Hotfixes/2005 Archive

Summary info on the 2005 hotfixes. Additional info: For information on specific patches, please see Patches. For info on known bugs and other issues which may be fixed in the upcoming patch see the Known issues page. For official Blizzard descriptions of types of patches, see Patch § Types of patches. For articles related to patches, see Patches category. Unless stated otherwise, all official announcements of hotfixes can be found in a Hotfixes blog post - the link for which is found at the top of every month's hotfixes.

Note: Descriptions on this page may be paraphrased or shortened. See links above each hotfix for the full original posts.

Dates generally reflect when a hotfix was posted, rather than when it was implemented.

December

December 7

1.8.4 Battleground 10 Minute Rule - Hotfix | 2005-12-07 by Ordinn | Original link

Battlegrounds now award marks of honor to the losing team in games lasting less then 10 minutes.

November

November 2

Rejuvenation Hotfix | 2005-11-02 by Caydiem | Original link

All realms have been hotfixed to address a problem with the Druid spell Rejuvenation. Some Druids were receiving a 15% effectiveness increase without having the Improved Rejuvenation (Classic) talent. This has been fixed.

October

October 12

Hotfix: Zul'Gurub raid timer | 2005-10-12 by Tyren | Original link

A hotfix was implemented to revert the raid timer in Zul'Gurub to the intended 2 days and 12 hours. A bug caused the time to decrease to 24 hours.

September

September 28

Hotfix: Nefarian Encounter | 2005-09-28 by Eyonix | Original link
Nefarian Hotfix 9/27/05 | 2005-09-28 by Tigole | Original link

• Hotfixed an exploit for Nefarian in Blackwing Lair: You should no longer be able to stand on certain parts of the geometry to cause the drakonids, Nefarian, or the skeletons to go into evade mode.

August

August 23

Darkmoon Faire Trinket Hotfix | 2005-08-23 by Ordinn | Original link

The Darkmoon Card: Heroism and Aegis of Preservation trinkets will no longer receive bonuses to the healing they grant from any + healing items the wearer might have.

August 17

Dire Maul Hotfix | 2005-08-17 by Ordinn | Original link
Re: DM hotfix | 2005-08-17 by Ordinn | Original link

• Chests in Dire Maul have temporarily been disabled to stop players from exploiting them, which was resulting in realm instability and instance crashes on multiple realms. This includes only the normal chests and should not affect tribute runs. A more permanent fix will be applied in Patch 1.7, and the chests will be reinstated then.

July

July 28

Blackwing Lair Hotfix | 2005-07-28 by Caydiem | Original link

• The following changes were made to Vaelastrasz in Blackwing Lair:
  • Burning Adrenaline will now ignore line of sight, as intended.
  • A bug that allowed Burning Adrenaline to be dispelled with invulnerability effects (such as [Divine Shield] and [Ice Block]) has been fixed.

Warlock Hotfix | 2005-07-28 by Eyonix | Original link

We've hotfixed a bug which was preventing Warlocks from targeting their pets with various spells and abilities. Warlocks should now be able to use [Dark Pact], Demonic Sacrifice, Soul Link, as well as use the Grimoire books to teach their demons new spells. In addition to these fixes, Blood Pact has been restored to its original Auto-Cast functionality.

July 19

BWL Hotfix! | 2005-07-19 by Eyonix | Original link

A hot fix was applied to the game during today's maintenance to address the increased lag players were experiencing in Blackwing Lair. The fix will reduce the lag in BWL significantly, especially in the early encounters.

July 14

Hotfix! Blackwing Lair | 2005-07-14 by Eyonix | Original link

A hotfix was just applied which fixed several bugs associated with BlackWing Lair that were allowing the first two encounters to be completed with very little effort. [...] Also, the door appearing after the Vaelastrasz encounter has been fixed and should open under the proper circumstances, no longer posing as an impassible barrier.

July 12

Ragnaros Hotfix | 2005-07-12 by Eyonix | Original link

A hotfix was just applied that fixed a bug which was introduced today upon the release of patch version 1.6. This bug was causing Ragnaros to submerge on a much more frequent basis than intended. The submerge pattern of Ragnaros should now be working as it was before the patch.

June

June 28

Hotfix Post Maintenance | 2005-06-28 by Tyren | Original link
Re: Clarification of Tyren's hotfix PLEASE :) | 2005-06-28 by Caydiem | Original link

• Fixed a bug that caused targets 3+ levels higher than the player to resist spells more often than intended. This applies to enemy players and mobs.
• Molten Core bosses, Onyxia, Azuregos, and Kazzak had their HP increased to compensate for the increase in caster DPS this change will cause.

May

May 12

Hotfix - Paladin talent: Reckoning | 2005-05-12 by Tyren | Original link

We have hotfixed the Paladin talent Reckoning to stack a maximum of 4 times.

April

April 21

Re: Warchief Rend <3 You! | 2005-04-21 by Caydiem | Original link

• Hotfixed a bug that was causing Rend Blackhand's corpse to disappear immediately after he was killed.

April 20

Quest Hotfix | 2005-04-20 by Ordinn | Original link

A quest bug in yesterday's patch granted players access to an NPC who gave out legendary items. This NPC, and the majority of items he gave away, should not have been in-game. This bug has been fixed and the items, with the exception of the Bindings of the Windseeker, will be removed from player's inventories.

March

March 18

Re: Hotfix to Onyxia 3/16/05 | 2005-03-18 by Tigole | Original link

The bug which was causing Onyxia to go under the world has been fixed internally and on the test server. If all goes well, the update from the test server will go live on regular servers during an upcoming maintenance window.

March 16

Hotfix to Onyxia 3/16/05 | 2005-03-16 by Tigole | Original link

We just hotfixed a bug with Onyxia. The bug was causing the dragon to cast her knockback spell multiple times in a row which was not the intended behavior.