WoW Hotfixes - Updated January 23

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Hotfixes

January 23, 2023

Dungeons and Raids

  • Algeth’ar Academy
    • Vexamus
      • Fixed an issue allowing players to line of sight Mana Bombs and Arcane Fissure.
  • Mythic+
    • Affixes
      • Thundering
        • Mark of Wind now prefers tank specialized players.
          • Developers’ note: We’ve heard the feedback from players that safely removing their mark on tank players can be overly dangerous in many situations. Tank players will still have the option of being involved in removing Marks of Lightning, but we believe this change will offer players increased flexibility in terms of how they choose to approach the affix.
    • Halls of Valor
      • Olmyr’s and Solsten’s health reduced by 25%.
      • Valarjar Aspirant health reduced 20%.
      • Valarjar Marksman health reduced by 10%.
      • Valajar Purifier health reduced by 20%.
      • The health of the four kings found in Odyn’s throne room has been reduced by 20%.
      • Valajar Champion’s no longer use Enraged Regeneration.
      • Ebonclaw Worg no longer use Ferocious Bite.
      • God-King Skovald
        • Is now less verbose when stating his claim to the Aegis of Aggramar.
      • Hyrja
        • Health reduced by 10%.
      • Fenryr
        • Health reduced by 10%.
        • Ravenous Leap bleed effect now has a 30 second duration (Was infinite).
      • Odyn
        • The periodic damage on Runic Brand has been reduced by 20%.
    • The Nokhud Offensive
      • Balakar Khan
        • Nokhud Stormcaster health reduced by 20%.
        • Balakar Khan’s Static Spear prefers not to target the same player for subsequent casts.
        • Balakar Khan’s Static Spear area of effect damage reduced by 30%.
      • Teera and Maruuk
        • Ancestral Bond is now applied when Teera and Maruuk are 15 yards apart. (was 10 yards).
    • Vault of the Incarnates
      • Broodkeeper Diurna
        • Reduced the base damage on Stoneslam Detonation by 63%. This will reduce the need to bring only tank-specialization classes that can avoid the effect by being immune to it.

Items and Rewards

  • Fixed an issue with Darkmoon Deck: Dance where the cast was bouncing more or less than intended for certain cards.
  • Fixed an issue with Darkmoon Decks where players would sometimes not be granted a Card after the cooldown had completed.
  • Fixed an issue where, if a player lost their Spiteful Storm Aura, all players also using the trinket on the same target would lose their auras as well.

January 19, 2023

Dungeons and Raids

  • Stratholme
    • When zoning into Stratholme from the exterior world, players now have access to all of the dungeon’s bosses instead of the two-wing Looking For Dungeon counterparts.

January 18, 2023

Classes

  • Warlock
    • Fixed an issue where Grimoire of Synergy would not function while Grimoire of Sacrifice was active.

Dungeons and Raids

  • The Nokhud Offensive
    • The Raging Tempest
      • Surge of Power can no longer be removed with player immunities.
  • Mythic+
    • Azure Vault
      • Leymor
        • Explosive Affix - Volatile Saplings no longer spawn Explosive Orbs.

Professions

  • We have re-enabled the ability to skip some profession tutorial quests.

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

  • Auction House
    • Added options to sort by Buyout Price and by Unit Price. These can be selected via a gear icon button to the right of the search sorting headers.
    • Now, when you select an item to purchase, the total buyout price is displayed next to the Buyout button.
    • Searching an item name in quotes will now perform an exact match search for that item name.
    • Shift-clicking an item with the Auction House open will now paste the name of that item in quotes to the Auction House.
  • Creatures and NPCs
    • Class trainers were inadvertently forgetting to charge money for the dual talent specialization, profession respecialization, and other paid options. While we investigate the cause of their inadequate accounting practices, we’ve asked them to stop selling the dual talent specialization ability. Anyone who has already purchased dual talent specialization will be allowed to keep it, and we’ll re-enable it once we’ve fixed the issue. The profession specialization services will continue to be offered, but may spontaneously start charging their intended fee.
  • Dungeons and Raids
    • Defense Protocol Alpha
      • Bounty Satchels from Heroic Daily Dungeons, with Defense Protocol Alpha active, are no longer tradeable to party members.
      • The Frostbite effect from Heroic Utgarde Keep and Heroic Utgarde Pinnacle, while Defense Protocol Alpha is active, now appears as a debuff and cannot be cancelled via the UI.
      • The Bounty Satchel from the Heroic Daily Dungeon, when Defense Protocol Alpha is active, is now multidrop. This was an accidental oversight and was always intended to be multidrop. This means all members of the party can loot the item and receive 3 bonus Emblems of Conquest.
    • Obsidian Sanctum
      • Sartharion
        • Now drops an additional item when 2 or 3 drakes are alive, similar to 3.4.0.
        • 10-Player now drops Reins of the Black Drake (instead of Reins of the Twilight Drake) when 3 drakes are alive.

January 17, 2023

Dungeons and Raids

  • Vault of the Incarnates
    • Fixed an issue where the damage zone visual for Stonebreaking Leap from Quarry Stonebreakers sometimes did not match the actual damage location.
  • Mythic+
    • Algeth’ar Academy
      • Overgrown Ancient
        • Explosive Affix - Hungry Lashers no longer spawn Explosive Orbs.
    • Azure Vaults
      • Arcane Fury’s Piercing Shards impact damage reduced by 30%.
      • Unstable Curator’s Forbidden Knowledge cooldown increased.
      • Arcane Construct health reduced by 25%.
      • Crystal Thrasher no longer use Splintering Shards.
      • Nullmagic Hornswog health reduced by 15%.
      • Telash Greywing
        • Telash Greywing health reduced by 10%
        • There is now a 2 second delay before players take damage from Frozen Ground after Frost Bomb.
      • Umbrelskul
        • Umbrelskul’s health reduced by 15%.
        • Oppressive Miasma now reduces movement speed by 6% per stack (was 7%).
    • Ruby Life Pools
      • Reduced the damage of Primalist Cindweaever’s Cinderbolt by 50%.
      • Reduced the periodic damage of Thunderhead’s Rolling Thunder by 30%.
      • Reduced the damage of Flamegullet’s Molten Blood by 25%.
      • Reduced the periodic damage of Blazebound Destroyer’s Inferno by 25%.
      • Melidrussa Chillworn
        • Explosive Affix - Infused Whelps no longer spawn Explosive Orbs.
      • Kokia Blazehoof
        • Increased the cast time of Blazebound Firestorm’s Roaring Blaze to 3 seconds (was 2 seconds).
      • Kyrakka and Erkhart Stormvein
        • Reduced the periodic damage of Kyrakka’s Inferno Core by 20%.
        • Reduced the damage of Erkhart Stormvein’s Interrupting Cloudburst by 30%.

Quests

  • Lunar Festival now starts on 1/24 to allow for new Elders to search out on the Dragon Isles.

JANUARY 13, 2023

Dungeons and Raids

  • Ruby Life Pools
    • Fixed an issue where Storm Warrior’s Thunderclap was increasing Haste instead of decreasing Haste as the tooltip states.

Player versus Player

  • Battlegrounds
    • Evoker’s Time Stop can no longer be used to drop Orbs of Power in Temple of Kotmogu, or flags in Warsong Gulch or Twin Peaks.

January 11, 2023

Dragonriding

  • Rebalanced Dragonrider’s Cultivation, increasing the amount to 400% (from 10%) and reducing the duration to 3 sec (from 10 sec). This should provide more of a bonus for those that like to gather on the go.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Halls of Valor
    • Adjusted the visual of Sanctify cast by Hyrja in Halls of Valor.
  • Mythic+
    • Azure Vaults
      • Fixed an issue where being hit with Thundering while on the translocation path would cause you to repeat the path.
    • Shadowmoon Burial Grounds
      • Ner’zhul
        • Fixed an issue causing Ritual of Bones to regenerate health during combat.
    • Temple of the Jade Serpent
      • Wise Mari
        • Wise Mari will now die immediately and grant players credit for the encounter upon defeat.
      • Lorewalker Stonestep
        • Intensity damage decreased 40%.
        • Agony damage decreased by 40%.
        • Fixed an issue causing the healing bonus from Feeling of Superiority to increase per stack Fixed an issue causing Feeling of Superiority to be able to spread to multiple targets.
          • Developers’ note: We are lowering the damage output of Peril and Strife to account for fixing a bug that was causing the healing increase of Feeling of Superiority to increase per stack.

