The War Within Hotfixes - 23 August (2024)

HOTFIXES

August 23, 2024

Classes

• Priest
  • Shadow
    • Fixed an issue causing Void Tendrils from Idol of C’Thun to attack enemies not in combat with the Priest.

Delves

• Brann should no longer sometimes get stuck flying his gryphadin into a wall.
• Tak-Rethan Abyss
  • Fixed an issue where air bubbles created by rescuing the Preserved Niffen would not stick around.

Events

• Corrected an issue with the Theater Troupe Audience Approval rewards not being granted by the Theater Troupe event in The Proscenium.

Professions

• Enchanting
  • Disabled Enchanting weekly quests that were unintentionally available for the first day of Early Access.
    • Developers’ notes: We’ve disabled those quests, and we’re increasing the Knowledge available to Enchanters who didn’t complete them, starting after the first weekly reset. The extra Knowledge will come from Knowledge point items sourced through Disenchanting and will leave all Enchanters on an even playing field. This extra Knowledge will become available after you have gathered your other weekly Enchanting Knowledge, which includes the weekly quest, Disenchanting Knowledge, and Knowledge obtained from treasures out in the world.

Quests

• Fixed an issue causing players to be unable to see Faerin in order to pick up the quest "Blades of the Arathi”.
• The quest items for “Leave No Stone Behind” are now properly lootable if the quest is abandoned and restarted.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent “Recompense” from being completed.
• Witnessing the formation of the Severed Threads now provides the intended credit for the quest “Uniting Severed Threads”.
• Players are no longer prevented from completing the “Harbinger” questline while on the War Within introduction.
• Fixed a bug where Durzan could sometimes fail to reach his goal in “Thunderhead Butt”, preventing the quest from completing.
• Speaker Brinthe should now be available as expected in The Archives for “Golgrin’s Reach”.

August 22, 2024

Classes

• Death Knight

  • Frost
    • Fixed an issue causing Razorice to not persist on the target applied via Arctic Assault when the Death Knight is not talented into Glacial Advance.
  • Unholy
    • Fixed an issue where the ghoul could fail to be resummoned upon dismounting.

• Hunter

  • Survival
    • Harpoon now pulls you to the edge of a target’s hitbox (was the center).

• Rogue

  • Fixed an issue that could remove the Rogue from Stealth if Vanish duration expired while Subterfuge effect was active.
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent Dispatch from triggering in intended circ*mstances with Crackshot talented.
  • Assassination
    • Fixed an issue that prevented Deathmark’s bleed damage from benefitting from Mastery: Potent Assassin

• Shaman

• Ice and Fire now affects Primordial Wave damage.

• Improved Flametongue Weapon now affects Primordial Wave damage.

• Nature’s Fury now affects Primordial Wave damage.

• Warrior

  • Arms
    • Mortal Strikes from Unhinged will no longer strike additional targets while Sweeping Strikes is active.
  • Fury
    • Bloodthirsts from Unhinged will no longer strike additional targets nor consume stacks of Whirlwind while Whirlwind is active.

Dungeons and Raids

• All dungeon enemy damage reduced by 7% in Mythic and Mythic+ difficulties.
• All dungeon enemy health increased by 10% in Heroic difficulties.
• The Tyrannical affix health increase on bosses reduced by 5%.
• Reduced the health and damage of all Battle For Azeroth raid bosses by approximately 40%.
• Reduced the health and damage of Shadowlands raid bosses by approximately 65%.

