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Summary info on World of Warcraft hotfixes.

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  • For information on specific patches, please see Patches.
  • For info on known bugs and other issues which may be fixed in the upcoming patch see the Known issues page.
  • For official Blizzard descriptions of types of patches, see Patch FAQ.
  • For articles related to patches, see Patches category.
  • Unless stated otherwise, all official announcements of hotfixes can be found in a Hotfixes blog post - the link for which is found at the top of every month's hotfixes.

October[]

Hotfixes: Octobre 2-5 | 2023-10-05 by Blizzard Entertainment

October 5[]

Dragonriding
Items
  • Fixed a bug that could prevent Inv 60pvp trinket4a [Everlasting Horn of Lavaswimming] from dropping as intended on completion of the Siege of Dragonbane Keep.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause a failure to receive a Warcraft Rumble toy reward. If you earned a toy, but did not receive the item, click on the Warcraft Rumble Machine again to be given the toy.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause Warcraft Rumble Foils to go missing. If you’re missing a Foil that should have been given to you, click on the Warcraft Rumble Machine to receive the Foil. Multiple clicks can produce multiple missing Foils, if applicable.
  • When you summon a Warcraft Rumble Toy that's gained additional looks, you can now interact with that toy to cycle through its earned looks. Each time you change looks, there's a 5-second cooldown until you can interact with it again.

October 2[]

Enemies and NPCs
WoW Classic
  • Hardcore
    • On Hardcore realms, mind control spells can not be used during normal duels.
      • Developers' notes: There should be no change to duels on non-Hardcore realms, and this should not prevent players from using mind control spells during Mak'gora duels to the death.
    • Added an identifier that will show you the player class and level on hover-over, when challenged to a duel to the death.
  • Wrath Classic


September[]

Hotfixes: September 5-26 | 2023-09-26 by Blizzard Entertainment

September 26[]

Classes
Events
  • Brewfest Hops no longer affect dragonriding mounts.
  • When dragonriding in Eastern Kingdoms Cup races, players will now be temporarily granted fully unlocked dragonriding, regardless of their current Dragonriding Talent Tree state.
WoW Classic Era
  • Fixed an issue that prevented Ouro from spawning after a post-wipe reset.

September 21[]

Events
  • The Waking Dream public event in the Azure Span should now properly start.
Brewfest
Quests

September 19[]

Quests
WoW Classic Era
  • The most-recent Alterac Valley bonus weekend has been extended. The bonus will end when the next bonus weekend (Warsong Gulch) begins on Friday, September 22.

September 18[]

Player versus Player [with scheduled weekly maintenance]
  • Evoker
    • Ability evoker disintegrate [Disintegrate] damage increased by 33% in PvP combat (was 20%).
    • Developers' notes: Devastation's killing power outside of cooldowns is lower than we'd like, so we're increasing Disintegrate damage further to help Devastation in PvP. In future patches, we would like to further expand on this effort and move damage out of Dragonrage and into other areas.
  • Priest
    • Discipline
      • Spell holy penance [Penance] healing is increased by 35% in PvP combat (was 15%).
  • Shaman
    • Elemental
      • Ability rhyolith volcano [Volcanic Surge] now increases the damage of Lava Burst by 45% (was 55%) and Lightning Bolt / Chain Lightning by 50% (was 35%).
    • Restoration
  • Warlock

September 15[]

Dragon Racing
  • Adjusted Gold and Silver times for the Flashfrost Flyover Reverse Challenge race. These were inadvertently set too high.
Professions
Rewards
  • Fixed a bug that caused Zaqali Elders' loot to drop at a lower item level than intended.
WoW Classic Era
  • [With Realm Restarts] Fixed a bug affecting bonus Honor awarded for Alterac Valley.
  • Completing "H [10-30] Fish in a Bucket" no longer rewards gold.
    • Developers' notes: This change was originally made in patch 2.0.10 and works well in Classic Era/Hardcore, as the original quest provided an uncontested, single-faction, infinitely repeatable, low risk gold reward that does not comport with the nature of the rest of the game.

September 13[]

Player versus Player
Secrets of Azeroth
  • On the secret day starting with "N [60-70] They Are Always Listening", you should now get the quest "N [60-70] A Complete Inventory" from Fangli Hoot if you do not get it automatically by investigating all 6 notes.
  • Updated some of the quests to address issues where players could fail to receive a clue because secrets had been started on different characters.
WoW Classic Era and Hardcore
  • Fixed an issue where certain hunter pets could be dismissed and attack nearby players.

September 12[]

Achievements
  • Fixed an issue that was preventing players from being properly granted the baseline Challenger, Rival, and Duelist
WoW Classic
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the NPC Tyrion from turning back into a quest-giver at the conclusion of the quest "A [31] The Attack!"
Hardcore Realms
  • The Coarse Dynamite thrown by civilian dwarf NPCs at Dun Modr should no longer cause players to become PvP flagged.
  • Developers' notes: These specific NPCs had a very small chance to hit you and flag you, so it may as well be zero chance. Nonetheless, we do not intend to make changes to the general behavior of enemy faction guards in Hardcore. Players who wish to avoid being flagged for PvP should avoid enemy faction settlements and quests labeled "PvP" in the Quest Log.

September 8[]

Dragonriding
  • The Loamm Roamm Reverse Challenge silver medal should again be rewarded correctly.
Quests
WoW Classic Era
  • For each player-character's current Rank, weekly PvP contribution calculations now only award up to the amount of contribution points missing in progress towards the next Rank threshold.
    • Developers' note: In higher ranks, players have been intentionally earning dishonorable kills to lower themselves below their current rank threshold in order to gain credit for an additional Rank, thereby allowing them to gain progress more quickly than a player who is just above that next Rank threshold. You now first earn up to the amount you're missing from the Rank you start in. There should no longer be a benefit from lowering one's rank via dishonorable kills to earn progress more quickly.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Honor reward for Alterac Valley marks turn-in quests to be unintentionally doubled.

September 6[]

Classes
Items
  • The Inv sword 1h mechagnome c 01 [Whirring Chainblade] now has its appropriate minimum level required.
  • Engineering
    • Fixed a bug that caused Chromatically Calibrated engineering goggles to require level 58 to transmogrify.
Quests
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[]

Events
  • Secrets of Azeroth
Quests
  • Fixed an issue where credit was not being assigned correctly for the final objective in "N [70] Urgent Exfiltration."

August[]

Hotfixes: August 3-30 | 2023-08-30 by Blizzard Entertainment

August 30[]

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

Dungeons and Raids
Events
  • Kalimdor Cup
    • 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.
  • Time Rifts
    • Fixed an issue where The Lich King's Remorseless Winter was targeting melee players too often.
Player versus Player
  • Fixed an issue that caused Spell nature focusedmind [Precognition] to trigger from interrupts reduced by a Paladin's Spell holy mindsooth [Concentration Aura].
  • Warlock
    • Demonology
      • Fixed an issue causing our recent changes to Inv demonbolt [Demonbolt]'s damage in PvP combat to be applied incorrectly.

August 22[]

Classes
  • Warlock
Dungeons
  • Creatures that detect stealth and invisibility are now immune to the effects of Spell holy mindsooth [Mind Soothe].
Player versus Player

August 21[]

Classes [With weekly realm maintenance]
  • Druid
  • Demon Hunter
    • Havoc
      • Ability demonhunter eyebeam [Eye Beam] is no longer interrupted by school lockout effects.
    • Vengeance
  • Druid
    • Fixed an issue where Ability mage firestarter [Sunfire] and Spell nature starfall [Moonfire] were not updating quick enough after receiving a Mastery increase from an external source.
  • Mage
    • Fixed an issue that caused Ability mage massinvisibility [Mass Invisibility] to cancel inconsistently, with no direct actions taken.
    • Developers' notes: This change also adjusts the timing of when Mass Invisibility is removed from spell casts. Mass Invisibility now cancels when beginning a cast, instead of when it ends, which is consistent with other invisibility effects.
    • Fire
      • Spell fire selfdestruct [Flamestrike] damage reduced by 6%.
      • Spell mage flameorb [Flame Patch] damage reduced by 8%.
      • Spell fire moltenblood [Incendiary Eruptions] can now only proc once every 10 seconds (was 8 seconds).
      • Spell shaman firenova [Conflagration] damage reduced by 10%.
      • Developers' notes: Fire Mage damage in heavy AoE scenarios is still higher than we're comfortable with. We intend these adjustments to further rein it in.
  • Monk
    • Mistweaver
      • Inv misc book 07 [Ancient Teachings] now transfers 150% of damage done (was 135%). Does not apply in PvP combat.
      • Ability monk dragonkick [Yu'lon's Grace] can now stack up to 15% of maximum health (was 10%) and stacks 3% per second (was 2%).
      • Chi Cocoon's absorb is increased by 100%.
      • Enveloping Breath's healing decreased by 12%.
      • Developers' notes: We're shifting more of Celestial Harmony's throughput into Chi Cocoon, with the intent of keeping the talent's power level similar in raid, and increased in dungeon content.
  • Paladin
    • Holy
      • All damage decreased by 10%.
      • Ability ardenweald paladin summer [Blessing of Summer] now causes attacks to deal 20% additional damage as Holy (was 25%). Blessing of Summer remains at 30% in PvP c
      • Developers' notes: Holy Paladin damage output has been higher than we would like, considering their toolkit as a whole.
  • Rogue
    • Assassination
      • All ability damage increased by 5%.
      • Auto-attack damage increased by 5%.
  • Warrior
Dungeons and Raids [With weekly realm maintenance]
  • M+ Dungeons
    • Above keystone level 20, each additional keystone level will now increase enemy health and damage by 8% (was 10%).
    • Developers' notes: We've recently made and are currently making a number of adjustments to specs that were particularly powerful in Mythic+, and while we feel these changes will have the desired effect, we've also heard concerns that it may now be much more difficult to complete very high keys and achieve ratings that were previously within reach. We think this is a fair concern, so we're making a temporary adjustment to the scaling of key levels above 20 in the hope that it provides players some space to continue competing for Mythic+ rating before the end of Season 2.
  • 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
    • Echo of Neltharion
      • Neltharion's health reduced by 5% on mythic difficulty.
      • Voice from Beyond's health reduced by 5% on Mythic difficulty.
      • Ebon Destruction's periodic damage reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
      • Shatter's periodic damage reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
      • Fixed an issue where Neltharion may fail to apply Corruption on players during phase 2 of the encounter on Heroic and Mythic difficulties.
    • Scalecommander Sarkareth
      • Sarkareth's berserk time increased 8 minutes (was 7:30) on Mythic difficulty.
      • Echoing Howl damage per tick reduced by 20% on Mythic difficulty.
      • Empty Recollection health reduced by 17% on Mythic difficulty.
      • Blasting Scream cast time increased by 25%.
      • Scaling changes in Normal and Heroic difficulties:
        • Astral Flare duration increased to 33 seconds (was 30 seconds) for 10-player groups.
        • Oblivion damage per tick reduced by 10% for 10-player groups.
        • Void Surge damage per tick reduced by 20% for 10-player groups.
        • Astral Eruption damage reduced by 60% for 10-player groups.
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 [With weekly realm maintenance]
  • Death Knight
  • Demon Hunter
    • Havoc
      • Ability demonhunter chaosstrike [Chaos Strike]/Inv glaive 1h npc d 02 [Annihilation] damage is now increased by 10% in PvP combat.
      • Ability demonhunter eyebeam [Eye Beam] damage is no longer increased in PvP combat (was increased by 16%).
      • Spell shadow shadesofdarkness [Isolated Prey] (Talent) no longer has reduced duration bonus for Spell fire felfirenova [Chaos Nova] in PvP combat (was reduced by 50%).
      • Ability demonhunter bloodlet [Soulrend] (Talent) damage is now reduced by 8% in PvP combat (was reduced by 17%).
      • Spell shadow ritualofsacrifice [Essence Break] (Talent) damage is now reduced by 10% in PvP combat (was reduced by 20%).
      • Essence Break (Talent) bonus damage for Chaos Strike and Ability demonhunter bladedance [Blade Dance] is now reduced by 19% in PvP combat (was reduced by 38%).
  • Druid
    • Balance
      • Ability druid fortifiedbark [Moon and Stars] now reduces interrupts and silences by 50% for 6 seconds (was 70% for 10 seconds).
  • Evoker
    • Augmentation
      • Ability evoker rescue [Verdant Embrace] healing decreased by 25% in PvP combat.
      • Spell shaman spewlava [Molten Blood] is now 50% effective in PvP combat (was 70%).
      • Ability druid protectionofthegrove [Panacea] healing decreased by 20% in PvP combat.
      • Spell sarkareth [Ebon Might] is now 80% effective on allies.
      • Ebon Might now increases the Augmentation's damage by 30% in PvP combat (was 20%).
      • Ability evoker prescience [Prescience] now grants 6% critical strike chance in PvP combat (was 3%).
      • Developers' notes: The Augmentation Evoker ability to extend game length has been more effective than we would like, so we're decreasing the effectiveness of some healing spells. Additionally, we're shifting more of Ebon Might's output into the Evoker themselves.
  • Hunter
  • Monk
    • Ability monk dampenharm [Dampen Harm]'s minimum damage reduction is now 25% in PvP combat (was 30%).
  • Priest
    • Discipline
      • Spell holy powerwordshield [Power Word: Shield] is no longer reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
      • Spell holy powerwordshield [Aegis of Wrath] increases Power Word: Shield by 20% (was 30%) and decays by 2% (was 3%) every second in PvP combat.
      • Developers' notes: Aegis of Wrath was too impactful in PvP due to its ability to deal with burst damage, so we're reducing Discipline's reliance on the talent and baking in some of its power to Power Word: Shield baseline. This should encourage more build diversity and give Discipline a small bump up in PvP.
  • Shaman
    • Elemental
      • Spell shaman lavaburst [Lava Burst] damage is now increased by 12% in PvP combat.
      • Spell nature lightning [Lightning Bolt] damage is now increased by 45% in PvP combat (was 31%).
      • Ability rhyolith volcano [Volcanic Surge] now increases the damage of Lightning Bolt and Spell nature chainlightning [Chain Lightning] by 35% (was 25%) and increases the damage of Lava Burst by 55% (was 45%).
      • Spell fire elemental totem [Skybreaker's Fiery Demise] now increases the critical strike chance of Spell fire flameshock [Flame Shock] by 25% in PvP Combat (was 50%).
      • Spell fire elemental totem [Fire Elemental] now causes Flame Shock to deal damage 15% faster in PvP Combat (was 33%).
      • Developers' notes: We're adjusting some of Elemental's damage away from Flame Shock and into instant damage spells to improve the spec's finishing power, which has been lacking this season.
    • Enhancement
      • Spell fire elementaldevastation [Ascendance]'s immediate damage is reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
      • Ability skyreach four wind [Windstrike] now deals 25% additional damage in PvP combat (was 45%).
      • Ability shaman stormstrike [Stormstrike]'s damage is increased by 60% in PvP combat (was 45%).
      • Spell frost frostbolt [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
    • Spell shadow abominationexplosion [Corruption] now deals 25% increased damage in PvP combat (was 10%).
    • Spell shadow shadowbolt [Shadow Bolt] now deals 60% increased damage in PvP combat (was 30%).
    • Affliction
      • Spell shadow curseofsargeras [Agony] now deals 25% increased damage in PvP combat (was 10%).
      • Spell shadow haunting [Drain Soul] now deals 15% increased damage in PvP combat.
      • Spell misc zandalari council soulswap [Oblivion]'s damage increased by 40%.
    • Demonology
    • Destruction
      • Ability warlock chaosbolt [Chaos Bolt]'s damage increased by 75% in PvP combat (was 60%).
  • Warrior
    • Warrior talent icon avatar [Avatar] increases damage by 15% in PvP (was 20%).
    • Arms
    • Fury
      • Ability warrior trauma [Onslaught] damage is increased by 35% in PvP (was 15%).
      • Inv sword 48 [Execute] (Fury) damage is increased by 40% in PvP (was 25%).
    • Protection
      • Inv sword 48 [Execute] damage increased by 15% in PvP combat.
Professions

August 16[]

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
  • Solo Shuffle
    • Runes of the Cinderwolf 2-piece bonus now resets properly in-between Solo Shuffle rounds.
    • Ability thunderking lightningwhip [Stormkeeper] gained by the Elemental Shaman 2-piece set Runes of the Cinderwolf bonus now properly resets between Solo Shuffle rounds.
    • The shared cooldown between Gladiator's Medallion, Spell shadow charm [Will to Survive], Inv gauntlets 03 [Stoneform], Ability racial fireblood [Fireblood], and Spell shadow raisedead [Will of the Forsaken] now resets properly in-between Solo Shuffle rounds.
Professions
  • Jewelcrafting
    • Fixed a bug that sometimes caused an extra Quality 3 Tiered Medallion Setting to be consumed when adding a socket.