Items and Rewards

  • Fixed an issue with the Hood of Surging Time where the Haste given would be lower than intended if the player’s pet attacked the new target first.

January 9, 2023

Classes

  • Demon Hunter
    • [With weekly restarts] The Hunt’s damage over time effect no longer deals an additional tick on application. Damage dealt over the total duration remains unchanged.
    • Vengeance
      • [With weekly restarts] Thick Skin armor bonus increased to 130% (was 100%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Calcified Spikes initial damage reduction value increased to 12% (was 10%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Painbringer duration increased to 6 seconds (was 5 seconds).
  • Druid
    • Feral
      • [With weekly restarts] All ability damage dealt increased by 3%.
  • Evoker
    • Devastation
      • [With weekly restarts] Fire Breath damage increased by 10% for Devastation specialization only. Does not apply to PvP combat.
      • [With weekly restarts] Lay Waste increases Deep Breath damage by 15%/30%, (was 10%/20%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Eternity Surge damage increased by 10%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Firestorm damage increased by 20%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Eye of Infinity generates 2 Essence on critical strike (was 1 Essence).
      • [With weekly restarts] Spellweaver’s Dominance increases critical strike damage to 230% (was 220%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Iridescence damage bonus increased to 20% (was 15%).
  • Hunter
    • Survival
      • [With weekly restarts] All ability damage and pet damage increased by 2%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Butchery and Carve damage increased by 10%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Fury of the Eagle damage increased by 10%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Wildfire Bomb damage increased by 15%.
  • Mage
    • Fire
      • [With weekly restarts] Flamestrike damage increased by 15%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Living Bomb damage increased by 25%.
    • Frost
      • [With weekly restarts] Frostbolt damage increased by 20%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Ray of Frost damage increased by 40%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Glacial Spike damage increased by 10%.
  • Monk
    • Brewmaster
      • [With weekly restarts] Efficacy of Stagger against Magical damage increased to 45% (was 35%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Cooldown of Celestial Brew reduced to 45 sec (was 60).
    • Mistweaver
      • [With weekly restarts] All healing increased by 5%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Vivify healing increased by an additional 5%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Blackout Kick damage increased by 6%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Rising Sun Kick damage increased by 8%
      • [With weekly restarts] Tiger Palm damage increased by 15%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Spinning Crane Kick damage increased by 5%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Awakened Faeline now transfers 70% of Spinning Crane Kick’s damage into healing (was 60%).
  • Paladin
    • Retribution
      • [With weekly restarts] Crusader Strike Damage increased by 40%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Blade of Justice damage increased by 25%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Final Reckoning damage increased by 15%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Shield of Vengeance cooldown reduced to 90 sec (was 120).
      • Developers’ notes: Some of Retribution’s main rotational buttons do not feel as good to press as we’d like so we’re making some changes to help improve these abilities. Additionally, their survivability isn’t where we would like so we’re making some improvements to their defensive kit as well. We are looking at Retribution as a whole and will have more to share in the future.
  • Priest
    • Holy
      • [With weekly restarts] All healing done increased by 3%.
    • Shadow
      • [With weekly restarts] Focused Will provides 10% damage reduction for Shadow (down from 15%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Mind Blast damage increased by 15% (Shadow only).
      • [With weekly restarts] Mind Flay damage increased by 15% (this includes Mind Flay: Insanity, but not the proc from Idol of C’Thun).
      • [With weekly restarts] Mind Spike damage increased by 15%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Void Torrent damage increased by 15%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Devouring Plague damage increased by 15%.
      • Developers’ notes: These changes are aimed at improving Shadow’s single target DPS. The change to Focused Will is a targeted change for PvP to reduce Shadow’s survivability.
  • Rogue
    • Outlaw
      • [With weekly restarts] Reduced Precise Cuts (Talent) bonus to Blade Flurry damage per missing target below its maximum to 2% (was 3%).
        • Developers’ notes: As we monitor the developing M+ meta and related data, we have recognized that Outlaw is overperforming. We expect this change will reduce Outlaw’s damage output in encounters with target count above 1 and below 8, as their damage is currently more consistent than we intend for dungeons and encounters that frequently present those circumstances.
  • Warlock
    • Fixed an issue where Demon Armor from the Conflict and Strife essence persisted outside of Battle for Azeroth zones.
    • Affliction
      • [With weekly restarts] Agony damage increased by 5%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Corruption damage increased by 5%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Drain Soul damage increased by 10%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Pandemic Invocation damage increased by 20%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Seed of Corruption damage increased by 5%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Shadow Bolt damage increased by 10%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Siphon Life damage increased by 10%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Unstable Affliction backlash damage is no longer increased from increased damage dealt modifiers or effects that increase Unstable Affliction’s damage.
    • Destruction
      • [With weekly restarts] Channel Demonfire damage increased by 10%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Rain of Fire damage increased by 15%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Soul Fire damage increased by 20%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Infernal and Blasphemy Immolation damage increased by 10%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Conflagrate damage increased by 10%. Does not apply to PvP.
      • [With weekly restarts] Immolate damage increased by 10%. Does not apply to PvP.
      • [With weekly restarts] Incinerate damage increased by 15%. Does not apply to PvP.

Dungeons and Raids

  • The Nokhud Offensive
    • Granyth
      • Fixed an issue where multiple players could interact with the ballista at the same time and each fire an arrow.
    • Teera and Maruuk
      • Fixed an issue where Blessing of Protection allowed players to be immune to the effects of Teera’s Gale Arrow.
  • Ruby Life Pools
    • Melidrussa Chillworn
      • [With weekly restarts] Reduced the damage of triggering a Hailbomb by 40%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Reduced party-wide AoE damage on the initial cast of Hailbombs by 66%
        • Developers’ note: The initial on-cast hit from Hailbombs was never intended to be a large source of damage, and when scaled up on Mythic+ it i s contributing more damage to the fight than we’d like, so we’re reining it in to give healers more breathing room to recover from Melidrussa’s other abilities.
    • Kokia Blazehoof
      • [With weekly restarts] Reduced period damage of Searing Wounds by 25%
      • [With weekly restarts] Reduced damage of Scorched Earth by 25%
  • Mythic+
    • Algeth’ar Academy
      • Fixed an issue where some enemies near Vexamus did not provide Enemy Forces credit, and adjusted Enemy Forces requirements accordingly
      • Developers’ note: This will make enemies in the dungeon “appear” to grant slightly less Enemy Forces credit, but defeating the enemies affected by this change was required to engage Vexamus, so there shouldn’t be any real gameplay impact.
    • Vault of the Incarnates
      • Raszageth
        • Reduced the push effect of Hurricane Wing on Mythic difficulty.

Player versus Player

  • Classes

    • Demon Hunter

      • [With weekly restarts] Soul Rending leech bonus reduced by 40% in PvP Combat.
      • Havoc
        • [With weekly restarts] Glimpse (PvP Talent) damage reduction reduced to 35% (was 75%).
        • [With weekly restarts] Essence Break damage bonus for Chaos Strike and Blade Dance reduced by 37.5% in PvP Combat.
        • [With weekly restarts] Soulrend damage reduced by 16.7% in PvP Combat.
        • Developers’ notes: We have noticed Havoc Demon Hunter overperforming in several facets of PvP including personal survivability, burst damage, and overall DPS. We’re taking action to reduce their effectiveness in these areas while still aiming to keep them competitive.

    • Evoker

      • Preservation
        • [With weekly restarts] Energy Loop’s mana regeneration reduced by 25% in PvP combat.
          • Developers’ notes: Energy Loop’s mana restoration has been overperforming compared to its contribution in PvE due to game-wide reduced mana regeneration within PvP instances. We’re adjusting this to bring it in line with expected benefits, but still want this effect to remain a powerful option as we feel it can lead to compelling decision making with Essence resources.

