HOTFIXES
March 7, 2025
Achievements
- Players now earn Weathered of the Undermine, Carved of the Undermine, and Runed of the Undermine immediately upon outgrowing the use of those crests.
Classes
- Druid
- Feral
- Brutal Slash damage reduced by 60% while in Bear Form.
- Druid of the Claw: Wildpower Surge increases the damage of your next Swipe or Brutal Slash in Bear Form by 300% (was 75%).
- Feral
- Paladin
- Fixed an issue causing Blessing of Dusk to incorrectly grant cooldown reduction to Eye of Tyr.
- Fixed an issue causing Divine Purpose and Tirion’s Devotion to grant too much cooldown reduction to Lay on Hands.
- Fixed an issue preventing some dungeon bosses from being able to be hit by Blessed Hammer.
Delves
- Sidestreet Sluice
- Added a requirement to defeat Darkfuse goblins in the variant to destroy enchanted gold piles.
Dungeons and Raids
- Mythic Keystones no longer unintentionally drop in Siege of Boralus, Necrotic Wake, and Mists of Tirna Scithe.
- Player deaths no longer affect the Mythic+ timer on keystone level 2 and 3.
- Corrected an issue that caused the time targets used for Rating calculation and achievement for several Mythic+ dungeons to differ from the correct values visible in the in-game UI. This may cause one-time slight changes in Mythic+ Rating as ratings are recalculated using the accurate times.
- Developers’ notes: Today, we’ve we’ve broadly reduced the difficulty of Mythic and Mythic+ dungeons. As a result of the following changes, all enemy health and damage has been reduced by 10% across all Mythic dungeon difficulties, both Mythic 0 and Mythic+.
- Cinderbrew Meadery
- Rowdy Patron’s Rowdy Yell damage reduced by 33%.
- I’pa’s Spouting Stout damage reduced by 33%.
- I’pa’s Brew Drop health reduced by 18% and movement speed reduced by 14%.
- Darkflame Cleft
- Addressed an issue where Ol’ Waxbeard’s Reckless Charge can be cancelled when the target is out of line-of-sight.
- Ol’waxbeard’s rider melee damage reduced by 42%.
- Wandering Candle’s Surging Flame is now removed upon Wandering Candle’s death.
- The MOTHERLODE!!
- Crawler Mine’s health reduced by 30% and speed reduced by 29%.
- Off-Duty Laborer’s Throw Wrench damage reduced by 66%.
- Coin Operated Crowd Pummeler’s Footbomb Blazing Azerite’s increase to subsequent Timed Explosions reduced by 40%. What a mouthful!
- Azerite Extractor’s Rapid Extraction groupwide damage reduced by 25%.
- Azerite Extractor’s Rapid Extraction missile damage reduced by 25%.
- Mogul Razzdunk’s Gatling Gun damage reduced by 50%.
- Operation Floodgate
- Reduced the speed of waves created by Awaken the Swamp by 25%. The movement force applied reduced by 17%.
- Darkfuse Shredder Pilots are no longer able to melee.
- Kinetic Explosive Gel now has a permanent 12-second duration.
- Increased the cooldown of Surprise Inspection on Darkfuse Inspectors by 2 seconds.
- Reduced the distance of Bubble Burp targeting to 60 yards (was 100).
- Reduced the physical damage portion of Sludge Claws by 13%.
- Increased the cast time of Mudslide to 3.5 seconds (was 3).
- Reduced the physical damage of Thunder Punch by 15%.
- Reduced the damage of Turbo Bolt by 30%.
- Operation: Mechagon – Workshop
- Addressed a bug preventing this dungeon from giving Great Vault credits.
- Antipersonnel Squirrel’s Health reduced by 93% and can now be attacked.
- Machinist’s Garden’s “Hidden” Flame Cannon now has a precast visual.
- Priory of the Sacred Flame
- Captain Dailcry’s health reduced by 11%.
- Captain Dailcry’s Pierce Armor damage-over-time bleed reduced by 25%.
- Captain Dailcry’s Savage Mauling and Taener Duelmal’s Ember Storm now have a 5 second shared cooldown (was 3 seconds).
