HOTFIXES

February 27, 2024
WoW Classic: Season of Discovery

High-Yield Radiation Bomb adjusted:

Its slow effect can now be removed with snare removal effects.
Its damage-over-time is now correctly Nature damage and a Poison effect (was Magical).
The initial damage of the bomb now works on enemies that are typically immune to slows.
The initial damage of the bomb will now always go off when it hits.

The increased armor value of certain mechanical bosses in Gnomeregan has been reduced slightly.

Developers’ notes: The higher armor values on certain mechanical enemies in Gnomeregan was correct and intended, but we will adjust the armor on Crowd Pummeler 9-60 and Mekingeer Thermaplugg slightly to provide up to a 10% increase in physical damage received, depending on modifiers present. We also checked the Mechanical Managerie, and it is using the correct armor values.

Druid

Lifebloom mana cost reduced by 50%.

Developers’ notes: Lifebloom refunds half its new base mana cost per stack when it expires or is dispelled. This part has always functioned in this way, and we’ve seen a bit of confusion around how the mana return portion of Lifebloom functions.

Living Seed now heals for 50% of the critical heal that planted the seed (was 30%). This heal now blooms from non-periodic healing received, in addition to any damage taken.
Nourish mana cost reduced by 27%.
Moonkin Form now also reduces the mana cost of Moonfire by 50% and increases Moonfire periodic damage by 50%. Sunfire also benefits from this change.
Moonkins can now cast non-healing Restoration spells without cancelling their shapeshift. This includes: Remove Curse, Remove Poison, Abolish Poison, Innervate, Rebirth, Revive, Mark of the Wild, and Gift of the Wild.
Fury of Stormrage improved: when this rune makes Healing Touch instant, it now also makes it castable in all shapeshift forms.
Lacerate critical strikes can now trigger Primal Fury.
Nourish is now instant cast when Fury of Stormrage is active. Nourish no longer breaks Moonkin form when Fury of Stormrage is used to cast an instant version of the spell.

Hunter

Dual Wield Specialization no longer grants a 30% damage bonus to Raptor Strike for wielding two weapons of the same type.

Mage

Chronostatic Preservation no longer checks for a target within range or line of sight on the first cast. Its tooltip states that it has an Unlimited range, andthe first part of the ability now does, but the unleashed heal has a range of 40 yards (46 yards talented), which is unchanged.

Paladin

Crusader Strike now deals Holy damage instead of Physical damage, ignoring armor, and is now affected by Holy damage prevention. Crusader Strike is still considered a melee attack, and not a spell.
Seal of Martyrdom can no longer trigger Art of War, and will no longer be triggered by Frost Oil or other weapon procs.

Rogue

Redirect no longer triggers or is affected by the global cooldown, and its own cooldown has been reduced to 10 seconds.

Developers’ notes: when Redirect is combined in a macro with other Combo Point related abilities, it often does not function as expected. We recommend not including it in such macros.

Main Gauche now generates 3 combo points on your target and base Energy cost reduced to 15.
Just a Flesh Wound threat bonus increased such that Rogue tanks will generate approximately 30% more threat.

Shaman

Two-Handed Mastery rune now also provides 10% increased Attack Power and 10% increased chance to hit with spells after hitting a target with a two-handed weapon.
Shamanistic Rage rune now grants 5% of the Shaman’s maximum mana per
second, instead of a value scaling from Attack Power, Spell Power, or Healing Power.
Spirit of the Alpha rune now grants the casting Shaman 20% increased Attack Power if they cast the spell on a target other than themselves.
Earth Shield mana cost reduced by 67%, and charges increased from 3 to 9. The base amount healed now properly scales with level and is about 50% higher than previously at level 40.
Power Surge tooltip revised to clarify functionality. This rune periodically grants mana every 5 seconds, equal to 15% of the Shaman’s intellect. Some potential timing issues that could have sometimes made it give less mana than intended have been fixed.
Ancestral Guidance cooldown reduced to 1 minute (was 2 minutes).

Warrior

Rallying Cry now correctly benefits the Warrior’s entire raid (was: the Warrior’s party only).