    • Mage

      • Arcane
        • [With weekly restarts] Siphon Storm’s effectiveness has been reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
          • Developers’ notes: Siphon Storm has been a culprit for one-shot scenarios, so we are adjusting its effectiveness down heavily.
      • Frost
        • [With weekly restarts] Reduced Glacial Spike’s damage increased from Mastery: Icicles by 25%. This will be reflected in the tooltip in a later patch.

    • Monk

      • [With weekly restarts] Blackout Kick damage increased by 30% in PvP Combat (was 15%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Tiger’s Palm damage increased by 30% in PvP Combat (was 15%).
      • Mistweaver
        • [With weekly restarts] Rising Sun Kick now deals 12.5% additional damage in PvP (was 25%).
        • Developer’s note: We are looking to offset the incoming PvE buffs to Rising Sun Kick as we think it currently hits hard enough to be effective for Mistweaver in PvP.

    • Windwalker

      • [With weekly restarts] Thunderfist damage reduced by 40% in PvP Combat.
      • [With weekly restarts] Skyreach increases critical strike chance by 30% in PvP Combat (was 50%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Fists of Fury damage increased by 15% in PvP Combat.
      • Developers’ notes: Windwalker burst has continued to be above a level we’re comfortable with. We’re targeting Thunderfist and Skyreach, as they have been large contributors to this. We’re also increasing their sustained damage, as we feel there is room for that to improve as their burst is reduced.

    • Priest

      • [With weekly restarts] Flash Heal healing is increased by 30% in PvP Combat (was 20%).
      • Holy
        • [With weekly restarts] Heal healing is increased by 35% in PvP Combat (was 25%).
        • [With weekly restarts] Holy Word: Serenity healing is increased by 15% in PvP Combat.
        • Developers’ notes: Holy received PvP reductions in casted healing effectiveness in previous patches that we now feel are unnecessary and are reverting. We also feel Holy Word: Serenity has not been as effective as we would like at handling burst damage, so we are increasing that as well.
      • Shadow
        • [With weekly restarts] Shadow Word: Death damage reduced by 30% in PvP Combat for Shadow only (was 20%).
        • [With weekly restarts] Mind Blast damage reduced by 25% in PvP Combat for Shadow only.
        • [With weekly restarts] Mind Spike damage reduced by 25% in PvP Combat.
        • [With weekly restarts] Devouring Plague damage reduced by 25% in PvP Combat.
        • [With weekly restarts] Vampiric Touch damage reduced by 5% in PvP Combat (was increased by 10%).
        • [With weekly restarts] The trigger rate of Shadowy Insight has been reduced by 25% while in PvP Combat.
        • [With weekly restarts] The trigger rate of Surge of Darkness has been reduced by 25% while in PvP Combat.
        • Developers’ notes: Shadow Priest has been widely overperforming, so we are looking to offset recent PvE buffs to them and reduce their power defensively through changes to Focused Will. We’re also reducing their instant proc damage availability as we feel Shadow Priests do not have to hard cast spells as often as we would like them to.

    • Rogue

      • Assassination
        • [With weekly restarts] Improved Garrote’s Garrote damage bonus reduced by 40% in PvP Combat.
        • [With weekly restarts] Iron Wire damage reduction debuff now has a PvP duration of 4 seconds (was 8 seconds).
        • Developers’ notes: Assassination’s spread and single target Garrote pressure has been very high. We’re targeting this by decreasing the effectiveness of Improved Garrote. Iron Wire’s damage reduction effect has also felt too potent to us at preventing enemy pressure.

    • Warlock

      • Demonology
        • [With weekly restarts] Demonic Strength unleashes a Felstorm that deals 150% increased damage in PvP Combat (down from 400%).
        • [With weekly restarts] Demonfire damage increased by 75% in PvP Combat.
        • [With weekly restarts] Dreadbite damage reduced by 10% in PvP Combat.
        • Developers’ notes: We feel Demonic Strength can be a difficult spell to notice and has little counter play compared to Demonic Tyrant and its associated Demonfire casts. We’re looking to adjust Demonology’s burst sources while aiming to keep them at the same relative power. We also want to slightly reduce Demonology’s overall pressure by targeting Dreadbite.

    • Warrior

      • [With weekly restarts] Defensive Stance now reduces damage done by 15% (was 20%) in PvP combat.
        • Developers’ notes: Defensive Stance was adjusted in previous patches to address damage issues we no longer feel are present for Warriors. We’re increasing damage done in Defensive Stance to help increase their offensive pressure without affecting them defensively.

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

  • Fixing an issue where Wintergrasp faction win conditions could be unintentionally reset, resulting in players not receiving the Essence of Wintergrasp buff.

January 6, 2023

Classes

  • Evoker
    • Preservation
      • Fixed an unintended interaction between the Time of Need talent and Lifespark, the 4-piece tier set bonus.
  • Warlock
    • Demonology
      • Fixed an issue where Wrathful Minion and Demonic Inspiration would occasionally cause Warlocks to not generate the correct amount of Soul Shards outside of combat.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Adjusted various Arcane visuals in Court of Stars, Algathar Academy, and The Arcane Vaults to be more visible.
  • Court of Stars
    • Advisor Melandrus
      • Improved visual clarity for Piercing Gale.
  • Vault of the Incarnates
    • Dathea, Ascended
      • Reduced Thunderbolt’s damage by 33% on Heroic difficulty.
      • Reduced Thunder Caller’s health on lower group sizes on Heroic difficulty.
      • Reduced Cyclone’s damage on lower group sizes on Heroic and below difficulties.
      • Volatile Infusers no longer cast Unstable Gusts at low health on Heroic and below difficulties.
      • Zephyr Slam’s initial knockback distance reduced by 40% On Heroic and below difficulties.
    • Kurog Grimtotem
      • The damage from the elemental enemies’ Presence abilities during Kurog’s intermission now respect Avoidance. This is to keep them consistent with Kurog’s Dominance damage abilities respecting Avoidance.
  • Mythic+
    • The Nokhud Offensive
      • Granyth
        • Tectonic Stomp’s area of effect now correctly matches the visual on all difficulties.
      • Raging Tempest
        • Fixed an issue causing Surge of Power to damage players through immunities on all difficulties.
        • Surge of Power damage reduced by 80%.
        • Fixed an issue causing Surge of Power to not scale with keystone level.
          • Developers’ note: We are nerfing the damage of Surge of Power to compensate for fixing an issue that was causing Surge of Power damage to not scale with keystone level.
    • Ruby Life Pools
      • Thunderhead’s Storm Breath, Flamegullet’s Flame Breath, and Erkhart Stormvein’s Cloudburst no longer damage player pets or guardians.
    • Shadowmoon Burial Grounds
      • Sadana Bloodfury
        • Fixed an issue that caused Defiled Souls to regenerate health during the encounter.
        • Fixed an issue causing Dark Eclipse to kill pets.
        • Fixed an issue causing Defiled Souls to contribute to Enemy Forces.
      • Ner’Zul
        • Fixed an issue causing Ritual of Bones to not scale with keystone level.

Items and Rewards

  • We have slightly increased the amount of Primal Chaos gained from the Victorious Contender’s Strongbox at all ranks, but particularly at the lower ones, to help make it easier to earn enough for the Embellished PvP Crafted Gear.
  • Fixed an issue where Broodkeeper’s Promise would snapshot the caster’s Versatility for the buff’s full duration when calculating the heal.

Player versus Player

  • Classes
    • Evoker
      • Time Stop may no longer be cast on Mind Controlled targets.

Quests

  • Valdrakken
    • Deployed additional fixes for “Aiding the Accord: The Hunt is On" not always granting quest credit when completing a Grand Hunt.

