New hotfixes for patch 5.3 have just been updated to the official blog. Today's round is short, sweet, and includes one change that should make raiders in LFR breath a small sigh of relief.

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Creatures

• Kor'kron Commanders are now immune to charms.

Raids, Dungeons and Scenarios

• Throne of Thunder
  • Lei Shen
    • Bouncing Bolts that do not impact with a player will no longer cause Unharnessed Power to spawn on Raid Finder difficulty.

Pet Battles

• PvP Pet Battles are now required to last at least a minute before the match is eligible for experience to be awarded

Items

• Meta and blue gem sockets have been added to helmets awarded from Heroic Scenarios. Bonuses on the helmets have been reduced slightly to offset the addition of those sockets.

Brawler's Guild

• Razorgrin should no longer slowly regenerate health.

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Patch 5.3 hotfixes for June 14 originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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• In the Throne of Thunder, Lei Shen will now always drop a Titan Runestone or Secrets of the Empire for players on the legendary quest line.
• Hey hunters! Arcane Shot, Cobra Shot and Steady Shot will all deal 10% more damage after that realm restart.
• Durumu and his minions have got us all figured out. Elixirs of Detect Invisibility will no longer allow players to see fog beasts while they are invisible.

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Patch 5.3 hotfixes for June 10 originally appeared on WoW Insider on Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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• Sun-Lute of the Phoenix King and Retinal Armors should no longer be scaling incorrectly for the level 85-89 bracket for Battlegrounds.
• Path of the Last Emperor: Fixed an issue where rope anchors were incorrectly despawning for players that moved too far away from Seer Hao Pham Roo.
• Commandeer That Balloon!: Players should now be able to interact with the rope ladder.
• Alliance players are now able to initiate duels in the exterior areas around the Shrine of Seven Stars.

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Patch 5.3: Hotfixes for May 22 originally appeared on WoW Insider on Wed, 22 May 2013 22:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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• In the Chess Event over in Karazhan, the delay between moves for enemy chess pieces has been increased.
• Out in the Battlefield: Barrens, map markers for caravans that have been destroyed ought to be properly removed from the world map. In addition, overturned caravans should now despawn properly.
• In scenarios, the issue causing shape-shifted players to not shape-shift back into the correct race has been fixed.

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Patch 5.2 hotfixes for April 22 originally appeared on WoW Insider on Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Some like it hot(fixes), and we're no different here at WoW Insider, so when the latest batch dropped we just had to share. We actually posted about one of these changes, regarding the Shado-Pan assault trinkets and their PvP use, earlier today. Let's jump straight in to this latest batch.

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Classes
Warlock
Destruction

• Fixed an issue where targets of Havoc were receiving more damage than intended from Immolate.

Quests

• Eyes of the Thunder King: Engaging Unblinking Eyes and Focused Eyes will now place all members of the raid in combat, preventing players from releasing when they die.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
Throne of Thunder
Ra-den

• Fixed an issue where it was possible to have 2 instances of Unstable Vita active during the Ra-den encounter.

Twin Consorts

• Crane Rush now deals 5 million damage, down from 30 million damage in Raid Finder difficulty.

Items

• Brutal Talisman of the Shado-Pan Assault now grants a reduced bonus of 4400 to Strength, down from 8800 Strength, and the effect duration now lasts 30 seconds, up from 15 seconds when the effect is activated in PvP combat.
• Tyrannical Primal Diamond when socketed to a bind-on-equip helmet now causes the helmet to become soulbound.
• Vicious Talisman of the Shado-Pan Assault now grants a reduced bonus of 4400 to Agility, down from 8800 Agility, and the effect duration now lasts 40 seconds, up from 20 seconds when the effect is activated in PvP combat.

Bug Fixes

• Resolved an issue where Capacitive Primal Diamond's effect was not activating properly.

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• Just in case yesterday's Durumu changes weren't enough, Durumu's Disintegration Beam now dissipates sooner before reaching the end of the Maze of Death[TM].
• Whirl Turtles on 10-man normal mode Tortos now have a reduced base movement speed.
• Both the Brutal Talisman of the Shado-Pan Assault and the Vicious Talisman of the Shado-Pan Assault have had their effects adjusted in the case of PvP vs. PvE.

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Patch 5.2 hotfixes for April 10 originally appeared on WoW Insider on Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Just wanted to follow up with some additional information, as we've seen a few questions since the changes.

