Patch 9.0.2 Hotfixes - December 18, 2020

[Stoy]

Patch 9.0.2 Hotfixes - December 18, 2020

Achievements

• While Anduin Wrynn and Baine Bloodhoof are somewhere in the Shadowlands, their criteria has been removed from the BB King Feast of Winter Veil achievement.

Adventures

• Forest Shriekers now correctly display as melee.

Classes

• Mage
  
  • Arcane
    
    • Touch of the Magi will no longer replicate increased damage taken bonuses from the target.
      
• Priest
  
  • Discipline
    
    • Clarity of Mind (Legendary Effect) while talented into Spirit Shell will now properly extend Atonements while other Discipline Priests are present in the group.
      
    • Clarity of Mind (Legendary Effect) while talented into Spirit Shell will now extend Atonements that were applied right before casting Spirit Shell.
      
  • Holy
    
    • Cardinal Mending’s (PvP Talent) healing on pets and NPCs can no longer exceed the caster’s maximum health.
      
• Warlock
  
  • Affliction
    
    • Focused Malignancy (Conduit) will now provide its damage increase when selecting the Rampant Afflictions talent.
      

Covenants

• Kyrian
  
  • Fixed an issue where characters who swapped to the Kyrian Covenant would be told to complete the quest "A Calling in Bastion," but be unable to complete the quest.
    
  • Fixed an issue where Xandria could phase out while on the Kyrian Campaign quest "A Perilous Journey" while she still offered a Calling quest.
    
  • Fixed an issue where Kyrian players who disconnected, summoned, or otherwise left the vehicle during the quest "Fight and Flight" would not be placed near Xandria and may be unable to interact with her.
    
• Night Fae
  
  • Soulbound Spectre’s now deal appropriate damage and absorption during the quest “Cleansing the Forest.”
    
  • Fixed an issue where a small number of players were unable to see Featherlight for the quests "Break a Leg", "The Fourth Wall, er, War", and "What's My Motivation?"
    
• Venthyr
  
  • Stock: Appetizers now unlocks when reaching Friendly with the Ember Court. This upgrade grants you an additional 2 minutes in the Ember Court once you complete the quest chain that starts from Picky Stefan, your refreshment coordinator.
    
    • Developers’ note: While we are seeing people successfully making their guests happy, we want to give players a little more time to explore and try new guest combinations to help them prepare for when they unlock 3 guests in a few weeks.
      

Creatures and NPCs

• Corrected an issue that could cause players to have reduced combat bonuses against level 40 and lower enemies (notably legacy raid and dungeon content) when leveling past 50.

Dungeons and Raids

• Castle Nathria
  
  • Huntsman Altimor
    
    • Fixed an issue that caused Huntsman Altimor to not be afflicted with Broken Bond after Hecutis was defeated.
      
  • Sun King’s Salvation
    
    • Smoldering Remnants now wait 1.5 seconds before starting to inflict damage on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
      
    • Reduced the damage of Smoldering Remnants by 10% on Normal difficulty.
      
  • Council of Blood
    
    • Fixed an issue that would prevent Veteran Stoneguard from being attackable during Danse Macabre.
      
  • Stone Legion Generals
    
    • Anima Infusion, Anima Infection, Volatile Anima Infusion, and Volatile Anima Infection can no longer be removed by immunities.
      
    • Fixed issue that caused Wicked Blade to sometimes hit moving players twice.
      
    • Fixed issue sometimes causing 2 Wicked Blades to be launched simultaneously.
      
• Mythic Keystone Dungeons
  
  • Holy Priests will now have their deaths count against the dungeon timer.
    
• Spires of Ascension
  
  • Fixed an issue preventing certain charge abilities from working on Forsworn Justicar.
    
  • Kin-Tara
    
    • Overhead Slash now only strikes her primary target and its damage has been reduced by 40%. The tooltip will be updated in a future patch.
      
    • Increased the distance at which melee characters can attack Kin-Tara.
      
• Theater of Pain
  
  • Adjusted Blighted Sludge-Spewers visual effects to easily distinguish them from Disgusting Refuse.
    

Items and Rewards

• The Great Vault’s Stygia reward is now more detailed about how much Stygia it provides.
  
• Corrected an issue that caused some item levels on rewards granted from World Quests to not keep pace with character progress correctly.
  
• The "Glowing Gift" trinket claimed from defeating the Greench should now scale to a more appropriate item level.
  
• Momentum Redistributor Boots has had its damage capped at 20% of the player’s health. It has also been given a 5 minute cooldown.

Player Vs Player

• Battlegrounds
  
  • [With regional restarts] Level 60 non-player enemies in Alterac Valley should now be appropriately powerful and dangerous.
    

Quests

• Fixed an issue where “Field Seance" couldn’t be accepted while in a group.
  
• Ardenweald
  
  • Fixed an issue where defeating Thulsketha the Binder would not provide credit for the quest “A Swift Intervention.”
    
  • Players can now complete "Witch's Satchel" while “Terrors in Tirna Scithe” World Quest is active.
    
• Bastion
  
  • Players on or eligible for the Bastion quest "Fruit of the Gods" can now see Elios in Hero's Rest.
    
• Threads of Fate
  
  • The quests "Bolstering Bastion", "Rallying Maldraxxus", "Support the Court", and "Reinforcing Revendreth" will now be pushed to players in Threads of Fate mode who enter the appropriate corresponding level-up dungeon.
    

The Maw: Eye of the Jailer

• Fixed an issue that could prevent the respawn of feeding rituals during the Shadehounds Hunt to not respawn.

