These are all the blue posts from September
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
- The Battle for Wintergrasp may now only be joined once per 30-minute queue window.
- The follow player functionality is now disabled in battlegrounds and arenas.
- Fixed an issue where the player’s name would occasionally appear as “Unknown” in quest descriptions.
- Fixed an issue where a disconnect could occur when dismounting a flying mount while ascending.
- Storm Clouds should no longer fail to buff Gymer when grabbed on “Storm King’s Vengeance”.
- “Blinding the Eyes in the Sky” now includes Skybreaker Recon Fighters, as intended.
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
- Zidormi will now reliably allow players to enter or leave the Battle for The Undercity. If you have haven’t started the Battle for The Undercity questlines, you must complete the following quests to enter:
- Horde – “Darkness Stirs”
- Alliance – “Return to Angrathar”
- Fixed an issue preventing Heirlooms, Tome of Cold Weather Flying, Northrend Faction Helm Enchant Arcanums, and Sons of Hodir Shoulder Inscriptions from being transferable to other WoW accounts.
- Brassbolt Mechawrench and Reginald Arcfire have returned to Dalaran to offer their Auction House services for Grand Master Engineers.
- The Master Summoner’s Staff quest item for “Destroying the Altars” has been increased to 100%.
- Fixed an issue with “The Slumbering King” where Queen Angerboda could fail to respawn after being defeated under specific circumstances.
- Fixed an issue where players could disconnect when jumping in the pool after battling The Prophet Tharon’ja in Drak’Tharon Keep.
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
- Northrend Adventuring Supplies now have a chance to award ore, leather, cloth, herbs, and gems. Reduced the number of consumables awarded from the supplies.
- Developers’ note: We received feedback that the bonus rewards for quests were too frequent, too lucrative, and too targeted at consumables produced by Alchemists, and are making changes to reduce the quantity and increase the diversity of items awarded by these bags. There is still a chance to drop consumables, but also a chance to drop ore, leather, cloth, herbs, or gems.
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Utgarde Keep
- The door that closes when starting the Skarvald the Constructor and Dalronn the Controller encounter will properly open again once they are defeated.
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
- The maximum amount of in-game currency that can be transferred to another realm is now 500g for player-characters at levels 10-30, 2,500g at levels 31-50, and 25,000g at level 51 or higher.
- Players who enter a battleground while mounted on a flying mount or while shapeshifted into Flight Form will now return to their flying mount or shapeshift form upon exiting the battleground.
- Fixed an issue where skill level requirements were not enforced when casting the Skinning spell from your spell book.
- Fixed an issue causing Wartook Iceborn to sometimes disappear during the quest “Across Transborea.”
- Fixed an issue in “The Battle for The Undercity” where King Varian Wrynn was attacking an NPC that should not be part of the event.
- Fixed an issue with the quest “Mission: Plague This!” where Greer Orehammer would not offer another flight to players who already had Orehammer’s Precious Bombs in their inventory.
- Fixed an issue with “The Last Rites” quest where a player could cause Thassarian to become stuck under certain conditions.
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Brewfest
- The Dark Iron Brewer in Blackrock Depths will now correctly drop his Mug of Dire Brew when sufficiently drunk. Bottoms up!
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Karazhan
- Nightbane no longer requires completion of the associated questline and can now be summoned by any player using the Blackened Urn object on the balcony.
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Utgarde Pinnacle
- Grauf should no longer regenerate to full health when flying off if it is not killed within a single pass during the Skadi the Ruthless encounter.
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Gundrak
- Slad’ran should now appropriately stop summoning snakes upon death.
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
- Raids will now count towards the 5 instance-per-hour limit.
- Developers’ notes: The hourly instance limit prevents players from entering instances that they’ve entered at least once already within the last hour. With this change, farming a dungeon should not prevent you from entering a raid instance, so long as you don’t attempt to reset and re-enter that raid instance multiple times.
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
- Brewfest’s Coren Direbrew dungeon is now available in the Group Finder for players over level 68.
- It is now possible to get the Brewfest quest “Another Year, Another Souvenir” which rewards this year’s Brewfest Stein.
