The War Within Hotfixes for October 7th, 2024 - Nerf to Timewalking Badges for Alts from Timewalking Quests

Live Posted 15 hr 42 min ago by Squishei

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: The War Within, Cataclysm Classic, Season of Discovery, WoW Classic Era, and Hardcore. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.

Hotfixes

October 7, 2024

Classes

Warlock

Demonology

Fixed an issue where Empowered Legion Strike would be consumed by other abilities.

Dungeons and Raids

The Dawnbreaker

Addressed an issue where Void Emissary can cause Speaker Shadowcrown to reset.

Items and Rewards

In Mythic+ dungeons, Mace of Transformed Bone now provides a consistent amount of Strength.
Gear purchased from Renown quartermasters can no longer be disenchanted.
The Wrath of the Lich King Timewalking quest "Disturbance Detected: Ulduar" will now reward 300 badges for repeat completions. As before, it rewards 500 badges the first time on your account.
The Wrath of the Lich King Timewalking quest "The Unstable Prism" will now reward 200 badges for repeat completions. As before, it rewards 500 badges the first time on your account.

Developers’ notes: Now that Timewarped Badges are Warbound, we want the activity of playing alts to provide a modest bonus. Some players are holding a great many badges, and we hope the upcoming Timewalking vendor updates will provide an outlet for them. We will continue to watch how this economy goes in a Warbound world. Future Timewalking weeks will also have their version of this quest updated.

Player versus Player

Fixed an issue where the flag in Eye of the Storm could be picked up while immune after being dropped.
Mage

Frost

Fixed an issue where Mages could stand inside their Ice Wall to avoid line of sight.

Season of Discovery

Prince Thunderaan’s Squall now increases in damage every cast, his Chain Lightning should no longer fail to cast, the damage of his Lightning Cloud and Cyclonic Winds has been increased, and Lightning Cloud now afflicts damage more frequently.
Players may now learn both Armorsmithing and Weaponsmithing at the same time.
The Blackwing Lair Trials can no longer be disabled once Nefarian has been defeated.

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Comment by SchattensangBut the timewalking badges were warbound before already. Just that back then the term was "account bound" or something like that, as you could already funnel all the reputation to one character, or get the heirloom upgrades with any character. The only difference was, that you couldn't just do the event quest with 10 characters to get the mount immediately, but instead used several characters to get all the mounts after about three rotations.Comment by Saber3where are dungeon tunings and deleting challenger's peril affixdead,Comment by astleyt07But on to the real question, when will they hotfix the mace from GB to have the same strength as all other maces of equivalent ilvl? Been bugged for ages having around 400 less strength than all other 619 ilvl one handers (as an example). And yes, I have made a bug report and several forum posts. Hoping wowhead will make a random article on it, cause things dont get fixed if you dont have a voice.

Wait... They actually fixed it after 4 weeks? Damn... finally....Comment by LunarD3ATHSo... they want alts to be rewarded, but then they nerf their badge gains? I'm not following their logic here. Why nerf this? lolthinkComment by OldGrommJoke's on you Blizzard. I got enough badges for everything except the PvP rep tokens, but since those are gone now, I have no need to do timewalking with or without these changes.Comment by BunnyHarvestmanSo... they want alts to be rewarded, but then they nerf their badge gains? I'm not following their logic here. Why nerf this? lolComment by Nirvanna21I am saddened by the change with TW badges. Unlike some who have hoarded a lot over the years, I on the other hand only returned recently and have been playing catch up. It's already a slog, now they literally just halve the rate at which I can earn. Take into account that not every expansion for TW has a raid and suddenly you are reminded that there is even less. This change is awful, I hope they understand this, but like every disappointing thing that happens, all you can do is either quit or carry on; in which, I will do the latter.Comment by ElitecookieSo before it took around 5 months to get, for example, 5k badges on one character to buy just one TW mount

Now you can get that amount with around 10 alts within the same week and can continuously earn more.

Nerfing this is bad how exactly?Comment by BwgmonSo... they want alts to be rewarded, but then they nerf their badge gains? I'm not following their logic here. Why nerf this? lolComment by KoleBigEarsThe Wrath of the Lich King Timewalking quest "The Unstable Prism" will now reward 200 badges for repeat completions. As before, it rewards 500 badges the first time on your account.

Developers’ notes: Now that Timewarped Badges are Warbound, we want the activity of playing alts to provide a modest bonus.Comment by orryerWho peed in the devs coffee today? They are just going out of their way to spite players lmaoComment by emotakuSo we're nerfing the accrual of time walking badges which hasn't changed in like a decade right before the anniversary event that uses time walking badges as currency?Comment by avatarofshadowpeople with a single character who are here worrying about not getting more badges on the characters they don't have should probably log off and take a break for awhile.

now, here's the question: do we still get 200 badges on every one of our characters now that we can send them all to our main ? I've seen no mention of this, and I suspect we won't. When this system went live, I had between 200 and 600 badges on 65 toons. I doubt they'll give us another 13,000 badges this year.Comment by GrothrillRIP Uldaur timewalking. What an idiotic desicion to lower the amount of Badges. I can clearly see what they are trying to, Forcing players to run it on multiple chars. More time in spent in WoW the better results Microsoft Blizzard can present for "start of the War within".Comment by PokitaruDaxxSo... they want alts to be rewarded, but then they nerf their badge gains? I'm not following their logic here. Why nerf this? lolComment by PokitaruDaxxSo before it took around 5 months to get, for example, 5k badges on one character to buy just one TW mount

Now you can get that amount with around 10 alts within the same week and can continuously earn more.

Nerfing this is bad how exactly?Comment by GrothrillSo we're nerfing the accrual of time walking badges which hasn't changed in like a decade right before the anniversary event that uses time walking badges as currency?Comment by LuckylunayreCan't people read? It says it rewards 200 badges for repeat completions, the first reward is still 500 badges. I wish it was clearer on the announcement, but it's not a nerf.Comment by FatalSajkowhere are dungeon tunings and deleting challenger's peril affixdead,Comment by Nirvanna21So before it took around 5 months to get, for example, 5k badges on one character to buy just one TW mount

Now you can get that amount with around 10 alts within the same week and can continuously earn more.

Nerfing this is bad how exactly?

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