The War Within Hotfixes for September 5: Improved Delver’s Call Quests & More Leveling Dungeons

September 5, 2024

Classes

• Demon Hunter
  • Sigil of Doom now overrides Sigil of Flame while Precise Sigils is talented.
  • Aldrachi Reaver
    • The global cooldown triggered by Reaver’s Glaive is now reduced by Haste.
    • Warblade’s Hunger is now correctly triggered by Annihilation.
• Mage
  • Spellslinger
    • Splinters generated from Shifting Shards will no longer target enemies that are stealthed.
• Monk
  • Brewmaster
    • Fixed an issue causing Face Palm to grant an incorrect amount of cooldown reduction.
• Paladin
  • Retribution
    • Fixed an issue that caused Sacrosanct Crusade to disappear when Shield of Vengeance was cast.
• Shaman
  • Elemental
    • Fixed an issue where a Tempest Overload could damage creatures that were not within line of sight to the target of your Tempest ability.
    • Fixed an issue where Tempest Overload did not properly benefit from the Stormcaller hero talent.
• Warlock
  • Demonology
    • Fixed an issue where Empowered Legion Strike would persist through death and resummon.
    • Empowered Legion Strike now lasts 20 seconds.

Delves

• Reduced the size of Brann’s click area, so that you can more easily click on other things Brann might be standing next to.
• Fixed an issue where Brann could target out of combat enemies with Gryphadin’s Battle Harness.
• Brann is dodgier. That’s the note.
• Dwarven Medicine will now be cast when off cooldown rather than when a player is missing health.
• Relic of Uldum and Bag of Snacks can now affect player pets.

Dungeons

• Cinderbrew Meadery, Darkflame Cleft, The Dawnbreaker, and City of Echoes are now available while leveling new characters for players that have completed the campaign.
• The Dawnbreaker
  • Druids can now use flight form in The Dawnbreaker dungeon while in combat.

Flying

• Fixed an issue where flying on the Beledar’s Spawn mount could cause framerate to drop.
• If you die in Draenor, your temporary spectral mount will no longer use skyriding.

Items

• Lowered the rarity of the Lamplighter Supply Satchel from Epic to Uncommon to better reflect its contents, which have not changed.
• Hanna’s Locket toy now has a longer cooldown and cannot be used in combat or dungeons.

Player versus Player

• Paladin
  • Retribution
    • Ultimate Retribution has been removed as a PvP talent option.

Quests

• Vanishing Stalkers now spawn much more reliably for “Lynx Rescue”.
• “A Tide Needing Turned” should now properly show the starting location on the Dornogal map.
• World Quests should now award Spark of War for the “Sparks of War” weekly quests.
• Fixed an issue where, after the weekly reset, players were unable to choose a different Severed Threads Pact.
• Greatly increased experience rewards for all “Delver’s Call” quests.
• All “Delver’s Call” quests can now be picked up in their respective Delves and can now be acquired in Adventure Mode.
• New “Delver’s Call” quests have been added for Earthcrawl Mines, the Waterworks, Nightfall Sanctum, and the Underkeep.

Races

• Increased the effect of the Earthen Well Fed secondary stat bonus.
• Belga’s gems are now edible to Earthen, with improved quality and greatly reduced costs.