World of Warcraft & WOW CLASSIC – March 2022 Patch Notes

Introduction

In the latest patch notes for the popular game, players can expect some exciting updates and additions. One notable addition is the new optional reagent, Vestige of the Devourers, available for purchase from Vilo, the Enlightened Quartermaster. Crafters of legendary base items can use this reagent to upgrade rank 1 recipes to rank 5, boosting the item level to an impressive 249. However, this reagent comes with a hefty price tag of 6000 gold and requires Honored reputation. So, players will need to work hard and save up to get their hands on this powerful upgrade. MARCH 31, 2022

Items and Rewards

A new optional reagent, Vestige of the Devourers, is available on Vilo, the Enlightened Quartermaster for 6000 gold (requires Honored reputation). This optional reagent can be purchased by those who can craft legendary base items. It can be used with rank 1 recipes to upgrade them to rank 5, item level 249.

Burning Crusade Classic

Zephyr has stabilized her connection with this timeline and should now be more consistently visible in the World's End Tavern.

MARCH 30, 2022

Dungeons and Raids

Sepulcher of the First Ones
- Vigilant Guardian
  - Fixed an issue where Unstable Orbs would fail to detonate and become non-interactive if a player attempted to detonate them in mid-air.
  - Fixed an issue that incorrectly gave players an unusable extra action button during the encounter.
- Anduin Wrynn
  - Fixed an issue with the pathing of Empowered Wicked Stars.
- Lords of Dread
  - Time to unmask Mal'Ganis and Kin'tessa during Infiltration of Dread has been increased to 40 seconds on Normal difficulty (was 30 seconds).
  - If players are unable to unmask the dreadlords during Infiltration of Dread, a shadowy visual will persist on the infiltrated targets so players can see who the infiltrated were.

Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
- Mailroom Mayhem
  - Fixed an issue where Shadowstep could not be used while inside The P.O.S.T.
- So’azmi
  - Shuri periodic damage reduced by 33%.

Mage Tower

War Councilor Victoria should now always be present on the Broken Shore for players to access the various Mage Tower challenges.

Burning Crusade Classic

Player versus Player
- The PvP Spell Haste items Vindicator's Band of Subjugation, Vindicator's Pendant of Subjugation, Vindicator's Pendant of Reprieve as well as the Battlemaster's Alacrity trinket have been added to the Honor vendor.

MARCH 29, 2022

Classes

Warlock
- Sayaad's Whiplash will now consistently be refreshed by the demon while there are multiple Sayaads in the group.

Dungeons and Raids

Sepulcher of the First Ones
- Vigilant Guardian
  - Fixed an issue that could prevent players from picking up unstable cores.
- Artificer Xy’mox
  - Artificer Xy’mox health reduced by up to 10% based on raid size (10% at 10-player, 0% at 30-player) on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
  - Reduced Genesis Rings initial and periodic damage by 40% on Normal difficulty.
- Prototype Pantheon
  - Health reduced by 10%.
  - Members of the Prototype Pantheon now retreat at 40% health during Stage 1 and Stage 2.
  - Sinful Projections has been removed from Normal difficulty.
- Anduin Wrynn
  - Fixed an issue that could cause Anduin to improperly enter Phase 2 if he was brought down to 10% health remaining too quickly.
- Halondrus the Reclaimer
  - Health reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Ephemeral Motes base movement speed reduced on Heroic difficulty.
  - Number of Ephemeral Motes in Stage 3 reduced on Heroic difficulty.
  - Volatile Charges no longer trigger a Charge Detonation when coming into contact with Ephemeral Motes or Lightshatter Beam on Mythic difficulty.
  - Fixed an issue causing Druid’s Mount Form to interact with Volatile Charges in unintended ways.
- The Jailer
  - Fixed issue where Defile’s growth can be triggered by Priests in Spirit of Redemption form.
Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
- So’azmi
  - Fixed an issue that would cause So'azmi to reset on their initial pull.

Mage Tower

[With realm restarts] The Mage Tower challenge in the Broken Shore is now available permanently.

Items and Rewards

Players who already obtained the Deepstar Aurelid mount may now receive another lure for Hirukon once a week by speaking with Vashj.

Player versus Player

Druid
- Guardian
  - (4) Set Bonus: Damage and healing from Architect's Aligner reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
Resolved an issue that caused Solo Shuffle matches to count for “The Arena Calls” skirmish wins.

MARCH 28, 2022

Classes

Death Knight
- Unholy
  - [With realm restarts] All damage increased by 5%.
Druid
- Guardian
  - [With realm restarts] (4) Set Bonus: Architect's Aligner now deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets. Developer note: Architect’s Aligner dealing damage to an uncapped amount of targets is inconsistent with the philosophy we applied earlier in Shadowlands to other similar abilities. As such, we are implementing a fix to this bonus that reduces the amount of damage done beyond 5 targets. Additionally, we will be watching the performance of this bonus and will make additional adjustments if the need arises. Thank you for the feedback regarding this bonus!
Feral
- [With realm restarts] All damage increased by 3%.
- [With realm restarts] Primal Wrath damage increased by 10%.
- [With realm restarts] Brutal Slash damage increased by 20%.
- [With realm restarts] Swipe damage increased by 15%.
- [With realm restarts] Thrash damage increased by 20%.
Hunter
- Beast Mastery
  - [With realm restarts] Beast Cleave now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets (was 5).
  - [With realm restarts] All damage increased by 3%.
Monk
- Mistweaver
  - [With realm restarts] Spinning Crane Kick damage increased by 30%.
Rogue
- Outlaw
  - [With realm restarts] Blade Flurry now strikes nearby enemies for 50% of normal damage (was 40%).
Shaman
- Elemental
  - [With realm restarts] All damage increased by 5%.
Warlock
- Destruction
  - [With realm restarts] All damage increased by 5%.
Warrior [With realm restarts] Ignore Pain now ignores 55% of the damage (was 50%).
- Protection
  - [With realm restarts] Demoralizing Shout now reduces the damage enemies deal to you by 25% (was 20%).
  - [With realm restarts] Ignore Pain now reduces the cost of Ignore Pain to 35 Rage (was 40 Rage).
  - [With realm restarts] Spell Reflection cooldown reduced to 20 seconds (was 25 seconds).
  - [With realm restarts] Vanguard reduces all damage taken by 15% (was 10%).

Dungeons and Raids

Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
- The Grand Menagerie
  - Fixed an issue where Gluttonous Feast could fail to cast at the beginning of The Grand Menagerie encounter in Tazavesh.

Sepulcher of the First Ones
- Skolex, the Insatiable Ravener
  - [With realm restarts] Skolex's health has been reduced by ~6% in Mythic and Heroic difficulties.
- Dausegne, the Fallen Oracle
  - [With realm restarts] Dausegne’s health has been reduced by ~6% in Heroic difficulty.
  - [With realm restarts] Disintegration Halo vulnerability reduced to 200% in Normal and Raid Finder difficulties.
- Lords of Dread
  - [With realm restarts] Swarm of Darkness and Swarm of Decay caused by Mal'Ganis' Unto Darkness will now increase all damage taken by 100% rather than only area-of-effect abilities. Developer note: When originally creating the Unto Darkness and Swarm abilities for the Lords of Dread, the idea was intended to be in the flavor of the dreadlords turning into an actual swarm and being adversely affected by area-of-effect abilities such as Flamestrike. However, the way it played out was that this proved to be very limiting in which classes could perform at a required level for harder difficulties. We're making a change to update the vulnerability from area-of-effect damage to all damage taken so that every damage class can enjoy the phase equally.
Rygelon
- [With realm restarts] Reduced boss health by 5% on Heroic difficulty.
- [With realm restarts] Reduced the damage of Stellar Decay by 20% on Heroic difficulty.
- [With realm restarts] Reduced the health of Unstable Cores by approximately 33% on Heroic difficulty.
- Fixed an issue with Corrupted Wound’s spell description in the Dungeon Journal. Functionality remains unchanged.
The Jailer
- Fixed an issue with Diverted Life Shield's spell description that caused it to display the improper amount of healing. It will now properly show it heals 2% per tick.

Zereth Mortis

Bauble of Pure Innovation now respawns more quickly.

Items and Rewards

The Optional Reagent slot for Legendary Crafting can now also be unlocked by completing the campaign quest “The Crown of Wills”.
Players must now be on the ground to activate the Personal Containment Trap Toy.
Certified Vouchsafe's cast bar can now be interrupted by moving your character.
Cache of Acquired Treasures will now begin cycling the weapons you can rummage through just before it comes off cooldown.
Cosmic Gladiator's Eternal Aegis - Corrected an issue that could cause the absorb shield to incorrectly fully absorb large single attacks that exceed the remaining absorb amount.

Achievements

Characters who experienced a bug which prevented the achievement "Renowned" from being earned should now properly earn their achievement upon login if they have 80 Renown.

Pet Battles

You can now properly queue for a pet battle with the "Find Battle" button while in Zereth Mortis.

Player versus Player

War Mode
- In War Mode, Kbato's damage versus other player's Kbatos in the "Knocking On Death's Door" quest has been reduced.
Shaman
- Fixed an issue that allowed Chain Heal to heal vehicles in battlegrounds.

