Season of Discovery Hotfixes - August 15

August 13, 2024

Season of Discovery

• The % increase to player health that is present in Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin is now also active in Alterac Valley.
• Items
  • Shard of the God’s summoned minion now has a 20-yard cone (was 40 yards) and will spend the first 3 seconds of its summon to run into range of a target.
• Quests
  • “Stave of the Ancients" Demon NPCs will now respawn much more quickly.
• Druid
  • The bonus on Moonkin Form that increases Moonfire (and Sunfire) periodic damage now increases it by 100% (was 50%).
• Hunter
  • Immolation Trap now has a 7.5 second duration, but still deals the same amount of damage as it did over 15 seconds. This allows it to deliver all its damage before its cooldown is available again.
  • Raptor Fury now lasts 30 seconds and increases Raptor Strike damage by 15% per application (was 10%).
• Mage
  • Arcane Barrage now has its mana cost correctly reduced by Clearcasting.
  • Pyroblasts from Hot Streak will no longer consume Clearcasting.
• Paladin
  • Divine Light now has an 8 second cooldown.
• Rogue
  • Main Gauche will now correctly be consumed when you Parry an attack, regardless of the type of enemy you are fighting.
  • Focused Attacks now refunds 2 Energy from critical strikes (was 3 Energy).
  • Envenom’s erroneous spell power ratio has been removed.
• Shaman
  • Shamanistic Rage now grants the rest of the party and raid 18% of the mana granted to the Shaman (was 10%).
    • Developers’ notes: This change was made to better equalize mana provided to parties and raids between horde and alliance.
  • Warlock
    • Warlock pets will now correctly benefit from Fel Armor’s increase to their master’s spell power.