Hotfixes for January 8

Another day, another batch of hotfixes. Today's round includes various bug fixes and balance changes, but the big highlight might be an additional change to trapping mobs for the Barn. In addition to the previously announced hotfixes, the following has been added:

• Requires a realm restart] Increased the spawn rate and number of spawn points for Direfang Alpha, Ironhide Bull, and Wetland Trampler. This hotfix will be deployed in combination with the hotfix from January 7 to increase spawn rates slightly.

You can find the full list of today's hotfixes below.

• Garrison Buildings

  • Barn

    • [Requires a realm restart] Increased the spawn rate and number of spawn points for Direfang Alpha, Ironhide Bull, and Wetland Trampler. This hotfix will be deployed in combination with the hotfix from January 7 to increase spawn rates slightly.

• Abilities that heal based on a percentage of total/maximum health should now be able to be correctly modified by healing debuff modifiers.

• Hunter

  • General

    • [Currently in testing] Freezing Trap now has a trigger radius of 3 yards (down from 5 yards).

• Paladin

  • Armor Sets

    • Hotfix to change the PvP 4-piece set bonus for Retribution Paladins announced from January 5 has been deployed.

• Priest

  • Glyphs

    • Glyph of Reflective Shield should now correctly only reflect damage on self-cast Power Word: Shields and not when it's cast on other players.

• Gorgrond

  • Reagents from Rakthoth: This quest can now be completed if another quest, Plant Pruning has already been completed.

  • Seeking the Scout: This quest can now be completed if another quest, Plant Pruning has already been completed.

  • [Requires a realm restart] The Giant Cauldron: Players should now be able to reacquire or complete the quest if they disconnect or log out during the flight after speaking with Choluna.

• Highmaul

  • Kargath Bladefist: Defeating Iron Grunts before the start of the encounter no longer grants favor with Roar of the Crowd on Mythic difficulty.

  • The Butcher: Pale Vitriol should now correctly be reapplied to Hunters under the effects of Deterrence on Mythic difficulty.

• Ashran

  • Bonus Objectives in Ashran now restart every 30-40 minutes after completion (up from 20-30 minutes).

• Capturing a point in Arathi Basin, The Battle for Gilneas City, and the Rated Battlegrounds version for Eye of the Storm should now take 7 seconds (down from 8 seconds). This change restores time to capture a point back to what it was for these Battlegrounds in pre-6.0.2.

• All Follower contracts are now bind-on-pickup.