World of Warcraft news » Hotfixes: April 24

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Legion. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.

Hotfixes

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April 24, 2018

Dungeons and Raids

• Well of Eternity
  • Fixed a bug that caused Peroth’arn to appear too early and block further progress.
• Antorus, The Burning Throne
  • Aggramar
    • Aggramar now begins Stage 3 at 35% health in Mythic difficulty
    • All Embers of Taeshalach now spawn with 0 Energy in Mythic difficulty.
    • The damage of Empowered Flame Rend has been reduced by 25%.
  • Argus, The Unmaker
    • Argus’s health has been reduced by 5% in Mythic difficulty.

Quests

• Fixed a bug preventing Burnnhildar Prisoners from respawning as needed for “Cold Hearted”.

User Interface

• The S.E.L.F.I.E. Camera should once again hide your UI when taking screenshots.

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April 10, 2018

Achievements

• There's a Boss In There is now a legacy Achievement, and no longer awards Achievement points.

Classes

• Druid
  • Wild Growth can now be applied to characters who are below level 30.
• Mage
  • Phoenix's Flames correctly does the amount of splash damage indicated by its tooltip.

Quests

• Hunters who could not see Emmarel Shadewarden during "Hunter to Hunter" should now see her properly.

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April 3, 2018

Dungeons and Raids

• Court of Stars
  • Patrol Captain Gerdo's Streetsweeper ability should now always properly line up with its visual.

Player versus Player

• Characters who have earned Fierce Elite, Dominant Elite, or Demonic Elite achievements can now purchase Elite Fierce Gladiator ensembles at the Legion Elite Gladiator vendors in Dalaran.

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March 20, 2018

Dungeons and Raids

• With maintenance in each region, Mythic difficulty Antorus, the Burning Throne is now available for cross realm groups.
• Hounds of Sargeras
  • Resolved an issue which could sometimes cause Shadowscar to move a player out of the bounds of the playspace.

Events

• Fixed an issue that could cause in-game holidays to start or finish up to an hour early or late on the Australian realms. This also resolves an issue where the Stranglethorn Vale fishing tournament was inaccessible in Australia.
  • Developers’ notes: This may cause some events to shift in the calendar slightly for Australian players. Please check the in-game calendar for updated local times.

Player versus Player

• Ivory Feather can now be used in Seething Shore.
• Demon Hunter
  • Vengeance
    • Tormentor increases damage taken by 3% per stack (was 5%).
    • Demonic Trample's cooldown is now 45 seconds (was 30 seconds).
    • Demonic Trample's duration is now 5 seconds (was 8 seconds).
• Death Knight
  • Blood
    • Murderous Intent increases damage taken by 3% per stack (was 5%).
• Druid
  • Guardian
    • Alpha Challenge increases damage taken by 3% per stack (was 5%).
• Monk
  • Brewmaster
    • Admonishment increases damage to the target by 3% per stack (was 5%).
    • Guard now staggers 20% of damage taken by allies (was 30%).
    • Hot Trub deals 30% of your purified staggered damage (was 50%).
• Paladin
  • Protection
    • Inquisition increases damage taken by 3% per stack (was 5%).
    • Forbearant Faithful increases cooldown recovery rate by 20% in PvP situations (was 50%).
    • Shield of Virtue now has a 45 second cooldown (was 25 seconds).
• Warrior
  • Protection
    • Oppressor increases damage taken by 3% per stack (was 5%).
    • Morale Killer reduces the cooldown of Demoralizing Shout by 10 seconds (was 30 seconds).
    • Booming Voice now grants 30 Rage in PvP situations (was 60 Rage).
    • Booming Voice increases damage taken by 15% in PvP situations (was 25%).

Quests

• Sapper Specialists should now drop the Keg of Blast-O Powder for the Alliance quest "Powder Play".
• Lord Godfrey should no longer disappear at the beginning of "The Great Escape".
• Scenarios to unlock later portions of the Isle of Thunder can now be started at level 85 (was 90).
• "Rocket Rescue" should now have a marker for the location of the Steamwheedle Balloon.