In a hotfix yesterday, we changed two elements of the Durumu Eye Sore mechanic, or the "maze" as it's more commonly known. First off, we applied a small client patch to increase the visual fidelity of the fill graphic itself, giving the effect less vertical height and hopefully making it easier to see the safe spots as they appear. Feedback on this change has generally been positive. Separately, at the same time we made some adjustments to the logic of how the maze is drawn with respect to the movement of the Disintegration Beam. One of the less intuitive aspects of the original maze mechanic was how it would begin drawing behind you, and how the right thing to do was actually to turn around and back up, towards the approaching death beam, in order to safely enter the forming maze. Why would any sane person want to move closer to a death beam?!

We generally are extremely cautious about making gameplay adjustments to encounters once players have already learned them, but in this case the opening of the Halls of Flesh-Shaping LFR wing highlighted the fact that the mechanic was a particular source of confusion to many players, and the longer we waited to make any adjustment, the more disorienting it would be if we did change anything. So what we did was make the maze immediately begin drawing in front of the player as the beam activates, so that you never need to turn around and run towards the beam. This also effectively gives players a slight head-start on the beam as it begins to move. To maintain the same sense of urgency, the beam does move slightly more quickly now, so that it will, over the course of the phase, catch up to players and negate that head start. But the player movement required once you're actually running the maze should be unchanged. We have noted, however, that at the very end of the maze sequence, it can now feel like the fast-approaching death ray is going to reach you, making it feel like you're stuck between a rock and a hard place. To address that concern, we are making another adjustment today, which will cause the death ray to dissipate a few seconds earlier at the end of the maze.

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Hot on the heels of yesterday's batch of hotfixes is another short and sweet edition of tweaks. Just released on the official blog, today's list primarily concerns the Throne of Thunder raid, with some incredibly welcome changes to Durumu and his baffling maze, as well as a peculiarly specific bug fix for tauren and gnome players.

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Classes

• Hunter
  • Talents
    • Powershot now has a 25% decrease to damage, cast time, cooldown, and focus cost.

Raids, Dungeons and Scenarios

• Throne of Thunder
  • Durumu the Forgotten
    • Safe spots in the maze of Eye Sores now appear earlier, before the Disintegration Beam starts moving.
    • Adjustments were made to visual effects for Eye Sores to make it easier to see the maze.
  • Primordius
    • Mutated Abomination effect once again reduces his damage taken from non-Fully Mutated players by 75% on 10-player and 25-player Heroic difficulty only.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash that occured when Gnomes or Taurens log into the game while riding a mount over water.

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Patch 5.2 hotfixes for April 9 originally appeared on WoW Insider on Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A new round of hotfixes has been released on the official site. It's a pretty short list this time around, mainly tweaking a few issues with some of the encounters in Throne of Thunder, including Ra-den, and addressing a pesky bug that has been plaguing some players working on Isle of Thunder achievements.

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Creatures

• Zandalari Beast Handler is now properly seated in a saddle while riding a Direhorrn.

Raids, Dungeons and Scenarios

• Throne of Thunder
  • Giorgio's Caduceus of Pure Moods is no longer being awarded to Elemental and Restoration Shamans on Raid Finder difficulty or via bonus rolls.
  • Primordius
    • During the Primordius encounter, spells which dispel a single harmful effect (Sear Magic, Single Magic, or Mass Dispel) will no longer work if any of the positive effects are active on the target (Improved Synapses, Keen Eyesight, Thick Bones, Clear Mind, or Fully Mutated).
  • Ra-den
    • Fixed an issue that could prevent Ra-den from absorbing Essences of Anima/Vita as intended.
    • Engaging Ra-den now resets the cooldown on Reincarnation for Shamans.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where some situations could cause players to not receive credit towards Pay to Slay or It Was Worth Every Ritual Stone achievement after defeating Incomplete Drakkari Colossus.

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The hotfixes keep on coming! The latest batch are fairly minimal, but they don't make diamonds as big as bricks. They're addressing one particular bug which WoW Insider has seen mentioned several times on Twitter lately, specifically one which would strand players on a phased warship while trying to complete the quest Extended Shore Leave. Unable, it seems, to hotfix the unphasing of the warship, Blizzard's team pulled the quest for now.

