Season of Discovery Hotfixes - February 21

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HOTFIXES

February 20, 2024

WoW Classic: Season of Discovery

• Increased the number of crafting materials found in Boxes of Gnomeregan Salvage and slightly increased the drop rate of Grime-Encrusted Salvage throughout Gnomeregan.
• Druid
  • Berserk now also increases the number of targets struck by Lacerate while it is active.
  • Starsurge bonus damage to Starfire increased to 80% (was 66%). Corrected a bug causing this bonus damage to be lower than intended at level 40.
  • Swipe now scales with attack power, gaining 10% of attack power as damage.
  • Threat caused by Swipe greatly increased.
  • Rip duration increased to 16 seconds (was 12 seconds).
• Hunter
  • Raptor Strike damage when the Melee Specialist rune is active is now normalized weapon damage.
• Paladin
  • Fixed an issue where Fiery Weapon enchantment and Seal of Martyrdom were triggering each other. Neither can be triggered by the other any longer.
  • Fixed an issue where Fiery Blaze and Fiery Weapon enchantments could trigger or be triggered by Seal of Martyrdom. Those interactions do not happen anymore.
• Priest
  • Mind Spike damage increased by 10%.
  • Void Plague damage increased by 10%.
  • Shadow Word: Death base damage before modifiers decreased by 40% and spellpower coefficient adusted to 42.9% (was 64.3%).
  • Developers’ notes: Overall, this should result in a 33-40% damage reduction on Shadow Word: Death, depending on the amount of spellpower the priest has. Shadow Word: Death has been doing a larger percentage of overall priest damage than intended, and we feel like this could begin to put additional pressure on healers in PvE, as spellpower gear improves and the damage that priests inflict on themselves continues to scale upwards. It could also prove to be increasingly oppressive in PvP, as it’s an instant attack that can be used on the move, from range, with very little counterplay.
• Rogue
  • Shuriken Toss bounce range reduced to 10 yards (was 15 yards).
    • Developers’ notes: This should reduce the chance of it bouncing a little too far and pulling extra packs in dungeons. It now matches the range of other chain spells like Chain Lightning and Avenger’s Shield.
• Shaman
  • Fixed an issue where Fire Nova did not benefit properly from Elemental Mastery.
  • The Dual-Wield Specialization rune now provides 50% bonus damage to your offhand weapon swings.
  • Lava Lash now gains 50% increased damage if Flametongue Weapon is imbued on your offhand.
  • The proc chance of Maelstrom Weapon is now roughly 50% higher when your main hand weapon or your two-hand weapon is imbued with Windfury Weapon.

February 16, 2024

WoW Classic: Season of Discovery

• Druid
  • Starsurge was incorrectly getting 30% additional critical strike chance when Eclipse (Lunar) was active. It now only gets 30% increased critical strike chance from Eclipse (Solar).
• Hunter
  • Chimera Shot - Scorpid is now properly mitigated by Weapon Chains and reduction to Disarm effects.
• Paladin
  • Fixed an issue where Seal of Righteousness ranks 4 and higher did less damage than rank 3. This fix has been applied to Season of Discovery and Classic Era.
• Priest
  • Spirit of Redemption will no longer be prevented from triggering for Priests whose Dispersion or Pain Suppression is on cooldown.
  • Each Priest now correctly creates their own separate stack of Mind Spike effects on the target, and consumes only their own stack.
  • Fixed an issue where Prayer of Mending was double dipping with Spiritual Healing, and was also increasing by 10% per bounce on top of that.
• Shaman
  • Fixed an issue where the benefit of Dual Wield Specialization rune could be lost for Shamans when swapping weapon configurations.
  • Fixed an issue where Stormstrike would sometimes do offhand damage despite no offhand equipped.
  • The range on Decoy Totem is now the correctly intended 30 yards, matching the radius of its effect preventing movement impairment.
• Warlock
  • Subjugate Demon used against players in Metamorphosis now has a 10 second duration, with diminishing duration like other crowd-control effects used on players. It is considered a Charm effect like Mind Control.
• Stranglethorn Vale PvP Event
  • Warlocks and Hunters participating in the Blood Moon will now resurrect with their last active pet.
  • Fixed an interaction with Blood Moon and Spirit of Redemption resurrecting the fallen Priest earlier than intended.
  • Fixed an issue with Blood Coin turn-ins when a player is the victim of Subjugate Demon or Mind Control.
  • Drained of Blood during the Blood Moon event now also grants immunity to movement impairing effects.
  • Fixed an issue where stacks of Blood for the Blood Loa could sometimes exceed the intended 255.
  • The Chosen of the Blood Loa will now be visible in the spirit world.