August 10[]

Classes
Dungeons and Raids
  • Brackenhide Hollow
    • Fixed an issue where Wilted Oak's Stomp ability could stun pets.
  • Grimrail Depot
  • Neltharus
    • Chargath
      • Fixed an issue that would cause Chargath's Dragon Strike to fail.
      • Chargath will no longer cast Fiery Focus if exceptionally fast players Fetter him before he would begin casting the ability.
  • Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr
    • Emberon
      • Fixed an issue where Emberon's abilities were immediately available to cast after Purging Flames, rather than having an initial cooldown time.
  • Mythic+
    • Fixed an issue where Priests in Inv enchant essenceeternallarge [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
Wrath of the Lich King Classic

August 7[]

Classes [With Weekly Maintenance]
  • Except where noted, all changes will be offset so that they do not apply to PvP.
  • Death Knight
  • Druid
    • Guardian
      • Spell druid thrash [Thrash] damage reduced by 8%. This change will also affect PvP combat.
      • Ability druid lacerate [Raze] damage reduced by 8%. This change will also affect PvP combat.
  • 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.
      • Ability evoker breathofeons [Breath of Eons] accumulates 10% of damage done by allies with your Ebon Might (was 15%).
      • Trade archaeology highbornesoulmirror [Fate Mirror]'s chance to proc has been reduced to 10% (was 15%).
  • Hunter
  • Mage
  • Paladin
  • Priest
    • Spell shadow unsummonbuilding [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.
    • Achievement boss lanathel [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.
      • Ability priest atonement [Atonement] heals for 40% of damage done (was 36%). This change will also affect PvP combat.
    • Holy
      • Spell holy holynova [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 Spell holy holynova [Holy Nova] while at 20 stacks. This change will also affect PvP combat.
    • Shadow
  • Rogue
    • Outlaw
      • All ability damage increased by 5%. This change will also affect PvP combat.
      • Auto attack damage increased by 5%. This change will also affect PvP combat.
  • Warrior
Dragonriding
  • Fixed an issue where the Inv companionprotodragon [Renewed Proto-Drake] first granted to new accounts learning dragonriding didn't appear to be usable after learning.
Dungeons and Raids
  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
    • The Forgotten Experiments
      • Fixed an issue causing the periodic damage of Unstable Essence to not apply correctly.
  • Neltharus
    • Fixed an issue where Burning Chains could sometimes fail to damage enemies.
    • Fixed an issue where a single Burning Chain could sometimes damage enemies multiple times.
    • Magmatusk
      • Fixed an issue where Magmatusk could sometimes turn unexpectedly while casting Lava Spray.
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[]

Classes
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
  • Death Knight
    • Fixed an issue that allowed Spell holy consumemagic [Dark Simulacrum] (PvP Talent) to be consumed by Evoker's empower spells.
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[]

Hotfixes: July 11-31 | 2023-07-31 by Blizzard Entertainment
Hotfixes: July 6 | 2023-07-06 by Blizzard Entertainment

July 31[]

Events
  • Time Rifts
    • The Ragged Mantid Sword now has a chance to drop from any Klaxxi during a Time Rift event, rather than specifically blade wielding Klaxxi.
Items and Rewards
  • Fixed an issue preventing collectibles from being dropped by the Temporal Investi-gator.
Player versus Player [With Weekly Maintenance]
  • Death Knight
    • Frost
      • Fixed an issue that caused Ability deathknight pillaroffrost [Pillar of Frost]'s stacking Strength to not be properly reduced in PvP combat.
      • Spell deathknight empowerruneblade2 [Frost Strike] damage is now increased by 67% in PvP combat (was 45%).
      • Spell deathknight classicon [Obliterate] damage is now increased by 20% in PvP combat (was 15%).
      • Obliterate damage is now increased by 75% when Inv sword 122 [Killing Machine] is not active in PvP combat (was 60%).
    • 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.
      • Ability deathknight festermight [Festermight] is now 50% effective in PvP combat.
      • Festering Wound damage is now increased by 230% in PvP combat (was 250%).
  • Druid
    • Fixed a bug that made it possible to parry, block, or dodged Ability druid demoralizingroar [Incapacitating Roar].
    • Restoration
      • Fixed an issue that caused Ability druid empoweredtouch [Reactive Resin] to not Silence targets when multiple heal over time effects were purged at once.
  • Monk
  • Warrior
    • Fury
      • Ability warrior rampage [Rampage] deals 30% increased damage in PvP combat (was 15%).
Wrath of the Lich King Classic

July 28[]

Achievements

Inv misc questionmark [Embers of Neltharion] should now properly display all required criteria.

Classes
  • Hunter
    • Beast Mastery and Survival
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[]

Classes
Dungeons and Raids
  • Neltharus
    • Burning Chains no longer affect creatures outside of the Smoldering Barracks.
Professions
  • Blacksmithing
    • Fixed an issue where the Shadowed Impact Buckler had a higher crafting difficulty than intended.
Quests

July 26[]

Dungeons and Raids
  • Dawn of the Infinite
  • 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
Toys
  • After completing the Inv checkered flag [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[]

Classes [With weekly maintenance in each region]
  • Death Knight
    • Blood
      • All ability damage increased by 10%.
  • Druid
  • Evoker
    • Augmentation
    • Developers' notes: Augmentation is overperforming in dungeons and is doing less direct damage than intended relative to the power of their buffing effects. These adjustments will increase their personal damage in all situations and moderately reduce the effectiveness of their buffs in dungeon content.
      • Ability dragonriding yearningforthesky01 [Close as Clutchmates] now causes Ebon Might and Ability evoker breathofeons [Breath of Eons] to be 20% more effective when not in a raid (was 40%).
      • Fixed a bug where Close as Clutchmates would not increase the Evoker's damage done via Ebon Might for periodic effects such as Ability evoker firebreath [Fire Breath].
      • Spell sarkareth [Ebon Might] now increases the Evoker's damage done by 20% (was 10%).
      • Ability evoker eruption [Eruption] damage increased by 40%.
      • Trade archaeology highbornesoulmirror [Fate Mirror]'s chance to occur reduced to 15% (was 20%).
      • Ability evoker aspectsfavor [Aspects' Favor] amplifies Black Attunement to 7%/10% maximum health (was 10%/16%).
      • The Advanced Combat Log now more accurately attributes support events for Pet/Guardian/Summons damage, accumulator, delayed damage effects (e.g. Execution Sentence, Ignite), and damage against armored targets.
  • Hunter
  • Monk
  • Paladin
    • Protection
      • All ability damage increased by 8%
  • Priest
  • Shaman
    • Elemental and Enhancement
    • Enhancement
    • Restoration
      • All healing increased by 5%.
      • The range of Restorative Mists heals from Spell fire elementaldevastation [Ascendance] is now 40 yards (was 20 yards). The initial burst healing from Ascendance remains at 20 yards.
  • Warrior
    • Protection
      • All ability damage increased by 7%.
Dungeons and Raids
  • Fixed an issue where players' keystones could fail to upgrade by +3 when completing Neltharus with at least 40% left on the timer.
  • Algeth'ar Academy
    • Fixed an issue where Vexamus could sometimes turn unexpectedly while casting Arcane Expulsion.
  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
    • Scalecommander Sarkareth
      • Increased the sound effect of being near Mind Fragments while a player is in the Emptiness Between Stars.
Events
  • Time Rifts
    • Resolved some visual issues in the sky during Time Rifts.
Player versus Player [With weekly maintenance in each region]
  • Fixed an issue allowing Inv misc food 56 [Turnip Punching Bag] to be usable in battlegrounds.
  • Druid
  • Evoker
    • Augmentation
      • Spell sarkareth [Ebon Might]'s increase to the Evoker's damage is no longer 40% more effective in PvP Combat.
      • Ability evoker eruption [Eruption] damage is now increased by 25% in PvP Combat (was 50%).
      • Ability evoker upheaval [Upheaval] damage is now increased by 25% in PvP Combat (was 15%)
      • The damage bonus from 6bf explosive shard [Tectonic Locus] is now reduced by 70% in PvP Combat.
      • All healing done is now reduced by 10% in PvP Combat.
      • Ability evoker spiritbloom [Dream Projection] healing is now reduced by 25% in PvP Combat.
      • The absorption effect from Spell shaman spewlava [Molten Blood] is now reduced by 30% in PvP Combat.
      • Ability evoker livingflame [Born in Flame] now lasts 3 seconds (was 6 seconds).
      • Spell fire soulburn [Burnout] from Born in Flame is no longer dispellable.
      • Trade archaeology highbornesoulmirror [Fate Mirror] now triggers 67% more often in PvP combat.
    • Devastation
      • Ability evoker firebreath [Fire Breath]'s damage over time damage increased by 20% in PvP combat (was reduced by 10%).
  • Mage
    • Spell nature doublepolymorph2 [Master Shepherd] increases Versatility by 12% (was 6%).
    • Arcane
    • Developers' notes: The high-end burst damage of Arcane Mage was reduced with the release of Fractures in Time, so we're increasing the damage of Arcanosphere, as we'd like it to be a more threatening piece of Arcane's toolkit. We're also increasing the baseline damage of a few rotational spells, as Arcane's overall damage has been lower than we would like, and Nether Tempest has not felt like a competitive spell in PvP.
    • 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.
    • 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.
      • Ability hunter pointofnoescape [Cryopathy] is now 50% effective in PvP Combat (was 60%).
      • Spell frost frostbolt02 [Frostbolt] damage increased by 150% in PvP Combat (was 100%).
      • Spell fire blueflamestrike [Snowdrift] now has a 2 second activation time (was 3 seconds).
  • Priest
  • Monk
    • Ability monk dragonkick [Yu'lon's Grace] effectiveness reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
    • Windwalker
    • Developers' notes: Windwalker Monk's damage profile is more bursty than we would like, so we are moving more of its damage into base rotational spells.
      • Ability monk risingsunkick [Rising Star] critical strike damage bonus is now 50% effective in PvP Combat.
      • Ability monk serenity [Serenity] now increases damage and healing by 10% in PvP Combat (was 15%).
      • Ability monk hurricanestrike [Whirling Dragon Punch] damage is now increased by 120% in PvP Combat (was 80%).
  • Shaman
    • Elemental
    • 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%.
      • When gaining the Spell fire elementaldevastation [Ascendance] effect, Spell shaman lavaburst [Lava Burst] will no longer automatically be cast on a player target affected by crowd control that breaks from damage.
    • 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.
    • Restoration
      • Now regenerates 700 mana per second at max level in PvP Combat (was 800).
  • Warlock
    • Achievement explore argus [Abyss Walker] is now 100% more effective in PvP combat.
    • Spell shadow demoniccircleteleport [Impish Instincts] now reduces the cooldown of Demonic Circle by 3 seconds when triggered (was 2 seconds).
    • Affliction
      • Ability warlock haunt [Haunt] now deals 230% increased damage in PvP combat.
  • Warrior
    • Ability warrior decisivestrike [Slam] damage is now increased by 85% in PvP Combat (was 48%).
    • Arms
    • Developers' notes: We're increasing the damage of Bladestorm baseline and removing some power from the Unhinged talent, as its damage could be unpredictable for both the Warrior and their enemies. We're also increasing the damage of Overpower to increase Arm Warrior's consistent pressure.
      • Ability meleedamage [Overpower] damage is now increased by 30% in PvP Combat (was 20%).
      • Ability warrior bladestorm [Bladestorm] damage increased by 40% in PvP Combat.
      • Ability warrior savageblow [Mortal Strike] damage increased by 10% in PvP Combat.
      • Mortal Strikes from the Ability warrior savageblow [Unhinged] talent are now cast at 60% effectiveness.
    • Fury
    • Developers' notes: We're increasing the damage of a few Fury Warrior spells we feel are not impactful enough in PvP.
      • Inv sword 48 [Execute] damage is now increased by 25% in PvP Combat (was 10%).
      • Ability warrior trauma [Onslaught] damage increased by 15% in PvP Combat.
      • Warrior talent icon ravager [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 Spell shadow shadowfiend [Desecration] with its targets.

July 20[]

Classes
Customizations
  • Fixed a bug that could prevent players from being able to change the customization state of their Renewed Proto Drake.
Events
  • Iskaara Community Feast
    • Vendors Hanu and Tikukk should now display their vendor windows to players on associated tasks, even if the players have bought all renown items from them.
    • Patchu should no longer hide his gossip option to purchase feast items from players that are in the middle of certain pet training questlines.
  • Time Rifts
    • Resolved some visual errors with the Time Rifts skybox.
Items
  • Secrets of Naxxramas
    • Scourgestone acquisition can no longer be toggled off. Players who are in this state will resume receiving Scourgestones.
    • Developers' notes: This toggle was added to help alleviate inventory space by players who did not want to engage with the system. However, it was extremely easy to toggle this off without realizing it. We may reintroduce it at a later time.
Professions
  • Alchemy
    • Iced Phial of Corrupting Rage's Overwhelming Rage damage will no longer pierce through immunities.
World
  • Fixed a bug that caused phasing issues in Dazar'alor.
Wrath of the Lich King Classic

July 19[]

Achievements
Classes
Dungeons and Raids
  • Dawn of the Infinite
    • Resolved an issue that caused Chrono-Lord Deios and Chromie to not speak their voice over lines when Deios cast Infinite Corruption.
    • Resolved an audio issue that caused Chrono-Lord Deios to not use positional-audio for his voice over lines.
    • Resolved an issue that caused Chrono-Lord Deios to interrupt his phase 2 start and phase 2 end lines with ability cast lines.
    • Resolved an audio issue that caused Iridikron's relic to make sounds during the Chrono-Lord Deios encounter.
Events
  • Little Scales Daycare
    • Fixed an issue where certain quests were repeatable, rather than daily, as intended.
  • 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
    • Fixed an issue where the "Book of Kel'Thuzad" could be seen wandering around Tyrhold Reservoir outside of the Time Rifts event
    • The Field Despair Magnet effect is now removed when leaving a Time Rift event.
    • When the stage "Into the Rift!" begins, players should no longer be carrying timey-whimey objects they picked up from alternate timeways.
    • Frozen Croc-Bait now correctly despawns when Time Rift portals open to alternate timelines.
    • To ease some performance issues in Time Rifts, the maximum target number of players in Thaldraszus has been lowered, particularly while the Time Rift event is active.
      • Developers' note: We continue to keep a very close eye on this.
Items
  • Fixed an issue that caused some belts to go missing when worn by Mechagnomes.

