World of Warcraft : Patch 4.0.6 Hotfixes and 4.0.6a Changes

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The folks over at Blizzard have released a list of hotfixes to address the issues that came with the recently released Cataclysm patch, 4.0.6.

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to the recently released World of Warcraft: Cataclysm patch 4.0.6. Hotfixes are updates we make on our end without requiring you to download a new patch. Some of the hotfixes below will go live the moment they are implemented, while others may require your realm to be restarted to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. We will continue to update this thread in the days ahead as additional hotfixes are applied. Visit our Bug Report forum for a list of 4.0.6 known issues.

The latest updates can be found in red.

February 11 (Patch 4.0.6a)

General
- Players are no longer encountering errors when having their items bid on in the Auction House. The Auctions tab also updates appropriately reflecting the bid.
- The South Island Iced Tea recipe no longer awards credit toward the Set the Oven to "Cataclysmic" or Time To Open A Restaurant guild achievements.
- Players can now Ignore other characters from different realms or battlegroups when queuing for Battlegrounds or dungeons using the command: /ignore playername-servername(region). Note that the user interface Ignore function and "/ignore playername" command still do not work correctly for players on different battlegroups and will require a future patch to correct.
- Releasing one's spirit after dying while on a transport or in a vehicle should no longer cause the player to disconnect.
Classes
- Area-of-effect abilities such as Consecration, Efflorescence, Healing Rain, Holy Word: Sanctuary, Ring of Frost, and Smoke Bomb now function correctly when cast on any trapdoors (ala Cho'gall) or transports even while the caster is not standing on one of those same objects.
- Death Knights
  - Death's Advance may now not allow movement-impairing effects to reduce the death knight below 60/75% of normal movement speed, down from 75/100%.
  - Death and Decay no longer damages the death knight's currently selected friendly target when it does damage to nearby target dummies.
- Druids
  - Mangle (Bear) and Maul (Bear) damage has been increased by approximately 10%.
  - Moonfury (Balance druid passive) now increases Arcane and Nature damage by 10%, down from 15%. More information can be found here.
  - Starfall no longer exceeds 20 stars within its duration.
  - Frost Nova, Tranquility, War Stomp, and Starfire are all properly scaled when used by or on a druid in Tree of Life Form. The previous temporary hotfix which removed the ability to use War Stomp while in Tree of Life Form has been reverted.
- Hunters
  - Auto Shot was not firing while the hunter was moving under certain conditions. Auto Shot should now always function correctly while the hunter is moving.
  - Having a melee weapon equipped no longer causes the tooltips for Cobra Shot and Steady Shot to incorrectly display extra benefit from haste.
  - The cooldown for Master's Call has been increased to 45 seconds, up from 35. In addition, it can now be dispelled.
  - The Warp Stalker ability Time Warp can no longer be used on paladins with the Divine Shield buff active.
- Mages
  - The Quad Core buff provided by the Sanctified Bloodmage 4-piece set bonus is now properly removed as soon as a spell is cast if the mage does not have 4 pieces of the set equipped.
- Paladins
  - Beacon of Light no longer triggers from Light of Dawn.
  - Glyph of Dazing Shield correctly causes Avenger's Shield to daze the target, and only allows Avenger's Shield to trigger the dazed effect.
  - The area-of-effect attack of Hammer of the Righteous no longer has a chance to miss secondary targets when the primary attack hits the paladin's target. If the primary attack of Hammer of the Righteous fails to hit the target due to miss/dodge/parry/block, no enemies will be affected by the area-of-effect attack. Rogues who are under Cloak of Shadows, however, are able to resist this damage.
  - The Warp Stalker (hunter pet) ability Time Warp can no longer be used on paladins with the Divine Shield buff active.
- Priests
  - Inner Focus can no longer be cast before the effect of its preceding spell completes (Inner Focus will only be applied to spells that are cast after it).
  - Shadow Power (Shadow priest passive) now increases Shadow damage by 15%, down from 25%. More information can be found here.
  - Sin and Punishment now works properly when two players of the same faction are fighting each other (including in Arenas). A string error may appear when the opponent is feared even though the talent functions correctly.
- Rogues
  - Combat Readiness now triggers from all ranged attacks.
  - Gouge is now breaking properly from spell and ability damage.
- Warlocks
  - All raid bosses are now properly immune to Suffering (Voidwalker taunt ability).
- Warriors
  - Raging Blow has been reduced from 120% to 100% weapon damage at max level. More information can be found here.
Dungeons & Raids
- The Bastion of Twilight
  - The Elementium Monstrosity's health now more accurately reflects the state of the individual Ascendants.
- Blackwing Descent
  - Drakeadon Mongrels can now be taunted.
  - The debuff from Pyreclaw's Flame Buffet now only lasts 8 seconds.
  - The Golem Sentry's Flash Bomb damage has been reduced in the 25-player version.
  - The health of Drakeadon Mongrels and Drakonid Slayers has been reduced in 10- and 25-player versions.
  - Nefarian's Blazing Inferno damage and knockdown radius has been reduced to match the spell effect graphic.
Items
- Some Vicious Gladiator's weapons (item level 359) incorrectly had their costs increased. This has been corrected. Two-hand and ranged weapons now cost 3400 Conquest Points, while one-hand and caster weapons now cost 2450 Conquest Points.
- All Vicious Gladiator's weapons (item level 372) have been temporarily removed from the Glorious Conquest Quartermasters until the time is right to officially introduce them into Azerothian society.
PvP
- Many items incorrectly rendered unusable in rated Battlegrounds and Arenas have been made usable again.
Battlegrounds
- Players should no longer sometimes gets stuck in the world and unable to login upon completing a rated Battleground.
- Under certain conditions after queuing for Battlegrounds, players were still able to enter the Dungeon Finder queue. While this made it appear as though players were not actually queued properly for Battlegrounds, that wasn't the case. This issue has been fixed so that players cannot queue for both Battlegrounds and via the Dungeon Finder under these select circumstances.
- Battle for Gilneas
  - The banners at each capture point now take 8 seconds to capture, up from 5. Note that when the banners are neutral and have not yet been captured by either faction at the start of a battle, they will display the wrong location names (Mine says Farm, Waterworks says Blacksmith, and Lighthouse says Stables).
Races
- Gift of the Naaru now has a maximum limit to the amount healed when used on friendly NPCs with large amounts of health.

