BFA Pre-Patch Hotfixes for July 23rd

Live Posted 2018/07/23 at 8:23 PM by perculia

July 18th: Class, Dungeon, and Raid Bug Fixes

July 20th: Character Max Gold Increase, Dungeon/Raid/PvP Scaling

Blizzard

Classes

Death Knight

Rune of the Fallen Crusader and Rune of the Stoneskin Gargoyle are now available at level 55.
Blood

Dreadwake Armor 2-piece bonus will now correctly reduce the cooldown of Dancing Rune Weapon when a charge of Bone Shield is consumed.

Hunter

Tamed diemetradons are no longer dino-sized.

Monk

Windwalker

should no longer incorrectly affect Flying Serpent Kick.

Paladin

Avenger's Shield will correctly interrupt or silence only one target, regardless of effects that add damage targets.

Rogue

Subtlety

Fixed a bug where The First of the Dead did not work with Shadowstrike and Gloomblade.

Shaman

Fixed an issue that caused Riptide's healing to be increased more than intended by Earth Shield.

Warrior

Fury

Fixed a bug where with Massacre talent and Whirlwind active could not correctly deal damage.

Warlock

Fixed a bug preventing several spells from correctly granting Soul Leech.

Character Services

Fixed a bug where boosting a Demon Hunter character or using a class trial Demon Hunter equipped the character with rogue gear.

Creatures and NPCs

Slitherblade Myrmidon's Localized Toxin no longer deals excessive amounts of damage.

Dungeons and Raids

Felhounds of Sargeras

Singed damage reduced by 75%.

Eonar

Strike damage reduced by 60%.
Reduced the health of Fel Hound, Fel Lord, and Felguard.

Antoran High Command

Psychic Assault damage stacks less aggressively.

Portal Keeper Hasabel

Blazing Imp health reduced by 30%.

Imonar

Pulse Grenade damage reduced by 30%.
Stasis Trap damage reduced by 30%.

Coven of Shivarra

Shadow Blades damage reduced by 50%.

Aggramar

Wake of Flame damage reduced by 20%.

Auchenai Crypts

Shirrak the Dead Watcher

Carnivorous Bite now does considerably less damage.

Blackrock Depths

Reduced General Angerforge's attack damage.
Reduced Fineous Darkvire's attack damage.

Blackwing Lair

Ebonroc

Shadow of Ebonroc no longer heals for excessive amounts.

Dire Maul

Reduced the damage done by Gordok Reavers summoned by Captain Kromcrush.

Forge of Souls

Reduced Bronjahm's damage and the damage increase done by Magic's Bane to casters.

Halls of Origination

Reduced Anhurr's Divine Reckoning damage.

Gate of the Setting Sun

Fixed an issue where Ga'dok would fall and despawn.

Grimrail Depot

Borka the Brute and Railmaster Rocketspark

Unmanaged Aggression now does considerably less damage and provides less haste.

Lower Blackrock Spire

Shadow Hunter Vosh'gajin's Curse of Blood no longer increases damage taken by an excessive amount.

Maraudon

Reduced Rotgrip's attack damage.

Maw of Souls

Helya

Piercing Tentacle no longer does excessive damage.

Mogu'shan Palace

Reduced the damage done by Gekkan and his associates.

Mogu'shan Vaults

Fixed a bug where The Spirit Kings could sometimes unintentionally respawn.

Neltharion's Lair

Dargrul's Crystal Spikes no longer incorrectly prioritizes tanks.

The Nighthold

Tichondrius

The healing amount of Vampiric Aura has been reduced to 10% of the target's health.
Feast of Blood now activates Vampiric Aura (was an increase to Vampiric Aura).

The Oculus

Reduced the damage of Drakos the Interrogator's Sphere Detonation and melee attacks.

Pit of Saron

Reduced Forgemaster Garfrost's damage.

Return to Karazhan

Centurion, Pyrelord, and Core Hound creatures summoned by Backup Singer should no longer have excessive health.

Scarlet Halls

Exploding Shot Stalker no longer deals excessive damage.

Scarlet Monastery

Scorched Earth no longer deals excessive damage.

Tomb of Sargeras

Kil'Jaeden

Demonic Obelisk should no longer deal excessive damage.

Ulduar

Vehicle power scaling adjusted to better fit post-squish item levels.

