Faster Rare Spawns, Class Fixes, Guardian Tuning, Housing Discounts: Midnight Weekly Hotfix Summary, March 9th – 16th

Achievements

• Gotta Hunt Them All progress is now account-wide.
• Fixed a bug preventing completion of the Zul’Aman achievement A Most Violent Loa.

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Army of the Dead Lesser Ghouls are now only visible to the Death Knight.
  • Unholy
    • Resolved an issue where using Runic Power on Necrotic Coil increased the damage of Gargoyle less than intended.
    • Resolved an issue where using Runic Power on Death Coil with Sudden Doom increased the damage of Gargoyle more than intended.
• Demon Hunter
  • Fixed an issue that caused Swallowed Anger (Talent) text to incorrectly claim it generates 1 Fury when it actually generates 20 Fury.
  • Devourer
    • Fixed an issue causing Reaper’s Toll to sometimes be unusable for Devourer Demon Hunters.
    • Annihilator: Fixed an issue that could prevent some Voidfall Meteors from falling if your initial target died.
  • Havoc
    • Fixed an issue that could cause Glaive Tempest’s effect to fail if triggered while moving.
    • Fixed an issue that allowed Inertia’s effect to apply after its triggering buff had expired.
    • Fixed an issue that prevented Deflecting Dance from reapplying its effect if Blade Dance was activated twice in a row with high amounts of Haste.
• Druid
  • Guardian
    • Fixed an issue where Dream Guide was not correctly activating for nearby players.
    • Fixed an issue where multiple stacks of Dream of Cenarius were increasing Regrowth’s healing.
    • Fixed an issue where Fury of Nature was not increasing damage dealt by Starfall from Heart of the Wild.
    • Fixed an issue where additional Rage consumed by Killing Blow was not accounted for by Memory of Ysera.
    • Fixed an issue where The Eternal Moon did not correctly increase the duration of Lunar Beam.
    • The global cooldown incurred by Sundering Roar is now affected by haste.
    • Sundering Roar requires Bear Form.
    • Fixed an issue where Echo of Maul was not applying Vicious Brambles without Rank 4 of Wild Guardian.
    • Fixed an issue where Vicious Brambles from Echo of Maul, Echo of Raze, and Echo of Ravage were dealing an incorrect amount of damage.
    • Echo of Maul now casts with the correct delay.
    • Fixed an issue where Raze and Ravage were dealing incorrect damage to secondary targets.
    • Fixed an issue where Echoes of Maul, Raze or Ravage were consuming Ravage procs.
    • Fixed an issue where extra casts of Maul, Raze or Ravage from Celestial Might were consuming Ravage procs.
    • Fixed an issue where extra casts of Maul, Raze or Ravage from Celestial Might were consuming extra Rage with Killing Blow.
    • Casts of Maul, Raze and Ravage from Celestial Might now respect damage increases from Killing Blow.
    • Fixed an issue where Mangle was not generating additional Rage while Red Moon was active.
    • Lunar Wrath should now be trackable via the Cooldown Manager.
    • Moonfire cast by Galactic Guardian with Red Moon talented should now display the correct visual.
    • Red Moon is now shown on enemy nameplates.
    • Moonless Night now procs from casts echoed by Wild Guardian and Celestial Might.
  • Restoration
    • Symbiotic Blooms heal over time effect may now be displayed on raid frames if desired.
    • Dash, Tiger Dash, Forestwalk, Ursine Vigor, Matted Fur, and Frenzied Regeneration can now be tracked in the Cooldown Manager.
    • Wildstalker: Strategic Infusion, Bloodseeker Vines, and Root Network can now be tracked in the Cooldown Manager.
    • Keeper of the Grove: Power of Nature can now be tracked in the Cooldown Manager.
• Evoker
  • Preservation
    • Fixed an issue where Dream Flight would not properly calculate its healing when healing clumps of targets.
    • Fixed an issue where players would sometimes accidentally consume 2 charges of Time Dilation.
    • Fixed an issue where Merithra’s Blessing would not consistently be stored into Stasis.
    • Releasing Merithra’s Blessing from Stasis no longer consumes the proc for Merithra’s Blessing.
• Monk
  • Mistweaver
    • Added Dance of the Wind and Transcendence to the cooldown manager.
    • Fixed an issue that prevented Sheilun’s Gift from activating Courage of the White Tiger.
• Priest
  • Discipline
    • Corrected an issue where several talents and Mastery: Grace did not properly affect the healing of Plea.
  • Shadow
    • Fixed an issue causing Shadowy Apparitions to fail to critically strike.
    • Fixed an issue that could cause Mind Flay to be unable to be tracked in the Cooldown Manager.
• Rogue
  • Subtlety
    • Ancient Arts triggered effect can now be tracked in the Cooldown Manager.
• Shaman
  • Enhancement
    • Totemic: Resolved an issue causing Sliptstream Sundering to benefit from Whirling Earth.
    • Resolved an issue causing Slipstream Sundering to summon a Totem of Wrath.
  • Restoration
    • Corrected several issues where the bonus 50% value Healing Wave during Ascendance did not properly retain bonus healing modifiers from the Unleash Life talent.
• Warlock
  • Demonology
    • Fixed an issue where Fel Armaments was not reducing the cooldown of Felstorm.

