#1 - May 23, 2017, 10:58 a.m.
Blizzard Post

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.

May 24


Hotfixes

Artifacts

  • Concordance of the Legionfall
    • Chance to activate slightly increased.
    • Now grants 4,000 Strength, Agility, Intellect, or Versatility at rank 1 (was 2,000).
    • Additional ranks now increase this value by 300 per rank (was 200).
    • Effects are now reduced by 50% in PvP situations.
    • Developers’ Note: While additional ranks of Concordance of Legionfall are intended to have a low impact, the trait was overall weaker than it needed to be. With these changes, it provides a stronger up-front benefit, and very slightly more value for Artifact Power spent past the first rank. These changes also result in an overall nerf in PvP, where we are continuing to monitor its performance.

May 22


Hotfixes

Achievements

  • “Grand Opening” now requires 8 spotlights activated during the Chronomatic Anomaly encounter (was 12).

Classes

  • Monk
    • Ironskin and Fortifying Brew once again grant the correct Stagger percentage.

Class Hall

  • Artifact Knowledge can now be researched to a maximum level of 40 (was 50).
    • Developers’ Notes: We raised the Knowledge cap from 40 to 50 very late in the 7.2 PTR cycle, out of an abundance of caution: We wanted to ensure that players of all playstyles, as well as alt characters, would view the Concordance trait as accessible. However, between the additional Artifact Power gains added in 7.2 and others that were hotfixed in after the patch released, we’re now well ahead of that mark. Knowledge 40 now seems more than sufficient for players to reach Concordance, and the prospect of months’ worth of additional Knowledge still left to research makes some players feel like their efforts in the interim aren’t meaningful. Therefore, we’re rolling the cap back to 40.

Player versus Player

  • Deepwind Dunk is now 15 minutes long, and each player killed during Deepwind Dunk awards 5 points.
  • Paladin
    • Attacking a Judged target will now cause Judge Unworthy to only spread that target's Judgment, instead of all your nearby Judgments.
    • Judge Unworthy can now spread Judgment to targets that are under the effects of crowd-control abilities.
    • Damage from Lawbringer can no longer cause Judge Unworthy to spread Judgment.

UI

  • Players using Korean and Chinese clients can now chat in public chat channels on the Broken Shore.

May 15


Hotfixes

Classes

  • Monk
    • Gift of the Ox can now only spawn up to a max of 10 Healing Spheres from a single attack.
  • Warlock
    • The Wrathguard's Mortal Cleave should now land on targets more often.
  • Warrior
    • When leaving Skyhold, Warriors are now protected by Val’kyr who insist that the player land safely and not disconnect.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Corrected an issue where gems were sometimes not correctly contributing to character stats in Mythic Keystone Dungeons.

Events

  • Corrected an issue with holidays and daylight saving time in the Americas region. Holidays will now start one hour earlier in the Americas region. For example, events that previously began at 9:00 a.m. Pacific will now get underway at 8:00 a.m. Pacific / 11:00 a.m. Eastern.

Items

  • Cauterizing Void Shard can now be used in combat, and using it out of combat will no longer cause issues with your health potion timer.

Player versus Player

Mage

  • Arcane Charges are now removed when Arenas and Battlegrounds start.
  • Mage food now is properly delayed to match non-Mage water in Arenas.

Paladin

  • Seraphim's Blessing will now grant Crusade with the correct duration.

May 8


Hotfixes

Classes

  • Hunter
    • MKII Gyroscopic Stabilizer should no longer sometimes fail to work correctly for Marksmanship Hunters.
  • Warlock
    • Command Demon is now properly turned into Whiplash when the Succubus is summoned with either the Orb of the Fel Temptress or Glyph of the Shadow Succubus.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Fixed a bug that caused some loot chests, on the Guild Master loot setting, to only distribute gold to the player who looted the chest.
  • Quaking should no longer apply to players while they are on the boat at the beginning of the Court of Stars, nor after Mythic Keystone dungeons have been completed.
  • Cathedral of Eternal Night
    • Helblaze Felbringers’ Devastating Swipe now deals 60% less damage on all difficulties.
    • Agronox
      • Reduced Agronox’s health by 25% on all difficulties.
      • Succulent Lashers’ Succulent Secretion now initially explodes for 80% less damage on all difficulties.
      • Succulent Lashers’ Succulent Secretion’s periodic damage reduced by 50% on all difficulties.
      • The health of Fulminating Lashers has been reduced by 30% on all difficulties, to match other Fulminating Lashers in the dungeon.
      • The damage done by Choking Vines has been reduced by 50% on all difficulties, to match other Choking Vines in the dungeon.
    • Domatrax
      • Reduced Domatrax’s melee damage by 50% on all difficulties.

Events

  • Fixed a bug preventing the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza from operating as expected.