- Captain Dailcry’s Savage Mauling now ignores targets that have been hit by it within the last 35 seconds if there are other available targets.
- High Priest Aemya health reduced by 10%.
- Guard Captain Suleyman health by 30%.
- Forge Master Damian health reduced by 10%.
- Heat Wave damage reduced by 25%.
- Elaena Emberlanz health reduced by 10%.
- Taener Duelmal health reduced 10%.
- Sergeant Shaynemail health reduced by 10%.
- Added Effect Mechanic Snare to Castigator’s Shield so it can be removed with Snare removals.
- Prioress Murrpray now has an initial cooldown of 3 seconds on Holy Smite.
- Prioress Murrpray now clears her energy upon transitioning to Phase 2.
- The Rookery
- Addressed an issue where Kyrioss can fail to use its abilities.
- Theater of Pain
- Addressed an issue where Sudden Demise can kill players during Xav the Unfallen’s Blood and Glory.
- Liberation of Undermine
- Mug’Zee, Heads of Security
- Fixed an issue that delayed Mug’Zee from entering Intermission while casting other abilities.
- Gallagio Goons now lock their facing direction while casting Pay Respects.
- Updated the spawning visuals of Unstable Crawler Mines to be more readable alongside the visuals of Unstable Cluster Bomb.
- Mug’Zee, Heads of Security
Items
- Fixed an issue preventing Conqueror’s Prized Lacquer and Varnish from being used on tier armor catalyzed from certain Delve items.
- Triumphant Satchel of Carved Undermine Crests, Celebratory Pack of Runed Undermine Crests, and Glorious Cluster of Gilded Undermine Crests now cost 45 runed crests (was 90).
- Pouch of Weathered Undermine Crests, Satchel of Carved Undermine Crests, and Pack of Runed Undermine Crests are now Rare quality (was Epic).
- Vaskarn now correctly sells Pack of Runed Undermine Crests.
- Fixed an issue where several mail armor items granted Strength rather than Agility.
- Gallytech Turbo-Tiller now has standard melee weapon damage.
Player versus Player
- Druid
- Restoration
- Ancient of Lore (PvP Talent) - Blossom Burst and Mass Blooming now apply instantly to their targets when cast (was delayed by missile).
- Restoration
Reputation and Renown
- Resolved an issue where players couldn’t get a Restored Coffer Key on reaching renown rank 9 of the Cartels of Undermine.
- “Sparks of War: Undermine” now grants the correct reputation.
Quests
- More Deeps Spitters and Deeps Larva has been added to improve the associated world quest in the Ringing Deeps, “Deworming Solution.”
Undermine
- Fixed an issue preventing players from contributing to Voltstrike and Scrapchewer event progress in Undermine.
- Micropollutants and Agitated Contaminants will now respawn more quickly during the bonus objective “Darkfuse Precipitant”.
- “Slime Wranglin’” should now more accurately reflect the location of Runaway Sewage. Get to killin’ for Nanny Talullah.
March 5, 2025
Classes
- Druid
- Balance
- Fixed a bug where Harmony of the Heavens could fail to stack to maximum value.
- Balance
- Paladin
- Protection
- Resolved an issue causing Divine Toll to cast more Avenger’s Shields than intended.
- Protection
Delves
- The Waterworks
- Stompin’ Shoes are no longer interrupted by damage.
Dungeons and Raids
- Cinderbrew Meadery
- Addressed an issue where Goldie Baronbottom may fail to cast Let It Hail upon reaching 100 energy.
- THE MOTHERLODE!!!
- Addressed an issue where the exit can take players to the wrong location based on their factions.
- Liberation of Undermine
- One-Armed Bandit
- Corrected an issue where Fiery Dynamite Booty could not explode on death if it was knocked back when it died.
- Corrected an issue where Traveling Flames could fail to move if placed next to a wall.
- Added a short cooldown on being hit by Traveling Flames to prevent players from being struck multiple times in quick succession.
- One-Armed Bandit
Items
- Fixed an issue where Liberation of Undermine warbound tier head, chest, and leg armor from Normal difficulty could not be upgraded. Existing items have also been fixed.
