Classic Season of Discovery Hotfixes 22 Feb 2025

• Soul shoulder enchants are now stackable up to 20. Once purchased, these cannot be refunded.

• Wartorn Undermine Supply Crates now contain about twice as many Wartorn Scraps as before.

• Undead Slaying set bonuses now activate at 2 pieces (was 3).

• The Restoration T3 6-piece set bonus will now correctly work against Sapphiron's Frost Aura ticks
• The Feral damage T3 2-piece bonus now mentions in its tooltip that it will not be effective against players.

• Ranged Hunter T3 2-piece now correctly increases the damage dealt by Chimera Shot - Serpent.

• Mass Regeneration will correctly update the duration of Temporal Beacons on players who have a Temporal Beacon from another Mage with a longer than 15 second duration.

• The Retribution T3 6-piece bonus now mentions that it does not work while Righteous Fury or Hand of Reckoning are active.

• The tooltip for the Restoration T3 6-piece set bonus now correctly mentions Earth Shield instead of Spirit of the Alpha.

• Haunt will no longer incorrectly increase the impact damage of Shadowflame.
• Improved Immolate will no longer incorrectly increase the damage from the Warlock T3 Shadowflame hit.
• The Scythe of Chaos will now correctly do its Felhunter Silence and Interrupt.
• Damage Warlock T3 6-piece bonus now correctly ties the Mark of Chaos effect to the Curse of Agony cast and not to the Curse of Recklessness that is applied through the bonus. This prevents Mark of Chaos from falling off if Curse of Recklessness is replaced by another Warlock.
• Haunt will no longer incorrectly increase the impact damage of Shadowflame.
• Improved Immolate will no longer incorrectly increase the damage from the T3 Shadowflame hit.

• Fresh Meat will now correctly have a 100% chance to proc on an encounter after a wipe.
• Fresh Meat will now correctly have a 100% chance to proc against a target in PvP if the target player leaves combat with the Warrior.
• Revenge attack power multiplier increased by 25% (was 15%).

• Might of Menethil now has a chance on hit to knocks down all nearby enemies for 4 seconds.

• Tranquilizing Shot will no longer remove stacks of the Tier 3 Melee Hunter 6-piece bonus.
• Feign Death will now set the remaining duration of the Tier 3 Undead Slaying bonus to 5 seconds, providing an opportunity to get back into combat to keep the bonus stacks.

• Mages will no longer have a chance to instantly kill players when they are Mind Controlled.

• Righteous Fury will no longer incorrectly fall off if the target that dealt damage to the Paladin is no longer available/alive.
• The Tier 1 Holy Paladin 6-piece bonus will now correctly gain healing based on your Sanctified bonus.
• The Holy Paladin Temple of Ahn’Qiraj 4-piece bonus will no longer incorrectly benefit twice from your Sanctified healing bonus.
• The Tier 3 Retribution Paladin 6-piece set bonus will no longer work if you have Hand of Reckoning engraved or Righteous Fury active.

• Soul of the Phantom will now correctly apply to Rogues upon logging in.
• Fixed an issue preventing Rogues from getting a Sending Sigil if they knew the Engrave Blunderbuss rune.

• The Temple of Ahn’Qiraj 4-piece Enhancement set now correctly works against Bleed-Immune targets.

Scourge Invasions

• Every zone that has a Scourge Invasion now also has a soul projection of Brother Luctus for picking up and turning in the repeatable quest.

Scourge Invasions

• You can now exchange Remnants of Valor for Argent Dawn Valor Tokens from Brother Luctus.

Scourge Invasions

• Next week, the Seal of the Dawn will only go up 1 maximum rank, to rank 5.

• Reduced the cost of World Buff consumables and reputation items purchased with Commendation Signets by 50%. World Buff consumable items now stack up to 20.

• Fixed an issue that caused Scourge invasions to respawn slower based on number of layers on a realm. Scourge invasions now respawn regardless of the number of layers.

