Dragonflight Hotfixes: Gerald Pet, Suffusion Camp, Class Fixes

Here you’ll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Wrath of the Lich King Classic, Burning Crusade Classic and WoW Classic. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.

Hotfixes

MAY 10, 2023

Achievements

• The Family Battler of Zaralek Cavern achievement now properly awards the pet Gerald. Additionally, Gerald has been flagged as “unique” and “not cageable,” as is normal for achievement-awarded pets. For players who already have the achievement and did not get the pet, we are working on a separate fix to make sure they get their pet reward.
• Fixed an issue where defeating Kazzara, the Hellforged wouldn’t complete the criteria for the Heroic: Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible achievement.

Classes

• Evoker
  • Devastation
    • Imminent Destruction is no longer dispellable.
• Paladin
  • Holy
    • Fixed an issue that caused Resplendent Light to not transfers its healing to Beacon of Light targets.
  • Retribution
    • The swing timer for Crusading Strikes should no longer be reset by other abilities.
• Warrior
  • Fixed an issue where Bloodthirst would not appropriately deal damage when chained via Whirlwind if at least 1 target was immune.

Mythic+

• Freehold
  • Fixed an issue where multiple spells could target pets.
  • Harlan Sweete
    • Fixed an issue that caused the bleed effect of Harlan Sweete’s Whirling Dagger to not properly bounce between targets while under the effects of Loaded Dice: All Hands!

Enemies and NPCs

• Suffusion Camp
  • Everburning Keys will now drop from Suffusion Mold bosses until the player has 3 or has looted the Secured Shipment for the week.

Items and Rewards

• Removed pop-up notification that appeared when party/raid members earn Shadowflame Crest Fragments. Players will still see the notification for their own Fragments.
• Fixed an issue where Beacon to the Beyond, Enduring Dreadplate, Djaruun, and Ward of Faceless Ire would not reset their cooldowns upon ending an encounter.
• Void-Touched Curios from Sarkareth are no longer unique.

Player versus Player

• Classes
  • Monk
    • Resolved an issue that could cause Stormspirit Strikes (PvP Talent) to deal more damage than intended to targets.

Quests

• Fixed an issue where looting a Secured Shipment could prevent “Aiding the Accord: Suffusion Camp” from being completed.

WoW Classic Era

• The Defias Traitor is no longer killable by players of the opposite faction to prevent griefing.

MAY 9, 2023

Characters

• Dracthyr wearing the Scarlet Crusade tabard can now speak to the Scarlet Quartermaster in the Darkmoon Faire.

Classes

• Priest
  • Fixed an issue causing Halo and Divine Star to appear in the incorrect Spellbook.
  • Discipline
    • Fixed an issue causing Halo and Divine Star to not convert to Shadow spells when casting Shadow Covenant.
  • Shadow
    • Resolved an issue causing Void Lashers spawned by Idol of C’Thun to stop attacking after their initial target dies.
• Shaman
  • Elemental
    • Fixed an issue causing Spirit Walk to cancel Ghost Wolf form for Elemental Shaman.

Dungeons and Raids

• Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
  • Fixed an issue that allowed players to reset The Forgotten Experiments encounter unintentionally.
• Brackenhide Hollow
  • Fixed an issue that caused Chief Softpaw not to spawn.
• Halls of Infusion
  • Gulping Goliath
    • Fixed an issue that caused the visual for Cave In to not properly display.
• Seat of the Triumvirate
  • Fixed an issue blocking progress in the dungeon if Viceroy Nezhar is instantly slain.
• Mythic+
  • Affixes
    • Raging no longer applies to lieutenant level creatures.
      • Developer’s notes: Enemies that are +1 level above others are no longer affected by the Raging affix. Since they’re typically already immune to Crowd Control, the Raging effect would be redundant in these cases and reduce clarity of which enemy to dispel.
  • Freehold
    • Harlan Sweete
      • Harlan Sweete’s Swiftwind Saber no longer hits pets.