Hotfixes

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March 6, 2018

Dungeons and Raids

• Court of Stars
  • Watchful Inquisitors should no longer cast Searing Glare while stunned.

Player versus Player

• Seething Shore
  • Seething Shore is now in the Random Battleground queue, starting at level 110.
  • Mining an Azerite Node now awards 20 Honor (was 40 Honor).
  • The A Good Start achievement now requires 25,000 Azerite (was 100,000 Azerite).
  • The Blood and Sand achievement now displays correctly when linked in chat.
  • The "Thrust" effect from the Rocket Parachute now has 4 charges (was 2 charges), allowing players to reach further areas when jumping from the airship.
  • The geyser period of Azerite nodes is now extended to 30 seconds (was 20 seconds). This will give players more time to reach spawning Azerite nodes.
  • The respawn time at the graveyard is now 20 seconds (was 15 seconds).
  • The time to cap an Azerite node is increased to 7 seconds (was 6 seconds).
    • Developers’ notes: We’d like to thank you for all your feedback on this new Battleground. The adjustments above should alleviate some of its pacing issues, as well as bring its most-arduous achievement more in line with other battleground achievements.

Quests

• Lord Maxwell Tyrosus is now reliably available during “Walking in Shadows”.

Toys

• The Jolly Roger appears as expected on Allied Races.

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February 26, 2018

Companion App

• The Legion Companion App has been updated to correctly display the costs of missions that were recently changed.

Dungeons and Raids

• Scarlet Halls
  • Houndmaster Braun
    • Obedient Hounds should always defeat all nearby Scarlet Guardians before continuing down the stairs. 12/10 such good dogs.

NPCs

• Celestine of the Harvest again stands where intended at Olivia's Pond in Stormwind.

Player versus Player

• Monk
  • Brewmaster
    • Guard can no longer be applied to non-player targets such as pets and guardians.
• Paladin
  • Protection
    • Fist of Justice now reduces the cooldown of Hammer of Justice by 5 seconds in PvP (was 10 seconds).
• Priest
  • Discipline
    • Fixed a bug where Trinity's bonus 20% healing transfer was increasing Atonement heals by more than intended.
    • Fixed a bug where Atonement's bonus 15% healing transfer in PvP was increasing Atonement heals by more than intended.
• Rogue
  • Assassination
    • Fixed a bug that caused Kingsbane's damage to be higher than intended in PvP situations.

Quests

• Accepting the Stonetalon quest "Is this Justice?" should no longer disable the quest-giver for all other players.

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February 20, 2018

Classes

• Warlock
  • Fixed a bug that allowed Demonic Gateways to be placed in unintended spots.

Class Halls

• Argus missions that award Blood of Sargeras now cost 600 more Order Hall Resources. This will not be correctly reflected in the Legion Companion App until its next version update.
  • Developers’ notes: Completing these missions with bonus rewards previously returned more Order Hall Resources than they cost. Rather than reduce their yield, we’ve increased the cost of the missions so that players with ample Order Hall Resources can convert them to tradeskill materials.

Dungeons and Raids

• Pit of Saron
  • The health of most enemies in Pit of Saron has been reduced by 50% in Timewalking.

Items

• If you have all Legion Legendary items for your class, consuming a class-specific item that generates a Legion Legendary item will now always generate a token for another class.
• Heritage of the Ren'dorei now contains the Ren'dorei Cloak.

NPCs

• Hatecoil Spitespeaker should no longer instantly respawn.
• Princess Poobah should no longer unexpectedly stop offering quests.

Quests

• "The Emerald Dreamcatcher" is no longer weekly.
• The starting location for "Teldrassil: The Burden of the Kaldorei" should now correctly be displayed on the map.
• Mature Silkwing again have a chance to softly drop Iridescent Wings for “The Softest Wings”.