February 26, 2024
WoW Classic: Season of Discovery

Hyperconductive Caster Set’s 3-piece bonus now works correctly with healing and damaging runes.
Chronostatic Preservation duration increased to 20 seconds (was 15 seconds), and now works with mouseover macros.
Drained of Blood will now periodically remove debilitating effects that are still affecting the player.
Additional Chained Spirit graveyards and patrols have been added during the Blood Moon event.
Fixed an issue with Lesser Arcane Elixir that caused it to not be usable at the required level on the tooltip.
Kha’damu’s Blood Craze will no longer increase his damage dealt.
Hunter

Chimera Shot no longer extends the duration of Wyvern Sting’s periodic damage.

Developers’ notes: That interaction was never intended.

Rogue

Between the Eyes no longer shares a cooldown with ranged attacks.

February 21, 2024
WoW Classic: Season of Discovery

Elite and Dungeon Quests now grant additional bonus experience.
The Dismantle enchant now procs more often for casters and melee.
The vendor price of Ez-Thro Radiation Bombs and High-Yield Radiation Bomb has been reduced.
Players in the Spirit World can now resurrect at Chained Spirits for up to 30 minutes after a Blood Moon ends.
Spirit of Redemption Form will no longer instantly cancel if you attempt to cast spells not allowed in that form. Doing so now returns an error message.
A Zandalarian Emissary can now be found atop the Durotar zeppelin tower.
Mage

Spell Power now benefits the critical strike damage of Spellfrost Bolt.

Rogue

Preparation now properly resets the cooldowns of Quick Draw, Between the Eyes, and Redirect.
Shuriken Toss will no longer sometimes cause loss of combo points when a Rogue is talented into Seal Fate and a bounced Shuriken crits a secondary target.

Shaman

Offhand Stormstrike hits can now correctly trigger weapon procs, including Windfury Weapon and Flurry.
Healing Rain no longer has a variant height for its animation. The Healing Rain cloud now always appears just above player’s heads.

Warlock

Haunt will now properly increase the damage done by Siphon Life.
Developers’ notes: Siphon Life behaves like Drain Life and will only be increased by Haunt if it is cast while Haunt is already active. These abilities do not dynamically update their values when Haunt is applied or falls off.

February 20, 2024
WoW Classic: Season of Discovery

Increased the number of crafting materials found in Boxes of Gnomeregan Salvage and slightly increased the drop rate of Grime-Encrusted Salvage throughout Gnomeregan.
Druid

Berserk now also increases the number of targets struck by Lacerate while it is active.
Starsurge bonus damage to Starfire increased to 80% (was 66%). Corrected a bug causing this bonus damage to be lower than intended at level 40.
Swipe now scales with attack power, gaining 10% of attack power as damage.
Threat caused by Swipe greatly increased.
Rip duration increased to 16 seconds (was 12 seconds).

Hunter

Raptor Strike damage when the Melee Specialist rune is active is now normalized weapon damage.

Paladin

Fixed an issue where Fiery Weapon enchantment and Seal of Martyrdom were triggering each other. Neither can be triggered by the other any longer.
Fixed an issue where Fiery Blaze and Fiery Weapon enchantments could trigger or be triggered by Seal of Martyrdom. Those interactions do not happen anymore.

Priest

Mind Spike damage increased by 10%.
Void Plague damage increased by 10%.
Shadow Word: Death base damage before modifiers decreased by 40% and spellpower coefficient adusted to 42.9% (was 64.3%).
Developers’ notes: Overall, this should result in a 33-40% damage reduction on Shadow Word: Death, depending on the amount of spellpower the priest has. Shadow Word: Death has been doing a larger percentage of overall priest damage than intended, and we feel like this could begin to put additional pressure on healers in PvE, as spellpower gear improves and the damage that priests inflict on themselves continues to scale upwards. It could also prove to be increasingly oppressive in PvP, as it’s an instant attack that can be used on the move, from range, with very little counterplay.

Rogue

Shuriken Toss bounce range reduced to 10 yards (was 15 yards).

Developers’ notes: This should reduce the chance of it bouncing a little too far and pulling extra packs in dungeons. It now matches the range of other chain spells like Chain Lightning and Avenger’s Shield.

