[2022] Hotfixes: November 11, 2022

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, Wrath of the Lich King Classic, Burning Crusade Classic and WoW Classic. 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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November 11, 2022

Classes

• Warlock
  • Dark Pact now shields you for 200% of health sacrificed (was 250%).
  • Dark Pact's additional shield amount has been reduced by 50%.

Quests

• Fixed an issue where players were unable to complete the worgen starting zone.

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November 10, 2022

Classes

• Demon Hunter
  • Vengeance
    • Fixed an issue that caused Darkness' effect to be 10% as Vengeance instead of the intended 20%.

• Druid
  • Balance
    • Starfall damage reduced by 30%.
    • Starfire damage reduced by 15%.
    • Wrath now generates 8 Astral Power (was 6 Astral Power).

• Rogue
  • Assassination
    • Duskwalker's Patch (Runecarving Power) now correctly affects Deathmark instead of Vendetta. The tooltip will be updated to reflect this change in a future patch.

Player versus Player

• Players who participate in Korrak’s Revenge and complete the bonus objective to obtain 200 Timewarped Badges from the event can earn two mounts: the Stormpike Battle Ram (Alliance) and the Frostwolf Snarler (Horde).

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Classes
  • Hunter
    • Fixed an interaction with Roar of Sacrifice and pets that would cause the pet to take significant damage, usually killing the pet.

• User Interface and Accessibility
  • Festering Emerald Drake is now correctly able to be mounted in Dalaran.

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November 9, 2022

Classes

• Hunter
  • Beast Mastery, Marksmanship
    • Fixed an issue where Wailing Arrow would cause Wild Spirits to deal damage for each target hit rather than once per Wailing Arrow cast.
  • Marksmanship
    • Fixed an issue where Wind Arrows were incorrectly causing Wild Spirits to deal damage.

• Shaman
  • Enhancement
    • Fixed an issue where Doom Winds was granting a higher-than-expected trigger rate of Windfury Weapon.

Quests

• Fixed an issue where several quest NPCs were not able to be interacted with after a cutscene.

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• User Interface and Accessibility
  • The commentator UI will no longer display the number players remaining.

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November 8, 2022

Classes

• Demon Hunter
  • Havoc
    • Fixed an issue that prevented Sinful Brand from being affected by Any Means Necessary.
  • Vengeance
    • Fixed an issue that caused Painbringer to always grant 2% damage reduction per stack, regardless of whether 1 or 2 points were spent in the talent.
    • Fixed an issue that prevented Soul Carver from gaining damage from Fiery Demise and Demon Soul effects.
    • Fixed an issue where the Fiery Brand Talent was being granted as level-learned.
    • Fixed an issue that prevented multiple Vengeance Demon Hunters from having separate instances of Frailty on the same target.
    • Painbringer duration increased to 5 seconds (was 4 seconds).
• Druid
  • Balance
    • Fixed an issue where Astral Smolder did not benefit from both Lunar and Solar Eclipse.
    • Fixed an issue where Wrath and Starfire, while benefitting from Umbral Embrace, would not gain benefit from both Lunar and Solar Eclipse.
• Mage
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Arcane Momentum variant of Blink to not function with Displacement.
  • Frost
    • Fixed an issue with the Root from the Frostbite talent which caused enemy AI to turn and auto-attack unintendedly.
• Monk
  • Fixed an issue where Empowered Tiger Lightning was not showing in combat logs.
  • Save Them All now correctly increases healing done.
  • Windwalker
    • Fixed an issue where Serenity was not correctly increasing the damage of Strike of the Windlord and Thunderfist.
• Rogue
  • Assassination
    • Fixed an issue that prevented Amplifying Poison and Sepsis from benefitting from Mastery.
• Shaman
  • Enhancement, Restoration
    • Fixed an issue where Deeply Rooted Elements (Runecarving Power) could activate from using Lava Burst.
• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • Fixed an issue where Rampant Afflictions and Malefic Affliction would not function together.
  • Demonology
    • Fixed an issue where Guillotine was castable regardless of your current pet.
• Warrior
  • Protection
    • Fixed an issue where Unbreakable Will would trigger from Avatar when it was not talented.

