Hotfixes: August 15, 2024

Here you’ll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: The War Within, Cataclysm Classic, Season of Discovery, WoW Classic Era, and Hardcore. 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

August 15, 2024

Classes

• Death Knight
  

  • Unholy
    

    • Fixed an issue with Festermight not overlapping.

• Paladin

  • Retribution

    • Fixed an issue causing Radiant Glory to trigger more than intended.

• Warrior

  • Fury

    • Wrath and Fury is now correctly increasing Raging Blow damage.

Items

• Bloody Token are now capped at 200,000 tokens.

Professions

• The Artisan’s Acuity reagent cost for rare and epic Profession tools and accessories may now only be provided by the customer for crafting orders.

Quests

• Squally can now be summoned from your Pet Journal when “Gryphons of a Feather” is completed.

WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria

• All players should be able to now see the Mythic Ensemble: Chronomancer for purchase from Pythagorus.

Season of Discovery

• The following spells will no longer incorrectly reset their cooldowns after a boss is defeated:

  • Feral Spirits (Shaman)
  • Icy Veins (Mage)
  • Portal of Summoning (Warlock)
  • Berserk (Druid)
  • Ancestral Guidance (Shaman)
  • Hand of Sacrifice (Paladin)
  • Avenging Wrath (Paladin)
  • Dispersion (Priest)
  • Homunculi (Priest)
  • Eye of the Void (Priest)
  • Pain Suppression (Priest)
  • Shadowfiend (Priest)
  • Enraged Regeneration (Warrior)

• Mage

  • 100% crit chance Fire Blasts from Overheat will no longer count towards Combustion’s 3 crits, and will no longer increase the stacks of Combustion.

August 13, 2024

Season of Discovery

• The % increase to player health that is present in Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin is now also active in Alterac Valley.
• Items

  • Shard of the God’s summoned minion now has a 20-yard cone (was 40 yards) and will spend the first 3 seconds of its summon to run into range of a target.

• Quests

  • “Stave of the Ancients” Demon NPCs will now respawn much more quickly.

• Druid

  • The bonus on Moonkin Form that increases Moonfire (and Sunfire) periodic damage now increases it by 100% (was 50%).

• Hunter

  • Immolation Trap now has a 7.5 second duration, but still deals the same amount of damage as it did over 15 seconds. This allows it to deliver all its damage before its cooldown is available again.
  • Raptor Fury now lasts 30 seconds and increases Raptor Strike damage by 15% per application (was 10%).

• Mage

  • Arcane Barrage now has its mana cost correctly reduced by Clearcasting.
  • Pyroblasts from Hot Streak will no longer consume Clearcasting.

• Paladin

  • Divine Light now has an 8 second cooldown.

• Rogue

  • Main Gauche will now correctly be consumed when you Parry an attack, regardless of the type of enemy you are fighting.
  • Focused Attacks now refunds 2 Energy from critical strikes (was 3 Energy).
  • Envenom’s erroneous spell power ratio has been removed.

• Shaman

  • Shamanistic Rage now grants the rest of the party and raid 18% of the mana granted to the Shaman (was 10%).

    • Developers’ notes: This change was made to better equalize mana provided to parties and raids between horde and alliance.

  • Warlock

    • Warlock pets will now correctly benefit from Fel Armor’s increase to their master’s spell power.

August 7, 2024

Player-characters

• Steady Flight should no longer be removed after entering an Arena.

Quests

• We tuned up the Prototype Shredder MK-03 so that “Eye for an Eye” can be completed.

Radiant Echoes Event

• Increased Flightstone and upgrade Crest drop rates in the event.
• Reduced the HP scaling on all event bosses so that they should be killable in a more-reasonable timeframe.

  • Developers’ notes: This includes both ‘minibosses’ (e.g. Hogger, Thorim) and final bosses (e.g. Remembered Onyxia, Ragnaros).

Season of Discovery

• Hunter
  

  • Heart of the Lion once again has a 100 yard range.

• Warrior

  • The Focused Rage rune will now correctly reduce the cost of Meathook by 3.

Cataclysm Classic

• Fixed an issue where Faerie Fire did not deal intended amounts of threat when used on NPCs targeting another unit.

August 5, 2024

Dungeons and Raids

• The Eternal Palace
  

  • Queen Azshara
    

    • Addressed an issue that prevented Aethanel and Cyranus from properly spawning during the encounter.

