WoW Hotfixes - Updated 20 March

Community General Discussion
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This is more of a feature request, but it bothers me all the time that when on the dragonriding mount I cannot switch around between my multiple action bars. It is locked to the dragon riding one. (Even though one is free to put into the spare slots there what one wants … although a bit of an annoyance since the game keeps putting all the dragon abilities back in there, even though the upwards move is on the jump button already.)

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Hello everyone. Here are all the hotfixes for today and with this week’s weekly restarts:

JANUARY 30, 2023

Classes

  • Hunter
    • Marksmanship
      • Fixed an issue where Calling the Shots was incorrectly receiving more benefit than intended while using the Chimaera Shot talent.
    • Survival
      • Fixed an issue where Deadly Duo was not properly increasing the damage of Kill Command.
  • Monk
    • Brewmaster
      • Fixed an issue where Stagger’s effect was incorrectly reduced.
    • Mistweaver
      • Fixed an issue that caused Rapid Diffusion to consume Thunder Focus Tea, Tea of Plenty, and Tea of Serenity Renewing Mist procs.
  • Shaman
    • Mana Spring now restores 200 mana when triggered at level 70 (was 400).
      • Developers’ note: With its changes in 10.0.5, the mana restored by Mana Spring is outperforming similar effects, so its value is being brought down in line with our intent.
  • Warlock
    • Affliction
      • Soul Swap now correctly copies the stack count of Agony.
      • Soul Swap now correctly copies Soul Rot, Phantom Singularity, and Vile Taint.
      • Haunted Soul is no longer canceled when Haunt is Soul Swapped.
      • Soul Swap no longer causes Corruption to damage you if Absolute Corruption is talented.
      • Soul Swap now correctly shows its remaining cooldown after exhaling.
      • Malefic Affliction is now correctly removed when your Unstable Affliction target dies.
      • Soul Rot is now affected by Dread Touch and Mastery: Potent Afflictions.
      • Fixed an issue where Malefic Affliction wouldn’t be granted if Malefic Rapture damage was absorbed.
      • Fixed an issue where Grim Reach was benefitting twice from damage modifiers.
      • Fixed an issue where Inevitable Demise was increasing the damage of Drain Life by an incorrect amount.
      • Fixed an issue where Deathbolt would deal more damage than intended in low level areas.

Dungeons and Raids

  • The Nokhud Offensive
    • Balakar Khan
      • Fixed an issue causing Nokhud Stormcasters to sometimes become immune to damage during the encounter.
      • Fixed an issue causing Nokhud Stormcallers around the perimeter of Nokhudon Hold to sometimes become attackable.
      • Fixed an issue causing Nokhud Stormcasters to become attackable before the intermission of the encounter.
  • Vault of the Incarnates
    • Dathea, Ascended
      • [With weekly restarts] Static Discharge damage reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
      • [With weekly restarts] Volatile Infuser health reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Kurog Grimtotem
      • [With weekly restarts] Frostwrought Dominator, Earthwrough Smasher, Flamewrought Eradicator, Stormwrought Despoiler, Tectonic Crusher, Frozen Destroyer, Blazing Fiend, and Thundering Ravager health reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
      • [With weekly restarts] Earth, Flame, Frost, and Storm Dominance damage reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
      • [With weekly restarts] Shattering, Blistering, Chilling, and Thundering Presence damage reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Raszageth
      • [With weekly restarts] Raszageth’s health reduced by 3% on Mythic difficulty.
      • [With weekly restarts] Static Charge damage reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
      • [With weekly restarts] Static Charge’s damage is further reduced by distance on Mythic difficulty.
      • [With weekly restarts] Volatile Spark’s Burst cast time increased to 4.5 seconds on Mythic difficulty (was 3.5 seconds).
      • [With weekly restarts] Volatile Spark now spawn with 3 stacks of Volatile on Mythic difficulty (was 4).
      • [With weekly restarts] Stormsurge’s Shield effect reduced by 10% on Heroic difficulty.
      • [With weekly restarts] Volatile Spark’s Burst cast time increased to 6 seconds on Heroic difficulty (was 5 seconds).

