Patch 9.0.5
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Patch 9.0.5 is the first medium patch for World of Warcraft: Shadowlands.
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.
- Kyrian Phalanx health increased by 16%.
- 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.
- Venthyr Nightblade attack increased by 25%.
Characters
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.
- Fixed an issue that caused
- 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.
- Xuen, the White Tiger is now vulnerable to
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%.
- Damage of all abilities increased by 10%. Damage of
- 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.
- Fixed an issue that sometimes caused players to die through
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.
- Permanent RSVPs
- Soulbinds
- Fixed an issue that allowed
[Service in Stone] (General Draven) to be parried.
- Fixed an issue that allowed
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.
Runecarving Legendary Items
Death Knight
- Blood
- Unholy
[Reanimated Shambler] explosion damage increased by 5% and now approximately procs every 1.75 minutes (was 1.5).
Demon Hunter
- Havoc
- Vengeance
Druid
- Feral
- Guardian
- Restoration
Hunter
- Beast Mastery
- Marksmanship
- Survival
[Latent Poison Injectors] damage increased by 15%.
Mage
[Disciplinary Command] increases Critical Strike damage by 20% (was 15%).
[Expanded Potential] procs per minute increased to 2 (was 1.66).
- Arcane
[Arcane Harmony] damage per stack increased to 8% (was 7%) and the effect stacks up to 18 times (was 15).
- Fire
- Frost
Monk
- Brewmaster
- Mistweaver
[Clouded Focus] healing increased by 20% (was 15%) and mana cost reduced by 20% (was 15%).
- Windwalker
Paladin
[Vanguard's Momentum] increases Holy damage done by 4% (was 3%) for 10 seconds (was 8 seconds).
[Of Dusk and Dawn] buff duration increased to 12 seconds (was 8 seconds) and Blessing of Dusk damage reduction increased to 4% (was 3%).
- Holy
- Protection
- Retribution
Priest
[Cauterizing Shadows]' healing increased by 36% and can now critically strike.
- Discipline
- Holy
- Shadow
Rogue
- Assassination
- Outlaw
- Subtlety
Shaman
- Elemental
- Enhancement
- Restoration
Warlock
- Demonology
- Destruction
Warrior
- Arms
- Fury
- Protection
Player versus Player
Battlegrounds
- Ashran
- Maximum player count per faction is now 35 (was 30).
- Starting reinforcements are now 175 (was 150).
- To allow both factions to have easier access to Star Root Tubers and Song Flowers, both these tasty treats will now spawn alongside each other in the Dark Woods and Root Den.
[Artifact Fragment] cost to summon Kronus and Fangrall[sic] reduced to 1500 (was 3000).
- Horde and Alliance tower mages are now worth 30 Reinforcements when slain (was 50).
- Horde and Alliance tower mages have had their spells adjusted:
- Rylai Crestfall – Alliance Tower Mage
- Northrend Winds now deals 15% of the target's maximum health in Frost damage.
- Frostbolt now deals 8% of the target's maximum health in Frost damage.
- Frostbolt Volley now deals 15% of the target's maximum health in Frost damage.
- No longer casts Mass Polymorph.
- Jeron Emberfall – Horde Tower Mage
- Fireball now deals 8% of the target's maximum health in Fire damage.
- Combustion Nova now deals 15% of the target's maximum health in Fire damage.
- Ignite now deals 1% of the target's maximum health in Fire damage.
- Living Bomb initial spell now deals 5% of the target's maximum health in Fire damage.
- Living Bomb explosion now deals 15% of the target's maximum health in Fire damage.
- Living Bomb no longer causes a knockback when exploding.
- Magma Blast cast by Jeron's summoned Lava Fury now deals 5% of the target's maximum health in Fire damage.
- Rylai Crestfall – Alliance Tower Mage
- Isle of Conquest
- Glaive Thrower health has been increased by 40%.
- Alliance and Horde Commander health increased by 50%.
- Demolisher health increased by 25%.
- Catapult health increased by 100%.
- The amount of siege damage required to break down keep walls has been increased by 20%.
- Wintergrasp
- Broken Temple and Sunken Ring Workshops are now controlled by the attacking team when the battle starts.
- Wintergrasp Wall, Wintergrasp Fortress Wall, and Wintergrasp Fortress Gate health has been reduced by 20%.
- Destroying Towers reduces match time by 8 minutes (was 5 minutes).
- Siege Engine's Steam Rush ability deals 20-35% of a player's health (was 30-45%).
- Demolisher's Hurl Boulder ability deals 20-25% of a player's health (was 36%).
- Demolishers will now more consistently deal siege damage when striking fortress walls and towers.
- After 5 minutes, all players in the battleground who do not have a rank (including players who join late) will now be granted the rank of Corporal.
Classes
Death Knight
- Removed the stun when summoning the temporary ghoul version of
[Raise Dead] (Rank 1) in PvP.