July 18[]

Classes
  • Druid
  • Evoker
  • Mage [With weekly restarts]
    • Developers' notes: Mage AoE damage is generally trending a little higher than we're comfortable with after the most recent update. We're planning to make a few targeted adjustments to Mage AoE spells to bring them down to a more reasonable level. In addition to the AoE adjustments, Fire will be seeing some additional tuning, as Fire single-target damage is also trending higher than intended.
    • Arcane
    • Fire
      • Damage of all abilities reduced by 5%.
      • Spell fire selfdestruct [Flamestrike] damage reduced by 6% and now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
      • Spell mage flameorb [Flame Patch] damage reduced by 6% and now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
      • Ability mage firestarter [Sun King's Blessing] causes your next Spell fire fireball02 [Pyroblast] or Flamestrike to deal 260% increased damage (was 275%).
    • Frost
  • Paladin [With weekly restarts]
    • Developers' notes: Holy Paladin is overperforming in all content in Fractures of Time. We are targeting a global decrease of healing and damage as we are not looking to change preferred playstyles, but Tyr's Deliverance will also be receiving additional adjustments as this talent in particular has been more effective than we would like.
    • Holy
      • All healing decreased by 8%.
      • All damage decreased by 12%.
      • Inv mace 2h artifactsilverhand d 01 [Tyr's Deliverance] healing decreased by 15%.
  • Shaman
    • Fixed an issue where area-of-effect damaging spells and abilities were not properly converting damage to healing while under the effects of Ability shaman ancestralguidance [Ancestral Guidance].
Dungeons and Raids
  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
    • Rashok, the Elder [With weekly restarts]
      • Searing Slam base damage reduced by 6.5% in Mythic difficulty.
      • Overcharged damage reduced by 10% in Mythic difficulty.
      • Conduit Flare damage reduced by 12% in Mythic difficulty.
      • Fixed an issue where killing Conduit Guardians near Rashok can cause him to not gain energy.
  • Dawn of the Infinite
    • Iridikron
      • Fixed an issue where Iridikron would sometimes run out of melee range during Stonecracker Barrage.
Items
  • Ability paladin lightofthemartyr [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.
  • Hunter
  • Paladin [With weekly restarts]
    • Developers' notes: Holy Paladins' mana pools have been more plentiful than we would like in PvP. We're targeting their base Mana regeneration to encourage player engagement with the variety of mana talents available.
    • Holy
      • Holy Paladins now regenerate 55% less Mana in PvP combat (was 25%).
      • Fixed a bug that caused Spell holy righteousfury [Greater Judgment] to not be affected by Achievement bg winsoa underxminutes [Dampening].
Professions
  • Engineering
    • Nixx Sprocketspring is now less persistent about training Goblin Engineering schematics when trying to progress the quest "N Engineering [45] Short Circuit".
Quests
  • Fixed an issue where weapons were not properly hiding while racing as a whelp during "N [60-70 Daily] Zhoomsa."
Time Rifts
  • [With weekly restarts] 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 Inv misc questionmark [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 Inv crate 06 [Paracausal Crate], allowing players to send Ability essence reapingflames [Paracausal Flakes] between characters.
  • Fixed a bug where Inv misc questionmark [Paracausal Fragment of Thunderfin, Humid Blade of the Tideseeker]'s effect does not trigger on melee abilities.
  • Fixed a bug where Inv misc questionmark [Paracausal Fragment of Azzinoth]'s effect would attack enemies you are not yet in combat with.
  • Fixed a bug where Inv misc questionmark [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 Inv misc questionmark [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[]

Classes
  • Druid
  • Evoker
    • Augmentation
      • Ability evoker upheaval [Upheaval] will no longer cast if your target leaves your line of sight.
      • Upheaval will no longer go on cooldown and fail to deal damage if you are crowd controlled at the same time as completing your empower cast.
      • Adjusted Trade archaeology highbornesoulmirror [Fate Mirror]'s visual to be less overwhelming when many instances of damage occur in a short period of time.
    • Preservation
      • Fixed an issue where Ability evoker temporalanomaly [Temporal Anomaly]'s absorption cap could be miscalculated when shielding multiple allies at once.
  • Paladin
    • Holy
      • Fixed an issue where Spell holy aspiration [Daybreak] may cause enemy targets to incorrectly change their target or facing when used.
  • Priest
  • Shaman
    • Restoration
      • Fixed an issue causing Ability mage waterjet [Downpour] to cost more mana than intended.
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
  • Secrets of Naxxramas
  • 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

July 13[]

Classes
Dungeons and Raids
  • Resolved an issue where players were unable to queue for Shadowlands raids at max level from Ta-elfar in Oribos.
  • Dawn of the Infinite
    • Addressed an issue causing Iridikron's finale sequence to sometimes fail to trigger.
  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
    • Magmorax
      • Addressed an issue preventing Preservation Evokers' Spell lifegivingseed [Cycle of Life] from working properly during the Magmorax encounter.
Events
  • Time Rifts
    • Usable Horde and Alliance guns will now remove shapeshifts.
    • The ability "Waste Cannonball" deals less damage, and should no longer deal damage to friendly units.
    • Fixed an error caused by aiming the Great Glorious Alliance Cannon too high in the air.
    • Increased spawn counts and respawn rates for Drifting Watchers, required for the task "Keep the Skies Clear".
    • Fixed an issue causing some Time Rifts bosses to occasionally evade.
    • Increased spawn counts and respawn rates for Void Prisons.
    • The Great Glorious Alliance creature "Blessed Inquisitor" now has abilities once its shield is popped.
    • Wan'she Skystrider, contrary to her name, now obeys gravity.
Player versus Player
  • Evoker
    • Augmentation
      • Class set bonuses from Vault of Incarnates and Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible are now appropriately reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
Quests
  • Removed an unnecessary Dragonflight campaign header, so that the 9 available chapters are properly displayed.
  • Fixed a bug preventing the Dragonflight campaign header from hiding itself once the chapters are all completed.
  • Fixed an issue that was causing some players to be unable to unlock the Zandalari Troll Allied race on "H [40-70] A Royal Occasion".
  • Secrets of Naxxramas
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[]

Classes
  • Death Knight
    • Resolved an issue causing Spell deathknight armyofthedead [Army of the Dead] to summon fewer ghouls than intended in non-PvP combat.
  • Druid
  • Evoker
    • Range indicator and raid frames should again match after logging into an Evoker and then into a different ranged class.
  • Paladin
    • Holy
      • Spell paladin holyprism [Holy Prism] can no longer radiate to nearby enemies that are in breakable crowd control or not in combat with you.
    • Retribution
      • Resolved an issue that could cause Heartfire Sentinel's Authority to consume two charges of Spell paladin hammerofwrath [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
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[]

Wrath of the Lich King Classic
  • Fixed a bug causing the cost of the Relentless Gladiator's Rifle to not be similar to the cost of Relentless two-hand and ranged weapons.
  • Fixed an issue where Glyph of Polymorph did not remove intended versions of Ignite, Deep Wounds, and Piercing Shots.
  • Fixed an issue preventing the Steel Gate Flying Machine from grappling Sack of Relics for the quest “I've Got a Flying Machine!”
  • Fixed a bug that could prevent the game from launching on MacOS Sonoma (Version 14).
  • Dungeons and Raids
    • Azjol-Nerub and Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom (Titan Rune)
      • Players will no longer lose threat when they are web-wrapped.
      • The minions that take part in the Hadronox gauntlet will no longer gain a health and damage buff from Empowered: Shadow Rune aura and will also no longer web-wrap players.
      • The Skittering Swarmers in Hadronox's Lair will no longer web-wrap players.
    • Trial of the Crusader
      • Twin Val'kyr's Light and Dark essences will no longer have their damage buff component removed by invulnerabilities.

July 6[]

Classes
Dungeons and Raids
  • Mythic+
    • Affixes
      • Fixed an issue that caused Incorporeal Beings' Destabilize effect to apply to targets not in combat with players when charmed.
    • The below Mythic+ changes were applied on June 30:
    • Brackenhide Hollow
      • Hackclaw's War-Band
        • Gashtooth's Gash Frenzy periodic damage reduced by 25%.
      • Decatriarch Wratheye
        • Withered Eruption damage reduced by 10%.
        • Rotburst Totem's Rotting Burst cast time increased to 7 seconds (was 5 seconds).
    • Halls of Infusion
      • Watcher Irideus
        • Power Overload now targets 2 players (was 3).
    • Neltharion's Lair
      • Fixed an issue that caused Vileshard Crawler's Acid Splatter to inflict more damage than intended.
      • Rokmora
      • Naraxas
        • Toxic Retch damage reduced by 25%.
    • Neltharus
      • Qalashi Lavabearer health reduced by 10%.
      • Irontorch Commander health reduced by 15%.
      • Qalashi Warden health reduced by 10%.
      • Magmatusk
        • Health reduced by 10%.
        • Magma Lob cooldown has been increased.
        • Magma Eruption periodic damage reduced by 25%.
        • Lava Spray damage reduced by 20%.
        • Lava Wave damage reduced by 15%.
      • Forgemaster Gorek
        • Health reduced by 10%.
        • Blazing Aegis damage reduced by 20%.
        • Blazing Hammer damage reduced by 20%.
      • Warlord Sargha
        • Health reduced by 10%.
        • Molten Gold damage reduced by 20%.
    • The Vortex Pinnacle
      • Asaad
        • Skyfall Nova damage reduced by 20%.
    • Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr
      • Sentinel Talondrus
        • Earthen Shards periodic damage reduced by 20%.
      • Emberon
        • Seeking Flame's visual has been adjusted.
    • Underrot
      • Grotesque Horror's Dark Echoes cast time increased to 1.5 seconds (was 1 second).
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
  • Dungeons and Raids
    • Utgarde Pinnacle and Utgarde Keep
      • Glaciate and Icy Path will no longer kill players when they are affected by King Ymiron's Screams of the Dead during Defense Protocol Alpha or Beta.
      • Fire Blast now does 6% max hp damage per second, instead of 10% during Defense Protocol Beta.
      • Fire Blast will now get casted much sooner after Glaciate during Defense Protocol Beta.

June[]

Hotfixes: June 1-28 | 2023-06-28 by Blizzard Entertainment

June 28[]

Dungeons and Raids
Items and Rewards
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
  • Classes
    • Rogue
      • Fixed an issue where Rogue's Tier 9 2-piece set bonus was not properly reducing the energy cost of the next ability used.

June 27[]

Classes
Dungeons and Raids
Player versus Player
  • Druid
    • Restoration
Quests
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
  • Achievements
    • [with June 26 changes] Torch Juggler can now be completed in Dalaran, Stromwind, Ironforge, Orgrimmar, and Undercity.
    • [with June 26 changes] Completing the Trial of the Grand Crusader on Heroic difficulty (10 or 25) will now grant credit for both the heroic and normal versions of the achievement (Call of the Crusade and Call of the Grand Crusade) since both versions now share a lockout.
  • Items and Rewards
    • [with June 26 changes] Fixed an issue where some Tier 9 set bonuses were giving an unintended Critical Strike Damage or Healing modifier.

June 26[]

Classes
  • Death Knight
    • Blood
      • [With weekly restarts] Damage increased by 6.5%.
  • Demon Hunter
    • Havoc
  • Druid
    • Feral
      • [With weekly restarts] Damage increased by 3%.
  • Evoker
    • Ability evoker flywithme [Rescue] should no longer interrupt channeled spells when cast on an ally who is channeling.
    • Rescue should no longer occasionally disconnect players in PvP.
  • Hunter
    • Beast Mastery
      • [With weekly restarts] Ability hunter assassinate2 [Kill Shot] damage increased by 10%. This does not apply to PvP combat.
    • Marksmanship
  • Monk
    • Windwalker
      • [With weekly restarts] All damaging abilities increased by 3%.
  • Priest
    • Discipline
    • Holy
      • Developers' notes: Holy Priests have continued to trail behind other healers in DPS output, so we're increasing the damage of a variety of spells to bring them more in line.
    • Shadow
      • Developers' notes: Shadow has been overperforming in AoE environments. We're bringing down some of its sources of AoE and increasing the damage of some direct damage to offset this in single target.
  • Shaman
    • Restoration
      • [With weekly restarts] Aberrus (2) Set Bonus: Tidewaters healing increased by 40%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Aberrus (4) Set Bonus: Duration of Rainstorm increased to 8 seconds (was 6 seconds).
  • Warlock
    • Fixed an issue where Infernal would not despawn after swapping specializations.
  • Warrior
    • Protection
Dungeons and Raids
  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
    • [With weekly restarts] Cross-realm Mythic raiding is now enabled for Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible.
    • The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn
      • [With weekly restarts] Dragonfire Traps now activate consistently based on Zskarn's location.
      • [With weekly restarts] Elimination Protocol damage reduced by 20%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Elimination Protocol damage amplification reduced to 300% (was 500%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Salvage Parts duration increased to 120 seconds (was 60 seconds).
    • Magmorax
      • Corrected the spawn positions of two Spicy Lava Snails that were overly difficult to obtain.
Player versus Player
  • Items
    • [With weekly restarts] Gladiator's Distinction primary stat bonus reduced to 20% (was 25%) for all damage dealing and tank specializations.
  • Classes
    • Druid
      • Balance
        • Developers' notes: The cast time on Cyclone is too fast for enemy players to deal with, so we're reducing its cast speed from Owlkin Adept and also reducing Precognition's haste in Fractures in Time. Solar Beam's duration lasting 8 seconds was an oversight, as it should have been reduced in the crowd control reduction pass in Embers of Neltharion.
      • Restoration
    • Monk
      • Mistweaver
        • [With weekly restarts] Spell monk envelopingmist [Enveloping Mist] healing increased by 12% in PvP Combat (was 5%).
    • Priest
      • [With weekly restarts] Spell priest shadow mend [Catharsis] now stores 15% of damage taken (was 20%) and the stored amount cannot exceed 12% of the Priest's maximum health (was 15%).
      • Discipline
        • Developers' notes: Discipline damage and Atonement healing continues to be lower than we'd like in PvP, so we're increasing them to allow Discipline to be more offensive.
          • [With weekly restarts] All damage is now increased by 10% in PvP Combat.
          • [With weekly restarts] Ability priest atonement [Atonement] healing is now increased by 70% in PvP Combat (was 50%).
      • Shadow
        • Developers' notes: Instant damage from Catharsis and Unfurling Darkness is accounting for more of Shadow's burst damage than we were aiming for, so we're bringing their power down. Shadow is also getting PvE damage buffs that affect PvP which puts some of this power loss back into rotational spells.
    • Rogue
      • Subtlety
        • [With weekly restarts] Ability rogue sinistercalling [Secret Technique] damage now reduced by 40% in PvP Combat (was 33%).
        • [With weekly restarts] Inv letter 17 [Thief's Bargain] (PvP Talent) damage penalty increased to 10% (was 6%).
    • Shaman
      • Developers' notes: We're redistributing the amount of healing from instant cast sources for all Shaman and increasing the power of cast heals, so that cast heals are both more frequent and more meaningful.
      • [With weekly restarts] Healing Stream healing is now increased by 20% in PvP combat (was 30%).
      • Elemental
        • [With weekly restarts] Spell nature skinofearth [Earth Shield] healing is now reduced by 40% in PvP combat (was 30%).
        • [With weekly restarts] Spell nature healingway [Healing Surge] healing is now increased by 20% in PvP combat.
      • Enhancement
        • [With weekly restarts] Spell nature skinofearth [Earth Shield] healing is now reduced by 40% in PvP combat (was 30%).
        • [With weekly restarts] Spell nature healingway [Healing Surge] healing is now increased by 4% in PvP combat (was reduced by 13%).
      • Restoration
        • [With weekly restarts] Spell nature skinofearth [Earth Shield] healing is now reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
        • [With weekly restarts] Spell nature healingway [Healing Surge] healing is now increased by 27% in PvP combat (was 6%).
        • [With weekly restarts] Spell nature healingwavelesser [Healing Wave] healing is now increased by 56% in PvP combat (was 30%).
        • [With weekly restarts] Ability shaman watershield [Water Shield]'s melee attack mana refund is now 20% effective in PvP Combat (was 50%).
        • [With weekly restarts] Water Shield now regenerates 75% more mana from its passive effect in PvP Combat.
    • Warlock
      • Developers' notes: We're targeting the defensive power of Demonology with these changes as they are often a difficult target to take down relative to other DPS specs. We're also lowering the healing from Mortal Coil to lower overall self-healing from Warlocks in PvP.
        • [With weekly restarts] Ability warlock mortalcoil [Mortal Coil] healing is now 50% effective in PvP Combat.
        • [With weekly restarts] Ability warlock soullink [Soul Link]'s shared damage with the Warlock's pet is now 50% effective in PvP Combat.
        • [With weekly restarts] Ability argus deathfog [Profane Bargain]'s increase to the effectiveness of Soul Link at low health is now 40% effective in PvP Combat.
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
  • Classes
    • Death Knight
      • Fixed an issued where Spell shadow shadowfiend [Desecration] was pulling characters out of stealth.
    • Warrior
      • Fixed an issue where Ability backstab [Deep Wounds] was not doing damage while the Warrior is crowd controlled.