• The spawn rate of Blood of Heroes in both Eastern Plaguelands and Western Plaguelands has been adjusted to accommodate the additional vendor cost of Tier 3 set rings.

• The Violet Satchel quest now correctly requires the Violet Satchel and consumes it on turn in. Once the Violet Satchel quest has been completed, the Violet Satchel and Scrap of Parchment no longer drops. If you have completed this quest previously and have any of these in your inventory now, you can safely delete these items.

The Four Horsemen

• Spirits of the Horsemen should no longer persist through resets.

• The Restoration Druid Tier 3 2-piece set bonus will now correctly proc once every few seconds (was a proc on every instance of damage).

• The Healing Mage Tier 3 2-piece bonus will now correctly scale with Sanctified gear while inside of Naxxramas.
• Fixed a problem where Mass Regeneration was replacing longer duration Temporal Beacons with shorter duration ones. It will no longer overwrite longer duration ones with shorter duration ones.

• Seal of Martyrdom will now restore the correct amount of Mana while outside of Naxxramas if you have a Seal of the Dawn buff active.
• The Retribution Tier 3 4-piece set bonus will no longer reset your swing timer when Holy Wrath is cast.
• The Holy Paladin Tier 3 2-piece bonus will now correctly restore mana to the Paladin instead of their target when Lay on Hands is cast.
• The Protection Paladin Tier 3 4-piece bonus applies correctly to the Malleable Protection version of Divine Protection.

• The Restoration Shaman Tier 3 helm now correctly has Spell Haste.
• The Restoration Shaman Tier 3 2-piece bonus will no longer erroneously remove the internal cooldown of Earth Shield.
• Reduced the Tank Shaman Tier 3 4-piece bonus additional damage reduction to 10% (was 15%).

• Fixed an issue where players are no longer able to accept and complete the Tier 0.5 quests.

• Repeatable quests for Remnants of Valor are now available. Players can now pick this quest up from Brother Luctus at Light's Hope Chapel if they have completed the prerequisite quest.

• Heart of Doom can now be looted for the repeatable Remnants of Valor quest from the Heart of Doom object that spawns after a Shadow of Doom has perished. These will now only last for a short time after the death of a Shadow of Doom.

• The Heart of Doom that spawns after a Shadw of Doom is killed will now last for 5 minutes, giving players more of an opportunity to click it. Once you have successfully looted a Heart of Doom, you may not loot another for 5 minutes.

• Argent Dawn Quartermasters and Outfitters now offer all Undead Slaying gloves quests available to your armor type. Previously full sets were locked to the highest armor type a class can wear.

• Weighted Consecrated Sharpening Stone can now correctly be applied to Staves.

• The Darkrider's Spine will now correctly use and benefit from Arrows.

• Binding Heal now correctly benefits from and is consumed by Inner Focus.

• Fixed an issue where Curse of Agony was not gaining any benefit from Improved Curse of Agony or Amplify Curse.

• The “Shadow of Doom” Scourge Invasion quest can now be completed while in a raid group. Everyone in the group will get credit for the kill of the Shadow of Doom.

• The tooltip on the Doomsayer's Demise Wand now correctly states that it deals 100 damage per stack of Creeping Darkness (was 45 damage per stack of Creeping Darkness). The tooltip on the Wand does not change when the set is completed, but the debuff tooltip on enemies will increase.

• Tome of Enchanted Flare can now only be seen and looted by Hunters.

• The “Elemental Equation” and the “Core of Elements” quests can now be completed in Light's Hope Chapel.

• Divine Steed is now available on the Rune Broker at level 45.

• Equipping the Revered Version of the DPS Signet Ring of the Bronze Dragonflight will no longer cause it to launch a Timeworn Shot.

• You can now refund the tier tokens from the Undermine Reals.

• The Real vendor now sells All Tier 1 and half of the Tier 2 Tokens

• Tier 1 Wrists/Waist/Hands - 15 Tarnished Undermine Reals

• Tier 1 Feet/Shoulders - 20 Tarnished Undermine Reals

• Tier 1 Chest/Legs/Head - 25 Tarnished undermine Reals

• Tier 2 Wrists/Waist/Hands/Feet - 35 Tarnished Undermine Reals

• Thorns effects from items (aside from Nagelring) will now log into the combat log.