Player versus Player

• The maximum amount of Honor a player can accrue is lowered to 4000 for the duration of The War Within Early Access, and this amount will increase to 15000 with the end of Early Access.
• Rogue
  • Shiv (Talent) damage no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 17%).
  • Echoing Reprimand (Talent) damage now reduced by 20% in PvP combat (was 30%).
  • Assassination
    • Envenom damage no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 4%).
    • Mutilate damage no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 4%).
    • Kingsbane (Talent) period damage no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 8%).
    • Kingsbane (Talent) initial damage now reduced by 20% in PvP combat (was 32%).
  • Outlaw
    • Dispatch damage no longer increased in PvP combat (was 20%).
    • Sinister Strike damage no longer increased in PvP combat (was 5%).
    • Mastery: Main Gauche damage no longer increased in PvP combat (was 5%).
    • Blade Rush (Talent) damage is no longer increased in PvP combat (was 5%).
    • Combat Stamina (Talent) now increases Stamina by 12% in PvP combat (was 15% / base 5%).
    • Ace Up Your Sleeve (Talent) effect no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 20%).
    • Crackshot (Talent) effect now reduced by 20% in PvP combat (was 33%).
  • Subtlety
    • Eviscerate damage no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 5%).
    • Shadowstrike damage no longer increased in PvP combat (was 8%).
    • Secret Technique (Talent) damage now reduced by 30% in PvP combat (was 40%).
    • Goremaw’s Bite (Talent) damage no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 10%).
    • Flagellation (Talent) effect no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 20%).
    • Perforated Veins (Talent) effect no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 20%).

Professions

• All Dragonflight profession first craft experience bonuses no longer apply to player-characters at or above level 70.
• All Artisan’s Acuity has been removed from the first-time crafters’ bonus of trainer-taught recipes in The War Within.
• All Artisan’s Acuity has been removed from gathering journal discovery bonuses.
• An additional 150 Artisan’s Acuity has been added to the one-time reagent bag players receive from the quest “Crafting to Order”.

Quests

• Players can once again earn progress towards the achievement Back to the Depths! after completing “Summons from the Depths”.
• The Mechashark X-Steam has had high octane fuel added to it so you can complete “A Goblin in Shark’s Clothing”.

August 20, 2024

Achievements

• Fixed several basic Achievements that were unintentionally missing achievement points.
• Updated several Achievements that were improperly showing as unlearned in Feats of Strength.

Classes

• Shaman
  • Resolved an issue causing talent loadout strings to fail to import for Shamans.

Quests

• Humans that complete “Ally of the Netherwing” can now continue aiding the Netherwing.

August 19, 2024

Classes

• Developers’ notes: To make our raid buffs more equal across varied group compositions, we’re reducing the effectiveness of Arcane Intellect and Chaos Brand from 5% to 3%. We feel this will help to improve the balance of caster heavy versus melee heavy groups when participating in non-raid content.
• Demon Hunter
  • [With weekly maintenance] Chaos Brand reduced to 3% increased magic damage taken (was 5%).
• Evoker
  • Preservation
    • Fixed an issue where Rank 2 of Renewing Breath was not increasing the heal over time portion of Dream Breath.
  • Mage
    • [With weekly maintenance] Arcane Intellect reduced to 3% Intellect increase (was 5%).
    • Fixed an issue causing Concentrated Coolness (PvP Talent) to not function properly.
  • Paladin
    • Fixed a bug preventing Holy Power spenders from stacking up Radiant Glory Crusader when cast with Divine Purpose.
    • Fixed an issue where Retribution Aura persisted on old characters.

Items

• Fixed a bug that prevented the application of the Nitro Boost belt enchant on some equipment.

Player versus Player

• Rated Battleground Blitz
  • Resolved an issue where the absorb from Shield of Protection was scaling too high.

August 15, 2024

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Unholy
    • Fixed an issue with Festermight not overlapping.
• Paladin
  • Retribution
    • Fixed an issue causing Radiant Glory to trigger more than intended.
• Warrior
  • Fury
    • Wrath and Fury is now correctly increasing Raging Blow damage.

Items

• Bloody Token are now capped at 200,000 tokens.

Professions

• The Artisan’s Acuity reagent cost for rare and epic Profession tools and accessories may now only be provided by the customer for crafting orders.

Quests

• Squally can now be summoned from your Pet Journal when “Gryphons of a Feather” is completed.

August 7, 2024

Player-characters

• Steady Flight should no longer be removed after entering an Arena.