- Fixed an issue where the Glyph of Horn of Winter prevented other Death Knights in your raid or party from using Horn of Winter.
- Fixed an issue with Warrior’s Warbringer talent which prevented Intervene from breaking root effects.
- Call to Arms Battlegrounds now reward the proper bonus Honor.
- Quests that did not display completion text when being watched have been fixed and should display the text on what to do next under the objective tracker.
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
- Paladin’s Seal of Corruption can no longer be dispelled.
- The PvP window should now move or hide itself as necessary when other UI is opened.
- Fixed a very rare issue where a player could be unable to access their second talent specialization after learning Dual Talent Specialization.
- Fixed an issue where the bonus armor was not being granted on some rings.
- High Test Eternium Fishing Line that was applied prior to Wrath of the Lich King Classic pre-patch should now correctly grant +5 Fishing Skill (was +2).
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
- Fixed an issue that caused the freeze visual effect to never expire.
- Argent Dawn vendors for the Scourge Invasion can no longer be put into combat by players “at war” with them.
- The loot table for Blue Sack of Gems now only includes loot from Onyxia’s Lair, as intended.
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
- Players may now queue for Battlegrounds from anywhere, without having to speak to a Battlemaster. Queue up via the Battlegrounds tab on the PvP menu.
- Players that are logged off inside a dungeon instance when it is reset will now log back into the nearest graveyard.
- Resolved an issue where a Druid could appear to have two copies of Leader of the Pack active.
- Death Knight’s Ghoul from Raise Dead will now resummon when dismounting after flying.
- Survival Hunter’s Lock and Load effect should now trigger correctly.
- Players will now get nibbles when their fishing levels are too low for the area.
- Fixed an issue where using certain items carried over from Burning Crusade Classic (e.g. Darkmoon cards) would delete the entire stack.
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
- Whirlwind animations, such as the Warrior’s Whirlwind and a Rogue’s Fan of Knives, will now appear while moving (was only while standing still).
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Druid
- Track Humanoids will no longer activate when shapeshifting into Cat Form if Find Minerals, Find Fish, or Find Herbs is already active.
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Rogue
- Fixed an issue where Overkill would be applied and immediately removed on rogues who did not know that talent.
- True to their vocation, Argent Outfitters will now exchange Necrotic Runes for armor and other items in Orgrimmar, Thunder Bluff, and Silvermoon City. They will make their way to the Undercity once enough Scourge have been defeated across Azeroth.
- During the quest “City of Light,” Khadgar’s Servant will now continue giving its tour even if the player is not nearby.
- Zombies are no longer unstoppable by benefitting from Preparation at the start of battlegrounds. Alterac Valley weekend is saved!
- Gathering nodes will now have a sparkling visual effect when being tracked.
- Fixed an issue where Group Finder activity level ranges were not correct. They should now more closely match the levels of the Meeting Stones for those dungeons.
- Players can now list and browse the Group Finder for dungeons that are below their level.
- Latency and other performance information is now visible in the tooltip of the Game Menu button.
- Players can now report character friends.
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
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Classes
- Weapon trail visual effects have been restored to abilities that have them.
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Dungeons and Raids
- Blackrock Spire can again be entered by 10-player raids.
- Resolved an issue where selecting certain roles for your class in the Group Finder would not actually display them in your listing.
- Fixed an issue where Group Finder listings would be removed for certain players when moving between zones.
- Fixed an issue where the Talent Specialization’s role could be set to tank after changing zones.
- Developers’ note: The intention here is that this role selection should always default to DPS, and can be set by players based on how they want to describe their talent builds.
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Items and Rewards
- Fixed an issue that didn’t allow the auction of certain items carried over from Burning Crusade Classic.
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Player versus Player
- Updated the current Battleground Bonus Weekend to Warsong Gulch (was Strand of the Ancients).
- Random Battleground Queue no longer shows up for players below level 80.
- Fixed a crash when inspecting another player and opening the PvP tab.
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Quests
- For the quest “Runeforging: Preparation for Battle,” Instructor Razuvious will now (begrudgingly) provide a spare Runed Soulblade for Death Knights who have managed to misplace theirs.
