Hotfixes
July 26, 2023 Dungeons and Raids
Neltharus
- Resolved an issue that would sometimes cause Chargath to take no actions after casting Fiery Focus.
- Fixed a bug that allowed Qalashi Warden’s Volcanic Guard to sometimes change direction.
Player versus Player
Death Knight
- Resolved an issue causing Festermight to not gain its full benefit when bursting Festering Wounds with Doomburst talented.
- Resolved an issue causing Death Coils from Improved Death Coil to not burst Festering Wounds on secondary targets with Doomburst talented.
Toys
- After completing the Daycare Derby achievement, players can take the toy reward from their mail and use it to add to their toy box as expected.
July 24, 2023 Classes
Druid
Evoker
Hunter
Marksmanship
- Trick Shot, Aimed Shot, and Rapid Fire ricochets now deal 65% of their normal damage (was 55%).
Survival
- Mongoose Bite damage increased by 5%.
- Raptor Strike damage increased by 5%.
- Flanking Strike damage increased by 10%.
- Kill Command damage increased by 10%.
Monk
Windwalker
- Rising Sun Kick damage increased by 10%.
- Fists of Fury damage increased by 10%. Does not apply to PvP Combat.
- Blackout Kick damage increased by 10%.
- Tiger Palm damage increased by 15%.
Paladin
Priest
Shadow
- Psychic Link now causes direct damage spells to inflict 15% of their damage on all targets afflicted by your Vampiric Touch within 40 yards (was 25%).
- Void Spike damage to enemies within 10 yards of the target reduced by 30%.
- Devouring Plague damage increased by 12%. Does not apply to PvP Combat.
- Mind Blast damage increased by 12%. Does not apply to PvP Combat.
- Void Bolt damage increased by 12%. Does not apply to PvP Combat.
- Mind Flay damage increased by 12%. Does not apply to PvP Combat.
- Mind Flay: Insanity damage increased by 12%. Does not apply to PvP Combat.
- Mind Spike damage increased by 12%. Does not apply to PvP Combat.
- Mind Spike: Insanity damage increased by 12%. Does not apply to PvP Combat.
- Shadow Word: Death damage increased by 12%. Does not apply to PvP Combat.
- Prayer of Mending now costs 10% of base mana (was 4%).
- Power Word: Life now costs 10% of base mana (was 4%).
- Renew now costs 8% of base mana (was 4%).
Shaman
Enhancement
- Healing Surge now costs 8% of base mana (was 10%).
Restoration
- All healing increased by 5%.
- The range of Restorative Mists heals from Ascendance is now 40 yards (was 20 yards). The initial burst healing from Ascendance remains at 20 yards.
Warrior
Dungeons and Raids
Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
Events
Player versus Player
Evoker
Devastation
- Fire Breath’s damage over time damage increased by 20% in PvP combat (was reduced by 10%).
Mage
Fire
Developers’ notes: We’re offsetting a few recent damage reduction adjustments and greatly increasing the damage of Living Bomb, with the goal of making it a viable talent option in PvP.
- Pyroblast damage increased by 18% in PvP Combat (was 12%).
- Fire Blast damage reduced by 3% in PvP Combat (was 8%).
- Phoenix Flames damage increased by 22% in PvP Combat (was 16%).
- Living Bomb damage increased by 300% in PvP Combat.
Frost
Developers’ notes: We would like Ray of Frost to remain a threatening cast, but still feel it’s slightly more lethal than we’d like. Frostbolt’s damage has fallen behind other options, so we’re increasing its damage to reward casting. Snowdrift’s activation has felt a little too difficult for the amount of risk involved, so we’re reducing the time to trigger the stun effect.
- Cryopathy is now 50% effective in PvP Combat (was 60%).
- Frostbolt damage increased by 150% in PvP Combat (was 100%).
- Snowdrift now has a 2 second activation time (was 3 seconds).
Priest
Shadow
- Mind Trauma now steals 2% haste (was 4%) and stacks up to 9 times (was 6).
- From Darkness Comes Light now stacks up to 25 times in PvP Combat (was 50).
Monk
Shaman
Enhancement
Developers’ notes: We feel the backlash damage from Flame Shock has not been sufficiently high as to make the decision to dispel it compelling.
- Control of Lava damage increased by 40%.
Restoration
- Now regenerates 700 mana per second at max level in PvP Combat (was 800).
Warlock
Warrior
Fury
Developers’ notes: We’re increasing the damage of a few Fury Warrior spells we feel are not impactful enough in PvP.
- Execute damage is now increased by 25% in PvP Combat (was 10%).
- Onslaught damage increased by 15% in PvP Combat.
- Ravager damage increased by 30% in PvP Combat.
