Dragonflight Hotfixes Dec 15th, 16th – M+ Tweaks, VotI Bugfixes, Optional Reagent Added

dragonflight hotfixes dec 15th, 16th m+ tweaks, voti bugfixes, optional reagent added

December 15th

For this set of hotfixes most of the significant changes affect dungeons and the newly released Vault of the Incarnates. Players will be happy with how close of an eye Blizzard is keeping on dungeons with small changes like how the Proto Dragon enemies position around tanks in Hall of Infusion to be more consistent. A small buff to the end boss in Academy was seen as well, which was warranted to be honest.

For Vault there’s mostly bugfixes, unintended interactions, and some quality of life things being added. For more substantial tuning things will likely need to settle a bit for Blizzard to consider.

December 16th

Minor class bugfixes to Rogues and Mages here, but more importantly we see some Mythic+ changes. For M+ the “Thundering” affix which is seen at +10 keys and higher now better visualizes when it’s about to expire and when there’s only one player remaining with the buff. There’s also a couple of tweaks going through for Halls of Valor and Temple of the Jade Serpent.

For professions something interesting has been added to allow players to take the more powerful “Embellished” gear and remove its extra modifier when crafting or recrafting with the optional reagent: Griftah’s All-Purpose Embellishing Powder. You can only equip two pieces of Embellished crafted gear at any one time so this may prove useful if needed to swap gear around.

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December 15, 2022

Classes

  • Druid
    • Balance
      • Orbital Strike’s targeting reticle will now match the radius of the damage spell.
      • Orbital Strike will now damage targets that are on top of or behind the Druid.
      • Umbral Embrace will now appear on the Personal Resource Display.
  • Hunter
    • Survival
      • Fixed an issue with Ruthless Marauder incorrectly affecting the damage of Fury of the Eagle.
      • Fury of the Eagle damage increased by 115%, which should keep the damage of Fury of the Eagle roughly the same as it was when talented into 3/3 Ruthless Marauder.
  • Paladin
    • Retribution
      • Fixed an issue that prevented Divine Purpose from being gained from Radiant Decree casts.
  • Priest
    • Fixed an issue causing Inner Light from Inner Light and Shadow to not reduce the mana cost of several spells.
  • Rogue
    • Assassination
      • Fixed an issue that prevented Exsanguinate cooldown from resetting after encounters.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Algeth’ar Academy

    • Echo of Doragosa
      • Adjusted the number of Overwhelming Power applications required to create an Arcane Rift to 3 (was 4).
        • Developers’ note: This ability is taking longer than expected to come into play during the encounter, making the encounter less engaging than desired.

  • Halls of Infusion

    • Proto-Dragons now have more consistent movement when positioning themselves around a player.

  • Vault of the Incarnates

    • Fixed an issue where items with a profession skill requirement could be rolled on by anyone when using Group Loot.
    • Eranog
      • Fixed an issue causing Primal Flames to sometimes turn in unexpected ways during Stage Two.
    • Terros
      • Fixed an issue that could prevent Druid’s Convoke the Spirits from striking Terros at the appropriate range.
    • Dathea, Ascended
      • Fixed an issue causing Shaman Windfury Totem and Earthen Wall Totem to not apply correctly during the encounter.
      • Fixed an issue causing Warlock’s Demonic Gateway to incorrectly change its location during the encounter.
    • Broodkeeper Diurna
      • Added a personal notification when a player is targeted by Empowered Greatstaff’s Wrath.
      • Fixed an issue where Primalist Reinforcements’ spawn location indicator may be overlapped with another.

Items and Rewards

  • Fixed an issue where Rumbling Ruby would not trigger from certain melee attacks.
  • Fixed an issue where Desperate Invoker’s Codex did not have its current cooldown reduced when gaining stacks of Hatred. Now, if Desperate Invoker’s Codex is on cooldown, gaining a stack of Hatred will reduce it by one second.

Mythic+

  • Fixed an issue with the Thundering affix that caused Primal Overload to trigger after a keystone dungeon has been completed.
  • Fixed an issue where some players were unable to loot a Mythic+ Keystone.
  • Fixed an issue where players’ saved Mythic Keystone level was not properly upgraded when running a Mythic+ dungeon that originated in a previous expansion.
  • The Nokhud Offensive
    • Balakar Khan
      • Players pulled by Static Spear are no longer affected by Quaking.
  • Shadowmoon Burial Grounds
    • Fixed an issue where a Shadowmoon Burial Grounds Mythic+ group could default to Challenge difficulty when listed in the Group Finder.
    • Shadowmoon Dominator’s Domination can now be interrupted by stun and knockback effects.

Player versus Player

  • Classes

    • Rogue

      • Assassination
        • Fixed an issue that caused poisons to be removed when entering Arenas if talented into Dragon-Tempered Blades.

    • Warlock

      • The following spells are no longer usable while silenced: Call Fel Lord, Demonic Strength, Guillotine, Inquisitor’s Gaze, Shadowflame, Soulburn, Soul Strike, Soul Swap, and Soul Tap.
      • Summon Soulkeeper is no longer castable while moving and can now be interrupted.
      • Fel Domination and Soul Strike are now classified as Shadow magic.
      • Dimensional Rift and Summon Soulkeeper are now classified as Chaos magic.
      • Burning Rush and Summon Infernal are now classified as Fire magic.
      • Guillotine and Inquisitor’s Gaze are now classified as Shadowflame magic.
  • Items
    • Victorious Contender’s Strongboxes are now awarded after every 4 wins in a given bracket.
    • Victorious Contender’s Strongboxes now correctly drop a scaling amount of Primal Chaos based on PvP rating from the match the box was earned from.
    • Fixed an issue that prevented Primal Focus and Concentrated Primal Focus reagents from having a chance to drop for players at Rival II or higher if the match it was earned from was at an appropriate rating.
    • Significantly increased the drop rate of Infurious recipes.
  • Solo Shuffle
    • Made some adjustments to Rated Solo Shuffle matchmaking to have more evenly matched games. We will continue to monitor these matches and look for ways to make further improvements as necessary.