Items

• Fixed an issue that caused Weathered Northrend Sigil to activate when it wasn’t supposed to.

Player-characters

• Fixed an issue preventing Dracthyr from being able to successfully cast soar while swimming on the surface.
• Fixed an issue with the Human racial No Place Like Home incorrectly gaining a charge in some situations.

Quests

• Players can properly progress through the Legion experience when selecting the Timewalking Campaign from Chromie.

Radiant Echoes Event

• Memories of Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdom, and Northrend will now stack up to 100, and will no longer drop once you acquire its related Essence or have fully created the Band of Radiant Echoes.
• Increased the scaling of Radiant Echo mini-bosses (e.g. Thorim).
• Reduced the amount of credit needed to complete several interaction-based Radiant Echoes events (e.g. Lumber).
• Dalaran Defender armor pieces with Champion track should now be eligible for conversion at the Revival Catalyst.

Season of Discovery

• Each side of the Poacher’s cave tunnel between Searing Gorge and Burning Steppes now has an independent cooldown, allowing curious players a quick return option. Smoke asphyxiation still prevents more-frequent usage than twice an hour.
• Druid

  • Moonkin Form now also decreases all threat generated by Nature and Arcane spells cast by the Druid by 30%.

• Hunter

  • [With scheduled maintenance] The Hunter T.N.T. rune now increases Explosive Trap initial damage and Immolation Trap periodic damage based on 25% of the Hunter’s Attack Power (was 50%). It also now uses the higher of melee and ranged Attack Power (was always melee Attack Power).

• Mage

  • Fixed an issue where the Mage Healer 2-piece Molten Core set bonus did not working properly. The benefits of the Temporal Beacon will now work properly during the last 6 seconds of its duration when used with this set.
  • Fixed an issue where the healing from Mage Regeneration was not increased by the effects of Mage Arcane Blast.

• Paladin

  • [With scheduled maintenance] Retribution Paladins in Season of Discovery now gain 6% threat reduction per rank of the Vengeance talent, but this threat reduction is disabled while Righteous Fury is active.

• Priest

  • Homunculi will now be less aggressive in seeking nearby targets to fight that the Priest is not in combat with.

• Rogue

  • The Rogue 6-piece set can no longer trigger incorrectly from Sebacious Poison.

• Warrior

  • Khonsu should now always speak the correct line when players are victorious.

August 1, 2024

Player-characters

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

Quests

• “The Lightforged” and “Heritage of the Lightforged” now correctly direct players to the Lightforged Beacon.

Radiant Echoes Event

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

Season of Discovery

• Molten Core
  

  • Players can no longer line of sight Flamewaker Priests from Sulfuron Harbinger or outrange them to prevent the cast from Dark Mending, it must be interrupted!
  • Adjusted the recast time and cooldown of Dark Mending so that players can interrupt more sufficiently.

• Shaman

  • The Spirit Wolves summoned by Feral Spirits should now display all four of their active abilities on their pet bar.

• Warrior

  • The Tier 1 Warrior 2-piece set bonus, Tactician, will now correctly reduce the cost of Meathook.

July 31, 2024

Classes

• Druid
  

  • Restoration
    

    • Fixed an issue that caused Mastery: Harmony to increase healing as if one additional stack was always present.

Dungeons and Raids

• Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope
  

  • Tindral Sageswift
    

    • Resolved an issue that caused Fire Beams to move in unintended directions.

Player-characters

• Summoning a mount now cancels Zen Flight.

Quests

• The Frostbrood Skytalon Dragon now does the correct amount of damage to Scarlet Crusaders for the Death Knight quest “An End to All Things”.
• Players that are Time Traveling in Silithus should no longer teleport underneath the world when using the Teleportation Scroll while on “The War Within”.
• Illidan Stormrage now sacrifices mages more efficiently during “Ravencrest’s Legacy”, allowing players to complete the scenario.

Season of Discovery

• Further increased drop chances of Libram of Resilience from various sources in the world.
• Added a chance for Libram of Voracity, Rapidity, and Resilience to appear in the Damaged Undermine Supply Crates purchased with Tarnished Undermine Reals.
• Essence of the Pure Flame will now show its reflect damage in the combat log.
• Hydraxian Coronation now binds the target piece of gear.
• The Alliance quest “End of the Dark Horde” is now given by Master Mathias Shaw (was given by General Marcus Jonathan).
• Overcharged rune can now be obtained by those that previously completed the discovery but didn’t get the rune.
• Fine Flarecore Gloves are no longer class restricted.
• Hunter

  • Kill Shot will now have increased ranged with the Hawk Eye talent.
  • Hunters can no longer place multiples of the same trap by unequipping Trap Launcher and placing the trap.

