War Within Season 1 Hotfixes (September 23rd, 2024)

Here you’ll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: The War Within, Cataclysm Classic, Season of Discovery, WoW Classic Era, and Hardcore. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.

Hotfixes

September 23, 2024

Achievements

• Swift has been replaced by Bobbin for completing the achievement Itsy Bitsy Spider.

Classes
Unholy

• Raise Abomination will now correctly take reduced damage from area of effect damage

Mage

• Spellslinger: Splinterstorm will now find a valid target within range to fire at if your current target is not valid.
• Sunfury: Spellfire Spheres will now generate every 8 seconds while out of combat.
• Sunfury: Spellfire Sphere out of combat generation cap increased to 5 if Rondurmancy is talented.

Monk

• Mastery of Harmony: Overwhelming Force now correctly grants vitality, and is now triggered by Teachings of the Monastery.
• Fixed an issue that caused Chi Burst to stop healing after healing more than 20 targets.

Shaman

• Enhancement

  With 2 stacks of Tempest available, Primordial Wave will now cause you to cast additional Lightning Bolts as intended, instead of casting additional Tempests.

Delves

The Underkeep

• Removed a small amount of ice crystals from the boss fight to provide a little more room to maneuver.
• Adjusted locations of ice crystals to provide more space within the boss fight area.

Dungeons and Raids

• Mythic+

  Addressed an issue where Xal’atath’s Bargain affixes can target players in unintended situations.

• Mists of Tirna Scithe

  Fixed an issue where the dungeon shortcuts required Dragon Isle Herbalism instead of Khaz Algar Herbalism.

Siege of Boralus

The Dawnbreaker

• Addressed an issue where Rasha’nan could parry.

The Necrotic Wake

• Fixed an issue causing Xandria to animate incorrectly while throwing her Spear of Courage at Amarth.

The Stonevault

Nerub-ar Palace

Broodtwister Ovi’nax

• Colossal Spider health reduced by 25% on Mythic difficulty.
• Blood Parasite health reduced by 21% on Mythic difficulty.
• Healing absorb effect of Unstable Infusion reduced by 12.5%.

The Silken Court

• Fixed an issue with Piercing Strike debuff not increasing Piercing Strike’s damage. Piercing Strike debuff now persists through death.

Queen Ansurek

• Fixed a situation that could cause Queen Ansurek to continue casting Paralyzing Waves throughout Phase 2.
• Fixed an issue where the visual of a Chamber Expeller’s Expulsion Beam could sometimes be incorrectly aligned with the actual damage zone, and also sometimes move slightly during the cast.
• Fixed an issue where Death Knight’s Anti-Magic Shell could sometimes prevent players from traveling through an Abyssal Conduit.

Events

• Orange Brewfest Bulwark and Homebrewer’s Sampling Mantle will now refund for Brewfest Prize Tokens.
• “Bar Tab Barrel” in Lorel’s Crossing will now count for the Trading Post activity to complete Brewfest quests.

Player versus Player

• Deephaul Ravine is now available in Battleground Blitz and Rated Battleground modes.
• The Weapons of Conquest quest for free PvP weapons has been replaced with the Forged Weapons of Conquest achievement found under Feats of Strength -> PvP. Progress towards this achievement can be tracked by viewing the Conquest currency and is retroactive.

  The Forged Weapons of Conquest achievement grants two Forged Gladiator’s Weapon Tokens which can be exchanged with Lalandi at the Contender’s Gate for free PvP weapons of your choice: 2 tokens for 2-handed weapons and 1 token for 1-handed weapons.

  To help offset the need for Fury Warriors’ need for two 2-handed weapons, their Strength weapon choices will only cost 1 token.

Fixed an issue that prevented Vicious Jeweler’s Setting from functioning on PvP class set helms purchased from Ab’xal.

Death Knight

Mage

Paladin

Professions

• Patron Orders

  All customers (except for the Artisan’s Consortium) now have a chance to provide basic reagents.

• Increased the likelihood for all customers to provide basic reagents.
• Lowered the quality requirement on many potential orders that grant specialization points by 1.
• Addressed several rare cases where a customer could request a minimum quality for items without quality.
• Removed several abnormally expensive orders from the pool of potential Patron Orders, such as Alchemy Cauldrons, Engineering Toys, and Darkmoon Sigils.

  Developers’ notes: All of the above changes only apply to newly created orders, existing orders should remain unchanged.

Quests

• Knicknack should now be visible to level 80 players if her quest was shared or if someone in a warband has completed her quest previously.

September 19, 2024

Delves

Dungeons and Raids

Nerub-ar Palace

Events

• Resolved an issue where the map tooltip for the Theater Troupe event was displaying incorrect information about the current play.

Items and Rewards

• Spymaster’s Web active effect is now removed upon starting an encounter or Mythic+ dungeon.
• Treacherous Transmitter shared cooldown increased to 30 seconds.

Player versus Player

• Resolved an issue that prevented Battleground Blitz from granting progress towards the Vicious Skyflayer mount.

