[2022] WoW Hotfixes – Updated March 9

Heya! Here is the hotfix update for the day:

MARCH 3, 2022

Achievements

• Added additional safety measures to help the Traversing the Spheres achievement register correctly.

Classes

• Hunter
  • Costumes for Pocopoc now correctly persist through Feign Death.
  • Survival
    • Fixed an issue where Wildfire Bombs would not damage player totems or Explosive Orbs in Mythic+ dungeons if the totem or Explosive Orb was the primary target of the Wildfire Bomb.

Covenants

• Each of the four original Covenant campaign questlines now reward a total of 20 additional Renown.

Dungeons and Raids

• Sepulcher of the First Ones
  • Several enemies now detect stealth and invisibility.
  • Skolex, the Insatiable Ravener
    • Fixed an issue where Retch was not treated as an area of effect spell in regards to all defensive abilities.
  • Artificer Xy’mox
    • Health of Xy Acolytes reduced by 15% on Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic difficulties.
    • Resolved an issue where Interdimensional Wormholes could despawn while Genesis Rings were active when Xy’mox was below 30% health.
    • Reduced the pacing of the encounter by 15% on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
    • Improved the visual clarity of Gunship Barrage.
    • Reduced the radius effect of Hyperlight Sparknova.
  • Prototype Pantheon
    • Burden of Sin damage reduced by 25% on all difficulties except Mythic.
    • Added more time before Bastion’s Ward dispel zones despawn upon transitioning between phases.
    • The Prototype Pantheon now pause in their place when beginning Complete Reconstruction and will remain there until all members of the Pantheon are defeated.
    • Improved the visual effect for Pinning Weapon.
    • Fixed an issue where Complete Reconstruction could fail to apply to a Pantheon member.
    • Holy Priest’s Guardian Angel (Talent) will now correctly reduce the cooldown of Guardian Spirit when cast on the Withering Seeds.
  • Anduin Wrynn
    • Anduin’s health reduced by 5% on Heroic difficulty.
    • Remorseless Winter damage reduced by 10% on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
    • Fiendish Soul Health reduced by 25% on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
    • Grim Reflection health reduced by 10% on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
    • Befouled Barrier requires 10% less healing on Heroic difficulty.
    • Befouled Barrier requires 20% less healing on Normal difficulty.
• Mythic+
  • Halls of Atonement
    • Fixed an issue that caused the dungeon’s Mythic+ Rating to be doubled in certain situations.
  • Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
    • Bazaar Strongarm no longer triggers affixes that occur on death (such as Bolstering).
  • Theater of Pain
    • Fixed an issue where dueling Gladiators in the Halls of Might could summon their Encrypted affix relics early.
• Tazavesh: So’leah’s Gambit
  • Updated the Tazavesh Portal Network portal in The Opulent Nexus to now transport players back to Stormheim on Heroic and Mythic+ difficulties.
• Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
  • Zo’phex the Sentinel
    • Reduced the health of Containment Cell by 40%.
    • Reduced the periodic damage of Containment Cell by 50%.
  • The Grand Menagerie
    • Alcruux health reduced by 40%.
    • Achillite health reduced by 20%.
    • Venza Goldfuse health reduced by 10%.
• Hellfire Citadel
  • Gorefiend
    • Fixed an issue that would cause the encounter to reset when engaged by 2 players on Mythic difficulty.
• Firelands
  • Ragnaros
    • Fixed an issue where The Heart of Ragnaros would not appear after defeating the encounter.

Items and Rewards

• The following changes have been made to the Cosmic Gladiator’s Resonator trinket:
  • Damage dealt reduced by 18% and can no longer critically strike.
  • Hostile resonators now have a visual to indicate their radius more clearly.
  • Characters within a hostile resonator will now have an indicator debuff applied.
• Fixed an issue that caused Pure-Air Sail Extensions to increase flying speed.
• Fluidic and Crystallic Spheroids now have cast time.
• Fixed an issue where Interrogator’s Vicious Dirk was not dropping from Iska, Outrider of Ruin, High Reaver Damaris, and Reanimatrox Marzan in Zereth Mortis.

Pet Battles

• Disabled the “back” option for the Pocopoc battle pet.

Quests

• Zereth Mortis daily and world quests now have a higher chance of awarding Cypher Equipment, and a proportionately lower chance of awarding gold or anima.