Classic Season of Discovery Hotfixes 29 Apr 2025

• The Caladboulder will now lose 1 durability every time the Chance on Hit stun proc activates.

Scarlet Enclave

• There are now three Torn Pages for Putress' Diary per Scarlet Enclave instance, as intended (was incorrectly 1).

Scarlet Enclave

• The Hoard of the Pirate Lord containing the Lucky Doubloon will now require you to kil Mason the Echo before being able to loot it (was: required killing Balnazzar before looting, and was also using his tap list - creating issues for Master Looters and not having a chest if a soft reset happened between Balnazzar and Mason).

Scarlet Enclave

• The Hoard of the Pirate Lord will no longer despawn if there is a soft reset done on the instance after Balnazzar.

Scarlet Enclave

• The Hoard of the Pirate Lord will no longer despawn if the chest is left open for too long.

Caldoran

• Enemies will no longer show the Panic debuff while they are dead.

Caldoran

• Enemies will no longer ignore Panic if they have Curse of Recklessness active when it is cast.

Caldoran

• Enemies will (hopefully) no longer stay alive while at 1 health.

• Experiment-800M will now correctly only activate its On Use splash damage off of Ranged attacks that involve the Weapon itself. E.g. not Thunder Clap or Shuriken Toss but will activate off Quick Shot and Between the Eyes.

• Transmute Mithril to Truesilver and Transmute Iron to Gold now benefits from Transmutation Mastery.

Caldoran

• Divine Conflagration's ground effect no longer displays a duration while inside.

Caldoran

• Divine Conflagration will now show on the adds so players know when they are inside of the area.

Caldoran

• Wake of Ashes has had its windup animation changed to be slightly more distinct compared to his other attacks.

• The Scarlet Enclave Restoration 6-piece set bonus now has a 100% chance to spread your Rejuvenation (was 50%).

• Increased the benefit of Shock and Awe so that dealing Holy Shock damage grants you 200% of your Intellect as Spell Damage, and reduces the threat you generate by 30% for 1 minute, and you are empowered with Sunlight for 10 seconds, causing Divine Storm, Crusader Strike, and melee attacks to deal bonus Holy damage equal to 100% of your holy spell power.
• The Wrath rune now benefits Sunlight.
• Soul of the Sealbearer reduces the damage dealt by Sunlight.
• The Scarlet Enclave Holy 2-piece bonus has changed to: grants 20% Spell Haste and causes your next 5 Divine Light, Holy Light, Flash of Light, or Holy Shock spells to have a 0.5 second reduced global cooldown, lasting 30 seconds (was 20% Spell Haste for 1 minute).

• The Scarlet Enclave Protection Tier set 6-piece bonus will no longer incorrectly be consumed by strikes from Retaliation.

• [ With realm restarts ] The Portable Cannon item will now deal its damage to targets even if they are Immune to the stun portion of the effect.

• The Scarlet Base Camp is now considered a neutral area where certain effects and spells, like Homunculi, cannot be used.

• Carve will now benefit from effects that reference a "Strike" type ability (was not a Strike previously).

• Increases and decreases to Judgement will no longer affect Seal of Command.

• The Scarlet Enclave Elemental 2-piece set bonus will no longer chain to other targets while Burn is engraved (was casting a Flame Shock tick that chained even to targets that didn't have a Flame Shock active and also chaining multiple times across targets if Chain Lightning was the triggering spell).
• The Scarlet Enclave Elemental 2-piece set bonus will now correctly mirror the damage of a Flame Shock tick (was treating some bonuses as multiplicative instead of additive, resulting in more damage than a normal Flame Shock tick).
• The Scarlet Enclave Elemental 2-piece set bonus will no longer play a Flame Shock animation from the caster whenever it activates.
• The Scarlet Enclave Elemental 2-piece set bonus will now correctly strike targets with an instant tick of Flame Shock that are out of normal Flame Shock range of 20 yards (was: enemies needed to be within the normal Flame Shock).

Reborn Council

• Blast Wave’s vertical arc from the knockback has been lessened.

• The effects of the Conundrum wand will no longer occasionally fall off.

• Explosive Shot now correctly benefits from the Moral Shots talent and deals increased critical strike damage.
• Explosive Shot will not benefit from the Scarlet Enclave 2-set Ranged bonus.
• Explosive Shot's damage over time portion can no longer return a Miss, but the initial application of Explosive Shot still can.

• The Fallen Regality set will now correctly restore energy to the Rogue after casting Crimson Tempest.

• Enhancement Tier 3 pieces can now also be traded for Elemental Tier 3 pieces until April 28.

