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HOTFIXES

September 16, 2024

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Rider of the Apocalypse: Apocalyptic Conquest now correctly modifies total Strength (was modifies base Strength).
  • San’layn: Visceral Strength now correctly modifies total Strength (was modifies base Strength).
  • Blood
    • Bloodied Blade now correctly modifies total Strength (was modifies base Strength).
  • Mage
    • Fixed an issue that caused Frostfire Bolt to consume Ice Floes when instant cast from Frostfire Empowerment.
    • Fixed an issue that caused Ice Wall to not be reduced by Elemental Affinity for Fire Mages.
• ...

We’re currently working on some updates to Dungeon encounters that we’ll implement before Mythic+ gets underway.

Mists of Tirna Scithe

• Mistcaller
  • Addressed an issue where Dodgeball was inflicting damage to unintended targets.

Ara-kara, City of Echoes

• Ki’katal the Harvester
  • Erupting Webs
    • Stun duration reduced to 3 seconds (was 6 seconds).
    • Damage reduced by 18%.
    • Grasping Blood is now susceptible to interrupt effects.

Siege of Boralus

• Players can now use both Alliance and Horde portal to enter the dungeon.
• Leaving Siege of Boralus now puts players at the correct exit location based on their factions.
• Jaina Proudmoore now teleports players to the correct exit location based on their factions.
• Chopper Redhook...

Added the following to the OP:

Mage

• Arcane
  • Arcane Blast damage reduced by 5%.
  • Arcane Missiles damage reduced by 8%.

Warrior

• Fury
  • All ability damage reduced by 3%.

This Firelands test has concluded.

Thank you to everyone who jumped in and tested with us!

We will post the dates for the next raid test soon.

Over the past several days, we’ve heard player reports of much variance in Brann’s performance and contribution in Delves, and we’ve investigated anomalous data along those lines. We recently identified a serious bug that could, under specific circumstances, cause Brann to inherit all the health and damage bonuses meant for enemies in a given difficulty tier. When this bug took effect, the higher the tier of Delve you were running, the stronger Brann would get.

We’ve just deployed a hotfix that will correct this bug. There should now be a consistent baseline of power for Brann, which will increase with your own gear and with his level.

Some specs, whose gameplay tended towards hanging back and letting Brann take the lead, were much more likely to trigger the bug than others, so for those players we understand that this could make Brann feel significantly weaker than he has been, especially in the highest tier delves.

We’ve also seen feedback tha...

September 13, 2024

Achievements

• Players will now earn the achievements Harbinger of the Weathered, Harbinger of the Carved, and Harbinger of the Runed immediately upon outgrowing the use of those crests.

Classes

• Demon Hunter
  • Vengeance
    • Shattered Souls missiles will no longer display for allies.
• Druid
  • Feral
    • Fixed a bug preventing Ferocious Bite from damaging crowd-controlled targets.
• Evoker
  • Devastation
    • Fixed an issue where Mass Disintegrate was not benefiting properly from Iridescence or Titanic Wrath.
  • Preservation
    • Cycle of Life no longer accumulates healing done to pets and guardians.
    ...

During scheduled weekly maintenance on September 17, we will adjust items that have been over- and under-performing in the first few days of The War Within Season 1.

Our goal is to get these changes out ahead of the first Great Vault of the season, to lower the impact on players’ gearing journey.

• Ara-Kara Sacbrood - Primary stat reduced by 5%.
• Burin of the Candle King - Absorb increased by 15%.
• Cinderbrew Stein - Primary stat increased by 5%, absorb increased by 20%.
• Cirral Concoctory - Effects increased by 5%.
• Harvester’s Edict - Damage and Mastery effect increased by 5%.
• Mereldar’s Toll - Versatility effect increased by 8%.
• Overclocked Gear-A-Rang - On-use damage increased by 10%.
• Refracting Aggression Module - Absorb increased by 25%.
• Scrapsinger’s Symphony - Absorb increased by 15%.
• Shadow-Binding Ritual Knife - Primary stat reduced by 5%.
• Shining Aratho...

Hello.

Following recent hotfixes to address issues in Delves, we’ve seen a great deal of concern about enemy scaling in various situations. We’ve been working on additional updates to Delves to address the current state of things.

This is a top priority for us and we expect to deploy further fixes later today.

Thank you for your feedback!

To ensure the accessibility of Ironclaw Weightstone and Whetstones for the duration of this season and beyond, we will increase the total amount produced through crafting to 4.

This change will come with the next weekly reset, which is September 17 in this region.

Today, we updated the 1.15.4 PTR with a new build that includes changes to classes and items, as well as several bug fixes.

General

• PvP Damage Reduction: Players now take 30% reduced Physical damage from other players and pets (was 20%) and 40% reduced Magic damage from other players and pets (was 20%).

Classes

Druid

• The Nature’s Reach talent will now correctly increase the range of Starfall by 10%/20%.
  • This increases the range to 36 yards, or 21 yards when the Idol of Celestial Foc...

On Friday, September 13, we will open the Firelands raid for testing at 1:00 p.m. PDT (4:00 p.m. EDT).

We intend to keep the raid open for testing on the PTR until Monday, September 16.

See you there!

This update is now live and working as intended.

Hello.

At level 15 and higher, Brann only gets XP for seasonal progression from bountiful delves.

We have a hotfix coming that will make this more clear in the tooltip. From level 1 to 14, Brann gains XP from all delves, and then from level 15 to 60, the tooltip will read:

 Complete bountiful delves to increase Brann's power in combat during the season.

We’re working on a hotfix to address this.

The hotfix will add a new Shatter recipe to Enchanting, and the new recipe will let you shatter blue crystals and receive dust.

We expect this to become available in-game in the next couple of days.

Hello!

This was an unintended change and a fix for it has been deployed.

The original change was intended to prevent Vile Taint from activating Blackened Soul for every enemy it affects by providing a small enough internal cooldown that would have no effect on gameplay.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

With scheduled weekly maintenance on September 10, we’re going to reduce the effectiveness of a few new Class Tier sets that would otherwise overperform relative to our targeted values. We will also increase the baseline damage of the affected specs to account for the tier set tuning.

We will then look forward to additional tuning that we’ll develop during Heroic week, which will address anything needed for PvP, Mythic+, and Mythic raiding on September 17.

The September 10 changes will be:

Death Knight
Unholy

• All ability damage increased by 5%
• Nerub-ar Palace Tier Set: 4-piece – Haste when summoning a minion reduced to 1% (was 2%), up to a maximum of 4% (was 8%).

Blood

• All ability damage increased by 5%
• Nerub-ar Palace Tier Set: 4-piece – Damage is increased by 0.5% per Boneshield Charge (was 1%).

Demon Hunter...

We updated the 1.15.4 PTR with a new build today. We have new vendors active with the following items:

• Tier 2 sets
• Zul’Gurub sets and enchants
• Blackwing Lair items

We’re looking for bugs and feedback around our new items and item sets. To accomplish this, you can take on Testwerk – we beefed him up a bit, so feel free to grab some friends and test away.

CLASSES

Druid

• Blackwing Lair Balance 6-piece Bonus redesigned to increase Starfire damage by 10%, stacking up to 3 times.

Hunter

• Lock and Load cooldown removed.
• Flanking Strike chance to trigger increased to 50% (was 33%).

Mage

• Blackwing Lair Damage Set 6-piece Bonus retuned to 40% (was...

Noting that the hotfixes went live to all realms about two hours after this post yesterday.

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