Patch 8.0.1 Hotfixes - July 19, Legion Companion App, EULA Update, Blue Posts

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Patch 8.0.1 - Hotfixes July 19
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Classes

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.

Guild Pane Still Exists
Some players have noticed that old guild pane features didn't make it to the community system. The old guild pane with features such as sorting by last online is still there, just type "/guildroster". Thanks to Tamashi for the tip!

Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be a way to use the old permissions system with more fine grained permissions, your only option now is the grouped permissions. This means you can't do things like allow members to edit their own notes anymore.



Hati Will Return
In addition to the Dev Q&A, Senior Narrative Designer Steve Danuser tweeted that Hati will eventually return.



Legion Companion App Change
Thanks to DarthRigo who posted a thread on our forums and tweeted BlizzardCS, we have learned that the switch characters button in the Legion Companion app was intentionally removed. It is now a little more involved to switch between your characters.



EULA Update - Cloud Gaming Services
Blizzard updated the EULA to add an additional section that disallows the use of Cloud Gaming services. Thanks to Deagalus for the heads up.
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)
License Limitations. Blizzard may suspend or revoke your license to use the Platform, or parts, components and/or single features thereof, if you violate, or assist others in violating, the license limitations set forth below. You agree that you will not, in whole or in part or under any circumstances, do the following:

Cloud Computing: Use the Platform, including a Game, in connection with any unauthorized third-party “cloud computing” services, “cloud gaming” services, or any software or service designed to enable the unauthorized streaming or transmission of Game content from a third-party server to any device.

Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Wargames in Battle for Azeroth
Wargames aren't in the core UI, but you can type /wg to challenge the targeted player. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Battle Chest and the "New" System
The Battle Chest basically doesn't exist as a standalone purchase anymore.

You make your Starter Edition, you add game time and then you immediately have access to all expansions up to, and including, Legion - no need to actually make a separate purchase of the Battle Chest anymore in order to upgrade the account. The only thing you would need to purchase separately is Battle for Azeroth.

Alternatively, if a player wants to jump straight into the latest action on a new account - they can buy the Complete Collection which includes 30 days of game-time (so unlocking access to all previous expansions) and Battle for Azeroth (including the level 110 character boost). (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

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This article was originally published in forum thread: Patch 8.0.1 Hotfixes - July 19, Legion Companion App, EULA Update, Blue Posts started by chaud View original post
Published on 2018-07-20 11:29 AM
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  1. Zabatakis's Avatar
    Hati will be the end boss of the next legion expansion, having absorbed so much Sargeras energies it went corrupt. The Alliance will be tricked into fighting the horde and the horde too stupid to explain the situation tho, so it will be a tough battle with shades of grey! Also, whoever is horde warchief will die! What a twist!
  1. Az0na's Avatar
    Legion companion app made hassle and pointless to use it, already removed it.

    Why make it 5 stepts to fucking switch characters.... whel no gold missions no point to use.
  1. Laylriana's Avatar
    I wish they would revert the guild changes. It worked just fine the way it was.
  1. mmoc485edc1e5f's Avatar
    what's with blizzard and making life worse for guilds?
  1. taishar68's Avatar
    I’m not sure if I am an exception or not, but I do not have to log out and in to switch characters on the Legion app, and the switching function is still there as always. I am running version 2.03, which was updated Tuesday night. Maybe that particular CSR was confused or mistaken? Or maybe they took pity on me and left it alone
  1. Jasper Kazai's Avatar
    Everything about the communities interface has been crap so far. My guild found out last night that the community guild window doesn't account for merged servers when inviting. Meaning, a person from merged server A is unable to invite someone from merged server B via that interface because it doesn't account for the hyphen servername at the end of that person's name. We had to type it in manually for every person. This is a problem that the old window didn't have. They created a new problem.
    Also, the window just looks bad in general. The old interface is much better.
  1. maulgryve's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by taishar68 View Post
    I’m not sure if I am an exception or not, but I do not have to log out and in to switch characters on the Legion app, and the switching function is still there as always. I am running version 2.03, which was updated Tuesday night. Maybe that particular CSR was confused or mistaken? Or maybe they took pity on me and left it alone
    You can switch to your last 2 that you used previously. The 'Switch Character' button has been replaced by the 'log out' button. If you want your full character list, you have to log out. Upon logging in - you will be presented with the character list.