June 23[]

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

June 22[]

Classes
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
  • Dungeons and Raids
    • Azjol-Nerub and Ahn'kahet
      • Players below level 80 should now be able to enter Azjol-Nerub and Ahn'kahet.

June 21[]

Wrath of the Lich King Classic
  • Quests
    • Midsummer Fire Festival
      • Fixed an issue where the Heroic version of The Slave Pens had Ahune, and related creatures, set to level 80 instead of level 70. The intention is that level 80 players are to go into the Normal difficulty dungeon to fight the level 80 version of Ahune.

June 20[]

Classes
Dungeons and Raids
  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
    • Kassara, the Hellforged
      • Kazzara health reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
      • Infernal Fusion damage reduced by 10%.
    • Sarkareth Scaelcommander
      • [With June 16 Changes] Resolved an issue that would cause players to take extra durability damage if their corpse fell off the platform.
      • Lowered the damage from Scorching Detonation by 10% on all difficulties.
      • Lowered the damage from Oblivion by 10% on all difficulties.
      • Updated the visual clarity for Drifting Embers.
  • Neltharus
Items and Rewards
Quests
  • [With June 16 Changes] Effervesta won't escape from kidnapping early and will now correctly wait for the player to rescue her during N [70] Suss Out the Imposter.
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
  • Classes
    • Mage
      • Spell frost frostarmor02 [Ice Armor] should no longer fall off when players have either rank 1 or rank 2 of Frost Warding.
    • Warrior
      • Ability warrior bloodfrenzy [Blood Frenzy] should now fall off when Deep Wounds falls off the target.
  • Dungeons and Raids
    • Ulduar
      • Yogg-Saron
        • Guardians of Yogg-Saron will once again spawn normally during Phase 1.

June 14[]

Classes
  • Evoker
    • Devastation
      • Ability evoker eternitysurge [Eternity Surge] will no longer fail to deal damage and go on cooldown if your enemy goes out of line of sight after the empower cast is completed.
Dungeons and Raids
Player versus Player
  • Shaman
    • Enhancement
      • Ability shaman lavalash [Lava Lash] damage is now correctly increased by 35% in PvP Combat.

June 13[]

Classes
  • Druid
    • Balance
      • Druid ability wildmushroom a [Wild Mushroom] will now deal its damage even if the target is out of line of sight of the Druid.
      • Ability druid dreamstate [Fury of Elune] will now deal its damage even if the target is out of line of sight of the Druid.
  • Evoker
    • Devastation
      • Ability evoker eternitysurge [Eternity Surge] will now deal its damage effect correctly if you are crowd controlled immediately after completing the empower cast.
Player versus Player
  • Monk
    • Mistweaver
      • Fixed an issue that caused Soulfang Infusion, from the Mistweaver 2-piece set, to regenerate more mana than intended in PvP Combat.

June 12[]

Classes
  • Druid
    • Balance
      • Fixed a bug causing Spell fire bluefire [Astral Smolder] to not deal appropriate damage to enemies with absorb shields.
    • Feral
  • Hunter
Dungeons and Raids
  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
    • The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn
      • [With weekly restarts] Blast Wave damage reduced by 10% on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
      • [With weekly restarts] Dragonfire Traps is now magic dispelable on Heroic difficulty.
      • [With weekly restarts] Dragonfire Traps activation time increased to 5 seconds (was 3 seconds) on Normal difficulty.
      • [With weekly restarts] Dragonfire Traps activation time increased to 4 seconds (was 3 seconds) on Heroic difficulty.
      • [With weekly restarts] Added additional visuals to Dragonfire Traps during activation on all difficulties.
  • Mythic+
    • Brackenhide Hollow
      • Fixed an issue that caused summoned Infected Lashers to grant enemy forces credit.

June 9[]

Classes
  • Priest
    • Discipline
      • Fixed an issue where Radiant Providence from the Discipline Priest 4-piece set bonus would reset on when engaging a dungeon boss.
    • Holy
      • Fixed an issue where the duplicated Spell holy prayerofmendingtga [Prayer of Mending] from the Holy Priest 2-piece set bonus would cost twice as much mana.

June 8[]

Classes
  • Monk
    • Brewmaster
Dungeons and Raids
  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
    • Scalecommander Sarkareth
      • The contribution of damage towards Blazing Blast and Void Blast is now properly reduced by absorbs.
Items and Rewards
  • Inv hand 1h evokerlegendary d 01 [Nasz'uro, the Unbound Legacy]'s primary stat and Speed granted to allies reduced by 70% in PvP Combat.
  • Djaruun, Pillar of the Elder Flames' damage reduced by 50% in PvP Combat.
  • Fixed an issue where Ominous Chromatic Essence would continue to reapply to other allies when two players shared the same alignment.

June 7[]

Classes
  • Paladin
    • Retribution
      • Fixed an issue causing the Spell holy righteousfury [Indomitable Justice] Azerite trait to sometimes provide an unintended speed bonus.
Dungeons and Raids
  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
    • The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn
      • Developers' notes: These changes are directed at reducing the burden on tanks in smaller groups where Shrapnel Bomb was more difficult to handle with more limited amounts of utility from the group.
      • [With June 6 resets] Zskarn health reduced by 10% for small group sizes on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
      • [With June 6 resets] Shrapnel Bomb initial damage and DOT damage reduced by 50% on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
      • [With June 6 resets] Searing Claws damage reduced by 25% on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
      • [With June 6 resets] Unstable Embers damage reduced by 30% on Heroic difficulty.
    • Echo of Neltharion
      • Calamitous Strike's debuff duration reduced from 40 seconds to 37 seconds on all difficulties. This is done to remove a problematic overlap in phase one of the encounter.
      • Calamitous Strike's debuff will now be removed when the encounter enters intermission on all difficulties.
      • Fixed an issue where Neltharion immediately melee his target after casting Calamitous Strike on all difficulties.
      • Added a slight delay before the same player can trigger an additional stack of Shatter after destroying Twisted Earth on all difficulties.
      • Volcanic Heart's radius reduced from 25 yards to 20 yards on Mythic difficulty.
    • Scalecommander Sarkareth
      • Developers' note: A series of changes have been made to ease up a bit on the difficulty of this encounter on lower player size raids. Each of these changes are for non-Mythic difficulties only and scale back as raid size increases, evening out to about no changes for the 30 player raid.
      • [With June 6 resets] Health of Sarkareth and Null Glimmers reduced by 6% in 10 player raids.
      • [With June 6 resets] Duration of Astral Flare buff increased from 23 seconds to 30 seconds in 10 player raids.
      • [With June 6 resets] Oblivion damage per tick reduced by 50% in 10 player raids.
      • [With June 6 resets] Void Surge damage per tick reduced by 40% in 10 player raids.
      • [With June 6 resets] Dread raid wide damage reduced by 25% in 10 player raids.
  • Halls of Infusion
    • Fixed an issue where Infuser Sariya's Inundate spell could inflict inconsistent amounts of damage.
Items and Rewards
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the Drakewatcher Manuscript for the Cliffside Wylderdrake - Black Hair customization option from dropping in some circumstances.
  • Zaralek Cavern
    • Fixed an issue where Inv misc questionmark [Cobalt Shalewing]'s drop rate was lower than intended. Its drop rate is now in line with other similar drops.
Quests
  • Fixed an issue where Sparks of Life were not dropping in Zaralek Caverns from various content.

June 6[]

Dungeons and Raids
  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
    • Echo of Neltharion
      • Slightly reduced Neltharion's health for smaller groups.
      • Volcanic Heart's initial damage reduced on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
      • Echoing Fissures' damage now scales with group size on LFR, Normal and Heroic difficulty.
      • Slightly reduced the Twisted Aberrations' health for smaller groups.

June 5[]

Classes
  • Death Knight
    • Blood
    • [With weekly restarts] Increased damage of all abilities by 8%.
  • Druid
    • Feral
      • Developers' Notes: These set bonus changes will increase the average number of stacks of the (2) Set Bonus and cause the (4) Set Bonus to trigger less often, but provide more Agility when it does.
        • [With weekly restarts] Aberrus (2) Set Bonus: Chance for Shadows of the Predator stacks to reset reduced by 15%.
        • [With weekly restarts] Aberrus (4) Set Bonus: Now increases Agility by 8% (up from 5%).
  • Evoker
    • Preservation
      • Developers' notes: We would like there to be more of a reward to using Disintegrate over Living Flame as a Preservation Evoker since it has a high Essence cost.
        • [With weekly restarts] Ability evoker disintegrate [Disintegrate] damage has been increased by 15% for Preservation Evoker.
  • Hunter
    • Beast Mastery
      • [With weekly restarts] All damage dealt by you and your pet's abilities increased by 5%.
  • Mage
    • Fire
      • [With weekly restarts] Spell fire fireball02 [Pyroblast] damage increased by 5% (does not apply in PvP combat).
      • [With weekly restarts] Spell fire fireball [Fire Blast] damage increased by 10% (does not apply in PvP combat).
      • [With weekly restarts] Spell fire flamebolt [Fireball] damage increased by 10% (does not apply in PvP combat).
      • [With weekly restarts] Artifactability firemage phoenixbolt [Phoenix Flames] damage increased by 10% (does not apply in PvP combat).
      • [With weekly restarts] Spell fire soulburn [Scorch] damage increased by 10%.
  • Monk
    • Brewmaster
    • [With weekly restarts] All ability damage increased by 3%.
    • Mistweaver
      • [With weekly restarts] All healing increased by 3%. This does not apply to PvP combat.
  • Rogue
    • Assassination
      • [With weekly restarts] All ability damage increased by 5%.
  • Warlock
    • Developers' notes: The high frequency of Amplify Curse has been problematic in PvP combat, so its cooldown has been increased. These changes are also noted in the PvP section below.
      • [With weekly restarts] The cooldown of Spell shadow contagion [Amplify Curse] is now 60 seconds (was 30 seconds).
      • [With weekly restarts] Spell shadow carrionswarm [Teachings of the Satyr] now reduces the cooldown of Amplify Curse by 15 seconds (was 10 seconds).
  • Warrior
    • Arms
      • Developers' notes: Arms Warriors are not performing as well as we would like in single target or low-target-count situations.
        • [With weekly restarts] All ability damage increased by 4%.
        • [With weekly restarts] Achievement bg killingblow berserker [Fatality] Fatal Mark damage increased by 15%.
        • [With weekly restarts] Ability backstab [Mastery: Deep Wounds] periodic damage increased by 5%.
        • [With weekly restarts] Ability gouge [Rend] periodic damage increased by 5%.
    • Protection
      • Developers' notes: Protection Warriors are not currently performing as competitively as we would like compared to most other tanks in terms of damage and survivability.
        • [With weekly restarts] All damaging abilities increased by 8%.
        • [With weekly restarts] Auto-attack damage increased by 10%.
        • [With weekly restarts] Ability warrior shieldbreak [Spell Block]'s duration increased to 30 seconds (was 20 seconds).
        • [With weekly restarts] Ability vehicle electrocharge [Thunderlord] now causes each enemy hit by Spell nature thunderclap [Thunder Clap] to reduce the remaining cooldown of Ability warrior warcry [Demoralizing Shout] by 1.5 seconds, up to 4.5 seconds (was 1.0 seconds, up to 3.0 seconds).
Dungeons and Raids
  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
    • Developer's notes: Feedback and data from the first few weeks of Season Two have indicated that smaller raids are having a relatively difficult time defeating certain encounters within Aberrus. Part of our commitment to flex-scaling as a feature is to work towards a similar difficulty for all group sizes on non-Mythic difficulties. The following changes are designed to bring difficulty for smaller groups in line with the experience of a larger raid.
    • Rashok
      • [With weekly restarts] Reduced the number of missiles from Doom Flames on non-Mythic difficulties.
      • [With weekly restarts] Scorching Heatwave's damage now scales with group size for non-Mythic difficulties.
    • The Forgotten Experiments
      • [With weekly restarts] Reduced Thadrion's health on lower group sizes on Heroic difficulty.
Player versus Player
  • Classes
    • Druid
      • Balance
        • Developers' notes: Balance Druids have been overperforming due to their ability to generate so much Astral Power and deal high damage by applying dots and casting Starfall repeatedly. We'd like to reduce the effectiveness of that playstyle since it's difficult for opponents to stop. Goldrinn's Fang also became much more effective in Embers of Neltharion, and includes some randomness and ability to score kills unexpectedly. Finally, Owlkin Adept has been a locked-in talent for a while now and has been propping up their control a bit more than we're comfortable with.
    • Hunter
      • Marksmanship
        • Developers' notes: Marksmanship Hunters have been underperforming in different forms of PvP content.
          • [With weekly restarts] Inv spear 07 [Aimed Shot] damage increased by 25% in PvP combat (was 15%).
          • [With weekly restarts] Ability hunter efficiency [Rapid Fire] damage increased by 25% in PvP combat (was 15%).
          • [With weekly restarts] Ability impalingbolt [Arcane Shot] damage increased by 25% in PvP combat (was 16%).
    • Mage
      • Fire
        • Developers' notes: Glass Cannon is intended to have high risk and high reward with its gameplay, and we feel the risk is too low for the benefit it provides, especially when paired with Flamecannon.
        • [With weekly restarts] Spell frostfire orb [Glass Cannon] now decreases maximum health by 20% (was 15%)
        • [With weekly restarts] Ability mage flamecannon [Flamecannon] now increases maximum health by 2% per stack (was 3%).
    • Monk
      • Mistweaver
        • Developers' notes: Mistweavers have been overperforming compared to other healers, especially due to their mana efficiency.
          • [With weekly restarts] Soulfang Infusion now regenerates 75% less Mana in PvP combat (was 50%).
          • [With weekly restarts] Ability monk sphereharmonydiscord [Zen Spheres] now cost 0.5% base Mana.
          • [With weekly restarts] Spell monk envelopingmist [Enveloping Mist] now heals for 5% more in PvP combat (was 20%).
          • [With weekly restarts] Mistweaver Monks now regenerate 15% less Mana in PvP combat (was 10%).
      • Windwalker
        • Developers' notes: Whirling Dragon Punch has felt underwhelming and we'd like it to feel impactful to use without being a major portion of a Windwalker's damage profile.
    • Priest
      • Discipline
        • Developers' notes: Discipline has been more reliant on shields this season than we'd like. We're increasing Atonement healing while bringing down the power of shields, with the goal of the preferred playstyle being an offensive one. We're also targeting the mana reduction from Inner Light, as Discipline has been more mana efficient than we'd like.
          • [With weekly restarts] Spell holy powerwordshield [Power Word: Shield] now absorbs 15% less damage in PvP Combat.
          • [With weekly restarts] Spell holy divinespirit [Inner Light] now reduces the mana cost of the affected spells by 10% (was 15%).
          • [With weekly restarts]Ability priest atonement [Atonement] healing is now 50% more effective in PvP Combat (was 40%).
    • Rogue
      • Subtlety
        • Developers' notes: Burst damage from Subtlety has been higher than we'd like this season. We're looking to keep the spec in a strong position while toning down their burst potential in short windows.
        • [With weekly restarts] Ability rogue sinistercalling [Secret Technique] damage is now reduced by 33% in PvP Combat (was 25%).
        • [With weekly restarts] Ability rogue shadowstrike [Shadowstrike] and Ability backstab [Backstab] damage from Ability ironmaidens bladerush [Weaponmaster] is now 50% effective in PvP combat.
        • [With weekly restarts] Ability revendreth rogue [Flagellation]'s Mastery bonus is now 80% effective in PvP combat.
        • [With weekly restarts] Spell warlock demonsoul [Dark Shadow] is now 67% effective in PvP combat (was 80%).
    • Shaman
      • Enhancement
        • Developers' notes: There are a few talents that are leading to fast kills that can feel unfair when facing an Enhancement Shaman. We're aiming to bring down the burst potential from cooldowns and increase sustained DPS.
          • [With weekly restarts] Spell shaman unleashweapon wind [Forceful Winds] is now 75% effective in PvP Combat.
          • [With weekly restarts] The damage increase to Ability shaman lavalash [Lava Lash] from Spell shaman stormearthfire [Ashen Catalyst] is now 33% effective in PvP Combat.
          • [With weekly restarts] Lava Lash now deals 35% increased damage in PvP Combat (was 15%).
          • [With weekly restarts] The Physical damage increase from Spell shaman feralspirit [Feral Spirit] is now 33% effective in PvP Combat.
          • [With weekly restarts] The Fire, Frost, and Lightning damage increase from Spell shaman feralspirit [Elemental Spirits] is now 50% effective in PvP Combat.
          • [With weekly restarts] Ability shaman stormstrike [Stormstrike] now deals 75% increased damage in PvP Combat (was 50%).
          • [With weekly restarts] Ability skyreach four wind [Windstrike] now deals 75% increased damage in PvP Combat (was 50%).
      • Restoration
        • Developers' notes: We feel Restoration Shaman is in a good spot. Rain Dance wasn't as valuable as we were anticipating, so we're aiming to increase its viability.
          • [With weekly restarts] Spell nature giftofthewaterspirit [Rain Dance] now increases the healing done by Spell nature giftofthewaterspirit [Healing Rain] by 30% (was 20%).
          • [With weekly restarts] Rain Dance now reduces the mana cost of Healing Rain by 45% (was 30%).
    • Warlock
      • Developers' notes: Inquisitor's Gaze has been dealing a sizeable portion of Warlock damage this season, and we'd like damage to come primarily from active spells.
        • [With weekly restarts] Fel Barrage from Inv pet inquisitoreye [Inquisitor's Gaze] now deals 40% reduced damage in PvP Combat.
      • Developers' notes: The high frequency of Amplify Curse has been problematic in PvP combat.
        • [With weekly restarts] The cooldown of Spell shadow contagion [Amplify Curse] is now 60 seconds (was 30 seconds).
        • [With weekly restarts] Spell shadow carrionswarm [Teachings of the Satyr] now reduces the cooldown of Amplify Curse by 15 seconds (was 10 seconds).
      • Affliction
        • Developers' notes: We are increasing the damage of Unstable Affliction's backlash effect to lessen the value of dispelling Affliction's damage over time effects. It's been lower than we'd like, in addition to healers gaining extra health this season. Additionally, we're increasing Shadow Bolt damage as the reward for casting it is lower than we'd like.
      • Demonology
        • Developers' notes: Demonology's healing reduction effect from their Felguard was one of the best healing reductions in the game, which didn't feel appropriate given the class identity, how easy it is to apply, and how it can be applied to multiple targets at a time. Along with Affliction, we're also increasing the damage of Shadow Bolt in PvP, as the reward for casting it is low.
          • [With weekly restarts] Inv axe 09 [Legion Strike] reduces healing taken by 20% in PvP (was 25%).
          • [With weekly restarts] Shadow Bolt damage increased by 30% in PvP combat.
      • Destruction
        • Developers' notes: Destruction's sustained DPS has been high and we feel this is mainly due to Shadowburn's high multiplier. We would like for instant casts to be strong but not be the primary way to land kills.
          • [With weekly restarts] Conflagration damage is now reduced by 15% in PvP Combat (was 9%).
          • [With weekly restarts] Spell shadow scourgebuild [Shadowburn] damage is now increased by 15% in PvP Combat (was 45%).