Quests

• Players will no longer be blocked from completing “A Shot at the Top” if they engage Abductor Arzda from too far a distance.
• Fixed an issue causing credit to not be granted to players in raid groups during certain Worldsoul weekly wrapper quests.
• The Coreway Repair Rig in the “Coreway Maintenance Request” World Quest now properly transitions into flight mode, allowing it to fly down the Coreway.
• “Hallowfall Fishing Derby” can now be completed on multiple characters, awarding 3 Mereldar Derby Marks.
• “Klaskin’s Great Escape” wrap-up events should no longer block players who wander off without watching the resolution of Klaskin and his wife.
• The quests that lead to story mode for Nerub-ar Palace should now display on the zone map if players have ‘Local Story’ enabled in their map filters.

September 18, 2024

Achievements

• Fixed an issue where the cosmetic rewards for Nemesis and Let Me Solo Him were not delivered upon defeating Zek’vir. Those that have not received their rewards are able to obtain them by re-defeating Zek’vir on any difficulty.
• The First Echo, A Series of Echoes, and Many Echoes are now credited to players in raid groups.

Classes
Hunter

• Raptor Strikes and Mongoose Bites empowered by Merciless Blows should no longer cleave to stealthed or breakable crowd-controlled enemies.

Priest

Mage

• Frostfire: Fixed an issue that caused Frostfire Bolt to not deal its damage if its missile lands on targets out of line of sight.
• Hyperthermia will now guarantee Heating Up, Hot Streak, and critical strikes when casting Flamestrike.
• Icy Veins no longer consumes Ice Floes.
• Living Bomb can no longer hit or spread to dead targets.
• Living Bomb’s explosion will no longer damage breakable crowd-controlled targets.
• Living Bomb will prefer being applied to targets not in breakable crowd control.
• Fixed an issue that allowed Arcane Mages to generate 2 Spellfire Spheres at once.
• Burden of Power can no longer be instantly consumed by the Arcane Blast that proc’d it.

Delves

Fungal Folly

• Kasthrik will no longer lie to you when you successfully complete his puzzle.

Skittering Breach

• Adjusted Light Dash to feel more responsive in the Shadow Realm variant. The distance Light Dash will go is shorter, but the cooldown to use each charge is faster.
• Light Dash should hit Grasping Shadow’s even if the player is a few feet above it.

Dungeons

Mists of Tirna Scithe

• Tred’ova’s selection circle now correctly matches the range it can be attacked from.

Events

• Resolved an issue where the map tooltip for the Theater Troupe event was displaying incorrect information about the current play.

Items and Rewards

• Necrotic Wake Challenger’s Cache now correctly awards Crests.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent alts from getting a valorstone discount from a main character’s high weapon item level in some circumstances.
• Addressed an issue preventing some Veteran world equipment from being able to convert to Tier.
• Fateweaved Needle and Fateweaved Mallet no longer scale with Haste.
• Tanks are now ineligible for Need rolls on melee damage trinkets such as Skyterrors’s Corrosive Organ and Void Reaper’s Contract. Tanks will no longer find them in their Great Vaults without switching to an appropriate damage loot specialization.

Player versus Player

Professions

Quests

• Inscription contracts for additional reputation from World Quests should now properly function with Skyriding World Quests in Khaz Algar.
• Bags of Seeds now drop more often on the quest “Seeds of Salvation” in Hallowfall.

User Interface

• The battle pet Mister Muskoxeles now appears properly in Collections.

September 17, 2024

Classes

Demon Hunter

Druid

Feral

All ability damage increased by 3%.
Rip damage increased by 6%.
Ferocious Bite damage increased by 3%.
Feral Frenzy damage increased by 10%.
Druid of the Claw: Ravage damage increased by 3%.

Restoration

• All healing increased by 8%. Does not affect PvP combat.
• Wrath damage increased by 20%.
• Starfire damage increased by 20%.
• Starsurge damage increased by 20%.

Evoker

Mage

Fire

• All ability damage increased by 6%.
• Living Bomb damage increased by 25%.

Monk

Windwalker

• Darting Hurricane’s passive trigger rate reduced by 50% and it now reduces the global cooldown by 0.25 seconds (was 0.5 seconds).

Paladin

Retribution

• Herald of the Sun: Dawnlight damage reduced by 15%.

Priest

Shadow

• All damage increased by 6%.
• Psychic Link now inflicts 25% of its direct damage to targets afflicted by Vampiric Touch (was 30%).

Rogue

Shaman

Restoration

• Lava Burst damage increased by 12%.
• Lightning Bolt damage increased by 12%.
• Chain Lightning damage increased by 12%.

Warlock

Destruction

• All ability damage increased by 6%.
• Dimensional Rift damage increased by 40%.
• Channel Demonfire damage increased by 40%.

Warrior

Fury

• All ability damage reduced by 3%.
• Bladestorm damage reduced by 10%.
• Odyn’s Fury damage reduced by 15%.
• Mountain Thane: Strength of the Mountain increases Bloodthirst and Rampage damage by 20% (was 15%).

Delves

Dungeons and Raids

Dawnbreaker

• There is now a Worn Anvil to repair next to Arathi Lamplighter on the Dawnbreaker.