January 5, 2023

Classes

  • Druid
    • Swiping Mangle now triggers from Mangles cast by Convoke the Spirits.
    • Mangles cast during Convoke the Spirits now consume Gore.
  • Evoker
    • Preservation
      • Fixed an issue where Mass Return was castable in arenas and battlegrounds.
  • Paladin
    • Retribution
      • Fixed an issue preventing Radiant Decree and Justicar’s Vengeance from benefiting from Seal of Order.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Vault of the Incarnates
    • Terros
      • Reduced the damage of Rock Blast by 44% on LFR difficulty.

Items and Rewards

  • Fixed an issue that was causing the drop rate of various special reagents to be lower than intended from Elite creatures, and higher from normal creatures.
  • Added a small chance for Glowing Titan Orbs to drop from the Titan Forged Refti and Uldaman Golems in addition to the Titan Watchers, Keepers, and Golems of Tyrhold.

Quests

  • Ohn’ahran Plains
    • The guards at the Fields of Ferocity have remembered the rules of engagement and will no longer attempt to assist players with the fight.
  • Valdrakken
    • Multiple issues have been fixed for The Ruby Feast questline that were blocking players from advancing to the next quests.

January 4, 2023

Classes

  • Paladin
    • Fixed an issue causing Divine Toll to sometimes cast the incorrect spell.
  • Rogue
    • Fixed an issue that caused Grappling Hook to break Stealth when talented into Subterfuge.

Creatures and NPCs

  • Seltherex in Valdrakken now sells Orboreal Distinguishment (5 Marks of Honor) for 2000 Honor.
  • Fixed an issue where Notfar the Unbearable did not reward players for defeating him.

Dragonriding

  • Fixed an error that could sometimes occur when taking off.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Azure Vaults
    • Telash Greywing
      • Fixed an issue where using an immunity on Icy Devastator would cause the next Frost Bomb to happen sooner.
  • Brakenhide Hollow
    • Fixed an issue where Gashtooth would cast Marked for Butchery on pets. This should now correctly only target players.
  • Court of Stars
    • Advisor Melandrus
      • Fixed an issue that caused the images of Melandrus to inflict more damage than intended with Slicing Maelstrom. The damage of Slicing Maelstrom is now normalized across all enemies in the encounter and has been adjusted to compensate.
        • Increased the unavoidable damage effect of Slicing Maelstrom by 20%.
        • Reduced the additional damage of Slicing Maelstrom to players within 7 yards by 30%.
  • The Nokhud Offensive
    • Balakar Khan
      • Fixed an issue causing Iron Stampede to hit players beside or behind Balakar Khan.
  • Ruby Life Pools
    • Melidrussa Chillworn
      • Hunters’ Wailing Arrow should no longer interrupt Melidrussa Chillworn’s Frost Overload through her absorb shield.
  • Vault of the Incarnates
    • The Primal Council
      • Conductive Mark has some harsh overlaps with other spells. These casts are getting pushed back by 2-3 seconds depending on difficulty to keep an exciting challenge, but one that feels fair and expected for the position of this fight in the raid.
  • Mythic+
    • Affixes
      • Thundering
        • Updated the visual indicators used for the Thundering affix.
        • Thundering should no longer interrupt eating and drinking.
    • Halls of Valor
      • Players teleporting to the Fields of the Eternal Hunt are no longer affected by Quaking.
      • Odyn
        • Players pulled by Radiant Tempest are no longer affected by Quaking.

Items and Rewards

  • Fixed an issue where Blazebinder’s Hoof would not trigger off certain melee attacks.
  • Raid Trinkets
    • Developers’ note: Overall, we’re happy with how trinkets & itemization is working out in Vault of the Incarnates. As we’re getting back to the office though, we wanted to take the time to address some outliers, some bugs, and some vocal feedback (with regards to Whispering Incarnate Icon). We are making a few adjustments as soon as possible so as not to heavily impact choice around trading, assigning loot, or picking things out of your Great Vault more than the holidays have already done.
    • Desperate Invoker’s Codex
      • Lowered the amount of self-damage the player takes on-use by 20%.
      • Fixed an issue where players could gain stacks of Hatred outside of combat.
    • Iceblood Deathsnare
      • On-Use damage increased by 30%, damage increased for the on-hit effect by 50%
    • Rumbling Ruby
      • Fixed an issue where the damaging shockwaves weren’t hitting exceptionally large targets.
    • Spiteful Storm
      • Damage increased by 15%.
      • Fixed an issue where certain Raid Bosses could have their Spiteful Storm progress reset during their encounters.
      • Fixed an issue where Spiteful Storm could stack out of combat.
    • Whispering Incarnate Icon
      • Allied buffs no longer require you to be in a Party.

Professions

  • The option to skip some of the profession quests if you have already done them on another character by talking to Haephesta has been re-enabled.
  • Alchemy
    • Potion Cauldron of Power (Quality 3) now correctly has 120 charges instead of 80.
    • Fleeting Elemental Potions of Power (all qualities) are now Limit 40 (up from 20) and no longer Bind on Pickup. Fleeting Elemental Potions of Ultimate Power remain unchanged.
  • Enchanting
    • The Enchanting formulas Illusion: Primal Frost, Air, Fire, and Earth were inadvertently bind on pickup. They have been changed to unbound so they may freely be traded and sold on the auction house.
  • Herbalism
    • Mastering the Elements (40) should now correctly increase the amount of Rousing Essence gained from elemental herbs.
  • Jewelcrafting
    • Glassware (10) should now correctly reduce the cooldown of Gem Hoard crafts.
  • Mining
    • Mastering the Elements (50) should now correctly grant random Rousing Essences upon Overloading. In addition, the amount has been increased from 1 to 2-3 to be closer in value to Herbalism’s equivalent capstone. The tooltip will be corrected in a future patch.

Quests

  • Fixed an issue where “Aiding the Accord: The Hunt is On" was not always granting quest credit when completing a Grand Hunt.

January 3, 2023

Classes

  • Paladin
    • Holy
      • Fixed an issue where Divine Resonance would not heal if no target was selected.
    • Protection
      • Fixed an issue preventing Inner Light’s damage effect from triggering.
    • Retribution
      • Fixed an issue where Crusade incorrectly increased damage dealt without having the corresponding Avenging Wrath talent.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Algeth’ar Academy
    • Overgrown Ancient
      • Increased the amount of time between abilities, particularly in relation to Burst Forth.
        • Developers’ Note: The combination of Germination and Burst Forth is the most dangerous part of the encounter. We hope by giving this moment more space, players will be better able to prepare for and recover from it.
  • Azure Vaults
    • Azureblade
      • Increased the time it takes for Azureblade to drain their mana.
  • The Nokhud Offensive
    • Nokhud Lancemasters are less talkative when firing their ballistae.
    • The Raging Tempest
      • Lightning Strike damage reduced by 10%.
      • Energy Surge damage reduced by 50%.
      • Surge of Power duration increased to 18 seconds (was 15 sec).
    • Teera and Maruuk
      • Slightly increased Maruuk’s movement speed.
      • Added a slight delay on Quick Shot after Teera uses Gale Arrow.
  • Ruby Life Pools
    • Melidrussa Chillworn
      • Reduced the absorb value of Ice Bulwark by 25%.
      • Reduced party-wide periodic damage of Chillstorm by 33%.
    • Erkhart Stormvein
      • Interrupting Cloudburst now has a 2 sec. school lockout when it interrupts a spell (was 4 seconds).
      • Stormslam is now cast less frequently.
  • Temple of the Jade Serpent
    • Lesser Sha and Malformed Sha’s ability ‘Sha Eruption’ no longer ignores line of sight.
    • Sha of Doubt
      • Increased the recast cooldown of Touch of Nothingness.
      • Wither Will now prefers targets that are not under the effects of Touch of Nothingness.
  • Vault of the Incarnates
    • Fixed an issue with the intermission enemies’ Presence abilities being able to pierce magic immunities on the Kurog Grimtotem encounter.

Player versus Player

  • Classes
    • Paladin
      • Protection
        • Fixed an issue preventing Guardian of the Forgotten Queen from benefiting from cooldown reduction from Gift of the Golden Val’kyr.
        • Fixed an issue preventing Aura of Reckoning from correctly extending Sentinel.

