World of Warcraft hotfixes for March 3

March 3

Darkmoon Faire

• All of Darkmoon Island is now a Sanctuary zone. Note that some areas may still be incorrectly displaying as Contested areas on PvP realms. This display issue will be fixed in a future patch.
• Players are now unable to start other Darkmoon Faire games if they’re already on a racing quest.

Cosmetic Transformations and Toy Effects

• Druid Incarnation, Shaman Ascendance and Ghost Wolf transformations should now correctly have priority over cosmetic transformation effects.
• Glyph of the Treant’s Treant Form now has the same transformation priority as other Druid combat forms.
• Fixed an issue with the following cosmetic transformations that had an incorrect priority:
  • Celestial Defender’s Medallion
  • Gamon’s Braid
  • Manastorm’s Duplicator
  • Mr. Smite’s Brass Compass

Classes

• General
  • Fixed an issue that could cause periodic effects that are not affected by Haste and had its duration extended to expire early.
• Mage
  • Arcane
    • Arcane Power’s cooldown now resets at the end of a raid encounter.
• Paladin
  • Talents
    • Fixed a bug with Execution Sentence and Stay of Execution that could cause them to deal their damage or healing ticks in the wrong order.
• Priest
  • Shadow
    • Vampiric Embrace should no longer incorrectly factor in damage caused by Searing Insanity.

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

• Garrison Buildings
  • Barn: Players trapping a creature should now drop out of combat as soon as the trap is triggered.
  • Mine, Level 2 (Horde): Fixed a mining node that can spawn in the air.
  • Stables: Players riding a Mount-In-Training are now dismounted when attacked by another player.

Quests

• Legacy
  • [Hellfire Peninsula] Mission: The Abyssal Shelf (Horde version): Wing Commander Brack should now correctly send players off on a bombing run.
  • [Mists of Pandaria] What’s in the Box?: Defeating the Concentrated Sha too quickly should no longer cause them to stop spawning.

Raids and Dungeons

• Blackrock Foundry
  • Blackhand
    • Fixed an issue that could cause players to take more fall damage than intended during the transition to stage two.

PvP

• To make diminishing returns for crowd control effects more consistent and predictable, diminishing returns now have a reset window of 18 seconds. For a detailed explanation of this change, please visit the forum thread titled: Recent CC Diminishing Returns Changes.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

• Flask of Conquest’s effects should now correctly persist through death and be usable while in Arenas and Rated Battlegrounds.
• Fixed an issue that caused players to stand up while eating or drinking during the preparation phase before the start of an Arena or Rated Battleground match.

Collections

• Toy Box
  • Fixed an issue where using S.E.L.F.I.E. Camera while under the effects of Photo B.O.M.B. would incorrectly provide access to S.E.L.F.I.E. Camera MkII filters.

Items

• Loot-A-Rang and Findle’s Loot-A-Rang can now be used without dropping out of non-flight based shapeshift forms.
• Snake Firework now has a 15-second cooldown.
• Stone of Fire is now bind on equip and no longer requires Alchemy to equip.
• Fixed an internal bag error that could occur while attempting to loot rare lunker fish.