Shaman

Fixed an issue where Fire Nova did not benefit properly from Elemental Mastery.
The Dual-Wield Specialization rune now provides 50% bonus damage to your offhand weapon swings.
Lava Lash now gains 50% increased damage if Flametongue Weapon is imbued on your offhand.
The proc chance of Maelstrom Weapon is now roughly 50% higher when your main hand weapon or your two-hand weapon is imbued with Windfury Weapon.

February 16, 2024
WoW Classic: Season of Discovery

Druid

Starsurge was incorrectly getting 30% additional critical strike chance when Eclipse (Lunar) was active. It now only gets 30% increased critical strike chance from Eclipse (Solar).

Hunter

Chimera Shot – Scorpid is now properly mitigated by Weapon Chains and reduction to Disarm effects.

Paladin

Fixed an issue where Seal of Righteousness ranks 4 and higher did less damage than rank 3. This fix has been applied to Season of Discovery and Classic Era.

Priest

Spirit of Redemption will no longer be prevented from triggering for Priests whose Dispersion or Pain Suppression is on cooldown.
Each Priest now correctly creates their own separate stack of Mind Spike effects on the target, and consumes only their own stack.
Fixed an issue where Prayer of Mending was double dipping with Spiritual Healing, and was also increasing by 10% per bounce on top of that.

Shaman

Fixed an issue where the benefit of Dual Wield Specialization rune could be lost for Shamans when swapping weapon configurations.
Fixed an issue where Stormstrike would sometimes do offhand damage despite no offhand equipped.
The range on Decoy Totem is now the correctly intended 30 yards, matching the radius of its effect preventing movement impairment.

Warlock

Subjugate Demon used against players in Metamorphosis now has a 10 second duration, with diminishing duration like other crowd-control effects used on players. It is considered a Charm effect like Mind Control.

Stranglethorn Vale PvP Event

Warlocks and Hunters participating in the Blood Moon will now resurrect with their last active pet.
Fixed an interaction with Blood Moon and Spirit of Redemption resurrecting the fallen Priest earlier than intended.
Fixed an issue with Blood Coin turn-ins when a player is the victim of Subjugate Demon or Mind Control.
Drained of Blood during the Blood Moon event now also grants immunity to movement impairing effects.
Fixed an issue where stacks of Blood for the Blood Loa could sometimes exceed the intended 255.
The Chosen of the Blood Loa will now be visible in the spirit world.

February 14, 2024
WoW Classic: Season of Discovery

Corrected an issue where players leaving a party sometimes lost their stacks of Blood for the Blood Loa.
The Blood Moon now increases the health of participants by 30%.
Resurrection from Chained Spirits during the Blood Moon event now also grants players 100% of their mana.
Blood Moon-averse Zandalarian Emissaries will now ward players in the far-off lands of Ratchet, Tirisfal Glades, and Duskwood.
The scoreboards during the Blood Moon event should now be more responsive in activating and deactivating when the event starts and ends.
Druid

Fixed an issue where Berserk was not discounting the energy cost of abilities learned from runes such as Savage Roar, Sunfire, and Skull Bash.
Starsurge visual corrected to not hit the caster as well as the target.
Savage Roar visual no longer has a Challenging Roar animation attached to the cast.
Eclipse now properly reduces spell pushback on Wrath and Starfire.

Paladin

Fixed an issue where Guarded by the Light’s effect could be cancelled by the player.

Priest

Fixed a bug that caused Void Plague to benefit more from spell power than intended.
Fixed a bug that made it possible for a Priest to place two copies of Renew on a target.

Shaman

Power Surge gained during a Lava Burst, Lightning Bolt, or Chain Lighting cast will no longer be consumed by that cast (since it does not benefit).

Warlock

Fixed an issue with Fear ranks 2 and 3 not changing into Menace properly while Metamorphosis is active.
Fixed an issue where Dance of the Wicked was giving an incorrect amount of mana back.

Gnomeregan

Electrocutioner 6000

Players can no longer out range or use line of sight to prevent the cast or chain effect of Static Arc.

Mechanical Menagerie

The fight now resets properly if one of the bosses was in self-repair mode when the fight resets.

Rig Wars

Thermaplugg’s Safe will now spawn under one of the Bomb Dispensers after defeating Mekgineer Thermaplugg.

