Housing Crest Rewards, Uncancellable Raid Buffs, Class Fixes, Delve + Dungeon Tuning: Midnight Hotfixes, March 18th

Achievements

• Fixed a bug preventing completion of ‘Tis But A Scratch.
• Fixed a bug where Working Way Past Midnight would not be awarded after reaching max skill in all Midnight Professions.

Classes

• Player-cast long term raid buffs can no longer be canceled while the player is in combat. These buffs can still be canceled when outside combat and can always be applied regardless of combat state. The spells affected by this are: Mark of the Wild, Arcane Intellect, Battle Shout, Power Word: Fortitude, Skyfury, Source of Magic, Symbiotic Relationship, and Blessing of the Bronze.
• Death Knight
  • Unholy
    • All ability damage increased by 8%. Not applied to PvP combat.
    • All minion damage increased by 8%.
    • Death Coil damage increased by 30%. Not applied to PvP combat.
    • Magus of the Dead damage increased by 15%. Not applied to PvP combat.
    • Dread Plague damage increased by 50%. Not applied to PvP combat.
    • Soul Reaper damage increased by 100%. Not applied to PvP combat.
    • Melee damage increased by 30%.
    • Scourge Strike and Vampiric Strike damage increased by 25%. Not applied to PvP combat.
    • Festering Strike and Festering Scythe damage increased by 35%. Not applied to PvP combat.
    • Resolved an issue allowing Necrotic Coil to be parried, dodged or blocked.
    • Resolved an issue causing Sudden Doom to reduce the effectiveness of abilities that function with the amount of Runic Power spent.
    • Resolved an issue causing Plague Mastery to not interface with eruption effects of Virulent Plague and Dread Plague.
    • Resolved an issue causing Scourge Strike to sometimes not spread Virulent Plague.
    • Putrefy has been updated to be more consistent in its targeting and now takes target radius into account.
• Demon Hunter
  • Sigil of Misery no longer counts as both an incapacitate and disorient for diminishing returns.
• Druid
  • Balance
    • Elune’s Chosen: Atmospheric Exposure is now properly applied by Full Moons cast by Orbit Breaker or Convoke the Spirits.
• Hunter
  • Beast Mastery
    • Fixed an issue where the displayed duration of Beast Cleave when triggered from Umbral Reach was incorrect.
  • Marksmanship
    • Fixed an issue causing Lunar Storm to not fire when Aimed Shot killed its target.
    • Fixed an issue causing Black Arrow to not fire Bleak Powder when it killed its target.
    • Fixed an issue causing some Spotter’s Mark effects to not trigger if the Aimed Shot that consumes it killed its target.
  • Survival
    • Mastery: Spirit Bond can now be tracked on the Cooldown Manager.
    • Takedown now breaks your pet out of roots.
    • Developer’s Notes: The tooltip for Takedown will be updated to reflect this behavior in a future patch.
    • Takedown Pet leap range increased to 40 yards.
• Priest
  • Discipline
    • Fixed an issue where Void Shield was not causing Atonement healing.
• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • Fixed an issue where Demoniac’s Fervor would not function with Unstable Affliction.
  • Demonology
    • Diabolist: Fixed an issue where Ruination would not count towards Dominion of Argus.

Delves

• Fixed a bug where Valeera was taking more damage than desired as a tank in lower tier delves.
• Fixed a bug where Valeera could sometime consume healing orbs.
• Atal’Aman
  • Nemesis Pack should no longer spawn outside the playable area.
• Collegiate Calamity
  • Hydrangea’s Exposing Bolt now causes a debuff of 1% per stack (was 5%) and can reach a maximum of 99 stacks (was a max of 20).
• The Grudge Pit
  • Fixed issue where Valeera was not damaging Furious Spectators.

Dungeons and Raids

• Magisters’ Terrace
  • Fixed an issue where sometimes some Gemellus clones remained alive after defating the Gemellus encounter.
• Skyreach
  • Fixed a bug that prevented players from receiving Great Vault credit when finishing the dungeon on Mythic difficulty.
• The Voidspire
  • Photosensitivity mode now disables the fullscreen effect from using Teleport Pads.
  • Imperator Averzian
    • Averzian now says “know your place” less often.
  • Vorasius
    • Addressed an issue that made Druids untargetable by friendly spells upon dying to a death plane.
  • Lightblinded Vanguard
    • Resolved an issue where players could be hit by Divine Hammer multiple times.
  • Crown of the Cosmos
    • Resolved an issue where Alleria could evade briefly when crossing platforms.

Housing

• Quests
  • Weekly Housing quests will now drop a Warbound chest of crests.
    • Developers’ notes: You can do the quest on any character you like and then send the reward to the character you would like to get it. It is intended that these quests can be completed once per account each week.

Items

• Updated Recruit’s Ring, Recruit’s Band, and Recruit’s Signet to remove unintended primary stats.
• Algari Diamond and Thalassian Diamond gems can no longer be equipped at the same time.
• Blossoming Rootwarden’s Focus should now disenchant into Midnight materials.

Player versus Player

• Tooltips for PvP gear now state that the item level increase also applies in War Mode.
• War Supply Crates and Assassin Bounties in Eversong Woods and Zul’Aman now drop Sparks of War.
• Resolved an issue that was causing PvP item levels to be set incorrectly in Arenas and Battlegrounds.
• Weekly PvP quests such as “Enshrouded in Battle” will now show their appropriate turn-in location on the map.
• Reduced Honor costs for Galactic Aspirant’s Badge of Ferocity, Galactic Aspirant’s Insignia of Alacrity, and Galactic Aspirant’s Emblem.
• Reduced Conquest costs for Galactic Gladiator’s Badge of Ferocity, Galactic Gladiator’s Insignia of Alacrity, and Galactic Gladiator’s Emblem.

Professions

• Thalassian Competitor’s Chain Stompers now cost 4 Competitor’s Heraldries to craft (was 5).
• Fixed a bug where Thalassian Competitor’s Medallion, Thalassian Competitor’s Emblem, and Thalassian Competitor’s Insignia were not part of the Gladiator’s Distinction item set.

Quests

• The “End of the Dream” should no longer unexpectedly end before you’re finished dreaming.