Player versus Player

  • Demon Hunter
    • Rain from Above will now properly suppress root effects such as Frost Nova and Entangling Roots when cast.

The adjustments below will take effect with this weeks’ maintenance in each region.

  • Druid
    • Guardian
      • Pawsitive Outlook can no longer cause Thrash to trigger more than one additional Thrash in PvP situations.
      • Sharpened Claws increases Thrash and Swipe damage by 25% (was 50%).
      • Frenzied Regeneration now heals for 25% of damage taken in the last 5 seconds (was 50%).
      • PvP Template Agility reduced by 5%.
      • PvP Template Stamina reduced by 5%.
  • Monk
    • Brewmaster
      • Stave Off can no longer cause Keg Smash to trigger more than one additional Keg Smash in PvP situations.
  • Demon Hunter
    • Havoc
      • Chaotic Onslaught can no longer cause Chaos Strike to trigger more than one additional Chaos Strike in PvP situations.
  • Warrior
    • Fury
      • Oathblood can no longer cause Bloodthirst to trigger more than one additional Bloodthirst in PvP situations.

May 1


Hotfixes

Classes

  • Demon Hunter
    • Bladedancer's Grace now correctly improves the critical strike damage of Death Sweep.
  • Priest
    • Fixed an issue where Guardian Spirit sometimes fails to trigger on fatal damage.
  • Shaman
    • Purge mana cost reduced by 20%.

Dungeons and Raids

  • All raid adjustments will take effect with restarts in each region.

The Nighthold

  • Grand Magistrix Elisande
    • Slow Time Zones now last 70 seconds on all difficulties (was 60 seconds).
    • Fast Time Zones now last 35 seconds on all difficulties (was 30 seconds).
    • Damage from Arcanetic Ring reduced to 3 Million on Mythic difficulty (was 3.6 Million).
    • Elisande health decreased 5% on Mythic difficulty.
  • Gul’dan
    • Gul'dan's health has been reduced by 5% on Normal, Heroic, and Mythic difficulties.
    • Fel Lord Kuraz'mal and D'zorykx the Trapper's health has been reduced by 10% on Normal, Heroic, and Mythic difficulties.
    • Inquisitor Vethriz's health has been reduced by 10% on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
    • Azagrim, Beltheris, and Dalvengyr's health has been reduced by 10% on Heroic difficulty.
    • Chaos Seed missile travel speed decreased slightly on Mythic difficulty.
    • Parasitic Wound damage decreased by 10% on Mythic difficulty.

Event

  • The Children's Week quest "Auchindoun and the Ring of Observance" can now be completed.
  • Orphan Whistles can now be used in battlegrounds.

Items

  • Killing bosses in Cathedral of Eternal Night will now activate the Burden of Power set bonus from Return to Karazhan.

Player versus Player

  • “Something Different” now requires 1 Brawl victory to complete (was 3 Brawl completions)
  • “Something Different” now rewards a Soldier’s Legacy token (was a Glory of the Melee).
  • Classes
    • Hunter
      • Marksmanship
        • Windburst no longer displays ground effects during Arena matches in Blade's Edge Arena.
  • All PvP class changes below will take effect with maintenance in each Region.
    • Druid
      • Restoration
        • PvP template Mana regeneration reduced by 10%.
        • Overgrowth mana cost increased by 33%.
        • Deep Rooted now refreshes Rejuvenation, Regrowth, and Wild Growth on targets below 20% health in PvP situations.
    • Mage
      • All specs
        • Temporal Shield can no longer be cancelled before its duration expires.
    • Monk
      • Mistweaver
        • PvP Template Versatility increased by 30%.
    • Priest
      • Holy
        • Flash Heal healing increased by 60% in PvP situations.
    • Warlock
      • Demonology
        • PvP template Stamina reduced by 15%.
        • Soul Skin increases Soul Link's split to 30% in PvP situations (was 40%).
    • Warrior
      • Arms
        • Duel's duration reduced to 6 seconds (was 8 seconds).
        • Duel's cooldown increased to 60 seconds (was 25 seconds).
        • Disarm's duration reduced to 4 seconds (was 6 seconds).
        • Disarm's cooldown increased to 45 seconds (was 30 seconds).

April 26


Hotfixes

Artifact Challenges

  • Protection Paladin
    • Inquisitor Variss health reduced 15%.
    • Highlord Kruul health reduced by 20%.

Broken Shore

  • Imp Mother Bruva is now the only Imp Mother who spawns in the Garrison of the Fel.

Creatures

  • [With realm restarts in each region] A number of storm drakes should now have a hitbox that more accurately reflects their size.

Items

  • Unstable Horrorslime has been made slightly more stable, and should once again deal damage.

