Season of Discovery Hotfixes - April 8

April 8, 2024

Season of Discovery

• Updated the levels of Fireguard Destroyers in Black Rock Depths to be more appropriate for Phase 3 of Season of Discovery.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Druid Trainer Lognaar to vanish periodically.
• Non-Engineering and non-Blacksmithing nightmare armaments recipes no longer require a blacksmith hammer to craft.
• The materials required for the quest “Mixology for Fun and Profit” have been adjusted.
• Items
  • Darkmoon Card: Sandstorm no longer triggers on every instant cast spell.
  • Tenacity Chain is now Mail (was Leather).
  • Membrane of Dark Neurosis now has spell hit (was Spirit), and now has a spellpower proc (was haste).
  • Breadth of the Beast is now Unique.
• Druid
  • The Free Wrath cast from Fury of Stormrage will no longer consume Clearcasting.
  • Rumsey Rum no longer 100% procs Omen of Clarity.
• Mage
  • Balefire Bolt now procs and consumes clearcasting.
  • Balefire Bolt now correctly benefits from the Spellpower Rune.
  • Displacement no longer requires a target.
  • Balefire Bolt now works with Ignite.
  • Conjure Water Rank 6 now conjures 20 waters.
  • Molten Armor now falls off when the rune is swapped out.
  • Balefire Bolt now benefits from and consumes Arcane Blast stacks.
  • Balefire Bolt now benefits from and spends the charges of Combustion.
• Priest
  • Void Zone damage no longer resets the casting time on your wand.
  • Void Zone now locks the Priest out of the Shadow school when kicked.
  • Void Zone visual changed to be less disruptive.
• Rogue
  • Fixed a bug with Honor Among Thieves where it could stop working if you tried to gain a combo point on an ally or had your target die from a critical ability.
  • Honor Among Thieves should no longer consider whether the Rogue or their allies are flagged for PvP.
  • Carnage will no longer fall off while Rank 4 Rupture is active.
• Shaman
  • Tidal Waves will now always apply its increase in Healing Wave case spell, even if the Healing Wave was spell queued.
• Warrior
  • Shield Slam now correctly has 200% increased threat.
  • Devastate correctly deals 150% weapon damage per second (was 100%).
• Warlock
  • Felguard will now cast Cleave even when there is only 1 target.
  • Demonic Sacrifice buffs now fall off when the Summon Felguard rune is removed.
• The Sunken Temple
  • Fixed an issue where Festering Rotslime would despawn and then soft-lock the raid in combat.
  • Avatar of Hakkar
    • Avatar of Hakkar and Hakkari Bloodkeeper health lowered by 35%.
  • Eranikus
    • Players should no longer be able to walk on the raised edges of the room.
    • Number of Whelps spawned in second phase reduced to 6 (was 8).
    • Number of Nightmare Scalebane spawned during third phase reduced to 2 (was 3).
    • Period for the Summoning Effect of last phase increased to 9 seconds (was 6 seconds).
    • Number of Whelps and Scalebane spawned during last phase dropped to 3 and 1 (was 4 and 2).
• Nightmare Incursions
  • Retuned the Unstable Wisp in the Hinterlands Nightmare Incursion to be a bit less punishing for players to deal with.
  • Quest objects for Nightmare Incursions now have multiple simultaneous spawn locations.
  • Reduced the experience awarded by Nightmare Incursion quests.
  • Increased the reputation granted by level 50 quests.

April 9, 2024

Season of Discovery

• The number of creatures needed to complete missions in the Nightmare Incursions have been reduced by about 30%.
• Items
  • Fixed an issue causing some bosses to drop no Rare items.
  • Darkmoon Card: Decay adjusted to be more appropriate for single target situations.
  • Darkmoon Card: Sandstorm adjusted to be more appropriate for multi-target situations.
  • Screaming Chain Shoulders can now be learned by Leatherworkers.
  • Sigil of Living Dreams now requires a runed truesilver rod to craft (was arcanite rod).
• Paladin
  • Consecration critical hits from the Wrath rune, now trigger Vengeance.
• Priest
  • Prayer of Mending can now trigger Divine Aegis.
• Warlock
  • Lake of Fire will now properly increase the damage of Immolation Aura.
  • Immolation Aura now has a persistent visual.
  • Shadow and Flame is now activated by the Pandemic rune’s critical hits that occur from damage over time effects.

I’ve removed the following from the updates above:

• The flasks specifically for Sunken Temple now persist through death.

This was not intended. The Atal’ai Mojo potions are not meant to be flasks nor should they persist through death.

April 11, 2024

Season of Discovery

• Darkmoon Card: Overgrowth proc chance increased to 10% (was 5%).
• Darkmoon Card: Decay now procs from ranged attacks and abilities.
• Anguish of the Dream’s bonus damage on next ability will no longer be consumed by professions.
• “Jungle Durian” now rewards 20 Jungle Durians (was 10).
• Rogue
  • Cheap Shot’s stun effect can now correctly apply to targets under the effects of Goblin Rocket Helmet’s Reckless Charge.
  • Combat Potency and Deadly Brew can no longer proc from Fiery Weapon procs.
• Shaman
  • Rolling Thunder now correctly restores 2% of the Shaman’s total mana per Lightning Shield charge released.
  • Shamans should now appropriately have access to Rank 4 of Fire Nova (was Fire Nova Totem) when the rune is engraved.
• Warlock
  • Unstable Affliction is now affected by Haunt’s increase.
  • Damage over time effects that crit through the Pandemic rune will now be able to activate Dance of the Wicked.
  • Felguards summoned by Warlocks are now given an appropriate demon name.
• Warrior
  • Gladiator Stance will now appear at the end of your stance bar instead of the beginning and will no longer rearrange the order of your stances for the purpose of stance macros.
• Sunken Temple
  • Fixed an issue that would occasionally cause Dreamscythe and Weaver to evade when their target survived falling into the Pit of Sacrifice.