The War Within Hotfixes - December 20

Kaivax · October 23, 2024, 4:35am

HOTFIXES

December 20, 2024

Achievements

Khaz Algar Safari now awards Waxwick as intended.
Fixed an issue with They’re Both Footballs?. Using each toy will now count toward achievement progress.

Classes

Increased the amount of threat that tanks generate to help smooth out initial snap threat issues and help tanks better keep up with some of the more-threatening damage specs.
Hunter
- Dark Ranger - Fixed an issue with Shadow Surge dealing less damage than intended.
Mage
- Frostfire - Fixed an issue with Excess Frost not reducing Comet Storm / Meteorite’s cooldown the intended amount.

Creatures and NPCs

Zexel no longer hides in the barrel when surrounded by the snapdragons.

Dungeons

Siege of Boralus
- Addressed an issue where Singing Steel is inflicting more damage than intended.
Lost City of the Tol’vir
- Fixed a bug that was causing Augh to not drop his equipment drops in Timewalking.
- Fixed a legacy Timewalking issue where Augh and High Prophet Barim had their loot swapped in Timewalking.
Throne of the Tides
- Fixed a bug where the new scaling in Timewalking would not allow low level players to interact with Neptulon’s Cache.

Items

Fixed an issue where the Earthen tabards that can be bought with Flame-Blessed Iron weren’t learnable appearances.
Added Titan Disc Fragments as a drop for the Siren Isle quest “Archives: Seeking History”. You should be able to find them by slaying rare spawns, event bosses, and looting chests.
Cyrce’s Circlet
- Fixed an issue where the Fathomdweller’s Runed Citrine wasn’t updating often.
- Fixed an issue that caused Thunderlord’s Crackling Citrine’s damage to not be reduced in PvP combat.
- All Singing Citrines are now available.
  - Developers’ notes: This allows players to acquire all of them in the current week. The gems belonging to the goblins, Arathi, and Earthen should come from doing events on the isle that are started at the Siren Isle Command Map. After getting them once, you’ll be able to buy them and store them in your Warbank for your alts as usual. The gems that belong to enemy factions should now be purchasable from Taljori, the Tortollan vendor sitting on the large rock behind Bargus.

Quests

Fixed an issue causing “On a Paler Horse” to not function.
Removed the extra action button from the quest “Rock n’ Stone Revival” to avoid unfortunate overlap with the Go-Pack. The quest still has the tool button attached to the quest objective for activating the stones.
Horde players that have faction transferred from Alliance should now be able to complete the Andorhal experience in the Western Plaguelands.

WoW’s 20th Anniversary

Players must now be level 30 to accept and turn-in the Celebration Crate quests. Alyxx will continue to be available to turn the crate quests in after the celebration ends in a year-round location.

December 10, 2024

Dungeons and Raids

Nerub-ar Palace
- The Silken Court
  - Stinging Swarm now releases only 4 Swarms (was 5), and having 4 stacks of Stinging Swarm now triggers Stinging Delirium on Mythic difficulty.
  - Stinging Swarm damage taken percent per stack increased to 25% (was 20%) on Mythic difficulty.
  - Decreased Shattershell Scarab melee damage by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Increased number of stacks of Void Degeneration and Burning Touch that trigger Touch of Death to 5 (was 4) on Mythic difficulty.
  - Being damaged by Web Bombs no longer create Motes on Mythic difficulty.

November 26, 2024

Classes

Death Knight
- Blood
  - Developers’ notes: The tuning updates done to the Deathbringer hero talent tree at the beginning of the patch have notably affected Blood’s output more than Frost. The damage effects of the keystone and the capstone talents are being increased to make Deathbringer a more competitive choice again.
  - Deathbringer: Reaper’s Mark initial and stacking damage increased by 25%.
  - Deathbringer: Exterminate damage increased by 25%.
  - Deathbringer: Wave of Souls damage increased by 25%.
- Frost
  - Developers’ notes: We are looking to increase Frost’s single-target damage while bringing down their AoE damage to help create a healthier damage profile.
  - Obliterate damage increased by 12%.
  - Frost Strike damage increased by 12%.
  - Breath of Sindragosa damage reduced by 10%.
Druid
- Feral
  - Rip, Rake, and Rampant Ferocity damage increased by 10%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
  - Apex Predator’s chance to trigger against multiple targets increased slightly.
  - Druid of the Claw: Strike for the Heart increases the critical strike chance and damage of Shred, Swipe, and Mangle by 15% (was 10%).
- Guardian
  - Druid of the Claw: Strike for the Heart increases the critical strike chance and damage of Shred, Swipe, and Mangle by 15% (was 10%).
- Restoration
  - Swiftmend healing increased by 25%.
Hunter
- Survival
  - Developers’ notes: Survival has found a lot of success with its 11.0.5 update to Merciless Blow in concert with Pack Leader’s bleed synergies. We’re adjusting it slightly to ensure the build is still competitive, but not quite as dominant.
  - Merciless Blow damage reduced by 15%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
  - Pack Leader: Vicious Hunt damage reduced by 20%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
Mage
- Developers’ notes: Frostfire is still underperforming for both Frost and Fire. We’re targeting buffs to Frostfire’s various procs and providing a more substantial throughput buff via Fire Mastery’s Haste value.
- Fire
  - Developers’ notes: Fire has been underperforming in single target and could use some help. Rather than distribute this bonus through a myriad of spells, we’re opting to put most of our budget into Pyroblast to ensure this spell is keeping pace with the rest of Fire’s kit.
  - Frostfire: Fire Mastery now grants 2% Haste (was 1%).
  - Frostfire: Isothermic Core Comet Storm effectiveness increased to 200% (was 150%).
  - Frostfire: Frostfire Burst damage increased by 25%.
  - Frostfire: Frostfire Infusion damage increased by 50%.
  - Frostfire: Excess Frost cooldown reduction increased to 10 seconds (was 5 seconds).
  - Ashen Feather Phoenix Flames damage bonus increased to 50% (was 25%).
  - Pyroblast damage increased by 8%.
  - Meteor direct damage increased by 25%.
- Frost
  - Frostfire: Fire Mastery now grants 2% Haste (was 1%). Does not apply to PvP combat.
  - Frostfire: Isothermic Core Meteor effectiveness increased to 150% (was 100%). Does not apply to PvP combat.
  - Frostfire: Frostfire Burst damage increased by 25%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
  - Frostfire: Frostfire Infusion damage increased by 50%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
  - Frostfire: Excess Frost cooldown reduction increased to 10 seconds (was 5 seconds). Does not apply to PvP combat.
Monk
- Windwalker
  - Conduit of the Celestials: Strength of the Black Ox damage increased by 100%.
  - Conduit of the Celestials: Flight of the Red Crane damage increased by 100%.
  - Conduit of the Celestials: Courage of the White Tiger damage increased by 35%.
  - Fists of Fury damage increased by 20%.
  - Blackout Kick damage increased by 8%.
  - Flurry of Xuen damage increased by 40%.
  - Courageous Impulse now increases the damage of your next Blackout Kick by 200% (was 125%).
  - Shadowboxing Treads now increases the damage of Blackout Kick by 20% (was 10%) and causes additional Blackout Kicks at 80% effectiveness (was 70%).
  - Developers’ notes: We’re looking to increase Windwalker’s overall performance in AoE and single target through targeted adjustments to a few baseline spells, as well as to push some underrepresented talents for increased build diversity.
- Mistweaver
  - Conduit of the Celestials: Courage of the White Tiger damage increased by 35%.
Paladin
- Protection
  - Lightsmith: Divine Inspiration’s chance to proc an Armament decreased by 50% for Protection specialization.
  - Lightsmith: Divine Guidance damage reduced by 20% for Protection specialization.
  - Lightsmith: Forge’s Reckoning damage reduced by 15% for Protection specialization.
  - Refining Fire damage reduced by 10%.
Priest
- Holy
  - Holy Word: Serenity healing increased by 25%.
  - Holy Word: Sanctify healing increased by 25%.
Rogue
- Developers’ notes: Deathstalker as a hero talent choice has been underserving Subtlety compared to the alternative choice of Trickster, especially in AoE circumstances. Black Powder is used far more frequently as Deathstalker than as Trickster and is receiving a sizable damage increase. Additionally, Deathstalker’s Plague damage effects are being increased (for Subtlety only) to better align the overall contribution of each hero talent choice.
- Subtlety
  - Deathstalker: Plague damage effects increased by 45%.
  - Black Powder damage increased by 20%.
Shaman
- Elemental
  - Farseer: Chain Lightning damage from Ancestors increased by 30%.
  - Farseer: Lava Burst damage from Ancestors increased by 15%.
  - Farseer: Latent Wisdom now increases Ancestor spell damage by 25% (was 20%).
  - Farseer: Routine Communication now has an 8% chance to trigger (was 5%).
  - Farseer: Maelstrom Supremacy now increases the damage Earth Shock, Elemental, Blast, and Earthquake by 15% (was 8%).
- Restoration
  - Farseer: Chain Lightning damage from Ancestors increased by 30%.
  - Farseer: Lava Burst damage from Ancestors increased by 15%.
- Enhancement
  - Developers’ notes: We’re reducing the power of Maelstrom Weapon spenders for Enhancement to lower their overall damage output.
  - All Maelstrom Weapon spender damage reduced by 8%. This does not affect PvP combat.
Warrior
- Developers’ notes: Colossus Warriors are meant to be innately tough and hard to kill, so we’re increasing their overall resilience. This is particularly aimed at helping level the field between Mountain Thane and Colossus for Protection Warriors, more passive resistance for Colossus versus Mountain Thane’s more active mitigation playstyle.
- Arms
  - Colossus: Mountain of Muscle and Scars now reduces damage taken by 5% (was 2.5%).
  - Colossus: Dominance of the Colossus now causes enemies damaged by Demolish to deal up to 10% less damage to you (was 5%).
- Protection
  - Colossus: Mountain of Muscle and Scars now reduces damage taken by 5% (was 2.5%).
  - Colossus: Dominance of the Colossus now causes enemies damaged by Demolish to deal up to 10% less damage to you (was 5%).

