Hotfixes: October 16, 2020

WoW

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Battle For Azeroth and WoW Classic. 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.

Hotfixes

October 16, 2020

Barber Shop

Resolved some issues with the Barber Shop previewing textures from other character models.
Worgen players are now able to save changes to their Human forms.
Resolved an issue with a Night Elf skin color and eye color not displaying correctly to other players.

Classes

Mage
- General
  - Portals can now be used by all members of the Mage’s party, regardless of level.
  - Mages who are not yet high enough level to fly can now take a portal to the abandoned Kirin Tor camp during the quest "The Deadwind Site."
  - Starving prisoners are now less picky and will eat any level of Mage conjured food offered to them during the quest, "More Than Just a Food Vendor".
- Arcane
  - Master of Escape (PvP Talent) no longer reduces the cooldown of Mass Invisibility (PvP Talent).
Warrior
- Protection
  - All Protection Warriors with Punish (Talent) selected can now apply multiple Punish debuffs on a single target.

Dungeons and Raids

Grievous and Bursting affixes now deal appropriate damage on Mythic Keystone difficulty.
Atal'Dazar
- Shadowy spiders summoned by Echoes of Shadra no longer deal damage while in the Awakened affix realm on Mythic Keystone difficulty.

Exile's Reach

After several complaints from Captain Garrick and Warlord Grimaxe, new recruits can no longer duel aboard the Horde and Alliance ships. Additionally, Health regeneration will recover more slowly while dueling on Exile’s Reach. Now take your fights to the island, recruits!
Resolved an issue where the objective to speak with Warlord Grimaxe wouldn’t complete during the Exile’s Reach Horde quest, “Dungeon: Darkmaul Citadel”.

Items and Rewards

Fixed an issue causing the Humming Black Dragonscale trinket’s slow fall effect to not apply the Draconic Descent buff aura. Additionally, the trinket’s slow fall effect can now be used while mounted.
Alliance players can loot 7th Legion Service Medals once again.

Quests

Completing “Quartermaster’s Bounty” will reward a Warlord’s Trophy for your efforts once again.
The turn in locations for the Vulpera Allied Race quests, "A Little Goodwill" and "Worthwhile Repairs" have been updated to their correct positions.
"Adventurers Wanted: Chromie's Call" will correctly be categorized under Orgrimmar for Horde characters.
The Legionfall Construction Table is no longer empty during the quest “Begin Construction”.
Vanthir is once again visible for turning in the Suramar quest, “All Along the Waterways”.
Fixed an issue that prevented players from completing the Shadowmoon Valley quest, “The Ashtongue Corruptors”.
The protective shield surrounding Animus in the Thousand Needles quest, "The Doomstone", can no longer withstand the might of Magatha Grimtotem's Elemental Nullifier.
Honor’s Stand Officers in Southern Barrens will once again drop the Roadway Plans that start the quest, "The Low Road".

October 15, 2020

Classes

Death Knight
- Unholy
  - Unholy Blight (Talent) now applies Virulent Plague at max melee range.
Druid
- General
  - The Legion Class Hall Dreamwalk teleport is now available to players starting at level 10 (was level 12) after completing the quest “To The Dreamgrove”.
- Balance
  - Vision of Perfection (Azerite Essence) should now properly extend the duration of both Solar Eclipse and Lunar Eclipse if it activates while Celestial Alignment is already active.
Paladin
- Protection
  - The absorb from First Avenger (Talent) no longer double dips into Versatility.
Shaman
- Enhancement
  - Lightning Shield no longer gains stacks of Maelstrom Weapon before level 29.

Creatures and NPCs

Various Druid NPCs have remembered how to shapeshift.

Dungeons and Raids

Players leveling through Battle for Azeroth can now queue for Freehold and Atal'Dazar in the Dungeon Finder at lower levels.
- Alliance players will unlock Freehold at level 10 and Atal'Dazar at level 16.
- Horde players will unlock Atal'Dazar at level 10 and Freehold at level 16.
Temple of the Jade Serpent
- Sha of Doubt
  - Touch of Nothingness now deals appropriate damage on Normal difficulty.

Items and Rewards

The Flash of Brilliance 4-piece Heirloom set bonus will no longer hit enemies that you are not engaged in combat with, except for players of the opposite faction when War Mode is enabled. They probably deserved it.

Quests

Players who reach level 50 will once again receive the quest, “A Dying World”, and will be directed to Magni Bronzebeard in Silithus to obtain their Heart of Azeroth. There is no escaping from his storytelling!
Players can again escape from the Frozen Throne through Bwonsamdi’s Death Gate during the quest “Jailor of the Damned”.
Fixed an issue where lower level Priests were unable to complete the Priest Class Hall Campaign quest “Murloc Mind Control”.
Resolved an issue where “Stay of Execution” was unavailable for some players.
Cork Fizzlepop’s location will now display if he despawns while on the Horde quest “Finding Your Way”.

October 14, 2020

Allied Races

Unlocking Mechagnome no longer requires reaching exalted with the Rustbolt Resistance.

Barber Shop

Gender changes in the Barber Shop will no longer revert after entering combat and relogging into the game.

Classes

Death Knight
- General
  - Death Knights that have been boosted with a Shadowlands Character Boost can once again summon their Death Gate.
- Unholy
  - Shadow Bolt cast by Magus of the Dead (Azerite Trait) no longer double dips into Mastery: Dreadblades.
Monk
- Windwalker
  - Resolved an issue that caused Whirling Dragon Punch (Talent) to deal more damage than intended.
Paladin
- General
  - Resolved an issue with Unbound Freedom (PvP Talent) affecting the cooldown of Blessing of Freedom.
Rogue
- Outlaw
  - Snake Eyes (Azerite Trait) no longer procs off of Roll the Bones.
- Subtlety
  - Replicating Shadows (Azerite Trait) now properly affects Rupture.
  - Night's Vengeance (Azerite Trait) now properly procs affects Rupture.

Dungeons and Raids

Queueing for Legion dungeons on Normal difficulty no longer requires obtaining an Artifact weapon.
Ny’alotha, the Waking City
- Inquisitor Xanesh
  - Fan of Venomblades will no longer be cast during the encounter.
- N’Zoth the Corruptor
  - Paranoia now deals appropriate damage on Heroic and Mythic difficulties.
Nighthold
- High Botanist Tel’arn
  - Recursive Strikes now deals appropriate damage on Mythic difficulty.
Hellfire Citadel
- Tyrant Velhari
  - Aura of Oppression now deals appropriate damage on Mythic difficulty.

Exile's Reach

Fixed an issue where players who completed Exile's Reach could end up getting stuck on the island. Players who are currently stuck in this state on the island will be teleported back to Stormwind or Orgrimmar. We were going to send another expedition to rescue you but that turned into a whole thing, so now you'll just be teleported out.

Items and Rewards

Fixed an issue that caused some weapon illusions to not persist when closing and reentering the game.
Black Empire head, shoulder, and chest tokens will no longer create Azerite-empowered armor for characters that have not obtained the Heart of Azeroth.

Player versus Player

Gladiator titles will once again only be used by characters who earned the achievements.
Fixed an issue that caused terrain issues for some characters in the Cooking Impossible Brawl.
Honorable Kills are once again tracked in Achievements and the Scoreboard.

Professions

Players should once again be able to disenchant items as they're leveling up through the different expansions in Timewalking Campaigns.

Quests

Players should now be able queue for the “Battle for Lordaeron” scenario.
Players should once again be able to use the spells available during “Ravencrest's Legacy” in Val’sharah.
"Students of Chi-Ji" in Krasarang Wilds can now be completed by all players eligible to accept the quest, regardless of level.
The Argent Cannon during the Icecrown quest, "The Last Line of Defense”, can once again generate enough mana to fuel the Reckoning Bomb.

October 9, 2020

Items and Rewards

Players can once again locate some of the missing treasures in Spires of Arak.

October 5, 2020

Quests

Fixed an issue where characters who were in the process of unlocking the Vulpera as an Allied Race were unable to turn in the quest "A Cycle of Hatred" in Grommash Hold.

October 1, 2020

Impressive Influence

The Impressive Influence 100% reputation buff has returned and will continue through the entirety of October.

September 22, 2020

System

Removed the flashing spell effect when teleporting out of the Brewfest Chowdown area.

September 15, 2020

Allied Races

The mechagnome Allied Race unlock storyline is no longer offered to characters on accounts that have already unlocked mechagnomes.

Quests

Fixed an issue that prevented Alliance players from completing the quest “Storm’s Judgement”.

September 14, 2020

WoW Classic

Ruins of Ahn’Qiraj
- Fixed an issue that caused Ossirian the Unscarred to not reset correctly when quickly engaging back into combat.

September 3, 2020

Achievements

Fixed a bug that prevented players from earning the achievement You Said Crossing the Streams Was Bad during the Durumu the Forgotten encounter in Throne of Thunder.

Allied Races

Mechagnomes’ Emergency Failsafe (racial) cooldown can no longer be removed by immunities.

Quests

Fixed an issue that prevented completion of “Rescue The Farseer”.

August 28, 2020

Quests

Fixed an issue that prevented completion of the quest “Meeting their Quota” in Suramar.

WoW Classic

Fixed a bug that unintentionally allowed Combustion to apply a permanent buff to crit chance.

August 21, 2020

Player versus Player

Corrected an issue that could cause socketed gems to slightly reduce players' effectiveness in PvP combat under some circumstances.

August 13, 2020

Quests

Zandalari Trolls are now able to accept the Argent Tournament quest "A Valiant of Orgrimmar".

August 11, 2020

Classes

Warlock
- Resolved an issue that prevented Singe Magic from triggering the correct cooldown when Glyph of the Fel Imp is applied to your Summon Imp spell.

Timewalking

[For realms in the EU region only] The Cataclysm Timewalking event incorrectly began a day early in Europe.
- Developers’ note: We have adjusted this week's event duration and spawned the appropriate vendors early to ensure that it runs until the next weekly reset. The weekly event schedule should remain on Wednesdays for EU realms going forward.

August 7, 2020

WoW Classic

The Qiraji Hilt, Qiraji Drape, and Qiraji Ring quest items are now tradeable and will no longer stack.
- Developers’ note: In order to enable the ability to trade to eligible looters within 2 hours of looting the Qiraji hilts, drapes, and rings, we've removed the ability to stack multiples of them. Additionally, only one of these items are needed for the non-repeatable quest so there’s no reason for them to stack.

August 5, 2020

WoW Classic

Fixed a bug that prevented Frost Wands from weakening Viscidus in Temple of Ahn'Qiraj.

August 4, 2020

Player versus Player

This week’s Comp Stomp Brawl has been replaced with Temple of Hotmogu.
- Developers’ note: We’ve identified some issues with Comp Stomp and have removed it from the rotation. Comp Stomp will return to the rotation in Shadowlands.

WoW Classic

The Blue Scepter Shard, Green Scepter Shard, and Red Scepter Shard quest items are now Epic quality.
- Developers’ note: We're changing the item quality on the Scepter Shard quest items to Epic (purple) so that they'll be easier to distribute to the correct person in raids using Group Loot or Master Looter.
Fixed an issue that caused C’Thun within Temple of Ahn’Qiraj to incorrectly delay casting Eye Beam when engaging in combat.

August 3, 2020

WoW Classic

Lefty within Blackrock Depths should now inflict damage with his Five Fat Finger Exploding Heart Technique.

July 31, 2020

Items and Rewards

Corrupted Items
- Reverted the recent change made on the interaction between Fist of Justice and Ineffable Truth for Holy and Protection Paladins.

WoW Classic

Attacking Anachronos now flags you for PvP.
The Ectoplasmic Distiller quest item no longer generates threat.
- Developers’ note: Ordinarily we err on the side of authenticity when it comes to clever use of mechanics in Classic, even if we believe the original development team would have made a change given the same information we now have. The Ectoplasmic Distiller presents a rare exception mainly due to its severity: this new discovery of an unintended mechanic would completely trivialize most threat gameplay in raids for the remainder of Classic if left unchecked, including upcoming bosses in Ahn’Qiraj and Naxxramas.
The pages for the quest “Draconic for Dummies” are now Epic quality.
- Developers’ note: We’re changing the item quality on "Draconic for Dummies" quest pages to Epic (purple) so that they'll be easier to distribute to the correct person in raids using Group Loot or Master Looter.