Quests

• We tuned up the Prototype Shredder MK-03 so that “Eye for an Eye” can be completed.

Radiant Echoes Event

• Increased Flightstone and upgrade Crest drop rates in the event.
• Reduced the HP scaling on all event bosses so that they should be killable in a more-reasonable timeframe.
  • Developers’ notes: This includes both ‘minibosses’ (e.g. Hogger, Thorim) and final bosses (e.g. Remembered Onyxia, Ragnaros).

August 5, 2024

Dungeons and Raids

• The Eternal Palace
  • Queen Azshara
    • Addressed an issue that prevented Aethanel and Cyranus from properly spawning during the encounter.

Items

• Fixed an issue that caused Weathered Northrend Sigil to activate when it wasn’t supposed to.

Player-characters

• Fixed an issue preventing Dracthyr from being able to successfully cast soar while swimming on the surface.
• Fixed an issue with the Human racial No Place Like Home incorrectly gaining a charge in some situations.

Quests

• Players can properly progress through the Legion experience when selecting the Timewalking Campaign from Chromie.

Radiant Echoes Event

• Memories of Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdom, and Northrend will now stack up to 100, and will no longer drop once you acquire its related Essence or have fully created the Band of Radiant Echoes.
• Increased the scaling of Radiant Echo mini-bosses (e.g. Thorim).
• Reduced the amount of credit needed to complete several interaction-based Radiant Echoes events (e.g. Lumber).
• Dalaran Defender armor pieces with Champion track should now be eligible for conversion at the Revival Catalyst.

August 1, 2024

Player-characters

• Priests will now automatically restart Shadowform after using Ride Along if Shadowform was enabled when they become a passenger.

Quests

• “The Lightforged” and “Heritage of the Lightforged” now correctly direct players to the Lightforged Beacon.

Radiant Echoes Event

• Updated the event so that now, after the zone boss is defeated, memories begin resurfacing again, repeating the event immediately.
• The event now rotates between zones once each hour, and while the Radiant Echoes are active in a zone, they will remain up for the entire hour.
• Increased earnings from scenarios and bosses, which now include flightstones and crests.
• The event quest is now daily and account-bound (was weekly, per-character).
• Dalaran Defender’s gear is now eligible to be upgraded at the Creation Catalyst.

July 31, 2024

Classes

• Druid
  • Restoration
    • Fixed an issue that caused Mastery: Harmony to increase healing as if one additional stack was always present.

Dungeons and Raids

• Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope
  • Tindral Sageswift
    • Resolved an issue that caused Fire Beams to move in unintended directions.

Player-characters

• Summoning a mount now cancels Zen Flight.

Quests

• The Frostbrood Skytalon Dragon now does the correct amount of damage to Scarlet Crusaders for the Death Knight quest “An End to All Things”.
• Players that are Time Traveling in Silithus should no longer teleport underneath the world when using the Teleportation Scroll while on “The War Within”.
• Illidan Stormrage now sacrifices mages more efficiently during “Ravencrest’s Legacy”, allowing players to complete the scenario.

July 30, 2024

Classes

• Hunter
  • Corrected an issue causing the application of Kill Zone’s debuff to interrupt casts and channels.

Dungeons and Raids

• Brackenhide Hollow
  • Addressed an issue where Treemouth was incorrectly dropping to 1 hp when Consuming.
  • Addressed an issue where Treemouth was not properly gaining Starving Frenzy when failing to consume someone in Mythic difficulty.

Quests

• Players can now complete “Others Call Me Duck Herder”.

July 29, 2024

Classes

• Priest
  • Fixed an issue where Void Summoner was providing twice as much cooldown reduction than intended.
• Shaman
  • Corrected an issue that was preventing the Skyfury buff from allowing melee attacks to gain extra Windfury swings.

Player versus Player

• Fixed an issue in Rated Battleground Blitz where the PvP item level was incorrectly scaling on Eye of the Storm.