Player versus Player

Death Knight
- Blood
  - Death Strike damage reduced by 35% in PvP combat.
- Unholy
  - Festering Wound damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  - Festermight is now 65% effective in PvP combat (was 50%).
Demon Hunter
- Developers’ notes: Havoc’s sustained damage outside of cooldowns has been notably low, so a few related skills are getting damage increases.
- Havoc
  - Immolation Aura damage increased by 20%
  - Demon’s Bite damage increased by 18%
  - Demon Blades damage increased by 18%
  - Felblade damage increased by 20%
Druid
- Restoration
  - Wildstalker: Symbiotic Blooms healing increased by 25% in PvP combat.
Hunter
- Marksmanship
  - Developers’ notes: Marksmanship damage has been lower than we’d like in general, and in particular their effectiveness against casters has not been shining, so we’re putting more power into their physical based abilities.
  - Dark Ranger: Black Arrow damage increased by 12% in PvP combat.
  - Aimed Shot damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  - Rapid Fire damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
Mage
- Arcane
  - Developers’ notes: We’re shifting Arcane’s damage profile a bit away from burst damage and into their consistent damage and increasing the effectiveness of Sunfury to increase hero talent diversity.
  - Sunfury: Spellfire Spheres grant 2% increased spell damage in PvP combat (was 1%).
  - Sunfury: Lingering Embers grant 2% increased spell damage in PvP combat (was 1%).
  - Sunfury: All Arcane Phoenix damage increased by 20% in PvP combat (Greater Pyroblast and Arcane Surge are not increased).
  - Arcanosphere damage increased by 40%.
  - Arcane Surge now increases damage by 20% in PvP combat (was 25%).
  - Arcane Missiles damage increased by 10% in PvP combat.
  - Arcane Blast damage increased by 10% in PvP combat.
  - Arcane Barrage damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  - Arcane Bombardment now increases Arcane Barrage’s damage by 20% (was 40%) in PvP combat.
- Fire
  - Sunfury: Spellfire Spheres grant 2% increased spell damage in PvP combat (was 1%).
  - Sunfury: Lingering Embers grant 2% increased spell damage in PvP combat (was 1%).
  - Sunfury: All Arcane Pheonix damage increased by 20% in PvP combat besides Greater Pyroblast and Arcane Surge.
Monk
- Windwalker
  - Dance of the Wind now increases dodge chance by 2% per stack in PvP combat (was 10%).
  - Developers’ notes: This change moves Dance of the Wind below the base hit chance threshold even at max stacks.
Paladin
- Retribution
  - Eye for an Eye damage increased by 50% in PvP combat.
Priest
- Mindgames damage and healing reversal increased by 40%.
- Holy
  - Flash Heal healing increased by 10% in PvP combat.
  - Heal healing increased by 10% in PvP combat.
  - Power Word: Life healing increased by 10% in PvP combat.
Shaman
- Elemental
  - Additional Lava Bursts from Primordial Wave now deal 25% of normal damage in PvP combat (was 50%).
  - Chain Lightning damage increased by 10% in PvP combat.
  - Lightning Bolt damage increased by 10% in PvP combat.
  - Earth Shock damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
  - Lava Burst damage increased b 15% in PvP combat.
  - Charged Conduit now increases the damage bonus of Lightning Rod by 50% in PvP combat (was 25%).
  - Storm Elemental’s haste bonus is now 50% more effective in PvP combat.
- Restoration
  - Lava Burst damage increased by 30% in PvP combat.
  - Flame Shock damage increased by 30% in PvP combat.
Warlock
- Affliction
  - Hellcaller: Blackened Soul damage increased by 15%.
  - Hellcaller: Mark of Peroth’arn now increases the critical strike damage of Wither by 25% in PvP combat (was 10%).
  - Hellcaller: Zevrim’s Resilience is now 60% more effective in PvP combat.
- Destruction
  - Hellcaller: Zevrim’s Resilience is now 60% more effective in PvP combat.
Warrior
- Fury
  - Mountain Thane: Lightning Strike damage increased by 50% in PvP combat.

November 25, 2024

Dungeons

Grim Batol

Fixed a Forgemaster Throngus issue where Molten Flurry can be cancelled using line of sight.

WoW's 20th Anniversary

Made several adjustments and improvements to Guest Relations and Ratts' Revenge.

A curious brazier belonging to Zarhym was discovered in Ratts' lair.
Six additional pets are now considered secret pets.
Resetting the enigma machine now resets connected devices.
The Spirits of Collection are now more accepting.
Fixed an issue where a shadowy Spirit of Collection was not visible after satisfying all spirits.
Treasure of the Wardens can now be looted by any party member.
Faithful Dog is now considered a dog.
All-Seeing Eyes now count as a gift of the old gods.
All devices in Ratts' lair got a good kick. They had it coming.

November 20, 2024

Classes

Hunter
- Beast Mastery
  - Ik’thik Colossus are a bit less large when tamed.

Player versus Player

Fixed an issue that prevented players who met the Battleground Blitz rating requirement from purchasing Forged Equipment Chest.

Timewalking

Weekly Timewalking quests now require level 30 to drop item rewards.
- Developers’ notes: Players from level 10-29 are still able to engage with Timewalking, however, we do not want to incentivize creating a character for one run and then deleting the character.

WoW’s 20th Anniversary

Ratts’ Revenge
- Fixed an issue where statues would follow you without a rope.
- Fixed an issue where the “Hear” puzzle could be solved by an unintended bug. Characters who already received the reward for this puzzle will keep their progress, but other characters will need to figure out the intended solution.
- Ratts’ password is now present.
- The “Light of Love” is now more accepting.

November 18, 2024

Player versus Player

Fixed an issue where honor earned in Deephaul Ravine was not giving quest credit for “Preserving in Battle”.

WoW’s 20th Anniversary

Historian Ma’di has packaged a few more Timewarped Badges into two new packages to facilitate trading for more Bronze Celebration Tokens.
Fixed phasing issues with “A Bird’s Tail” and “Battle Pet Bingo”.
The underwater gnomes have removed their elevator for repairs, indefinitely.

November 14, 2024

Classes

Hunter
- Extra Tranquilizing Shots from Kodo Tranquilizer will no longer strike targets out of combat.

