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Patch 9.0.5

️Thu Mar 04 2021

The patch is "focused on improving systems, rewards, Covenant and Legendary tuning, and bug fixes. Valor Points are now earnable in Mythic Keystone dungeons, and Valor can be used to upgrade new Mythic Keystone gear rewards. Changes to Covenants and Legendaries are intended to provide more gameplay options for crafting and utilizing Legendary items in specific situations, and to make sure that more players feel that the Covenant that suits their aesthetic, narrative, or other preferences for their character also feels more viable for their preferred playstyle."^[1]

Updated March 8 – 6:00 p.m. PST

Adventures

Kyrian Covenant Companions
- Kyrian Phalanx health increased by 16%.
  - Developers' note: Phalanxes still feel underpowered relative to Halberdiers, so giving them some additional durability to allow them to fill the tank role before players have maxed out their roster.

Necrolord Covenant Companions
- Fixed an issue where Bonesmith Heirmir Serrated Shoulder Blades weren't inflicting damage back to the enemy.
- Maldraxxus Plaguesinger's Plague Song has been redesigned – Plague Song now deals damage to ranged enemies every round.
- Rencissa the Dynamo spell effectiveness increased by 40%.
- Assembler Xertora spell effectiveness increased by 10%.
- Rattlebag spell effectiveness increased by 20%.
  - Developers' note: We fixed a few issues where some Necrolord Covenant Companions weren't dealing damage reliably. Additionally, a few companions have received an improvement that fits with their purpose.

Night Fae Covenant Companions
- Qadarin spell effectiveness increased by 24%.
- Blisswing's damage reduction now correctly applies to enemies.
- Yira'liya^[sic] health increased by 16% and spell effectiveness increased by 50%.
- Duskleaf health increased by 20% and spell effectiveness increased by 25%.
- Lloth'wellyn health increased by 33% and ability damage increased by 25%.
  - Developers' note: A few Night Fae Covenant Companions were not as well established in their different roles as we hoped, to address this we've improved many abilities and decreased some Companions' overall fragility.

Venthyr Covenant Companions
- Venthyr Nightblade attack increased by 25%.
  - Developers' note: We're generally happy with how the changes to Venthyr in the 9.0.2 landed, but wanted to offer some additional help for players using Nightblades to fill out their compositions.

Characters

Undead cloaks will now be as tattered as the forsaken wearing them.

Classes

[Ashen Hallow] (Venthyr Paladin), [Abomination Limb] (Necrolord Death Knight), [Swarming Mist] (Venthyr Death Knight), [Death's Due] (Night Fae Death Knight), [Wild Spirits] (Night Fae Hunter), [Resonating Arrow] (Kyrian Hunter), and [Ancient Aftershock] (Night Fae Warrior) visual effects will now appear less overwhelming to allied players when cast in dungeons or raids. These changes are still going through iterations and may not be final.
Many abilities are now better at avoiding in-combat enemies that the player is not engaged with (e.g. [Convoke the Spirits], [Starfall], [Chain Harvest], Fel Bombardment, [Divine Toll]).

Death Knight

Frost

Unholy
- Fixed an issue that caused [Unholy Pact] (Talent) to sometimes not hit large raid bosses.

Covenant Abilities

Demon Hunter

Havoc
- [Unbound Chaos] (Talent) damage increased to 500% (was 300%).

Covenant Abilities

Conduits

Druid

Balance
- [Fury of Elune] (Talent) will now deal damage even if the Druid is in cat or bear form.

Covenant Abilities
- [Adaptive Swarm] (Necrolord) damage and healing increased by 25% and the effectiveness of periodic effects increased to 25% (was 20%). The effectiveness of periodic effects increased to 35% for Balance Druids.

Conduits
[Endless Thirst] (Venthyr) now increases your critical strike chance by .8% per stack at Rank 1 (was .5%).

Hunter

Fixed an issue that allowed Hunters to avoid the Sated debuff when casting [Primal Rage].
Fixed an issue that caused [Feign Death] to be cancelled when Hunters opened their map or used an emote.

Beast Mastery
- [Spitting Cobra] (Talent) damage is increased by 260%.

Marksmanship

Survival

Covenant Abilities

Conduits
- Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the Markman's Advantage buff to be removed when another player's Hunter Mark was applied.
- Fixed an issue that sometimes caused [Brutal Projectiles] to expire early.