June 1[]

Items and Rewards
  • Inv enchant prismaticsphere [Prismatic Bauble]'s cooldown has been reduced to 60 seconds (was 120 seconds) for one month.
    • Developers' notes: For one month, the Prismatic Bauble's cooldown has been reduced and can be purchased from Jepetto Joybuzz and his Clockwork Assistant in The Wonderworks in Dalaran, floating above the Broken Isles. The Wonderworks can be found down the steps from the Violet Citadel and across the street from Simply Enchanting. Be warned! This very expensive cosmetic item will only have a reduced cooldown and be available from these sources for a month before returning to its original cooldown and being exclusively sold by Dalaran's legendary and elusive Mad Merchant.
Quests
  • Researchers Under Fire
    • Developers' notes: Players were being delayed by a lack of Altar Stones which we are addressing. Even with more Altar Stones the timer is still super tight. We think another 30 seconds will allow groups to perfect their runs and be more in line with the Titan version once players become more familiar.
    • Added more spawns of Altar Stones as well as made them spawn quicker.
    • The Sundered Flame Forces are being delayed giving players an extra 30 seconds to complete the Investigation of the Djaradin Ruins.

May[]

Hotfixes: May 2-31 | 2023-05-31 by Blizzard Entertainment

May 31[]

Dungeons and Raids
  • Mythic+
    • Affixes
      • Achievement boss anomalus [Incorporeal]
        • Incorporeal's immunity effect can now be removed by effects that dispel immunities.
        • Incorporeal Beings are now susceptible to Charm effects.
        • The effectiveness of Incorporeal Being's Destabilize is reduced if cast while charmed.
          • Developers' notes: These changes aim to give Warriors and Death Knights more powerful options to counter the Incorporeal affix.

May 30[]

Classes
  • Druid
Dungeons and Raids
  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
    • The Forgotten Experiments
      • Fixed an issue where players sometimes left combat between when boss creatures were active.
    • Rashok, the Elder
      • Fixed an issue where Lava Wave is inflicting damage more often than stated in the spell description.
    • Magmorax
      • No longer targets pets with Blazing Breath.
    • Echo of Neltharion
      • Shatter no longer damages pets.
  • Mythic+
    • Neltharus
      • Burning Chains found in the Smoldering Barracks no longer damage players.
      • The doorway in the Smoldering Barracks now opens when Chargath, Bane of Scales is defeated.
      • Increased the cooldown of Qalashi Thaumaturge's Molten Core.
      • Forgewrought Monstrosity health reduced by 25%.
      • Lava Flare health reduced by 20%.
      • Magmatusk
        • Magma Eruption damage reduced by 20%.
    • Vortex Pinnacle
      • The cooldown of Temple Adept's Greater Heal has been increased.
      • Skyfall Star's Starlight damage reduced by 20%.
      • Asaad, Caliph of Zephyrs
        • Skyfall Nova health reduced by 20%.
Items and Rewards
  • Players can now get a Wirt's Leg drop during the Diablo promotion even if their class cannot use the weapon type.
    • Developers' notes: We are seeing that some versions of Wirt's Leg are rarer than others due to a restriction on only seeing items your class can use. With the item being Bind on Equip, we are removing the restriction of only seeing items your class can use, so players will see a Wirt's Leg more often and can send it to an alt that can use it. Also, players can trade a version of the leg they do not need to others that do.
Player versus Player
  • Classes
    • Druid
      • Ability druid fortifiedbark [Moon and Stars] will no longer cause Precognition to trigger even if the Druid is successfully interrupted.
Professions
  • Alchemy
    • Potion and Phial Cauldrons have had their cooldowns reduced to 10 seconds so that solo alchemists who provide for large raid sizes can do so quickly.
Quests

May 26[]

Dungeons and Raids
  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
    • The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn's health reduced by an additional 10% on Mythic difficulty, to a total 25% health reduction.
Quests
  • Inv snailrockmount pink [Big Slick in the City] should now no longer anger the local wildlife during "N [70 Daily] Snail Mail."
  • The speed up bonus now lasts twice as long during "Snail Mail."

May 25[]

Dungeons and Raids
  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
    • Fixed an issue allowing players who had completed Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible: Echoes of the Earth-Warder on any difficulty to access later encounters on higher difficulties.
    • The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn
      • Developers' note: The Zskarn changes address an emerging tactic that trivializes certain aspects of the encounter. We hope these changes will encourage more interaction with the encounter's existing mechanics, while maintaining its prior level of difficulty. These changes will be live 5/26.
      • The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn health reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
      • Dragonfire Golem health reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
      • Zskarn will now Berserk on all difficulties.
      • Adjusted the position of Dragonfire Traps.
      • Shrapnel Bomb reduced to 3 on Mythic difficulty (was 4).
      • Fixed an issue that could cause an inappropriate amount of Shrapnel Bombs to spawn.
      • Zskarn no longer activates Tactical Destruction based on his location.
  • The Underrot
Enemies and NPCs
  • Fixed an issue where the Treasure Goblin is spawning multiple times consecutively in Valdrakken.
Items and Rewards
  • Reduced the mana granted by Diabloanniversary charm3 [Serpent's Grand Charm] to 2,400 (was 12,000) to correctly account for how healer mana pools are calculated.
  • The Diablo Promotion Charms effects will no longer be applied while in Raids, Rated PVP and M+ Dungeons.
    • Developers' notes: The effects won't immediately reapply when you leave these instances. You will need to relog to get them to apply again. We are looking into a possible fix for this.
Mounts
  • The Savage Green Turtle will no longer be summoned from the favorite mount list on land when it is favored and will now be prioritized when in water.
Player versus Player
  • Fixed an issue with capturing the Risen Spirits during the Classic Ashran Brawl.
Quests
  • Fixed an issue where "Seismic Ceremony" would not complete for players who only killed Runestone Fragments and did not click any Primalist Runestones.
Trading Post
  • "Complete Weekly Crafting Quests" and "Fulfill Personal Crafting Orders" activities should once again appear in the Travelers Log.

May 24[]

Characters
  • The niffen have noticed that player's scent permeates through all their characters, as such, the Smelly title is now account-wide.
Classes
Items and Rewards
Player versus Player

May 23[]

Items and Rewards
  • Fixed an issue where Dragonfire Bomb Dispenser's charge stacks would be lost upon leaving combat.
  • Ominous Chromatic Essence will now recall the player's previously chosen Oathstone alignment when relogging without the trinket equipped.
Quests
  • Characters who have completed "N [68-70] Moving On" will be able to start "N [70] Keeper of the Ossuary" on their alts if their alts are level 70. Alts will not have to complete the Azure Span introduction to gain access to the Blue Dragonflight quest.

May 22[]

Classes
Dungeons and Raids
  • Mythic+
    • Neltharus
      • Forgemaster Gorek
        • [With weekly restarts] Reduced the duration of Blazing Aegis reduced to 4 seconds (was 6 seconds).
    • Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr
      • Bromach
        • [With weekly restarts] The health of Quaking totem has been reduced by 20%.
    • The Vortex Pinnacle
      • Asaad
        • [With weekly restarts] Reduced the health of Skyfall Nova by 10%.
Enemies and NPCs
  • Zaralek Cavern
    • [With weekly restarts] The loot lockout now resets when the content in a given area of the map becomes available. Now, when world quests are visible in an area, the rare elite enemies in that area will also be available. Rare elite rewards have been increased to offset their reduced frequency.
      • Developers' notes: Unlike Forbidden Reach, the rare elites in Zaralek Cavern are meant to be a bonus, rather than the primary activity.
Quests
  • The extra Effervesta will not be present during the "N [70] Best Friends" quest chain.
  • Fyrakk is looking for more folks to burninate during "N [60-70W] Aiding the Accord: Suffusion Camp," so this quest can now be offered to qualifying alts between levels 60 and 66 (was 67+).

May 19[]

Dungeons and Raids
  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
    • Fixed an issue where some Voracious Magma Worms could not be attacked.
    • Rashok, the Elder
      • Fixed an issue where Rashok can sometime not jump to target player's location during Searing Slam.
  • Mythic+
    • Brackenhide Hollow
      • Brackenhide Gnolls no longer trigger Mythic Keystone affix effects on death.
    • Halls of Infusion
      • Containment Apparatus health reduced by 10%.
      • Limited Immortality is now properly cleared from players when starting a new mythic keystone.
Quests
  • Fixed an error where the world event "Researchers Under Fire" was not switching objectives correctly on the weekly reset.
    • Developers' notes: This fixes a bug that was preventing the Researchers Under Fire event from rotating to the Zaqali Ruin Investigation. It should now be taking players to the Molten Overflow for the remainder of this reset period. The event will rotate each week between the Titan Lockdown and Zaqali Ruin Investigation areas.

May 18[]

Dungeons and Raids
  • Fixed an issue that, in many cases, prevented Flightstones from dropping Normal and Heroic dungeons and bosses in Aberrus on all difficulties.
  • Fixed an issue that was causing too many Bonus Flightstones to be awarded when a player in the group increases their M+ rating.
  • Mythic+
    • Brackenhide Hollow
      • Rotbow stalker's Scented Meat periodic damage reduced by 25%.
      • Rotbow stalker's Scented Meat impact damage reduced by 30%.
      • Trickclaw's Warband
        • Updated the visual indicator for Savage Charge.
    • Halls of Infusion
      • Glacial Proto-Dragon's Deep Chill periodic damage reduced by 20%.
    • Neltharion's Lair
      • Vileshard Crawlers no longer trigger on-death affix effects.
Professions
Quests
  • Fixed an issue causing the progress bar for "Glimmerfish Before It's Gone" to not appear.