Player versus Player

Paladin
- Retribution
  - Resolved an issue causing Judgment to not be castable at totems when talented into Blessed Champion.

WoW’s 20th Anniversary

Fixed several issues affecting “Pirate Foods and Superstitions”.
Fixed an issue with “Pirate Gastronomy” that caused all quantities of the required ingredients to be removed from your inventory. Now, only the quantities needed for the quest are removed, as expected.
Due to the horrors of repeated acts of violence at the Anniversary grounds, the Bronze Dragonflight organizers have made it a Sanctuary area. They kindly ask guests to take their conflicts outside the grounds.

November 12, 2024

Classes

Druid
- Wildshape Mastery bonuses to your next Ferocious Bite or Mangle will now be consumed by abilities cast by Convoke the Spirits.
Hunter
- Beast Mastery
  - Dark Ranger: Black Arrow damage decreased by 15% in PvP combat.
  - Dark Ranger: Hunter’s Prey now increases the damage of Kill Shot by 5% per stack in PvP combat (was 10%).

Delves

Anub’vir will no longer be accompanied by two Nerubian Threadmancers, and the damage of Impaling Spikes has been reduced by 30%.

Dungeons and Raids

The Necrotic Wake
- Resolved an issue causing players to get stuck on taxi path of Rimebinder’s Dark Exile.

WoW’s 20th Anniversary

The Torch of Pyrreth now reactivates after combat.
Fixed an issue causing Ethereal Scavenger’s Shield Bash in Mana-Tombs to inflict too much damage.

November 8, 2024

Dungeons and Raids

The Dawnbreaker
- Resolved an issue causing Arathi Bombs to not be carryable if a player was under the effect of an immunity.
Mists of Tirna Scithe
- Resolved an issue causing Acid Expulsion pools to be invisible.

Items

Newly created Timely Tourist’s gear that is at least at Veteran tier will now be eligible for the Catalyst.

WoW’s 20th Anniversary

Fixed an issue where players under level 30 could not enter Magisters’ Terrace for Timewalking.
Fixed a bug where the low-level version of “A Burning Path Through Time” did not have map markers to turn it in to Cupri in Shattrath.
Fixed an issue with the Sha of Anger where an enemy using Mind Control effects could cause you to cast long professions cooldowns such as Sharpen Your Knife or Green Thumb.
Blackrock Depths
- Developer’s note: With the upcoming raid reset, we are reducing enemy damage and health for Normal and Heroic difficulties. We’ve also made additional tuning changes to some of the more lethal bosses within the raid.
- All enemy health and damage reduced by 10% on Normal difficulty.
- All enemy health and damage reduced by 12% on Heroic difficulty.
- Lord Roccor
  - Lord Roccor health reduced by 6% on Normal difficulty.
  - Lord Roccor Health reduced by 12% on Heroic difficulty.
  - Volcanic Upheaval damage reduced by 20% on Heroic difficulty.
- Lord Incendius
  - Lord Incendius health reduced by 5% on Normal difficulty.
  - Lord Incendius health reduced by 7% on Heroic difficulty.
  - Firewall damage reduced by 20% on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
  - Scorching Wind damage reduced by 15% on Heroic difficulty.
- Ambassador Flamelash
  - Unstable Portal damage reduced by 20% on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
  - Cremate damage reduced by 11% on Heroic difficulty.

November 6, 2024

Classes

Hunter
- Kill Shot and Black Arrow will now appropriately damage their primary target when out of combat.

Dungeons and Raids

The Dawnbreaker
- Fixed an issue causing Rasha’nan to become immune when interrupted immediately after casting Acidic Eruption.
Nerub-ar Palace
- The Silken Court
  - Fixed issue where Stinging Swarm will fizzle on the player if both Anti-Magic Shell and Prismatic Barrier are active.
  - Fixed an issue causing Oppressing Roar to extend the duration of Stinging Delirium on Takazj.

Factions

Addressed an issue with Earthen Horde characters not being friendly to all Horde factions.

Items

Fixed an issue that prevented some class set items, which were in a bugged state, from being upgraded.

Transmogrification

Fixed an issue that allowed Tier 2 Monk helms to let facial features clip through.

WoW’s 20th Anniversary

Fixed an issue where “Disturbance Detected: Black Temple” could not be accepted if you were on or completed “Disturbance Detected: Blackrock Depths”.
Removed erroneous interactions with the Torch of Pyrreth.
Fixed an issue causing the Timewalking Dungeon Finder to require unreasonable item levels.
Fixed a bug where Ulduar Timewalking bosses were not always awarding their Timewarped Badges.

November 1, 2024

Classes

Warrior
- Arms
  - The Recklessness granted by Warlord’s Torment now correctly has its additional Rage generation reduced to 25%.

WoW’s 20th Anniversary

Fixed an issue that could prevent the Ancient Timewarped Scroll from dropping for players who completed “The Ancient Scroll” the week before. It should drop on your next Classic Timewalking run.

October 31, 2024

Classes

Death Knight
- Blood
  - Applied the recent Heart Strike tuning update to Dancing Rune Weapon Heart Strikes.
Hunter
- Withering Fire will now consistently fire 3 Black Arrows and its target selection has been improved.
- Withering Fire will now consistently fire the first shot in a Withering Fire barrage at your target if they are a valid enemy target.
- Shadow Surge will no longer damage breakable crowd-controlled targets.
- Hunter’s Prey’s target selection will now more-rigorously filter out-of-combat targets when casting multiple Kill Shots or Black Arrows.
- Fixed an issue where Black Arrow and Withering Fire could hit targets that are breakable crowd controlled.
- Black Arrow’s periodic damage will no longer cancel breakable crowd control.
Paladin
- Lightsmith: Fixed an issue causing Tempered in Battle’s health transfer to break crowd-control effects.

Events

Hallow’s End Water Buckets should now have a greater impact on Headless Horseman fires.
Once again, Zidormi is ready to assist players in joining in the Hallow’s End festivities in Tirisfal Glades.

Transmogrification

Fixed an issue where all Concourse of the Forgotten Reservoir and Noetic of the Forgotten Reservoir appearances could not be transmogged in some circumstances.

World

Resolved an issue where players on a level 60+ character who entered Oribos could be trapped by Fatescribe Roh-Tahl.

WoW’s 20th Anniversary

Fixed an issue that was causing some players to not see the quest “An Original Path Through Time” after the weekly reset.

October 30, 2024

Classes

Shaman
- Elemental
  - Fixed an issue causing Ascendance to sometimes fire multiple Lava Burst Overloads at a single target.
- Enhancement
  - Resolved an issue causing Stormblast to deal more damage than intended.

Dungeons and Raids

The Dawnbreaker
- Resolved a Rasha’nan issue where Rolling Acid’s indicator could fail to be visible.
Nerub-ar Palace
- Addressed some issues that could lead to player disconnects or lag when using abilities.

Spells

Fixed an issue that could cause teleports to send you to the wrong destination.

WoW’s 20th Anniversary

Fixed a bug that caused Bronze Celebration Tokens to not be available from some PvP quests. Players should be able to gain the tokens by completing the quest on another of their Warband characters.

