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by Adam Holisky 
Feb 4th 2009 at 2:00PM
There are a number of hot fixes and a couple notable bugs we wanted to bring to your attention. Ideally all these will be fixed soon, according to our standards and not according to Blizzard's definition of soon.First is the Malygos bug where Circle of Healing and Wild Growth were not function when a player was in a Vortex. Ghostcrawler has posted that this will be getting fixed in the next couple of days. I wouldn't be surprised if this is fixed tonight.
Daelo, the lead encounter designer, also came out today and said the following with regard to what they're looking at: "We're checking into the various issues noted here, including why his cone breath hits targets behind his centerpoint, issues with malygos deciding to attack in phase 2, and trying to make the defense bubble's protection work even if you enter the bubble in between the time a missile is launched and when it lands."
Guardian Spirit isn't procing when you get more than one killing blow more or less simultaneously. Slorkuz acknowledges the bug and a hotfix should be coming out quickly.
In Strand of the Ancients we've seen those Alliance noobs always be on defense. Apparently this is by design right now, and they're going to be fixing this in a future patch so that either team has equal chance of starting on offense or defense.
Finally, Maaven is looking for everyone's help identifying the Sapphiron bug where the frost DoT is apparently ticking twice, or in someway applying twice the damage. There is a thread about it over on the official forums. You are asked to provide screenshots of a time-stamped combat log, and not third party sources (like WWS).
It seems like Blizzard is still in bug-fix-it mode, so I wouldn't be terribly surprised to see 3.0.8b next Tuesday if they continue to track down and solve these and other issues.
Filed under: Patches, Bugs, News items
Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
Ploppinfresh Feb 4th 2009 2:58PM
What about the Malygos bug where he'll throw down a bubble, we see the animation for the bubble going up... then... no bubble. Happened to us a couple of times, to much lol'ing.
Nasrin Feb 4th 2009 6:01PM
Maybe have warriors not use spell reflect?
Stormsinger Feb 4th 2009 3:08PM
No Wild Growth on Malygos was driving me nuts. First I thought it was range. But then I targeted myself... same problem. Then I figured "Ok, Blizz lowered the damage, but disabled group heals to balance healers". Ah well... Vortex incoming... WG! Vortex... LB.. LB.. LB.. LB.. Vortex ends... WG! Interesting challenge at least (and we got Maly, so it's all good).
Eric Feb 4th 2009 3:22PM
If they can't duplicate it then they aren't trying. Get some one on a hunter for a few hours. Let the pet die and rez it, odds are it'll proc the bug. Dismiss the pet and resummon it, chances are it will eventually proc the bug. Or maybe just get rid of cower. If you can't out threat growl then you can't tank my dps anyways because I still have to MD my pet or feign death in long boss fights like ZG. And its not just cower, its all pet skills. I leave my focus dump off for tanking so I don't have to worry about growl and Thunder stomp on my gorilla and it randomly turns growl and smack on and tanking gets a bit hairy for a few seconds.
PS Blizz. Tanking pets can't quite tank anything 5 man in Wrath. Maybe 5 man quests but at 80 you can three man them anyways, nor do they put out enough aggro for tanking with out misdirects.
Faladril Feb 4th 2009 3:27PM
I had the problem with both Prowl and Cower wanting to turn themselves back on, especially when I changed pets or dismissed one. Then one day, I put prowl on the pet bar to keep an eye on it, and behold! it stopped misbehaving. I then put Cower on the bar, and it stopped too.
Spicyness Feb 4th 2009 5:25PM
That's one 'temp fix'. But with the amount of auto cast things available for hunters I can't keep them all on my bar. Macros and such work but a fix really is whats called for.
zappo Feb 4th 2009 3:35PM
Translation: There are a few things on a list that we weren't going to implement until the next patch. Then we found some issue with paladins that requires a nerf - and those always have to be addressed immediately. We'll add some of those other things in along with that.
Piper Feb 4th 2009 4:58PM
Is there is or is there isn't a bug with pygmy suckerfish? I have been checking this blog for the last few weeks and I haven't seen anything about it. Before the patch, I hadn't seen one in weeks, since the patch, I catch them at a 1-to-1.5 ratio of pygmies to fish.
Cy Feb 4th 2009 5:09PM
http://www.wowwiki.com/Patch_3.0.8_(undocumented_changes)#Fishing
I don't think it's a bug. I swear I saw something saying that this was intended, but I can't find it now. (Might have been PTR patch notes that weren't included in the notes that went live.)
Tzivya Feb 4th 2009 5:53PM
They hotfixed in a nerf to exploding shot for sv hunters, as well.
http://blue.mmo-champion.com/28/14910001375-hunters-why-the-stealth-nerf.html
Dch48 Feb 4th 2009 6:22PM
They also need to fix the bug with the Glyph of Mend Pet where if you have points in Improved mend, the glyph does not work. I talked to a GM and he said theywere aware of the issue but didn't think it was tied to any talents. It obviously is since only BM Hunters with Improved mend are having the problem. I suspect that the ticks for happiness and disease/poison curing are conflicting. that's just my opinion though. it worked fine before the 3.0.8 patch
Guydebord Feb 5th 2009 1:20PM
Aside from the already noted "Malygos Farts Arcane and Wipes Your 25-man Raid" bug, last week during phase one he channeled Surge of Power (the beam from phase three) on our main tank. DBM even announced it to the raid lol.