Enemies and NPCs

  • Fixed an issue where some of the new rare enemies did not have the silver Rare Elite dragon border.

Items and Rewards

  • The Tamed Eagle trinket now summons the flying eagle visual effect upon use (was when equipped).
  • Added Apprentice’s Robes and Apprentice’s Boots (Night Elf Mage variant) to Carla Granger.
  • Carla Granger’s Rugged Trapper’s Boots and Battleworn Shoes are now Bind on Equip and can be collected.
  • Fixed an issue where All-Totem of the Master shockwaves could hit additional enemies through floors or other terrain.

Player versus Player

  • Evoker
    • Chrono Loop (PvP Talent) can no longer be applied through immunities.
  • Rogue
    • Assassination
      • [With weekly restarts] The amplified form of Numbing Poison as applied by Shiv now has 40% reduced effectiveness in PvP combat.
        • Developers’ note: This was intended to go alongside the PvP change to Numbing Poison earlier in the season.

Professions

  • Enchanting
    • Vendors have purchased so many Enchanted Writhebark Wands that they are now offering a lower price for them.
  • Engineering
    • [With weekly restarts] Piece of Scrap is now always granted on successful Tinker usage for specialized engineers (except for Tinker: Arclight Vital Correctors and Tinker: Grounded Circuitry).
    • [With weekly restarts] Tinker: Plane Displacer now lasts between 15 and 18 seconds (was 12 and 18 seconds) and correctly places potions on a 5 minute cooldown (was 10 minutes).
    • [With weekly restarts] Aspects of Tinker and Bomb malfunctions have been redesigned or retuned:
      • Safety Component optional reagents are now always discovered when Tinkers malfunction.
      • Significantly reduced the damage dealt from explosion malfunctions.
      • Success chance no longer scales with Engineering Skill. The amount this granted has been made baseline.
      • Success chance granted from casting item quality has been halved, the amount lost has been made baseline.
      • Success chance granted from Specialization nodes has been doubled.
      • Maximum amount of success chance for Engineers remains unchanged. Non-engineers can achieve a slightly higher value than previously.
      • Tinker: Arclight Vital Correctors now has a slight bonus to success chance for Engineers, with its maximum success chance equal to the Shadowlands variant.
        • Developers’ note: There are multiple avenues of progression to increase your gadget success chance in Dragonflight, and the difference between a newbie Engineer and an experienced tinker is substantial. However, it is clear that the gameplay did not support the fantasy and instead resulted in mostly frustrating experiences. These adjustments are intended to address many of those pain-points while maintaining the feeling of progressive mastery. While we will not be sharing exact values, we would also like to clarify that an Engineer with all 4 Safety specialization nodes and a Quality 3 tinker will reach the maximum success chance and do not need to use the Calibrated Safety Switch optional reagent. We will look for opportunities to make this system more transparent in future patches. Thank you all for your feedback!
  • Jewelcrafting
    • Sundered Onyx Loupe and Chromatic Focus have had their recipe difficulty corrected to their intended values.

Quests

  • To make “The Fifth Challenge of Tyr” more enjoyable and group friendly, the following adjustments have been made:
    • The amount of progress awarded for using Irideus’ Power Core on Elite denizens of Tyrhold was increased to 35% (was 20%), meaning that you only need to use it 3 times (was 5).
    • 4 more enemies were added as viable targets for Irideus’ Power Core: Ancient Protector, Phenran, Overloading Defense Matrix, and Overseer Stonetongue.
    • Irideus’ Power Core’s cast time has been reduced to 1.5 second (was 3 seconds).
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No push back nerf on mythic? Are u guys kidding?

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That was not a BUG, that was the best QOL improvement for affi in years!

