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All World of Warcraft Hotfixes for the Week of August 29th - 5th

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Here comes our weekly hotfix summary, and it was a pretty big one. With week 2 of the War Within pre-patch there was plenty to fix, but both Season of Discovery and Cataclysm Classic also had their fair share of changes, and Era got a few adjustments as well.

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Retail had plenty of pre-patch event improvements, some class tweaks, raid and dungeon fixes, and a whole lot of quest changes.

Blizzard LogoWar Within Pre-patch (Source)

Classes

  • Druid
    • Restoration
      • Fixed an issue that caused Mastery: Harmony Mastery: Harmony to increase healing as if one additional stack was always present.
  • Hunter
    • Corrected an issue causing the application of Kill Zone Kill Zone's debuff to interrupt casts and channels.
  • Priest
    • Fixed an issue where Void Summoner Void Summoner was providing twice as much cooldown reduction than intended.
  • Shaman
    • Corrected an issue that was preventing the Skyfury Skyfury buff from allowing melee attacks to gain extra Windfury Windfury swings.
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Dungeons and Raids

  • Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope
    • Tindral Sageswift
      • Resolved an issue that caused Fire Beams to move in unintended directions.
  • Brackenhide Hollow
    • Addressed an issue where Treemouth was incorrectly dropping to 1 hp when Consuming.
    • Addressed an issue where Treemouth was not properly gaining Starving Frenzy when failing to consume someone in Mythic difficulty.

Player-characters

  • Priests will now automatically restart Shadowform Shadowform after using Ride Along Ride Along if Shadowform was enabled when they become a passenger.
  • Summoning a mount now cancels Zen Flight Zen Flight.

Quests

  • "The Lightforged" and "Heritage of the Lightforged" now correctly direct players to the Lightforged Beacon.
  • The Frostbrood Skytalon Dragon now does the correct amount of damage to Scarlet Crusaders for the Death Knight quest “An End to All Things”.
  • Players that are Time Traveling in Silithus should no longer teleport underneath the world when using the Teleportation Scroll while on "The War Within".
  • Illidan Stormrage now sacrifices mages more efficiently during "Ravencrest's Legacy", allowing players to complete the scenario.
  • Players can now complete "Others Call Me Duck Herder".
  • Fixed a bug preventing Ardenweald gardeners from looting the Wildseed of Regrowth in Queen's Conservatory.
  • Players can now interact with the Wildseeds in the Queen’s Conservatory to complete "Tending to Wildseeds".

Radiant Echoes Event

  • Updated the event so that now, after the zone boss is defeated, memories begin resurfacing again, repeating the event immediately.
  • The event now rotates between zones once each hour, and while the Radiant Echoes are active in a zone, they will remain up for the entire hour.
  • Increased earnings from scenarios and bosses, which now include flightstones and crests.
  • The event quest is now daily and account-bound (was weekly, per-character).
  • Dalaran Defender’s gear is now eligible to be upgraded at the Creation Catalyst.

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SoD Phase 4 saw a whole lot of Molten Core improvements, in addition to the usual class changes, as well as plenty more general adjustments.

Blizzard LogoSeason of Discovery Phase 4 (Source)

