Hotfixes for January 21-22nd, Garrison Campaign Fixes

by JR Cook - 9 years ago     show comments

Yesterday’s hotfixes addressed several issues across the board, but looks like special attention was given to fixing errors with some garrison campaigns. Another hotfix that was slipped in today (and may take until the next scheduled restart to take effect for everyone) will fix the inconsistent issue of players not being able to advance on their garrison campaign quest.

Aside from players finally getting the ability to clear certain quests and getting access to some new followers, here are the highlights of the latest hotfixes.

• Glyph of Illumination is now properly gone.
• Demo Locks in Metamorphosis will be slightly less effective in PVP when using Demonbolt.
• The Mastery passive for Arms Warriors has been tweaked but should still be an improvement.
• Iteration on Ashran continues: when your queue pops from Stormshield/Warspear, you should now properly be teleported to Ashran for combat.

Read the latest changes below, or check out the official blog for all changes (except for the above-mentioned garrison progression bug — that’s not in the official blog yet).

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

• Garrison Campaign Quests
  • A Stolen Heart: Azuka Bladefury should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode for Horde characters.
  • Primal Fury: Completing the quest should now correctly award Thisalee Crow (Alliance) or Choluna (Horde) as a Follower. A fix to award the followers for players that have already completed the quest will be made at a later date.
  • Socrethar’s Demise: Resolved an issue that could cause the banner used to challenge Socrethar to not work correctly.

Classes

• Hunter
  • Talents
    • Hunter Talents should no longer incorrectly treat Lifelike Mechanical Frostboar as an active Hunter Pet.
• Monk
  • General
    • Instant casting Surging Mist on self via Soothing Mist (Mistweaver) should no longer cause Surging Mist to not provide any healing.
• Paladin
  • Glyphs
    • Glyph of Illumination is obsolete and should no longer be incorrectly retained by some Paladins.
• Shaman
  • Restoration
    • Healing received through Spirit Link Totem redistributing player health to match each other should no longer be incorrectly affected by Dampening.
• Warlock
  • Talents
    • Demonbolt (Demonology) now deals 25% less damage against other players in PvP combat.
• Warrior
  • Arms
    • Mastery: Weapons Master’s effects were overtuned and have been reduced in effectiveness by 18%. The mastery remains significantly stronger than before and is still 29% more powerful than prior to the hotfix from January 12.
  • Armor Sets
    • Tier-16 2-piece bonus for Protection Warriors now heals for 3% less for each character level above level 90.

Quests

• Frostfire Ridge
  • In the Shadow of Giants: Players should now correctly receive completion credit while interacting with Flamrog or Kindler.
• Legacy
  • Trapping the Leader (Kun-Lai Summit): Killing Shan Kien quickly should no longer prevent him from respawning.

Creatures and NPCs

• Shadowmoon Valley
  • Gorum should now correctly leash back to their spawn point.
• Gorgrond
  • Laughing Skull guards at Beastwatch in Gorgrond should no longer attack Horde players.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

• Highmaul
  • Tectus: Resolved an issue where several mobs during the encounter did not reset the cooldown on Marked for Death (Rogue Talent) when killed.
  • Imperator Mar’gok: Volatile Anomaly’s Destabilize ability should now correctly trigger player abilities that activate on taking damage.
• Shadowmoon Burial Grounds
  • Bonemaw: Rogues should now be able to use the Death from Above talent against Carrion Worms and Bonemaw.

PvP

• Ashran
  • Players should now correctly teleport into Ashran when accepting the queue from Stormshield or Warspear.
  • Players leaving Ashran via mini-map are now teleported to a location just outside of Ashran instead of back to the bound Hearthstone location.
  • Scroll of Touch of Death’s effect should no longer be incorrectly retained outside of Ashran.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

• Resolved an issue where some items with Bonus Armor were scaling incorrectly in non-max level bracket Battlegrounds.

Items

• Potions and flasks from earlier expansions should no longer be more powerful than ones from later expansions.
• Cache of Highmaul Treasures should no longer incorrectly spawn items that can be upgraded.

Bug Fixes

• Resolved an issue where characters that log out while in another player’s Garrison may be unable to log back in.