Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Legion. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.
Additional information about the expansion can be found below.
September 14
Hotfixes
Classes
Hunter
- Hati will now reset appearance to the default blue wolf form the first time summoned.
- Developers’ Notes: Due to a bug, some hunters had Hati transform with the Essence Swapper into appearances that are unintended. A fix has been made for this to prevent future issues, but to get rid of any unintended appearances that players may already have, Hati’s appearance will be reverted to the default blue wolf when first summoned, and should retain any appearance changes thereafter. The Essence Swapper will continue to allow you to change Hati’s appearance to match that of your currently active hunter pet.
Paladin
- Judgment's damage on secondary targets should correctly match its damage on the primary target.
Priest
- Clarity of Will's maximum shield size will be correctly increased by Versatility.
Shaman
- (Enhancement) Feral Lunge will no longer threaten enemies when cast. Feral Lunge now only causes threat when it lands and deals damage.
Class Halls
- The amount of follower experience granted by missions has been increased.
- Lower-level followers should have access to more missions, even when the player has very high level followers active.
- Players who failed to be rewarded Hymdall during the resolution of the quest "Jorhuttam" are properly granted him as a follower after entering their class hall.
Dungeons
- Players should no longer be able to apply for Premade Group Finder parties for Arcway or Court of Stars if they have not gained access to those dungeons.
- Eye of Azsharah
- For the quest “Cleansing the Dreamway”, Rarefied Water should now drop from every boss. Other enemies no longer drop the item for the quest.
Items
- Level 110 legendary rings and amulets, which all previously had no sockets, should now have 1 Prismatic socket per item.
NPCs
- Blingtron 6000 should no longer transport some players underneath the world.
Professions
- The alchemy spell Transmute: Fish to Gems should now take Cursed Queenfish, not Ghostly Queenfish.
Quests
- Operation Murloc Freedom now only rewards Timeworn Artifacts while the World Quest is active.
- The Nightbourne Loupe for the quest "A Personal Touch" is now carried by both male and female nightborne.
- The quest object "The Black Tome" for the quest "The Black Tome" now spawns in a location that is accessible without having to jump onto the altar.
- On “Cry Thunder!”, players can no longer interact with Vethir to start the bombing run if they’re in a raid group.
- Elothir should consistently offer "Reading the Leaves" and "Given to Corruption" when a player is eligible for the quests.
- Adjustments to spawn rate and credit for the Fishing World Quest “Buoy Fishing” have been made to streamline the quest.
Zones
- Players should no longer experience phasing issues when re-visiting Dalaran over Karazhan for the Legion pre-launch quests.
September 13
Hotfixes
Classes
Druid
- Shifting into Bear Form will no longer freeze resource decay for non-Guardian druids.
Hunter
- Barrage range will now correctly match the range of the Hunter’s other abilities.
- Developers’ Notes: During the recent updates to Barrage, we discovered it extended approximately 2 yards beyond the range of autoshot and other abilities. We’re changing it to more closely match.
Paladin
- Hammer of the Righteous will no longer show its impact visual on dead targets.
Rogue
- Ghostly Strike debuff application and removal are now correctly posted to the combat log.
Warlock
- Soul Shards now regenerate to 3, while out of combat (up from 1).
- Developers' Notes: As discussed in last week’s Developer Q&A, warlocks (and Demonology especially) needed to go through several spellcasts in order to generate the Soul Shards required to cast the spells needed for them to operate at peak efficiency. In outdoor gameplay and against packs of enemies in dungeons, this often meant that combat was ending just as the warlock was getting warmed up. Allowing warlocks to begin combat with 3 Soul Shards instead of 1 should let them bring more of their arsenal to bear in shorter encounters.
Warrior
- Mannoroth's Bloodletting Manacles now heals the warrior based on base Rage spent, rather than actual rage spent, to account for Rage cost reduction effects.
- (Arms) Colossus Smash's cooldown reduced to 30s.
