Dragonflight Pre-Patch Hotfixes for November 18th, 2022 - Lifebind Change

Live Posted 2022/11/18 at 9:21 PM by Squishei

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, Wrath of the Lich King Classic, Burning Crusade Classic and WoW Classic. 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

November 18, 2022 Classes

Fixed an issue where Healers’ Cleanses were going on cooldown incorrectly.
Evoker

Hover will no longer cancel when the Evoker is struck by crowd control effects.
Preservation

Lifebind now only shares the Evoker's healing between bonded allies, instead of sharing all healing received.

Developers’ note: We are happy with Preservation's tuning overall but had concerns about the very high healing throughput of Lifebind when other healers were casting healing spells onto the Evoker during Lifebind.

Hunter

Beast Mastery

Corrected an issue where the Hunter's Prey talent does not properly reset the cooldown of Kill Shot when activated.

Mage

Frost

Fixed an issue that caused Brain Freeze to not trigger from Ebonbolt if Brain Freeze was already active.

Shaman

Elemental

Fixed an issue causing Improved Flametongue Weapon to be removed upon death.

Warlock

Affliction

Fixed an issue where Malefic Affliction would not be removed at the end of combat.

Demonology

Fixed an issue where Demonic Cores would be granted without knowing Demonbolt.

Creatures and NPCs

The Experience Eliminators now allow players up to level 59 to disable XP gains.
The Escaped Wilderling's great escape has come to an end, and it can correctly be recaptured again.

Items and Rewards

Fixed an issue where the Underlight Angler fishing rod could not gain Artifact Power.
The Large Green Bags that Evokers start with can now be sold to vendors.
Fixed an issue where Unstable Elemental Confluence was incorrectly dealing Holy damage instead of Nature damage.

Professions

Fixed an issue where players couldn’t craft legacy profession recipes that required special objects to craft them.

Quests

The Battle for Azeroth Allied Race unlock quests are now correctly available at level 50.
Evokers should now be able to accept the quest "From Within."
Fixed an issue where Evokers were not able to loot some required items for the Tarecgosa’s Rest legendary questline.

Reputation

Dracthyr can now correctly gain reputation with the Sha'tari Skyguard and The Tillers.

Comment by LunarpawProfessions

Fixed an issue where players couldn’t craft legacy profession recipes that required special objects to craft them.Comment by CuinoAny news on flyout buttons (call pet/call demon, pet utility etc) not working while on action bars? Really annoying bug!Comment by lordlexxApparently Warlock is now a spec of Shaman with sub-specs lolComment by AlphageekProfessions

Fixed an issue where players couldn’t craft legacy profession recipes that required special objects to craft them.Shaded HearthingShadowlands GatheringComment by SoeroahGlad they hopped on the experience eliminators so quick. Hopefully they fix whatever issue is deleting my main's bags every time I log off soon.Comment by ScaryfoxIt's great to see them ensuring that Evokers fit into the world since people are still playing them. Of course, I'm glad to see it because I don't want Blizzard hinting at the Dracthyr eventually getting existing classes...only to figure that not enough people are playing them.

That said, I didn't realize that you could get stunned during Hover since I've really only been doing the Primal Storms. That's still good because while the Evoker isn't the most immobile class (I've played specs with no way to move and cast), they're also not as mobile as the devs and a guide writer tells themselves.

Speaking of Primal Storms, it's good to know that some people have the Unstable Confluence. I've been doing it for almost a week and I only have Earth and Fire. Still, I wonder how much use it's going to be since I heard it only scales up to 185, and that Heirlooms aren't as useful as they once were.Comment by Redemption86Fix the god damn enchanting vellums, you're literally screwing every enchanter over right now and making the rich, richer, for every moment you don't fix this, the prices of enchants have gone through the roof because of people buying and relisting at a much higher price, you literally cannot make new enchants right now.Comment by tsaavikIt's great to see them ensuring that Evokers fit into the world since people are still playing them. Of course, I'm glad to see it because I don't want Blizzard hinting at the Dracthyr eventually getting existing classes...only to figure that not enough people are playing them.

That said, I didn't realize that you could get stunned during Hover since I've really only been doing the Primal Storms. That's still good because while the Evoker isn't the most immobile class (I've played specs with no way to move and cast), they're also not as mobile as the devs and a guide writer tells themselves.

Speaking of Primal Storms, it's good to know that some people have the Unstable Confluence. I've been doing it for almost a week and I only have Earth and Fire. Still, I wonder how much use it's going to be since I heard it only scales up to 185, and that Heirlooms aren't as useful as they once were.Comment by VoniazmogisProfessions

Fixed an issue where players couldn’t craft legacy profession recipes that required special objects to craft them.Comment by nihilheimok but when will shadowlands transmog be available at level 10, i can get SL gear on lowbies but cant transmog it to them?Comment by WTFF"We are happy with Preservation's tuning overall"

Making their dps so far above other healers in m+, great tuning Blizzard.Comment by LamakoonIt's great to see them ensuring that Evokers fit into the world since people are still playing them. Of course, I'm glad to see it because I don't want Blizzard hinting at the Dracthyr eventually getting existing classes...only to figure that not enough people are playing them.

That said, I didn't realize that you could get stunned during Hover since I've really only been doing the Primal Storms. That's still good because while the Evoker isn't the most immobile class (I've played specs with no way to move and cast), they're also not as mobile as the devs and a guide writer tells themselves.

Speaking of Primal Storms, it's good to know that some people have the Unstable Confluence. I've been doing it for almost a week and I only have Earth and Fire. Still, I wonder how much use it's going to be since I heard it only scales up to 185, and that Heirlooms aren't as useful as they once were.Comment by ElyssaeGreat. killed the possibility of playing healing differently with the Lifebind "nerf"/"adjustment"

It's such a short window to pull it off, that requires coordination and timing. You know. a bit of skill even.

This and the AoE nerfs, blizz keeps giving people fun stuff and then taking it away, for "reasons".
In the meantime, other classes are running rampart with DPS way more ( DH / Monk ) and they're left alone. Hell, even after the Nerfs, Monk is still performing amazing ( other classes should be brought up.)

I really am annoyed at the Lifebind change. It felt it could be the start of breaking the mold on healing, which is pretty much healbotting all day - as it provided a slight change of pace -_-Comment by SaithieExcept, I still can't put enchants on Enchanting Vellums.Comment by TastelikelemonGreat. killed the possibility of playing healing differently with the Lifebind "nerf"/"adjustment"

It's such a short window to pull it off, that requires coordination and timing. You know. a bit of skill even.

This and the AoE nerfs, blizz keeps giving people fun stuff and then taking it away, for "reasons".
In the meantime, other classes are running rampart with DPS way more ( DH / Monk ) and they're left alone. Hell, even after the Nerfs, Monk is still performing amazing ( other classes should be brought up.)

I really am annoyed at the Lifebind change. It felt it could be the start of breaking the mold on healing, which is pretty much healbotting all day - as it provided a slight change of pace -_-Comment by zacheklundTrying to maximize lifebind on many raid members at once is still going to be very very good healing wise, but the playstyle will require a considerable mana investment from the evoker and is the downside of the build, alongside the time to set up and relatively high skill ceiling.

It's just not bonkers broken now.Comment by immoralsoulAny news on flyout buttons (call pet/call demon, pet utility etc) not working while on action bars? Really annoying bug!Comment by MongYiiLooks like warlocks have become a shaman spec now.