Mists of Tirna Scithe

Siege of Boralus

Nerub-ar Palace

Items

• Ara-Kara Sacbrood – Primary stat reduced by 5%.
• Burin of the Candle King – Absorb increased by 15%.
• Cinderbrew Stein – Primary stat increased by 5%, absorb increased by 20%.
• Cirral Concoctory – Effects increased by 5%.
• Gale of Shadows – No longer continually plays a visual on the player each time a new stack is applied.
• Harvester’s Edict – Damage and Mastery effect increased by 5%.
• Mereldar’s Toll – Versatility effect increased by 8%.
• Overclocked Gear-A-Rang – On-use damage increased by 10%.
• Ovi’nax’s Mercurial Egg – Fixed an issue where buff values differed slightly from their expected amounts.
• Refracting Aggression Module – Absorb increased by 25%.
• Scrapsinger’s Symphony – Absorb increased by 15%.
• Shadow-Binding Ritual Knife – Primary stat reduced by 5%.
• Shining Arathor Insignia – Damage and healing reduced by 10%.
• Sikran’s Endless Arsenal – Damage effects increased by 5%.
• Spare Meat Hook and Bottled Flayedwing Toxin now correctly deal reduced damage for tank specializations.
• Spymaster’s Web – Intellect on use reduced by 5%.
• Swarmlord’s Authority – Absorb increased by 20%.
• Tome of Light’s Devotion – Absorb and Armor increased by 15%.
• Twin Fang Instruments – Damage increased by 8%.
• Viscous Coaglam – Effect increased by 5%.

Player versus Player
Demon Hunter

Evoker

Hunter

Monk

Windwalker

• Communion with Wind damage increase is no longer reduced in PvP combat (was reduced by 50%).
• Shado-Pan: Wisdom of the Wall’s Shadow damage is reduced by 50% in PvP combat.

Paladin

• Holy

  Sanctified Plates now increases Armor by 20%, Stamina by 10%, and area-of-effect damage reduction by 6% in PvP combat.

• Divine Protection’s damage reduction increased by 50% in PvP combat.

Protection

• Ardent Defender’s damage reduction increased by 50% in PvP combat.

Rogue

• Reverberation damage bonus for Echoing Reprimand reduced to 70% in PvP combat (base 100%).

Shaman

Warlock

Destruction

• Chaos Bolt damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
• Incinerate damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
• Soul Fire damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
• Decimation now reduces the cast time of Soul Fire by 60% in PvP combat (was 80%).
• Hellcaller: Wither damage reduced by 30% in PvP combat.
• Diabolist: Ruination damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.

Professions

September 16, 2024

Classes

• Death Knight

  Rider of the Apocalypse: Apocalyptic Conquest now correctly modifies total Strength (was modifies base Strength).

• San’layn: Visceral Strength now correctly modifies total Strength (was modifies base Strength).
• Blood

  Bloodied Blade now correctly modifies total Strength (was modifies base Strength).

Mage

• Fixed an issue that caused Frostfire Bolt to consume Ice Floes when instant cast from Frostfire Empowerment.
• Fixed an issue that caused Ice Wall to not be reduced by Elemental Affinity for Fire Mages.

Paladin

Rogue

Warlock

• Ritual of Doom summoned Doomguard damage reduced by 90%.

  Developers’ notes: While sacrificing your friends can be entertaining, we’d prefer it to not be the optimal means to play. We’ve decreased the throughput of Ritual of Doom to ensure that warlocks don’t need to pay such a hefty tithe to perform optimally.

Delves

Kriegval’s Rest

• Lowered the size of ambush groups while defending Pagsly.

The Waterworks

• Lowered the size of ambush groups at the end of one of the variants.
• Lowered the size of specific spawn groups throughout the map to 3 enemies (was 6 to 7 enemies per spawn group).
• Fixed an issue where Pagsly and Karnk would not respawn if a player died while in a group.

Dungeons and Raids

• Nerub-ar Palace

  Ulgrax the Devourer

Fixed an issue that allowed Hungering Bellows to be mitigated by physical resistance effects.
Reduced the damage of Hungering Bellows by 15%.

• Developers notes: Hungering Bellows is meant to ignore physical resistance, similar to other ‘sonic’ effects. The damage has been reduced slightly to compensate for some of this change.

Ulgrax now enrages a few seconds after ‘Feeding Frenzy’ resolves for the fourth time.
The Silken Court

Items

• Fixed an issue where Radiant Echoes were not dropping for some players.

Professions

September 13, 2024

Achievements

• Players will now earn the achievements Harbinger of the Weathered, Harbinger of the Carved, and Harbinger of the Runed immediately upon outgrowing the use of those crests.

Classes

Druid

Evoker

Preservation

• Cycle of Life no longer accumulates healing done to pets and guardians.

Monk

Paladin

Retribution

• An issue causing Empyrean Hammer to not function on training dummies has been resolved.
• Instrument of Retribution will no longer trigger Dawnlight.
• An issue causing Instrument of Retribution to trigger Avenging Wrath when talented into Crusade (and vice versa) has been resolved.

• Shaman

  Fixed an issue causing Farseer Ancestor spells to have a damage reduction adjustment applied twice to their spells.

• Corrected an issue where Stormbringer Tempest would consume multiple stacks when striking multiple enemy targets.
• Fixed an issue causing Mastery: Elemental Overload to not increase damage from all pets.
• Elemental

  Fixed an issue causing Mastery: Elemental Overload to not increase damage from all pets.

Warlock

• Increased the threat generation of voidwalkers’ and felguards’ Threatening Presence.

Delves

• Addressed scaling issues causing enemies in Delves to deal more damage than intended, especially for groups and tanks.