Player versus Player

  • [With realm restarts in each region] PvP stat templates now grant appropriate stamina and do not affect the Concordance of the Legionfall Artifact trait.
  • Death Knight, Druid
    • Fixed an issue where Frenzied Regeneration and Death Strike could heal for more than their intended amounts in PvP combat.
  • Shaman
    • Purifying Waters is no longer increased by healing received modifiers such as Guardian Spirit.
    • Windfury Totem now correctly has 5 health.
    • Only one Windfury Totem can be active per Shaman at a time.

April 24


Hotfixes

Class Halls

  • Players who have unlocked multiple Challenge appearances for their Artifacts will no longer see more than one of them on top of each other in their Class Halls.

Items

  • Players should be able to transmogrify tabards to the appearance of the Legionfall Tabard.
  • Butcher’s Bone Apron should no longer provide a benefit that persists in unintended circumstances.

Player versus Player

  • Fixed a bug that was causing some players to become invulnerable in instanced PvP.
  • The quest "Something Different" now requires 1 brawl victory (was 3 brawl completions).
    • The quest now rewards a Soldier's Legacy Artifact Power token, 3 Marks of Honor, and a Brawler's Footlocker.

Quests

  • Corrine the Deceiver should now respawn as expected when killed on the quest “Cult Culling”.
  • Fixed a bug that was causing errors opening Stolen Crates during “Arming the Army”.
  • “Full Fel” now correctly awards quest credit.
  • Resolved issues where some Paladins were not able to obtain the letter starting the Maximillian questline.
  • A certain Escape Rope in a secret treasure cave is now easier to see. It’s dark in there!

April 21


Hotfixes

Artifact Challenge

  • Fixed a bug where some cooldowns were not being reset properly when starting an Artifact Challenge.

Classes

  • The Artifact traits Master of Combinations, Fury of Ashamane, Warmth of the Phoenix, and Mind Quickening now correctly scale based on level.

Followers

  • Lady S'theno's Watery Grave ability should now knock enemies up, rather than away.
  • Fixed an issue preventing a version of Maximillian from having a mount.
  • Maximillian’s Blessing of Kings should now correctly increase stats.

Items

  • Rethu's Incessant Courage and Celumbra, the Night's Dichotomy should no longer put you in combat with neutral creatures in certain situations.
  • Fixed a bug where Riddler’s Mind Worm could be lost if you didn’t loot the item after opening the Gift of the Mind-Seekers.

Services

  • Transferring a character to a new account should no longer remove access to World Quests.

April 19


Hotfixes

Artifact Challenge

  • The difficulty of the Tank Artifact Challenge at the Mage Tower has been adjusted:
    • Highlord Kruul’s health reduced by 10%.
    • Inquisitor Variss health reduced by 10%.
    • Kor’vas Bloodthorn’s health increased by 100%.
    • Nether Horror health reduced by 20%.
    • Tormenting Eye health reduced by 20%.
    • Smoldering Infernals are now summoned less frequently.

Broken Shore

  • When you first activate a portal of any given type with a beacon, it will now last 10 seconds longer.
  • The chance to loot Portal-Stones that can be used to call down powerful Lieutenants has been doubled.
  • The Warden Initiate has received additional training, and can now fly alongside you. She has also learned to use her abilities more frequently and in a smaller area of effect.
  • Players can now vendor excess Sentinax beacons that they don't wish to hold on to.
  • The Ashtongue Felsmith has become aware of his burning region, and is no longer standing in his forge at Deliverance Point.

Classes

Hunter

  • Fixed a bug that occasionally kept Gon from spawning as expected.

Items

  • Fixed a bug that prevented Rethu’s Incessant Courage from counting certain hostile creatures as valid targets.

World

  • The flight path between Algen Point (Broken Shore) and Hafr Fjall (Stormheim) has been adjusted to follow a better route.

April 17


Hotfixes

Broken Shore

  • Rewards from the enemies summoned by Nether Portal Disruptors have been changed: These enemies should now drop significantly more Legionfall War Supplies and Dauntless tokens, but no longer drop Netherchunks or Tier 1 Sentinax beacons.
    • Developers’ notes: We want to make sure that Nether Portal Disruptors and the enemies they attract are lucrative and exciting without overshadowing other options so that players feel inclined to focus only on the Nether Disruptor for Broken Shore play. This should now be a solid extra to add to your activities when it’s available, rather than something to wait around for.
  • Witchmatron Magora now respawns more frequently, uses more abilities, and is significantly sturdier.

Classes

Mage

  • Fire
    • [With maintenance in each region] Damage of all abilities increased by 6%.

Hunter

  • Marksmanship
    • [With maintenance in each region] Damage of the following abilities increased by 4%: Marked Shot, Arcane Shot, Multi-Shot, Aimed Shot, Volley, Black Arrow, Bursting Shot, Piercing Shot, Windburst, Murder of Crows, Sidewinders, Barrage.

