Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Wrath of the Lich King Classic, Burning Crusade Classic and WoW Classic. 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

December 19, 2023

Classes

Demon Hunter

Sigil of Flame damage reduced by 10%.

Havoc

Collective Anguish (talent) damage from summoned Fel Devastation reduced by 10%.

Ragefire (talent) damage stored from Immolation Aura critical strikes reduced to 30% (was 35%).

A Fire Inside (talent) chance to reset Immolation Aura reduced to 25% (was 30%).

Evoker

Devastation

Pyre damage increased by 15%. Does not apply to PvP.

Damage of all spells and abilities increased by 3%. Does not apply to PvP.

Preservation

Resonating Sphere once again applies Echo to the first 5 allies it passes through (was 3).

Developers’ notes: Resonating Sphere was recently reduced as part of a broad AoE healing reduction pass. After watching the change play out, we're not happy with the resulting gameplay -- particularly in dungeons, where it doesn't cover your whole party.

Mage

Arcane

Arcane Blast damage increased by 6%. Does not apply to PvP.

Arcane Missiles damage increased by 10%. Does not apply to PvP.

Fire

Fire Blast damage increased by 12%. Does not apply to PvP.

Pyroblast damage increased by 5%. Does not apply to PvP.

Fireball damage increased by 10%. Does not apply to PvP.

Flamestrike damage increased by 12%

Intensifying Flame now increases Ignite damage by 25% (was 15%).

Frost

Frostbolt damage increased by 15%. Does not apply to PvP.

Ice Lance damage increased by 12%. Does not apply to PvP.

Flurry damage increased by 10%. Does not apply to PvP.

Glacial Spike damage increased by 6%. Does not apply to PvP.

Monk

Windwalker

Developers’ notes: We continue to keep an eye on Windwalker damage, and feel they need a second incremental improvement to their relative performance. This round of tuning focuses on payoff for successfully executing the bonus effects of the Mystic Heron’s Discipline tier set, as well as increasing the damage of rotational Chi spenders in Rising Sun Kick and Fists of Fury.

Spinning Crane Kick damage increased by 20%.

Blackout Kick damage increased by 10%.

Rising Sun Kick damge increased by 8%. Does not apply to PvP.

Fists of Fury damage increased by 8%. Does not apply to PvP.

Blackout Reinforcement increased to 250% (was 200%).

Glory of the Dawn damage increased by 12%.

Dance of Chi-Ji bonus increased to 300% (was 200%).

Mistweaver

Unison now heals a second injured ally for 35% of the amount healed (down from 50%). Does not apply to PvP.

Enveloping Breath healing reduced by 10%. Does not apply to PvP.

Essence Font healing reduced by 8%. Does not apply to PvP.

Paladin

Retribution

All ability damage increased by 3%.

Priest

Shadow

Psychic Link now causes direct damage spells to inflict 25% of their damage on all other targets afflicted by your Vampiric Touch (was 15%).

Holy

All healing increased by 3%. Does not apply to PvP.

Prayer of Mending healing increased by 15%. Does not apply to PvP.

Rogue

Assassination

All ability and melee auto-attack damage reduced by 3%. Does not apply to PvP.

Shaman

Elemental

Earthquake damage increased by 50%.

Enhancement

Elemental Warding now reduces magic damage taken by 3%/6% (was 2%/4%).

Developers’ notes: This is aimed at improving Enhancement's survivability in all content.

Restoration

Torrent now increases the initial heal of Riptide by 15%/30% (was 10%/20%). Does not apply to PvP.

Healing Surge healing increased by 17%. Does not apply to PvP.

Healing Stream Totem healing increased by 12%. Does not apply to PvP.

Warlock

Affliction

Seed of Corruption damage increased by 10%.

Soul Rot now applies to up to 4 additional targets (up from 3).

Dark Harvest now increases critical strike and haste by 4% per target (up from 2.5%).

Destruction

Rain of Fire damage increased by 12%.

Cataclysm damage increased by 25%.

Immolation damage from Infernal and Blasphemy increased by 25%.

Immolate damage increased by 10%.

 Dungeons and Raids

Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope

Fyrakk The Blazing

Removed the first instance of Blaze from intermission on Mythic difficulty.

Increased the cast time of Searing Screams to 4 seconds (was 2) on Mythic difficulty.

Reduced the health of Screaming Souls by 20% on Mythic difficulty.

Smolderon

Fixed an issue with Seeking Infernos that allowed threat information to be generated from them.

Reduced the number of Seeking Infernos that spawn each set to 3 (was 4).

Reduced the number of Flame Waves that spawn from Overheated targets to 4 (was 5) on Mythic difficulty.

Player versus Player

Gladiator's Distinction (Trinket Set Bonus): Primary stat for DPS and tank specializations is now increased by 12% (was 20%) when in Arenas, Battlegrounds, and War Mode.

Druid

Balance

Stellar Flare backlash damage increased by 8%.

Feral

Regrowth healing is no longer reduced in PvP Combat (was reduced by 20%).

Hunter

Marksmanship

Aimed Shot now deals 40% additional damage in PvP (was 25%).

Rapid Fire now deals 30% additional damage in PvP (was 20%).

Paladin

Holy

Mana regeneration is now reduced by 35% in PvP combat (was 25%).

Shaman

Enhancement

Healing Surge healing is now increased by 5% in PvP combat (was reduced by 12%).

Control of Lava (Flame Shock backlash damage) damage increased by 8%.

Elemental

Searing Flames now has a 40% chance to generate Maelstrom in PvP combat (was 100%).

Rolling Magma is now 60% effective in PvP combat.

Control of Lava (Flame Shock backlash damage) damage increased by 8%.

Restoration

Healing Tide Totem health increased by 30%.

Rogue

Subtlety

The Amirdrassil Class Set 2-piece bonus is now 30% effective in PvP combat (was 50%).

Eviscerate damage reduced by 7.5%.

Warlock

Affliction

Unstable Affliction backlash damage increased by 8%.

Dark Harvest is now 75% effective in PvP combat.

Destruction

Chaos Bolt damage is now increased by 70% in PvP combat (was 75%).

Shadowburn damage is now increased by 10% in PvP combat (was 15%).

Flashpoint is now 50% effective in PvP combat.

Season of Discovery

Mage

Living Flame now benefits from and consumes Arcane Blast.

Paladin

Avenger’s Shield’s movement slow is now properly considered a Snare and can be removed by effects that remove movement impairing effects.

Mana granted by Seal of Martydom to party and raid members has been increased. Seal of Martyrdom now grants all party and raid members 20% of damage the Paladin takes from the seal (was 10%).

Rogue

Blade Dance has been updated to grant 10% parry at all ranks, rather than increasing parry chance per combo point. The only effect of more combo points is now increased duration.

Shaman

Mana granted by Shamanistic Rage to party and raid members has been increased. Shamanistic Rage now grants party and raid members 20% of the mana gained by the Shaman (was 10%).

December 18, 2023

Classes

Priest

Shadow

Resolved an issue causing the Death's Torment buff from the Amirdrassil, the Dream's Hope 4-piece set bonus to be removed at the start of dungeon encounters.

Warlock

Demonology

Hand of Gul'dan will no longer interrupt all nearby enemy players who are eating or drinking.

Dungeons and Raids

Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope

Fixed an issue where Raid Finder: Fate of Amirdrassil could port you to the wrong location.

Blackrook Hold

Bonebreaking Strike no longer stuns pets.

Dawn of the Infinite: Murozond's Rise

Fireball, Serrated Arrows, and Serrated Axe will now clean up after the encounter ends.

The Everbloom

Fixed an Ancient Protectors issue where Dulhu's Noxious Charge can fail to create Noxious Discharge if the target is directly under the boss.

Addressed an Ancient Protectors issue where Noxious Discharge can spawn above ground.

Waycrest Manor

Addressed a Heartsbane Triad issue where Sisters without the iris can quickly melee nearby targets upon being interrupted.

Addressed a Soulbound Goliath issue where Soul Thorns' health is scaling with Fortified instead of Tyrannical.

Items

Flourishing Dream Helm now accepts PvP item-level optional reagents as intended.

Developers’ notes: As a reminder, the potency of this embellishment is reduced in PvP like other embellishments.

Season of Discovery

The Battle for Ashenvale will now progress about 50% faster than previously.

The reputation gain for participating in killing an enemy Keeper of the Grove or Blade Master has been increased to 400 (was 200).