Items and Rewards

• The Highland Drake: Embodiment of the Hellforged dragonriding manuscript now has a very low chance to drop from Sarkareth on LFR, Normal, and Heroic raid difficulties. Mythic raiders will always receive two manuscripts per Sarkareth kill until the end of the expansion.

Enemies and NPCs

• Suffusion Camp
  • Fixed an issue where Fyrakk was more vulnerable than intended.
  • Reduced how often Fyrakk threatens to burn players.

Player versus Player

• Hired Kithguard in Loamm have been training with Brullo the Strong and are now a more serious deterrent to PvP inside of town.
• Classes
  • Druid
    • Feral
      • Wild Attunement now highlights Rip, Ferocious Bite, and Maim when active.
      • Fixed an issue that caused Wild Attunement to sometimes not cast Feral Frenzy if used at max melee range.

Quests

• Fixed an issue that prevented players from being able to complete the legacy quest “Call of the Raven Mother.”
• Zaralek Cavern
  • Players will now keep the Protection of the Ebon Flight buff during “Know Thy Enemy” even if “Legends of the Zaqali” is completed beforehand.

MAY 8, 2023

Classes

• Demon Hunter
  • Fixed an issue that caused targets with Misery in Defeat’s debuff to be treated as if they were crowd-controlled and thus avoided by some skills (i.e. Avenger’s Shield).
  • Havoc
    • [With weekly restarts] Melee auto attack damage increased by 10%.
    • [With weekly restarts] Demon’s Bite damage increased by 10%.
    • [With weekly restarts] Demon Blades damage increased by 10%.
    • [With weekly restarts] Felblade damage increased by 10%.
    • [With weekly restarts] Isolated Prey now increases Eye Beam damage by 30% when striking 1 target (was 25%).
  • Vengeance
    • Developer’s notes: The rules and behavior for how Fiery Brand refreshed and spread with the Burning Alive talent had some historic inconsistencies and minor bugs that became more egregious when the talented second charge and the 10.1 Set Bonus were introduced. Alongside the fix described above, we wanted to clarify the behavior players should expect moving forward:
      • Applying Fiery Brand to a target already afflicted by your Fiery Brand will refresh its duration, to a maximum of 10 seconds.
      • With the Burning Alive talent selected, only Fiery Brands applied directly (by casting the spell or from the Set bonus) are capable of spreading.
      • Every 2 seconds while a spread-capable Fiery Brands persists, it will try to spread to a nearby target that does not already have a Fiery Brand applied. There is no longer a hidden rule preventing a target from being spread to multiple times in a short period.
      • When a Fiery Brand successfully spreads to a new target, the duration of the spread will always be 10 seconds, regardless of the original or remaining duration of the source it spread from.
    • Fixed an issue causing Fiery Brand to continue to spread after its expiration.
    • Fixed an issue that prevented Immolation Aura from benefitting some bonuses, including (but not limited to) Fiery Demise.
    • Fixed an issue that prevented Fiery Brand from benefitting from Holy Priest’s Symbol of Hope cooldown reduction.
    • [With weekly restarts] Shear damage increased by 10%.
    • [With weekly restarts] Fracture damage increased by 10%.
    • [With weekly restarts] Soul Carver damage increased by 20%.