May 17[]

Achievements
Classes
  • Evoker
    • Devastation
      • Fixed an issue causing Ability evoker pyre [Pyre] to fail to deal damage if the target moved out of line of sight after the spell was cast.
  • Paladin
  • Warlock
Dungeons and Raids
  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
    • Colossal Draconic Golem no longer has a visible 'True Sight' aura but retains its ability to detect invisible units.
    • Echo of Neltharion
      • Fixed an issue where players could get stuck with Sundered Reality during phase 3 of the encounter.
  • Mythic+
    • Brackenhide Hollow
      • Fixed an issue that caused Shoot used by Rotbow Gnolls to inflict more damage than intended.
      • Gutshot
        • Fixed an issue that could cause the encounter to reset if Gutshot wasn't attacked for long periods of time.
    • Halls of Infusion
      • Fixed an issue where Khajin the Unyielding's Hailstorm, Gulping Goliath's Overpowering Croak, and Primal Tsunami's Tempest's Fury could target player pets.
    • Neltharion's Lair
      • Fixed an issue where Dargrul's Crystal Spikes could target player pets.
    • Neltharus
      • Fixed an issue where Forgemaster Gorek's Forgestorm, Forgemaster Gorek's Blazing Eruption, Forgemaster Gorek's Blazing Hammer, and Magmatusk's Magma Eruption could target player pets.
      • Qalashi Warden should no longer using Blazing Slash simultaneously.
    • The Underrot
      • Fixed an issue where Crawmaw the Infested's Tantrum, Sporecaller Zancha's Festering Harvest, Living Rot's Foul Sludge, and Blood Tick's Blood Burst could target player pets.
    • Vortex Pinnacle
      • Fixed an issue where Minister of Air's Overload Grounding Field could target player pets.
Items and Rewards
  • Inv misc questionmark [Ashkandur, Fall of the Brotherhood] now sheathes closer to the center of the player's back.
  • After logging out and back in, off-hand items will now correctly count towards a character/account's peak (used to determine the threshold for upgrade discounts) on off-hand items (including shields) for Paladins and Shaman.
Player versus Player
Quests
  • Reputation gains from Zaralek Cavern will now be correctly boosted by the Sign of the Emissary from the ongoing World Quest event.
  • "N [70] I Need... a Tailor" will no longer consume all Vibrant Wildercloth Bolts in a player's inventory on turn-in.

May 16[]

Achievements
  • Inv misc questionmark [Dragonflight Season 2 Master] can again be completed by reaching 2000 Mythic+ score.
  • Fixed an issue where players were not getting credit for Still Standing in Fire despite dying to Ire of Fyrakk.
Dungeons and Raids
  • Mythic+
    • Halls of Infusion
      • Falling through the pipes of the Auxiliary Drainage increases movement and swim speed by 200% until entering combat.
    • Neltharion's Lair
      • Ularogg
        • Fixed an issue that caused Falling Debris to strike players multiple times.
    • Neltharus
      • Warlord Sargha
        • Reduced the total number of Dragon Eruptions during Magma Shield.
        • Warlord Sargha no longer generates energy while under the effects of Backdraft.
    • Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr
      • Bromach
        • Shocking Quake damage reduced by 20%.
      • Sentinel Talondras
        • Earthen Shards prefers not to target the same player with consecutive casts.
    • Vortex Pinnacle
      • Slipstreams that spawn after defeating Ertan and Altairus now grant players 100% movement speed until enter entering combat.
      • Altairus
        • Biting Cold damage reduced by 25%.
        • Twisting Winds damage reduced by 25%.
Professions
  • Mining/Herbalism
    • Fixed a bug that caused Zaralek Glowdust and Zaralek Glowbur to not propagate while mounted.
Quests

May 15[]

Achievements
Classes
  • Death Knight
    • Frost
      • [With weekly restarts] All ability damage increased by 3%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Spell deathknight classicon [Obliterate] damage increased by 5%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Spell deathknight empowerruneblade2 [Frost Strike] damage increased by 6%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Spell frost arcticwinds [Howling Blast] damage increased by 6%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Ability deathknight remorselesswinters2 [Remorseless Winter] damage increased by 8%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Frost Fever damage increased by 12%.
  • Demon Hunter
    • Havoc
    • Vengeance
      • Fixed an issue that prevented Ability demonhunter fierybrand [Fiery Brand]'s damage reduction effect from applying to its primary target.
  • Druid
    • Balance
      • [With weekly restarts] Vault of the Incarnates (4) Set bonus tuning: Entering Eclipse makes your next Starsurge or Starfall cost 10 less Astral Power (was 5) and deal 25% increased damage (was 20%).
    • Restoration
  • Hunter
    • Beast Mastery
      • [With weekly restarts] Aberrus (4) Set bonus cooldown reduction for Bestial Wrath increased to 2 seconds (was 1 second).
      • [With weekly restarts] Spell druid bloodythrash [Kill Cleave] now strikes nearby enemies for 80% of the damage (was 60%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Ability hunter sickem [Beast Cleave] now causes your pet to strike nearby targets for 40/80% of the damage (was 35/75%).
  • Mage
    • Frost
      • [With weekly restarts] All ability damage increased by 4%.
  • Paladin
    • Holy
      • Fixed an issue causing Spell paladin holyprism [Holy Prism] to sometimes fail to grant Holy Power despite having the class 4-Set equipped.
  • Shaman
    • Elemental
      • [With weekly restarts] All ability damage increased by 2%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Vault of the Incarnates (2) set bonus now grants 3% damage, stacking 3 times (was 5%, stacking up to 5 times).
  • Warlock
    • Affliction
      • [With weekly restarts] All ability damage done increased by 3%.
Dungeons and Raids
  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
    • The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn
      • [With weekly restarts] Fixed an issue that would cause Zskarn's ability use to be inconsistent.
      • [With weekly restarts] Fixed an issue causing Blast Wave to knock back pets.
    • Magmorax
      • Magma Puddles are no longer affected by Spirit of Redemption.
    • Scalecommander Sarkareth
      • Players are now unable to be struck by Motes of Oblivion for a short duration after leaving the Emptiness Between Stars.
  • Mythic+
    • Brackenhide Hollow
      • Claw Fighter's Vicious Clawmangle inflicts damage less often.
      • Toxic Trap damage reduced by 25%.
      • Ragestorm has a range indicator visual.
      • Treemouth
        • Treemouth's health reduced by 10%.
        • Grasping Vines casting animation has been updated to better indicate that a player should stand in the area on Mythic+ difficulty.
        • Increased the cooldown of Grasping Vines and Consume.
        • Treemouth no longer moves or casts spells while consuming a player.
        • The draw in effect of Grasping Vines has been reduced.
        • Gushing Ooze cast time increased to 2.5 seconds (was 2 seconds).
    • Freehold
      • Blacktooth Knuckleduster's Shattering Bellow damage reduced by 10%.
    • Halls of Infusion
      • Containment Apparatus' Containment Beam damage reduced by 15%.
      • Falling through the pipes of the Auxiliary Drainage increases movement and swim speed by 200% until entering combat.
      • Crashing Tsunami damage reduced by 20%.
      • Crashing Tsunami move 20% slower.
      • The initial area indicator for Crashing Tsunami spawns better matches its area of effect.
      • The safe spot provided by pillars in the Infusion Chamber extends further behind the pillar.
      • Refreshing Tides is now interruptible.
    • Neltharion's Lair
      • Mightstone Breakers' Avalanche now has a visual to indicate the impact area.
      • Dargrul the Underking
        • Flame Gout occurs every 5 seconds (was 3 seconds).
        • Flame Gout damage reduced by 15%.
        • Magmabreaker damage reduced by 15%.
    • Neltharus
      • Warlord Sargha
        • Breaking the Magma Shield within 2 seconds of it being cast will no longer cause Dragon's Eruption to continue throughout the fight.
    • Vortex Pinnacle
Enemies and NPCs
  • Class set items sold by Norzko the Proud can now be refunded after purchase.
  • Fixed an issue where Forgemasters at Suffusion Camps could get stuck evading.
Items and Rewards
  • Fixed an issue where Ominous Chromatic Essence can forget the player's chosen alignment in certain conditions.
  • Fixed an issue where Mark of Draconic Mastery was not awarded upon unlocking Dragonflight Season 2 Master while in a Mythic+ instance.
Mounts
  • Ottuks and Aurelids are now properly classified by their movement types when filtering mounts in the Mount Journal.
Player versus Player
  • Classes
    • Death Knight
      • Frost
        • Developers' notes: Frost Death Knights have been on our radar as underperforming, but still effective in the right situations. We're reducing their burst damage alongside their game-wide damage increases with the goal of a healthier overall damage profile.
        • [With weekly restarts] Ability deathknight pillaroffrost [Pillar of Frost] now increases Strength by 15% in PvP Combat (was 25%).
      • Unholy
        • Developers' notes: We've been monitoring our changes to Reanimation and have felt its damage is too high relative to how much control Death Knight's have over enemies' positioning.
        • [With weekly restarts] Ability deathknight reanimation [Reanimation]'s explosion now deals 15% of the targets health in Shadow damage (was 20%).
        • [With weekly restarts] Allied players can no longer see the explosion ring visual for Reanimation.
        • [With weekly restarts] Reanimation's stun debuff is now using the correct spell icon.
    • Demon Hunter
      • Havoc
        • Developers' notes: Our goal with Rain from Above is for it to have situational offensive and defensive usage. With recent increases to its damage, we're seeing it used for offense more often than intended, so we're bringing its damage down.'
        • [With weekly restarts] Ability demonhunter rain-from-above [Rain from Above] (PvP Talent) Spell fire felflamebolt [Fel Lance] damage reduced to 8% of target's max health (was 10%).
    • Mage
    • Monk
      • [With weekly restarts] Ability monk healthsphere [Strength of Spirit] now increases the healing of Ability monk expelharm [Expel Harm] by up to 50% based on your missing health in PvP Combat (was 100%).
      • Windwalker
        • Developers' notes: Expel Harm's healing was dramatically increased with Season 2. We're happy with the base healing of the spell, but modifiers from Reverse Harm and Strength of Spirit are making it more powerful than we intended.
        • [With weekly restarts] Ability monk expelharm [Reverse Harm] now increases the healing done by Expel Harm by 30% (was 60%).
    • Priest
      • Holy
        • Developers' notes: Holy Priests have continued to underperform in PvP, so we're buffing several of their primary healing spells.
        • [With weekly restarts] Spell holy renew [Renew] healing increased by 34% in PvP Combat (was 22%).
        • [With weekly restarts] Spell holy flashheal [Flash Heal] healing increased by 52% in PvP Combat (was 40%).
        • [With weekly restarts] Spell holy greaterheal [Heal] healing increased by 57% in PvP Combat (was 43%).
        • [With weekly restarts] Spell holy divineprovidence [Holy Word: Sanctify] healing increased by 10% in PvP Combat.
        • [With weekly restarts] Spell holy persuitofjustice [Holy Word: Serenity] healing increased by 25% in PvP Combat (was 15%).
    • Shaman
      • Enhancement, Elemental
        • Developers' notes: The healing contribution from Earth Shield for the hybrid Shaman specs is above our target in PvP after recent buffs to the spell.
        • [With weekly restarts] Spell nature skinofearth [Earth Shield] healing reduced by 30% in PvP Combat for Enhancement and Elemental.
    • Warlock
      • [With weekly restarts] Warlock summon beholder [Call Observer] now has 8% of the Warlock's health (down from 20%).
      • Destruction
        • Developers' notes: Destruction's sustained DPS in PvP especially with instant casts is higher than we'd like. We feel Chaos Bolt is in a good state, so we're targeting other areas of the kit to bring down their DPS.
        • [With weekly restarts] Spell fire burnout [Incinerate] damage reduced by 10% in PvP Combat.
        • [With weekly restarts] Spell shadow scourgebuild [Shadowburn] damage increased by 45% in PvP Combat (was 65%).
    • Warrior
      • Arms
        • Developers' notes: We feel Arms Warrior's burst window has been more effective than we would like in PvP. We're shifting their damage profile slightly to increase their consistent pressure but decrease their burst damage.
        • [With weekly restarts] Spell warrior sharpenblade [Sharpen Blade] cooldown increased to 30 seconds and duration decreased by 2 seconds.
        • [With weekly restarts] Inv skullsplitter [Skullsplitter] now causes expired bleeds to deal 65% damage (was 100%) in PvP Combat.
        • [With weekly restarts] Ability backstab [Mastery: Deep Wounds] damage increased by 15% in PvP Combat.
        • [With weekly restarts] Ability gouge [Rend] no longer deals 15% reduced damage in PvP Combat.
        • [With weekly restarts] Ability demonhunter bloodlet [Fueled by Violence] now heals for 70% (was 85%) of damage dealt by Deep Wounds in PvP Combat.

May 12[]

Achievements
  • Fixed an issue where Every Door Everywhere All At Once was not always properly being rewarded. If you re-enter the vault with all doors open in that vault, you should now receive credit.
Classes
  • Demon Hunter
    • Developer's notes: We've been monitoring feedback about the default behavior of Fiery Brand as well as Fiery Brands cast via the new Set bonus. As a result, we've added a highlight to Fracture/Shear when the Set proc is available to cast, and will be retaining the behavior that Set casts include the remaining duration when applied to a target with an existing Fiery Brand.
    • Vengeance
  • Druid
  • Mage
    • Arcane
      • The mana requirement to increase the spell damage bonus on the 4-Set Bonus now properly scales within Timewalking dungeons.
      • Ability mage timewarp [Time Anomaly] Arcane Surges no longer overwrite active Arcane Overloads.
  • Paladin
    • Retribution
      • Fixed an issue that caused the Heartfire Sentinel's Authority 4-Set to consume 2 charges of Spell paladin hammerofwrath [Hammer of Wrath] while talented into Ability paladin speedoflight [Vanguard's Momentum].
      • Hammer of Wrath's additional targets provided by Heartfire Sentinel's Authority 4-Set now ignores targets that are not in combat with the Paladin or are under the effects of crowd control that breaks on damage.
  • Priest
    • Fixed an issue causing Spell holy holynova [Rhapsody] to not stack until Spell holy holynova [Holy Nova] is cast after starting a Mythic+ dungeon.
  • Rogue
Dungeons and Raids
  • Mythic+
    • Freehold
      • Fixed an issue where Sharkpuncher's Ripper Punch could target pets.
    • Neltharion's Lair
      • Naraxas
        • Fixed an issue that allowed Hurling Rocks to pierce player immunity effects.
        • Hurling Rocks will no longer increase in frequency as the encounter progresses.
    • Neltharus
      • Warlord Sargha
        • Curse of the Dragon Hoard damage reduced by 20%.
        • Curse of the Dragon Hoard no longer stacks.
        • Magical Implements can now be used while moving.
        • Seismic Boots are no longer found in gold piles.
        • The Dragon's Eruption missile travel time increased to 3.5 seconds (was 3 seconds).
    • Vortex Pinnacle
      • Grand Vizier Ertan
        • Fixed an issue that allowed Storm's Edge to be interrupted.
        • Storm's Edge damage reduced by 15%.
      • Asaad, Caliph of Zephyrs
        • The health of Skyfall Nova has been reduced by 20%.
        • The damage of Chain Lightning has been reduced by 10%.
Items and Rewards
  • Fixed an issue where Pillar of the Elder Flame's cooldown would not reset upon ending an encounter.
Player versus Player
Professions
  • Recipes purchased with Inv misc potionsetc [Ponzo's Cream] and Glimmerogg Timeshare Vouchers are now Bind on Pickup as intended.
  • The recipe for Ability warrior criticalblock [Heat-Resistant Rescue Ring] is no longer Bind on Pickup.
    • Develpers' notes: We do not take increasing restrictions on an item's tradability lightly, however it is important to maintain consistency between professions and across various froms of content. Although we have lightened our recipe tradability rules with Dragonflight, items purchased from content unlocks or with special currencies tend to remain soulbound. Separately, the Heat-Resistant Rescue Ring from Fishing was made soulbound by mistake and has been corrected.

