Many Class Fixes, Raid Adjustments: Midnight 12.1 Hotfixes, September 9th

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We have a pretty big batch of hotfixes today. There’s plenty of class fixes in particular, as 6 get improvements and tweaks, with Warriors getting some set bonus changes. The Venomous Abyss raid also received fixes and some nerfs as well. Prey gets some alt-friendly adjustments, there’s item improvements in as well as a PvP change.


Achievements

  • Soft Underbelly is now an account-wide achievement.

Classes

  • Death Knight
    • Blood
      • Resolved an issue causing Grip of the Dead from Death and Decay to permanently be active on targets.
  • Druid
    • Guardian
      • Fixed an issue where Wild Guardian was incorrectly increasing Thrash and Mangle damage regardless of whether Rank 3 was selected.
  • Paladin
    • Protection
      • Fixed an issue that caused Glory of the Vanguard to sometimes fail to deal damage to distant targets.
  • Priest
    • Fixed an issue where Flash Heal could not be tracked on the Cooldown Manager for Discipline and Shadow specializations.
  • Shaman
    • Enhancement
      • Fixed an issue where damage from Doom Winds could interrupt channeled effects, such as the Font of Venomous Rage trinket.
      • Totemic: Fixed an issue where Crash Lightning could cause unintended targets to be hit by Windfury Weapon.
  • Warrior
    • Arms
      • The Venomous Abyss 4-set Bonus – The Winding Up bonus Slam damage buff can now be tracked in the Cooldown Manager.
      • Rend is now able to be tracked in the Cooldown Manager.
    • Protection
      • The Venomous Abyss 2-set Bonus – The “Vengeful Shield” bonus Shield Slam damage buff can now be tracked in the Cooldown Manager.
      • Rend is now able to be tracked in the Cooldown Manager.

Delves

  • Fixed an issue that prevented Bountiful Coffers from rewarding Zul’jarra’s Forces reputation.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Den of Nalorakk
    • Addressed an issue where player pets were unable to damage The Winter Squall.
  • The Venomous Abyss
    • Entombed Sentinels
      • Toxic Droplets are no longer instantly stepped on if they land directly on top of a player.
      • Living Venom no longer pierces immunities.
    • The Lost Explorers
      • Fixed a visual effect issue that sometimes occurred when the tortollans were empowered.
      • Hoji will now teleport back to the main platform if he falls from the bridge.
    • Ula’tek
      • Added in health backstops to ensure the boss transitions out of Rage of the Shackled when reaching specific health thresholds.

Items

  • Fixed an issue causing the Preternatural Antivenom trinket effect to only be applied to the trinket wearer.
  • Void Elf and Blood Elf eyebrows are now visible when wearing either the Aquatic or Brick Gloomcap.
  • Removed Bouncy Mushrooms collision.

Player versus Player

  • Evoker
    • Preservation
      • Fixed an issue where Stasis could be used in the starting room of arenas and battlegrounds to store spells for after the gates opened.

Prey

  • Players may now receive 500 Corrosive Coin daily on each character that defeats Ral’kala after reaching Preyhunter’s Journey rank 6 (was only the first character).