Hotfixes 16th December

[Poisonenvy]

More hotfixes have been announced:

December 16


* General

o Bonuses from Embrace of the Shale Spider and Blessing of Forgotten Kings can no longer stack.

o Completing Archaeology projects will once again contribute to the guild achievement Making History once the player relogs.

o The Orgrimmar portal to Mount Hyjal should now appear for players who flew directly into Hyjal to start questing, rather than take the Moonglade portal.

o The old and busted Winter's Veil decorations in Brill have been disabled.

* Classes

o Paladins


+ Ancient Power now has a 30-second maximum duration and will properly be canceled when zoning or relogging.

+ Glyph of Seal of Insight now correctly increases healing done by Word of Glory and Light of Dawn while Seal of Insight is active.

o Shaman

+ The Mana Tide Totem hotfix from yesterday has been reverted. The Mana Tide buff no longer stacks, as this had a major impact on encounter design.

o Warlocks

+ It is no longer possible to waste a Soulstone by attempting to use it on a dead target. The player will receive an Invalid Target error message at the completion of their channel. In a future patch, we intend this functionality to work correctly, allowing a Soulstone to be used to instantly resurrect a dead target.


* Dungeons & Raids

o Halls of Origination

+ The damage of Fireballs automatically cast by Temple Fireshaper with Molten Barrier active has been adjusted in normal and Heroic difficulty.

+ The damage of Pact of Darkness cast by Temple Shadowlancer has been adjusted in normal and Heroic difficulty.


o Lost City of Tol'vir

+ Siamat will cast Deflecting Winds after a few seconds of entering combat regardless of any abilities used against him at the start of the encounter.

+ The damage of Dust Flail cast by Lockmaw has been adjusted in normal difficulty.

o The Stonecore

+ The Crystal Shards creatures in the Corborus encounter are now level 86, down from 88.


* Items

o Both normal and Heroic versions of Heart of Ignacious apply 20-second cooldowns on other similar items, rather than the full 2-minute duration.

o Shroud of Dark Memories and Shade of Death now have different stats.


* Professions

o Pyrite Ore is prospectable at 500 Jewelcrafting skill, down from 525.

o Darkbrew Lager can be learned at 415 Cooking skill, down from 425.

o The Engineering item High-Powered Bolt Gun can no longer be used in Arena and Rated Battleground matches.

o Engineers can now purchase Smooth Cogwheels from Frank Natale using 4x Handful of Obsidium Bolts.

[Sheiabah]

Im patiently waiting for the hotfix that cures the foxes strange desire to run off and kill random critters after a kill....even if that critter is half a mile away in amongst a huge mob.....but no poor Dusk is gonna have to stay stabled a while longer

[Poisonenvy]

Hehe .. perhaps he's trying to increase our critter kill :P

I was rather interested by "allowing a Soulstone to be used to instantly resurrect a dead target" for Warlocks .. they going to be able to resurrect too soon?