Quests

• Fixed a bug preventing Ardenweald gardeners from looting the Wildseed of Regrowth in Queen’s Conservatory.
• Players can now interact with the Wildseeds in the Queen’s Conservatory to complete “Tending to Wildseeds”.

WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria

• Adjusted the power levels of all Remix content to account for unintentionally increased difficulty with patch 11.0.0.

July 25, 2024

Classes

• Druid
  • Balance
    • Wrath cast by Convoke the Spirit now consumes Dreamstate buffs from Nature’s Grace and the Amirdrassil Season 3 (2-piece) Set Armor bonus.
    • Amirdrassil Season 3 (2-piece) Set Armor: Dreamstate now increases the damage of Wrath and Starfire by 80% (was 100%).
  • Hunter
    • Survival
      • Players who had a Wildfire Bomb override from Wildfire Infusion’s previous iteration have had them removed.
  • Warrior
    • Protection
      • Fixed a bug causing Spell Reflection to occasionally fail to reflect a spell.

Dungeons and Raids

• Algeth’ar Academy
  • Fixed an issue where Vexamus would not face its target during the cast of Arcane Expulsion on Heroic and Mythic difficulty.

Flying

• Pathfinder requirements for Skyriding have been removed from Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands zones.

Player-versus-Player

• Malicia and Field Master Emberath now correctly offer their Dragonflight Season 4 War Mode equipment until the launch of War Within.
• Resolved an issue that sometimes prevented healers from being able to duo queue in Rated Battleground Blitz.

Professions

• Reduced Trainer costs for Dragonflight professions.

Titles

• The Title “Timber Lord” should now display correctly.

July 24, 2024

Classes

• Hunter
  • Beast Mastery
    • Season 3 Class Set - Bestial Wrath summoning a Dire Beast no longer grants a stack of Huntmaster’s Call.
    • Season 3 Class Set - Bestial Wrath Dire Beast summon duration reduced to 10 seconds (was 15 seconds).
    • Huntmaster’s Call - Fenryr and Hati attack damage reduced by 20%.
    • Huntmaster’s Call - Fenryr Haste increase reduced to 8% (was 10%).
    • Huntmaster’s Call - Hati pet Damage buff reduced to 6% (was 8%).
  • Survival
    • Grenade Juggler procs will now only apply 1 Explosive Shot to the primary target (was primary and secondary targets).
    • Players who had a Wildfire Bomb override from Wildfire Infusion’s previous iteration have had them removed.
• Warlock
  • Destruction
    • Decimation can now only trigger from critical strikes dealt by your direct damage abilities.

Player-Characters

• Addressed an issue where newly created Evoker cannot queue for legacy content.
• Fixed a bug where a player may have been unable to fly if they had not previously unlocked Skyriding/Dragonriding. Any player-characters in this state will now automatically turn on Static Flight mode when they log in.
• Using a Character Boost, Race Change, or Faction Change no longer disqualifies the character from doing Heritage Armor quests.

Quests

• Eadwaerd has remembered where he placed his notes and has set them back out for players, allowing them to complete “Handling It”.

July 25, 2024

Classes

• Druid
  • Balance
    • Wrath cast by Convoke the Spirit now consumes Dreamstate buffs from Nature’s Grace and the Amirdrassil Season 3 (2-piece) Set Armor bonus.
    • Amirdrassil Season 3 (2-piece) Set Armor: Dreamstate now increases the damage of Wrath and Starfire by 80% (was 100%).
  • Hunter
    • Survival
      • Players who had a Wildfire Bomb override from Wildfire Infusion’s previous iteration have had them removed.
  • Warrior
    • Protection
      • Fixed a bug causing Spell Reflection to occasionally fail to reflect a spell.

Dungeons and Raids

• Algeth’ar Academy
  • Fixed an issue where Vexamus would not face its target during the cast of Arcane Expulsion on Heroic and Mythic difficulty.

Flying

• Pathfinder requirements for Skyriding have been removed from Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands zones.