• Shaman

  • The Elemental Tier 1 6-piece bonus will now correctly refresh Flame Shock to 18 seconds if Burn is engraved.

• Warlock

  • Mages’ Balefire Bolt can no longer damage targets affected by Banish. They will be Immune.

Cataclysm Classic

• Conquest is now purchasable from the Valor vendor at 250 Conquest per 250 Valor.
• Honor is now purchasable from the Justice Commodities Vendor at 250 Honor per 375 Justice.
• Justice is now purchasable from the Honor Commodities Vendor at 250 Justice per 375 Honor.
• Maelstrom Crystals are available from the Justice Goods Vendors: Togar in Orgrimmar and Talric Forthright in Stormwind City.
• Some rare elite mobs in Cataclysm zones have started dropping item-level 359 epic gear. These include: Mobus, Garr, Xariona, Akma’hat, and Julak-Doom.
• All Midsummer items can now be refunded as intended (Brazier of Dancing Flames and Captured Flame).
• Fixed an issue where the Ritual Tiki Masks were invisible and non-targetable in Zul’Gurub.

July 30, 2024

Classes

• Hunter
  

  • Corrected an issue causing the application of Kill Zone’s debuff to interrupt casts and channels.

Dungeons and Raids

• Brackenhide Hollow
  

  • Addressed an issue where Treemouth was incorrectly dropping to 1 hp when Consuming.
  • Addressed an issue where Treemouth was not properly gaining Starving Frenzy when failing to consume someone in Mythic difficulty.

Quests

• Players can now complete “Others Call Me Duck Herder”.

Season of Discovery

• Shard of the Scale and Flame’s set bonus is now activated by all spells (was only direct healing and spell damage).
• Anathema and Benediction can now correctly be swapped after a one minute cooldown has passed.
• Molten Core

  • Fixed an issue that prevented Shazzrah from casting Gate of Shazzrah twice in a row on Heat 3.
  • Ragnaros no longer submerges twice on Heat 1.
  • Baron Geddon now casts Armageddon at 5% on Heat 1 (was 10%).
  • Baron Geddon now casts 2 Living Bombs at a time on Heat 2 (was 3).
  • Living Bomb no longer leaves Living Fallout pools on Heat 1.
  • Flamewaker Protectors now cast Dominate Mind much less frequently.
  • Maximized the cast and recast times of several dispel mechanics.
  • Damage done to self with spells such as Hellfire is no longer increased by the low Fire Resistance effects on Heat levels 2 and 3 in Molten Core.

• Mage
  

  • Mass Regeneration range for detecting allies to heal increased to 43 yards (was 30), to eliminate the situation where it was possible to heal others who were outside the range for your heal to apply to yourself.

• Priest
  

  • Homunculi now cast and stack Sunder Armor relative to the rank they would have if they were a Warrior of their level.

    • Developers’ notes: This takes the place of their casting Degrade previously. Now a friendly Warrior can refresh a Homunculi’s 5 stack of Sunder Armor. The strength of this debuff at max level is unchanged.

  • Spirit of the Redeemer will now correctly put Pain Suppression and Dispersion on a two-minute cooldown (was incorrectly 5 minutes).

July 29, 2024

Classes

• Priest
  

  • Fixed an issue where Void Summoner was providing twice as much cooldown reduction than intended.

• Shaman

  • Corrected an issue that was preventing the Skyfury buff from allowing melee attacks to gain extra Windfury swings.

Player versus Player

• Fixed an issue in Rated Battleground Blitz where the PvP item level was incorrectly scaling on Eye of the Storm.

Quests

• Fixed a bug preventing Ardenweald gardeners from looting the Wildseed of Regrowth in Queen’s Conservatory.
• Players can now interact with the Wildseeds in the Queen’s Conservatory to complete “Tending to Wildseeds”.

WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria

• Adjusted the power levels of all Remix content to account for unintentionally increased difficulty with patch 11.0.0.

