Season of Discovery hotfixes for Phase 8: April 15, 2025
Stay up to date with all the latest SoD hotfixes for Phase 8!
Blizzard regularly releases hotfixes to improve gameplay and address issues in Season of Discovery. These updates include class adjustments, bug fixes, item tweaks, and quality-of-life improvements that keep the game running smoothly.
This article is continuously updated with the latest SoD hotfix notes, so you can stay informed about every change as it happens. Check back often to stay in the loop with Season of Discovery and all its ongoing adjustments!
SoD hotfix: April 15, 2025
- Exquisite Spices from the Scarlet Junkbox are no longer Bind-on-Pickup. This does not retroactively apply to previously obtained Exquisite Spices.
- Condemnation will now activate its effect when abilities such as Insect Swarm and Shadow Word: Pain are cast.
- Classes
- Priest
- Spirit of Redemption will no longer prevent the use of Darkmoon Card: Twisting Nether.
- Shaman
- For players to adjust to the set bonus change, the Naxxramas Tier vendor for Shamans will now offer an exchange from the Enhancement Tier to the Tank Tier. This is a one-way exchange and will no longer be available after April 28.
- Scarlet Enclave
- Alexei the Beastlord
- Enervate and Enkindle can no longer target pets.
- Enkindle and Enervate now ignore line-of-sight.
- Balnazzar
- Sleep now grants players damage immunity.
- The carrier of Carrion Swarm now has a visible debuff.
- Lillian Voss
- Ambition no longer increases her casting speed.
- Immolation Aura no longer targets pets.
- Intoxicating Venom should no longer dispel anything other than itself.
- Putress’ Poison Bolts during berserk now ignore line-of-sight.
— Blizzard
SoD hotfix: April 14, 2025
- The Sunlight sword no longer scales with spell power. It now inflicts physical damage (was holy damage).
- Khonsu’s auto attack damage can no longer be mitigated by armor and deals less base damage.
- Dedicated Sunglasses can now be toggled on and off with the /flex emote.
- Players who have lost their Dedication effect but carry a Linkue Combatant Icon will have their aura restored the next time they use the item.
- A random Darkmoon Faire card will now appear in Damaged Undermine Supply Crates and Wartorn Undermine Supply Crates.
- [With realm restarts] The Scarlet Junkbox from the weekly quest in New Avalon will now always contain only one Jostled Chalice Fragment (was a chance at multiples). The amount of Fragments needed to complete a Crusader’s Chalice has been reduced to 3 (was 6).
- Developers’ notes: This should allow players a more consistent way to get Tier Tokens and pieces outside of the raid every 3 weeks.
- Classes
- Druid
- The Restoration Druid T3 2-piece bonus will now correctly allow multiple Druids with the set bonus to cause the effect on the same target.
- Paladin
- Hammer of the Righteous now deals 4x weapon dps (was 3x).
- Hammer of the Righteous now strikes 3 additional targets (was 2).
- Avenger’s Shield now benefits from the Precision talent for its hit chance.
- Avenger’s Shield now gains 3% chance to hit when Defense Specialization is engraved.
- Developers’ notes: This is to counter the fact there is no other way to add additional hit to it through Weapon Skill.
- Shaman
- [With realm restarts] The T3 Enhancement Shaman 2-piece bonus now requires the player to have the Static Shock rune engraved. The tooltip will be updated at a later date.
- Blackrock Depths
- Ever After can now be completed in group sizes larger than two players.
- Scarlet Enclave
- Caldoran can no longer have his power drained or burned.
- Herod can no longer have his power drained or burned.
- Fixed an issue that allowed Solistrasza‘s “Cremation” spell to be interrupted.
- Fixed an issue that would cause Lightgorged Whelps to erroneously trigger Solistrasza‘s encounter record.
- Balnazzar’s Screeching Fear cast time increased to 2.5 seconds.
- Balnazzar will now berserk at 10 minutes.
- Sleep is no longer able to be canceled or removed early.
- The patrol after the Reborn Council should no longer pull through the wall.
- Beatrix and add health reduced by 25%.
- Beatrix will only spawn two sets of adds and perform two class calls before becoming active (down from 3 and 3)
- Beatrix enrage timer increased to 10 minutes.
- Ranged adds will run in a little further towards players after spawning before casting ranged spells
- Stock Break will now properly grant damage immunity during its duration
- Rose’s Thorn timer has been adjusted to better alternate and not overlap with Stock Break
- Rose’s Thorn Charge speed is slightly slower
- Beatrix should not melee during or immediately after Rose’s Thorn
- Rose’s Thorn, Confession, and Scarlet Arrows damage reduced.
— Blizzard
SoD hotfix: April 11, 2025
- Fizzlefuse will now sell ammunition to players right away.
- Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the quest “ Loss” in Eastern Plaguelands to stall.
- World Buff consumables now cost 5 Commendations each (was 25).
- Fixed an issue causing the locked doors in New Avalon to not be able to be opened when players are wearing the Scarlet Disguise and have the Scarlet Key in their inventory.
- Consumable Tinkerboxes can now be activated while Shapeshifted.
- Classes
- Priest
- Vampiric Embrace will now heal the priest for twice as much as they heal others.
- Vampiric Embrace in Season of Discovery can no longer roll a critical result.
- Rogue
- The Tank Rogue Tier-2.5 2-piece bonus will no longer sometimes prevent Blade Flurry from activating. Strikes of the Sinister now has a lower priority than Blade Flurry.
- Karazhan Crypts
- The Burning Webs from the Creeping Malison encounter in Karazhan Crypts will no longer hit players in Kharon‘s room after the encounter is completed.
- Naxxramas
- The Unholy Weapon enemies in Naxxramas will no longer gain twice the % damage increase from Authority of the Frozen Wastes.
- Scarlet Enclave
- Health values for non-boss enemies have been significantly reduced across the entire raid.
- The locations of the Mage Tower and Guard Tower lieutenants before the Beatrix encounter now spawn at the base of their towers.
- Removed some of the Artillery enemies around the Blacksmith.
- Beatrix
- The utility, healing, and disruption spells used by Beatrix‘s troops have either been cut or reduced in effectiveness. Affected spells include Concussion Shot, Disarm, Shield Slam stun, and Polymorph.
- Beatrix’s health reduced by 5%.
- Adjusted the timing and overlap of her Class Call spells. For example, there are now 4 waves of Scarlet Infantry during Scarlet Phalanx (was 6), 4 waves of Scarlet Cavalry during Thundering Hooves (was 5), and slightly less overlap between Mortar Combat from the Artillery into the Meteor from Scarlet Mages.
- Adjusted the Out of Bounds triggers that could result in a Scarlet Phalanx (Infantry Class Call) gap forcing players to walk out of bounds and take unnecessary damage.
- Caldoran
- Fixed an issue that could result in Caldoran becoming stuck if players entered the Radiant Portal after resurrecting.
- Solistrasza
- Fixed an issue that caused “ Aberrant Bloat” to have no spell icon.
- Fixed an issue that caused Solistrasza‘s “ Radiant Light” to erroneously display.
— Blizzard
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