Blizzard’s November 13 hotfixes double RestorationWild Growth healing and add fixes for seven classes, items, quests and dungeons. Drowned City enemies now respawn after 2 hours.
RestorationDruids should look at Wild Growth again, since it now heals more and needs you to stand still. Paladins who seal with Command get melee on-hit effects from its Judgement. Groups that level together will find dungeon kills worth nothing if one member has outleveled the enemy. Anyone wearing a Blessed Band of Light should read the swap terms before trading it, because it cannot be reversed.
RestorationDruids get the one buff: Wild Growth heals for twice its old coefficient and stops working on the move. PaladinJudgement of Command now counts as a melee attack with on-hit effects. Blizzard says it was the only Judgement that behaved that way, so the others stay ranged. The rest are fixes. Stuns on creatures now have diminishing returns in both directions, Frost Nova breaks on proc and Blizzard damage, The Quick and the Dead cuts the Mana cost of Divine Spirit, Windfury Totem triggers from all melee abilities, Siphon Life Rank 1 cannot be cast while silenced, and Berserker Rage removes Sap.
In a dungeon, a kill now pays no experience to anyone when the enemy is trivial to any one party member’s level. Non-boss enemies in The Drowned City respawn after 2 hours. Smaller fixes cover Sneed in The Deadmines and Balnazzar’s credit toward Master Spelunker. Several zones also get spawn tuning: fewer Quillboar and Venture Co. in the Mulgore starting area, more Lesser Rock Elementals in the Badlands and more tigers, panthers and raptors in Stranglethorn Vale.
Ten items have stats, descriptions or texture corrected; Channeler's Ring now carries Spell Power, and a Blessed Band of Light can be swapped for it once, for good. Fourteen quest fixes touch shared drops, party credit and Riverglades. The Stranglethorn weekly fishing tournament now has more winners per ruleset.
Now triggers on-hit effects, and the game treats it as a melee attack. The developers say every other Judgement stays a ranged attack, because Command was the only melee one.
Now triggered by all melee abilities, even ones that do not use the main hand weapon. The developers add that Whirlwind and Mutilate offhand strikes still cannot trigger it, though their main hand strike can.
The description is corrected. The gloves now trigger only from harmful spells and abilities that deal damage.
Fixed
Glimmering Mithril Insignia
Anyone can now use the trinket, whether or not they can wear Mail armor.
Fixed
Cloak of the Fleshborer
Had no texture; fixed.
Fixed
Taran Icebreaker
Now behaves as a 2-handed Mace, as intended. It was acting as a 1-handed Mace.
Fixed
Darkspear signet rings
Mp5 corrected to match the Alliance equivalent rings.
Fixed
Everstaring Abomination Eye
Spirit stats corrected.
Fixed
The Bad Hat
No longer gives the wrong amount of spell power.
Fixed
Souvenir Sea Shell
Stats corrected.
Fixed
Blessed Band of Light
The Hit stat is removed.
Changed
Channeler's Ring
Now has Spell Power instead of Spirit. Owners of a Blessed Band of Light can swap it for the ring, which is the first item on Pix Xizzix’s vendor list until raids open; the swap cannot be undone.
Rogues entered the wrong version of Zul'Farrak during this quest. Fixed.
Fixed
Quest items from kills
Deadwood Key, Drop of Stolen Life, Ring of the Fallen Soldier, Venom-dripping heart and Blackthorne Intelligence now drop for every party member on the matching quest.
Fixed
A Quick Grocery Run
Skonk's list can be read by everyone.
Fixed
Pix Xizzix’s weekly dungeon quests
Are now removed from the quest log at weekly reset.
Fixed
Coyote Huntin'
Sootfur's pelt should now be shared with every party member.
Fixed
Crow Effigy
On Mount Hyjal, it should now be visible to anyone who meets the quest requirements to interact with it.
Fixed
Crate Expectations
The Unstable Package can no longer proc during a taxi ride, and its misfire damage is reduced.
Fixed
Return to the Port
Picking it up could wipe nearby players’ quest items for The Cook in the Cage. Fixed.
Fixed
Yashiro's Windwalk
Healers who assist Yashiro should now get kill credit for Doomguard Xarkul.
Fixed
Bloodmaster's Ring
In Riverglades, Jezap Jinglesprocket refused to offer quests to players attempting it. Fixed.