• This includes Glowing Chtin Armor Kit, Sharpened Silithid Chitin Armor Kit, Tuned Force Reactive Disk, Obsidian Scope, Enchanted Stopwatch, Tear of the Dreamer, Lodestone of Retaliation, Totem of Flowing Magma, Totem of Pyroclastic Thunder, Totem of Thunderous Strikes, Enchanted Totem, Qiraji Silk Cape, Qiraj Silk Cloak, Qiraji Silk Drape, Qiraji Silk Scarf, Razorspike Battleplate, Razorspike Headcage, and Razorspike Shoulderplate.

• The Protection Paladin T2.5 two-piece bonus is now correctly removed when the set bonus is broken.

• You can no longer use Fresh Holly, or Preserved Holly while Divine Steed is active.

• Various Cat Form Druid abilities such as Berserk, Savage Roar, and Wild Strikes will now work properly during the Nefarion Druid Class call.

• The Orgrimmar Commendation Officer in Orgrimmar and the Ironforge Commendation Officer in Ironforge now sell items for Commendation Signets. The items sold by other factions (Zandalar Tribe, Timbermaw Hold, Thorium Brotherhood, Steamweedle Cartel, Cenarion Circle, Hydraxian Waterlords, and Argent Dawn) can now be purchased from these two vendors.

• The 4-piece T2.5 ranged Hunter set will no longer launch additional Kill Shots against player targets. The cooldown reset will still occur. Its tooltip will be updated later.

• Fixed a bug where Circle of Healing from Priests with the 4-piece set bonus from the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj was healing more targets than intended.

• The benefit of the Shaman tank 4-piece set from Ahn'Qiraj will now cancel if the Shaman unequips the set.

• The T2.5 damage Warlock 2-piece set bonus will no longer incorrectly grant more than 30 stacks of Shadow Vulnerability when combined with Shadowflame.

• Added a Rune Broker vendor to every starting area. This vendor will provide access to all class runes at level 1.

• Fixed an issue that prevented Ring Specialization runes from being available on Rune Brokers.

• Using any of the world buff consumable items will no longer cause party and raid members to stop eating or drinking.

• Removed gear from player-characters who obtained it from an unintentionally available testing NPC.

• Divine Light will now correctly activate Scarab Brooch.

• Elixir of the Ironside now grants 450 armor.

• Fixed an issue where Druids were able to use Shred from in front of a target if they were very close to the target. It now properly always requires behind (unless they have the Season of Discovery set bonus that removes this restriction).

• The 3-piece Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj set bonus for Rogues will now correctly reduce the cost of Crimson Tempest.

• Revenge Rank 6 now correctly benefits from attack power.

• The Shadow T2.5 2-piece set bonus will now correctly launch a free Mind Flay when starting the first cast of Mind Flay.

• Anachronos will now allow you to get another Scepter of the Shifting Sands if yours is misplaced.

• The Season of Discovery versions of the original Darkmoon Cards are now obtainable from their quests.

• Draught of the Sands for Hunters and Rogues will no longer erroneously stack under certain conditions.

• Tranquilizing Shot will no longer consume a stack of Lock and Load.
• Resourcefulness no longer erroneously reduces the cooldown of Deterrence.
• Tranquilizing Shot will once again correctly work against the SIlithid Darter during the Hunter Quest chain.
• Swapping off of Rapid Killing to Lock and Load now prevents the use of Lock and Load for 60 seconds.