Quests
- Fixed an issue that could cause a player in the New Player Experience to become permanently, unintentionally unable to resume the tutorials.
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
- Fixed some issues around the general interactions of Death Knight’s Desecration with its targets.
July 20, 2023 Classes
Customizations
- Fixed a bug that could prevent players from being able to change the customization state of their Renewed Proto Drake.
Events
Time Rifts
- Resolved some visual errors with the Time Rifts skybox.
Items
Professions
World
- Fixed a bug that caused phasing issues in Dazar’alor.
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
- Fixed an issue where certain spells were not removing the effects of Piercing Shots, Ignite, or Deep Wounds from a target.
July 19, 2023 Achievements
- The Draconically Superior and Draconically Epic achievements should now only be granted to players who earned them.
Classes
Mage
Paladin
Dungeons and Raids
Events
Secrets of Naxxramas
- Developers’ note: We’ve seen feedback that the rewards from Dented Raider tokens are often underwhelming, and agree that there is room for improvement. We hope that these changes help mitigate some of the frustration experienced by heavily engaged players committed to acquiring their Tier 3 sets, but we’d like to emphasize that these items are still intended to be quite rare.
- Fixed an issue that prevented Rare items dropping from Dented Raider tokens.
- The drop rates for Phylacterweave and Lamented Crusader items have been slightly increased.
Time Rifts
Items
- Fixed an issue that caused some belts to go missing when worn by Mechagnomes.
July 18, 2023
Classes
Evoker
- Augmentation
Spatial Paradox now increases the range of melee spells for Paladins, Monks, and Druids. It now also increases the radius of Ancient Teachings and Stampeding Roar while it is active.
- A single player may now only benefit from a maximum of 4 each of the Ebon Might, Prescience, and Shifting Sands effects.
- Breath of Eons can no longer proc the Fate Mirror effect.
Mage
Fire
- Damage of all abilities reduced by 5%.
- Flamestrike damage reduced by 6% and now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
- Flame Patch damage reduced by 6% and now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
- Sun King’s Blessing causes your next Pyroblast or Flamestrike to deal 260% increased damage (was 275%).
Frost
- Frozen Orb damage reduced by 5%.
- Blizzard damage reduced by 4%.
- Comet Storm damage reduced by 5%.
- Subzero damage to rooted and frozen targets reduced to 5/10%.
Paladin
Shaman
- Fixed an issue where area-of-effect damaging spells and abilities were not properly converting damage to healing while under the effects of Ancestral Guidance.
Dungeons and Raids
Dawn of the Infinite
Items
- Echoing Tyrstone’s functionality has been updated to split heal targets in its range and deal increased healing based on how many targets received it (was a heal to all nearby allies for a flat amount). The amount of healing that can be recorded is increased by 70%.
- Echoing Tyrstone no longer targets pets.
Developers’ notes: We’ve made this change as we’ve seen this trinket performing strongly in raids to the point of competing with major class cooldowns, but its performance overall is varied based largely on how many people are with the healer. We’re hoping that this change to its functionality will help stabilize its performance in both dungeons and raids so that it doesn’t under, or over perform as much as it currently does.
Fixed a bug causing Quantum transmog items to reward Dracthyr cloth transmog instead of mail.
Player versus Player
- Resolved an issue that could prevent the Farm base status icon status from updating correctly in Deepwind Gorge.
Paladin
Professions
Quests
- Fixed an issue where weapons were not properly hiding while racing as a whelp during “Zhoomsa.”
Time Rifts
- Weekly Time Rifts quests will now award account-bound items that provide Paracausal Flakes and reputation with Soridormi (was directly awarded).
- Time Rift weekly quests no longer grant a Drake’s Shadowflame Crest Fragment. Each player-character can now earn 10 Drake’s Shadowflame Crest Fragments by defeating their first Fractured Causality each week.
- Weekly Time Rifts quests will now award account-bound items that provide Paracausal Flakes and reputation with Soridormi instead of awarding those directly.
- Shi Everbreeze in Tyrhold Reservoir now sells a Paracausal Crate, allowing players to send Paracausal Flakes between characters.
- Fixed a bug where Paracausal Fragment of Thunderfin, Humid Blade of the Tideseeker’s effect does not trigger on melee abilities.
- Fixed a bug where Paracausal Fragment of Azzinoth’s effect would attack enemies you are not yet in combat with.
- Fixed a bug where Paracausal Fragment of Frostmourne’s passive effect would break stealth.
- Fixed a bug where Paracausal Fragment of Frostmourne would not activate the healer transformation on use when used by a healer.
- Fixed a bug where Paracausal Fragment of Sulfuras’ AOE damage effect would not trigger from ranged abilities.