Fixed an issue that caused the Shadowy Figure in Alterac Mountains to not be seen by players who should otherwise be able to see them.

December 14, 2023

Classes

Druid

Feral

Heart of the Wild no longer unintentionally grants Combo Points to Feral Druids.

Guardian

Fixed an issue causing Blazing Thorns and Dream Thorns to clear when engaging a Mythic boss.

Fixed an issue causing Blazing Thorns to proc on targets which were not in combat with the player.

Dungeons and Raids

Darkheart Thicket

Addressed an issue where Tormented Bloodseeker's Darksoul Bite is draining more health than intended in Mythic difficulties.

Waycrest Manor

Addressed a Heartsbane Triad issue where Sisters without the iris can quickly melee nearby targets upon being interrupted.

Season of Discovery

Healing Rain will no longer interrupt the auto-attack swing timer of the casting Shaman every time it heals.

Living Flame will now cease to spread and deal damage if the Mage caster no longer has the rune equipped.

Regeneration and Mass Regeneration will now properly consume Arcane Blast when they benefit from it, regardless of the Mage's healing targets.

Mage Temporal Beacon will now also heal based on damage done by Arcane wands.

The radius of healing for Mass Regeneration has been increased to 30 yards (was 15 yards).

Battle for Ashenvale

The Priestess of the Moon Felore Moonray and Far Seer Kazragore are now spawned in Ashenvale while the Battle for Ashenvale is inactive, and are available to turn in quest items. Felore Moonray can be found in the inn in Astranaar, and Kazragore can be found in the inn in Splintertree Post. During the battle, they will move to their respective battlefield positions.

[With realm restarts] Fixed an issue where progress for the Battle for Ashenvale could be reset repeatedly by battles ending at different times on different layers.

December 13, 2023

Classes

Paladin

Protection

Amirdrassil 4-piece: Fixed an issue causing Cleansing Flame to not trigger from Lay on Hands.

Rogue

Damage dealt from Shadow Blades, Blade Flurry, and Sanguine Blades will now be logged correctly when buffed by an Augmentation Evoker.

Warlock

Demonology

Fixed an issue that allowed several Immutable Hatred attacks to be queued up prior to combat.

Fixed an issue where Wild Imps summoned via Spiteful Reconstitution would stray from the Warlock.

Dungeons and Raids

Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope

Fixed an issue that could prevent Gnarlroot, Igira, and Smolderon from leashing as expected.

Items

Incandescent Essence will now be soulbound when used. It is no longer usable on Account Bound items and its combat effects will only trigger for level 70 characters.

Quests

Fixed an issue that could prevent completion of “Step Into the Life”.

Season of Discovery

Population adjustments have been made to layers in the Ashenvale PvP event which should result in an improved experience for players.

Ashenvale progress should be much more consistent.

Developers’ notes: In a future hotfix, the Battle for Ashenvale progress will no longer reset to 0% when the final layer on the server finishes their battle.

Runes sold at the Honored tier of Azeroth Commerce Authority and Durotar Supply and Logistics reputation are now sold at the Friendly tier.

Drop rates for higher-level Waylaid Supplies have been slightly raised and unfulfillable Waylaid Supplies have been removed.

The gold prices of several runes and rune related items have been reduced.

Blackfathom Deeps

The waterfalls at the entrance to the Lorgus Jett encounter now properly despawn after he is defeated.

Dream Eater should no longer kill you if you're pulled into the second phase of the Twilight Lord Kelris fight while still afflicted by the aura.

December 12, 2023

Achievements

Fixed a bug that prevented Assassin Bounties from progressing the Bounty Hunting and Band of Brothers

Dungeons and Raids

Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope

Tindral Sageswift

Fire Beam number of beam spawns per pulse reduced to 6 (was 8).

Fiery Growth duration increased to 20 seconds (was 16 seconds) in Mythic difficulty.

Lingering Cinder duration reduced to 2 seconds (was 3 seconds).

Pulsing Heat damage reduced by 33%.

Fiery Vines health reduced by 7% in Mythic difficulty.

Addressed an issue where Mass Entanglement can fail to root tank players.

Addressed a performance issue that caused a server delay at the start of the encounter.

Items and Transmog

Ashes of the Embersoul will now reset its cooldown when a raid encounter ends.

Ember of Nullification is now an eligible item for all Agility and Strength specializations.

Spiked Counterweight damage increased by 20%.

Xeri'tac's Unhatched Egg Sac summon is now affected by secondary stats.

Wyrm’s Bountiful Chest can now be purchased from Archdruid Hamuul Runetotem, as intended.

Nature's Cradle should now work on Renown items purchased from Moon Priestess Lasara.

Nature's Cradle should now work on Dream Wardens Renown items that were converted at the Catalyst.

Fixed an issue that prevented Emerald Blossom Dreamstone from unlocking certain expected PvP appearances.

Season of Discovery

Druid

Starsurge rune ability damage increased 182%.

Starsurge cooldown reduced to 6 seconds (was 10 seconds).

Starsurge mana cost reduced to 1% of base mana (was 3% of base mana).

Hunter

Flanking Strike now gains the benefit of weapon enhancements like sharpening stones, is now on global cooldown, and is now properly treated as a melee attack, letting it benefit from attack power and combat modifiers to dodge, parry, block, crit, hit, etc.

Flanking Strike is now prevented by Pacify.

Flanking Strike now requires a weapon equipped.

Flanking Strike pet damage is now properly treated as a melee attack, with same benefits as listed above for the hunter’s damage.

All damaging Hunter pet abilities now gain damage from Attack Power based on their Focus costs. Hunter pets no longer gain any spell damage.

Developers’ notes: Pets that cast spells such as scorpid poison or Lightning Breath were scaling too well and pets using physical abilities were scaling too little. We’ve now normalized the amount of attack power gained, to scale with the focus cost of individual pet abilities. This means that abilities with a higher focus cost, that are cast less often, will receive more benefit from attack power per attack than abilities with a lower focus cost that can generally be used more often. Overall this should level out the damage and reduce situations where some abilities were scaling too much or too little with hunter attack power.

Scorpid poison now distributes the additional damage it gains from attack power evenly over each stack of Scorpid Poison on the target.

Developers’ notes: Previously, Scorpid poison received most of its benefit from the Hunter’s attack power in the very first stack. Now the additional damage gained from the controlling hunter will not be gained until the full 5 stacks of poison are on the target. This increases the ramp time a bit and makes it less immediately deadly in PvP.

Pets now gain 30% of the hunter’s armor (was 45%) and 20% of the hunter’s stamina (was 45%).

Developers’ notes: Hunter pets were gaining far too much durability from hunter stats, to the point where some pets could get more than double the health and armor of a well-geared level 25 player. We still want dedicated hunters to have the ability to tank certain dungeon and raid encounters, but pets shouldn’t be so effective that they become the objectively correct choice.

Aspect of the Lion has been redesigned and will now function as an Aura.

Developers’ notes: This means that it is possible to have Aspect of the Lion up in addition to another aspect, such as Aspect of the Hawk. As an offset to the lower amount of damage that some hunter pets will deal, and to make talents such as Improved Aspect of the Hawk more attractive to Hunters using Aspect of the Lion, we’re shifting Aspect of the Lion into an aura rather than an aspect. This change will go into effect with scheduled weekly maintenance tomorrow, but the tooltip will not yet change. In a later hotfix, we’ll rename relocalize Aspect of the Lion to “Heart of the Lion” and update the tooltip.

Priest

Priest Homunculi damage increased by 100%.

Void Plague damage increased by 200%.

Twisted Faith now increases damage done by Mind Blast and Mind Flay by 50% (was 20%) on targets afflicted with Shadow Word: Pain.

Rogue

Saber Slash, Shiv, and Main Gauche will now properly consume Remorseless Attacks.

Saber Slash’s tooltip fixed; damage not reduced.

Saber Slash damage is now properly considered a Bleed and benefits from the Mangle debuff. Note: Bleed-immune creatures will no longer be affected by it.

Shaman

Lava Lash damage increased to 150% weapon damage (was 100% weapon damage).

Lava Lash mana cost reduced to 1% of base mana (was 4%).

Overload now has a 50% chance to trigger (was 33%).

Dual Wield Specialization now grants 10% increased chance to hit while dual-wielding.

Boon of Blackfathom world buff adjusted. It now provides 3% spell hit and 25 spell power buff addition to the other physical damage and movement speed effects (was spell crit).