October 29, 2024

Classes

Death Knight
- Blood
  - Blood Boil damage increased by 15%.
  - Heart Strike damage increased by 20%.
  - Blood Plague damage increased by 10%.
  - Death Strike damage increased by 20%.
  - Developers’ notes: We are looking to increase the effectiveness of the Gift of San’layn window due to the reduced uptime after the patch 11.0.5 changes.
  - San’layn: Vampiric Strike proc chance increased to 35% (was 25%).
  - San’layn: Essence of the Blood Queen duration increased to 25 seconds (was 20 seconds).
  - San’layn: Gift of the San’layn increases the effectiveness of Essence of the Blood Queen by 200% (was 150%).
Druid
- Balance
  - Developers’ notes: The goals of these changes are to increase single target damage and to even out the power of talents in Balance’s spec tree to provide as much build flexibility to players as possible. We want Power of Goldrinn to be an effective single target pick, and we’d like talents like Touch the Cosmos and Hail of Stars to be more competitive with other options.
  - Celestial Alignment and Incarnation: Chosen of Elune once again reset at the end of raid encounters.
  - Starfall damage increased by 6%.
  - Starsurge damage increased by 8%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
  - Starfire damage increased by 5%.
  - Wrath damage increased by 10%.
  - Shooting Stars and Crashing Stars damage increased by 20%.
  - Sunseeker Mushrooms grow 12% less often.
  - Touch the Cosmos chance to proc increased to 15% for Wrath and 22% for Starfire.
  - Power of Goldrinn’s damage increased by 25%. Does not apply to PvP combat.
  - Rattle the Stars increases Starfall and Starsurge damage by 8% (down from 10%).
  - New Moon and Half Moon damage reduced by 5%.
- Restoration
  - Call of the Elder Druid’s duration increased to 15 seconds (was 10 seconds).
  - Dream of Cenarius now causes Wrath and Shred to transfer 100% (was 50%) of their damage done into healing and Starfire and Swipe to transfer 50% of their damage done into healing (was 33%).
  - Developers’ notes: We’re looking to increase the playability of Dream of Cenarius, as the window for Heart of the Wild is a bit too short to be meaningful and the upside of this talent has not yet been worth it.
Hunter
- Beast Mastery
  - Developers’ notes: There were some niche situations where players might want to gain Trick Shots or Beast Cleave for more damage from Bleak Powder in single target. Bleak Powder is meant to complement AOE situations, not incentivize the usage of AOE in single target situations.
  - Dark Ranger: Bleak Powder no longer damages its primary target.
  - Pack Leader: Frenzied Tear proc chance reduced to 10% (was 20%).
  - Pack Leader: Vicious Hunt damage reduced by 10%.
  - Developers’ notes: Beast Mastery is overperforming in single target, and we’d like to reduce its single target while improving its lackluster AOE.
  - Barbed Shot damage reduced by 25%.
  - Stomp damage increased by 50%.
  - Multi-Shot damage increased by 100%.
  - Explosive Venom now procs at 3 stacks (was 5) and will appropriately apply Serpent Sting to enemies regardless of their distance to the caster.
- Marksmanship
  - Developers’ notes: Dark Ranger is overperforming in single target and we’re looking to reduce it while compensating with some AOE buffs to keep the AOE performance roughly the same.
  - Dark Ranger: Black Arrow damage reduced by 10%.
  - Dark Ranger: Bleak Powder damage increased by 25%.
  - Dark Ranger: Shadow Surge damage increased by 25%.
  - Developers’ notes: Symphonic Arsenal lost more bite than intended from the removal of Eagletalon’s True Focus.
  - Sentinel: Symphonic Arsenal damage increased by 15%.
Monk
- Mistweaver
  - All healing increased by 6%.
  - Awakened Jadefire now causes Spinning Crane Kick to transfer 110% of damage done (was 90%).
  - Jadefire Teachings now increases Ancient Teachings by an additional 160% (was 140%).
  - Rushing Wind Kick’s damage increased by 150% and Rushing Winds now increases Renewing Mist healing by 100% for its duration (was 50%).
  - Yu’lon’s Whisper healing increased by 400%.
  - Jade Bond now increases Mastery: Gust of Mist’s healing by 20% (was 60%).
  - Developers’ notes: We’re excited that the Chi-Ji Mastery build exists and is powerful in the right conditions, but numerically, its output has been above where we’re comfortable. We’re decreasing the effectiveness of this build without breaking the cooldown reduction gameplay to keep the feel the same and compensating baseline to shrink the difference between this high-end output and regular play.
Paladin
- Holy
  - Developers’ notes: Holy Paladins’ mana has been plentiful enough to use Beacon of Virtue more often than we would like throughout a raid encounter. We would like the use of Beacon of Virtue to influence mana decisions more heavily.
  - Beacon of Virtue now costs 5% base mana (was 4%).
  - Holy Shock now costs 2.8% base mana (was 2.6%).
Priest
- Discipline
  - Developers’ notes: We’re increasing Discipline’s direct healing throughput to help in situations where no enemy target is present to trigger Atonement. We would also like to nudge Discipline’s performance up in raid, particularly for Oracle.
  - Power Word: Radiance healing increased by 20%.
  - Flash Heal healing increased by 15%.
  - Premonition of Piety increases healing done by 20% (was 15%).
  - Preemptive Care increases Atonement duration by 4 seconds (was 3 seconds).
- Shadow
  - Psychic Link now causes direct damage to inflict 30% of damage dealt to targets afflicted by Vampiric Touch (was 25%).
Rogue
- Assassination
  - Master Assassin - Critical Strike Chance granted during effect reduced to 20% (was 25%).
Shaman
- Elemental
  - Developers’ notes: With all of the changes to Elemental and Enhancement Shaman in patch 11.0.5, some changes were performing beyond our tuning goals. We’re adjusting several talents and abilities to reduce their overall power.
  - Farseer: Ancestor Chain Lightning damage increased by 40%. Not applied to PvP combat.
  - Farseer: Ancestor Lava Burst damage increased by 15%. Not applied to PvP combat.
  - Farseer: Ancestor Elemental Blast damage increased by 15%. Not applied to PvP combat.
  - Stormbringer: Arc Discharge now grants 1 instant cast Chain Lightning or Lightning Bolt (was 2).
  - Stormbringer: Voltaic Surge now increases Earthquake and Chain Lightning damage by 5% (was 15%).
  - Preeminence now increases haste by 20% while Ascendance is active (was 25%).
  - Icefury now increases Frost Shock damage by 200% (was 150%).
- Enhancement
  - Voltaic Blaze damage now scales with Mastery: Enhanced Elements.
  - Stormblast damage now scales with Mastery: Enhanced Elements.
  - Doom Winds damage now scales with Mastery: Enhanced Elements.
  - Voltaic Blaze damage now scales with Elemental Weapons.
  - Stormblast damage now scales with Elemental Weapons.
  - Doom Winds damage now scales with Elemental Weapons.
  - An issue causing Stormblast to ignore damage reduction effects has been resolved.
  - An issue causing Arc Discharge to not be consumed by Thorim’s Invocation has been resolved.
  - Developers’ notes: With all of the changes to Elemental and Enhancement Shaman in patch 11.0.5, some changes were performing beyond our tuning goals. We’re adjusting several talents and abilities to reduce their overall power.
  - Lightning Bolt damage reduced by 10%. Not applied to PvP combat.
  - Chain Lightning damage reduced by 10%. Not applied to PvP combat.
  - Stormbringer: Tempest damage reduced by 15%. Not applied to PvP combat.
- Restoration
  - Farseer: Ancestor Chain Lightning damage increased by 40%. Not applied to PvP combat.
  - Farseer: Ancestor Lava Burst damage increased by 15%. Not applied to PvP combat.
Warlock
- Developers’ notes: We’re increasing the throughput of all Warlock specializations to make each more competitive with other classes in both single-target and multi-target situations. For Demonology, this means reverting the reduction in Demonic Core generation to help with their overall mobility. We will continue to monitor the performance of each specialization and make further adjustments where needed.
- Affliction
  - Hellcaller: Wither damage increased by 25%. This change does not affect PvP combat.
  - Agony damage increased by 15%. This change does not affect PvP combat.
    Corruption damage increased by 25%. This change does not affect PvP combat.
    Unstable Affliction damage increased by 20%. This change does not affect PvP combat.
- Demonology
  - Dreadstalkers now have a 100% chance to generate a Demonic Core (was 50%).
  - Grimoire: Felguard damage is now increased by 125% (was 60%).
  - Hand of Gul’dan damage increased by 25%.
  - Call Dreadstalkers damage increased by 20%.
- Destruction
  - Hellcaller: Wither damage increased by 25%. This change does not affect PvP combat.
  - Chaos Bolt damage increased by 10%.
  - Immolate damage increased by 25%.
  - Incinerate damage increased by 20%.
  - Conflagrate damage increased by 25%. This change does not affect PvP combat.
  - Rain of Fire damage increased by 20%.
Warrior
- Arms
  - Execute damage increased by 10%.
  - Colossus: Demolish single-target damage increased by 15%.
  - Slayer: Reap the Storm damage increased by 25%. This change does not affect PvP combat.
  - Slayer: Slayer’s Strike damage increased by 15%.
  - Mortal Strike damage increased by 15%.
  - Overpower damage increased by 15%.
  - Dreadnaught damage increased by 15%.
  - Cleave damage increased by 20%.
- Fury
  - Execute damage increased by 7%.
  - Slayer: Reap the Storm damage increased by 25%. This change does not affect PvP combat.
  - Slayer: Slayer’s Strike damage increased by 15%.
  - Mountain Thane: Lightning Strike damage increased by 30%.
  - Bloodthirst damage increased by 20%.
  - Bloodbath damage increased by 20%.
  - Rampage damage increased by 10%.
- Protection
  - Execute damage increased by 10%.
  - Colossus: Demolish single-target damage increased by 15%.