MARCH 24, 2022

Dungeons and Raids

Sepulcher of the First Ones
- The Jailer
  - Fixed an issue with Desolation's spell description in the Dungeon Journal on Mythic difficulty that caused it to display an incorrect amount of damage inflicted to Azeroth by unblocked missiles.
  - Reduced the number of missiles fired by Desolation in Mythic difficulty from 20 to 17.
  - Fixed an issue that would occasionally cause Chains of Anguish to pull players who had already broken their chains.

Items and Rewards

New Item: Bag of Explored Souls – Contains 1650 Soul Cinders and 5150 Soul Ash. Requirements: 3000 Cosmic Flux and Honored with the Enlightened. Available at Vilo (Enlightened Quartermaster).
Players can now purchase additional Spatial Openers from Olea Manu if they have not already earned the "Sand, Sand Everywhere!" achievement.
Players may no longer use Protoform Synthesis to craft mounts if the mount is already in the player's mount journal. As a consequence, the Pale Regal Cervid recipe is now hidden until unlocked via the achievement.

Burning Crusade Classic

Shadowmoon Valley
- Fixed an issue where the Dragonmaw Illusion could persist upon leaving Netherwing Ledge.

MARCH 23, 2022

Classes

Hunter
- Marksmanship
  - Fixed an issue where Rapid Fire was not dealing reduced damage to secondary targets while under the effects of Trick Shots.
Paladin
- Retribution
  - (2) Set Bonus: Fixed a rare issue which could incorrectly cause Divine Purpose (Talent) to be usable twice after Ashes to Ashes triggered.

Covenants

Night Fae
- Podtender (Dreamweaver Soulbind) no longer activates if the user is mind controlled.

Dungeons and Raids

Sepulcher of the First Ones
- Vigilant Guardian
  - Fixed an issue that could cause the Vigilant Guardian to unintentionally reset.
- Anduin Wrynn
  - Fixed an issue causing Fragment of Hope to trigger on Normal difficulty.
- Lords of Dread
  - Fixed an issue where Mal'Ganis was not saying his last text line upon being defeated.
- The Jailer
  - Fixed an issue that allowed players under Compulsion to use Demonic Gateways.
Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
- Fixed an issue where Path of the Streetwise Merchant's teleport cooldown would not be reset when completing a Mythic+ dungeon.

Items and Rewards

Slightly increased the drop rates of Progenium Essentia and Heavy Callous Hides.
Slightly increased the drop amounts of Lightless Silk, Shadowlands Ores (other than Progenium Ore), and Callous Hide.
Significantly increased the amount of Soul Ash and Soul Cinder earned by completing Torghast, Tower of the Damned.

Burning Crusade Classic

Fixed an issue preventing Blood Elves from completing "A Gesture of Commitment."

MARCH 22, 2022

Classes

Demon Hunter
- Vengeance
  - (4) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue with the set bonus not always reducing the cooldown of Fel Devastation or Immolation Aura while Unity (Kyrian Blind Faith) was equipped.
Hunter
- Fixed an issue with Marksman's Advantage (Conduit) that could cause it to apply to targets without your Hunter's Mark active.

Dungeons and Raids

Sepulcher of the First Ones
- Artificer Xy'mox
  - Players affected by Spirit of Redemption will no longer trigger Interdimensional Wormholes during the encounter.
- Lords of Dread
  - Fearful Trepidation's visual should more closely match its effect radius.
- Rygelon
  - Fixed an issue where Unstable Quasar could strike players outside of the Singularity.
- The Jailer
  - Fixed an issue where Tainted Azerite could critically hit.
Tazavesh, Streets of Wonder
- Mailroom Mayhem
  - Fixed an issue where Invulnerable players could fail to pick up Unstable Goods.
Scholomance
- Instructor Chillheart
  - Fixed an issue where Ice Walls were not visible during the encounter.

Items and Rewards

Fixed an issue which prevented Unity (Runecarving Power) from being applied to Grim-Veiled Robe for Mages, Warlocks, and Priests.

MARCH 21, 2022

Classes

Priest
- Discipline
  - (2) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue where Manifested Twilight would sometimes not affect Shadow Mends if cast in succession.
Warlock
- Fixed an issue that prevented the Sayaad’s Whiplash ability from stacking its debuff on targets immune to snares.

Dungeons and Raids

Sepulcher of the First Ones
- Vigilant Guardian
  - Fixed an issue that caused Mistweaver Monk’s Crane Adepts summoned by Fallen Order (Venthyr Ability) to fail to cast Enveloping Mist immediately after they spawn during the encounter.
- Anduin Wrynn
  - [With realm restarts] Wicked Star duration decreased to 2 seconds on Normal and Heroic difficulty (was 4 seconds).
  - [With realm restarts] Anduin's Doubt and Anduin's Hope health reduced by 20% on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
  - [With realm restarts] Anduin's Doubt and Anduin's Hope movement speed reduced by 20% on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
  - [With realm restarts] Purging Light damage reduced by 15% on Normal difficulty.
  - [With realm restarts] Fixed an issue that could cause Empowered Wicked Stars to not damage and silence players.
  - [With realm restarts] Fixed an issue that could cause Fragment of Hope to not properly deal damage.
- Lords of Dread
  - Mal'Ganis and Kin'tessa no longer clear their debuffs when entering Infiltration of Dread.
  - Fixed an issue that could allow Kin'tessa or Mal'Ganis to strike an unexpected direction with Anguishing Strike or Leeching Claws.
- Rygelon
  - Reduced Rygelon's health by 6% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Reduced the damage of Stellar Decay and the health of Unstable Cores by 25% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Reduced the magnitude of the healing absorb applied through Stellar Shroud by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Reworked the implementation for how Rygelon moves through phases, resulting in a more favorably consistent experience.
  - Increased the responsiveness of Collapsing Quasar Fields if the contacting player has Dark Eclipse.
  - Fixed an issue where Unstable Matter could fail to set their encounter boss UI frame after the first Shatter Sphere.
  - Fixed an issue where Unstable Quasars could remain during Dark Quasar.
  - Fixed an issue where Cosmic Radiation could persist after defeating the encounter.
- The Jailer
  - The Persecution debuff now lasts 30 seconds on Mythic difficulty (was 40 seconds).
Mythic+
- Encrypted Affix
  - Fixed an issue that could prevent players from gaining health and mana from the Decrypted Urh Cypher.
Tazavesh: So'leah's Gambit
- Hylbrande
  - Added the missing Purifying Burst ability to the encounter’s Dungeon Journal entry.
Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
- So'azmi
  - So’azmi now uses his abilities less frequently on the final stages of the encounter.

Items and Rewards

The Protoform Sentience Crown will now correctly drop for all players who have unlocked Protoform Synthesis (Mount) and have not yet acquired all three mounts the Crown is required for (Buzz, Ineffable Skitterer, and Pale Regal Cervid).
Fixed an issue that could cause enemies affected by the Gavel of the First Arbiter to pivot unexpectedly.

Pet Battles

The Fierce Scarabid battle pet can now be traded.

MARCH 18, 2022

Characters

Players should no longer forget their Locus Shift travel points when they change factions.
- Developers’ note: Players who incorrectly lost their Locus Shift teleports from this issue will have them restored the next time they zone into Zereth Mortis.

Classes

Death Knight
- Abomination Limb (Necrolord Ability) should now be more consistent when trying to pull valid enemies when they are nearby enemies immune to the grip.
Druid
- Guardian
  - (4) Set Bonus: The visual effect of Architect's Aligner has been updated to prevent confusion with Mythic+ and raid mechanics.
- Restoration
  - (2) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue where Renewing Bloom would not be extended by Verdant Infusion (Runecarving Power).
Priest
- Fixed an issue where mouseover macros would not work for Fae Guardians (Night Fae Ability).

Dungeons and Raids

Sepulcher of the First Ones
- Vigilant Guardian
  - Point Defense Drones will now cancel Searing Ablation while shutting down during the Exposed Core sequence.
- Skolex, the Insatiable Ravener
  - Fixed a combat log display issue with pets.
- Anduin Wrynn
  - Anduin's health has been reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Fixed an issue that could cause the application of Domination's Grasp to the Remnant of a Fallen King to be delayed.
- Lords of Dread
  - Cloud of Carrion will now prefer targets without Biting Wounds.
  - Fixed an issue where Anguishing Strike could do damage more often than intended.
  - Fixed an issue where Cloud of Carrion could erroneously pass to the tank if it moved over a player inside Podtender (Dreamweaver Soulbind).
  - Several spells no longer hit pets.
- Rygelon
  - Fixed an issue where certain mechanic’s visual effects would become hidden when Hunters Feign Death.
Mythic+
- Encrypted Affix
  - Fixed an issue where Wo's stealth effect would not apply to pets and guardians.
De Other Side
- Mueh’zala
  - Fixed an issue that sometimes caused Mueh’zala to perform the wrong animation when hit by certain player abilities.
Tazavesh: So'leah's Gambit
- Hylbrande
  - Fixed an issue where if a player disconnected while carrying Bypass Codes, the code rune would disappear and be inaccessible for the Sanitizing Cycle phase.

Quests

Players who tell Tal-Inara that they have been to Zereth Mortis before and have already met Pocopoc will now receive the Enlightened reputation they would miss out on by skipping those quests.
- Developers’ note: Enlightened reputation is strongly tied to the Zereth Mortis campaign, and we felt it was unfair to have a high hidden cost associated with using the dialogue option that skips the Zereth Mortis introductory quests for players who've already completed the introduction on other characters. This change addresses that by making the choice net neutral with regard to Enlightened reputation.

