The War Within Hotfixes - October 16

[Treset-destromath]

@Linxy

• Fixed an issue where players who had already acquired a Restored Coffer Key before starting the quest “Bountiful Delves” were still being asked to acquire a key for the first step. Brann has eased up on things and will now count that for the quest step.
• Now, the entirety of “Bountiful Delves” will auto-complete if a player has already opened a bountiful chest in a Delve before starting the quest

This has not been fixed i have 5 keys and have opened a bountiful no retroactive completion of the “bountiful Delves” quest

[Decaay-area-52]

Is there any real reason why “Memories of The Sky” takes 3 weeks to complete? It’s just a side quest about finding lost objects that gives no actual rewards, why is it timegated for so long?

[Assarcy-cairne]

Fun detected, can’t have that. I hate how it turned into a zergfest at the end of last season. If we had 2 tanks we wouldn’t even wait for a single tower. We should have to summon Ivus at least some of the time, that’s way more engaging than a 5 minute match.

[Mohz-kiljaeden]

@Linxy

Resolved an issue that caused enemies in Epic Battlegrounds to have more health and deal more damage than intended.

Oh noes! Bring the big bad NPC back!

Keep buffing them every season as well, don’t let them become noodles!

[Sards-stormrage]

• Fixed an issue where some Legion quests were unable to be completed once The War Within had been started.

I still can’t get quests don’t on my paladin in Legion.
Khadgar is not in the violet citadel nor is he giving quests on the Broken Shore.
I cannot turn in “The Council’s Call” (leads to other legion weapon skin variants for transmog).
I cannot turn in “Magic Message” (which is crucial for the paladin class/mount question to buy the item off the vendor in disguise).
I cannot pick up “A Falling Star” (which is crucial for the paladin class/mount questline) despite the map showing it’s there.

A side note: I couldn’t turn in “A Falling Star” on my monk because of “the middle teleport bug”, but that was resolved. I can turn it in there, but you cannot pick up the initial quests.

[Inemia-wyrmrest-accord]

@Assarcy-cairne

If we had 2 tanks we wouldn’t even wait for a single tower.

didn’t even need tanks, i was tanking Drek with 4 towers as unholy. its funny once, but not when its every game. they need to put the pvp back into epics.

[Spilledstars-caelestrasz]

@Linxy

Characters and NPCs

• Adjusted the scaling of enemies in War Within leveling content to increase their health, bringing the duration of combat more in line with expected WoW behavior. This change is most noticeable at level 70, and has a reduced impact as your level increases. Enemies at level 80 and above are unchanged.
  • Developers’ notes: We’ve seen data and heard a great deal of feedback that players coming into Khaz Algar with endgame Dragonflight gear were extremely powerful relative to that initial content. It is entirely intended that effort put into gearing translates into a significant combat advantage at the start of a new expansion, but the values we’ve been seeing are extreme, often not even allowing time for normal combat rotations. This disparity also caused mixed-level groups to experience skewed results, with lower-level players contributing drastically more than level 80s.

If I walk in on my Remix character and cannot survive normal activities you are doing it wrong Blizz.

I get it that M+11 (was: 23) keyrunners are going to paste things a bit flatter and probably a lot faster - than my “just dinged 70, got handed remix boost like gear and told good luck” character

but making everyone who tries out the new land feel like we get to drown because your math team didn’t plan for both raiders and walk-first-then-maybe-we-run players?

UGH

Why the hell do I bother? Is this the respect “the player behind the keyboard” is going to keep getting?

[Spilledstars-caelestrasz]

@Warlockjen-shattered-hand

It’s a small % in the grand scheme, but I think people need to utilize the bug forum and report them

That would be a lot easier if it didn’t require exiting the game and a google search to get to these bug forums.

From BattleNet all you get sent to is forums about Bnet itself. I mean, yes, Bnet is seriously broken recently too.

[Yoren-crusader-strike]

@Linxy

Adjusted the scaling of enemies in War Within leveling content to increase their health, bringing the duration of combat more in line with expected WoW behavior. This change is most noticeable at level 70, and has a reduced impact as your level increases. Enemies at level 80 and above are unchanged.

• Developers’ notes: We’ve seen data and heard a great deal of feedback that players coming into Khaz Algar with endgame Dragonflight gear were extremely powerful relative to that initial content. It is entirely intended that effort put into gearing translates into a significant combat advantage at the start of a new expansion, but the values we’ve been seeing are extreme, often not even allowing time for normal combat rotations. This disparity also caused mixed-level groups to experience skewed results, with lower-level players contributing drastically more than level 80s.

Nice… let’s fix anything that may be interpreted as fun or convenient for the player but leave all the things we actually want addressed (Where’s the universal transmog unlock that was supposed to be part of the LAUNCH of the game?)

@Spilledstars-caelestrasz

If I walk in on my Remix character and cannot survive normal activities you are doing it wrong Blizz.

I get it that M+11 (was: 23) keyrunners are going to paste things a bit flatter and probably a lot faster - than my “just dinged 70, got handed remix boost like gear and told good luck” character

but making everyone who tries out the new land feel like we get to drown because your math team didn’t plan for both raiders and walk-first-then-maybe-we-run players?

UGH

Why the hell do I bother? Is this the respect “the player behind the keyboard” is going to keep getting?

Beatings will continue until morale improves.

[Assarcy-cairne]

Yeah it’s odd being shamed for doing objectives and killing other players in a bg. It needs to be impossible to meetup on the hill and go straight in.

[Spilledstars-caelestrasz]

@Lantra-muradin

…do you not understand how scaling works?
With what you said someone that is ilvl515 at level 70 should be hitting for less than someone that is ilvl577 at lvl80s.
They don’t in fact they hit many times harder than the lvl80s, this is because of the scaling. A mobs HP scale more per level than your damage does. This basically means as you level you get weaker, and your attacks do less damage as a percent of the mobs HP.

