Here comes the weekly hotfix summary, as the pre-patch updates slow down a little, just ahead of the second phase launching today/this reset.
Devastation Evokers got a fix for more-than-intended uses of Deep Breath, which was propping them up quite a bit in the higher percentile DPS ranks. Certain housing decor got some price adjustments, and a new table was added. Squish concerns are still ongoing, as Timewalking rewards got a fix for some incorrect item levels. The big Devourer PvP nerf arrived as well, along with a smaller Hunter nerf. The pre-patch event got some QoL additions, from timers to proper announcements for spawns. The big change, however, was the change to its weekly quests, as they are now per-character! There was also a boost to rewards, as Resonance Crystals and Insignias are now both rewarded for event World Quests.
Classes
- Evoker
- Devastation
- Fixed an issue allowing Deep Breath to sometimes be castable more often than intended.
- Devastation
Housing
- Square Draenic Table is now available for purchase.
- Fixed several decor items that were incorrectly priced. Their costs have been updated to the intended values.
Items
- Fixed a bug that could cause Timewalking rewards to provide an incorrect item level.
- Fixed an issue where Mysterious Satchels could activate group loot rolls for players who were not in a group.
Player versus Player
- Demon Hunter
- Fel-Scarred: Focused Hatred now increases Demonsurge damage by 10% (was 50%) when damaging a single target, reducing by 2% (was 10%) per additional target in PvP combat.
- Fel-Scarred: Demonsurge damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat.
- Devourer
- Developers’ notes: We’re applying several changes that were made to Devourer in the Beta, to reduce burst during pre-patch. These come along with an overall damage reduction to the specialization.
- All damage reduced by 8% in PvP combat.
- Consume damage increased by 100% in PvP combat. Does not affect Devour.
- Devour damage increased by 30% in PvP combat.
- Voidblade damage increased by 15% in PvP combat. Does not affect Pierce the Veil.
- Void Ray damage increased by 30% in PvP combat.
- Hungering Slash damage increased by 15% in PvP combat. Does not affect Reaper’s Toll.
- Impending Apocalypse now increases the damage of your next Collapsing Star by 15% in PvP combat (was 30%).
- Focused Ray now increases the damage of Void Ray by 15% in PvP combat (was 50%).
- Inevitable End now reduces the cast time of Collapsing Star by 25% instead of increasing its damage done. Please note that the tooltip will not reflect this change during pre-patch.
- Predator’s Wake damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat. This is the empowered The Hunt from Demonic Intensity.
- Devourer’s Bite now increases the damage your target takes by 5% per application (was 12%).
- Surrender to the Void now increases damage dealt while in Void Metamorphosis by 10% (was 20%).
- Hunter
- Pack Leader: Boar Charge damage is now reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
Quests
- Fixed an issue where players who race changed to Dracthyr were unable to start the Dragonflight campaign in Stormwind or Orgrimmar.
- Doomshadow should live a little longer before meeting their demise for players who are participating in “The Big Dig”.
Trading Post
- The Trading Post activity “Love is in the Air: Launch Pink Fireworks While Wearing a Rose” has been removed for this month.
Twilight Ascension Event
- Twilight’s Call events now have a visible timer showing how long is left before the event shuts down for the next one to start.
- Spawns in the Twilight Highlands should properly announce their presence to the zone when they spawn.
- Fixed an issue preventing Eoin Dunwald from appearing during the Twilight Ascension event.
- The weekly repeatable quests “Twilight’s Dawn” and “Disrupt the Call” may now be completed per-character and they now award Twilight’s Blade Insignias to all characters.
- Twilight Ascension World Quests now award both Twilight’s Blade Insignias and Resonance Crystals to all characters as their primary reward instead of awarding one or the other.