February 12, 2024
WoW Classic: Season of Discovery

You can now get a new Squall-breakers Potion from Rau Cliffrunner in Freewind Post upon accepting the quest “Calm Before the Storm”.
Recipe: Lesser Arcane Elixir is now bind-on-pickup.
The Battle for Ashenvale weekly quests “Clear the Forest!” and “Repelling Invaders” now grant full XP and reputation rewards, through level 40.
The Ashenvale Rallying Cry world buff is now usable through level 39.
The Spark of Inspiration world buff now correctly increases +healing.
Item requirements for the quests “Power of da Wind”, “Power of da Earth”, and “Power of da Water” have been reduced.
Druid

Starsurge base damage reduced by 35%, and its benefit from bonus spell damage effects reduced to 42.9%, matching other instant spells.
Starsurge now provides a new effect: your next Starfire cast within 15 seconds deals 66% increased damage.
Fixed an issue with Enhanced Restoration preventing Nourish from gaining increased healing from Rejuvenation and Regrowth.

Paladin

Fixed an issue where the Sheathe of Light spell power proc wasn’t correctly activated by melee attacks.

Shaman

Fixed an issue where Ravaging Tempest could sometimes not lose its protective aura when Ailgrah Splittusk was killed.

Stranglethorn Vale PvP Event

Players who resurrect in Stranglethorn Vale during the Blood Moon event and gain Drained of Blood will now be immune to attack during its duration, but unable to cast spells or attack. They can mount and move to another location and are invisible to players outside their party.
Drained of Blood duration reduced to 20 seconds (was 60 seconds).
Drained of Blood now has a visual.
Players who wish to opt out of Blood Moon should now more easily notice the Zandalarian Emissary.

Linxy
Community Manager

#35 – Feb. 17, 2024, 2:37 a.m.

February 16, 2024
WoW Classic: Season of Discovery

Druid

Starsurge was incorrectly getting 30% additional critical strike chance when Eclipse (Lunar) was active. It now only gets 30% increased critical strike chance from Eclipse (Solar).

Hunter

Chimera Shot – Scorpid is now properly mitigated by Weapon Chains and reduction to Disarm effects.

Paladin

Fixed an issue where Seal of Righteousness ranks 4 and higher did less damage than rank 3. This fix has been applied to Season of Discovery and Classic Era.

Priest

Spirit of Redemption will no longer be prevented from triggering for Priests whose Dispersion or Pain Suppression is on cooldown.
Each Priest now correctly creates their own separate stack of Mind Spike effects on the target, and consumes only their own stack.
Fixed an issue where Prayer of Mending was double dipping with Spiritual Healing, and was also increasing by 10% per bounce on top of that.

Shaman

Fixed an issue where the benefit of Dual Wield Specialization rune could be lost for Shamans when swapping weapon configurations.
Fixed an issue where Stormstrike would sometimes do offhand damage despite no offhand equipped.
The range on Decoy Totem is now the correctly intended 30 yards, matching the radius of its effect preventing movement impairment.

Warlock

Subjugate Demon used against players in Metamorphosis now has a 10 second duration, with diminishing duration like other crowd-control effects used on players. It is considered a Charm effect like Mind Control.

Stranglethorn Vale PvP Event

Warlocks and Hunters participating in the Blood Moon will now resurrect with their last active pet.
Fixed an interaction with Blood Moon and Spirit of Redemption resurrecting the fallen Priest earlier than intended.
Fixed an issue with Blood Coin turn-ins when a player is the victim of Subjugate Demon or Mind Control.
Drained of Blood during the Blood Moon event now also grants immunity to movement impairing effects.
Fixed an issue where stacks of Blood for the Blood Loa could sometimes exceed the intended 255.
The Chosen of the Blood Loa will now be visible in the spirit world.

Linxy
Community Manager

#58 – Feb. 21, 2024, 1:54 a.m.

February 20, 2024
WoW Classic: Season of Discovery

Increased the number of crafting materials found in Boxes of Gnomeregan Salvage and slightly increased the drop rate of Grime-Encrusted Salvage throughout Gnomeregan.
Druid

Berserk now also increases the number of targets struck by Lacerate while it is active.
Starsurge bonus damage to Starfire increased to 80% (was 66%). Corrected a bug causing this bonus damage to be lower than intended at level 40.
Swipe now scales with attack power, gaining 10% of attack power as damage.
Threat caused by Swipe greatly increased.
Rip duration increased to 16 seconds (was 12 seconds).