MARCH 17, 2022

Creatures and NPCs

All scarabids and annelids in Zereth Mortis now use the updated burrow spell visual effect.

Dungeons and Raids

Sepulcher of the First Ones
- Fixed an issue when using the Ancient Console near Lords of Dread and Rygelon to teleport back to The Grand Design could place the player in combat.
- Vigilant Guardian
  - Fixed an issue that would break player's ability to pick up the Unstable Orbs after they had used certain player abilities or mounts.
- Artificer Xy'mox
  - Fixed and issue where the visual effect of Massive Blast did not accurately portray its damaging area.
- Halondrus the Reclaimer
  - Fixed an issue that prevented Brewmaster Monk’s Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox from auto-casting Stomp.
- Anduin Wrynn
  - Remorseless Winter damage reduced by 20% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Anduin's Hope health reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Anduin's Despair health reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Increased the amount of time it takes for Remnant of a Fallen King to reach maximum energy by an additional 2 seconds on Mythic difficulty.
  - Fixed an issue that made Lost Souls treat crowd control effects with PvP diminishing returns.
- Rygelon
  - Fixed an issue which could cause Dark Eclipse to not trigger a Dark Eruption.
- The Jailer
  - Player guardians, such as Fire Elemental, are now protected while players are affected by Rune of Compulsion.
  - Fixed an issue where Dominating Will could be removed via immunities. Dominating Will's heal absorb reduced by 10% on Normal difficulty and reduced by 20% on Heroic difficulty to account for the potential increase in difficulty of the ability.

Items and Rewards

Significantly reduced the respawn timer for the Sandworn Chest in the Endless Sands.

Quests

Characters who had the "Match Made in Zereth Mortis" quest incorrectly automatically completed and became blocked on the Campaign chapter will now have the quest available to them when they next zone into Zereth Mortis.
- Developers’ note: Enterprising players who found a way to unlock all the teleporters in the area and proceed along the quest line without the quest will be allowed to proceed as normal, without needing to backtrack to this quest.

MARCH 16, 2022

Classes

Priest
- Shadow
  - (4) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue where Living Shadow would persist longer than its intended duration.
  - (4) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue where consuming Dark Thoughts during Living Shadow's summoning would not extend its duration.

Dungeons and Raids

Sepulcher of the First Ones
- Dausegne, the Fallen Oracle
  - Fixed an issue that could cause the visual effect for Disintegration Nova to appear larger or smaller based on character size on Mythic difficulty.
- Lihuvim, Principal Architect
  - Protoform Radiance now has a duration of 10 seconds on Normal difficulty.
- The Jailer
  - Fixed issue that allowed Shaman’s Tremor Totem to remove Domination.
Mythic+
- Encrypted Affix
  - Fixed an issue where bosses that spawn in unattackable could fail to spawn Relics.

Items and Rewards

Sandworn Relics have had their drop rates increased in the following areas in Zereth Mortis:
- Endless Sands Rares – Increased average dropped relics to 8 (was 4).
- Sandworn Chest – Increased average dropped relics to 25 (was 18).
- Daily Quests – Increased the average number of relics awarded to 8 (was 4).
- World Boss – Increased the average dropped relics to 40 (was 13).
- Tribute of Enlightened Elders – This chest now grants an average of 60 relics (was 0).
  - Developers’ note: We have improved the rate of acquisition of Sandworn Relics substantially in an effort to make gear purchased with Sandworn Relics more accessible.

Quests

Pocopoc will now reliably appear as a quest giver for all players when needed during the “A Means to an End” Campaign chapter.
Bastion Assault quest "Encouraging Words" should now function correctly.

MARCH 15, 2022

Classes

Shaman
- Enhancement
  - Primordial Wave (Necrolord Ability) will no longer incorrectly reset the cooldown of Frost Shock when used to apply Flame Shock to a target.
- Restoration
  - (4) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue where Heal the Soul was incorrectly reducing the 1 second cooldown of Cloudburst Totem that prevented you from accidentally double-tapping the button, causing an unintended instant Cloudburst Totem recall.
  - (4) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue where Heal the Soul would sometimes not properly cast a Chain Heal when dropping the appropriate totem.
  - (4) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue where a Chain Heal critical strike on yourself would both generate and consume a stack of the Heal the Soul.
  - (4) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue where there is a minor delay between activating a totem that generates a bonus Chain Heal and being able to use another ability.

Creatures and NPCs

The melee attack distance against large Mawsworn Constructs has been increased. Similarly, the Constructs will now keep more distance against their melee target.

Cyphers of the First Ones

Pocopoc will now retain its advanced combat coroutines after using Ancient Translocators.

Dungeons and Raids

Sepulcher of the First Ones
- Vigilant Guardian
  - Spawn rates for the Volatile Materium and Pre-Fabricated Sentries are less aggressive on Mythic difficulty.
  - Increased the grace period before Exposed Core where Refracted Blast and Deresolution won't be cast on all difficulties.
- Artificer Xy'mox
  - Artificer Xy’mox health reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Ancient Exhaust now properly deals damage on the final platform.
- Prototype Pantheon
  - Burden of Sin damage reduced by 20% on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
  - Resolved an issue where Withering Seeds could fail to cast.
  - Adjusted an unfair timing of Hand of Destruction and Night Hunter in the final phase.
- Halondrus the Reclaimer
  - Reclaim initial damage reduced by 10% on Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic difficulty.
  - Decreased additional speed Ephemeral Motes gain from Eternity Overdrive by 50% on Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic difficulty.
  - Eternity Overdrive scaling damage reduced on Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic difficulty.
  - Earthbreaker Missiles damage reduced by 15% on Raid Finder and Normal difficulty.
  - Fixed an issue causing Lightshatter Beam's periodic effect to inflict the incorrect amount of damage.
- Anduin Wrynn
  - Anduin Wrynn's health reduced by 5% on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
  - Anduin's Despair health reduced by 25% on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
  - Remnant of the Fallen King's Army of the Dead summons a Monstrous Soul once per intermission on Heroic difficulty.
  - Wicked Star damage reduced by 20% on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
  - The targeting visual effect for Rain of Despair has been updated.
- Lords of Dread
  - Ruined Crest of Lordaeron has returned to the loot table.
- Rygelon
  - Fixed an issue that could cause Cosmic Ejection to strike players outside of the intended radius.
- The Jailer
  - Fixed an issue with Defile that prevented it from inflicting the proper damage, as such the damage of Defile has been increased by 85% on Heroic difficulty.
    - Developers' note: We will keep an eye on the effects this has on the fight, but we don't feel this change should noticeably affect the survivability of the fight.
Tazavesh: So'leah's Gambit
- The murlocs of Stormhiem are more courageous and flee combat upon reaching 15% health (was 25%).
- Murkbrine Shellcrusher will no longer aattempt to recast Cry of Mrrggllrrgg if the cast is prevented.
- Murkbrine Wavejumper's Mrrggrrglrrlr Leap damage reduced by 20%.
- Murkbrine Wavejumper will no longer attempt to recast Mrrggrrglrrlr Leap if the cast is prevented.
- Burly Deckhand’s Super Saison increases damage dealt by 50% (was 100%).
- Hourglass Tidesage's Brackish Bolt damage reduced by 20%.
- Devoted Accomplice's Energy Slash damage reduced by 20%.
- The cooldown of Devoted Accomplice's Energy Slash has been increased.
- Wandering Pulsar's health reduced by 20%.
- Wandering Pulsar's Pulse damage reduced by 15%.
- The cast time of Adorned Starseer's Drifting Star cast time increased to 3.5 seconds (was 2.75 seconds).
- Adjusted the position of two Adorned Starseers.
Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
- Armored Overseer and Gatewarden Zo'mazz's Proxy Strike damage reduced by 30%.
- Adjusted the arming visual of Armored Overseer's Beam Splicer.
- Support Officer's Hard Light Barrier cast time increased to 3 seconds (was 2.5 seconds).
- Interrogation Specialist’s Stasis Beam cast time increased to 2.5 seconds (was 2 seconds) and duration reduced to 3 seconds (was 4 seconds).
- Interrogation Specialist’s Spark Burn damage reduced by 20%.
- Frenzied Nightclaw’s Frantic Rip impact damage reduced by 30% and damage over time reduced by 50%.
The Necrotic Wake
- Fixed an issue causing noxious gas clouds in The Stitchwerks to display nameplates.

Items and Rewards

The following changes have been made to Gavel of the First Arbiter:
- Boon of Looming Winter now properly absorbs damage from enemy attacks.
- Rotting Decay is now categorized as a disease.
- Boon of Harvested Hope is now categorized as a bleed effect.

Player versus Player

Brawls
- Solo Shuffle
  - Fixed an issue that unintentionally reduced the amount of bonus Honor received per round won in Solo Shuffle.
Gavel of the First Arbiter damage and absorption granted by the boons are reduced by 50% in PvP combat.

MARCH 14, 2022

Classes

Priest
- Discipline
  - (2) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue where Shadow Mend would consume 2 stacks of Manifested Twilight.
Warlock
- Demonology
  - Fixed an issue where Implosion would not deal damage to Explosive Orbs (Mythic+ Affix) or totems if the Explosive Orb or totems were the primary target of the Implosion spell.
Warrior
- Protection
  - (4) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue with Avatar not gaining an additional 10% damage while active.