- The Satiated debuff from
[Rune of Sanguination] is now removed when entering PvP instances.
Demon Hunter
- Vengeance
- Corrected an issue that was causing
[Illidan's Grasp] (PvP Talent) recast effect to not toss the target.
- Corrected an issue that was causing
Druid
Hunter
[Roar of Sacrifice] (PvP Talent) can no longer be cast while the Hunter's pet is dead or crowd controlled.
Mage
Paladin
- Holy
- Protection
- Retribution
- Fixed an issue that was causing the resurrection bonus from
[Ultimate Retribution] (PvP Talent) to not be applied to the Paladin when an ally died.
- Fixed an issue that was causing the resurrection bonus from
Priest
- Shadow
Rogue
- Outlaw
- Subtlety
Shaman
[Hex] now interrupts players that are channeling to capture a PvP objective if the player is susceptible to Hex.
Warlock
- Affliction
- Fixed an issue where
[Rapid Contagion] (PvP Talent) could be used while under the effects of crowd control abilities.
- Fixed an issue where
Warrior
- Arms
- Protection
- Fixed an issue that caused
[Overwatch] (PvP Talent) to be incorrectly consumed by reflected damage procs and area of effect spells.
- Fixed an issue that caused
The Maw
- A new account-wide unlock has been added to Ve'nari that reveals teleport nodes on all the long walkable chains in Torghast so you can quickly cross the chains and no longer have to face your fear of heights.
- Reduced the health and amount of Anima Devourers required for Stage 1 of the Winged Soul Eaters Hunt.
Torghast, Tower of the Damned
- A brief description of each wing is now available before embarking on any given Torghast run.
- To better increase your odds of success, a recommended item level will now be displayed when selecting which Layer difficulty to attempt.
- Reduced the amount of enemies on multiple floors.
Anima Powers
Kyrian
[Parliament Stone] increases speed by 50% (was 30%) and now also increases dodge chance by 25%. Can be obtained 1 time (was 2).
Necrolord
- New Anima Power:
[Desolate Chitin] (Uncommon) – Fleshcraft absorbs 50% more damage. Can be obtained 3 times.
[Malevolent Stitching] increases your primary stat by 20% (was 8%) and is now Uncommon rarity (was Rare). Can be obtained 1 time (was 3).
[Musophobic Femur] has been removed.
Night Fae
Venthyr
Death Knight
Demon Hunter
Druid
- Fixed an issue that rarely caused Druids to remain in a stunned state if they died while inside
[Podtender] (Dreamweaver Soulbind).
Hunter
Mage
- New Anima Power:
[Gravity Dynamo] (Epic) – Knocking, Rooting, or Incapacitating enemies grants you 50% extra damage to fire, arcane, and frost spells for 8 seconds.
- New Anima Power:
[Chronomancer's Hourglass] (Rare) – During
[Alter Time], you and your Mirror Images gain
[Time Warp].
- New Anima Power:
[Sorcerer's Frozen Soul] (Rare) –
[Ice Block] has no cooldown.
- New Anima Power:
[Incanter's Ward] (Uncommon) – Damage absorbed by your Barriers grants up to 20% increased Intellect, based on the amount absorbed.
- New Anima Power:
[Eldritch Teachings] (Common) –
[Pyroblast],
[Flurry], and
[Arcane Barrage] damage increased by 25%.
[Dimensional Blade] now refreshes your
[Blink] cooldown when blinking through an enemy, and blinking through Mawrats will kill them instantly (was blinking through a Mawrat will instantly kill it and grant 3 charges of
[Blink]).
[Sapphire Prism] now summons 2 additional Mirror Images per stack (was 1) and is now Common rarity.
[Creeping Freeze] now functions without
[Everwarm Socks], and can now be acquired at any time.
[Lingering Torments] (Venthyr) increases damage of
[Mirrors of Torment] by 50% (was 10%).
- Malevolence (Venthyr) now causes
[Mirrors of Torment]'s cooldown to reset if the target dies while afflicted (was: Mirror damage had to be the killing blow).
[Maldo's Enchanted Cane],
[Polymorbid Rat Liver],
[Tome of Zoomancy], and
[Alluring Cheese] have been removed.
Priest
Rogue
Shaman
Warlock
Warrior
WoW Companion App
- Changed the expansion select button action to a tap and added a button to switch expansions in the menu.
- Developers' note: We received feedback that players were having trouble remembering the expansion switch tutorial so we simplified the action and added a second way to switch expansions.
- Clarified the region and character select flow.
- Developers' note: We changed the flow based on feedback to help clarify and resolve the wrong region being selected versus having no characters in a region.
- Fixed an issue where news articles didn't show content when the phone's language did not match the article's language.
- Fixed an issue with duplicate Missions and Callings.
- Various updates to Adventures.
References
- ^ 9.0.5 Update Notes. Blizzard Entertainment (2021-03-04). Retrieved on 2021-03-04.
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