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The War Within and Season of Discovery Hotfixes, July 24th

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The very first hotfixes of the War Within pre-patch have arrived! We have Hunter nerfs, fixes for Skyriding, level boosts, Evoker queuing, quests, as well as plenty of Season of Discovery Phase 4 adjustments, from item droprate changes to more class tuning.

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Classes

  • Hunter
    • Beast Mastery
      • Season 3 Class Set - Bestial Wrath summoning a Dire Beast no longer grants a stack of Huntmaster’s Call.
      • Season 3 Class Set - Bestial Wrath Dire Beast summon duration reduced to 10 seconds (was 15 seconds).
      • Huntmaster’s Call - Fenryr and Hati attack damage reduced by 20%.
      • Huntmaster’s Call - Fenryr Haste increase reduced to 8% (was 10%).
      • Huntmaster’s Call - Hati pet Damage buff reduced to 6% (was 8%).
    • Survival
      • Grenade Juggler procs will now only apply 1 Explosive Shot to the primary target (was primary and secondary targets).
      • Players who had a Wildfire Bomb override from Wildfire Infusion’s previous iteration have had them removed.
  • Warlock
    • Destruction
      • Decimation can now only trigger from critical strikes dealt by your direct damage abilities.

Player-Characters

  • Addressed an issue where newly created Evoker cannot queue for legacy content.
  • Fixed a bug where a player may have been unable to fly if they had not previously unlocked Skyriding/Dragonriding. Any player-characters in this state will now automatically turn on Static Flight mode when they log in.
  • Using a Character Boost, Race Change, or Faction Change no longer disqualifies the character from doing Heritage Armor quests.

Quests

  • Eadwaerd has remembered where he placed his notes and has set them back out for players, allowing them to complete “Handling It”.

Season of Discovery

  • Items
    • Burning Essences will now always drop from the Dark Coffer in Blackrock Depths.
    • Librams of Resilience now have an additional chance to drop from certain bosses in Blackrock Depths and Blackrock Spire.
    • When Might of Stormwind is restored from a Chronoboon, the buff will now appear properly in the tooltip and it will now correctly apply to the player's pet.
    • You may now mount while Gift of Gob is active.
    • Darkmoon Card: Sandstorm will now correctly hit enemies that are within line of sight, and not hit enemies that are out of line of sight.
    • Darkmoon Card: Decay internal cooldown increased to 3 seconds.
    • Pix Xizzix now offers the Drakestone caster offhands for 50 Undermine Real each.
      • Developers’ notes: While we don't intend to put everything of this nature onto the vendor, the offhands from Sunken Temple felt right to us.
  • Professions
    • Mixology now always gives at least 2 potions as intended.
    • Professions with adjusted level requirements for Expert and Artisan ranks have been returned to their original level requirements.
  • Druid
    • Idol of the Moon tooltip updated for accuracy and clarity. The item’s effect is unchanged.
    • Idol of the Moon now correctly applies to Starfall and Sunfire.
    • Idol of Brutality now correctly applies to Mangle (Bear).
    • Idol of Ferocity no longer incorrectly discounts Mangle (Bear).
    • Idol of the Dream now correctly affects Swipe (Cat).
  • Mage
    • Players can now have only one Mana Shield active at a time. If an equal or higher rank of Mana Shield is cast on the target, it will overwrite the previous Mana Shield.
    • Fixed an issue with Rewind Time where refreshing Temporal Beacon on a target after that target took damage, which would make any damage taken before the refresh not get healed by Rewind Time.
    • Improved Arcane Missiles now also grants 20% spell pushback resistance per talent point to Regeneration and Mass Regeneration and 14% spell pushback resistance per talent point to Arcane Blast.
    • Mass Regeneration will now refresh Temporal Beacon each time it heals a target, instead of just when initially hitting a target.
  • Paladin
    • Blessing of Sanctuary and Greater Blessing of Sanctuary no longer stack.
    • Libram of the Consecrated is no longer be removed by ticks of Hallowed Ground.
    • Malleable Protection's version of Divine Protection now correctly has a 5-minute cooldown.
    • Malleable Protection's version of Divine Protection will now correctly share a cooldown between its two ranks and Divine Shield.
    • The cooldown on Paladin Avenger's Shield has been reduced to 15 seconds (was 30 seconds), and the duration of its movement Snare effect has been reduced to 5 seconds (was 10 seconds).
  • Priest
    • Juju Might no longer erroneously benefits from the Improved Inner Fire talent.
    • Vampiric Embrace heal range increased from 30 yards to 40 yards.
  • Warrior
    • Rampage now appears as a buff when activated.

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