February 14, 2024

WoW Classic: Season of Discovery

• Corrected an issue where players leaving a party sometimes lost their stacks of Blood for the Blood Loa.
• The Blood Moon now increases the health of participants by 30%.
• Resurrection from Chained Spirits during the Blood Moon event now also grants players 100% of their mana.
• Blood Moon-averse Zandalarian Emissaries will now ward players in the far-off lands of Ratchet, Tirisfal Glades, and Duskwood.
• The scoreboards during the Blood Moon event should now be more responsive in activating and deactivating when the event starts and ends.
• Druid
  • Fixed an issue where Berserk was not discounting the energy cost of abilities learned from runes such as Savage Roar, Sunfire, and Skull Bash.
  • Starsurge visual corrected to not hit the caster as well as the target.
  • Savage Roar visual no longer has a Challenging Roar animation attached to the cast.
  • Eclipse now properly reduces spell pushback on Wrath and Starfire.
• Paladin
  • Fixed an issue where Guarded by the Light’s effect could be cancelled by the player.
• Priest
  • Fixed a bug that caused Void Plague to benefit more from spell power than intended.
  • Fixed a bug that made it possible for a Priest to place two copies of Renew on a target.
• Shaman
  • Power Surge gained during a Lava Burst, Lightning Bolt, or Chain Lighting cast will no longer be consumed by that cast (since it does not benefit).
• Warlock
  • Fixed an issue with Fear ranks 2 and 3 not changing into Menace properly while Metamorphosis is active.
  • Fixed an issue where Dance of the Wicked was giving an incorrect amount of mana back.
• Gnomeregan
  • Electrocutioner 6000
    • Players can no longer out range or use line of sight to prevent the cast or chain effect of Static Arc.
  • Mechanical Menagerie
    • The fight now resets properly if one of the bosses was in self-repair mode when the fight resets.
  • Rig Wars
    • Thermaplugg’s Safe will now spawn under one of the Bomb Dispensers after defeating Mekgineer Thermaplugg.

February 12, 2024

WoW Classic: Season of Discovery

• You can now get a new Squall-breakers Potion from Rau Cliffrunner in Freewind Post upon accepting the quest “Calm Before the Storm”.
• Recipe: Lesser Arcane Elixir is now bind-on-pickup.
• The Battle for Ashenvale weekly quests “Clear the Forest!” and “Repelling Invaders” now grant full XP and reputation rewards, through level 40.
• The Ashenvale Rallying Cry world buff is now usable through level 39.
• The Spark of Inspiration world buff now correctly increases +healing.
• Item requirements for the quests “Power of da Wind”, “Power of da Earth”, and “Power of da Water” have been reduced.
• Druid
  • Starsurge base damage reduced by 35%, and its benefit from bonus spell damage effects reduced to 42.9%, matching other instant spells.
  • Starsurge now provides a new effect: your next Starfire cast within 15 seconds deals 66% increased damage.
  • Fixed an issue with Enhanced Restoration preventing Nourish from gaining increased healing from Rejuvenation and Regrowth.
• Paladin
  • Fixed an issue where the Sheathe of Light spell power proc wasn’t correctly activated by melee attacks.
• Shaman
  • Fixed an issue where Ravaging Tempest could sometimes not lose its protective aura when Ailgrah Splittusk was killed.
• Stranglethorn Vale PvP Event
  • Players who resurrect in Stranglethorn Vale during the Blood Moon event and gain Drained of Blood will now be immune to attack during its duration, but unable to cast spells or attack. They can mount and move to another location and are invisible to players outside their party.
  • Drained of Blood duration reduced to 20 seconds (was 60 seconds).
  • Drained of Blood now has a visual.
  • Players who wish to opt out of Blood Moon should now more easily notice the Zandalarian Emissary.

Can we fix EARTHSHIELD ALREADY!?!?