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
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Items and Rewards
- Resolved an issue preventing Smelt Titansteel from triggering a cooldown as intended.
- Resolved an issue preventing Create Mooncloth, Create Ebonweave, and Create Spellweave from requiring the proper location and from triggering a cooldown, as intended.
- Resolved an issue where Ethereal Essence Sphere, Paper Flying Machine, and the Paper Zeppelin would fail to show up in a player’s bags after being thrown to them.
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Quests
- Resolved an issue that sometimes caused the player to not mount the carpet during the “Magic Carpet Ride” quest.
These are all the blue posts from October
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
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Classes
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Paladin
- Fixed an issue where the Glyph of Seal of Vengeance was still granting its expertise bonus while the glyph was not active.
- Fixed an issue where Judgements of the Pure (Talent) was still active after switching specializations.
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Items and Rewards
- Fire Leaf is now correctly classified as a Trade Good.
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Player versus Player
- Completing Battlegrounds during holiday weekends will now reward an appropriate amount of gold based on a win or a loss.
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Professions
- Fixed an issue where Engineering bombs were breaking their Incapacitate effect with their own damage.
- Developers’ note: It is intended that low-level Engineering bombs still have a large failure rate on targets above their level.
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
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Classes
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Warrior
- Fixed an issue where Deep Wounds was not benefitting from the damage bonus of Blood Frenzy or Savage Combat.
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Items and Rewards
- Modestly increased the chance to receive the Hallowed Helm, Sinister Squashling, and Tooth Pick during the Hallow’s End event.
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Player versus Player
- Death Knight’s Unholy Blight will no longer keep enemy players in combat during its entire duration.
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
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Classes
- Fixed an issue where Druid’s Typhoon spell could cause the User Interface to become unresponsive.
- Fixed an issue with the Hunter talent Master Marksman (Rank 5) not properly applying its mana cost reduction benefit to Aimed Shot.
- Death Knight’s Glyph of Death Strike now properly increases Death Strike damage by 1% per Runic Power (was 1% per 2 Runic Power).
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Dungeons and Raids
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Naxxramas
- Heigan the Unclean’s Eruption should now cover the entire affected section of the floor.
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User Interface and Accessibility
- The Raid Info Frame now distinguishes between different raid difficulties.
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
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Classes
- The effects of the Rogue Overkill talent are now cancelled upon activating another talent specialization.
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Dungeons and Raids
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Naxxramas
- Death Knight NPCs can no longer cast Unholy Frenzy on raid bosses.
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The Culling of Stratholme
- Fixed an issue with Chrono-Lord Epoch’s Time Step. He will now properly move around the room as he targets different players, including those he started in melee range with.
- Hide/Show Helm and Cloak options now behave properly when transformed in the dungeon.
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Items and Rewards
- Flask of Distilled Wisdom now properly benefits from Mixology.
- Drums of Speed will now provide the Tinnitus effect to the players affected by the item, similar to Greater Drums of Speed.
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
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Classes
- Mind Flay, and other similar spells, will no longer benefit from movement impairment reduction as a cast speed bonus.
- Fixed an issue that could cause Blessing of Wisdom to sometimes incorrectly provide an increased benefit in raid encounters when changing to a specialization that did not have Improved Blessing of Wisdom.
- Adjusted Warrior’s Taste for Blood talent to improve its timing.
- Developers’ note: This change should make Rank 3 of the talent trigger every 6 seconds, instead of sometimes taking 9 seconds to trigger. Other ranks have the same change, but aren’t guaranteed to happen, and so are less noticeable.
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Creatures and NPCs
- Fixed incorrect levels with some player summoned creatures.
- Grauf has been taught how to fly, and will no longer run around in the air, disobeying the laws of physics.
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Dungeons and Raids
- Fixed an issue where Kel’thuzad would sometimes still pick the tank for Frost Blast when the tank does not have the most threat.
- Fixed an issue where some encounters would not respect loot settings (like Master Looter).
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Items and Rewards
- The Well Fed effect from feasts now grants Ranged Attack Power.
- Greater Inscriptions from the Sons of Hodir are now refundable items, however they can no longer be sold back to vendors for gold if mailed to other characters on your account.
