* July 2011 Hotfixes * July 1, 2011

[Shadowwolf]

[blizzard]July 1

General

• Characters should no longer randomly suffer falling damage.

Classes

• Pets should no longer be attacking new targets at random while a player is under the effects of any crowd control.
• Druids
  
  
  • It is no longer possible to cancel Lunar Shower by right-clicking the buff, or canceling it via a macro.
  • Starfall is no longer hitting targets that are within 40 yards if they are not in combat with the druid or his/her party/raid members. It is targeting all hostile characters in combat with the druid's party/raid members, is not hitting Stealth characters, is not breaking crowd control effects, and is not targeting nearby critters.
• Hunters
  
  
  • All of the Hunter-centric rare spawns in Mount Hyjal and Molten Front are now immune to both Distracting Shot and Taunt.
• Priests
  
  
  • The Flash Heal from Surge of Light will now correctly activate Chakra.
  • The heal-over-time effect from the Glyph of Prayer of Healing now will correctly apply to targets that are within 30 yards of the target of Prayer of Healing, but over 40 yards away from the priest.
  • Channeled spells are no longer being interrupted if cast immediately after Shadowfiend.
• Rogues
  
  
  • Sap is no longer placing the rogue in combat when he/she is visible and the target is sapped.
• Warlocks
  
  
  • Warlocks will no longer fall through pillars in Ring of Valor if the pillar is moving when the player uses Demonic Circle: Teleport.

Dungeons & Raids

• Dungeon Finder
  
  
  • It is no longer possible for two separate guild groups with less than five players each to be matched with any other groups or players in the queue from the same guild.
• Firelands
  
  
  • Firelands Heroic difficulty has been turned off in all regions until the following week's realm maintenance.
  • Alysrazor
    
    
    • Blazing Talon Clawshapers and Blazing Initiates cannot be interacted with any longer prior to them shifting to human form.
    • The Molten Feather power bar is now reappearing when appropriate.
  • Baleroc
    
    
    • Baleroc's gate will now properly unlock itself again after a wipe, even if Shannox is still alive.
  • Beth'tilac
    
    
    • Beth'tilac's trash will no longer respawn after she has been killed.
    • Cinderweb Drones will now add threat to players on the bottom floor (below the web) and not give any threat to players above the web.
    • The Widow's Kiss will now ignore immunities, including Divine Shield and Anti-Magic Shell.
  • Rhyolith
    
    
    • Rhyolith is now slightly easier to turn in 10-player mode.
  • Creatures
    
    
    • Cinderweb Spiderlings no longer drop any loot and their health is restored to full after players exit combat.
    • The Flame Archon range of Fiery Torment has dramatically increased.
    • Flamewaker Subjugator, Flamewaker Animator, and Unstable Magma health has been reduced. Flamewaker Subjugator damage has been increased for 25-player raids.
    • The damage-over-time effect from the Hell Hound ability Rend Flesh now stacks up to 5 times, down from 10.
    • Molten Flamefathers had too much health in 10-player mode, and too little health in 25-player mode. This has been corrected.
    • Surger damage dealt by Surge has been reduced.
    • Unbound Blazing Elementals now have a greatly reduced chance to drop epic items and crafting recipes. They also drop less gold.
    • Unbound Pyrelords can properly target banished/cycloned Smoldering Elementals with Ignite Elemental. In addition, Ignite Elemental cannot be interrupted.
    • Unbound Pyrelord health has increased, while Unbound Smoldering Elemental health has decreased.
    • Neither the Sulfuron Span nor Shatterstone volcano are able to be affected by the siege damage done by a Saronite Bomb.
    • The rate at which crafting recipes drop has been greatly reduced.
• Zul'Drak
  
  
  • Players are again successfully able to complete the quest Betrayal.

Items

• The Heroic and normal versions of the crossbows [item]70991[/item] and [item]71366[/item] no longer have identical stats.

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[Shadowwolf]

[blizzard]July 6

General        

• An issue has been corrected that would cause players to lose their progress towards Veteran of the Horde II, Veteran of the Alliance II, Warbringer of the Horde, or Warbound Veteran of the Alliance if Veteran of the Horde or Veteran of the Alliance were complete.

