Hotfixes: October 23, 2024

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: The War Within, Cataclysm Classic, Season of Discovery, WoW Classic Era, and Hardcore. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.

Hotfixes

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October 23, 2024

Classes

• Druid
  • Feral
    • Shred damage increased by 20%.
    • Rake damage increased by 5%.
    • Wild Slashes increases Swipe and Thrash damage by 40% (was 25%).
    • Druid of the Claw: Ravages cast by Convoke the Spirits now trigger Killing Strikes.
      • Developers’ notes: The Feral changes above were intended to be a part of the 11.0.5 patch, but temporarily went missing.
• Hunter
  • Beast Mastery
    • Corrected an issue causing Phantom Pain to unintentionally deal repeated damage to the same enemy player.
• Shaman
  • Enhancement
    • Resolved an issue causing Fire Nova to be disabled while there are Flame Shock targets around.
  • Restoration
    • Resolved an issue causing Ascendance to not duplicate healing as Restorative Mists.

Items

• Fixed an issue where the Burst of Knowledge trinket was not sharing a cooldown with other on-use trinkets.
• Added a 1-second cooldown to the Burst of Knowledge trinket, to prevent some spells from causing more than one stack.

User Interface

• The world boss icon for Orta, The Broken Mountain will now appear on Azj-Kahet's zone map as well as the City of Threads map.

WoW’s 20^th Anniversary

• The Awakening the Machine weekly quest now rewards a Bronze Celebration Token as intended.
• Blackrock Depths
  • Moira Bronzebeard will now respect her cooldown for Shadow Word: Nemesis in the Emperor Dagran Thaurissan encounter on Raid Finder difficulty.

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October 22, 2024

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Blood
    • Deathbringer: Reaper’s Mark initial and stacking damage reduced by 22%.
    • Deathbringer: Exterminate damage reduced by 22%.
    • Deathbringer: Wave of Souls damage reduced by 22% (does not apply to PvP combat).
  • Frost
    • Deathbringer: Reaper’s Mark initial and stacking damage reduced by 22%.
    • Deathbringer: Exterminate damage reduced by 22%.
    • Deathbringer: Wave of Souls damage reduced by 22% (does not apply to PvP combat).
    • Obliterate damage reduced by 6% (does not apply to PvP combat).
    • Breath of Sindragosa damage reduced by 10%.
    • Icy Death Torrent damage reduced by 12% (does not apply to PvP combat).
• Hunter
  • Kill Command damage reduced by 35%.
    • Developers’ notes: This damage reduction was intended to be a part of the 11.0.5 patch, but temporarily went missing.
• Mage
  • Arcane
    • Sunfury: Spellfire Sphere spell damage bonus for Arcane Mages reduced to 1% (was 2%).
    • Sunfury: Lingering Embers spell damage bonus for Arcane Mages reduced to 1% (was 2%).
    • Sunfury: Glorious Incandescence Arcane Barrage damage bonus reduced to 20% (was 30%).
    • Sunfury: Mana Cascade now grants 0.5% Haste for Arcane Mages (was 1%).
    • Spellslinger - Splintering Orbs Splinter generation cap per orb reduced to 4 for Arcane Mages (was 6).
    • Arcane Blast damage reduced by 10%.
    • Arcane Barrage damage reduced by 10%.
• Paladin
  • Protection
    • Fixed an issue that caused Sentinel to grant critical strike incorrectly.

Transmogrification

• Class restrictions have been removed from the class armor and weapon sets that were obtained during the Mists of Pandaria: Remix event.

WoW’s 20^th Anniversary

• Enemies will now despawn after completing The Codex of Chromie step "Up and Away".

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The hotfix notes for the previous patch can be found here.