Scarlet Enclave

• Scarlet Arrow, Multi-Shot, Aimed Shot, Holy Cleave, Ignite Flesh, Wild Fissure, Peeled Secrets, and Unstable Concoction will no longer deal damage to pets.

Balnazzar

• Beatrix's portion of the RP before the Prison should now be visible to players even if they are farther away.

Balnazzar

• If there are remaining Lightbearers at the end of the fight, they will now correctly despawn.

• Exquisite Spices from the Scarlet Junkbox are no longer Bind-on-Pickup. This does not retroactively apply to previously obtained Exquisite Spices.

• Condemnation will now activate its effect when abilities such as Insect Swarm and Shadow Word: Pain are cast.

• Spirit of Redemption will no longer prevent the use of Darkmoon Card: Twisting Nether.

• For players to adjust to the set bonus change, the Naxxramas Tier vendor for Shamans will now offer an exchange from the Enhancement Tier to the Tank Tier. This is a one-way exchange and will no longer be available after April 28.

Alexei the Beastlord

• Enervate and Enkindle can no longer target pets.

Alexei the Beastlord

• Enkindle and Enervate now ignore line-of-sight.

Balnazzar

• Sleep now grants players damage immunity.

Balnazzar

• The carrier of Carrion Swarm now has a visible debuff.

Lillian Voss

• Immolation Aura no longer targets pets.

Lillian Voss

• Intoxicating Venom should no longer dispel anything other than itself.

Lillian Voss

• Putress' Poison Bolts during berserk now ignore line-of-sight.

• Khonsu's auto attack damage can no longer be mitigated by armor and deals less base damage.

• Dedicated Sunglasses can now be toggled on and off with the /flex emote.

• Players who have lost their Dedication effect but carry a Linkue Combatant Icon will have their aura restored the next time they use the item.

• A random Darkmoon Faire card will now appear in Damaged Undermine Supply Crates and Wartorn Undermine Supply Crates.

• The Restoration Druid T3 2-piece bonus will now correctly allow multiple Druids with the set bonus to cause the effect on the same target.

• Hammer of the Righteous now deals 4x weapon dps (was 3x).
• Hammer of the Righteous now strikes 3 additional targets (was 2).
• Avenger’s Shield now benefits from the Precision talent for its hit chance.
• Avenger’s Shield now gains 3% chance to hit when Defense Specialization is engraved.

• [ With realm restarts ] The T3 Enhancement Shaman 2-piece bonus now requires the player to have the Static Shock rune engraved. The tooltip will be updated at a later date.

Blackrock Depths

• Ever After can now be completed in group sizes larger than two players.

Scarlet Enclave

• Caldoran can no longer have his power drained or burned.

Scarlet Enclave

• Herod can no longer have his power drained or burned.

Scarlet Enclave

• Fixed an issue that allowed Solistrasza's Cremation spell to be interrupted.

Scarlet Enclave

• Balnazzar will now berserk at 10 minutes.

Scarlet Enclave

• Sleep is no longer able to be canceled or removed early.

Scarlet Enclave

• The patrol after the Reborn Council should no longer pull through the wall.

Scarlet Enclave

• Beatrix will only spawn two sets of adds and perform two class calls before becoming active (down from 3 and 3)

Scarlet Enclave

• Ranged adds will run in a little further towards players after spawning before casting ranged spells

Scarlet Enclave

• Stock Break will now properly grant damage immunity during its duration

Scarlet Enclave

• Rose's Thorn timer has been adjusted to better alternate and not overlap with Stock Break

Scarlet Enclave

• Rose's Thorn Charge speed is slightly slower

Scarlet Enclave

• Beatrix should not melee during or immediately after Rose's Thorn

• Fizzlefuse will now sell ammunition to players right away.

• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the quest "Loss" in Eastern Plaguelands to stall.

• Fixed an issue causing the locked doors in New Avalon to not be able to be opened when players are wearing the Scarlet Disguise and have the Scarlet Key in their inventory.

• Consumable Tinkerboxes can now be activated while Shapeshifted.

• Vampiric Embrace will now heal the priest for twice as much as they heal others.
• Vampiric Embrace in Season of Discovery can no longer roll a critical result.

• The Tank Rogue Tier-2.5 2-piece bonus will no longer sometimes prevent Blade Flurry from activating. Strikes of the Sinister now has a lower priority than Blade Flurry.

Beatrix

• Adjusted the timing and overlap of her Class Call spells. For example, there are now 4 waves of Scarlet Infantry during Scarlet Phalanx (was 6), 4 waves of Scarlet Cavalry during Thundering Hooves (was 5), and slightly less overlap between Mortar Combat from the Artillery into the Meteor from Scarlet Mages.

