Hotfixes

April 4, 2024
WoW Classic Era

Temple of Ahn’qiraj
- Twin Emperors
  - Fixed an issue that prevented Vek’nilash and Vek’lor from sharing health.

February 16, 2024

WoW Classic Era

Paladin
- Fixed an issue where Seal of Righteousness ranks 4 and higher did less damage than rank 3. This fix has been applied to Season of Discovery and Classic Era.

November 15, 2023

WoW Classic Era

[With realm restarts] Fixed an issue that prevented respeccing from refunding all of the character’s talent points as expected.

October 25, 2023

WoW Classic Era and Hardcore

(With realm restarts) Added additional protections to prevent some deaths via flight-path disconnects. Now when you take a taxi, a protection aura is placed on you that prevents all damage, your hearthstone cooldown is reset, and your hearthstone spell is insta-cast.
- Developers’ notes: We have alerts in place that will help us as we continue to monitor and investigate this issue.

October 20, 2023

WoW Classic Era and Hardcore

Undead enemies in the tunnels just outside the entrance to Deadmines now have a more reasonable spawn rate.

October 13, 2023

Classic Era and Hardcore

The object created by a warlock’s Ritual of Summoning is now placed exactly where the warlock is standing.

October 2, 2023

WoW Classic

Hardcore
- On Hardcore realms, mind control spells can not be used during normal duels.
  - Developers’ notes: There should be no change to duels on non-Hardcore realms, and this should not prevent players from using mind control spells during Mak’gora duels to the death.
- Added an identifier that will show you the player class and level on hover-over, when challenged to a duel to the death.

September 26, 2023

WoW Classic Era

Fixed an issue that prevented Ouro from spawning after a post-wipe reset.

September 19, 2023

WoW Classic Era

The most-recent Alterac Valley bonus weekend has been extended. The bonus will end when the next bonus weekend (Warsong Gulch) begins on Friday, September 22.

September 15, 2023

WoW Classic Era

[With Realm Restarts] Fixed a bug affecting bonus Honor awarded for Alterac Valley.
Completing “Fish in a Bucket” no longer rewards gold.
- Developers’ notes: This change was originally made in patch 2.0.10 and works well in Classic Era/Hardcore, as the original quest provided an uncontested, single-faction, infinitely repeatable, low risk gold reward that does not comport with the nature of the rest of the game.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

WoW Classic Era and Hardcore

Fixed an issue where certain hunter pets could be dismissed and attack nearby players.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

WoW Classic

Fixed a bug that prevented the NPC Tyrion from turning back into a quest-giver at the conclusion of the quest “The Attack!”
Hardcore Realms
- The Coarse Dynamite thrown by civilian dwarf NPCs at Dun Modr should no longer cause players to become PvP flagged.
- Developers’ notes: These specific NPCs had a very small chance to hit you and flag you, so it may as well be zero chance. Nonetheless, we do not intend to make changes to the general behavior of enemy faction guards in Hardcore. Players who wish to avoid being flagged for PvP should avoid enemy faction settlements and quests labeled “PvP” in the Quest Log.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

WoW Classic Era

For each player-character’s current Rank, weekly PvP contribution calculations now only award up to the amount of contribution points missing in progress towards the next Rank threshold.
- Developers’ note: In higher ranks, players have been intentionally earning dishonorable kills to lower themselves below their current rank threshold in order to gain credit for an additional Rank, thereby allowing them to gain progress more quickly than a player who is just above that next Rank threshold. You now first earn up to the amount you’re missing from the Rank you start in. There should no longer be a benefit from lowering one’s rank via dishonorable kills to earn progress more quickly.
Fixed an issue that caused the Honor reward for Alterac Valley marks turn-in quests to be unintentionally doubled.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

WoW Classic Hardcore

The String of Ears buff earned for Mak’gora kills now persists through death.
Developers’ notes: This will allow the new Classic API to report the correct Mak’gora kill count for deceased characters.

MAY 10, 2023

WoW Classic Era

The Defias Traitor is no longer killable by players of the opposite faction to prevent griefing.

DECEMBER 12, 2022

WoW Classic Era

Corrected an issue that caused PvP Rank to fail to be calculated for the week ending December 6.
- Developers’ notes: The December 6 calculations were recorded incorrectly, so we’ve reversed any decay incurred on December 6, and replaced it with rank points calculated using your best weekly ranking from the last 30 days. Additionally, players who began doing PvP the week ending December 6 (and therefore have no history to look at in the previous 30 days) have been granted 5000 rank points as compensation.
- Sorcerer’s note: The long-lost Eldritch incantation required to update PvP Rank was not meant for mortals to invoke.

AUGUST 9, 2022

Season of Mastery

Naxxramas
- Fixed an issue where bonus loot could not be rewarded when defeating a boss using Runes of Fortune.
  - Developers’ note: Raid groups should always receive an extra Set Piece Token, piece of Gear the boss normally drops, or Splinter of Atiesh per stack of Rune of Fortune the raid has active.

JULY 12, 2022

Season of Mastery

The Essence of C’Thun debuff now resets at the beginning of each Temple of Ahn’Qiraj boss encounter.

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Season of Mastery

The Adventure Awaits aura benefitting all Season of Mastery players below level 60 now also grants +100% bonus gold from quest rewards.
- Developers’ note: This does not apply to repeatable quests, nor does it apply to level 60 players, as they don’t have the aura. This is intended to match the recent increase to +100% XP granted by the aura, so that leveling players do not feel unable to purchase their most important spells.