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I had an annoying issue which might be old, but it doesn’t happen all the time: I created a group for a rare. Two people applied together (maybe that is relevant - not one solo) and there is this frequent thing that people leave again almost immediately. (Surely this doesn’t work for realm hopping because one is put back in the old shard. Maybe people don’t know.)
Well, they sabotaged my group. I invited them, they left seconds later, and my manually created custom group was gone.

UPDATE: My group delisting just happens seemingly randomly, every now and then. Even had it happen twice in one group, IIRC a Feast one. No, not reaching cap. That would have notified me anyway.

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Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

January 31, 2023

Auction House

  • The Mobile Auction House now properly displays Dragonflight enchantments.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Algeth’ar Academy
    • Crawth
      • Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause Crawth to not appear after defeating the gauntlet.
  • Mythic+
    • The Nokhud Offensive
      • Fixed an issue that caused Quaking to apply to players during Blakar Khan’s Static Spear effect.

Quests

  • Ohn’ahran Plains
    • Fixed some issues to prevent “Field of Ferocity: Redux Master of the Hunt” fights from permanently getting stuck in an unusable state.
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Bug; I approached the WQ at WS far northwest, flew through a loot ring at high speed and the game immediately put me back at my hearth location! Luckily I had just pitched my tent at Dragonbane Keep, so I could get back relatively quickly.
On returning it had not counted any rings yet.

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Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

February 1, 2023

Classes

  • Evoker
    • Fixed an issue where some Echoes could occasionally not be consumed by spell casts.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Vault of the Incarnates
    • Fixed an issue preventing players from returning to other areas of the raid when returning to an instance with Broodkeeper Diurna already defeated.
    • Kalecgos now summons a portal that will return players to the raid entrance after Broodkeeper Diurna has been defeated.
  • Mythic+
    • Completing a Mythic 21 or higher dungeon, but exceeding the target time, now awards Mythic+ Rating as if the dungeon were a Mythic 20.
      • Developers’ note: We award partial Mythic Rating credit for untimed dungeons (up to 40% over the target time) to recognize the skill and effort involved, and to encourage groups to stick together even if it seems like they’re going to fall a bit short of the timer. But at the very high end of the system, we’ve heard feedback that sometimes the surest path to further incremental Rating increases lies in seeking out keys a group may have no hope of clearing within the timer. We don’t want to change the way the system works for the vast majority of players who are working their way towards new Valor upgrade tiers, or cosmetic unlocks, but past the Mythic 20 threshold, there are no further tangible rewards other than the leaderboards and eventual end-of-season competition for the Thundering Hero title. The goal of this change is thus to ensure that the way to climb the leaderboards and earn a title meant for the best Mythic+ players in the world is by successfully completing dungeons within the allotted time, without negatively impacting the majority of players using the system. When this change takes effect, some players who are just barely at 2400 rating, with some of that rating coming from untimed 21+ keys, may drop below 2400 and need to re-earn that Rating in order to continue to upgrade new items to Rank 13.

Items and Rewards

  • Fixed an issue where certain item upgrade previews would display higher item levels than intended.

Player versus Player

  • Druid
    • Feral
      • Fixed an issue that could cause Leader of the Pack to not always apply correctly to the character while in Cat Form.
  • Mage
    • Frost
      • Fixed an issue where Snowdrift would inconsistently be applied on elevated terrain.

Quests

  • Fixed an issue where Benthic gear could not be upgraded preventing the completion of “Create Your Own Strength.”

System

  • Fixed an issue that caused performance decreases when using certain addons.
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:grinning:
Thank you for the detailed information

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hello can we have more details about : System

  • Fixed an issue that caused performance decreases when using certain addons.

thanks

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Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

February 2, 2023

Classes

  • Druid
    • Skull Bash will no longer trigger Precognition when successfully interrupting a Holy Paladin with Concentration Aura.
    • Guardian
      • Fixed an issue where Tooth and Claw did not correctly grant 15% magic damage mitigation.
  • Evoker
    • Temporal Anomaly can now be cast while moving when releasing it through Stasis.
  • Monk
    • Mistweaver
      • Fixed an issue that caused Lesson of Anger to not duplicate some damage or healing sources.