July 28, 2020

Player versus Player

Resolved an issue that delayed the start of the Classic Ashran brawl.

WoW Classic

Baristolth of the Shifting Sands now respawns slightly faster, and attacking Baristolth now flags you for PvP.

July 27, 2020

Items and Rewards

Corrupted Items
- A change to the interaction between Fist of Justice and Ineffable Truth has been reverted.
  - Developers’ note: This change was mistakenly applied with the release of 8.3.7. This was unintentional and the change has been reverted.

Player versus Player

Classes
- Warlock
  - [With regional restarts] Soul Leech grants an absorb for 4% of damage dealt when engaged in combat with enemy players (down from 8%).
    - Developers’ note: Soul Leech will continue to have a cap of 10% of the Warlock's maximum health.
  - Destruction
    - [With regional restarts] The effectiveness of Flashpoint (Azerite Trait) has been reduced by 75% when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 50%).
Items and Rewards
- [With regional restarts] The effectiveness of Lingering Psychic Shell has been reduced by 70% when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 50%).
Azerite Essences
- [With regional restarts] The effectiveness of Vitality Conduit's health transfer has been reduced by 30% when engaged in combat with enemy players.
Corrupted Items
- [With regional restarts] Ineffable Truth (Corruption Effect) no longer reduces the cooldown of Gladiator's Medallion (PvP Talent).
Developers’ note: These PvP specific changes are to reduce the number of long stalled out matches in high end Arena.

WoW Classic

Fixed an issue that caused the Rallying Cry of the Dragonslayer buff to not apply to all players in Stormwind and Orgrimmar when the Head of Onyxia or Head of Nefarian has been turned in on their realm or its connected layers.

July 24, 2020

WoW Classic

Fixed a bug that could allow stacked periodic auras such as Ignite to persist past their final tick.

July 23, 2020

Classes

Demon Hunter
- Fixed an issue that could sometimes prevent recently boosted Alliance Demon Hunters from entering the Stormwind Portal Room.

Items and Rewards

Heart of Azeroth
- The chance to receive Rank 4 of the Worldvein Resonance Essence from Island Expeditions has been slightly increased.
- The achievements Expedition Leader, Expert Expeditioner, and Azerite Admiral have had their increased chance to receive Rank 4 of the Worldvein Resonance Essence further increased.
- The achievements Island Conqueror, Helping Hand, Tell Me A Tale, and Competent Captain now increase your chance to receive Rank 4 of the Worldvein Resonance Essence.

Quests

Fixed an issue that caused some players to incorrectly be ineligible for the Shimmering Crystal quest-starter from Warlords of Draenor Timewalking.
Fixed an issue that caused Forsaken Deathstalker to evade and prevent completion of the quest “Signal Boost”.

System

Fixed an issue that caused the camera to become attached to mouse movement.
Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the mouse cursor to become stuck.

July 22, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

Ny’alotha the Waking City
- Prophet Skitra
  - Corrected an issue that unintentionally increased Prophet Skitra’s health on Mythic difficulty.
- N’Zoth the Corruptor
  - Thought Harvester will now stop moving to cast Harvest Thoughts and will no longer use melee attacks during the cast.

WoW Classic

On a realm that is currently layered, turning in Head of Onyxia, Head of Nefarian, Head of Rend Blackhand, or Heart of Hakkar will now start the event dialogue for each layer in which the NPC is currently alive.

July 20, 2020

Quests

Fixed an issue where some Alliance characters were unable to accept the quests "To Be Prepared" and "The Battle for Broken Shore" after completing the quest "The Legion Returns" in Stormwind Harbor.

WoW Classic

Blocked off a location outside of intended play within Warsong Gulch.

July 17, 2020

WoW Classic

Casting animations should no longer break when briefly pausing in between spell casts.
Using Sap on Overlord Runthak, Major Mattingly, or Field Marshal Afrasiabi during their event dialogue no longer prevents the Rallying Cry of the Dragonslayer buff from being applied.
[With regional restarts] Resolved some issues that could prevent Tyrion from offering quests.

July 13, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

Mythic Keystone Dungeons
- Corrupted Affix
  - The ground visual for Explosive Scarab’s Volatile Rupture should remain visible with lowered Graphics Quality in the System Settings menu.

Horrific Visions

[With regional restarts] The Leaden Foot slow effect is now capped at 50% of movement speed (was 90%).
[With regional restarts] Split Personality clones are now spawned for 5 seconds (was 6 seconds), and its disorient effect now lasts 2 seconds (was 4 seconds).

July 9, 2020

Classes

Warlock
- Demonology
  - The mana cost of Shadow Bolt has been reduced by 25%.
  - The mana cost of Demonbolt has been reduced by 25%.
    - Developers’ note: Demonology Warlocks are running out of mana in prolonged fights when using high levels of Haste so we’re reducing the mana costs of their most frequent rotational spells.

Items and Rewards

Corrupted Items
- [With regional restarts] Players with a Corruption level of 200 or higher will now receive an additional negative effect, Inescapable Consequences, which deals 25% of your maximum health in damage every second while you are in combat.
  - Developers’ note: While Corruption's damage taken and healing received debuffs are substantial at high Corruption amounts, players possessed of particular ingenuity have constructed strategies allowing them to deal nearly infinite damage during brief windows when they themselves are immune to damage. It's important to us that players feel like they can play around with how much Corruption they can afford to wear, but we're setting a hard limit at 200 Corruption – going beyond that, N'Zoth’s dark power will defeat you.

July 8, 2020

WoW Classic

Time-based instance limits are now enforced per-character.
- Developers' notes: The newer limit of 30 instances in a 24-hour period is an extension of the 5 instances per hour limit, which was tracked per-realm since it was first implemented in 2005. The intention behind both of these restrictions is to reduce the profits for new bots when they first come online and haven’t been removed yet. We've concluded that a per-character limit will be just as effective, while being less restrictive to legitimate players who have multiple characters on the same realm.

July 2, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

Operation: Mechagon – Workshop
- King Mechagon’s hologram within Ampvolt Arcade should no longer trigger more than once and spawn additional waves of enemies.

June 30, 2020

Timewalking

Ulduar
- Kologarn
  - Right Arm should now only Stone Grip 1 target regardless of raid size.

June 25, 2020

Items and Rewards

Ashjra’kamas, Shroud of Resolve
- Fixed an issue that prevented players who were one upgrade below the cap from purchasing their final Malefic Core from MOTHER.

June 24, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

Black Temple
- Illidan Stormrage
  - Fixed an issue that would sometimes prevent players from receiving loot after defeating Illidan Stormrage.

Items and Rewards

Ashjra’kamas, Shroud of Resolve
- MOTHER now offers Malefic Core for 2,000 Echoes of Ny’alotha to players who have upgraded their legendary cloak to Rank 15. Malefic Cores can be purchased repeatedly up to the current maximum Resistance that the cloak allows (currently 92 Corruption Resistance, and next week this will increase to 95).
  - Developers’ note: The intent of Malefic Cores was to provide ongoing incremental weekly power gains, to help overcome remaining challenges in this final tier of Battle for Azeroth. This has been similar to past systems in Warlords of Draenor (upgrading the legendary rings via Archimonde drops) and Legion (upgrading trinkets from Argus the Unmaker). While each extra bit of Corruption Resistance only represents a small increase in potential power, we understand the frustration of feeling weeks behind, especially without any controlled way of closing the gap faster. With this hotfix, players can further supplement their progress through the wide variety of endgame content that rewards Echoes of Ny’alotha. It will still be possible to earn up to two Malefic Cores per week by fully clearing a Horrific Vision and/or defeating N’Zoth the Corruptor on Normal difficulty or higher.

June 23, 2020

Classes

Warlock
- Affliction
  - The mana cost of Shadow Bolt has been reduced by 25%.
- Destruction
  - The mana cost of Incinerate has been reduced by 25%.
- Developers’ note: Affliction and Destruction Warlocks are running out of mana in prolonged fights when using high levels of Haste so we're reducing the mana costs of their primary filler spells.

Creatures and NPCs

Players can once again embark on their world tour with Uuna and show her the impressiveness of the Gate of the Setting Sun.

Player versus Player

Resolved an issue that prevented the slow effect from Monks Sweep the Leg (Azerite Trait) from being removed with snare immunities.

June 22, 2020

WoW Classic

The combat log range has been increased for players who are inside dungeons and raids.
- Developers' notes: This was originally planned for the next patch (1.13.5), but we wanted to gain its benefits in the live game as soon as possible. The combat log range in the open world remains restricted to prevent a larger radius of stealth detection than existed in original WoW.

June 19, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

Resolved an issue that allowed players to skip the Maut encounter within Raid Finder Wing 1, “Vision of Destiny”.

WoW Classic

Blade of Eternal Darkness will no longer proc from non-damaging spells.
- Developers’ notes: In original WoW patch 1.12.1, we fixed some misbehavior with Blade of Eternal Darkness that unfortunately got carried into WoW Classic. We fixed it again in the WoW Classic AQ patch (1.13.5), but decided to go ahead and bring the fix to the live game.
40-player raid instances are no longer affected by the 30-per-day limit on entering dungeons.
- Developers’ notes: We have seen only a small handful of legitimate players encountering the recently added instance limit, but we want to ensure that anyone who does hit the cap is still able to freely participate in raid content.

June 17, 2020

Auction House

Significantly relaxed the throttle on all Auction House operations except canceling auctions.

Items and Rewards

Heart of Azeroth
- Acquiring Rustbolt Resistance, Ankoan/Unshackled, Rajani, and Uldum Accord Paragon caches now increases your chance to receive the Rank 4 Essences associated with those reputations.
- The achievements Azerite Admiral, Expert Expeditioner, and Expedition Leader now increase your chance to receive Rank 4 of the Worldvein Resonance Essence from Island Expeditions.

WoW Classic

Resolved an issue with Mind Control between teams of the same faction in War Games.

June 16, 2020

Auction House

Implemented a system that will throttle players who are using addons to run rapid queries to scan the Auction House for specific items to buy and relist in huge quantities.
- Developers’ note: Through our continuing work to address service issues as they crop up, as well as our constant efforts to find gameplay issues and fix them, we’ve observed that a small minority of all players generate the majority of Auction House traffic. The players who generate all of the AH traffic are using addon-driven automation to gain a competitive economic advantage over other players, in addition to the increasing strain on the game service. Neither of these things is good for the game as a whole. With this hotfix, we’ve implemented a new system that effectively gives each player a “budget” of AH actions per minute, and only kicks in once that budget has been exceeded. The system is tuned so that is should never affect players using the AH typically: buying consumables, listing gathered or crafted goods for sale, searching for specific items you want to purchase, etc. It should be essentially impossible to encounter the new limits for most players.

Dungeons and Raids

Battle of Dazar'alor
- Players who have previously defeated Lady Jaina Proudmoore on Mythic difficulty can now interact with Otoye (Horde) / Ensign Roberst (Alliance) at the entrance of the instance to skip ahead to her encounter.
  - Developers’ note: We've become aware of an exploit that allowed Horde players using a combination of abilities and mounts to get out of bounds and skip to the end of the instance. This was commonly used to more easily get a chance at the Glacial Tidestorm from the Jaina Proudmoore encounter. Rather than just fixing that loophole, we'd like to provide a legitimate avenue that yields the same result.

WoW Classic

You may now enter a maximum of 30 unique instances (dungeon and raid) per day, per realm.
- Developers’ note: We’re implementing this change as part of our ongoing efforts to eliminate exploitative and automated gameplay. This restriction complements the current limit of 5 instances per hour. Now, when a player enters a dungeon or a raid, the game checks to see if they have entered 5 instances in the last hour or 30 instances in the last 24 hours, and if they have, they cannot enter the instance until enough time has elapsed. This check is across all of your characters on your realm. These limits only apply to dungeon and raid instances, and do not apply to PvP battlegrounds.

June 9, 2020

Classes

Monk
- Mistweaver
  - Chrysalis (PvP Talent) now reduces the cooldown of Life Cocoon by 25 seconds (was 45 seconds).

Dungeons and Raids

Skyreach
- Araknath
  - Energize damage has been reduced by 50% on Heroic and Timewalking difficulties.

Horrific Visions

Horrific Vision of Orgrimmar
- Thrall's throne has been blocked off to prevent a rare occurrence where characters could become stuck if feared into the throne.