  Developers’ notes: Over the last day, we’ve sought to address the unintended circumstance where certain group compositions made the health of enemies lower than they would be if you went into a Delve by yourself. We also tried moving some of the harder affixes from first appearing in Tier 9 and above into Tier 8. The results were not what we hoped for. We’ve now brought enemy damage back down closer to our targets, the most-difficult affixes have been sent back to Tier 9, and scaling adjustments should make group and solo play less lethal.

Nightfall Sanctum

• Resolved an issue where players could get stuck in combat after dying to Speaker Davenruth.

The Underkeep

• Reduced Crazed Abominations’ health.

The Waterworks

• Waxface’s Throw Wax damage done reduced by ~15%.
• Waxface should not immediately begin casting a new spell upon completion of Noxious Gas.

Dungeons and Raids

Events

Items and Rewards

• Class Set items purchased with Web-Wrapped Curio or Mark of the Spelunker Supreme should now be refundable.
• Fixed a bug where reaching Renown Rank 11 with the Council of Dornogal was not presenting a quest with Carved Harbinger Crests as a reward.
• Warbound-until-Equipped gear obtained from seasonal legacy dungeons should now have correct item levels. This fix is retroactive.

Quests

• Pale Weavelashers should now respawn accordingly in the Silken Ward, improving the local quests and the World Quest “Enforcer Extermination”.
• “Zekvir, Hand of the Harbinger” no longer requires that you complete the Delve seasonal journey.
• In Azj-Kahet, “Special Assignment: A Pound of Cure” has been adjusted to be faster to complete.

September 12, 2024

Delves

• Fixed a bug causing bosses to scale incorrectly with more players.
• Increased the health scaling of enemies in Delves while grouped with other players.
• Reduced the damage scaling of many enemy abilities in Delves while grouped with other players.
• Adjusted enemy targeting preferences in Delves.

  Developers’ notes: Our goal is to match the difficulty of solo and group play as much as possible in Delves. When looking at data on group delves, we noticed unexpectedly low combat times coupled with unexpectedly high lethality. We identified the root cause of this issue and corrected it. This fix will increase the health scaling of enemies per additional player present, but we are also reducing the damage scaling of many abilities to compensate.

Zekvir’s influence has grown stronger, introducing a new enemy variant in Delve Tier 8.
Fixed an issue where the health bar UI could fail to display values correctly in Zekvir’s Lair while in a group.
Revives Remaining has changed to Lives Remaining. Now any time a player dies, the counter is reduced (was any time a player releases spirit). In addition, reaching a checkpoint will now provide +1 life.

• Developer’s note: This mechanic was proving to be confusing in its functionality, making it a mistake to release spirit when playing with certain compositions. This change should make the experience more consistent regardless of group size or makeup.

September 11, 2024

Classes

Delves

Dungeons and Raids

• Nerub-ar Palace

  Fixed an issue where the Caustic Skyrazor in the Ascending Reach could sometimes fail to Wicked Dive the platform.

• Resolved an issue where some abilities could unintentionally pull creatures in the pulsing pit.
• Rasha’nan

  Resolved an issue which could cause Rasha’nan to become unkillable upon death.

• Resolved an issue where Infested Spawn could spawn after Rasha’nan’s death.

The Silken Court

• The fight will now correctly go to the next phase if boss health is lowered very quickly.

Events

• Players in a raid group should now get World Quest credit when killing the World Bosses in each zone.
• The Aggregation of Horrors world boss in the Ringing Deeps should no longer react to players while its shield is up.
• Fixed an issue where Memory of Clodgran holograms were not respawning during the Theater Troupe play “Forget Me Not.”
• Fixed an issue where too many enemies could spawn during the Theater Troupe play “Cruelty of Dornic.”

Items and Rewards

Player versus Player

• Resolved an issue where “Preserving in Arenas” was not correctly incrementing quest credit.

Professions
Engineering

• Crowd Pummeler 2-30 now requires a confirmation prompt to learn. The cooldown of Invent is now 20 hours (was 24 hours).
• Inventor’s Guile now persists through death and cannot be right-clicked off.

Herbalism

• Fixed an issue where the Artisan Gardening Hat was preventing equipping Alchemy Profession Hats and vice versa.

Quests

• Fixed an issue where enemies were not respawning quickly enough for the quest “No More Bread”.
• Arathi Supplies now last for twice as long once spawned for “Recovery Job” and are placed in more centralized locations.

Season of Discovery

• Crimson Tempest can no longer be used unless the primary target is within melee range.

September 10, 2024

Achievements

• Fixed an issue that resulted in the Machine-Warden title being incorrectly granted to all players. It is now properly granted by the achievement It’s Not Much, But It’s Honest Work.
• General’s Scouting Shadecaster has been removed from the achievement Itsy Bitsy Spider.

Classes
Monk

• Fixed an issue where Clarity of Purpose was not correctly triggered by Gusts of Mist from several spells.

Shaman

Warlock

Delves

• Combat resurrections are now a shared resource, starting with 1 charge and recharging every 10 minutes.
• Reduced the maximum stack count of the Rage-Filled Idol to 10 (was 20).
• Fixed an issue that caused the Rage-Filled Idol to interrupt Brann when he wants to eat food and rest.
• Fixed an issue where Rage-Filled Idol did not properly rank up.
• Fixed an issue where Glibb could aggro enemies that aren’t in combat.
• Reduced the amount of health and damage that delve enemies increase by when other players are added to the group.
• Fixed an issue where Brann could create a campfire while standing in Nerubian webs.
• Increased the cooldowns of Brann’s interrupt, stun/root clear, and dispel.