- Fixed a bug that caused some legacy World Quests to provide more-powerful rewards than intended.
- Changed the functionality of Roaring War-Queen’s Citrine to fizzle out when targeting another player with the Roaring War-Queen’s Citrine rather than searching for a new one.
Player versus Player
- Fixed an issue where Bloody Tokens and Sparks of War were not always dropping from player kills.
- Sparks of War should now consistently drop from Undermine Shiny Trash Cans.
Quests
- Nikki will no longer shout out her combat lines for players who aren’t on “My Top Gal”.
- Fixed an issue where the player could force the shredder vehicle off its path during “Cold As Ice.”
Undermine
- Interacting with the Riot-Grade Rope should now be more multiplayer friendly.
March 4, 2025
Achievements
- Fixed an issue where completing the Copious Coffers and The Key to Madness achievements before the Undermine(d) patch to fail to deliver rewards. Affected players should find them in the mail.
Classes
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Death Knight
- Unholy
- Liberation of Undermine 2-set Bonus – Now increases the damage of Death Coil and Epidemic by 4.5% (was 3%).
- Unholy
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Demon Hunter
- Havoc
- Aldrachi Reaver: Reaver’s Mark now increases damage dealt to its target by 6%.
- Aldrachi Reaver: Thrill of the Fight’s increase to ability damage is now 15% (was 20%).
- Liberation of Undermine 2-set Bonus – Winning Streak!'s chance to activate increased by 25%.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the talent starter build from applying correctly.
- Havoc
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Druid
- Updated Lycara’s Meditation: Players must remain in a shapeshift form for 2.9 seconds, modified by Haste, in order to retain the Lycara’s Teachings bonus from it. The ability description string will be updated in a future patch.
- Feral
- Sunfire damage reduced by 40%.
- Lycara’s Teachings’ Mastery bonus granted from being in Moonkin Form reduced by 66%.
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Evoker
- Devastation
- Firestorm damage increased by 40%.
- Devastation
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Hunter
- Beast Mastery
- The Liberation of Undermine 2-piece set bonus has been adjusted – Barbed Shot now fires at 100% (was 200%).
- The Liberation of Undermine 4-piece set bonus has been adjusted - Potent Mutagen damage reduced by 50% and reduces the cooldown of Bestial Wrath by 0.25 seconds (was 0.5 seconds).
- All ability and pet damage increased by 5%.
- Beast Mastery
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Monk
- Mistweaver
- All Healing reduced by 4%.
- Liberation of Undermine set bonus: Insurance! healing decreased by 30%.
- Mistweaver
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Paladin
- Holy
- Fixed a bug causing Divine Toll to unintentionally damage enemies the player was not in combat with.
- Protection
- Fixed an issue where Undisputed Ruling failed to trigger Consecration’s friendly effects.
- Retribution
- An issue causing Divine Hammer to have reduced duration with higher amounts of Haste has been resolved.
- Haste will no longer affect Divine Hammer periodic. Will now strike every 2 seconds for 8 seconds baseline.
- Divine Hammer periodic damage will no longer activate Radiant Glory, while its cast will continue to interact normally.
- Divine Hammer extension proc no longer has an internal cooldown.
- Holy
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Priest
- Discipline
- Lenience no longer stacks its damage reduction effect when multiple Priests apply Atonement to a target.
- Oracle: Preventive Measures now increases the damage of Penance, Smite, and Holy Nova by 20% (was 40%).
- Discipline
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Rogue
- Assassination
- All ability damage increased by 4%.
- Subtlety
- Secret Technique damage reduced by 5%.
- Liberation of Undermine 2-piece set bonus – Winning Streak! max stacks reduced to 8 (was 10).
- Assassination
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Shaman
- Elemental
- Developers’ notes: The new tier set bonuses were performing higher than we would have liked, so we’re lowering the value of the new 2-piece set bonus while increasing the damage Elemental Shaman deal baseline.
- Liberation of Undermine 2-piece set bonus – Now summons an elemental for 6 seconds (was 8 seconds).
- Liberation of Undermine 2-piece set bonus – Frequency of getting a bonus elemental summon from your spells lowered.