May 11[]

Classes
  • Paladin
  • Priest
    • Holy
      • Fixed an issue where Inspired Word would be granted without having the Holy 4-Set bonus.
  • Rogue
    • Fixed an issue that prevented Ability stealth [Nightstalker]'s damage bonus from applying in its intended circumstances.
Dungeons and Raids
  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
    • Amalgamation Chamber
      • After a soft reset, the door from Amalgamation Chamber to Experiments of Dracthyr will now properly open if you have defeated the Amalgamation.
      • Adjusted the damage of Umbral Detonation and Blistering Twilight to scale appropriately with group size on Normal and Heroic Difficulties.
    • Scalecommander Sarkareth
      • Adjusted the damage of Echoing Howl to scale appropriately with group size.
        • Developers' notes: We discovered an issue that was causing the total damage Echoing Howl was doing to all players was scaling too high in larger raid sizes and too low in smaller raid sizes. This change works to even out the damage and make the difficulty more consistent across all raid sizes.
  • Mythic+
    • Developers' notes: We have been closely monitoring live data and player feedback since the launch of Dragonflight season 2. Based on this, we've made a number of targeted adjustments to outlier bosses as well as reduced some of the timers that we feel better reflect the difficulty of certain dungeons.
    • The time to complete The Underrot has been reduced to 30 minutes (was 32 minutes).
    • The time to complete Freehold has been reduced to 30 minutes (was 31 minutes).
    • The time to complete Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr has been reduced to 35 minutes (was 38 minutes).
    • Brackenhide Hollow
      • Decatriarch Wratheye
        • Decaying Strength will be cast more consistently.
        • Decaying Strength now only increases Physical damage done.
        • Decaystrike can be cast while moving.
        • Decaystrike absorbs 30% less healing.
        • Rotburst Totem health reduced by 25%.
        • Withering Rot damage reduced by 20%.
        • Withering Rot reduces damage done by 2% per stack (was 5%).
      • Treemouth
        • Consume absorbs 25% less damage.
    • Freehold
      • Alliance characters trying to access Kul Tiras to enter Freehold should no longer be teleported back to Stormwind.
    • Halls of Infusion
      • Fixed an issue that allowed Containment Apparatus' Containment Beam to target pets.
    • Neltharion's Lair
      • Naraxas
        • Toxic Retch damage reduced by 30%.
        • Hurling Rocks damage reduced by 20%.
      • Dargrul the Underking
        • Increased the cast time of Magma Wave to 2.5 seconds (was .25 seconds).
        • Lava Geysers now persist for 60 seconds (Was infinite).
        • Flame Gout occurs every 3 seconds (was 2.5 seconds).
    • Vortex Pinnacle
      • Slipstreams that spawn after defeating Ertan and Altairus now grant players 100% movement speed until enter entering combat.
      • Altairus
        • Biting Cold damage reduced by 25%.
Enemies and NPCs
  • Fixed an issue where Primal Nightflames could stop players from eating at Suffusion Camps just by looking at them.
Items and Rewards
  • Fixed an issue where stacks from Neltharion's Call to Dominance would reset at the start and end of Mythic+ encounters.
  • Fixed an issue where Voice of the Silent Star stacks would be canceled immediately upon entering or leaving combat through Mythic+ dungeons.
Player versus Player
  • Battlegrounds
    • Ashran
      • Resolved an issue with capturing the Risen Spirits during events in Ashran.
  • Classes
    • Hunter
      • Marksmanship
        • Inv spear 07 [Aimed Shot] should no longer rarely deal half damage in PvP situations.
    • Warlock
      • Demonology
        • Eye of the Observer from Warlock summon beholder [Call Observer] can now only trigger a Laserbeam once per second per enemy.
Professions
  • Crafting orders for Undulating Sporecloak should now be viewable and completable.
Quests
  • During the cave dive "Successful Interventions" Mr. Sunflower will be far more welcoming.
  • Cast Off Shells in the world quest "N [70WQ] Shell Corporation" should now only be lootable by the player who feeds a Redolent Whelk a Succulent Looking Deepcap.
Scenarios
  • Horrific Visions
    • Fixed an issue where Sanity was being drained too quickly in Horrific Visions.
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
  • Sara will now receive a message on Vezax's death that forces her to spawn immediately.
    • Developers' notes: This should prevent the issue that a few rocket boot equipped players experience where it's currently possible, if you run fast enough into Yogg's room after Vezax's death, that you start the encounter before Sara has spawned and results in a Yogg fight that can't progress past phase 1. Thanks speedrunners!

May 10[]

Achievements
  • The Inv misc questionmark [Family Battler of Zaralek Cavern] achievement now properly awards the pet Inv misc questionmark [Gerald]. Additionally, Gerald has been flagged as "unique" and "not cageable," as is normal for achievement-awarded pets. For players who already have the achievement and did not get the pet, we are working on a separate fix to make sure they get their pet reward.
  • Fixed an issue where defeating Kazzara, the Hellforged wouldn't complete the criteria for the Inv misc questionmark [Heroic: Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible] achievement.
Classes
Mythic+
  • Freehold
    • Fixed an issue where multiple spells could target pets.
    • Harlan Sweete
      • Fixed an issue that caused the bleed effect of Harlan Sweete's Whirling Dagger to not properly bounce between targets while under the effects of Loaded Dice: All Hands!
Enemies and NPCs
  • Suffusion Camp
    • Everburning Keys will now drop from Suffusion Mold bosses until the player has 3 or has looted the Secured Shipment for the week.
Items and Rewards
  • Removed pop-up notification that appeared when party/raid members earn Shadowflame Crest Fragments. Players will still see the notification for their own Fragments.
  • Fixed an issue where Beacon to the Beyond, Enduring Dreadplate, Djaruun, and Ward of Faceless Ire would not reset their cooldowns upon ending an encounter.
  • Void-Touched Curios from Sarkareth are no longer unique.
Player versus Player
  • Classes
    • Monk
      • Resolved an issue that could cause Inv fistofthewhitetiger [Stormspirit Strikes] (PvP Talent) to deal more damage than intended to targets.
Quests
WoW Classic Era
  • The Defias Traitor is no longer killable by players of the opposite faction to prevent griefing.

May 9[]

Characters
Classes
  • Priest
    • Fixed an issue causing Ability priest halo [Halo] and Spell priest divinestar [Divine Star] to appear in the incorrect Spellbook.
    • Discipline
      • Fixed an issue causing Halo and Divine Star to not convert to Shadow spells when casting Spell shadow summonvoidwalker [Shadow Covenant].
    • Shadow
      • Resolved an issue causing Void Lashers spawned by Achievement boss cthun [Idol of C'Thun] to stop attacking after their initial target dies.
  • Shaman
Dungeons and Raids
  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
    • Fixed an issue that allowed players to reset The Forgotten Experiments encounter unintentionally.
  • Brackenhide Hollow
    • Fixed an issue that caused Chief Softpaw not to spawn.
  • Halls of Infusion
    • Gulping Goliath
      • Fixed an issue that caused the visual for Cave In to not properly display.
  • Seat of the Triumvirate
    • Fixed an issue blocking progress in the dungeon if Viceroy Nezhar is instantly slain.
  • Mythic+
    • Affixes
      • Ability warrior focusedrage [Raging] no longer applies to lieutenant level creatures.
        • Developer's notes: Enemies that are +1 level above others are no longer affected by the Raging affix. Since they're typically already immune to Crowd Control, the Raging effect would be redundant in these cases and reduce clarity of which enemy to dispel.
    • Freehold
      • Harlan Sweete
        • Harlan Sweete's Swiftwind Saber no longer hits pets.
Items and Rewards
  • The Inv glyph majormage [Highland Drake: Embodiment of the Hellforged] dragonriding manuscript now has a very low chance to drop from Sarkareth on LFR, Normal, and Heroic raid difficulties. Mythic raiders will always receive two manuscripts per Sarkareth kill until the end of the expansion.
Enemies and NPCs
  • Suffusion Camp
    • Fixed an issue where Fyrakk was more vulnerable than intended.
    • Reduced how often Fyrakk threatens to burn players.
Player versus Player
  • Hired Kithguard in Loamm have been training with Brullo the Strong and are now a more serious deterrent to PvP inside of town.
  • Classes
Quests

May 8[]

Classes
  • Demon Hunter
    • Fixed an issue that caused targets with Ability demonhunter sigilofmisery [Misery in Defeat]'s debuff to be treated as if they were crowd-controlled and thus avoided by some skills (i.e. Avenger's Shield).
      • Havoc
        • [With weekly restarts] Melee auto attack damage increased by 10%.
        • [With weekly restarts] Inv weapon glave 01 [Demon's Bite] damage increased by 10%.
        • [With weekly restarts] Inv weapon shortblade 92 [Demon Blades] damage increased by 10%.
        • [With weekly restarts] Ability demonhunter felblade [Felblade] damage increased by 10%.
        • [With weekly restarts] Spell shadow shadesofdarkness [Isolated Prey] now increases Ability demonhunter eyebeam [Eye Beam] damage by 30% when striking 1 target (was 25%).
      • Vengeance
        • Developer's notes: The rules and behavior for how Fiery Brand refreshed and spread with the Burning Alive talent had some historic inconsistencies and minor bugs that became more egregious when the talented second charge and the 10.1 Set Bonus were introduced. Alongside the fix described above, we wanted to clarify the behavior players should expect moving forward:
          • Applying Fiery Brand to a target already afflicted by your Fiery Brand will refresh its duration, to a maximum of 10 seconds.
          • With the Burning Alive talent selected, only Fiery Brands applied directly (by casting the spell or from the Set bonus) are capable of spreading.
          • Every 2 seconds while a spread-capable Fiery Brands persists, it will try to spread to a nearby target that does not already have a Fiery Brand applied. There is no longer a hidden rule preventing a target from being spread to multiple times in a short period.
          • When a Fiery Brand successfully spreads to a new target, the duration of the spread will always be 10 seconds, regardless of the original or remaining duration of the source it spread from.
        • Fixed an issue causing Ability demonhunter fierybrand [Fiery Brand] to continue to spread after its expiration.
        • Fixed an issue that prevented Ability demonhunter immolation [Immolation Aura] from benefitting some bonuses, including (but not limited to) Fiery Demise.
        • Fixed an issue that prevented Fiery Brand from benefitting from Holy Priest's Spell holy symbolofhope [Symbol of Hope] cooldown reduction.
        • [With weekly restarts] Ability demonhunter hatefulstrike [Shear] damage increased by 10%.
        • [With weekly restarts] Ability creature felsunder [Fracture] damage increased by 10%.
        • [With weekly restarts] Inv glaive 1h artifactaldrochi d 01 [Soul Carver] damage increased by 20%.
        • [With weekly restarts] Ability demonhunter soulcleave [Focused Cleave] now increases Soul Cleave's damage to your primary target by 40% (was 30%).
        • [With weekly restarts] Inv icon shadowcouncilorb purple [Soulcrush] now applies Frailty to your primary target for 8 seconds (was 5 seconds).
  • Druid
    • Balance
      • Developers' Note: In some single target scenarios it's still looking optimal to cast Wrath in Lunar Eclipse. That doesn't meet our goal for how Balance should play, so we're reducing Wrath's effectiveness outside Solar Eclipse and increasing its effectiveness inside Solar Eclipse to correct this. We're also boosting Balance's single target damage a small amount.
      • [With weekly restarts] Spell nature wrathv2 [Wrath] Astral Power generation reduced to 8 (down from 10).
      • [With weekly restarts] Wrath damage decreased by 5%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Solar Ability druid eclipseorange [Eclipse] now increases Wrath damage by 40% (up from 20%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Ability druid manatree [Soul of the Forest] now increases Wrath's Astral Power generation while in Solar Eclipse by 60% (up from 30%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Damage dealt by Faerie Dragons summoned by Inv faeriedragon2 orange [Denizen of the Dream] increased by 25%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Inv elemental primal mana [Friend of the Fae] now increases your Arcane and Nature spell damage by 10% (up from 8%).
      • Spell arcane arcane03 [Primordial Arcanic Pulsar] no longer triggers Spell nature naturesblessing [Nature's Grace] if the player does not have any Eclipse.
      • Feral
      • Guardian
        • Fixed an issue causing some Guardian talents and abilities to incorrectly buff non-class spells.
      • Restoration
        • [With weekly restarts] All healing abilities increased by 2%.
  • Evoker
    • Ability evoker firebreath [Fire Breath] will now correctly refund its mana cost if it is canceled while empowering.
  • Monk
    • Mistweaver
  • Paladin
    • Holy
      • [With weekly restarts] All healing abilities decreased by 3%. Does not apply to PvP Combat.
      • [With weekly restarts] Ability paladin veneration [Avenging Crusader] now transfers 500% of damage done into healing (was 575%).
  • Rogue
    • Assassination
    • Outlaw
    • Subtlety
      • Developers' notes: Class talents that previously modified all damage from spell schools are, in most cases, being updated and standardized with other similar effects to no longer affect external damage sources outside of those that belong to that class. The changes to the below talents impact Subtlety's damage enough to warrant compensation, which is the reason for the buff to all ability damage.
      • [With weekly restarts] All ability damage increased by 4%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Spell arcane prismaticcloak [Veiltouched], Inv weapon shortblade 15 [Deeper Daggers], and Spell nature slowpoison [Dark Brew] no longer affect damage from sources outside of Class and Spec abilities available to Subtlety.
  • Warrior
    • Protection
      • [With weekly restarts] Fixed an issue where Ability warrior bullrush [Battering Ram] was providing a passive 20% critical strike damage bonus to all damage rather than to Ability warrior shieldcharge [Shield Charge].
Items and Rewards
  • [With weekly restarts] Inv misc enggizmos 18 [Algeth'ar Puzzle Box] shared cooldown increased to 30 seconds, effect decreased by 30% for Unholy specialization.
  • Fixed an issue where World Boss items were previewing the incorrect item levels in the Dungeon Journal.
  • Inv snailrockmount pink [Big Slick in the City]'s Inv 10 worlddroplevelingoptionalreagent misc shell color1 [Conch Whistle] is no longer usable in combat, or inside instances and raids.
  • In Zaralek Cavern, all players with at least one stack of Insidious Insight will now receive a message indicating when another player has claimed the Seething Cache.
Player versus Player
  • Druid
    • Restoration
      • Developers' notes: Restoration Druid has fallen behind other healers in PvP since the release of 10.0.7. We'd like to ease some previous PvP adjustments that we no longer feel are necessary.
      • [With weekly restarts] Inv misc herb fellotus [Budding Leaves]' effectiveness now reduced by 30% in PvP Combat (was 50%).
  • Monk
    • Mistweaver
      • Developers' notes: Mistweavers have received significant Quality of Life changes throughout the last few patches that have increased their effectiveness in PvP to a point where we see them as oppressive to the viability of other specializations. We're reducing many of the PvP multipliers associated with Ancient Teachings and their damage throughput, and we're increasing the effectiveness of Renewing Mist to encourage Healing over Time management and reducing Vivify's healing to keep their casting throughput relatively similar.
      • [With weekly restarts] Inv misc book 07 [Ancient Teachings]' effectiveness is now increased by 120% in PvP Combat (was 150%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Ability monk roundhousekick [Blackout Kick] no longer deals 25% increased damage for Mistweaver Monks in PvP Combat.
      • [With weekly restarts] Blackout Kicks from Passive monk teachingsofmonastery [Teachings of the Monastery] now deal 15% reduced damage for Mistweaver Monks in PvP Combat.
      • [With weekly restarts] Ability monk tigerpalm [Tiger Palm] now deals 15% increased damage for Mistweaver Monks in PvP Combat (was 30%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Ability monk risingsunkick [Rising Sun Kick]'s damage reduced by 20% for Mistweaver Monks in PvP Combat.
      • [With weekly restarts] Ability monk vivify [Vivify]'s primary healing now reduced by 10% for Mistweaver Monks in PvP Combat.
      • [With weekly restarts] Ability monk renewingmists [Renewing Mist]'s healing increased by 40% in PvP Combat (was 25%).
Professions
  • Fixed an issue where some recipes without "Use Best Quality Reagents" option would sometimes incorrectly use Q3 reagents despite Q1 being selected.
  • Alchemy
    • Fixed a bug that prevented Iced Phial of Corrupting Rage from inheriting its new intended value of 400% (was 100%).
  • Herbalism
    • Fixed a bug that caused the Zaralek Glowbur aura to frequently break stealth and engage enemies.
    • Fixed a bug that prevented the themed aura extension effect from applying when gathering basic, non-themed gathering nodes.
  • Mining
    • Fixed a bug that prevented the themed aura extension effect from applying when gathering basic, non-themed gathering nodes.
Quests
  • Fixed an issue where the minimap would sometimes not populate for players after accepting "B [1-10] Murloc Mania."
  • The "N [70] Here We Go Again" campaign header will now inform players if they reach the end of the currently available campaign content and need to wait for more to be unlocked.
  • Zaralek Cavern
    • "N [70W] Aiding the Accord: Sniffenseeking" will now auto-complete the dig objective if you've already done a dig with Myrrit this week. Players currently affected will need to abandon and re-accept the quest in Valdrakken.
Trading Post
  • Fixed a bug where the purchase button could become available for frozen items after the monthly rollover.