Mage

Covenant Abilities

Monk

Windwalker
- Xuen, the White Tiger is now vulnerable to [Hibernate], [Polymorph] and Fear crowd-control effects.
- [Touch of Death] is now affected by [Mastery: Combo Strikes].
- Fixed an issue that caused Storm, Earth and Fire's cast to sometimes break nearby enemies' Stealth.
- Fixed an issue that caused Xuen, the White Tiger to be able to target enemies in Stealth.
- Fixed an issue that caused [Tiger Palm] to grant an additional stack of Mark of the Crane when Storm, Earth and Fire is active.
- Fixed an issue that allowed Mark of the Crane to be maintained permanently at maximum stacks while fighting a single target.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent [Storm, Earth, and Fire] spirits from using [Fists of Fury], [Rising Sun Kick], and [Whirling Dragon Punch] (Talent).
- Fixed an issue that allowed Storm, Earth and Fire spirits to continue channeling [Fists of Fury] after the Monk's Fists of Fury channel ended.
- Fixed an issue that could cause [Spinning Crane Kick]'s damage to not be properly increased by Mark of the Crane if targets die with the Monk's mark active.

Paladin

Holy
- [Holy Shock] now costs 16% mana (was 14%).

Protection
- [Ardent Defender]'s heal now has a visual effect.

Covenant Abilities
- [Vanquisher's Hammer] (Necrolord) now generates 1 Holy Power when used.

Conduits

Priest

Discipline
- [Spirit Shell] (Talent) now absorbs 80% of healing done (was 100%) and the absorption limit is now based on the caster's Spell Power rather than maximum Health.

Holy
- [Divine Hymn] increases healing taken by 4% (was 10%) for 15 seconds (was 8 seconds). Stacks up to 5 times (was no stacks).

Covenant Abilities

Conduits
- [Fae Fermata] (Night Fae) Fae Guardians now leave a 80% effective copy of their benefit (was 60%) and can no longer be stacked on top of a Faerie for double benefit.

Rogue

Assassination

Subtlety

Covenant Abilities

Conduits

Shaman

[Chain Lightning] damage increased by 35%.
[Lightning Shield] damage increased by 415%.

Enhancement

Covenant Abilities

Warlock

[Curse of Tongues] now lasts 1 minute (was 30 seconds) and lasts 20 seconds against enemy players (was 12 seconds).

Affliction

Demonology

Destruction

Warrior

Fury

Protection
- Damage of all abilities increased by 10%. Damage of [Thunder Clap] increased by an additional 10%.

Covenant Abilities
- [Conqueror's Banner] (Necrolord) has been redesigned – Brandish the Conqueror's Banner, granting 400 Mastery and 30% increased movement speed to you and your 2 nearest allies and preventing movement speed from being reduced below 100%. The cooldown is now 2 minutes (was 3 minutes), duration is now 15 seconds (was 20 seconds), and the Rage generation is now 4 Rage per second for Arms and Protection, and 6 Rage per second for Fury.

Conduits
- [Veteran's Repute] (Necrolord) no longer causes Conqueror's Banner to grant stacks of Glory.

Covenants

Necrolord

Covenant Ability
- [Fleshcraft] has been redesigned – Form a shield of flesh and bone over 3 seconds (was 4 seconds) that absorbs damage equal to 40% of your maximum health for 2 minutes. While channeling, your damage taken is reduced by 20%. Passive effect – Moving near an enemy's corpse consumes their essence to reduce Fleshcraft's cooldown by 1 second.
- The slime creatures within the Plaguefall dungeon will now grant their buffs when their corpses are consumed by Fleshcraft's passive effect (was when Fleshcraft was used on their corpses).

Soulbinds

Anima Conductor: Flowing Power – House of Rituals
- Skelton Command now summons a skeleton when Fleshcraft's passive effect consumes a corpse. This effect has a 5 second cooldown between summoning skeletons.

Night Fae

Spirits within The Queen's Conservatory are eager to return to life and will now automatically provide players with their reward without having to speak to them first.

Soulbinds
- Fixed an issue that sometimes caused players to die through [Podtender] (Dreamweaver) if the lethal blow had a large overkill.