Priest

  • Discipline
    • Aegis of Wrath now reduces the remaining absorb of Power Word: Shield by 3% every second.

Shaman

  • Elemental
    • Seismic Lightning is now correctly affected by Elemental Fury.
  • Enhancement
    • [With maintenance in each region] Damage of the following abilities increased by 4%: Boulderfist, Crash Lightning, Flametongue, Lava Lash, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Shield, Rockbiter, Stormstrike, Windfury, Windsong.

Rogue

  • Outlaw
    • [With maintenance in each region] Damage of the following abilities increased by 4%: Ambush, Ghostly Strike, Killing Spree, Death from Above, Saber Slash, Pistol Shot, Between the Eyes, Run Through, Cannonball Barrage.

Warlock

  • Affliction
    • Fixed a bug causing the proc chance of Fatal Echoes (Artifact trait) to be quadrupled by Reap Souls. It is now doubled, as intended.
    • Fixed a bug causing the proc chance of Sweet Souls (Artifact trait) to be quadrupled by Reap Souls. It is now doubled, as intended.

Dungeons

Court of Stars

  • Patrol Captain Gerdo
    • Improved the visuals for Patrol Captain Gerdo's Streetsweeper ability.

Followers

  • Lady S’theno should no longer disappear from Felhammer when she is sent on a mission.

Legion Companion App

  • Added support for new Follower Missions.
  • Addressed an issue that caused some Mission duration times to differ from the World of Warcraft client.
  • Addressed an issue that caused Artifact Power rewards to display incorrect punctuation in tooltips.

Player versus Player

[All PvP hotfixes are in-testing and intended to go live as soon as possible.]

Mage

  • Fire
  • PvP template Intellect reduced by 6%.

Hunter

  • Aspect of the Turtle now negates the stun of Call Fel Lord.
  • Beast Mastery
  • Separation Anxiety increases the damage of your pet by 15% (was 50%).

Quests

  • The arrow markers located in Impsorrow Approach no longer vanish when players enter the area for the quest “A Flare in the Dark”.

April 13


Hotfixes

Broken Shore

  • Sentinax: Bloodstrike is now a debuff.
  • Players should no longer be offered the "Armies of Legionfall" quest before they can accept it.
  • Champion Aquaclease can now be taken down the Path of Suffering during "By Water Be Purged".

Classes

  • Rogue
    • Outlaw
      • Loaded Dice buff duration increased to 45 seconds (was 15 seconds).

Followers

  • [Hotfix in testing] Bodyguards now gain significantly more XP from player quests.

Quests

  • Prowling Shadowstalkers spawnrates and spawn quantities have been improved for “Get Them Up” and “A Flare in the Dark”.

April 12


Hotfixes

Artifacts

  • The requirement "Complete 100 dungeons while using your Hidden Artifact appearance" to unlock Hidden Artifact appearance color variant 2 has been reduced from 100 to 30 dungeon completions.
    • Developers’ notes: The time and effort required for this Hidden Artifact unlock wasn’t consistent with the other two color unlocks. Additionally, now that Challenge Artifact appearances are in the game, requiring you to continue using your Hidden Artifact appearance (which can't be transmogged into the more prestigious Challenge appearance) for 100 dungeons was too much.

Bonus Event

  • Corrected an issue preventing some players from accepting The Arena Calls skirmish event quest.

Classes

  • Warlock
    • Wrathguard's Mortal Cleave should now hit the same arc as the Felguard's Legion Strike ability.
    • The Observer's Optical Blast should now share a cooldown with other Silence effects.
    • Flames of Sargeras (Artifact Trait) increases the damage of both Conflagrate and Shadowburn.

Items

  • Kil’jaeden’s Burning Wish now deals damage when equipped by level 101-109 characters.

Tailoring

  • Melandrus' Star-Touched Bracers now drop in Heroic difficulty during "The Thread of Starlight".

April 11


Hotfixes

Broken Shore

  • The World Quest “Behind Enemy Portals” will now correctly grant Legionfall reputation to players still affected by the Wyrmtongue Disguise.
  • Players should no longer take damage from the Enhanced Living Bomb or Enhanced Dragonsbreath abilities used during the World Quest “Kill it with Fire!”

Classes

  • Rogue
    • The Artifact Trait “From the Shadows” will no longer keep the Rogue in combat after using Vanish, and will stop damaging targets affected by Blind.

Class Halls

  • Grandiose Armor Kits can now correctly upgrade shoulder slot items.
  • Players now only need to have completed the previous chapters of their Class Campaign to accept their Class Follower questlines from Maiev at Deliverance Point.
  • Monk
    • The items gained from the Brewhouse can now stack to a maximum of 5.
  • Warlock
    • Demonheart items can now stack to a maximum 5, and have separate icons.

Items

  • Rethu’s Incessant Courage
    • Fixed a bug causing nearby neutral creatures to behave erratically.

