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Hotfixes: September 3-5 2024

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Quote from: Blizzard

September 5, 2024

Classes

  • Demon Hunter
    • Sigil of Doom now overrides Sigil of Flame while Precise Sigils is talented.
    • Aldrachi Reaver
      • The global cooldown triggered by Reaver’s Glaive is now reduced by Haste.
      • Warblade’s Hunger is now correctly triggered by Annihilation.
  • Mage
    • Spellslinger
      • Splinters generated from Shifting Shards will no longer target enemies that are stealthed.
  • Monk
    • Brewmaster
      • Fixed an issue causing Face Palm to grant an incorrect amount of cooldown reduction.
  • Paladin
    • Retribution
      • Fixed an issue that caused Sacrosanct Crusade to disappear when Shield of Vengeance was cast.
  • Shaman
    • Elemental
      • Fixed an issue where a Tempest Overload could damage creatures that were not within line of sight to the target of your Tempest ability.
      • Fixed an issue where Tempest Overload did not properly benefit from the Stormcaller hero talent.
  • Warlock
    • Demonology
      • Fixed an issue where Empowered Legion Strike would persist through death and resummon.
      • Empowered Legion Strike now lasts 20 seconds.

Delves

  • Reduced the size of Brann’s click area, so that you can more easily click on other things Brann might be standing next to.
  • Fixed an issue where Brann could target out of combat enemies with Gryphadin’s Battle Harness.
  • Brann is dodgier. That’s the note.
  • Dwarven Medicine will now be cast when off cooldown rather than when a player is missing health.
  • Relic of Uldum and Bag of Snacks can now affect player pets.

Dungeons

  • Cinderbrew Meadery, Darkflame Cleft, The Dawnbreaker, and City of Echoes are now available while leveling new characters for players that have completed the campaign.
  • The Dawnbreaker
    • Druids can now use flight form in The Dawnbreaker dungeon while in combat.

Flying

  • Fixed an issue where flying on the Beledar’s Spawn mount could cause framerate to drop.
  • If you die in Draenor, your temporary spectral mount will no longer use skyriding.

Items

  • Lowered the rarity of the Lamplighter Supply Satchel from Epic to Uncommon to better reflect its contents, which have not changed.
  • Hanna’s Locket toy now has a longer cooldown and cannot be used in combat or dungeons.

Player versus Player

  • Paladin
    • Retribution
      • Ultimate Retribution has been removed as a PvP talent option.

Quests

  • Vanishing Stalkers now spawn much more reliably for “Lynx Rescue”.
  • “A Tide Needing Turned” should now properly show the starting location on the Dornogal map.
  • World Quests should now award Spark of War for the “Sparks of War” weekly quests.
  • Fixed an issue where, after the weekly reset, players were unable to choose a different Severed Threads Pact.
  • Greatly increased experience rewards for all “Delver’s Call” quests.
  • All “Delver’s Call” quests can now be picked up in their respective Delves and can now be acquired in Adventure Mode.
  • New “Delver’s Call” quests have been added for Earthcrawl Mines, the Waterworks, Nightfall Sanctum, and the Underkeep.

Races

  • Increased the effect of the Earthen Well Fed secondary stat bonus.
  • Belga’s gems are now edible to Earthen, with improved quality and greatly reduced costs.

Cataclysm Classic

  • Fixed issue with Guild Herald and Guild Page not being able to be learned by multiple characters of the same faction on a given account. Players affected by this bug can now buy these pets from a Guild Vendor at a discounted price. Players who were unaffected will still pay full price.

September 4, 2024

Classes

  • Evoker
    • Scalecommander
      • Fixed an issue where players could be slowed during Deep Breath while talented into Maneuverability.
      • Fixed an issue where Bombardments would occasionally fail to proc while talented into Extended Battle.
  • Mage
    • Spellslinger
      • Volatile Magic no longer hits out-of-combat or crowd-controlled targets.
  • Monk
    • Chi Burst no longer consumes both stacks of its activation buff when cast with 2 stacks.
  • Paladin
    • Dawnlight’s damage now correctly scales with Retribution’s Mastery.
    • Dawnlight’s damage can now correctly critically strike.
    • Dawnlight’s AoE healing no longer double dips with Versatility.
    • Sun’s Avatar damage now correctly scales with Retribution’s Mastery.
    • Sun’s Avatar and Dawnlight’s AoE no longer deal damage to enemies out of line-of-sight.
    • Retribution
      • Fixed an issue causing Mastery: Highlord’s Judgment to not increase damage from Seal of the Crusader.
  • Warlock
    • Diabolist
      • Fixed an issue where your Pit Lord could be summoned without their portal visual.

