World of Warcraft Classic

World of Warcraft Classic Hotfixes: March 4, 2025

Version
Hotfixes: March 4, 2025
Version Date
March 5, 2025
Links
Source

Patch Notes

Hotfixes: March 4, 2025

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: The War Within, Cataclysm Classic, Season of Discovery, WoW Classic Era, and Hardcore. 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.

Hotfixes

March 4, 2025

Achievements

  • Fixed an issue where completing the Copious Coffers and The Key to Madness achievements before the Undermine(d) patch to fail to deliver rewards. Affected players should find them in the mail.

Classes

  • Death Knight
    • Unholy
      • Liberation of Undermine 2-set Bonus – Now increases the damage of Death Coil and Epidemic by 4.5% (was 3%).
  • Demon Hunter
    • Havoc
      • Aldrachi Reaver: Reaver’s Mark now increases damage dealt to its target by 6%.
      • Aldrachi Reaver: Thrill of the Fight’s increase to ability damage is now 15% (was 20%).
      • Liberation of Undermine 2-set Bonus – Winning Streak!'s chance to activate increased by 25%.
      • Fixed an issue that prevented the talent starter build from applying correctly.
  • Druid
    • Updated Lycara’s Meditation: Players must remain in a shapeshift form for 2.9 seconds, modified by Haste, in order to retain the Lycara’s Teachings bonus from it. The ability description string will be updated in a future patch.
    • Feral
      • Sunfire damage reduced by 40%.
      • Lycara’s Teachings’ Mastery bonus granted from being in Moonkin Form reduced by 66%.
  • Evoker
    • Devastation
      • Firestorm damage increased by 40%.
  • Hunter
    • Beast Mastery
      • The Liberation of Undermine 2-piece set bonus has been adjusted – Barbed Shot now fires at 100% (was 200%).
      • The Liberation of Undermine 4-piece set bonus has been adjusted - Potent Mutagen damage reduced by 50% and reduces the cooldown of Bestial Wrath by 0.25 seconds (was 0.5 seconds).
      • All ability and pet damage increased by 5%.
  • Monk
    • Mistweaver
      • All Healing reduced by 4%.
      • Liberation of Undermine set bonus: Insurance! healing decreased by 30%.
  • Paladin
    • Holy
      • Fixed a bug causing Divine Toll to unintentionally damage enemies the player was not in combat with.
    • Protection
      • Fixed an issue where Undisputed Ruling failed to trigger Consecration's friendly effects.
    • Retribution
      • An issue causing Divine Hammer to have reduced duration with higher amounts of Haste has been resolved.
      • Haste will no longer affect Divine Hammer periodic. Will now strike every 2 seconds for 8 seconds baseline.
      • Divine Hammer periodic damage will no longer activate Radiant Glory, while its cast will continue to interact normally.
      • Divine Hammer extension proc no longer has an internal cooldown.
  • Priest
    • Discipline
      • Lenience no longer stacks its damage reduction effect when multiple Priests apply Atonement to a target.
      • Oracle: Preventive Measures now increases the damage of Penance, Smite, and Holy Nova by 20% (was 40%).
  • Rogue
    • Assassination
      • All ability damage increased by 4%.
    • Subtlety
      • Secret Technique damage reduced by 5%.
      • Liberation of Undermine 2-piece set bonus – Winning Streak! max stacks reduced to 8 (was 10).
  • Shaman
    • Elemental
      • Developers’ notes: The new tier set bonuses were performing higher than we would have liked, so we’re lowering the value of the new 2-piece set bonus while increasing the damage Elemental Shaman deal baseline.
