WoW – HOTFIX Patch Notes 07.08.2018

Appearances and Animations

• Fixed display issues with Void Elf Heritage Armor and Shadowform with Glyph of Shadow.
• Isle of Conquest Airship Cannon’s ball of fire visual should again match the actual trajectory of the shot.

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Unholy
    • Raise Dead’s Claw ability will no longer incorrectly gain damage from Mastery: Dreadblade. The Dark Transformation upgrade to Sweeping Claws still benefits from Mastery.

• Druid
  • Sunfire will no longer apply to secondary targets that are immune to its effects, such as Rogues with Cloak of Shadow active.
  • Restoration
    • Photosynthesis now increases rate of all HoTs by 20% (was 15%).
    • Photosynthesis haste effect now affects Efflorescence.
    • Cultivation healing reduced by 17%.
    • Rejuvenation healing increased by 6%.

• Mage
  • Arcane
    • Mana Shield drains 50% of damage as mana (was 20%).
  • Fire
    • Phoenix Flames’s single-target damage now correctly hits Totems and similar targets.
  • Frost
    • When using Concentrated Coolness, the Regalia of the Arcane Tempest 4-piece set bonus will properly reduce the cooldown of Frozen Orb.

• Monk
  • Chi Wave healing increased by 25%.
  • Mistweaver
    • Renewing Mist healing correctly generates threat.
  • Windwalker
    • Blackout Kick damage reduced by 27%.

• Paladin
  • Retribution
    • All damage abilities have been reduced 3%.

• Priest
  • Smite damage reduced by 6%.
  • Divine Star healing increased by 25%.
  • Discipline
    • Shadow Word: Pain reduced by 9%.
    • Shadowfiend damage reduced by 16%.
    • Mindbender damage reduced by 8%.
    • Fixed a bug where Sins of the Many was not increasing Atonement healing from Shadowfiend/Mindbinder.
  • Holy
    • Binding Heal now costs 2.4% of mana (was 2.0%).
    • Holy Word: Salvation cast time increased to 2.5 seconds (was 2 seconds).
    • Angel’s Mercy cooldown reduction increased.

• Shaman
  • Restoration
    • Cloudburst now stores 30% of healing done (was 25%).
    • Unleash Life instant healing increased by 26%.

• Rogue
  • Assassination
    • All damage abilities reduced 4%.
  • Outlaw
    • All damage abilities reduced 3%.
  • Subtlety
    • All damage abilities reduced 4%.

• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • Summon Darkglare will no longer remove all nearby Rogues from stealth.

• Warrior
  • Arms
    • All damage abilities increased 3%.

Creatures and NPCs

• Myra Tyrngaarde was having some trouble understanding how to cross the bridges in Ironforge, but she’s been shown the correct path.

Social

• Fixed a bug preventing Guild ranks with invite permissions from properly inviting.
• Fixed a bug that caused Guild and officer note updates to be delayed if the member was offline.
• Fixed multiple bugs that caused some players to be unexpectedly removed from General and Trade chat channels.

Source: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/21973195/hotfixes-august-7-2018