Developers’ notes: Spellcasters in general are struggling a bit in BFD, mostly due to poor scaling without spellpower and a higher requirement of spell hit to reliably hit creatures 2 levels above the caster. Keep those Chronoboons handy and don’t stand in the fire and lose your buff!

Blackfathom Deeps

Elemental Resistances lowered in Blackfathom Deeps to levels more appropriate for a level 25 Raid.

Gelihast Shadow Resist lowered to 25 (was 75).

Lorgus Jett Nature Resist lowered to 25 (was 75).

Twilight Lord Kelris Shadow and Arcane Resist lowered to 25 (was 75).

Phantasmal Priestess all Resist lowered to 0 (was 75), so it’s no longer bad news if double casters are sent down to the dream in Phase 1.

Invading Nightmare Shadow and Fire Resist lowered to 25 (was 75).

Void Elementals Shadow Resist lowered lowered to 25 (was 75).

Corrosive Droplets Nature Resist lowered to 25 (was 75), and Frost Resist lowered to 0 (was 25).

Battle for Ashenvale

Battle for Ashenvale camps will no longer delay their spawn if players are nearby.

December 7, 2023

Classes

Paladin

Retribution

Blessed Champion rebuilt to resolve issues such as pulling enemies that are too far away or through walls.

Wake of Ashes, Searing Light, and Seething Flames revised so that they do not damage enemies through walls.

Dungeons

Critters can no longer benefit from Challenger’s Might and adorably kill your party.

Black Rook Hold

Addressed an issue with Fel Vomit where the line visual can fail to attach to players.

Darkheart Thicket

Updated Rotheart Keeper's Vile Burst radius to match with the size of Vile Mushroom.

The Everbloom

Addressed an issue where Yalnu's Verdant Eruption can stun pets and guardians.

Season of Discovery

Ashenvale PvP

When a player makes any hostile action against an opposing faction Lieutenant (e.g. Keepers of the Grove, Blademasters) or faction leader in the various objective areas, they will receive reputation when that enemy dies.

It must be an offensive action (harmful spell, harmful ability, melee attack, or ranged attack) against an enemy to receive reputation.

Players will receive reputation even if they are dead or no longer nearby as long as they are still in the zone when the enemy dies.

Players now receive 200 reputation for killing a Lieutenant and all members of the winning faction will receive 200 reputation when the faction leader dies.

The winning team will also receive 100 reputation per friendly Lieutenant remaining.

Players now have 60 minutes to complete the Ashenvale PvP event (was 30 minutes).

The Trainee’s Sentinel Nightsaber and Trainee’s Outrider Wolf now require Friendly reputation with the Silverwing Sentinels and Warsong Outriders respectively (was Honored).

December 6, 2023

Dungeons

Throne of the Tides

Updated the model used by the Ink of Ozumat to reduce the visual effects at its base.

Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope

Smolderon

Fixed an issue where players would sometimes gain multiple stacks of Ignited Essence from 1 Living Flame.

Fixed an issue where a Seeking Inferno could explode twice on Mythic difficulty.

Tindral Sageswift

Fallen Feathers now spawn 6 feathers on Mythic Difficulty (was 4).

Items

Fixed an issue that caused the Large Renown bag of Dragon Isles Supplies to always unintentionally contain a Dream Wardens Tabard.

Fixed an issue that could cause Gift of Ursine Vengeance to fail to grant its bonuses.

Quests

Fixed an issue preventing “Something Different” from being properly completed by PvP Brawls.

Fixed an issue causing a Hunt choice to be unintentionally greyed out for “Aiding the Accord: The Hunt is On”.

Season of Discovery

Grizzby will no longer rob you of your extra quest items.

Ashenvale PvP

The lieutenant and general NPCs in the Season of Discovery Ashenvale PvP event now have much higher health.

Generals are now immune to damage until all of their lieutenants have been defeated.

While no lieutenants are dead, generals and their nearby allies gain 1000% increased damage.

The Horde general's chain lightning will now hit up to 40 targets.

December 5, 2023

Classes

Death Knight

Blood

Aberrus Class Set bonus: Heart Strike and Blood Boil deal 10% increased damage (was 20%) and have a 5% chance (was 10%) to grant Vampiric Blood for 5 seconds.

Unholy

Virulent Plague damage increased by 15%. Not applied to PvP combat.

Epidemic damage increased by 12%.

Festering Strike damage increased by 20%.

Festering Wound damage increased by 12%. Not applied to PvP combat.

Ghoul Sweeping Claws damage increased by 15%.

Demon Hunter

Havoc

Fel Rush damage reduced by 12%.

Immolation Aura damage reduced by 12%.

Fel Barrage damage reduced by 12%.

Fixed an issue when talented into A Fire Inside that caused any cast of Immolation Aura beyond the first to not enforce its intended global cooldown.

Druid

Restoration

Ferocious Bite damage decreased by 20%. Not applied to PvP combat.

Rip damage decreased by 15%. Not applied to PvP combat.

Rake damage decreased by 10%.

Shred damage decreased by 10%.

Evoker

Devastation

All damage spells increased by 5%.

Regenerative Magic increases Leech by 5% (was 3%).

Draconic Legacy increases Stamina by 8% (was 6%).

Hunter

Beast Mastery

Fixed an issue where Blessing of Autumn did not properly affect the cooldown of Call of the Wild.

Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope 4-piece set bonus:

Dire Beast's Kill Command damage reduced by 30%.

Beast Cleave gained by Dire Beast effectiveness reduced by 30%.

Marksmanship

Fixed an issue where the Windrunner's Guidance buffs would fall off when exiting combat.

Monk

Mistweaver

Mana Tea now reduces the mana cost of spells by 25% (was 50%).

Upwelling can now stack up to 15 times (was 18).

Essence Font healing decreased by 10%.

Invigorating Mist healing decreased by 10%.

Calming Coalescence now increases the absorb amount of Life Cocoon by 2% per stack (was 3%).

Vivify primary healing increased by 5%.

Ancient Concordance now increases the chance for Blackout Kick to reset Rising Sun Kick by 12% (was 10%).

Windwalker

All ability damage increased by 6%.

Paladin

Holy

Crusader Strike now costs 0.6% base mana (was 1.6%) and deals 25% increased damage.

Hammer of Wrath now costs 0.6% base mana (was 1%) and deals 20% increased damage.

Priest

Discipline

All healing reduced by 3%.

All damage reduced by 3%.

Holy

All healing increased by 4%.

Burning Vehemence now causes Holy Fire to deal 75% of its initial damage to nearby enemies (was 60%).

Amirdrassil 2-piece set bonus: Renews caused by Serenity now last 18 seconds (was 14 seconds) and Renews caused by Sanctify now last 6 seconds (was 5 seconds).

Rogue

Assassination

Kingsbane damage reduced by 15%.

Blindside effect chance reduced to 15% (was 20%) and 30% against low-health targets (was 40%).

Shaman

Resolved an issue causing Innervate to give a greater mana spent bonus to High Tide than intended.

Restoration

Healing Surge now costs 4.4% base mana (was 4.8%).

Chain Lightning damage increased by 20%.

Acid Rain damage increased by 10%.

Items

Imminence of Krag’wa’s Executor is now available for 450 Trader’s Tender (was 500).

Developers’ notes: This was a pricing bug, and we’re working on a second hotfix that should refund 50 Tender to players who purchased the set before the price reduction. That refund will come as soon as possible this month.

Player versus Player 

Death Knight

Unholy

Rotten Touch's effectiveness reduced by 40% in PvP combat.

Druid

Restoration

Amirdrassil 4 set bonus now casts Nourish at 50% effectiveness (was 100%) in PvP combat.

Mastery: Harmony is now reduced by 15% in PvP combat.

Hunter

Marksmanship

Survival of the Fittest now reduces damage taken by an additional 10% in PvP combat.

Exhilaration now heals for 40% of max health (was 30%) in PvP combat.

Monk

Fixed an issue that caused Fortifying Brew's damage reduction to be higher than intended in PvP combat.

Mistweaver

Amirdrassil 2 set bonus: Chi Harmony now increases healing received by 15% (was 25%) in PvP combat.

Healing Elixir now heals for 10% of maximum health (was 20%) in PvP combat.

Yu'lon's Grace now creates an absorb for 1% of your maximum health (was 2%) in PvP combat.

Dampen Harm's minimum damage reduction is no longer increased in PvP combat (was 25%).