Classes

• Characters should no longer disconnect or receive movement enforcement errors when certain spells, abilities, or item effects are used while on moving transports.
• Druid
  
  
  • Faerie Fire and Faerie Fire (Feral) will now remove Stealth, Invisibility, Vanish, Shadowmeld and Prowl from players.
• Mages
  
  
  • When using Spellsteal on a shaman, Lava Flows will no longer be given to the mage as a buff. The buff, however, will be removed from the shaman.
• Priests
  
  
  • Shadowfiend is now causing the casting priest to enter combat when cast on enemy players.
• Shaman
  
  
  • A Fulmination critical strike for more than 30,000 damage (10-player) or 45,000 damage (25-player) should now properly interrupt Rageface's Face Rage in the Firelands.
  • When Lava Flows is stolen by a mage via Spellsteal, the mage will no longer gain the Lava Flows buff.

Dungeons & Raids

• Firelands
  
  
  • Heroic difficulty has been activated and is accessible in all regions.
  • Pet corpses, guardians, and placed items should no longer provoke Engorged Broodlings to a premature detonation.
  • The pack of creatures fighting each other around Flamewaker Beast Handlers will stop fighting each other and attack the raid once provoked.
  • Flamewaker Subjugators now award 50 reputation, up from 15, while Flamewaker Animators award no reputation or loot.
  • The aggro radius on the third pack of Hells Hounds on the way to Beth'tilac has been reduced.
  • Unstable Pyrelords now have an active stealth detection aura present when the gauntlet is triggered which prevents stealth classes from traversing up the hill undetected.
  • Baleroc
    
    
    • Baleroc's health has been increased on 10-player Heroic difficulty.
    • Baleroc's gate now despawns properly when he resets.
    • Shards of Torment despawn when Baleroc resets even if they are spawned after Baleroc has despawned.
  • Lord Rhyolith
    
    
    • Lord Rhyolith can now be quickly snapped from left to right, or right to left, if the appropriate amount of damage is dealt to the opposite foot.
    • Lord Rhyolith now prefers to activate volcanoes that are in front of him over volcanoes that are behind him.
    • Lord Rhyolith now spawns slightly further back on his platform, allowing players to stand on the edge of the terrain and not aggro him.
    • Lord Rhyolith no longer despawns when reaching the end of the encounter area, and does not despawn when casting Drink Magma from any of the possible locations.
    • Lord Rhyolith now summons in volcanoes when intended, and it is no longer possible for the first set of volcanoes to be ignored.
  • Majordomo Staghelm
    
    
    • Majordomo Staghelm has had his health increased by 10% on Heroic difficulty.
  • Ragnaros
    
    
    • Living Meteors no longer evade and return to their spawn point when their original target dies or uses a threat drop. They will instead choose a new target.
    • The Sons of Flame can no longer be missed by melee attacks and abilities.
  • Shannox
    
    
    • Shannox will now rotate when appropriate instead of moving to get in range of his target while being tanked.
    • Shannox will always use Hurl Spear after a raid wipes, even if Riplimb collapsed just prior to the group wiping.

Items

• Jamus'Vaz and Faldren Tillsdale are once again offering players Conquest Points in exchange for Valor Points.
• Normal and Heroic versions of [item]71218[/item] now correctly bind when picked up.
• [item]71141[/item]s are now epic quality.
• Normal and Heroic versions of [item]70921[/item] now have mastery rating instead of hit rating.
• Ruthless, Vicious, and Bloodthirsty Gladiator's Clasps of Cruelty have had their Stamina values increased to remain consistent with equivalent belts. Note that the tooltip will require a patch to update.