Covenants

Venthyr
- Fixed an issue where using The Mad Duke's Tea item without Theotar, the Mad Duke as your active soulbind would incorrectly place The Mad Duke's Tea on cooldown.

Creatures and NPCs

Added a delay between casts of Creation Catalyst Overcharge on the Nascent Servitors in the Catalyst Gardens.

Dungeons and Raids

Sepulcher of the First Ones
- Vigilant Guardian
  - Fixed an issue that broke stealth abilities when the encounter begins.
- Skolex, the Insatiable Ravener
  - Fixed a targeting issue on Riftmaw and Rend that could be overly punishing towards pets that happen to be in the area-of-effect and are not primary targets of those abilities on Heroic and Mythic difficulty.
  - Fixed an issue that caused the Rend tooltip to not properly display information.
- Halondrus the Reclaimer
  - Reduced Halondrus' health by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Planetcracker Beams now spawn in a more consistent location.
  - Seismic Tremors now targets more consistent locations.
- Anduin Wrynn
  - Grim Reflections are now immune to the effects of Wicked Star for 5 seconds after spawning.
  - Befouled Barrier no longer applies to player pets and guardians.
- Lords of Dread
  - Fixed an issue where Empowered Chrysalis could cause an Infiltration of Dread target to die when unmasked.
- Rygelon
  - Fixed an issue which caused the warning visual for Celestial Terminator to not show when Projected Textures are disabled in System settings.
- The Jailer
  - The release location after the encounter ends has been moved closer to The Jailer.
Tazavesh: So'leah's Gambit
- Hylbrande
  - Hylbrande health reduced by 5%.
  - Vault Purifier health reduced by 30%.
Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
- Myza's Oasis
  - Crowd Control damage reduced by 50%.
  - Security Slam damage reduced by 40%.
  - Players using the drum set cannot be targeted and are now immune to the effects of Crowd Control.
  - Players using the drum set are now immune to the damage effects of Rotten Food.

Items and Rewards

Great Vault
- [With realm restarts] The Attendant’s Token of Merit has been updated.
  - You may now carry 12 tokens (was 3).
  - You will now receive 2 tokens if you unlocked one Great Vault segment and choose the token reward.
  - You will now receive 4 tokens if you unlocked two Great Vault segments and choose the token reward.
  - You will now receive 6 tokens if you unlocked three or more segments of your Great Vault and choose the token reward.
- [With realm restarts] Ko’tul in Oribos now offers many new items.
  - Ephemera-Infused Mesh – Add a socket to a Shadowlands Season 3 helmet, necklace, bracer, belt, or ring that does not already have a socket. Costs 6 Attendant’s Token of Merit.
  - Overflowing Chest of Riches – Rewards an average of 3,000 gold. Costs 3 Attendant’s Token of Merit.
  - Certified Vouchsafe – Increase your Renown with your current covenant by 1, up to the cap of 80. This item is bound to Battle.net account. Costs 1 Attendant’s Token of Merit.
  - Bottled Night Sky – Rewards 25 Genesis Motes, used for Protoform Synthesis. Costs 1 Attendant’s Token of Merit.
  - Treatise on Patterns in the Purpose – Rewards 40 Cyphers of the First Ones. Costs 1 Attendant’s Token of Merit.
  - Tribute to the Enlightened – Rewards 150 Reputation with the Enlightened. Costs 1 Attendant’s Token of Merit.
- Developers’ note: These changes are aimed at improving the feeling of opening your Great Vault even on weeks when, for whatever reason, you don’t see a direct upgrade in the other items you can choose among. We’ve also heard feedback that, as a consolation prize, Attendant’s Tokens of Merit haven’t really felt rewarding enough to erase that frustration. Now in Season 3, we’re making the number of Tokens scale with the number of Vault slots you unlocked, up to a maximum of 6 Tokens per week (from 3 or more unlocked Vault slots). Furthermore, we’re adding additional options to the vendor, including an item that will add a socket to any eligible piece of Season 3 gear.
Old Warrior's Soul trinket now only affects allies within your party and raid.

Player versus Player

Mage
- [With realm restarts] Tempest Barrier’s (Conduit) absorb value reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
- Fire
  - [With realm restarts] Flamecannon’s (PvP Talent) buff duration reduced to 3 seconds (was 5 seconds).
  - [With realm restarts] Pyrokinesis (PvP Talent) now causes Fireball to reduce the cooldown of Combustion by 2 seconds (was 3 seconds).
  - [With realm restarts] Tinder (PvP Talent) now reduces the cast time of your next Fireball by 30% (was 50%).
    - Developers' note: In Season 3, Fire Mages have been overperforming across all skill brackets in rated PvP, and we will be reducing the power of commonly picked talents to better fit within other spec representation and performance. Additionally, we want to address Fire survivability, as stamina has increased with item level between seasons, and the absorb from Tempest Barrier has scaled higher than we'd like. So, we will be reducing the effectiveness of the conduit. We hope that these changes keep the overall feel of Fire in PvP intact, with a more reasonable power output. We look forward to seeing players unlock Class Set and double Legendary bonuses, and we will continue to monitor PvP balance as the season progresses.
Shaman
- Enhancement
  - [With realm restarts] The healing increase to Maelstrom Weapon provided by Focused Lightning (Conduit) has been decreased by 70% while engaged in PvP combat.
    - Developers' note: During the development of Eternity's End, we provided a substantial increase to the effectiveness of the Focused Lightning conduit, targeted at bringing it in line with the damage potential of other potency conduit options. However, the healing provided by this conduit has increased Enhancement Shaman’s instant healing capabilities beyond what other similar non-healer specializations can bring to the table in PvP. A change to the healing portion of the conduit should allow other parts of the Enhancement Shaman healing kit to remain strong, and not affect the recent damage throughput increase to Focused Lightning.

Quests

Mawrats on the “Fleet-Footed and Fastidious” quest should appear more frequently.

Torghast, Tower of the Damned

Anima Powers
- Paladin
  - Belt of the Mawsworn Avenger once again functions correctly.

MARCH 11, 2022

Classes

Death Knight
- Blood
  - (4) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue where the free Heart Strike counterattack was providing more stacks of Endless Rune Waltz than intended during Dancing Rune Weapon.
Warlock
- Destruction
  - (2) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue where Ritual of Ruin would cause the Infernal's stun to be permanent.

Dungeons and Raids

Sepulcher of the First Ones
- Fixed an issue that could cause doors or bridges to block progress on a reset of the zone.
- Skolex, the Insatiable Ravener
  - Skolex will no longer use Wormhole Jaws on Raid Finder difficulty.
- Halondrus the Reclaimer
  - Fixed an issue causing druids' Travel Form to sometimes disrupt the functionality of Volatile Charge on Mythic difficulty.
  - Fixed an issue causing certain spell visual effects to become invisible on hunters affected by Feign Death.
- Lords of Dread
  - Spell visuals for Cloud of Carrion, Fearful Trepidation, and Infiltration of Dread should no longer be erroneously removed from a Hunter when they cast Feign Death.
Mythic+
- Encrypted Affix
  - Fixed an issue where a set of relics could sometimes fail to all enter combat together.

Items and Rewards

Legendary Memories that were previously obtainable from only Castle Nathria can now be purchased from Rendle, who now also appears in both Castle Nathria and in Haven.
The Chronicle of Lost Memories now costs 15 Grateful Offerings from Covenant Vendors (was 30), or 1500 Catalogued Research from Archivist Roh-Suir (was 2000), or 400 Soul Cinders from Bonesmith Heirmir (was 600).

Player versus Player

Brawls
- Solo Shuffle
  - While in Solo Shuffle, item levels of at least 142 will now be temporarily raised to a minimum of 239.
    - Developers’ note: We have applied a hotfix that will increase the item level of any item acquired in Shadowlands up to at least 239 while in Solo Shuffle (items above 239 are unaffected by this change). This change will only apply to the Solo Shuffle Brawl due to the unique nature of the game mode. We want players to be able to jump into this new experience right away, but a player with extremely low HP is quickly identified as an easy kill target for each round, resulting in a predictable match for all parties involved. We selected item level 239 to allow for gear acquisition and upgrades to still feel like meaningful power progression for a character.

Torghast, Tower of the Damned

Jailer’s Gauntlet (Layers 1—8) along with the newest Layers (13—16) for regular runs are now available in Group Finder.

MARCH 10, 2022

Achievements

Qualified characters have been awarded the Tormented Hero: Shadowlands Season 2 achievement and title.

Classes

Death Knight
- Blood
  - (2) Set Bonus: The Strength buff and Dancing Rune Weapon duration extension effects will now be correctly applied to Heart Strikes cast by the Death Knight's Dancing Rune Weapons.
- Unholy
  - (4) Set Bonus: Harvest Time will now be correctly applied when the target is killed by Soul Reaper.
Shaman
- Enhancement
  - Lava Lash will once again refresh Flame Shock on your primary target.
  - Fixed an issue where refreshing Flame Shocks with Lava Lash would not prioritize targets with Lashing Flames in some situations.

