Dragonflight Hotfix Roundup – Fixes to Time Rifts, Army of the Dead Fix, M+ Dungeon Nerfs

Classes

• Druid
  • Guardian
    • Fixed an issue causing Rage of the Sleeper to grant crowd control immunity.
• Evoker
  • Fixed an issue causing Ancient Flame to not be properly consumed in some cases.
  • Augmentation
    • Fixed an issue causing Breath of Eons’ final damage to benefit from critical damage modifiers.
    • Fixed an issue causing some damaging abilities from other classes to not contribute to Breath of Eons’ damage as intended.
    • Time Skip and Spatial Paradox now correctly have their cooldowns reset when an encounter ends.
    • Chrono Ward’s absorption cap will now function properly when dealing damage to multiple enemy targets with Temporal Wounds.
    • Motes of Possibility will now reduce the cooldown of Avatar for all Warrior specializations, instead of Shield Wall, Recklessness, and Colossus Smash.
    • Fixed an issue causing back-to-back Eruption casts to not benefit from Ignition Rush if Hoarded Power procs occur.
• Warlock
  • Fixed an issue where Demon Skin was not correctly increasing Soul Leech’s absorption amount.
  • Fixed an issue where Drain Life would not target enemies affected by Soul Rot via Soul Swap.
  • Fixed an issue where Haunt would apply Shadow Embrace.
  • Fixed an issue where Neltharion’s Call to Dominance trinket could fail to trigger or consume stacks for Warlocks in certain situations.

Dungeons and Raids

• Resolved an issue where players were unable to queue for Shadowlands raids at max level from Ta-elfar in Oribos.
• Dawn of the Infinite
  • Addressed an issue causing Iridikron’s finale sequence to sometimes fail to trigger.

• Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
  • Magmorax
    • Addressed an issue preventing Preservation Evokers’ Cycle of Life from working properly during the Magmorax encounter.

Events

• Time Rifts
  • Usable Horde and Alliance guns will now remove shapeshifts.
  • The ability “Waste Cannonball” deals less damage, and should no longer deal damage to friendly units.
  • Fixed an error caused by aiming the Great Glorious Alliance Cannon too high in the air.
  • Increased spawn counts and respawn rates for Drifting Watchers, required for the task “Keep the Skies Clear”.
  • Fixed an issue causing some Time Rifts bosses to occasionally evade.
  • Increased spawn counts and respawn rates for Void Prisons.
  • The Great Glorious Alliance creature “Blessed Inquisitor” now has abilities once its shield is popped.
  • Wan’she Skystrider, contrary to her name, now obeys gravity.

Player versus Player

• Evoker
  • Augmentation
    • Class set bonuses from Vault of Incarnates and Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible are now appropriately reduced by 50% in PvP combat.

Quests

• Removed an unnecessary Dragonflight campaign header, so that the 9 available chapters are properly displayed.
• Fixed a bug preventing the Dragonflight campaign header from hiding itself once the chapters are all completed.
• Fixed an issue that was causing some players to be unable to unlock the Zandalari Troll Allied race on “A Royal Occasion”.
• Secrets of Naxxramas
  • Invader’s Scourgestones can now be exchanged prior to unlocking Corruptor’s Scourgestones at Light’s Hope Chapel.
  • Many Corruptor’s Scourgestones and Many Invader’s Scourgestones should now correctly award reputation with the Argent Dawn.
  • Invader’s Scourgestones, Corruptor’s Scourgestones, and Argent Dawn Valor Tokens are now all Bind on Account (was Bind on Pickup).
  • The Hand of Naxxramas will no longer obliterate itself if it successfully escapes.
  • Ward of Naxxramas from the Eyes of Naxxramas should now correctly drop for eligible players while in a group. Remember to equip your Argent Dawn Commission!

World

• Resolved an issue where players riding a Druid player entering the travel portals in Dawn of the Infinite would become stuck until logging out.

JULY 12, 2023

• Death Knight
  • Resolved an issue causing Army of the Dead to summon fewer ghouls than intended in non-PvP combat.
• Druid
  • The Rising Light, Falling Night talent now correctly increases the damage or healing of periodic effects during the daytime.
• Evoker
  • Range indicator and raid frames should again match after logging into an Evoker and then into a different ranged class.
• Paladin
  • Holy
    • Holy Prism can no longer radiate to nearby enemies that are in breakable crowd control or not in combat with you.
  • Retribution
    • Resolved an issue that could cause Heartfire Sentinel’s Authority to consume two charges of Hammer of Wrath when cast.

