Classic Season of Discovery Hotfixes 7 May 2024

• The Burn rune now also grants a significant bonus to spell power when Flametongue Weapon is imbued on your weapon.
• Rolling Thunder now has a 50% chance to trigger (was 30%).
• Fixed a bug causing overload procs to not add a charge to Lightning Shield when the Shaman has the Rolling Thunder rune active.

• Invocation now also applies to Unstable Affliction.
• Invocation damage can now deal critical strikes if the Warlock also has the Pandemic rune active.

• Rolling Thunder can now trigger from Overload versions of Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning.

• Felguards summoned by Warlocks will now have their appropriate demon names, instead of just 'Felguard'. This name will not be permanent like other Warlock pets, and the Felguard's name will change upon every summon.

• Players who have completed the quest "Warranty Claim" but have misplaced their Pristine G-7 C.O.R.E. Processor before handing in the quest "Salvaging the Salvagematic" may now speak with the Lost and Found vendor Rix Xizzix in Booty Bay to recover the misplaced quest item.

• Seal of Righteousness damage can now be critical hits.
• Sacred Shield’s duration is extended to 60 seconds (was 30 seconds).
• Crusader Strike has now gained an additional effect: Crusader strike now refreshes all judgement effects active on the target to a 30 second remaining duration.
• Seal of Martyrdom can now “twist” with other seals, including Seal of Command.

• Saber Slash bleed now stacks up to 5 times.
• Saber Slash bleed now also increases the impact damage done by Sinister Strike and Saber Slash by 15% per stack for the rogue who applied the bleed.
• Saber Slash bleed now deals 3% of the rogue’s Attack Power in damage per tick (was 5%).

• There are now Emerald Warden guard NPCs present near Nightmare Incursion questgivers and quartermasters.

• The Atal'ai Mojo consumables are now Unique (2), allowing two to be carried and used.

• There is now a 2.60 speed version of the off-hand weapon Serpent's Striker, available from Zalgo the Explorer on Yojamba Isle in exchange for the 1.50 speed version of the item.

• Players should no longer occasionally gain no bonus blood when near Kha'damu and affected by Feast of Blood.

• Players will now gain the Honorless Target effect whenever they enter or leave a Nightmare Incursion portal.

• Rainbow Generator should now appear for troll, tauren, night elf, and all other races.

• Grizzwerks Defense Industries has achieved record growth thanks to the efforts of adventurers across Azeroth, and Grizzby is now pleased to offer runes to heroes without requiring quests from them.

• Chimera Shot no longer refreshes Serpent Sting at 1 less damage per tick.

• Light’s Grace rune moved to the Bracer slot (was Helm).
• The mana return of Seal of Martyrdom has been increased significantly.
• Eye for an Eye now works on damage-over-time crits.

• Eye of the Void can no longer engage in melee combat.
• Eye of the Void's spells now all have a 35 yard range.
• Surge of Light's instant cast effect will no longer be consumed if Surge of Light was gained while casting Smite or Flash Heal.
• Martyrdom now works to prevent pushback on Void Zone casts.

• Focused attacks now generates 3 additional energy (was 2).

• Life tap now grants mana return to warlock pets.
• Unstable Affliction’s damage has been increased by roughly 120%.
• Warlocks with Metamorphosis active and the Master Demonologist talent will now gain increased threat generation when they summon an Imp or Felguard (was decreased threat generation).

• Darkmoon Card: Decay now procs from ranged attacks and abilities.

• “Jungle Durian” now rewards 20 Jungle Durians (was 10).

• Rolling Thunder now correctly restores 2% of the Shaman's total mana per Lightning Shield charge released.
• Shamans should now appropriately have access to Rank 4 of Fire Nova (was Fire Nova Totem) when the rune is engraved.

• Unstable Affliction is now affected by Haunt’s increase.
• Damage over time effects that crit through the Pandemic rune will now be able to activate Dance of the Wicked.
• Felguards summoned by Warlocks are now given an appropriate demon name.

• Gladiator Stance will now appear at the end of your stance bar instead of the beginning and will no longer rearrange the order of your stances for the purpose of stance macros.

Sunken Temple

• Fixed an issue that would occasionally cause Dreamscythe and Weaver to evade when their target survived falling into the Pit of Sacrifice.

Items

• Darkmoon Card: Decay adjusted to be more appropriate for single target situations.

Items

• Darkmoon Card: Sandstorm adjusted to be more appropriate for multi-target situations.

Items

• Screaming Chain Shoulders can now be learned by Leatherworkers.

Items

• Sigil of Living Dreams now requires a runed truesilver rod to craft (was arcanite rod).

• Consecration critical hits from the Wrath rune, now trigger Vengeance.

• Prayer of Mending can now trigger Divine Aegis.

• Lake of Fire will now properly increase the damage of Immolation Aura.
• Immolation Aura now has a persistent visual.
• Shadow and Flame is now activated by the Pandemic rune's critical hits that occur from damage over time effects.

