Many Class Fixes, Renown Fix, Lumber XP, Event Improvements: Massive Midnight Hotfixes, March 4th

Achievements

• Addressed an issue with The Highest Peaks displaying incorrect progress.
• Players who have completed Cataclysmic Lumberjack may now properly harvest lumber while remaining mounted in Cataclysm zones.
• To earn With Flying Colors rewards, players must now complete a The War Within delve of any tier.

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Frost
    • Remorseless Winter will no longer dismount the player when it deals damage.
• Demon Hunter
  • Devourer
    • Fixed an issue causing Eradicate to become un-castable if it was gained during Metamorphosis and Metamorphosis expires.
    • Fixed an issue causing the incorrect body type to be shown during Void Metamorphosis’ removal animation.
• Druid
  • Feral, Guardian, Restoration
    • Fixed an issue where Nurturing Instinct, Circle of the Heavens, and Call of the Elder Druid were not affecting Wrath, Starfire, or Starsurge.
• Hunter
  • Fixed an issue causing Nature’s Ally Animal Companions to provide their Command Pet abilities.
  • Increased the consistency of the Pack Leader’s Boar’s pathing on sloped terrain.
  • Tracker’s Net is now treated like other breakable crowd controls, where it has a damage threshold before breaking.
  • Fixed an issue where many damage dealing effects would not break Tracker’s Net.
  • Survival
    • Fixed an issue preventing a talent tree connection from Intimidation to Cold Feet.
• Mage
  • Fixed an issue where Reverberate’s additional cast was incorrectly generating Splinters, Arcane Salvo stacks, and Spellfire Spheres.
  • Fixed an issue where Comet Storm was usable while Fleeing or Feared.
  • Fixed an issue causing Scorch to not deal the correct damage when talented into Scald and Heat Shimmer.
  • Fixed an issue causing the Fractured Frost to incorrectly reduced Ice Lance’s damage.
  • Fixed an issue causing Spontaneous Combustion to grant an incorrect number of Fire Blast charges.
  • Fixed an issue causing Splitting Ice to strike enemies in breakable crowd control.
  • Fixed an issue causing Flash Freezeburn’s area damage to strike enemies in breakable crowd control.
  • Fixed an issue causing Flash Freezeburn’s area damage to inconsistently damage the correct number of units.
  • Fixed an issue causing Controlled Instinct’s area damage to inconsistently damage the correct number of units.
  • Fixed an issue causing Splintering Ray’s area damage to inconsistently damage the correct number of units.
  • Fixed an issue allowing Arcane Surge to be usable in the Assisted Rotation for Arcane Mages.
  • Chilled effect no longer shows “Immune” floating combat text when an enemy is not crowd-controllable.
• Monk
  • Brewmaster
    • Empty the Cellar now has a shorter range and should no longer target out of combat creatures.
  • Windwalker
    • Spells such as Fists of Fury should now consistently hit hovering enemies such as mana wyrms.
• Rogue
  • Fixed an issue that caused Airborne Irritant to incorrectly apply its old AoE effect to Blind. The effect now matches the current and intended talent description.
  • Assassination
    • Crimson Tempest no longer generates a combo point if it hits no targets.
• Shaman
  • Enhancement
    • Resolved an issue allowing Windfury Weapon to be cast on both Main Hand and Off-hand weapons at the same time.
    • Resolved an issue causing Arc Discharge to display a 20% increase to Chain Lightning damage increase, rather than the intended 40%.
    • Resolved an issue causing Arc Discharge to be consumed by Lightning Bolt.
    • Ride the Lightning now reduces Chain Lightning’s effectiveness by 20% per jump, as intended.
    • Primordial Storm has been added to the Single-Button Assistant.
• Warlock
  • Fixed an issue where Blight of Tongues and Weakness would not reset on encounter wipe.
  • Fixed an issue where Shard Instability would be consumed if activated while casting Unstable Affliction.

Enemies and NPCs

• Players can now engage in battle with Voidseer Orivane as expected.
• Territorial Petalwings should no longer evade when engaged in combat.

