World of Warcraft news » Hotfixes: December 13, 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.

Classes

• Druid
  • Restoration
    • Ursol's Vortex is learned at level 28 (was 63).
• Hunter
  • Survival
    • Fixed an issue causing Mongoose Fury to incorrectly apply new stacks before the damage from Mongoose Bite was dealt, instead of after.

Items

• Heart of Azeroth
  • (Elemental Shaman) Fixed an issue that sometimes caused Echo of the Elementals to summon two Ember Elementals after Fire Elemental expired.

Player versus Player

• Alterac Valley
  • Fixed a bug that caused players to be unable to spawn at Stonehearth Graveyard after dying.
• Death Knight
  • Frostwhelp's Indignation (Azerite trait) now correctly damages players in addition to granting mastery.
  • Raise Abomination will now correctly attack neutral creatures if the player is in combat with them.
• Priest
  • Discipline
    • Fixed a bug that prevented Trinity from providing additional critical strike chance to Smite, Penance, and Shadowfiend.
    • Fixed a bug that caused Trinity to stop applying Atonement to targets after 3 are active.
• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • Fixed a bug that caused Gateway Mastery to reduce the duration of the Demonic Gateway debuff by more than 15 seconds.

Quests

• (With server restarts in each region) Fixed a bug that caused repeatable quests, such as Pet Battle dailies or Blingtron, to reset incorrectly.
• Fixed an issue where Alliance players could not turn in "An End to the Killing" to King Anduin Wrynn in Stormwind if they were also on the quest "On Whispered Winds".
• All NPCs related to “The Right Mech for the Job” should now be visible, even when a Faction Assault is active.
• Fixed an issue where certain players could see multiple copies of Anduin, Velen, and Genn in the Stormwind War Room.

World Quests

• Fixed an issue where Horde players could not complete the quest "Cease all Summoning" while the Nazmir Assault is active.
• Fixed a bug where players were sometimes not granted quest credit during “Desert Crawl”.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Blight Barrels from behaving properly on “Barreling Through”.
• Baron Cloudsnipe will no longer chase players in Pozzik's Experimental Bomber to the ends of the earth on “Romp in the Swamp”. He's still a crack shot, though.

Hotfixes

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December 12, 2018

Classes

• Monk
  • Windwalker
    • Good Karma no longer incorrectly increases Touch of Karma's absorption.

Dungeons and Raids

• Uldir
  • Vectis
    • Fixed a bug causing Vectis to cast an extra Contagion prior to casting Liquefy.

Items

• Scouting maps that teach flight paths to your alts have returned to the Honorbound and 7^th Legion vendors.
• Island Flotsam will now correctly change to Dented Coins when a Horde character changes to Alliance.
• Dented Coins will now correctly change to Island Flotsam when an Alliance character swaps to Horde.
• Heart of Azeroth
  • Fixed a bug that caused damage effects such as Laser Matrix and Ricocheting Inflatable Pyrosaw to target enemies that were crowd-controlled.
  • Good Karma no longer incorrectly increases Touch of Karma's absorption.
  • Healing from Glimmer of Light is now correctly modified by Mastery: Lightbringer.
  • Echoing Blades’ Fan of Knives explosion now always critically hits. Its base damage has been reduced by 75%.
    • Developers’ note: This change allows the trait to scale with the talent Master Assassin in a more reasonable way. The total reduction of the Echo comes out to around 50%, with some variance depending on your Critical Strike chance.

Missions

• Fixed a bug that caused Treasure Map missions to expire in 8 hours. They now expire in 72 hours.
  • Developers’ note: This won’t affect missions that are currently in a player’s mission list, only newly-created missions.

Professions

• Reverted yesterday's change to require Profession skill for using high iLvl crafted items.
• A number of recipes have been adjusted so that the expulsom required by the recipe matches the amount of explusom returned when you scrapped the crafted item.