Quests & Creatures

• Hyjal Regrowth & Molten Front
  
  
  • Players are now receiving 6 Marks of the World Tree from Caught Unawares and 10 marks from The Sanctuary Must Not Fall, which now allows players to obtain 20 marks as soon as they finish their first days' worth of daily quests and unlock the Molten Front. The amount of marks offered is properly updated in player Quest Logs as well.
  • There are now many more Wounded Hyjal Defenders to accommodate a large concurrency of players in the Molten Front.
  • The Fiery Behemoths and Molten Behemoths are now the same size.
  • Rayne Feathersong has been moved from the cave and is still available as a daily quest giver at Malfurion's Breach.

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[Shadowwolf]

[blizzard]July 8

Classes

• Combat pets should no longer aggro creatures while the player is mounted.

Dungeons & Raids

• Firelands
  
  
  • Baleroc
    
    
    • Death knight Bloodworms are no longer removing stacks of Torment when they explode to heal other players.
  • Ragnaros
    
    
    • Molten Elementals are no longer able to critically hit players.
    • The responsiveness of the Molten Power ability has been increased on Heroic difficulty.
  • Rhyolith
    
    
    • Multiple volcanoes casting Eruption will now create separate stacks. Crushing a volcano will cause its stacks of Eruption to fade shortly after.
    • Ranged pets can no longer damage Rhyolith's legs without beginning the encounter.
  • The Ancient Lava Dweller can no longer be looted by engineers with the Loot-A-Rang.
  • Unbound Pyrelords are no longer casting Ignite Elemental on the same target. All Unbound Smoldering Elementals should now be changed to Unbound Blazing Elementals by the time the pyrelord dies.
  • The Unbreakable Shell buff present on Unbound Smoldering Elementals now reduces damage received by 50%, down from 90%.
  • Unbound Smoldering Elementals are now correctly resetting and are no longer retaining Blazing Flame when they leave combat.

Items

• [item]71640[/item] seemed to truly be lost. This item now properly has a chance to drop from select creatures.
• Several Ruthless Gladiator's items have had their Stamina values increased to more appropriate levels.

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[Shadowwolf]

[blizzard]July 12

Classes

• Pet Defensive stance will no longer cause the pet to assist the player while a vanity pet is active.
• Druids
  
  
  • Rake should again be able to trigger Primal Fury.

Dungeons & Raids

• Firelands
  
  
  • Characters who make for a good Dinner Time should no longer be ported to Ancient Core Hounds they are not in combat with when the ability's effects end.
  • Fire Scorpion and Flamewaker corpses no longer provide loot or reputation when they're eaten by Hell Hounds and Fire Turtles.
  • Unstable Magmas are now gaining energy properly from the Flamewaker Animators.
  • Alysrazor
    
    
    • Voracious Hatchlings will now Imprint on a new target if their current target dies.
  • Majordomo Fandral Staghelm
    
    
    • Flame Scythe now properly hits pets.
    • Fandral can now cast Searing Seeds and Burning Orbs while moving.
  • Ragnaros
    
    
    • Several locations which could be used to avoid damage from Engulfing Flames have been adjusted so they're no longer safe spots.
    • Combustible will always be reapplied to Living Meteors, even if the attacking character dies as a Meteor Impact occurs.
    • Living Meteors will now become frozen by Cenarius under all conditions when transitioning into phase 4 on Heroic difficulty.
    • If a Living Meteor is frozen in the lava pool during the transition into phase 4 on Heroic difficulty, it will teleport on a player after the stun ends, but will no longer explode immediately. Players now have a 2-second window to escape the meteor's melee range.
    • Living Meteors will gain the Living Meteor Transform buff once frozen in the Breadth of Frost trap, even if a meteor is knocked into it.
    • If a Living Meteor's fixated target drops aggro via Feign Death, the meteor will target the pet, and then select a new non-pet target upon which to fixate.
    • Ragnaros now enrages after 18 minutes in all raid difficulties and sizes, up from 15 minutes.

Quests & Creatures

• Hyjal Regrowth & Molten Front
  
  
  • Wounded Hyjal Defenders should no longer sometimes spawn in with full health and in a standing position when players are on the quest Burn Victims.
  • Molten Lords no longer become tapped by the first player who attacks them with any of the Trained Fire Hawk's abilities while on the quest Fire in the Skies, allowing for any player who dealt damage to the Molten Lord to gain quest credit upon its death.
  • Windcallers now respawn within 1 minute on average for the quest Into the Fire when both are rendered inactive. Additionally, players will only experience a maximum of approximately 75 seconds of a delay before they are able to initiate the escort event.