Delves

• Enraged Ultradon’s Blood Frenzy can now be dispelled.

Dungeons

• The Blinding Vale
  • Ziekket
    • Fluorescent Outburst’s damage reduced by 50%.
    • Lightbloom’s Essence movement speed reduced by 33%.
• Den of Nalorakk
  • Fixed an issue where Loa Speaker Nanea could sometimes summon an incorrect number of Volatile Totems.
• Magisters’ Terrace
  • Addressed an issue where Arcane Magister’s Polymorph is Nature school instead of Arcane.
• Murder Row
  • Xathuux the Annihilator should more reliably appear holding his axe.
  • Lithiel Cinderfury
    • Felfire Core’s impact radius reduced to 8 yards (was 12 yards).
    • Fingers of Gul’dan’s radius reduced to 6 yards (was 8 yards).
• Voidscar Arena
  • Protective Turtle should more reliably cast Shell Guard.
  • Atroxus’ Lingering Poison now only effects players.

Events

• Resolved issues that made Abysslick at the Stormarion Citadel difficult to loot when dead.

Housing

• Significantly reduced the prices of decor that are sold for Voidlight Marl.

Items

• Newly created Crate of Battlefield Goods should now contain gear that disenchants into more relevant materials.
  • Gear obtained at levels 10-79 disenchants into The War Within materials.
  • Gear obtained at levels 80-90 disenchants into Midnight materials.
• Increased the drop rates of Sparks of War in Eversong Woods, Zul’Aman, and Harandar while in War Mode.
• Fixed a bug that could prevent players from gathering Crystallized Resin Fragments.
• Luminous Moth collection status is now shared across your warband.
• Equipment from Rare creatures is now correctly awarded as Warbound at max level.
• Personal Key to the Arcantina adjusted to have a 15-minute cooldown and only port to the Arcantina. Added a two-way portal to the Arcantina in Wayfarer’s Rest for players who have obtained the key.

Non-player Characters

• Construct Ali’a and Construct V’anore in Astalor’s Sanctum will now purchase items from players.
• Rare creatures in Midnight zones have been updated to respawn faster.
• Void Researcher Anomander and Void Researcher Aemely will now purchase your items.

Player versus Player

• Fixed an issue where Training with Patience would reset achievement progress when re-entering the battleground.
• Fixed an issue where PvP was unintentionally enabled in the new and returning player tutorial area.
• Fixed an issue where the PvP combat dummies in Silvermoon City would not activate PvP talents.
• Due to an issue with the Shado-Pan Showdown map, we’ve temporarily changed this week’s Brawl to Temple of Hotmogu. Shado-Pan Showdown will return!
• Blessings of Abundance will no longer persist into PvP Battlegrounds and Arenas.
• Fixed an issue where players were not being scaled to the minimum item level of 258 in the Battle for Wintergrasp.
• Honor gains from Training Grounds matches reduced by 50%.
• Silences and Disarms no longer incorrectly cause Root effects to be placed on diminishing returns.
• Increased the likelihood of Slayer’s Rise being chosen when queueing for random Epic Battlegrounds.

Professions

• Profession tables in Eversong Woods now dismount players who get close to them.
• Artisan’s Consortium Payouts from Midnight Patron Orders now have a small chance to contain Petrified Roots.
• Patrons will no longer order Alchemy or Tailoring crafts that have a cooldown.
• Fixed an issue where the Prismatic Focusing Iris was doing less damage than intended.
• Fixed an issue causing the Primal Spore Binding to do less damage and healing than intended.
• Items
  • Midnight gems have had their stats increased.
  • Fixed an issue where the standard quality Enchant Weapon – Arcane Mastery provided more Mastery than intended.
• Herbalism
  • Vengeful Lashers that appear when gathering Wild herbalism nodes in Zul’Aman will now always drop herbs for the gathering herbalist. Your Perception stat will still contribute towards a chance to get even more herbs from them.
  • Lush Tranquility Bloom now properly grants Knowledge when gathered for the first time.
• Tailoring
  • The difficulty for Courtly Shoulders and Courtly Robes has been reduced.

Quests

• Resolved an issue causing some Legion quest enemies to appear at a much higher level than intended.
• After reaching the proper Renown level with Silvermoon Court, players can now begin “Courting Success” after completing the introductory questline to Saltheril’s Soiree up to “High Esteem”.
• You should now be able to place Corrupted Lantern in the Arcantina after turning in the quest “Still Behind Enemy Portals”.
• Fixed a bug allowing players to damage other players in war mode on “Special Assignment: Push Back the Light.”
• Fixed an issue preventing players from turning in “A Boyhood Dream”, “Argent Call: The Trial of the Crypt”, and “Argent Call: The Noxious Blade” to Maxwell Tyrosus in Eastern Plaguelands.
• Fixed a bug preventing the completion of “Healing Homeward”.

User Interface

• Resolved an issue sometimes causing the Prey hub icon on the zone map to display incorrect rewards.
• Glowing Moth minimap icon in Harandar updated to prevent confusion with treasure markers.
• Updated the icons for Misplaced Tome, Ranger’s Cache, Coalesced Light, and Dead Drop repeatable treasures in Eversong Woods.