The War Within Hotfixes for September 18: Melee Damage Trinkets are No Longer Main Spec Items for Tanks

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

September 18, 2024

Achievements

• Fixed an issue where the cosmetic rewards for Nemesis and Let Me Solo Him were not delivered upon defeating Zek’vir. Those that have not received their rewards are able to obtain them by re-defeating Zek’vir on any difficulty.
• The First Echo, A Series of Echoes, and Many Echoes are now credited to players in raid groups.

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Exterminate aura now has a 30-second duration and is now cleared at the start of raid encounters Mythic+ dungeons.
• Hunter
  • Raptor Strikes and Mongoose Bites empowered by Merciless Blows should no longer cleave to stealthed or breakable crowd-controlled enemies.
• Priest
  • Holy
    • Archon: Fixed an issue causing Resonant Energy and Shock Pulse to not stack properly when Halo is cast by multiple Priests.
• Mage
  • Frostfire: Fixed an issue that caused Frostfire Bolt to not deal its damage if its missile lands on targets out of line of sight.
  • Hyperthermia will now guarantee Heating Up, Hot Streak, and critical strikes when casting Flamestrike.
  • Icy Veins no longer consumes Ice Floes.
  • Living Bomb can no longer hit or spread to dead targets.
  • Living Bomb’s explosion will no longer damage breakable crowd-controlled targets.
  • Living Bomb will prefer being applied to targets not in breakable crowd control.
  • Fixed an issue that allowed Arcane Mages to generate 2 Spellfire Spheres at once.
  • Burden of Power can no longer be instantly consumed by the Arcane Blast that proc’d it.

Delves

• Fixed an issue where learning Relicblood of Zekvir would prevent other curios from dropping.
• Fixed an issue where Reno Jackson could become uninteractible if hit by a Sporbit’s explosion.
• Kobold Delves
  • Resolved an issue where the Enchanted Candle or Air Totem could despawn upon picking it up.
• Fungal Folly
  • Kasthrik will no longer lie to you when you successfully complete his puzzle.
• Skittering Breach
  • Adjusted Light Dash to feel more responsive in the Shadow Realm variant. The distance Light Dash will go is shorter, but the cooldown to use each charge is faster.
  • Light Dash should hit Grasping Shadow’s even if the player is a few feet above it.

Dungeons

• Grim Batol
  • Addressed an issue where Forgemaster Throngus’ Molten Pool visual can fail to appear on stairs.
• Mists of Tirna Scithe
  • Tred’ova’s selection circle now correctly matches the range it can be attacked from.

Events

• Resolved an issue where the map tooltip for the Theater Troupe event was displaying incorrect information about the current play.

Items and Rewards

• Necrotic Wake Challenger’s Cache now correctly awards Crests.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent alts from getting a valorstone discount from a main character’s high weapon item level in some circumstances.
• Addressed an issue preventing some Veteran world equipment from being able to convert to Tier.
• Fateweaved Needle and Fateweaved Mallet no longer scale with Haste.
• Tanks are now ineligible for Need rolls on melee damage trinkets such as Skyterrors’s Corrosive Organ and Void Reaper’s Contract. Tanks will no longer find them in their Great Vaults without switching to an appropriate damage loot specialization.

Player versus Player

• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • Fixed an issue causing Tormented Crescendo procs to remove Stealth from nearby enemies.

Professions

• Alchemy
  • Fixed a bug that caused Algari Alchemist Stone to offer substantially less primary stat on proc than intended.

Quests

• Inscription contracts for additional reputation from World Quests should now properly function with Skyriding World Quests in Khaz Algar.
• Bags of Seeds now drop more often on the quest “Seeds of Salvation” in Hallowfall.

User Interface

• The battle pet Mister Muskoxeles now appears properly in Collections.