Player versus Player

• Korrak's Revenge Anniversary event is now available. Head to the Player vs. Player Quick Match menu to join the battle.
• Fixed an issue where Korrak’s Revenge couldn’t be queued for below level 60.

User Interface and Accessibility

• Fixed a tooltip error with Black Ox Brew in non-English clients.

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Achievements
  • Players on Classic Era realms who earned the “Immortal” achievement during Season of Mastery and have lost their Tabard of Mastery can now purchase a replacement from the Tabard Vendor at any Capital City Embassy.
• Dungeons and Raids
  • The Fungal Creep debuff from the Loatheb encounter will now fall off if players are not in active combat with Loatheb.
• User Interface and Accessibility
  • Directing your pet to attack now makes you immune to Sap.

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November 7, 2022

Classes

• Mage
  • Fixed an issue that caused Cascading Power to not grant the correct version of Clearcasting when Arcane Empowerment (PvP Talent) was selected.
• Paladin
  • Protection
    • Fixed an issue where Sentinel was not benefiting from Righteous Protector's cooldown reduction.
• Priest
  • Holy
    • Empyreal Blaze now has a 60 sec cooldown (was 30 sec).
• Shaman
  • Restoration
    • [Live with weekly restarts] Lightning Bolt damage increased by 20% (Restoration only).
    • [Live with weekly restarts] Chain Lightning damage increased by 20% (Restoration only).
    • [Live with weekly restarts] Lava Burst damage increased by 20% (Restoration only).
    • [Live with weekly restarts] Flame Shock damage increased by 20% (Restoration only).
    • [Live with weekly restarts] Acid Rain damage increased by 20%.
• Warlock
  • [Live with weekly restarts] Soul Leech now grants you and your pet shields that absorb 6% (was 8%) of the damage dealt.
  • [Live with weekly restarts] Soul Link now increases Stamina by 5% (was 10%) if Grimoire of Sacrifice is active.
  • [Live with weekly restarts] Profane Bargain now increases Stamina by 3/5% (was 5/10%) if Grimoire of Sacrifice is active.
  • [Live with weekly restarts] Demonic Fortitude increases you and your pets' maximum health by 5% (was 6%).
  • [Live with weekly restarts] Inquisitor's Gaze now casts Fel Blast more often.
  • [Live with weekly restarts] Inquisitor's Gaze damage increased by 30%.
  • [Live with weekly restarts] Summon Soulkeeper damage increased by 30%.
  • Fixed an issue where Greater Banish was increasing the duration of Banish in PvP.

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Priest
  • Prayer of Mending should now be properly affected by the 2-set bonus of the Regalia of Faith set.
• Shaman
  • Elemental
    • Fixed an issue where Rank 1 of Elemental Oath could stack with other effects that grant a party or raid increased Spell Critical Hit Chance.

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November 4, 2022

Classes

• Monk
  • Fixed an issue where Tiger Tail Sweep rank 2 was not granting a bonus over rank 1.
• Paladin
  • Holy
    • Fixed an issue that caused Recompense to not function with the Ultimate Sacrifice PvP talent.
• Rogue
  • Assassination
    • Fixed an issue preventing the Exsanguinate talent from benefitting from increased range provided by the Acrobatic Strikes talent.
  • Outlaw
    • Fixed an issue that caused the Opportunity talent tooltip to display an incorrect value.
    • Fixed an issue that caused Skull and Crossbones (Roll the Bones effect) to provide a bonus much lower than intended.
    • Fixed an issue that prevented bonus Pistol Shots from the Fan the Hammer talent from triggering Blade Flurry.
    • Fixed an issue that prevented the Greenskin's Wickers talent from benefitting from Echoing Reprimand's Animacharge effect.
• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • Fixed an issue where Inquisitor's Gaze would attack enemies that were not in combat with you.

