Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Battle For Azeroth. 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
July 23, 2018
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
Tiger Style 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 Execute 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
Antorus, the Burning Throne
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 Hammer 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 Shadow Mend'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 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".
Hotfixes
July 20, 2018
Classes
Monk
The Earth and Fire clone from Storm, Earth, and Fire should correctly mimic Rushing Jade Wind, regardless of the player’s target.
Paladin
Protection
Fixed a bug preventing the Light’s Vanguard Battleplate 4-piece bonus from activating and deactivating as intended.
Fixed an issue where Consecration occasionally failed to provide its self-buff.
Rogue
Assassination
Fixed a bug where Blindside was not learnable until level 40.
Warlock
Demonology
The Command Demon version of Spell Lock can no longer be cast without a target.
Demonic Calling can now correctly be activated by casting Demonbolt.
Character Services
Characters at level 110 and above may now move up to 1,000,000 gold when performing a Character Transfer.
Creatures and NPCs
Fixed a visual bug that caused some characters to lose the tops of their heads.
Dungeons and Raids
The health and damage of all enemies in Emerald Nightmare, Trial of Valor, The Nighthold, and Tomb of Sargeras has been significantly reduced.
The experience awarded on completion of a random dungeon has been increased.
Antorus, the Burning Throne
Fixed a bug preventing Death’s Advance from functioning correctly in certain encounter situations, such as Aggramar’s Flame Rend.
Eye of Azshara
Damage dealt by Lightning Strike, Warlord Parjesh’s Crashing Wave, and Quicksand have been significantly reduced.
The Nexus
Chaotic Energy Bursts from Chaotic Rifts no longer inflict excessive damage.
Obsidian Sanctum
Sartharion’s Large Satchel of Spoils should again contain loot.
Return to Karazhan
Mana Confluences’ Ablative Shield should no longer absorb an excessive amount of damage.
Utgarde Keep
Dragonflayer Runecaster’s Bolthorn's Rune of Flame now deals less damage.
Items
Darkmoon Deck: Promises no longer reduces some non-mana resources.
Fixed a bug that prevented banners from granting expected honor, experience, and reputation bonuses.
Fishing Chair and Nat's Fishing Chair have been temporarily converted into objects that are not chairs, while a bug with their functionality is fixed. They will return to their former function in a future patch.
Player versus Player
Adjusted PvP scaling to reduce the difference in power and damage between players of different item levels at level 110.
Fixed a bug preventing some players from obtaining Honorable Medallion while PvP-enabled.
Professions
Fishing
Fixed a bug that caused the wrong sound when casting.
Quests
Fixed a bug with the reputation bonus on completion of "Death to Agogridon". If you previously completed the quest, speak to Karnum Marshweaver in Desolace to receive your reward.
The talking quest NPC should no longer appear for players who are nearby, but are not the Hunter on “Never Hunt Alone”.
Players should again be able to complete “All Charged Up”.
Fixed a bug with the conversation required for “Secrets of Wrymskull Uncovered”, allowing completion of “The Echo of Ymiron”.
Low-level players are now able to do appropriate damage to the Devilsaur Queen during "The Ballad of Maximillian”.
“Pitching In” can again be completed.
World
It is again possible to earn credit toward "Field Photographer" when using the S.E.L.F.I.E. cam anywhere within the Path of Uther.
Alliance characters can again complete "Uther's Blessing" by approaching Uther's statue.
Hotfixes
July 19, 2018
Classes
Death Knight
Unholy
Gravewarden Armaments 4-piece set bonus now reduces the cooldown of Army of the Dead by 2.0 seconds per Rune spent (was 6.0 seconds per Rune spent).
Hunter
Marksmanship
Serpenstalker Guise 2-piece set bonus has been changed to increase all physical damage dealt by 5% (was an incorrect melee attack power increase).
The Trick Shots effect will now always correctly apply when Multi-Shot hits three or more targets.
Mage
Shimmer should not interrupt channeled spells.
Displacement functions correctly if you cast Shimmer while casting another spell.
Warrior
Protection
Juggernaut Battlegear 2-piece set bonus has been changed to increase Armor by 5%.
Creatures and NPCs
Damage dealt by all creatures below level 100 has been reduced by up to 25%.
Defeating Shok’Thokar creatures in Desolace now grants both Gelkis and Magram reputation.
The Sky Crystal no longer instantly kills Alani when used by a high-level player, and Alani is once again lootable.
Dungeons and Raids
Antorus, the Burning Throne
Reduced the damage done by a number of "tank swap" abilities throughout the zone.
Argus the Unmaker
Reduced the damage dealt by Sweeping Scythe by 30%.
The Arcway
Ivanyr
Volatile Magic damage reduced on Mythic difficulty.
Dire Maul
Prince Tortheldrin
Whirlwind should no longer deal excessive damage.
Heart of Fear
Empress Shek’zeer
Casting spells within Shek’zeer’s Dissonance Field once again depletes its energy.
Neltharion's Lair
Dargrul
Corrected an issue that caused Dargrul’s energy to refill too rapidly.
