War Within Season 1: Latest Hotfixes Released (September 23, 2024)

Blizzard has rolled out a new set of hotfixes today for War Within Season 1, addressing various issues and improving gameplay for players. Among the notable updates are several bug fixes for Mythic+ dungeons, aimed at enhancing the overall experience and performance during these challenging encounters.

Blizzard Hotfixes

September 23, 2024

Achievements

Swift has been replaced by Bobbin for completing the achievement Itsy Bitsy Spider.

Classes

Death Knight
- Frost
  - An issue causing Frost Strike to not benefit from Razorice when Shattered Blade consumes it has been resolved.
- Unholy
  - Raise Abomination will now correctly take reduced damage from area of effect damage
Mage
- Spellslinger: Splinterstorm will now find a valid target within range to fire at if your current target is not valid.
- Sunfury: Spellfire Spheres will now generate every 8 seconds while out of combat.
- Sunfury: Spellfire Sphere out of combat generation cap increased to 5 if Rondurmancy is talented.
Monk
- Mastery of Harmony: Overwhelming Force now correctly grants vitality, and is now triggered by Teachings of the Monastery.
- Fixed an issue that caused Chi Burst to stop healing after healing more than 20 targets.
Shaman
- Enhancement
  - [With realm restarts] With 2 stacks of Tempest available, Primordial Wave will now cause you to cast additional Lightning Bolts as intended, instead of casting additional Tempests.

Delves

Unbreakable Iron Idol no longer activates from player pets.
Nightfall Sanctum
- Fixed an issue where the Cult Leaders could stay in combat with Great Kyron, preventing players from releasing if they died.
The Underkeep
- Removed a small amount of ice crystals from the boss fight to provide a little more room to maneuver.
- Adjusted locations of ice crystals to provide more space within the boss fight area.

Dungeons and Raids

Mythic+
- Addressed an issue where Xal'atath's Bargain affixes can target players in unintended situations.
- Mists of Tirna Scithe
  - Fixed an issue where the dungeon shortcuts required Dragon Isle Herbalism instead of Khaz Algar Herbalism.
- Siege of Boralus
  - Addressed an issue where Heavy Ordnance triggered by adds can cause them to cast Iron Hook on Mythic difficulty.
  - Dread Captain Lockwood
    - Addressed an issue where Dread Captain Lockwood cannot be snared by some class spells.
    - Addressed an issue where players can get stuck in combat if the party is defeated during intermission.
- The Dawnbreaker
  - Addressed an issue where Rasha'nan could parry.
- The Necrotic Wake
  - Fixed an issue causing Xandria to animate incorrectly while throwing her Spear of Courage at Amarth.
- The Stonevault
  - Skarmorak
    - If the boss becomes affected by Cosmic Ascension, they now longer cast a third Crystalline Smash in a cycle.
Nerub-ar Palace
- Sikran
  - Sikran will now properly reset if players attempt to drag him across the bridge.
- Broodtwister Ovi'nax
  - [With realm restarts] Colossal Spider health reduced by 25% on Mythic difficulty.
  - [With realm restarts] Blood Parasite health reduced by 21% on Mythic difficulty.
  - [With realm restarts] Healing absorb effect of Unstable Infusion reduced by 12.5%.
- The Silken Court
  - Fixed an issue with Piercing Strike debuff not increasing Piercing Strike's damage. Piercing Strike debuff now persists through death.
- Queen Ansurek
  - Fixed a situation that could cause Queen Ansurek to continue casting Paralyzing Waves throughout Phase 2.
  - Fixed an issue where the visual of a Chamber Expeller's Expulsion Beam could sometimes be incorrectly aligned with the actual damage zone, and also sometimes move slightly during the cast.
  - Fixed an issue where Death Knight’s Anti-Magic Shell could sometimes prevent players from traveling through an Abyssal Conduit.

Events

Orange Brewfest Bulwark and Homebrewer's Sampling Mantle will now refund for Brewfest Prize Tokens.
"Bar Tab Barrel" in Lorel's Crossing will now count for the Trading Post activity to complete Brewfest quests.

Player versus Player

[With realm restarts] Deephaul Ravine is now available in Battleground Blitz and Rated Battleground modes.
The Weapons of Conquest quest for free PvP weapons has been replaced with the Forged Weapons of Conquest achievement found under Feats of Strength -> PvP. Progress towards this achievement can be tracked by viewing the Conquest currency and is retroactive.
- The Forged Weapons of Conquest achievement grants two Forged Gladiator's Weapon Tokens which can be exchanged with Lalandi at the Contender's Gate for free PvP weapons of your choice: 2 tokens for 2-handed weapons and 1 token for 1-handed weapons.
  - To help offset the need for Fury Warriors' need for two 2-handed weapons, their Strength weapon choices will only cost 1 token.
- [With realm restarts] Fixed an issue that prevented Vicious Jeweler's Setting from functioning on PvP class set helms purchased from Ab'xal.
Death Knight
- Unholy
  - Fixed an issue where Defile was not visible to enemies in PvP.
Mage
- Spellslinger: Arcane and Frost Splinter damage no longer breaks breakable crowd control.
- Spellslinger: Arcane and Frost Splinters no longer apply Embedded Splinters to enemies that are in breakable crowd control.
- Spellslinger: Embedded Arcane and Embedded Frost Splinters are now removed upon breakable crowd control application.
  - Developers' notes: Splinters from a Splinterstorm will continue to break breakable crowd control, since those are directed and intentional.
Paladin
- Protection
  - Fixed an issue that caused Guardian of the Forgotten Queen to sometimes not function.

Professions

Patron Orders
- All customers (except for the Artisan's Consortium) now have a chance to provide basic reagents.
- Increased the likelihood for all customers to provide basic reagents.
- Lowered the quality requirement on many potential orders that grant specialization points by 1.
- Addressed several rare cases where a customer could request a minimum quality for items without quality.
- Removed several abnormally expensive orders from the pool of potential Patron Orders, such as Alchemy Cauldrons, Engineering Toys, and Darkmoon Sigils.
  - Developers' notes: All of the above changes only apply to newly created orders, existing orders should remain unchanged.

Quests

Knicknack should now be visible to level 80 players if her quest was shared or if someone in a warband has completed her quest previously.

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