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Published on 2020-01-23 02:33 AM
Patch 8.3 Hotfixes - January 22, 2020
Auction House Mail Restored
Achievements
Allied Races
Classes
Dungeons and Raids
Horrific Visions
Items and rewards
Quests
- 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.
- 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.
- Casting Hand of Gul'dan with a wand equipped and no Soul Shards no longer causes players to start autoattacking the target.
- Demonology
- Creatures and NPCs
- Reduced the unavoidable damage from Tashara's Ground Shatter. Players now have more time to move out of her secondary effect.
- 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.
- Fixed a bug where Il'gynoth could get to 0% health but not transition to Stage 2 of the encounter.
- Il’gynoth, Corruption Reborn
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.
- Corrected an issue that sometimes caused Unwavering Ward (Essence) to lose its Corruption Resistance.
Quests
- Visions of N’Zoth Threat Daily Quests
- Reputation gain increased from 75 to 125.
- Coalescing Visions increased from 50 to 250.
- Reputation gain increased from 75 to 125.
- Lesser Vision Daily Quests
- Coalescing Visions rewards increased from 1000 to 1500.
- Corrupted Mementos rewards increased from 8 to 30.
- Coalescing Visions rewards increased from 1000 to 1500.
- 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”.
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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:
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!
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
- Now reward 250 Coalescing Visions (up from 50)
- War mode rewards 275 Coalescing Visions (up from 55)
- Now reward 125 reputation with their respective factions (up from 50 - 75)
- Now reward 250 Coalescing Visions (up from 50)
- Lesser Vision Daily
- Still rewards 2000 Coalescing Visions on your first complete of the week
- Now rewards 1500 Coalescing Visions for each day completed after. (up from 1000)
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!
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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 banner below for an in depth guide.
Today in Uldum
There are several activities taking place in Uldum.
Assault: The Black Empire
Vision of N'Zoth Daily Quest (Vision of Darkness)
Daily Quests
Daily Bonus Events
Pet Battle World Quest
Other Daily Activities
Today in Vale of Eternal Blossoms
There are several events taking place in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms.
Assault: Mogu
Daily Quests
Daily Bonus Events
Pet Battle World Quest
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.
Today in Uldum
There are several activities taking place in Uldum.
Assault: The Black Empire
- The Black Empire Assault continues in Uldum. This major assault resets on Tuesday at 7am PT in NA (Wednesday at 8am CET in EU).
- Completing this assault rewards you with 1500 Uldum Accord reputation, 750 Artifact Power, and a Cache of the Black Empire.
- Cache of the Black Empire contains Vessel of Horrific Visions, Corrupted Mementos, 2000 Gold or 200 War Resources, and a chance for a corrupted item.
Vision of N'Zoth Daily Quest (Vision of Darkness)
- Minions of N'Zoth - Defeat 20 minions of N'Zoth within the vision.
Daily Quests
- Nine Lives - Destroy 8 Neferset Denizens.
- Anchors of the Black Empire - Destroy 6 Black Empire Obelisks in Uldum.
- Twisted Corruptors - Kill 10 Fleshbeasts in Uldum.
- Dark Deceivers - Kill 8 K'thir minions in Uldum.
Daily Bonus Events
- Completing bonus events rewards you with Uldum Accord reputation and Coalescing Visions.
/way 52 50 Executor of N'Zoth
/way 50 88 Summoning Ritual
/way 48 84 Call of the Void
/way 59 28 Spirit Drinker (Currently Bugged)
/way 62 79 Consuming Maw
/way 59 72 Pyre of the Amalgamated One
/way 50 88 Summoning Ritual
/way 48 84 Call of the Void
/way 59 28 Spirit Drinker (Currently Bugged)
/way 62 79 Consuming Maw
/way 59 72 Pyre of the Amalgamated One
Pet Battle World Quest
- Retinus the Seeker - Defeat Retinus the Seeker in a pet battle.
- Strategy: Unborn Val'kyr [2 2 1] and Ikky [1 1 1]
- Turn 1: Shadow Shock
- Turn 2: Curse of Doom
- Turn 3: Haunt
- Bring in Ikky
- Turn 4: Black Claw
- Turn 5-7: Flock
- Turn 8: Finish the fight with your third pet
Other Daily Activities
- Reins of the Springfur Alpaca - Obtained by feeding Gersahl Greens to the Friendly Alpaca for seven days.
- You can find Gersahl Greens along the Vir'naal River. Most of them spawn around the Lost City of Tol'vir.
