Base Game Purchase Removed, Wakening Essences, Known Issues, 8.0.1 Hotfixes, TSM4

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Patch 8.0.1 Recap

World of Warcraft Base Game Removed
The old base game purchase option has been removed. A subscription gets you all of the content to Level 110 now!

• World of Warcraft - Subscription - Includes all of the Level 1-110 content.
• World of Warcraft - Complete Collection - Includes a month of game time and Battle for Azeroth. Requires a new account.
• World of Warcraft - Battle for Azeroth - The Battle for Azeroth expansion requires a subscription or game time, and does not come with additional game time.

Patch 8.0.1 - Mythic+ Cache and Wakening Essence
Everyone got 1000 x Wakening Essence in the Mythic Cache this week, even if you didn't do any dungeons! That's enough to buy a Purified Titan Essence.

The changes we're making to the Mythic+ system for Battle for Azeroth will prevent you from receiving your normal Mythic Cache this week. As this was unintentional, your cache will include 1000 Wakening Essence and a Keystone instead of your normal rewards.

If you have a problem looting the Mythic Cache, you'll receive the Keystone in the mail and the Wakening Essences will be granted after you log back in.

We apologize for the inconvenience!

Just a heads up but we're working on a hotfix to add the BoA legendary tokens back to the vendor. We don't have an ETA on this but we're working on it!

Patch 8.0.1 Known Issues

Hello all,

Below is a list of known issues for patch 8.0.1. Please note that this list is not a complete depiction of what we're aware of, but a sampling of issues we believe players may encounter more often. We'll try to keep this updated with trending issues when possible.

General

• Mounts: Gladiator's Proto-Drakes do not display information on how to obtain mounts in journal.
• Sometimes when summoning a player as they change zones, the summon prompt will not appear.

Stat & Spell Squish Impacts

• There are multiple issues with legacy spells & monsters scaling incorrectly.

Dungeon and Raid

• Legacy Loot: Many raid creatures no longer drop gold.
• Highmaul: Highmaul bosses are not dropping the appropriate amount of gold when the raid is set to mythic.
• Dungeon Journal - Baradin Hold: There exists an option to view Baradin Hold in 10/25 man Heroic even though the difficulty does not exist.
• A Lua error may occur if you try viewing the dungeon journal from the bonus roll prompt while outside of the instance.

Communities/Guilds/Groups/UI

• Communities will reference "Starter Edition" accounts as "Veteran Trial".
• Guild: Inviting players who are currently in your group to a guild may produce an assertion.
• Opening the Character Pane after equipping a newly acquired item on a character may result in a crash.
• Looting the corpse after a boss encounter while in a group may produce an assertion.
• Communities: Blank spaces will appear in Guild rosters if players have not logged in for multiple years.
• Players may be unable to whisper cross realm when selecting whisper from Communities UI.

Compatibility

• DX12: Intel PSO caching issue with Intel unreleased driver.
• DX12: Crash may occur when game uses more GPU Memory than hardware allows.
• Performance on some GPUs while using DX12 is lower than DX11.

Patch 8.0.1 Build 27101 Hotfixes

Item Effects

• Acherus Drapes: Duration increase reduced by 50% in PvP combat. Healing done reduced by 66.7% in PvP combat.
• Anund's Last Breath: Effect's power reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
• Ashes to Dust: Effect's power reduced by 46.7% in PvP combat.
• Belo'vir's Final Stand: Effect's power reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
• Cold Heart: Effect's power reduced by 75% in PvP combat.
• Eternal Hunger: Effect's power reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
• Fury of Nature: Effect's power reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
• Haemostasis: Effect's power reduced by 60% in PvP combat.
• Hidden Master's Forbidden Touch: Effect's power reduced by 62.5% in PvP combat.
• Insignia of Ravenholdt: Effect's power reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
• Kil'jaeden's Burning Wish: Effect's power reduced by 75% in PvP combat.
• Mark of Helbrine: Effect's power reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
• Master Assassin's Initiative: Effect's power reduced by 75% in PvP combat.
• Sentinel's Sight: Effect's power reduced by 70% in PvP combat.
• Shaladrassil's Nourishment: Effect's power reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
• Skysec's Hold: Effect's power reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
• Spirit of the Darkness Flame: Effect's power reduced by 66.7% in PvP combat.
• Stormstout's Last Gasp: Effect's power reduced by 60% in PvP combat.
• Tak'theritrix's Command: Effect's power reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
• The Dark Titan's Advice: Effect's power reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
• The Dreadlord's Deceit: Effect's power reduced by 60% in PvP combat.
• The Emperor's Capacitor: Effect's power reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
• The Shadow Hunter's Regeneration: Effect's power reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
• Toravon's Whiteout Bindings: Effect's power reduced by 66.7% in PvP combat.
• Twin Moonfire: Effect's power reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
• Will of Valeera: Effect's power reduced by 50% in PvP combat.