Cataclysm Classic

• All original WoW Classic PvP gear is now usable as transmog appearances. All of these pieces of armor have been and will continue to be available from the Legacy Armor and Legacy Weapon Quartermasters in both the Champion’s Hall in Stormwind and the Hall of Legends in Orgrimmar.
• Fixed a bug preventing Supreme Defender from incrementing correctly when killing Flag Carriers in Warsong Gulch.

Season of Discovery

• Players who have the 18-slot version of the Bottomless Bag may now exchange the bag or the Pattern for the 20-slot version at Rix Xizzix in Booty Bay.
• Players who have killed Magmadar but are unable to douse the Rune of Kress can now swap the Heat difficulty back and forth and should find you can now douse the Rune.
• Lava Surgers in Molten Core will no longer spawn once Ragnaros has been defeated.
• Fixed an issue with many of the class dungeon set bonuses. They can now only be triggered by abilities, and not by item use.
• Ragnaros is no longer immune to Paladins’ Hand of Reckoning.
• Fixed a bug interrupting eating or drinking when near a graveyard.
• Fixed a bug where the incorrect version of Quel’Serrar could appear in this version of the game.
• [With weekly restarts] The increased damage taken for low Fire Resistance in Molten Core on Heat 2 and Heat 3 has been reduced but is still extremely dangerous. Characters who are at 30 resistance lower than intended should now expect to take about 3 times normal damage (was guaranteed fatal).

  • Developers’ notes: This is intended to allow players who are dependent on Resistance Totems or Paladin Auras to have a chance to survive if briefly not within the range of those effects.

• Hunter

  • [With weekly restarts] Entrapment now triggers a diminishing return as a Root effect on players each time it is applied. Subsequent durations will be halved and then quartered in duration, and then the target will become immune for 30 seconds.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented Hunters from being able to interact with the four demons involved in the Rhok’delar quest chain.

• Priest

  • Fixed an issue where re-speccing did not remove Divine Spirit appropriately.

• Rogue

  • The 6-piece Tier 1 bonus no longer puts Vanish on cooldown.

• Shaman

  • You can no longer have Burn and Way of Earth active at the same time by using Rockbiter Rank 3.

• Warlock

  • Shadowflame will no longer be overwritten by Improved Shadow Bolt.

• Warrior

  • The Warrior 2-piece Tier 1 bonus Tactician will no longer be consumed if the spell cast was a free Blood Surge Slam.

Classic Era

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

July 25, 2024

Classes

• Druid
  

  • Balance
    

    • Wrath cast by Convoke the Spirit now consumes Dreamstate buffs from Nature’s Grace and the Amirdrassil Season 3 (2-piece) Set Armor bonus.
    • Amirdrassil Season 3 (2-piece) Set Armor: Dreamstate now increases the damage of Wrath and Starfire by 80% (was 100%).

  • Hunter

    • Survival

      • Players who had a Wildfire Bomb override from Wildfire Infusion’s previous iteration have had them removed.

  • Warrior

    • Protection

      • Fixed a bug causing Spell Reflection to occasionally fail to reflect a spell.

Dungeons and Raids

• Algeth’ar Academy
  

  • Fixed an issue where Vexamus would not face its target during the cast of Arcane Expulsion on Heroic and Mythic difficulty.

Flying

• Pathfinder requirements for Skyriding have been removed from Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands zones.

Player-versus-Player

• Malicia and Field Master Emberath now correctly offer their Dragonflight Season 4 War Mode equipment until the launch of War Within.
• Resolved an issue that sometimes prevented healers from being able to duo queue in Rated Battleground Blitz.

Professions

• Reduced Trainer costs for Dragonflight professions.

Titles

• The Title “Timber Lord” should now display correctly.

Season of Discovery

• Increased the number of Firelands Invader, Obsidian Reaver, and Obsidian Surger spawns for the Blackrock Eruption event across Searing Gorge.
• The Might of Stormwind buff will now appear properly in the tooltip when a Chronoboon is used.
• Items

  • Devilcore Leggings and Devilcore Gloves patterns can now drop from additional sources other than King Mosh.
  • All of the revamped or new Molten Core items that were strictly Unique are now Unique-Equipped to allow master looters to hold these items during raids.
  • Season of Discovery versions of recipes should be available again from their trainers, making turn-ins for professions quests possible.

• Mage

  • Rewind Time can no longer be cast if the target will not benefit from its healing.