Items and Rewards

Azerite Essences
- Conflict and Strife (Major – Rank 2) now increases the defensive benefit of your Versatility by 50% while stunned (was 100%).

Player versus Player

Items and Rewards
- Corrupted Gladiator's Spite can once again stack more quickly when multiple Corrupted Gladiator's Spite trinkets are used against a target.
- Azerite Essences
  - Reaping Flames (Major – Rank 3) no longer activates on player-controlled targets such as pets, totems, or guardians.
  - Resolved an issue that prevented Conflict and Strife (Major – Rank 2) effect from providing additional defensive benefit from Versatility under the effects of certain class stuns.
- Corrupted Items
  - The effectiveness of Versatile (Corruption Effect) has been reduced by 33% when engaged in combat with enemy players.

Quests

Fixed several quests that could be unintentionally shared and trigger a teleport upon accepting.

Timewalking

We have reduced the magnitude of the stat adjustment applied to players to compensate for their Corruption level.
- Developers' note: Timewalking is designed to largely be a gear-agnostic experience that allows players of different levels and stages of progression to group together. Since Legion, we've used stat adjustments to offset the unique power benefits from systems like Artifacts or Essences to try to keep power constant. We were being too aggressive in compensating for Corruption, and this was making Timewalking dungeons in Visions of N'Zoth more difficult than intended.
Auchindoun
- Teron'gor
  - Agony should now inflict the appropriate amount of damage as it increases over time.
  - The Seed of Malevolence explosion should now inflict damage to all players near the affected target.

WoW Classic

Fixed an issue that would cause a Dragon of Nightmare to spawn again shortly after its death.

June 8, 2020

Classes

Rogue
- Subtlety
  - Resolved an issue that prevented Subtlety Rogues from being visible to their target during Shadowy Duel (PvP Talent).

Items and Rewards

The gateway summoned by Corrupted Gladiator's Breach trinket is now slightly larger and easier to interact with when there are nearby units.

June 5, 2020

WoW Classic

More world buffs have been added to the Advanced Combat Log and will now be recorded when starting a raid encounter.

June 4, 2020

WoW Classic

When using Advanced Combat Logging, the presence of various world buffs (e.g. Rallying Cry of the Dragonslayer) will now be consistently recorded when starting a raid encounter.
Players who are interacting with their mailbox or bank can no longer be interrupted by trade requests.

June 2, 2020

Items and Rewards

Corrupted Items
- Gushing Wound (Corruption Effect) damage over time effect has been reduced by 35%.
  - Developers' note: While we try to avoid changes like this outside of regular balance patch intervals, the changes we've made to the Corruption system to make Corruption more targetable and attainable risks turning a rare but powerful Corruption into the optimal choice in nearly every situation. With this reduction in damage, Gushing Wound will remain reasonably powerful in all situations, but will no longer be the most efficient source of damage per Corruption in all situations.
- Fixed a bug that caused the lockout time of interrupted spell schools to increase when the Ineffable Truth Corruption effect ends.

June 1, 2020

Quests

Bowmistress Li should once again be available on Serpent's Spine to offer the quests "Falling Down" and "Nope".

May 28, 2020

Items and Rewards

Preserved Contaminant and Gouged Eye of N’Zoth can now be applied to items acquired from weekly rated PvP quests.

Player versus Player 

[With regional restarts] Corrupted Gladiator's Spite on use effect now keeps the afflicted enemies in combat for the full duration of its effect.
Fixed an issue where Mantid Fire Bomb damage was scaling incorrectly against players.

WoW Classic

Black Lotus now spawns more often and can appear in many new locations.
Black Lotus cannot be seen on-screen or on the minimap by players who are dead, unless they have Herbalism at level 300 or higher.
In Warsong Gulch, several locations outside of the intended play area have been blocked off.

May 27, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

Ny’alotha, the Waking City
- N’Zoth the Corruptor
  - Fixed a bug that could cause Spike Tentacles to repeatedly target a player with multiple casts of Pain Spike in succession rather than randomizing targets.

May 21, 2020

Items and Rewards

Ashjra’kamas, Shroud of Resolve
- Fixed a bug that caused Ashjra’kamas, Shroud of Resolve to despawn only the most recently spawned Eye of Corruption instead of all active Eyes of Corruption.
Preserved Contaminant
- Preserved Contaminant can now be applied to all items that have been cleansed of Corruption prior to this week’s maintenance.

Player versus Player

Temple of Kotmogu
- Fixed an issue that caused Orbs of Power to drop when taking the gateway created by Corrupted Gladiator’s Breach trinket.

Quests

The quests within the Shadowbarb Drone questline can no longer be completed with Party Sync activated.
- Developers’ note: Issues using Party Sync to complete this questline could cause progress on the Aqir Hatchling faction to reset.

May 20, 2020

Items and Rewards

Preserved Contaminant
- Preserved Contaminant can now apply a Corruption effect to Season 4 crafted items, excluding items that cannot be Corrupted such as engineering goggles (Azerite) and alchemist stones (trinkets). Crafted items still cannot be initially Corrupted when they are crafted.

May 19, 2020

Items and Rewards

Echoes of Ny'alotha
- MOTHER now offers several Preserved Contaminants, a new item to purchase with Echoes of Ny’alotha. Preserved Contaminants allow for a specific Corruption effect to be applied to any uncorrupted item that can be Corrupted or any items that have been cleansed after this week’s restart. The inventory of available Preserved Contaminants will change twice each week, mirroring the Assault cadence, and will cycle through all available Corruption effects at various levels of potency.

May 18, 2020

Classes

Demon Hunter
- Fixed a bug that prevented Haste from reducing the global cooldown of Darkness.

Items and Rewards

Torn Pages of “Fear and Flesh” and “The Final Truth”
- [With regional restarts] The number of Torn Pages of “Fear and Flesh” and “The Final Truth” quest items required for the rank 10–15 cloak quests has been reduced.
  - Ranks 10 and 11 now require 4 Torn Pages (was 6 and 8).
  - Ranks 13–15 now require 2 Torn Pages (was 4, 6, and 8).
  - Developers' note: This change will make each of the quests completable in a single Horrific Vision if a player completes all objectives within the instance. This should help newer characters catch up quicker to their peers.
Echoes of Ny'alotha
- [With regional restarts] Echoes of Ny’alotha now drop after completing the quest “Beginning the Descent” and obtaining Ashjra’kamas, Shroud of Resolve.
- [With regional restarts] Echoes of Ny’alotha are much more abundant than before. The droprate of Echoes of Ny’alotha and the cost to purchase items with Echoes of Ny’alotha has been increased by a factor of 5.
  - Developers' note: When these changes take effect, a Major Assault will award 625 Echoes of Ny’alotha, whereas before this change they awarded 125. The cost to purchase an Essence from MOTHER will also increase by the same factor, from 500 to 2500. If you are planning to purchase a Rank 3 Essence with Echoes of Ny’alotha that you’ve already earned, you should do so now, before these costs change.
- [With regional restarts] MOTHER now offers Vessels of Horrific Visions in exchange for 1750 Echoes of Ny’alotha.
  - Developers' note: This is to provide an additional source of access to Horrific Visions that does not require completion of Assaults.
- Developers' note: After the weekly restart, characters can start building up Echoes of Ny’alotha. The Preserved Contaminants Corruption vendor items that will use this currency is in the final testing phases and we hope to have them available from MOTHER as soon as possible.

May 14, 2020

Items and Rewards

The vendor sell price of Enchanter's Umbral Wand has been reduced by 40%.

May 13, 2020

Creatures and NPCs

Rare elite creatures found in Nazjatar with War Mode enabled now drop 1 Nazjatar Battle Commendation.

May 12, 2020

WoW Classic

Fixed a bug that caused some players to be returned to an incorrect location when leaving a War Game.

May 11, 2020

Quests

The turn in location for “Supplies from the Rajani” and “Supplies from the Uldum Accord” now appear on the world map.

May 7, 2020

Items and Rewards

Faceless Mask of the Burned Bridge, Faceless Mask of the Daredevil, Faceless Mask of Dark Imagination, Faceless Mask of the Long Night, and Faceless Mask of the Pained can no longer be sold to a vendor.

May 5, 2020

Character

Players can now restore one deleted character every 7 days (was 15 days).

Dungeons and Raids

Freehold
- Ring of Booty
  - (Finally) fixed an issue that could cause Trothak's Flailing Sharks to move too quickly when players used certain trinkets or area-of-effect spells as they became active.

WoW Classic

Fixed an issue that caused players to immediately accept a Zul'Gurub instance lockout if they were in a party with a player who defeated Gahz'ranka.

May 4, 2020

WoW Classic

Fixed a bug that prevented players from receiving the correct amount of Cenarion Circle reputation from killing the Abyssal High Council while in a raid.

May 1, 2020

Achievements

The Perfectly Timed Differential blueprint is no longer required for Junkyard Collector.
The Bitten Hand debuff required for You Can Pet the Dog, But… can no longer be removed through immunity effects.

Dungeons and Raids

Ny’alotha, the Waking City
- N’Zoth the Corruptor
  - Fixed an issue where Basher, Corruptor and Spike Tentacles could get stuck under the ground if they are stunned when Psychus is slain in Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic difficulties.

April 28, 2020

WoW Classic

In the Americas region, battleground holidays now start at the same time for all realms.
- Developers’ note: While this is a change to how original WoW worked, with battlegroups of realms including only realms that were in the same time zone, it allows us to treat US-East and US-West realms as a single battlegroup for the purposes of matchmaking. Players on US-East realms will now begin and end their battleground holidays three hours later than before.
Players can now restore deleted characters on locked realms, if the character is applicable for restoration.
Fixed a bug that could sometimes cause fewer than all four Dragons of Nightmare to spawn as intended.
Many item enchantments now stack with certain items that provide an identical buff.
Many item enchantments that previously took up a hidden buff slot no longer consume a hidden buff slot.

April 27, 2020

Classes

[With regional restarts] Mistweaver Monks’ Rising Mist can now extend a heal-over-time effect by up to 100% of its original duration.
- Developers’ note: When we buffed Rising Mist with the intention of making melee Mistweaver a viable playstyle, players discovered that stacking extreme amounts of haste and cooldown reduction can reach a breaking point of infinite duration on Mistweaver Monks’ heal-over-time effects. Even though it’s exciting to see people discover new builds and interactions, the sheer power level in this case is likely to have a negative effect on the healing game for the remainder of Battle for Azeroth. This change is intended to prevent the infinite extension, while allowing Rising Mist to still enable an effective melee playstyle.

April 22, 2020

Player versus Player

Resolved an issue that prevented Heart of Darkness (Azerite Trait) from being reduced by 50% when engaged in combat with enemy players.

April 21, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

Operation: Mechagon
- K.U.-J.O.
  - K.U.-J.O. should now always find a target for the Air Drop crate.
Ny’alotha, the Waking City
- Dark Inquisitor Xanesh
  - Health reduced by 5% on all difficulties.
  - Terror Wave cast time increased to 5.5 seconds on Mythic difficulty (was 5 seconds).
- Shad’har the Insatiable
  - Increased the duration to collect Tasty Morsels to 10 seconds on Mythic difficulty (was 7 seconds).
  - Umbral Eruption missile travel time increased to 2.5 seconds on all difficulties (was 2 seconds).
- The Hivemind
  - Aqir Darter health reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Psionic Resonance damage reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
Developers’ note: Now that the Hall of Fame for Ny'alotha is full and the raid is available on Mythic difficulty to cross-realm groups in all regions, we're undertaking an additional tuning pass aimed at smoothing out the difficulty curve on Mythic for groups that are beginning or continuing progression through Ny'alotha.

April 20, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

Ny’alotha, the Waking City
- Drest’agath
  - [With regional restarts] Reduced the health of Eye of Drest'agath, Maw of Dest’agath, and Tentacle of Drest’agath by 8% on Mythic difficulty.
- Il’gynoth
  - [With regional restarts] Organs and Bloods’ health reduced by 5% on all difficulties.
  - [With regional restarts] Reduced the damage requirement to free an allied player from Touch of the Corruptor’s mind control effect by 10% on all difficulties.
  - [With regional restarts] Corrupted Blood maximum radius reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
- Ra-Den the Despoiled
  - [With regional restarts] Reduced the percent value of Decaying Wound to 75% of the target’s current health on Mythic difficulty (was 100%).
  - [With regional restarts] Reduced the health of Essence of Vita, Essence of Void, and Essence of Nightmare by 15% on Mythic difficulty.  
- N’Zoth the Corruptor
  - [With regional restarts] Paranoia now only drains Sanity once per second while near any number of non-paired players on all difficulties.
  - [With regional restarts] N'Zoth the Corruptor's health reduced by 5% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Thought Harvester
    - [With regional restarts] Harvest Thoughts now drains 250 Sanity divided among all players hit by the effect on Mythic difficulty (was 300 Sanity).
  - [With regional restarts] Evoke Anguish's damage has been reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
Developers’ note: Now that the Hall of Fame for Ny'alotha is full and the raid is available on Mythic difficulty to cross-realm groups in all regions, we're undertaking an additional tuning pass aimed at smoothing out the difficulty curve on Mythic for groups that are beginning or continuing progression through Ny'alotha.