February 9

Classes
- Haste is again properly increasing resource regeneration rates for applicable melee classes. This fix will require a realm restart to take effect. More information regarding the series of changes pertaining to this issue can be found on our General Discussion forum.
- Death Knights
  - The root that the Frost talent Chilblains gives to Chains of Ice is now properly affected by diminishing returns and shares diminishing returns with other root effects.
  - Dark Transformation now increases pet damage by 60%, down from 80%.
  - Death Coil damage has been reduced by 15%.
  - The pet damage bonus from Shadow Infusion is now 6% per stack, down from 8%.
- Priests
  - Holy Word: Serenity is correctly granting Binding Heal an extra 25% chance to critically hit.
  - Inner Focus now appropriately increases the critical heal chance of Flash Heal, Binding Heal, Greater Heal, and Prayer of Healing.
Dungeons & Raids
- Bouquet of Ebon Roses and Bouquet of Red Roses (Love Is in the Air) now properly drop from Cataclysm dungeons.
- The Bastion of Twilight
  - Players are no longer instantly killed when auras are removed after defeating Cho'gall.
  - Players affected by Conversion during the Cho'gall encounter will gain the correct amount of Corrupted Blood, and the Corrupted Blood mechanics correctly trigger at the appropriate times.
  - Burning Twilight is now bound to the raid dungeon and cannot be taken outside of the instance to affect other players.
- Blackwing Descent
  - Chimaeron no longer casts Caustic Slime on targets who are affected by Break. Chimaeron now casts Caustic Slime on a tank target if there are not enough players present without Break.
- Deadmines
  - Players should no longer get disconnected when dying in the Vanessa Vancleef encounter on Heroic difficulty.
- Shadowfang Keep
  - Deathstalker Adamant and Sorcerer Ashcrombe now have a gossip option for their respective factions to open the courtyard door while the Love is in the Air event is active.
Items
- Talismans of the Horde and Alliance are properly only available for purchase from their respective factions.
Professions
- Orgrimmar and Stormwind Cooking and Fishing daily quests are again granting the proper skill-ups when turned in.

February 8

General
- Escape Artist again correctly removes movement impairing effects.
- Players who have used the Paid Race Change service to transfer to a goblin or worgen character post-patch 4.0.6 can properly use the Dungeon Finder again.
- Love Is in the Air has been extended by 48 hours. The in-game Calendar should now reflect it runs through February 20.
Classes
- Druids
  - Disentanglement (new passive specialization) is now properly functioning for Restoration druids, allowing them to get out of root effects by using Shapeshift. Logging out or changing zones no longer causes the spell to be unlearned.
  - Attempting to use Warstomp while in Tree of Life Form returns a "You can't do that yet" error and does not cast the spell.
- Mages
  - Rank 2 of Fingers of Frost now has the correct proc chance.
- Shaman
  - Elemental Overload (Mastery) procs of Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning correctly generate Rolling Thunder charges.
  - Stormstrike is now correctly proccing Maelstrom Weapon.
- Warlocks
  - Refreshing Immolate with Hand of Gul'dan is now correctly augmented by the Inferno talent, refreshing Immolate to a 21-second duration instead of 15.
Dungeons & Raids
- Blackwing Descent
  - Maloriak's Aberrations should correctly spawn even if Vile Swills are still alive from the previous phase.
- Shadowfang Keep
  - Lord Walden again correctly uses Ice Shards and Toxic Catalyst.
- Throne of the Four Winds
  - Conclave of Wind bosses now correctly regenerate health out of combat.
Items
- The Fire-Etched Dagger swing speed was too slow and has been updated. The tooltip will not reflect the updated time of 1.7 seconds until a client-side patch can be applied.
- Heroic and normal versions of Magma Plated Handguards did not have enough Strength and have been updated.
- Heroic and normal version of Sapphirium Handguards did not have enough Strength and have been updated.