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February 14, 2018

Achievements

• The achievements "Westfall & Duskwood Quests" and "Loch Modan & Wetlands Quests" can now be completed on multiple characters.

Classes

• Druid
  • Stellar Empowerment from multiple Druids should now correctly apply to the same target.

Items

• Cauldron of Battle and Big Cauldron of Battle again work as intended.

Mounts

• Shu-Zen the Divine Sentinel’s size is now more directly proportional to the scale of a given player race.
• In Timewalking, Yogg-Saron now has a chance to drop Mimiron's Head if defeated with no Keeper assistance.

Player versus Player

• Demon Hunter
  • Reverse Magic now reverses all magic dispellable effects on friendly nearby targets.

Quests

• Players can now accept and complete the quest “Ancient Mana” while First Arcanist Thalyssra is starving.

User Interface

• Access to the mobile Auction House has been restored.

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February 8, 2018

Characters

• Nightborne earrings will no longer be hidden by some helms.

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Rapid Decomposition only grants Runic Power when the player is within their Death and Decay, as intended.

Quests

• The Twilight Highlands quest "Skullcrusher the Mountain" should now be less difficult.
• Players should now always be able to find Anduin in the throne room if they are on, "A Gift for the King of Stormwind".

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February 6, 2018

Characters

• Nightborne faces should now properly match the face texture selected by players during Character Creation or Barber Shop.

Classes

[With realm maintenance in each region]

• Hunter
  • Beast Mastery
    • All damage increased by 2.5%.
    • Serpentstalker Guise 4-piece bonus now causes Kill Command to reduce the cooldown of Aspect of the Wild by 3 seconds (was 2.5 seconds).
• Mage
  • Fire
    • All damage increased by 3%.
• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • Corruption, Agony damage reduced by 6%.
    • Long Dark Night of the Soul now increases healing you receive from Drain Soul by 3% per rank (was 10%).

Dungeons and Raids

• Court of Stars
  • Void Elves and Nightborne can now use the Magical Lantern within the Court of Stars dungeon.

• Antorus, The Burning Throne
  • Argus the Unmaker
    • [With realm maintenance in each region] Immunities will no longer prevent the application of Sentence of Sargeras, but can be used to mitigate the periodic damage. Sentence of Sargeras will now only target two players with each cast.

Player versus Player

• Hunter
  • Beast Mastery
    • PvP template Agility reduced by 2.5%.
• Mage
  • Fire
    • PvP template Intellect reduced by 3%.
• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • Corruption, Agony damage unchanged in PvP situations.
    • Long Dark Night of the Soul healing unchanged in PvP situations.

Quests

• Fixed an issue where beasts for the Garrison Stables quests moved more quickly than intended.

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February 2, 2018

Characters

• Fixed an issue where some Nightborne Female hairstyles didn’t have a scalp texture when wearing full helmets.
• Fixed a bug that caused Gordon MacKellar to despawn too quickly.
• It has come to Oculeth's attention that some foolhardy Nightborne were leaving Shal'Aran before being hardy enough to survive. He will now save low level players from their terrible fate by returning them to the interior of Shal'Aran upon their exit.

Classes

• Fixed a bug preventing newly-boosted Assassination Rogues and Unholy Death Knights from obtaining their second Artifact quest line.
• Monk
  • Casting Storm, Earth and Fire twice consecutively should not incorrectly consume both charges.

Quests

• It should now be possible for more than one player to earn credit at a time for the Stonetalon Mountains quest "To be Horde...".
• Reduced the difficulty of the Frostfire Ridge quest "The Den of Skog".
• The drop rate for Slab of Venison for the Azshara quest "Venison for the Troops" has been increased.
• Water Elementals for the Northern Stranglethorn quest "Water Elementals" should now be more plentiful.
• “Fight on All Fronts” is no longer required by the Insurrection campaign.
• Gorat's position should now be more clearly marked on the Horde Ashenvale quest "Gorat's Vengeance".

