War Within and Classic Weekly Hotfix Summary: April 28th – May 5th

Achievements

• Fixed a bug preventing completion of Gilded of the Undermine. If you have attained item level 675 but have not yet received the achievement, log out in a zone from The War Within (such as Dornogal) and then log back in.

Classes

Classes

• Paladin
  • Retribution
    • Resolved an issue that caused Gleaming Rays to drop off and not be reapplied until specific events occurred.
• Priest
  • Discipline
    • Resolved an issue causing the Cooldown Manager to track the duration of Power Word: Shield on the Priest instead of tracking its cooldown.
  • Holy
    • Fixed an issue causing Prayer of Healing to be able to be displayed on the Cooldown Manager when not talented.
• Rogue
  • Trickster: Fixed an issue that prevented Blade Flurry and Nimble Flurry from dealing increased damage to targets with the Fazed debuff applied.
  • Assassination
    • Kingsbane can no longer be parried.
  • Outlaw
    • Fixed an issue that could cause Blade Flurry to strike below the maximum number of available targets when fighting near dead enemies.
    • Fixed an issue that caused Blade Flurry to deal an incorrect amount of damage with the Deft Maneuvers talent selected.
    • Fixed an issue that prevented Roll the Bones’ Grand Melee buff from updating Blade Flurry’s damage output dynamically when gaining or losing the buff.
  • Subtlety
    • Trickster: Fixed an issue that could cause Nimble Flurry to strike below the maximum number of available targets when fighting near dead enemies.
• Shaman
  • Restoration
    • Fixed an issue causing damage from Acid Rain to not generate threat or aggro enemies.
• Warlock
  • Hellcaller: Fixed an issue where Blackened Soul would not generate a stack if two Soul Shard spenders were cast in quick succession.
  • Hellcaller: Fixed an issue where Wither would not pandemic when refreshed with no stacks.
  • Demonology
    • Fixed an issue where Shadow Bolt would appear on the essential cooldown bar without Diabolic Ritual being learned.
    • Fixed an issue where Hand of Gul’dan would appear on the essential cooldown bar without Secrets of the Coven being learned.
    • Fixed an issue where Hand of Gul’dan and Chaos Bolt would glow whenever Demonic Art was active.

• Warrior
  • Arms
    • Colossus Smash can no longer be parried.
    • Juggernaut is now a Tracked Buff on the Cooldown Manager.
  • Protection
    • Fixed a bug causing Shield Charge to deal damage extra times or to targets near their starting position.

Dungeons

• Darkflame Cleft
  • Addressed an issue where Eerie Molds’ damage fails to count towards damage taken spells like Rewind and Death Strike.
• Priory of the Sacred Flame
  • Resolved a Captain Dailcry issue where Hurl Spear could damage players that were not in the indicated path of his spear.

Items

• Carved Blazikon Wax bonus Versatility increased by 150%.
• Entropic Skardyn Core Intellect increased by 15% and fragments will attempt to return to the core.
• Soulletting Ruby Critical Strike increased by 10%.
• Explosive Hearthstone – Fixed an issue where parts of the spell visual could be hidden from other players.
• Conqueror’s Prized Lacquer and Conqueror’s Prized Varnish will now supersede a lower PvP item level if present on the target item.
• Fixed an issue preventing Amirdrassil tier tokens from dropping.

Mounts

• Fixed a bug that caused Ground Skimming during Skyriding to recover less vigor than intended.

Nightfall Event

• Increased all Flame’s Radiance reputation gains by 100%, including first time completion, Quest, and Weekly Quest reputation rewards.
• Nightfall Item vendors now offer all Arathi Abbot’s, Arathi Cleric’s, Arathi Crusader’s, and Arathi Zealot’s weapons and shields.

Nightfall Scenario

• Implemented additional tuning to help players that are finding it hard to earn points for their Nightfall scenario Service Award score.
• Added improved tracking for Nightfall scenario Service Award that should make scoring behavior more consistent.
• Implemented additional stability improvements for Nightfall scenario objective assignment and for completing the Nightfall scenario.

Player versus Player

• Fixed an issue that caused the wrong Field Medic’s Hazard Payout to be awarded at end of match.

Quests

• Resolved an issue preventing looting the quest object after another player looted it first in “Preserve the Legacy” from the Fate of the Kirin Tor questline.
• The Earthen Prototype and Overcharged batteries in the Siren Isle Introduction quest “To Scan a Crystal” should once again be interactable.

Transmogrification

• Fixed an issue where the Mythic and Elite variants of the Shaman Liberation of Undermine class set gloves were missing additional lightning visual effects.

Season of Discovery

• Elemental Invasions now spawn every 1-2 hours (was every 24-48 hours).
• The Grand Arcanist and Grand Sorcerer enchants now additionally grant Healing Power equal to the same amount of spell power.
• The Grand Arcanist and Grand Sorcerer enchants now have a 0.1 second cooldown on them to prevent players from getting multiple procs of the mana restoration effect on a singular spell cast.
• The Grand Arcanist and Grand Sorcerer enchants can now proc from non-periodic healing spells that heal during combat.
• The Mirage summoned from the Mirage, Rod of Illusion will no longer attempt to melee attack under certain conditions.
• Immolation Traps will no longer Melee during the Alexei the Beastlord encounter.
• Lucky Doubloon now has a small 1.5 second cooldown, even if you flip heads to clear the cooldown on the item. This is to prevent it from being flipped multiple times unintentionally.
• The Quartermaster’s Crate is now provided upon acceptance of “Prove Your Worth” from Bryon Steelblade.
• The Caladboulder will now lose 1 durability every time the Chance on Hit stun proc activates.
• Classes
  • Paladin
    • The Avenging Shield buff granted from the Scarlet Enclave 6-piece set bonus for Protection Paladins correctly lasts the same duration as Avenging Wrath.
  • Warlock
    • The Naxxramas damage 4-piece bonus will now correctly apply to and activate the Corruption applied by the Scarlet Enclave tank 2-piece bonus.
    • The Scarlet Enclave Tank 4-piece bonus now correctly applies its heal from Corruption ticks off the instant tick from the Naxxramas damage 4-piece bonus.
• Scarlet Enclave
  • There are now 3 Torn Pages containing Torn Diary Pages in them in Scarlet Enclave. These should be lootable by and tradable to players who were present for the Reborn Council encounter. Torn Pages should no longer disappear if there is a soft reset after the Reborn Council but before Lillian Voss.
  • Berserk Timers for all bosses, except Caldoran, have been increased to 10 minutes.
  • Caldoran will now Berserk 6 minutes after Phase 2 begins (was 5 minutes after).
  • The aggro radiuses of the Reborn Council have been lowered to allow for easier prepositioning before pulling the boss.
  • There are now three Torn Pages for Putress’ Diary per Scarlet Enclave instance, as intended (was incorrectly 1).
  • The Hoard of the Pirate Lord containing the Lucky Doubloon will now require you to kil Mason the Echo before being able to loot it (was: required killing Balnazzar before looting, and was also using his tap list – creating issues for Master Looters and not having a chest if a soft reset happened between Balnazzar and Mason).
  • The Hoard of the Pirate Lord will no longer despawn if there is a soft reset done on the instance after Balnazzar.
  • The Hoard of the Pirate Lord will no longer despawn if the chest is left open for too long.
  • Caldoran
    • Enemies will no longer show the Panic debuff while they are dead.
    • Enemies will no longer ignore Panic if they have Curse of Recklessness active when it is cast.
    • Enemies will (hopefully) no longer stay alive while at 1 health.
  • Lilian Voss
    • Ignite has had its initial damage reduced and the scaling amount reduced.