I understand perfectly that scaling works by character level instead of by player skill level or worn-equipment gear level.

Their grand efforts to make it “exciting” for max-skill players is going to guarantee that returnees to the game after a long absence are crushed under heel, if they even manage to live THAT long.

[Warlockjen-shattered-hand (Warlockjen)]

I don’t have to do those things, I have 2 monitors and I have the forums bookmarked. Haven’t seen any prolonged issues with bnet either.

[Linxy]

August 29, 2024

Characters

• Fixed an issue where Chasm Makers in Azj-Kahet could get stuck in combat.

Classes

• Demon Hunter
  • Aldrachi Reaver
    • Fixed an issue with Art of the Glaive not respecting line-of-sight.
    • Fixed an issue with Preemptive Strike not respecting line-of-sight.
• Evoker
  • Preservation
    • Fixed an issue where Lifespark and Call of Ysera were incorrectly increasing the healing of Living Flames cast by Afterimage and Leaping Flames if the buff was active when they occurred.
• Rogue
  • Deathstalker
    • Fixed an issue where rogues fighting low-health enemies could find themselves in a state where Darkest Night was not correctly applied.

Delves

• Fixed an issue where the player’s health bar could get in the way of some mini-game puzzles.
• Earthcrawl Mines
  • Fixed an issue preventing players from entering the main room.
• Tak-Rethan Abyss
  • The “Niffen’s Aid” ability will no longer aggro neaby enemies.

Dungeons

• Cinderbrew Meadery
  • Fixed an issue where a Brew Drop reaching I’pa sometimes shielded the boss for an incorrect value and didn’t inflict party damage.

Events

• Fixed an issue where quest objective objects were not appearing on the step ‘Very Important Earthen’ during the Theater Troupe event.

Items and Rewards

• Ravenous Honey Buzzer is now usable while you’re shapeshifted.
• Shadowed Essence damage is now properly reduced for tank and healer specializations.

Player versus Player

• Warlock
  • Fixed an issue where Infirmity would not clear after a Battleground or Arena ends.

Professions

• The Severed Threads Pact buffs “Weaver’s Tutelage” and “Weaver’s Prodigy” will now properly enhance the players’ crafting and profession abilities.
• Jewelcrafting
  • Improved the rate of prospecting gems for Bismuth, Ironclaw Ore, and Aqirite. This affects both baseline chances as well as the increase based on item quality.

Quests

• Trying to abandon “Special Assignment: Bombs from Behind” should no longer teleport you back to the Weaver’s Lair.
• Players who abandoned the quest “Gear Enchanting” can now successfully complete the quest again. From now on, the quest will auto complete if the player has already cast “Enchant Ring - Glimmering Haste” item given by the quest.
• Fixed an issue where Bushy Weeds creatures were not repopulating quickly enough on “Thespians at the Proscenium”.
• Players who enter the “Awakening the Machine” event, qualify for the weekly quest “Gearing Up for Trouble,” and have not previously picked up the quest will have it pushed to them.
• The quest “Renown of Khaz Algar” has been removed from the War Within Campaign and is now available to characters with any of the Khaz Algar renown factions below level 4.

User Interface

• Players who have the “Arc Emitter” extra action Button on their screen can resolve the issue if they relog.

[Qaccy-baelgun (Qaccy)]

@Linxy

Players who enter the “Awakening the Machine” event, qualify for the weekly quest “Gearing Up for Trouble,” and have not previously picked up the quest will have it pushed to them.

Someone at Blizz must have noticed my gameplay earlier today, after I completed the event then found the quest afterward and made the walk of shame back over to run it all over again.

[Voidarcane-whisperwind]

When will the Mosswool Polymorph be fixed for Alliance Players? (Only works for Horde)

[Alecthegreat-eitrigg (Alecthegreat)]

Fix EPIC BATTLEGROUNDS!

NPCs in battlegrounds are dying way too easily right now. This is pretty much comparable to how they were at the end of Season 4 of Dragonflight. This is awful. First of all, this makes all 4 epics incredibly boring, being decided pretty much by the first teamfight, or by boss rushes with little opportunity or incentive for deviation. Sure there are exceptions in matches with premades, but the mast majority of battlegrounds fall into this outcome. Alterac Valley Decided by a race to the boss…

The change to epic BGs is a mistake.

[Berreydots-stormrage]

@Linxy

The quest “Renown of Khaz Algar” has been removed from the War Within Campaign and is now available to characters with any of the Khaz Algar renown factions below level 4.

Does this mean Faerin will spawn finally? I also don’t have any world quests.

[Saturnine-dalaran]

@Linxy

For a limited time, Awakened Vendors in Valdrakken are still available for those who have bullion to trade away.

Thank you so much, for this! ! ! I am incredibly grateful.

The art for the weapons is so pretty.

/Sat

[Byregot-lightbringer]

Are we not going to discuss the immersion breaking audio cutting out after every cutscene? I was… WAS… heavily invested in the story since the voice acting was so improved this go round that it kept me logging in.

Now all the hard work y’all did is ruined simply from the audio breaking every cutscene and afterwards all voice acted NPCs are broken too. Checking around, tons of ppl are having this issue so its not just me.

C’mon guys. you wanna keep player retention, then fix things that make players WANT to play.

[Waffleblade-stormrage]

@Linxy

Rogue

• Deathstalker
  • Fixed an issue where rogues fighting low-health enemies could find themselves in a state where Darkest Night was not correctly applied.

Seriously, it’s not even a joke anymore. FIX BETWEEN THE EYES, I can’t believe we’ve gone this long without a fix for a CORE SKILL FOR THE SPEC. Holy hell…