Player versus Player

• Fixed a bug that caused players who have earned seasonal Gladiator achievements in Legion: Season 5 and Battle for Azeroth: Season 1 to not earn the Gladiator achievement.
• Death Knight
  • Unholy
    • Fixed an issue that caused the Zombie summoned by Reanimation (PvP Talent) to have more health than 5.
    • Fixed a bug that caused Necrotic Strike's initial damage to not be increased by Mastery: Dreadblade.
    • Fixed a bug that could cause Necrotic Strike to apply too large of a healing absorb against non-player targets.
    • Fixed a bug that caused the heal generated by Life and Death (PvP Talent) to be a critical heal.
    • Fixed a bug that caused the heal of Life and Death to be larger than 10% of a heal cast on a target with your Festering Wound.
• Paladin
  • Holy
    • Cleanse the Weak will no longer incorrectly cause Cleanse to go on cooldown when it removes effects from friendly targets.
  • Retribution
    • Templar's Verdict and Divine Storm no longer deal reduced damage to enemy players.
• Priest
  • Discipline
    • Resolved an issue that caused Power Word: Shield's value to be lower than intended when engaged in combat with enemy players.
    • Power Word: Shield absorbs an additional 10% when engaged in combat with enemy players.
      • Developers’ note: Shadow Priests’ Power Word: Shield was unaffected by the above and is unchanged.
  • Shadow
    • Fixed a bug that caused Greater Fade to be removed by Shadowy Apparitions.
• Rogue
  • Fixed a bug that caused Vanish to end before the normal duration when taking damage and harmful effects.
  • Assassination, Subtlety
    • Fixed a bug that caused Subterfuge to not be applied when attacking during Vanish.

World Quests

• Captured Zandalari no longer knockback NPCs during “Azerite Mining”.
• Fixed an issue where Fozruk can sometimes fail to grant you World Quest credit.
• Fixed a bug that could remove a player from their manasaber mount on “Ley Race”.

Hotfixes

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December 11, 2018

Classes

• Hunter
  • Beast Mastery
    • Fixed a bug with Spirit Mend that caused it to heal for less than intended.

Dungeons and Raids

• Uldir
  • Zul, Reborn
    • Zul's health has been reduced by 5% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Developers’ note: Tides of Vengeance removed the Subtlety Rogue passive Shuriken Combo, which was a core part of many guilds’ strategy on this fight. We’re reducing Zul’s health to avoid the update increasing the difficulty of the fight for guilds that were relying on Shuriken Combo.

Items

• Heart of Azeroth
  • Synaptic Spark Capacitor damage decreased 32%.

Professions

• Fixed a bug that allowed some Battle For Azeroth crafted gear to be worn by player characters who no longer had the crafting skill to create it.
• Cooking
  • Battle for Azeroth flasks and feasts now increase the primary stat for tanks (was Stamina).
  • Cooks can now learn and serve new Stamina foods.

Player versus Player

• Rogue
  • Snake Eyes (Azerite Trait) is reduced by 30% when engaged in combat with enemy players.
• Shaman
  • Pack Spirit (Azerite Trait) is reduced by 80% when engaged in combat with enemy players (was a 50% reduction).
• The following Azerite Traits are reduced to 50% effectiveness when engaged in combat with enemy players:
  • Death Knight - Magus of the Dead
  • Demon Hunter - Revel in Pain
  • Druid - Masterful Instincts, Arcanic Pulsar, Lively Spirit
  • Hunter - Dire Consequences, Surging Shots
  • Mage - Arcane Pummeling, Flash Freeze, Blaster Master, WildFire
  • Monk - Glory of the Dawn
  • Paladin - Avenger's Might, Light's Decree, Righteous Conviction
  • Priest - Whispers of the Damned
  • Rogue - Nothing Personal
  • Shaman - Lava Shock
  • Warlock - Dreadful Calling, Baleful Invocation
  • Warrior - Intimidating Presence, Crushing Assault, Bastion of Might

Quests

• Fixed a bug where enemies required for “Black Moon Rising” weren’t providing quest credit when killed.