World of Warcraft news » Hotfixes: July 25, 2018

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Battle For Azeroth. 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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July 25, 2018

Classes

• Warlock
  • Summoned Demons should no longer fail to be summoned when the Warlock is on steep terrain or near obstacles such as rocks or trees.

Creatures and NPCs

• Illusionary Mystics in the Proving Grounds again heal for a correct amount of health.
• Enemies who use Ticking Bomb no longer inflict higher damage than intended.
• Kosumoth the Hungering should no longer be as hungry.

Darkshore

• The NPCs in the Grove of the Ancients will no longer offer their low-level quests while players are progressing through "The Warchief's Agenda”.
• Oil Pumps are now interactable by multiple players at once.
• Frenzied Wisps will now correctly grant group credit.

Dungeons and Raids

• Antorus, the Burning Throne
  • Creatures throughout Antorus now deal 10% less damage.
  • Felhounds of Sargeras
    • Smouldering damage reduced by 65%.
  • Imonar the Soul Hunter
    • Several of Imonar’s abilities now deal 25% less damage.

Items

• Auto-Self-Cauterizer now correctly removes Bleed effects.

Player versus Player

• Toggling War Mode in Orgrimmar or Stormwind should now immediately flag the player for PvP and enable PvP Talents.
• Unrated Battlegrounds now award item level 185 gear (was 176).
• Fixed an issue that caused the Glorious Pennant Honor reward to use the same visual appearance as the Esteemed Pennant.

Hotfixes

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July 24, 2018

Classes

• Druid
  • Swift Flight Form again correctly travels at the same speed as fast flying mounts.
  • Balance
    • Fixed a bug where Nature's Balance was granting slightly less Astral Power than listed.
    • Twin Moons now correctly interacts with the Lady and the Child Legendary Shoulder armor effect.
• Paladin
  • Holy
    • Healing from Avenging Crusader will correctly be increased if the target has Mystic Touch or Chaos Brand.
  • Retribution
    • Fixed a bug where Inquisition would not work correctly together with the Light’s Vanguard Battleplate 4-piece bonus or Divine Purpose.
• Priest
  • Discipline
    • Healing from Atonement will correctly be increased if the target has Mystic Touch or Chaos Brand.

Creatures and NPCs

• Various rare hunter pets around the world are now correctly level scaling again.
• Prince Navarius’ Soul Blast no longer deals excessive damage.
• Vile Tutors’ Shadow Shields no longer absorb an excessive amount.

Dungeons and Raids

• Antorus, the Burning Throne
  • Felhounds of Sargeras
    • Shatug’s Decay now hits for less damage.
  • Aggramar
    • Blazing Eruption damage reduced by 20%.
  • Argus the Unmaker
    • Sentence of Sargeras damage reduced by 30%.
    • Rent Soul damage reduced by 30%.
    • Withering Roots damage reduced by 60%.
• Blackfathom Deeps
  • Corrupted Healing Totem no longer excessively heals enemies.
• Dire Maul
  • Immol'thar will now slay the Highborne Summoners after all of the nearby pylons have been deactivated.
• Hellfire Citadel
  • Tyrant Velhari’s Aura of Oppression's rate of damage increase has been reduced.
• Maraudon
  • Lord Vyletongue's Multishot damage has been reduced.
• Maw of Souls
  • Resolved an issue with Helya's Brackwater Barrage which caused some of the visuals to function incorrectly.
• Mogu’shan Vaults
  • Defeating the Stone Guard on Raid Finder will award loot correctly if the Jade Guardian is the last to fall.
• Pit of Saron
  • Fixed a bug that made some NPCs have the wrong appearance.
• Scarlet Halls
  • Burning Books damage has been reduced to an appropriate level.

Garrisons

• The Garrison Fishing Shack quests have been updated with the appropriate skill requirement and can once again be accepted and completed.
• The Universal Language Module is no longer required for "Auctioning for Parts".

