The War Within Hotfixes - October 16

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September 27, 2024

Achievements

  • Guilds can no longer earn faction-specific achievements that do not match the guild’s faction.
    • Developer’s note: This should fix the occasional achievement spam for Diplomacy, United Nations, Dungeon Diplomat, Pandaren Embassy, and Ambassadors.

Classes

  • Evoker
    • Augmentation, Devastation
      • Fixed an issue where canceling Deep Breath with Maneuverability could cause the Evoker to briefly fly in place.
  • Warlock
    • Diabolists’ Overlord, Mother of Chaos, and Pit Lord should now attack the target of the spell that summoned them.
    • Fixed an issue where Shared Fate would be applied to the warlock’s current target, rather than the target of the spell that activated its effect.

Delves

  • Reduced enemies’ health and damage for solo healers.
  • Brann no longer uses Thirty Yards of Rope to dispel pets.
  • Zekvir’s Lair
    • Zekvir’s damage and health has been reduced for both difficulties.
    • Horrendous Roar is now a 2.5 second cast time for both difficulties (was 2.4 seconds and 2.25 seconds).
    • Web Terror’s hatch time increased.
    • Web Terror’s Web Blast cast time increased.
    • Web Terrors now spawn randomly in the room rather than based off of Zek’vir’s current position.
    • Spittle and Regenerating Carapace’s recast times now change while solo to better match each specialization’s interrupt cooldowns.
    • Fixed an issue where Web Terrors would not despawn when the encounter ended.
    • The damage of Angler’s Web has been reduced.
    • Claw Smash’s visuals have been updated.
    • Fixed an issue where Aspect of the Turtle did not work against Claw Smash.
    • Fixed an issue where Claw Smash and Angler’s Web visuals would not display during the precast.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Xal’atath’s Bargain: Oblivion
    • Addressed an issue where Crystal of Oblivion can sometime fail to path to its target.
  • Siege of Boralus
    • Fixed an issue that caused Dreadcaptain Lockwood to use Gut Shot unexpectedly when disembarking from the ship.
  • Nerub-ar Palace
    • Queen Ansurek
      • Acolyte’s Essence periodic damage reduced by 12.5% on Mythic difficulty.
      • Royal Condemnation damage reduced by 8% on Mythic difficulty.
      • Demonic Gateway, Transcendence spirit, Spirit Link Totem, and Wind Rush Totem are no longer moved unexpectedly during certain moments of the encounter.
      • Fixed issue in Mythic difficulty where warning visualization effects for Shadowgates would sometimes fail to appear after the first cast.
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