September 6th Hotfixes – Verdant Embrace, Legend of Mechagon, Mak’gora

Hotfixes

September 6, 2023 Classes

Items

Quests

• The Legend of Mechagon can now be properly completed by all characters.

WoW Classic Hardcore

• The String of Ears buff earned for Mak’gora kills now persists through death.
• Developers’ notes: This will allow the new Classic API to report the correct Mak’gora kill count for deceased characters.

September 5, 2023 Events

Quests

• Fixed an issue where credit was not being assigned correctly for the final objective in “Urgent Exfiltration.”

August 30, 2023 Events

• The Kalimdor Cup will now end on September 4 (was August 28), to give players more time to experience the races.

Quests

• Fixed an issue causing some players to be unable to see Merithra in the Ancient Bough to pick up the quest “Into the Azure” to begin the Azure Span storyline.

WoW Classic Hardcore

• Fixed a bug that could prevent a player-character who died from being allowed to be deleted or transferred to another realm.
• Brave Moonhorn will no longer attack passing Alliance players. He remains a friendly questgiver to the Horde and is now a neutral PvP target to Alliance players.

August 24, 2023 Dungeons and Raids

Events

Time Rifts

• Fixed an issue where The Lich King’s Remorseless Winter was targeting melee players too often.

Player versus Player

August 22, 2023 Classes

Dungeons

• Creatures that detect stealth and invisibility are now immune to the effects of Mind Soothe.

Player versus Player

August 21, 2023 Classes

Demon Hunter

Vengeance

• Fel Devastation is no longer interrupted by school lockout effects.

Druid

• Fixed an issue where Sunfire and Moonfire were not updating quick enough after receiving a Mastery increase from an external source.

Mage

Monk

Paladin

Rogue

Warrior

Dungeons and Raids

Halls of Infusion

• Glacial Proto-Dragon’s Deep Chill now damages affected players every 2 seconds (was every 1 seconds). This reduces the damage over time portion of the spell by 50%.

Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr

• Infinite Timereaver’s Stolen Time cooldown increased to 8 seconds (was 4 seconds).
• Developers’ notes: We’ve heard feedback that certain dungeon creature abilities can feel oppressive for groups without access to Mass Dispel, and we’re hoping these abilities will now feel more manageable for those groups.

Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible

Scalecommander Sarkareth

Events

• The Kalimdor Cup is now open to all players level 30 and above. NPCs have been added to Orgrimmar and Stormwind to start the quest and spend your winnings.

Items

• The Neltharion’s Call to Dominance primary stat buff is now removed upon starting an encounter or Mythic+ dungeon.

Player versus Player

Demon Hunter

Druid

Evoker

Hunter

Marksmanship

• Master Marksman talent effectiveness in PvP increased to 12/25% (was 7/15%).
• Rapid Fire damage is increased by 40% in PvP (was 25%).

Monk

• Dampen Harm’s minimum damage reduction is now 25% in PvP combat (was 30%).

Priest

Shaman

Enhancement

• Ascendance’s immediate damage is reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
• Windstrike now deals 25% additional damage in PvP combat (was 45%).
• Stormstrike’s damage is increased by 60% in PvP combat (was 45%).
• Ice Strike’s damage increased by 45% in PvP combat.
• Developers’ notes: We’re evening out the rate at which Enhancement Shaman deals its damage, as it is more reliant on inconsistent procs than we would like.

Warlock

Demonology

• Demonbolt’s damage increased by 20% in PvP combat.
• Dreadbite damage increased by 10% in PvP combat.

Destruction

• Chaos Bolt’s damage increased by 75% in PvP combat (was 60%).

Warrior

Fury

• Onslaught damage is increased by 35% in PvP (was 15%).
• Execute (Fury) damage is increased by 40% in PvP (was 25%).

Protection

• Execute damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.

Professions

August 16, 2023 Events

• Time Rifts

  Rift Boss health now scales down to more appropriate amounts when confronted by fewer than 5 players.

• The Lich King

  Remorseless Winter and Defile damage reduced by 50%.

• Remorseless Winter slow effect reduced by 40%.

Player versus Player

Professions

August 10, 2023 Classes

Mage

Monk

Paladin

Dungeons and Raids

Grimrail Depot

Neltharus

Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr

Mythic+

• Fixed an issue where Priests in Spirit of Redemption form when a Mythic+ dungeon is completed would not be eligible to trade their Keystone, even if they met all other eligibility requirements.

Player versus Player

Priest

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

August 7, 2023 Classes

Druid

Evoker

• Augmentation

  Developers’ notes: Augmentation Evoker is adding a significant amount of damage to their party while also providing strong utility and survivability. For this week, we’d like to reduce some of the damage contributions from their buffs to help bring them more in line with other classes.