Items

• Fixed an issue where the Lightforged Warframe called from the Vindicaar was unintentionally fragile. Artificer Romuul has replaced its Vindicator Plating, significantly increasing resistance to demonic threats.
• Fixed an issue where defeating Viz'aduum in Karazhan did not contribute towards earning the Legion Class Hall Leggings.
   

Player versus Player

• The Twin Spire Ruins graveyard again changes control when one faction brings their Battle Standard to its location.
• Isle of Conquest
  • Health of gates has been increased by 100%.
  • Health of NPC generals has been increased by 30%.
  • Demolisher vehicles now deal an appropriate amount of damage.
  • Keep Cannons and Glaive Throwers now deal reduced damage to players.

Professions

• Cloak enchantments from Warlords of Draenor can now only be applied to items with an item level of 151 or lower.
• Blacksmithing Sharpening Stones and Enchanting Oils have had their max item level requirements updated.
• Ancient Gem Veins can now be mined with the Outland Mining skill.
• The Gnomish Army Knife and Ultimate Gnomish Army Knife should now be usable again by engineers.
• Players with Warlords of Draenor fishing can again catch large fish or Lunkers.

Quests

• Increased experience rewards during the Death Knight introductory quests, allowing them to enter either Burning Crusade or Wrath of the Lich King content immediately after completing the starting experience.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the completion of “The Felsoul Experiments”.
• Illidan Stormrage again knows several useful spells during “Ravencrest’s Legacy”.
• Players can again complete and turn in "The Legend of the Four Hammers". If a new Armorcrafter's Commendation is needed, it is now offered for 1000 Nethershards from Warmage Kath'reen.
• Fixed a bug that caused Yenniku to sometimes get killed and make “Saving Yenniku” impossible.
• The Warsong Battle Standard has had its toughness increased in order to survive longer against the Anu'bar Invaders during "The Might of the Horde".
• Fixed a bug that was preventing the completion of “Wooly Justice”.
• Fixed several issues in "The Defense of Karabor" that could prevent completion.
• On "Rocket Rescue", the Pirate-Destroying Bombs will once again wreak their deadly havoc.
• Fixed an issue where Saurfang did not exercise enough restraint against Warriors dueling him during the quest "Secrets of the Axes".
• During "A Little Help From My Friends", slapping Ringo will no longer instantly kill him.

Hotfixes

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July 23, 2018

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Rune of the Fallen Crusader and Rune of the Stoneskin Gargoyle are now available at level 55.
  • Blood
    • Dreadwake Armor 2-piece bonus will now correctly reduce the cooldown of Dancing Rune Weapon when a charge of Bone Shield is consumed.
• Hunter

• Tamed diemetradons are no longer dino-sized.

• Monk
  • Windwalker
    • Tiger Style should no longer incorrectly affect Flying Serpent Kick.
• Paladin
  • Avenger’s Shield will correctly interrupt or silence only one target, regardless of effects that add damage targets.
• Rogue
  • Subtlety
    • Fixed a bug where The First of the Dead did not work with Shadowstrike and Gloomblade.
• Shaman
  • Fixed an issue that caused Riptide's healing to be increased more than intended by Earth Shield.
• Warrior

• Fury
  • Fixed a bug where Execute with Massacre talent and Whirlwind active could not correctly deal damage.

• Warlock

• Fixed a bug preventing several spells from correctly granting Soul Leech.

Character Services

• Fixed a bug where boosting a Demon Hunter character or using a class trial Demon Hunter equipped the character with rogue gear.

Creatures and NPCs

• Slitherblade Myrmidon's Localized Toxin no longer deals excessive amounts of damage.