Professions

  • Many professions’ weekly quests have had their quest item drop rates increased.
  • Alchemy
    • Aerated Phial of Quick Hands is now a valid target for Reclaim Concoctions.
  • Enchanting
    • Reduced the vendor price of Chromatic Focus to be more in line with other uncommon profession equipment vendor prices.

December 22, 2022

Classes

  • Death Knight
    • Unholy
      • Fixed an issue with Unholy Aura not applying consistently to enemies with larger hitboxes.
  • Hunter
    • Fixed an issue where Mend Pet would not target and heal Dragonkin pets.
    • Marksmanship
      • Fixed an issue where the critical damage bonus from Unerring Vision was not properly working while Trueshot was active.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Vault of the Incarnates
    • Kurog Grimtotem
      • Fixed an issue where Vantus Runes were not giving stats when used for the encounter.
    • Raszageth
      • Fixed an issue that could prevent Volatile Sparks from spawning.
  • Temple of the Jade Serpent
    • Wise Mari
      • Fixed an issue where Wise Mari would occasionally freeze while casting Wash Away.

Items and Rewards

  • Profession gear and Cobalt Assembly rings are now eligible for socket upgrades. This fix is retroactive and requires relogging.

December 21, 2022

Classes

  • Evoker
    • Preservation
      • Fixed an issue that could cause Rewind and Golden Hour to heal for unintended values when multiple Preservation Evokers are in a group or raid.
  • Rogue
    • Assassination
      • Fixed an issue that prevented Kingsbane from being modified by certain effect types. This notably included: The Rogue’s recent all ability damage reduction, Elaborate Planning’s damage modifier, and Master Assassin’s critical strike chance modifier.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Vault of the Incarnates
    • Fixed an issue where Vantus Runes were not logging in advanced combat logs.
    • Kalecgos now summons a portal allowing players to travel from The Primal Bulwark to The Outer Seal after Eranog has been defeated.
    • Unstable Earth’s Earth Detonation damage reduced by 40% on all difficulties.
    • Unstable Frost’s Frost Detonation damage reduced by 40% on all difficulties.
    • Unstable Flame’s Flame Detonation damage reduced by 36% on all difficulties.
    • Unstable Storm’s Storm Detonation damage reduced by 36% on all difficulties.
    • Removed Living Flame and Primal Stormsentry from the first group of enemies on the way to Kurog Grimtotem after defeating Sennarth on all difficulties.
    • Fixed an issue with the Primalist Flamecaller on the way to Kurog Grimtotem where it did not regenerate health after leaving combat on all difficulties.
    • Awakened Juggernaut’s Colossal Smash damage reduced by 20% on all difficulties.
    • Awakened Juggernaut health reduced by 17% on all difficulties.
    • Primal Stormsentry’s Electric Surge damage reduced by 20% and the time between casts increased on all difficulties.
    • Fixed an issue where lava from the Djaradin did not project on stairs properly on all difficulties.
    • Reduced the start/end size and growth rate of the lava from the Djaradin on all difficulties.
    • Raszageth
      • Thunderous Blast can no longer damage pets.
      • Raszageth’s health has been reduced by 5% on Mythic difficulty.
      • Stormsurge’s Shield has been reduced by 50% on Mythic difficulty.

Player versus Player

  • Mage
    • Ring of Fire will now more consistently apply to enemies who are standing still.
  • Solo Shuffle
    • 100 wins above 2400 rating in Solo Shuffle now awards the title of “Legend” and the Legend: Dragonflight Season 1 achievement.
  • War Mode
    • The following changes have been made to Qalashi Wingshredder:
      • Cooldown reduced to 1 minute (was 2 minutes).
      • Cast time reduced to 1 second (was 2 seconds).
      • Range increased to 300 yards (was 200 yards).
      • Time for the ability to reach the target changed to 1 second (was based on distance travel time).

Professions

  • Fixed an issue where items in the player’s bank were not considered valid targets for salvaging.

Quests

  • Valdrakken
    • The weekly “Relic Recovery” and “Preserving the Past” dungeon quests will now appear on the map for Valdrakken.

Reputation

  • Iskaara Tuskarr
    • Community Feast bosses should now reliably reward the correct amount of reputation when killed.

December 20, 2022

Achievements

  • I’m Playing All Sides was erroneously awarding credit for turning keys into Bazentus at the Obsidian Forge. The has been corrected and may require turning in another key to gain that credit.
  • For Honor Our Ancestors, Dihar the Unyielding asks for 5 tier 2 Writhebark. The text will be updated to specify this next patch.

Classes

  • Evoker
    • Devastation
      • Fixed an issue where Pyre could occasionally not be cast despite having enough essence.

Dungeons and Raids

  • The Azure Vaults
    • Adjusted the Shrieking Whelps so that while they are out of combat, they are not considered targets for area of effect or chain abilities, unless they are directly targeted by them.
    • Umbrelskul
      • Oppressive Miasma no longer breaks stealth on Mythic difficulty.
  • The Nokhud Offensive
    • Primal Thunderbeast’s Chain Lightning damage reduced by 30% on Mythic+ difficulty.
  • Vault of the Incarnates
    • Dathea, Ascended
      • Reduced the melee damage of Volatile Infusers by 50% on Normal difficulty.
      • Reduced the number of Unstable Gusts on Normal difficulty.
      • Conductive Mark now targets 4 players regardless of raid group size.
      • Conductive Mark periodic damage now scales with raid group size.
    • Kurog Grimtotem
      • Abilities like Death Strike should now properly account for the damage of Kurog’s Sundering Strike.
    • Raszageth
      • The health of the following enemies has been reduced by 50%:
        • Surging Ruiner
        • Oathsworn Vanguard
        • Stormseeker Acolyte
        • Frostforged Zealot
        • Flamesworn Herald

Professions

  • Fixed and issue where players could wear more than 2 Embellished pieces of gear under certain conditions.
  • We have increased the amount of Primal Chaos gained in much of M+, particularly in the mid levels (5-15) to reduce the total runs needed to earn enough Primal Chaos to craft equivalent levels of profession gear.

Quests

  • Ohn’ahran Plains
    • Fixed an issue where “Academic Acquaintances” was not able to be completed for some players.
  • Thaldraszus
    • Increased the spawn rate of water elementals for the world quest “Depth Charge.”
  • Valdrakken
    • The weekly “Relic Recovery” and “Preserving the Past” dungeon quests will now appear on the map for Valdrakken.

Reputation

  • Fixed an issue where Tuskarr fishing nets occasionally yielded no fish.