- Developers' Notes: The cooldown on Colossus Smash serves as bad luck protection against long streaks of Tactician not activating. At 45 seconds, the worst case scenario of actually waiting for the full cooldown to elapse was a rare occurrence that was particularly noticeable (and frustrating) when it happened. At 30 seconds, the majority of the time Colossus Smash will still reset before its cooldown elapses, but those unlucky streaks should feel a little better.
- (Arms) Focused Rage's damage bonus reduced to 40% per stack.
Dungeons
- Luck of the Draw now properly increases pet and guardian damage.
- Assault on Violet Hold
- Sael'orn will no long aggro players immediately when she spawns.
- Fel Prison will no longer target healers in Heroic and Mythic difficulty.
- Resolved an issue where Nether Rip didn’t appear on lower graphics settings.
Items
- (Hotfix work in progress) Emissary bags from completing World Quests now contain equippable items for your class.
- The Derelict Skyhorn Kite now has a 15 minute cooldown.
NPCs
- The Imperial Arcanist and the Imperial Spellbreaker that spawn in front of Lothrius Mooncaller’s room in Suramar – The Athenaeum no longer drop loot or grant experience when killed by the Moonfall Manafiend summoned by a player or by Lothrius Mooncaller.
- Regular creatures at Warden Towers should spawn more rapidly when attacked by many players.
- Brimstone Destroyers in Azsuna can no longer be enslaved.
Professions
- Mother's Skinning Knife is now only usable by players who know Skinning.
- Several Alchemy quests which required Heroic Dungeon kills can now be completed in Mythic.
- Engineering
- Players should no longer be able to skill up Engineering in Legion by making Gearspring Parts. It should now be slightly easier to skill up to 800 by making goggles or Trigger.
- The Arcanic Compressor is now multi-drop and can be looted several engineers in a group for completion of “Revamping the Recoil”.
PvP
- Several followers have had the effectiveness of their abilities reduced against players.
- Fixed an issue causing some PvP World Quests to have invalid rewards for Honor level 50 players.
- Flickering Shadows will no longer activate if the Rogue is capturing a point in Domination maps such as Arathi Basin.
- The time between Wintergrasp and Tol Barad battles has been increased to 1 hour.
- Skirmish victories now award 100 honor (was 50).
- The first random battleground win of the day now rewards a Soldier's Splendor (250 Artifact Power).
Quests
- In the Warrior Class Campaign Ulduar Scenario, the door after Brood Queen Morvaniss should now always open when you kill her.
- On the World Quest “Ley Race”, ley line nodes should now spawn more quickly as you go.
- Death Knights should no longer become stuck on “Steeds of the Damned”.
- Druids should no longer be stuck on “Gathering the Dreamweavers”.
- Players that manage to find themselves in the "Champions of Elune" scenario without a vehicle will now be teleported out after 30 seconds.
- Bind on Equip items have been removed as possible rewards from World Quests.
- Developers’ Notes: As a player’s own item level increases, the quality of many World Quest item rewards rises as well. However, when these items can circulate throughout the economy, they can overshadow other sources of loot, and crafted items especially. World Quests should feel rewarding, but we want that to be because of a direct value to your character.
- The Warden Tower World Quests are now on 6 hour rotations (was 3 hours).
- Withered in the Withered Army Training scenario should now be able to throw rocks from point blank range. Ow!
September 8
Hotfixes
Classes
- (In progress) Players should no longer be stopped abruptly when executing uncontrolled movement spells such as Roll, Fel Rush, and Flying Serpent Kick.
Priest
- (PvP) Holy Word: Chastise will no longer remove periodic damaging effects from targets in PvE situations.
Dungeons
- Black Rook Hold
- Fel Vomit from the Smashspite the Hateful encounter in Black Rook Hold will no longer persist after the encounter is defeated.
Items
- The secondary stats on Legion gems have been significantly decreased.
- Developers’ notes: Gems are not in the same place as they were in previous expansions. They’re a bit too powerful, and this was not intended. Sockets are still quite valuable and will continue to be so, but we need to reduce the difference between an item having a socket vs. not having a socket.
PvP
- Ashran
- Ashran Dominance now rewards 500 honor for completion.
- Slay Them All now rewards 200 honor for completion.
Professions
- Enchanting Rank 2 and Rank 3 recipes now have the “Requires Previous Rank” text.