      • Liberation of Undermine 2-piece set bonus – Now summons an elemental for 6 seconds (was 8 seconds).
      • Liberation of Undermine 2-piece set bonus – Frequency of getting a bonus elemental summon from your spells lowered.
      • Liberation of Undermine 4-piece set bonus – Damage bonus of Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Tempest, and Lava Burst increased to 30% for 8 seconds (was 20% for 8 seconds).
      • Deeply Rooted Elements Ascendance procs no longer activate either the 2-piece or 4-piece bonus of the new Liberation of Undermine tier set.
      • Echo of the Elementals no longer causes the Jackpot! Buff to refresh when they appear.
      • All damage dealt increased by 5%.
    • Enhancement
      • Developers’ notes: Enhancement Shaman in the Liberation of Undermine patch are performing higher than we would like. We’re making adjustments to the new Flowing Spirits talent as well as the Nerub-ar Palace and Liberation of Undermine tier set bonuses.
      • Nerub-ar Palace 4-piece set Bonus – Now has a 20% chance to summon an extra spirit when talented into Flowing Spirits. The tooltip will not reflect this change until a future patch.
      • Flowing Spirits now has a 6% chance to summon a Feral Spirit.
      • Flowing Spirits now properly summons a random Elemental Spirit when Elemental Spirits are talented.
      • Liberation of Undermine 4-piece set Bonus – Now triggers Doom Winds for 3 seconds (was 4 seconds).
      • Liberation of Undermine 4-piece set Bonus – Now increases the damage of Crash Lightning by 12% per stack (was 15%).
      • Liberation of Undermine 4-piece set Bonus – Now increases the primary target damage of Crash Lightning by 75% (was 100%).
  • Warlock
    • Fixed an issue where Summon Felguard and Grimoire: Felguard were taking higher damage than intended from area of effect spells.
    • Demonology
      • Liberation of Undermine 4-piece set bonus has been adjusted – Casting Hand of Gul’dan causes your active Dreadstalkers to cast Dreadbite at 20% effectiveness (was 50%).
      • Hand of Gul’dan damage increased by 20%.
      • Doomguards summoned by Pact of the Ered’ruin deal 15% increased damage.
      • Gloomhound’s Gloom Slash damage increased by 30%.
      • Wild Imp damage increased by 30%.
    • Destruction
      • Liberation of Undermine 2-piece set bonus has been adjusted – Your spells and abilities have a chance to hit a Jackpot! that fires a flurry of 6 Demonfire bolts at 100% effectiveness (was 200%). Casting Summon Infernal always hits a Jackpot!.
      • Chaos Bolt damage increased by 20%.
      • Summon Infernal damage increased by 35%.
      • Developers’ notes: We’re making adjustments to Hellcaller to reduce its Soul Shard economy and increase its damage as compensation. When the availability of Soul Shards increases for Destruction, it reaches a point where Rain of Fire begins to surpass Chaos Bolt in damage output for single target due to the difference in casting times.
      • Hellcaller: Wither damage increased by 35%.
      • Hellcaller: Wither now deals damage every 3 seconds (was 2 seconds).
      • Developers’ notes: We recognize that with these changes Wither damage will also be impacted. We are distributing the lost throughput across the rest of the Hellcaller kit for Destruction.
      • Hellcaller: Blackened Soul damage increased 40%.
      • Hellcaller: Xalan’s Ferocity now increases Fire damage by 4% (was 2%).
      • Hellcaller: Xalan’s Cruelty now increases Shadow damage by 4% (was 2%).
  • Warrior
    • Arms
      • Execute damage reduced by 15%.

