Hotfixes

May 10, 2024

Classes

• Warlock
  • Fixed an issue where the scaling of Inferno would become reduced when Rain of Fire affected more than 5 targets.

Dungeons

• Dawn of the Infinite end bosses should now drop Awakened Crests.

Mounts

• Taivan awoos when summoned, like a good boy.

Non-player Characters

• Kessa, the Personal Tabard Vendor located in Valdrakken should now be available to all alts after completing the questline to unlock the personal tabard.

Professions

• Tailoring...

A few minutes ago, we deployed hotfixes to address issues with Dwarven and Night Elf archaeology projects. The following projects are now available during the Cataclysm Classic Pre-patch:

Dwarf

• Silver Kris of Korl
• Warmaul of Burningeye
• Word of Empress Zoe
• Pipe of Franclorn Forgewright
• Spiked Gauntlets of Anvilrage
• Scepter of Bronzebeard
• The Innkeeper’s Daughter

Night Elf

• Wisp Amulet
• Carcanet of the Hundred Magi
• Umbra Crescent
• Bones of Transformation
• Silver Scroll Case

We also double-checked on the Pterrordax Hatchling and found it waiting as intended in Fossil Digsites at Archaeology skill level 525.

Hello, Destruction Warlocks.

With the release of 10.2.7 yesterday, the scaling of Inferno became heavily reduced when Rain of Fire affects more than 5 targets. We investigated this, and found it was a change that was originally implemented with Shadowlands Season 4, and later became unintentionally broken with the launch of Dragonflight and went unnoticed.

With the release of 10.2.7, the reduced scaling was inadvertently fixed when unrelated changes were made.

Considering the timing of this, we’re going to remove the reduced scaling. In The War Within, we plan to redesign Inferno to address how Destruction scales in power in relation to target count.

Thank you for the reports regarding this issue and we hope to have the fix implemented soon.

May 7, 2024

Cataclysm Classic

• Legendary appearances may now be added to your Transmogrification collection. In anticipation of community response to this change, we have also added a pitchfork.
• Fixed an issue that would cause the Monstrous Clams in the quest “Clammy Hands” to be non-interactive.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Naralex and his discipline from correctly spawning in the Southern Barrens.
• Druid Thrash now benefits from and consumes the Clearcasting effect from Omen of Clarity.
• Fixed an issue where Blessing of Kings and Mark of the Wild were incorrectly stacking their stat increases.
• Fixed an issue where level 80 boosted characters were not properly learning their class and spec’s Mastery abilities.
• Prayer of Mending now scales by the intended amount from spell power.
• Conflagrate will no longer consume lower-rank Immolates belonging to other Warlocks.
• ...

May 7, 2024

Classes

• Demon Hunter
  • Vengeance
    • Sigil of Silence duration reduced to 4 seconds (was 5 seconds).
    • Sigil of Silence cooldown increased to 90 seconds (was 60 seconds).
    • Cycle of Binding now reduces Sigil cooldowns by 2 seconds per trigger (was 3 seconds).
    • Soul Cleave damage reduced by 8%.
• Druid
  • Balance
    • Season 4 (2) Set Bonus now increases the damage of your next Wrath or Starfire by 50% (was 30%).
    • Season 4 (2) Set Bonus new reduces the Astral Power cost of your next Starsurge or Starfall by 30 (was 15) and increases the damage it does by 60% (was 40%).
• Monk
  • Brewmaster
    • Keg Smash damage reduced by 10%.
    • Spinning Crane Kick damage reduced by 10%.
    • Summ...

May 6, 2024

Cataclysm Classic

• Account wide achievements that reward titles now grant them at an account level.
• Fixed an issue that prevented players from receiving daily Random Battleground rewards.
• Smoke Bomb will now properly cancel Stealth, Prowl, and Shadowmeld from enemy players.
• Fixed an issue that would prevent Warden Stillwater from spawning during the “Lawn of the Dead” quest.
• Fixed an issue where Death Knights in Blood Presence could be incorrectly, critically hit by all melee attacks.
• Reduced the cost of all honor and arena gear from Wrath of the Lich King, to better match honor gain while at level 80 compared to level 85.
• Holidays
  • Made some improvements to the Children’s Week Quests “The Banshee Queen”, “Malfurion Has Returned!”, and “The Fallen Chieftain” to more consistently grant quest credit.
• Warlock...

Updated the OP. There is no damage reduction in this hotfix tomorrow.

Tomorrow, during scheduled weekly maintenance, we’ll deploy this hotfix:

Items

• Tome of Unstable Power’s AOE target cap set to 8.

Our goal here is to keep the Tome very strong, while bringing it more in line with other DPS trinkets.

If you click through, it will take you to the story page where you can download the complete PDF to read.

