Sanq-11813

Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

April 10, 2023

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Unholy
    • Developers’ notes: At high haste levels it was possible for Summon Gargoyle to lose casts of Gargoyle Strike. To help remedy that we are reducing the cast speed of Gargoyle Strike to 2.5 seconds (up from 2 seconds) while increasing the damage done to compensate for the slower cast time. We are also making some targeted tuning adjustments to Unholy to increase their damage outside of their 3-minute cooldowns.
    • [With weekly restarts] Raise Dead damage increased by 10%.
    • [With weekly restarts] Army of the Dead damage increased by...

Based on player feedback, we are rolling back the change to Naturalist and have no further changes planned for Feral at this point. The slight threat increase for Bears will be left in place and Gift of the Wild will continue to have its high chance to trigger Omen of Clarity. I have edited the original post to reflect this.

Greetings all!

We are making a follow-up change on the Omen of Clarity adjustment we made last week. We found the change that prevented Gift of the Wild from trigging Omen of Clarity was unnecessary, and will have a negative impact on Balance Druids, so that change is being reverted. The Bear threat multiplier has also been raised slightly.

• Omen of Clarity now triggers from Gift of the Wild.
• Slightly increased Bear threat multiplier to compensate for reduction to Naturalist.

Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

April 7, 2023

Classes

• Druid
  • Fixed a bug requiring players to shift out and back into Bear Form in order to cast Thrash after having entered certain instances.
• Monk
  • Fixed an issue that allowed Touch of Death to be cast on targets at a higher health threshold than intended.
• Paladin
  • Retribution
    • Execution Sentence’s functionality has changed due to it not working in certain situations as expected. The payoff portion of Execution Sentence will no longer receive damage modifiers. To compensate for this, 30% (up from 20%) of ...

We continue to monitor the performance of classes across various content including Raids, Mythic+ dungeons and PvP. Below, you will find a number of changes meant to balance classes against each other in healing, tanking, and damage in various content.

DEATH KNIGHT

• Unholy
  • Developers’ notes: At high haste levels it was possible for Summon Gargoyle to lose casts of Gargoyle Strike. To help remedy that we are reducing the cast speed of Gargoyle Strike to 2.5 seconds (up from 2 seconds) while increasing the damage done to compensate for the slower cast time. We are also making some targeted tuning adjustments to Unholy to increase their damage outside of their 3-minute cooldowns.
  • Raise Dead damage increased by 10%.
  • Army of the Dead damage increased by 10%.
  • Scourge Strike damage increased by 20%.
  • Clawing Shadows damage increased by 20%.
  • Death Coil damage increased by 10%....

Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

April 6, 2023

Classes

• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • Resolved an issue causing Corruption with Absolute Corruption to not be properly reflected back to the Warlock when using Soul Swap Exhale into a spell reflection effect.

Enemies and NPCs

• Rare enemies in the Forbidden Reach now drop Storm Sigils.

Items and Rewards

• Clockwork Azshara will no longer engage in combat.

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April 5, 2023

Classes

• Paladin
  • Retribution
    • All damage reduced by 3%.
    • Instrument of Retribution duration reduced to 9 seconds (was 12 seconds).
    • Fading Light - Blessing of Dusk causes your Holy Power generating abilities to also grant an absorb shield for 3% of damage or healing dealt (was 10%).
    • Aegis of Protection increases the value of Shield of Vengeance by 10% (was 20%).
    • Shield of Vengeance duration reduced to 10 seconds (was 15 seconds).
    • Lightforged Blessing now heals you and your party for 2% of maximum health (was 3%).
    • Developers’ notes: Retribution Pa...

Hey all!

Just wanted to stop in and point to a variety of Retribution changes that we posted this afternoon that may help out with some of the Ret-related issues brought up in this thread.

With a hotfix that will be deployed to Live environments shortly, we are making the following adjustments to Retribution Paladins:

Damage

Retribution Paladins have been overperforming in terms of their damage output, so we’re making some adjustments here to bring them more in line with our intentions.

• All damage reduced by 3%.
• Instrument of Retribution duration reduced to 9 seconds (was 12 seconds).

