World of Warcraft May 1 Hotfix addresses various issues related to Dragonflight, Wrath of the Lich King Classic, Burning Crusade Classic, Season of Discovery, and WoW Classic.
According to Blizzard, many of the hotfixes listed below will take effect immediately, while others may require a scheduled realm restart before taking effect.
Here’s the list of changes.
Dungeons and Raids
- Aberrus (Awakened)
- Fixed an issue that caused Thadrion to continually cast Unstable Essence after the encounter had concluded.
- Nokhud Offensive
- Addressed a Primalist Thunderbeast issue where Thunderstrike’s target is not correctly reflected in the unit frame.
Items
- Amber Skitterfly should now appear in the Mount Collection for players who purchased it from the Trading Post.
- Legendary items can now be upgraded as intended on the Awakened track.
- Fixed a bug preventing legendary item upgrades from receiving appropriate stone/crest discounts.
Quests
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the world quest “Zaqali Elders” to fail to start.
Cataclysm Classic
- Archaeology digsites that appear in Uldum, Twilight Highlands, and Hyjal once players hit 450 Archaeology should no longer appear until the zones are accessible on official Expansion Launch.
- Paladin
- Fixed an issue with Seals of Command where Seal of Righteousness could trigger too many procs when it hits multiple targets.
Season of Discovery
- Hunter
- Raptor Fury now increases the damage done of Raptor strike and Mongoose Bite by 10% per stack (was 15%).
- The Beast Mastery rune now increases pet damage by 10% (was 20%).
- Shaman
- The Burn rune now also grants a significant bonus to spell power when Flametongue Weapon is imbued on your weapon.
- Rolling Thunder now has a 50% chance to trigger (was 30%).
- Fixed a bug causing overload procs to not add a charge to Lightning Shield when the Shaman has the Rolling Thunder rune active.
- Warlock
- Invocation now also applies to Unstable Affliction.
- Invocation damage can now deal critical strikes if the Warlock also has the Pandemic rune active.