We have continued to closely monitor data on class performance and feedback from players. With scheduled weekly maintenance in each region, we’ll make the following adjustments to classes that are over- and under-performing in group content and PvP.

Classes

• Demon Hunter
  • Vengeance
    • Sigil of Silence duration reduced to 4 seconds (was 5 seconds).
    • Sigil of Silence cooldown increased to 90 seconds (was 60 seconds).
    • Cycle of Binding now reduces Sigil cooldowns by 2 seconds per trigger (was 3 seconds).
    • Soul Cleave damage reduced by 8%.
• Druid
  • Balance
    • Season 4 (2) Set Bonus now i...

A few minutes ago, we significantly reduced the cost of all Honor and Arena gear from Wrath of the Lich King.

This is intended to better match the lower Honor gains players are seeing while at level 80, compared to level 85.

Specifically, we reduced the cost of everything across the board by about 66%.

We had to approach this issue in two steps. First, we fixed the bug a couple of days ago, so that it won’t happen to players who max their Archaeology.

Second, we’re working on a fix for players who hit that point before the first hotfix. This second fix is a work in progress, and we don’t have an ETA on it just yet.

Added

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Blood Presence is increasing the chance that the Death Knight takes a critical strike.
  • Frost Presence and Improved Frost Presence are not increasing Runic Power gains.

Dungeons and Raids

• Players cannot enter many Heroic Burning Crusade dungeons.
• Ulduar
  • Yogg-Saron does not spawning any clouds.
  • Enemies in Ulduar are hitting for much more damage than intended.
• Ice Crown Citadel
  • Blood Queen Lana’thel may sometimes refuse to bite.

Leveling

• Opening treasure chests and professionally...

Today’s hotfixes update:

May 3, 2024

Cataclysm Classic

• Fixed a bug causing Hunters to do trap dropping animations twice.
• Account wide pet collection achievements now correctly grant rewards.
• Fixed an issue preventing Bloodlust and Heroism from working as intended.
• Mounting the Violet Proto Drake now grants Master Riding to players who are at least level 80 and have Artisan Riding trained.
• Heal-over-time and damage-over-time ticks should now behave as intended in Cataclysm when refreshed.
  • Developers’ notes: Previously, refreshing a DoT just before it finished its last tick could cause it to miss out on a tick. That was the correct behavior in Wrath of the Lich King, but not Cataclysm.
• Holidays
  • The Children’s Week holiday is now extended for one additional week.
  • “Ridin’ The Rocketway” can now be completed.
  • ...

We’ll have this fixed shortly, apologies!

We’ve developed a fix for this. The fix requires realm restarts, so it will go in with scheduled weekly maintenance on Tuesday, May 7.

Today’s raid testing will begin at 1:00 p.m. PDT (and will end at 1:00 p.m. PDT on Monday).

See you there!

We’re aware of and working on issues with the Children’s Week holiday. Specifically, we’re fixing bugs with the holiday’s quests as well as fixing an issue with the What A Long Strange Trip It’s Been achievement not properly granting the Master Riding skill.

Considering the time it’s taking to complete this work, we’ve decided to extend the holiday by a week to make sure everyone has plenty of time after the fixes.

Thanks again for your patience and understanding.

May 2, 2024

Classes

• Druid
  • Feral
    • Fixed an issue preventing Smoldering Frenzy (Season 4 (2) Set Bonus) from triggering effects like Seal of Diurna’s Chosen.

Dungeons and Raids

• Algeth’ar Academy
  • Echo of Doragosa
    • Arcane Rift now spawns Uncontrolled Energy 20% less frequently.
    • Overwhelming Power now spawns Arcane Rift at 4 stacks (was 3).
• The Nokhud Offensive
  • Addressed an issue where the rim visual on Static Spear and Crackling Upheaval can disappear under certain situations.

Items

• Fixed an issue that prevented Eye of Awakening from functioning on rings purchased from Antique Bronze Bullion vendors.
• Fixed an issue that prevented T...

May 2, 2024

Cataclysm Classic

• If a Paladin misplaces the Symbol of Faith during the quest “Materials of Significance”, they may now buy a replacement from the Lost and Found vendor in Booty Bay.
• Fixed the Children’s Week quest “Cruisin’ the Chasm” so that it can now be completed.
• Boosted Paladins should now have Collective Book of Healing or Secondhand Book of Healing as expected.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Worgen from being eligible for some daily quests.
• Mage
  • Ignite damage will no longer be counted double toward Combustion.
  • Refreshed Ignite that now has 3 ticks over 6 seconds will do the same amount of damage on each tick.
  • Ignite spread by Impact and Fire Blast will no longer have a missing 2nd or 3rd tick that adds damage to future Ignites.