Dungeons and Raids

Mythic+ Dungeons
- There is now a small chance when completing a Mythic+ dungeon to acquire a Forgotten Folio, which can contain any of the dungeon-sourced recipes from The War Within.
- Challenger’s Peril now adds an additional 90 seconds to the timer of Mythic Keystones in addition to the 15 second death penalty.
  - Developers’ notes: We wish for Challenger’s Peril to emphasize precise play and place a greater risk on players’ decisions as they progress through higher Keystone levels. With this goal in mind, we want to give players a bit more breathing room for these decisions by adding a bonus to Challenger’s Peril, while maintaining the penalty aspect of the affix.
Nerub-ar Palace
- Queen Ansurek
  - Reduced the number of players targeted by Web Blades to 3 on Heroic difficulty (was 4).
  - Phase 1
    - The first cast of Silken Tomb in the final cycle has been removed on Heroic difficulty.
    - The timing of the first Web Blades cast has been adjusted to accommodate the removal of the preceding Silken Tomb in the final cycle on Heroic difficulty.
    - Grasping Silk periodic damage reduced by 25% on Heroic difficulty.
  - Phase 2
    - Gloom Blast damage reduced by 15% on Heroic difficulty.

Player versus Player

Druid
- Balance
  - Fixed an issue where Frenzied Regeneration was being reduced more than intended. It should now correctly heal for 5% health every second (was 3% health every second).
  - Rejuvenation and Wild Growth healing increased by 20%.
- Feral
  - Berserk and Incarnation: Avatar of Ashamane now increase damage by 10% in PvP combat (was 15%).
  - King of the Jungle increases healing received and movement speed by 3% per stack (was 5%). Stacks up to 3 times (was 4 times).
Hunter
- Beast Mastery
  - Dark Ranger: Bleak Powder’s damage reduced by 30% in PvP combat.
  - Dark Ranger: Withering Fire’s additional Black Arrows are now cast at 25% effectiveness (was 50%).
- Marksmanship
  - Dark Ranger: Bleak Powder’s damage reduced by 30% in PvP combat.
  - Dark Ranger: Withering Fire’s additional Black Arrows are now cast at 25% effectiveness (was 50%).
Monk
- Mistweaver
  - Rushing Wind Kick’s damage increase does not apply to PvP combat.
  - Jade Empowerment now causes Crackling Jade Lightning to chain to 2 additional enemies (was 4) in PvP combat.
Paladin
- Lightsmith: Divine Guidance now deals 60% less damage in PvP combat.
- Holy
  - Herald of the Sun: Blessing of An’she now increases the healing of Holy Shock by 150% (was 200%).
  - Herald of the Sun: Eternal Flame healing decreased by 10% in PvP combat.
  - Lightsmith: Blessed Assurance now increases Crusader Strike’s damage by 40% in PvP combat (was 120%).
  - Word of Glory healing decreased by 10% in PvP combat.
  - Mana regeneration decreased by 25% in PvP combat (was 20%).
  - Blessing of Summer now transfers 12% of healing into damage in PvP combat (was 18%).
  - Hammer of Wrath damage increased 30%. Judgment damage increased 30%.
  - Crusader Strike damage increased 30%.
  - Avenging Crusader now transfers 200% of damage into healing (was 260%) in PvP combat.
Priest
- Discipline
  - We would like to make some adjustments to Discipline’s hero talents to make Voidweaver slightly more rewarding since it requires a lot of cast time spells to dish out healing. Oracle’s single target healing is also being slightly reduced.
  - Voidheart increases Atonement healing by 30% (was 20%) in PvP combat.
  - Premonition of Solace reduces damage taken by 10% in PvP combat (was 15%).
  - Premonition of Solace absorption decreased by 15% in PvP combat.
- Holy
  - Renew healing increased by 20% in PvP combat.
  - Prayer of Mending healing increased by 10% in PvP combat.
- Shadow
  - Developers’ notes: The following changes result in Void Leech healing for a significantly reduced amount in PvP, but for a similar amount as before outside of PvP.
  - Void Leech heals every 3 seconds (was 2 seconds). Healing increased to 4% of max health (was 3%).
  - Void Leech healing reduced to 2% of max health in PvP combat.
  - Collapsing Void damage reduced by 10% in PvP combat.
Rogue
- Subtlety
  - Flagellation’s mastery bonus decreased by 50% in PvP combat.
Shaman
- Elemental
  - Ascendance now increases the damage of Elemental Overloads by 25% while active in PvP combat (was 75%).
  - Lightning Bolt damage increased by 10% in PvP combat.
- Enhancement
  - Totemic: Whirling Earth now increases Flame Shock direct damage by 150% in PvP combat (was 300%).
- Restoration
  - Healing Wave healing increased by 15% in PvP combat.
  - Healing Surge healing increased by 15% in PvP combat.
Warrior
- Arms
  - Slayer: Culling Cyclone now increases Bladestorm’s damage done by 20% (was 10%) per stack in PvP combat.
  - Slam damage increased by 40% in PvP combat.
  - Colossus Smash damage increased by 60% in PvP combat.
- Fury
  - Slayer: Culling Cyclone now increases Bladestorm’s damage done by 20% (was 10%) per stack in PvP combat.

Professions

Alchemy
- Corrected the tooltip for Transmutation 30 perk to reflect the actual number of additional charges it provides (functionality unchanged).
- Thaumaturgy’s Recipe Difficulty has been reduced to 745 (was 750).
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused unexpected Thaumaturgy outputs when changing between input categories in a short amount of time.
- Fixed a bug that caused the Thaumaturgy 55 perk to activate a few points early.
- The 5- and 15-point perks for Gleaming Transmutagen is now correctly a chance to trigger.
- The 10- and 20-point perks for Ominous, Volatile, and Mercurial Materials and the 10-point perk for Thaumaturgy is now correctly a chance to trigger.
- The 25-point perk for Ominous, Volatile, and Mercurial Materials is now correctly guaranteed to trigger.
- Developers’ notes: To minimize disruption, we want to give players ample opportunity to experiment and document their Thaumaturgy findings before making any adjustments or bug fixes that would have a high impact. The result of these changes is a more consistent experience, but less transmutagen overall. We will continue to monitor Thaumaturgy’s performance and may make additional changes if necessary.

World

Players are now dismounted when near the Crystal Lake memorial area.
Players in the vicinity of the Crystal Lake memorial should no longer hear the Headless Horseman.

WoW’s 20th Anniversary

Many event activities now contribute more progress towards the “Celebrate Good Fun” quest.
Increased the amount of Bronze Celebration Tokens from activities:
- Dornogal Weekly Quests (Worldsoul, Archive, Delve)– 10 Bronze Celebration Tokens
- Bonus Holiday Quests (Timewalking, World Quests, Arena, Battleground, Dungeon, Delve)– 10 Bronze Celebration Tokens
- Zone Activity Weeklies (Awakening the Machine, Spread the Light, Snuffling, Azj’Kahet Pacts, Theater Troupe)– 8 Bronze Celebration Tokens each
- Special Assignment World Quests – 8 Bronze Celebration Tokens each/2 per week
- 0 World Boss – 8 Bronze Celebration Tokens
- Queen Ansurek – 15 Bronze Celebration Tokens
- Conquest/Rated PvP Weekly – 15 Bronze Celebration Tokens
- Honor, War Mode, and Brawl Weeklies – 8 Bronze Celebration Tokens each
- Developers’ notes: Our goal has been that players should and can get all the tokens they need during the event by playing content they enjoy. We hope that this increase will help some players get more tokens naturally by engaging with their regular content and the activities that interest them the most. This should open repeat tokens faster and allow players to continue with their preferred content type be it PvP (Korrak’s Revenge), raiding (Blackrock Depths), dungeons (Classic Timewalking), or outdoor style content (World Bosses or Codex of Chromie).
Blackrock Depths
- All enemy health reduced by 11% and damage reduced by 9% on Normal difficulty.
- All enemy health and damage reduced by 11% on Heroic difficulty.