Items and Rewards

  • Oil of Beledar's Grace healing reduced by 40%.
  • Plans: Charged Claymore and Formula: Enchant Boots - Scout's March can again be obtained from Auralia Steelstrike.
  • Undermine
    • Resolved an issue where players could receive duplicates of the same rare item from completing Shipping and Handling job streaks.
    • Gallagio Garbage now has a higher chance to spawn.
    • Increased the drop rates of the mount and cosmetic item from the Gallagio Garbage rare.
    • Scrap-Plated Pants now have Agility/Intellect.

Mounts

  • Fixed a bug causing the Ruby and Pearlescent Butterfly mounts to glow too brightly.
  • Resolved an issue preventing players from properly obtaining the Violet Goblin Shredder.

Player versus Player

  • The Gladiator’s Distinction set bonus now increases Stamina by 10% (was 5%) for Tank and Damage specializations.
  • The Gladiator’s Distinction set bonus now increases Stamina by 15% (was 10%) for Healer specializations.
  • Death Knight
    • Blood
      • San’layn: The damage bonus from Frenzied Bloodthirst is now 50% effective in PvP combat.
    • Frost
      • Death’s Cold Embrace (PvP talent) now increases Remorseless Winter’s damage by 400% (was 750%).
  • Druid
    • Feral
      • Berserk now increases damage dealt by 5% in PvP combat (was 10%).
      • Ferocious Bite damage reduced by 10% in PvP combat.
  • Mage
    • Arcane
      • Magi’s Spark now echoes spells at 25% effectiveness (was 50%) in PvP combat.
      • Arcane Missiles damage increased by 12% in PvP combat.
      • Arcane Barrage damage increased by 12% in PvP combat.
    • Fire
      • Blazing Barriers from Overpowered Barrier now reflect 60% of damage absorbed (was 100%).
    • Frost
      • Frostfire: Blazing Barriers from Overpowered Barrier now reflect 60% of damage absorbed (was 100%).
  • Monk
    • Mistweaver
      • Jade Empowerment’s damage increase reduced to 1250% (was 2500%) in PvP combat.
    • Windwalker
      • Slicing Winds damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat. Slicing Winds now fails if cast while in a root.
  • Warrior
    • Arms
      • Mortal Strike damage reduced by 25% in PvP combat.
      • Execute damage increased by 20% in PvP combat.
      • Demolish final hit damage reduced by 30% in PvP combat.
    • Fury
      • Rampage damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
      • Bladestorm damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.
    • Protection
      • Execute damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat.
      • All damage reduced by 15% in PvP combat.

Quests

  • Players leveling through War Within now always have the option to do Khaz Algar world quests from Faerin Lothar when accepting a task for "The Call of the Worldsoul".
  • “The Kalimdor Cup Circuit” can now be turned in to Lord Andestrasz.
  • Fixed a bug preventing Thalyrssa from allowing access to Withered Army Training for “Building an Army”.
  • Helping serve hot dogs or hamburgers in the “Hotrocket” quests will now take priority over the world quest to save drowning tourist goblins.

Season of Discovery

  • Tarnished Undermine Real now drop from Ruins of Ahn’Qiraj and Temple of Ahn’Qiraj bosses and hard mode caches.
  • Nightmare Grove
    • The Nightmare Dragons now drop three Tarnished Undermine Reals each.
    • The Nightmare Dragons now each drop a piece of Non-C’thun Temple of Ahn’Qiraj Tier.
      • Players can access to the Temple of Ahn’Qiraj vendors at the entrance of the raid. These NPCs are Kandrostrasz, Vethsera, and Andorgos.
    • The Nightmare Dragons now each drop a piece of Blackwing Tier that is not available on the Undermine Real vendor. (Shoulders/Legs/Head/Chest).
    • The Nightmare Dragons now each drop a Blackwing Lair class trinket.
    • All of the pieces in the Nightmare Dragon’s old loot has had 8 primary armor slots updated to have the Timeworn tag, allowing them to interact with the Signet Ring of the Bronze Dragonflight line.
    • To allow players more chances to get missing patterns, the Nightmare Dragons can now drop all of the enchanting and engineering patterns from Molten Core and all professions recipes from Ahn’Qiraj.
    • Health of all bosses and enemy creatures reduced by 15%.
    • Damage and healing of all bosses and enemy creatures reduced by 30%.
    • All Dragons no longer thrash.
    • Emeriss - NPC priests during the PvP raid phase no longer cast Mind Control.
    • Lethon - Damage reduction aura from the large Spirit Shade reduced to 50% (was 99%), and movement speed of Spirit Shades lowered by 25%.
    • Ysondre - Divergent Lightning is now cast less frequently and deals less damage.

February 28, 2025

Achievements

  • An achievement has been unexpectedly rewarding 5 Trader's Tender. The goblins insist that possession is Nine-Tenths of the Law. It seems better to just roll with it, so we've corrected the description on the achievement to include the 5 Trader's Tender.

