Sanq-11813

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June 7, 2023

Classes

• Paladin
  • Retribution
    • Fixed an issue causing the Indomitable Justice Azerite trait to sometimes provide an unintended speed bonus.

Dungeons and Raids

• Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
  • The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn
    • Developers’ notes: These changes are directed at reducing the burden on tanks in smaller groups where Shrapnel Bomb was more difficult to handle with more limited amounts of utility from the group.
    • [With June 6 resets] Zskarn health reduced by 10% for s...

Just wanted to let everyone know that the Cobalt Shalewing’s drop rate has been hotfixed and has been brought in line with other similar drops.

Thanks to everyone for pointing this out!

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June 6, 2023

Dungeons and Raids

• Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
  • Echo of Neltharion
    • Slightly reduced Neltharion’s health for smaller groups.
    • Volcanic Heart’s initial damage reduced on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
    • Echoing Fissures’ damage now scales with group size on LFR, Normal and Heroic difficulty.
    • Slightly reduced the Twisted Aberrations’ health for smaller groups.

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June 5, 2023

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Blood
    • [With weekly restarts] Increased damage of all abilities by 8%.
• Druid
  • Feral
    • Developers’ Notes: These set bonus changes will increase the average number of stacks of the (2) Set Bonus and cause the (4) Set Bonus to trigger less often, but provide more Agility when it does.
      • [With weekly restarts] Aberrus (2) Set Bonus: Chance for Shadows of the Predator stacks to reset reduced by 15%.
      • [With weekly restarts] Aberrus (4) Set Bonus: Now incr...

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june 1, 2023

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Commendation of Bravery is again available from Veteran Arena vendors: Argex Irongut in Gadgetzan, Kezzik the Striker in Area 52, and Nargle Lashcord in Dalaran.

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June 1, 2023

Items and Rewards

• Prismatic Bauble’s cooldown has been reduced to 60 seconds (was 120 seconds) for one month.
  • Developers’ notes: For one month, the Prismatic Bauble’s cooldown has been reduced and can be purchased from Jepetto Joybuzz and his Clockwork Assistant in The Wonderworks in Dalaran, floating above the Broken Isles. The Wonderworks can be found down the steps from the Violet Citadel and across the street from Simply Enchanting. Be warned! This very expensive cosmetic item will only have a reduced cooldown and be available from these sources for a month before returning to its original cooldown and being exclusively sold by Dalaran’s ...

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May 31, 2023

Dungeons and Raids

• Mythic+
  • Affixes
    • Incorporeal
      • Incorporeal’s immunity effect can now be removed by effects that dispel immunities.
      • Incorporeal Beings are now susceptible to Charm effects.
      • The effectiveness of Incorporeal Being’s Destabilize is reduced if cast while charmed.
        • Developers’ notes: These changes aim to give Warriors and Death Knights more powerful options to counter the Incorporeal affix.

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May 30, 2023

Classes

• Druid
  • Fixed a bug causing Ursol’s Vortex to use its PvP duration in PvE content.

Dungeons and Raids

• Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
  • The Forgotten Experiments
    • Fixed an issue where players sometimes left combat between when boss creatures were active.
  • Rashok, the Elder
    • Fixed an issue where Lava Wave is inflicting damage more often than stated in the spell description.
  • Magmorax
    • No longer targets pets with Blazing Breath.
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May 26, 2023

Dungeons and Raids

• Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
  • The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn’s health reduced by an additional 10% on Mythic difficulty, to a total 25% health reduction.

Quests

• Big Slick in the City should now no longer anger the local wildlife during “Snail Mail.”
• The speed up bonus now lasts twice as long during “Snail Mail.”

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May 25, 2023

Dungeons and Raids

• Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
  • Fixed an issue allowing players who had completed Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible: Echoes of the Earth-Warder on any difficulty to access later encounters on higher difficulties.
  • The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn
    • Developers’ note: The Zskarn changes address an emerging tactic that trivializes certain aspects of the encounter. We hope these changes will encourage more interaction with the encounter’s existing mechanics, while maintaining its prior level of difficulty. These changes will be live 5/26.
    • The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn heal...

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May 24, 2023

Characters

• The niffen have noticed that player’s scent permeates through all their characters, as such, the Smelly title is now account-wide.

Classes

• Paladin
  • Fixed an issue where some cooldowns were not updating dynamically with Blessing of Dusk.
  • The cooldowns of Holy Prism and Light’s Hammer are now reduced by Blessing of Dusk when the class set is equipped.

Items and Rewards

• Firelands Timewalking Trinkets
  • The Hungerer - Haste reduced by 5%.
  • Matrix Restabilizer - All secondary stats re...