- Liberation of Undermine 4-piece set bonus – Damage bonus of Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Tempest, and Lava Burst increased to 30% for 8 seconds (was 20% for 8 seconds).
- Deeply Rooted Elements Ascendance procs no longer activate either the 2-piece or 4-piece bonus of the new Liberation of Undermine tier set.
- Echo of the Elementals no longer causes the Jackpot! Buff to refresh when they appear.
- All damage dealt increased by 5%.
- Enhancement
- Developers’ notes: Enhancement Shaman in the Liberation of Undermine patch are performing higher than we would like. We’re making adjustments to the new Flowing Spirits talent as well as the Nerub-ar Palace and Liberation of Undermine tier set bonuses.
- Nerub-ar Palace 4-piece set Bonus – Now has a 20% chance to summon an extra spirit when talented into Flowing Spirits. The tooltip will not reflect this change until a future patch.
- Flowing Spirits now has a 6% chance to summon a Feral Spirit.
- Flowing Spirits now properly summons a random Elemental Spirit when Elemental Spirits are talented.
- Liberation of Undermine 4-piece set Bonus – Now triggers Doom Winds for 3 seconds (was 4 seconds).
- Liberation of Undermine 4-piece set Bonus – Now increases the damage of Crash Lightning by 12% per stack (was 15%).
- Liberation of Undermine 4-piece set Bonus – Now increases the primary target damage of Crash Lightning by 75% (was 100%).
- Elemental
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Warlock
- Fixed an issue where Summon Felguard and Grimoire: Felguard were taking higher damage than intended from area of effect spells.
- Demonology
- Liberation of Undermine 4-piece set bonus has been adjusted – Casting Hand of Gul’dan causes your active Dreadstalkers to cast Dreadbite at 20% effectiveness (was 50%).
- Hand of Gul’dan damage increased by 20%.
- Doomguards summoned by Pact of the Ered’ruin deal 15% increased damage.
- Gloomhound’s Gloom Slash damage increased by 30%.
- Wild Imp damage increased by 30%.
- Destruction
- Liberation of Undermine 2-piece set bonus has been adjusted – Your spells and abilities have a chance to hit a Jackpot! that fires a flurry of 6 Demonfire bolts at 100% effectiveness (was 200%). Casting Summon Infernal always hits a Jackpot!.
- Chaos Bolt damage increased by 20%.
- Summon Infernal damage increased by 35%.
- Developers’ notes: We’re making adjustments to Hellcaller to reduce its Soul Shard economy and increase its damage as compensation. When the availability of Soul Shards increases for Destruction, it reaches a point where Rain of Fire begins to surpass Chaos Bolt in damage output for single target due to the difference in casting times.
- Hellcaller: Wither damage increased by 35%.
- Hellcaller: Wither now deals damage every 3 seconds (was 2 seconds).
- Developers’ notes: We recognize that with these changes Wither damage will also be impacted. We are distributing the lost throughput across the rest of the Hellcaller kit for Destruction.
- Hellcaller: Blackened Soul damage increased 40%.
- Hellcaller: Xalan’s Ferocity now increases Fire damage by 4% (was 2%).
- Hellcaller: Xalan’s Cruelty now increases Shadow damage by 4% (was 2%).
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Warrior
- Arms
- Execute damage reduced by 15%.
- Arms
Items and Rewards
- Oil of Beledar’s Grace healing reduced by 40%.
- Plans: Charged Claymore and Formula: Enchant Boots - Scout’s March can again be obtained from Auralia Steelstrike.
- Undermine
- Resolved an issue where players could receive duplicates of the same rare item from completing Shipping and Handling job streaks.
- Gallagio Garbage now has a higher chance to spawn.
- Increased the drop rates of the mount and cosmetic item from the Gallagio Garbage rare.
- Scrap-Plated Pants now have Agility/Intellect.
Mounts
- Fixed a bug causing the Ruby and Pearlescent Butterfly mounts to glow too brightly.
- Resolved an issue preventing players from properly obtaining the Violet Goblin Shredder.
Player versus Player
- The Gladiator’s Distinction set bonus now increases Stamina by 10% (was 5%) for Tank and Damage specializations.