• Fire Mage Tier 2.5 4-piece bonus decreased to 10% (was 20%).
• Fire Mage Ruins of Ahn'Qiraji 3-piece set bonus decreased to 9% (was 20%).
• Living Bomb now has an additional line of text that reads: "Living Bomb benefits from all talents and effects that trigger from or modify Scorch" allowing ticks of Living Bomb and the Explosion to apply Fire Vulnerability if talented.
• Fingers of Frost has a 25% chance to activate (was 15%).
• Ice Lance damage from spell power increased by 300%.
• Ice Lance deals 400% damage to frozen targets (was 300%).
• The Ice Lance rune now has a passive that states "When your other frost spells deal damage to a non-player-controlled target, they increase the target's damage taken from your next Ice Lance by 20%. This effect stacks up to 5 times and requires the Winter's Chill talent."
• Wrath of Cenarius will now correctly proc from Balefire Bolt, Spellfrost Bolt, and Frozen Orb.
• Mages can no longer consume another mage's Glaciate stacks.

• Different ranks of Flame Shock will no longer stack.
• Flame Shock’s original sound effect has been restored.
• Lava Lash's bonus damage from Flametongue Weapon reduced from to 100% (was 125%).

• Scythe of Chaos will no longer kill your pet, but instead dismiss it, allowing it to retain its buffs when resummoned.
• Warlock pets will now correctly inherit their master's Fire or Shadow spell hit chance based on whichever is higher.
• Warlock pets will now correctly gain full value of spell hit chance for their spells.
• Warlock pets will now correctly gain 80% of their master's spell hit as physical hit.
• Warlock pets will gain -0.5 reduction to their chance to be dodged or parried if any ring rune is engraved on their master.
• The Tank Warlock T2 two-piece set bonus will no longer use the target's health to life tap if you are in a neutral city.
• If Mark of Chaos is applied by Curse of Agony, Mark of Chaos will now linger for 3 seconds after the Curse of Agony aura fades.

• Ranged Hunter Tier 2.5 2-set bonus is now a 20% increase to Kill Shot damage against non-player-controlled targets.
• Swapping to the Kill Shot rune will now correctly place it on a 12 second cooldown (was 15 seconds), adjusted for its new base cooldown.
• Swapping off of the Kill Shot rune will now place Flanking Strike on a 12 second cooldown, and prevent the stacking of Sniper Training for 12 seconds as well.
• Hunter Pets will now benefit from equipped gear on the Hunter that reduces the chance to be dodged or parried.
• Swapping Rapid Killing to Lock and Load now prevents the use of Lock and Load for 60 seconds.

• The cooldown of Cold Snap has been reduced to 5 minutes (was 10 minutes).
• Fire Mage Tier 2.5 4-piece bonus decreased to 15% (was 20%).
• Fire Mage Ruins of Ahn'Qiraji 3-piece set bonus decreased to 15% (was 20%).
• Living Bomb now has an additional line of text that reads: "Living Bomb benefits from all talents and effects that trigger from or modify Scorch" allowing ticks of Living Bomb and the Explosion to apply Fire Vulnerability if talented.

Chronoboon Displacer

• Will no longer be removed if the person with the consumable leaves raid.

Chronoboon Displacer

• Now stack up to 5.

Chronoboon Displacer

• Known issue: these consumable items list their duration as Until Cancelled instead of 1 or 2 hours. That will be corrected in another hotfix.

• Improved Moonfire now correctly increases the damage of Starfall.
• Improved Moonfire and Moonfury no longer affect base damage of their associated spells.
• Improved Moonfire and Moonfury now affect the entire damage of their associated spells.

• 5 Enhancement 2-piece bonus that increases the damage of Stormstrike and Lava Lash by 50%, is now twice as effective for 2-handed weapons.
• 5 Enhancement 4-piece bonus now causes your Stormstrike, Lava Lash, and Lava Burst critical strikes to burn your target for 30% of the damage done over 4 seconds (was only Stormstrike and Lava Lash).
• Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj 3-piece set will now correctly increase the damage of Lava Burst from Overload.
• 5 Enhancement 4-piece bonus will now correctly work with Off-hand Stormstrike.

Items

• Signet Ring of the Bronze Dragonflight: Timeworn extra attack effect changed to a true extra attack (can proc things), and it can now be activated the same sources that proc Hand of Justice.