• Priest

  • Priests who don’t have the Divine Spirit talent learned are now prevented from casting higher ranks of Divine Spirit and Prayer of Spirit.

• Rogue

  • The cooldown on Rogue Shuriken Toss has been reduced to 20 seconds (was 30 seconds).

• Warlock

  • Shadowflame will no longer be overwritten by Improved Shadow Bolt.

• Warrior

  • Last Stand cooldown reduced to 3 minutes.

July 24, 2024

Classes

• Hunter
  

  • Beast Mastery
    

    • Season 3 Class Set – Bestial Wrath summoning a Dire Beast no longer grants a stack of Huntmaster’s Call.
    • Season 3 Class Set – Bestial Wrath Dire Beast summon duration reduced to 10 seconds (was 15 seconds).
    • Huntmaster’s Call – Fenryr and Hati attack damage reduced by 20%.
    • Huntmaster’s Call – Fenryr Haste increase reduced to 8% (was 10%).
    • Huntmaster’s Call – Hati pet Damage buff reduced to 6% (was 8%).

  • Survival

    • Grenade Juggler procs will now only apply 1 Explosive Shot to the primary target (was primary and secondary targets).
    • Players who had a Wildfire Bomb override from Wildfire Infusion’s previous iteration have had them removed.

• Warlock

  • Destruction

    • Decimation can now only trigger from critical strikes dealt by your direct damage abilities.

Player-Characters

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

Quests

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

Season of Discovery

• Items
  

  • Burning Essences will now always drop from the Dark Coffer in Blackrock Depths.
  • Librams of Resilience now have an additional chance to drop from certain bosses in Blackrock Depths and Blackrock Spire.
  • When Might of Stormwind is restored from a Chronoboon, the buff will now appear properly in the tooltip and it will now correctly apply to the player’s pet.
  • You may now mount while Gift of Gob is active.
  • Darkmoon Card: Sandstorm will now correctly hit enemies that are within line of sight, and not hit enemies that are out of line of sight.
  • Darkmoon Card: Decay internal cooldown increased to 3 seconds.
  • Pix Xizzix now offers the Drakestone caster offhands for 50 Undermine Real each.

    • Developers’ notes: While we don’t intend to put everything of this nature onto the vendor, the offhands from Sunken Temple felt right to us.

• Professions

  • Mixology now always gives at least 2 potions as intended.
  • Professions with adjusted level requirements for Expert and Artisan ranks have been returned to their original level requirements.

• Druid

  • Idol of the Moon tooltip updated for accuracy and clarity. The item’s effect is unchanged.
  • Idol of the Moon now correctly applies to Starfall and Sunfire.
  • Idol of Brutality now correctly applies to Mangle (Bear).
  • Idol of Ferocity no longer incorrectly discounts Mangle (Bear).
  • Idol of the Dream now correctly affects Swipe (Cat).

• Mage

  • Players can now have only one Mana Shield active at a time. If an equal or higher rank of Mana Shield is cast on the target, it will overwrite the previous Mana Shield.
  • Fixed an issue with Rewind Time where refreshing Temporal Beacon on a target after that target took damage, which would make any damage taken before the refresh not get healed by Rewind Time.
  • Improved Arcane Missiles now also grants 20% spell pushback resistance per talent point to Regeneration and Mass Regeneration and 14% spell pushback resistance per talent point to Arcane Blast.
  • Mass Regeneration will now refresh Temporal Beacon each time it heals a target, instead of just when initially hitting a target.

• Paladin

  • Blessing of Sanctuary and Greater Blessing of Sanctuary no longer stack.
  • Libram of the Consecrated is no longer be removed by ticks of Hallowed Ground.
  • Malleable Protection’s version of Divine Protection now correctly has a 5-minute cooldown.
  • Malleable Protection’s version of Divine Protection will now correctly share a cooldown between its two ranks and Divine Shield.
  • The cooldown on Paladin Avenger’s Shield has been reduced to 15 seconds (was 30 seconds), and the duration of its movement Snare effect has been reduced to 5 seconds (was 10 seconds).

• Priest

  • Juju Might no longer erroneously benefits from the Improved Inner Fire talent.
  • Vampiric Embrace heal range increased from 30 yards to 40 yards.

• Warrior

  • Rampage now appears as a buff when activated.

The hotfix notes for the previous patch can be found here.