Primal Storms

  • Elite enemies that are spawned during Primal Storms will no longer despawn if their corresponding storm ends and they are in combat.
  • The map marker for the Elemental Storm in the Cobalt Assembly has been moved to be more visible.

Professions

  • Engineering
    • Fixed an issue that caused Primal Deconstruction Charge to cost 1 Awakened Fire instead of 1 Rousing Fire.
    • Fixed an issue that prevented Grease Grenade from being craftable.
    • Fixed an issue that prevented EZ-Thro bombs from being discoverable when specialized into EZ-Thro.
    • Increased the chance of discovering new epic bracer recipes when crafting rare goggles and the P.E.W. x2 for specialized Engineers.
    • Significantly increased the chance of discovering Safety Components when a Tinker malfunctions for specialized Engineers.
    • Slightly lowered the chance to experience a catastrophic malfunction when using Tinkers.

Quests

  • Valdrakken
    • Alexstrasza will now always be available in Valdrakken for players to turn in “Moving On.”
    • “To Valdrakken” will now point you to Alexstrasza’s location if she has left Valdrakken.
    • Added paragon reputation tracking to “Aiding the Accord” quests early. We didn’t anticipate the commitment some players have to digging holes for reputation.

Achievements

  • For Honor Our Ancestors, Jhakan Khan’s requested item has been changed from Primal Molten Greatbelt to Fire-Blessed Greatsword.

Classes

  • Mage
    • Arcane
      • Fixed an issue with Nether Tempest not always applying to your currently selected target.
  • Rogue
    • Fixed an issue that prevented Thistle Tea charges from refreshing after encounters.

Dragonriding

  • Cliffside Wylderdrake
    • Green Scales manuscript will now correctly unlock green scales.
    • Blue Scales manuscript will now correctly unlock blue scales.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Vault of the Incarnates
    • Eranog
      • Resolved an issue causing Incinerate to sometimes hit players if Eranog was defeated during intermission.

Mythic+

  • Affixes
    • Thundering
      • Mark of Lightning and Mark of Wind no longer display an overhead visual once only one marked player remains.
      • The visual warning when Mark of Lightning and Mark of Wind near expiration has been increased in size.
  • Halls of Valor
    • Hyrja
      • Fixed an issue that caused Hyrja’s and Olmyr’s Sanctify ability to inflict more damage than intended.
  • Temple of the Jade Serpent
    • Wise Mari
      • Fixed an issue that could cause Wise Mari’s facing to change during Wash Away.
  • Vault of the Incarnates
    • The number of Dormant Infusers increased to 5 on Mythic difficulty (was 4).
    • Dathea, Ascended’s health reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.

Pet Battles

  • The Gray Marmoni and Black Skitterbug battle pets are now bind-on-pickup.

Player versus Player

  • Characters
    • Pandaren
      • Pre-Mixed Pot of Noodles will now scale up to level 70, granting an appropriate amount of Versatility for Pandaren in PvP.

Professions

  • Griftah has taken note of all the wonderous and amazing items that the adventurers of Azeroth have been crafting and has decided to branch out his business to include a new Optional Reagent: Griftah’s All-Purpose Embellishing Powder. Griftah’s All-Purpose Embellishing Powder is guaranteed to give your gear +1 Sparkle when applied through crafting or recrafting! This will remove any embellishments you have added to that gear, as well as the Unique-Equipped: Embellished (2) requirement on it.
  • Alchemy
    • Fixed several issues that caused Phial durations to scale unpredictably when consuming multiple. Phial duration specialization perks should now also function correctly as part of this fix.
    • Iced Phial of Corrupting Rage will now correctly restore Corrupting Rage if you die while Overwhelming Rage is active.
  • Jewelcrafting
    • Fixed a scaling issue that caused Idol of the Aspects trinkets to be far weaker than intended.
    • Idol of the Aspects trinkets now stack up to 18 times before transforming (was 15).

Reputation

  • Dragonscale Expedition
    • The Small Expedition Shovel is now bind-on-pickup.
    • Fixed an issue where some of the early Dragonscale Expedition cosmetics were set to Bind on Account instead of Bind on Pickup. Players can purchase items on alts to unlock them once at least one character has reached the correct Renown Rank.
  • Maruuk Centaur
    • Essence of Awakening is now properly bind-on-pickup.

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

  • Fixed an issue where holidays on the calendar could be off by one day.
  • Classes
    • Death Knight
      • Frost
        • Fixed an issue where it was possible to have multiple ranks of Icy Talons active at once.
      • Unholy
        • Fixed an issue where multiple ranks of Desolation can be stacked at once.

About the Author

Shadostruct

I've been playing WoW since beta with some breaks here and there. I'm a semi-hardcore to hardcore raider that focuses on retail mainly. I'm a big fan of giant dragons and am excited for all that Dragonflight will have to offer.

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