Season of Discovery Hotfixes - May 8

[Thanrok-atiesh]

cry for me plz.

[Thanrok-atiesh]

I agree that redirect is less than good. I think it should be both a passive and an on use ability. When on use, like say you hit your redirect key bind , it should automatically drop your current target so you don’t accidentally hit the same target and put the points back to the same mob. I know you can probably macro this, but we shouldn’t have to.
As a passive it should transfer any combo points left on a mob when it dies to the next mob you hit. I’m talking strictly pve with this one, even though I think it would be glorious to have something like this in pvp, I think it would be OP af.

[Reegormorty-old-blanchy]

Melee hunter still needs significantly more tuning.

[Xerafane-wyrmrest-accord]

Shuriken Toss needs a damage buff because right now it feels like Plastic Toy Toss.

[Upholstery-lone-wolf]

@Linxy

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!?!?

[Linxy]

February 21, 2024

WoW Classic: Season of Discovery

• Elite and Dungeon Quests now grant additional bonus experience.
• The Dismantle enchant now procs more often for casters and melee.
• The vendor price of Ez-Thro Radiation Bombs and High-Yield Radiation Bomb has been reduced.
• Players in the Spirit World can now resurrect at Chained Spirits for up to 30 minutes after a Blood Moon ends.
• Spirit of Redemption Form will no longer instantly cancel if you attempt to cast spells not allowed in that form. Doing so now returns an error message.
• A Zandalarian Emissary can now be found atop the Durotar zeppelin tower.
• Mage
  • Spell Power now benefits the critical strike damage of Spellfrost Bolt.
• Rogue
  • Preparation now properly resets the cooldowns of Quick Draw, Between the Eyes, and Redirect.
  • Shuriken Toss will no longer sometimes cause loss of combo points when a Rogue is talented into Seal Fate and a bounced Shuriken crits a secondary target.
• Shaman
  • Offhand Stormstrike hits can now correctly trigger weapon procs, including Windfury Weapon and Flurry.
  • Healing Rain no longer has a variant height for its animation. The Healing Rain cloud now always appears just above player’s heads.
• Warlock
  • Haunt will now properly increase the damage done by Siphon Life.
  • Developers’ notes: Siphon Life behaves like Drain Life and will only be increased by Haunt if it is cast while Haunt is already active. These abilities do not dynamically update their values when Haunt is applied or falls off.

[Zennpaii-lava-lash]

Thanks for the fix, blizz!

[Notmywcb-defias-pillager]

what’s the point of preparation reset between the eyes? it’s dr’d also won’t build combo points that fast anyway

[Weper-illidan]

There’s no point reseting Redirect’s CD because it’s not usable in PvP. (Don’t think that there are any Subtlety rogues doing PvE.)

Redirect in SoD has a terrible design. It has 1 min CD (like… why?) and it works only in melee range. Also we need to use a spell to “activate” the stored combo points… which again: it’s a bad design. You storing the combo points because you want to use them… and the only spells that you can use to activate the combo points are the combo point generators. Smh…
The original Cataclysm version had 40 yard range, it had 1 min cd BUT you were able to Glyph it which reduced the CD to 10 seconds (since there’s no Glyph system in SoD the 1 min CD doesn’t make any sense). You were able to activate the combo points whenever you wanted by using Redirect again, and not by using a combo point generator…
You were able to store the combo points from dead targets as well.

The SoD version of Shadowstep is also crap. Why would you put GCD on Shadowstep when it never had GCD during any WoW expansion??

No idea who’s doing the rogue Runes/Spells in SoD but he clearly hates rogues. Or has no clue about them at all.

[Fafi-shadowstrike-au]

Did some STV and Gnomer with SPriest yesterday after nerf, they did great.

Not sure where your sentiment is coming from

[Dizastor-sulfuras]

@Linxy

• Elite and Dungeon Quests now grant additional bonus experience.

Why not all quests…regular quests are far behind vs xp gained in dungeons… and regular quests are mostly done in contested territories…not every one wants to sit in dungeons for hours on end…

[Voidarcane-whisperwind]

Honestly it would just be nice if they changed Redirect to a Passive which said CP’s are stored on your character and give a similar book to druids.

[Weper-illidan]

@Voidarcane-whisperwind

Honestly it would just be nice if they changed Redirect to a Passive which said CP’s are stored on your character and give a similar book to druids.

Yeah I’d prefer that too. It’d be a HUGE QoL update.
Currently I’m not even using Redirect because it’s not really worth to track the 1 min CD. Making a QoL spell like that to 1 min CD is just silly, it shows that the SoD devs have no clue about rogues.
Also it’s not even usable in PvP.

[Assasination-pagle]

Were tuning the other classes guys look. (Puts out bug fixes) ta da we did stuff.

[Notmywcb-defias-pillager]

I don’t even press redirect. It’s a trash ability.

[Dumbface-bloodsail-buccaneers]

you’re the trash in this scenario, since it is useful on a few fights.

[Dumbface-bloodsail-buccaneers]

@Weper-illidan

Also it’s not even usable in PvP.

do you understand how utterly broken this would be? it’s not even a rune and you want it to completely dumb down the playstyle and give rogue an unneeded pvp buff. that is not a QoL update.

[Shamanultra-chaos-bolt]

Need more 2H enhancement buffs. Come on, stop forcing DW on us! Please!

[Juicewillis-lone-wolf]

Can yall please fix rogue dps instead of making stupid changes like this? Shuriken toss and redirect are garbage spells that nobody likes using.

[Weper-illidan]

@Dumbface-bloodsail-buccaneers

@Weper-illidan

Also it’s not even usable in PvP.

do you understand how utterly broken this would be? it’s not even a rune and you want it to completely dumb down the playstyle and give rogue an unneeded pvp buff. that is not a QoL update.

When did I say that I want it in PvP?
I just mentioned it because there’s no reason to add Redirect to the Preparation reset since it’s not usable in PvP. And I doubt that there are any Subtlety rogues playing PvE.