Season of Discovery Hotfixes - March 20

WoW Classic Season of Discovery
863

March 4, 2025

Season of Discovery

  • Tarnished Undermine Real now drop from Ruins of Ahn’Qiraj and Temple of Ahn’Qiraj bosses and hard mode caches.
  • Nightmare Grove
    • The Nightmare Dragons now drop three Tarnished Undermine Reals each.
    • The Nightmare Dragons now each drop a piece of Non-C’thun Temple of Ahn’Qiraj Tier.
      • Players can access to the Temple of Ahn’Qiraj vendors at the entrance of the raid. These NPCs are Kandrostrasz, Vethsera, and Andorgos.
    • The Nightmare Dragons now each drop a piece of Blackwing Tier that is not available on the Undermine Real vendor. (Shoulders/Legs/Head/Chest).
    • The Nightmare Dragons now each drop a Blackwing Lair class trinket.
    • All of the pieces in the Nightmare Dragon’s old loot has had 8 primary armor slots updated to have the Timeworn tag, allowing them to interact with the Signet Ring of the Bronze Dragonflight line.
    • To allow players more chances to get missing patterns, the Nightmare Dragons can now drop all of the enchanting and engineering patterns from Molten Core and all professions recipes from Ahn’Qiraj.
    • Health of all bosses and enemy creatures reduced by 15%.
    • Damage and healing of all bosses and enemy creatures reduced by 30%.
    • All Dragons no longer thrash.
    • Emeriss - NPC priests during the PvP raid phase no longer cast Mind Control.
    • Lethon - Damage reduction aura from the large Spirit Shade reduced to 50% (was 99%), and movement speed of Spirit Shades lowered by 25%.
    • Ysondre - Divergent Lightning is now cast less frequently and deals less damage.
864

Please fix the character getting stuck in Argus!

865

This change above and all others are GREAT, thank you blizz! With the current state of AQ Temple idols/scarabs on some server auction houses, can you maybe increase the rate of idols/scarabs from the previous reals crate boxes (the non wartorn ones). Before, I’d be lucky to get ONE AQ Temple idol from opening 10 of those crates (100 reals), can you maybe have idol AQ Temple idol guaranteed in each of those crates, or at the very least, make the chance much higher? I know of at least four guilds that stopped running AQ Temple since naxx came out, so at least on my server/faction, we have much less idols on the auction house available and very high priced.

866

Can we also get class weapons added to the Nightmare Grove? Been trying to get Slag on my shaman for weeks now, not seen it drop once.

867

March 11, 2025

Season of Discovery

  • The Seal of the Dawn item now stops increasing at Rank 7.
    • Developers’ notes: This means there is no increase this week, and you will not have to spend Remnants of Valor if you are already at Rank 7. If you have additional Remnants of Valor, you can spend them on Argent Dawn Valor Tokens or send them to alts via the mailbox to upgrade your alts’ Seal of the Dawn or increase their Argent Dawn reputation through Argent Dawn Valor Tokens.
868

how about buffing arms warriors instead of leaving them lower than the tanks

869

Please reconsider capping the seal at rank 8. A lot of players were hoping for at least that last decent jump in power. A lot of casual guilds are still having issues with HM4 even at rank 7.

Please reconsider. The feedback both in this forum, discord servers, and YouTubers have voiced similar opinions on this.

870

March 12, 2025

Season of Discovery

  • Druid
    • Pressing Starfall a second time after it has been cast, and the Global Cooldown is finished, now cancels Starfall.
  • Mage
    • Presence of Mind will no longer unexpectedly stay on the Mage under certain circumstances.
  • Shaman
    • The Elemental Shaman Tier-2 4-piece set bonus now removes your Loyal Beta when the set bonus is removed or broken.
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871

30yd totems wen

873

When shaman nerfs that actually feel like nerfs? Remember the part where you nerfed bubble? Yeah everyone still waiting for a shaman nerf that matters.

874

i can actually agree with 7 as a cap. it can be a struggle to do hm4 if that’s the case and not everyone needs to. by capping power relative to difficulty you preserve some level of execution requirement. HM4 wouldn’t really be a valuable milestone to clear if the power available is too high. Striking this balance can be rough, and will cause problems on one side or the other. Virtually impossible to please all sides tbf

875

March 17, 2025

Season of Discovery

  • Changing difficulties or activating and deactivating orbs in Naxxramas will no longer interrupt the drinking or eating of players in the raid that aren’t channeling on the orb or conduit.
  • Hunter
    • Enchanted Flare will no longer disrupt allied players’ channeled effects.
  • Warrior
    • Rampage now increases attack power by 15% (was 10%).
    • Rampage cooldown decreased to 90 seconds (was 120 seconds).
    • Removing the Protection Warrior T3 4-piece set bonus will now correctly remove the cooldowns it effects.
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876

none of this addresses rogue AoE. which if the tier sets for next phase are to be trusted, it will be a heavier AoE raid. most tank tier sets are amplifying their AoE. but rogues baseline is so bad the boosts on the tier become worthless to it.

Baseline rune changes for them and at least the 4pc may have some minor use, albeit 1 extra target on a 2 minute cd is bordering on useless unless it only matters once per fight.

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878

March 20, 2025

Season of Discovery

  • Player versus Player
    • The (up to) 50% health increase in Battlegrounds has been removed.
    • The global Damage Reduction to spells in PvP has been increased to 50% Physical/60% Magic reductions (was 25% Physical/40% Magic reductions).
      • Developers’ notes: Players should now have 50% more effective health in PvP against both Physical and Magical damage in the open world, and PvP in Battlegrounds should feel unchanged.
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879

Well… looks like seal twisting pally is now dead in the water lol back to shockadin so i dont have to deal with constant magical purges while swinging a limp noodle

880

First part of this change is good. The second part is braindead.

881

Who approved this and why? No one cares about boartle grounds. Leave world pvp alone! This is the worst change of all time. Why do healers get to be unkillable? “developer notes” : Yeah we have no idea what we are doing and zirene got globald so we gotta nerf damage by another 20% and pat ourselves on the back. Boaring.

882

Wait a minute, no one is dying in a global now?! People are living for more than two seconds. Crazy …

883

Of course a shaman is in favor of this change. Doing 0 dam is so much fun. Must be great that healing wasn’t reduced at all and since you can never oom congrats on being the hardest thing in the game to kill. I am so glad that enh, destro lock and fire mage are now fixed thanks to the blanket damage nerf. Great job blizz.

884

I think you might be seriously underestimating the damage potential of a well geared pally.