• Updated the levels of Fireguard Destroyers in Black Rock Depths to be more appropriate for Phase 3 of Season of Discovery.

• Fixed an issue that caused the Druid Trainer Lognaar to vanish periodically.

• The materials required for the quest "Mixology for Fun and Profit" have been adjusted.

Items

• Tenacity Chain is now Mail (was Leather).

Items

• Membrane of Dark Neurosis now has spell hit (was Spirit), and now has a spellpower proc (was haste).

Items

• Breadth of the Beast is now Unique.

• The Free Wrath cast from Fury of Stormrage will no longer consume Clearcasting.
• Rumsey Rum no longer 100% procs Omen of Clarity.

• Balefire Bolt now procs and consumes clearcasting.
• Balefire Bolt now correctly benefits from the Spellpower Rune.
• Displacement no longer requires a target.
• Balefire Bolt now works with Ignite.
• Conjure Water Rank 6 now conjures 20 waters.
• Molten Armor now falls off when the rune is swapped out.
• Balefire Bolt now benefits from and consumes Arcane Blast stacks.
• Balefire Bolt now benefits from and spends the charges of Combustion.

• Void Zone damage no longer resets the casting time on your wand.
• Void Zone now locks the Priest out of the Shadow school when kicked.
• Void Zone visual changed to be less disruptive.

• Fixed a bug with Honor Among Thieves where it could stop working if you tried to gain a combo point on an ally or had your target die from a critical ability.
• Honor Among Thieves should no longer consider whether the Rogue or their allies are flagged for PvP.
• Carnage will no longer fall off while Rank 4 Rupture is active.

The Sunken Temple

• Fixed an issue where Festering Rotslime would despawn and then soft-lock the raid in combat.

Eranikus

• Players should no longer be able to walk on the raised edges of the room.

Eranikus

• Number of Whelps and Scalebane spawned during last phase dropped to 3 and 1 (was 4 and 2).

Nightmare Incursions

• Retuned the Unstable Wisp in the Hinterlands Nightmare Incursion to be a bit less punishing for players to deal with.

Nightmare Incursions

• Quest objects for Nightmare Incursions now have multiple simultaneous spawn locations.

• Fixed issues around the Leatherworking Wild Leather Vest and Way of the Weaponsmith

• The Rugged Traveler will now also despawn if greater than two players enter the quest area.

• Level 50 players who are Exalted with the Arathi Basin reputations can now complete the battleground quests usually reserved for level 60 allowing them to obtain their Exalted reputation tabards.

The Sunken Temple

• Fixed an issue that would occasionally prevent Dreamscythe and Weaver from spawning. Affected players may need to leave the instance and Reset All Instances before it takes effect.

Nightmare Incursions

• Nightmare Incursion Quartermasters can now repair gear.

Nightmare Incursions

• Drakes' Corrosive Acid Breath now deals more reasonable damage when coming to the aid of Nightmare Incursion dragons.

Nightmare Incursions

• Satyrs' Plagued Shot damage has been reduced and the cast time has been increased.

Nightmare Incursions

• Plagued Shot now has a minimum range like hunter ranged abilities.

• Players can now correctly activate their other talent specialization while under the effects of the preparation aura in Battlegrounds.

• Efflorescence will now work properly when Swiftmend is used on a guardian or pet belonging to a party member.

Nightmare Incursions

• Vengeful Ancient and Doomkin are now categorized Elite (was Rare Elite).

Nightmare Incursions

• Credit for defeating Larsera, Florius, Ylanthrius, and Tyrannikus is now awarded cross-faction.

Zanzil the Outcast

• Ward of Zanza no longer has totem immunities, and Zombies will despawn after a short period of time.

The Blood Moon

• The Crystal Shore Blood Moon graveyard is now farther north.

• Fixed an issue with the Spirit of Zandalar buff given out by turning in the “Heart of Hakkar” quest not being granted to players in Booty Bay.

• The quest "Salvaging the Salvagematic" can once again be picked up from Ziri Littlesprocket after completing the "Salvagematic 9000" quest.

• Fixed an issue that was preventing the Blood Moon event from working properly.

• Fixed an issue where the Frenzy tooltip on the master Hunter now correctly shows 6% instead of the incorrect 40%. This has no effect on the actual damage done by the pet.

• Fixed a Sunken Temple issue where the Atal'ai Defenders encounter would not reset properly.

Items

• Fixed an issue causing some bosses to drop no Rare items.

The Sunken Temple

• Significant adjustments were made to trash and boss health. Please note: In order for these health adjustments to take effect you will need to soft reset your instance. We’re sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

The Sunken Temple

• Developer’s note: When developing and tuning the Sunken Temple raid encounters, we had concerns about player power going into Phase 3 so we aimed high when tuning enemy health. We feel that we aimed too high and have recently deployed a hotfix that lowers the health of all enemies and bosses within the Sunken Temple to help ensure this content remains accessible to all players. We’ll be watching progress closely and making additional adjustments as needed in the coming days.