Dungeons and Raids

• Antorus, the Burning Throne
  • Felhounds of Sargeras
    • Singed damage reduced by 75%.
  • Eonar
    • Strike damage reduced by 60%.
    • Reduced the health of Fel Hound, Fel Lord, and Felguard.
  • Antoran High Command
    • Psychic Assault damage stacks less aggressively.
  • Portal Keeper Hasabel
    • Blazing Imp health reduced by 30%.
  • Imonar
    • Pulse Grenade damage reduced by 30%.
    • Stasis Trap damage reduced by 30%.
  • Coven of Shivarra
    • Shadow Blades damage reduced by 50%.
  • Aggramar
    • Wake of Flame damage reduced by 20%.
• Auchenai Crypts
  • Shirrak the Dead Watcher
    • Carnivorous Bite now does considerably less damage.
• Blackrock Depths
  • Reduced General Angerforge's attack damage.
  • Reduced Fineous Darkvire’s attack damage.
• Blackwing Lair
  • Ebonroc
    • Shadow of Ebonroc no longer heals for excessive amounts.
• Dire Maul
  • Reduced the damage done by Gordok Reavers summoned by Captain Kromcrush.
• Forge of Souls
  • Reduced Bronjahm’s damage and the damage increase done by Magic's Bane to casters.
• Halls of Origination
  • Reduced Anhurr's Divine Reckoning damage.
• Gate of the Setting Sun
  • Fixed an issue where Ga'dok would fall and despawn.
• Grimrail Depot
  • Borka the Brute and Railmaster Rocketspark
    • Unmanaged Aggression now does considerably less damage and provides less haste.
• Lower Blackrock Spire
  • Shadow Hunter Vosh'gajin’s Curse of Blood no longer increases damage taken by an excessive amount.
• Maraudon
  • Reduced Rotgrip’s attack damage.
• Maw of Souls
  • Helya
    • Piercing Tentacle no longer does excessive damage.
• Mogu’shan Palace
  • Reduced the damage done by Gekkan and his associates.
• Mogu’shan Vaults
  • Fixed a bug where The Spirit Kings could sometimes unintentionally respawn.
• Neltharion’s Lair
  • Dargrul’s Crystal Spikes no longer incorrectly prioritizes tanks.
• The Nighthold
  • Tichondrius
    • The healing amount of Vampiric Aura has been reduced to 10% of the target’s health.
    • Feast of Blood now activates Vampiric Aura (was an increase to Vampiric Aura).
• The Oculus
  • Reduced the damage of Drakos the Interrogator’s Sphere Detonation and melee attacks.
• Pit of Saron
  • Reduced Forgemaster Garfrost’s damage.
• Return to Karazhan
  • Centurion, Pyrelord, and Core Hound creatures summoned by Backup Singer should no longer have excessive health.
• Scarlet Halls
  • Exploding Shot Stalker no longer deals excessive damage.
• Scarlet Monastery
  • Scorched Earth no longer deals excessive damage.
• Tomb of Sargeras
  • Kil’Jaeden
    • Demonic Obelisk should no longer deal excessive damage.
• Ulduar
  • Vehicle power scaling adjusted to better fit post-squish item levels.
• The Underbog
  • Swamplord Muselek no longer deals excessive damage.
• Utgarde Keep
  • Ingvar the Plunderer’s Dark Smash and Dreadful Roar no longer paint his face with as much of your blood.
• Vortex Pinnacle
  • Reduced the damage done by Altairus' Chilling Breath and Lightning Blast.

Items

• Sticky Bomb damage has been reduced.
• Mecha-Blast Rocket damage has been reduced.
• Gunpowder Charge damage has been reduced.

Player versus Player

• The item Net-O-Matic 5000 should work in Stormwind and Orgrimmar on targets who are flagged for PvP and have War Mode enabled.
• Paladin
  • The rate at which Hammer of Reckoning stacks are gained has been reduced to 1 stack per 5% of the Paladin's maximum health in damage.
• Priest
  • Crowd control spells that immediately break on damage such as Polymorph and Freezing Trap will now remove Shadow Mend's damage over time effect in PvP combat.
• Warrior
  • Fury Warriors can no longer continuously cast Heroic Leap when they have the Honor Talent Barbarian.
  • Barbarian will correctly interact with the additional Heroic Leap charges granted by Timeless Stratagem.