  Developers’ notes: When internally playtesting higher tier delves and Zekvir’s Lair, we felt that Brann was providing too much output. While Brann should feel useful with these abilities, we don’t want him to completely trivialize the mechanics and challenges players face.

Dungeons

Items and Rewards

• Turning in wax to Middles in Gundargaz now awards 5 Valorstones (was 10). Additionally, after the first 25 turn-ins per week (on each character), each subsequent wax turn-in will award the player with Resonance Crystals instead.
• Draconic Gladiator’s Tabard from Dragonflight Season 4 should now use the correct icon.
• All healer specializations may now roll need on Spymaster’s Web and acquire it from their Great Vault. Fixed an issue where some spells (such as Judgment) would not trigger its effects.

Player versus Player

• Vicious Bloodstone can now sometimes drop from end-of-match victory boxes.
• Reduced the cost of Glorious Contender’s Strongbox purchases to 3500 (was 5000).
• Forged Competitor’s Heraldry drops from Glorious Contender’s Strongboxes have been slightly reduced.
• Reduced the cost of the Vicious Jeweler’s Setting to 5000 Honor and 3 Vicious Bloodstones (was 9750 Honor and 2 Vicious Bloodstones).

  Developers’ notes: This change is a net 2250 reduction in total honor cost if purchased outright. By moving the remaining 2500 into an additional Vicious Bloodstone, we hope to keep the excitement of Vicious Bloodstone drops high while allowing players to purchase, trade, or gift this reagent. As a reminder, Vicious Bloodstones are not soulbound and can be purchased with honor directly or can sometimes drop from War Mode activities and end-of-match victory boxes.

Professions

Enchanting

• Added a Shatter recipe to Khaz Algar Enchanting, allowing you to turn Gleaming Shards into Storm Dust. The quality of Gleaming Shard limits the quality of Storm Dust you can get from the Shatter, with the quality of Storm Dust otherwise determined by a combination of your Enchanting skill and Uncommon Utilitarian specialization.

Quests

• Fixed an issue with “Delver’s Call” quests where the quest log would display a different amount of XP rewarded while in a delve.
• The quest “Searching the Web” for the questline “Grieve and Weave” is now available to Warband characters who have not finished the overall campaign.

Races

• Earthen now have an additional racial, Quiet Contemplation. Take a load off your feet and enjoy your newfound freedom to see the world while recovering your health and mana out of combat.

September 9, 2024

Classes

Monk

Paladin

• Fixed a bug that caused Hammer of Light to not go away as expected.

Shaman

Elemental

• Stormkeeper now has a maximum stack size of 3. Stormkeeper still only generates 2, and the Rolling Thunder hero talent will only generate 1.

Warlock

Affliction

• Fixed an issue where Vile Taint would not grant a stack of Wither if Blackened Soul is talented.

Demonology

• Fixed an issue where Succulent Soul would be consumed by Spiteful Reconstitution.

Destruction

• Fixed an issue where the duration of Wither would not increase after refresh.

Delves

Events

• During the “The Cruelty of Dornic” step in the Theatre Troupe event, no more than 10 players will summon orbs.

Items and Rewards

• Players can now get their Earth-Encrusted Gem from Auditor Balwurz for having reached renown 8 with the Council of Dornogal.
• Fixed a bug that was causing some cosmetic items from previous expansions to incorrectly drop for the wrong class or spec, and in some cases for multiple items to drop when only one was intended.

Player versus Player

• Fixed an issue causing Vicious Flasks to be removed when entering Arena Skirmishes.
• Several class pet nameplates for guardians and other temporary summons are now hidden in PvP.

Quests

• Respawn rates for creatures needed for the world quest “Claimed Salvage” have been improved.
• The Lost Diary found in Hallowfall now begins the correct quest.

Cataclysm Classic

• Fixed a bug preventing Sensiria in Feralas from showing up as expected.

September 6, 2024

Achievements

• Fixed an issue preventing the completion of Deephaul Ravine Shutout.
• Fixed an issue where looting Mislaid Curiosities did not grant credit for the achievement, I’m not a Thief, I’m a Treasure Hunter.

Characters

• Archmage Khadgar should appear in the Violet Citadel for players progressing through Legion content.

Classes
Evoker

Monk

• Fixed an issue causing Aspect of Harmony to deal unexpectedly high damage.

Paladin

Priest

Shaman

Warlock

Diabolist

• Fixed an issue where you could not queue Hand of Gul’dan while casting Ruination.

Delves

Kriegval’s Rest

• Added a button in the scenario tracker to allow players to drop the Enchanted Candle if they’re holding one.

The Waterworks

• Added a button in the scenario tracker to allow players to drop an Air Totem if they’re holding one.

Dungeons

Arathi Knight

• Disrupting Shout cast time increased to 3 seconds on all difficulties (was 2 seconds).

Ardent Paladin

• Sacred Toll damage reduced by 20% on Normal difficulty.

Items

• Changed the unlock rank for the Nerubian Pheromone Secreter at Adventurer 1 to be renown 7 (was renown 6).

Pet Battles

• Players may now search for PvP pet battles on the Isle of Dorn.