WoW Classic

Gurubashi enchantments from Zul'Gurub will no longer apply to characters who are not the correct Class or are lower than level 60.

April 7, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

Ny’alotha, the Waking City
- Resolved an issue that could cause Horrific Hemorrhages to spawn in incorrect positions on Mythic difficulty.

Blackrock Foundry

Operator Thogar
- Resolved an issue that prevented all of the passengers from disembarking a train before and during the encounter.

March 31, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

Ashvane Warden
- The ground visual for Lockdown should remain visible when Projected Textures is disabled in the System Settings menu.
Ashvane Warden
- The ground visual for Lockdown should remain visible when Projected Textures is disabled in the System Settings menu.

Items and Rewards

Legion Raids and Dungeons
- [With regional restarts] Legacy loot rules are now in place for Legion raids and dungeons.
  - Developers’ note: Standard encounters drop an amount of loot scaled by the amount of players in the raid, which results in fewer pieces for players who defeated encounters in small groups or as a solo player. In Legacy loot rules, raid and dungeon encounters will drop a fixed quantity of class-agnostic loot, regardless of the group size.

March 25, 2020

Battle Pets

Black Chitinous Plate should now drop more frequently from Skikx'traz in Uldum while the Aqir Assault is active.

Mounts

Malevolent Drone should now drop more frequently from Corpse Eater in Uldum while the Aqir Assault is active.

March 24, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

Atal’Dazar
- Priestess Alun’za
  - The ground visual for Tainted Blood should remain visible when Projected Textures is disabled in the System Settings menu.

Temple of Sethraliss
- Spark Channeler
  - The ground visual for Call Lightning should remain visible when Projected Textures is disabled in the System Settings menu.

March 20, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

Ny’alotha, the Waking City
- Resolved an issue in which Adaptive Membrane was being removed after player-sourced absorb shields, unintentionally making the mechanic harder than intended.

Essences

Restrictions on acquiring role-specific Azerite Essences from MOTHER have been lifted.
- Rank 3 tanking, healing, and damage-specific Essences are now grouped together and can be purchased with Echoes of Ny’alotha when at least one is unlocked on a character.
  - Spark of Inspiration, Unwavering Ward, Strength of the Warden (obtained from Horrific Visions)
  - Touch of the Everlasting, Spirit of Preservation, Breath of the Dying (obtained from reputation with Rajani)
  - Blood of the Enemy, Artifice of Time, Sphere of Suppression (obtained from Battlegrounds)
  - Condensed Life Force, Vitality Conduit, Azeroth’s Undying Gift (obtained from raiding in The Eternal Palace)
  - Essence of the Focusing Iris, Life-Binder’s Invocation, Anima of Life and Death (obtained from Mythic Keystone dungeons)
- Developers’ note: This update to the new Echoes of Ny'alotha system is intended to make Essences much more available to your characters whose specializations put them in different roles (tanking, healing, damage). A side-effect of this change is that even a single character now has a way to obtain these off-role Essences, and can either use Echoes to purchase them from MOTHER or use the original means of acquisition.

March 18, 2020

World Quests

Emissary Quests turn-ins no longer award 10 bonus reputation when a Contract is active. No other quest turn-ins are affected.
- Developers' note: This seemingly random change was done to address an obscure bug that arose after the introduction of Echoes of Ny'alotha this past week. There is an internal limit on the number of different rewards that a single WoW quest can offer, and adding Echoes into the mix could push some Emissary quests past that cap in certain situations, preventing those quests from being turned in. Raising that long-standing limit is beyond the scope of a hotfix, and removing the conditional 10 bonus rep was the least disruptive fix in the short term.

March 16, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

Ny’alotha, the Waking City
- Resolved an issue that caused players to get locked inside the Chamber of Heart if both Carapace of N'Zoth and N’Zoth the Corruptor encounters were defeated but other bosses undefeated on Mythic difficulty.
- N’Zoth the Corruptor
  - Tank-specialization characters should no longer be targeted by Paranoia on all difficulties.
    - Developers’ note: Paranoia’s coordination requirements when tanks are involved is a bit higher than we’d like. This fix prevents tanks from being targeted altogether, preventing awkward moments where a ranged character would need to run a long distance to meet up with a tank partner.
- Mythic Keystone Dungeon
  - Tidesage Council
    - Blessing of the Tempest should now be more visible when active on Galecaller Faye.
    - Blowback damage reduced by 20%.
    - Slicing Blast damage reduced by 20%.
  - Waycrest Manor
    - Reduced the rate at which members of the Heartsbane Triad gain energy from the Focusing Iris, resulting in an increased delay before Dire Ritual is cast.

Items and Rewards

Corrupted Items
- [With regional restarts] All equipment rewards from Horrific Visions are now Corrupted.
  - Developers’ note: We’ve heard from many players that Corrupted Items were not obtainable enough, limiting their ability to play with the system and its inherent tradeoffs. This change will substantially increase the number of Corrupted Items reliably earned each week, allowing players to choose from among a greater selection of Corrupted pieces and enjoy those that work best in a given situation.
- Twisted Appendage no longer benefits from buffs like Power Word: Shield or Earthen Wall.
- Twisted Appendage and Infinite Stars can no longer trigger more than once every 12 seconds during player versus player combat.
Heart of Azeroth
- [With regional restarts] Players who have Rank 3 Azerite Essences on at least one character can now more easily acquire those Essences on other characters on the same account via a new currency: Echoes of Ny’alotha. MOTHER will offer any eligible character a Rank 3 Essence for 500 Echoes of Ny’alotha each. Any player who is eligible to purchase at least one Essence from MOTHER will now receive Echoes of Ny’alotha from a wide range of activities in current content:
  - Black Empire Assault – 125 Echoes of Ny’alotha
  - Aqir/Amathet/Mantid/Mogu Assault – 75 Echoes of Ny’alotha
  - Horrific Visions – 50 Echoes of Ny’alotha, plus 25 per additional objective completed (i.e. 150 Echoes of Ny’alotha for a full clear)
  - Emissary Quest – 50 Echoes of Ny’alotha
  - Heroic Darkshore Warfront – 75 Echoes of Ny’alotha
  - Normal/Heroic/Mythic Ny’alotha raid bosses – 15-25 Echoes of Ny’alotha each, once per week per boss
  - Ny’alotha Raid Finder wings – 25 Echoes of Ny’alotha
  - Random Battleground wins – 15-25 Echoes of Ny’alotha
  - Rated Arena wins – 10-25 Echoes of Ny’alotha baseline, scaling up with PvP rank
  - Rated Battleground wins – 35 Echoes of Ny’alotha baseline, scaling up with PvP rank
  - Weekly PvP Cache – 175 to 300 Echoes of Ny’alotha, based on PvP rank
  - Mythic Keystone dungeon end-of-run chest – 3 Echoes of Ny’alotha per Keystone Level (i.e. 30 Echoes of Ny’alotha for a Mythic 10)
  - Weekly Mythic Keystone Dungeon Cache – 20 Echoes of Ny’alotha per highest Keystone Level
    - Developers’ note: The general goal here is that doing Assaults and associated Horrific Visions should provide enough to get at least one Rank 3 Essence of your choice per week. Doing other content you like (PvP, dungeons, or raids) will increase that significantly, depending on the level of content you’re doing. Of course, Essences can still be earned normally via their associated activities, so if you want to get your Essence of the Focusing Iris directly via Mythic Keystone dungeons and then buy others from MOTHER, that’s now an option. Within a couple of weeks of hitting max-level on your alt, you should be able to obtain your preferred Essences by playing the game as you usually would.
      Please note: Echoes of Ny’alotha may appear to replace Azerite in the Emissary and PvP reward panes, however, it does not. Echoes of Ny’alotha are always additive with existing rewards. We believe that it is more important to release this update with a reward display issue than hold the change for a fix. We expect to fix the display issue in the next week or two.
      
      For more information read our forum post.

March 11, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

Ny’alotha, the Waking City
- Characters are now required to have Ashjra’kamas, Shroud of Resolve to queue for Raid Finder Wing 4, “The Waking Dream”.
  - Developers’ note: Due to the mechanics of both Wing 4’s boss fights, players who do not have the legendary cloak equipped are immediately mind controlled, burdening other players in their raid by not contributing to the kill. By enforcing this new restriction, Raid Finder groups will be set up for success and have a much higher chance of completing “The Waking Dream”.
- N’Zoth the Corruptor
  - Increased the radius for Synaptic Shock to 15 yards (was 8 yards) on Raid Finder difficulty.
  - Reduced the total radius and expansion rate of Creeping Anguish on Raid Finder difficulty.
    - Developers’ note: These quality-of-life changes should increase the damage output of Raid Finder groups, specifically empowering them to bring down Psychus before it casts Manifest Madness and effectively becomes unkillable while wiping the raid.
- Mythic Keystone Dungeon
  - Siege of Boralus
    - Sergeant Bainbridge (Horde) / Chopper Redhook (Alliance)
      - Damage inflicted when Heavy Ordnance expires now scales with keystone level. Damage inflicted when players or creatures run into Heavy Ordnance already scaled properly and remains unchanged.

Items and Rewards

Fixed a bug that allowed Sanguifang's Pulsating Canine to be used outside of Kul Tiras, Mechagon, Nazjatar, and Zandalar.

Mounts

Slightly increased the drop rate for Felblaze Infernal, Ironhoof Destroyer, and Swift Zulian Panther mounts.

March 9, 2020

Achievements

Wrecking Ball achievement can now be earned in the PvP Brawl "Tarren Mill vs. Southshore".

Items and Rewards

Fixed a bug that sometimes caused Writhing Segment’s on-use ability to trigger Rogues’ Blade Flurry.

Player versus Player

[With regional restarts] Ashran team size reduced to 25 (was 40).
- While we work to improve the performance of Ashran, we are temporarily reducing the player count.

WoW Classic

Characters under level 30 can no longer enter Maraudon by using the Scepter of Celebras.

March 5, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

Ny’alotha, the Waking City
- Il’gynoth, Corruption Reborn
  - Cursebreak damage within the smallest ring sizes reduced by 30% on Mythic difficulty.
    - Developers’ note: With the following change to Cursebreak, raid groups are far less punished for dispelling the debuff with proper timing.
- Carapace of N'Zoth
  - Resolved an issue where Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve sometimes attempted to send players to Wrathion twice.

Items and Rewards

Ashjra’kamas, Shroud of Resolve
- Draconic Empowerment (Rank 12 effect) now grants the wearer 3,648 of their primary stat when triggered (was 3,386).
- Corrupted Items
  - Fixed an issue that prevented the Gouged Eye of N’Zoth from adding sockets to some raid weapons with a set Corrupted Effect (e.g. Eyestalk of Il’gynoth).
  - Fixed a bug that prevented Ineffable Truth (Corruption Effect) from reducing the cooldown on some abilities that have charges.
    - Demon Hunter: Demon Spikes, Fracture, Throw Glaive
    - Monk: Guard, Healing Sphere, Renewing Mist
    - Mage: Phoenix Flames
    - Warlock: Dark Soul

WoW Classic

The Item Restoration self-service system now retains information on disposed of Uncommon and Rare quality items for 30 days (was 7 days for Uncommon quality items, 15 days for Rare quality items). This hotfix is not retroactive and will not apply to any items for which the retention period has already expired.

March 2, 2020

Classes

Hunters can again tame Juggernaut pets within the Siege of Orgrimmar raid instance.

