The War Within Hotfixes for September 4: Brann Bronzebeard Balancing & Class Fixes

Author: Luxrah
Date: September 5, 2024
Updated: September 5, 2024
Expansion: World of Warcraft

Today’s hotfix list for The War Within is a bit smaller than yesterday’s, but still significant. The list primarily contains fixes and adjustments to class abilities for Evoker, Mage, Monk, Warlock, and especially Paladin. There’s also a new visual timer for the Hallowfall Fishing Derby quests.

The most notable change, however, is a set of adjustments to Brann Bronzebeard, the first seasonal companion for Delves. It seems that he was not properly balanced to fight alongside players of different classes. He also was not always receiving the player character’s buffs as intended, and he was sometimes missing his attacks. Hopefully he should now be a lot more useful for players of all classes after the changes.

Linxy – (Source)

September 4, 2024

Classes

Evoker
- Scalecommander
  - Fixed an issue where players could be slowed during Deep Breath while talented into Maneuverability.
  - Fixed an issue where Bombardments would occasionally fail to proc while talented into Extended Battle.
Mage
- Spellslinger
  - Volatile Magic no longer hits out-of-combat or crowd-controlled targets.
Monk
- Chi Burst no longer consumes both stacks of its activation buff when cast with 2 stacks.
Paladin
- Dawnlight’s damage now correctly scales with Retribution’s Mastery.
- Dawnlight’s damage can now correctly critically strike.
- Dawnlight’s AoE healing no longer double dips with Versatility.
- Sun’s Avatar damage now correctly scales with Retribution’s Mastery.
- Sun’s Avatar and Dawnlight’s AoE no longer deal damage to enemies out of line-of-sight.
- Retribution
  - Fixed an issue causing Mastery: Highlord’s Judgment to not increase damage from Seal of the Crusader.
Warlock
- Diabolist
  - Fixed an issue where your Pit Lord could be summoned without their portal visual.

Delves

Brann now has an equal amount of attack, spell, and ranged attack power relative to all classes he’s joining, and his stats now increase as expected when the player-character is buffed.
Brann should no longer sometimes miss his attacks.

Quests

Added a visual 1-hour timer to Hallowfall Fishing Derby quests.

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.