Quests

• Fixed a bug with the Emergency Fire Ward on “Bael’dun Rescue”.
• “The Stolen Silver” can again be properly looted when clicking on the Stolen Silver Lockbox.
• Enemies no longer do excessive damage in “The Defense of Karabor”.
• Gymer should now be better at surviving throughout “The Storm King’s Vengeance”.
• Bone Armor now more substantial and effective on “Ever Watching From Above”.
• The Great Northern Elderhorn should no longer vanish during the Leatherworking quest “Mounting Made Easy”.
• Fixed a bug where Thrall would not complete the Hour of Twilight event if Arcurion was killed quickly.
• The Forest’s Edge bounty board again offers “WANTED: Hogger”.
• Horde players can again use the Sunreaver Portal during "Insertion".
• Fixed a bug causing the spell Soul Blast to deal too much damage during "The Storm King's Vengeance".
• Enemy machine gun fire no longer deals excessive damage on “The Pride of Kezan”.
• Fixed a bug preventing the turn in of "Captain Sanders' Hidden Treasure".

Hotfixes

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July 20, 2018

Classes

• Monk
  • The Earth and Fire clone from Storm, Earth, and Fire should correctly mimic Rushing Jade Wind, regardless of the player’s target.
• Paladin
  • Protection
    • Fixed a bug preventing the Light’s Vanguard Battleplate 4-piece bonus from activating and deactivating as intended.
    • Fixed an issue where Consecration occasionally failed to provide its self-buff.
• Rogue
  • Assassination
    • Fixed a bug where Blindside was not learnable until level 40.
• Warlock
  • Demonology
    • The Command Demon version of Spell Lock can no longer be cast without a target.
    • Demonic Calling can now correctly be activated by casting Demonbolt.

Character Services

• Characters at level 110 and above may now move up to 1,000,000 gold when performing a Character Transfer.

Creatures and NPCs

• Fixed a visual bug that caused some characters to lose the tops of their heads.

 Dungeons and Raids

• The health and damage of all enemies in Emerald Nightmare, Trial of Valor, The Nighthold, and Tomb of Sargeras has been significantly reduced.
• The experience awarded on completion of a random dungeon has been increased.
• Antorus, the Burning Throne
  • Fixed a bug preventing Death’s Advance from functioning correctly in certain encounter situations, such as Aggramar’s Flame Rend.
• Eye of Azshara
  • Damage dealt by Lightning Strike, Warlord Parjesh’s Crashing Wave, and Quicksand have been significantly reduced.
• The Nexus
  • Chaotic Energy Bursts from Chaotic Rifts no longer inflict excessive damage.
• Obsidian Sanctum
  • Sartharion’s Large Satchel of Spoils should again contain loot.
• Return to Karazhan
  • Mana Confluences’ Ablative Shield should no longer absorb an excessive amount of damage.
• Utgarde Keep
  • Dragonflayer Runecaster’s Bolthorn's Rune of Flame now deals less damage.

Items

• Darkmoon Deck: Promises no longer reduces some non-mana resources.
• Fixed a bug that prevented banners from granting expected honor, experience, and reputation bonuses.
• Fishing Chair and Nat's Fishing Chair have been temporarily converted into objects that are not chairs, while a bug with their functionality is fixed. They will return to their former function in a future patch.

Player versus Player

• Adjusted PvP scaling to reduce the difference in power and damage between players of different item levels at level 110.
• Fixed a bug preventing some players from obtaining Honorable Medallion while PvP-enabled.

Professions

• Fishing
  • Fixed a bug that caused the wrong sound when casting.