Quests

• Fixed an issue with the “That’s a Good Trick” quest that was preventing players from interacting with Lady Moonberry and completing the quest.

User Interface and Accessibility

• Fixed an issue where action bars could get cleared when switching loadouts.
• Fixed an issue where some characters may be unable to change their talents.

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November 3, 2022

Classes

Fixed an issue where some class abilities were inappropriately snaring certain bosses and boss mechanics.

• Hunter
  • Beast Mastery, Marksmanship
    • Fixed an issue where Alpha Predator did not increase the damage of Kill Command.
• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • Fixed an issue where Malefic Affliction would be removed when reapplying Unstable Affliction to the same target.

User Interface and Accessibility

• Fixed an issue where the Void Storage NPC could not be interacted with if the UI was close with the ‘Esc’ key.
• Fixed an issue where the “Friendly Players” option appeared twice in the Interface options menu.
• Fixed an issue that caused gamepad bindings to disappear for ranged characters.
• Fixed an issue where the cast bar would disappear when casting a spell while in edit mode.
• Fixed an issue where max background FPS was uncapped if max foreground FPS toggle was unchecked.
• Fixed an issue where users were getting an error when updating their UI through edit mode.
• Fixed an issue where some non-PvP items were displaying PvP tooltips while browsing in the Auction House
• Fixed an issue that was causing memory leaks for some Mac users when Alt-Tabbing.
• Fixed an issue where some transmogs were not displaying correctly on Worgen when changing forms.
• Fixed an issue where several objects in the Legion Mage Class Order Hall appeared unlit.

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November 2, 2022

Classes

• Druid
  • Guardian
    • Fixed an issue that prevented Scintillating Moonlight from reducing damage taken.
• Monk
  • Mistweaver
    • Clouded Focus now correctly buffs the Enveloping Mist healing from Tear of Morning.
• Paladin
  • Fixed an issue preventing Avenging Wrath nodes from being draggable from the talent pane.
• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • Malefic Affliction is now applied to the caster rather than an enemy target for easier tracking.
    • Fixed an issue where Dread Touch was not correctly being applied.
    • Fixed an issue where Doom Blossom was not gaining an increased chance of occurring from your stack count of Malefic Affliction.
  • Demonology
    • Fixed an issue where Annihilan Training would not be reapplied to your Felguard if learned while your Felguard was active.

Player versus Player

• Players who leave Rated Solo Shuffle early now are appropriately penalized.

Quests

• Fixed an issue where the quest “A One-Way Ticket to the Heart” couldn’t be completed

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Achievements
  • The Battlemaster achievement should now correctly grant the Battlemaster title.

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November 1, 2022

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Fixed an issue where both charges of Death’s Grip could be accidentally used in quick succession when talented into Death’s Echo.