Delves

  • Brann now has an equal amount of attack, spell, and ranged attack power relative to all classes he’s joining, and his stats now increase as expected when the player-character is buffed.
  • Brann should no longer sometimes miss his attacks.

Quests

  • Added a visual 1-hour timer to Hallowfall Fishing Derby quests.

September 3, 2024

Achievements

  • Corrected an issue preventing Buddy System from being immediately granted when completed.

Auction House

  • Resolved issues causing the Auction House to experience degraded performance.

Classes

  • Death Knight
    • Frost
      • Frost Strike damage reduced by 6%. Does not apply to PvP.
      • Obliterate damage reduced by 6%. Does not apply to PvP.
      • Icy Death Torrent damage reduced by 10%.
      • Glacial Advance damage reduced by 10%. Does not apply to PvP.
  • Druid
    • Balance
      • Umbral Intensity increases the damage of Wrath by 20/40% (was 25/50%) and Starfire by 15/30% (was 50%).
      • Starsurge damage increased by 12%.
      • Starfall damage increased by 20%.
      • Harmony of the Heavens increases Eclipse power by 2% per proc, max 6% (was 1% per proc, max 5%).
    • Feral
      • Bloodtalons and Lion’s Strength now also increase the damage of Rampant Ferocity.
  • Evoker
    • Devastation
      • Damage of all spells and abilities increased by 6%.
      • Firestorm damage increased by 20%
      • Firestorm duration reduced to 10 seconds (was 12 seconds).
    • Flameshaper
      • Engulf damage increased by 30%.
  • Hunter
    • An issue causing Unnatural Causes to not function with multiple Hunters has been resolved.
    • Sentinel damage is now increased by Unnatural Causes.
    • Pack Leader
      • Vicious Hunt damage increased by 10% for Beast Mastery.
      • Vicious Hunt damage decreased by 10% for Survival.
        • Developers’ notes: When Vicious Hunt’s damage reaches a certain point, it can cause Kill Command to dominate Survival’s rotation. This adjustment and subsequent compensation are meant to ensure Pack Leader Survival Hunters are utilizing the other tools at their disposal.
      • Howl of the Pack critical strike damage bonus increased to 5% for Beast Mastery (was 3%).
      • Howl of the Pack critical strike damage bonus increased to 11% for Survival (was 7%).
      • Furious Assault damage bonus increased to 60% for Survival (was 30%).
      • Cull the Herd damage over time increased to 60% for Survival (was 30%).
  • Mage
    • Fire
      • Living Bomb damage increased by 30%.
      • Pyroblast damage increased by 5%.
      • Flamestrike damage increased by 10%.
    • Frostfire
      • Frostfire Bolt damage increased by 25% for Fire.
    • Sunfury
      • Burden of Power can no longer be double dipped by spell queueing.
      • Arcane Phoenix damage dealt reduced by 10% for Arcane.
      • Arcane Soul base duration reduced to 2 seconds (was 3 seconds).
  • Monk
    • Fixed an issue that caused Chi Burst’s damage to cancel Spinning Crane Kick and Celestial Conduit.
    • Windwalker
      • Tiger Palm now has a 1-second cooldown while Darting Hurricane’s effect is active.
      • Fixed an issue that caused Gale Force to not copy damage from Thunderfist.
  • Paladin
    • Retribution 
      • Mastery: Highlord’s Judgment reduced by 10%. For example, at level 80, 180 Mastery rating now grants 1.35% Mastery (was 1.5%).
      • All Holy spell damage increased by 5%.
  • Priest
    • Discipline
      • Oracle Discipline priests’ Preventive Measures now increases Power Word: Shield absorption by 40% (was 25%). Does not apply to PvP.
      • Atonement healing increased by 100% outside raid (was 70%). Does not apply to PvP.
      • Fixed an issue where Atonement critical healing was not increased by the correct amount outside of raid.
      • Shadow Word: Pain and Purge the Wicked damage increased by 20%.
    • Shadow
      • Voidweaver Shadow priests’ Void Blast damage increased by 20%.
  • Rogue
    • Corrected an issue that prevented multiple Subtlety Rogues from applying Deathstalker’s Mark to the same target.
  • Shaman
    • Elemental 
      • Mastery: Elemental Overload’s bonus to all Elemental and Physical damage increased by 35%.
      • All damage reduced by 6%.
      • Stormbringer
        • Tempest now deals 65% of its damage to enemies near its primary target (was 50%).
        • Tempest now deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
    • Enhancement 
      • All damage reduced by 4%.
      • Elemental Blast damage increased by 12%.
      • Stormbringer
        • Tempest now deals 65% of its damage to enemies near its primary target (was 50%).
        • Tempest now deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
      • Totemic
        • Tremor damage increased by 10%.
        • Searing Volley damage increased by 80%.
  • Warlock
    • Affliction
      • Fixed an issue where Malevolence would break enemy players out of stealth.
      • Fixed an issue where Volatile Agony area damage ignored line of sight.
    • Destruction
      • All ability damage increased by 5%.

