Season of Discovery Hotfixes - December 4

November 26, 2024

Season of Discovery

  • Chronoboon Displacer
    • Items that share exclusivity with world buffs (Horn of the Dawn, Songflower Seed, Shimmering Globe, Overseer’s Anvil, “Defective” Magic 8-Ball, Firewater Cauldron (stacking change only), and Spirit Conch):
      • Will no longer be removed if the person with the consumable leaves raid.
      • Will extend the duration of the appropriate world buff instead of replacing it.
      • Now stack up to 5.
      • Known issue: these consumable items list their duration as Until Cancelled instead of 1 or 2 hours. That will be corrected in another hotfix.
  • Druid
    • Improved Moonfire now correctly increases the damage of Starfall.
    • Improved Moonfire and Moonfury no longer affect base damage of their associated spells.
    • Improved Moonfire and Moonfury now affect the entire damage of their associated spells.
  • Hunter
    • Tranquilizing Shot no longer has a minimum range.
    • Trueshot Aura will now grant the Marksmanship Hunter using it 100/150/200 additional ranged attack power (was 50/75/100).
    • Melee T2.5 set 2-piece bonus now increases Wyvern Strike damage over time by 50%, and increases the maximum focus of your pet by 50 (was Increases Wyvern Strike damage over time by 50%).
    • Melee T2.5 set 4-piece bonus now increases the impact damage of Mongoose Bite and all Strikes by 15% (was 10%).
    • Beast Mastery rune now increases your pet’s damage and health by 15% (was 10%).
  • Priest
    • Shadow Priest T2.5 set -piece bonus now increases the damage of Mind Spike by 20% (was 30%).
  • Rogue
    • 5 damage set 2-piece bonus will now only affect Saber Slash and Mutilate (was Sinister Strike and Saber Slash).
    • 5 tank set 2-piece bonus will now persist for 10 seconds after using Main Gauche (was tied to having the Parry buff active, and fell off when an attack was parried).
    • The Attack Power ratio on Instant Poison with Deadly Brew has been increased to 5% (was 3%).
    • Slaughter from the Shadows Ambush and Backstab increased against non-players increased to 60% (was 50%).
  • Shaman
    • 5 Enhancement 2-piece bonus that increases the damage of Stormstrike and Lava Lash by 50%, is now twice as effective for 2-handed weapons.
    • 5 Enhancement 4-piece bonus now causes your Stormstrike, Lava Lash, and Lava Burst critical strikes to burn your target for 30% of the damage done over 4 seconds (was only Stormstrike and Lava Lash).
    • Ruins of Ahn’Qiraj 3-piece set will now correctly increase the damage of Lava Burst from Overload.
    • 5 Enhancement 4-piece bonus will now correctly work with Off-hand Stormstrike.
  • Warlock
    • Haunt’s increase to Shadow damage over time effects increased to 40% (was 20%).
    • Haunt now correctly has a return animation.