October 28, 2024

Classes

Demon Hunter
- Aldrachi Reaver: Fixed an issue where casting Soul Cleave on an immune target could result in applying an incorrect number of Reaver’s Mark stacks.
Hunter
- Deathblow no longer incorrectly has a reduced chance to proc in PvP instances.
- Pack Leader: An issue preventing Frenzied Tear from activating consistently has been corrected.
- Marksmanship
  - Volley is now correctly visible to enemies in PvP instances.
- Survival
  - Flare will now correctly play an animation for Survival Hunters.
  - Resolved an issue that was causing Wildfire Bomb to consume multiple stacks of Tip of the Spear per cast.
  - Pack Leader: Scattered Prey will now correctly increase Butchery’s damage for Survival Hunters.
Mage
- Frostfire Bolt will now deal damage regardless of your line of sight with the target.
- Frostfire Bolt now requires that you face your target to fire a projectile.
- Dematerialize will now be consistently applied by the second stack of Nether Precision.
- Frost
  - Death’s Chill will now properly function if Icy Veins is cast before a Raid or Mythic+ encounter begins.
    - Developers’ notes: Stacks acquired from Death’s Chill before the pull or before the Mythic+ dungeon is activated will still be removed.
Monk
- Mistweaver
  - Fixed an issue that caused Rushing Wind Kick to not consume Tea of Plenty.
  - Fixed an issue that caused Jade Empowerment’s damage increase to not function if an enemy dies while Crackling Jade Lightning is active.
- Windwalker
  - Fixed an issue that caused Last Emperor’s Capacitor damage increase to not function if an enemy dies while Crackling Jade Lightning is active.
Paladin
- Fixed an issue that caused Worthy Sacrifice to be able to activate onto player pets.
- Fixed an issue that caused Steed of Liberty to grant allies full duration Blessing of Freedoms when talented into Unbound Freedom.
Rogue
- Trickster: Fixed an issue that could allow So Tricky’s duration bonus for Tricks of the Trade to persist after changing talents.

Dungeons and Raids

Adjusted all Timewalking dungeon enemy health and damage to better scale with player power.
- Developers’ notes: Our intention with these dungeons is for their difficulty to fall between the difficulty of a Normal and a Heroic dungeon at level 80. Our goal with changes like this is to provide a fairer, engaging challenge for all players while keeping to the principle that better gear makes you more powerful. We’ll continue to monitor dungeon difficulty to ensure Timewalking presents a satisfying level of challenge for all players.
The Stonevault
- Resolved an issue allowing Blazing Shrapnel to still be cast if Dorlita dies while channeling Blazing Crescendo.

Events

Awakening the Machine
- Addressed an issue causing Nullbots to become stuck evading.

Player versus Player

Fixed an issue where players were unable to queue for Eye of the Storm as a specific battleground in Quick Match.

WoW’s 20th Anniversary

Adjusted the damage, cooldowns, and range of Doomwalker’s abilities to make the encounter significantly less deadly to players.
Fixed an issue where “The Ancient Scroll” could be removed on logout.
Blackrock Depths
- The Servant Emperor missive now appears on LFR difficulty after defeating General Angerforge.

October 25, 2024

Classes

Death Knight
- Resolved an issue causing Pillar of Frost’s follow up node, Frostwhelp’s Aid, to hit enemies out of line of sight.
Evoker
- Fixed an issue where Permeating Chill was not triggering from all blue spells. It will now display in the Spellbook.
Paladin
- Fixed issues allowing Tempered in Battle’s health transfer to critically strike and be affected by damage reductions.
- Fixed an issue causing Tempered in Battle to continue transferring health after an ally has died.
- Adjusted Sacred Weapon’s ally targeting to prefer damage dealers over healers.
- Retribution
  - Shield of Vengeance will no longer reset the auto attack timer.
  - Templar Slash now correctly deals 50% of the damage dealt by Templar Slash.
Priest
- Fixed an issue causing Sustained Potency to have its affected cooldown end early if its duration was extended while paused.
Rogue
- Assassination
  - Fixed an issue that caused Kingsbane (Talent) to benefit from Lethality’s (Talent) effect twice.
  - Fixed an issue that caused Envenom’s buff to gain more duration than intended when expending a supercharged combo point from the Supercharger talent while Twist the Knife was also talented.
- Outlaw
  - Slice and Dice, Blade Flurry, and Roll the Bones effects are now removed when a Mythic+ Keystone is activated.
  - Fixed an issue that could cause Adrenaline Rush to break Stealth in unintended circumstances.
  - Fixed an issue that prevented Between the Eyes from benefitting from Supercharger’s bonus while under the effects of Crackshot.
- Subtlety
  - Fixed an issue that prevented Dispatch and Eviscerate from dealing bonus damage when consuming a supercharged combo point from the Supercharger talent.
Shaman
- Elemental
  - Corrected an issue where the Lightning Rod effect could benefit from damage taken modifiers on the target more than once.
- Enhancement
  - Resolved an issue causing Flowing Spirits to reduce the duration of Crackling Surge applied from Rolling Thunder.

Dungeons and Raids

There is now a small chance when completing a Mythic+ dungeon to acquire a Forgotten Folio which can contain any of the dungeon-sourced recipes from The War Within.
Nerub-ar Palace
- Players can now speak with Widow Arak’nai to leave the raid after defeating Queen Ansurek.

Professions

Jewelcrafting
- Fixed a bug that prevented the Prospecting 40/40 specialization perk from providing Ambivalent Ambers as a byproduct.
- Byproducts, such as Glittering Glass and Handful of Pebbles, now drop from every Prospecting action (was a chance of Byproducts or gems).
- Slightly reduced the drop rates of gems and chance for maximum yield of Byproducts.
  - Developers’ notes: We’ve been closely evaluating Prospecting data and player feedback over the past few weeks. The prices for Glittering Glass, Handful of Pebbles, and their respective crafts have been significantly higher than intended, with the price of gems lower. The goal of these changes is to provide a better balance of Byproduct supply relative to their demand, without significantly impacting the value of a prospecting action.

Quests

“The Dragon Isles Await” should, once again, be offered to players upon reaching level 10+ or by speaking to Chromie and selecting Dragonflight for your Timewalking Campaign.

WoW’s 20th Anniversary

Moved the Bronze Celebration token for the “Spread the Light” zone activity to the World Quest “Spreading the Light” to match the top-level activity quest like other zones.
- Developers’ notes: The token won’t show since the weekly chest will take priority. These are still once per Warband per specific quest.
Fixed an issue causing inconsistencies in the objectives of Dire Maul West.
Reduced the damage of Azuregos’s abilities.
Adjusted the number of maximum tanks and healers for The Codex of Chromie to allow for more damage dealers. The new values are: 2 tanks maximum, 3 healers maximum, and 15 damage maximum. At a minimum, 1 tank, 1 healer, and 8 damage dealers are required.
The Dornagal Worldsoul, Archive, and Delve quests should now always provide 2 tokens.
- Developers’ notes: These quests stick around for up to 3 weeks. Some characters would have seen 3 this week and some would see only 1 new quest for characters keeping up each week. Those with 2 or 3 saw 2 tokens on each, but after completing one of the quests, the other quests no longer showed tokens. We did this to keep things more fair, but it resulted in confusion. This change makes it per-quest across the account. Everyone should now be able to pick up the tokens from these on alts if their first Warband character completed it already, but did not get the tokens.
Blackrock Depths
- Fixed an issue that was causing leveling players to not receive gold drops from some bosses.
Items
- Fixed an issue where players playing multiple accounts could receive two Coldflame Tempest mounts. The second mount can now be deleted.
- Fixing a bug where the Mindtap Talisman had double Intellect stats and Use effects. The passive stat has been changed to Versatility.
The Guest Relations achievement formerly titled I Saved the Party and All I Got Was This Lousy Hat now rewards two lousy hats.