Items and Rewards

  • Fixed an issue that prevented Blueprint: Utility Mechanoclaw from dropping from the Caustic Mechaslime in Mechagon.

Player versus Player

  • Classes
    • Evoker
      • Quell will no longer trigger Precognition when successfully interrupting another player who is affected by Concentration Aura.
  • Solo Shuffle
    • Fixed an issue where summoned pets’ cooldowns were not correctly being reset between rounds.

Professions

  • Rabul of the Artisan’s Consortium now sells a Satchel of Coalescing Chaos that binds to your Blizzard Account. This item costs 80 Primal Chaos and provides 60 Primal Chaos to the character who uses it.
    • Developers’ notes: We’ve heard and agree with feedback that players have amassed surplus Primal Chaos on their mains while their alts need all the Primal Chaos they can get. Some Primal Chaos will be lost in the transaction. This is because we want to make sure that while this is a great way for a main to help an alt, the best way to gear up a character should generally be via actually playing that character. Nonetheless, this should provide an additional use for your Primal Chaos, as well as a good way to get some powerful gear to your alts quickly.
  • Inscription
    • Fixed an issue with Darkmoon Decks where the Sagescale Sigil’s shuffle-when-jumping mechanic was being extended to all Darkmoon Decks.
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Here is another ANCIENT issue that is very vexing, and it doesn’t seem to be an addon issue:

The transmog appearances list, general listing and transmogger interface one, often, with no discernible pattern, have a non-working search function. Each character entered will simply do a quick visual update pass of the full list. It simply ignored search terms. - This is unacceptable" I basically makes the whole feature only semi-usable, multiplying the time needed to accomplish anything.

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Where is The Nokhud Offensive that dragonriding makes dc insant or it is fixed?

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Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

February 3, 2023

Dungeons and Raids

  • Algeth’ar Academy
    • Fixed an issue causing Echo of Doragosa’s Arcane Missiles to fail to cast.
  • Mythic+
    • Shadowmoon Burial Grounds
      • Bonemaw
        • Quaking will no longer apply to players during Inhale.

Items and Rewards

  • Rare Vintage Arcwine now correctly consumes upon use.

Professions

  • The factions of the Dragon Isles have decided to make their overflowing supply bags more lucrative. They are now going to include some Primal Chaos, as well as rarely including a Dragon Shard of Knowledge or Bottled Essence. The tooltips of these caches will be adjusted to reflect this change in the future.

Quests

  • Storm’s Fury
    • The map icons for “Storm Warning” will no longer overlap with the event icon, obscuring if the event is active.
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Although the Dragonshards would be useful. The Primal Chaos is pointless, we have enough of those already.

Have you considered putting Gold them? I think that would help players be able to afford buying crafts from others.

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As a fresh 70, you really struggle with primal chaos, to get your first crafts. You need to farm heroic for a long time, until you get your first one.

Yes if you have 10+ on farm, you have more than enough. But a fresh character need to run like 30+ Heroic dungeons for a single item craft. This change is meant as a catch:up

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A fresh level 70 isn’t going to farming Paragon chests.

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I can’t imagine the majority of the player base has things maxed out anyway? I know my friends are Pepe level renown with most factions

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Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