Player-versus-Player

• Malicia and Field Master Emberath now correctly offer their Dragonflight Season 4 War Mode equipment until the launch of War Within.
• Resolved an issue that sometimes prevented healers from being able to duo queue in Rated Battleground Blitz.

Professions

• Reduced Trainer costs for Dragonflight professions.

Titles

• The Title “Timber Lord” should now display correctly.

July 29, 2024

Classes

• Priest
  • Fixed an issue where Void Summoner was providing twice as much cooldown reduction than intended.
• Shaman
  • Corrected an issue that was preventing the Skyfury buff from allowing melee attacks to gain extra Windfury swings.

Player versus Player

• Fixed an issue in Rated Battleground Blitz where the PvP item level was incorrectly scaling on Eye of the Storm.

Quests

• Fixed a bug preventing Ardenweald gardeners from looting the Wildseed of Regrowth in Queen’s Conservatory.
• Players can now interact with the Wildseeds in the Queen’s Conservatory to complete “Tending to Wildseeds”.

WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria

• Adjusted the power levels of all Remix content to account for unintentionally increased difficulty with patch 11.0.0.

July 30, 2024

Classes

• Hunter
  • Corrected an issue causing the application of Kill Zone’s debuff to interrupt casts and channels.

Dungeons and Raids

• Brackenhide Hollow
  • Addressed an issue where Treemouth was incorrectly dropping to 1 hp when Consuming.
  • Addressed an issue where Treemouth was not properly gaining Starving Frenzy when failing to consume someone in Mythic difficulty.

Quests

• Players can now complete “Others Call Me Duck Herder”.

July 31, 2024

Classes

• Druid
  • Restoration
    • Fixed an issue that caused Mastery: Harmony to increase healing as if one additional stack was always present.

Dungeons and Raids

• Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope
  • Tindral Sageswift
    • Resolved an issue that caused Fire Beams to move in unintended directions.

Player-characters

• Summoning a mount now cancels Zen Flight.

Quests

• The Frostbrood Skytalon Dragon now does the correct amount of damage to Scarlet Crusaders for the Death Knight quest “An End to All Things”.
• Players that are Time Traveling in Silithus should no longer teleport underneath the world when using the Teleportation Scroll while on “The War Within”.
• Illidan Stormrage now sacrifices mages more efficiently during “Ravencrest’s Legacy”, allowing players to complete the scenario.

August 1, 2024

Player-characters

• Priests will now automatically restart Shadowform after using Ride Along if Shadowform was enabled when they become a passenger.

Quests

• “The Lightforged” and “Heritage of the Lightforged” now correctly direct players to the Lightforged Beacon.

Radiant Echoes Event

• Updated the event so that now, after the zone boss is defeated, memories begin resurfacing again, repeating the event immediately.
• The event now rotates between zones once each hour, and while the Radiant Echoes are active in a zone, they will remain up for the entire hour.
• Increased earnings from scenarios and bosses, which now include flightstones and crests.
• The event quest is now daily and account-bound (was weekly, per-character).
• Dalaran Defender’s gear is now eligible to be upgraded at the Creation Catalyst.

August 5, 2024

Dungeons and Raids

• The Eternal Palace
  • Queen Azshara
    • Addressed an issue that prevented Aethanel and Cyranus from properly spawning during the encounter.

Items

• Fixed an issue that caused Weathered Northrend Sigil to activate when it wasn’t supposed to.

Player-characters

• Fixed an issue preventing Dracthyr from being able to successfully cast soar while swimming on the surface.
• Fixed an issue with the Human racial No Place Like Home incorrectly gaining a charge in some situations.

Quests

• Players can properly progress through the Legion experience when selecting the Timewalking Campaign from Chromie.

Radiant Echoes Event

• Memories of Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdom, and Northrend will now stack up to 100, and will no longer drop once you acquire its related Essence or have fully created the Band of Radiant Echoes.
• Increased the scaling of Radiant Echo mini-bosses (e.g. Thorim).
• Reduced the amount of credit needed to complete several interaction-based Radiant Echoes events (e.g. Lumber).
• Dalaran Defender armor pieces with Champion track should now be eligible for conversion at the Revival Catalyst.

