November 13 Hotfixes

🏰 Dungeons

• If a mob's level is too low for at least one party member, no one will receive experience for it
• The Drowned City: regular mobs respawn after 2 hours (was 1 hour)

🔹 Classes

• Creature stuns against players are once again subject to diminishing returns
• Player stuns against creatures are once again subject to diminishing returns

🌿 Druid

• Restoration: Wild Growth's healing coefficient increased to 6.6% (was 3.3%)
• Restoration: Wild Growth can no longer be cast while moving

🛡 Paladin

• Judgement of Command now triggers on-hit effects and counts as a melee attack
• Other Judgements are still considered ranged attacks

This reflects the uniqueness of Judgement of Command: it was previously the only one considered a melee attack. Other seals were considered spells, but in WoW: Forever they are considered ranged attacks.

⚡ Shaman

• Windfury Totem now triggers from all melee abilities, even if they do not use the main-hand weapon
• Off-hand weapon strikes from abilities such as Whirlwind and Mutilate do not trigger Windfury
• Main-hand strikes from these abilities can still trigger Windfury

🔮 Mage

• Frost Nova is now broken by damage from procs and Blizzard

🎒 Items

• Gloves of Holy Might now trigger only from hostile spells and abilities that deal damage
• Glimmering Mithril Insignia no longer requires the ability to wear mail
• Taran Icebreaker now works as a two-handed mace (previously worked as a one-handed mace)
• Darkspear rings' mana per 5 seconds has been corrected and now matches their Alliance counterparts
• Everstaring Abomination Eye's Spirit stat has been corrected
• The Bad Hat's spell power amount has been corrected
• The Souvenir Sea Shell's stats have been corrected
• Hit has been removed from Blessed Band of Light
• Channeler’s Ring now grants spell power instead of Spirit
• Blessed Band of Light can be exchanged for Channeler’s Ring at Pix Xizzix; the exchange is irreversible

Until raids open, the exchange will be the first item on Pix Xizzix's vendor list if you have Blessed Band of Light.

🔹 Fishing

• The number of winners for each ruleset in the weekly Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza has been significantly increased

We continue to work on the tournament's performance issues and will release additional fixes in the coming weeks.

👹 Creatures

• Badlands: Lesser Rock Elemental should spawn more frequently
• Mulgore: Quillboar and Venture Co. spawn rates and aggression have been reduced in the starting area
• Blasted Lands: Nethergarde Keep guards no longer drop loot and behave like other guards
• Stranglethorn Vale: tigers, panthers, and raptors should spawn more frequently
• Zephras Isle: Nyalah Brightfire in Valanaar now sells more cooking supplies

🧩 Interface

• Action Bar settings no longer reset when players with Secondary Talents log out