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by Published on 2020-01-23 03:17 PM

Today in Uldum and Vale of Eternal Blossoms - January 23
Patch 8.3 adds N'Zoth assaults to Uldum and the Vale of Eternal Blossoms. These new assaults work a little differently than what you would expect and are a very important part of keeping up with patch content. Click the banner below for an in depth guide.
Published on 2020-01-23 02:33 AM

Patch 8.3 Hotfixes - January 22, 2020
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Achievements
  • You Can Pet the Dog, But… is now properly rewarded to all raid members who /pet Shad’har regardless if they or another player died during the encounter on Normal and Heroic difficulties.

Allied Races
  • Allied Races characters that are not Death Knights no longer learn an unusable Acherus Deathcharger class mount at level 58.

Classes
  • Mage
    • Fixed an issue causing Mage's Invisibility and Greater Invisibility spells to not display the intended screen effects.

  • Warlock
    • Demonology
      • Casting Hand of Gul'dan with a wand equipped and no Soul Shards no longer causes players to start autoattacking the target.

  • Creatures and NPCs
    • Reduced the unavoidable damage from Tashara's Ground Shatter. Players now have more time to move out of her secondary effect.

Dungeons and Raids
  • Ny'alotha, the Waking City
    • Il’gynoth, Corruption Reborn
      • Fixed a bug where Il'gynoth could get to 0% health but not transition to Stage 2 of the encounter.

Horrific Visions
  • Fixed an issue that prevented Gift of the Titans from triggering in certain situations.

Items and rewards
  • Fixed a bug that allowed the Lurking Schemer's Band a small chance at rolling a socket in addition to its baseline socket.
  • Heart of Azeroth
    • Corrected an issue that sometimes caused Unwavering Ward (Essence) to lose its Corruption Resistance.
    • Breath of the Dying (Essence) Rank 2 Minor Power’s self-healing no longer heals for an excessive amount when dealing damage to lower-level targets.

Quests
  • Visions of N’Zoth Threat Daily Quests
    • Reputation gain increased from 75 to 125.
    • Coalescing Visions increased from 50 to 250.

  • Lesser Vision Daily Quests
    • Coalescing Visions rewards increased from 1000 to 1500.
    • Corrupted Mementos rewards increased from 8 to 30.

  • War Mode reward bonuses for completing Visions of N’Zoth daily quests are now correctly displayed in the UI.
  • Creatures and objects needed to complete Visions of N’Zoth daily quests should now spawn more quickly.
  • The quest item required to complete “Stepping Through the Darkness” can now be found in Lost Area chests in addition to the Corrupted area chests.
  • The quest objectives for the legendary cloak storyline are now easier to track.
  • Players returning to Silithus after completing the Blackwing Descent scenario now arrive in the appropriate phase and location. Time travel is quite difficult!
  • Quest credit for “Alpaca It Up” and “Alpaca It In” can now be earned while in raid groups.
  • Self-inflicted damage from N’lyeth, Silver of N’Zoth no longer critically strikes the wearer or benefits from damage modifiers.
  • Players on the quest "Journey to the Sunwell" should now be able to complete "A People Shattered".
  • Increased Goliath Trophy quest item drop rate for “Getting Ahead”.

Auction House Mail Restored
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
We’ve received confirmation that all of the AH mail that was delayed is now delivered and available on realm in this region.
by Published on 2020-01-22 06:31 PM

Update: EU Horde players can now access the Heroic Darkshore Warfront, though this wasn't intended.

Assault Dailies Reputation and Coalescing Visions Reward Increase
With today's reset, Blizzard has substantially increased the rewards from N'Zoth assault dailies. This will make getting to exalted and earning Vessel of Horrific Visions much more bearable. Here are the new numbers:

  • Daily Assault Quests
  • Lesser Vision Daily


Method to Obtain the Rajani Warserpent Discovered
A mogu invasion is currently up in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms, and a rare spawn named Rei Lun spawns deep in the Silent Sanctuary in the North part of the zone. This rare has a small chance to drop the Pristine Cloud Serpent Scale needed to obtain the Rajani Warserpent. You can turn this item into the Rajani quartermaster for the mount without any reputation requirements!