Fortifying Brew's damage reduction is no longer increased in PvP combat (was 30%).

Diffuse Magic now reduces magic damage taken by 40% (was 60%).

Priest

Discipline

Amirdrassil 4 set bonus: Now has a 100% chance to cast another Smite (was 50%) in PvP combat.

Shaman

Elemental

Lava Burst damage from the the Amirdrassil 4-piece set bonus is now reduced by 60% in PvP combat (was 50%).

Enhancement

Thorim's Invocation now increases Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning damage by 10% in PvP Combat (was 20%).

Lava Lash damage is now increased by 25% in PvP combat (was 12%).

Elemental Blast damage is now reduced by 6% in PvP combat (was 15%).

Stormweaver now causes Chain Heal and Healing Surge to gain 150% of the benefits of Maelstrom Weapon based on the stacks consumed (was 100%).

Restoration

Amirdrassil 2 set bonus: Effectiveness no longer reduced in PvP combat (was reduced by 50%).

Rogue

Subtlety

Shadow Blades extra Shadow damage reduced to 15% (base 20%) in PvP combat

Thief's Bargain (PvP Talent) cooldown reduction value reduced to 20% (was 33%)

Warlock

Demonology

Fel Obelisk (PvP Talent) now increases attack and cast speed by 10% (was 20%).

Master Summoner (PvP Talent) reduces the cast time of Call Dreadstalkers, Summon Vilefiend, and Summon Demonic Tyrant by 15% (was 20%).

Antoran Armaments now increases your Felguards damage by 10% (was 20%) in PvP Combat.

Doom Brand from the Amirdrassil 2-piece set bonus is now undispellable.

The debuff duration reduction for Doom Brand from the Amirdrassil 2-piece set bonus is no longer reduced in PvP combat.

Damage effects from the Amirdrassil 2-piece and 4-piece set bonus are now reduced by 40% in PvP combat (was 50%).

Destruction

Flame Rift damage from the Amirdrassil 4-piece set bonus is no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 50%).

Warrior

Fury

Rampage now deals 40% additional damage in PvP combat (was 30%).

Execute now deals 50% additional damage in PvP combat (was 40%).

Crushing Blow no longer deals reduced damage in PvP combat (was 20%).

Raging Blow deals 15% additional damage in PvP combat.

Annihilator deals 15% additional damage in PvP combat.

Season of Discovery

Seal of Martyrdom will no longer grant mana to nearby allies who are not in the Paladin's party or raid.

Shamanistic Rage will no longer grant mana to nearby players who are not in the Shaman's party or raid.

It is no longer possible to have two copies of the Mangle debuff active on a target.

Multiple Rogues can now have the Saber Slash bleed active on a target. If the Rogues have the Deadly Brew rune, they can each have a Deadly Poison periodic damage effect active on the target.

Pattern: Phoenix Bindings temporarily removed from the merchant faction vendor while we work to resolve an issue with the recipe.

 

December 4, 2023

Classes

Warlock

Demonology

Fixed an issue where Soul Strike would sometimes cast multiple times.

Dungeons and Raids

Throne of the Tides

Fixed an issue where Mindbender Ghu'sha would prevent players from releasing spirit when defeated.

Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope 

Tindral Sageswift

Fixed an issue where multiple players can benefit from the same Fallen Feather buff.

Fixed an issue where Diffuse Magic can cause Tindral to be inflicted with Fiery Growth.

Fixed an issue where Dream Essence does not get removed if Tindral finishes casting Supernova during intermission.

Ride Along disabled on players with the Fallen Feather debuff on Mythic difficulty.

[With weekly maintenance in each region] Seed of Flame duration increased to 5 seconds (was 3 seconds) in phase two on Mythic difficulty.

[With weekly maintenance in each region] Falling Star damage reduced by 15% and Fallen Feathers will now spawn around the boss (was spawning behind the boss) on Mythic difficulty.

Fyrakk the Blazing [with weekly maintenance in each region]

Blaze now hits fewer targets on Mythic difficulty.

Fyrakk no longer hits all targets with Aflame when casting Incarnate on Mythic difficulty.

Searing Screams damage increase reduced to 100% (was 300%) on Mythic difficulty.

Reduced the health of Burning Colossus and Dark Colossus by 15% on Mythic difficulty.

Items

Fixed an issue where the Shadowflame Rage effect from Fyrakk's Tainted Rageheart could deal increased self-damage due to damage taken modifiers.

Player versus Player

Resolved an issue that caused War Mode Supply Drops in the Emerald Dream to occur in the same location repeatedly.

Professions

Cooking

Mages who Conjure Desserts will no longer draw the attention of all hungry creatures within 40 yards.

Tailoring

Attempting to craft for the Legion quest "Inspire Me!" should no longer result in Invalid Target errors.

Season of Discovery

Players questing for "The Orb of Soran'ruk" will now find that The Twilight's Hammer have invaded the shores of The Zoram Strand near Blackfathom Deeps.

Developers’ notes: It wasn't our original intent for discoveries to take you into raid instances. Now, the enemies needed for completion of a pre-requisite quest for a rune are both in the outdoor world and inside the raid.

The quest to discover the Earth Shield shaman rune is now properly available to players. (Was previously not visible due to a bug). Happy hunting!

Fixed an issue with the Bael Modan Blunderbuss gun item that caused it to only be usable with arrows rather than bullets.

Fixed an issue where Sadistic Fiend would not properly reset when players died.

Fixed an issue preventing progress on the Priest quest chain "Secrets of Elune".

Fixed an issue where “Allegiance to the Old Gods” quest was not completable while in a raid group.

Carendin the Undercity Warlock will now discreetly dispose of any Acolyte's Notes stuck in warlocks' bags. He apologizes for the inconvenience.

Your bags can now carry multiple filled Supply Shipment crates.

Blackfathom Deeps

Fixed an issue on Twilight Lord Kelris when players would incorrectly die if they took a Dream Portal while under the effects of the Dream Eater debuff.

December 1, 2023

Dungeons and Raids

Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope

Fyrakk

Resolved an issue causing Fyrakk to become unlootable if killed during Shadowflame Devastation in Stage Two.

Resolved an issue causing Fyrakk's energy bar to increase too quickly in Stage Three on Mythic difficulty.

Dawn of the Infinite: Galakrond's Fall

Iridikron

Timeline Transcendence's 100% damage increase now also increases the damage of an affected player's pets and summons even if they are not within Chromie's bubble.

Timeline Transcendence no longer applies onto pets or summons.

The Everbloom

Ancient Protectors

The visual effect for Dhulu's Noxious Discharge have been updated.

Waycrest Manor

Addressed an issue where Soulbound Goliath's Soul Thorns ability will fail on shapeshifted players.

Items

Augury of the Primal Flame proc rate increased by 50% and damage decreased by 33%.

Developers’ note: While this change should not impact the trinket's expected performance, we hope that a more consistent proc rate will reduce its overall variance.

Blossom of Amirdrassil’s effects increased by 10%.

Belor'relos, the Suncaller self-damage increased by 20%.

Fixed an issue where Branch of the Tormented Ancient would not reset its cooldown upon ending an encounter.

Fixed an issue where Gift of Ursine Vengeance stacks would be removed on ally death or mind control.

Vaskarn, the dracthyr vendor in the Emerald Dream's Central Encampment, will now display her crest trade-up items to anyone who has earned the right to purchase them, even if they cannot currently purchase them because they are too close to the cap on the higher-level crest.

Player versus Player

Removed rank text from all Rated PvP gear, including PvP Class Sets.

Developers' note: This change does not effect item levels or upgrade tracks.

Mage

Arcane

Fixed an issue that caused the Amirdrassil 4-set bonus to not be reduced in PvP combat.

Frost

Fixed an issue that caused Frost Bomb's explosion to be prevented by Grounding Totem.

November 30, 2023

Dungeons and Raids

Black Rook Hold

Addressed an issue where Shadowbolt Volley debuff from Dantalionax can linger on players after he is defeated.

Court of Stars

Fixed an issue where Gerenth the Vile's Hypnosis Bat was incorrectly being cast on non-keystone difficulties.

Dawn of the Infinite

Resolved an issue where players could incidentally enter combat with Chronaxis and/or Pendule enemies while on the traversal paths.

Items

Fixed an issue allowing Smoldering Seedling to sometimes heal for more than intended.

Fixed an issue where Ouroboreal Necklet would not trigger Ruby Serpent's Ward from Acid Rain damage.