- Soridormi should now display her friendship faction on her gossip pane.
- Resolved an issue where the map marker for Time Rifts would occasionally display the incorrect invading groups during the 5 minutes prior to the event beginning.
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
July 14, 2023 Classes
Evoker
Preservation
- Fixed an issue where Temporal Anomaly’s absorption cap could be miscalculated when shielding multiple allies at once.
Paladin
Priest
Shaman
Dungeons and Raids
- Dawn of the Infinite
Fixed an issue that caused Temporal Deviations to ignore combat when respawning during the Twisted Timeways, prior to Time-Lost Battlefield and Morchie.
- Fixed an issue with the Infinite Slayer’s animations during Infinite Fury and Bronze Exhalation.
- Fixed an issue where Timeline Marauder’s Infinite Schism visual effect could fail to appear on certain environmental terrains.
- Increased the engagement distance of Timeline Mauraders.
- Manifested Timeways
Fixed an issue that could cause Manifested Timeways to attack players during the initial conversation between Manifested Timeways, Chromie, and Nozdormu.
Time-Lost Battlefield
- Fixed an issue where Kaboom! cast by Dwarven Bombers and Goblin Sappers could fail to inflict damage if the explosions were rapidly cast.
- Fixed an issue where the Alliance Destroyer and Horde Destroyer could fire Volatile Mortar outside of the encounter arena.
- Fixed an issue that can cause players to experience line of sight failures in the encounter arena after defeating the encounter.
Chrono-Lord Deios
- Fixed an issue where the final group of enemies before the boss encounter could be attacked while performing their intro conversation.
- Fixed an issue that could cause a single Infinity Orb to be created when casting Infinity Orb.
- Fixed an issue that could cause a Proto-Aspect Dragon to become stuck on the terrain.
- Fixed an issue that caused Infinite Keeper’s Infinite Blast to appear as interruptible in the Chrono-Lord Deios Adventure Guide.
Events
Time Rifts
- Enemies now spawn in 1.5-2.5 seconds (was 2-4 seconds).
- All Black Empire areas now spawn more enemies.
- All northern spawn locations now spawn least one Elite enemy.
- The following enemies are now Elite and grant 5 Temporal Essence:
Walking Nightmare
- Klaxxi Monstrosity
- Great Glorious Alliance Lieutenant
- Blood Horde Reaver
- Murloc Gillbeater
- High Keeper Orendi
- Timestream Anomaly
Added additional jetpacks and increased their size in the Warlands Time Rift scenario.
Plagued Grain, Stinky Crate of Fish, Stinky Barrel of Fish, and Stinky Pile of Fish no longer make your character walk wobbly.
Fixed an issue where players not on the Time Rift objective “Freezer Born” could ride the Rotting Colossus.
Fixed an issue where the Temporal Essence count could reset a few seconds after the event starts.
Items and Rewards
- All gear granted from Gear Update and Boosts has had its item level increased by 13. This change is retroactive, so if you Boosted or Gear Updated in the past, your gear will update to the new item level automatically.
Player versus Player
Priest
July 13, 2023 Classes
Evoker
Warlock
- Fixed an issue where Demon Skin was not correctly increasing Soul Leech’s absorption amount.
- Fixed an issue where Drain Life would not target enemies affected by Soul Rot via Soul Swap.
- Fixed an issue where Haunt would apply Shadow Embrace.
- Fixed an issue where Neltharion’s Call to Dominance trinket could fail to trigger or consume stacks for Warlocks in certain situations.
Dungeons and Raids
Events
Player versus Player
Quests
World
- Resolved an issue where players riding a Druid player entering the travel portals in Dawn of the Infinite would become stuck until logging out.
July 12, 2023
Classes
Druid
- The Rising Light, Falling Night talent now correctly increases the damage or healing of periodic effects during the daytime.
Evoker
- Range indicator and raid frames should again match after logging into an Evoker and then into a different ranged class.
Paladin
Retribution
- Resolved an issue that could cause Heartfire Sentinel’s Authority to consume two charges of Hammer of Wrath when cast.
Player versus Player
- Resolved an issue that could prevent players from earning the Elite appearance when changing PvP tiers.
Quests
- Fixed an issue preventing Lord Banehollow from respawning properly “When Revenge Burns Green”.
User Interface
- Fixed a bug causing the ‘Delete Character’ button to select a different character than intended.
- Fixed a bug causing displayed health to not update and match actual health values.
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
July 11, 2023 Wrath of the Lich King Classic
Trial of the Crusader
- Twin Val’kyr’s Light and Dark essences will no longer have their damage buff component removed by invulnerabilities.
The hotfix notes for the previous patch can be found here.