Delves

  • Reduced the damage of Fungal Breath from the Invasive Sporecap rare.
  • The bountiful icon on the scenario objective UI now hides upon looting the locked treasure chest to better indicate that you’ve collected your rewards.
  • Fixed an issue with Brann’s sleep schedule.

Dungeons

  • City of Threads
    • Fixed an issue where players were losing their earned Pheromone buffs and being attacked by the citizens.

Events

  • Awakening the Machine
    • Medpack ground duration increased to 2 minutes (was 1 minute).
    • Automatic Ironstrider damage decreased by 17%.
    • Malfunctioning Pylon damage decreased by 20%.
    • Nullification Barrier duration decreased to 2 minutes.
    • Addressed an issue where Nullification Barrier could persist after combat.

Items

  • Charged Runeaxe Intellect granted has been increased to align with other similar items.
  • Congealed Cinderbrew Cinch now uses its intended appearance which can be collected.

Player versus Player

  • Corrected an issue where War Mode World Quests may display no reward for completion.
  • Druid
    • Rip damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
    • Rake damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
    • Balance
      • Lunar Calling now increases Starfire damage by 50% in PvP combat (was 65%).
      • Umbral Embrace now increases the damage of Wrath and Starfire by 40% in PvP combat (was 75%).
    • Feral 
      • Taste For Blood’s damage increase to Ferocious Bite during Tiger’s Fury is decreased by 50% in PvP combat.
      • Saber Jaws effectiveness now reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
  • Mage
    • Frost
      • Ice Lance damage increased by 45% in PvP combat (was 75%).
  • Monk
    • Master of Harmony
      • Manifestation is now 50% effective in PvP combat.
    • Brewmaster
      • Chi Burst damage reduced by 30% for Brewmaster Monks in PvP combat.
    • Mistweaver
      • Peaceweaver now reduces the cooldown of Revival by 33% (was 50%).
      • Life Cocoon is now 30% more effective in PvP combat.
      • Enveloping Mist can no longer be dispelled.
  • Priest
    • Holy
      • Prayer of Mending healing increased by 65% in PvP combat.
  • Shaman
    • Enhancement
      • Lava Lash damage increased by 60% in PvP combat.
      • Stormstrike and Windstrike damage increased by 60% in PvP combat.
      • Windfury Attack damage increased by 60% in PvP combat.
  • Warrior
    • Thunderous Roar damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
    • Arms
      • Auto attack damage no longer decreased by an additional 12% in PvP combat.
    • Fury
      • Odyn’s Fury damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat.

Professions

  • Fixed an issue where one of the Profession specialization tomes purchased in the City of Threads with Kej were unable to be used in specific orders.
  • Fixed an issue where the Tailoring Weekly Quest “Tailoring Services Requested” which would be dropped upon logout.

Quests

  • The “Behind Closed Doors” questline can now be completed by any character once The Ringing Deeps campaign has been completed at least once on the account.
  • The Recall Lisky button will now clean up and go away after the quest “Lisky Business” is turned in.
  • Fixed an issue where multiple players couldn’t sit and listen at the same time during “One Last Story”.
  • The scenario “The Light in the Dark” should no longer occasionally get stuck on the first step if Faerin is too far away.
  • After finishing the War Within campaign, you can now find Alleria Windrunner in the Foundation Hall in Dornogal and ask her to show what happened during the finale. This will play the cutscene from the final chapter.

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