December 19, 2022

Classes

  • Death Knight
    • [With weekly restarts] Soul Reaper damage increased by 10%.
    • [With weekly restarts] Icy Talons duration increased to 10 seconds (was 6).
    • Unholy
      • [With weekly restarts] Apocalypse ghoul duration increased to 20s, up from 15s.
      • [With weekly restarts] Death Coil damage increased by 10%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Clawing Shadows damage increased by 6%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Scourge Strike damage increased by 6%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Plaguebringer duration increased to 10s, up from 5s.
      • [With weekly restarts] Reaping now Increases the damage of Soul Reaper, Scourge Strike, Festering Strike, and Death Coil by 25% of damage (was 20%) to enemies below 35% health.
  • Demon Hunter
    • Havoc
      • Fixed an issue that prevented Felblade from gaining the damage bonus of Any Means Necessary.
  • Druid
    • Balance
      • Fixed an issue where Fungal Growth was incorrectly benefitting from Lunar Eclipse.
      • Fixed an issue where Fungal Growth was gaining additional unintended damage.
    • Restoration
      • [With weekly restarts] All healing increased by 5%. This change does not apply to PvP combat.
      • [With weekly restarts] Embrace of the Dream healing increased by 25%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Luxuriant Soil now has a 1.5/3% (was 1/2%) chance to spread Rejuvenation.
        • The tooltip will not reflect this change, but it will be corrected in a future update.
  • Evoker
    • Several animations have been improved when casting while Hovering.
    • [With weekly restarts] Disintegrate damage increased by 15%.
    • Preservation
      • Fixed an issue that could cause Rewind to fail to heal damage dealt to allies in large encounters such as Raszageth.
  • Hunter
    • Marksmanship
      • [With weekly restarts] All damage dealt reduced by 3%.
  • Mage
    • Fire
      • [With weekly restarts] Pyroblast damage increased by 12%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Ignite damage increased by 5%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Fire Blast damage increased by 12%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Fireball damage increased by 12%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Scorch damage increased by 12%.
    • Frost
      • [With weekly restarts] Ice Lance damage increased by 12%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Flurry damage increased by 15%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Frostbolt damage increased by 15%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Glacial Spike damage increased 15%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Splitting Ice, Icicles, and Ice Lance hit another nearby target for 80%, (was 65%).
        • The tooltip will not be updated to reflect this change but will be updated in the future.
  • Monk
    • Windwalker
      • [With weekly restarts] All ability damage reduced by 3%.
  • Paladin
    • Aspiration of Divinity stacks now overlap correctly.
    • Fixed an issue causing Retribution Aura to sometimes trigger its cooldown without granting Seraphim.
    • Protection
      • Fixed a bug causing Divine Toll to sometimes fail to generate Holy Power.
      • Added Shining Light to the Personal Resource Bar.
  • Priest
    • Shadow
      • [With weekly restarts] Vampiric Touch damage increased by 10%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Shadow Word: Pain damage increased by 10% for Shadow only.
      • [With weekly restarts] Shadowy Apparition Damage increased by 10%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Devouring Plague damage increased by 10%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Void Bolt damage increased by 20%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Mind Blast damage increased by 20% for Shadow only.
      • [With weekly restarts] Mind Spike damage increased by 20%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Mind Flay damage increased by 20%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Idol of Y’shaarj increases damage done by 5% when Mindbender is summoned on a feared target (down from 15%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Increased the mana cost of Power Word: Shield to 5% of base Mana for Shadow only (was 4%).
  • Rogue
    • [With weekly restarts] Resounding Clarity now causes Echoing Reprimand to Animacharge 2 additional combo points (was 3).
    • Assassination
      • [With weekly restarts] All ability damage reduced by 3%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Fatal Concoction’s damage bonus for weapon poisons reduced to 10% (was 15%).
    • Outlaw
      • [With weekly restarts] All ability damage reduced by 3%.
    • Subtlety
      • [With weekly restarts] All ability damage reduced by 3%.
  • Shaman
    • Enhancement
      • [With weekly restarts] All damage dealt reduced by 3%.
  • Warlock
    • Affliction
      • [With weekly restarts] Malefic Rapture damage increased by 15%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Drain Soul damage increased by 20%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Shadowbolt damage increased by 20%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Pandemic Invocation damage increased by 500%.
    • Demonology
      • [with weekly restarts] The cooldown of Call Felhunter is now 60 seconds (was 30 seconds).
    • Destruction
      • [With weekly restarts] Chaos Bolt damage increased by 5%.
  • Warrior
    • Arms
      • [With weekly restarts] All ability damage increased by 3%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Mortal Strike damage increased by 5%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Execute damage increased by 10%.
    • Fury
      • [With weekly restarts] (2) Set Bonus: Execute critical hit chance bonus increased to 25% (was 10%).

Dragonriding

  • Cliffside Wylderdrake
    • White Hair manuscript is now available for purchase from Valdrakken Accord renown vendors at Valdrakken Accord rank 15.
  • Renewed Proto-Drake:
    • Meiz no longer offers to sell the Thick Spined Jaw manuscript if you have unlocked the customization option already.
    • Green Scales manuscript is now available for purchase from renown vendors at Maruuk Centaur renown rank 19.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Vault of the Incarnates
    • Kurog Grimtotem
      • Increased the enrage timer to 10 minutes on Mythic difficulty (was 9 minutes).
      • Decreased the following enemies health by 15% on Mythic difficulty:
        • Frostwrought Dominator
        • Earthwrough Smasher
        • Flamewrought Eradicator
        • Stormwrought Despoiler
        • Tectonic Crusher
        • Frozen Destroyer
        • Blazing Fiend
        • Thundering Ravager
      • Fixed an issue where Kurog Grimtotem’s Earth, Flame, Frost, and Storm Dominance were not interacting correctly with Evoker’s ability Rewind (all difficulties).
    • Broodkeeper Diurna
      • Fixed an issue which could affect the responsiveness of Primalist Forces on when they become active on all difficulties.
      • Fixed an issue which could cause Empowered Greatstaff’s Wrath to target a tank-specialization player over other valid targets.
    • Raszageth
      • Flamesworn Herald’s Flame Shield now absorbs 55% of its health (was 70%).
      • The initial cooldown time of Frostforged Zealot’s Shattering Shroud has been increased.
      • Players that are immune to the effects of Hurricane Wing are also immune to the effects of Hurricane Winds.
      • Fixed an issue where Discipline Priest Atonement was incorrectly being affected by both the damage increase and healing increase from the Focused Charge buff.

Items and Rewards

  • Fixed an issue where players couldn’t engage with the Empty Fish Barrel.

Mythic+

  • Developers’ note: Season 1 is off to a roaring start, and we’ve been playing lots of dungeons and gotten lots of great feedback from players during this first week of Mythic+ in Dragonflight. While we want to be careful not to change too much as players are still figuring out the new dungeons, we’ve identified some areas where we’d like to act on feedback sooner than later.
  • Alegeth’ar Academy
    • Aggravated Skitterfly Darting Sting damage reduced by 25% and should now try to sting different targets.
    • [With weekly restarts] Fixed an issue that caused Spectral Invoker’s Arcane Missiles to not scale properly with key levels.
    • Overgrown Ancient
      • [With weekly restarts] Reduced the health of Ancient Branch by 40%.
  • The Azure Vaults
    • [With weekly restarts] Conjured Lasher health reduced by 20%.
    • Arcane Tender’s Infused Ground damage reduced by 33%.
    • Azureblade
      • [With weekly restarts] Overwhelming Energy damage reduced by 25%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Overwhelming Energy cast time increased to 3 seconds (was 2 seconds).
      • [With weekly restarts] There is an additional delay before Overwhelming Energy that inflicts damage and expels Ancient Orb Fragments.
      • [With weekly restarts] Ancient Orb damage reduced by 25%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Fixed an issue that caused the broadcast for Overwhelming Energy to not display.
      • [With weekly restarts] Fixed an issue that caused the cast time of Overwhelming Energy to display incorrectly.
  • Court of Stars
    • [With weekly restarts] Legion Hound’s Felblaze Puddle now properly has a screen effect of the firey puddle left on the ground.
  • Halls of Valor
    • Ebonclaw Worg’s Leap for the Throat damage reduced by 20%.
    • Resolved an issue that caused Ebonclaw Worg’s Leap for the Throat to target the primary threat player.
    • Fenyr
      • Claw Frenzy’s cast time increased to 1 seconds (was instant) and now has a visual to indicate that the damage it inflicts is split by targets in the area effect.
  • The Nokhud Offensive
    • [With weekly restarts] Soulharvesters’ Death Bolt Volley cast time increased to 3 sec (was 1.5 sec).
    • [With weekly restarts] Soulharvesters’ Death Bolt Volley and Shatter Soul are now cast less frequently.
    • [With weekly restarts] Ukhel Corruptor’s Death Bolt cast time increased to 2 seconds (was 1.5).
    • [With weekly restarts] Ukhel Corruptor’s Necrotic Eruption is now cast less frequently.
    • [With weekly restarts] Ukhel Deathspeaker’s Chant of the Dead cast time is increased to 8 seconds and is now cast less frequently.
    • [With weekly restarts] Risen Mystic’s Swift Wind cast time increased to 3 seconds (was 2).
    • [With weekly restarts] Risen Warrior’s Mortal Strike duration reduced to 4 seconds (was 10), and it is now cast less frequently.
    • [With weekly restarts] Desecrated Ohuna’s Rotting Wind range reduced to 25yd (was 40), and it is now cast less frequently.
    • The Raging Tempest
      • [With weekly restarts] Electrical Storm damage reduced by 15%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Energy Surge duration reduced to 8 seconds (was 10 seconds).
  • Ruby Life Pools
    • [With weekly restarts] Scorchling no longer casts Burning Touch.
    • [With weekly restarts] Thunderhead and Flamegullet are now visible from much further away, making their flight path easier to keep track of.
    • [With weekly restarts] The cast time of Thunderhead’s Storm Breath and Flamegullet’s Flame Breath increased to 3 seconds (was 2 seconds).
    • [With weekly restarts] Primalist Flamedancer’s Flame Dance channel duration increased to 6 seconds (was 4 seconds).
    • [With weekly restarts] Blazebound Destroyer’s Living Bomb periodic damage reduced by 40%.
    • [With weekly restarts] Tempest Channeler’s Lightning Storm periodic damage and duration have both been reduced by 20%.
    • Kokia Blazehoof
      • [With weekly restarts] Health reduced by 15%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Blazebound Firestorm health reduced by 20%.
    • Kyrakka and Erkheart Stormvein
      • [With weekly restarts] Erkheart Stormvein health reduced by 10%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Kyrakka health reduced by 10%.
      • [With weekly restarts] While Kyrakka is grounded, Flamespit will now target a maximum of 3 players (was 5).
  • Temple of the Jade Serpent
    • [With weekly restarts] Depraved Mistweaver’s Defiling Mist damage reduced by 20%.
    • [With weekly restarts] Depraved Mistweaver’s Touch of Ruin’s initial aura is now a curse effect.
    • Wise Mari
      • Fixed an issue that could cause display issues during the ability Wash Away.
      • [With weekly restarts] Improved the visibility on Corrupted Geyser’s warning effects.
    • Sha of Doubt
      • [With weekly restarts] Touch of Nothingness damage reduced by 20%.
      • Bounds of Reality reduces damage taken by 99% instead of granting immunity to all damage.