October 24, 2024

Classes

Developers’ notes: We have now identified and corrected a systemic issue that caused many class changes made in 11.0.2 to be missing from 11.0.5, and we have been implementing these missing changes via hotfix.
Death Knight
- Resolved an issue causing Dark Talons to grant 0% haste until Icy Talons is triggered again.
- Resolved an issue causing Wave of Souls damage debuff to be applicable by only one Death Knight.
- Blood
  - Gift of the San’layn will no longer be cancelled when Vampiric Blood expires.
Demon Hunter
- Fixed an issue that caused The Hunt to have an incorrect icon.
Hunter
- Kill Cleave will no longer sometimes persist while Beast Cleave is not active.
- Mastery: Sniper Training no longer benefits Black Arrow twice.
Mage
- Frost
  - Splintering Orbs now correctly grants 6 Splinters.
Paladin
- Resolved an issue that caused Worthy Sacrifice to cast Blessing of Sacrifice while Blessing of Sacrifice is on cooldown.
- Hammer of Light’s global cooldown is now affected by haste.
- Protection
  - Fixed an issue causing Sentinel to grant too large of an increase to damage and healing.
- Retribution
  - Hammer of Light no longer resets the swing timer.
Rogue
- Addressed an issue that caused Darkest Night to fail to be granted correctly.
- Addressed an issue with the interaction between Deathstalker’s Mark and Supercharged combo points.
- Ethereal Cloak no longer grants an unavailable talent.
Shaman
- Elemental
  - Lightning Rod now transfers 10% of all lightning damage dealt to Lightning Rod targets (was 20%).
  - Resolved an issue causing Ascendance to send out more Lava Burst than desired to a single target.
- Enhancement
  - Arc Discharge will no longer cast Tempest when the initial Lightning Bolt cast grants a Tempest.
  - Thorim’s Invocation correctly increases the damage of Tempest by 20%.
Warlock
- Fixed an issue where Warlock spells and abilities could aggro unexpected, out of combat targets.

Dungeons and Raids

Blackrock Depths
- Lord Roccor
  - Lord Roccor casts Roiling Magma less often on Normal and LFR difficulty. This will result in fewer Sons of Roccor to contend with.
  - Sons of Roccor and Greater Obsidian Elementals cast Slag Armor less often on Normal and LFR difficulty.
  - Living Magma damage reduced by 25% on Normal difficulty.
  - Living Magma damage reduced at lower player counts on all difficulties.
  - Son of Roccor health reduced by 33% on Normal difficulty
  - Greater Obsidian Elemental health reduced by 33% on Normal difficulty
  - Obsidian Elemental health reduced by 20% on Normal difficulty.
  - Berserk time increased by 60 seconds on all difficulties.
  - Volcanic Upheaval damage reduced at lower player counts on all difficulties.
  - Lord Roccor health reduced by 14% on Normal difficulty.
- Bael’Gar
  - Bael’Gar health reduced by 10% on Normal difficulty.
  - Spawn of Bael’Gar health reduced by 37% on Normal difficulty.
  - Spawn of Bael’Gar attack damage reduced by 33% on Normal difficulty.
  - Giant Stomp damage during Rockfall reduced at lower player counts on all difficulties.
  - Molten Heart damage reduced at lower player counts on all difficulties.
  - Rockfall damage reduced at lower player counts on all difficulties.
  - Berserk time increased by 60 seconds on all difficulties.
- Lord Incendius
  - Lord Incendius health reduced by 15% on Normal difficulty.
  - Summon Flame Geyser will cap at 3 Flame Geysers on Normal and LFR difficulty.
  - Flame Geyser health reduced by 17% on Normal difficulty
  - Blaze damage reduced by 33% on Normal difficulty.
  - Blaze damage reduced at lower player counts on all difficulties.
  - Dying Flare damage reduced by 20% on Normal difficulty.
  - Scorching Wind damage reduced at lower player counts on all difficulties.
  - Consumptive Flames damage reduced at lower player counts on all difficulties.
  - Berserk time increased by 40 seconds on all difficulties.
- Golem Lord Argelmach
  - Golem health reduced by 16% on Normal difficulty.
  - Arcane Overcharge damage reduced at lower player counts on all difficulties.
  - Time between golem ultimates abilities increased by 20% on Normal and LFR difficulty.
  - Poison-Soaked visual clarity increased.
  - Toxitron’s Chemical Bomb fires one chemical pool (was 2) on Normal difficulty.
  - Incineration damage reduced by 25% on Normal difficulty.
  - Golem Overdrive damage modifier reduced by 25% on Normal difficulty.
  - Lethal Attraction damage reduced by 15% on Normal difficulty.
  - Electrical Discharge damage reduced by 15% on Normal difficulty.
  - Livewire damage reduced by 15% on Normal difficulty.
  - Flamethrower damage reduced by 30% on Normal difficulty.
- The Seven
  - The Seven health reduced by 12.5% on Normal difficulty.
  - Time between Seven powerful abilities increased by 40% on Normal and LFR difficulty.
  - The size of Corporeal dwarves increased by 100%.
  - Bladestorm radius reduced by 25% on all difficulties.
  - Bladestorm damage reduced by 20% on Normal difficulty.
  - Bladestorm now has a cast time and personal responsibility visual over its target.
  - Felguard health reduced by 25% on Normal difficulty.
  - Felguard attack reduced by 33% on Normal difficulty.
  - Fire Elemental health reduced by 25% on Normal difficulty.
  - Mind Torrent cast time increased by 50% on all difficulties.
  - Terrify damage reduced by 20% on Normal difficulty.
  - Sunder Armor damage taken increase reduced by 25% on Normal difficulty.
  - Rend damage reduced by 22% on Normal difficulty.
  - Fire Nova damage reduced at lower player counts on all difficulties.
  - Magma Bolt damage reduced by 30% on Normal difficulty.
  - Fan of Knives damage reduced by 17% on Normal difficulty.
  - Bitter Cold damage reduced by 14% on Normal difficulty.
- General Angerforge
  - Fireburst Grenade cast time increased on all difficulties.
  - Fireburst Grenade damage reduced by 25% on Normal difficulty.
  - Rings of Fire cast time increased on all difficulties.
  - Anvilrage Officer size increased.
  - General Angerforge size increased.
  - Commanding Aura visual readability increased.
  - Anvilrage Rogue health and damage reduced on Normal difficulty.
  - Anvilrage Sapper’s Detonate damage reduced by 15% on Normal difficulty.
- Ambassador Flamelash
  - Portal Anchor health reduced at lower player counts on all difficulties.
  - Portal Anchor health reduced by 10-20% based on difficulty.
  - Flamewalker health reduced by 25% on Normal difficulty.
  - Superheat damage reduced by 20% on Normal and LFR difficulty.
  - Unstable Portal damage reduced at lower player counts on all difficulties.
  - Fury of the Firelands damage reduced by 17% on Normal difficulty.
  - Explosive Impact damage reduced by 20% on Normal difficulty.
- Emperor Dargan Thaurissan
  - Moira Bronzebeard’s health reduced by 17% on Normal difficulty.
  - Dark Iron Imperial Guard’s health and damage reduced on LFR and Normal difficulty.
  - Fireguard Destroyer’s health and damage reduced on Normal difficulty.
  - Fiery Demise damage reduced by 20% on Normal difficulty.
  - Fiery Demise damage reduced at lower player counts on all difficulties.
  - Fire Nova damage reduced by 25% on Normal difficulty.
  - Hand of Thaurissan size reduced by 20%.
  - Molten Hand damage reduced by 33% on Normal difficulty.
  - Iron Brand damage reduced by 30% on Normal difficulty.
  - Radiant Burn damage reduced by 37% on Normal difficulty.
  - Volcanic Blast damage reduced by 18% on Normal difficulty.
The Rookery
- Baelgrim’s banter in the Rookery should now be audible for all players (was just the closest player).