Death Knight (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
PvP Talents

• Ghoulish Monstrosity: Required level increased from 82 to 111.

Frost

• Frost Death Knight: Damage multiplier for all abilities decreased from 1.08 to 0.99.
• Mastery: Frozen Heart: Mastery's effect increased by 33.3%.

Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
Talents

• Shooting Stars: Damage increased by 100%. Now generates 4 Astral Power, up from 2.

Hunter (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
Talents

• Mongoose Bite: Damage decreased by 15%.
• Trick Shots: Now hits additional targets for 40% of normal damage, down from 50% of normal damage.

PvP Talents

• Interlope: Required level increased from 0 to 42.

Beast Mastery

• Mastery: Master of Beasts: Mastery's effect decreased by 15.6%.

Marksmanship

• Marksmanship Hunter: Now also decreases damage done by Barrage by 15%.
• Rapid Fire: Damage decreased by 35%.

Survival

• Flanking Strike: Damage increased by 30%.
• Mastery: Spirit Bond: Mastery's effect on damage increased by 65%. Mastery's effect on healing decreased by 33.3%.
• Survival Hunter: Damage multiplier for all abilities decreased from 1 to 0.93.

Mage (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
Talents

• Freezing Rain: Frozen Orb increases Blizzard's damage done by 50%, up from 35%.
• Pyroclasm: Your next non-instant Pyroblast deals 225% additional damage, down from 250% additional damage.
• Time Anomaly: You now have a chance to gain Arcane Power for 8 seconds, down from 10 seconds.

PvP Talents

• Concentrated Coolness: Frozen Orb's damage is now increased by 30%, down from 100%.

Frost

• Blizzard: Damage increased by 10%.
• Flurry: Damage decreased by 7.1%.
• Frostbolt: Damage decreased by 7.3%.
• Waterbolt: Global cooldown reduced from 1.5 seconds to 1 second.

Monk (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
PvP Talents

• Eminence: Required level increased from 0 to 80.
• Guided Meditation: Required level increased from 0 to 65.
• Microbrew: Required level increased from 0 to 55.
• Ride the Wind: Required level increased from 0 to 48.
• Tiger Style: Required level increased from 0 to 52.
• Yu'lon's Gift: Required level increased from 0 to 48.

Windwalker

• Windwalker Monk: Damage multiplier for all abilities decreased from 0.79 to 0.73.

Paladin (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
Talents

• Execution Sentence: Damage increased by 66.7%.
• Justicar's Vengeance: Damage increased by 66.7%.
• Wake of Ashes: Damage increased by 23.5%.

Retribution

• Divine Storm: Damage increased by 68.7%. Effect's power reduced by 33.3% in PvP combat.
• Templar's Verdict: Damage increased by 68.7%. Effect's power reduced by 33.3% in PvP combat.
• Retribution Paladin: Damage multiplier for all abilities decreased from 0.93 to 0.75.

Priest (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
Talents

• Dark Ascension: Damage increased by 18.75%.

Shadow

• Void Eruption: Damage increased by 18.75%.

Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
Talents

• Shadow Focus: Abilities cost 20% less Energy while Stealth or Shadow Dance is active, down from 25% less Energy.

Outlaw

• Mastery: Main Gauche: Mastery's effect increased by 30%.
• Outlaw Rogue: Damage multiplier for all abilities decreased from 1.28 to 1.23.

Subtlety

• Subtlety Rogue: Damage multiplier for all abilities increased from 1.25 to 1.33.

Shaman (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
Elemental

• Chain Lightning: Generates 4 Maelstrom per target hit, up from 3 Maelstrom per target hit.
• Earthquake: Now costs 60 Maelstrom, down from 75 Maelstrom.
• Elemental Shaman: Damage multiplier for all abilities decreased from 1.02 to 0.94.
• Fulmination: Your Lightning Bolt damage now generates 8 Maelstrom, up from 6. Your Lava Burst damage now generates 10 Maelstrom, up from 8. Your Chain Lightning now generates 4 Maelstrom per target hit, up from 3 Maelstrom per target hit.

Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
Talents

• Bilescourge Bombers: Damage increased by 40%.
• Grimoire: Felguard: Cooldown increased from 90 seconds to 120 seconds.
• Grimoire of Service: Your second demon now deals 25% increased damage, down from 50% increased damage.

Affliction

• Affliction Warlock: Damage multiplier for all abilities decreased from 1.32 to 1.25.

Demonology

• Demonology Warlock: Damage multiplier for all abilities decreased from 1.05 to 1.
• Implosion: Damage decreased by 26.2%.
• Mastery: Master Demonologist: Mastery's effect decreased by 19.4%.