Ohn’ahran Plains

  • The graveyard near Windsong Rise now has a Spirit Healer.

Pet Battles

  • Jingles should now have a chance to show up with his wreath and candy cane on summon, instead of being locked into an appearance.
  • The first three Centaur Hunts each week now have a chance to award a Bakar or Ohuna battle pet.

Player versus Player

  • Classes
    • Demon Hunter
      • The Hunt deals 20% less damage in PvP.
      • Misery in Defeat now increased damage dealt to the target by 10% in PvP (was 20%).
    • Druid
      • Balance
        • [With weekly restarts] Starsurge, Wrath, and Starfire damage increased by 20% in PvP.
          • Developers’ note: Balance Druid’s potential burst has gone down significantly compared to Shadowlands, while at the same time their consistent spread damage has increased. Overall this is a healthier place, but we also want Starsurge to be a viable option for spending Astral Power in PvP. Additionally, we’d like to reward Balance Druids for casting Wrath and Starfire since these spells are more difficult to cast in PvP.
      • Feral
        • [With weekly restarts] Leader of the Pack now heals for 3% of maximum health (was 5%).
          • Developers’ note: As a follow-up to one of our goals in last week’s tuning of DPS specializations having higher self-healing than we were comfortable with, we are making an adjustment with Leader of the Pack to be more in line with other DPS specializations’ self-healing.
      • Restoration
        • [With weekly restarts] Riptide healing increased by 15% in PvP Combat.
        • [With weekly restarts] Lifebloom healing reduced by 10% in PvP combat.
        • Lifebloom’s bloom healing reduced by 10% in PvP combat.
          • Developers’ note: Lifebloom continued to constitute a significant portion of a Restoration Druid’s healing in PvP, so we’re lowering it. We feel that Restoration Druid’s throughput with this adjustment will remain strong.
    • Monk
      • [with weekly restarts] Blackout Kick damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
      • [with weekly restarts] Tiger Palm damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
      • Mistweaver
        • [with weekly restarts] Mana regeneration now reduced by an additional 15% (was 5%) in PvP combat.
      • Windwalker
        • Strike of the Windlord damage reduced by 30% in PvP combat.
          • Developers’ note: Strike of the Windlord and Thunderfist are dealing more burst than we are comfortable with, so we are adjusting them and increasing additional sustained damage.
    • Paladin
      • Holy
        • [with weekly restarts] Mana regeneration now reduced by an additional 35% (was 40%) in PvP combat.
    • Priest
      • Discipline
        • [with weekly restarts] Mana regeneration now reduced by an additional 5% (was 15%) in PvP combat.
      • Shadow
        • [With weekly restarts] Shadow Word: Death damage reduced by 20% for Shadow only in PvP Combat.
        • [With weekly restarts] Reduced the absorption value of Power Word: Shield by 20% in PvP Combat for Shadow only.
        • [With weekly restarts] Reduced the healing transfer of Vampiric Embrace by 20% in PvP Combat.
        • [With weekly restarts] Reduced the duration of Void Volley: Horrify by 2 sec (was 3 sec).
        • [With weekly restarts] Reduced the damage of Void Volley by 30%.
          • Developers’ note: Shadow Priest self-sustain is too high in PvP so we are making targeted adjustments to their healing. Additionally, we are targeting Void Volley and Idol of Y’Shaarj as we’ve seen it could lead to frustrating situations with minimal counterplay when paired with other instant cast damage dealing abilities.
    • Rogue
      • [With weekly restarts] Numbing Poison attack and cast speed debuff effectiveness reduced by 33% in PvP combat.
      • Assassination
        • [With weekly restarts] Deathmark damage dealt by duplicated poisons and bleeds reduced by 30% in PvP combat.
          • The tooltip will not reflect this change, but it will be corrected in a future update.
      • Subtlety
        • [With weekly restarts] Secret Technique damage reduced by 30% in PvP combat.
          • Developers’ note: Assassination bleed damage is higher than we are comfortable with and Secret Technique has potential to lead to burst windows with minimal counterplay, so we are toning them down. Additionally, we are most comfortable with baseline cast speed reduction being 10% in PvP currently, so we’re reducing Numbing Poison to be in line with similar abilities.
    • Shaman
      • [With weekly restarts] Healing Stream Totem healing increased by 15% in PvP Combat.
      • Elemental
        • Reduced the damage of Elemental Blast by 15% in PvP combat.
          • Developers’ note: We’ve continued to see Elemental Blast be too bursty in PvP, for both Enhancement and Elemental. Additionally, Lightning Bolt burst with Primordial Wave for Enhancement was dealing more burst than desired, so we’re bringing down the value of Primordial Wave so that Lightning Bolt on its own can continue to shine. For Restoration, we’re targeting buffs to instant cast spells for improved survivability.
        • Enhancement
          • [With weekly restarts] Reduced the damage of Elemental Blast by 15% in PvP Combat.
          • [With weekly restarts] Primordial Wave causes your next Lightning Bolt to hit all targets with Flame Shock for 75% of normal damage for Enhancement only in PvP Combat (down from 150%).
    • Warlock
      • Affliction
        • [With weekly restarts] Soulburn Port duration reduced to 6 seconds in PvP.
        • [With weekly restarts] Soulburn Drain Life no longer grants an absorb when healing at full health in PvP.
        • [With weekly restarts] Soulburn Healthstone healing is reduced to 20% (was 30%) in PvP combat.
      • Demonology
        • [With weekly restarts] The cooldown of Call Felhunter is now 60 seconds (was 30 seconds).
          • Developers’ note: Demonology Warlocks have an abundance of control in their toolkit that can be used frequently so we are targeting the cooldown of Call Felhunter.
      • Destruction
        • [With weekly restarts] Chaos Bolt damage increased by 15% in PvP Combat.
        • [With weekly restarts] Shadowburn damage increased by 30% in PvP Combat.
        • [With weekly restarts] Incinerate damage increased by 30% in PvP Combat.
          • Developers’ note: Destruction Warlocks traditionally shine in PvP through setting up big burst windows, and we feel like they have been lacking in that regard.
    • Warrior
      • Fury
        • [With weekly restarts] Warpaint now reduces damage taken by 5% (was 10%) while enraged in PvP combat.
          • Developers’ note: We feel that Fury Warriors are too durable, even after last week’s adjustments to their self-healing from Bloodthirst.
      • Protection
        • [With weekly restarts] Shield Slam - Damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat.
        • [With weekly restarts] Rend damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat (Protection Warrior only).
          • Developers’ note: Protection Warriors are continuing to deal more damage than we would like even after recent adjustments. In some cases, we’ve observed them competing with damage-dealing specializations, so we’re making additional targeted adjustments on Shield Slam and Rend.
  • Solo Shuffle
    • Fixed an issue that prevented level 61+ players from participating in Solo Shuffle War Games in Maldraxxus Coliseum and Ruins of Lordaeron.