- The Gladiator’s Distinction set bonus now increases Stamina by 15% (was 10%) for Healer specializations.
- Death Knight
- Blood
- San’layn: The damage bonus from Frenzied Bloodthirst is now 50% effective in PvP combat.
- Frost
- Death’s Cold Embrace (PvP talent) now increases Remorseless Winter’s damage by 400% (was 750%).
- Blood
- Druid
- Feral
- Berserk now increases damage dealt by 5% in PvP combat (was 10%).
- Ferocious Bite damage reduced by 10% in PvP combat.
- Feral
- Mage
- Arcane
- Magi’s Spark now echoes spells at 25% effectiveness (was 50%) in PvP combat.
- Arcane Missiles damage increased by 12% in PvP combat.
- Arcane Barrage damage increased by 12% in PvP combat.
- Fire
- Blazing Barriers from Overpowered Barrier now reflect 60% of damage absorbed (was 100%).
- Frost
- Frostfire: Blazing Barriers from Overpowered Barrier now reflect 60% of damage absorbed (was 100%).
- Arcane
- Monk
- Mistweaver
- Jade Empowerment’s damage increase reduced to 1250% (was 2500%) in PvP combat.
- Windwalker
- Slicing Winds damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat. Slicing Winds now fails if cast while in a root.
- Mistweaver
- Warrior
- Arms
- Mortal Strike damage reduced by 25% in PvP combat.
- Execute damage increased by 20% in PvP combat.
- Demolish final hit damage reduced by 30% in PvP combat.
- Fury
- Rampage damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
- Bladestorm damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
- Protection
- Execute damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat.
- All damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
- Arms
Quests
- Players leveling through War Within now always have the option to do Khaz Algar world quests from Faerin Lothar when accepting a task for “The Call of the Worldsoul”.
- “The Kalimdor Cup Circuit” can now be turned in to Lord Andestrasz.
- Fixed a bug preventing Thalyrssa from allowing access to Withered Army Training for “Building an Army”.
- Helping serve hot dogs or hamburgers in the “Hotrocket” quests will now take priority over the world quest to save drowning tourist goblins.
February 28, 2025
Achievements
- An achievement has been unexpectedly rewarding 5 Trader’s Tender. The goblins insist that possession is Nine-Tenths of the Law. It seems better to just roll with it, so we’ve corrected the description on the achievement to include the 5 Trader’s Tender.
Classes
- Druid
- Restoration
- Fixed an issue that caused Ancient of Lore (PvP Talent) to prevent all magical effects.
- Fixed an issue that caused Cyclone to bypass Ancient of Lore’s crowd control immunity.
- Restoration
- Evoker
- Devastation
- [Scalecommander] Fixed an issue where Deep Breath with Maneuverability would not break root effects.
- Preservation
- Fixed an issue where Flow State did not reduce the cooldown of Engulf.
- Devastation
- Hunter
- Beast Master, Survival
- Master’s Call pet ability can now be cast from Pet action bar.
- Beast Master, Survival
- Monk
- Windwalker
- Fixed an issue that caused Slicing Winds to not be treated as an AoE effects.
- Fixed an issue that caused Slicings Winds to not function with Ride the Wind.
- Windwalker
- Priest
- Shadow
- Fixed an issue causing Void Bolt to be castable while channeling spells.
- Shadow
- Shaman
- Enhancement
- [Totemic] Whirling Elements now displays correct duration that is 6 seconds for the granted Hot Hand buff.
- [Totemic] Hot Hand procs will no longer clamp down the duration if Whirling Elements was used to extend Hot Hand duration.
- Restoration
- Fixed an issue causing Overflowing Shores to not heal when on a transport.
- [Totemic] Fixed an issue where casting Totemic Projection while Surging Totem is active causes an additional heal from the totem.
- Enhancement
- Warlock
- Fixed an issue where the targeted version of Rain of Fire would not generate stacks of Power Overwhelming.
Items
- Algari Mana Oil, Oil of Deep Toxins, and Oil of Beledar’s Grace are now manually targeted, preventing them from automatically overriding buffs for player-characters who are dual-wielding.
