Blizzard released a trio of hotfixes for Mists of Pandaria Classic on October 31, targeting three small but itchy problems players were running into: an armor specialization bug that let some characters stack multiple bonuses, missing gold from legacy instance encounters, and a Vampiric Embrace healing split that wasn’t behaving correctly.
The developer posted the fixes on the official Blizzard forums, and the changes are live. If you were one of the few players enjoying multiple armor spec bonuses at once, that unexpected buffet has been shut down. Here’s the official recap of what was patched:
Patch Notes – Mists of Pandaria Classic – October 31
- Vampiric Embrace once again correctly splits the healing it does across targets.
- Corrected an issue where a small number of Paladins, Death Knights, and Shamans were simultaneously benefiting from all three of their class’s armor specialization bonuses.
- Fixed a bug that prevented encounters in instanced content from previous expansions from dropping gold as intended.
Short and surgical. The Vampiric Embrace fix means healing from that effect should now distribute evenly between targets instead of overconcentrating on one target. The armor specialization correction prevents a class design hole where those three specs were briefly receiving more defensive power than intended. And the gold drop fix restores expected rewards for older expansion dungeons that were failing to hand over coin on some encounters.
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