  • Further increased drop chances of Libram of Resilience from various sources in the world.
  • Added a chance for Libram of Voracity, Rapidity, and Resilience to appear in the Damaged Undermine Supply Crates purchased with Tarnished Undermine Reals.
  • Essence of the Pure Flame will now show its reflect damage in the combat log.
  • Hydraxian Coronation now binds the target piece of gear.
  • The Alliance quest "End of the Dark Horde" is now given by Master Mathias Shaw (was given by General Marcus Jonathan).
  • Overcharged rune can now be obtained by those that previously completed the discovery but didn't get the rune.
  • Fine Flarecore Gloves are no longer class restricted.
  • Shard of the Scale and Flame's set bonus is now activated by all spells (was only direct healing and spell damage).
  • Anathema and Benediction can now correctly be swapped after a one minute cooldown has passed.
  • Players who have the 18-slot version of the Bottomless Bag may now exchange the bag or the Pattern for the 20-slot version at Rix Xizzix in Booty Bay.
  • Players who have killed Magmadar but are unable to douse the Rune of Kress can now swap the Heat difficulty back and forth and should find you can now douse the Rune.
  • Lava Surgers in Molten Core will no longer spawn once Ragnaros has been defeated.
  • Fixed an issue with many of the class dungeon set bonuses. They can now only be triggered by abilities, and not by item use.
  • Ragnaros is no longer immune to Paladins’ Hand of Reckoning.
  • Fixed a bug interrupting eating or drinking when near a graveyard.
  • Fixed a bug where the incorrect version of Quel’Serrar could appear in this version of the game.
  • [With weekly restarts] The increased damage taken for low Fire Resistance in Molten Core on Heat 2 and Heat 3 has been reduced but is still extremely dangerous. Characters who are at 30 resistance lower than intended should now expect to take about 3 times normal damage (was guaranteed fatal).
    • Developers’ notes: This is intended to allow players who are dependent on Resistance Totems or Paladin Auras to have a chance to survive if briefly not within the range of those effects.
  • Molten Core
    • Players can no longer line of sight Flamewaker Priests from Sulfuron Harbinger or outrange them to prevent the cast from Dark Mending, it must be interrupted!
    • Adjusted the recast time and cooldown of Dark Mending so that players can interrupt more sufficiently.
    • Fixed an issue that prevented Shazzrah from casting Gate of Shazzrah twice in a row on Heat 3.
    • Ragnaros no longer submerges twice on Heat 1.
    • Baron Geddon now casts Armageddon at 5% on Heat 1 (was 10%).
    • Baron Geddon now casts 2 Living Bombs at a time on Heat 2 (was 3).
    • Living Bomb no longer leaves Living Fallout pools on Heat 1.
    • Flamewaker Protectors now cast Dominate Mind much less frequently.
    • Maximized the cast and recast times of several dispel mechanics.
    • Damage done to self with spells such as Hellfire is no longer increased by the low Fire Resistance effects on Heat levels 2 and 3 in Molten Core.
  • Hunter
    • Kill Shot will now have increased ranged with the Hawk Eye talent.
    • Hunters can no longer place multiples of the same trap by unequipping Trap Launcher and placing the trap.
    • [With weekly restarts] Entrapment now triggers a diminishing return as a Root effect on players each time it is applied. Subsequent durations will be halved and then quartered in duration, and then the target will become immune for 30 seconds.
    • Fixed a bug that prevented Hunters from being able to interact with the four demons involved in the Rhok'delar quest chain.
  • Mage
    • Mass Regeneration range for detecting allies to heal increased to 43 yards (was 30), to eliminate the situation where it was possible to heal others who were outside the range for your heal to apply to yourself.
  • Priest
    • Homunculi now cast and stack Sunder Armor relative to the rank they would have if they were a Warrior of their level.
      • Developers’ notes: This takes the place of their casting Degrade previously. Now a friendly Warrior can refresh a Homunculi's 5 stack of Sunder Armor. The strength of this debuff at max level is unchanged.
    • Spirit of the Redeemer will now correctly put Pain Suppression and Dispersion on a two-minute cooldown (was incorrectly 5 minutes).
    • Fixed an issue where re-speccing did not remove Divine Spirit appropriately.
  • Rogue
    • The 6-piece Tier 1 bonus no longer puts Vanish on cooldown.
  • Shaman
    • The Spirit Wolves summoned by Feral Spirits should now display all four of their active abilities on their pet bar.
    • The Elemental Tier 1 6-piece bonus will now correctly refresh Flame Shock to 18 seconds if Burn is engraved.
    • You can no longer have Burn and Way of Earth active at the same time by using Rockbiter Rank 3.
  • Warlock
    • Mages’ Balefire Bolt can no longer damage targets affected by Banish. They will be Immune.
    • Shadowflame will no longer be overwritten by Improved Shadow Bolt.
  • Warrior
    • The Tier 1 Warrior 2-piece set bonus, Tactician, will now correctly reduce the cost of Meathook.
    • The Warrior 2-piece Tier 1 bonus Tactician will no longer be consumed if the spell cast was a free Blood Surge Slam.

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Cata didn't have quite as many fixes as retail or SoD, but still introduced PvE and PvP currency exchanges, more rare gear for rare mobs, more transmog options and plenty of additional tweaks.

Blizzard LogoCataclysm Classic (Source)

  • Conquest is now purchasable from the Valor vendor at 250 Conquest per 250 Valor.
  • Honor is now purchasable from the Justice Commodities Vendor at 250 Honor per 375 Justice.
  • Justice is now purchasable from the Honor Commodities Vendor at 250 Justice per 375 Honor.
  • Maelstrom Crystals are available from the Justice Goods Vendors: Togar in Orgrimmar and Talric Forthright in Stormwind City.
  • Some rare elite mobs in Cataclysm zones have started dropping item-level 359 epic gear. These include: Mobus, Garr, Xariona, Akma'hat, and Julak-Doom.
  • All Midsummer items can now be refunded as intended (Brazier of Dancing Flames and Captured Flame).
  • Fixed an issue where the Ritual Tiki Masks were invisible and non-targetable in Zul'Gurub.
  • All original WoW Classic PvP gear is now usable as transmog appearances. All of these pieces of armor have been and will continue to be available from the Legacy Armor and Legacy Weapon Quartermasters in both the Champion's Hall in Stormwind and the Hall of Legends in Orgrimmar.
  • Fixed a bug preventing Supreme Defender from incrementing correctly when killing Flag Carriers in Warsong Gulch.

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Not much changing in Era, as two bugs for Molten Core and Quel'serrar were fixed.

Blizzard LogoClassic Era (Source)

  • Fixed a bug that caused extra Lava Surgers in Molten Core.
  • Fixed a bug where the incorrect version of Quel’Serrar could appear in this version of the game.

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