Player versus Player

Crests earned from rated PvP activities have been increased in tier for many ranks.

Whelpling crests are now only earned from Combatant 1 end-of-match activity (was Combatant 1 and Combatant 2).

Drake crests are now earned from Combatant 2, Challenger 1, and Challenger 2 end-of-match activity (was Challenger 1, Challenger 2, Rival 1, and Rival 2).

Wyrm crests are now earned from Rival 1 and Rival 2 end-of-match activity (was Duelist).

Aspect crests are now earned from Duelist and Elite end-of-match activity (was Elite only).

Flightstone earnings from rated PvP have increased.

Rated BG wins now award 45 Flightstones (was 35).

Rated BG losses now award 20 Flightstones (was 15).

Arena 2v2 wins now award 15 Flightstones (was 10).

Arena 3v3 wins now award 15 Flightstones (was 10).

Solo Shuffle wins now award 45 Flightstones (was 35).

Solo Shuffle losses now award 15 Flightstones (was 10).

World

Jewelcrafting

Fixed an issue that prevented crafted statues from being placed in the Emerald Dream and Zaralek Cavern.

November 29, 2023

Classes

Evoker

Augmentation

Fixed an issue that made it possible for Sands of Time to fail to extend Ebon Might.

Dungeons

The Everbloom

Lady Baihu and her Kirin Tor Battle-Mages no longer trigger on-death affix effects in Mythic Keystone difficulty.

Items

PvP Class set items that were obtained from the Great Vault or converted at the Revival Catalyst and were previously on the Veteran track should now be using the Champion track.

WoW’s 19^th Anniversary

Emeriss and Lethon's Aura of Nature debuff now deals significantly less damage.

November 28, 2023

Classes

Death Knight

Frost

Aberrus, the Shadow Crucible 2-piece set

The damage of your next Frostwyrm's Fury is increased by 4% (was 5%). Stacks unchanged.

The effectiveness of Frostywrm's Fury reduced to 25% (was 30%).

Howling Blast damage reduced to 10% (was 20%).

Amirdrassil, the Dream's Hope 4-piece set

Chill Streak can bounce 3 additional times (was 2 times).

The chance to proc a bonus effect increased to 35% (was 30%).

Chill Streak damage increased by 10%.

Obliterate damage increased by 8%.

Enduring Chill chance to bounce increased to 25% (was 20%).

Piercing Chill damage increased to 12% (was 10%).

Druid

Restoration

All healing increased by 3%. Not applied to PvP combat.

Evoker

Augmentation

Shifting Sands will now properly trigger twice when casting back-to-back empower spells with Tip the Scales.

Paladin

Fixed an issue causing Retribution Aura to fail to trigger from some abilities.

Priest

Resolved an issue preventing the cooldown of Mass Dispel from resetting when an encounter ends.

Shadow

All damage increased by 5%. Not applied to PvP combat.

Rogue

Assassination

Fixed an issue that caused Envenom's buff to persist beyond its intended duration when used with fewer than 5 combo points.

Warlock

Affliction

All damage dealt by you and your pet's abilities increased by 6%. Not applied to PvP combat.

Destruction

All damage dealt by you and your pet's abilities increased by 6%. Not applied to PvP combat.

Dungeons and Raids

Murozond’s Rise

Tyr, the Infinite Keeper

Tyr, the Infinite Keeper's health reduced by 15%.

Tyr, the Infinite Keeper will now only cast a single Dividing Strike within a sequence of the Infinite Hand Technique.

Chrono-Lord Deios

Chrono-Lord Deios' Temporal Breath impact damage reduced by 20% and periodic damage reduced by 15%.

The vulnerability effect of Chrono-Lord Deios' Infinity Nova reduced to 75% (was 250%).

Resolved an issue that could cause a player standing in certain locations to not be eligible for loot.

The Everbloom

Ancient Protectors

Dulhu's Noxious Charge impact damage reduced by 25%.

Dulhu's Noxious Discharge damage reduced by 25%.

Dulhu's Noxious Discharge impact time increased to 2 seconds (was 1.5 seconds).

Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope

Council of Dreams

Addressed an issue causing Barreling Charge to hit players standing closely behind Urctos.

Items

Wherever possible, all cosmetics and collectibles that drop from a unique rare elite enemy in Forbidden Reach and Zaralek Cavern will now drop more often.

Cache of Amirdrassil Treasures should now display the correct item level.

Developers’ notes: This was only a display issue and did not affect the items in the cache.

Existing Rated PvP gear that was previously on the Veteran track should now be using the Champion track.

Developers’ notes: This change does not affect existing Class Sets either obtained from the Great Vault or items that were converted at the Catalyst. Those will be addressed in a separate hotfix.

Player versus Player

Demon Hunter

Havoc

Chaotic Disposition now has a 33.33% chance (base 7.77%) to increase damage by 4% (base 17%) in PvP combat, providing the same average damage bonus with significantly less variance.

Druid

Eclipse will now properly track your Wrath and Starfire casts if Eclipse ends while you are Cycloned.

Fury of Elune will now properly deal damage to enemies who are not in line of sight of the Druid.

Feral

Regrowth healing is now reduced by 20% in PvP combat (was 43%).

Evoker

Azure Strike damage increased by 40% in PvP combat.

Time Stop (PvP talent) cooldown reduced to 45 seconds (was 1 minute).

Chrono Loop (PvP talent) cooldown reduced to 45 seconds (was 1 minute).

Augmentation

Upheaval damage reduced by 10% in PvP combat.

Eruption damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.

Preservation

Dream Flight healing increased by 100% in PvP combat.

Mana regeneration now reduced by 5% in PvP combat (was 10%).

Priest

Ultimate Penitence will now prioritize healing players in PvP combat and will only heal pets if all players are at full health.

Holy

All healing increased by 6% in PvP combat.

WoW’s 19^th Anniversary

Reduced the Dragons of Nightmare Lethargy stun to 2 seconds (was 5 seconds).

Reduced the health of Emeriss's Putrid Mushrooms by 85%.

Adjusted the frequency of Emeriss's attack patterns.

November 27, 2023

Classes

Monk

Mistweaver

The 2-piece class set Chi Harmony now only increases healing taken from Monk abilities.

The 4-piece class set Chi Harmony no longer accumulates healing taken by Revitalizing Voodoo Totem.

Paladin

Protection

Fixed an issue causing Cleansing Flame to deal incorrect damage and healing when cast on a target with vulnerability or increased healing taken.

Warlock

Demonology

Fixed an issue where Soul Strike would be relearned whenever Felguard is summoned.

Felguard should now prioritize using Soul Strike once it's off cooldown.

Dungeons and Raids

Darkheart Thicket

Fixed an issue that caused Oakheart's Crushing Grip damage to pierce immunities.

Galakrond’s Fall

Interval no longer triggers on-death affixes.

The Everbloom

Melded Berserker's Bounding Whirl inflicts damage every 1.5 seconds (was 1 second).

Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope

Nymue

Fixed an issue where Cycle Wardens were not correctly scaling for larger raid sizes on Normal difficulty.

Events

Emerald Bounty contributions in the last 2 seconds of the event will no longer consume a seed or give credit for a contribution. This should help guarantee all loot earned is properly credited.

Items

Fixed an issue where Smoldering Seedling would fail to trigger from healing abilities in quick succession.

Player versus Player

PvP gear with Champion and Hero upgrade tracks should no longer display incorrect PvP ilvl increases when previewed in the upgrade UI.

Mage

Frost

Fixed an issue where Frost Bomb's explosion was triggering on the incorrect target when reflected.

Rogue

Fixed issues with Caustic Spatter, Sanguine Blades, Shadow Blades, and Replicating Shadows that caused them to unintentionally keep the Rogue and enemy player in combat.

Subtlety

Fixed an issue that prevented Eviscerate from dealing bonus shadow damage with Shadowed Finishers talented.

Quests

Fixed an issue where Dragon Isles Drakes: White Scales were not awarded when completing the quest "Time to Process". Players that have already completed the quest will receive the item via mail.

Players who did not receive the intended weekly amount of Echoed Ephemera for "The Power of Dreams" will receive these missing items in their mail.

November 21, 2023

Achievements

Added Ivy as a reward for Don't Let the Doe Hit You On the Way Out.

Classes

Hunter

Beast Mastery

Beast Cleave and Kill Cleave now log correctly when the Hunter is buffed by an Augmentation Evoker.