Hunter

Raptor Strike damage when the Melee Specialist rune is active is now normalized weapon damage.

Paladin

Fixed an issue where Fiery Weapon enchantment and Seal of Martyrdom were triggering each other. Neither can be triggered by the other any longer.
Fixed an issue where Fiery Blaze and Fiery Weapon enchantments could trigger or be triggered by Seal of Martyrdom. Those interactions do not happen anymore.

Priest

Mind Spike damage increased by 10%.
Void Plague damage increased by 10%.
Shadow Word: Death base damage before modifiers decreased by 40% and spellpower coefficient adusted to 42.9% (was 64.3%).
Developers’ notes: Overall, this should result in a 33-40% damage reduction on Shadow Word: Death, depending on the amount of spellpower the priest has. Shadow Word: Death has been doing a larger percentage of overall priest damage than intended, and we feel like this could begin to put additional pressure on healers in PvE, as spellpower gear improves and the damage that priests inflict on themselves continues to scale upwards. It could also prove to be increasingly oppressive in PvP, as it’s an instant attack that can be used on the move, from range, with very little counterplay.

Rogue

Shuriken Toss bounce range reduced to 10 yards (was 15 yards).

Developers’ notes: This should reduce the chance of it bouncing a little too far and pulling extra packs in dungeons. It now matches the range of other chain spells like Chain Lightning and Avenger’s Shield.

Shaman

Fixed an issue where Fire Nova did not benefit properly from Elemental Mastery.
The Dual-Wield Specialization rune now provides 50% bonus damage to your offhand weapon swings.
Lava Lash now gains 50% increased damage if Flametongue Weapon is imbued on your offhand.
The proc chance of Maelstrom Weapon is now roughly 50% higher when your main hand weapon or your two-hand weapon is imbued with Windfury Weapon.

Linxy
Community Manager

#89 – Feb. 22, 2024, 1:23 a.m.

February 21, 2024
WoW Classic: Season of Discovery

Elite and Dungeon Quests now grant additional bonus experience.
The Dismantle enchant now procs more often for casters and melee.
The vendor price of Ez-Thro Radiation Bombs and High-Yield Radiation Bomb has been reduced.
Players in the Spirit World can now resurrect at Chained Spirits for up to 30 minutes after a Blood Moon ends.
Spirit of Redemption Form will no longer instantly cancel if you attempt to cast spells not allowed in that form. Doing so now returns an error message.
A Zandalarian Emissary can now be found atop the Durotar zeppelin tower.
Mage

Spell Power now benefits the critical strike damage of Spellfrost Bolt.

Rogue

Preparation now properly resets the cooldowns of Quick Draw, Between the Eyes, and Redirect.
Shuriken Toss will no longer sometimes cause loss of combo points when a Rogue is talented into Seal Fate and a bounced Shuriken crits a secondary target.

Shaman

Offhand Stormstrike hits can now correctly trigger weapon procs, including Windfury Weapon and Flurry.
Healing Rain no longer has a variant height for its animation. The Healing Rain cloud now always appears just above player’s heads.

Warlock

Haunt will now properly increase the damage done by Siphon Life.
Developers’ notes: Siphon Life behaves like Drain Life and will only be increased by Haunt if it is cast while Haunt is already active. These abilities do not dynamically update their values when Haunt is applied or falls off.

Linxy
Community Manager

#125 – Feb. 27, 2024, 2:35 a.m.

February 26, 2024
WoW Classic: Season of Discovery

Hyperconductive Caster Set’s 3-piece bonus now works correctly with healing and damaging runes.
Chronostatic Preservation duration increased to 20 seconds (was 15 seconds), and now works with mouseover macros.
Drained of Blood will now periodically remove debilitating effects that are still affecting the player.
Additional Chained Spirit graveyards and patrols have been added during the Blood Moon event.
Fixed an issue with Lesser Arcane Elixir that caused it to not be usable at the required level on the tooltip.
Kha’damu’s Blood Craze will no longer increase his damage dealt.
Hunter

Chimera Shot no longer extends the duration of Wyvern Sting’s periodic damage.

Developers’ notes: That interaction was never intended.