Player versus Player

  • Warrior
    • Soul of the Slaughter’s heal is reduced by 30% in PvP situations.

April 10


Hotfixes

Artifact Challenges

  • Inquisitor Variss's health has been reduced by 10%.
  • Nether Horror’s health has been reduced by 20%.

Classes

  • Death Knight
    • Black Claws (Artifact trait) can no longer incorrectly burst multiple Festering Wounds per swing.
  • Demon Hunter
    • Erupting Souls (Artifact trait) will now strike all targets hit by Soul Cleave.
  • Hunter
    • Cobra Commander’s Sneaky Snakes (Artifact trait) damage increased by 25%.
    • Thunderslash (Artifact trait) damage reduced by 50%.
    • Thunderslash (Artifact trait) deals 30% less damage with the Dire Frenzy talent.
  • Mage
    • Glacial Eruption (Artifact trait) damage increased by 20%.
  • Warlock
    • Jaws of Shadow’s (Artifact trait) bonus is now 10% (was 20%).
  • Warrior
    • Executioner's Precision (Artifact trait) bonus increased to 75%/stack (was 50%/stack).
    • Oathblood’s (Artifact trait) proc chance increased to 15% (was 10%).

Class Halls

  • More Follower missions are now available for players who have several followers above item level 855.
  • Challenge Mission now has a reward of Champion's Trophy.
  • The Cathedral of Eternal Night World Quest enabled by the Command Center building now awards Legionfall reputation.

Dungeons

  • The Cathedral of Eternal Night
    • Agronox
      • Reduced Timber Smash damage by 20% on all difficulties.
    • Thrashbite the Scornful
      • Pulverizing Cudgel’s unavoidable damage reduced by 30% on all difficulties.
    • Domatrax
      • Reduced the amount of damage from Shadow Sweep on Mythic difficulties.
      • Hellblaze Mistresses do significantly less damage on Mythic difficulties.
    • Mephistroth
      • Mephistroth health reduced by 30% on all difficulties.
      • Felblaze damage reduced by 30% on all difficulties.
      • Demonic Upheaveal’s unavoidable damage reduced by 60% on all difficulties.
      • Creeping Shadows gain stacks more slowly on all difficulties.
      • Shadow Blast impact damage reduced by 50% on all difficulties.

Items

  • Infallible Tracking Charm now does an appropriate amount of damage in Timewalking dungeons.
  • Potion of Trivial Invisibility should now make you invisible. You should be trivially invisible, but invisible nonetheless.
  • Weapon appearances from the Armaments of the Ebon Blade and Armaments of the Silver Hand should be restricted to Death Knight and Paladin, respectively.
  • Dreadstone of Endless Shadows may now proc from healing spells, as well as damaging spells. The tooltip will be updated to reflect this in a future patch.
  • Splinters of Agronox will no longer drop for characters whose Loot Specialization is set to a Tank specialization.

Player versus Player

  • Mage
    • Fixed a bug where a Fire Mage's Ignite could interact incorrectly with Duel (Arms Warrior PvP Talent), resulting in significantly reduced or increased damage to secondary targets.
    • Cauterizing Blink’s heal is reduced by 50% in PvP situations.
  • For rated PvP, we’re adjusting the item levels for some end-of-match rewards, weekly rewards, and Gladiator obliterum tokens:
    • End-of-match rewards for players whose rating is between 0 and 1799 have been improved, starting at a minimum item level of 870 (was 865).
    • Weekly rewards have been raised to a minimum of 880 (was 870).
    • The tokens purchased with Echoes of Battle, gained by obliterating Gladiator gear, now create an item at item level 880 (was 865).
    • These changes will take effect this week with maintenance in your region.

April 6


Hotfixes

Assaults

  • Defense of Emerald Bay: Destruction of Fel Spreaders will now grant group credit.

Broken Shore

  • The maximum capacity of Legionfall War Supplies per character has been reduced to 1000.
  • Quest Objects for the World Quest "Anicent Bones" should now be visible when the World Quest is active.

Player versus Player

  • Hunter
    • Feet of Wind will now properly suppress movement speed reduction effects.

April 5


Hotfixes

Achievements

  • The "Defender of the Broken Isles" achievement is no longer required as part of the Legion Pathfinder, Part Two meta-achievement.

Developers’ notes: The rotating Legion Assault schedule is designed to have them active at varying times of day over the course of a given week, to accommodate different work schedules and available free time. We're hesitant to have an Assault last for too long, because they stomp on the entire World Quest content of a given zone for the duration, potentially leaving players with nothing to do there once the Assault is complete. But this design doesn't mesh well with an important achievement that requires completion of all four zones - if anything, it causes stress over scheduling and potentially missing specific zones during the cycle. The Defender achievement was never intended to be a major obstacle on the path to flight in the Broken Isles; its inclusion was more for thematic purposes and completeness. As such, we're removing it from the meta-achievement required to unlock flying.

