The War Within Hotfixes for October 23: Feral Druid Buffs & 20th Anniversary Bug Fixes

Author: Luxrah
Date: October 24, 2024
Updated: October 24, 2024
Expansion: World of Warcraft

Day two of the 20th Anniversary Update brings some hotfixes to World of Warcraft, mainly in the form of bug fixes. There are some fixes for the 20th Anniversary Event as well as a few class abilities.

There are also some buffs included for Feral Druids which apparently were intended to be included in the patch but didn’t make it in. The buffs include a 20% increase to Shred damage, a 5% increase to Rake damage, and a boost to the damage increase from Wild Slashes.

Blizzard – (Source)

Here you’ll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: The War Within, Cataclysm Classic, Season of Discovery, WoW Classic Era, and Hardcore. 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

October 23, 2024

Classes

Druid
- Feral
  - Shred damage increased by 20%.
  - Rake damage increased by 5%.
  - Wild Slashes increases Swipe and Thrash damage by 40% (was 25%).
  - Druid of the Claw: Ravages cast by Convoke the Spirits now trigger Killing Strikes.
    - Developers’ notes: The Feral changes above were intended to be a part of the 11.0.5 patch, but temporarily went missing.
Hunter
- Beast Mastery
  - Corrected an issue causing Phantom Pain to unintentionally deal repeated damage to the same enemy player.
Shaman
- Enhancement
  - Resolved an issue causing Fire Nova to be disabled while there are Flame Shock targets around.
- Restoration
  - Resolved an issue causing Ascendance to not duplicate healing as Restorative Mists.

Items

Fixed an issue where the Burst of Knowledge trinket was not sharing a cooldown with other on-use trinkets.
Added a 1-second cooldown to the Burst of Knowledge trinket, to prevent some spells from causing more than one stack.

User Interface

The world boss icon for Orta, The Broken Mountain will now appear on Azj-Kahet’s zone map as well as the City of Threads map.

WoW’s 20^th Anniversary

The Awakening the Machine weekly quest now rewards a Bronze Celebration Token as intended.
Blackrock Depths
- Moira Bronzebeard will now respect her cooldown for Shadow Word: Nemesis in the Emperor Dagran Thaurissan encounter on Raid Finder difficulty.

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.