- Mass Prospecting should now return the same amount of gems as normal Prospecting.
Quests
- Players can now complete "WANTED: Shara Felbreath" after leaving combat and returning.
- Enemies should now have lower health and damage in Chapter 3 of the Warrior Class Hall scenario.
- A marker on your map should now appear for the objective of the Stormheim quest “The Trials Continue”.
- Marksman hunters who left Niskara without talking to Vereesa can speak to her at Krassus' Landing to complete the "Rescue Mission" quest.
- The Mage Order Campaign quest "What Is Going On Here" objectives should now complete reliably.
Suramar
- Blackhawk's Bulwark PvP Captains should respawn more quickly.
- Fel Cannons in Felsoul Hold should respawn more quickly.
- The World Quest map marker for Starstalker Point Alliance has been moved to its accurate location.
- During “Ghostship”, players can no longer use the Valarjar Harpoon to damage other players or player controlled NPCs.
September 7
Hotfixes
Classes
Hunter
- Barrage now fires in a tighter cone, and its visual has been improved to better show its area of effect.
- Developers’ Notes-- Barrage fulfills a fantasy of a wild spray of shots in a large area. Of course, that can be dangerous, and often Hunters accidentally pull additional enemies with Barrage, especially in Legion dungeons. We saw this as a failure on our part to convey what it actually does. This hotfix should allow Hunters to get a feel for the shape and size of it and build a reliable expectation of what will happen when they cast Barrage. No change was made to Barrage’s damage. We hope that this helps Hunters and their groupmates to have a more pleasant dungeon experience.
Rogue
- Outlaw Rogues with Curse of the Dreadblades ability active will no longer take the backlash damage if Saber Slash strikes a second time.
Shaman
- The Enhancement Shaman Stormflurry Artifact Trait will now properly interact with the Ascendance talent and the Windstrike ability.
Warrior
- The Fury Warrior Artifact Trait Odyn's Champion has had its chance to activate doubled, but its effectiveness has been lowered. The tooltip will be incorrect until a future patch.
Class Halls
- The Vault Ticket (Rogue) is now a daily reset instead of weekly reset. This may not take effect until next Tuesday if you have already looted the Vault this week.
- The "Deadlier Warglaives" quest (Demon Hunter) will now only consume a single Obliterum.
Dungeons
Maw of Souls
- Helya: Decreased the frequency of Helya's Taint of the Sea during the Breached Vessel phase.
- Helya: Altered the visual of Corrupted Bellow in order to perform better on lower-end machines.
- Helya: Lowered the baseline damage of Corrupted Bellow and added a damage increase on subsequent damage events.
Holiday
- Darkmoon Faire tinctures and droughts no longer work at 110.
NPCs
- Vault Keepers in Stormheim should no longer become stuck and prevent players from looting the Glimmering Treasure Chest.
PvP
- Players in a raid group will no longer earn PVP credit, nor receive Sightless Eyes in the Underbelly.
Professions
Cooking
- (Work in progress) Fixing a bug that prevents players from being able to turn in “Opening the Test Kitchen” to Nomi.
Fishing
- Players with the artifact trait "Better Luck Next Time" now have a chance to catch boots.
Quests
- The damage done by the Fel Annihilator in the Battle for the Exodar scenario has been reduced.
- Players who have completed "Jarl Come Back Now" but are not Neutral with Jandvik Vrykul can return to Toryl in Jandvik to get their reputation reset.
Suramar
- Blackhawk's Bulwark PvP Captains should respawn more quickly.
- Fel Cannons in Felsoul Hold should respawn more quickly.
Zones
- An unintended increase in player population in certain zones, notably Class Halls, has been fixed.
September 6
Hotfixes
Classes
Demon Hunter
- (Hotfix in testing) Demon Hunter Sigils will now correctly activate if the Demon Hunter is crowd controlled after placing the Sigil.
Priest
- The Discipline Priest artifact trait Sins of the Many will now properly increase Atonement healing done.
- Spending artifact trait points as a Discipline Priest should no longer reduce the amount of Atonement healing done by Shadowfiend or Mindbender.