Dungeons and Raids

Ny’alotha, the Waking City
- Prophet Skitra
  - [With regional restarts] Prophet Skitra now has 2 intermission phases (was 4 intermission phases) on all difficulties.
    - Prophet Skitra now enters intermission phases at 33% and 66% health (was 20%, 40%, 60% and 80% health).
  - [With regional restarts] Dark Ritual’s debuff effect now increases by 4% per stack (was 2% per stack) on all difficulties.
    - Developers’ note: Especially as raids’ overall damage output increases, many groups are spending a disproportionate amount of time dealing with Skitra’s illusions, and often skipping other mechanics entirely. This change is aimed at making the overall pace of the fight more consistent regardless of raid damage.
- Ra-den the Despoiled
  - [With regional restarts] Void Collapse cast time increased to 4.5 seconds on Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic difficulties.
  - [With regional restarts] Reduced the damage of Void Collapse on all difficulties.
  - [With regional restarts] Void Defilement duration decreased to 6 seconds on Mythic difficulty.
- N’Zoth the Corruptor
  - [With regional restarts] Azeroth’s Radiance now restores 25 Sanity (was 20 Sanity).
    - Thought Harvester
      - [With regional restarts] Harvest Thoughts Shadow damage reduced by 10%.
      - [With regional restarts] Harvest Thoughts Sanity drain reduced to 300 (was 400).
        
        Developers’ note: We’ve seen extensive use of player immunities to avoid the consequences of certain raid mechanics, and while we want to allow player utility to function wherever possible, we’re wary when specific class compositions feel required. The changes to both Ra-den and N’Zoth are intended to make a wider range of raid compositions feel viable on Mythic difficulty.
  - [With regional restarts] Mindgrasp can no longer be interrupted by Priests’ Cosmic Ripple (Talent).

Items and Rewards

The currency limit for Coalescing Visions has been removed.
- Developers’ note: Especially since the removal of the unique cap on Vessels, we’ve seen a lot of feedback about the inventory clutter of multiple Vessels. By removing the cap on Coalescing Visions, players should now feel free to buy Vessels from Wrathion as needed, rather than stockpiling them in bags.
Cache of the Black Empire will award 12,500 Coalescing Visions instead of a Vessel of Horrific Visions and 2,500 Coalescing Visions.
Memory Cube can now only be used in non-instanced areas.
Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented Manifesto of Madness’ on-use effect from working in Mythic and Mythic Keystone Dungeon difficulties.
- Corrupted Items
  - Twilight Devastation's effectiveness has been reduced in situations where it strikes more than 5 targets. It has been changed as follows:
    - Deals normal damage on up to 5 targets.
    - Deals 50% reduced damage to targets 6 through 10.
    - Shrinks in radius each time it damages a target above 5, causing it to disappear after hitting 10 targets.
- Heart of Azeroth
  - The Formless Void’s Rank 3 (Essence) Minor Power should no longer break Rogues out of stealth.
  - Corrected an issue with Memory of Lucid Dreams (Essence) where Frost Mages using Glacial Spike and an instant cast Flurry could sometimes have their icicle buff count and visual display not match.

Player versus Player

Heart of Azeroth
- Corrected an issue where Vision of Perfection (Essence) Rank 3 Minor Power’s effect was removed when entering an Arena match.

N’Zoth Assaults

Added a portal to exit the Pools of Power after defeating Vil'raxx in Vale of Eternal Blossoms.

Timewalking

[With regional restarts] Updated player health, damage, and healing scaling to compensate for Azerite Essences and Corruption.
- Developers’ note: Timewalking is meant to be largely gear-agnostic, allowing players with different progression and even different levels to group together. We’ve generally added hidden modifiers to offset the power of special systems like Legion’s artifact weapons while still allowing them to function, but had not done so for recent Battle for Azeroth systems, causing large imbalances in power between endgame players with Corruption and Essences.

February 24, 2020

Classes

Druid
- Restoration
  - [With regional restarts] Rejuvenation now costs 10% base mana (was 10.5%).
  - [With regional restarts] Efflorescence now costs 17% base mana (was 21.6%).
  - [With regional restarts] Tranquility direct healing increased 11%.
    - Developers’ note: These changes should improve Restoration Druid’s raid healing output, without much impact to their already strong capabilities in dungeons and Arena.
Hunter
- Marksmanship
  - [With regional restarts] Damage of all abilities increased by 5%.
Mage
- Frost
  - [With regional restarts] Damage of all abilities increased by 5%.
Monk
- Windwalker
  - [With regional restarts] Damage of all abilities increased by 5%.
    - Damage unchanged in PvP.
Rogue
- Outlaw
  - Resolved an issue that could prevent Blade Flurry from damaging some types of creatures in Uldum and Vale of Eternal Blossoms.
Shaman
- Enhancement
  - Damage of all abilities increased by 3%.
Warlock
- Demonology
  - [With regional restarts] Damage of all abilities increased by 5%.

Dungeons and Raids

Mythic Keystone Dungeons
- Explosive Affix
  - Explosive Orbs again immediately put players into combat.
  - Explosive Orbs can again be tab-targeted.
    - Developers’ note: When testing the Awakened affix, we found that Explosive Orbs could sometimes prevent players from entering or exiting Ny'alotha Spires and Rifts if their party was in combat inside the instance. To solve this issue, we changed them to not place players in combat immediately. However, this had the unintended side effect of breaking player expectations around tab-targeting Explosive Orbs, so we're reverting their threat-generation behavior and trying an alternate solution.
Ny’alotha, the Waking City
- Azeroth’s Radiance now properly restores Sanity to players who are under the effects of an Immunity spell on all difficulties.
- Vexiona
  - Cultists now have their health adjusted based on raid size, up to a maximum 10% reduction for 10-player raids on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
- Ra-den the Despoiled
  - Resolved an issue that allowed Re-origination Anchors to be attackable with area of effect spells.

Horrific Visions

Research into Synchronized Mind Stabilizer has improved, now always reviving the player with at least half their Sanity.
- Horrific Vision of Stormwind
  - Magister Umbric now casts Frozen Storm twice during the encounter (was 3 times).

Items and Rewards

- Torn Pages of “Fear and Flesh”
  - The number of Torn Pages of “Fear and Flesh” quest items required for the rank 13-15 cloak quests has been reduced.
    - Rank 13 now requires 4 Torn Pages (down from 6).
    - Rank 14 now requires 6 Torn Pages (down from 12).
    - Rank 15 now requires 8 Torn Pages (down from 18).
    - Developers’ note: This change should make all the quests completable by most players in the week and not require players to feel the need to save as many keys week to week. Along with our other quality-of-life changes, this should help newer characters catch up with their peers.
  - [With regional restarts] Up to 4 Torn Pages of “Fear and Flesh” quest items can now drop in Horrific Visions from objectives on the rank 7-11 legendary cloak upgrade quests (max of 2).
    - Developers’ note: Players will need to clear more than two side areas in one run to get more than two pages. The rank 13-15 quests will still drop a max of 2 pages, only from Lost Area objectives.
- Coalescing Visions
  - Coalescing Visions now drop in higher numbers from Assaults and Daily Quests.
  - [With regional restarts] Visions of N’Zoth daily quests now reward 30% more Coalescing Visions.
  - [With regional restarts] The N’Zoth Assault now rewards 2500 Coalescing Visions (in addition to a Vessel of Horrific Visions).
  - [With regional restarts] Lesser Threats will now reward 6500 Coalescing Visions (was 5500).
- Heart of Azeroth
  - Reaping Flames (Essence) will no longer have its cooldown reduced to 5 seconds and deal additional damage when killing Twisted Appendages.

Player versus Player

Tank-specialization characters take an additional 50% damage from enemy players (was 40%).
- Death Knight
  - Blood
    - Death Strike now heals for 19% of damage taken when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 25%).
    - Death Strike now heals for a minimum of 3.5% of maximum health when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 7%).
  - Frost, Unholy
    - [With regional restarts] Death Strike now heals for 30% of damage taken when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 40%).
    - [With regional restarts] Death Strike now heals for a minimum of 5% of maximum health when engaged in combat with enemy players, down from 10%.
  - Mage
    - Arcane
      - [With regional restarts] Prismatic Barrier now absorbs 40% less damage when engaged in combat with enemy players.
    - Fire
      - [With regional restarts] Blazing Barrier absorbs 40% less damage when engaged in combat with enemy players.
    - Frost
      - [With regional restarts] Ice Barrier absorbs 40% less damage when engaged in combat with enemy players.
  - Warlock
    - Affliction, Destruction
      - [With regional restarts] Demon Armor now increases Stamina by 5%, (was 10%).
      - [With regional restarts] Demon Armor now increases Armor by 90% (was 150%).

WoW Classic

Razorgore the Untamed now only saves players to the raid instance if defeated after the eggs have been destroyed.

February 20, 2020

Classes

Monk
- Windwalker
  - Resolved an issue that prevented Spinning Crane Kick from tracking the correct number of targets with your Mark of the Crane active.

Dungeons and Raids

Return to Karazhan
- Players should now appear in the instance’s entrance after zoning in.
Ny’alotha, the Waking City
- N'Zoth the Corruptor
  - Azeroth’s Radiance now properly restores Sanity to players who are under the effects of an Immunity spell on all difficulties.

Horrific Visions

Fixed a rare issue where more than 2 Torn Page of "Fear and Flesh" could drop in a Horrific Vision.

Items and Rewards

Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve’s active ability now resets its cooldown when a boss encounter ends.
- Corrupted Items
  - Fixed a bug which prevented Void Ritual from scaling down to the level of the content in Timewalking.
- Heart of Azeroth
  - Resolved an issue that prevented the correct visual effects of Worldvein Resonance Rank 4 from displaying.

Player versus Player

Resolved an issue that allowed characters to remain as a Servant of N'Zoth while not in War Mode.
The Alliance mount Vicious White Warsaber now correctly changes to Vicious White Bonesteed for Horde characters.

February 19, 2020

Player versus Player

Resolved an issue that could prevent a character from gaining progress towards earning the Season 4 seasonal mount and Vicious Saddles.

February 18, 2020

Items and Rewards

Fixed an issue that prevented Lady Jaina Proudmoore and N’Zoth the Corruptor from dropping mounts when defeated on Mythic difficulty.
- Developers’ note: Last week we made a change to increase the mount rewards from defeating these bosses from 1 to 2. However, the hotfix caused an issue that prevented any mounts from dropping, so we’ve reverted it back to the previous iteration as a temporary fix (1 mount rewarded). These bosses will drop 2 mounts with restarts in each region.

Quests

Eligible players can again turn in “Supplies from the Rajani” or “Supplies from the Uldum Accord” for Paragon Cache rewards.

WoW Classic

Fixed a performance issue resulting from communications initiated by the Real Mob Health add-on. Please uninstall the current version of this add-on.

February 14, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

Battle of Dazar’alor
- Lady Jaina Proudmoore now drops 2 Glacial Tidestorm mounts (was 1) when defeated on Mythic difficulty.
Ny’alotha, the Waking City
- N’Zoth the Corruptor now drops 2 Ny’alotha Allseer mounts (was 1) when defeated on Mythic difficulty.
  - With these mounts becoming quite rare once Shadowlands comes out, taking 20 weeks or more for a full Mythic raid group to get the mounts felt excessive.

Horrific Visions

Reduced the health of enemies for groups of 2 or more that include at least 1 healer.
- Developers’ note: We expected that groups with a healer would gain efficiency by taking more risks, but we've found that this gain is offset by healers shifting focus from damage to healing as group size increases, so we're adjusting creature health accordingly.
Stormwind
- Alleria Windrunner
  - Darkened Sky now drains 40 Sanity (was 60 Sanity).
  - When the Trade District bonus objective is complete, Chains of Servitude is now cast once during the fight (was twice).

Items and Rewards

Corrupted Items
- Fixed an issue which prevented items from being forged with the +12 Corruption version of Ineffable Truth (Corruption Effect).

Player versus Player

The upcoming Teeming Islands Brawl has been replaced with Temple of Hotmogu.
Temple of Hotmogu Brawl’s bonus movement speed and haste have been increased to 50%.

WoW Classic

Fixed an issue that could cause the player to disconnect from the game while waiting in a long queue for a Battleground.