Player versus Player
Frost

• Enduring Strength no longer has reduced effectiveness in PvP (was -20%).
• Obliterate no longer deals increased damage in PvP (was +20%).

Unholy

• Bursting Sores no longer deals reduced damage in PvP (was -11%).
• Virulent Plague no longer deals reduced damage in PvP (was -5%).
• Epidemic no longer deals reduced damage in PvP (was -8%).

Professions

• Fixed an issue where the Hideseeker’s Tote recipe was not available for Crafting Orders.

Quests

• The Quest “Defender of the Flame” should now reward a Lamplighter Supply Satchel.
• Resolved an issue where multiple beetles would be spawned for “Scarab Scouting” and “Truffle Shuffle”.

September 5, 2024

Classes

Mage

Monk

Paladin

Shaman

Warlock

Delves

• Reduced the size of Brann’s click area, so that you can more easily click on other things Brann might be standing next to.
• Fixed an issue where Brann could target out of combat enemies with Gryphadin’s Battle Harness.
• Brann is dodgier. That’s the note.
• Dwarven Medicine will now be cast when off cooldown rather than when a player is missing health.
• Relic of Uldum and Bag of Snacks can now affect player pets.

Dungeons

Flying

• Fixed an issue where flying on the Beledar’s Spawn mount could cause framerate to drop.
• If you die in Draenor, your temporary spectral mount will no longer use skyriding.

Items

• Lowered the rarity of the Lamplighter Supply Satchel from Epic to Uncommon to better reflect its contents, which have not changed.
• Hanna’s Locket toy now has a longer cooldown and cannot be used in combat or dungeons.

Player versus Player

Quests

• Vanishing Stalkers now spawn much more reliably for “Lynx Rescue”.
• “A Tide Needing Turned” should now properly show the starting location on the Dornogal map.
• World Quests should now award Spark of War for the “Sparks of War” weekly quests.
• Fixed an issue where, after the weekly reset, players were unable to choose a different Severed Threads Pact.
• Greatly increased experience rewards for all “Delver’s Call” quests.
• All “Delver’s Call” quests can now be picked up in their respective Delves and can now be acquired in Adventure Mode.
• New “Delver’s Call” quests have been added for Earthcrawl Mines, the Waterworks, Nightfall Sanctum, and the Underkeep.

Races

• Increased the effect of the Earthen Well Fed secondary stat bonus.
• Belga’s gems are now edible to Earthen, with improved quality and greatly reduced costs.

Cataclysm Classic

• Fixed issue with Guild Herald and Guild Page not being able to be learned by multiple characters of the same faction on a given account. Players affected by this bug can now buy these pets from a Guild Vendor at a discounted price. Players who were unaffected will still pay full price.

September 4, 2024

Classes

Mage

Monk

• Chi Burst no longer consumes both stacks of its activation buff when cast with 2 stacks.

Paladin

Warlock

Delves

• Brann now has an equal amount of attack, spell, and ranged attack power relative to all classes he’s joining, and his stats now increase as expected when the player-character is buffed.
• Brann should no longer sometimes miss his attacks.

Quests

• Added a visual 1-hour timer to Hallowfall Fishing Derby quests.

September 3, 2024

Achievements

• Corrected an issue preventing Buddy System from being immediately granted when completed.

Auction House

• Resolved issues causing the Auction House to experience degraded performance.

Classes

Druid

Feral

• Bloodtalons and Lion’s Strength now also increase the damage of Rampant Ferocity.

Evoker

Flameshaper

• Engulf damage increased by 30%.

Hunter

• An issue causing Unnatural Causes to not function with multiple Hunters has been resolved.
• Sentinel damage is now increased by Unnatural Causes.
• Pack Leader

  Vicious Hunt damage increased by 10% for Beast Mastery.

• Vicious Hunt damage decreased by 10% for Survival.

  Developers’ notes: When Vicious Hunt’s damage reaches a certain point, it can cause Kill Command to dominate Survival’s rotation. This adjustment and subsequent compensation are meant to ensure Pack Leader Survival Hunters are utilizing the other tools at their disposal.

Howl of the Pack critical strike damage bonus increased to 5% for Beast Mastery (was 3%).
Howl of the Pack critical strike damage bonus increased to 11% for Survival (was 7%).
Furious Assault damage bonus increased to 60% for Survival (was 30%).
Cull the Herd damage over time increased to 60% for Survival (was 30%).

Mage

Frostfire

• Frostfire Bolt damage increased by 25% for Fire.

Sunfury

• Burden of Power can no longer be double dipped by spell queueing.
• Arcane Phoenix damage dealt reduced by 10% for Arcane.
• Arcane Soul base duration reduced to 2 seconds (was 3 seconds).

Monk

Paladin

• Retribution

  Mastery: Highlord’s Judgment reduced by 10%. For example, at level 80, 180 Mastery rating now grants 1.35% Mastery (was 1.5%).

• All Holy spell damage increased by 5%.

Priest

Shadow

• Voidweaver Shadow priests’ Void Blast damage increased by 20%.

Rogue

• Corrected an issue that prevented multiple Subtlety Rogues from applying Deathstalker’s Mark to the same target.

Shaman

Enhancement

Totemic

• Tremor damage increased by 10%.
• Searing Volley damage increased by 80%.

Warlock

Destruction

• All ability damage increased by 5%.

