Classic Season of Discovery Hotfixes 9 Jan 2024

• [ With weekly restarts ] The Battle for Ashenvale now has minimum and maximum times between battles. It will now never restart sooner than about 2 hours after its last start, and will not take longer than about 3 hours since its last start. If player activity is very low or very high, the percentage progress will be sped up or slowed down to match those time constraints.

• Crafted Void-Touched Armor on-use effects are now exclusive with each other and share a cooldown.

• Two additional Spirit Healers will be present during the Battle for Ashenvale in the northwest of the zone.

• Shamanistic Rage now always grants 6% of the caster's spell damage as mana, as intended.

• Living Flame now benefits from and consumes Arcane Blast.

• The Battle for Ashenvale will now progress about 50% faster than previously.

• Fixed an issue that caused the Shadowy Figure in Alterac Mountains to not be seen by players who should otherwise be able to see them.

• Living Flame will now cease to spread and deal damage if the Mage caster no longer has the rune equipped.

• Regeneration and Mass Regeneration will now properly consume Arcane Blast when they benefit from it, regardless of the Mage's healing targets.

• Mage Temporal Beacon will now also heal based on damage done by Arcane wands.

Battle for Ashenvale

• The Priestess of the Moon Felore Moonray and Far Seer Kazragore are now spawned in Ashenvale while the Battle for Ashenvale is inactive, and are available to turn in quest items. Felore Moonray can be found in the inn in Astranaar, and Kazragore can be found in the inn in Splintertree Post. During the battle, they will move to their respective battlefield positions.

Battle for Ashenvale

• [ With realm restarts ] Fixed an issue where progress for the Battle for Ashenvale could be reset repeatedly by battles ending at different times on different layers.

• Ashenvale progress should be much more consistent.

• Runes sold at the Honored tier of Azeroth Commerce Authority and Durotar Supply and Logistics reputation are now sold at the Friendly tier.

Blackfathom Deeps

• Dream Eater should no longer kill you if you're pulled into the second phase of the Twilight Lord Kelris fight while still afflicted by the aura.

• Flanking Strike now gains the benefit of weapon enhancements like sharpening stones, is now on global cooldown, and is now properly treated as a melee attack, letting it benefit from attack power and combat modifiers to dodge, parry, block, crit, hit, etc.
• Flanking Strike is now prevented by Pacify.
• Flanking Strike now requires a weapon equipped.
• Flanking Strike pet damage is now properly treated as a melee attack, with same benefits as listed above for the hunter’s damage.
• All damaging Hunter pet abilities now gain damage from Attack Power based on their Focus costs. Hunter pets no longer gain any spell damage.
• Scorpid poison now distributes the additional damage it gains from attack power evenly over each stack of Scorpid Poison on the target.
• Pets now gain 30% of the hunter’s armor (was 45%) and 20% of the hunter’s stamina (was 45%).
• Aspect of the Lion has been redesigned and will now function as an Aura.

• Saber Slash, Shiv, and Main Gauche will now properly consume Remorseless Attacks.
• Saber Slash’s tooltip fixed; damage not reduced.
• Saber Slash damage is now properly considered a Bleed and benefits from the Mangle debuff. Note: Bleed-immune creatures will no longer be affected by it.

Battle for Ashenvale

• Battle for Ashenvale camps will no longer delay their spawn if players are nearby.

Ashenvale PvP

• When a player makes any hostile action against an opposing faction Lieutenant (e.g. Keepers of the Grove, Blademasters) or faction leader in the various objective areas, they will receive reputation when that enemy dies.

Ashenvale PvP

• It must be an offensive action (harmful spell, harmful ability, melee attack, or ranged attack) against an enemy to receive reputation.

Ashenvale PvP

• Players will receive reputation even if they are dead or no longer nearby as long as they are still in the zone when the enemy dies.

Ashenvale PvP

• Players now receive 200 reputation for killing a Lieutenant and all members of the winning faction will receive 200 reputation when the faction leader dies.

Ashenvale PvP

• The winning team will also receive 100 reputation per friendly Lieutenant remaining.

• The Trainee’s Sentinel Nightsaber and Trainee’s Outrider Wolf now require Friendly reputation with the Silverwing Sentinels and Warsong Outriders respectively (was Honored).

Ashenvale PvP

• Generals are now immune to damage until all of their lieutenants have been defeated.

Ashenvale PvP

• The Horde general's chain lightning will now hit up to 40 targets.

• It is no longer possible to have two copies of the Mangle debuff active on a target.

• Multiple Rogues can now have the Saber Slash bleed active on a target. If the Rogues have the Deadly Brew rune, they can each have a Deadly Poison periodic damage effect active on the target.

• Players questing for "The Orb of Soran'ruk" will now find that The Twilight's Hammer have invaded the shores of The Zoram Strand near Blackfathom Deeps.

• The quest to discover the Earth Shield shaman rune is now properly available to players. (Was previously not visible due to a bug). Happy hunting!

• Fixed an issue with the Bael Modan Blunderbuss gun item that caused it to only be usable with arrows rather than bullets.

• Fixed an issue where Sadistic Fiend would not properly reset when players died.

• Fixed an issue preventing progress on the Priest quest chain "Secrets of Elune".

• Fixed an issue where “Allegiance to the Old Gods” quest was not completable while in a raid group.

• Carendin the Undercity Warlock will now discreetly dispose of any Acolyte's Notes stuck in warlocks' bags. He apologizes for the inconvenience.

• Your bags can now carry multiple filled Supply Shipment crates.

Blackfathom Deeps

• Fixed an issue on Twilight Lord Kelris when players would incorrectly die if they took a Dream Portal while under the effects of the Dream Eater debuff.

Blackfathom Deeps

• The waterfalls at the entrance to the Lorgus Jett encounter now properly despawn after he is defeated.

Ashenvale PvP

• The lieutenant and general NPCs in the Season of Discovery Ashenvale PvP event now have much higher health.