Season of Discovery Hotfixes for April 17: Class Adjustments & Balnazzar Fixes

April 17, 2025

Season of Discovery

• The effects of the Conundrum wand will no longer occasionally fall off.
• Hunter
  • 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.
• Rogue
  • The Fallen Regality set will now correctly restore energy to the Rogue after casting Crimson Tempest.
• Shaman
  • Enhancement Tier 3 pieces can now also be traded for Elemental Tier 3 pieces until April 28.
• Warrior
  • The Scarlet Enclave Protection Warrior 2-set bonus has had its damage on Shockwave increased to 60% (was 35).
  • Warriors in Season of Discovery now have an additional 10% reduction to damage taken while in Defensive Stance.
  • Threat generated by the Furious Thunder Rune increased to 75% (was 50%).
  • The attack power ratio of Thunder Clap in Season of Discovery has been increased to 7% (was 5%).
  • Thunder Clap now uses your Ranged hit chance to land and can return a Miss (was Spell hit chance and can return a Resist).
  • Engraving Defense Specialization onto your Ring will grant your Thunder Clap 3% increased chance to hit, to make up for the fact that Weapon Skill does not affect it normally.
  • Thunder Clap is now capable of landing a critical strike. Because of this, Thunder Clap now benefits from Impale.
    • Developers’ notes: Just to be clear and set expectations with interactions, Thunder Clap will not apply Deep Wounds upon landing a Critical Strike.
  • Devastate’s damage per stack of Sunder has been increased to 15% (was 10%).
    • Developers’ notes: Currently Devastate is weaker than a basic attack, this should bring it more in line as a filler without being overtaken by Thunder Clap as a way to deal damage.
• 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
    • You can no longer release during the ending RP of the Balnazzar encounter.
    • 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.
    • Beatrix’s portion of the RP before the Prison should now be visible to players even if they are farther away.
    • Balnazzar’s encounter should now always result in a lootable chest even if everyone dies during the ending of the encounter.
    • If there are remaining Lightbearers at the end of the fight, they will now correctly despawn.