Dungeons and Raids

Sepulcher of the First Ones
- Adjusting the location of devourers in Ephemeral Plains to help make pulls clearer and reduce the concentration of enemies.
- Vigilant Guardian
  - Vigilant Guardian’s health reduced by 5% on Raid Finder difficulty.
- Lihuvim, Principal Architect
  - Degeneration Automa’s Degenerate now has a maximum range of 30 yards.
- Halondrus the Reclaimer
  - Decreased the amount of damage Eternity Overdrive gains per application to 42% of its original value on all difficulties (was 50%).
  - Fixed an issue that caused Halondrus to sometimes delay Relocation Form while casting other spells in quick succession.
  - Fixed an issue that caused Shatter to not display its entire visual effect if Projected Textures were disabled in System settings.
  - Fixed an issue that caused the stone gates in the Shimmering Cliffs to not close properly when the encounter ends in failure.
Mythic+
- Encrypted Affix
  - You now only need to destroy 1 relic to summon your desired automa. After destroying the first relic in a set, the other two are destroyed automatically.
    - Developers’ note: This should be a small quality of life improvement in terms of both the amount of damage required to summon an automa (especially on bosses), and the amount of time extra nameplates spend on the screen.
  - Fixed an issue where the wrong automa could be summoned after defeating a set of relics.
  - Adjusted the spawn locations of several Xy Relic Dealers.
  - Halls of Atonement
    - Echelon
      - Fixed an issue causing Relics to not properly spawn when arriving in the encounter area.
  - The Necrotic Wake
    - Amarth
      - Fixed an issue causing Relics to not properly spawn.
    - Surgeon Stitchflesh
      - Fixed an issue that caused Stitchflesh's Creation to hit Wo, Vy or Urh automa with Meat Hook.
        
        Developers’ note: The Vy Interceptor frequently teleports to a new location, which can be a frustrating obstacle to a well-aimed Meat Hook during the encounter. This change should remove the unfair overlap of these two abilities.
Tazavesh: So'leah's Gambit
- Hylbrande
  - Vault Purifiers no longer immediately attack players as soon as they land.

Items and Rewards

The Sandworn Chest minimap icon will no longer appear once a player has looted the chest once that day.
The Sandworn Chest can now be looted by more players before despawning.
Fixed an issue where Reclaimer’s Intensity Core trinket would unintentionally pull nearby enemies toward the user after the Automa Medic expires. It now has learned who’s friendly and who’s not.

Player versus Player

Fixed an issue with the trinket quest "A New Deal" that prevented the trinkets from being obtainable by players as intended.
- Developers' note: If you're still encountering the issue and can't see the trinket rewards, relogging back into the game should resolve it.

MARCH 9, 2022

Classes

Hunter
- Fixed a tooltip issue where the Secrets of the Unblinking Vigil (Runecarving Power) said it has a 100% chance to activate the effect when the chance is actually 50%.
Shaman
- Enhancement
  - Lava Lash spread Flame Shocks now prioritize targets with the Lashing Flames (Talent) debuff.
  - Lava Lash spread Flame Shocks no longer apply to neutral enemies that are out of combat.
  - Lava Lash spread Flame Shocks no longer apply to enemies that are under the effects of a crowd control ability that breaks from damage.
  - Fixed an issue where Flame Shock would potentially fall off the primary target when Flame Shock was spread on the maximum number of targets.
  - Lava Lash will no longer refresh Flame Shock on your primary target.
Warlock
- Warlocks can now apply Succubus-specific cosmetic glyphs to Summon Sayaad and Summon Succubus. Succubus glyphs will be maintained, even when they have chosen Summon Incubus or Summon Sayaad.

Creatures and NPCs

Mounts are no longer disabled around the quest characters in the center of Haven.

Dungeons and Raids

Sepulcher of the First Ones
- Vigilant Guardian
  - Vigilant Guardian health reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Spike of Creation damage reduced by 50% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Force Field is now cancelled 3 seconds after Exposed Core completes.
  - Pneumatic Impact now resets Vigilant Guardian's melee swing timer.
  - Point Defense Drones should no longer cast Blast when the Vigilant Guardian is channeling Exposed Core.
  - Blast range reduced to 40 yards (was 100 yards).
- Artificer Xy’mox
  - Genesis Rings initial hit now only occurs once, and the lingering additional damage reduced by 50% on Raid Finder difficulty.
  - The encounter’s enrage timer has been increased to 10 minutes on Mythic difficulty (was 7 minutes).
- Prototype Pantheon
  - Bastion's Ward should no longer spawn atop Necrotic Ritualists.
- Lords of Dread
  - Mal'Ganis and Kin'tessa health reduced by 10% on Normal difficulty.
  - The encounter’s enrage timer has been increased to 13 minutes on Normal difficulty (was 11 minutes).
- Rygelon
  - Fixed a rare issue that could sometimes cause Celestial Collapse to be cast a third time during a single phase.
Mythic+
- Encrypted Affix
  - Fixed an issue causing Decrypted Urh Cypher to not reduce some cooldowns.

Items and Rewards

Fixed an issue where the following trinkets’ on-use cooldowns wouldn’t reset after a raid boss encounter ends:
- The First Sigil
- Chains of Domination
- Earthbreaker's Impact
- Cache of Acquired Treasures
- Grim Eclipse
- Intrusive Thoughtcage
The Dance Dance Darkmoon item is now a toy and has been added to the Toy Box.

Quests

Fixed an issue that could prevent the use of the Anima Wyrm’s Necrotic Barrage during the quest “A Hasty Voyage.”

MARCH 8, 2022

Classes

Hunter
- Beast Mastery
  - (4) Set Bonus: Multi-Shot will now also light up on your action bar when the Killing Frenzy buff is active.
Monk
- Fixed an issue that prevented Fallen Order (Venthyr Ability) adepts and Mistweaver’s Yu'lon effigy from gaining reduced damage from area of effect attacks similar to other pets and guardians.
- Fixed an issue where Sinister Teachings (Venthyr Runecarving Power) would not always apply its cooldown reduction after logging in until the legendary was re-equipped.

Cyphers of the First Ones

Pocopoc’s Energy is now updated immediately after researching Maxlim.

Dungeons and Raids

Sepulcher of the First Ones
- Vigilant Guardian
  - Force Field now reduces damage taken by exposed core by 90% on Mythic Difficulty (was 80%).
  - Slightly lowered the spawn rate of Volatile Materium and Pre-Fabricate on Mythic difficulty.
  - Reduced the damage of Radioactive Core by 12% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Reduced the damage of Fractured Core by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
- Artificer Xy’mox
  - Reduced the energy regeneration rate of Xy Acolytes on Raid Finder and Normal difficulty.
- Prototype Pantheon
  - Withering Seeds now spawn nearby Necrotic Ritualists on all difficulties.
- Halondrus the Reclaimer
  - Fixed an issue causing players to be unable to mount in the Shimmering Cliffs.
  - Fixed an issue causing rogues to be unable to use Shadowstep against Halondrus.
- Anduin Wrynn
  - 3 Grim Reflections are now summoned on Heroic difficulty (was 4).
  - Monstrous Soul Health reduced by 5% on Heroic difficulty.
  - Monstrous Soul's Necrotic Detonation can be cast while moving on all difficulties.
  - Befouled Barrier absorb amount reduced by 25% on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
  - Remorseless Winter damage reduced by 20% on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
  - Holy Priest’s healing Anduin's Hope with Guardian Spirit active should now reduce the cooldown of Guardian Spirit.
  - Fixed an issue causing Soul Explosion to hit pets.
- Lords of Dread
  - Players are now protected from Cloud of Carrion for a brief moment after being afflicted with Paranoia.
Mythic+
- Encrypted Affix
  - Improved the visibility of Urh's Force Slam ability.
  - The stealth provided by the Wo Cloaking Field is now much stealthier.
  - Decreased Vy Interceptor's teleport frequency and range.
Mythic Dungeons
- Enemy damage increased by 21% and health increased by 31% on Mythic Dungeon difficulty.
  - Developers’ note: We are fixing an issue with the difficulty of Mythic Dungeons (Mythic 0) not being increased by the intended amount with the start of Season 3, which has caused an unintended difficulty gap between Mythic 0 and Mythic +2. After the change goes live momentarily, it should help make advancing from Mythic 0 dungeons into attempting Keystones feel smoother and less of a big jump in difficulty.

Player versus Player

Fixed an issue that caused players to gain twice the amount of credit for “Soloing Strategy” weekly quest while participating in Solo Shuffle.
Fixed an issue that prevented Maldraxxus Coliseum from being selected as a map for War Games.

Quests

With this week’s scheduled weekly maintenance, fixed an issue where the drop rate of Progenitor Essentia from the tribute rewarded from the weekly quest “Patterns Within Patterns” was not increased.
Fixed an issue that prevented the catapult from firing in some situations in “The Splintered Fleet” scenario.
Fixed an issue where Jarl Velbrand’s level was too high for the quest “To Tame the Drekirjar.”
Homing Robot OOX-09/HL will no longer get lost when trying to cross the water during the quest “Rescue OOX-09/HL!”

MARCH 7, 2022

Achievements

Fixed an issue that prevented the achievement The Protoform Matrix from being properly awarded if the Reaving Automa: Neo was killed while casting Unrepair Armor.

