Hotfixes
June 13, 2024
Cataclysm Classic
- Race change, faction change, and paid server transfer cooldowns reduced to 3 days (was 30 days).
- Magmaw will no longer fall backwards during Impale, preventing players from doing damage.
- Fixed an issue where the Horde team was getting less resource points per tick with three locations captured in the Eye of the Storm, than the Alliance team would in the same situation.
- Improved combat logging of certain effects.
- Death Knight
- Death Coil will no longer critically heal for 300% of the normal value, instead of the intended 200%.
- Rogue
- Vendetta no longer persists on the target when the Rogue specs out of the talent.
June 12, 2024
Cataclysm Classic
- Druid
- Balance
- Developer’s note: We noticed that Balance druid gameplay was seeing a trend towards sitting in Solar and trying not to leave it, especially in Multi-DoT situations. Not engaging with a decent chunk of your core rotation to stay in Solar Eclipse is not a playstyle that we nor the original developers had intended, so we released a change last week that was aimed at preventing mastery snapshotting pre-pull by resetting Eclipse when engaging a boss.
We understand this could be a damage reduction in many scenarios and to address this, Insect Swarm now deals Spellstorm (Arcane/Nature) damage so it can now benefit from Lunar Eclipse. This means that when you end up in Lunar Eclipse, you will still be buffing your two core DoTs. We estimate this change to be about a 15% damage increase to Insect Swarm, which is typically a Balance Druid’s second most damaging ability on non-single target encounters. There may still be situations where staying in Solar Eclipse is ideal, and that’s totally fine, we just don’t think it’s healthy for that to be every situation and on every pull. - Starting a boss encounter resets Eclipse energy to 0.
- Insect Swarm is now considered both an Arcane and a Nature spell, causing it to benefit from both Eclipses. The tooltip will be updated in a future update.
- Developer’s note: We noticed that Balance druid gameplay was seeing a trend towards sitting in Solar and trying not to leave it, especially in Multi-DoT situations. Not engaging with a decent chunk of your core rotation to stay in Solar Eclipse is not a playstyle that we nor the original developers had intended, so we released a change last week that was aimed at preventing mastery snapshotting pre-pull by resetting Eclipse when engaging a boss.
- Balance
June 11, 2024
Cataclysm Classic
- Valor Points will now behave like Conquest and the current weekly cap will be replaced with a rolling seasonal cap.
- Developer’s note: If you’ve missed any Valor Points in previous weeks since Cataclysm Classic launched, you’ll now be able to catch up from those weeks.
- There is no longer a cap to the number of times you may earn Valor Points from Random Dungeon Finder each week, up to your normal Valor Points cap.
- The Hood of Malefic wing affect should work once again.
- Fixed an issue where the Wrack spell during the Sinestra fight could cause your game to freeze and crash.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the Staff of Disintegration from working to help you in the Tempest Keep Kael’Thas encounter.
- Rotten to the Core is now granted properly after completing the achievement.
- Darkmoon Faire
- Starting this weekend, Darkmoon Faire will become available every two weeks, instead of once a month.
- Hunter
- Scatter Shot will now correctly break if the target takes damage and it is absorbed.
- Mage
- Fixed an issue with Living Bomb behaving incorrectly when refreshed on multiple targets.
- Pyromaniac now counts Ignite as a damage over time effect.
- Paladin
- Hand of Sacrifice will now correctly break Scatter Shot and Dragon’s Breath when damage is transferred to the crowd-controlled Paladin.
- Priest
- Prayer of Mending bounces will no longer interrupt the casting Priest’s drinks.
- Chakra will no longer be canceled if a Prayer of Mending bounces that you had cast before you applied Chakra.
June 6, 2024
Cataclysm Classic
- Fixed an issue that could cause the Brutal and Focused Assault debuffs in Warsong Gulch and Twin Peaks to become misaligned.
- Fixed an issue preventing some players from seeing the Siege Tank during “Battlezone” after reconnecting from a disconnect.
June 5, 2024
Cataclysm Classic
- Fixed a bug in Conclave of Wind where a player dying could lead to Nezir dropping no loot.
- Druid
- Clearcasting will no longer be consumed by Nourish.
- Developers’ notes: This mirrors a change that was originally made in patch 4.0.3a. Nourish is a low cost heal and is intended to be a filler spell. It simply doesn’t feel good to be casting Nourish and have Clearcasting go off, and then spend it on the incoming Nourish.
- Clearcasting will no longer be consumed by Nourish.
- Paladin
- Fixed an issue where Paladins could start Arena matches with Inquisition or more than 0 Holy Power.