    • [With weekly restarts] Focused Cleave now increases Soul Cleave’s damage to your primary target by 40% (was 30%).
    • [With weekly restarts] Soulcrush now applies Frailty to your primary target for 8 seconds (was 5 seconds).
• Druid
  • Balance
    • Developers’ Note: In some single target scenarios it’s still looking optimal to cast Wrath in Lunar Eclipse. That doesn’t meet our goal for how Balance should play, so we’re reducing Wrath’s effectiveness outside Solar Eclipse and increasing its effectiveness inside Solar Eclipse to correct this. We’re also boosting Balance’s single target damage a small amount.
    • [With weekly restarts] Wrath Astral Power generation reduced to 8 (down from 10).
    • [With weekly restarts] Wrath damage decreased by 5%.
    • [With weekly restarts] Solar Eclipse now increases Wrath damage by 40% (up from 20%).
    • [With weekly restarts] Soul of the Forest now increases Wrath’s Astral Power generation while in Solar Eclipse by 60% (up from 30%).
    • [With weekly restarts] Damage dealt by Faerie Dragons summoned by Denizen of the Dream increased by 25%.
    • [With weekly restarts] Friend of the Fae now increases your Arcane and Nature spell damage by 10% (up from 8%).
    • Primordial Arcanic Pulsar no longer triggers Nature’s Grace if the player does not have any Eclipse.
  • Feral
    • [With weekly restarts] Rampant Ferocity now deals 30% of damage dealt by Ferocious Bite to nearby enemies (down from 35%).
    • [With weekly restarts] Tear Open Wounds now deals 50% of Rip damage it consumes (down from 60%).
  • Guardian
    • Fixed an issue causing some Guardian talents and abilities to incorrectly buff non-class spells.
  • Restoration
    • [With weekly restarts] All healing abilities increased by 2%.
• Evoker
  • Fire Breath will now correctly refund its mana cost if it is canceled while empowering.
• Monk
  • Mistweaver
    • [With weekly restarts] Essence Font healing increased by 15%.
• Paladin
  • Holy
    • [With weekly restarts] All healing abilities decreased by 3%. Does not apply to PvP Combat.
    • [With weekly restarts] Avenging Crusader now transfers 500% of damage done into healing (was 575%).
• Rogue
  • Assassination
    • Fixed an issue that caused some skills to be unaffected by Assassination’s Mastery: Potent Assassin, including Kingsbane’s initial damage, Sepsis, and Mutilate’s damage from Vicious Venoms.
    • Fixed a bug that prevented Lethality’s critical damage bonus from affecting Subtlety’s Shadowstrike attacks.
  • Outlaw
    • Fixed a bug that prevented Lethality’s critical damage bonus from affecting Outlaw’s Sinister Strike attacks.
  • Subtlety
    • Developers’ notes: Class talents that previously modified all damage from spell schools are, in most cases, being updated and standardized with other similar effects to no longer affect external damage sources outside of those that belong to that class. The changes to the below talents impact Subtlety’s damage enough to warrant compensation, which is the reason for the buff to all ability damage.
    • [With weekly restarts] All ability damage increased by 4%.
    • [With weekly restarts] Veiltouched, Deeper Daggers, and Dark Brew no longer affect damage from sources outside of Class and Spec abilities available to Subtlety.
• Warrior
  • Protection
    • [With weekly restarts] Fixed an issue where Battering Ram was providing a passive 20% critical strike damage bonus to all damage rather than to Shield Charge.