February 13, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

Mythic Keystone Dungeons
- Mindrend Tentacle
  - Mind Flay
    - Damage reduced by 25%.
- Ravenous Fleshfiend
  - Tear Flesh’s bleed damage reduced by 20%.
- Samh’rek, Beckoner of Chaos
  - Cascading Terror
    - Damage reduced by 40%.
    - Fear duration reduced to 2 seconds (was 3 seconds).
    - Cast frequency reduced.
      - Developers’ note: This ability works well as a dispel challenge, but its damage and disruption has proven to be more punishing than we’d like.
- Urg’roth, Breaker of Heroes
  - Spirit Breaker’s damage reduced by 20%.

Items and Rewards

- Corrupted Items
  - Rogues’ Detection no longer builds Echoing Void.
- Heart of Azeroth
  - Changing a Minor Essence while The Crucible of Flame (Essence) is equipped in the Major Slot no longer causes Concentrated Flame to go on cooldown.

Quests

Saurfang is no longer present in Grommash Hold while players are on the quest "A Gift for the Warchief's Advisor".

WoW Classic

Blackwing Lair
- Razorgore the Untamed
  - Fixed an issue where Nefarian's troops would sometimes continue attacking the group after Razorgore's eggs were destroyed.

February 12, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

Operation: Mechagon – Workshop
- Fixed an issue where Explosives could spawn in inaccessible locations when the Explosive affix is active on Mythic Keystone difficulty.
Siege of Boralus
- Ashvane Snipers’ Shoot damage reduced by 20%.
- Dockhound Packmasters now gain 40% increased damage from Feral Bond while near a Snarling Dockhound (was 125%).

Items and Rewards

- Corrupted Items
  - Rogues’ Detection no longer builds Echoing Void.
- Heart of Azeroth
  - Changing a Minor Essence while The Crucible of Flame (Essence) is equipped in the Major Slot no longer causes Concentrated Flame to go on cooldown.

Quests

Fixed an issue that allowed Horde players to receive credit for “Heroic Warfronts: The Battle for Darkshore” when completing the Warfront on Normal difficulty.

February 11, 2020

Achievements

Players can again properly earn the I Pitied the Fool achievement in Arathi Basin.

Dungeons and Raids

Ny’alotha, the Waking City
- Wrathion, The Black Emperor
  - Fixed an issue that prevented players from receiving loot if they did not generate threat during the encounter.
Operation: Mechagon – Junkyard
- Resolved an issue where Scrapbone Grunters summoned during the King Gobbamak encounter could spawn Explosive Orbs on Mythic Keystone dungeon difficulty.

Items and Rewards

Thaumaturge Vashreen has relocated his supplies of the Deathslaver's Hauberk, and it can again be obtained for Titan Residuum.
- Corrupted Items
  - Fixed a bug which caused Devour Vitality (Corrupted Effect) on the polearm An'zig Vra to have a lower Critical Hit chance than intended.
  - Fixed a bug which could cause Devour Vitality to fail to deal damage for players with Balance Affinity who were auto-attacking from maximum range.
  - Fixed a bug where canceling the Echoing Void (Corrupted Effect) buff did not immediately stop it from dealing damage.
  - Ineffable Truth (Corruption Effect) should again correctly reduce the cooldown of Fire Elemental spell and the Stormkeeper and Storm Elemental Talents for Elemental Shaman.
  - Thing from Beyond's (Corrupted Effect) damage is no longer increased by Demonology's Master Demonologist passive or Beast Mastery's Master of Beasts passive.
  - Thing from Beyond's damage is no longer increased by the corrupted player's Versatility.
  - Resolved an issue that could cause Twisted Appendage and Infinite Stars (Corrupted Effects) to break crowd control effects on players (e.g. Mages’ Polymorph).

Missions

Fixed a bug that prevented the new Visions of N’Zoth troops from counting towards Champion abilities.

Quests

"Aqir Instincts" and "Honing Instincts" no longer have their progress blocked by being in a raid group or when summoning or dismissing the Shadowbarb Hatchling. Kills made while in a raid group will still fail to grant experience to grow your Shadowbarb Hatchling.
- Developers’ note: Players who return to H'partho Ardoros in Ramkahen will be automatically granted credit and can turn in these quests. Players can resume their questline the following day.

WoW Classic

Battleground scoreboards no longer list the enemy team until your entire team has clicked Enter Battleground. The scoreboard remains visible for everyone once the battleground has started.

February 10, 2020

Classes

Paladin
- [Live with regional resets] Avenging Wrath may be activated if another Avenging Wrath is active (such as from Vision of Perfection).

Dungeons and Raids

Ny’alotha, the Waking City
- Wrathion, The Black Emperor
  - Fixed an issue that prevented players from receiving loot if they did not generate threat during the encounter.
- N’Zoth the Corruptor
  - [Live with regional resets] N’Zoth’s health reduced by 5% on Mythic difficulty.
  - [Live with regional resets] Thought Harvesters’ health reduced by 5% on Mythic difficulty.
- Tol Dagor
  - The Sand Queen
    - Upheaval’s damage reduced by 13%.
  - Overseer Korgus
    - Explosive Burst damage reduced by 18%.
    - Blast Rounds knockback distance reduced.

Items and Rewards

Thaumaturge Vashreen has relocated his supplies of the Deathslaver's Hauberk, and it can once again be obtained for Titan Residuum.
- Corrupted Items
  - [Live with regional resets] Avoidant now subjects you to 20% less Corruption at each rank.
  - [Live with regional resets] Deadly Momentum’s buff duration has been increased to 30 seconds (was 15 seconds).
  - [Live with regional resets] Echoing Void damage has been reduced by 50%.
    - Echoing Void no longer deals reduced damage in PvP combat.
    - [Live with regional resets] Fixed a bug which caused Gushing Wound (Corrupted Effect) to extend its duration if it triggered on a target it was already active on.
  - [Live with regional resets] Reduced Gushing Wound’s damage by 15%.
  - [Live with regional resets] Surging Vitality’s Versatility value has been increased by 10%.
  - [Live with regional resets] Void Ritual’s stat bonus per stack has been approximately doubled at each rank.
  - Grasping Tendrils is no longer dispellable by Magic dispels and will no longer appear on players’ raid frame UI; it can still be removed by abilities that remove snares.
    - Developers' Note: We originally made this effect’s snare dispellable so that players could save each other if they were afflicted with it in unfortunate Void Zone-like circumstances. However, we've received feedback that in large-group environments, Grasping Tendrils’ appearance on raid frames could sometimes cause players to overlook more critical debuffs to dispel. We're making this change so players can better see Magic effects in their raid frames as significant debuffs that should be paid attention to and react accordingly.

Fixed an issue that caused the Onyx War Hyena to appear in the Mounts tab of the Collection journal.

February 7, 2020

Items and Rewards

Fixed a bug where the Void-Touched Skull toy could be cast on players’ pets.
Heart of Azeroth
- Token of Death’s Glee and Gleaming Star Shard (Rank 3 Essence items) now require Revered reputation with Uldum Accord or Rajani respectively (was Exalted).

February 5, 2020

Darkmoon Arcade

Previously unlocked Rune Matching difficulty levels no longer reset weekly; once a character has unlocked a difficulty level, it will remain unlocked.

Dungeons and Raids

Ny’alotha, the Waking City
- Carapace of N’Zoth
  - Resolved an issue where Fury of N'Zoth could gain Mycelial Infusion while transitioning into the Den of Transfusion on Mythic difficulty.

Items and Rewards

Corrupted Items
- Fixed an issue with some Corruption Effects scaling improperly during Timewalking instances.
- Fixed an issue with Faralos, Empire’s Dream causing its Corruption Effect to not reliably hit large enemies.

System

MacOS
- Players who have experienced crashes or freezes on MacOS systems can now change the Particle Density visual effects setting to “Disabled”. This may help users work around the issue while we investigate it further.

February 4, 2020

Characters

Character transfers and faction changes no longer set back progress on the Titan Research Archive.

Darkmoon Faire

Players who have the Darkmoon Adventurer's Guide in their inventory should no longer receive error messages after killing enemies in Mythic Keystone dungeons.
- Darkmoon Arcade
  - Players who die on the HexSweeper board are now teleported near the Arcade console.
  - Players can now walk on top of flagged hexes without triggering them.

Dungeons and Raids

Ny’alotha, the Waking City
- Ra-den the Despoiled
  - Void Eruption should no longer damage pets on all difficulties.
  - Decaying Wound’s damage over time effect no longer persists after the end of the encounter on all difficulties.
  - Night Terror’s Dread Inferno spell no longer interrupts channeled abilities on Mythic difficulty.
  - Reduced the health of Ra-den, Essence of Void, Essence of Nightmare, Crackling Stalker, Void Hunter, and Night Terror by 5% on Mythic difficulty.
- Carapace of N’Zoth
  - Reduced the number of spells that stop Fury of N'Zoth's movement during the encounter.
  - Resolved an issue where Madness and Insanity Bomb could potentially remove the sanity of the primary afflicted target.
  - Resolved an issue where players could get stuck in the final chamber.
  - Resolved an issue where Adaptive Membrane was removing players’ buffs on Mythic difficulty.
Operation: Mechagon – Junkyard
- Scrapbone Grunters in the King Gobbamak encounter now inflict the same amount of damage as their counterparts in the rest of the dungeon on all difficulties.
- Scrapbone Grunters' melee damage has been reduced by 43% on all difficulties.
- Heavy Scrapbot and Malfunctioning Scrapbot now cast Gyro Scrap and Exhaust less frequently on all difficulties.
Operation: Mechagon – Workshop
- Fixed an issue where players were sometimes unable to utilize Spires of Ny'alotha on Mythic Keystone difficulty.
Siege of Boralus
- Adjusted the Spire of Ny’alotha’s position when the Awakened affix is active on Mythic Keystone difficulty.
  - Developers’ note: This Spire was near a group of powerful enemies for Alliance players, but not for Horde players. It should now be in a more comparable location for both factions.

Horrific Visions

Stormwind
- Fallen Riftwalker
  - Rift Strike damage reduced by 37.5% and is cast less frequently.
  - Shadow Shift now reduces damage taken by 50% (was 75%).

Items and Rewards

Unguent Caress’ Corruption Effect now properly takes enemy target radius into account, ensuring that it more consistently damages very large enemies.
Using Remote Guidance Device now always properly incurs the shared 20 second cooldown for on-use trinkets and item effects.
Sparks of Unwavering Strength should no longer erroneously create Quickening Azerite Geode for Guardian Druids and will correctly create Manual of Unbalanced Tactics.
Corrupted Items
- Obsidian and Searing Breath (Corrupted Effects) no longer strike targets that are not in line of sight.
- The Thing from Beyond (Corrupted Effect) is now slightly less terrifying in Timewalking, as it will scale down to the wearer’s item level.
- The Thing from Beyond's presence will no longer cause other monsters to attack the wearer.
- The Thing from Beyond can no longer daze the wearer.
- Fixed an issue that caused Thing from Beyond to sometimes miss players. The Thing from Beyond always gets its target, in the end.

Player versus Player

Players can once again queue for the Cooking Impossible Brawl.

February 3, 2020

Classes

Hunter
- Angerhoof Bull, Anzu, Blaithe, Doe, Greathorn Stag, Irewing, Motorback Ape, and Porkchop are now tamable.
- Ji-Kun, Ssinkrix, Qroshekx, Xaarshej should now retain their names when tamed.

Creatures and NPCs

Lalathin should now appear in all phases of Suramar.

Horrific Visions

Further reduced the health of enemies in Horrific Visions for players who enter the instance as a solo healer or tank specialization; healers will face enemies with 42% less health and tanks will fight enemies with 25% reduced health.
- Developers’ note: We'd like players to be able to upgrade their legendary cloak without feeling like they have to change specialization. The difficulty of Horrific Visions adjusts dynamically based on party composition, but they're still a bit rough for solo healers and tanks, so we're making some tweaks to help those players out.
Fixed an issue that prevented Vision Hunters’ buff text from displaying the proper values.

Items and Rewards

The Humming Black Dragonscale proc no longer affects character movement, but it can be activated to slow the wearer's falling speed as long as they are wearing their legendary cloak.
Unequipping Manifesto of Madness will remove its associated effects.
Unequipping Humming Black Dragonscale after using it will cancel its effects.

January 30, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

Ny'alotha, the Waking City
- Shad’har the Insatiable
  - Fixed a bug with Entropic Buildup that could cause it to explode multiple times if multiple players were absorbing the same one on Normal, Heroic, and Mythic difficulties.

Quests

Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented players from upgrading their farms at the Sunsong Ranch in the Valley of the Four Winds.
Vulpera player-characters can now accept "A Perfect Costume".