February 6, 2023

Classes

  • Death Knight
    • Blood
      • [With weekly restarts] Heart Strike damage increased by 15%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Blood Plague damage increased by 15%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Blood Boil damage increased by 15%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Death and Decay damage increased by 20%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Shattering Bone damage increased by 5%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Sanguine Ground damage while inside Death and Decay increased to 6% (was 5%).
    • Frost
      • [With weekly restarts] Unleashed Frenzy duration increased to 10 seconds (was 6 seconds).
      • [With weekly restarts] Cleaving Strikes Obliterate now hits 2 additional targets (was 1).
      • [With weekly restarts] Frost Fever damage increased by 15%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Glacial Advance damage increased by 20%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Frost Strike damage increased by 10%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Frostwhelp’s Aid damage increased by 100%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Frostscythe damage increased by 35%.
  • Druid
    • Fixed an issue that caused Nature’s Vigil to transfer damage from Verdancy and Embrace of the Dream.
    • Nature’s Vigil damage will no longer target enemies in crowd control, stealthed or invisible enemies, totems, or enemies out of combat with the Druid.
    • Guardian
      • [With weekly restarts] Armor bonus from Ironfur increased by 20%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Reinforced Fur increases armor from Ironfur by 15% (was 8%) and Barkskin’s damage reduction by 10% (was 5%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Ursoc’s Fury now grants absorb shield based on 50% of damage dealt by Thrash and Maul (was 30%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Reinvigoration’s Frenzied Regeneration cooldown reduction increased cooldown reduction increased to 20/40% (was 15/30%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Layered Mane’s chance to trigger increased to 10/20% (was 5/10%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Lunar Beam healing increased by 230% and cooldown reduced to 1 minute.
    • Developers’ notes: We are keeping a close eye on variances in survivability across tank specializations. These changes are intended to alleviate some difficulties Guardian Druids have been experiencing with certain damage types, as well as targeting some underperforming talents which were not delivering meaningful survivability improvements.
    • Restoration
      • [With weekly restarts] All healing reduced by 3%. This does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Evoker
    • Devastation
      • Living Flame healing will once again have a chance to grant Essence Burst when cast with Leaping Flames.
    • Preservation
      • [With weekly restarts] All healing reduced by 5%.
  • Hunter
    • Beast Mastery
      • [With weekly restarts] Damage dealt by Hunter and pet abilities increased by 5%.
    • Marksmanship
      • [With weekly restarts] Damage dealt by Hunter and pet abilities increased by 5%.
    • Survival
      • [With weekly restarts] Damage dealt by Hunter and pet abilities increased by 5%.
  • Monk
    • Mistweaver
      • [With weekly restarts] All healing increased by 3%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Vivify healing increased by 5%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Clouded Focus now increases healing and decreases mana cost by 20% (was 15%) for Enveloping Mist and Vivify.
      • [With weekly restarts] Peaceful Mending now increases the healing of Enveloping Mist and Renewing Mist by 25/50% (was 15/30%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Spinning Crane Kick damage increased by 15%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Ancient Concordance increases the chance for Rising Sun Kick to reset by 5/10% (was 3/6%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Lesson of Doubt increases healing and damage by up to 40% (was 35%).
  • Paladin
    • Protection
      • [With weekly restarts] Avenger’s Shield damage increased by 10%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Blessed Hammer/Hammer of the Righteous/Crusader Strike damage increased by 30%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Hammer of Wrath damage increased by 15%.
  • Priest
    • Holy
      • [With weekly restarts] All healing done increased by 3%.
  • Shaman
    • [With weekly restarts] Healing Surge healing increased by 10%.
    • [With weekly restarts] Chain Heal healing increased by 10%.
    • Restoration
      • [With weekly restarts] Healing Wave healing increased by 10%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Healing Rain healing increased by 10%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Overflowing Shores healing increased by 10%.
  • Warlock
    • [With weekly restarts] Inquisitor’s Gaze Fel Barrage damage increased 35%.
    • [With weekly restarts] Inquisitor’s Gaze no longer casts Fel Blast.
    • [With weekly restarts] Summon Soulkeeper damage increased 35%.
    • Developers’ notes: Inquisitor’s Gaze and Summon Soulkeeper are not contributing to the Warlock damage profile as much as we’d like. After this adjustment, we’ll continue to watch Warlocks’ overall performance and we will make further adjustments if needed.
    • Demonology
      • [With weekly restarts] Wild Imp damage increased 15%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Vilefiend damage increased 30%.
    • Destruction
      • [With weekly restarts] Soul Fire damage increased 20%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Incinerate damage increased 5%.
    • Developers’ notes: We feel that both Destruction and Demonology could use some improvements to their overall contribution in single-target situations. These adjustments are specifically targeting talents that we feel could be more competitive, while also putting additional power into rotational spells.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Vault of the Incarnates
    • Sennarth, the Cold Breath
      • Suffocating Webs now reliably hits the intended number of targets.