- Heirlooms will now properly apply their combat rating bonuses.
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Quests
- “Chill Out, Mon” can be obtained once again after returning to the realm of the living and passing through the underground portion of Drakil’jin Ruins.
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User Interface and Accessibility
- Fixed an issue where spells added in Wrath of the Lich King are not properly displaying projected healing in the UI while being cast.
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
- Deep Wounds no longer triggers from non-Physical damage, such as the Fiery Weapon enchant.
- Developers’ note: Warriors have recently discovered that with the changes to Critical Strike Rating in Wrath, they can now get critical hits on spells quite often, and that those spell critical hits trigger Deep Wounds. Prior to Wrath, Warriors did not get increased spell critical chance from their gear. This discovery has resulted in players changing their enchantments on weapons to low-level enchantments that don’t do much damage, but can trigger Deep Wounds and gain a significant damage increase over intended level 70-80 enchantments. Deep Wounds was never intended to benefit from these enchantments. Because of how Deep Wounds works, this advantage would continue to grow as Warriors gain better gear with more Critical Strike Rating. Additionally, some Warrior players are now looking for additional sources of spell damage from low-level sources, that they could use to gain increased Deep Wounds damage. We feel that this would only become more problematic, so it’s best to resolve it quickly, before a lot of time and resources are invested into it. While it is a creative use of game mechanics, this would eventually be damaging to player and class fantasies, as well as very unintuitive for newer players.
- Deadly Gladiator’s Tabard is now purchasable from Arena vendors for the duration of Arena Season 5.
- Sapphiron has learned how to fly properly during the air phase.
- Morlia Doomwing should now offer flights to eligible players from the Shadow Vault.
- Figurine - Emerald Boar trinket will now properly match the player’s level.
- Priest Trainers no longer offer the quest to teach Desperate Prayer.
- Players can now travel safely on their flying mounts across Valgarde in Howling Fjord.
OCTOBER 11, 2022
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
- Will to Survive (Human Racial Ability) and PvP trinkets now clear the effect of Shackle Undead.
- Fixed several gathering nodes that would display an “already being looted” error when interacted with.
- Feasts that grant Spell Power as part of their Well Fed bonus will now properly increase Healing Power as intended.
- The last remaining Scourge have retreated and are no longer attacking capital cities on some realms.
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Quests
- Fixed an issue with “Aces High!” that prevented Wyrmrest Skytalons from using Flame Shield.
- Wild Wyrms now spawn more frequently during the “How to Kill Your Dragon” quest.
- Smoldering Scraps now respawn quicker during the quest “Hot and Cold.”
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
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Naxxramas
- Fixed an issue where Kel’Thuzad would damage the main tank with Frost Blast, in addition to a random raid target. Frost Blast will now only hit the main tank if the primary target of Frost Blast is standing near the main tank, or the main tank is not the highest threat target.
- Fixed issue with Strand of the Ancients where same-faction battleground teams disguised as the opposite faction would be sent to the wrong graveyard upon death.
- Fixed an issue where Hyperspeed Accelerators could not be used in the same macro as spells and abilities.
- Developers’ note: Due to the nature of this fix, Hyperspeed Accelerators’ on-use effect no longer shares a partial cooldown with on-use Trinkets as they once did. For now, this is known and intended, but we may attempt a different fix in a future patch to resolve the macro issue above which no longer allows this and puts engineering glove tinkers and on-use trinkets back onto a shared cooldown.
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
- When Engineering Tinker enchantments are activated, they now trigger their cooldown for all other engineering tinker enchantments that can be equipped in the same slot, as well as duplicates of their enchantment. This includes Mind Amplification Dish, Nitro Boosts, Hand-Mounted Pyro Rocket, Hyperspeed Accelerators, Personal Electromagnetic Pulse Generator, Flexweave Underlay, Frag Belt, and Springy Arachnoweave.
- Master Elemental Shaper Krixix in Blackwing Lair is now guaranteed to drop the Goblin’s Guide to Elementium.
- Fixed an issue that prevented two Shaman relics, Savage Gladiator’s Totem of the Third Wind and Hateful Gladiator’s Totem of the Third Wind, from functioning properly.