January 29, 2020

Classes

Hunter
- Dread Ravens, Rocs, Sea Serpents, and Mechanical Chickens are now tamable.
- Iron Juggernauts summoned by Hunters in Siege of Orgrimmar now scale their levels to the summoning player.

Creatures and NPCs

Brinebeak Albatross is now properly classified as a Bird of Prey.
Lalathin has escaped her cage and can be found just outside Suramar.
Shadowclaw now looks more appropriate.
Shale Crawler, Frenzied Pterrordax, and Dreadtick Latcher are now the correct creature types.

Dungeons and Raids

Ny'alotha, the Waking City
- Ra-den the Despoiled
  - Unstable Nightmare no longer damages pets on Mythic difficulty.

Items and Rewards

Fixed an issue that caused Guardian Druids to obtain the damage-dealer Essence Token of Death's Mark (Breath of the Dying) when using the Breath of Everlasting Spirit.
Revitalizing Voodoo Totem's effectiveness is reduced by 50% when used by non-healer specializations while engaged in combat with enemy players.
The Void-Twisted Titanshard will now trigger correctly from healing spells.
Corrupted Items
- Twilight Devastation's visual effect can no longer be seen by friendly players except in the outdoor world.
Heart of Azeroth
- Corrected an issue with Memory of Lucid Dreams (Essence) that caused Frost Mages’ icicle buff counter and visual display to sometimes not match up when using its on-use effect.

Quests

Fixed an issue that prevented completion of “Heroic Warfront: The Battle for Darkshore” for Alliance characters.

January 28, 2020

Classes

Hunter
- Certain aqir creatures in Uldum should now be tamable.

Dungeons and Raids

Freehold
- Damage dealt by Captain Eudora's Powder Shot reduced by 15% on all difficulties.
Ny'alotha, the Waking City
- Shad’har the Insatiable
  - Increased Shad'har the Insatiable's health by 30% on Heroic difficulty.
    - Developers’ note: This change is meant to bring the encounter in line with the rest of the instance on Heroic difficulty.
- N’Zoth the Corruptor
  - The Paranoia debuff can no longer be removed through immunity effects (e.g. Paladins’ Divine Shield) on all difficulties; damage and loss of sanity from Paranoia can still be temporarily avoided by using immunities.
  - A few of Exposed Synapses in N'Zoth's Mind have been moved a small distance.
    - Developers’ note: This quality-of-life change should help melee characters better reach Exposed Synapses during the encounter.

Items and Rewards

Cloaks no longer drop in Mythic Keystone end-of-run chests.
Corrupted Items
- Flash of Insight (Corruption Effect) now correctly scales with the total Intellect value of the character.
- Echoing Void damage reduced by 20%
  - Developers' Note: Echoing Void's design makes its damage fairly reliable and high in most combat situations. As it's less situational than some other Corruption effects, we feel it is doing too much damage per Corruption by comparison.
Sk’shuul Vaz
- This weapon’s Obsidian Destruction (Corruption Effect) now divides its damage among targets struck and deals additional damage for each target struck, up to maximum damage dealt at 6 targets.
- Damage against a single target has been increased to 700% of armor (was 175% of armor).
Fixed an issue which could cause Cache of Ny'alothan Treasures to display a tooltip indicating that it was Corrupted, even if it was not going to drop a Corrupted item. (The chance of your Cache item being corrupted has not changed.)
Fixed an issue which allowed Obsidian Destruction and Searing Flames to ignore Line of Sight on some targets.
Resolved an issue that caused crowd control that breaks on damage (Mages’ Polymorph) to be removed by Eye of Corruption damage.

Lesser Visions

Fixed a bug where the small chests found in the Lesser Visions weren't rewarding their Corrupted Mementos.

Player versus Player

Resolved an issue that prevented PvP Talent weapon disarm effects (e.g. Rogues’ Dismantle) from correctly having diminishing returns on their duration when cast against players that were recently affected by other disarm effects.
Resolved an issue that prevented characters from earning the Dreadflame illusion after earning the Duelist: Battle for Azeroth Season 4 achievement.

World Quests

“Vuk'laz the Earthbreaker” should now properly get pushed to Horde players.

January 27, 2020

Achievements

Fixed a bug that prevented eligible players from receiving credit for It’s Not a Cult if a raid member died during the N’Zoth the Corruptor encounter on Normal or Heroic difficulties.

Creatures and NPCs

Credit for rare creatures in the Vale of Eternal Twilight and Vision of the Twisting Sands is now shared.
The Spirit Drinker creatures should no longer get stuck in an immune state.

Dungeons and Raids

Ny'alotha, the Waking City
- Corrected an issue that prevented Protection Paladins’ Blessed Hammer (Talent) from dealing damage to Wrathion, Drest'agath, and Il’gynoth.
- Wrathion
  - Fixed a bug that prevented players from looting Wrathion if he was defeated while transitioning.
- Maut
  - The amount of mana gained by Maut through Dark Offering has been increased on Normal difficulty.
  - Mana gained by Maut through Devour Manifestation has been increased on Normal difficulty.
- N’Zoth the Corruptor
  - Harvest Thoughts no longer counts player pets and guardians when dividing the damage and Sanity loss effect.
  - Slightly expanded the distance at which melee characters can attack Exposed Synapses on Normal and Heroic difficulties.

Horrific Visions

Fixed an issue where Split Personality and Dark Delusions removed players from stealth.

Lesser Visions

Starting with this week’s resets, the first Lesser Vision daily quest of the week now gives 3000 Coalescing Visions (was 2000 Coalescing Visions).

Items and Rewards

Corrupted Gladiator’s Spite’s on-use ability cooldown has been reduced to 60 seconds (was 90 seconds).
Humming Black Dragonscale’s levitation effect no longer triggers if the player is affected by a Neural Silencer or Magical Intrusion Dampener.
Writhing Segment of Drest'agath's damage has been increased by 20%.
Corrupted Items
- Echoing Void (Corrupted Effect) can now only trigger from abilities that are on the global cooldown.
- Echoing Void can now be removed by abilities that dispel Magic effects.
- Twisted Appendage’s (Corrupted Effect) health has been reduced to 1% of the player’s maximum health (was 20%).
- The ground spell effect indicating Eye of Corruption's (Corrupted Effect) radius of effect is now easier to see on sloped terrain.
- Lingering Psychic Shell
  - Now applies an absorb shield that prevents 80% of incoming damage, up to the amount of damage indicated on the item.
  - While inside Ny'alotha, the Waking City instance, the wearer’s Corruption Resistance increases the total amount of damage absorbed by up to 50%.
    - Developers’ note: Due to several issues with this trinket, we have changed its functionality to be more intuitive. The tooltip will be updated in a future patch to more accurately reflect the trinket's functionality.
- Twisted Appendages (Corrupted Effect) can no longer be struck by area-of-effect attacks such as Mages’ Arcane Explosion.
- Killing Twisted Appendages no longer grant on-kill bonuses from Talents and abilities (e.g. Warriors’ Victory Rush).
- Fixed a bug which prevented Ineffable Truth (Corruption Effect) from triggering on some melee and ranged abilities.
- Heart of Azeroth
  - Corrected an issue where Crucible of Flame (Essence) sometimes incorrectly healed Wrathion during his encounter in the Nyalotha, the Waking City raid.

Player versus Player

Twilight Devastation (Corruption Effect) has a 12-second cooldown when engaged in combat with enemy players.
Twilight Devastation now deals 50% reduced damage when engaged in combat with enemy players.
Echoing Void (Corruption Effect) now deals 50% reduced damage when engaged in combat with enemy players.

Professions

Players should be able to discover Cataclysm Engineering recipes again from crafting recipes on that list.

Quests

Players are now able to perform the Nordrassil ritual during “Lunar Preservation” without breaking any rituals afterward.

WoW Classic

Quest credit for Elune's Blessing should now be granted more consistently.

January 24, 2020

Dungeons and Raids

N’Zoth, the Corruptor
- Fixed a bug where Azeroth's Radiance could shorten its channel duration without the player casting or moving.
- Azeroth's Radiance now resets its cooldown on a wipe and at the start of the encounter.
- Developers’ note: This quality-of-life change should dispel confusion about needing to wait for the cooldown to clear before a subsequent attempt.
Horrific Visions
- Fixed an issue wherein Emergency Cranial Defibrillation didn't heal the player while under the effects of Inquisitor Darkspeak's Convert.

Items and Rewards

Emissary equipment caches no longer reward cloaks during Battle for Azeroth Season 4.
The power of the following trinkets from Ny’alotha, the Waking City have been increased by around 10%: Vita-Charged Titanshard, Void-Twisted Titanshard, Humming Black Dragonscale, and Manifesto of Madness.
The damage absorb effect of the Void-Twisted Titanshard will now be consumed after most standard damage absorb effects.
Corrupted Items
- Glimpse of Clarity will no longer interact with the Warlock ability Command Demon, or the Hunter ability Command Pet.
- Lash of the Void
  - Lash of the Void’s (Corruption Effect) damage now scales with the item level of Unguent Caress, instead of the character's Attack Power.
  - Fixed a bug which caused Lash of the Void to trigger more often than intended, but it still strikes all targets in a cone in front of the user.
Heart of Azeroth
- Corrected several issues with Destruction Warlocks using Vision of Perfection either not getting an Infernal to spawn on their target, or a real summoned Infernal to incorrectly have the lowered Vision of Perfection duration applied to it.

WoW Classic

Players in Alterac Valley with the Honorless Target buff will no longer grant loot.

January 23, 2020

Allied Races

Vulperas’ Bag of Tricks (racial) cooldown is now correctly modified by haste.

Creatures and NPCs

Lorewalker Cho should once again be visible to all players in Vale of Eternal Blossoms.

Dungeons and Raids

Operation: Mechagon
- In Mechagon Junkyard and Mechagon Workshop on Mythic Keystone difficulties, end-of-run chests now award Engine of Mecha-Perfection, or Blueprint: Perfectly Timed Differential, or Progression Sprockets for players’ Vision of Perfection (Essence).
Ny'alotha, the Waking City
- Carapace of N’Zoth
  - Resolved an issue where using Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve while in the Den of Transfusion may fail to bring players to Wrathion's side.
  - Resolved an issue where using Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve could remove some player buffs when used.
  - Resolved an issue where Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve's cooldown was not being reset upon the encounter starting.
  - Reduced the health of Mycelial Cysts by 30%.
- N’Zoth the Corruptor
  - Dispelling corrupted mind should not drain sanity ever, and letting it expire naturally should.

Horrific Visions

Fixed an issue where players on the quest “Reconstructing ‘Fear and Flesh’” who skipped all Corrupted Area objectives and completed a Lost Area objective first would not get 1 of their 2 Torn Page of "Fear and Flesh" for that run.

Items and Rewards

Corrupted Items
- Damage dealt by Infinite Stars, Twisted Appendages, and Gushing Wound (Corrupted Effects) is now based on the item level of a Corrupted item, rather than scaling dynamically with Attack Power and Spell Power.
  - Developers’ note: Previously the damage dealt by these powers was modified by Attack Power and Spell Power, which meant that certain specialization abilities or random bonuses could cause drastic swings in their effectiveness. Infinite Stars in particular was too strong against single targets as a result of this and other factors. This change also adjusts Infinite Stars base damage accordingly, as the scaling method was one of the primary factors behind some of the extreme outliers we saw in our logs and from player feedback. Our goal with this change and other adjustments to Corruption powers is to improve parity in the effectiveness per point of Corruption of the different bonuses available on Visions of N’Zoth items.
- Grand Delusions’ (Corrupted Effect) summoned entity no longer despawns when its owner is crowd controlled by enemy players.
Fixed a bug that allowed the Lurking Schemer's Band a small chance at rolling a socket in addition to its baseline socket.
Corrupted Gladiator's Spite now has a distinct visual difference between hostile corruption pools and allied corruption pools.
Humming Black Dragonscale’s visual effect should no longer break some animations and will now appear as intended when mounted.

Quests

Dying during “Waking a Dreamer” can cause players to be unable to see Goldrinn and turn in the quest.
While D.I.S.C.O. may be fun for some, dancing is now prohibited within the vicinity of the Chamber of Heart teleporter.
Rugged Hyena Pelts now drop from all hyenas in Uldum as well as Amathet Hunters. Players with the Skinning skill will still be able to skin the hyenas for a guaranteed pelt, in addition to any that drop.