And Durumu has had a bit of a change. Interestingly, it's not to the purple-on-purple issue with his maze of purple death phase, but instead it's an increase in speed for the yellow eye cone. But, most excitingly, there's a fix in place for warlocks who have completed Seek the Signal and are stuck in the wrong Black Temple phase. Rejoice, in a warlocky way!

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• Quests
  • Extended Shore Leave: This quest has been temporarily removed from quest rotation to address an issue with the Zandalari Warship.
• Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
  • Fixed an issue where Warlocks remained in the wrong phase at The Black Temple after completing the quest Seek the Signal.
• Throne of Thunder
  • Durumu the Forgotten
    • During the Light Spectrum phase, Yellow Eye's cone now moves more quickly on Raid Finder difficulty.
• Items
  • Darkmoon Card: Blue Dragon now has a reduced chance to activate its effect for characters that are level 61-69 and its effect no longer activates for characters above level 69.

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Patch 5.2 Hotfixes for April 2 originally appeared on WoW Insider on Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Blizzard decided to ring in the weekend with a short and sweet list of hotfixes for patch 5.2. Today's list is pretty short, with just a few class tweaks and a couple of additional adjustments to raid bosses and items. Combat rogues may want to take a look at the adjustment made to Blade Flurry, however.

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Classes

• Mage
  • Tier-15 Fire/Frost 4-piece set bonus should now properly increase Frostbolt's chance to activate Fingers of Frost effect.

• Priest
  • Tier-15 Discipline/Holy 4-piece set bonus should summon a Golden Apparition that now heals for the correct amount and can activate Divine Aegis.

• Rogue
  • Combat
    • Blade Flurry now has a range of 8 yards, up from 5 yards, and will only hit targets that are within the Rogue's line-of-sight.

Raids, Dungeons and Scenarios

• Ji-Kun's Feed Young ability should now be slightly easier to intercept.
• To the Skies!: Fixed an issue where the Hail of Arrows debuff not being removed after defeating Beastmaster Horaki.

Items

• Enchant Weapon - Glorious Tyranny can no longer be used on other player's weapons and will cause bind-on-equipped items to become soulbound.
• Lightning-Imbued Chalice now has a greatly increased chance to generate Infinite Power.

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Patch 5.2 hotfixes for March 29 originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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• The shaman spells and abilities Chain Heal, Healing Rain, and Earthliving Weapon now all heal for 20% more.
• T15 Brewmaster monk 2-piece should now correctly increase Stagger by 12%.
• Oondasta's health has been reduced by 50%. This does not, however, make him any less terrifying or deadly.

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Patch 5.2 hotfixes for March 27 originally appeared on WoW Insider on Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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• Statue pieces for the Crumbled Chamberlain now do not despawn when looted, which means the hours of trying to beat other players to those pesky gear icons are officially over. Rejoice!
• Because everyone loves a laser-slingin' dinosaur, Oondasta now respawns much more frequently.
• Melee, you can cease fearing the snail. Gastropods in the Throne of Thunder should now favor attackers at range.

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Patch 5.2 hotfixes for March 21 originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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• Season 13 Tyrannical weapons had their item levels increased to ilevel 498, up from ilevel 493, to match Season 12 Elite weapons.
• Season 13 Malevolent Honor gear now gives more Stamina, making them comparable to Season 12 counterparts.
• Eye of the Storm: Horde teams are now being awarded the proper amount of victory points when holding 3 towers.
• Dark Animus
  • Dark Animus will now use its abilities at more consistent intervals.
  • Interrupting Jolt now deals less damage on 10/25-player Heroic mode.
  • Explosive Slam now deals significantly less damage on 10-player Heroic mode.
  • Fixed an issue where Matter Swap could sometimes teleport players beneath the world.

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Patch 5.2 hotfixes for March 19 originally appeared on WoW Insider on Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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• Players participating in Lunk's Adventure: Rendari's Weakness should be delighted to note that Iron Summit Guards are now properly gonna shake their body and do the conga.
• Mages, we're very sorry to report that both Living Bomb and Nether Tempest are now dealing 70% of their damage when used against other players instead of 100%.
• Drinking a potion while under the effects of Stealth or Invisibility no longer causes potions to go on permanent cooldown.

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Patch 5.2 hotfixes for March 15 originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 15 Mar 2013 21:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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