Beatrix

• Adjusted the Out of Bounds triggers that could result in a Scarlet Phalanx (Infantry Class Call) gap forcing players to walk out of bounds and take unnecessary damage.

Caldoran

• Fixed an issue that could result in Caldoran becoming stuck if players entered the Radiant Portal after resurrecting.

Solistrasza

• Fixed an issue that caused "Aberrant Bloat" to have no spell icon.

Solistrasza

• Fixed an issue that caused Solistrasza's "Radiant Light" to erroneously display.

• Developers’ note: The changes below went live with this week’s realm restarts.

• Enchanted Flare will no longer disrupt allied players’ channeled effects.

• Pressing Starfall a second time after it has been cast, and the Global Cooldown is finished, now cancels Starfall.

• Presence of Mind will no longer unexpectedly stay on the Mage under certain circumstances.

• The Elemental Shaman Tier-2 4-piece set bonus now removes your Loyal Beta when the set bonus is removed or broken.

Nightmare Grove

• The Nightmare Dragons now drop three Tarnished Undermine Reals each.

Nightmare Grove

• All of the pieces in the Nightmare Dragon’s old loot has had 8 primary armor slots updated to have the Timeworn tag, allowing them to interact with the Signet Ring of the Bronze Dragonflight line.

Nightmare Grove

• All Dragons no longer thrash.

Nightmare Grove

• Ysondre - Divergent Lightning is now cast less frequently and deals less damage.

• There should no longer be extra enemies near the objectives of The Dark Hoard quest in Blackrock Spire.

• Hardened Frostguard now has an internal cooldown on the Frost Nova chance on hit, to prevent it from extensively reactivating on the same ability cast.

Caldoran

• Adds will no longer fail to die when they hit 1 health.

• The Vanquished Tentacle of C'thun and the Eye of Mar'li have been added to the list of items that cannot be used while in a neutral area like Cenarion Hold or Light's Hope Chapel.

Mason the Echo

• Scarlet Cannonballs are now properly removed when the boss leashes and resets.

Balnazzar

• You can no longer release during the ending RP of the Balnazzar encounter.

Balnazzar

• Players who are dead will now be teleported with the rest of the raid when the RP at the end of the Balnazzar encounter finishes.

Balnazzar

• Balnazzar's encounter should now always result in a lootable chest even if everyone dies during the ending of the encounter.

Scarlet Enclave

• Fixed an issue that would cause Lightgorged Whelps to erroneously trigger Solistrasza's encounter record.

Karazhan Crypts

• The Burning Webs from the Creeping Malison encounter in Karazhan Crypts will no longer hit players in Kharon's room after the encounter is completed.

Scarlet Enclave

• The locations of the Mage Tower and Guard Tower lieutenants before the Beatrix encounter now spawn at the base of their towers.

• The stun during the Kel'thuzad encounter on Hard Mode 4 can no longer be immuned.

• Kel'thuzad now correctly comes back up with full health regardless of debuffs placed on him during the transition phase.

• Tarnished Undermine Real now drop from Ruins of Ahn’Qiraj and Temple of Ahn’Qiraj bosses and hard mode caches.

Nightmare Grove

• The Nightmare Dragons now each drop a piece of Non-C’thun Temple of Ahn’Qiraj Tier.

Nightmare Grove

• Players can access to the Temple of Ahn’Qiraj vendors at the entrance of the raid. These NPCs are Kandrostrasz, Vethsera, and Andorgos.

Nightmare Grove

• The Nightmare Dragons now each drop a piece of Blackwing Tier that is not available on the Undermine Real vendor. (Shoulders/Legs/Head/Chest).

Nightmare Grove

• The Nightmare Dragons now each drop a Blackwing Lair class trinket.

Nightmare Grove

• To allow players more chances to get missing patterns, the Nightmare Dragons can now drop all of the enchanting and engineering patterns from Molten Core and all professions recipes from Ahn’Qiraj.

Naxxramas

• Ignite will no longer incorrectly tick on targets while the player is under the effect of a Mind Control.

Naxxramas

• The health increases from Lifegiving Gem, Rallying Cry, Last Stand, Aegis of Preservation, Vengeance, and Survival Instincts no longer behave incorrectly while under the effects of the Seal of the Dawn.

Naxxramas

• While inside Naxxramas, the 6-piece bonuses for tank warrior, tank warlock, and tank druid will now dynamically update your Last Stand, Vengeance, and Survival Instincts if the new value would be lower and you do not have a debuff that lowers your health active.