January 22, 2020

Achievements

You Can Pet the Dog, But… is now properly rewarded to all raid members who /pet Shad’har regardless if they or another player died during the encounter on Normal and Heroic difficulties.

Allied Races

Allied Races characters that are not Death Knights no longer learn an unusable Acherus Deathcharger class mount at level 58.

Classes

Mage
- Fixed an issue causing Mage's Invisibility and Greater Invisibility spells to not display the intended screen effects.
Warlock
- Demonology
  - Casting Hand of Gul'dan with a wand equipped and no Soul Shards no longer causes players to start autoattacking the target.

Creatures and NPCs
- Reduced the unavoidable damage from Tashara's Ground Shatter. Players now have more time to move out of her secondary effect.

Dungeons and Raids

Ny'alotha, the Waking City
- Il’gynoth, Corruption Reborn
  - Fixed a bug where Il'gynoth could get to 0% health but not transition to Stage 2 of the encounter.

Horrific Visions

Fixed an issue that prevented Gift of the Titans from triggering in certain situations.

Items and Rewards

Fixed a bug that allowed the Lurking Schemer's Band a small chance at rolling a socket in addition to its baseline socket.
Heart of Azeroth
- Corrected an issue that sometimes caused Unwavering Ward (Essence) to lose its Corruption Resistance.
- Breath of the Dying (Essence) Rank 2 Minor Power’s self-healing no longer heals for an excessive amount when dealing damage to lower-level targets.

Quests

Visions of N’Zoth Threat Daily Quests
- Reputation gain increased from 75 to 125.
- Coalescing Visions increased from 50 to 250.
Lesser Vision Daily Quests
- Coalescing Visions rewards increased from 1000 to 1500.
- Corrupted Mementos rewards increased from 8 to 30.
War Mode reward bonuses for completing Visions of N’Zoth daily quests are now correctly displayed in the UI.
Creatures and objects needed to complete Visions of N’Zoth daily quests should now spawn more quickly.
The quest item required to complete “Stepping Through the Darkness” can now be found in Lost Area chests in addition to the Corrupted area chests.
The quest objectives for the legendary cloak storyline are now easier to track.
Players returning to Silithus after completing the Blackwing Descent scenario now arrive in the appropriate phase and location. Time travel is quite difficult!
Quest credit for “Alpaca It Up” and “Alpaca It In” can now be earned while in raid groups.
Self-inflicted damage from N’lyeth, Silver of N’Zoth no longer critically strikes the wearer or benefits from damage modifiers.
Players on the quest "Journey to the Sunwell" should now be able to complete "A People Shattered".
Increased Goliath Trophy quest item drop rate for “Getting Ahead”.

January 21, 2020

Allied Races

Vulpera characters can now correctly disable Holy Relic after discovering it through their Rummage Your Bag racial ability.
Vulpera and mechagnomes can now read the Ancient Tome of Dinomancy.

Assaults

Vale of Eternal Blossoms
- Invoke Xuen
  - Xuen's autoattack damage has been reduced by 80%.
  - The power of Xuen's abilities have been increased by 100%.
  - Xuen’s abilities deal 80% reduced damage against other players in PvP situations.

Classes

Death Knight
- Unholy
  - Resolved an issue that allowed Virulent Plague to spread to Explosives found in Mythic Keystone dungeons.
Druid
- Guardian
  - Damage caused by Protector of the Pack (PvP Talent) can no longer be absorbed or reduced by damage reduction effects.
  - Brambles will no longer deal damage after suffering damage from Protector of the Pack (PvP Talent).
  - Den Mother's (PvP Talent) increased maximum health effect no longer affects the Guardian Druid.
Hunter
- Beast Mastery
  - Resolved an issue that could prevent additional pets summoned by Animal Companion from gaining benefit from abilities such as Bestial Wrath, Beast Cleave, or Dash.
Monk
- Resolved an issue that caused Grapple Weapon to reduce the duration of subsequent Silence effects cast on the target.

Dungeons and Raids

Ny'alotha, the Waking City
- Fixed an issue which prevented Ny'alotha bosses from rewarding Artifact Power.
- Removed the requirement that Shad'har the Insatiable had to be defeated before entering Drest'agath's encounter arena on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
- N’Zoth the Corruptor
  - Fixed an issue that caused Paranoia to target more players than intended on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
- Il’gynoth, Corruption Reborn
  - Resolved an issue in which Prophet Skitra being defeated would cause Il'gynoth, Corruption Reborn to not spawn on Normal and Heroic difficulties.

Horrific Visions

Fixed an issue wherein players weren't interactable for a short period after dying in Horrific Visions.

Items and Rewards

Trashmaster’s Mantle can no longer drop in Mythic Keystone dungeons.
Heart of Azeroth
- Resolved an issue that allowed Vitality Conduit (Essence) to remove crowd control effects (e.g. Polymorph).
Corrupted Items
- Fixed an issue which could cause Infinite Stars and Twisted Appendage to fail to keep track of updates to characters’ Attack Power or Spell Power.
- Psyche Shredder’s on-equip effect can now only be triggered by spells.

Pet Battles

Blackrock Depths Pet Battle Dungeon
- The difficulty of Therin Skysong, Alran Heartshade, Zuna Skullcrush pet battle encounters have been lowered.
- Manapoof Link now properly has the option to teleport a player who has completed the Blackrock Depths Pet Dungeon to the entrance of Blackrock Depths.

Quests

Faceless Mask quests are no longer shareable.
War Mode once again grants the correct reward quest completion bonuses for daily quests offered during Visions of N’Zoth Assaults. The UI currently does not reflect the rewards granted, but we’re working on correcting it.
Fixed an issue that caused the Gift of N’Zoth’s visual effect to sometimes disappear when a character entered Orgrimmar, Stormwind, Uldum, or Vale of Eternal Blossoms. N’Zoth has not forgotten those who are loyal to him.

World Quests

Resolved an issue that prevented some players from receiving credit for the “Grand Empress Shek’zara” after defeating Grand Empress Shek’zara.
Players will now properly receive credit for defeating King Dazar for the “Kings’ Rest: Kingsguard” World Quest.

January 17, 2020

Achievements

Fixed an issue where a dead player's Damage Over Time effect could cause the raid to fail The Best of Us.

Auction House

Bids now display properly in the sell tab for caged pets.
Fixed a bug causing the quantity field to be empty when selling a non-commodity.
The “Uncollected” filter now filters owned battle pets as expected.
The “Upgrades Only” filter now correctly applies to wands and shields.
The "Usable" filter now filters profession-restricted items and owned toys as intended.
Purchasing an entire listing now displays the item count in the seller's auction list.
Players can now buyout an auction for which they are already the high bidder.
Fixed a bug that caused some mail from the Auction House to exclude expected attached gold.

Creatures and NPCs

The Gaze of N'Zoth can now only be faction tapped while in War Mode.
Onyx Warserpent’s Lightning Pool no longer hits players harder than intended.
Taijing the Cyclone now resets properly.
The spawn frequency of several Rare enemies in Uldum and Vale of Eternal Blossoms Assault areas has been increased.

Items

Azerite Essences
- Fixed an issue that caused Breath of the Dying’s minor damage effect at Rank 1 or 2 to benefit from the Rank 3 increased proc chance against low health targets.
Corruption Effects
- Fixed an issue preventing Twilight Devastation from triggering on ranged attacks.
- Infinite Stars damage reduced by 25% at all Corruption levels.

Player versus Player

The red punchcard Subroutine: Defragmentation now heals for 50% in PvP situations.
Fixed an issue causing Breath of the Dying to have an incorrectly-lowered cooldown when used against player pets in PvP.

Races

The Vulpera Holy Relic Trick now heals for the correct amount.
Fixed a bug preventing Mechagnomes and Vulpera from using ghost flying mounts when dead in appropriate areas.
Fixed an expected sound effect on the voices of Pandaren Death Knights.

Quests

Vulpera can once again proceed during the Tirisfal Glades quest, "A Scarlet Letter".
Players who are outside of the Vision while their party defeats Ysedra the Darkener now receive quest credit for “Deeper Into the Darkness”.
Fixed a bug that could prevent Magni Bronzebeard from spawning as expected in “The Halls of Origination”.
It is again possible to turn in “Ancient Crypt Key”.
Titan Artifacts should now appear for the quest “Unearthed Artifacts” regardless of the completion status of the Assault bar-fill objective.
Assault daily quests such as “The Sun King’s Chosen” or “The Strongest Among Them” now require 3 Rare kills (was 4).
Rare kills now provide more credit for Assaults.

User Interface

Guild and community setting dropdowns no longer appear when they are grayed out.

Visions

Players should now find their Sanity draining more quickly after an extended period within Vision of the Twisting Sands and Vale of Eternal Twilight.
Fixed an issue that was preventing an iLvl 430 item from dropping when you had completed two objectives and the boss in a Horrific Vision. This item will be awarded to players on their next run if they satisfy these conditions.

January 15, 2020

Allied Races

Eligible players who earned the account-wide achievements The Mechagonian Threat and Rustbolt Rebellion on a Horde character can once again begin the process to unlock mechagnomes on an Alliance character.
Fixed an issue that prevented Prince Erazmin from appearing on Mechagon Island after completing the mechagnome Allied Race unlock storyline.

Classes

Attempting to burn the corpses of egg-infested bodies in Uldum will no longer remove Druids from Travel Form.

Dungeons and Raids

Mechagon – Junkyard and Mechagon – Workshop
- Mechagon – Junkyard and Mechagon – Workshop no longer share a lockout for Heroic difficulty.

Items and Rewards

Items awarded from Horrific Visions of N'Zoth are no longer tradeable.

Quests

Starting “A World Worth Saving” once again transports players into the Halls of Origination dungeon full of enemies.
Fixed an issue where players who were eligible to attend the late Kind Varian Wrynn's funeral could be unable to complete the introductory quests for Visions of N'Zoth.
Players who enter a Lesser Vision of N’Zoth without accepting “Unscarred Black Scale” will now be offered the daily quest while inside the instance.
Credit for completing “Alpaca It Up” quest is no longer shared between group members.
“Against Overwhelming Odds” now grants quest credit for enemy players slain in Uldum and Vale of Eternal Blossoms.

January 14, 2020

Assaults

Void Conduits now grant credit toward Assaults.

Creatures and NPCs

Knockback reduced on Magni Bronzebeard's Reverberating Clap.
Blastatron X-81 no longer taps, so all combatants can receive credit.
Kames, Blade of the Dawn’s Sun’s Retribution ability now has a 3 second cooldown.

Items and Rewards

Fixed a bug that allowed some Honorbound and 7th Legion items to both Corrupt and Titanforge. N'Zoth works in mysterious and terrible ways.
The Kernel of E-Steam now correctly awards reputation to characters not yet Exalted with the Rustbolt Resistance.

Player versus Player

Resolved an issue that prevented the weekly Brawl quest “Something Different” from starting when entering the Deepwind Gorge Battleground highlight brawl.

Quests

Players investigating Blackwing Descent with Wrathion should no longer be blocked from entering the instance during “Beginning the Descent” and “To the Catacombs!”.
Highland Worgs are no longer endangered and can be readily slaughtered to fulfill "A Little Goodwill."
Fixed an issue that caused the first Lesser Vision daily quest, “A Dark, Glaring Reality” to incorrectly reward 1,000 Coalescing Visions instead of 2,000 Coalescing Visions for some players. Players affected by this issue will be offered the quest rewarding 2,000 Coalescing Visions tomorrow.
Zahra Sandstalker should no longer disappear for nearby players when someone accepts "To The Moon." Additionally, multiple copies will no longer show up.
Locating the anomalous source for “Deeper Into Darkness” now shares credit with all party members.
“Against Overwhelming Odds” now grants credit for slaying enemy players in Uldum when Assaults are active.

World

Players should no longer disconnect when traveling on the boat between Booty Bay and Gadgetzan.

WoW Classic

Alterac Valley
- Spirit Guides in the starting caves now apply Honorless Target to the players they resurrect.
  - Developers’ note: We observed some behavior in Alterac Valley that can only be described as griefing—a violation of the In-Game Code of Conduct. If this had taken place in original WoW, it would have been seen as either a situation that needed to be fixed preventatively or a circumstance that called for account suspensions. We feel that the preventative solution is the more amicable one.