Season of Discovery and Cataclysm Classic Hotfixes: February 21st

Season of Discovery

• Soul shoulder enchants are now stackable up to 20. Once purchased, these cannot be refunded.
• Wartorn Undermine Supply Crates now contain about twice as many Wartorn Scraps as before.
• Undead Slaying set bonuses now activate at 2 pieces (was 3).
• Karazhan Crypts
  • Added a chance for Kharon and the Dark Rider to drop the neck piece from the apprentice you did NOT unlock.
  • Developers’ notes: For example, if you release Kaigy Maryla, Kharon now has a chance to drop Sairuh’s Collar, and the Dark Rider now has a chance to drop Barian’s Choker. We are aware you can summon the Dark Rider before releasing an apprentice. If this happens, the Dark Rider does not have an additional drop chance.
• Naxxramas
  • The exit portal that spawns in Sapphiron’s room after the boss has been defeated will now persist after players leave and soft reset the instance.
  • The gates blocking entrance into the various wings of Naxxramas will now stay open forever if Kel’Thuzad has been defeated.
  • Fixed an issue where the number of bosses killed on the hardest difficulty weren’t tracking properly if you soft reset your raid after killing Four Horsemen.
    • Raid groups in a bugged state will be able to fight Sapphiron and Kel’Thuzad on their hard-mode difficulties after soft resetting their instances.
  • The Spore Buff on Loatheb will no longer count towards the Dance of the Wicked dodge chance.
  • The Spore Buff on Loatheb will no longer count towards the Elemental Shaman Ruins of Ahn’Qiraj 3-piece bonus, the Retribution Paladin T3 6-piece bonus, or the Shadow Priest T3 6-piece bonus for the purposes of increasing damage.
  • Sapphiron’s Glacial Crash now correctly splits its damage amongst players, no longer benefits from the player’s % damage modifiers, and Glacial Crash damage has been increased to the correct amount without accounting for player % damage modifiers.
• Druid
  • The Restoration T3 6-piece set bonus will now correctly work against Sapphiron’s Frost Aura ticks
  • The Feral damage T3 2-piece bonus now mentions in its tooltip that it will not be effective against players.
• Hunter
  • Ranged Hunter T3 2-piece now correctly increases the damage dealt by Chimera Shot – Serpent.
• Mage
  • Mass Regeneration will correctly update the duration of Temporal Beacons on players who have a Temporal Beacon from another Mage with a longer than 15 second duration.
• Paladin
  • The Retribution T3 6-piece bonus now mentions that it does not work while Righteous Fury or Hand of Reckoning are active.
• Priest
  • Serendipity now correctly applies to your next Lesser Heal, Heal, Greater Heal, or Prayer of Healing even if they were spell queued before a Serendipity was present.
  • Penance is no longer affected by Spell Haste that benefits non-channeled spells.
• Shaman
  • The tooltip for the Restoration T3 6-piece set bonus now correctly mentions Earth Shield instead of Spirit of the Alpha.
• Warlock
  • Haunt will no longer incorrectly increase the impact damage of Shadowflame.
  • Improved Immolate will no longer incorrectly increase the damage from the Warlock T3 Shadowflame hit.
  • The Scythe of Chaos will now correctly do its Felhunter Silence and Interrupt.
  • Damage Warlock T3 6-piece bonus now correctly ties the Mark of Chaos effect to the Curse of Agony cast and not to the Curse of Recklessness that is applied through the bonus. This prevents Mark of Chaos from falling off if Curse of Recklessness is replaced by another Warlock.
  • Haunt will no longer incorrectly increase the impact damage of Shadowflame.
  • Improved Immolate will no longer incorrectly increase the damage from the T3 Shadowflame hit.
• Warrior
  • Fresh Meat will now correctly have a 100% chance to proc on an encounter after a wipe.
  • Fresh Meat will now correctly have a 100% chance to proc against a target in PvP if the target player leaves combat with the Warrior.
  • Revenge attack power multiplier increased by 25% (was 15%).

Cataclysm Classic

• Addressed an issue that could prevent player credit for planting a Smothervine during the quest “Aggressive Growth”.
• Fixed an issue preventing Jewelcrafters from learning new recipes from Tome of Burning Jewels.
• Dungeons
  • Fixed an issue that was allowing a second globule being killed after a Cobalt Globule is killed.
  • Baron Ashbury in Shadowfang Keep and Temple Guardian Anhuur in Halls of Origination no longer summon Blood Globules of Shu’ma.
  • Added Necromantic Focus and Apparatus of Khaz’goroth to the Obsidian Fragment vendors.
  • Updated the Gift of the Blue Dragonflight buff:
    • Reduced the max stacks of the damage buff to 5 (was 10).
    • Greatly increased the frequency in which the damage buff stacks.
    • Updated the damage buff to grant 25% increase damage per stack.
    • The damage buff now starts stacking when not moving for 5 seconds (was 10 seconds)
  • Reduced the number of Forgotten Ones that spawn to 2 (was 3).
  • Further reduced the health of Mana Voids.
  • Fixed an issue that was allowing for the Mana Voids to easily move out of bounds and become non-targetable.
• Shaman
  • Elemental Mastery and Fury of the Ancestors (the Elemental T13 2-piece set bonus) will now correctly be removed when swapping specializations.
  • Fury of the Ancestors (the Elemental T13 2-piece set bonus) will now correctly be removed when pieces are taken off.