Class Halls
- In Skyhold, Quartermaster Durnholf will pay more attention to players and not walk away from them so quickly.
Dungeons
- Assault on Violet Hold
- Mindflayer Kaahrj's Faceless Tendril should now prefer targets that are not being targeted by Eternal Darkness.
- Corrected a spawn location for Mindflayer Kaahrj's Faceless Tendril that was inside the floor.
- Helarjar Champions’ Bone Chilling Scream does not hit pets anymore.
- Rotheart Keeper's Vile Mushrooms now explode, damaging nearby enemies.
Items
- (Hotfix in testing) Rocfeather Skyhorn Kite: cooldown raised to 15 minutes (was 2 minutes). Shared cooldown raised to 3 minutes.
- (Hotfix in testing) Brulfist Idol: Knockback height reduced significantly.
- Developers’ Notes: The two toys above (combined, or in conjunction with other things such as Emerald Winds) were too effective and diminished the value of utility and world-navigation tools that are core to certain classes and professions.
- Touch of the Void: the tentacles summoned by this trinket no longer scale past level 100.
- Reduced the active effect potency of Heirloom trinkets acquired from Warlords of Draenor Mythic Dungeons.
- Fixed a bug that could cause players, who were simultaneously both very lucky and very unlucky, to receive the same legendary item more than once.
Missions
- Significantly improved the quality of the bonus reward available on Artifact Power missions..
NPCs
- Pollous the Fetid in Val'sharah should no longer evade and become unkillable.
- Unstable Powers now target fewer players with their Unstable Power orbs.
- Inquisitor Tivos’ Drain and Searing Gaze should now target fewer players.
Professions
Engineering
- Gunshoes and Gunpowder Charges should now craft stacks instead of single items.
Skinning
- The amounts of leather and scales dropped per creature skinned have been reduced.
Quests
- Druids who abandoned either "Essence of Balance" or "Essence of Regrowth" should now be able to reaccept the quests by returning to the Emerald Dreamway.
- Profession World Quests can now be completed in a raid group.
Suramar
- Completing the quest "Make Your Mark" should now properly count progress towards the achievement "Why Can't I Hold All This Mana?"
- Players who have completed "Jarl Come Back Now" but are not Neutral with Jandvik Vrykul can return to Toryl in Jandvik to get their reputation reset.
September 2
Hotfixes
Classes
Demon Hunter
- The Havoc Demon Hunter Artifact ability Fury of the Illidari no longer plays an extra spell effect visual from the gold trait Rage of the Illidari without the Rage of the Illidari trait learned.
Druid
- Healing Touch (Balance and Guardian Druids) healing increased 33% and mana cost increased 100%.
- Full Moon will now always deal full damage to the primary target. Damage is reduced for secondary targets.
Hunter
- Dead Survival Hunters will now be able to swim in their Eagle Ghost Form.
Priest
- Spending trait points in the Discipline Priest Artifact will now properly also increase the damage of your Mindbender or Shadowfiend summons.
Shaman
- The Sharas’dal, Scepter of Tides buff Queen’s Decree is no longer dispellable.
Warlock
- Soul Harvest should no longer incorrectly aggro all enemies in sight.
- Demonic Empowerment, Demonwrath, and Thal'kiel's Consumption no longer require line of sight to your pets.
Class Halls
- Artifact Power gained from class-specific Class Hall Missions have been increased.
- Priests who have completed the quest "Recruiting More Troops" should now be able to recruit troops from Vicar Eliza.
- Bubbling Keg in the Monk Class Hall now respawns more quickly.
- The Swirling Void Potion item from the Priest Class Hall Advancement "Altars of Blessing" now properly provides the Void Infused buff to players.
- The different areas of the Shaman Class Hall have been united into a single chat channel.
Dungeons
- Players are able to enter a Random Legion Heroic if they are locked to all Legion Heroic Dungeons.
Neltharion's Lair
- Ularogg Cragshaper now starts with more energy when he enters combat.
NPCs
- Helarjar Soulkeepers will no longer cast Expel Soul.
Professions
- The engineer-only auction house in Dalaran should now be fully functional.