Items

• Wrath of Cenarius is now activated by Spellfrost Bolt, Balefire Bolt, and Frozen Orb, as intended.

• Divine Shield will now reduce your damage dealt by 50% while active.
• Divine Shield will no longer reduce your attack speed by 100% while active.
• Temple of Ahn’Qiraj 4-piece damage set bonus updated – Your basic attacks increase the damage of your next Exorcism cast with 20 seconds by 40%, stacking up to 3 times.

• Samantha Swifthoof will no longer patrol during the Bloodmoon Event in Strangelthorn Vale.

• Fixed an issue with the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj 4-piece Arcane set bonus for players who did not have the Regeneration or Mass Regeneration runes equipped.

• Sylvan Vest now correctly has Stamina (was Strength).

• Fixed an issue where your sleeping dopplegangers could escape from Blackfathom Deeps and disrupt capital cities.

• Fixed a problem where the Druid PvP sets allowed multiple movement speed increases to stack. They no longer stack.

• When Chimera Shot is used with Serpent Sting, the extra effect now benefits properly from ranged weapon skills and gets the correct 10% critical strike chance increase from Sniper Training (was incorrectly 20%).

Karazhan Crypts

• Added a chance for Kharon and the Dark Rider to drop the neck piece from the apprentice you did NOT unlock.

Naxxramas

• The exit portal that spawns in Sapphiron's room after the boss has been defeated will now persist after players leave and soft reset the instance.

Naxxramas

• The gates blocking entrance into the various wings of Naxxramas will now stay open forever if Kel'Thuzad has been defeated.

Naxxramas

• Fixed an issue where the number of bosses killed on the hardest difficulty weren't tracking properly if you soft reset your raid after killing Four Horsemen.

Naxxramas

• Raid groups in a bugged state will be able to fight Sapphiron and Kel'Thuzad on their hard-mode difficulties after soft resetting their instances.

Naxxramas

• Sapphiron’s Glacial Crash now correctly splits its damage amongst players, no longer benefits from the player's % damage modifiers, and Glacial Crash damage has been increased to the correct amount without accounting for player % damage modifiers.

Naxxramas

• Kel’thuzad will no longer rot faster than intended on maximum difficulty.

Temple of Ahn’Qiraj

• Huhuran will no longer retain stacks of Frenzy after a wipe.

Scourge Invasions

• Remnants of Valor now drop once per day from bosses in Scholomance and Stratholme Dead Side bosses. These are on the same timer as Tarnished Undermine Real dropping once daily from bosses.

Karazhan Crypts

• Remnants of Valor now drop from Karazhan Crypts bosses.

Karazhan Crypts

• Flametongue Totem now grants protection from Oppressive Darkness.

Naxxramas

• A portal has been added inside of the entrance to Naxxramas that will allow players to exit the instance.

Naxxramas

• A portal has been added in the Frostwyrm Lair that becomes active when Sapphiron is defeated, allowing players to return to the entrance of Naxxramas.

• Enriched Manna Biscuits from Argent Dawn reputation now restore a percentage of your health per second while inside Naxxramas, to allow players who have large health pools with the Seal of the Dawn active to get back on their feet faster.

Karazhan Crypts

• Fixed an issue that was causing the Dark Rider to despawn during the Torment's Illusion mechanic.

Karazhan Crypts

• The Frostbolt Volley from Sairuh Maryla in the Karazhan Crypts now has the correct tooltip on its debuff, and now slows players whenever it hits them, regardless of how far away they were.

Karazhan Crypts

• Kharon: The Red Death can no longer hit mind-controlled targets.

Naxxramas

• Instructor Razuvious' Disrupting Shout will now correctly be reduced by pet Avoidance.

Naxxramas

• Heigan's Mana Burn will now correctly be reduced by pet Avoidance.

Naxxramas

• Kel'Thuzad's Void Fissures will no longer hit pets.

Sapphiron

• Avoidance now correctly works on Sapphiron's Frost Aura.