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[Shadowwolf]

[blizzard]July 14

Dungeons & Raids

• Baradin Hold
  
  
  • The Eye of Occu'thar shared cooldown on Focused Fire has been increased, while eye health has been decreased.
• Firelands
  
  
  • Ragnaros
    
    
    • Molten Elementals can no longer be knocked back while having the Molten Power buff. Molten Elemental move speed has also been decreased by 15% on Heroic difficulty. These adjustments will require a realm restart to take effect.
  • Rhyolith
    
    
    • Concussive Stomp damage has been increased on Heroic difficulty.
    • Eruption now increases fire damage taken by 5% per stack, down from 10%.
    • The Eruption debuff is now cleared when transitioning into phase 2 of the fight.
  • Shannox
    
    
    • Successful attacks on Rageface will now always be critical strikes while he is channeling Face Rage.
    • Players on the legendary quest Delegation should now be able to get the Dull Emberstone Focus charge off of Shannox's spear more easily, so long as it's placed within 50 yards of the spear.

Quests & Creatures

• Hyjal Regrowth & Molten Front
  
  
  • Players should no longer experience performance issues when the Fire Hawk Egg Carry Ping spell is cast while on the quest Peaked Interest.
• Nexus (A Legendary Engagement)
  
  
  • Shaman Grounding Totems now properly redirect Thyrinar's primary Twilight Blast ability.

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[Shadowwolf]

[blizzard]July 19

General

• The frequency at which players can use /yell, /say, and any emotes is now throttled to prevent excessive spamming of chat logs from occurring.

Classes

• Death Knights
  
  
  • Improved Death Strike now provides 40/80/120% bonus damage, up from 30/60/90%, and a 10/20/30% critical strike bonus, up from 3/6/9%.
• Druids
  
  
  • Flight Form now cancels the Leyara's Locket buff.
  • Moonfire will now generate Lunar Energy when crossing from Solar to Lunar on the Eclipse bar.

Dungeons & Raids

• All bosses in The Bastion of Twilight, Blackwing Descent, and Throne of the Four Winds once again award Valor Points in all raid sizes and difficulties. 10-player bosses award 35 Valor Points, while 25-player bosses award 45 Valor Points. This change does not apply to Argaloth in Baradin Hold. More information can be found here.
• Firelands
  
  
  • Superheated cannot be cast on players, even if they attack the Flamewaker Animators as they are channeling energy towards the Unstable Magma.
  • Alysrazor
    
    
    • Collecting Blazing Power now refreshes Wings of Flame to its full duration each time.
    • Alysrazor will now always face the correct direction during Firestorm.
    • Imprinted should now be cleared from characters under all conditions when the encounter resets.
    • Interacting with a Molten Feather will now dismount characters, preventing the feather from being wasted.
  • Beth'tilac
    
    
    • Beth'tilac will now only eat spiderlings that move very close to her (the range on her ability to consume them has been reduced). In addition, eaten spiderlings will no longer sometimes remain on the ground or on players once she consumes them.
    • Drones should no longer evade or aggro characters on top of the web.
    • Fixate now truly fixates on random targets.
  • Ragnaros
    
    
    • On 25-player Heroic difficulty, Cloudbursts will now always properly apply Deluge to 3 players before fading away.
    • It should always be possible to interact with Cloudbursts, even if several players click on one at the same time.

Items

• Heroic bind-on-equip items now sell to vendors for gold.

PvP

• Arenas
  
  
  • A resolution has been put into place which should help alleviate Rated Battleground matchmaking delays. This fix corrects an issue that could occur if a team at the front of the queue was particularly difficult to match, resulting in a bottleneck which slowed matchmaking for all players in queue. More information can be found here.