June 3, 2024
Cataclysm Classic
- Honor rewards from completing a random battleground or a holiday battleground have been increased by 100%.
- Fixed an issue with Admiral Ripsnarl’s visual effect.
- Fixed a bug preventing the completion of the achievement Acrocalypse Now.
- Priest
- Atonement healing will now de-prioritize pets, and will only heal them if their health is very low compared to available player targets. It will treat them as if their health percentage is 50% higher when evaluating targets.
- Fixed an issue with Shadowy Apparitions that prevented them from being summoned under certain circumstances.
- Shaman
- Fixed a problem with Precision where it was granting an unintended additional 1/2/3% chance to hit.
May 30, 2024
Cataclysm Classic
- When Nitro Boosts malfunction in a raid encounter, they will now also grant increased movement speed as well as damage their user.
- The Greater Inscription shoulder enchants available at exalted with Therazane are now Bind-to-Account.
- Death Knight
- Fixed an issue where Death Knights sometimes did not gain the benefit of Improved Blood Presence.
- Priest
- Fixed an issue where the spell casting haste from Time Warp and Primal Rage was able to stack with Power Infusion’s spell casting haste, which was not intended.
- Rogue
- Blind can no longer trigger poisons applied to the Rogue’s ranged weapon.
- Warlock
- Fixed an issue where some Warlocks retained the benefit of the Nemesis talent from Wratch of the Lich King Classic, which no longer exists in Cataclysm Classic.
May 29, 2024
Cataclysm Classic
- Fixed an issue that could cause disconnects while aiming and shooting the Siege Tank during the “Battlezone” quest in Uldum.
May 28, 2024
Cataclysm Classic
- Fixed an issue that was causing Glubtok to summon adds in Normal Deadmines.
- Fixed an issue with many guild profession achievements not tracking as expected.
- The Twin Peaks battleground is temporarily unavailable while some issues are addressed.
- Death Knight
- Fixed an issue with Desecration not being removed by Bladestorm.
- Druid
- Leader of the Pack’s tooltip now correctly states that the Druid’s melee critical strikes in Cat and Bear for cause them to heal 4% of their total health (incorrectly showed 5%).
- Hunter
- Primate Hunter pets now understand that they can’t move while using their Bad Manner ability and will successfully cast the spell without interrupting themselves.
- Furious Howl will no longer stack with other % Crit chance increases such as Leader of the Pack and Rampage.
May 23, 2024
Cataclysm Classic
- Fixed an issue where boosted characters were not properly learning their class and spec’s Armor Proficiency.
- Fixed a bug with achievement completion tracking for the meta-achievement Classic Dungeonmaster.
- Death Knight Brutal Gladiator gear on the Outland Armor Quartermasters in Stormwind and Orgrimmar has been discounted so that their prices match those of other classes.
- Mor’norokk the Hateful can no longer be erroneously killed by players on the quest “On Second Thought, Take One Prisoner”.
- Fixed an issue that was removing the Dormus’ Rage aura from players who were teleported to Feralas.
May 22, 2024
Cataclysm Classic
- Fixed a bug preventing Diabolical Plans from dropping in Ashenvale for Horde players wanting to do “Never Again”.
- Cataclysm Honor Vendors should now be available in Stormwind and Orgrimmar to purchase ilvl 352 Blue PvP Gear for Honor Points.
- Conquest and Elite Conquest vendors will not sell anything until Arena Season 9 begins with next week’s regional resets.
- Fixed a bug with the Thirty Tabards
- Fixed a bug preventing Engineers and Alchemists from making discoveries while crafting.
- Crafted “Vicious” gear that was unintentionally created at item level 377 has been adjusted to item level 339.
- In “Stonefather’s Boon”, the Stonefather’s Boon buff duration has been reduced to 10 seconds (was 3 minutes).
- Fixed some quest issues. Erunak Stonespeaker should now still be visible to players who have advanced further in the quest line at the original location to turn in “Call of Duty”. “All or Nothing”, “Blood and Thunder”, and “Defending the Rift” should no longer fail to complete if you are sitting or mounted.
May 21, 2024
Cataclysm Classic
- Players experiencing phasing issues from Wrathgate or Battle for Undercity quests that are deprecated in Cataclysm Classic should now be in the correct phase in Orgrimmar and Undercity.
- Hunter
- Hunter traps are now faster and more consistent in their arming times.
- Shaman
- Fixed an issue with Shaman Greater Fire Elemental dealing too much damage with its Fire Nova spell.
- Warrior
- Fixed an issue preventing Slam from being logged properly in the combat log.