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May 23, 2023

Items and Rewards

• Fixed an issue where Dragonfire Bomb Dispenser’s charge stacks would be lost upon leaving combat.
• Ominous Chromatic Essence will now recall the player’s previously chosen Oathstone alignment when relogging without the trinket equipped.

Quests

• Characters who have completed “Moving On” will be able to start “Keeper of the Ossuary” on their alts if their alts are level 70. Alts will not have to complete the Azure Span introduction to gain access to the Blue Dragonflight quest.

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May 22, 2023

Classes

• Monk
  • Fixed an issue causing Weapons of Order to incorrectly increase enemy damage taken from trinket and embellishment effects.
• Shaman
  • Enhancement
    • Fixed an issue where using Windstrike in Ascendance while talented into Legacy of the Frost Witch and Thorim’s Invocation was not properly resetting the cooldown of Windstrike when gaining the Legacy of the Frost Witch buff.
• Warlock
  • Demonology
    • Fixed an issue where Ripped through the Portal would not function on Magmor...

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May 19, 2023

Dungeons and Raids

• Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
  • Fixed an issue where some Voracious Magma Worms could not be attacked.
  • Rashok, the Elder
    • Fixed an issue where Rashok can sometime not jump to target player’s location during Searing Slam.
• Mythic+
  • Brackenhide Hollow
    • Brackenhide Gnolls no longer trigger Mythic Keystone affix effects on death.
  • Halls of Infusion
    • Containment Apparatus health reduced by 10%.
    • Limited Immortality is now properly cleared from pl...

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May 18, 2023

Dungeons and Raids

• Fixed an issue that, in many cases, prevented Flightstones from dropping Normal and Heroic dungeons and bosses in Aberrus on all difficulties.
• Fixed an issue that was causing too many Bonus Flightstones to be awarded when a player in the group increases their M+ rating.
• Mythic+
  • Brakenhide Hollow
    • Rotbow stalker’s Scented Meat periodic damage reduced by 25%.
    • Rotbow stalker’s Scented Meat impact damage reduced by 30%.
    • Hackclaw’s Warband
      • Updated the visual indicator for Savage Charge.
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May 17, 2023

Achievements

• The achievement Slow and Steady Wins the Race now correctly checks to see if you actually purchased treats for the racer that won before awarding credit.
• Fixed an issue where Obsidian Aspectral Earthstone would not be rewarded upon completing Dragonflight Season 2 Hero.

Classes

• Evoker
  • Devastation
    • Fixed an issue causing Pyre to fail to deal damage if the target moved out of line of sight after the spell was cast.
• Paladin
  • Protection
    • Fix...

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May 16, 2023

Achievements

• Dragonflight Season 2 Master can again be completed by reaching 2000 Mythic+ score.
• Fixed an issue where players were not getting credit for Still Standing in Fire despite dying to Ire of Fyrakk.

Dungeons and Raids

• Mythic+
  • Halls of Infusion
    • Falling through the pipes of the Auxiliary Drainage increases movement and swim speed by 200% until entering combat.
  • Neltharion’s Lair
    • Ularogg
      • Fixed an issue that caused Falling Debris to strike players multiple times....

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May 15, 2023

Achievements

• Fixed an issue causing the Eggscellent Eggsecution to not grant achievement points.

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Frost
    • [With weekly restarts] All ability damage increased by 3%.
    • [With weekly restarts] Obliterate damage increased by 5%.
    • [With weekly restarts] Frost Strike damage increased by 6%.
    • [With weekly restarts] Howling Blast damage increased by 6%.
    • [With weekly restarts] Remorseless Winter damage increased by 8%.
    • [With weekly restarts] Frost ...

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May 12, 2023

Achievements

• Fixed an issue where Every Door Everywhere All At Once was not always properly being rewarded. If you re-enter the vault with all doors open in that vault, you should now receive credit.

Classes

• Demon Hunter
  • Developer’s notes: We’ve been monitoring feedback about the default behavior of Fiery Brand as well as Fiery Brands cast via the new Set bonus. As a result, we’ve added a highlight to Fracture/Shear when the Set proc is available to cast, and will be retaining the behavior that Set casts include the remaining duration when applied to a target with an exist...

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May 11, 2023

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Sara will now receive a message on Vezax’s death that forces her to spawn immediately.
  • Developers’ notes: This should prevent the issue that a few rocket boot equipped players experience where it’s currently possible, if you run fast enough into Yogg’s room after Vezax’s death, that you start the encounter before Sara has spawned and results in a Yogg fight that can’t progress past phase 1. Thanks speedrunners!