World of Warcraft hotfixes for July 8

July 8

Creatures and NPCs

Tanaan Jungle

• Captain Ironbeard now has a guaranteed chance to drop Equipment Blueprint: Ghostly Spyglass.
• Varyx the Damned now returns to his spawn location instead of despawning if he drops out of combat. Additionally, only 1 beam needs to be blocked to restart the encounter.

Quests

Garrison Quests

• [Requires a realm restart] Fixed an issue where completing daily assault objectives in Tanaan Jungle was incorrectly also granting completion credit for daily assault objectives in the Garrison.

Spires of Arak

• Call of the Raven Mother: Fixed an issue where interacting with items during the ritual was causing player pets to use their abilities.

Raids and Dungeons

Hellfire Citadel

Tyrant Velhari

• Fixed a timing issue that could cause Tyrant Velhari to use the incorrect finishing move just as a transition into the next stage happened.

Xhul’horac

• Adjusted scaling to reduce the amount of health by roughly 10% on Xhul’horac, Omnus, Unstable Voidfiend, and Vanguard Akkelion for a 10-player raid on Normal and Heroic difficulty. Health should remain the same as before for raids with 30 players.

Mannoroth

• Mannoroth no longer transforms back into a skeleton after being defeated.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Gazing Shadows to sometimes not reduce movement speed.

PvP

Ashran

• Fixed a number of issues affecting Ashran events that could cause characters to drop out of stealth effects.

Items

• Increased stat bonuses for critical strike, Versatility, Stamina, and Spirit on all Wild Gladiator (Warlords Season 2) trinkets by 50%.

UI

• Clicking “Join Raid” in the Adventure Guide should now open the Premade Groups menu instead of Raid Finder.

Class

Monk

Armor Sets

• Yesterday’s hotfix on July 7 for Tier-18 4-piece set bonus for Mistweaver Monks should now be healing for the correct amount.

Paladin

Talents

• Yesterday’s hotfix on July 7 that reduced the healing of Execution Sentence by 25% in PvP combat now only applies to Holy Paladins. It has been returned to its previous effectiveness for Retribution and Protection Paladins.