Items and Rewards

• [With weekly restarts] Algeth’ar Puzzle Box shared cooldown increased to 30 seconds, effect decreased by 30% for Unholy specialization.
• Fixed an issue where World Boss items were previewing the incorrect item levels in the Dungeon Journal.
• Big Slick in the City’s Conch Whistle is no longer usable in combat, or inside instances and raids.
• In Zaralek Cavern, all players with at least one stack of Insidious Insight will now receive a message indicating when another player has claimed the Seething Cache.

Player versus Player

• Druid
  • Restoration
    • Developers’ notes: Restoration Druid has fallen behind other healers in PvP since the release of 10.0.7. We’d like to ease some previous PvP adjustments that we no longer feel are necessary.
    • [With weekly restarts] Budding Leaves’ effectiveness now reduced by 30% in PvP Combat (was 50%).
• Monk
  • Mistweaver
    • Developers’ notes: Mistweavers have received significant Quality of Life changes throughout the last few patches that have increased their effectiveness in PvP to a point where we see them as oppressive to the viability of other specializations. We’re reducing many of the PvP multipliers associated with Ancient Teachings and their damage throughput, and we’re increasing the effectiveness of Renewing Mist to encourage Healing over Time management and reducing Vivify’s healing to keep their casting throughput relatively similar.
    • [With weekly restarts] Ancient Teachings’ effectiveness is now increased by 120% in PvP Combat (was 150%).
    • [With weekly restarts] Blackout Kick no longer deals 25% increased damage for Mistweaver Monks in PvP Combat.
    • [With weekly restarts] Blackout Kicks from Teachings of the Monastery now deal 15% reduced damage for Mistweaver Monks in PvP Combat.
    • [With weekly restarts] Tiger Palm now deals 15% increased damage for Mistweaver Monks in PvP Combat (was 30%).
    • [With weekly restarts] Rising Sun Kick’s damage reduced by 20% for Mistweaver Monks in PvP Combat.
    • [With weekly restarts] Vivify’s primary healing now reduced by 10% for Mistweaver Monks in PvP Combat.
    • [With weekly restarts] Renewing Mist’s healing increased by 40% in PvP Combat (was 25%).

Professions

• Fixed an issue where some recipes without “Use Best Quality Reagents” option would sometimes incorrectly use Q3 reagents despite Q1 being selected.
• Alchemy
  • Fixed a bug that prevented Iced Phial of Corrupting Rage from inheriting its new intended value of 400% (was 100%).
• Herbalism
  • Fixed a bug that caused the Zaralek Glowbur aura to frequently break stealth and engage enemies.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the themed aura extension effect from applying when gathering basic, non-themed gathering nodes.
• Mining
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the themed aura extension effect from applying when gathering basic, non-themed gathering nodes.

Quests

• Fixed an issue where the minimap would sometimes not populate for players after accepting “Murloc Mania.”
• The “Here We Go Again” campaign header will now inform players if they reach the end of the currently available campaign content and need to wait for more to be unlocked.
• Zaralek Cavern
  • “Aiding the Accord: Sniffenseeking” will now auto-complete the dig objective if you’ve already done a dig with Myrrit this week. Players currently affected will need to abandon and re-accept the quest in Valdrakken.

Trading Post

• Fixed a bug where the purchase button could become available for frozen items after the monthly rollover.

MAY 5, 2023

Achievements

• The achievement Proof of Myrrit no longer requires the quest “Brand New Digs.”

Classes

• Developers’ notes: Earlier this week, we changed Embellishments so that they did not scale with class talents, abilities, and set bonuses. We’ve decided to revert that change, and we’re now making updates to class abilities that unintentionally boosted the damage of non-class effects such as Embellishments and trinkets.
• Demon Hunter
  • Vengeance
    • Fiery Demise now affects only Demon Hunter class damage, and does not affect trinket or item damage, or Fire damage dealt by other casters.
• Druid
  • Balance
    • Friend of the Fae and Waning Twilight now affect only Druid class damage, and do not affect trinket or item damage.
• Warlock
  • Demonology
    • Fixed an issue where Demonic Tyrant’s Demonfire was benefiting from The Houndmaster’s Stratagem.

Dragonriding and Mounts

• Fixed an issue where some mount riding animations were playing incorrectly.

Items and Rewards

• The item awarding the pet Diamondshell no longer gives an error saying the spell is not available, and now correctly awards the pet.
• The toy “Earpieces of Tranquil Focus” now costs 1 copper (was 50 gold).
  • Developers’ notes: This toy eliminates many musical and vocal projections of characters around the player. This toy can be purchased from Craggle Wobbletop in Stormwind, Blax Bottlerocket in Orgimmar, Jepetto Joybuzz or his clockwork assistant in Dalaran (either), and Kazbala in Talador.

Player versus Player

• Warlock
  • Soul Rip (PvP Talent) healing reduction no longer stacks with other similar effects in PvP.

Trading Post

• Adjusted the sheathing position for Tiercel’s Wing.

Quests

• Fixed an issue that prevents players from picking up “A Room Without a View.” Rupert will now offer to take you to the vault even if you don’t have the quest.