- Auralia Steelstrike again sells Technique: Contract: Hallowfall Arathi.
- Roaring War-Queen’s Citrine chance to trigger has been reduced slightly.
- Legendary Skipper’s Citrine no longer triggers Roaring War-Queen’s Citrine effect.
Player versus Player
- Mage
- Arcane
- Fixed an issue causing Overpowered Barrier to grant immunity to interrupts.
- Arcane
Transmogrification
- Fixed an issue that caused Forged Gladiator’s Chain Leggings and Forged Gladiator’s Chain Breeches for shamans to use the wrong non-kilt appearance.
Undermine
- Adjusted the rewards for completing Shipping and Handling tasks to reward a Weathered Undermine Crest and one of Valorstones, Resonance Crystals, or Gold.
- Increased the rewards from finishing a job streak.
- Increased the rewards given by tip chests during the Surge Pricing event.
February 27, 2025
Achievements
- Umbrage for Umbriss is no longer a requirement for Glory of the Cataclysm Hero.
Classes
- Death Knight
- On a Paler Horse now works as intended in the Undermine.
- Evoker
- Devastation
- Fixed an issue where Disintegrate’s channel time was being increased when talenting into Azure Celerity.
- Devastation
- Hunter
- Corrected an issue preventing the proper activation of Eyes of the Beast.
- Paladin
- Resolved an issue causing Hammer of Light to not cast its secondary damage when killing the primary target.
- Hammer of Light will now add to the duration of Shield of the Righteous, instead of incorrectly resetting its duration to 4 seconds.
- Shaman
- Elemental
- [Stormbringer] Fixed an issue causing Tempest to be unable to contribute towards Fusion of Elements.
- Elemental
Player versus Player
- Priest
- Holy
- Fixed an issue causing Sanctified Ground to not have its radius increased by the Light in the Darkness talent.
- Holy
Quests
- Fixed an issue causing the balloons to be difficult to target on “Boom Balloon.”
Transmogrification
- Fixed an issue preventing druids from receiving alternate appearances for the Raid Finder variant of the Nerub-ar Palace class set after using the Luminous Nerubian Catalyst Stone.
Undermine
- Gallagio Security is no longer immune to crowd controlling effects.
- Fixed an issue causing Gallagio Garbage to spawn less frequently than intended.
- Disposable Hotdogs, Disposable Hamburgers, Collectible Pineappletini Mugs, Undermine Crates, Half-Eaten Takout, and Single-Use Grills now stack to 20.
- S.C.R.A.P. Heaps now correctly scale enemies and hazards to the number of participating players nearby.
- G-99 Breakneck boost cooldowns have been adjusted to match their durations.
- GE86 Advance D.R.I.V.E. wheels now cost 2000 Empty Kaja’Cola Cans (was 1 Pristine Kaja’Cola).
February 26, 2025
Achievements
- Reading the Misplaced Work Order will now reliably give credit for Read Between the Lines.
Delves
- Fixed an issue that could prevent players who had never entered Delves before from being able to configure Brann’s role and abilities.
Items and Rewards
- Fixed a bug preventing delves and world activities from providing credit towards the Great Vault. As a reminder, next week, the Great Vault will provide Season 1 rewards.
- The Surge Pricing world event now awards Extravagant Tip Chest for 150 Shipping and Handling Tasks (was 250).
- Fixed an issue where the Adventurer’s Warbound items sold by Finley for Undercoin would generate gear at the wrong item level.
Quests
- Players who selected a Cartel during “Contract Work” but were not given work to do can now reselect their Cartel for their Warband.
- Grimla should no longer unintentionally disappear while players are on “The Grimla Express”, “Split Venture”, or “Welcome to Undermine”.
Undermine
- The Suspicious Book and Fireworks Hat should no longer disappear prematurely, and players should be able to loot them as expected. Players who were previously affected by this bug will find the loot in their mail after about an hour.
- Lowered the number of tasks required to be completed to earn the highest Surge Pricing reward to 150, down from 250.
- Newspaper Bundles for the Paper Delivery job should no longer remain on the player if the job is canceled. This should also resolve the issue for players that have already completed or canceled the quest and had the bundles on their back.