Delves

• Reduced the damage of Fungal Breath from the Invasive Sporecap rare.
• The bountiful icon on the scenario objective UI now hides upon looting the locked treasure chest to better indicate that you’ve collected your rewards.
• Fixed an issue with Brann’s sleep schedule.

Dungeons

Events

Items

• Charged Runeaxe Intellect granted has been increased to align with other similar items.
• Congealed Cinderbrew Cinch now uses its intended appearance which can be collected.

Player versus Player
Feral

• Taste For Blood’s damage increase to Ferocious Bite during Tiger’s Fury is decreased by 50% in PvP combat.
• Saber Jaws effectiveness now reduced by 50% in PvP combat.

Mage

Monk

Brewmaster

• Chi Burst damage reduced by 30% for Brewmaster Monks in PvP combat.

Mistweaver

• Peaceweaver now reduces the cooldown of Revival by 33% (was 50%).
• Life Cocoon is now 30% more effective in PvP combat.
• Enveloping Mist can no longer be dispelled.

Priest

Shaman

Warrior

Fury

• Odyn’s Fury damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat.

Professions

• Fixed an issue where one of the Profession specialization tomes purchased in the City of Threads with Kej were unable to be used in specific orders.
• Fixed an issue where the Tailoring Weekly Quest “Tailoring Services Requested” which would be dropped upon logout.

Quests

• The “Behind Closed Doors” questline can now be completed by any character once The Ringing Deeps campaign has been completed at least once on the account.
• The Recall Lisky button will now clean up and go away after the quest “Lisky Business” is turned in.
• Fixed an issue where multiple players couldn’t sit and listen at the same time during “One Last Story”.
• The scenario “The Light in the Dark” should no longer occasionally get stuck on the first step if Faerin is too far away.
• After finishing the War Within campaign, you can now find Alleria Windrunner in the Foundation Hall in Dornogal and ask her to show what happened during the finale. This will play the cutscene from the final chapter.

August 29, 2024

Characters

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

Classes

Evoker

Rogue

Delves

Tak-Rethan Abyss

• The “Niffen’s Aid” ability will no longer aggro neaby enemies.

Dungeons

Events

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

Items and Rewards

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

Player versus Player

Professions

• The Severed Threads Pact buffs “Weaver’s Tutelage” and “Weaver’s Prodigy” will now properly enhance the players’ crafting and profession abilities.
• Jewelcrafting

  Improved the rate of prospecting gems for Bismuth, Ironclaw Ore, and Aqirite. This affects both baseline chances as well as the increase based on item quality.

Quests

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

User Interface

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

August 28, 2024

Achievements

• Khaz Algar Lore Hunter has been temporarily removed. We will fix and restore this Achievement in a future patch.

Characters and NPCs

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

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

Classes

Frost

• An issue causing Trollbane’s Icy Fury not taking line of sight into account has been resolved.

Evoker

Shaman

Warrior

Delves

The Waterworks

• Fixed an issue where Karnk and Pagsly would not follow the player properly.

Events

• Fixed an issue where enemies on the step Deal with Drunks could get stuck at 1% health during the Theater Troupe event.

Flying

• Skyriding is now available in Isle of Dorn after “Secure the Beach” has been completed at least once on the account.

Items and Rewards

• The Azj-Kahet Nerubian Pheromone Secreter now becomes available at Renown 7 (was Renown 6).
• Unique, one-time lootable treasures in Azj-Kahet are no longer on a 60-90 minute public respawn. They now spawn for and are available personally for each player until looted.
• Fixed an issue with Sureki Zealot’s Insignia where healing from player pets and guardians was not reattributed to their owning player when granting Sureki Zealot’s Oath.
• Reinforced-Wax Plating damage reduction reduced by 50%.
• Antique Bronze Bullion may now be deleted.
• For a limited time, Awakened Vendors in Valdrakken are still available for those who have bullion to trade away.
• The Nerubians got in trouble for the price of their translation potion. Potion of Polymorphic Translation: Nerubian is now available for 33 kej (was 500).

Pet Battles

• Hallowed Glowfly no longer incorrectly appears in The Ringing Deeps.
• Waxwick is no longer tradeable.

Player versus Player

• Brawl: Deepwind Dunk has been replaced with Brawl: Comp Stomp this week, it will return in the normal slot next brawl rotation.
• Resolved an issue that caused enemies in Epic Battlegrounds to have more health and deal more damage than intended.
• Sergeant Wilson and Nassar have arrived in the Contender’s Gate in Dornogal for players of questionable repute to sign up as a Mercenary in battlegrounds.

Professions

• Darkmoon Faire profession quests no longer give Artisan’s Acuity.
• Darkmoon Faire profession quests now also grant Dragon Isles specialization knowledge for players who know the associated Skill Line. This is not displayed in the list of possible rewards to maintain UI tidiness.
• Fixed an issue preventing weekly Enchanting quests from being available.
• Alchemy

  Algari Potion Cauldron and Algari Flask Cauldron no longer require Artisan’s Acuity to craft.

• Algari Potion Cauldron’s charges have been increased to 80 (was 40). The cost to craft has been adjusted by a similar proportion.
• The cost of Meticulous Experimentation has been increased, its cooldown reduced to 20 hours (was 24 hours) and it now guarantees a recipe when used.

