World of Warcraft

Update 2, Other Hotfixes: 6:00pm PST

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

  • Item rewards received from a Garrison invasion now have a chance to be Warforged, contain a socket, or tertiary stats.
  • Barn: Iron Trap, Improved Iron Trap, and Deadly Iron Trap now have a 15-second cooldown (down from 30 seconds).
  • Mine Levels 2-3: Mining Carts now contains more Primal Spirits and Archeology fragments. The amount of ore given by each mining node has been adjusted to a more appropriate level.

Classes

  • Death Knight
    • Talents
      • Breath of Sindragosa should now work correctly with the Plaguebearer talent, extending the duration of diseases when used.
  • Monk
    • Talents
      • Chi Explosion’s visuals should now be more visible and the ability’s sound effects should no longer be too quiet.
  • Paladin
    • Holy
      • Beacon of Light’s sound effects should no longer be excessively loud.

Quests

  • Shadowmoon Valley
    • Assault on Socrethar’s Rise: Sargerei Binders should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.
  • Talador
    • Dreadpiston: Dreadpiston should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.
  • Nagrand
    • Assault on the Gorian Proving Grounds: Increased the spawn rate of creatures and NPCs in the quest area.
    • Challenge of the Masters: Warlord Dharl of the Thrice-Bloodied Blade really should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.
  • Garrison
    • Items obtained from Garrison Mission above level 615 now have a chance to be Warforged, contain a socket, or tertiary stats.
    • Lumber Mill: Legacy of the Ancients has increased spawn rates of Medium Timber around the Botani Marsh area in Shadowmoon Valley.

Creatures and NPCs

  • Shadowmoon Valley
    • Increased the spawn rate of creatures and NPCs in the Mok’gol Watchpost area.
  • Talador
    • Brutag Grimblade should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.
  • Nagrand
    • Hallvalor Blademaster should no longer be chasing players for excessively long distances.
    • Katsuo should no longer be incorrectly using Wind Walk to target players that they’re not in combat with.
  • Ashran
    • Fangraal and Kronus now have 25% less health.
    • Grand Marshal Tremblade and High Warlord Volrath now scales their health based on the number of players in the zone.
    • Alliance captains should now be retreating in the correct direction.
    • Resolved an issue where multiple captains dying at the same time could cause an incorrect number of captains to respawn.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

  • Dungeons
    • After a lengthy discussion with the Postmaster regarding their mailing habits, the Postmaster should no longer be mailing back gray quality items and money that haven’t been looted by characters.
    • Resolved an issue where completing a Warlords of Draenor Dungeon was incorrectly being crediting progress towards the achievement, Queuing Spree.
    • Grimrail Depot
      • Fire effects for Slag Blast and Slag Tanker should now be visible across all graphics settings.
    • Iron Docks
      • Grimrail Enforcers: Resolved a looting issue that could occur depending on the order that Ahri’ok Dugru, Makogg Emberblade, and Neesa Nox are defeated in.
      • Skulloc: Resolved a looting issue that could occur depending on the order that Skulloc, Koramar, and Zoggosh were defeated in.
    • The Everbloom
      • Mutagen can now stack up to 10 times (down from 20) and have a maximum duration of 1 minute.
      • Ancient Protectors: Shaper’s Fortitude has been removed on Heroic difficulty.
    • Upper Blackrock Spire
      • Orebender Gor’ashan’s visuals for his Electric Pulse should now correctly reflect the ability’s area-of-effect.
  • Challenge Mode
    • Items contained within the Challenger’s Strongbox now have a chance to be Warforged, contain a socket, or tertiary stats.

PvP

  • Ashran
    • Class book abilities should now be correctly removed when leaving Ashran.

Professions

  • [Still in testing] Crafted gear and weapons received an item level boost. Tooltips for the items will still display the incorrect (older) item level.
    • Crafted Tier-2 weapons now have an item level of 645 (up from 640).
    • Crafted Tier-3 weapons now have an item level of 660 (up from 655).
    • Crafted Tier-3 gear now have an item level of 670 (up from 665).
  • Enchanting
    • Rare (blue) quality items now have a greatly increased chance to disenchant into Draenic Dust instead of a Small Luminous Shard. Additionally, characters with the Enchanting profession should receive more Draenic Dust while disenchanting an item.
    • [Still in testing] Mark of Blackrock now requires 3 Temporal Crystals (down from 15) and 5 Scorcerous Earth (down from 10).
    • [Still in testing] Mark of Shadowmoon now requires 3 Temporal Crystals (down from 15) and 5 Scorcerous Fire (down from 10).