Creatures and NPCs

Fixed issue causing rare elites in The Forbidden Reach, Zaralek Cavern, and The Emerald Dream to not award credit to players in a raid group.

Unpulled rare elites in Forbidden Reach and Zaralek Caverns should now despawn after 15 minutes, unless players are in their immediate vicinity.

Dungeons and Raids

Developers’ notes: Through the first week of Season 3 Mythic dungeons, data and feedback suggest that Murozond’s Rise, Throne of the Tides, and Atal’Dazar are outliers in terms of difficulty. While Murozond’s Rise and Throne of the Tides are too difficult, Atal’Dazar is proving too easy and may affect player progression through the content in a negative way. Our adjustments aim to better align overall balance across the Mythic dungeon pool for Season 3.

Atal’Dazar

The required enemy forces count for Atal’Dazar has been increased.

Toxic Saurid’s Leaping Thrash no longer triggers Poisoned Claws on the target.

Dazar’ai Juggernaut’s Merciless Assault damage reduced by 25%.

Dazar’al Augur’s Wildfire periodic rate reduced to 1 second (was 2 seconds).

Dinomancer Kish’o’s Deadeye Aim damage reduced by 25%.

T’lonja’s Frenzied Charge is now avoidable but inflicts increased damage.

Monzumi’s Wild Thrash range increased to 100 yards.

Yazma

Yazma’s Wracking Pain can no longer be interrupted and is no longer a curse effect in Mythic Keystone difficulty.

Priestess Alun’za

Corrupted Blood inflicts damage every 2.5 seconds (was 3 seconds).

Spirit of Gold’s health increased by 33%.

Murozond’s Rise

Resolved an issue that could cause Double Strike and Triple Strike to cast on unintended players.

Tyr, the Infinite Keeper

Radiant Barrier damage absorb reduced by 15%.

Radiant Barrier refresh damage reduced by 25%.

Timestream Anomaly’s Untwist damage reduced by 20%.

Time-Displacement reduces the creature’s health by an additional 10%>

Time-Displacement on death damage effect reduced by 50%.

Increased the cooldown of Double Strike and Triple Strike.

Chrono-Lord Deios

Chrono-Lord Deios health reduced by 10%.

Infinite Corruption damage reduced by 20%.

Throne of the Tides

Reduced the total number of Unstable Corruption spawns and Unstable Corruption now spawn more consistently in the Abyssal Halls.

Vicious Snap Dragon’s Razor Jaws inflicts damage every 1.5 seconds (was 1 second).

Vicious Snap Dragon health reduced by 20%.

Gilgoblin Aquamage health reduced by 20%.

Gilgoblin Aquamage’s Aquablast cast time increased to 4 seconds (was 3.75 seconds).

Tainted Guardian’s Swell damage reduced by 15%.

Naz’jar Sentinel’s Crushing Depth heal absorb amount reduced by 15%.

Ozumat

Ozumat’s sludge's Gushing Ink will now properly display its precast effect.

Blotting Barrage damage reduced by 15%.

Blotting Darkness inflicts damage reduced by 25%.

Neptulon’s Cleansing Flux duration increased to 12 seconds (was 10 seconds).

Foul Bolt now has an 8 second initial cool up.

Splotch spawn closer to the Ink of Ozumat.

Galakrond’s Fall

Risen Dragon’s Necrotic Outburst inflicts damage every 3 seconds (was every 2 seconds).

Coalesced Moment’s Tainted Sands no longer does damage immediately and its duration has been reduced to 7 seconds (was 9 seconds).

Darkheart Thicket

Oakheart’s Crushing Grip throw damage reduced by 15%.

Maddening Roar increases damage dealt by 20% per stack (was 25%).

Black Rook Hold

Felspite Dominator’s Sic Bats! will now command up to 4 bats to attack their target (was unlimited).

Waycrest Manor

Matron Alma’s Lingering Dread should prefer non-tank players.

Fixed an issue where Banquet Steward's Dinner Bell was silencing pets.

Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope

Larodar, Keeper of the Flame

Reduced the number of Flash Fires that target players each cast by 1 on Heroic difficulty.

Fyrakk the Blazing

The extra action button that allows players to drop Seeds of Amirdrassil should now be more responsive.

Items

The cosmetic items offered by Talisa Whisperwind should now properly filter based on your armor and weapon proficiency.

Increased the item levels of Season 3 Duelist and Elite PvP gear from all sources.

Player versus Player

Resolved an issue that could allow players to leave the starting areas early in some Arenas such as Tiger's Peak in Solo Shuffle.

Death Knight

Unholy

Death Coil damage is now increased by 70% in PvP combat (was 90%).

Demon Hunter

Havoc

Inertia damage bonus reduced to 12% (was 18%) in PvP combat.

Elysian Decree damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat.

The Hunt initial and periodic damage reduced by 30% (was 20%) in PvP combat.

Throw Glaive damage reduced by 10% in PvP combat.

Essence Break damage bonus reduced to 50% (was 65%) in PvP combat.

Fel Barrage damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat.

Druid

Restoration

Lifebloom periodic healing decreased by 12% in PvP combat.

Grove Guardians Nourish healing decreased by 15% in PvP combat.

Grove Guardians’ health decreased by 66%.

Hunter

Marksmanship

Rapid Fire damage increased by 20% (was 40%) in PvP combat.

Guardians of the Dream 4-piece set now causes your next Rapid Fire to fire 40%
additional bolts (was 60%) in PvP combat.

Arcane Shot damage increased by 35% (25%) in PvP combat.

Chimaera Shot damage increased by 35% (25%) in PvP combat.

Paladin

Holy

Mana Regeneration now decreased by 25% (was 55%) in PvP combat.

Priest

Shadow

Increased damage of all abilities by 8% in PvP combat.

Mind Trauma’s duration reduced to 15 seconds (was 20 seconds).

Mage

Blast Wave now snares by 50% for 6 seconds (was 70%) in PvP combat.

Arcane

Chrono Shift now increases movement speed by 25% (was 50%) in PvP combat.

Temporal Shield now heals for 60% of damage taken over 4 sec (was 100%) in PvP
combat.

Fire

Ignite damage increased by 20% in PvP combat.

Fireball damage increased by 30% (was 12%) in PvP combat.

Scorch damage increased by 100% (was 45%) in PvP combat.

Glass Cannon (PvP talent) now increases the damage of Ignite, Fireball, and Scorch by 40% (was 100%) and decreases maximum health by 15% (was 20%).

Frost

Flurry damage increased by 20% (was 8%) in PvP Combat.

Frozen Orb damage increased by 75% (was 30%) in PvP combat.

Frost Bomb (PvP talent) damage increased by 80%.

Ice Lance damage increased by 35% (was 15%) in PvP combat.

Comet Storm damage increased by 40% (was 15%) in PvP combat.

Freezing Winds now grants Fingers of Frost every 5 seconds (was 3 seconds) in PvP
combat.

Frozen Orb damage now has a 5% chance to grant Fingers of Frost (was 10%) in PvP
combat.

Monk

Mistweaver

Rising Sun Kick damage decreased by 36% (was 20%) in PvP combat.

Blackout Kick (Teachings of the Monastery) damage decreased by 25% in PvP combat.

Tiger Palm damage decreased by 20% in PvP combat.

Ancient Teachings now transfers 275% of damage done (was 220%) in PvP combat.

Rogue

Assassination

Kingsbane initial and periodic damage now reduced by 20% (was 11%) in PvP combat.

Outlaw

Crackshot now causes Between the Eyes to Dispatch the target for 50% (was 75%) of
normal damage when used from Stealth.

Subtlety

Perforated Veins damage bonus reduced to 40% (was 50%) in PvP combat.

Goremaw’s Bite damage reduced by 10% in PvP combat.

Shaman

Elemental

Lightning Bolt now deals 67% increased damage in PvP combat (was 45%).

Chain Lightning now deals 15% increased damage in PvP combat.

Icefury damage is now increased by 85% in PvP combat.

Volcanic Surge now increases the damage of Chain Lightning and Lightning Bolt by 30% (was 50%).

User Interface

In Group Finder, "Amirdrassil, the Dream's Hope" has been shortened to "Amirdrassil" to make it easier to see the difficulty that groups are attempting.

Fixed an issue that caused Murozond's Rise in Group Finder to default to Galakrond's Fall.

 

 

November 17, 2023

Classes

Shaman

Elemental

Resolved an issue causing Earth Shock Overload from Mountains Will Fall to deal 6% less damage than intended.