  Developers’ notes: We saw feedback regarding the cooldown increase here and felt it was unnecessary when paired with the improvements to Wild Experimentation. Rather than increase it, it has been decreased to 20 hours to give some flexibility for tight play schedules.

Wild Experimentation has had its success chances slightly increased, and failure chances slightly reduced.
Recent Catastrophe’s duration has been reduced to 10 minutes (was 15 minutes).
Formulated Courage now prevents explosions when performing Wild Experimentation.
Increased the chance to discover recipes with Thaumaturgy.
Fixed a bug that caused Vicious Flask honor gains to stop functioning and display tooltip errors upon dying.

Quests

• On’heia was missing from the wildcamp for quest “Open Communications” for some players. He has seen fit to return.
• Addressed an issue preventing intended steps for “Awakening the Machine” while Speaker Kuldas was a questgiver.
• Fixed an issue where some Legion quests were unable to be completed once The War Within had been started.
• Made placing Meaty Bait optional for the quest “In a Pinch.” The boss will now respawn if he hasn’t been killed but the meat has been placed. Moved a Deepflayer’s flying path away from the boss so it would stop engaging him.
• Quests that grant rewards from the renown track should now be available without being level 80.

August 27, 2024

Achievements

• Worm Theory is no longer missing its quest criteria.

Classes
Frost

• Resolved an issue causing Frostwelp’s Aid talent to display 0%.

Evoker

Hunter

Mage

Rogue

Shaman

Warlock

Delves

• Brann should no longer be able to target crowd-controlled enemies.
• Fixed an issue where the Fungal Footpads ability would not work for Demon Hunters or Evokers while within Tak-Rethan Abyss or the Sinkhole.
• Resolved an issue where the Reformed Fury could despawn immediately upon defeating Speaker Davenruth in Nightfall Sanctum.

Dungeons

• City of Threads

  After defeating Izo, the Grand Splicer, players can now drink Unstable Mixture to return to the dungeon entrance.

Events

• Fixed an issue where enemies were not granting audience approval during the “The Cruelty of Dornic” Theater Troupe play.
• Fixed an issue where rewards for the Theater Troupe event were delayed until the next task was completed.

Items

• Emerald and Draconic Marks of Mastery can now be destroyed or vendored.
• The pre-season Heroic dungeon reward item-level has been increased to Explorer 4/8 (was Adventurer 1/8).
• Fixed several plate items that were incorrectly using Agility/Intellect stats, such as Long-Forgotten Girdle and Scrit’s Handmade Girdle.

Pets

• Trogolofrog no longer can spawn with an empty breed.

Player versus Player

Quests

• The map icon for the quests “A Concerned Friend” and “The Last Mage” should no longer remain on the map after you have completed the questlines.
• Fixed a bug causing objectives for “Something’s Fishy” to unintentionally be faction-locked.
• Fixed an issue causing players to be able to be attacked while completing the quest “Rise of the Reckoning.”
• Destroying “Radiant Fuel Crystals” while on the quest “Shadows Below” should no longer prevent quest completion.
• During “Alluring Offer”, the Beguiling Lure may now be used while stealthed.
• Players should now see the Stormriders and can continue to progress through “After the Storm”.
• Interacting with objects during “The Day the Stoneheads Came” should now make them uninteractive, as normal.
• Fixed an issue where players who had already acquired a Restored Coffer Key before starting the quest “Bountiful Delves” were still being asked to acquire a key for the first step. Brann has eased up on things and will now count that for the quest step.
• Now, the entirety of “Bountiful Delves” will auto-complete if a player has already opened a bountiful chest in a Delve before starting the quest.
• Increased the gold and experience awards earned from Bonus Objectives.

User Interface

• Level 80 Rare enemies will no longer display an icon on the minimap for players below level 77.
• Itching Waters insect visuals now only show for the player who’s been targeted.

August 26, 2024

Characters

• Warband Mentored Leveling can no longer be canceled.
• Fixed an issue that allowed players to disable experience gain at level 70 instead of the intended 69 and below.
• Some auctioneers in Dornogal have moved downstairs in the auction house.

Classes
Mage

Monk

Rogue

Delves

Kriegval’s Rest

• Fixed an issue that could cause Tomb-Raider Drywhisker to despawn during the cast of Ground Slam.

The Sinkhole

• Increased the duration for which you can hold your breath while under the effects of Kobyss Hex.

Events

• Fixed an issue where enemies were not granting audience approval during the “The Cruelty of Dornic” Theater Troupe play.

Items

• The first piece of gear to drop from a Lamplighter Supply Satchel each week will be Warbound until Equipped and drop at Adventurer 1.
• The Handful of Humming Shinies, Pile of Humming Shinies, Big Pile of Humming Shinies, and Gem-Studded Candelabra can now be opened to claim their contents.

Player versus Player

Professions

• Fixed an issue where Sharpen Your Knife and Carve Meat would be consumed when skinning trivial enemies.

Quests

• The Resting Blade should now be collectable on the quest “In the Right Hands”.
• Striking Steel: “Spice up your Life” and “Eagle Eye, Eagle Die” are now available after a day, rather than a week. It is intentional that there is a break between part 1 and part 2 of the quest chain.
• Void Ambush should no longer persist indefinitely as players progress through “Kaheti Hospitality”.
• “Laws Apply to All” and “You No Take Plunder!” should now show the correct turn in location.

The hotfix notes for the previous patch can be found here.