May 20, 2024
Cataclysm Classic
- Players may skip directly to the beginning of Vashj’ir using a portal in their respective cities.
- “Vashj’ir: Call of Duty” will remain available to players who skipped directly to “Sea Legs”.
- Hunter
- Ancient Hysteria from Hunter Core Hound pets has been renamed Primal Rage. The debuff it causes has been renamed from Insanity to Fatigued.
- Fixed a bug preventing pets from displaying in the Stable as intended.
- Mage
- When Combustion gains damage from Ignite, that Ignite damage will not get increased a second time from Fire Mage Mastery Flashburn. It was already increased once by Flashburn when first applied.
May 16, 2024
Cataclysm Classic
- Hunter
- The Ancient Hysteria effect from Hunter Corehound pets will now clear properly after encounters end.
May 15, 2024
Cataclysm Classic
- Darkmoon Faire Island is now set to open on May 26 through June 1.
- The Stratholme Main Gate entrance should now place you in the correct location when queued through Random Dungeon Finder.
- Exhaustion, Sated, and Temporal Displacement will now be cleared from pets when they are cleared from their masters.
- Mage
- Fixed an issue where dispelled Ignite effects were increasing the damage done by future Ignites. Dispels from the Glyph of Polymorph and duels ending will also now clear the damage done.
- Rogue
- Fixed an issue with Deadly Momentum that caused its increased critical chance to be consumed by auto attacks that did not benefit from that increased chance. This is a true-to-reference 14-year-old bug, but was clearly unintended, so we fixed it.
- Shaman
- Fixed an issue with Healing Stream Totem where it was not benefitting from the Shaman Restoration Mastery ability Deep Healing.
- Warlock
- Fixed a problem with the values shown in the Warlock Molten Core talent. It will now correctly state that it reduces cast time by 10/20/30% at 1/2/3 talent points.
- Warrior
- Deep Wounds damage will now be reduced by effects that reduce damage taken by a percentage.
May 14, 2024
Cataclysm Classic
- Fixed missing text in guildmaster’s Rank Permissions panel so that it is clear that the checkbox controls whether the guild rank is considered an officer rank.
- Fixed an issue that would cause Cockroach Cabins to be uninteractable, preventing the daily “Roach Coach” quest from being completed.
- Fixed an issue that prevented players from interacting with the objects required to complete the “Would You Like Some Flies With That?” daily quest.
- Mage
- Fixed a problem with Focus Magic being useable while not talented into it.
- Living Bomb critical strikes will no longer trigger Ignite. It did not trigger Ignite in original Cataclysm, as even its final detonation was considered periodic damage.
- Shaman
- Flametongue Totem will no longer stack with other Spell power increasing effects.
- Warlock
- Drain Life will no longer turn its target permanently green until they log out.
May 10, 2024
Cataclysm Classic
- Blood Queen Lana’thel should now Vampiric Bite more consistently.
- Kadrak now allows players to complete “To the Rescue!” even when Brutusk is busy.
- Fixing an issue where sacks of oatmeal were not interactable during the “Keepin’ the Haggis Flowin’” quest.
- Fixed an issue that would prevent players from completing the “Devastation” quest. “Devastation” can now be reacquired by walking near the foliage that begins the quest in the Badlands.
- Fixed an issue that would prevent players from interacting with Sewer Caps on the “Fungus Among Us” quest.
- The Troll racial ability Berserking will now reset when an encounter ends.
- Paladin
- Selfless Healer now correctly increases Word of Glory healing when Word of Glory is cast on others.
- Priest
- Fixed some issues with Prayer of Mending. Twin Disciplines now properly increases Prayer of Mending healing by the amount stated in the tooltip. Grace now works properly on healing from Prayer of Mending. Glyph of Prayer of Mending now increases healing from the first bounce of Prayer of Mending by 100%.
- Shaman
- Flametongue Totem will no longer stack with other Spell power increasing effects.
- Warlock
- Incubus pets can now be renamed by Warlock Demon trainers, just like other demon pets.
May 8, 2024
Cataclysm Classic
- Professor Thaddeus Paleo has returned to Stormwind and Orgrimmar to continue collecting Darkmoon decks and he will continue to do so until the opening of Darkmoon Faire Island.