May 5[]

Achievements
Classes
  • Developers' notes: Earlier this week, we changed Embellishments so that they did not scale with class talents, abilities, and set bonuses. We've decided to revert that change, and we're now making updates to class abilities that unintentionally boosted the damage of non-class effects such as Embellishments and trinkets.
  • Demon Hunter
    • Vengeance
      • Ability demonhunter fierybrand [Fiery Demise] now affects only Demon Hunter class damage, and does not affect trinket or item damage, or Fire damage dealt by other casters.
  • Druid
  • Rogue
  • Warlock
Dragonriding and Mounts
  • Fixed an issue where some mount riding animations were playing incorrectly.
Items and Rewards
Player versus Player
  • Warlock
    • Spell shadow soulleech 1 [Soul Rip] (PvP Talent) healing reduction no longer stacks with other similar effects in PvP.
Trading Post
Quests
  • Fixed an issue that prevents players from picking up "N [70] A Room Without a View." Rupert will now offer to take you to the vault even if you don't have the quest.

May 4[]

Classes
Items and Rewards
Professions
  • Herbalism
    • Fixed a bug that caused the Zaralek Glowbur buff to frequently break stealth and attract enemies.
Quests
  • Seething Cache now correctly cancels Insidious Insight on all players after being looted by the first player to reach it.
  • Fixed an issue where the creatures required to complete the quest Flesh To Bone were not spawning frequently enough.
  • Players who die and release spirit during the Sniffenseeking puzzle "Your Weight in Gold" will now correctly appear at the graveyard inside of the Mysterious Cave.
  • During the Sniffenseek dig "Heart of Iron', Myrrit will be more helpful, to suggest sniffing for the final chest after the key is found.
  • The Smelly Bag for the Sniffenseeking tutorial "Ability rogue hungerforblood [The Buddy System]" should now re-appear if players do not loot or accidentally discard the key.
  • Added sparkles to certain objectives in Sniffenseeking to help improve visibility.
System
  • Fixed an issue that resulted in crashes for mac users under certain circumstances.
  • Fixed an issue where player nameplates were not displaying correctly.
  • Fixed an issue where players would get an error when viewing a PvP vendor.
  • Fixed an issue where Pandaren did not have race change options.

May 3[]

Classes
  • Warlock
    • Affliction
      • Fixed an issue where Infirmity would increase all damage done, rather than just class spells and abilities.
Dragonriding
  • Fixed an issue where some characters were not able to Dragonride after the 10.1 update.
Dungeons and Raids
  • Ruby Life Pools
    • Melidrussa Chillworn
      • Ice Bulwark now absorbs 25% less damage.
  • Vault of the Incarnates
    • Kurog Grimtotem
      • Enveloping Earth now absorbs 25% less healing on all difficulties.
    • Broodkeeper Diurna
      • Icy Shroud now absorbs 25% less healing on all difficulties.
    • Raszageth
      • Stormsurge now absorbs 25% less damage on all difficulties.
      • Shattering Shroud now absorbs 25% less healing on all difficulties.
Professions
  • Engineering
    • Fixed a bug that prevented players from teleporting to the Zaralek Cavern with their Wyrmhole Generator.
    • Fixed a bug that restricted the Forbidden Reach teleport option on the Wyrmhole Generator until after the Zaralek Cavern teleport was unlocked.
Quests
  • Added option for players to turn in this quest to Elder Honeypelt during "In the Wake of Ashes."
  • The quests "A [50] A Worthy Ally" and "N [70] Tougher Down Under" should now unlock for any level 70 character on an account that has completed the first chapter of Zaralek Cavern on any character.
  • Fixed an issue where completing the World Quest "N [70WQ] Ending Their Watch" Could prevent you from completing "N [70] A Room Without a View."
System
  • Fixed an issue where players were unable to access the support site from the in-game menu.

May 2[]

Classes
Professions
  • Embellishments should not scale with class talents, abilities, or set bonuses that affect the caster's damage or healing.
    • Developers' notes: This fix addresses a PTR behavior of Embellishments that was unintended.
  • Fixed an issue where the Trade alchemy dpotion b20 [Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power] crafting order recipe was requesting the wrong reagents.
    • Developers' notes: All Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power crafting orders that have not been fulfilled by the time this hotfix goes live have been canceled.
Quests
  • Fixed an issue where players wouldn't get credit for completing Chapter 1 of Embers of Neltharion.

April[]

Hotfixes: April 03-18 | 2023-04-18 by Blizzard Entertainment

April 18[]

Classes
  • Warlock

April 14[]

Classes
  • Warlock
    • Demonology
      • Fixed an issue where Ability bossdarkvindicator auraofoppression [Reign of Tyranny] applications would not be removed if a demon despawns out of line of sight.

April 13[]

Classes
  • Warlock
    • Developers' note: We discovered some unintended functionality with multiple Warlock talents and are fixing those now before the next season starts. We expect the impact of these fixes on player power to be minor, and we'll monitor and make adjustments if necessary.
    • Fixed an issue where Spell fel elementaldevastation [Summon Soulkeeper] could be cast while moving.
    • Demonology
Quests
  • Players who were stuck on "N [70] A Difficult Legacy" will now be able to progress if they abandon the quest. It will now reset conversation progress.

April 12[]

Classes

April 11[]

System
  • Gamepad
    • Fixed an issue where some targeted spells were not starting in the correct location while using a gamepad.
    • Fixed an issue where a centered cursor could block mouse input while using a gamepad.
    • Fixed an issue where some targeted spells were unintentionally cancelled while moving or jumping while using a gamepad.
    • Fixed an issue where the targeting reticle could disappear with a centered cursor while using a gamepad.

April 10[]

Classes
  • Death Knight
    • Unholy
      • Developers' notes: At high haste levels it was possible for Summon Gargoyle to lose casts of Gargoyle Strike. To help remedy that we are reducing the cast speed of Gargoyle Strike to 2.5 seconds (up from 2 seconds) while increasing the damage done to compensate for the slower cast time. We are also making some targeted tuning adjustments to Unholy to increase their damage outside of their 3-minute cooldowns.
      • [With weekly restarts] Inv pet ghoul [Raise Dead] damage increased by 10%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Spell deathknight armyofthedead [Army of the Dead] damage increased by 10%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Spell deathknight scourgestrike [Scourge Strike] damage increased by 20%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Warlock curse shadow [Clawing Shadows] damage increased by 20%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Spell shadow deathcoil [Death Coil] damage increased by 10%. This does not affect PvP combat.
      • [With weekly restarts] Ability deathknight soulreaper [Soul Reaper] damage increased by 15% Unholy specialization only.
      • [With weekly restarts] Gargoyle Strike cast speed increased to 2.5 sec, up from 2.0 sec and Gargoyle Strike damage increased by 25%.
  • Druid
    • Balance
    • Guardian
      • [With weekly restarts] Health and healing received gain from Spell druid primaltenacity [Mastery: Nature's Guardian] increased to 70% (was 50%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Spell nature stoneclawtotem [Barkskin] cooldown reduced to 45 seconds (was 1 minute).
  • Evoker
    • Preservation
      • Developers' notes: Preservation's overall throughput is lower than we'd like since the Lifebind and Temporal Anomaly reductions. We're compensating for this adjustment in other areas, particularly Living Flame where its healing component can sometimes feel lackluster.
      • [With weekly restarts] All healing increased by 3%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Ability evoker livingflame [Living Flame]'s healing increased by 15%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Ability evoker bronze 01 [Resonating Sphere] now applies Ability evoker echo [Echo] to the first 5 allies it passes through (was 4 allies).
  • Hunter
    • Beast Mastery
      • [With weekly restarts] All damage dealt reduced by you and your pet's abilities reduced by 3%.
    • Survival
      • Developer's notes: This change was intended to have gone live in prior tuning changes, but a data error was made and we are now correcting that. The damage dealt by Mongoose Bite in PvP will be unchanged by this adjustment.
      • [With weekly restarts] Ability hunter mongoosebite [Mongoose Bite] damage reduced by 10%.
  • Paladin
  • Priest
    • [With weekly restarts] Spell holy holynova [Holy Nova] damage increased by 30%.
    • Discipline
      • Developers' notes: We are aiming to bring Discipline's mana consumption in line with other healers, as we've observed the spec consistently running out of resources before other healers throughout Dragonflight. Separately, Power Word: Shield has been weaker than intended relative to other Atonement appliers, so we're increasing its power.
      • [With weekly restarts] Spell holy powerwordshield [Power Word: Shield] now costs 2.4% of base mana for Discipline (was 3.1%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Power Word: Shield now absorbs 25% more damage for Discipline.
      • [With weekly restarts] Spell holy renew [Renew] now costs 2.4% of base mana for Discipline (was 2.7%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Fixed a bug causing Renew to not have its healing increased by 25% for Discipline as intended.
      • [With weekly restarts] Spell priest power word [Power Word: Radiance] now costs 4.5% of base mana (was 5.5%).
    • Holy
      • 'Developers' notes: Holy's damage profile is behind other healers in dungeon and raid content, so we are targeting buffs to their overall damage kit.
      • [With weekly restarts] Spell holy searinglight [Holy Fire] damage increased by 15%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Spell holy holysmite [Smite] damage increased by 30%.
  • Shaman
    • Restoration
      • Developers' notes: We are happy with the reception of Restoration in 10.0.7. The specialization's healing power is above our target in all content, so we're adjusting it in line with our expectations.
      • [With weekly restarts] All healing done reduced by 5.5%.
Player versus Player
  • Druid
    • Developers' note: This is primarily targeted at improving Cyclone's usability for Druids in PvP, particularly for Restoration Druid as Cyclone's short range requires them to get close to their enemies.
    • [With weekly restarts] Spell nature earthbind [Cyclone]'s mana cost has been decreased by 40%.
  • Monk
    • Mistweaver
      • Developers' notes: We are specifically targeting Blackout Kick's AoE damage potential as we feel Mistweaver's healing becomes overwhelming when it can cleave its damage. We also feel Mistweaver's mana regeneration has been too powerful, so we are adjusting Spirit of the Crane heavily.
      • [With weekly restarts] Ability monk risingsunkick [Rising Sun Kick] no longer deals increased damage in PvP (was 12.5%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Ability monk roundhousekick [Blackout Kick] copies from Passive monk teachingsofmonastery [Teachings of the Monastery] no longer deal increased damage in PvP (was 15%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Monk stance redcrane [Spirit of the Crane] now restores 0.18% mana in PvP Combat (was 0.45%).
    • Windwalker
  • Paladin
    • Holy
      • Developers' notes: We are targeting buffs to Holy Paladin's Word of Glory and Holy Shock healing to increase their instant-cast healing.
      • [With weekly restarts] Inv helmet 96 [Word of Glory] healing increased by 15% in PvP Combat.
      • [With weekly restarts] Spell holy searinglight [Holy Shock] healing increased by 30% in PvP Combat (was 15%).
    • Retribution
      • Developers' notes: Retribution Paladin has remained more powerful than we would like in PvP. With this pass we are targeting its burst damage, allied support, and personal survivability.'
      • [With weekly restarts] Spell holy avenginewrath [Avenging Wrath] now increases damage and healing by 10% in PvP Combat (was 15%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Spell holy avenginewrath [Avenging Wrath: Might] now increases critical strike by 10% in PvP Combat (was 15%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Spell holy divineprotection [Divine Protection] now reduces damage taken by 10% in PvP Combat (was 20%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Spell holy flashheal [Light's Celerity] now increases the healing of Flash of Light by 20% in PvP Combat (was 50%).
      • [With weekly restarts] Inv chest plate raidpaladin s 01 [Sanctified Plates] now grants 50% less Stamina and Avoidance in PvP Combat.
      • [With weekly restarts] Spell holy sealofsacrifice [Blessing of Sacrifice] now transfers 20% of damage taken in PvP Combat (was 30%).
  • Warlock
    • Demonology
      • Developers' notes: We're toning down the value of Immutable Hatred as it's providing a significant boost to single target damage in PvP while being difficult to avoid.
      • [With weekly restarts] Ability creature felfrenzy [Immutable Hatred] now increases your primary Felguard's Inv axe 09 [Legion Strike] damage by 60% when it damages 1 target in PvP Combat (down from 120%).
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
  • Druid
    • Developers' notes: We are making a follow-up change on the Omen of Clarity adjustment we made last week. We found the change that prevented Gift of the Wild from trigging Omen of Clarity was unnecessary, and will have a negative impact on Balance Druids, so that change is being reverted. The Bear threat multiplier has also been raised slightly.
    • Spell nature crystalball [Omen of Clarity] now triggers from Spell nature giftofthewild [Gift of the Wild].
    • Slightly increased Bear threat multiplier.

April 7[]

Classes
  • Druid
    • Fixed a bug requiring players to shift out and back into Ability racial bearform [Bear Form] in order to cast Spell druid thrash [Thrash] after having entered certain instances.
  • Monk
    • Fixed an issue that allowed Ability monk touchofdeath [Touch of Death] to be cast on targets at a higher health threshold than intended.
  • Paladin
    • Retribution
      • Spell paladin executionsentence [Execution Sentence]'s functionality has changed due to it not working in certain situations as expected. The payoff portion of Execution Sentence will no longer receive damage modifiers. To compensate for this, 30% (up from 20%) of the damage you deal during Execution Sentence is now accumulated and dealt as damage when Execution Sentence triggers.

April 6[]

Classes
Enemies and NPCs
Items and Rewards

April 5[]

Classes
  • Paladin
    • Retribution
      • All damage reduced by 3%.
      • Spell holy crusade [Instrument of Retribution] duration reduced to 9 seconds (was 12 seconds).
      • Spell shadow sealofkings [Fading Light] - Blessing of Dusk causes your Holy Power generating abilities to also grant an absorb shield for 3% of damage or healing dealt (was 10%).
      • Spell holy holyprotection [Aegis of Protection] increases the value of Shield of Vengeance by 10% (was 20%).
      • Ability paladin shieldofthetemplar [Shield of Vengeance] duration reduced to 10 seconds (was 15 seconds).
      • Spell holy circleofrenewal [Lightforged Blessing] now heals you and your party for 2% of maximum health (was 3%).
      • Developers' notes: Retribution Paladins have been overperforming both offensively and defensively, so we're making some adjustments here to bring them more in line with our intentions. Additionally, we have a hotfix coming at a later date related to Execution Sentence and its unintended interactions with various damage boosts.

April 4[]

Classes