Hotfixes: August 22-26 2024

August 26, 2024

Characters

• Warband Mentored Leveling can no longer be canceled.
• Fixed an issue that allowed players to disable experience gain at level 70 instead of the intended 69 and below.
• Some auctioneers in Dornogal have moved downstairs in the auction house.

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Soul Rupture now correctly applies the 5% damage reduction debuff.
• Mage
  • Arcane
    • Fixed an issue that caused Touch of the Magi and Magi’s Spark to deal more damage than intended.
• Monk
  • Master of Harmony
    • Fixed an issue with the number of Hero Talent points Master of Harmoany monks had while leveling.
• Rogue
  • Deathstalker
    • Fixed an issue that caused some sources of increased Shadow damage to not increase Deathstalker Plague damage effects.

Delves

• Fungal Folly
  • Fixed an issue where Kasthrik couldn’t be interacted with.
  • Sporbits now die upon exploding.
• Kriegval’s Rest
  • Fixed an issue that could cause Tomb-Raider Drywhisker to despawn during the cast of Ground Slam.
• The Sinkhole
  • Increased the duration for which you can hold your breath while under the effects of Kobyss Hex.

Events

• Fixed an issue where enemies were not granting audience approval during the “The Cruelty of Dornic” Theater Troupe play.

Items

• The first piece of gear to drop from a Lamplighter Supply Satchel each week will be Warbound until Equipped and drop at Adventurer 1.
• The Handful of Humming Shinies, Pile of Humming Shinies, Big Pile of Humming Shinies, and Gem-Studded Candelabra can now be opened to claim their contents.

Player versus Player

• Items
  • Lava-forged Cogwheel damage reduced by 70% in PvP combat.
  • Storm Defender’s Axe damage reduced by 70% in PvP combat.
  • Fearbreaker’s Echo damage reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
  • Arathi Demolotion Charge damage reduced by 70% in PvP combat.

Professions

• Fixed an issue where Sharpen Your Knife and Carve Meat would be consumed when skinning trivial enemies.

Quests

• The Resting Blade should now be collectable on the quest “In the Right Hands”.
• Striking Steel: “Spice up your Life” and “Eagle Eye, Eagle Die” are now available after a day, rather than a week. It is intentional that there is a break between part 1 and part 2 of the quest chain.
• Void Ambush should no longer persist indefinitely as players progress through “Kaheti Hospitality”.
• “Laws Apply to All” and “You No Take Plunder!” should now show the correct turn in location.

August 23, 2024

Classes

• Priest
  • Shadow
    • Fixed an issue causing Void Tendrils from Idol of C’Thun to attack enemies not in combat with the Priest.

Delves

• Brann should no longer sometimes get stuck flying his gryphadin into a wall.
• Tak-Rethan Abyss
  • Fixed an issue where air bubbles created by rescuing the Preserved Niffen would not stick around.

Events

• Corrected an issue with the Theater Troupe Audience Approval rewards not being granted by the Theater Troupe event in The Proscenium.

Professions

• Enchanting
  • Disabled Enchanting weekly quests that were unintentionally available for the first day of Early Access.
    • Developers’ notes: We’ve disabled those quests, and we’re increasing the Knowledge available to Enchanters who didn’t complete them, starting after the first weekly reset. The extra Knowledge will come from Knowledge point items sourced through Disenchanting and will leave all Enchanters on an even playing field. This extra Knowledge will become available after you have gathered your other weekly Enchanting Knowledge, which includes the weekly quest, Disenchanting Knowledge, and Knowledge obtained from treasures out in the world.

Quests

• Fixed an issue causing players to be unable to see Faerin in order to pick up the quest “Blades of the Arathi”.
• The quest items for “Leave No Stone Behind” are now properly lootable if the quest is abandoned and restarted.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent “Recompense” from being completed.
• Witnessing the formation of the Severed Threads now provides the intended credit for the quest “Uniting Severed Threads”.
• Players are no longer prevented from completing the “Harbinger” questline while on the War Within introduction.
• Fixed a bug where Durzan could sometimes fail to reach his goal in “Thunderhead Butt”, preventing the quest from completing.
• Speaker Brinthe should now be available as expected in The Archives for “Golgrin’s Reach”.