Sapphiron

• Sapphiron's Frost Breath will no longer hit pets that have an Avoidance aura on them.

• There is now a Haunted Anvil in the town outside of Karazhan that players may interact with to repair their gear, whether they are living or dead.

Karazhan Crypts

• Demon Charge and Feral Charge now destroy the Immense Rock.

Karazhan Crypts

• Players will now be able to loot a bag containing a Necrotic Rune from every boss and mini-boss.

Karazhan Crypts

• Shamans can now cleanse the Diseased Corpse.

Karazhan Crypts

• Mysterious Relics are now Bind on Pickup and Uncommon.

• You can now correctly hand in Supply Shipments from Karazhan to Supply Officers in cities.

• Shadows of Doom now spawn an interactable Heart of Doom that players can loot to start their shoulder enchant quest. When getting Hearts of Doom in the future for Remnants of Valor after Naxxramas releases, players will need to get the tag on Shadows of Doom.

• C’thun will now drop 1 additional item in all difficulties. This item will be either an additional Chest Tier piece, or one of the highly desired weapons from the instance for damage dealers and healers.

• The new Flask recipes from Ahn'Qiraj can now be traded to others who were eligible to loot them, with a two-hour timer.

Temple of Ahn'Qiraj

• Fixed an issue that caused the Twin Emperors to continue spawning Eye Tentacles after combat had expired.

Temple of Ahn'Qiraj

• Fixed an issue that caused the Twin Emperors to fail to respawn.

Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj

• The Obelisk to continue opting into the Descent into Madness has been shifted to be underneath the large water pipe that leads down to the encounter space.

Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj

• Noxious Burst should now correctly grab targets to deal damage on detonation and not application.

Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj

• Non-boss-enemy drops from Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj have been added and distributed across the first three bosses (previously were only obtainable from the chests).

Temple of Ahn'Qiraj

• Ouro should no longer summon the Eye of C'thun if the Descent into Madness is not active.

Temple of Ahn'Qiraj

• Noxious Burst should now correctly grab targets to deal damage to on detonation and not application.

C'thun

• Tentacles should no longer spawn while C'thun is vulnerable in Phase 2.

C'thun

• Digestive Acid once again stacks.

• The new relics that are crafted from Ahn'Qiraj are no longer Unique.

• Players dying outside the entrance to the areas of the Gates of Ahn'Qiraj, The Scarab Dais, or The Scarab Wall will no longer use the same graveyard as those who die inside Ruins or Temple of Ahn'Qiraj raids.

Ahn’Qiraj

• Some Obelisks for the Descent into Madness have been moved to more accessible, easily visible locations.

Ahn’Qiraj

• Huhuran's berserk should now correctly clear after she resets.

Ahn’Qiraj

• Obelisks that were not triggered should now be correctly unavailable after a boss is defeated. The Descent into Madness should now correctly shut off after a boss is defeated if their respective Obelisk is not interacted with.

Ahn’Qiraj

• The Gilded Scarab should now properly award loot when defeated.

Ahn’Qiraj

• The hard mode caches in the Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj raid will now contain keys for the instance's scarab coffers.

Ahn’Qiraj

• Master Loot and item trading work once again for Viscidus and Princess Huhuran in Ahn'Qiraj from the Caches of Wagering.

Ahn’Qiraj

• Ouro should now correctly respawn if he despawns during his burrow phase.

Ahn’Qiraj

• New flasks from Ahn'Qiraj now stack to 20 (was 1). Older flasks stack to 5, unchanged.

• Players can now go into Blackwing Lair and change any Tier 2 items with Tier 1 set bonuses back into the Tier 2 item with Tier 2 set bonuses.

• Unbalancing Strike from the Twin Emperors encounter in the Temple of Ahn’Qiraj will no longer affect the bonus attack power or spell damage gained from Defender’s Resolve. You will always gain these stats based on your pre-Unbalancing Strike defense skill.

Blackwing Lair

• Applying at least 1 affix in Blackwing Lair will now add an additional item to the loot cache. This item will be one of your faction’s 8 class trinkets.