- The Friendly Alpaca is a rare spawn in Uldum. If you can't find it, look in Premade Groups for "Friendly Alpaca".
- Shadowbarb Drone - Obtained by completing Ready to Fly, the final quest in a chain available after completing daily quests for 30 days.
- To start the questline pick up the Voidtouched Egg at coordinates 20.8 61.9 in Uldum and then bring it to H'partho Ardoros.
- To grow your companion you will have to complete daily quests offered by H'partho Ardoros in Ramkahen.
- Completing this questline also rewards you with a toy Aqir Egg Cluster and a pet Shadowbarb Hatchling.
Today in Vale of Eternal Blossoms
There are several events taking place in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms.
Assault: Mogu
- The Mogu Assault continues in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms. This minor assault resets on Friday at 7pm PT in NA (Saturday at 8pm CET in EU).
- Completing this assault rewards you with 500 Rajani reputation, 750 Artifact Power, and a Cache of the Fallen Mogu.
- Cache of the Fallen Mogu contains 5500 Coalescing Visions, Corrupted Mementos, 2000 Gold or 200 War Resources, and a chance for a corrupted item.
Daily Quests
- Bound in Stone - Collect Stoneshaper Rods from Baruk Stoneshapers and use them to free 5 Petrified Warriors in the Ruins of Guo-Lai.
- Built to Fall - Destroy 6 Mogu Statues in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms.
- No Stone Unbroken - Kill 10 Baruk mogu in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms
Daily Bonus Events
- Completing bonus events rewards you with Rajani reputation and Coalescing Visions.
/way 50 63 Mysterious Sarcophagus
/way 19 72 Bloodbound Effigy
/way 24 48 Serpent Binding
/way 26 16 Empowered Demolisher
/way 22 24 Entrance to Guo-Lai Halls and Guo-Lai Vault
/way 19 7 Vault of Souls (Guo-Lai Vault)
/way 21 14 Weighted Mogu Artifact (Guo-Lai Halls) - Bring the Oddy Heavy Vase (/way 24 5) to Weighted Mogu Artifact (/way 21 14)
/way 19 72 Bloodbound Effigy
/way 24 48 Serpent Binding
/way 26 16 Empowered Demolisher
/way 22 24 Entrance to Guo-Lai Halls and Guo-Lai Vault
/way 19 7 Vault of Souls (Guo-Lai Vault)
/way 21 14 Weighted Mogu Artifact (Guo-Lai Halls) - Bring the Oddy Heavy Vase (/way 24 5) to Weighted Mogu Artifact (/way 21 14)
Pet Battle World Quest
- Flight of the Vil'thik - Defeat Vil'thik Hatchling in a pet battle.
- Strategy: Unborn Val'kyr [2 2 1], Zandalari Anklerender [2 2 2] and a third magic pet
- Turn 1: Shadow Shock
- Turn 2: Curse of Doom
- Turn 3: Haunt
- Bring in Zandalari Anklerender
- Turn 4: Black Claw
- Turn 5-6: Hunting Party
- Turn 7: Finish the fight with your third pet
- Note: This fight has a lot of RNG, restart and try again if Zandalari Anklerender dies too early.
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Published on 2020-01-22 03:23 AM
Patch 8.3 Hotfixes - January 21, 2020
Allied Races
Assaults
Classes
Dungeons and Raids
Horrific Visions
Items and Rewards
Pet Battles
Quests
World Quests
- 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.
- Xuen's autoattack damage has been reduced by 80%.
- Invoke Xuen
Classes
Death Knight
- Unholy
- Resolved an issue that allowed Virulent Plague to spread to Explosives found in Mythic Keystone dungeons.
- Resolved an issue that allowed Virulent Plague to spread to Explosives found in Mythic Keystone dungeons.
- Unholy
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.
- Damage caused by Protector of the Pack (PvP Talent) can no longer be absorbed or reduced by damage reduction effects.
- Guardian
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.
- 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.
- Beast Mastery
Monk
- Resolved an issue that caused Grapple Weapon to reduce the duration of subsequent Silence effects cast on the target.
- 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.
- 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.
- Resolved an issue in which Prophet Skitra being defeated would cause Il'gynoth, Corruption Reborn to not spawn on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
- Fixed an issue which prevented Ny'alotha bosses from rewarding Artifact Power.
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).
- 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.
- 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.
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.
- The difficulty of Therin Skysong, Alran Heartshade, Zuna Skullcrush pet battle encounters have been lowered.
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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Published on 2020-01-21 11:31 PM
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