- Author: Luxrah
- Date: February 23, 2025
- Updated: February 23, 2025
- Expansion: WoW Classic
A relatively large batch of hotfixes have gone out for Phase 7 of Season of Discovery, with most of it targeting the Naxxramas raid or class abilities and Tier 3 set bonuses.
First there are a few changes to other areas: the Argent Dawn Shoulder Enchantments will now stack up to 20, and Wartorn Undermine Supply Crates will now include double the Wartorn Scraps they did previously. The Undead Slaying sets that can be acquired from the Scourge Invasion or the Karazhan Crypts dungeon will now activate their set bonuses at 2 pieces instead of 3. Furthermore, the three neckpieces that each drop from a specific Failed Apprentice boss in Karazhan Crypts now have a chance to drop from the Dark Rider or Kharon – but only if you have already fought a Failed Apprentice and it was not the same one who drops the neck piece.
There are some fixes for issues that arise when Naxxramas is soft reset after bosses have already been killed. If you’ve run into some of these bugs, you should be able to fix them by soft resetting the instance again. There’s also a fix for Sapphiron’s Glacial Crash damage as well as some changes to the way Loatheb’s Spore buff affects other abilities and bonuses.
Finally, every class except Rogue has seen some sort of tweak to an ability or set bonus. You can find them all listed in Blizzard’s original post below.
February 21, 2025
Season of Discovery
- Soul shoulder enchants are now stackable up to 20. Once purchased, these cannot be refunded.
- Wartorn Undermine Supply Crates now contain about twice as many Wartorn Scraps as before.
- Undead Slaying set bonuses now activate at 2 pieces (was 3).
- Karazhan Crypts
- Added a chance for Kharon and the Dark Rider to drop the neck piece from the apprentice you did NOT unlock.
- Developers’ notes: For example, if you release Kaigy Maryla, Kharon now has a chance to drop Sairuh’s Collar, and the Dark Rider now has a chance to drop Barian’s Choker. We are aware you can summon the Dark Rider before releasing an apprentice. If this happens, the Dark Rider does not have an additional drop chance.
- Naxxramas
- The exit portal that spawns in Sapphiron’s room after the boss has been defeated will now persist after players leave and soft reset the instance.
- The gates blocking entrance into the various wings of Naxxramas will now stay open forever if Kel’Thuzad has been defeated.
- Fixed an issue where the number of bosses killed on the hardest difficulty weren’t tracking properly if you soft reset your raid after killing Four Horsemen.
- Raid groups in a bugged state will be able to fight Sapphiron and Kel’Thuzad on their hard-mode difficulties after soft resetting their instances.
- The Spore Buff on Loatheb will no longer count towards the Dance of the Wicked dodge chance.
- The Spore Buff on Loatheb will no longer count towards the Elemental Shaman Ruins of Ahn’Qiraj 3-piece bonus, the Retribution Paladin T3 6-piece bonus, or the Shadow Priest T3 6-piece bonus for the purposes of increasing damage.
- Sapphiron’s Glacial Crash now correctly splits its damage amongst players, no longer benefits from the player’s % damage modifiers, and Glacial Crash damage has been increased to the correct amount without accounting for player % damage modifiers.
- Druid
- The Restoration T3 6-piece set bonus will now correctly work against Sapphiron’s Frost Aura ticks
- The Feral damage T3 2-piece bonus now mentions in its tooltip that it will not be effective against players.
- Hunter
- Ranged Hunter T3 2-piece now correctly increases the damage dealt by Chimera Shot – Serpent.
- Mage
- Mass Regeneration will correctly update the duration of Temporal Beacons on players who have a Temporal Beacon from another Mage with a longer than 15 second duration.
- Paladin
- The Retribution T3 6-piece bonus now mentions that it does not work while Righteous Fury or Hand of Reckoning are active.
- Priest
- Serendipity now correctly applies to your next Lesser Heal, Heal, Greater Heal, or Prayer of Healing even if they were spell queued before a Serendipity was present.
- Penance is no longer affected by Spell Haste that benefits non-channeled spells.
- Shaman
- The tooltip for the Restoration T3 6-piece set bonus now correctly mentions Earth Shield instead of Spirit of the Alpha.
- Warlock
- Haunt will no longer incorrectly increase the impact damage of Shadowflame.
- Improved Immolate will no longer incorrectly increase the damage from the Warlock T3 Shadowflame hit.
- The Scythe of Chaos will now correctly do its Felhunter Silence and Interrupt.
- Damage Warlock T3 6-piece bonus now correctly ties the Mark of Chaos effect to the Curse of Agony cast and not to the Curse of Recklessness that is applied through the bonus. This prevents Mark of Chaos from falling off if Curse of Recklessness is replaced by another Warlock.
- Haunt will no longer incorrectly increase the impact damage of Shadowflame.
- Improved Immolate will no longer incorrectly increase the damage from the T3 Shadowflame hit.
- Warrior
- Fresh Meat will now correctly have a 100% chance to proc on an encounter after a wipe.
- Fresh Meat will now correctly have a 100% chance to proc against a target in PvP if the target player leaves combat with the Warrior.
- Revenge attack power multiplier increased by 25% (was 15%).
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