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August 22, 2024

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Frost
    • Fixed an issue causing Razorice to not persist on the target applied via Arctic Assault when the Death Knight is not talented into Glacial Advance.
  • Unholy
    • Fixed an issue where the ghoul could fail to be resummoned upon dismounting.
• Hunter
  • Survival
    • Harpoon now pulls you to the edge of a target’s hitbox (was the center).
• Rogue
  • Fixed an issue that could remove the Rogue from Stealth if Vanish duration expired while Subterfuge effect was active.
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent Dispatch from triggering in intended circumstances with Crackshot talented.
  • Assassination
    • Fixed an issue that prevented Deathmark’s bleed damage from benefitting from Mastery: Potent Assassin
• Shaman

• Ice and Fire now affects Primordial Wave damage.
• Improved Flametongue Weapon now affects Primordial Wave damage.
• Nature’s Fury now affects Primordial Wave damage.

• Warrior
  • Arms
    • Mortal Strikes from Unhinged will no longer strike additional targets while Sweeping Strikes is active.
  • Fury
    • Bloodthirsts from Unhinged will no longer strike additional targets nor consume stacks of Whirlwind while Whirlwind is active.

Dungeons and Raids

• All dungeon enemy damage reduced by 7% in Mythic and Mythic+ difficulties.
• All dungeon enemy health increased by 10% in Heroic difficulties.
• The Tyrannical affix health increase on bosses reduced by 5%.
• Reduced the health and damage of all Battle For Azeroth raid bosses by approximately 40%.
• Reduced the health and damage of Shadowlands raid bosses by approximately 65%.

Player versus Player

• The maximum amount of Honor a player can accrue is lowered to 4000 for the duration of The War Within Early Access, and this amount will increase to 15000 with the end of Early Access.
• Rogue
  • Shiv (Talent) damage no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 17%).
  • Echoing Reprimand (Talent) damage now reduced by 20% in PvP combat (was 30%).
  • Assassination
    • Envenom damage no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 4%).
    • Mutilate damage no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 4%).
    • Kingsbane (Talent) period damage no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 8%).
    • Kingsbane (Talent) initial damage now reduced by 20% in PvP combat (was 32%).
  • Outlaw
    • Dispatch damage no longer increased in PvP combat (was 20%).
    • Sinister Strike damage no longer increased in PvP combat (was 5%).
    • Mastery: Main Gauche damage no longer increased in PvP combat (was 5%).
    • Blade Rush (Talent) damage is no longer increased in PvP combat (was 5%).
    • Combat Stamina (Talent) now increases Stamina by 12% in PvP combat (was 15% / base 5%).
    • Ace Up Your Sleeve (Talent) effect no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 20%).
    • Crackshot (Talent) effect now reduced by 20% in PvP combat (was 33%).
  • Subtlety
    • Eviscerate damage no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 5%).
    • Shadowstrike damage no longer increased in PvP combat (was 8%).
    • Secret Technique (Talent) damage now reduced by 30% in PvP combat (was 40%).
    • Goremaw’s Bite (Talent) damage no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 10%).
    • Flagellation (Talent) effect no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 20%).
    • Perforated Veins (Talent) effect no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 20%).

Professions

• All Dragonflight profession first craft experience bonuses no longer apply to player-characters at or above level 70.
• All Artisan’s Acuity has been removed from the first-time crafters’ bonus of trainer-taught recipes in The War Within.
• All Artisan’s Acuity has been removed from gathering journal discovery bonuses.
• An additional 150 Artisan’s Acuity has been added to the one-time reagent bag players receive from the quest “Crafting to Order”.

Quests

• Players can once again earn progress towards the achievement Back to the Depths! after completing “Summons from the Depths”.
• The Mechashark X-Steam has had high octane fuel added to it so you can complete “A Goblin in Shark’s Clothing”.