Events

• Ethereal Energy objects should now be interactable when an Ethereal Tool is equipped even if the Ethereal Disruption event is not currently active.
• The Deploy the Defenses user interface for Stormarion Citadel now displays as expected until the timer expires.
• Abundance events are now available for all characters in a Warband, once one of them has completed opening tutorial questline.
• Fixed an issue where the Abundance event in Voidstorm was not granting rewards for Abundant Harvests.
• Jonas Everdawn in Silvermoon City will now offer “Saltheril’s Haven” to invite players to Saltheril’s Soiree once they have unlocked World Quests and reached level 90.

Housing

• Players on Midnight Epic Edition can now purchase additional copies of the eight Epic Edition decor items from Dennia Silvertongue in Silvermoon City.
• Harvesting lumber now provides a small amount of experience.
• The decor Fungal Pergola can now be placed inside player houses.

Items

• Fixed an issue with Void Execution Mandate where it did not trigger a shared cooldown with other trinkets.
• Rare quality profession tools and profession accessories are now Bind-on-Equip (was Bind-on-Pickup).
• Amani Extract Potion healing increased by 100%.

Player versus Player

• Resolved a Slayer’s Rise issue preventing players from respawning at the Shenzar Refinery graveyard.
• Vicious Flask of Honor, Vicious Flask of Manifested Fury, Vicious Flask of the Wrecking Ball, and Vicious Flask of Classical Spirits no longer work above level 80.
• Rogue
  • Fixed a bug preventing Hemotoxin from functioning.
• Shaman
  • Resolved an issue causing the Shamanism PvP talent to not function under the effects of Sated.

Prey

• Corrected an issue where the starting location of the Power of Anguish quest was not visible on the map.
• Increased the amount of Experience earned by completing Prey quests, including Prey-specific world quests.

Professions

• Enchanting
  • Illusory Adornments no longer replace shoulder enchants.
  • Increased the stats granted by Midnight ring enchants.

Quests

• Players who are progressing through The War Within recap at level 81+ can now enter The Rookery and complete “Calling the Stormriders”.
• The “To Be Changed” questline in Voidstorm is now available for characters who have not completed the main campaign.
• Corrected the starting location on the map for “Watch the Den”.
• On “One Will Not Kill”, Knife Priestess Hezzia will now properly die upon her spell’s expiration.
• Fixed an issue that could cause players to be unable to progress the quest “Champions of Quel’Danas”.
• Fixed an issue where abandoning “One by One”, “Intercepted”, or “Keys Are Optional” could permanently prevent Valeera from appearing, blocking progression on “The Crimson Rogue” questline.
• Resolved an issue where Risen Witherbark did not provide credit for “The Crypt in the Mist.”
• Players above level 80 should now be able to access the scenario “A Light in the Dark” while on the quest of the same name.
• Resolved an issue where two sets of Zul’jarra and Liadrin could be visible on “Brutal Feast.”
• Resolved an issue where Witherbark Visitors were not visible to players prior to the quest “I Have a Permit.”
• Resolved an issue where the conversation with Vun’zarah on “Coals of a Dead Loa” could be triggered repeatedly.
• Fixed an issue where warlocks could become unable to complete “Pardon the Interruption”.
• “Truth of the Past” should now be available to players who have reached Voidstorm.
• Fixed an issue preventing glyph hunters in Eversong Woods from finding the Shining Span Skyriding glyph for “Eversong Woods Glyph Hunter”.
• Fixed a bug where players were blocked from using the Discordant Tune on Snapdragons for “Put a Little Snap in Their Step”.
• Players who completed “Legends of the Haranir” in the current week and then pick up “Legendary Prosperity” will now have “Legendary Prosperity” automatically complete.
• Players on the Zul’Aman campaign quest “Blade Shattered” will no longer receive credit for other players killing Mor’duun. You have to do it yourself.

Renown and Reputation

• Fixed a bug that prevented players from earning Renown above rank 11.

World

• The Camp Stonewash innkeeper now provides rest and instant logout as intended.
• Fixed a spot where players could get stuck on a tree in Quel’danas.