Patch 8.3 Hotfixes - January 21, 2020

[chaud]

Patch 8.3 Hotfixes - January 21, 2020

Allied Races

• 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.
      

Classes

• Death Knight
  
  • Unholy
    
    • Resolved an issue that allowed Virulent Plague to spread to Explosives found in Mythic Keystone dungeons.
      
  
  
• 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.
      
  
  
• 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.
      
  
  
• Monk
  
  • 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.
      
    
    
  • 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.
      

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).
    
• 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.
    

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.
    

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.

[Appelgren]

Guess all the whining on guardians in arena payed of

[Mewseph]

Is this an additional 25% nerf to Infinite stars, or the same one seen before?

[reef]

The nerf to protector of the pack was clearly due to the complaints in arena, and at least justified in a way, but that den mother change literally made that talent almost worthless. No guardian druid is going to run den mother over almost any other pvp talent now, and that's saying something.

[terminaltrip421]

I was waiting for a Xuen nerf, glad it's not an across the board one. I was trying all day yesterday not to let people in on how powerful it was fearing that it would lead to a quicker nerf. given the buff to abilities they had to have intended for it to be somewhat as powerful as it was. will have to take it for a test drive once I'm finished running many alts through the cloak storyline.

[Daedius]

So no hot fixes to some of those completely shit dailies?

[darkkadaj]

Is the hotfix already aplied? or we need to expect it to be aplied during the reset?

[Flamez2]

sigh.. still no ah fix.. waiting a week for my sold auctions so far :-(

[Goblinounours]

On EU, yesterday evening, about 3 hours before the maintenance, I ran my first 2 horrific visions in Orgrimmar on an alt and got 0 loot (besides mementos and the legendary thing for Wrathion). I see nothing about fixing this in this patch note. I hear from Bellular and such that I should be getting 420 LoveCrafted gear. Should I be worried?

[Stormgnoef]

DId they buff coal vission from dailys?I dont have warmode on and iam getting 250 each daily now instead of 50

[huth]

On EU, yesterday evening, about 3 hours before the maintenance, I ran my first 2 horrific visions in Orgrimmar on an alt and got 0 loot (besides mementos and the legendary thing for Wrathion). I see nothing about fixing this in this patch note. I hear from Bellular and such that I should be getting 420 LoveCrafted gear. Should I be worried?

Do note that you only get each gear reward once per week(with it getting replaced by the next lower one you're still eligible for), so at least one of those runs should in fact not have rewarded anything.

[Doffen]

Still no fix to the AH issue. Still not getting the mail with gold from the auctions

[Goblinounours]

Do note that you only get each gear reward once per week(with it getting replaced by the next lower one you're still eligible for), so at least one of those runs should in fact not have rewarded anything.

Duly noted. Still, these were my first two visions on the character, I should have gotten at least one piece of gear. I hope the next vision I do will reward me with one, so I can get more progress done than +1 rank to the cloak.

[Mendzia]

The difficulty of Therin Skysong, Alran Heartshade, Zuna Skullcrush pet battle encounters have been lowered.

Oh shit... pet battle casuals have had problems with their 'content'.

[cface]

So no hot fixes to some of those completely shit dailies?

They are shit indeed, but do you need to do them? I just need 150cv a day from dailies/events to get my 3 horrific runs a week, don't see the point in doing them more then that.

[Daedius]

They are shit indeed, but do you need to do them? I just need 150cv a day from dailies/events to get my 3 horrific runs a week, don't see the point in doing them more then that.

Rep. And it's pretty telling when people tell you not to do it because it's shit to do for meagre gains.

[Goblinounours]

I've done 8.3 for litterally 4 days before I figured "yeah, not, tired of that, it's not worth my time, I leave them to those who enjoy them / really want to max out their gains". Now it's just the daily minor vision in Vale / Uldum, the 2 weekly assaults and the major visions in Orgrimmar/Stormwind. Likely for the next 8 months. Yay!

[Daedius]

dailies took me about 15 minutes today, really not that bad

Depends on the dailies... The one with Goliaths, for example can take you 40 minutes before you get the drop... 10% drop rate to 1m hp mobs, highly contested since there's only so many up...

[Daedius]

40 minutes? No need to be hyperbolic

It isn't hyperbolic, a LOT of people have said it took them 25-40+ kills before it dropped or gave up, took me 37 kills personally... But I suppose YOU got it within a few kills that THAT's fine then I guess?

What reason is there to give it such a low drop rate for a daily, that yields pitiful rep and resource? Shouldn't take more than 5 tops.

[Justpassing]

It isn't hyperbolic, a LOT of people have said it took them 25-40+ kills before it dropped or gave up, took me 37 kills personally... But I suppose YOU got it within a few kills that THAT's fine then I guess?

Well my sources say even a LOT more people than a lot of yours got it the first kill, but I suppose YOU couldn't get it within five thousand kills that THAT's broken I guess?

That being said, the dailies' rewards shoulda been bumped up to 100 visions max, 25 was stupid but 250 just makes you feel bad missing one.