Destruction

• Havoc: Cooldown increased from 25 seconds to 30 seconds.
• Immolate: Damage decreased by 10%.
• Rain of Fire: Damage decreased by 15.6%.

Warrior (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
Talents

• Cleave: Damage increased by 50%. Cooldown increased from 6 seconds to 9 seconds.
• Skullsplitter: Damage increased by 24.1%.
• Warbreaker: Damage decreased by 25%.

Arms

• Arms Warrior: Damage multiplier for all abilities increased from 1.18 to 1.3. Also, now generates 300% increased rage from damage done, down from 330% increased rage from damage done.
• Colossus Smash: Damage decreased by 25%.
• Mastery: Executioner: Mastery's effect decreased by 11.2%.
• Sweeping Strikes: Damage increased by 25% (this is a reversion of Friday's hotfix). Cooldown increased from 25 seconds to 30 seconds (this part is new).
• Whirlwind: Damage decreased by 20%.

TradeSkill Master 4 Open Beta
The TradeSkill Master add-on for World of Warcraft has announced an open beta for its anticipated launch on July 28!

[The Stormbringer]

The hotfixes can be summarized as, "We didn't realize legendaries would be so unbalanced for PVP... whoops."

[A-sayo]

Welp, no legacy content for now. Hopefully the hotfix for these issues come quick. :3

[johnnyd2]

At least now their aware of the broken legacy content xd

[Eleccybubb]

That's actually a pretty neat thing.

So basically the only B2P part now is the expansions. Good move from them.

[Ozzyorcborne]

So basically even if you do no mythics this week , we get 1000 essences? Cool.

[Onikaroshi]

That's actually a pretty neat thing.

So basically the only B2P part now is the expansions. Good move from them.

It's a little unorthodox but I like it.

[Explicit Teemo Nudes]

People I know and I have reported the legacy scaling problems all beta without Blizzard doing anything... until now.

[For_The_Horde]

I have a different bug, my extra bag slots from having an authenticator have been taken away. Account says I still have authentication enabled, and I had the bag slots before, but they're gone now.

[mrnmrsfayps]

Everyone knows that live servers = the real PTR.

[Kathranis]

Kinda funny that they're rolling the Battle Chest into an active subscription, since you got a free month for buying it. It makes sense considering that, but with the Battle Chest often going on sale for $10, or even $5, this potentially makes getting into the game slightly more expensive.

I wonder if they'll replace that with some other sort of promotional features, like discounted subscriptions or free trial months...

People I know and I have reported the legacy scaling problems all beta without Blizzard doing anything... until now.

Well, these are listed as "known issues."

[Jotunhammer]

"your cache will include 1000 Wakening Essence and a Keystone instead of your normal rewards."

Nice, and exactly how does that help someone with already 2 legendaries?
Maybe buy the BIS legendary?
are those even for sale?

[Eleccybubb]

"your cache will include 1000 Wakening Essence and a Keystone instead of your normal rewards."

Nice, and exactly how does that help someone with already 2 legendaries?
Maybe buy the BIS legendary?
are those even for sale?

It's giving you a free legendary. What this does is help new players dinging 110, those who want a BiS one and it's a thank you gift to those who are still farming all of them for a spec.

You can buy them by farming Wakening Essence. They cost 1k and you can also get the essence from world quests. Same vendor in Dalaran who sells the random one and upgrade item.

Basically any world quests that once awarded AP now award Wakening Essence.

So you can use that free 1k to get your BiS one as well if you still don't have it.

[AnotherJaggens]

So um, is it just me or it's cheaper to get complete collection (+account with one month) than buy character boost? Are they high?

[Punchmybags]

Dang, wont let me switch servers...My main is on a different server from the one it is defaulting to...

[Lahis]

"your cache will include 1000 Wakening Essence and a Keystone instead of your normal rewards."

Nice, and exactly how does that help someone with already 2 legendaries?
Maybe buy the BIS legendary?
are those even for sale?

Yes, you can buy any legendary.

[AgilityTank]

So um, is it just me or it's cheaper to get complete collection (+account with one month) than buy character boost? Are they high?

no, they said before that boosting chars would be expensive to discourage it.

[Stacie]

So um, is it just me or it's cheaper to get complete collection (+account with one month) than buy character boost? Are they high?

Always been a trick to get a cheap boost. Its often cheaper to buy the latest expan and those prior than to pay for a 110 boost. The free 110 boost btw can be used on any acc. So all you have to do is buy another copy of wow and link it to your main acc's battle.net then boost a toon on mains acc. fairly sure this still works.

[Beardedfreak]

no, they said before that boosting chars would be expensive to discourage it.

They need to look at the level 60 to 80 leveling experience if they do not want us to buy level boosts.

[Kitai]

Nice to see the dps nerf to Rapid Fire for MM hunters, because it's always important to nerf the worst-performing spec for a given class.