by Published on 2020-01-22 04:14 PM

Today in Uldum and Vale of Eternal Blossoms - January 22
Patch 8.3 adds N'Zoth assaults to Uldum and the Vale of Eternal Blossoms. These new assaults work a little differently than what you would expect and are a very important part of keeping up with patch content. Click the button below for an in depth guide.
by Published on 2020-01-22 03:23 AM

Patch 8.3 Hotfixes - January 21, 2020
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Allied Races
  • Vulpera characters can now correctly disable Holy Relic after discovering it through their Rummage Your Bag racial ability.
  • Vulpera and mechagnomes can now read the Ancient Tome of Dinomancy.

Assaults
  • Vale of Eternal Blossoms
    • Invoke Xuen
      • Xuen's autoattack damage has been reduced by 80%.
      • The power of Xuen's abilities have been increased by 100%.
      • Xuen’s abilities deal 80% reduced damage against other players in PvP situations.

Classes
  • Death Knight
    • Unholy
      • Resolved an issue that allowed Virulent Plague to spread to Explosives found in Mythic Keystone dungeons.

  • Druid
    • Guardian
      • Damage caused by Protector of the Pack (PvP Talent) can no longer be absorbed or reduced by damage reduction effects.
      • Brambles will no longer deal damage after suffering damage from Protector of the Pack (PvP Talent).
      • Den Mother's (PvP Talent) increased maximum health effect no longer affects the Guardian Druid.

  • Hunter
    • Beast Mastery
      • Resolved an issue that could prevent additional pets summoned by Animal Companion from gaining benefit from abilities such as Bestial Wrath, Beast Cleave, or Dash.

  • Monk
    • Resolved an issue that caused Grapple Weapon to reduce the duration of subsequent Silence effects cast on the target.

Dungeons and Raids
  • Ny'alotha, the Waking City
    • Fixed an issue which prevented Ny'alotha bosses from rewarding Artifact Power.
    • Removed the requirement that Shad'har the Insatiable had to be defeated before entering Drest'agath's encounter arena on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
    • N’Zoth the Corruptor
      • Fixed an issue that caused Paranoia to target more players than intended on Normal and Heroic difficulties.

    • Il’gynoth, Corruption Reborn
      • Resolved an issue in which Prophet Skitra being defeated would cause Il'gynoth, Corruption Reborn to not spawn on Normal and Heroic difficulties.

Horrific Visions
  • Fixed an issue wherein players weren't interactable for a short period after dying in Horrific Visions.

Items and Rewards
  • Trashmaster's Mantle can no longer drop in Mythic Keystone dungeons.
  • Heart of Azeroth
    • Resolved an issue that allowed Vitality Conduit (Essence) to remove crowd control effects (e.g. Polymorph).
  • Corrupted Items
    • Fixed an issue which could cause Infinite Stars and Twisted Appendage to fail to keep track of updates to characters’ Attack Power or Spell Power.
    • Infinite Star’s damage at all Corruption levels has been reduced by 25%.
    • Psyche Shredder’s on-equip effect can now only be triggered by spells.

Pet Battles
  • Blackrock Depths Pet Battle Dungeon
    • The difficulty of Therin Skysong, Alran Heartshade, Zuna Skullcrush pet battle encounters have been lowered.
    • Manapoof Link now properly has the option to teleport a player who has completed the Blackrock Depths Pet Dungeon to the entrance of Blackrock Depths.

Quests
  • Faceless Mask quests are no longer shareable.
  • War Mode once again grants the correct reward quest completion bonuses for daily quests offered during Visions of N’Zoth Assaults. The UI currently does not reflect the rewards granted, but we’re working on correcting it.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Gift of N’Zoth’s visual effect to sometimes disappear when a character entered Orgrimmar, Stormwind, Uldum, or Vale of Eternal Blossoms. N’Zoth has not forgotten those who are loyal to him.

World Quests
  • Resolved an issue that prevented some players from receiving credit for the “Grand Empress Shek’zara” after defeating Grand Empress Shek’zara.
  • Players will now properly receive credit for defeating King Dazar for the “Kings’ Rest: Kingsguard” World Quest.

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