Artifact Challenges

  • Arcane Mages can no longer use an immunity, such as Ice Block, to remove Arcane Biology.
  • Fixed a bug that was preventing some players from being ported back to the mage tower when leaving the scenario.

Assaults

  • While the Assault in Azsuna is active, Prince Farondis should now be visible to eligible players in Farondale.
  • Vile Soulwardens in Val'sharah are no longer hesitant to engage in combat.
  • Spires of Dread can no longer suffer damage from players' AoE abilities, and they no longer turn to face nearby players.
  • Jarod Shadowsong will now appear for players at the base of Black Rook Hold if they leave the terrace before completing "Battle for Val'sharah".
  • Drol'maz will now respawn even if his Dark Ritualists were not killed with him.
  • Destruction of Fel Spreaders will now grant group credit for “Defense of Emerald Bay”.
  • Fixed a bug where players were not receiving quest credit if they were in a raid group during the intro Legion Assault quests.

Broken Shore

  • The Sentinax should no longer advertise that it is finished recharging when it hasn't.

Classes

  • Druid
    • Fixed a bug that caused a Druid to sometimes be disconnected when casting Typhoon.

Dungeons and Raids

  • The Nighthold
    • Skorpyron
      • Resolved an issue in which Arcanoslash could place an Arcane Tether on a non-struck tank target.

Items

  • Royal Dagger Haft now absorbs the intended amount of damage. For Brewmaster Monks, this absorb amount is always counted after Stagger has reduced the damage.

Player versus Player

  • Death Knight
    • Ice Block can now be cast by the Death Knight after being copied by Dark Simulacrum.

April 4


Hotfixes

Broken Shore

  • Our Valarjar allies have deployed grapple points in key locations on Broken Shore.
  • Broken Shore Rare Elite icons will now appear on the Broken Shore map even when the player is not currently in the Broken Shore.
  • Creatures other than Rare Elites and Sentinax Lieutenants no longer drop Nethershards for players who are in a raid group.
  • Rare Elites now drop fewer Sentinax Beacons.
  • Portal enemies should now drop their beacon type much more often.
  • Sentinax Lieutenants should drop multiple beacons for every player, allowing a quick restart after the break.
  • Sentinax Lieutenants now drop many more Nethershards when slain.
  • Sentinax cool-down time lowered to 3 minutes (was 5 minutes).
    • Developers’ notes: These changes are aimed at aligning the pacing of the Sentinax area without significantly changing the rewards. Upgraded portals should feel more special, portal beacons more scarce, and the final boss for each round of Sentinax activity should be a more welcome sight. Since tapping rules and behaviors of large raids of players don’t present a good experience for nearby parties of five or fewer, and especially solo players who might come along, the change to drops for raid groups is intended to allow everyone more opportunities to tap enemies.

Classes

  • Hunter
    • (Hotfix in testing) Feet of Wind should now properly suppress movement speed reduction effects, as intended.
  • Rogue
    • From the Shadows no longer breaks Vanish.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Some creatures in Mythic Keystone dungeons no longer summon Explosive Orbs.
  • Corrected the Premade Group Finder difficulty display from "Mythic+" to "Mythic Keystone", for consistency and easier searching.
  • Cathedral of Eternal Night
    • Agronox
      • Succulent Lashers now have significantly less health in Mythic difficulty.
      • Succulent Secretion now does much less damage in Mythic difficulty.
      • Poisonous Spores now hits for slightly less, and is limited to 5 stacks in Heroic and Mythic difficulties.
      • Fulminating Lashers can now be stunned or snared.

April 3


Hotfixes

Artifact Challenges

  • Tanks
    • Stunning Inquisitor Variss on encounter start no longer prevents him from using Aura of Decay.
    • Eye health has been reduced by 30%.
    • Infernal spawn frequency has been reduced by 5 seconds.

Classes

  • Hunter
    • The Windburst/Cyclonic Burst effect can now correctly extend further than 40 yards from the Hunter.
    • Cyclonic Burst can now crit for its periodic damage.
    • Cyclonic Burst should work correctly when another Hunter's Cyclonic Burst is already on the target.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Mage Tower: Knowledgeable is now less lucrative in dungeons of lower difficulty.
  • Return to Karazhan
    • Moroes
      • The periodic damage of Garrote has been reduced by 30% in Heroic and Mythic difficulties.
      • Players can now use their abilities to remove the bleed damage.
  • The Nighthold
    • Gul’dan
      • Damage done by Bonds of Fel and Empowered Bonds of Fel have been reduced for smaller raid sizes.
      • Eye of Gul'dan and Empowered Eye of Gul'dan now take up to 50% longer to reach max energy (and begin to cast Duplicate), to better accommodate smaller raid sizes.
      • Resolved an issue in which Gul'dan could inadvertently teleport to the wrong tank after Storm of the Destroyer.