- Players should no longer be spammed with new recipe notifications during the blacksmithing quest "Ironhorn Leysmithing".
PvP
- Demon Hunter Glide speed is reduced while carrying a battleground flag.
- Demon Hunter Fel Rush speed is reduced when cast in the air while carrying a battleground flag.
Quests
- The Druid quest “Focusing the Energies” will no longer consume all Blood of Sargeras in your inventory.
Artifact
- Players who log out during “The Heart of the Dreadscar” should be able to proceed with the quest when they log back in.
- For “The New Blood”, players can now loot an additional Tome of Blighted Implements to fulfill the requirement to do so if they already have the Tome of Blighted Implements in their inventory.
- Fleet Admiral Tethys is now available in the Hall of Shadows to turn in "The Dreadblades", even when Fleet Admiral Tethys is in Stormheim.
- Warriors who enter the scenario for "The Hunter of Heroes" will now properly advance the quest if they walk into Tideskorn rather than take Aerylia’s ride.
- Tyrosus will now be waiting in Dalaran correctly for Holy Paladins returning to turn in "The Silver Hand".
Azsuna
- Players should more reliably receive credit during the quest "Back From The Dead".
Highmountain
- The Legion has it out for Malfurion in the War of the Ancients quest “Huln’s War – Reinforcements”. They are now sending three times as many wrathguards to stop him from summoning dryad reinforcements.
Stormheim
- Players are now able to turn in "Blood and Gold" at Yotnar, who is visible after completing the later trials in the quest chain.
- The Ancient Tideskorn Blade for the quest "To Honor the Fallen" should now drop 100% of the time from Kvaldir vrykul in Helmouth Shallows.
Suramar
- Players leading a Withered army after turning in “Feed Thalyssra” should be able to access a chest that was previously inaccessible.
Zones
- Added a new graveyard at the top of Thorim's Peak in Stormheim.
September 1
Hotfixes
Classes
Death Knight
- Anti-Magic Barrier should no longer grant more than the intended bonus when combined with other effects that increase health.
- Vampiric Blood should no longer grant more than the intended bonus when combined with other effects that increase health.
Mage
- Ignite spreading will no longer incorrectly remove other Mages' Ignite.
Monk
- Fortifying Brew should no longer grant more than the intended bonus when combined with other effects that increase health.
Shaman
- Enhancement Shamans should no longer be prevented from using instant Healing Surge while moving.
Warrior
- Commanding Shout should no longer grant more than the intended bonus when combined with other effects that increase health.
Items
- The tooltip for Tome of the Clear Mind now correctly states a maximum player level of 109 for its use.
- Equippable items from Legion dungeon treasure chests should match your class proficiencies.
- Skaggldrynk should now properly share a cooldown with other combat potions.
NPCs
- Tarben <Jarl of Tideskorn Harbor> should now cast his Jarl’s Command fear spell a bit less often.
- In Darkbrul Arena, Stonefist Brawler’s stun attack should now be removable by effects that remove stuns.
Professions
- Reaves Module: Snack Distribution Mode no longer requires feasts.
PvP
- Experience earned from gaining Honor has been reduced by approximately 50%.
- Developer’s note: We want battlegrounds and skirmishes to be a worthwhile and rewarding activity while leveling, but that should not be the most efficient method for gaining XP. While we've decreased the experience from PvP, it is still more efficient than it was in previous expansions.
Quests
- Fixed an issue where faction transfers would interfere with Death Knight's ability to complete the Class Hall quest "The Firstborn Rises".
- Fixed a bug causing players who died during the sequence of Dalaran's teleportion would get stuck in Deadwind Pass.
- Paladins should now be able to progress with their Class Hall Campaigns after completing the quest "The Scion's Legacy", by speaking with Lord Maxwell Tyrosus.
- Teensy Weensy Fae Dragons should now appear more frequently during the quest “Teensy Weenies!”.
Artifact
- Rogue player should no longer sometimes experience issues using their Smoke Bomb during "The Unseen Blade".
- Players should no longer be erroneously placed in a phase in Deadwind Pass that makes them unable to complete quests in the area, including "Following the Curse."
