by JR Cook - 9 years ago     show comments

Blizzard pushed out a very tiny client-side patch today to address a few issues that couldn’t be managed via hotfix.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Mac users with certain video cards were experiencing in-game performance issues.
• Fixed an issue that could cause warning pre-visuals for creatures’ area-of-effect spells to display in incorrect locations.
• Fixed an issue where icons in the Naval Mission UI were displaying in the wrong color.
• Fixed an issue where some sounds or voice files in Hellfire Citadel were not playing correctly.

Also, the hotfix blog has been updated with a spread of class fixes and balance tweaks.

As expect, the bulk of the fixes deal with rare creatures in Tanaan Jungle and boss mechanics in Hellfire Citadel, but there’s a few other notes that may catch your eye if you’ve been playing with a Sassy Imp or an Enhancement shaman.

Check out the full hotfix blog or read today’s changes below.

Class

Death Knight

Frost

• [Hotfix in testing] Frost Strike and Obliterate have been reduced to their pre-6.2 damage levels.
  • The change to Might of the Frozen Wastes remains in place and is a significant buff to Frost Strike damage while dual-wielding.
  • Obliterate once again deals full damage to players.
• [Hotfix in testing] Howling Blast damage has been reduced by 13.5% but is still a slight buff from its pre-6.2 damage levels.
  • The change to Howling Blast’s area damage remains in place, and continues to deal full damage to all enemies within range.

Hunter

Beast Mastery

• [Hotfix in testing] Improved Focus Fire should now correctly increase attack power.

Shaman

Enhancement

• [Hotfix in testing] Lava Lash now deals 20% more damage.
• [Hotfix in testing] Stormstrike now deals 20% more damage.
• [Hotfix in testing] Windstrike now deals 20% more damage.

World Environment and Events

Tanaan Jungle

• Enabled a graveyard much closer to the Throne of Kil’jaeden area to no longer require completion of the quest “The Assault Base”.
• Looted Bleeding Hollow Treasure should now contain more Garrison Resources.

Midsummer Fire Festival

• Burning Blossom’s Fire Festival Fury effect no longer stacks with flasks.

Creatures and NPCs

Tanaan Jungle

• Savage Whale Shark has migrated to a savage new home in the waters around Ironhold Harbor.
• Players should no longer be seeing zone wide messages from rare creatures or NPCs that are not in their area.
• Fixed an issue where players were unable to block the beams to activate Varyx the Damned.
• Fixed an issue that could cause players to not receive loot after defeating Supreme Lord Kazzak.

Quests

Garrison Quests

• If At First You Fail, Try Again!: Fixed an issue that could cause players to be unable to complete the quest.

Tanaan Jungle

• Tooth and Claw: The quest now awards 100 Blackfang Claws on competition (up from 25 Blackfang Claws).

Legendary Ring Quest Line

• Legacy of the Sorcerer Kings: Tracking and credit for obtaining Abrogator Stones should be working correctly once more.
• The Shadow War: The location for quest turn-in should now be updated correctly if Khadgar has moved to a new location.

Raids and Dungeons

Hellfire Citadel

General

• Increased the chance for non-boss enemies (“trash”) in Hellfire Citadel to drop epic items.

Hellfire Assault

• Contracted Engineer now has roughly 5% less health on Heroic difficulty.
• Gorebound Felcaster now has roughly 5% less health on Heroic difficulty.
• Hulking Berserker now has roughly 15% less health on Heroic difficulty.
• Iron Dragoon now has roughly 5% less health on Heroic difficulty.

Kilrogg Deadeye

• Fixed an issue where players that died during the encounter while the raid group completes the achievement “A Race Against Slime” was not receiving Ariok as a follower.

Shadow-Lord Iskar

• Fel Bomb should no longer be incorrectly removed by Mistweaver Monk’s Revival if the player is not holding the Eye of Anzu.

Socrethar the Eternal

• Soulbound Construct while it’s under player control should no longer be affected by Rallying Cry.
• Sargerei Dominators now have a very brief delay before attacking after being spawned.

Fel Lord Zakuun

• The number of players chosen for Seed of Destruction should now scale correctly based on raid size.

Mannoroth

• Players should now be able to see a buff on Fel Iron Summoners to indicate the type of portal being opened during Stage One of the encounter.

Archimonde

• Defeating a Hellfire Deathcaller should now correctly only remove a single stack of Death Brand on the target.

PvP

Ashran

• Decreased the maximum number of players on each faction to 40. To compensate for this change, we’ve also increased the number of Ashran instances.
• [Requires a realm restart] If a faction repeatedly loses at an Ashran event, they will now receive an invisible progressive buff that increases their damage, healing, and damage absorption by 5% per stack. This effect can stack up to 10 times. A stack of the buff will be removed each time the losing faction wins an event.

Items

• Saberstalker Teachings: Trailblazer should now be usable by players that already have learned Treasure Map: Tanaan Jungle.
• Sassy Imp should no longer have a chance to summon a stable master.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that could cause players to be dismounted while on a quest flight path.