WoW: Season of Discovery patch brings major quest bug fixes & Blackrock Eruption changes

World of Warcraft: Season of Discovery is finally into its final phase and there’s a ton of new content for players to explore. Some issues have also appeared and Blizzard is rolling out a ton of fixes to address them.

The launch of Season of Discovery Phase 4 was always going to be the most complex for the relatively small Classic WoW development team. Molten Core has been entirely reworked, and there are a ton of new offerings from the regular Level 60 experience.

Since releasing on July 11, the community has been reporting bugs across the board, with some even preventing progression through dungeons and questlines. Now, Blizzard has released several fixes that should go a long way toward alleviating concerns.

Here’s a full breakdown of everything fixed in the most recent patch.

Season of Discovery full patch notes for July 15

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The complete patch notes for July 15 are as follows:

• Activities involving Reginald Windsor event in Stormwind Keep should now complete more reliably when Highlord Bolvar Fordragon, Lady Katrana Prestor, and Reginald Windsor are all alive.
• Hellscream’s Phantom should now respawn after an unsuccessful attempt.
• Fixed some ring engravings so that all the benefitting classes can learn them:
  • Arcane Specialization: Now learnable by Druid and Hunter (was only Mage).
  • Defense: Now learnable by Rogue, Warlock, Warrior, Paladin, and Shaman (was only Druid).
  • Frost: Now learnable by Hunter (was only Mage).
• The correct version of Necromantic Band now drops from the Death Knight Darkreaver in Scholomance.
• The Ashenvale quests “Clear the Forest!” and “Repelling Invaders” have been scaled to level 60.
• Fixed the health and damage of creatures inside Alterac Valley Battleground so that they align with outdoor world and dungeon creatures.
• Fixed a bug in UBRS preventing Jed Runewatcher from spawning.
• Increased the experience awarded by enemies in Demon Fall Canyon to brave adventurers who enter before reaching level 60.
• The teleporter in Gnomeregan will no longer send you to Azshara. Oops.
• Blackrock Eruption
  • The spawn rates of creatures for Blackrock Eruptions have been increased.
  • The Flamestone Cluster quest item required for the quest “Oh, Shiny!” has been added to other dark iron creatures in Searing Gorge as well. This is not reflected in the quest text.
  • The number of quest creatures required for some Blackrock Eruption quests has been reduced.
• Druid
  • Improved Barkskin no longer erroneously requires Tree Form.
  • Improved Swipe combined with Blood Frenzy will no longer cause Druids to lose their combo points on their current target when Swipe (Cat) crits against a target other than their primary target.
• Hunter
  • Hunters can now engrave both the Rune of Nature Specialization and the Rune of Fire Specialization.
  • Wyvern Strike will no longer return an ‘immune’ message against targets that are immune to its Bleed effect. It will now deal its direct damage, but not apply the Bleed.
• Paladin
  • Fixed an issue with Hallowed Ground that caused multiple Paladins using it to generate too many healing events.
  • Hallowed Ground will now calculate its healing correctly when wearing items with bonus healing effects.
  • Calculations for Sheath of Light now properly include the Attack Power multiplier from Vindication.
• Priest
  • Void Zone will no longer pull enemies through the floor.
• Shaman
  • Greater Ghost Wolf rune now works with Rolling Thunder rune discovery.
  • Lava Lash will now correctly gain bonus damage from the extended duration of Flametongue Weapon Rank 6.
• Warrior
  • Sebastian Jurgens will now despawn for only 30 seconds after a player turns in “Bookin’ it Back”.
  • The quest item carried for “Bookin’ it Back” will now be pushed to players after they re-accept the quest “Guided Buoyancy Accelerant” will now be offered to players on Lost and Found who have completed “Poacher’s Den”.
  • “Infinite Midnight” should now always be completable at Khonsu.
• Warlock
  • The number of charges on Shadowflame’s application of Shadow Vulnerability has been increased to 30 total charges (was 10).
  • Explorer Imps should now have an easier time traveling to the Legion prison-world Niskara.

Players of most classes will find leveling to 60 and gearing up to be a less frustrating process with the above, while the changes to Blackrock Eruption should make the PvP event much more enjoyable. All of the above changes are now live and the corrected bugs should no longer appear in Season of Discovery.