Items

  • Swapblaster’s visual effect should no longer persist indefinitely.

Bug Fix

  • Resolved an issue where buffs received from a Shamanstone was incorrectly causing the character to travel much more slowly while on a flight path.

Update 1, Class Tuning Changes: 12:00pm PST

Please note that some of the class tuning changes listed below are not yet live and are still in the process of being implemented.

Racials

  • Orc
    • Hardiness now reduces stun duration by 15% (up from 10%).
  • Undead
    • Will of the Forsaken has a 2-minute cooldown once more (down from 3 minutes).

Classes

  • Death Knight
    • General
      • Blood Plague, when used in PvP combat now has a duration of 24 seconds and may no longer have its periodic duration extended past 30 seconds.
      • Frost Fever, when used in PvP combat now has a duration of 24 seconds and may no longer have its periodic duration extended past 30 seconds.
    • Talents
      • Necrotic Plague, when used in PvP combat now has a duration of 24 seconds and may no longer have its periodic duration extended past 30 seconds.
  • Druid
    • Balance
      • Moonfire, when used in PvP combat now has a duration of 24 seconds and may no longer have its periodic duration extended past 30 seconds.
      • Sunfire, when used in PvP combat may no longer have its periodic duration extended past 30 seconds.
    • Feral
      • Predatory Swiftness no longer increases the healing done by Healing Touch.
    • Talents
      • Heart of the Wild’s bonuses are now halved when used while in PvP combat.
      • Pulverize (Guardian) now extends up to 130% of its normal duration when refreshed, similar to periodic effects.
  • Mage
    • Arcane
      • Arcane Blast’s damage has been increased by 10%.
    • Fire
      • Pyroblast’s damage has been increased by 35%.
  • Monk
    • General
      • Rising Sun Kick (Windwalker, Mistweaver) now causes enemies to take 15% increased damage (down from 20%).
      • Tiger Palm (Brewmaster, Windwalker) now extends up to 130% of its normal duration when refreshed, similar to periodic effects.
    • Brewmaster
      • Guard’s damage absorption shield now absorbs 100% more damage.
      • Stance of the Sturdy Ox now defers 30% of damage taken to be divided over 10 seconds (up from 20%).
    • Glyphs
      • Glyph of Keg Smash should now correctly increase the range of Keg Smash.
  • Paladin
    • Protection
      • Mastery: Divine Bulwark now increases Shield of the Righteous’ damage reduction by 0.5% per point, down from 0.75% per point.
      • Grand Crusader now also has a 30% chance to trigger its effect from Crusader Strike and Hammer of the Righteous.
      • Shield of the Righteous now reduces physical damage taken by 25% (up from 20%).
  • Shaman
    • General
      • Chain Lightning’s damage has been increased by 20%.
      • Lava Burst’s (Elemental, Restoration) damage has been increased by 35%.
      • Lava Burst now has a chance equal to the character’s Critical Strike chance to trigger an additional Multistrike. This is separate from the standard two chances for Lava Burst to Multistrike; one Lava Burst could trigger up to three Multistrikes (two standard Multistrikes, plus one more from Critical Strike chance).
    • Enhancement
      • Lava Lash’s damage has been increased by 20%.
      • Stormstrike’s damage has been increased by 20%.
  • Warlock
    • Affliction
      • Agony’s damage has been increased by 20%.
      • Unstable Affliction’s damage has been increased by 20%.
    • Demonology
      • Shadow Bolt’s damage has been increased by 25%.
      • Soul Fire’s damage has been increased by 25%.
      • Touch of Chaos’ damage has been increased by 25%.
    • Destruction
      • Chaos Bolt’s damage has been increased by 8%.
      • Conflagrate’s damage has been increased by 8%.
      • Immolate’s damage has been increased by 8%.
      • Incinerate’s damage has been increased by 8%.
      • Rain of Fire’s damage has been reduced by 60% and no longer generates Burning Embers.
      • Shadowburn’s damage has been increased by 8%.
    • Talents
      • Demonbolt’s (Demonology) damage has been increased by 10%.
      • Soulburn: Haunt (Affliction) now extends up to 130% of its normal duration when refreshed, similar to periodic effects.
  • Warrior
    • Protection
      • Revenge’s damage has been reduced by 20%.
      • Shield Slam’s damage has been reduced by 20%.