Items and Rewards

  • Chronologically Unstable Loop, Bronze Band of Destinies, and Heat of Primal Winter are now eligible for socket upgrades. This fix is retroactive and requires relogging.
  • [With weekly restarts] Outdoor activities have generally had their item levels increased by 6 to 7 item levels. This includes: World Quests, Elite World Quests, and first weekly completion of Hunts, Dragonbane Keep, and Community Soup event.
  • Vestment of the Raging Tempests and Drakebreaker’s Vestment should now be eligible for the Revival Catalyst when fully upgraded.

Player versus Player

  • Items
    • [With weekly restarts] Neltharax, Enemy of the Sky now grants 1% attack speed in PvP (was 5%).
  • Classes
    • Demon Hunter
      • [With weekly restarts] Restless Hunter (Talent) damage bonus for next Blade Dance/Death Sweep reduced by 40% in PvP combat.
      • Developers’ notes: We’ve continued to see the potential burst provided by Restless Hunter much higher than we would like, especially in combination with Essence Break and The Hunt.
    • Druid
      • Guardian
        • [With weekly restarts] Frenzied Regeneration healing now 50% (was 62%) effective in PvP Combat.”
      • Developers’ note: This is intended to offset Reinvigoration’s buff noted above.
    • Evoker
      • [With weekly restarts] Living Flame healing increased by 30% in PvP Combat.
      • [With weekly restarts] Verdant Embrace healing increased by 20% in PvP Combat.
      • [With weekly restarts] Oppressing Roar increases the duration of incoming crowd control by 30% (was 20%) in PvP Combat.
      • Developers’ notes: This is intended to offset the above noted game-wide 5% healing reduction by targeting abilities that we would like to see more prominent in a Preservation Evoker’s PvP healing profile. Additionally, Oppressing Roar has not been as valuable a talent point as we’d hoped, so we are slightly increasing its effectiveness.
    • Hunter
      • Beast Mastery
        • [With weekly restarts] Stormwing Harrier’s Camouflage 4-piece now increases the damage of your next Kill Command by 10% in PvP (was 20%).
      • Marksmanship
        • [With weekly restarts] Rapid Fire damage increased by 15% in PvP Combat.
        • [With weekly restarts] Aimed Shot damage increased by 15% in PvP Combat.
        • [With weekly restarts] Chimaera Shot damage increased by 30% in PvP Combat.
        • [With weekly restarts] Unerring Vision critical Strike Damage bonus effectiveness reduced by 50% in PvP Combat.
      • Developers’ notes: With the removal of Double Tap, Marksmanship Hunter damage has been lower than we would like to see, so we are increasing several main rotation abilities while decreasing Unerring Vision, with the goal of higher sustained damage.
    • Monk
      • Mistweaver
        • [With weekly restarts] Healing Sphere (PvP Talent) now triggers the dispel backlash effects from Unstable Affliction and Vampiric Touch. Healing increased by 320%.
      • Developers note: This change is to have more consistency among dispel effects that are intended to require careful consideration of the risks and benefits of dispelling it. Additionally, we felt that the healing on Healing Sphere has been too weak.
    • Priest
      • Shadow
        • [With weekly restarts] Psyfiend (PvP Talent) healing reduction no longer stacks with similar effects.
      • Developers’ notes: Psyfiend’s healing reduction effects appear mechanically similar to many others, but were stacking with other such effects and each other in a way that was not clearly communicated to players, and yet was having a significant impact on which specializations were being favored and often overperforming in PvP. We are standardizing their behavior to follow the same rules as similar effects.
    • Rogue
      • Assassination
        • [With weekly restarts] Vault Delver’s Toolkit 4-piece set bonus Bleed damage bonus reduced by 50% in PvP Combat.
      • Developers’ notes: The 4-piece set bonus for Assassination has been more significant in their damage profile than we would like.
