each other and share a cooldown.
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Will you add night elf paladins please. I am bored how poorly shadow play i wanna play paladin night elf.

Just forgetting about these two?

https://www.wowhead.com/champion=1000/nerus-moonfang ←
https://www.wowhead.com/champion=756/delas-moonfang ←

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January 8, 2024

Classes

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

Dungeons and Raids

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

Season of Discovery

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