• Breath of Eons accumulates 10% of damage done by allies with your Ebon Might (was 15%).
• Fate Mirror’s chance to proc has been reduced to 10% (was 15%).

Hunter

Mage

Frost

• Comet Storm damage decreased by 6%.
• Blizzard damage decreased by 8%.
• Frozen Orb damage decreased by 8%.

Paladin

Retribution

• Divine Storm damage increased by 8%.
• Wake of Ashes damage increased 10%.
• Consecration damage increased 12%.

Priest

• Vampiric Embrace now heals a nearby ally for 40% of any single-target Shadow spell damage dealt (was 50%). This change will also affect PvP combat.
• San’layn now reduces the cooldown of Vampiric Embrace by 30 seconds (was 45 seconds). This change will also affect PvP combat.
• Discipline

  Developers’ notes: Discipline Priest is not performing as well as we’d like, so for this week we’re increasing their Atonement healing. In a future patch, we are working on redesigning some of their talent options and making tuning adjustments there as well.

• Atonement heals for 40% of damage done (was 36%). This change will also affect PvP combat.

Holy

• Rhapsody now stacks every 1 second (was 2 seconds) and causes Holy Nova to deal 20% increased damage per stack (was 10%). This change will also affect PvP combat.
• Rhapsody now highlights Holy Nova while at 20 stacks. This change will also affect PvP combat.

Shadow

• Vampiric Touch damage reduced by 20%.
• Shadow Word: Pain damage reduced by 15%.
• Shadowy Apparition damage reduced by 15%.
• Healing from Vampiric Embrace is no longer reduced by 20% in PvP combat.

Rogue

Warrior

Dragonriding

• Fixed an issue where the Renewed Proto-Drake first granted to new accounts learning dragonriding didn’t appear to be usable after learning.

Dungeons and Raids

Neltharus

Items

• Fixed an issue where the Prophetic Stonescale was preventing death from any amount of lethal damage taken. It now only prevents death from damage less than or equal to the highest amount it can restore.
• The drop rate of catch-up Splintered Sparks of Shadowflame has been greatly increased for PvP content.
• Fixed an issue that caused catch-up Splintered Sparks of Shadowflame to not drop as often as intended from certain Rated PvP activities.

August 3, 2023 Classes

Evoker

Dungeons and Raids

• Fixed a bug that caused Castle Nathria to be offered in Raid Finder at level 70.

Pet Battles

• Fixed an issue preventing players of the same faction from starting Pet Battle Duels.

Player versus Player

Trading Post

• Fixed a bug that caused some frozen items to not be properly displayed as frozen.

User Interface and Accessibility

• Fixed an issue that removed favorited Crafting Order recipes when logging out.

July 31, 2023 Events

Items and Rewards

• Fixed an issue preventing collectibles from being dropped by the Temporal Investi-gator.

Player versus Player

Unholy

• Developers’ notes: We have been monitoring our changes to Unholy this season and feel the damage they bring is slightly higher than our intent. The primary adjustment here is through Festermight which can cause high variance in burst at high stacks. This is consistent with our original goal of reducing burst and focusing the spec on sustained DPS in PvP.
• Festermight is now 50% effective in PvP combat.
• Festering Wound damage is now increased by 230% in PvP combat (was 250%).

Druid

Monk

Warrior

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Fixed a bug allowing Divine Shield, Divine Protection, Hand of Protection, or Lay on Hands to be cast while Avenging Wrath was still active.

July 28, 2023 Achievements

• Embers of Neltharion should now properly display all required criteria.

Classes

• Hunter

  Beast Mastery and Survival

  Fixed an issue where Ebon Might from an Augmentation Evoker did not properly increase the damage of Kill Command.

Dungeons and Raids

• Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible

  Improved the visibility on Whisper in the Dark’s Umbral Torrent to better match its area of effect.

• Echo of Neltharion

  The Normal and Heroic difficulty encounter should no longer respawn if players have previously cleared the encounter and skip defeating Magmorax.

Dawn of the Infinite

• Fixed an issue that could cause some enemies’ damage and heal absorb effects to be much weaker than intended.

  Developers’ note: An issue was recently introduced that caused certain absorb effects in Dawn of the Infinite to be weaker than expected. This change restores these values to roughly what they were just before the patch. We don’t anticipate any significant issues with dungeon difficulty as a result, but we’ll keep a close eye on it.

July 27, 2023 Classes

Dungeons and Raids

Professions

Quests

• The turn-in for “Hochenblume Harvest” should now only take the expected 5 Hochenblume.

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.