Classes

Death Knight
- Unholy
  - [With realm restarts] (4) Set Bonus: Your minions deal 10% increased damage (was 5%). When Soul Reaper’s secondary effect triggers, this bonus increases to 50% for 8 seconds (was 25%).
    - Developers’ note: Unholy's Tier Set bonus is intended to differentiate the spec from Frost by amplifying one of its niches; strong windows of single-target burst and high-value execute damage. The initial tuning of the bonus was simply too low to make good on that promise, especially when compared to the baseline single-target power other similar bonuses brought to the table.
Druid
- Balance
  - [With realm restarts] (2) Set Bonus: Entering a Lunar Eclipse now creates a Fury of Elune at 20% effectiveness (was 25%).
  - [With realm restarts] (4) Set Bonus: While in an Eclipse, the cost of Starsurge and Starfall is reduced by 15% (was 20%).
    - Developers’ note: The synergy that Balance’s tier set has with some options made this set perform a bit higher than intended. We want to bring Balance in-line with other tier set bonuses while still rewarding those synergistic choices. These changes should keep the power of Balance’s tier set bonus but rein in some of the higher outputs we were seeing.
- Feral
  - [With realm restarts] (2) Set Bonus: Berserk’s cooldown is now reduced by 0.7 seconds per combo point spent (was 0.5 seconds).
  - [With realm restarts] (4) Set Bonus: Sickle of the Lion’s damage is increased by 25%.
    - Developers’ note: We really appreciate all of the feedback on the Feral set and feel that we should take some time to explain these changes. When previously tuning this bonus, we took multiple factors into account: the synergy of the set with other legendaries, its synergy with Feral’s kit, the AOE component, and more. Since we last made adjustments during PTR testing, we’ve gotten a chance to incorporate a great deal of the feedback provided and take a fresh look at the numbers and we found that – as players rightly called out – there was a disconnect in how impactful this bonus was in situations such as single-target encounters. Our goal with these changes is to keep Feral being a strong option in single-target encounters while increasing their AOE throughput. We will continue to actively watch discussions about this, and we want to say again: thank you for the feedback, and we appreciate the community’s patience as we take care with the tuning of this spec.
Hunter
- Beast Mastery
  - [With realm restarts] (4) Set Bonus: The set bonus now reads as – Kill Command critical hits empower your next Cobra Shot or Multi-Shot, increasing the damage and cooldown reduction of Cobra Shot by 40% or causing Multi-Shot to grant an additional 6 seconds of Beast Cleave.
    - Developers’ note: We are adding additional functionality to the 4-piece bonus for Beast Mastery Hunters. When your Kill Command critically strikes, it now empowers either your next Cobra Shot with the existing functionality, or causes your next Multi-Shot to cause your next Beast Cleave to last 6 seconds longer. This should allow you to focus more on Barbed Shot, Cobra Shot, and Kill Command in AoE situations and worry less about using a Multi-Shot every 4 seconds to keep the Beast Cleave buff active.
Priest
- Discipline
  - (2) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue where 2 stacks of Manifested Twilight could be consumed if Shadow Mend triggered the second application.
Shaman
- Elemental
  - [With realm restarts] Storm Elemental’s Wind Gust effect gained from casting Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning now has a maximum stack of 10 (was 20). Additionally, if you cast Storm Elemental again while having a Storm Elemental active, the Wind Gust buff will be reset.
    - Developers’ note: The ability to maintain Storm Elemental at long duration and high uptime allows for extended periods of Lightning Bolts with a cast time of less than 0.6 seconds. Players have reported that this is uncomfortable to play, and we believe it might pose a significant accessibility concern. For that reason, we would rather entirely avoid having a class talent allow cast times which are this short, to avoid similar problems in the future. We are reducing the maximum cast time reduction that can be granted by Storm Elemental. In addition, recasting a Storm Elemental while a Storm Elemental is already active will reset the stacks of Wind Gust.
- Enhancement
  - Fixed an issue where the global cooldown reduction of Frost Shock and Flame Shock were incorrectly benefitting from the effects of haste twice.
Warlock
- Affliction
  - [With realm restarts] (2) Set Bonus: Malefic Rapture's damage is now increased by 25% (was 15%).
  - [With realm restarts] (4) Set Bonus: Shadow Bolt now has a 30% chance and Drain Soul now has a 20% chance to make your next Malefic Rapture cost no Soul Shards and cast instantly (was 20% and 10% respectively).
    - Developers’ note: Affliction’s set bonus wasn’t providing enough of an impactful reward for executing its mechanic. These increases should increase the throughput of Affliction’s tier set and we hope that these changes will bring its output in line with other set bonuses.
Warrior
- Fury
  - [With realm restarts] (2) Set Bonus: Raging Blow damage reduced to 10% (was 15%).
  - [With realm restarts] (4) Set Bonus: Duration of Recklessness granted reduced to 3 seconds (was 4 seconds).
  - [With realm restarts] Glory (Necrolord Runecarving Power): The amount of Rage spent to extend Conqueror's Banner increased to 25 for Fury Warriors (was 20).
    - Developers’ note: Fury’s tier set was stronger than intended and we will be reducing the power of both the 2-piece and 4-piece to better fit within our goal for tier bonuses. In addition, we will be increasing the amount of Rage required to extend Conqueror’s Banner duration while the Glory legendary is equipped. The overall uptime of Conqueror’s Banner with the Glory legendary, Set Bonus (and conduits) was much higher than intended. We hope with these changes that the overall feel of all covenant Fury builds remain intact but with much more reasonable output.

Creatures and NPCs

[With realm restarts] Completing the "Antros" world quest will now award 2 Anima Matrices [500 anima] (was 1 [250 anima]).

Cyphers of the First Ones

Glimmercane is now available to start the quest “Mysterious Greenery” after researching Sopranian Understanding.

Dungeons and Raids

Sepulcher of the First Ones
- Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause bosses to despawn immediately upon defeat.
- Artificer Xy’mox
  - Fixed issue where the visual effect of Xy Acolyte’s Massive Blast rendered smaller than the actual area of effect.
- Prototype Pantheon
  - Fixed an issue where Humbling Strikes could critically strike.
  - Updated the Dungeon Journal entry for Bastion's Ward to accurately reflect the damage reduction provided to Runecarver's Deathtouch.
- Lihuvim, Principal Architect
  - [With realm restarts] The first cast of Synthesize now occurs much earlier in the encounter.
  - [With realm restarts] Reduced the time between casts of Synthesize slightly.
  - [With realm restarts] The damage reduction granted by Protoform Disalignment has been reduced to 50% on Normal difficulty and 20% on Heroic difficulty (was 90%).
  - [With realm restarts] The damage inflicted by Cosmic Shift has been increased by 50% on Heroic Difficulty.
  - [With realm restarts] The damage inflicted when an Unstable Mote is created has been increased by approximately 25% on Heroic Difficulty.
  - [With realm restarts] Damage inflicted by Deconstructing Energy has been increased by 50% on Heroic Difficulty.
    - Developers’ note: We have identified an issue that caused Lihuvim to do significantly less raid damage than expected on all difficulties. While we typically do not increase the difficulty of encounters after release, we do sometimes intervene to address cases where a fight would otherwise be much less engaging than intended. We believe intervention is warranted in this case, and so with weekly resets we will be applying a number of changes intended to increase raid damage during the Lihuvim encounter. The biggest change will be to the Cosmic damage reduction provided by Protoform Disalignment, which was incorrectly reducing damage taken by 90%. We also made adjustments to other abilities to ensure raid damage ends up in a healthy place.
- Halondrus the Reclaimer
  - Fixed an issue preventing Theotar the Mad Duke’s Token of Appreciation ability (Venthyr Soulbind) from functioning during the encounter.
  - Fixed an issue where Priest’s Unholy Nova (Necrolord Ability) was unusable on Halondrus except in specific spots.
- Anduin Wrynn
  - [With realm restarts] If Anduin Wrynn reaches 10% health in non-Mythic difficulty before starting the final phase of the encounter, he will now immediately begin the final phase.
    - Developers’ note: Players are hitting this threshold in lower difficulties, this should shorten the encounter for groups that overpower the encounter.
- Lords of Dread
  - We’ve identified an issue with the Ruined Crest of Lordaeron shield and will be removing it from the loot table for one week. The shield should return to the loot table with next week’s scheduled weekly maintenance in each region.
Mythic+
- Fixed an issue where Mythic+ Rating for Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder was incorrectly calculated based on a 38 minute time limit.
  - Developers’ note: This fix is retroactive. Players should see their Mythic+ Ratings for existing runs adjusted accordingly.
Tazavesh: So’leah’s Gambit
- Timecap'n Hooktail
  - Fixed an issue where Cannon Barrage would pierce immunities.
Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
- [With realm restarts] Support Officer's Hard Light Barrier is now a Magic effect.
- [With realm restarts] Tracker Zo'korss health reduced by 20%.
- [With realm restarts] Ancient Core Hound health reduced by 20%.
- [With realm restarts] Commerce Enforcer health reduced by 20%.
- [With realm restarts] Commander Zo'far health reduced by 25%.
- The Grand Menagerie
  - Achillite
    - [With realm restarts] Purification Protocol damage reduced by 25%.
  - Alcruux
    - [With realm restarts] The damage of Grand Consumption has been reduced by 35%.

Items and Rewards

Players will no longer see additional unusable Revelation Keys drop if they already have two.
Bauble of Pure Innovation can now be looted properly by players who meet the requirements.