Quests & Creatures

• The melee evasion angle of several creatures has been adjusted. Most notably, melee classes should no longer be seeing abilities, such as Backstab or Shred, getting parried when standing well enough out of Ragnaros's melee evasion angle, or other bosses/creatures with similar evasion angles.

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[Shadowwolf]

[blizzard]July 26

General

• Characters should no longer receive errors or potential disconnects when using Levitate, Slow Fall, or the Parachute Cloak while falling.
• All combat and vanity pets should now respawn normally after players use any flight path.

Classes

• Mages
  
  
  • Combustion should no longer ignore damage modifiers on a target. As an example, Smoldering Elemental packs in the Firelands should no longer take full damage from Impact's spread of Combustion, despite these creatures having damage reduction modifiers.
• Shaman
  
  
  • Shamanism (Elemental passive) now causes Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Lava Burst spells to gain an additional 32% benefit from the shaman's spell power, up from 20%.
• Warriors
  
  
  • Deep Wounds should no longer ignore damage modifiers on a target. As an example, Smoldering Elementals in the Firelands should no longer take full damage from Deep Wounds, despite these creatures having damage reduction modifiers.

Dungeons & Raids

• Players who die and release before a boss is killed should now receive Valor and Justice points. However, players that release at the moment the boss dies and are currently at the loading screen will become locked to the dungeon, but will not receive any currency for the kill. We're working to address this in a future update.
• Firelands
  
  
  • Alysrazor
    
    
    • Alysrazor cannot dodge or parry attacks from players.
    • Alysrazor's melee evasion angle has been adjusted so that players have a larger area to use abilities which require that they be behind their target.
    • Blazing Talon Clawshapers will now properly aggro a new target when threat is dropped.
    • On Heroic difficulty, Brushfires will despawn once Firestorm is cast, and since the Initiates shield themselves during Firestorm, none are cast again until it ends.
    • Molten Feather is removed once Alysrazor ignites at 50 energy, as opposed to when she burns out.
  • Baleroc
    
    
    • On 25-player Heroic difficulty, Torment now grants a stack of Vital Spark per 5 applications, up from 3. To compensate, Baleroc's health has been reduced on 25-player Heroic difficulty.
  • Beth'tilac
    
    
    • Attacking the Fire Hawk flock along the way to Beth'tilac will not cause the Hell Hound pack to aggro as well.
  • Majordomo Fandral Staghelm
    
    
    • Fandral's health has been reduced on 25-player Heroic difficulty.
    • Damage suffered from a shaman's Spirit Link totem will no longer break player Concentration.
    • Player pets should now benefit from their master's Concentration.
    • Fandral now gains energy when his Flame Scythe hits fewer than 7 targets. The amount gained increases as fewer targets are hit.
• The Occulus
  
  
  • Wiping to Mage-Lord Urom in any phase of the encounter no longer causes players to be unable to use their Dragon Essences to mount drakes.

Items

• [item]Moonwell Chalice[/item] is now on a shared cooldown with other on-use trinkets.
• [item]Moonwell Phial[/item] is now on a shared cooldown with other on-use trinkets.

Professions

• Crafted Bloodthirsty bind-on-equip relics and cloaks are no longer unique, allowing players to craft and hold more than one of the same item type in their inventories.

PvP

• Battlegrounds
  
  
  • Eye of the Storm has been temporarily removed from the Rated Battlegrounds options.

Quests & Creatures

• Eastern Plaguelands
  
  
  • Beezil Linkspanner's gossip option should now always be available if players have completed the quest Onward to Light's Hope Chapel, allowing players who have not already done so the ability to complete the achievement Full Caravan.
• Hyjal Regrowth & Molten Front
  
  
  • Players should now be able to accept the quest Unlocking the Secrets Within from Rabine Saturna after turning in A Smoke-Stained Locket.
  • Players who are Hated or Hostile with the Steamwheedle Cartel faction can still turn in the quest Well Armed to Ricket.
  • The creature abilities Smoldering Roots and Blazing Stomp no longer affect pets (the unexpected launch of player pets no longer occurs).

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