Classic Season of Discovery Hotfixes 24 Aug 2024

• Feral Spirits (Shaman)

• Icy Veins (Mage)

• Portal of Summoning (Warlock)

• Berserk (Druid)

• Ancestral Guidance (Shaman)

• Hand of Sacrifice (Paladin)

• Avenging Wrath (Paladin)

• Dispersion (Priest)

• Homunculi (Priest)

• Eye of the Void (Priest)

• Pain Suppression (Priest)

• Shadowfiend (Priest)

• Enraged Regeneration (Warrior)

Items

• Shard of the God's summoned minion now has a 20-yard cone (was 40 yards) and will spend the first 3 seconds of its summon to run into range of a target.

Quests

• “ Stave of the Ancients" Demon NPCs will now respawn much more quickly.

• Divine Light now has an 8 second cooldown.

• Shamanistic Rage now grants the rest of the party and raid 18% of the mana granted to the Shaman (was 10%).

• Warlock pets will now correctly benefit from Fel Armor's increase to their master's spell power.

• Heart of the Lion once again has a 100 yard range.

• The Focused Rage rune will now correctly reduce the cost of Meathook by 3.

• Each side of the Poacher's cave tunnel between Searing Gorge and Burning Steppes now has an independent cooldown, allowing curious players a quick return option. Smoke asphyxiation still prevents more-frequent usage than twice an hour.

• Fixed an issue where the Mage Healer 2-piece Molten Core set bonus did not working properly. The benefits of the Temporal Beacon will now work properly during the last 6 seconds of its duration when used with this set.
• Fixed an issue where the healing from Mage Regeneration was not increased by the effects of Mage Arcane Blast.

• Homunculi will now be less aggressive in seeking nearby targets to fight that the Priest is not in combat with.

• The Rogue 6-piece set can no longer trigger incorrectly from Sebacious Poison.

• Khonsu should now always speak the correct line when players are victorious.

• The Spirit Wolves summoned by Feral Spirits should now display all four of their active abilities on their pet bar.

• The Tier 1 Warrior 2-piece set bonus, Tactician, will now correctly reduce the cost of Meathook.

• Added a chance for Libram of Voracity, Rapidity, and Resilience to appear in the Damaged Undermine Supply Crates purchased with Tarnished Undermine Reals.

• Essence of the Pure Flame will now show its reflect damage in the combat log.

• Hydraxian Coronation now binds the target piece of gear.

• The Alliance quest "End of the Dark Horde" is now given by Master Mathias Shaw (was given by General Marcus Jonathan).

• Overcharged rune can now be obtained by those that previously completed the discovery but didn't get the rune.

• Fine Flarecore Gloves are no longer class restricted.

• The Elemental Tier 1 6-piece bonus will now correctly refresh Flame Shock to 18 seconds if Burn is engraved.

• Mages’ Balefire Bolt can no longer damage targets affected by Banish. They will be Immune.

• Shard of the Scale and Flame's set bonus is now activated by all spells (was only direct healing and spell damage).

• Anathema and Benediction can now correctly be swapped after a one minute cooldown has passed.

• Homunculi now cast and stack Sunder Armor relative to the rank they would have if they were a Warrior of their level.
• Spirit of the Redeemer will now correctly put Pain Suppression and Dispersion on a two-minute cooldown (was incorrectly 5 minutes).

• Players who have the 18-slot version of the Bottomless Bag may now exchange the bag or the Pattern for the 20-slot version at Rix Xizzix in Booty Bay.

• Players who have killed Magmadar but are unable to douse the Rune of Kress can now swap the Heat difficulty back and forth and should find you can now douse the Rune.

• Fixed an issue with many of the class dungeon set bonuses. They can now only be triggered by abilities, and not by item use.

• Fixed a bug interrupting eating or drinking when near a graveyard.

• Fixed a bug where the incorrect version of Quel’Serrar could appear in this version of the game.

• [With weekly restarts] Entrapment now triggers a diminishing return as a Root effect on players each time it is applied. Subsequent durations will be halved and then quartered in duration, and then the target will become immune for 30 seconds.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Hunters from being able to interact with the four demons involved in the Rhok'delar quest chain.

• Fixed an issue where re-speccing did not remove Divine Spirit appropriately.

• You can no longer have Burn and Way of Earth active at the same time by using Rockbiter Rank 3.

• Shadowflame will no longer be overwritten by Improved Shadow Bolt.

• The Might of Stormwind buff will now appear properly in the tooltip when a Chronoboon is used.