The Underbog

Swamplord Muselek no longer deals excessive damage.

Utgarde Keep

Ingvar the Plunderer's Dark Smash and Dreadful Roar no longer paint his face with as much of your blood.

Vortex Pinnacle

Reduced the damage done by Altairus' Chilling Breath and Lightning Blast.

Items

Sticky Bomb damage has been reduced.
Mecha-Blast Rocket damage has been reduced.
Gunpowder Charge damage has been reduced.

Player versus Player

The item Net-O-Matic 5000 should work in Stormwind and Orgrimmar on targets who are flagged for PvP and have War Mode enabled.
Paladin

The rate at which Aura of Reckoning stacks are gained has been reduced to 1 stack per 5% of the Paladin's maximum health in damage.

Priest

Crowd control spells that immediately break on damage such as Polymorph and Freezing Trap will now remove 's damage over time effect in PvP combat.

Warrior

Fury Warriors can no longer continuously cast Heroic Leap when they have the Honor Talent Barbarian.
Barbarian will correctly interact with the additional Heroic Leap charges granted by Timeless Stratagem.

Quests

Fixed a bug with the Emergency Fire Ward on “Bael'dun Rescue”.
“The Stolen Silver” can again be properly looted when clicking on the Stolen Silver Lockbox.
Enemies no longer do excessive damage in “The Defense of Karabor”.
Gymer should now be better at surviving throughout “The Storm King's Vengeance”.
Bone Armor now more substantial and effective on “Ever Watching From Above”.
The Great Northern Elderhorn should no longer vanish during the Classic Leatherworking quest “Mounting Made Easy”.
Fixed a bug where Thrall would not complete the Hour of Twilight event if Arcurion was killed quickly.
The Forest's Edge bounty board again offers “WANTED: "Hogger"”.
Horde players can again use the Sunreaver Portal during "Insertion".
Fixed a bug causing the spell Soul Blast to deal too much damage during "The Storm King's Vengeance".
Enemy machine gun fire no longer deals excessive damage on “The Pride of Kezan”.
Fixed a bug preventing the turn in of "Captain Sanders' Hidden Treasure".

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Comment by TangChaoNiceComment by emulation26Wheres the druid buffs for guardians:o I feel useless since prepatchComment by Seyran"Both Aggramar and Argus are extremely overtuned, how do we fix this?" "Oh i know, lets reduce the damage on an optional mechanic that doesn't make a difference in the fight because people aren't supposed to be hit by it anyway"Comment by GooveyI was in Ulduar just yesterday and my spells did more damage to Flame Leviathan than the Siege Engine's Pyrite DoT. Glad they fixed that!Comment by LGraf1PLEASE...professions have taken a bad turn with the stat squish! I've put in a bug report as well as posted in the but forums. Just tossing it here as well in hopes the right eyes see it and pass it along! Thank you in advance!Comment by ShirubiaPretty sure the spells linked in the Tichondrius section are incorrect.Comment by TotallyWizardYeah my protection warrior could use some threat generation. ANY threat generation. My skills, they do nothing. Nothing!Comment by LeechesxNot included - they fixed the quest 'Luring Nat' and it is once again able to be picked up.Comment by AlezpwnstarsResto Shaman Flash Flood bug needs to be addressed.Comment by DoctorHIVGlad to see that dogs still require 4 tanks and are working as intended.Comment by Cobalt314IDk if this has been mentioned or noticed before, but Arcane Power is now only a 20% damage boost in PvP (mana cost still reduced by 30%).Comment by diabeticjediI think I found another bug. Currently the option for making a demon hunter doesn't even show up, lolComment by LucromThe amount of times they use "excessive"Comment by shalanoreeI think I found another bug. Currently the option for making a demon hunter doesn't even show up, lolComment by GreinI think I found another bug. Currently the option for making a demon hunter doesn't even show up, lolComment by JaceDraccusPLEASE...professions have taken a bad turn with the stat squish! I've put in a bug report as well as posted in the but forums. Just tossing it here as well in hopes the right eyes see it and pass it along! Thank you in advance!Comment by SilverDragon234at least the sails of the Dimetros won't scratch the cieling.Comment by SielinthThe amount of times they use "excessive"Comment by GrortraughThey knew to nerf BWL?

How thoughComment by theRealGankeddI think I found another bug. Currently the option for making a demon hunter doesn't even show up, lol

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