Rogue

Between the Eyes no longer shares a cooldown with ranged attacks.

Linxy
Community Manager

#141 – Feb. 28, 2024, 2:45 a.m.

February 27, 2024
WoW Classic: Season of Discovery

High-Yield Radiation Bomb adjusted:

Its slow effect can now be removed with snare removal effects.
Its damage-over-time is now correctly Nature damage and a Poison effect (was Magical).
The initial damage of the bomb now works on enemies that are typically immune to slows.
The initial damage of the bomb will now always go off when it hits.

The increased armor value of certain mechanical bosses in Gnomeregan has been reduced slightly.

Developers’ notes: The higher armor values on certain mechanical enemies in Gnomeregan was correct and intended, but we will adjust the armor on Crowd Pummeler 9-60 and Mekingeer Thermaplugg slightly to provide up to a 10% increase in physical damage received, depending on modifiers present. We also checked the Mechanical Managerie, and it is using the correct armor values.

Druid

Lifebloom mana cost reduced by 50%.

Developers’ notes: Lifebloom refunds half its new base mana cost per stack when it expires or is dispelled. This part has always functioned in this way, and we’ve seen a bit of confusion around how the mana return portion of Lifebloom functions.

Living Seed now heals for 50% of the critical heal that planted the seed (was 30%). This heal now blooms from non-periodic healing received, in addition to any damage taken.
Nourish mana cost reduced by 27%.
Moonkin Form now also reduces the mana cost of Moonfire by 50% and increases Moonfire periodic damage by 50%. Sunfire also benefits from this change.
Moonkins can now cast non-healing Restoration spells without cancelling their shapeshift. This includes: Remove Curse, Remove Poison, Abolish Poison, Innervate, Rebirth, Revive, Mark of the Wild, and Gift of the Wild.
Fury of Stormrage improved: when this rune makes Healing Touch instant, it now also makes it castable in all shapeshift forms.
Lacerate critical strikes can now trigger Primal Fury.
Nourish is now instant cast when Fury of Stormrage is active. Nourish no longer breaks Moonkin form when Fury of Stormrage is used to cast an instant version of the spell.

Hunter

Dual Wield Specialization no longer grants a 30% damage bonus to Raptor Strike for wielding two weapons of the same type.

Mage

Chronostatic Preservation no longer checks for a target within range or line of sight on the first cast. Its tooltip states that it has an Unlimited range, andthe first part of the ability now does, but the unleashed heal has a range of 40 yards (46 yards talented), which is unchanged.

Paladin

Crusader Strike now deals Holy damage instead of Physical damage, ignoring armor, and is now affected by Holy damage prevention. Crusader Strike is still considered a melee attack, and not a spell.
Seal of Martyrdom can no longer trigger Art of War, and will no longer be triggered by Frost Oil or other weapon procs.

Rogue

Redirect no longer triggers or is affected by the global cooldown, and its own cooldown has been reduced to 10 seconds.

Developers’ notes: when Redirect is combined in a macro with other Combo Point related abilities, it often does not function as expected. We recommend not including it in such macros.

Main Gauche now generates 3 combo points on your target and base Energy cost reduced to 15.
Just a Flesh Wound threat bonus increased such that Rogue tanks will generate approximately 30% more threat.

Shaman

Two-Handed Mastery rune now also provides 10% increased Attack Power and 10% increased chance to hit with spells after hitting a target with a two-handed weapon.
Shamanistic Rage rune now grants 5% of the Shaman’s maximum mana per
second, instead of a value scaling from Attack Power, Spell Power, or Healing Power.
Spirit of the Alpha rune now grants the casting Shaman 20% increased Attack Power if they cast the spell on a target other than themselves.
Earth Shield mana cost reduced by 67%, and charges increased from 3 to 9. The base amount healed now properly scales with level and is about 50% higher than previously at level 40.
Power Surge tooltip revised to clarify functionality. This rune periodically grants mana every 5 seconds, equal to 15% of the Shaman’s intellect. Some potential timing issues that could have sometimes made it give less mana than intended have been fixed.
Ancestral Guidance cooldown reduced to 1 minute (was 2 minutes).

Warrior

Rallying Cry now correctly benefits the Warrior’s entire raid (was: the Warrior’s party only).