    At least that is how it works for me now. Terrible.
  1. Donnicton's Avatar
    Defeating Shok’Thokar creatures in Desolace now grants both Gelkis and Magram reputation.
    Unless of course you did the quest line pre-8.0 in which case you phase into a version of the area where all of the mobs are dead already - a second middle finger to players who have done the quests already.
  1. eel's Avatar
    At this point it would be better for Blizzard to just remove guilds as a game feature, because it's obvious from all the BFA changes that the no longer want guilds in the game...
  1. monteiro's Avatar
    Thanks to DarthRigo who posted a thread on our forums and tweeted BlizzardCS, we have learned that the switch characters button in the Legion Companion app was intentionally removed. It is now a little more involved to switch between your characters.
    Hmm arent applications supposed to improve, become better and more friendly to use? Is pissing off the user a new trend?
  1. PBWi's Avatar
    I watched enough, I saw the broad didn't play but was the "customer relations rep"

    While the two 20 something kids who didn't play Vanilla or TBC cry about new release dungeons being too hard.

    I laughed in real life, you freaking noobs, I want my you tube click back, go play Nintento W-II or someshit,

    embarrassment.
  1. Vargas's Avatar
    Whoever okayed the changes to the Legion app needs to be made to walk across a field of Legos.

    The whole thing is so user-unfriendly now I have to wonder why they even bothered to change it. They should have just ended support for it.
  1. Thelyron's Avatar
    One thing i don't understand about this patch is why group finder groups and queues are seperated by warmode status. How does my warmode status apply inside of a dungeon? It doesn't. All it does is make queues longer for no reason.
  1. davidcryix's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Vargas View Post
    Whoever[...]needs to be made to walk across a field of Legos.
    This is the most benignly aggressive post i have ever seen lol. Kudos to you
  1. glowpipe's Avatar
    So antorus dogs are still broken. Tank debuff ticks for abotu 20k dmg. Healers and dps getting grabbed almost instantly dies.
  1. taishar68's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by maulgryve View Post
    You can switch to your last 2 that you used previously. The 'Switch Character' button has been replaced by the 'log out' button. If you want your full character list, you have to log out. Upon logging in - you will be presented with the character list.

    At least that is how it works for me now. Terrible.
    Yep, can’t believe I didn’t see that before. No real reason to use it much anymore anyway.
  1. Alayea's Avatar
    I was mulling uninstalling the app anyway since it had served its purpose, although I find the change to be surprisingly petty.

    Also, good job Blizzard for a completely meaningless hotfix in regards to the centaur clan factions. If you haven't done the quest, you're going to do it and be done. If you did the quest prior to patch 8.0.1, you are still out of luck because you are phased into a Shok’Thokar where all the mobs are dead.
  1. splatomat's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by maulgryve View Post
    You can switch to your last 2 that you used previously. The 'Switch Character' button has been replaced by the 'log out' button. If you want your full character list, you have to log out. Upon logging in - you will be presented with the character list.

    At least that is how it works for me now. Terrible.
    For me, how it works is I log out, and when I log back in it automatically logs me in to the character I just left. Leaving me stuck on my mage character since the update.

    It would be nice if they explained why they did this. Right now it looks "intentionally" stupid.
  1. petals's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by PBWi View Post
    I watched enough, I saw the broad didn't play but was the "customer relations rep"

    While the two 20 something kids who didn't play Vanilla or TBC cry about new release dungeons being too hard.

    I laughed in real life, you freaking noobs, I want my you tube click back, go play Nintento W-II or someshit,

    embarrassment.
    I can't watch that show because the host is the most awkward person I have ever seen. He is never in sync with his guests and is always playing catch up to what they say. It's even worse when he hosts Method and you see the stark contrast to natural leader type people in RogerBrown and Sco. The host ends up looking like that kid who always had his lunch money stolen by the jocks during recess.
  1. Ciadia's Avatar
    It's clear this expansion is turning out to be wod2, just worse and more buggy.

    The whole prepatch is a complete s*** show of bugs/untested things, even today after the several hotfixes.

    The Alpha and then Beta was buggy as hell, it's clear they have pushed this release 6-9 months ahead schedule of where it could realistically have been done.

    Things are dumbed down, mechanics are changed to the worse (stat scaling, no real stats on items besides the main pieces of gear blizzard controls throughout the expansion (neck) that has the majority of the stat budgets over all items, where each individual item has next to none.

    The mobile app where they made it next to impossible if you have more than 2 alts, since you need to relog and sign in with the authenticator to switch chars around.

    #MAGA
    Make Azeroth Great Again
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