Hotfixes: November 18 2022, Class Tuning Incoming 23 November, Beta Launch Test on Monday November 21

November 18, 2022

Classes

• Fixed an issue where Healers’ Cleanses were going on cooldown incorrectly.
• Evoker
  • Hover will no longer cancel when the Evoker is struck by crowd control effects.
  • Preservation
    • Lifebind now only shares the Evoker’s healing between bonded allies, instead of sharing all healing received.
      • Developers’ note: We are happy with Preservation’s tuning overall but had concerns about the very high healing throughput of Lifebind when other healers were casting healing spells onto the Evoker during Lifebind.
• Hunter
  • Beast Mastery
    • Corrected an issue where the Hunter’s Prey talent does not properly reset the cooldown of Kill Shot when activated.

• Mage
  • Frost
    • Fixed an issue that caused Brain Freeze to not trigger from Ebonbolt if Brain Freeze was already active.

• Shaman
  • Elemental
    • Fixed an issue causing Improved Flametongue Weapon to be removed upon death.
  • Warlock
    • Affliction
      • Fixed an issue where Malefic Affliction would not be removed at the end of combat.
    • Demonology
      • Fixed an issue where Demonic Cores would be granted without knowing Demonbolt.

Creatures and NPCs

• The Experience Eliminators now allow players up to level 59 to disable XP gains.
• The Escaped Wilderling’s great escape has come to an end, and it can correctly be recaptured again.

Items and Rewards

• Fixed an issue where the Underlight Angler fishing rod could not gain Artifact Power.
• The Large Green Bags that Evokers start with can now be sold to vendors.
• Fixed an issue where Unstable Elemental Confluence was incorrectly dealing Holy damage instead of Nature damage.

Professions

• Fixed an issue where players couldn’t craft legacy profession recipes that required special objects to craft them.

Quests

• The Battle for Azeroth Allied Race unlock quests are now correctly available at level 50.
• Evokers should now be able to accept the quest “From Within.”
• Fixed an issue where Evokers were not able to loot some required items for the Tarecgosa’s Rest legendary questline.

Reputation

• Dracthyr can now correctly gain reputation with the Sha’tari Skyguard and The Tillers.

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Classes
  • Paladin
    • Fixed an issue where Hammer of Wrath was incorrectly scaling its damage from ranged Attack Power instead of melee Attack Power.
  • Warlock
    • Fixed an issue where Soul Siphon was increasing damage by more than its intended 18% limit in some cases.

We’re preparing a tuning pass that focuses on high target count situations, based on data gathered from the Dragonflight Beta.

We’re adding reduced-damage-beyond-5/8-targets to a number of AOE spells, reducing the damage of a few spells, and increasing the damage of others with the intent of improving balance across specs in this damage profile.

We’ll be hotfixing these changes into the Beta very soon, and we’ll then apply them to the live game with scheduled weekly maintenance, which is early Wednesday, November 23 in this region.

Death Knight

• Unholy
  • Epidemic now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
  • Bursting Sores damage reduced by 10%.

Demon Hunter

• Immolation Aura now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
• Havoc
  • Fel Rush now deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.

Druid

• Feral
  • Tear Open Wounds now deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.

Hunter

• Marksmanship
  • All damage dealt increased by 10%.
• Survival
  • All damage dealt increased by 5%.

Mage

• Frost
  • Frozen Orb damage reduced by 15%.
  • Blizzard now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
• Fire
  • Ignite damage reduced by 12%.
  • Master of Flame now increases Ignite’s damage by 15% (was 18%).

Monk

• Resonant Fists now deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.

Priest

• Shadow
  • Mind Sear now deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
  • Psychic Link now causes Mind Blast, Mind Flay, and Mind Spike to deal 30%/60% of their damage to all other targets affected by your Vampiric Touch within 40 yards (was 15%/30%).

Rogue

• Assassination
  • Indiscriminate Carnage cooldown reduced to 45 seconds (was 60 seconds).
• Subtlety
  • Shuriken Storm damage increased by 10%.
  • Shadowstrike damage increased by 10%.
  • Black Powder damage increased by 5%.
  • Secret Technique damage increased by 5%.
  • Shadow Blades cooldown reduced to 2 minutes (was 3 minutes).
  • Fixed an issue that prevented Secret Technique’s built-in cooldown reduction from benefitting from Echoing Reprimand’s Animacharged combo points.
• Outlaw
  • Fatal Flourish chance to restore Energy reduced to 60% (was 65%)

Shaman

• Enhancement
  • All damage dealt increased by 5%.

Warlock

• Affliction
  • Malefic Affliction now causes your active Unstable Affliction to deal 8/13% additional damage (was 5/10%), up to 24/39% (was 15/30%), for the rest of its duration.
  • Dread Touch now causes your target to take 30% (was 20%) additional damage from your damage over time effects for 6 seconds.
  • Doom Blossom damage increased by 15%.
• Destruction
  • Rain of Fire damage increased by 15%.
• Demonology
  • Dreadbite now deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.

Warrior

• Arms
  • Executioner’s Precision now grants 35% increased damage per stack to Mortal Strike (was 30%).
  • Bloodsurge now triggers 10% of the time (was 7%).
  • Bladestorm Damage increased to 60% (was 50%).
• Fury
  • Odyn’s Fury now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.

On Monday, November 21, we’re going to test the launch of Dragonflight content in the Dragonflight Beta, and we hope you’ll join us.

There will be a new Beta realm called Launch Test.

• At 21:00 CET, we’ll take all of the Beta realms offline.
• 21:30 CET – The Launch Test realm will come online in the pre-expansion-launch state (max level 60).
• 22:00 CET – Pre-launch closures (e.g. Elemental Storms) will occur.
• 23:00 CET – The Dragon Isles will become available, with leveling content and transport boats running.
• 0:00 Midnight CET – End of test. Launch Test realm will be shut down. Other realms will come back online in post-launched state, with characters preserved from before.

Please join us on Monday. See you there!