- Addressed issues with Dwarven and Night Elf archaeology projects. The following projects are now available during the Cataclysm Classic Pre-patch:
- Dwarf
- Silver Kris of Korl
- Warmaul of Burningeye
- Word of Empress Zoe
- Pipe of Franclorn Forgewright
- Spiked Gauntlets of Anvilrage
- Scepter of Bronzebeard
- The Innkeeper’s Daughter
- Night Elf
- Wisp Amulet
- Carcanet of the Hundred Magi
- Umbra Crescent
- Bones of Transformation
- Silver Scroll Case
- Dwarf
May 7, 2024
Cataclysm Classic
- Legendary appearances may now be added to your Transmogrification collection. In anticipation of community response to this change, we have also added a pitchfork.
- Fixed an issue that would cause the Monstrous Clams in the quest “Clammy Hands” to be non-interactive.
- Fixed an issue that prevented Naralex and his discipline from correctly spawning in the Southern Barrens.
- Druid Thrash now benefits from and consumes the Clearcasting effect from Omen of Clarity.
- Fixed an issue where Blessing of Kings and Mark of the Wild were incorrectly stacking their stat increases.
- Fixed an issue where level 80 boosted characters were not properly learning their class and spec’s Mastery abilities.
- Prayer of Mending now scales by the intended amount from spell power.
- Conflagrate will no longer consume lower-rank Immolates belonging to other Warlocks.
- Player versus Player
- Fixed a bug causing Resilience to do much less mitigation than intended.
- Fixed an issue where crowd control effects were breaking at a lower damage threshold than intended.
May 6, 2024
Cataclysm Classic
- Account wide achievements that reward titles now grant them at an account level.
- Fixed an issue that prevented players from receiving daily Random Battleground rewards.
- Smoke Bomb will now properly cancel Stealth, Prowl, and Shadowmeld from enemy players.
- Fixed an issue that would prevent Warden Stillwater from spawning during the “Lawn of the Dead” quest.
- Fixed an issue where Death Knights in Blood Presence could be incorrectly, critically hit by all melee attacks.
- Reduced the cost of all honor and arena gear from Wrath of the Lich King, to better match honor gain while at level 80 compared to level 85.
- Holidays
- Made some improvements to the Children’s Week Quests “The Banshee Queen”, “Malfurion Has Returned!”, and “The Fallen Chieftain” to more consistently grant quest credit.
- Warlock
- The Warlock Demon Soul ability will now work with the Incubus pet.
- Fixed an issue where Warlock Demonology pets were not properly updating from Mastery.
- Fixed an issue with the incorrect tooltip on Demonic Pact. It should correctly read that it grants the Warlock 2% increased personal spell damage.
May 3, 2024
Cataclysm Classic
- Fixed a bug causing Hunters to do trap dropping animations twice.
- Account wide pet collection achievements now correctly grant rewards.
- Fixed an issue preventing Bloodlust and Heroism from working as intended.
- Mounting the Violet Proto Drake now grants Master Riding to players who are at least level 80 and have Artisan Riding trained.
- Heal-over-time and damage-over-time ticks should now behave as intended in Cataclysm when refreshed.
- Developers’ notes: Previously, refreshing a DoT just before it finished its last tick could cause it to miss out on a tick. That was the correct behavior in Wrath of the Lich King, but not Cataclysm.
- Holidays
- The Children’s Week holiday is now extended for one additional week.
- “Ridin’ The Rocketway” can now be completed.
- Craggle Wobbletop and Blax Bottlerocket now sell Yellow and Green Balloons for Children’s Week.
- Darkmoon Faire will be closed until the launch of Cataclysm, when it will return with the newly updated Darkmoon Faire Island.
May 2, 2024
Cataclysm Classic
- If a Paladin misplaces the Symbol of Faith during the quest “Materials of Significance”, they may now buy a replacement from the Lost and Found vendor in Booty Bay.
- Fixed the Children’s Week quest “Cruisin’ the Chasm” so that it can now be completed.
- Boosted Paladins should now have Collective Book of Healing or Secondhand Book of Healing as expected.
- Fixed an issue that prevented Worgen from being eligible for some daily quests.
- Mage
- Ignite damage will no longer be counted double toward Combustion.
- Refreshed Ignite that now has 3 ticks over 6 seconds will do the same amount of damage on each tick.
- Ignite spread by Impact and Fire Blast will no longer have a missing 2nd or 3rd tick that adds damage to future Ignites.
May 1, 2024
Cataclysm Classic
- Archaeology digsites that appear in Uldum, Twilight Highlands, and Hyjal once players hit 450 Archaeology should no longer appear until the zones are accessible on official Expansion Launch.
- Paladin
- Fixed an issue with Seals of Command where Seal of Righteousness could trigger too many procs when it hits multiple targets.
Please note that some issues are fixed directly, not via hotfix, and are reflected here.