- Various buffs gained from world events and quests such as Darkmoon Faire will now cancel when players enter any instance.
- Shaman Sentry Totem no longer stops the player in mid air when cast.
- Fixed an issue where players were unable to re-enter the Vault of Archavon instance to resurrect.
- Fixed an issue with the achievement Share the Love in Heroic Gundrak, where use of player immunities such as Divine Intervention and Hand of Protection could prevent earning the achievement without leaving and re-entering the instance.
- Fixed an issue with Strand of the Ancients where same-faction battleground teams disguised as the opposite faction would be sent to the wrong graveyard upon death.
- Fixed an issue with the highest ranks of party and raid buffs where they were appearing incorrectly on unit frames during combat.
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
- Meeting Stones no longer have a maximum level cap.
- Fixed an issue with Mal’Ganis failing to be defeated at 1% health in the Culling of Stratholme.
- Fixed an issue with “Make Them Pay” and “No Mercy” that caused the objectives to show as completed upon accepting the quests.
- Fixed an issue where “Call to Arms: Isle of Conquest” was part of the daily battleground quest rotation prior to Isle of Conquest’s release.
- Fixed an issue where some players can become stuck and unable to queue for Wintergrasp.
- Archavon now correctly drops 2 Emblems of Valor.
- Titanium Ore can no longer be prospected.
- Developers’ note: The ability to prospect Titanium Ore will return in the Trial of the Crusader patch 3.4.2 when epic gems are introduced. We’re not going to remove Titanium Powder from those who did prospect the ore but know that the Powder cannot be used to turn in for Jewelcrafter Tokens until 3.4.2 either.
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
- Updated Random Battleground rewards to the correct Honor values.
- The Blessings gained from freeing Webbed Crusaders in the Valley of Echoes, and the Greater Blessing of Might, Prayer of Fortitude, and Battle Shout gained from freeing prisoners during the quest Prisoners of Wyrmskull, are now removed if a player logs out, enters an instance, or travels to another continent.
- Band of the Kirin Tor, Ring of the Kirin Tor, Signet of the Kirin Tor, and Loop of the Kirin Tor can now be fully refunded at vendors within 2 hours of purchase; similar to the upgraded tiers of these rings.
- Fixed an issue where some multi-rank talents would not function correctly after changing zones.
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
- Honor gear vendor costs have been reduced by 30%. This includes Deadly, Hateful, and Savage gear.
- The breath meter has been increased to 3 minutes (was previously 1 minute).
- Death Knight’s Improved Unholy Presence now correctly reduces rune cooldowns when in Unholy Presence.
- Druid Lifebloom should now correctly scale with Haste when Gift of the Earthmother is talented.
- Flag carriers in the Warsong Gulch battleground now appear on the map after 45 seconds of carrying the enemy flag.
- The Wintergrasp auto-queue when entering the zone is now much quicker.
- Fixed an issue with “The Flesh Giant Champion” where Margrave Dhakar could become permanently stuck if other hostile creatures were pulled into the event area.
- Incomplete quests will now appear with a gray ‘?’ in gossip windows.
- Fixed an issue where Culling of Stratholme was not giving tank and healer Northern Adventuring Supplies upon completion.
- Fixed an issue where players would sometimes not receive Northern Adventuring Supplies if a pet performed the killing blow to the final boss in the dungeon.
- Friendly, neutral, and enemies tracked on the minimap are now distinguished by color.
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
- Fixed multiple issues preventing the Battle for Undercity from proceeded as expected when multiple layers are present.
- The Portal to Undercity in Stormwind should now appear as expected when you are on the quest “The Killing Time” and have completed “A Royal Coup”.
- Living Bomb no longer puts the Mage back into combat upon expiration or removal.
- Fixed an issue preventing Mr. Floppy from reviving, blocking the quest “Mr. Floppy’s Perilous Adventure” from completing.
- “A Righteous Sermon” quest has been updated to now allow for more than a single player to receive credit for listening to Inquisitor Hallard’s Righteous Sermon.
- Stranglethorn Fishing Tournament NPCs now spawn more reliably.
Clearly It’s way more than the 2 you showed.