August 15, 2024

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Unholy
    • Fixed an issue with Festermight not overlapping.
• Paladin
  • Retribution
    • Fixed an issue causing Radiant Glory to trigger more than intended.
• Warrior
  • Fury
    • Wrath and Fury is now correctly increasing Raging Blow damage.

Items

• Bloody Token are now capped at 200,000 tokens.

Professions

• The Artisan’s Acuity reagent cost for rare and epic Profession tools and accessories may now only be provided by the customer for crafting orders.

Quests

• Squally can now be summoned from your Pet Journal when “Gryphons of a Feather” is completed.

August 19, 2024

Classes

• Developers’ notes: To make our raid buffs more equal across varied group compositions, we’re reducing the effectiveness of Arcane Intellect and Chaos Brand from 5% to 3%. We feel this will help to improve the balance of caster heavy versus melee heavy groups when participating in non-raid content.
• Demon Hunter
  • [With weekly maintenance] Chaos Brand reduced to 3% increased magic damage taken (was 5%).
• Evoker
  • Preservation
    • Fixed an issue where Rank 2 of Renewing Breath was not increasing the heal over time portion of Dream Breath.
  • Mage
    • [With weekly maintenance] Arcane Intellect reduced to 3% Intellect increase (was 5%).
    • Fixed an issue causing Concentrated Coolness (PvP Talent) to not function properly.
  • Paladin
    • Fixed a bug preventing Holy Power spenders from stacking up Radiant Glory Crusader when cast with Divine Purpose.
    • Fixed an issue where Retribution Aura persisted on old characters.

Items

• Fixed a bug that prevented the application of the Nitro Boost belt enchant on some equipment.

Player versus Player

• Rated Battleground Blitz
  • Resolved an issue where the absorb from Shield of Protection was scaling too high.

August 20, 2024

Achievements

• Fixed several basic Achievements that were unintentionally missing achievement points.
• Updated several Achievements that were improperly showing as unlearned in Feats of Strength.

Classes

• Shaman
  • Resolved an issue causing talent loadout strings to fail to import for Shamans.

Quests

• Humans that complete “Ally of the Netherwing” can now continue aiding the Netherwing.

August 22, 2024

Classes

• Death Knight

  • Frost
    • Fixed an issue causing Razorice to not persist on the target applied via Arctic Assault when the Death Knight is not talented into Glacial Advance.
  • Unholy
    • Fixed an issue where the ghoul could fail to be resummoned upon dismounting.

• Hunter

  • Survival
    • Harpoon now pulls you to the edge of a target’s hitbox (was the center).

• Rogue

  • Fixed an issue that could remove the Rogue from Stealth if Vanish duration expired while Subterfuge effect was active.
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent Dispatch from triggering in intended circ*mstances with Crackshot talented.
  • Assassination
    • Fixed an issue that prevented Deathmark’s bleed damage from benefitting from Mastery: Potent Assassin

• Shaman

• Ice and Fire now affects Primordial Wave damage.

• Improved Flametongue Weapon now affects Primordial Wave damage.

• Nature’s Fury now affects Primordial Wave damage.

• Warrior

  • Arms
    • Mortal Strikes from Unhinged will no longer strike additional targets while Sweeping Strikes is active.
  • Fury
    • Bloodthirsts from Unhinged will no longer strike additional targets nor consume stacks of Whirlwind while Whirlwind is active.

Dungeons and Raids

• All dungeon enemy damage reduced by 7% in Mythic and Mythic+ difficulties.
• All dungeon enemy health increased by 10% in Heroic difficulties.
• The Tyrannical affix health increase on bosses reduced by 5%.
• Reduced the health and damage of all Battle For Azeroth raid bosses by approximately 40%.
• Reduced the health and damage of Shadowlands raid bosses by approximately 65%.

