World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Wrath of the Lich King Classic, and Burning Crusade Classic Hotfixes for May 2023
Hotfixes:
- Cataclysm Classic
- Account-wide achievements that reward titles will now grant them at an account level.
- Fixed an issue that prevented players from receiving daily Random Battleground rewards.
- Smoke Bomb will now properly cancel Stealth, Prowl, and Shadowmeld from enemy players.
- Fixed an issue that would prevent Warden Stillwater from spawning during the "Lawn of the Dead" quest.
- Fixed an issue where Death Knights in Blood Presence could be incorrectly, critically hit by all melee attacks.
- Reduced the cost of all honor and arena gear from Wrath of the Lich King, to better match honor gain while at level 80 compared to level 85.
- Holidays
- Made some improvements to the Children's Week Quests "The Banshee Queen," "Malfurion Has Returned!," and "The Fallen Chieftain" to more consistently grant quest credit.
- The Children's Week holiday is now extended for one additional week.
- "Ridin' The Rocketway" can now be completed.
- Craggle Wobbletop and Blax Bottlerocket now sell Yellow and Green Balloons for Children's Week.
- Classes
- Druid
- Fixed an issue preventing Smoldering Frenzy (Season 4 (2) Set Bonus) from triggering effects like Seal of Diurna's Chosen.
- Hunter
- Fixed a bug causing Hunters to do trap dropping animations twice.
- Account-wide pet collection achievements now correctly grant rewards.
- Fixed an issue preventing Bloodlust and Heroism from working as intended.
- Mounting the Violet Proto Drake now grants Master Riding to players who are at least level 80 and have Artisan Riding trained.
- Warlock
- The Warlock Demon Soul ability will now work with the Incubus pet.
- Fixed an issue where Warlock Demonology pets were not properly updating from Mastery.
- Fixed an issue with the incorrect tooltip on Demonic Pact. It should correctly read that it grants the Warlock 2% increased personal spell damage.
- Druid
- Dungeons & Raids
- Algeth'ar Academy
- Echo of Doragosa now spawns Uncontrolled Energy 20% less frequently.
- Overwhelming Power now spawns Arcane Rift at 4 stacks (was 3).
- Nokhud Offensive
- Addressed an issue where the rim visual on Static Spear and Crackling Upheaval can disappear under certain situations.
- Items
- Fixed an issue that prevented Eye of Awakening from functioning on rings purchased from Antique Bronze Bullion vendors.
- Fixed an issue that prevented Tiered Medallion Setting from functioning on necklaces purchased from Antique Bronze Bullion vendors.
- Rings and necklaces purchased from Bullion vendors should now be eligible for socket upgrades. This fix is retroactive.
- Non-player Characters
- Vaskarn in the Emerald Dream no longer erroneously mentions that they can upgrade your gear with the use of Flightstones. Vaskarn in Valdrakken is unchanged.
- Quests
- While Time Rifts are empowered, Cache of Embers will now be awarded once per character per week from the quest for defeating a Time Rift Boss.
- Prince Farondis drank his Conjured Protein Shakes and bulked up, allowing players to complete "Save Yourself".
- If a Paladin misplaces the Symbol of Faith during the quest "Materials of Significance", they may now buy a replacement from the Lost and Found vendor in Booty Bay.
- Fixed the Children's Week quest "Cruisin' the Chasm" so that it can now be completed.
- Boosted Paladins should now have Collective Book of Healing or Secondhand Book of Healing as expected.
- Fixed an issue that prevented Worgen from being eligible for some daily quests.
- Ignite damage will no longer be counted double toward Combustion.
- Refreshed Ignite that now has 3 ticks over 6 seconds will do the same amount of damage on each tick.
- Ignite spread by Impact and Fire Blast will no longer have a missing 2nd or 3rd tick that adds damage to future Ignites.
- Shaman
- The Burn rune now also grants a significant bonus to spell power when Flametongue Weapon is imbued on your weapon.
- Rolling Thunder now has a 50% chance to trigger (was 30%).
- Fixed a bug causing overload procs to not add a charge to Lightning Shield when the Shaman has the Rolling Thunder
- Algeth'ar Academy