Classes

  • Druid
    • Restoration
      • Fixed an issue that caused Ancient of Lore (PvP Talent) to prevent all magical effects.
      • Fixed an issue that caused Cyclone to bypass Ancient of Lore's crowd control immunity.
  • Evoker
    • Devastation
      • [Scalecommander] Fixed an issue where Deep Breath with Maneuverability would not break root effects.
    • Preservation
      • Fixed an issue where Flow State did not reduce the cooldown of Engulf.
  • Hunter
    • Beast Master, Survival
      • Master's Call pet ability can now be cast from Pet action bar.
  • Monk
    • Windwalker
      • Fixed an issue that caused Slicing Winds to not be treated as an AoE effects.
      • Fixed an issue that caused Slicings Winds to not function with Ride the Wind.
  • Priest
    • Shadow
      • Fixed an issue causing Void Bolt to be castable while channeling spells.
  • Shaman
    • Enhancement
      • [Totemic] Whirling Elements now displays correct duration that is 6 seconds for the granted Hot Hand buff.
      • [Totemic] Hot Hand procs will no longer clamp down the duration if Whirling Elements was used to extend Hot Hand duration.
    • Restoration
      • Fixed an issue causing Overflowing Shores to not heal when on a transport.
      • [Totemic] Fixed an issue where casting Totemic Projection while Surging Totem is active causes an additional heal from the totem.
  • Warlock
    • Fixed an issue where the targeted version of Rain of Fire would not generate stacks of Power Overwhelming.

Items

  • Algari Mana Oil, Oil of Deep Toxins, and Oil of Beledar's Grace are now manually targeted, preventing them from automatically overriding buffs for player-characters who are dual-wielding.
  • Auralia Steelstrike again sells Technique: Contract: Hallowfall Arathi.
  • Roaring War-Queen's Citrine chance to trigger has been reduced slightly.
  • Legendary Skipper's Citrine no longer triggers Roaring War-Queen's Citrine effect.

Player versus Player

  • Mage
    • Arcane
      • Fixed an issue causing Overpowered Barrier to grant immunity to interrupts.

Transmogrification

  • Fixed an issue that caused Forged Gladiator's Chain Leggings and Forged Gladiator's Chain Breeches for shamans to use the wrong non-kilt appearance.

Undermine

  • Adjusted the rewards for completing Shipping and Handling tasks to reward a Weathered Undermine Crest and one of Valorstones, Resonance Crystals, or Gold.
  • Increased the rewards from finishing a job streak.
  • Increased the rewards given by tip chests during the Surge Pricing event.

Season of Discovery

  • Rogue
    • Blade Flurry no longer receives double % increases.
      • Developers’ notes: This affects Seal of the Dawn and Rogue set bonuses. Now, % increases from hostile Mind Controls like Chains of Kel'thuzad or Prophet Skeram's Mind Control no longer cause massive amounts of damage from Blade Flurry.
  • Warrior
    • Sweeping Strikes no longer receives double % increases while inside of Naxxramas.
      • Developers’ notes: Due to Warriors having multiple % increases in their kit through Enrage, we did not want to impact their PvP performance with this bugfix, so this only applies to Warriors while inside Naxxramas. This means Seal of the Dawn and Warrior set bonuses are no longer doubled, and % increases from hostile Mind Controls inside of Naxxramas like Chains of Kel'thuzad no longer cause massive amounts of damage from Sweeping Strikes.

February 27, 2025

Achievements

  • Umbrage for Umbriss is no longer a requirement for Glory of the Cataclysm Hero.

Classes

  • Death Knight
    • On a Paler Horse now works as intended in the Undermine.
  • Evoker
    • Devastation
      • Fixed an issue where Disintegrate's channel time was being increased when talenting into Azure Celerity.
  • Hunter
    • Corrected an issue preventing the proper activation of Eyes of the Beast.
  • Paladin
    • Resolved an issue causing Hammer of Light to not cast its secondary damage when killing the primary target.
    • Hammer of Light will now add to the duration of Shield of the Righteous, instead of incorrectly resetting its duration to 4 seconds.
  • Shaman
    • Elemental
      • [Stormbringer] Fixed an issue causing Tempest to be unable to contribute towards Fusion of Elements.

Player versus Player

  • Priest
    • Holy
      • Fixed an issue causing Sanctified Ground to not have its radius increased by the Light in the Darkness talent.

Quests

  • Fixed an issue causing the balloons to be difficult to target on "Boom Balloon."

