[2024] The War Within Hotfixes - September 16

September 13, 2024

Achievements

• Players will now earn the achievements Harbinger of the Weathered, Harbinger of the Carved, and Harbinger of the Runed immediately upon outgrowing the use of those crests.

Classes

• Demon Hunter
  • Vengeance
    • Shattered Souls missiles will no longer display for allies.
• Druid
  • Feral
    • Fixed a bug preventing Ferocious Bite from damaging crowd-controlled targets.
• Evoker
  • Devastation
    • Fixed an issue where Mass Disintegrate was not benefiting properly from Iridescence or Titanic Wrath.
  • Preservation
    • Cycle of Life no longer accumulates healing done to pets and guardians.
• Monk
  • Mistweaver
    • Fixed an issue that caused Jade Bond’s increase to Yu’lon’s Soothing Breath to not function in some scenarios.
• Paladin
  • Protection
    • Fixed an interaction causing Judgment to trigger Righteous Protector’s cooldown reduction when Bastion of Light was active.
    • Fixed an interaction causing Bastion of Light’s stacks to not be consumed when Shining Light was active.
  • Retribution
    • An issue causing Empyrean Hammer to not function on training dummies has been resolved.
    • Instrument of Retribution will no longer trigger Dawnlight.
    • An issue causing Instrument of Retribution to trigger Avenging Wrath when talented into Crusade (and vice versa) has been resolved.
• Shaman
  • Fixed an issue causing Farseer Ancestor spells to have a damage reduction adjustment applied twice to their spells.
  • Corrected an issue where Stormbringer Tempest would consume multiple stacks when striking multiple enemy targets.
  • Fixed an issue causing Mastery: Elemental Overload to not increase damage from all pets.
  • Elemental
    • Fixed an issue causing Mastery: Elemental Overload to not increase damage from all pets.
• Warlock
  • Increased the threat generation of voidwalkers’ and felguards’ Threatening Presence.

Delves

• Addressed scaling issues causing enemies in Delves to deal more damage than intended, especially for groups and tanks.
  • Developers’ notes: Over the last day, we’ve sought to address the unintended circumstance where certain group compositions made the health of enemies lower than they would be if you went into a Delve by yourself. We also tried moving some of the harder affixes from first appearing in Tier 9 and above into Tier 8. The results were not what we hoped for. We’ve now brought enemy damage back down closer to our targets, the most-difficult affixes have been sent back to Tier 9, and scaling adjustments should make group and solo play less lethal.
• Nightfall Sanctum
  • Resolved an issue where players could get stuck in combat after dying to Speaker Davenruth.
• The Underkeep
  • Reduced Crazed Abominations’ health.
• The Waterworks
  • Waxface’s Throw Wax damage done reduced by ~15%.
  • Waxface should not immediately begin casting a new spell upon completion of Noxious Gas.

Dungeons and Raids

• Nerub-ar Palace
  • Silken Court
    • When Binding Webs is broken by immunity, it will now correctly remove it from ally and they will no longer falsely appear connected.
    • Triggering intermissions while a boss is stunned will no longer cause Anub’arash or Takazj to stay during the other’s intermission.

Events

• Awakening the Machine
  • Addressed an issue causing the Awakened Phalanx to become stuck in an unattackable state.

Items and Rewards

• Class Set items purchased with Web-Wrapped Curio or Mark of the Spelunker Supreme should now be refundable.
• Fixed a bug where reaching Renown Rank 11 with the Council of Dornogal was not presenting a quest with Carved Harbinger Crests as a reward.
• Warbound-until-Equipped gear obtained from seasonal legacy dungeons should now have correct item levels. This fix is retroactive.

Quests

• Pale Weavelashers should now respawn accordingly in the Silken Ward, improving the local quests and the World Quest “Enforcer Extermination”.
• “Zekvir, Hand of the Harbinger” no longer requires that you complete the Delve seasonal journey.
• In Azj-Kahet, “Special Assignment: A Pound of Cure” has been adjusted to be faster to complete.