[2021] WoW Hotfixes -- Updated March 22

Hotfixes

March 22, 2021

Classes

• Concentration Aura again no longer incorrectly reduces the duration of Anti-Magic Shell.
  • Developers’ notes: This is a repeat hotfix, which was first made on February 4, but was unintentionally missing from patch 9.0.5.
• Hunter [with weekly maintenance in each region]
  • Beast Mastery
    • Beast Cleave now causes your pet to strike other targets for 90% of your pet’s damage (was 75%).
  • Marksmanship
    • Aimed Shot damage increased by 5%, and Trick Shots now causes your Aimed Shot or Rapid Fire to ricochet for 55% of the damage (was 50%).
• Monk [with weekly maintenance in each region]
  • Windwalker
    • Spinning Crane Kick damage increased by 15% (was 10%) per unique target you’ve struck in the last 20 seconds (was 15 seconds) with Tiger Palm, Blackout Kick, or Rising Sun Kick.
    • Resolved an issue with Spinning Crane Kick that prevented the ability from gaining benefit from Mastery: Combo Strikes.
    • Fists of Fury now deals 70% damage to secondary targets (was 50%).
• Warlock [with weekly maintenance in each region]
  • Demonology
    • Spell and pet damage increased by 3%.

Covenants

• Kyrian
  • Fixed a bug preventing Let Go of the Past (Pelagos soulbind) from reducing magic damage taken as intended.

Dungeons and Raids

• Castle Nathria [with weekly maintenance in each region]
  • Sludgefist
    • Fractured Debris missile travel time increased to 2.5 seconds (was 1.5 seconds) on Mythic difficulty.
    • The impact locations of Fractured Debris should now be more visible on Mythic difficulty.
    • Destructive Stomp radius decreased to 16 yards (was 20 yards) on all difficulties.
    • Chain Link allowable range increased to 14 yards (was 12 yards) on all difficulties.
  • Stone Legion Generals
    • Volatile Stone Shell’s absorb channel increased to 5 seconds (was 4 seconds).
    • Wicked Blast damage decreased by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Wicked Lacerations damage decreased about 10% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Anima Orb duration increased to 20 seconds (was 15 seconds) on Heroic and Mythic difficulties.
    • Volatile Anima Infusion and Volatile Anima Infection duration increased to 20 seconds (was 16 seconds).
    • Volatile Anima Detonation radius decreased to 40 yards (was 45 yards).
    • Soultaint Effigy now stacks to 80% healing reduction (was 100%).
    • Stonegale Effigy movement force decreased by 20%.
• Mythic Keystone Dungeons
  • Enemies that are mind-controlled and thrown off the edge of the dungeon no longer contribute to the Enemy Forces requirement.
• Sanguine Depths
  • Fixed an issue with a Famished Tick getting stuck underground in Kryxis the Voracious’s room.
  • Fixed an issue where Z’rali may get stuck in the air when a player carrying the essence dies in mid-air.

Items and Rewards

• The Wandering Ancient mount no longer leaves its acorns behind after dismounting.
• Resolved an issue that prevented Dance of Chi-Ji (Azerite Trait) from granting the correct amount of damage to Spinning Crane Kick.

Player versus Player

• Death Knight
  • Chains of Ice will once again be removed from the target when spells such Blessing of Freedom are used.
• Paladin
  • Holy
    • Blessing of Sacrifice is now properly displayed on raid frames when talented into Ultimate Sacrifice (PvP Talent).

Hotfixes

MARCH 18, 2021

Covenants

• Night Fae
  • Fixed an issue where Podtender (Dreamweaver Soulbind) would sometimes fail to trigger.

Items and Rewards

• Valor is now awarded immediately upon completing a Mythic Keystone dungeon, instead of looted from the chest.

Quests

• Alexandros and Highlord Darion Mograine once again follow the player to Ve’nari’s Refuge during the “Wake of Ashes” quest.
• Defeating Herculon will now provide credit towards the Bastion Calling “Troubles at Home.”

MARCH 17, 2021

Classes

• Priest
  • Fixed an issue where Measured Contemplation (Runecarving Power) would break invisibility potion effects.
  • Shadow
    • Fixed an issue where Insanity would break invisibility potion effects.
• Warlock
  • Fixed an issue where Inevitable Demise (Talent), Soul Leech (Talent), and Demon Skin (Talent) would break invisibility potion effects.

Covenants

• Venthyr
  • Fixed several issues that were preventing the quest “Common Ground” from being acquired or turned in.

Dungeons and Raids

• Theater of Pain
  • Gorechop
    • Fixed an issue that caused players at range to not always be pulled in before Tenderizing Smash is cast.

