wow Patch 8.3 and Classic Hotfixes: January 27th

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We have another huge batch of 8.3 hotfixes before the weekly reset, with big changes to Corrupted items and the raid being the main focus. We also get a buff for lesser vision rewards, huge nerfs for Twilight Devastation and Echoing Void in PvP and a lot more. No word on the double-kill on the same reset and missing achievements for N'Zoth we talked about earlier today unfortunately.

There's also a minor fix for Classic as quest credit for the Elune's Blessing quest should work better now.

January 27 (source)

Achievements

• Fixed a bug that prevented eligible players from receiving credit for It's Not A Cult if a raid member died during the N’Zoth the Corruptor encounter on Normal or Heroic difficulties.

Creatures and NPCs

• Credit for rare creatures in the Vale of Eternal Twilight and Vision of the Twisting Sands is now shared.
• The Spirit Drinker creatures should no longer get stuck in an immune state.

Dungeons and Raids

• Ny'alotha, the Waking City
  • Corrected an issue that prevented Protection Paladins’ Blessed Hammer (Talent) from dealing damage to Wrathion, Drest'agath, and Il’gynoth.
  • Wrathion
    • Fixed a bug that prevented players from looting Wrathion if he was defeated while transitioning.
  • Maut
    • The amount of mana gained by Maut through Dark Offering has been increased on Normal difficulty.
    • Mana gained by Maut through Devour Manifestation has been increased on Normal difficulty.
  • N’Zoth the Corruptor
    • Harvest Thoughts no longer counts player pets and guardians when dividing the damage and Sanity loss effect.
    • Slightly expanded the distance at which melee characters can attack Exposed Synapses on Normal and Heroic difficulties.

Horrific Visions

• Fixed an issue where Madness: Split Personality and Madness: Dark Delusions removed players from stealth.

Lesser Visions

• Starting with this week’s resets, the first Lesser Vision daily quest of the week now gives 3000 Coalescing Visions (was 2000 Coalescing Visions).

Items and Rewards

• Corrupted Gladiator's Spite ’s on-use ability cooldown has been reduced to 60 seconds (was 90 seconds).
• Humming Black Dragonscale ’s levitation effect no longer triggers if the player is affected by a Neural Silencer or Magical Intrusion Dampener .
• Writhing Segment of Drest'agath 's damage has been increased by 20%.
• Corrupted Items
  • Echoing Void (Corrupted Effect) can now only trigger from abilities that are on the global cooldown.
  • Echoing Void can now be removed by abilities that dispel Magic effects.
  • Twisted Appendage ’s (Corrupted Effect) health has been reduced to 1% of the player’s maximum health (was 20%).
  • The ground spell effect indicating Eye of Corruption 's (Corrupted Effect) radius of effect is now easier to see on sloped terrain.
  • Lingering Psychic Shell
    • Now applies an absorb shield that prevents 80% of incoming damage, up to the amount of damage indicated on the item.
    • While inside Ny'alotha, the Waking City instance, the wearer’s Corruption Resistance increases the total amount of damage absorbed by up to 50%.
      • Developers’ note: Due to several issues with this trinket, we have changed its functionality to be more intuitive. The tooltip will be updated in a future patch to more accurately reflect the trinket's functionality.
  • Twisted Appendages (Corrupted Effect) can no longer be struck by area-of-effect attacks such as Mages’ Arcane Explosion.
  • Killing Twisted Appendages no longer grant on-kill bonuses from Talents and abilities (e.g. Warriors’ Victory Rush ).
  • Fixed a bug which prevented Ineffable Truth (Corruption Effect) from triggering on some melee and ranged abilities.
  • Heart of Azeroth
    • Corrected an issue where The Crucible of Flame (Essence) sometimes incorrectly healed Wrathion during his encounter in the Nyalotha, the Waking City raid.

Player versus Player

• Twilight Devastation (Corruption Effect) has a 12-second cooldown when engaged in combat with enemy players.
• Twilight Devastation now deals 50% reduced damage when engaged in combat with enemy players.
• Echoing Void (Corruption Effect) now deals 50% reduced damage when engaged in combat with enemy players.

Professions

• Players should be able to discover Cataclysm Engineering recipes again from crafting recipes on that list.

Quests

• Players are now able to perform the Nordrassil ritual during “Lunar Preservation ” without breaking any rituals afterward.

WoW Classic

• Quest credit for Elune's Blessing should now be granted more consistently.

Previous hotfixes:

• January 24th
• January 23rd
• January 22nd
• January 21st
• January 17th