• Demon Hunter
  • Havoc
    • Chaos Strike and Annihilation damage reduced by 5%.
    • First Blood damage bonus reduced to 75% of attack power (was 85%).
    • Inner Demon damage increased by 25%.
    • Fixed an issue that prevented Inner Demon damage from being increased by Havoc’s Mastery and Demon Soul effects.
• Druid
  • Feral
    • Brutal Slash is now usable in Bear Form and replaces Swipe while in Bear Form. It does not generate combo points or cost energy while in Bear form.
• Hunter
  • Beast Mastery
    • War Orders now grants Barbed Shot a 25/50% chance to reset the cooldown of Kill Command (was 50/100%)
    • Healing done to your pets from Mend Pet or Exhilaration no longer grants any healing to the Hunters from Leech.
  • Marksmanship
    • Corrected an issue where Chimaera Shot had two chances to trigger the Lethal Shots talent.
    • Aimed Shot damage reduced by 15%.
• Mage
  • Fixed an issue with Summon Water Elemental where it was persisting in situations where it shouldn’t
• Monk
  • Windwalker
    • Fists of Fury damage reduced by 20%.
    • Rising Sun Kick damage reduced by 20%.
    • Blackout Kick damage reduced by 10%.
    • Storm, Earth, and Fire damage transfer reduced by 6.66(repeating, of course)%.
    • Serenity causes the Monk to deal 15% increased damage (was 20%).
    • Invoke Xuen duration reduced to 20 seconds (was 24 seconds).
    • Shadowboxing Treads increases Blackout Kick damage by 10% (was 20%).
    • Teachings of the Monastery now causes Blackout Kick to have a 12% chance to reset the remaining cooldown on Rising Sun Kick (was 15%).
    • Fury of Xuen haste bonus has been reduced to 5% (was 8%).
    • Whirling Dragon Punch damage reduced by 10%.
    • Forbidden Technique now causes Touch of Death to deal 20% increased damage (was 40%) in addition to its current effects.
    • Rushing Jade Wind damage reduced by 10%.
    • Xuen’s Battlegear now causes Rising Sun Kick critical strikes to reduce the cooldown of Fists of Fury by 4 seconds (was 5) and when Fists of Fury ends, the critical strike chance of Rising Sun Kick is now increased by 40% (was 50%).
      • Developers’ note: Windwalker Monks are dealing too much damage across the board. As a result, we’ve reduced the damage of most Chi spenders (Spinning Crane Kick and the recently improved Strike of the Windlord being the notable exceptions), reduced the throughput of major cooldowns (Storm, Earth, and Fire, Serenity, and Invoke Xuen), and reduced the effect of some powerful talents with the goal of preserving build parity after these changes.
• Paladin
  • Fixed an issue where the Hallowed Ground talent was incorrectly increasing all Holy damage dealt, rather than just the damage of Consecrate.
• Priest
  • Crystalline Reflection reflects 6%/12% of damage absorbed (was 10%/20%).
  • Mindgames damage reduced by 25% for Shadow and Holy.
  • Mindgames damage reduced by 50% for Discipline.
  • Discipline
    • Power Word: Radiance applies Atonement at 50% duration (was 60%).
    • Power Word: Radiance healing increased by 30%.
    • Ultimate Radiance increases the healing of Power Word: Radiance by 100% (was 150%).
    • Evangelism cooldown increased to 3 minutes (was 1.5 minutes).
    • Light’s Wrath damage increased by 25%.
    • Light’s Wrath gains 6% damage per ally affected by Atonement (was 10%).
  • Holy
    • Renew healing reduced by 5%.
    • Prayer of Mending healing reduced by 5%.
    • Flash Heal healing reduced by 5%.
    • Heal healing reduced by 5%.
    • Prayer of Healing healing reduced by 5%.
    • Holy Word: Sanctify healing reduced by 5%.
    • Holy Word: Serenity healing reduced by 5%.
    • Circle of Healing healing reduced by 5%.
    • Cosmic Ripple healing reduced by 5%.