Venthyr

The Ember Court
- Permanent RSVPs
  - Guests who you have reached Best Friend status with now give you a permanent RSVP.
  - The Permanent RSVP will allow all characters on your account to invite that guest to future Ember Courts without completing their RSVP quest again.
- Temel in Sinfall now sells a Bind on Account book at Exalted with the Ember Court. The book will teach your Dredger Butler how to handle the Cleanup and Restocking quests that follow the Ember Courts.
- One-time reputation items from Temel and Lady Ilinca will no longer appear once learned.
- Droman Aliothe's RSVP no longer requires players to venture to Bastion and Maldraxxus for items.

Soulbinds
- Fixed an issue that allowed [Service in Stone] (General Draven) to be parried.

Dungeons and Raids

Castle Nathria
- With the closing of the Alliance Hall of Fame, cross-realm Mythic Castle Nathria will be available for all players starting on the next raid lockout for each region.
- Council of Blood
  - Castellan's Fury's effect has been reduced by 15% on Heroic and Mythic difficulties.
  - Veteran Stoneguard have had their health reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Veteran Stoneguard have had their melee damage reduced by 10% on all difficulties.
  - Veteran Stoneguard's Sintouched Blade now casts less frequently on all difficulties.
  - Reduced the damage of Dancing Fever by 10%.
  - Dancing Fools have had their health reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
  - Reduced the damage of Soul Spikes by 5% on all difficulties.

Halls of Atonement
- Loyal Stoneborn now persists for 45 seconds when Charmed by a Venthyr player (was 30 seconds).
- Loyal Stoneborn damage is now reduced by 50% while Charmed and Stoneborn Boon duration increased to 45 seconds (was 30 seconds).

Sanguine Depths
- Anima Cage's^[sic] now persist for 1 minute after activation (was 45 seconds). While active, Sinfall Boon is applied to players when any enemy is slain nearby (was certain enemy types) and duration increased to 75 seconds (was 60 seconds).
- Moved one of the Anima Cages away from a patrolling Chamber Sentinel.

Theater of Pain
- Necrolord's Chosen covenant perk now has a duration of 6 minutes (was 5 minutes).
- An Affront to Challengers^[sic]
  - Xira the Underhanded has been disabled on Mythic difficulty and removed from the Dungeon Journal.

Mythic Keystone Dungeons

Items and Rewards

The community voted mount, The [Wandering Ancient], is now available!
Gear acquired from Mythic Keystone dungeons are now upgradable with Valor, a new currency that is earned from completing Mythic Keystone dungeons and covenant Callings. The weekly Valor cap will start at 5000 Valor earnable in the first week, and will increase by 750 Valor each week. There will be a maximum of 1500 Valor a character can hold at a time. Gear that dropped before the patch is unable to be upgraded.
- 200 Item Level: Initial item upgrade level.
- 207 Item Level: Requires the Keystone Explorer achievement – Earned by completing all eight Shadowlands dungeons at Mythic 5 or higher, within the time limit.
- 213 Item Level: Requires the Shadowlands Keystone Conqueror achievement – Earned by completing all Shadowlands dungeons at Mythic 10 or higher, within the time limit.
- 220 Item Level: Requires the Shadowlands Keystone Master achievement – Earned by completing all Shadowlands dungeons at Mythic 15 or higher, within the time limit.
Completing a Mythic Keystone dungeon after the timer has ended will now reward a second item. The item level of the second item will be slightly lower (e.g. finishing a Mythic 7 Keystone dungeon, but not completing the timer now rewards the party with a 200 iLvl item and a 197 iLvl item.
The Great Vault raid loot requirements is now defeat 3/6/9 raid bosses (was 3/7/10).
Potency Conduits now also drop in Castle Nathria.
Once players reach 40 Renown with their Covenant, the weekly quest to gather 1000 Anima will now award you with 1500 gold.
Once players have recruited the maximum amount of Souls for their Covenant, your weekly quest to rescue Souls from the Maw will now award you with 500 Anima.
[Rhinestone Sunglasses] can now be used in transmogrification and will appear in your collection once found.
Vendor prices for items below item level 75 have been adjusted.
The Lightless Force weapon enchant no longer targets out-of-combat or crowd-controlled enemies.
The [Hunger of the Pack] trinket now grants the Speed stat instead of movement speed percentage.
The [Barrier Generator] Toy can no longer be used in instanced PvP.