May 4, 2023 

Classes

• Monk
  • Windwalker
    • Fixed an issue that caused the critical damage bonus of the Rising Star talent to be lower than intended.
• Warlock
  • Call Observer (PvP Talent) Laserbeam no longer procs from unintended effects, and no longer damages player pets and summons.
  • Demonology
    • Fixed an issue where Legion Strike from Grimoire: Felguard was benefitting from Immutable Hatred.
    • Fixed an issue where Pact of the Imp Mother was not correctly benefitting from being Rank 2.

Items and Rewards

• Rae’ena and Cataloger Jakes of the Dragonscale Expedition now have the drakewatcher manuscript Renewed Proto-Drake: Brown Hair in stock.

Professions

• Herbalism
  • Fixed a bug that caused the Zaralek Glowbur buff to frequently break stealth and attract enemies.

Quests

• Seething Cache now correctly cancels Insidious Insight on all players after being looted by the first player to reach it.
• Fixed an issue where the creatures required to complete the quest Flesh To Bone were not spawning frequently enough.
• Players who die and release spirit during the Sniffenseeking puzzle “Your Weight in Gold” will now correctly appear at the graveyard inside of the Mysterious Cave.
• During the Sniffenseek dig “Heart of Iron’, Myrrit will be more helpful, to suggest sniffing for the final chest after the key is found.
• The Smelly Bag for the Sniffenseeking tutorial “The Buddy System” should now re-appear if players do not loot or accidentally discard the key.
• Added sparkles to certain objectives in Sniffenseeking to help improve visibility.

System

• Fixed an issue that resulted in crashes for mac users under certain circumstances.
• Fixed an issue where player nameplates were not displaying correctly.
• Fixed an issue where players would get an error when viewing a PvP vendor.
• Fixed an issue where Pandaren did not have race change options.

MAY 3, 2023

Classes

• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • Fixed an issue where Infirmity would increase all damage done, rather than just class spells and abilities.

Dragonriding

• Fixed an issue where some characters were not able to Dragonride after the 10.1 update.

Dungeons and Raids

• Ruby Life Pools
  • Melidrussa Chillworn
    • Ice Bulwark now absorbs 25% less damage.
• Vault of the Incarnates
  • Kurog Grimtotem
    • Enveloping Earth now absorbs 25% less healing on all difficulties.
  • Broodkeeper Diurna
    • Icy Shroud now absorbs 25% less healing on all difficulties.
  • Raszageth
    • Stormsurge now absorbs 25% less damage on all difficulties.
    • Shattering Shroud now absorbs 25% less healing on all difficulties.

Professions

• Engineering
  • Fixed a bug that prevented players from teleporting to the Zaralek Cavern with their Wyrmhole Generator.
  • Fixed a bug that restricted the Forbidden Reach teleport option on the Wyrmhole Generator until after the Zaralek Cavern teleport was unlocked.

Quests

• Added option for players to turn in this quest to Elder Honeypelt during “In the Wake of Ashes.”
• The quests “A Worthy Ally” and “Tougher Down Under” should now unlock for any level 70 character on an account that has completed the first chapter of Zaralek Cavern on any character.
• Fixed an issue where completing the World Quest “Ending Their Watch” Could prevent you from completing “A Room Without a View.”

System

• Fixed an issue where players were unable to access the support site from the in-game menu.

MAY 2, 2023

Classes

• Monk
  • Brewmaster
    • Fixed an issue causing Blackout Kick and Spinning Crane Kick to deal more damage than intended.

Professions

• Embellishments should not scale with class talents, abilities, or set bonuses that affect the caster’s damage or healing.
  • Developers’ notes: This fix addresses a PTR behavior of Embellishments that was unintended.
• Fixed an issue where the Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power crafting order recipe was requesting the wrong reagents.
  • Developers’ notes: All Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power crafting orders that have not been fulfilled by the time this hotfix goes live have been canceled.

Quests

• Fixed an issue where players wouldn’t get credit for completing Chapter 1 of Embers of Neltharion.

The hotfix notes for the previous patch can be found here.