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Hotfixes: less crowding, faction balance, dungeons and lots of quests

Crowded zones hold fewer players at once, and far fewer on the PvP ruleset, while character creation on PvP holds back the bigger faction more firmly. The Drowned City was dealing 30% too much damage, the Deathless Marrow encounter gets easier and Waylaid Crates finally drop in dungeons too. On top come fixes for nearly every class.

Classes

  • The Cooldown Manager no longer shows Berserk but does show Lacerate once learned, and the Idol of Ferocity no longer lists Mangle as a discounted ability.On Forever Hub:Druid
  • Feral Charge in Cat Form puts you in combat right away, Natural Instinct applies properly to Lacerate and Pounce, and the Pounce stun shows up in the enemy's debuffs.On Forever Hub:Druid
  • Vulgara the Insatiable and the Shrieklings of Zephras now belong to the right pet families, and Hunters no longer pull distant enemies just by targeting them.On Forever Hub:HunterZephras Isle
  • Flamestrike's ground ticks no longer consume Clearcasting, and Arcane Concentration now splits its chance across the cast and every bolt instead of granting 10% on each.On Forever Hub:Mage
  • Consecration keeps its increased damage even after targets inside it have despawned, and the Cooldown Manager shows Seals correctly.On Forever Hub:Paladin
  • Fear Ward no longer breaks Shadowform, and Power Infusion now stays on allies.On Forever Hub:Priest
  • Lightning Overload deals the right damage for Lightning Bolt, Lightning Mastery has a new visual, and Improved Ghost Wolf carries the Night Watchman's Torch in its mouth again.On Forever Hub:Shaman
  • Completing Summon Felsteed now grants the matching riding skill; if you finished it earlier, summoning the Felsteed once gives you apprentice riding, which also lets you use other mounts.On Forever Hub:WarlockRiding and dual spec

Races

  • The Tauren racial Cultivation only goes on cooldown once the cast finishes.On Forever Hub:Tauren

Dungeons & raids

  • Creatures in The Drowned City were dealing about 30% more damage than intended; that is fixed.On Forever Hub:The Drowned City
  • The Deathless Marrow encounter gets easier: 25% less health for its creatures, 25% less damage on the Deathless Sorcerer's Fireball, 50% less on the Deathless Watcher's Charge, and the Deathless Guardian uses Shield Slam about half as often.
  • Zarla Ober in Alcaz Prison now drops loot.On Forever Hub:Alcaz Prison
  • On The Shaper's Terrace, Vitrix, Snowtalon and Cinder now drop loot and higher-level skinning materials, and Cinder spawns reliably after you use the Archival Panel.On Forever Hub:Shaper's Terrace
  • In Blackfathom Deeps you can release after dying again, in Blackrock Depths the throne room doors open again after a wipe on the Emperor, and the Heart of the Mountain can be looted more than once.On Forever Hub:Blackfathom DeepsBlackrock Depths
  • You can no longer mount inside Stratholme.On Forever Hub:Stratholme

Professions

  • Waylaid Crates and Craftsman's Writs now drop inside dungeons as intended.On Forever Hub:Merchant's Favor

Quests

  • The quest items for The Monster Surfaces, Croaky's Head and Elmpaw's Head now go to the whole party.
  • Several quests no longer get stuck: The Deathstalkers, Jom-jom's Escape, the door after Ever After, Unwelcome Guests, A Recipe for Death, Fetch 'n' Fletch, the Rogue quest Mission: Possible not Probable and Jezap Jinglesprocket's Bloodmaster's Ring.
  • Henrig Lonebrow's Journal respawns faster and sits a little further down the road, Find Bingles is filed under Loch Modan, everyone can read Skonk's list for A Quick Grocery Run, and players below level 60 can loot the owl nests on Mount Hyjal for Feathers in Flight.On Forever Hub:Loch ModanMount Hyjal

PvP

  • Character creation on the PvP rulesets now looks at the overall faction balance and increasingly locks the bigger side, currently the Horde on the Americas PvP ruleset and the Alliance on EU Roleplay-PvP.On Forever Hub:RulesetsTroubleshooting
  • An invisible wall no longer blocks the roof of the Alliance base in Warsong Gulch.On Forever Hub:Warsong Gulch

Systems & UI

World & NPCs

  • Heavily congested zones now hold fewer players at the same time, and noticeably fewer still on the PvP ruleset.
  • Ivar the Foul in Silverpine Forest respawns at the intended pace again, Ferocitas the Dream Eater on Teldrassil faster and Malduko Cloudcrush on Zephras a little slower; Young Diemetradons in Un'Goro Crater are back to level 51 to 52 instead of 58.On Forever Hub:Silverpine ForestTeldrassilZephras IsleUn'Goro Crater
  • The flight path from Camp Taurajo to Thunder Bluff no longer clips through objects.On Forever Hub:The Barrens

Bug fixes

  • Incinerate is no longer available outside the Destruction spec.On Forever Hub:Warlock
  • Thunder Clap shows only its cooldown in the Cooldown Manager, no longer its duration on the target.On Forever Hub:Warrior
  • Berdun's Trusty Rifle no longer has random stats and is no longer Bind on Equip, the Nifty Stopwatch no longer shares a cooldown with Dash, Blink or Sprint, and the Gloves of Holy Might work as intended.On Forever Hub:Berdun's Trusty RifleNifty Stopwatch

What comes next is on the roadmap.