Player Versus Player

  • PvP Template Primary stat reduced by 5% for all non-healers.
  • PvP Template Stamina increased by 5%.
  • Death Knight
    • Frost
      • PvP Template Strength increased by 5%
  • Druid
    • In PvP, Bear Form now grants 125% Armor (was 200% Armor). Guardian Druid Bear Form unchanged.
    • In PvP, Bear Form now grants 40% Stamina (was 55% Stamina). Guardian Druid Bear Form unchanged.
    • Balance
      • PvP Template Intellect reduced by 5%.
      • Full Moon and Half Moon damage decreased by 10% in PvP situations.
    • Feral
      • PvP Template Agility reduced by 3%.
    • Restoration
      • PvP Template Intellect reduced by 5%.
  • Hunter
    • Marksmanship
      • Sidewinders damage reduced by 10%.
      • Marked Shot damage reduced by 10%.
      • Rapid Killing increases Critical Strike damage by 30% (was 50%).
  • Mage
    • PvP Template Intellect reduced by 5% (all specs).
  • Paladin
    • Retribution
      • Shield of Vengeance can no longer be dispelled.
  •  Priest
    • Discipline
      • Rapture can no longer be dispelled.
    • Shadow
      • Shadow Mania increases the healing of Vampiric Touch by 35% (was 50%).
  • Shaman
    • Skyfury Totem now increases Critical Strike damage by 20% (was 30%). Critical strike healing unchanged.
    • Skyfury Totem's cooldown reduced by 5 seconds.
  • Warrior
    • Opportunities Strike is no longer activated by Windfury Totem.

Quests

  • Quest credit for “Unlikely Seduction” should now be appropriately given.
  • Players above level 100 should now be able to acquire "In the Blink of an Eye."

March 31


Hotfixes

Brawlers Guild

  • The Stranglethorn Streak Brawl is unavailable.

Broken Shore

  • The message sent when a Sentinax boss appears should now play a loud warning sound.
  • The Sentinax should now send a message when it has finished recharging and is ready to respond to beacons again.
  • Rare elite enemies now drop significantly more Nethershards.
  • Creatures summoned below the Sentinax now drop significantly more Nethershards.
  • A number of unintended sources of Nethershards no longer drop Nethershards.

Classes

  • Demon Hunter
    • Fiery Brand should now be applied to the correct target when cast using an @focus macro.
  • Druid
    • Glyph of Twilight Bloom and Autumnal Bloom should again modify your Lifebloom spell.
    • Stellar Empowerment no longer buffs the initial damage of Moonfire and Sunfire.
    • Wax and Wane now increases the damage of your next Moonfire by 25% per stack (was 15%).
  • Hunter
    • Echo of Ohn’ara’s proc chance increased to 20% (was 10%).
    • Talon Bonds can proc Mastery: Hunting Companion.
  • Paladin
    • Blessed Stalwart now increases Shield of the Righteous's effects by 8% (was 25%).
  • Priest
    • Fixed a bug that caused Cosmic Ripple to incorrectly cost mana.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Corrected an issue that was preventing the Ahead of the Curve and Cutting Edge achievements for Gul'dan from being properly awarded.
  • Artifact Power rewards will now correctly scale for Mythic Keystone levels 11 through 14.

Player Versus Player

  • Dampening now starts at a 20% healing reduction in 2v2 matches.
  • Combatant's gear now starts at item level 840 and goes up to item level 860 (before Warforging), based on your character's average item level.
  • Druid
    • Overrun's range has returned to a minimum of 8 yards and maximum of 25 yards.
  • Hunter
    • Trueshot aura will continue to countdown correctly when the Hunter is under the effect of Cyclone.
  • Paladin
    • Flash of Light now heals for 35% more in PvP situations.
    • Holy Light now heals for 50% more in PvP situations.
    • Light's Grace now increases the healing of Holy Light by 50% (was 100%).
  • Priest
    • Holy Ward will now cause the target to be immune to Scatter Shot.
  • Shaman
    • Ethereal Form can now be cast in Arenas and Battlegrounds.
    • Restoration PvP Template Mastery has been increased by 10%.

Quests

  • Eyir has returned from a critically important meeting with Odyn and is once again available in her vault for the worthy.