Torghast

• Refuge of the Damned and Shrouded buffs now have a stealth visual effect.
  
• Empowered Imperial Consular's Shadow Bolt Volley damage decreased by 40%.
  
• The starting Anima Cell can now be reset after clearing the first floor (was after killing the final boss on the layer).
  
• Anima Powers
  
  • Death Knight
    
    • Twisted Hellchoker is no longer strong enough to charm The Tarragrue.
      
  • Monk
    
    • Resolved an issue that prevented Stroke of Elegance from reducing the cooldown of Celestial Brew.
      

[olioster]

Corrected an issue that could cause players to have reduced combat bonuses against level 40 and lower enemies (notably legacy raid and dungeon content) when leveling past 50.

Does that mean they finally fixed soloing old raids?!

EDIT: It didn't help for Legion. =/

[glowpipe]

Does that mean they finally fixed soloing old raids?!

Really really hope so!

[Pebrocks The Warlock]

The starting Anima Cell can now be reset after clearing the first floor (was after killing the final boss on the layer).

Best change to Torghast yet.

[DarthSwiss]

Best change to Torghast yet.

I feel like I’m too stupid to understand, that or I’m too tired.... what does this mean? It sounds like it means the same thing but worded 2 different ways....

Yes I am prepared for the trolling but I hope someone will actually explain it alittle better too.

[Pebrocks The Warlock]

I feel like I’m too stupid to understand, that or I’m too tired.... what does this mean? It sounds like it means the same thing but worded 2 different ways....

Yes I am prepared for the trolling but I hope someone will actually explain it alittle better too.

Before the first Anima power would reset when you completed a run on the Layer. Now, you just have to complete the first floor on that Layer.

[Azadina]

Mythic Keystone Dungeons: Holy Priests will now have their deaths count against the dungeon timer.

*cries in holy priest*

[DarthSwiss]

Before the first Anima power would reset when you completed a run on the Layer. Now, you just have to complete the first floor on that Layer.

Ah, that makes more sense, that really is the best change. Thanks man.

[Kuja]

What is this? They actually fixed scaling with old raids? I need to check this out right away.

[Eapoe]

Does that mean they finally fixed soloing old raids?!

Raids that count as legacy, yes, it appears so. Nothing from BfA yet, but hopefully Legion is now more friendly for clearing old content.

[doodle90]

Raids that count as legacy, yes, it appears so. Nothing from BfA yet, but hopefully Legion is now more friendly for clearing old content.

Leigion is 45 not 40...so everything but legion.... XDXDXD the one thing that mattered

[Gnosk]

Darn was hoping legion was fixed. Because of the squish we are doing poorly in BFA too.

[doodle90]

Yeah legion still unsoloable just tried. Lol how hard would it be to extend the fix? Its like they dont want us soloing legion even tho we could in prepatch. The scaling is so broken. You can't dmg the bosses fast enough and their mechanics still do full dmg with our piddly hp pools.

[Kuja]

I tried to solo Tomb mythic and barely dented the first boss. Who cares about WOD and earlier raids when they are already soloable. But it's a step in the right direction to make obsolete raids less time consuming. They should just do so with Legion and BFA raids now.

[terminaltrip421]

are you all playing on lvl 56+ characters running legion content? at first I as thinking it had to do with the fact that they moved 45 to be within the 10/11+ levels bracket required for legacy buffs but that's obviously not the case if especially at 60. it has to be broken still or they need to continue to work on it as they have no excuse given 45 is 15 levels and two expansions old.

edit: so I see they explicitly stated level 40 ...I hope it's just that they're only able to address that one and not that they think it's okay to move the goalpost of what is considered legacy content. .

[Jueles]

*cries in holy priest*

Me too. Not that I have that legendary yet, but in Beta it rezzed you instantly, with little health, and if I was in bad stuff, instant 2nd death. That is not going to go over well.

[Queen of Hamsters]

And those nincompoops still haven't fixed Legion and BfA content.

Being unable to solo dungeons 10 levels below your character is retarded.

[Absintheminded]

lol of course they nerf the consulate's damage am hour after I rage quit Torg

[vilememory]

Before the first Anima power would reset when you completed a run on the Layer. Now, you just have to complete the first floor on that Layer.

Okay lemme see if I get this straight then, the first Anima power you get when you enter a layer was fixed. If you wanted a different Anima you had to clear a level on that layer. But with this hotfix, if you get shitty anima powers. Like that do additional damage if you inflict nature damage or your Shadow Grip causes mawrats to die instantly, I'm a frost dk. If you clear that first layer then restart it the anima powers that were first offered will be changed to something else? Because if that is true, I might actually try Torghast again. So tired of getting nothing but those one buffs that make it so you can't jump or move backwards or mawrat abilities. Sure the one that gives you 1% max health for every rat you kill is good but I have gone entire layers without seeing one damn rat. Other times I see nothing 'but' rats.

[Dervrak]

While Anduin Wrynn and Baine Bloodhoof are somewhere in the Shadowlands, their criteria has been removed from the BB King Feast of Winter Veil achievement.

Darn, I was looking forward to this encounter:

(In the depths of Torghast Anduin has given up all hope of rescue and awaits what horrible fate lies in store for him at the hands of the Jailer....when suddenly there are muffled screams and explosions outside his cell.)

A champion bursts through the door!

Anduin: "Oh thank the light champion, help me remove these chains so we can...."POP!"

(The champion lowers his BB Gun and ports out....)