Dungeons and Raids

Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope

Council of Dreams

Fixed a rare timing issue where the Council members could finish casting Rebirth when the encounter should have ended.

Items

The Great Vault should now display consistent item levels when previewing raid rewards.

Player versus Player

Hunter

Beast Mastery

Resolved an issue that could cause unintended spells to be cast during Call of the Wild.

November 16, 2023

Classes

Monk

Mistweaver

Fixed an issue that caused Essence Font to fire one more bolt than intended per second channeled.

Developers’ notes: We’re aware of an issue that will cause Essence Font's tooltip to display an incorrect channel rate after this fix. This will be addressed in a future update.

Rogue

Assassination

Fixed an issue that allowed Sanguine Blades damage from vulnerability damage increases on enemies to be unintentionally doubled.

Fixed an issue that allowed Poisoned Edges (Aberrus 2-piece set bonus) damage from vulnerability damage increases on enemies to be unintentionally doubled.

Dungeons and Raids

Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope

Fyrakk

Developers’ notes: Both player feedback and data have indicated that Heroic Fyrakk doesn't pose as much of a challenge as we'd intended. We'd like Fyrakk to be a satisfying ending to Amirdrassil, the Dream's Hope for the vast majority of players who have yet to encounter him, so we're making a few adjustments to the overall difficulty of the encounter.

Burning Scales damage increased by 40%.

There is now an additional occurrence of Blaze during Stage Three.

Blaze damage increased by 40%.

Damage of colliding with a Swirling Firestorm increased by 60%.

Dawn of the Infinite

Resolved an issue that could cause Chromie to get stuck channeling on Blight of Galakrond during a Mythic Keystone run.

Resolved an issue which could prevent Manifested Timeways from spawning.

Items

Fixed an issue that prevented Gift of Ursine Vengeance from stacking Rising Rage properly.

Fixed an issue preventing Hearthstone of the Flame from being tradeable to other eligible party members.

Rings and neck pieces from Throne of the Tides should now drop correctly for all classes.

User Interface

Restricted addon functions that allowed for in-combat distance checking between players.

Developers’ notes: This change was intended to be implemented with the launch of the Guardians of the Dream patch, to avoid requiring that addon authors update their addons separately after the content is already being played. We apologize for the confusion and inconvenience.

November 15, 2023

Classes

Evoker

Augmentation

Ebon Might now properly benefits from the 4-piece class set bonus from Aberrus as well as Close as Clutchmates.

Hunter

Hunter pet attacks now scale with weapon attack power.

Kill Command, Bite, Claw, Smack, Flanking Strike, Froststorm Breath, and Burrow Attack damage reduced by 32.5%.

Developers’ notes: In a recent hotfix aimed at correcting an issue with Augmentation Evokers and their damage logging, we adjusted how Hunter pet damage is calculated. A side effect of this was that Hunter pet attacks started scaling with weapon attack power, increasing the damage of a Hunter pet's special attacks by about 32.5% at 450 item level. This is actually something we would like to retain, as it means that Hunter pet damage will now benefit from weapon upgrades.

Mend Pet and Revive Pet are now separate pet utility buttons and are no longer automatically swapped back and forth based on your pet's state. This is a temporary change to resolve some issues with interactions between Call of the Wild, Mend Pet, and Revive Pet. Mend Pet can be found in the "Pet Utility" flyout menu in the main Hunter spellbook.

Rogue

Outlaw

Fixed an errant interaction that caused Soulrip to apply without the rogue dealing combat damage.

Warlock

Fixed an issue where damage from Dimensional Rift would not break Fear effects.

Demonology

Resolved an issue causing Malefic Impact to not grant the proper amount of critical strike chance to Hand of Gul'dan.

Dragonriding

Fixed an issue where Ride Along passenger whelps were animated incorrectly.

Dungeons and Raids

Amirdrassil

Smolderon

Reduced the duration of Smoldering Ground puddles to 2.5 minutes (was 5 minutes) on Raid Finder difficulty.

Volcoross

Fixed an issue that caused Shadowstrike to teleport Subtlety Rogues into the lava.

Antorus the Burning Throne

Resolved an issue causing Foul Steps to remain on players after defeating the Eonar the Life-Binder encounter.

Dawn of the Infinite

Fixed an issue that caused Coalesced Time and Timestream Leech to be Arcane damage, instead of the intended Physical damage.

The Everbloom

Reduced the effectiveness of Enraged Growth on players.

Throne of the Tides

Fixed an issue that allowed players to line of sight Commander Ulthok's Festering Shockwave.

Items

Cataclysmic Signet Brand’s self-damage effect can no longer be dispelled.

The Porcelain Crab trinket from Throne of the Tides should no longer drop for non-melee classes.

Player versus Player

The Battleground Blitz brawl no longer grants progress toward the PvP quest “Proving in Battle”, which is intended to reward participation in random battlegrounds.

Shaman who reached Combatant I during Dragonflight Season 3 should now be granted the Elite cloak appearance.

Priest

Discipline

Fixed an issue that caused the Guardians of the Dream 2-piece tier set to not extend Atonements while using the Trinity PvP talent.

Superbloom

The Emerald Bounty location for Whisperbloom planting should now be available at all times, and not just during the Superbloom.

WoW Classic Era

[With realm restarts] Fixed an issue that prevented respeccing from refunding all of the character’s talent points as expected.

November 14, 2023

Classes

Death Knight

Unholy

Death Coil damage increased by 10%.

Scourge Strike/Clawing Shadows damage increased by 10%.

Ghoul damage increased by 8%.

Virulent Plague damage increased by 20%.

Apocalypse ghoul damage increased by 5%.

Demon Hunter

Havoc

Chaotic Disposition has been reworked to directly benefit the damage of affected abilities instead of duplicating portions of the damage they dealt. The amount of damage generated by the effect has not changed.

Chaotic Disposition: Your Chaos damage has a 7.77% chance to be increased by 17%, occurring up to 3/7 total times.

Vengeance

Sigil of Silence base duration reduced to 5 seconds (was 6 seconds). PvP duration has not changed.

Fel Flame Fortification reduction to magic damage taken reduced to 10% (was 12%).

Illuminated Sigils now increases Parry chance against affected targets by 15% (was 20%).

Druid

Guardian

Mangle now grants 12 Rage (was 10).

Cat Form energy regeneration increased by 50% (was 35%).

Balance

Cat Form energy regeneration increased by 50% (was 35%).

Restoration

Rip damage increased by 140%. Does not apply in PvP Combat.

Rake damage increased by 60%.

Shred damage increased by 140%.

Ferocious Bite damage increased by 200%. Does not apply in PvP Combat.

Cat Form energy regeneration increased by 50% (was 35%).

Evoker

Augmentation

Developers’ notes: The amount of utility that Augmentation Evoker brings on top of its high damage has proven to be too powerful despite recent changes. Therefore we are further reducing their damage contributions to the group in order to balance them against other specializations.

Ebon Might grants 6.5% of the Evoker’s primary stat (was 8%).

Close as Clutchmates increases the effectiveness of Ebon Might and Breath of Eons by 10% (was 20%).

The amount of Versatility granted by Shifting Sands has been reduced by 15%.

Hunter

Various pet abilities that deal damage such as Kill Command, Bite, and Flanking Strike will now properly reattribute damage to an Augmentation Evoker who has buffed the Hunter in the combat log.

Beast Mastery

Corrected an issue where the Bloody Frenzy talent was granting the effects of Beast Cleave for longer durations than intended and was not properly updating the personal nameplate Beast Cleave icon.

Paladin

Retribution

All ability damage increased by 3%.

Priest

Discipline

Developers’ notes: Discipline healing throughput (particularly in raids) is slightly higher than we would like, given their damage and utility contributions to the group. To balance them, we’re reducing some talents that are giving a lot of power for only 1 talent point. The goal is to improve talent balance while also bringing them in line with other healers.

Divine Aegis absorption reduced to 5% of healing done (was 10%).

Inescapable Torment damage reduced by approximately 19%.

Rogue

Assassination

Fixed an issue that caused Internal Bleeding to be incorrectly applied by Deathmark's version of Rupture.

Fixed an issue that caused Internal Bleeding to not contribute to Sudden Demise.

Fixed an issue that caused Shrouded Suffocation to incorrectly generate combo points when a duplicated Garrote was applied with Deathmark's effect.

