- Author: Luxrah
- Date: July 30, 2024
- Updated: July 30, 2024
- Expansion: WoW Classic
A round of hotfixes has gone out for Phase 4 of Season of Discovery, with changes primarily targeting the Molten Core raid, which was released last week.
Among other things, there is a fix to an issue where players could not douse the Rune of Kress after defeating Magmadar. Doing so requires swapping the Heat difficulty back and forth in order to fix the rune. There’s also an adjustment to the damage taken by characters who are around 30 points below the fire resistance target for a given Heat difficulty, which is meant to account for players being out of range of totems or auras. This latter change will be implemented with the weekly realm restarts tomorrow.
Also being implemented with tomorrow’s realm restarts is a change to Hunters’ Entrapment, which will now have diminishing returns on players. Other class changes that have already gone live, as well as other miscellaneous fixes, can be read in the complete patch notes below.
July 29, 2024
Season of Discovery
- Players who have the 18-slot version of the Bottomless Bag may now exchange the bag or the Pattern for the 20-slot version at Rix Xizzix in Booty Bay.
- Players who have killed Magmadar but are unable to douse the Rune of Kress can now swap the Heat difficulty back and forth and should find you can now douse the Rune.
- Lava Surgers in Molten Core will no longer spawn once Ragnaros has been defeated.
- Fixed an issue with many of the class dungeon set bonuses. They can now only be triggered by abilities, and not by item use.
- Ragnaros is no longer immune to Paladins’ Hand of Reckoning.
- Fixed a bug interrupting eating or drinking when near a graveyard.
- Fixed a bug where the incorrect version of Quel’Serrar could appear in this version of the game.
- [With weekly restarts] The increased damage taken for low Fire Resistance in Molten Core on Heat 2 and Heat 3 has been reduced but is still extremely dangerous. Characters who are at 30 resistance lower than intended should now expect to take about 3 times normal damage (was guaranteed fatal).
- Developers’ notes: This is intended to allow players who are dependent on Resistance Totems or Paladin Auras to have a chance to survive if briefly not within the range of those effects.
- Hunter
- [With weekly restarts] Entrapment now triggers a diminishing return as a Root effect on players each time it is applied. Subsequent durations will be halved and then quartered in duration, and then the target will become immune for 30 seconds.
- Fixed a bug that prevented Hunters from being able to interact with the four demons involved in the Rhok’delar quest chain.
- Priest
- Fixed an issue where re-speccing did not remove Divine Spirit appropriately.
- Rogue
- The 6-piece Tier 1 bonus no longer puts Vanish on cooldown.
- Shaman
- You can no longer have Burn and Way of Earth active at the same time by using Rockbiter Rank 3.
- Warlock
- Shadowflame will no longer be overwritten by Improved Shadow Bolt.
- Warrior
- The Warrior 2-piece Tier 1 bonus Tactician will no longer be consumed if the spell cast was a free Blood Surge Slam.
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