Items

• Devilcore Leggings and Devilcore Gloves patterns can now drop from additional sources other than King Mosh.

Items

• Season of Discovery versions of recipes should be available again from their trainers, making turn-ins for professions quests possible.

• Priests who don't have the Divine Spirit talent learned are now prevented from casting higher ranks of Divine Spirit and Prayer of Spirit.

• Shadowflame will no longer be overwritten by Improved Shadow Bolt.

Items

• Burning Essences will now always drop from the Dark Coffer in Blackrock Depths.

Items

• When Might of Stormwind is restored from a Chronoboon, the buff will now appear properly in the tooltip and it will now correctly apply to the player's pet.

Items

• You may now mount while Gift of Gob is active.

Items

• Darkmoon Card: Sandstorm will now correctly hit enemies that are within line of sight, and not hit enemies that are out of line of sight.

Items

• Pix Xizzix now offers the Drakestone caster offhands for 50 Undermine Real each.

Professions

• Mixology now always gives at least 2 potions as intended.

Professions

• Professions with adjusted level requirements for Expert and Artisan ranks have been returned to their original level requirements.

• Idol of the Moon tooltip updated for accuracy and clarity. The item’s effect is unchanged.
• Idol of the Moon now correctly applies to Starfall and Sunfire.
• Idol of Brutality now correctly applies to Mangle (Bear).
• Idol of Ferocity no longer incorrectly discounts Mangle (Bear).
• Idol of the Dream now correctly affects Swipe (Cat).

• Players can now have only one Mana Shield active at a time. If an equal or higher rank of Mana Shield is cast on the target, it will overwrite the previous Mana Shield.
• Fixed an issue with Rewind Time where refreshing Temporal Beacon on a target after that target took damage, which would make any damage taken before the refresh not get healed by Rewind Time.
• Improved Arcane Missiles now also grants 20% spell pushback resistance per talent point to Regeneration and Mass Regeneration and 14% spell pushback resistance per talent point to Arcane Blast.
• Mass Regeneration will now refresh Temporal Beacon each time it heals a target, instead of just when initially hitting a target.

• Blessing of Sanctuary and Greater Blessing of Sanctuary no longer stack.
• Libram of the Consecrated is no longer be removed by ticks of Hallowed Ground.
• Malleable Protection's version of Divine Protection now correctly has a 5-minute cooldown.
• Malleable Protection's version of Divine Protection will now correctly share a cooldown between its two ranks and Divine Shield.
• The cooldown on Paladin Avenger's Shield has been reduced to 15 seconds (was 30 seconds), and the duration of its movement Snare effect has been reduced to 5 seconds (was 10 seconds).

• Firelands Embers and Emerald Chips now stack to 2500.

• Bosses in Molten Core should no longer spin around and face random raid members on higher Heat difficulties.

• The following spells will no longer incorrectly reset their cooldowns after a boss is defeated:

Molten Core

• Players can no longer line of sight Flamewaker Priests from Sulfuron Harbinger or outrange them to prevent the cast from Dark Mending, it must be interrupted!

Molten Core

• Adjusted the recast time and cooldown of Dark Mending so that players can interrupt more sufficiently.

Molten Core

• Fixed an issue that prevented Shazzrah from casting Gate of Shazzrah twice in a row on Heat 3.

Molten Core

• Ragnaros no longer submerges twice on Heat 1.

Molten Core

• Baron Geddon now casts Armageddon at 5% on Heat 1 (was 10%).

Molten Core

• Baron Geddon now casts 2 Living Bombs at a time on Heat 2 (was 3).

Molten Core

• Living Bomb no longer leaves Living Fallout pools on Heat 1.

Molten Core

• Flamewaker Protectors now cast Dominate Mind much less frequently.

Molten Core

• Maximized the cast and recast times of several dispel mechanics.

• Lava Surgers in Molten Core will no longer spawn once Ragnaros has been defeated.

• Ragnaros is no longer immune to Paladins’ Hand of Reckoning.

• [With weekly restarts] The increased damage taken for low Fire Resistance in Molten Core on Heat 2 and Heat 3 has been reduced but is still extremely dangerous. Characters who are at 30 resistance lower than intended should now expect to take about 3 times normal damage (was guaranteed fatal).

Items

• All of the revamped or new Molten Core items that were strictly Unique are now Unique-Equipped to allow master looters to hold these items during raids.

Items

• Librams of Resilience now have an additional chance to drop from certain bosses in Blackrock Depths and Blackrock Spire.