        • [With weekly restarts] Wound Poison (Deathmark version) healing reduction no longer stacks with similar effects.
      • Developer’s note: The Wound Poison (from Deathmark) healing reduction effects appear mechanically similar to many others, but were stacking with other such effects and each other in a way that was not clearly communicated to players, and yet was having a significant impact on which specializations were being favored and often overperforming in PvP. We are standardizing their behavior to follow the same rules as similar effects.
    • Shaman
      • Restoration
        • [With weekly restarts] Damage dealt to Earthen Wall Totem caused by damage absorbed by pets is reduced by 90%.
      • Developers’ notes: The intent for this adjustment is to make Earthen Wall Totem feel more impactful as a defensive ability. As we noted, it was being destroyed too quickly in scenarios where teammates have pets.
    • Warlock
      • Affliction
        • [With weekly restarts] Unstable Affliction backlash damage increased by 35%.
          • Developers’ notes: After our recent changes to normalize Unstable Affliction’s backlash damage, we’re seeing it get dispelled frequently. Our intent is for dispelling Unstable Affliction to require careful consideration of the risks and benefits and its damage was not fulfilling that.
      • Destruction
        • [With weekly restarts] Chaos Bolt damage increased by 40% in PvP Combat (was 15%).
        • [With weekly restarts] Fixed an issue that caused Bane of Havoc (PvP Talent) to deal more damage than intended to targets.
        • Developer Note: We’re addressing a bug with Bane of Havoc that was causing Havoc to deal full damage instead of the intended 60%, which is a significant nerf to the spec in PvP. Chaos Bolt has not been as threatening as intended in Dragonflight, so we’re increasing its damage to compensate for the bug fix.
        • [With weekly restarts] Fel Fissure (PvP Talent) Healing reduction no longer stacks with similar effects.
          • Developers’ notes: Fel Fissure’s healing reduction effects appear mechanically similar to many others, but were stacking with other such effects and each other in a way that was not clearly communicated to players, and yet was having a significant impact on which specializations were being favored and often overperforming in PvP. We are standardizing their behavior to follow the same rules as similar effects.
    • Warrior
      • Arms
        • [With weekly restarts] Executioner’s Precision is now 30% effective in PvP Combat (was 50%).
        • [With weekly restarts] Martial Prowess is now 33% effective in PvP Combat (was 50%).
        • [With weekly restarts] Overpower damage increased by 20% in PvP Combat.
        • [With weekly restarts] Slam damage increased by 40% in PvP Combat.
      • Developers’ notes: We’ve seen Mortal Strike come to represent too much of Arms Warriors’ total damage in PvP. Additionally, it often results in spikier damage than we’re comfortable with, so we’re moving toward an overall rebalance across several abilities.

Professions

  • Alchemy
    • Potion Cauldrons have had their size greatly increased.
  • Enchanting
    • The Prismatic Diamond Loop that drops from Avalantus in the Primalist Future should now disenchant into Dragonflight materials.

Quests

  • [With weekly restarts] Gold rewards from world quests have been increased.
  • The Azure Span
    • Big Kinook should now give out tasks to more players at a time when the Community Feast is very busy.
    • [With weekly restarts] The Tuskarr of Iskaara will now hold their Community Feast once every 1.5 hours (was every 3.5 hours).
      • Developers’ note: After this change the event timer will always be visible on the map to show the 15-minute meal prep timer before cooking begins, the 15 minutes while cooking is active, and the 60 minutes of dining time for adventurers to chow down on the soup that you worked so diligently on.
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But now you can send Primal chaos to your alts, so it IS in fact useful.