Player versus Player

• Resolved an issue that could prevent players from earning the Elite appearance when changing PvP tiers.

Quests

• Fixed an issue preventing Lord Banehollow from respawning properly “When Revenge Burns Green”.

User Interface

• Fixed a bug causing the ‘Delete Character’ button to select a different character than intended.
• Fixed a bug causing displayed health to not update and match actual health values.

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Fixed an issue with Deep Wounds, Ignite, and Piercing Shots and their interactions when on a target that has been Cycloned.
• Warlock
  • Fixed an issue where Demonic Knowledge was not properly updating its effectiveness when the active demon’s stamina or intellect was changed.

JULY 11, 2023

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Fixed a bug causing the cost of the Relentless Gladiator’s Rifle to not be similar to the cost of Relentless two-hand and ranged weapons.
• Fixed an issue where Glyph of Polymorph did not remove intended versions of Ignite, Deep Wounds, and Piercing Shots.
• Fixed an issue preventing the Steel Gate Flying Machine from grappling Sack of Relics for the quest “I’ve Got a Flying Machine!”
• Fixed a bug that could prevent the game from launching on MacOS Sonoma (Version 14).
• Dungeons and Raids
  • Azjol-Nerub and Ahn’kahet: The Old Kingdom (Titan Rune)
    • Players will no longer lose threat when they are web-wrapped.
    • The minions that take part in the Hadronox gauntlet will no longer gain a health and damage buff from Empowered: Shadow Rune aura and will also no longer web-wrap players.
    • The Skittering Swarmers in Hadronox’s Lair will no longer web-wrap players.
  • Trial of the Crusader
    • Twin Val’kyr’s Light and Dark essences will no longer have their damage buff component removed by invulnerabilities.

JULY 6, 2023

Classes

• Druid
  • Balance
    • Wild Mushroom and Fury of Elune will now deal their damage even if the target is out of line of sight of the Druid.

Dungeons and Raids

• Mythic+
  • Affixes
    • Fixed an issue that caused Incorporeal Beings’ Destabilize effect to apply to targets not in combat with players when charmed.
  • The below Mythic+ changes were applied on June 30:
  • Brackenhide Hollow
    • Hackclaw’s War-Band
      • Gashtooth’s Gash Frenzy periodic damage reduced by 25%.
    • Decatriarch Wratheye
      • Withered Eruption damage reduced by 10%.
      • Rotburst Totem’s Rotting Burst cast time increased to 7 seconds (was 5 seconds).
  • Halls of Infusion
    • Watcher Irideus
      • Power Overload now targets 2 players (was 3).
  • Neltharion’s Lair
    • Fixed an issue that caused Vileshard Crawler’s Acid Splatter to inflict more damage than intended.
    • Rokmora
      • Blightshard Skitter health reduced by 25%.
      • Crystalline Ground damage reduced by 25%.
    • Naraxas
      • Toxic Retch damage reduced by 25%.
  • Neltharus
    • Qalashi Lavabearer health reduced by 10%.
    • Irontorch Commander health reduced by 15%.
    • Qalashi Warden health reduced by 10%.
    • Magmatusk
      • Health reduced by 10%.
      • Magma Lob cooldown has been increased.
      • Magma Eruption periodic damage reduced by 25%.
      • Lava Spray damage reduced by 20%.
      • Lava Wave damage reduced by 15%.
    • Forgemaster Gorek
      • Health reduced by 10%.
      • Blazing Aegis damage reduced by 20%.
      • Blazing Hammer damage reduced by 20%.
    • Warlord Sargha
      • Health reduced by 10%.
      • Molten Gold damage reduced by 20%.
  • The Vortex Pinnacle
    • Asaad
      • Skyfall Nova damage reduced by 20%.
  • Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr
    • Sentinel Talondrus
      • Earthen Shards periodic damage reduced by 20%.
    • Emberon
      • Seeking Flame’s visual has been adjusted.
  • Underrot
    • Grotesque Horror’s Dark Echoes cast time increased to 1.5 seconds (was 1 second).

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Dungeons and Raids
  • Utgarde Pinnacle and Utgarde Keep
    • Glaciate and Icy Path will no longer kill players when they are affected by King Ymiron’s Screams of the Dead during Defense Protocol Alpha or Beta.
    • Fire Blast now does 6% max hp damage per second, instead of 10% during Defense Protocol Beta.
    • Fire Blast will now get casted much sooner after Glaciate during Defense Protocol Beta.