Professions

  • [With weekly restarts] You can now only earn Artisan’s Consortium reputation via weekly quests from two professions a week. All professions provide the same amount total (500).
  • [with weekly restarts] Azure Loom and Chrono Loom can now be used to fulfill Crafting Orders.
  • Added S.A.V.I.O.R. to the Crafting Order system. It remains Bind on Pickup and Requires Dragon Isles Engineering to use.
  • Added all intermediate reagents, finishing reagents, and optional reagents to the Crafting Order system (except for Illustrious Insight).
    • Developers’ note: The desire to fulfill orders is sometimes much greater than the supply of orders that actively need filled despite the high volume of orders going through the system. Additionally, there is a disconnect between being able to use one’s own raw gathered reagents to create a final desired product. By adding these crafted reagents to the Crafting Order system, we hope to offer more opportunities for crafters to locate and fill orders and customers to directly utilize their own materials to feel a stronger sense of ownership in the final product. Currently, multiple orders will need to be placed if you need a higher quantity than the recipe provides. We recognize that this flow isn’t ideal and will be looking into how to improve it. Thank you for your patience and continued feedback as we iterate on all things professions!
  • Alchemy
    • Transmutation crafts have been temporarily disabled in order to address an exploit. It is our top priority to resolve the underlying issue and re-enable Transmutations as soon as possible.
  • Enchanting
    • The Enchanting formulas Illusion: Primal Frost, Air, Fire, and Earth were inadvertently bind on pickup. They have been changed to unbound so they may freely be traded and sold on the auction house.
  • Engineering
    • Arclight Energy Surge caused by catastrophic tinker malfunctions will now continue to tick down while offline.
    • Pieces of Scrap sometimes found by specialized Engineers now have a significantly higher chance of dropping when you use your bombs or tinkers.
    • The chance to receive Junk items from Rummage Through Scrap has been reduced for specialized Engineers.
    • Rummage Through Scrap’s chance to yield a special treasure has been slightly increased for specialized Engineers.
      • Developers’ note: While the main benefit of investing points into the Scrapper specialization is the significant increase to your resourcefulness, Rummage Through Scrap is proving to be far less rewarding than intended. The goal for this effect is not to incentivize using your devices at every opportunity, but instead to reward your dedication to your craft by sometimes uncovering something useful… or unique!
  • Herbalism
    • Windswept perk 0 now correctly reduces the distance you are knocked back by Building Breeze.
  • Inscription
    • The Curious Djaradin Rune, an item that gives specialization in Inscription, should now drop from creatures for Scribes capable of specializing.
    • Fixed an issue where some embellishments where not showing on Held in Off-hand weapons.
  • Jewelcrafting
    • Fixed an issue where the Design: Elemental Lariat was not properly dropping off all boss storm creatures. It should now properly drop off them.
      • Developers’ note: Players only have a chance to get this recipe on your first kill of each per day, matching with the behavior of other loot that drops from these creatures.
  • Mining
    • Fixed an issue with Titan-Touched specialization that had the effect descriptions of the 0 point and 40 point perks swapped. Functionality is unchanged.
    • Fixed an issue that made the Surveying 30 knowledge perk drop Illimited Diamonds significantly less often than intended.
    • Molten perk 0 now correctly reduces the damage dealt by Smoldering Ore.
  • Skinning
    • Reduced the cooldown of Bottled Pheromones to 5 minutes (was 30 minutes).
    • Significantly increased the bonus cooldown reduction specializations provide toward Elusive Creature Bait. When players are maxed out in all perks related to Elusive Creature Bait, the cooldown is now reduced by 20 minutes (was 13 minutes).
    • Increased the reward for skinning normal, rare, and elite ‘elusive’ enemies. The normal enemies are now only skinnable by a single skinner.
      • Developers’ note: The rewards for skinning elusive creatures have been equally elusive, so we are improving what they drop. Along with this change, normal elusive creatures are only skinnable by a single skinner. Elite and Rare elusive creatures will remain skinnable by everyone who participates in defeating them.

Quests

  • Fixed an issue that was causing the rare Stolen Present box to show up on the quest “You’re a Mean One…”.
  • PX-238 Winter Wondervolt now persists through death.
  • [With weekly restarts] Requirement to complete Sparks of Life weekly quests reduced to 100 Sparks of Life (was 200).
  • Azure Span
    • Fixed an issue where unique creatures in “Delights to Delve for” were clipping into the geography, blocking players from completing the objective.
  • The Forbidden Reach
    • During “Final Orders” the Wrath of the Storm-Eater aura will now properly disable mounting, dragonriding, and Soar spells.
  • Ohn’ahran Plains
    • Gurgthock the Fight Promoter should no longer become permanently uninteractible if players restart “The Field of Ferocity Redux: Master of the Hunt” immediately after it resets.
  • Thaldraszus
    • Fixed an issue where credit was incorrectly sharing between party members during “Time-Locked Timewalkers.”
  • The Waking Shores
    • Fixed an issue where Wrathion could drop players while flying during “The Obsidian Citadel.”
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I hope you get a long rest after this. But keep up the good work on these long hotfix post.

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So after people have taken advantage of this by exploiting it for two weeks, they get that advantage permanently locked in with no consequences and everybody else is locked out?

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Protection:

Still waiting on passive healing spells/talents to receive the appropriate tuning post HP & Incoming damage buff. Also, can WoG finally come back off GCD? K thx.

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Thanks god for the spriest in PvP that nerf is welcomed

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Nerf the little saplings on the tree boss too. They hit too hard also.

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How tolerable will this make M+ RLP? I just ran a +2 with 30 deaths thanks to the dragons.

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Are you guys going to be taking away the ill-gotten gains from the people who exploited to hit Exalted already? Cause they have a monopoly on those patterns for the next month or two if not.

That doesn’t even touch on the fact they have 30 free Knowledge per profession compared to us.

You guys need to start punishing people who exploit like this, or the mantra/mindset “Exploit Early, Exploit Often” will continue to grow.

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the solo shuffle changes not being implemented and only speculated on for a “future update” is gonna kill the mode. otherwise pretty good looking patch.

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why nerf?
/char10

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Please leave prot alone in pvp, some of us want the gladiator playstyle and large SS crits and dmg is how.

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so sad not seeing any bm aoe buffs to beast or kill cleaves. dead is dead i guess.

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How was it an exploit? If they expected people to be doing it and cut the mettle and other things gained right away in response, seems like it couldnt be considered one.

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My friend was also upset about this but it’s not like the profession shuffle was free. This strategy was known and available to everyone but many of us, myself included, chose not to do it because of the gold cost. I don’t care either way that it’s unavailable.

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Could we get some clarification about on what is considered a boss creature? There is no in game indication of when these spawn.

There have been occasional elites but it is hard to tell whether these are considered a “boss storm creature.”

First kill of the day is also ambiguous wording, can players expect to get one attempt at a kill for each location the storm is in? Is there a chance for more than one “boss storm creature” to spawn per event? Are the “boss storm creatures” spawn timing completely random or on a timer or after a certain number of add kills?

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This ceases to be funny anymore. EE,EO.

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Do resto druids also have a healing skill called riptide or is that 15% buff meant for shamans?

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Still nothing about why Preservation Evokers are tanky compared to Devastation evokers who are squishy AF. Why would you make a midrange mail based class/spec and have them be essentailly a glass cannon with no added value to group make up other than it’s a RP dream for folx to roll lizard.

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Looking forward to feeling viable again as a Mage main who hates Arcane

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