In addition to this we have a hotfix coming at a later date related to Execution Sentence and its unintended interactions with various damage boosts.

Defenses

One of our major goals with the rework of Retribution Paladin was to give them a significant boost to their survivability, as this was an area where they were previously underperforming. We overshot the mark here and Retribution Paladins are proving to be more durable than we intended. As such, we are making some defensive reductions t...

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April 4, 2023

Classes

• Hunter
  • Marksmanship
    • Fixed an issue where the Find The Mark buff effect could be consumed by Wind Arrows rather than Aimed Shot.
• Paladin
  • Fixed an issue with Blessing of Dawn’s tracking.
• Priest
  • Holy
    • Resolved an issue causing Holy Word: Salvation to not be castable during Divine Ascension nor have its ranged increased by Divine Ascension.

Dungeons and Raids

• Temple of the Jade Serpent...

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April 3, 2023

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• [With weekly restarts] Fixed a bug that caused tanks to benefit from roughly twice the intended amount of Dodge from the Dodge Rating statistic.
  • Developers’ notes: We’re fixing this to avoid seeing raid groups skew toward maximizing for it. This fix will not change your Dodge % displayed on your character sheet, as the bug was invisible to players.
• [With weekly restarts] Reduced Algalon’s melee damage by 10% in both 10-player and 25-player difficulties.
  • Developers’ notes: We feel that the increase in pressure on tanks and healers from the Dodge bugfix w...

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April 3, 2023

Classes

• Evoker
  • Fixed an issue causing Ancient Flame to incorrectly be consumed by instant-cast Living Flames, such as from the Burnout talent or Lifespark set bonus.
• Paladin
  • Fixed an issue with the timing of Eye of Tyr’s floating combat text.

Player versus Player

• Classes
  • Paladin
    • Fixed an issue causing Retribution Aura to trigger from incorrect amounts of incoming damage.
    • [With weekly restarts] Judgments of the Pure (PvP Talent) now causes Judgment casts...

As you can see in the PTR Development Notes , we have been making changes to several PvP Talents in the Embers of Neltharion update.

We’ll use this thread to discuss further changes in the coming weeks, and we greatly appreciate any feedback you might have.

Thank you!

Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

March 31, 2023

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Activating Tracking abilities such as Find Fish can no longer trigger combat effects.

Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

March 31, 2023

Classes

• Paladin
  • Holy
    • Fixed an issue that caused the cooldowns of Judgment and Crusader Strike to not be reduced by Avenging Crusader.

Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

March 30, 2023

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Classes
  • Paladin
    • Glyph of Righteous Defense will now properly increase the chance to hit with that ability.

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March 30, 2023

Classes

• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • Fixed an issue where Soul-Eater’s Gluttony would not reduce the cooldown of Soul Rot if damage was absorbed.
  • Demonology
    • Fixed an issue where Umbral Blaze’s damage would not increase with a second rank.

Items and Rewards

• Fixed an issue where the Phoenix Wishwing pet would not properly appear in the pet journal.

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March 29, 2023

Classes

• Druid
  • Fixed an issue causing Ursoc’s Fury to generate an incorrect absorb value.
• Monk
  • Mistweaver
    • Fixed an issue that caused the additional Tiger Palm from Awakened Faeline to sometimes not cast while changing facing or moving out of melee range.
• Paladin
  • Fixed an issue causing some Paladins to fail to obtain their Charger.
• Priest
  • Shadow
    • Fixed an issue causing Idol of Y’Shaarj to not trigger its Enrage removal ...

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March 28, 2023

Classes

• Druid

  • Balance
    • Updated the Denizen of the Dream Faerie Dragons to reduce how often they unintentionally engage enemies. They will now enter stealth or invisibility if the caster does, and they now spawn closer to the caster.
    • Starfall damage increased by 13%.
    • Starfall no longer deals damage once when it is first cast.
      • Developers’ note: The above changes address a bug. Starfall deals damage once when initially applied. When it is refreshed, it updates the existing Starfall instead of creating a new instance. Thus, those subsequent Starfall casts do not g...

Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

March 28, 2023

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Classes
  • Summoning companion pets can no longer trigger combat effects.