Quests

If players disconnect or leave before Hanoa's resolution has concluded during “Jiro to Hero,” they can return to Hanoa Exile to start the event again and see the conclusion.

MARCH 4, 2022

Classes

Hunter
- Survival
  - Fixed an issue that caused Wildfire Bomb to not deal any damage when multiple hunters with Wildfire Infusion talented tried to throw the same type of bomb at the same target simultaneously.
Warlock
- Fixed several issues when applying Succubus glyphs to Summon Sayaad. Warlocks can no longer apply Succubus glyphs to Summon Sayaad and now must visit their trainer to choose Summon Succubus to apply Succubus glyphs.
  - Developers note: Succubus glyphs will be maintained, even when they have chosen Summon Incubus or Summon Sayaad.
- Destruction
  - Fixed an issue where Destruction's 2-piece set bonus would grant Rain of Chaos.

Creatures and NPCs

Otaris the Provoked's Charged Barrage is now more melee friendly.

Cyphers of the First Ones

Pocopoc will now consistently engage in combat.
Pocopoc Energy is no longer lost when returning from an arena or rated battleground.
Finishing a Cypher language research will no longer take you out of stealth.

Dungeons and Raids

Mythic+
- Tazavesh: So’leah’s Gambit
  - Ta'piks can now teleport you to The Gilded Landing if you wish to leave the instance during a Mythic+ run.
Mists of Tirna Scithe
- Tred'ova
  - Fixed issue where the visual effect of Acid Expulsion rendered smaller than the actual area of effect.
Tazavesh: So’leah’s Gambit
- Added a confirmation prompt to the instance exit portal that appears after So'leah is defeated.
- Hylbrande
  - Increased the time it takes for Sanitizing Field to consume the room.
- So'leah
  - So'leah's health has been reduced by 15%.
  - Hyperlight Jolt damage reduced by 25% and now increases the damage of subsequent Hyperlight Jolts by 25% (was 50%).
  - Energy Fragmentation impact damage and damage over time reduced by 25%.
Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
- Reduced the cast frequency of Customs Security Disruption Grenade and increased the detonation time by 0.5 seconds.
- Reduced the cast frequency of Interrogation Specialist's Stasis Beam.
- Reduced the cast frequency of Cartel Skulker's Quickblade.
- Cartel Lackey health reduced by 35%.
- Bazaar Strongarm health reduced by 30%.
- Fixed an issue causing Bazaar Strongarms to become very large after gaining many applications of Unrelenting.
- Mailroom Mayhem
  - Unstable Explosion impact damage reduced by 30% and damage over time reduced by 30%.
- Myza's Oasis
  - Health of Unruly Patrons reduced by 20%.
  - Zo'gron's health reduced by 10%.
- The Grand Menagerie
  - Reduced the cast frequency of Venza Goldfuse's Whirling Annihilation.
  - Chains of Damnation health reduced by 20%.

Items and Rewards

Cypher-Bound Chests, Avian Nests, Mawsworn Supply Chests, Tarachnid Eggs, Discarded Automa Scrap, Forgotten Treasure Vaults, and Sandworn Chests found on the main landmass of Zereth Mortis will now respawn more quickly and despawn less quickly once opened.
Slightly increased the quantity of Cyphers of the First Ones found in Cypher-Bound Chests, Avian Nests, Mawsworn Supply Chests, Tarachnid Eggs, Discarded Automa Scrap, and Forgotten Treasure Vaults.
Fixed an issue that caused trinkets awarded from World Quests in Zereth Mortis to be an item level lower than intended.

Player versus Player

The following items and their effects are now reduced in PvP combat:
- Raid Trinkets
  - Brood of Endless Feast – Rabid Devourer Chomp damage reduced by 60% in PvP combat.
  - Cache of Acquired Treasures – Acquired Wand reduced by 70%. Vicious Wound reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
  - Chains of Domination – Damage reduced by 70% in PvP combat.
  - Earthbreaker's Impact – Damage reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
  - Grim Eclipse – Damage reduced by 40% in PvP combat.
  - Heart of the Swarm – Leech and damage reduced by 70% in PvP combat.
  - Intrusive Thoughtcage – Health drain reduced by 70% in PvP combat.
  - Pocket Protoforge – Protoforged Defense absorption reduced by 55% in PvP combat.
  - Pulsating Riftshard – Damage and absorption reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
  - Resonant Reservoir – Disintegration Halo damage reduced by 55% in PvP combat.
  - Scars of Fraternal Strife – The Final Rune damage reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
  - The First Sigil – Versatility reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
- Item Effects
  - Sepulcher's Savior – Healing and damage reduced by 50% in PvP combat.

Quests

Players who die while in the Genesis Repository during the quest "A Mutual Exchange" can now enter the room in their spirit form.

Burning Crusade Classic

Fixed an animation issue on the goblin engineering trinket, Goblin Dragon Gun.

MARCH 3, 2022

Achievements

Added additional safety measures to help the Traversing the Spheres achievement register correctly.

Classes

Hunter
- Costumes for Pocopoc now correctly persist through Feign Death.
- Survival
  - Fixed an issue where Wildfire Bombs would not damage player totems or Explosive Orbs in Mythic+ dungeons if the totem or Explosive Orb was the primary target of the Wildfire Bomb.

Covenants

Each of the four original Covenant campaign questlines now reward a total of 20 additional Renown.

Dungeons and Raids

Sepulcher of the First Ones
- Several enemies now detect stealth and invisibility.
- Skolex, the Insatiable Ravener
  - Fixed an issue where Retch was not treated as an area of effect spell in regards to all defensive abilities.
- Artificer Xy’mox
  - Health of Xy Acolytes reduced by 15% on Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic difficulties.
  - Resolved an issue where Interdimensional Wormholes could despawn while Genesis Rings were active when Xy'mox was below 30% health.
  - Reduced the pacing of the encounter by 15% on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
  - Improved the visual clarity of Gunship Barrage.
  - Reduced the radius effect of Hyperlight Sparknova.
- Prototype Pantheon
  - Burden of Sin damage reduced by 25% on all difficulties except Mythic.
  - Added more time before Bastion's Ward dispel zones despawn upon transitioning between phases.
  - The Prototype Pantheon now pause in their place when beginning Complete Reconstruction and will remain there until all members of the Pantheon are defeated.
  - Improved the visual effect for Pinning Weapon.
  - Fixed an issue where Complete Reconstruction could fail to apply to a Pantheon member.
  - Holy Priest’s Guardian Angel (Talent) will now correctly reduce the cooldown of Guardian Spirit when cast on the Withering Seeds.
- Anduin Wrynn
  - Anduin's health reduced by 5% on Heroic difficulty.
  - Remorseless Winter damage reduced by 10% on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
  - Fiendish Soul Health reduced by 25% on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
  - Grim Reflection health reduced by 10% on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
  - Befouled Barrier requires 10% less healing on Heroic difficulty.
  - Befouled Barrier requires 20% less healing on Normal difficulty.
Mythic+
- Halls of Atonement
  - Fixed an issue that caused the dungeon’s Mythic+ Rating to be doubled in certain situations.
- Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
  - Bazaar Strongarm no longer triggers affixes that occur on death (such as Bolstering).
- Theater of Pain
  - Fixed an issue where dueling Gladiators in the Halls of Might could summon their Encrypted affix relics early.
Tazavesh: So’leah’s Gambit
- Updated the Tazavesh Portal Network portal in The Opulent Nexus to now transport players back to Stormheim on Heroic and Mythic+ difficulties.
Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
- Zo'phex the Sentinel
  - Reduced the health of Containment Cell by 40%.
  - Reduced the periodic damage of Containment Cell by 50%.
- The Grand Menagerie
  - Alcruux health reduced by 40%.
  - Achillite health reduced by 20%.
  - Venza Goldfuse health reduced by 10%.
Hellfire Citadel
- Gorefiend
  - Fixed an issue that would cause the encounter to reset when engaged by 2 players on Mythic difficulty.
Firelands
- Ragnaros
  - Fixed an issue where The Heart of Ragnaros would not appear after defeating the encounter.

Items and Rewards

The following changes have been made to the Cosmic Gladiator’s Resonator trinket:
- Damage dealt reduced by 18% and can no longer critically strike.
- Hostile resonators now have a visual to indicate their radius more clearly.
- Characters within a hostile resonator will now have an indicator debuff applied.
Fixed an issue that caused Pure-Air Sail Extensions to increase flying speed.
Fluidic and Crystallic Spheroids now have cast time.
Fixed an issue where Interrogator’s Vicious Dirk was not dropping from Iska, Outrider of Ruin, High Reaver Damaris, and Reanimatrox Marzan in Zereth Mortis.

Pet Battles

Disabled the "back" option for the Pocopoc battle pet.

Quests

Zereth Mortis daily and world quests now have a higher chance of awarding Cypher Equipment, and a proportionately lower chance of awarding gold or anima.

MARCH 2, 2022

Characters

Fixed an issue that prevented character transfers to Roleplay realms.
Fixed a disconnect issue when inspecting another player in a Premade Group.

Classes

Warlock
- Demonology
  - The duration extension effect from summoning your Demonic Tyrant has had its radius increased to 100 yards (was 40 yards).