- Hunters completing to quest to obtain their second or third artifact should no longer receive the quest "Hunter to Hunter" after turn-in.
- The points of interest for the Warrior quest “Legacy of the Icebreaker" are now displaying correctly and the stage objectives update appropriately.
Azsuna
- Daglop should no longer disengage with the player, allowing “Minion! Kill Them!” to be completed normally.
- During "The Right Weapon for the Job", shipwrecked captives in the Shipwreck Arena clubhouse should no longer glow as if they’re viable targets for the quest.
- Players who leave the area and return during the “The Scythe of Souls” should be able to complete the quest.
- Players entering the Nor'danil Wellspring in Azsuna should no longer be incorrectly queued to enter the Withered Scenario in Suramar.
- Players should no longer fail to loot several quest objects in the Nar’thalas Academy during quests such as "Study Hall: Combat Research" and “Dressing with Class”.
Highmountain
- The bungee rope attached to the player should no longer disappear during the quest “Going Down, Going Up”.
- Mayla Highmountain should no longer leave combat and reset the Wrath of Dargrul boss fight during “The Underking”.
- On “Murlocs: The Next Generation” and “Oh, the Clawdacity!”, Murky’s abilities no longer affect other players in PvP. Gurrullrurlll mrrrgrglru ruluulll.
Stormheim
- "Waking the Shieldmaiden" now has a correctly-placed location dot on the map.
Val’sharah
- Fixed a number of issues with the "Defend The Temple" Bonus Objective in Val'sharah.
UI
- Obelisk of the Void should appear in the Dungeon Journal for all ranged damage dealers and healers.
Zones
- Orgrimmar, Stormwind, and previously invasion-affected areas should once again be unified for single realms.
- Developer’s note: On RP servers, we’re setting sharding and cross-realm zoning back to how things were working before the Burning Legion invaded. This had been changed for stability during pre-launch events and invasions.
August 30
Hotfixes
Classes
Rogue
- Corrected an issue that prevented Assassination Rogues from queuing for Legion dungeons even after obtaining their Artifact.
Items
- Rhonin's Assaulting Armwraps will now activate only once per cast of Arcane Missiles. Proc rate and buff duration have been adjusted to compensate.
- Sephuz's Secret should now be activated by Grimoire: Felguard's Axe Toss.
Quests
- Legion players who had begun the post-Broken Shore event quests, but not completed them, should now be eligible to receive “In the Blink of an Eye”.
Artifact
- The Living Flames summoned by Felsoul Crushers now give appropriate levels of experience during "The Hunt".
- Players should now properly receive credit for traveling to the Emerald Dreamway during "Cleansing the Mother Tree" when using the Dreamwalk ability.
- Stormweaver Ingrida should no longer sometimes evade during "Stolen Thunder".
Highmountain
- The Weapon Racks on Torok's Bluff can now be interacted with after their first use during the Bonus Objective "Vengeance for the Stonedark".
- Credit for enemies defeated during the quest "Huln's War - Reinforcements" should now be shared among all nearby players.
Stormheim
- Dread-Rider Malwick should respawn more readily, allowing for completion of “Assault and Battery”.
- Players who are ready to turn in the quest “The Splintered Fleet” can now always see Dread-Rider Cullen. If she has just flown away, she will re-appear within a few minutes.
- Players who abandon the quest “Dances with Ravenbears” should no longer retain the quest ability bar.
- “Greymane’s Gambit” now reliably credits the player for completing the scenario.
- “The Splintered Fleet” now reliably credits the player for completing the scenario.
- The Skyfire Propeller should no longer become untouchable during “Signal Boost”.
Val’sharah
- Pollous the Fetid is now always roaming around Dreadroot in Val’sharah and defeatable, allowing “Purging the River” to be completed.
- Players who are in a group and arrive late for the final kill in “The Fate of Val’sharah” should receive credit and be able to proceed.
- Fixed a number of issues with the "Defend The Temple" Bonus Objective in Val'sharah.
Zones
- Players can now rest and bind their hearthstone in the Forsaken Foothold and Skyfire Triage Camp areas in Stormheim.
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