Player versus Player

• The maximum amount of Honor a player can accrue is lowered to 4000 for the duration of The War Within Early Access, and this amount will increase to 15000 with the end of Early Access.
• Rogue
  • Shiv (Talent) damage no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 17%).
  • Echoing Reprimand (Talent) damage now reduced by 20% in PvP combat (was 30%).
  • Assassination
    • Envenom damage no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 4%).
    • Mutilate damage no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 4%).
    • Kingsbane (Talent) period damage no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 8%).
    • Kingsbane (Talent) initial damage now reduced by 20% in PvP combat (was 32%).
  • Outlaw
    • Dispatch damage no longer increased in PvP combat (was 20%).
    • Sinister Strike damage no longer increased in PvP combat (was 5%).
    • Mastery: Main Gauche damage no longer increased in PvP combat (was 5%).
    • Blade Rush (Talent) damage is no longer increased in PvP combat (was 5%).
    • Combat Stamina (Talent) now increases Stamina by 12% in PvP combat (was 15% / base 5%).
    • Ace Up Your Sleeve (Talent) effect no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 20%).
    • Crackshot (Talent) effect now reduced by 20% in PvP combat (was 33%).
  • Subtlety
    • Eviscerate damage no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 5%).
    • Shadowstrike damage no longer increased in PvP combat (was 8%).
    • Secret Technique (Talent) damage now reduced by 30% in PvP combat (was 40%).
    • Goremaw’s Bite (Talent) damage no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 10%).
    • Flagellation (Talent) effect no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 20%).
    • Perforated Veins (Talent) effect no longer reduced in PvP combat (was 20%).

Professions

• All Dragonflight profession first craft experience bonuses no longer apply to player-characters at or above level 70.
• All Artisan’s Acuity has been removed from the first-time crafters’ bonus of trainer-taught recipes in The War Within.
• All Artisan’s Acuity has been removed from gathering journal discovery bonuses.
• An additional 150 Artisan’s Acuity has been added to the one-time reagent bag players receive from the quest “Crafting to Order”.

Quests

• Players can once again earn progress towards the achievement Back to the Depths! after completing “Summons from the Depths”.
• The Mechashark X-Steam has had high octane fuel added to it so you can complete “A Goblin in Shark’s Clothing”.

August 23, 2024

Classes

• Priest
  • Shadow
    • Fixed an issue causing Void Tendrils from Idol of C’Thun to attack enemies not in combat with the Priest.

Delves

• Brann should no longer sometimes get stuck flying his gryphadin into a wall.
• Tak-Rethan Abyss
  • Fixed an issue where air bubbles created by rescuing the Preserved Niffen would not stick around.

Events

• Corrected an issue with the Theater Troupe Audience Approval rewards not being granted by the Theater Troupe event in The Proscenium.

Professions

• Enchanting
  • Disabled Enchanting weekly quests that were unintentionally available for the first day of Early Access.
    • Developers’ notes: We’ve disabled those quests, and we’re increasing the Knowledge available to Enchanters who didn’t complete them, starting after the first weekly reset. The extra Knowledge will come from Knowledge point items sourced through Disenchanting and will leave all Enchanters on an even playing field. This extra Knowledge will become available after you have gathered your other weekly Enchanting Knowledge, which includes the weekly quest, Disenchanting Knowledge, and Knowledge obtained from treasures out in the world.

Quests

• Fixed an issue causing players to be unable to see Faerin in order to pick up the quest "Blades of the Arathi”.
• The quest items for “Leave No Stone Behind” are now properly lootable if the quest is abandoned and restarted.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent “Recompense” from being completed.
• Witnessing the formation of the Severed Threads now provides the intended credit for the quest “Uniting Severed Threads”.
• Players are no longer prevented from completing the “Harbinger” questline while on the War Within introduction.
• Fixed a bug where Durzan could sometimes fail to reach his goal in “Thunderhead Butt”, preventing the quest from completing.
• Speaker Brinthe should now be available as expected in The Archives for “Golgrin’s Reach”.