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January 31, 2018

Characters

• All accounts now have 16 character slots available per realm (was 12).
• The Mountaineer racial ability now correctly grants Highmountain Tauren 1% Versatility.
• Fixed a bug that prevented a small number of players from being able to complete the initial quests for the Nightborne.
• The Befuddle ability cast by Confusion is now more player friendly.

Events

• The duration of the Kirin Tor Tavern Crawl has been extended by an additional 24 hours.

Items

• The Spear of Rethu can now be transmogrified at any level.

Professions

• Tailoring
  • [After next realm restart] Players now relearn Silkweave Gloves (Rank 1) when using the relearning book for Tailoring.

Quests

• Mountaineer's Ale for the Wetlands quest "The Stolen Keg" can now be looted by multiple players.

Sounds

• Fixed a bug that was preventing some addon sounds from playing correctly.

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January 30, 2018

Achievements

• In Ulduar, Razorscale should once again properly award achievement credit.
• In Obsidian Sanctum, the achievements Twilight Assist, Twilight Duo, and The Twilight Zone should again be earnable when their conditions are met.
• In Darkheart Thicket, the Shade of Xavius achievement Burning Down the House should once again be earnable.

Class Halls

• Gnomish hunters have fitted many of their non-gnome friends with stylish-yet-functional C.O.N.T.A.C.T lenses, preventing them from seeing double of Emmarel Shadewarden in Trueshot Lodge.

Dungeons and Raids

• The Mythic Keystone Dungeon leaderboards now support up to the top 500 rankings (was top 100).
• Karazhan (Raid)
  • The health of pieces in the Chess event has been adjusted to return the event to its pre-7.3.5 pacing.
• Black Rook Hold
  • Corrected an issue that could cause Dantalionax to cast Stinging Swarm during Dreadlord’s Guile.
• Neltharion’s Lair
  • Corrected an issue that could cause Ularogg Cragshaper to interrupt his cast of Stance of the Mountain under certain circumstances.

Player versus Player

• Druid
  • Balance
    • PvP template Versatility reduced by 15%.
    • PvP template Intellect reduced by 2%.
  • Feral
    • Earthen Grasp now has a 15 second cooldown (was 10 seconds).
    • King of the Jungle increases movement speed and damage by 3% (was 4%).
• Hunter
  • Beast Mastery
    • PvP template Agility increased by 3%.
  • Marksmanship
    • PvP template Agility decreased by 1.5%.
• Mage
  • Arcane
    • PvP template Intellect reduced by 2%.
    • Arcane Power now increases damage by 25% in PvP situations (was 30%).
• Monk
  • Windwalker
    • PvP template Agility reduced by 2.5%.
• Paladin
  • Holy
    • Pure of Heart now removes 1 poison and 1 disease effect from the target (was all poison and disease effects).
  • Protection
    • PvP template Versatility reduced by 25%.
• Priest
  • Holy
    • PvP template Intellect increased by 3%.
    • Renew heals for an additional 75% in PvP situations (was an additional 100%).
    • Rapid Mending increases the range of Prayer of Mending by 10 yards (was 20 yards).
    • Ray of Hope now increases healing caused by the casting Priest by 50% (was all incoming healing on the target).
• Rogue
  • Assassination
    • PvP template Agility reduced by 2.5%.
  • Subtlety
    • PvP template Agility reduced by 3%.
• Shaman
  • Elemental
    • PvP template Intellect reduced by 1.5%.
    • Icefury increases the damage of Frost Shock by 250% in PvP situations (was 300%).

Quests

• The Vashj'ir quest "Setting an Example" should no longer be displayed on map after it becomes inaccessible.
• Garrison Invasion NPCs should now always scale from level 90-100.
• Horde players should no longer have inconsistent difficulties when swapping between Vol'jin's Arsenal and the Arcane Sanctum in Talador.
• The Duskwood quest "Cry For the Moon" should now appear on the map if it is the next quest in the zone's storyline.
• Brawler's Guild: Rumble cards should again work properly.