Items and Rewards

• Mawsworn Crossbow will no longer be available outside of the Maw.

Quests

• Fixed an issue where Shadowlands bonus event quests would not launch properly in some cases.
• The Mole Machine for the Warlords of Draenor Alliance quest "Mole Machine, Go Home” will now allow smaller races to interact with it.

MARCH 16, 2021

Classes

• Hunter
  • Fixed an issue where Aspect of the Cheetah would break invisibility potion effects.
• Shaman
  • Fixed an issue where Spirit Wolf (Talent) would break invisibility potion effects.
  • Enhancement
    • Fixed an issue where Maelstrom Weapon could break invisibility potion effects.
  • Restoration
    • Increased the damage of Lava Burst by 10%.
      • Developers’ note: This change is to counter the 10% damage reduction to Lava Burst in patch 9.0.5 which was primarily intended as a change to Elemental Shaman.
• Warrior
  • Protection
    • Fixed an issue preventing Stalwart Guardian’s (Conduit) cooldown reduction effect for Shield Wall from improving with item level.

Covenants

• Venthyr
  • Fixed an issue where players who were a member of the Venthyr covenant, swapped to a different covenant, and swapped back could have the first chapter of their campaign display as incomplete.

Dungeons and Raids

• Spires of Ascension
  • Fixed an issue where the first pack of Etherdivers and a Forsworn Skirmisher just after the Kin-Tara encounter would sometimes evade.

Items and Rewards

• Fixed an issue that allowed some of the Covenant Hearthstone toys to be used on alts that are not a part of that covenant. The tooltips will be updated in a future patch to reflect this requirement.

Player versus Player

• Arathi Blizzard has replaced Tarren Mill vs Southshore for the weekly brawl.

Quests

• Fixed an issue where Blazing Ingots and Animacones for the quests “Acquisition: Blazing Ingots” and “A Dangerous Harvest” were unintentionally respawning at low rates.

Torghast, Tower of the Damned

• Anima Powers
  • Shaman
    • Restoration
      • The Bottle of Swirling Maelstrom Healing Rain damage effect will now properly cause creatures to attack you.
  • Warlock
    • Fixed an issue where Bottled Shadow would create two icons in your Anima Power user interface.

MARCH 15, 2021

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Frost
    • Fixed an issue where Inexorable Assault (Talent) and Cold Heart (Talent) would break invisibility potion effects.
• Druid
  • Fixed an issue where Eclipse would break invisibility potion effects.
• Monk
  • Mistweaver
    • Fixed an issue where Renewing Mist would break invisibility potion effects.
• Priest
  • Divine Image’s (Runecarving Power) repertoire of spells are now 30% more effective and now have a slightly higher chance to appear when casting a Holy Word spell.
  • Divine Image (Runecarving Power) will no longer cast Dazzling Lights for each target hit by Prayer of Healing, Holy Word: Sanctify, or Circle of Healing.
• Rogue
  • Fixed an issue that could cause Serrated Bone Spike’s (Necrolord Ability) bleed effect to be unintentionally removed at significant ranges.
• Shaman
  • Fixed an issue where several abilities were usable while Hexed.
• Warlock
  • Healthstones will now despawn in Mythic Keystone Dungeons if the Warlock is not present.

Covenants

• Necrolord
  • Fixed an issuing causing Fleshcraft’s passive cooldown reduction effect to break invisibility and stealth effects.

Dungeons and Raids

• Castle Nathria
  • Lady Inerva Darkvein
    • Fixed an issue where Shared Suffering and Concentrate Anima would target Healers with lower priority than desired on Mythic difficulty.
  • Artificer Xy’mox
    • [With regional restarts] Health reduced by 5% on Mythic difficulty.
    • [With regional restarts] Withering Touch damage reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
  • Sire Denathrius
    • [With regional restarts] Health reduced by 9% on Heroic difficulty.
    • [With regional restarts] Hand of Destruction damage reduced by 10% on Heroic Difficulty.
    • Fixed an issue where priests in Spirit of Redemption form could Neutralize their allies on Mythic difficulty.
• Spires of Ascension
  • Ventunax
    • Fixed an issue where players could get hit by Weakened.

Items and Rewards

• The Battle for Azeroth items, Battleborn Sigil and Warlord’s Trophy, are now Poor quality and can no longer be used.

Quests

• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the Enthralled Gorm to sometimes not respawn for the quest “Mizik the Haughty.”

MARCH 12, 2021

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Anti-Magic Zone will now consistently grant its damage reduction to the casting Death Knight.
• Warrior
  • Protection
    • Reprisal (Runecarving Power) now grants 4 seconds of Shield Block (was 6 seconds).