Warlock

Destruction

Unstable Tear damage increased 5%.

Shadowy Tear damage increased 5%.

Chaos Tear damage increased 30%.

Demonology

Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible 2-piece Set Bonus now reduces the cooldown of Grimoire: Felguard by 0.5 second (was 1 second).

Developers’ notes: We’re reducing the power of Demonology’s previous set bonus to bring it in line with other set bonuses from Aberrus.

Items

Renown items purchased from Moon Priestess Lasara should now be eligible for conversion at the Revival Catalyst.

Fixed a bug that prevented Emerald Dream pets from being caged.

Seedbloom now stacks.

Jewelcrafting

Fixed a bug that granted the Band of New Beginnings a higher stamina value than intended.

Player versus Player

Fixed a bug that prevented the first-win-of-the-day bonus from being properly awarded in Battleground Blitz.

Battlegrounds

The following items will be enabled for unrated battlegrounds and battleground brawls, excluding Battleground Blitz:

Engineering Bombs:

The chance for bomb malfunctions is now standardized to 5% for all players while in a battleground, regardless of other factors.

Grease Grenade

Primal Deconstruction Charge

Polarity Bomb

Gravitational Displacer

Sticky Warp Grenade

and their EZ-Thro counterparts.

War Mode Consumables:

Curious Primordial Fungus

Pest Fogger

Wild Dragon Fruit

Wild Truffle

Duration reduced to 12 seconds (was 20 seconds).

Energized Temporal Spores

Gritty Stone Potion

Speed penalty reduced to 15% (was 30%).

Warbanner of Ire

Now on the Battle Standard cooldown of 10 minutes.

Bonus primary stat reduced to 5% (was 10%).

Prismatic Snail Mucus

Critical strike chance bonus reduced to 30% (was 50%).

Soothing Emerald Tea

Now on the Healing Potion cooldown of 5 minutes.

Immediate health increased to 25% (was 20%). Health over time increased to 40% (was 15%).

Volatile Crimson Embers

Damage bonus increased to 30% (was 25%).

Damage taken over time reduced to 1% every 3 seconds (was 3% every 3 seconds).

Duration increased to 24 seconds (was 15 seconds).

Additionally, War Mode consumables have been adjusted to no longer be Unique and no longer have charges. These will be stackable items all the way up to 200, and their cost has been reduced from 100 Bloody Tokens down to 50 for a stack of 5. Seltherex now offers these items for 500 Honor for a stack of 5.

November 13, 2023

Classes

Demon Hunter

Fixed an issue that caused the Demon Hunter to briefly remain rooted when The Hunt's cast was cancelled or interrupted.

Druid

Balance

Incarnation: Chosen of Elune will no longer transform you into an armored Moonkin if you are using a new barbershop customization. The armored Incarnation model will show if you are using classic Moonkin form.

Evoker

Preservation

Spiritbloom will now bounce to friendly targets that are meant to be healed during quests and encounters.

Hunter

Beast Mastery

Fixed an issue where Wild Instincts would not properly apply when multiple different hunters were using Call of the Wild.

Monk

Fixed an issue causing Chi Torpedo to not trigger Mighty Roar.

Priest

Discipline

Fixed an issue where Schism could fail to apply to your target if they ran out of your range or line of sight as Mind Blast completed.

Rogue

Leeching Poison should no longer fall off when changing instances.

Fixed an issue with the interaction between Premeditation and Shadow Technique.

Assassination

Lethal Dose should no longer cause Crimson Tempest, Serrated Bone Spike, or Mutilated Flesh (from Doomblade) to benefit, but not contribute from its effect.

Dungeons and Raids

Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible

Scalecommander Sarkareth no longer casts an erroneous Void Slash in Stage 3.

Items

Fixed an issue that could cause some gear, such as gear obtained in Fyrakk Assaults, Time Rifts, or Dreamsurges to lose the option to be further upgraded when converted to an Aberrus set item.

Player versus Player

Demon Hunter

Fixed an issue that prevented Darkness from having its effect increased to 50% in PvP combat, as intended.

Hunter

Rapid Reload (Marksmanship Blazing Dreamstalker 4-piece set bonus) effectiveness reduced by 40% in PvP situations.

Quests

Balloon drivers who are “Cataloging Thaldrazsus” are now less confused, and no longer send players on a very strange trip to Waking Shores.

User Interface

Fixed an issue where Dragonriding vigor bars would occasionally show incorrect vigor values on login.

November 10, 2023

Achievements

Treasures of the Emerald Dream again rewards the Forest Lord’s Antlers.

Developers’ notes: While this was originally intended to be the reward for the Dream On achievement, a bug resulted in it being rewarded by the Treasures of the Emerald Dream achievement, so we’re going to leave it there permanently and look for something else to potentially reward for Dream On.

Classes

Druid

Guardian

Fixed an issue causing Innate Resolve to not correctly increase Frenzied Regeneration healing.

Restoration

Abundance stacks will no longer incorrectly decrease if you happen to have more Rejuvenations active than the maximum amount of Abundance stacks.

Evoker

Fixed an issue that caused Evokers who used a Boost to lose 10 item levels.

Emerald Bounty

Fixed an issue with Scurfpea bloom chest not showing.

Fixed an issue where Dream Daisys might report an active chest you did not have.

Dragon's Daffodil should no longer occasionally report an active chest that is not there.

The user interface at Lavatouched Lilies should now reflect contributions correctly.

Items

Reduced the Spirit effect on the Imbued Frostweave Slippers by 70%.

Developers’ notes: After reviewing the performance of this effect, we've decided to pull it back quite a bit as to not overshadow other items to the degree that it is. While this is a fun effect that will remain, we feel these slippers don’t necessarily need to be a required optimization for healers.

Quests

Alt player-characters can now complete the World Quest "Dryad Fire Drill" without completing Chapter 1.

Fixed an issue preventing completion of the Hunter Class Hall Campaign quest “Survive the Night”.

November 9, 2023

Classes

Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the talent frame to show the incorrect number of points on talents when trying to refund talent points for Priest, Demon Hunter, and Rogue.

Druid

Guardian

Fixed an issue causing Blood Frenzy to not benefit from Haste or Cycle of Life and Death.

Priest

Discipline

Ultimate Penitence now clears root effects when cast, instead of returning the error message "You are unable to move."

Items

Fixed an issue with Paracausal Fragment of Thunderfin, Humid Blade of the Tideseeker where the trinket effect was not functioning properly.

The Sarannis' Mystic Sheen absorb is reduced by 68% and the cloak now has primary stats.

Professions

You can now place crafting orders for Mark of the Auric Dreamstag.

Alchemy

Fixed an issue that prevented Phial and Potion cauldrons from being usable in non-keystone Mythic dungeons.

Fixed an issue that sometimes allowed for Phial auras to persist in rated PvP environments and Battleground Blitz.

Jewelcrafting

Cataclysm Jewelcrafting figurines now drop for all classes to aid with completion of the Fantastic Figurines achievement.

Reputation

Dream Wardens reputation from Emerald Dewdrop contributions into Medium and Large Emerald Blooms during Emerald Bounty now reward a large amount of reputation with the first five each week.

User Interface

The Quest Journal will now properly display the Emerald Dream portal in the Emerald Conclave in Valdrakken.

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

310% mounts now correctly fly at 310% speed in Outland.

November 8, 2023

Dragonriding

Fixed an issue where Dragon Glyph Resonance was not appearing for specific mounts.

The Emerald Dream

Firebrand Fystia now correctly knows when she’s dead, and no longer shows up on the zone map.

Fixed an issue that prevented Seedbloom from being rewarded through the completion of the weekly Blooming Dreamseeds quest. Additionally, if you completed the quest before our hotfix went out, go to the Emerald Dream and then check your mail. The local postmaster should be sending out replacement Seedblooms.

Filling up a Dreamseed with Emerald Dewdrops should now grant reputation with the Dream Wardens.

Player versus Player

[With realm restarts] Fixed an issue where Temple of Kotmogu and Silvershard Mines in the Deep Six brawl could have a maximum of 8 players.

Quests

The Timewalking weekly quest “A Savage Path Through Time” again properly rewards a chest containing random Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible items.

Reputation

Fixed an issue that prevented players who used a level 70 Boost from being able to obtain the intended Renown with Dragonflight factions. Players who have remained logged into the game may need to log out and back into the game on any affected boosted characters.

The hotfix notes for the previous patch can be found .

Dec 20 2023

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