Transmogrification

  • Fixed an issue preventing druids from receiving alternate appearances for the Raid Finder variant of the Nerub-ar Palace class set after using the Luminous Nerubian Catalyst Stone.

Undermine

  • Gallagio Security is no longer immune to crowd controlling effects.
  • Fixed an issue causing Gallagio Garbage to spawn less frequently than intended.
  • Disposable Hotdogs, Disposable Hamburgers, Collectible Pineappletini Mugs, Undermine Crates, Half-Eaten Takout, and Single-Use Grills now stack to 20.
  • S.C.R.A.P. Heaps now correctly scale enemies and hazards to the number of participating players nearby.
  • G-99 Breakneck boost cooldowns have been adjusted to match their durations.
  • GE86 Advance D.R.I.V.E. wheels now cost 2000 Empty Kaja’Cola Cans (was 1 Vintage Kaja'Cola Can).

Cataclysm Classic

  • Fixed a bug preventing Fragment of Deathwing’s Jaw from dropping as intended.
  • Added a way for rogues who defeated Deathwing prior to the hotfix above to be able to get their missed drop. Near the entrance portal of Dragon Soul there is now an Elementium Fragment that will spawn when Deathwing has been defeated. This will allow rogues who meet the following conditions to retrieve the Fragment of Deathwing’s Jaw:
    • The rogue is currently on the Patricide quest.
    • The rogue has killed Deathwing before.
    • Deathwing has been defeated in the instance.
  • Protocol Twilight Dungeons
    • Updated the Gift of the Green Dragonflight's stacking healing buff (Verdant Restoration) to now increase healing done by 20% per stack (was 10%).
    • Damage-over-time abilities can now generate stacks of Verdant Restoration but not remove stacks of the damage buff (Verdant Surge).

Season of Discovery

  • There should no longer be extra enemies near the objectives of The Dark Hoard quest in Blackrock Spire.
  • Hardened Frostguard now has an internal cooldown on the Frost Nova chance on hit, to prevent it from extensively reactivating on the same ability cast.
  • Naxxramas
    • Ignite will no longer incorrectly tick on targets while the player is under the effect of a Mind Control.
    • The health increases from Lifegiving Gem, Rallying Cry, Last Stand, Aegis of Preservation, Vengeance, and Survival Instincts no longer behave incorrectly while under the effects of the Seal of the Dawn.
    • While inside Naxxramas, the 6-piece bonuses for tank warrior, tank warlock, and tank druid will now dynamically update your Last Stand, Vengeance, and Survival Instincts if the new value would be lower and you do not have a debuff that lowers your health active.
  • Rogue
    • The tank T1 6-piece set bonus now provides a 20% damage reduction (was 50%).
    • The animation for Crimson Tempest has been changed to be less chaotic.

February 26, 2025

Achievements

  • Reading the Misplaced Work Order will now reliably give credit for Read Between the Lines.

Delves

  • Fixed an issue that could prevent players who had never entered Delves before from being able to configure Brann's role and abilities.

Items and Rewards

  • Fixed a bug preventing delves and world activities from providing credit towards the Great Vault. As a reminder, next week, the Great Vault will provide Season 1 rewards.
  • The Surge Pricing world event now awards Extravagant Tip Chest for 150 Shipping and Handling Tasks (was 250).
  • Fixed an issue where the Adventurer's Warbound items sold by Finley for Undercoin would generate gear at the wrong item level.

Quests

  • Players who selected a Cartel during "Contract Work" but were not given work to do can now reselect their Cartel for their Warband.
  • Grimla should no longer unintentionally disappear while players are on “The Grimla Express”, “Split Venture”, or “Welcome to Undermine”.

Undermine

  • The Suspicious Book and Fireworks Hat should no longer disappear prematurely, and players should be able to loot them as expected. Players who were previously affected by this bug will find the loot in their mail after about an hour.
  • Lowered the number of tasks required to be completed to earn the highest Surge Pricing reward to 150, down from 250.
  • Newspaper Bundles for the Paper Delivery job should no longer remain on the player if the job is canceled. This should also resolve the issue for players that have already completed or canceled the quest and had the bundles on their back.

The hotfix notes for the previous patch can be found here.