Covenants

• Venthyr
  • Fixed an issue where Ember Court items could still drop from Revendreth Tributes after players changed covenants away from Venthyr.
  • Venthyr players should now always receive either a Blank Invitation or Ambassador’s Reserve from the Revendreth normal Calling reward, Tribute of the Court, and both items from the epic Calling reward, Favor of the Court.

Dungeons and Raids

• Halls of Atonement
  • Halkias
    • Fixed an issue that could cause Refracted Sunlight’s visual effect to not accurately depict the damaging area.

Pet Battles

• The Plump Turkey pet no longer jumps into a nearby campfire and sets itself on fire repeatedly, it has returned back to jumping into the campfire once and combusting. Press F for our feathery friend.

Player versus Player

• Warrior
  • Arms
    • War Banner (PvP Talent) will now apply to players who were already crowd controlled before the banner was placed.

Torghast, Tower of the Damned

• Anima Powers
  • Death Knight
    • Occult Emitter will now grant increased Runic Power generation while the Death Knight stands within their Anti-Magic Zone.

MARCH 11, 2021

Classes

• Hunter
  • The damage effect from Soulforge Embers (Runecarving Power) can no longer be spell reflected.
• Mage
  • Fixed an issue with Disciplinary Command (Runecarving Power) triggering with non-class spells.
  • Arcane
    • Fixed an issue with Clearcasting gained from Mirrors of Torment (Venthyr Ability) not working with the Amplification or Slipstream talents.
• Monk
  • Windwalker
    • Fixed an issue that prevented Dance of Chi-Ji (Talent) from increasing Spinning Crane Kick’s damage properly.
    • Fixed an issue that prevented Fists of Fury from striking its 6th target.
• Paladin
  • Retribution
    • Final Verdict (Runecarving Power) will no longer double benefit from Divine Purpose (Talent).
• Rogue
  • Shiv is now displayed correctly in the combat log.

Covenants

• Necrolord
  • The cosmetic accessory for Abominable Stitching “Plague Pack” is now available to be constructed if you have earned the corresponding transmog.

Dungeons and Raids

• Castle Nathria
  • Players should now respawn closer to Stone Legion Generals and Sire Denathrius if they were engaged in combat after utilizing the shortcut quest to skip bosses.
  • Sun King’s Salvation
    • Fixed an issue where Essence Fonts were not healing Kael’thas Sunstrider for the correct amount.
  • Sire Denathrius
    • Fixed an issue where the dialogue could fail to play for some players after defeating him.
• Sanguine Depths
  • Regal Mistdancer’s Echoing Thrust no longer hits pets.

Quests

• The point of interest indicator for “A Valuable Find: Tirna Scithe” no longer covers the World Quest, “Oranomonos the Everbranching.”

Torghast, Tower of the Damned

• Anima Powers
  • Mage
    • Gravity Dynamo’s effectiveness will now increase as you gain stacks of the power.

MARCH 10, 2021

Achievements

• Fixed an issue where Shard Labor was not being granted to some players who found all of the lost anima crystal shards.

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Unholy
    • Ghouls can once again successfully apply Gnaw on enemy targets.
• Rogue
  • Outlaw
    • Fixed an issue that prevented Control is King (PvP Talent) from granting the Rogue Adrenaline Rush.
• Warlock
  • Diabolic Bloodstone (Conduit) will once again function when allies consume Healthstones generated from a Soulwell.

Covenants

• Necrolord
  • Fixed an issue where the Abominable Stitching items Backbone, Mu’dud, Bindings of Wellbeing, and Bonesewn Fleshroc were not correctly showing their associated Anima crafting cost.

Creatures and NPCs

• Fixed an issue that prevented Lord Melenas, Tur Ragepaw, and various other druid NPCs from shapeshifting.

Dungeons and Raids

• Mists of Tirna Scithe
  • Tred’ova
    • Fixed an issue where the damage from Shared Pain was not increasing the healing of a Death Knight’s Death Strike.
• The Necrotic Wake
  • Blightbone
    • Fixed an issue where Fetid Gas was silencing Priests that were under the effects of Spirit of Redemption.
  • Nalthor the Rimebinder
    • Fixed an issue that caused the encounter to not reset correctly when a player is in stealth on his platform.
• Mythic Keystone Dungeons
  • Fixed an issue where Necrolords falling off the map during Forgeborne Reveries (Bonesmith Heirmir Soulbind) would count as two deaths.

Items and Rewards

• Fixed an issue where guns and crossbows from Mythic dungeons were the incorrect item level.

Quests

• Azmogal no longer spawns during the fight with Sabriel the Bonecleaver for the Maldraxxus quest, “Spoiling For A Fight.”