WoW TWW Season 1 Hotfixes (September 23, 2024)

• An issue causing Frost Strike to not benefit from Razorice when Shattering Blade consumes it has been resolved.

• Raise Abomination will now correctly take reduced damage from area of effect damage

• 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.

• 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.

• [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.

• Fixed an issue where Defile was not visible to enemies in PvP.

• 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.

• Fixed an issue that caused Guardian of the Forgotten Queen to sometimes not function.

• Swift has been replaced by Bobbin for completing the achievement Itsy Bitsy Spider.

• 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.

• 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.

[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.

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.

• 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.