War Within Hotfixes, September 23rd: Class, Dungeon and Raid Tuning, NPC Orders Improvements

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• Swift has been replaced by Bobbin for completing the achievement Itsy Bitsy Spider.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