The Nighthold
Gul’dan
Soul Siphon no longer heals for an excessive amount.
Return to Karazhan
Shade of Medivh
Piercing Missiles should no longer deal excessive damage.
Scarlet Halls
Houndmaster Braun
Bloody Mess should no longer deal excessive damage.
Scarlet Monastery
Commander Durand
Dashing Strike no longer deals excessive damage.
Ulduar
Reforged Hammer of Ancient Kings should again reliably drop from Yogg-Saron for "Val'anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings".
Player versus Player
The effectiveness of trinkets that are obtained via PvE sources such as Dungeons and Raids have been reduced by 75% in PvP.
Arenas and Battlegrounds
Corrected the amount of damage dealt by players to creatures and vehicles in Alterac Valley and Isle of Conquest.
Fixed a bug that prevented end-of-match rewards from dropping at the end of Battlegrounds and Arenas.
War Mode
Premade Group Finder groups in the Quest and World Boss categories will now properly filter listing according to the War Mode state of the party leader and potential applicants.
Professions
Fixed a bug that prevented several First Aid recipe items from requiring the appropriate Profession.
Corrected an issue that could cause Draenor Garrison NPCs to fail to offer work orders.
Alchemy
Fixed a bug preventing players from discovering new Pandaren Alchemy recipes.
Some older-expansion flasks no longer provide more stats than Legion flasks and potions.
Cooking
The cooking achievement Dinner Impossible no longer requires Strand of the Ancients.
Fishing
Fixed a bug that prevented some players from gaining Legion fishing ranks when using rare fish.
Herbalism
Fixed an issue that could cause herb nodes from Outland through Pandaria to yield the wrong herb type.
Mining
Corrected an issue that could cause players to receive no ore from mining nodes.
Quests
The start of the Mage Tower artifact storyline quest no longer requires an impossible-to-meet artifact trait condition.
Fixed an issue that could cause Strom’kar to be invisible to certain races during its acquisition.
The Slitherblade Naga vehicle's abilities should now deal damage and heal properly on "Wetter than Wet".
The Frightened Miner should now reliably follow his path for "Miner Troubles".
The delicious contents of Yak’s Milk Flask again heals “Fallen Sentinels”.
Wyrmcult Blackwhelps can now be collected for "Whelps of the Wyrmcult".
General Nazgrim is again present for "The Art of War" and "Warchief's Command: Jade Forest".
During “Bringer of the Light” at the Exodar, Fel Annihilator’s Sonic Boom no longer deals excessive damage.
Hotfixes
July 18, 2018
Classes
Demon Hunter
Chaos Brand correctly has unlimited duration outside of PvP.
Druid
Restoration
Tranquility’s heal-over-time can correctly critically heal.
Hunter
Marksmanship
Explosive Shot will now correctly despawn if the projectile collides with an obstacle or reaches maximum range, and refund partial cost and cooldown.
Monk
Mystic Touch correctly has unlimited duration outside of PvP.
Mage
Arcane
Soul of the Archmage now grants the talent Amplification (was Temporal Flux).
When Arcane Missiles activate Clearcasting, the subsequent (free) Missiles will correctly have reduced channel time and be affected by Slipstream.
Priest
Shadow
Psychic Horror is correctly usable below level 74.
Shaman
Restoration
Soul of the Farseer should now correctly grant the talent Echo of the Elements.
Dungeons and Raids
Tomb of Sargeras
Maiden of Vigilance
Wrath of the Creators should no longer deal excessive damage.
Icecrown Citadel
Lady Deathwhisper again has an appropriate amount of mana.
Dire Maul
Alzzin the Wildshaper’s Wild Generation should no longer heal for an excessive amount.
The Arcatraz
Fixed a bug causing Eredar Deathbringer to deal much more damage than intended.
NPCs
Fixed a bug causing centaurs in Desolace to deal more damage than intended.
Druids can again interact with Skycaller Faeb.
Player versus Player
Honor and Conquest rewards for Epic Battlegrounds have been increased.
Corrected the amount of damage dealt by players to creatures and vehicles in Alterac Valley and Isle of Conquest.
Professions
Corrected the display of ranks in Profession recipe windows.
Quests
The Staff of Pei-Zhi can again be looted for “An Urgent Plea”.
Fixed a bug preventing the completion of some Garrison campaign quests in Draenor.
In Highmountain, Small Ceremonial Drum can again be interacted with for "Ceremonial Drums".
Merchant Greenfield again gives the player seeds for "Learn and Grow I: Seeds".
Fixed a bug preventing Kol Ironpaw from grilling the Bloody Plainshawk Leg for "A Gift for Fung".
It is again possible to collect Fizzle’s Hand for “Fizzled”.
Aprika’s Doll can again be collected for “Small Comforts”.
Players can again interact with Mana-Drained Whelplings for "Their Dying Breaths".
The Eye of Kilrogg is again obtainable for “Eye See You”.
The Soulweave Vessel can again be looted for “The Cure For Death” and “Vessel of Virtue”.
World
Legion Assaults now correctly scale down to player level 98.