Quests

• Fixed a bug with the reputation bonus on completion of "Death to Agogridon". If you previously completed the quest, speak to Karnum Marshweaver in Desolace to receive your reward.
• The talking quest NPC should no longer appear for players who are nearby, but are not the Hunter on “Never Hunt Alone”.
• Players should again be able to complete “All Charged Up”.
• Fixed a bug with the conversation required for “Secrets of Wrymskull Uncovered”, allowing completion of “The Echo of Ymiron”.
• Low-level players are now able to do appropriate damage to the  Devilsaur Queen during "The Ballad of Maximillian”.
• “Pitching In” can again be completed.

World

• It is again possible to earn credit toward "Field Photographer" when using the S.E.L.F.I.E. cam anywhere within the Path of Uther.
• Alliance characters can again complete "Uther's Blessing" by approaching Uther's statue.

Hotfixes

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July 19, 2018

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Unholy
    • Gravewarden Armaments 4-piece set bonus now reduces the cooldown of Army of the Dead by 2.0 seconds per Rune spent (was 6.0 seconds per Rune spent).
• Hunter
  • Marksmanship
    • Serpenstalker Guise 2-piece set bonus has been changed to increase all physical damage dealt by 5% (was an incorrect melee attack power increase).
    • The Trick Shots effect will now always correctly apply when Multi-Shot hits three or more targets.
• Mage
  • Shimmer should not interrupt channeled spells.
  • Displacement functions correctly if you cast Shimmer while casting another spell.
• Warrior
  • Protection
    • Juggernaut Battlegear 2-piece set bonus has been changed to increase Armor by 5%.

 Creatures and NPCs

• Damage dealt by all creatures below level 100 has been reduced by up to 25%.
• Defeating Shok’Thokar creatures in Desolace now grants both Gelkis and Magram reputation.
• The Sky Crystal no longer instantly kills Alani when used by a high-level player, and Alani is once again lootable.

 Dungeons and Raids

• Antorus, the Burning Throne
  • Reduced the damage done by a number of "tank swap" abilities throughout the zone.
  • Argus the Unmaker
    • Reduced the damage dealt by Sweeping Scythe by 30%.
• The Arcway
  • Ivanyr
    • Volatile Magic damage reduced on Mythic difficulty.
• Dire Maul
  • Prince Tortheldrin
    • Whirlwind should no longer deal excessive damage.
• Heart of Fear
  • Empress Shek’zeer
    • Casting spells within Shek’zeer’s Dissonance Field once again depletes its energy.
• Neltharion's Lair
  • Dargrul
    • Corrected an issue that caused Dargrul’s energy to refill too rapidly.
• The Nighthold
  • Gul’dan
    • Soul Siphon no longer heals for an excessive amount.
• Return to Karazhan
  • Shade of Medivh
    • Piercing Missiles should no longer deal excessive damage.

• Scarlet Halls
  • Houndmaster Braun
    • Bloody Mess should no longer deal excessive damage.
• Scarlet Monastery
  • Commander Durand
    • Dashing Strike no longer deals excessive damage.
• Ulduar
  • Reforged Hammer of Ancient Kings should again reliably drop from Yogg-Saron for "Val'anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings".

Player versus Player

• The effectiveness of trinkets that are obtained via PvE sources such as Dungeons and Raids have been reduced by 75% in PvP.
• Arenas and Battlegrounds
  • Corrected the amount of damage dealt by players to creatures and vehicles in Alterac Valley and Isle of Conquest.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented end-of-match rewards from dropping at the end of Battlegrounds and Arenas.

• War Mode
  • Premade Group Finder groups in the Quest and World Boss categories will now properly filter listing according to the War Mode state of the party leader and potential applicants.

Professions

• Fixed a bug that prevented several First Aid recipe items from requiring the appropriate Profession.
• Corrected an issue that could cause Draenor Garrison NPCs to fail to offer work orders.
• Alchemy
  • Fixed a bug preventing players from discovering new Pandaren Alchemy recipes.
  • Some older-expansion flasks no longer provide more stats than Legion flasks and potions.