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January 26, 2018

Achievements

• Defeating Algalon should once again award the appropriate achievements.
• Players can now correctly earn the achievement Souls of the Lost.

Classes

• Rogue
  • Outlaw
    • Fixed a bug that caused Greenskin's Waterlogged Wristcuffs's to be removed when Pistol Shot failed to cast.
  • Subtlety
    • Fixed a bug that prevented the gain of combo points after consuming the Regalia of the Dashing Scoundrel 4-piece set bonus.

Dungeons and Raids

• Blackwing Lair
  • Nefarian
    • Addressed an issue where the Drakonid would fail to spawn as expected.
• Ulduar
  • Algalon the Observer
    • Made many tuning adjustments to Algalon to more closely match his difficulty in 7.3.2.
• Temple of Ahn’Qiraj
  • Silithid Royalty
    • Fixed a bug with the bugs despawning before players were able to loot them.

Items

• Fixed a bug where some low level items were not able to be disenchanted or transmogrified.
• Fixed a bug where incorrect textures were present on the Wristclasps of Righteous Reckoning, Supreme Felchain Bracers, Bracers of Perfect Discomfort, and Terrorweave Wristwraps. This fix should provide the correct texture and restore set completion to some players.

Player versus Player

• Character item level is now set to 950 during Tournament Rules Wargames.
• Concordance of the Legionfall is now set to rank 20 during Tournament Rules Wargames.
• Monk
  • Mistweaver
    • The healing of Way of the Crane is properly decreased by healing reduction effects such as Dampening or Mortal Strike.

Quests

• Neptulon's Cache now drops the Remnant of Water for quest “Controlling the Elements”.
• The Duskwood quest "Cry For the Moon" should now appear on the map if it is the next quest in the zone's storyline.

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January 24, 2018

Collections

• Demon Hunters can now loot companion pets from Throne of Thunder and Siege of Orgrimmar.

Dungeons and Raids

• Siege of Orgrimmar
  • Sha of Pride will no longer use Banishment against a solo player in Mythic difficulty.

Quests

• The Hyjal quest "Good News... and Bad News" can now be accepted from Matoclaw if abandoned.
• The Teldrassil quest "The Sprouted Fronds" will no longer appear on the map to players who cannot accept it.
• Players now receive Augmented Arcane Prison from Raelorasz if they’re standing more than 3 yards away from him, for “Mustering the Reds”.
• Reduced the difficulty of the Drakuru encounter during the Zul'Drak quest "Betrayal".
• Several Silithus creatures now level scale all the way down to 40 for "Vyral the Vile".
• When it’s “Your First Day as a Pirate”, Captain Keelhaul should no longer fall out of his pirate ship.

World

• The portals to Deepholm can now be used by level 82 players, as intended.

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January 23

Achievements

• The Priority Mail achievement and Postmaster title are now account-wide.
• Non-Draenei characters can now complete the Bloodmyst Isle Quests achievement.
• Icecrown: The Final Goal now checks for the correct version of the quest "No Rest For The Wicked".

Characters

• NPCs should again make sounds when you click on them.
• Your character’s sounds should again be more audible than other players’ sounds, especially in dungeons and raids.

Classes

• Priest
  • Strength of Soul is no longer incorrectly triggered by Power Word: Barrier
• Rogue
  • Poison Knives again amplifies Fan of Knives as intended.

Class Halls

• Fixed a bug that sometimes inflated the Order Resources amount required for a mission.

Dungeons and Raids

• Addressed numerous issues with area effects misbehaving in encounters.
  • Developers’ notes: The underlying issue here is complex, but we believe we’ve tracked down the likely cause. Please let us know if you continue to experience issues with erroneously-triggered area effects.

