Season of Discovery Hotfixes for February 28: Rogue Blade Flurry & Warrior Sweeping Strikes

Author: Luxrah
Date: March 1, 2025
Updated: March 1, 2025
Expansion: WoW Classic

A pair of very specific hotfixes have gone live for Season of Discovery targeting one Rogue ability and one Warrior ability.

Blade Flurry for Rogues and Sweeping Strikes for Warriors have both been changed to no longer receive double % increases, with the Warrior change only applying inside the Naxxramas raid. These abilities were overperofrming in certain situations, including when players were mind controlled by Kel’thuzad and Prophet Skeram.

Linxy – (Source)

February 28, 2025
Season of Discovery

Rogue
- Blade Flurry no longer receives double % increases.
  - Developers’ notes: This affects Seal of the Dawn and Rogue set bonuses. Now, % increases from hostile Mind Controls like Chains of Kel’thuzad or Prophet Skeram’s Mind Control no longer cause massive amounts of damage from Blade Flurry.
Warrior
- Sweeping Strikes no longer receives double % increases while inside of Naxxramas.
  - Developers’ notes: Due to Warriors having multiple % increases in their kit through Enrage, we did not want to impact their PvP performance with this bugfix, so this only applies to Warriors while inside Naxxramas. This means Seal of the Dawn and Warrior set bonuses are no longer doubled, and % increases from hostile Mind Controls inside of Naxxramas like Chains of Kel’thuzad no longer cause massive amounts of damage from Sweeping Strikes.

About the Author

Luxrah

I've been playing World of Warcraft on and off since vanilla, usually as a healer or caster and often as a guild leader. I play both retail and classic. I also love RPGs, sandboxes, and sims.