• Cooking
  • The cooking achievement Dinner Impossible no longer requires Strand of the Ancients.

• Fishing
  • Fixed a bug that prevented some players from gaining Legion fishing ranks when using rare fish.

• Herbalism
  • Fixed an issue that could cause herb nodes from Outland through Pandaria to yield the wrong herb type.
• Mining
  • Corrected an issue that could cause players to receive no ore from mining nodes.

Quests

• The start of the Mage Tower artifact storyline quest no longer requires an impossible-to-meet artifact trait condition.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Strom’kar to be invisible to certain races during its acquisition.
• The Slitherblade Naga vehicle's abilities should now deal damage and heal properly on "Wetter than Wet".
• The Frightened Miner should now reliably follow his path for "Miner Troubles".
• The delicious contents of Yak’s Milk Flask again heals “Fallen Sentinels”.
• Wyrmcult Blackwhelps can now be collected for "Whelps of the Wyrmcult".
• General Nazgrim is again present for "The Art of War" and "Warchief's Command: Jade Forest".
• During “Bringer of the Light” at the Exodar, Fel Annihilator’s Sonic Boom no longer deals excessive damage.

Hotfixes

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July 18, 2018

Classes

• Demon Hunter
  • Chaos Brand correctly has unlimited duration outside of PvP.

• Druid
  • Restoration
    • Tranquility’s heal-over-time can correctly critically heal.
• Hunter
  • Marksmanship
    • Explosive Shot will now correctly despawn if the projectile collides with an obstacle or reaches maximum range, and refund partial cost and cooldown.
• Monk
  • Mystic Touch correctly has unlimited duration outside of PvP.

• Mage
  • Arcane
    • Soul of the Archmage now grants the talent Amplification (was Temporal Flux).
    • When Arcane Missiles activate Clearcasting, the subsequent (free) Missiles will correctly have reduced channel time and be affected by Slipstream.
• Priest
  • Shadow
    • Psychic Horror is correctly usable below level 74.
• Shaman
  • Restoration
    • Soul of the Farseer should now correctly grant the talent Echo of the Elements.

Dungeons and Raids

• Tomb of Sargeras
  • Maiden of Vigilance
    • Wrath of the Creators should no longer deal excessive damage.
• Icecrown Citadel
  • Lady Deathwhisper again has an appropriate amount of mana.
• Dire Maul
  • Alzzin the Wildshaper’s Wild Generation should no longer heal for an excessive amount.
• The Arcatraz
  • Fixed a bug causing Eredar Deathbringer to deal much more damage than intended.

NPCs

• Fixed a bug causing centaurs in Desolace to deal more damage than intended.
• Druids can again interact with Skycaller Faeb.

Player versus Player

• Honor and Conquest rewards for Epic Battlegrounds have been increased.
• Corrected the amount of damage dealt by players to creatures and vehicles in Alterac Valley and Isle of Conquest.

Professions

• Corrected the display of ranks in Profession recipe windows.

Quests

• The Staff of Pei-Zhi can again be looted for “An Urgent Plea”.
• Fixed a bug preventing the completion of some Garrison campaign quests in Draenor.
• In Highmountain, Small Ceremonial Drum can again be interacted with for "Ceremonial Drums".
• Merchant Greenfield again gives the player seeds for "Learn and Grow I: Seeds".
• Fixed a bug preventing Kol Ironpaw from grilling the Bloody Plainshawk Leg for "A Gift for Fung".
• It is again possible to collect Fizzle’s Hand for “Fizzled”.
• Aprika’s Doll can again be collected for “Small Comforts”.
• Players can again interact with Mana-Drained Whelplings for "Their Dying Breaths".
• The Eye of Kilrogg is again obtainable for “Eye See You”.
• The Soulweave Vessel can again be looted for “The Cure For Death” and “Vessel of Virtue”.

World

• Legion Assaults now correctly scale down to player level 98.