Quests

• Lost Mail now properly spawns in a random location near one of several Dalaran mailboxes.
• "Korok the Colossus" can now be turned in to Deathguard Podrig in the Sepulcher if Forward Commander Onslaught has been slain.
• "Good News... and Bad News" can now be accepted from Matoclaw if abandoned.
• Players level 91 and higher can now start the questline that unlocks Jade Forest by speaking with Nazgrim (Horde) or Admiral Jes-tereth (Alliance).
• Boss enemies for "The Air Stands Still" have had their health reduced, and the NPCs that help you fight them have had their damage increased.
• The missing Slumberblooms have returned for "Slumberbloom".

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January 22

Achievements

• The consolidated Algalon achievement Observed should now properly grant both the “Starcaller” and “Astral Walker” titles.

Characters

• Addressed a graphical error with characters who have markings such as tattoos.
• Uuna will now react to her surroundings when taken to Suramar, for both Horde and Alliance characters.

Classes

• Demon Hunter
  • Fixed an issue where Fel Eruption would not deal damage to stun-immune targets.
  • Rage of the Illidari again correctly deals damage.
• Mage
  • Frost Mages can again obtain their Frostfire Remembrance artifact appearance.
• Shaman
  • Artifact traits and other effects that increase all of your healing correctly benefit Healing Stream Totem and Healing Tide Totem.
• Warlock
  • Haunt will no longer incorrectly reset its cooldown when used against certain creatures with scaling health.
• Warrior
  • Fixed a bug that prevented Warriors who have completed two Artifact acquisitions from starting “One More Legend” to obtain their third Artifact.

Dungeons and Raids

• Deepholm
  • Fixed a bug where Aeonaxx would fail to drop loot.
• Return to Karazhan
  • Attumen should once again properly respect tank threat for his Mounted Strike and Stamp attacks while astride Midnight.
• Shadowfang Keep
  • Some enemies will now properly benefit from damage scaling when attacked by high-level players, in Normal difficulty.
• Vault of the Wardens
  • Fel Furies that spawn in the Mythic Tirathon Saltheril encounter will no longer evade.

Mounts and Pets

• Fixed a bug that caused custom pet names to sometimes partially disappear.
• Mailing the Vicious War Fox will no longer cause it to become the other faction's War Fox.

Professions

• Skinning
  • Noxious Whelps can again be skinned for Green Whelp Scales.

Quests

• The Dragonblight quest "An End and a Beginning" can now be completed normally.
• The Huge Boulder for the Redridge quest "Saving Foreman Oslow" has been returned.

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January 19

Bugfixes

• Addressed tuning issues with enemy health in leveling content.
• Fixed framerate and client performance issues on mid- and lower-capacity hardware, especially when coupled with the use of certain addons.
• Fixed an Archaeology bug preventing players from being able to survey in appropriate locations.
• Restored a large number of missing transmogrification items to Collections.

Hotfixes

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January 17

Classes

• Rogue
  • Assassination
    • The Poison Knives trait has been temporarily disabled, and Poison Knives currently adds 3% damage to Deadly Poison per rank. This change will be reverted once a bug with the trait is corrected.
• Shaman
  • Restoration
    • Healing Tide Totem is now properly affected by Deep Healing and Cumulative Upkeep.
    • Healing Stream Totem is now properly affected by Deep Healing.
• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • Grim Inquisitor’s Regalia 2-piece set bonus now properly increases the duration of Unstable Affliction by 2 seconds.

Dungeons and Raids

• Gnomeregan
  • Electrocutioner 6000 again drops Electrocutioner Leg for Hunters.
• Trial of the Champion
  • All bosses again properly drop Champion's Seals.

Items

• Many quest items that had incorrectly high level requirements have been adjusted.

World Quests

• Fixed issues preventing Na'zak and Ana-Mouz from dropping loot for players who have previously killed them.

Quests

• Significantly increased the Spinal Dust drop rate on the Ghostlands quest “Spinal Dust”.
• Arluin has returned to Suramar and is again willing to speak with outsiders. He was just having a bad day.