    • Divine Hymn healing reduced by 5%.
    • Divine Word: Sanctuary healing reduced by 5%.
    • Holy Word: Salvation healing reduced by 5%.
  • Shadow
    • Shadow Word: Pain damage increased by 10%.
    • Mind Blast damage increased by 10%.
    • Inescapable Torment damage increased by 10%.
    • Shadow Word: Death damage increased by 10%.
    • Vampiric Touch damage increased by 10%.
    • Mind Spike damage increased by 10%.
    • Mind Flay damage increased by 10%.
    • Devouring Plague damage increased by 10%.
    • Mind Sear damage increased by 10%.
    • Shadowy Apparition damage increased by 10%.
    • Void Torrent damage increased by 10%.
    • Shadow Crash damage increased by 10%.
    • Idol of N’zoth’s Echoing Void damage increased by 10%.
    • Idol of Yogg-Saron’s Thing from Beyond Void Spike damage increased by 10%.
    • Dark Void damage increased by 10%.
    • Unfurling Darkness damage increased by 10%.
    • Void Eruption damage increased by 10%.
    • Void Bolt damage increased by 10%.
    • Void Tendril’s Mind Flay damage increased by 10%.
    • Void Lasher’s Mind Sear damage increased by 10%.
• Rogue
  • Ambush damage increased by 20%.
  • Rupture damage increased by 5%.
  • Assassination
    • Garrote damage increased by 5%.
    • Mutilate damage increased by 5%.
    • Deathmark damage increased by 15%.
    • Amplifying Poison - Envenom damage bonus increased to 35% (was 30%).
    • Scent of Blood maximum Agility bonus increased to 24% (was 15%).
  • Subtlety
    • Backstab damage increased by 5%.
    • Eviscerate damage increased by 5%.
    • Shadowstrike damage increased by 5%.
    • Gloomblade damage increased by 5%.
    • Secret Technique damage increased by 5%.
    • Deepening Shadows cooldown reduction per combo point spent increased to 0.7 seconds (was 0.6 seconds).
• Shaman
  • Elemental
    • Lightning Bolt damage increased by 10%.
    • Chain Lightning damage increased by 10%.
    • Lava Burst damage increased by 18%.
    • Flame Shock damage increased by 10%.
    • Frost Shock damage increased by 10%.
    • Elemental Blast damage increased by 10%.
    • Lava Beam damage increased by 10%.
    • Earthquake damage increased by 10%.
    • Earth Shock damage increased by 10%.
    • Icefury damage increased by 10%.
    • Liquid Magma Totem damage increased by 10%.
    • Fire Blast damage increased by 10%.
    • Primal Fire Elemental’s Meteor damage increased by 10%.
    • Primal Fire Elemental’s Immolate damage increased by 10%.
  • Enhancement
    • All damage dealt reduced by 25%.
• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • Fixed an issue where your Malefic Affliction would be removed if another Warlock applied Malefic Affliction.
    • Vile Taint now applies Curse of Exhaustion with a 6 second duration (was 12 seconds).
    • Sacrolash’s Dark Strike now extends Curses by 0.2/0.4 seconds (was 0.5/1.0 seconds).
  • Demonology
    • Implosion damage increased by 25%.
    • Bilescourge Bombers’ damage increased by 20%.
    • Hand of Gul’dan damage increased by 35%.
    • Guillotine’s Fel Explosion damage increased by 25%.
    • Guillotine’s Fel Explosion radius is now 8 yards (was 4 yards).
    • Vilefiend damage increased by 20%.
    • Grimoire: Felguard damage increased by 20%.
    • Annihilan Training now increases the damage of Felguard by 20% (was 10%).
    • Wild Imps now have a 15/30% chance to become an Imp Gang Boss (was 5/10%).
    • Imp Gang Bosses now deal 50% increased damage (was 20%).
    • Pit Lord (from Gul’dan’s Ambition) damage increased by 25%.
    • Demonic Tyrant’s Demonfire damage increased by 10%.
  • Destruction
    • Rolling Havoc now lasts 6 seconds (was 5 seconds).
    • Madness of the Azj’Aqir now lasts 5 seconds (was 4 seconds).