Creatures and NPCs

Several Rare encounters in Zereth Mortis have had their maximum health reduced.
Fixed an issue where occasionally one or both sigils would not appear, making it impossible to lower the barrier to engage Protector of the First Ones.
- Developers’ note: In the event one or both sigils still does not appear when the rare respawns, the barrier will be automatically dispelled after 35 seconds.
It is no longer possible to see Feroz and Elder Ara outside the Catalyst Wards and at the entrance to the Catalyst Gardens simultaneously. Quests can be turned in to Elder Ara and Feroz outside the Catalyst Wards while the character has not accepted all three of their quests.
Grasslands Raptora’s Bloody Peck now deals damage every 2 seconds (was 1 second).

Dungeons and Raids

Sepulcher of the First Ones
- Skolex, the Insatiable Ravener
  - Fixed an issue where Skolex would sometimes not appear after defeating the four controllers.
- Artificer Xy’mox
  - Fixed an issue where defeating Xy Reinforcements could fail to interrupt Decipher Relic.
  - Xy Spellslingers will no longer target the same player simultaneously.
- Lihuvim, Principal Architect
  - Fixed an issue that caused Sundering and Kinetic Resonance to behave unpredictably.
- Anduin Wrynn
  - Hopebreaker damage over time reduced by 10% on Heroic difficulty.
  - Befouled Barrier requires 25% less healing on Heroic and Mythic difficulty.
  - Befouled Barrier requires 50% less healing on Raid Finder and Normal difficulty.
  - Reduced the health of Grim Reflections by 20% on all difficulties except Mythic.
  - Reduced Beacon of Hope’s Purging Light damage by 20% on Heroic difficulty.
  - Fixed an issue where Rain of Despair was able to damage pets.
Mythic+
- Halls of Atonement
  - Echelon
    - Fixed an issue where Echelon's Encrypted affix relics would not follow him into the encounter area.
- Plaguefall
  - Fixed an issue where additional Encrypted affix relics were spawning before Domina Venomblade.
- Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
  - So'azmi
    - Explosives no longer spawn during the encounter.
      - Developers’ note: The actual issue here is that Explosives can hit players through So'azmi's Division walls, but changing that will take time to get right. Since it's currently Explosive week, we wanted to do a quicker change to address the fight feeling unfair with current functionality.
- The Necrotic Wake
  - Fixed an issue causing the Xy Relic Dealer to not spawn inside the Stitchwerks after the timer expires.
  - Amarth
    - Fixed an issue causing additional Encrypted affix relics upon Amarth respawning.
  - Surgeon Stitchflesh
    - Fixed an issue causing Stitchflesh's Creation to hit Encrypted affix relics with Meat Hook.
Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
- Fixed an issue where the Customs door would not open on Heroic difficulty.

Items and Rewards

A finished Kettle of Stone Soup now lasts 15 minutes (was 3 minutes) and has 70 charges (was 35). Delicious!
The damage of Toxicialic Fluidic Spheroid has been capped at 6% of the player's maximum health.
Fixed an issue with Toxicialic Fluidic Spheroid to cause error messages while the player is mounted.
Enchant Weapon – Crusader healing reduced by 86% and Strength reduced by 14%.
Fixed an issue that caused Cache of Sepulcher Treasures to generate its loot based on your loot specialization at the time you acquired the cache. This will now instead use your loot specialization at the time you open the cache.

Quests

Fixed an issue where the quests "A Jiro Guide to Not Being Eaten", "Picking Up the Pieces... Literally", and "Gut Check" were not available.
Fixed an issue for the quest "Jiro to Hero" where players could not talk to Hanoa the Exile, and therefore could not start the event.

MARCH 1, 2022

Classes

Druid
- Balance
  - Fixed an issue where Celestial Pillar (2-piece Set Effect) would not be activated if triggered too quickly.
Monk
- Mistweaver
  - Reverted a change in Eternity’s End to Fallen Order's (Venthyr Ability) Crane Adept’s Enveloping Mist cooldown and cast variance that caused Enveloping Mist to only be cast once per summon.
    - Developers’ notes: In 9.1, it was identified that the Crane Adept guardians summoned by the ability Fallen Order would cast an additional Enveloping Mist if players reached a certain amount of Haste. Generally, we try to avoid these “Haste Breakpoints” that introduce big jumps in power with arbitrary amounts of a particular stat. In 9.1.5, we shared that we intended to fix this problem in the player’s favor, by ensuring that the Adept’s always cast Enveloping Mist twice per summon. However, upon further review, we opted to not make this change due to balance concerns. For 9.2, we made a change early in development that caused Fallen Order Adepts to be limited to casting a single Enveloping Mist. We are reverting that change via hotfix so that Fallen Order will have the same functionality as it does in 9.1.5. In the future, we will be looking at Fallen Order’s tuning and might make adjustments, but we do not want to make such a large change to this ability before Season 3 starts.
Shaman
- Restoration
  - The bonus damage from the Raging Vesper Vortex (Kyrian Runecarving Power) has been reduced by 35%.
Warlock
- Affliction
  - Fixed an issue where Malefic Rapture would consume a Soul Shard despite having Calamitous Crescendo (2-piece Set Effect).
Warrior
- Protection
  - Damage of all abilities increased by 6%.

Creatures and NPCs

The Ancient Translocators for the Sepulcher of the First Ones and Antecedent Isle will now appear on the Zereth Mortis zone map.
Antros' Dark Deterrence no longer persists after completing the encounter.
Mounts are now disabled on top of the quest characters in the center of Haven.
Fixed an issue where the vines to start the Gluttonous Overgrowth encounter would not respawn.
The Engulfer’s health now increases as more players engage it in combat.

Cypher of the First Ones

The "Sopranian Understanding" Cypher talent is now locked while being researched on an alternate character.

Dungeons and Raids

Sepulcher of the First Ones
- Volatile Sentries will now correctly detect stealthed and invisible players.
- Vigilant Guardian
  - Volatile Materium now activates more quickly after all currently activated Volatile Materium have been defeated.
  - Pre-Fabricated Sentries now activates more quickly in an attempt to keep two Pre-Fabricated Sentries active.
- Artificer Xy’mox
  - The visual of the Genesis Rings now better matches the effect.
  - Reduced the damage of Hyperlight Sparknova by 30% on all difficulties except Mythic.
  - Artificer Xy'mox now uses abilities at a slightly less frantic pace while below 30% health.
- Prototype Pantheon
  - Fixed an issue where players were unable to loot The Prototype of Absolution upon completion of the encounter.
- Halondrus the Reclaimer
  - Reduced the amount of damage absorption provided by Reclaim by 20% on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
  - Reduced the amount of damage Reclaim gains periodically to 25% of its initial value on Normal and Heroic difficulties (was 50%).
  - Reduced the base speed of Ephemeral Motes by 20% on Heroic difficulty.
- Anduin Wrynn
  - The healing absorbed by Anduin's Befouled Barrier has been reduced by 25% on Normal difficulty and reduced by 30% on Heroic difficulty.
Plaguefall
- Fixed an issue that caused Ickor Bileflesh's Ghost Step to spawn Margrave Stradama early.
Mythic+
- Mythic+ Rating colors have updated rating requirements due to the addition of the two Tazavesh dungeons. Uncommon, Rare, Epic, and Legendary now require 25% more overall rating than they did before.
- Enemies that are part of a dungeon boss encounter are no longer affected by the Bolstering affix.
  - Developers’ note: Bringing additional enemies into a boss fight is a common tactic at higher key levels, and the current interaction of Bolstering with bosses largely prevents players from using that tactic. We've discussed this interaction and feel that it's not necessary to our goals for the affix, so we're making an adjustment with the hope of opening up more strategic choice during Bolstering weeks.
- So'leah's Gambit
  - Timecap'n Hooktail
    - Fixed an issue where Corsair Brute could trigger affixes.

Items and Rewards

The Dominance Key will no longer drop once you've opened the Domination Cache in the Endless Sands area of Zereth Mortis.
Many Uncommon (green) quality items in Zereth Mortis will now correctly drop as Bind on Equip instead of Bind on Pickup.
The upgrade cost of Aspirant and Gladiator equipment has been reduced.
Fixed an issue which could cause Bell of the Endless Feast to stack much more quickly than intended.
Fixed an issue which allowed the Cache of Sepulcher Treasures to drop the fist weapon, Domination's Deliverance.
- Developer's note: This week's Timewalking cache is only intended to contain loot from the first 8 Sepulcher of the First Ones encounters. In the future, after all of the raid has been seen by players, it will be updated to include loot from all Sepulcher bosses. While it was unintended that this weapon be available to anyone this week, we do not believe that its presence at a Normal Raid power level distorts competitive fairness, so we will not be removing it from characters who received it.

Player versus Player

A new weekly quest, "A New Deal" is now available from Zo'sorg in Oribos. Complete activities in Zereth Mortis with War Mode on to earn a selection of new PvP trinkets. Once all trinkets have been collected, additional Honor will be rewarded.
Brawls
- Fixed an issue that caused Warsong Scramble to show up in the calendar twice in the normal rotation.
- “Something Different” weekly brawl quest is no longer completed when participating in Solo Shuffle.

Quests

The Irresistible Goop quest item now returns to the player when they return to the quest area for “Feed the Annelids.”
The damage done by Generated Shapesmith and Generated Oracle during the quest “Step Into the Ring” has been reduced.

WoW Classic Era and Season of Mastery

Fixed an issue causing the Outhouse in the "Locked Away" quest to no longer be interactable until a server reset.