March 30


Hotfixes

Broken Shore

  • Hidden Wyrmtongue Caches can now be used by 5 players within 15 seconds of the first player looting them.
  • Hidden Wyrmtongue Caches should now appear on the minimap.
  • Rare elite corpses should now linger for 30 seconds longer after being looted to help prevent them from disappearing from the map.
  • Increased the Nethershard rewards from the Sentinax Lieutenants.
  • Beacons that reward gathering materials can now be used while the Sentinax is on cooldown.
  • The message sent when a Sentinax boss appears should now play a loud warning sound.
  • The Sentinax should now send a message when it has finished recharging and is ready to respond to beacons again.
  • The Eye of Gurgh has received additional training in the art of fighting adventurers.
  • On PvP realms, Deliverance Point should now have a rest area.
  • Rare Elite commanders on Broken Shore are rumored to now drop more loot.

Classes

  • Druid
    • Glyph of Twilight Bloom and Autumnal Bloom should again modify your Lifebloom spell.
  • Mage
    • The cooldown for Displacement is now correctly reduced by Everywhere At Once.

Class Hall

  • Matilda Skoptidottir inside the Warrior Order Hall should once more be visible to players who just finished research.

Dungeons and Raids

  • The dungeon quest "Return to Karazhan: The Tower of Power" is now completable in Mythic Keystone difficulty, in addition to all other difficulties.

Player Versus Player

  • Focused Assault and Brutal Assault are now being applied to flag carriers.
  • Druid
    • Frenzied Regeneration now heals 25% of incoming player damage in the last 5 seconds, (was 50%) for all specs except Guardian.
  • Monk
    • Ancient Mistweaver Arts no longer allows Soothing Mist to continue to heal while the player is stunned, silenced, disoriented, or otherwise interrupted.

Professions

  • Archaeology
    • Surveying in elite digsites with Luron now gives credit towards "Surveying Student".

March 29


Hotfixes

Broken Shore

  • The number of Legionfall War Supplies required to complete construction of the Broken Shore buildings has been significantly reduced.
  • Broken Shore rare spawn creatures that get markers on your map and minimap should remain marked for you after they’ve been slain.

Classes

  • Death Knight
    • Howling Blast will now correctly deal its area damage if it kills the primary target.
    • Runic Chills reduces Sindragosa's Fury cooldown by 1 second per proc (was 3 seconds).
    • Thronebreaker damage reduced by 50%.
  • Druid
    • Wax and Wane bonus 15% (from 5%).
    • Wax and Wane affects Sunfire in addition to Moonfire (tooltip won't be clear about this in 7.2).
  • Hunter
    • Unerring Arrows bonus is now 4% per point (was 10% per point).
  • Mage
    • Aegwynn's Intensity trait adds the correct amount of critical strike % to Arcane Missiles.
  • Monk
    • Split Personality cooldown reduction increased to 5 seconds per rank (was 3 seconds per rank).
    • Whispers  of Shaohao’s heal radius is now set to 30 yards from the respective Mist.
  • Paladin
    • Righteous Verdict bonus increased to 8% per point (was 5% per point).
  • Priest
    • Shadowfiend modified by Glyph of the Sha is now properly affected by the Artifact Trait Fiending Dark.
  • Rogue
    • Sinister Circulation now has a 0.5 second proc cooldown.
  • Warlock
    • Rend Souls proc rate is now 4% (was 12%).
    • Rend Souls damage is no longer doubled by Reap Souls, but its proc rate still is.
  • Warrior
    • Soul of the Slaughter Artifact Trait proc chance increased to 1.0%/Rage (was 0.5%) and healing increased by 50%.

Class Hall

  • Active Artifact Knowledge work orders will instantly complete when a player zones into the order hall if that player has 25 or less total Artifact Knowledge.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Cathedral of Eternal Night
    • Group Finder groups should now properly end the dungeon with Mephistroth.
  • The Nighthold
    • High Botanist Tel’arn
      • Solarist Tel'arn and Naturalist Tel'arn now properly mirror High Botanist Telarn's current health when they spawn after Nightosis and all throughout the fight.
    • Spellblade Aluriel
      • Fel Stomp (Mythic difficulty-only) once again properly displays its visual.

Items

  • Distilled Titan Essence will now reliably upgrade Legion Legendary items from 910 to 940.

Professions

  • An appropriate amount of Obliterum is now given from obliterating crafted items.

Quests

  • Players are no longer prevented from entering the Vault of Eyir if “The Gates Are Closed” is available.

March 28


Hotfixes

Creatures

  • Skittering Demons and Sister Silkreaver should no longer randomly evade.

Dungeons and Raids

  • The Nighthold
    • The Achievement Ahead of the Curve: Gul'dan can once again be earned. It will be available until Tomb of Sargeras opens.

Quests

  • Completing World Quests that award reputation should again bring you across the threshold from Revered to Exalted.
  • Gryphons should be easier to shoot during “The Splintered Fleet”.
  • Players should now be able to turn in "The Final Judgement" after completing it.

Zone

  • Players who die in Xylem's Tower or the surrounding area are now placed at the closer tower graveyard.

Patch 7.2: The Tomb of Sargeras is live! For more details, click here.