Pet Battles

• Fixed an issue that could cause a miscalculation when leveling up a battle pet with Battle-Training Stones.

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Art
  • Several ability's animations and visual effects should now be displaying correctly (i.e. Will to Survive and Divine Storm).
• Character
  • The Tauren Endurance racial bonus now works as expected.
  • Fixed an issue where sometimes after a name change there are some areas in-game where the previous character name shows up.
• Classes
  • Fixed an issue where Shamans could summon more than one elemental at a time.
• Player versus Player
  • Losing a Random Battleground at max level will now correctly reward zero gold.
• User Interface and Accessibility
  • Fixed an issue where some areas in the game would sometimes show your previous character name after a name change.

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October 31, 2022

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Frost
    • Fixed an issue where Remorseless Winter was incorrectly adding stacks of Icy Talons.
  • Unholy
    • Fixed an issue where the Raise Dead ghoul would despawn when changing instances.
    • Fixed an issue with Ghoulish Frenzy granting 6% damage during Dark Transformation instead of the intended 5%.
• Demon Hunter
  • Vengeance
    • Fixed some issues that caused Sigil of Misery (2 minute cooldown) and Sigil of Silence (1 min cooldown) to have incorrect cooldown values, especially when talented into Concentrated Sigils or Precise Sigils.
    • Fixed an issue when talented into Precise Sigils that caused Sigil casts to put enemies in combat immediately instead of upon Sigil activation.
• Druid
  • Balance
    • Fixed an issue where Lycara’s Teachings was not granting Mastery while in Moonkin Form.
• Mage
  • Fixed an issue with Displacement not working if Arcane Momentum was learned.
  • Frost
    • Fixed an issue that caused Mirrors of Torment procs to not reset the cooldown of Flurry.
• Paladin
  • Fixed an issue that allowed the Shadowlands version of Divine Resonance to stack with the talented version.
• Rogue
  • Reduced the level of learning Crippling Poison to level 10 and Wound Poison to level 23 so they always precede talents that affect them.
  • Assassination, Subtlety
    • Fixed an issue that caused the Fan of Knives and Shuriken Storm animations to not display properly on Tauren and Highmountain Tauren rogues.
• Shaman
  • Elemental, Restoration
    • Fixed an issue that allowed Nature's Swiftness and Stormkeeper to modify more spell casts than intended while both are active on the Shaman.
• Warlock
  • Fixed an issue where Incinerate was registering as Shadow Bolt.
  • Fixed and issue where players were counted for Sweet Souls’ secondary heal even when not in party or raid group.
  • Fixed an issue where Soul Link was not granting its Stamina increase while Grimoire of Sacrifice was active.
  • Demonology
    • Demonic Strength now correctly increases Felguard’s Felstorm damage.
• Warrior
  • Fixed an issue where Shattering Throw was not removing immunities.
  • Protection
    • Fixed an issue where Fueled by Violence was not healing as intended.
    • Fixed an issue where Execute would be on cooldown when talented into Improved Execute.

Player versus Player

• Paladin
  • Fixed an issue that caused Aura of Reckoning's Avenging Wrath effect to cost mana and not extend the duration of existing Avenging Crusader buffs.

Torghast, Tower of the Damned

• Fixed an issue where the Box of Many Things was displaying all rows unlocked despite the character not meeting the requirements.

User Interface and Accessibility

• Locked targets will no longer be cleared when the enemy soft target is defeated with Action Targeting enabled.
• Fixed an issue where Press and Hold Casting was not consistently working with mouseover casting.
• Moved the default location of the zone map (Shift+M).
• The Start a Group button has returned to its proper location in the Custom Premade Group Finder.

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Fixed an issue where Beaming Earthsiege Diamond was also increasing current mana by 2% instead of only maximum mana.

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October 28, 2022

Classes

• Druid
  • Balance
    • Full Moon correctly returns to New Moon when Radiant Moonlight isn’t talented.
    • Elune's Guidance now correctly reduces the cost of Starsurge and Starfall with and without Orbital Strike talented.
    • Fixed an issue where Solstice would not be granted from a Celestial Alignment given by Primordial Arcanic Pulsar.
    • Fixed an issue where Umbral Embrace was not being consumed with Wrath cast by Convoke the Spirits.
    • Fixed an issue where Starfall wouldn’t trigger Primordial Arcanic Pulsar’s Celestial Alignment effect when Orbital Strike was talented.
  • Restoration
    • Fixed an issue that caused Budding Leaves to not affect Lifebloom after it had been extended by Verdant Infusion or Flourish.
    • Fixed an issue that caused Grove Tending to not be extended by Verdant Infusion or Flourish.
• Rogue
  • Subtlety
    • Fixed an issue that could cause Inevitability to cause Eviscerate and Shadowstrike to deal more damage than intended.
• Warlock
  • Fixed and issue where Inquisitor’s Gaze could pull enemies out of combat.
  • Affliction
    • Decimating Bolt (Necrolord Ability) and Shard of Annihilation now correctly increase the damage of one Drain Soul.
  • Demonology
    • Guillotine can no longer be used when Demonic Strength is active.

