Patch 8.1 Hotfixes - December 11, 2018

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Patch 8.1 Hotfixes - December 11, 2018

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Battle For Azeroth. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.

Classes

• Hunter (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • Beast Mastery
    
    • Fixed a bug with Spirit Mend that caused it to heal for less than intended.
      

Dungeons and Raids

• Uldir
  
  • Zul, Reborn
    
    • Zul's health has been reduced by 5% on Mythic difficulty.
      
    • Developers’ note: Tides of Vengeance removed the Subtlety Rogue passive Shuriken Combo, which was a core part of many guilds’ strategy on this fight. We’re reducing Zul’s health to avoid the update increasing the difficulty of the fight for guilds that were relying on Shuriken Combo.
      

Items

• Heart of Azeroth
  
  • Synaptic Spark Capacitor damage decreased 32%.
    

Professions

• Fixed a bug that allowed some Battle For Azeroth crafted gear to be worn by player characters who no longer had the crafting skill to create it.
  
• Cooking
  
  • Battle for Azeroth flasks and feasts now increase the primary stat for tanks (was Stamina).
    
  • Cooks can now learn and serve new Stamina foods.
    

Player versus Player

• Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • Snake Eyes (Azerite Trait) is reduced by 30% when engaged in combat with enemy players.
    
  
  
• Shaman (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • Pack Spirit (Azerite Trait) is reduced by 80% when engaged in combat with enemy players (was a 50% reduction).
    
  
  
• The following Azerite Traits are reduced to 50% effectiveness when engaged in combat with enemy players:
  
  • Death Knight - Magus of the Dead
    
  • Demon Hunter - Revel in Pain
    
  • Druid - Masterful Instincts, Arcanic Pulsar, Lively Spirit
    
  • Hunter - Dire Consequences, Surging Shots
    
  • Mage - Arcane Pummeling, Flash Freeze, Blaster Master, WildFire
    
  • Monk - Glory of the Dawn
    
  • Paladin - Avenger's Might, Light's Decree, Righteous Conviction
    
  • Priest - Whispers of the Damned
    
  • Rogue - Nothing Personal
    
  • Shaman - Lava Shock
    
  • Warlock - Dreadful Calling, Baleful Invocation
    
  • Warrior - Intimidating Presence, Crushing Assault, Bastion of Might
    

Quests

• Fixed a bug where enemies required for “Black Moon Rising” weren’t providing quest credit when killed.

[Simca]

The tank for my guild is very happy about the feast change. He had to swap to Frost before every pull in order to get the right buff for Blood.

[Razaron]

Well there goes my pack spirit set made because of the healing surge nerf. Thanks again Blizzard, shamans really deserve this shite.

[Appelgren]

Haha... so clueless letting the new traits go live and then instantly nerfing them 50%.

It's like they aren't even trying anymore...

[Barendon]

Haha... so clueless letting the new traits go live and then instantly nerfing them 50%.

It's like they aren't even trying anymore...

It says it's for pvp encounters only.

[Appelgren]

It says it's for pvp encounters only.

What does that have to do with anything?

[Sulika]

The tank for my guild is very happy about the feast change. He had to swap to Frost before every pull in order to get the right buff for Blood.

I think all tanks will be happy with that change. I like that they added individual stamina food too so that if any situation a tank really does want the extra health they still have the option.

[otro]

Thank you for nerfing the trait I spent hours yesterday figuring the combos I wanted, now I have to restore gear I de'd siiiigh

[Deleted]

Thank you for the bug free experience this has been.

If you can't tell, this is a joke. It's a joke much like the 2018 Blizzard development team. What a fucking cringefest this year has been, and may 2019 become the year where blizzard fires a bunch of incompetent soccerdads, and hires the good old neckbeards to do video games again.

Can't even comprehend giving out achievements properly, let alone resetting AK. (but yo pls give $15 a month)

[Jibjub]

How can a blanket 50% nerf even be logical? Nerfing that many traits by the exact same amount this quickly can be interpreted as nothing other than a knee-jerk reaction designed to destroy those traits efficacy.

There is no way that it just so happened that an exact 50% nerf to 23 abilities has now created "balance" in their spreadsheets. They might as well have just said, "We forgot about PvP. Please don't use these traits in PvP."

Good grief.

[nakigara]

How can a blanket 50% nerf even be logical? Nerfing that many traits by the exact same amount this quickly can be interpreted as nothing other than a knee-jerk reaction designed to destroy those traits efficacy.

There is no way that it just so happened that an exact 50% nerf to 23 abilities has now created "balance" in their spreadsheets. They might as well have just said, "We forgot about PvP. Please don't use these traits in PvP."

Good grief.

If they had balanced the traits for PvP before launch that would have been the first time they didn't forget about PvP.

[rogueMatthias]

Off topic, but does anyone know what the conquest item is this week?

[kevincuomo]

Game is doo doo now. First Xpac i just straight up quit and honestly have no desire to go back.

[Deleted]

Ret still shit in PVE ?

[Psygon]

The game enters “I’m having a stroke!” mode now when talking to some NPCs.

Maybe the devs are ill?

[kamuimac]

i wonder if people already noticed they went back to random drops from daily cache instead set one

because more rng is exackly what this game needs.

[Blackmist]

Yay, no more instant wipes because the tank was in the wrong spec.

[socialmaker]

Did they actually pause AP nerf every week until the next raid lmaoooooooooooo

[Deleted]

Anyone else unable to get Blingtron packages since patch 8.1?