Player versus Player

Fixed an issue where Battleground Blitz was incorrectly giving quest credit for “Something Different”.

WoW’s 20th Anniversary

Fixed an issue with Timewalking dungeons, where if you completed the level up version of “An Original Path Through Time” at level 80, it would not give a scaled item.
Fixed an issue where getting a Bronze Celebration Cache of Treasures before level 80 could result in a missing item.
Fixed an issue where the Warlock belt was untextured for the display mannequin at the Caverns of Time pavillion.
Reduced damage of Archavon the Stone Watcher’s Rock Shards.
Fixed an issue allowing players to purchase Practice Ravager multiple times.
Fixed several secret issues that would have allowed secret finders to be too good at finding secrets.

October 23, 2024

Classes

Druid
- Feral
  - Shred damage increased by 20%.
  - Rake damage increased by 5%.
  - Wild Slashes increases Swipe and Thrash damage by 40% (was 25%).
  - Druid of the Claw: Ravages cast by Convoke the Spirits now trigger Killing Strikes.
    - Developers’ notes: The Feral changes above were intended to be a part of the 11.0.5 patch, but temporarily went missing.
Hunter
- Beast Mastery
  - Corrected an issue causing Phantom Pain to unintentionally deal repeated damage to the same enemy player.
Shaman
- Enhancement
  - Resolved an issue causing Fire Nova to be disabled while there are Flame Shock targets around.
- Restoration
  - Resolved an issue causing Ascendance to not duplicate healing as Restorative Mists.

Items

Fixed an issue where the Burst of Knowledge trinket was not sharing a cooldown with other on-use trinkets.
Added a 1-second cooldown to the Burst of Knowledge trinket, to prevent some spells from causing more than one stack.

User Interface

The world boss icon for Orta, The Broken Mountain will now appear on Azj-Kahet’s zone map as well as the City of Threads map.

WoW’s 20th Anniversary

The Awakening the Machine weekly quest now rewards a Bronze Celebration Token as intended.
Blackrock Depths
- Moira Bronzebeard will now respect her cooldown for Shadow Word: Nemesis in the Emperor Dagran Thaurissan encounter on Raid Finder difficulty.

October 22, 2024

Classes

Death Knight
- Blood
  - Deathbringer: Reaper’s Mark initial and stacking damage reduced by 22%.
  - Deathbringer: Exterminate damage reduced by 22%.
  - Deathbringer: Wave of Souls damage reduced by 22% (does not apply to PvP combat).
- Frost
  - Deathbringer: Reaper’s Mark initial and stacking damage reduced by 22%.
  - Deathbringer: Exterminate damage reduced by 22%.
  - Deathbringer: Wave of Souls damage reduced by 22% (does not apply to PvP combat).
  - Obliterate damage reduced by 6% (does not apply to PvP combat).
  - Breath of Sindragosa damage reduced by 10%.
  - Icy Death Torrent damage reduced by 12% (does not apply to PvP combat).
Hunter
- Kill Command damage reduced by 35%.
  - Developers’ notes: This damage reduction was intended to be a part of the 11.0.5 patch, but temporarily went missing.
Mage
- Arcane
  - Sunfury: Spellfire Sphere spell damage bonus for Arcane Mages reduced to 1% (was 2%).
  - Sunfury: Lingering Embers spell damage bonus for Arcane Mages reduced to 1% (was 2%).
  - Sunfury: Glorious Incandescence Arcane Barrage damage bonus reduced to 20% (was 30%).
  - Sunfury: Mana Cascade now grants 0.5% Haste for Arcane Mages (was 1%).
  - Spellslinger - Splintering Orbs Splinter generation cap per orb reduced to 4 for Arcane Mages (was 6).
  - Arcane Blast damage reduced by 10%.
  - Arcane Barrage damage reduced by 10%.
Paladin
- Protection
  - Fixed an issue that caused Sentinel to grant critical strike incorrectly.

Transmogrification

Class restrictions have been removed from the class armor and weapon sets that were obtained during the Mists of Pandaria: Remix event.

WoW’s 20th Anniversary

Enemies will now despawn after completing The Codex of Chromie step “Up and Away”.

Borkskin-area-52 · October 23, 2024, 4:45am

Can you add the warrior buffs back in that were reverted? Also I’m pretty sure you guys reverted the shards changes in stonevault on skarmorak.

EDIT: nvm looks like warrior stuff was already added back in.

Ktemaco-ragnaros · October 23, 2024, 4:54am

MM hunter’s are over tuned in PVP, they killed me in less than 2 seconds with full hp. it’s not fair. you guys need to fix it.
They are doing very exaggerated dmg you need to fix this quickly

Bigstack-nathrezim · October 23, 2024, 6:05am

Why are you further nerfing frost dk in pvp when its already down this bad according to all metrics?

Bigstack-nathrezim · October 23, 2024, 6:08am

Glacial got a 20% nerf and most people are playing riders in PvP anyway. The deathbringer tree is now even worse than before in PvP and will force more people into riders which has got several nerfs in a row because you target unholy frost fever and frost PvE damage. Look at the metrics in 2s, 3s, shuffle. This spec is extremely terrible.

Ellesandre-hyjal · October 23, 2024, 8:32am

Wait, you guys JUST increased Kill Command’s damage by 18%, and now you are reducing it by 35%? Why?

Kraggy-bronzebeard · October 23, 2024, 9:26am

Incompetence.

Hunda-blackrock · October 23, 2024, 10:28am

they dont want u to play hunter BM , well hunter at all…

Jinjing-gnomeregan · October 23, 2024, 11:38am

Primal whetstones appear broken for level 80 toons.

Burgs-zuljin · October 23, 2024, 12:44pm

Like others, I do not understand blood dk getting wrapped up in this nerf. Please revert the blood dk nerfs!

Zandarin-tichondrius · October 23, 2024, 12:57pm

They got an unannounced 8% aura buff which was rocketing them above everything else, that 35% had already been implemented. They just accidentally undid it in this update, read the patch note history before getting too upset haha
Waiting to see if they correct that aura buff

Brock-senjin · October 23, 2024, 1:37pm

Holy Priests barely got touched at all in the patch. Reduction of mana cost for a buff? That was never an issue. Holy Fire now contributes to flash heal buff with the FDCL. But, we rotate flash heal and heal constantly with the lightweaver spec. Not using flash heal to build stacks is not at all practical, particularly in mythic+.

Please give us some actual healing buffs for 5man content. It’s really rough.

Rentralo-stormrage · October 23, 2024, 4:19pm

How did supposedly specific nerfs to arcane lead to both arcane AND fire now being dead last behind aug evoker?

Frost is now the strongest mage spec, and it’s barely mid!

Rentralo-stormrage · October 23, 2024, 4:21pm

OMG - I just started dabbing into holy priest, and isn’t like the base of the entire rotation weaving flash heal and heal?

In what world is making you do less flash heal considered a buff?

Sorshá-bonechewer · October 23, 2024, 4:40pm

Yea.

For mythic+

And raid

Forever

Until you die

Good luck!

Also

Halo

Mediocracy-stormrage · October 23, 2024, 4:46pm

So, has blizzard acknowledged the Spellslinger Frost Mage frozen orb bug?

Asmodeom-kelthuzad · October 23, 2024, 5:48pm

I’m glad I stopped playing the war within a couple weeks ago, I don’t have to feel how badly mage got nerfed.

Blizzard sucks.

Rentralo-stormrage · October 23, 2024, 6:37pm

That would require blizzard remembering frost mage exists outside PvP.

Brock-senjin · October 23, 2024, 6:46pm

Yeah, that’s not even the worst of the small change, lol.

In order to spec into FDCL you have to give up Protective Light which is your 10% flash heal damage reduction. No one is going to give that up, especially for the insignifcant passive FDCL.

I wouldnt even talent into it if it was on it’s own. It’s just a waste and is inconsequential. You need fast strong heals with holy priests for mythic+. We have limited practical AOE healing so the bulk of it is rotating single targets with FH/H/HWs.

I’m not mad about it though, just don’t understand the reasoning for some of this stuff.

Holy Priests need buffs for 5man content. In raids, Holy Priest is fine. But for mythic it’s a whole different story.