Dungeons and Raids

• Shadowlands Legendaries and Covenant Abilities and powers once again function correctly in all Season 4 Mythic dungeons.

Player versus Player

• Rated Solo Shuffle
  • Fixed an issue that prevented rating gained from Solo Shuffle to affect your ability to upgrade gear.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause Rated Solo Shuffle first win of the day rewards to not be rewarded at level 60.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented Rated Solo Shuffle from providing progress towards the Great Vault and progress towards Vicious mounts while above 1000 rating.

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October 27, 2022

Achievements

• The achievements for the Season 4 Fated Raids were prematurely moved out of the Dungeon & Raid category, as they are still earnable. They are once again visible.

Classes

• Shaman
  • Enhancement
    • Fixed an issue where some unintended spells could grant a stack of Maelstrom Weapon.

Covenants

• Kyrian
  • Path of Ascension
    • Fixed an issue where Splinterbark Nightmare's melee was consuming charges of Drustbloom Embrace.

Creatures and NPCs

• Fixed an issue where the gold dragon frame was missing on Elite enemy and World Boss nameplates.

Quests

• Fixed an issue where “The Sunken Vault" could not be completed.
• You can once again communicate with the following NPCs:
  • Arluin during the quests "Or Against Us" and "If Words Don't Work..."
  • Runecarver during the quest "The Weak Link."
  • Lord Herne during the quest "Meet the Queen."
• Falstad Wildhammer should now correctly offer and accept quests during the “Blood in the Water” quest line.

User Interface and Accessibility

• Fixed an issue where melee attacks could not be canceled by pressing the Esc key when Action Targeting is enabled.
• The stance bar is no longer centered when closing Edit Mode after moving the bar.
• Spells are once again visible on the action bar when moved around while the Always Show action bar setting is disabled.
• The Group Finder eye icon will once again stay searching and visible after a loading screen occurs.
• Fixed an issue where party frames were missing in Arena when Raid Style Party Frames is enabled.
• The Reagent Bag slot has been removed and will return when Dragonflight launches.

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October 26, 2022

Classes

• Druid
  • Fixed an issue where Ashamane’s Guidance, Ursoc’s Guidance, and Cenarius’ Guidance could stack with Celestial Spirits (Runecarving Power).
  • Feral
    • Freedom of the Herd (PvP Talent) now reduces the cooldown of Stampeding Roar by 15 seconds (was 60 seconds).
• Hunter
  • Survival
    • Fixed an issue where Fury of the Eagle (Talent) was causing more damage from Wild Spirits than intended.
• Priest
  • Fixed an issue where sometimes Mind Sear couldn’t be used above 50 Insanity.

Dungeons and Raids

• Fixed an issue where Fated raid gear were dropping at an incorrect item level.
• Fixed an issue where Mythic and Mythic+ dungeon weapons were dropping at an incorrect item level.

Quests

• Fixed an issue in “The Hunter of Heroes” scenario where Vigfus could not be defeated.
• Horde Warriors are once again able to complete the quest "What's Your Specialty."
• Draenei Rogues should now be able to complete "Rescue the Survivors!" through the use of Gift of the Naaru.

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October 25, 2022

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Classes
  • Paladin
    • Fixed an issue where the Glyph of Seal of Vengeance was still granting its expertise bonus while the glyph was not active.
    • Fixed an issue where Judgements of the Pure (Talent) was still active after switching specializations.
• Items and Rewards
  • Fire Leaf is now correctly classified as a Trade Good.
• Player versus Player
  • Completing Battlegrounds during holiday weekends will now reward an appropriate amount of gold based on a win or a loss.
• Professions
  • Fixed an issue where Engineering bombs were breaking their Incapacitate effect with their own damage.
    • Developers’ note: It is intended that low-level Engineering bombs still have a large failure rate on targets above their level.

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