The War Within Hotfixes for September 13th, 2024: Class Bug Fixes and Delve Scaling Adjustments

Blizzard has released today's War Within hotfixes, featuring additional class bug fixes, adjustments to delve scaling, and more!

Blizzard

September 13, 2024

Achievements

• Players will now earn the achievements Harbinger of the Weathered, Harbinger of the Carved, and Harbinger of the Runed immediately upon outgrowing the use of those crests.

Classes

• Demon Hunter

  • Vengeance

    • Shattered Souls missiles will no longer display for allies.

• Druid

  • Feral

    • Fixed a bug preventing Ferocious Bite from damaging crowd-controlled targets.

• Evoker

  • Devastation

    • Fixed an issue where Mass Disintegrate was not benefiting properly from Iridescence or Titanic Wrath.

  • Preservation

    • Cycle of Life no longer accumulates healing done to pets and guardians.

• Monk

  • Mistweaver

    • Fixed an issue that caused Jade Bond’s increase to Yu’lon’s Soothing Breath to not function in some scenarios.

• Paladin

  • Protection

    • Fixed an interaction causing Judgment to trigger Righteous Protector’s cooldown reduction when Bastion of Light was active.

    • Fixed an interaction causing Bastion of Light’s stacks to not be consumed when Shining Light was active.

  • Retribution

    • An issue causing Empyrean Hammer to not function on training dummies has been resolved.

    • Instrument of Retribution will no longer trigger Dawnlight.

    • An issue causing Instrument of Retribution to trigger Avenging Wrath when talented into Crusade (and vice versa) has been resolved.

• Shaman

  • Fixed an issue causing Farseer Ancestor spells to have a damage reduction adjustment applied twice to their spells.

  • Corrected an issue where Stormbringer Tempest would consume multiple stacks when striking multiple enemy targets.

  • Fixed an issue causing Mastery: Elemental Overload to not increase damage from all pets.

  • Elemental

    • Fixed an issue causing Mastery: Elemental Overload to not increase damage from all pets.

• Warlock

  • Increased the threat generation of voidwalkers’ and felguards’ Threatening Presence.

Delves

• Addressed scaling issues causing enemies in Delves to deal more damage than intended, especially for groups and tanks.

  • Developers’ notes: Over the last day, we’ve sought to address the unintended circumstance where certain group compositions made the health of enemies lower than they would be if you went into a Delve by yourself. We also tried moving some of the harder affixes from first appearing in Tier 9 and above into Tier 8. The results were not what we hoped for. We’ve now brought enemy damage back down closer to our targets, the most-difficult affixes have been sent back to Tier 9, and scaling adjustments should make group and solo play less lethal.

• Nightfall Sanctum

  • Resolved an issue where players could get stuck in combat after dying to Speaker Davenruth.

• The Underkeep

  • Reduced Crazed Abominations’ health.

• The Waterworks

  • Waxface’s Throw Wax damage done reduced by ~15%.

  • Waxface should not immediately begin casting a new spell upon completion of Noxious Gas.

Dungeons and Raids

• Nerub-ar Palace

  • Silken Court

    • When Binding Webs is broken by immunity, it will now correctly remove it from ally and they will no longer falsely appear connected.

    • Triggering intermissions while a boss is stunned will no longer cause Anub’arash or Takazj to stay during the other’s intermission.

Events

• Awakening the Machine

  • Addressed an issue causing the Awakened Phalanx to become stuck in an unattackable state.

Items and Rewards

• Class Set items purchased with Web-Wrapped Curio or Mark of the Spelunker Supreme should now be refundable.

• Fixed a bug where reaching Renown Rank 11 with the Council of Dornogal was not presenting a quest with Carved Harbinger Crests as a reward.

• Warbound-until-Equipped gear obtained from seasonal legacy dungeons should now have correct item levels. This fix is retroactive.

Quests

• Pale Weavelashers should now respawn accordingly in the Silken Ward, improving the local quests and the World Quest “Enforcer Extermination”.

• “Zekvir, Hand of the Harbinger” no longer requires that you complete the Delve seasonal journey.

• In Azj-Kahet, “Special Assignment: A Pound of Cure” has been adjusted to be faster to complete.