We have plenty of hotfixes for this past week, with retail and Season of Discovery leading the way, with a tiny bit of Cataclysm Classic on top.
Over in The War Within we have a few class fixes and Cooldown Manager improvements, as well as raid nerfs, item and PvP adjustments.
In SoD Phase 8 there’s mostly Paladin and raid changes, as well as Corrupted Ashbringer quest fixes.
Classes
- Demon Hunter
- Aldrachi Reaver
- Fixed an issue where stacks of Art of the Glaive were not correctly being tracked on the Cooldown Manager.
- Havoc
- Fixed an issue that prevented A Fire Inside from dynamically updating the damage bonus granted to Immolation Aura based on your current Mastery amount, like when activating a trinket that increases Mastery.
- Aldrachi Reaver
- Druid
- Guardian
- Bristling Fur and several PvP talents added to the Cooldown Manager.
- Tooth and Claw added to Tracked Buffs.
- Maul now only displays on the Cooldown Manager when either Tooth and Claw or Ravage is known.
- Guardian
- Evoker
- Augmentation
- Fixed an issue where Mass Eruption would not benefit from other effects that increased the damage of Eruption.
- Fixed an issue where Mass Eruption and Bombardments could trigger from Eruptions cast from Overlord while not talented into Breath of Eons.
- Augmentation
- Hunter
- Survival
- Fixed an issue where Aspect of the Eagle variants of Raptor Strike and Mongoose Bite were dealing less damage than intended.
- Fixed an issue where casting Coordinated Assault at greater than 30 yards away could grant Howl of the Pack Leader twice.
- Fixed an issue where Aspect of the Eagle was not correctly extending the range of Spirit Bond.
- Survival
- Monk
- Zen Flight no longer restricts casting.
- Fixed an issue that caused physical damage modifiers to reduce the healing magical damage transfers through Ancient Teachings.
- Fixed an issue that caused Aspect of Harmony to not apply to targets with a healing absorb present.
- Fixed an issue that caused Unity Within to not automatically if no enemy targets are present when the channel ends for Windwalker Monks.
- Paladin
- Protection
- Added support for Sentinel and several PvP talents to the Cooldown Manager.
- Protection
Dungeons and Raids
- Liberation of Undermine
- Lentil Sprocket now sends players to a slightly different location for the X-Treme transit One Armed Bandit shortcut within the Gallagio.
- Stix Bunkjunker
- Stix Bunkjunker health reduced by 5% on Mythic difficulty.
- Scrapmaster health reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
- Sprocketmonger Lockenstock
- Polarized Catastro-Blast damage reduced by 60%.
- One-Armed Bandit
- Reel Assistant health reduced by 10% on all difficulties.
- Reward: Coin and Bomb health bonus reduced by 25% on all difficulties.
- Scattered Payout damage reduced by 10% on all difficulties.
- Traveling Flames damage reduced by 19% on Mythic and 7% on Heroic difficulty.
- Crushed! damage reduced by 47% on Mythic and 20% on Heroic difficulty.
- Mug’zee
- Fixed an issue where placing Hot Mess on the stairs of the encounter would cause it to sometimes not reach the arena floor.
- Darkflame Cleft
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- Fixed an issue where Ol’ Waxbeard can unexpectedly reset during the encounter
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Items
- When casting Reins of Anu’relos you will now be awarded the bonus items if you need them. If you have the item in your inventory or already have the tracking quest completed, you will not be given that matching item. Each item is checked separately.
- The Feather of the Blazing Somnowl can now be destroyed if you have a duplicate.
Nightfall Event
- Dissenter Troosilver and Whisperer Bravefort have now joined the Sureki assault in eastern Hallowfall.
Player versus Player
- Hunter
- Master’s Call now applies its effect to you and your pet when targeting your own pet.
- Master’s Call now correctly applies to you and your pet if you are targeting an enemy.
- Master’s Call now correctly applies to you and your pet if you are targeting nothing.
- Command Pet will now maintain its overridden spell when entering arenas and other instances.
- Marksmanship
- Spotter’s Marks applied via Ohn’ahran Winds will now correctly obey PvP mults.
- Survival
- Fixed an issue causing Raptor Strike and Mongoose Bite to not deal damage when cast onto targets in breakable crowd control.
- Flanking Strike will now correctly fail to cast and not go on cooldown if your pet is rooted or crowd-controlled.
- Monk
- Mistweaver
- Fixed an issue that caused Feather Feet to not function with Song of Chi-Ji.
- Mistweaver
- Shaman
- Elemental
- Fixed an issue that caused Storm Conduit to not grant its interrupt protection or cooldown reduction on Tempest casts.
- Elemental
User Interface and Accessibility
- Players in Random Battleground matches can no longer see the names of opposing members until the match begins.
- Developers’ notes: We have reinforced the measures taken to prevent players from obtaining information about their potential PvP opponents in advance of a battleground. This is applicable to all rated battlegrounds, unrated battlegrounds, rated brawls, and unrated brawls.
Season of Discovery
- Fixed an issue where the Corrupted Ashbringer questline could get soft locked if you died while inside of Mount Hyjal between quests.
- Thisalee will allow you to go to Mount Hyjal after completing her quests, and will no longer allow you back into Mount Hyjal once you are finished there.
- If you complete the quest “Falling Into Place” and did not accept the follow-up quest “A Difficult Path” before the Will of the Ashbringer despawned, talk to Rix Xizzix in Booty Bay to get a replacement. How this Goblin got the Inert Ashbringer in his possession? We don’t know, but you’re just glad he found it!
- The Abandoned Experiment will no longer play its proc sound effect while you are at maximum stacks.
- Fixed an issue that prevented players who have completed the quest “Decapitation Strike” from being able to view a certain roleplay event that starts at Light’s Hope Chapel when another player turns in the quest “Fall of the Grand Crusader”.
- The proc from Mirage will no longer cause the master to stand up when their Mirage casts Arcane Explosion.
- The buffs granted from Corrupted Ashbringer are no longer Magic effects.
- Paladin
- Sunlight will now correctly benefit from the Scarlet Enclave Shockadin 6-set bonus.
- Leonid Barthalomew now temporarily exchanges the Scarlet Enclave Holy to Shockadin tier set (in addition to the Retribution to Shockadin set exchange). These will be removed from the vendor list on May 20.
- The Shockadin 6-piece set bonus has been adjusted – Now grants 8% spell power per stack of Holy Power consumed while using a one-handed weapon, and 18% spell power per stack of Holy Power consumed when using a 2-handed weapon (was 15% spell power per stack of Holy Power consumed).
- The Scarlet Enclave Protection 6-set bonus now correctly also allows the use of Avenging Wrath while under the effects of Forbearance.
- Enchanting
- Access to the New Avalon Mage Tower now requires Enchanting 280 (was 300), matching the requirements of the rest of the puzzle.
Cataclysm Classic
- Tailoring
- Several previous season recipes for Fireweave and Emberfire items can now be trained from Cataclysm Tailoring trainers.