World of Warcraft: The War Within gets its expansion pre-patch, alongside a ton of bugs

Classes

Some specializations may encounter issues when loading a previously saved Talent loadout. This can be resolved with a character relog.

• Death Knight
  • Unholy
    • Death Knights can sometimes only receive one stack of Festermight for the first proc of Sudden Doom after casting Death Coil.
    • Sudden Doom does not cause all Epidemics to critically strike.
    • Festering Scythe does not gain benefit from Mastery: Dreadblade and does not grant stacks from Festering Wounds that burst on creature death.
    • Raise Abomination’s Virulent Plague is only applied once.
• Priest
  • Halo can pull creatures that are not in combat with the Priest.
  • Discipline
    • Rapture does not allow for spell-queuing casts immediately after Rapture.
  • Shadow
    • Idol of C’Thun is not functioning properly.
• Hunter
  • Kindling Flare can sometimes fail to reveal stealthed targets when players leave its area of effect.
  • Tendon Rip (Pet Ability) is not removed by movement-freeing abilities (like Blessing of Freedom).
  • Marksmanship
    • Serpent Sting & Wind Arrows from Legacy of the Windrunners are not affected by Marksmanship Mastery.
    • Wailing Arrow is granted after 19 Wind Arrows, instead of 20.
    • Killer Accuracy does not increase the critical strike damage of Kill Shot.
    • Rapid Fire can be canceled by Kill Zone when it is procced from the Season 4 2-piece set.
  • Beast Mastery
    • Bloodshed can sometimes fail to apply Basilisk Collar.
  • Survival
    • Flanking Strike’s pet damage does not scale with primary or secondary stats.
    • Exposed Flank can sometimes fail to duplicate the pet’s damage.
    • Spearhead does not increase the critical strike chance of Kill Command.
• Mage
  • Fire
    • Fire’s Ire buff tooltip description indicates a 2.5% gain even if players have 2 points in the talent.
• Shaman
  • Stone Bulwark Totem’s audio & animations are slightly too loud.
  • Elemental
    • Flash of Lightning can sometimes fail to reduce the cooldown of Stone Bulwark Totem and Primordial Wave.
    • Elemental Blasts from Fusion of Elements can incorrectly consume Magma Chamber.
    • Elemental Blasts from Fusion of Elements can trigger Storm Frenzy.
    • Lava Beam does not benefit from Storm Frenzy.
    • Thunderstrike Ward cannot trigger from Lava Beam.
  • Restoration
    • Spouting Spirits does not properly reduce healing beyond 5 targets.
    • Spell queuing Lava Burst after a Healing Surge was incorrectly consuming Master of the Elements when Lava Burst is instant cast.
• Rogue
  • Death From Above (PvP Talent) does not scale up to 7 combo points.
  • Assassination
    • Envenom’s buff persists for 2 seconds longer than the tooltip indicates.
    • Ruptures applied via Indiscriminate Carnage will always apply 3 Serrated Bone Spikes, even with less than 3 spikes prepared.
  • Subtlety
    • Premeditation does not benefit Shiv, Shuriken Toss, or Shuriken Storm.
    • Premeditation is consumed if players do not open with a combo point generating spell from stealth.
• Warrior
  • Arms
    • Bloodletting can cause Mortal Strike to apply Rend to targets above 35% health.
  • Protection
    • Spell Reflection has a small chance to not properly reflect spells.

Dungeons

• Abilities may be missing form the Dungeon Journal while on Mythic+ difficulty.

Quests

• Quest objectives for the Legion quest “To Be Prepared” may not be visible.
• Quest objectives for “Archives: The First Disk” may not be visible.

User Interface

• Group Manager
  • Pressing the reset button in Group Manager UI will cause a lua error.
  • Holding down a used marker button makes the highlight disappear.
  • The remove all button does not work for unit markers.
• Spellbook
  • After the Spellbook goes from minimized to maximized, the Click Cast Settings frame will not function. Typing /reload in chat will resolve the issue.
• Professions
  • The Concentrate button disappears when selecting and unselecting finishing reagents.
  • The Patron tab does not honor a filter when switching to other tabs and back.
  • The Recraft button is shown after completing an order.
  • Finishing reagents can show increased recipe difficulty.
  • The tracker is missing the green checkmark if the player hides all Dungeon and Bonus Objective Trackers beforehand.
  • The Rewards Frame may disappear when accepting an order.
  • The quality preview when using Concentration may be inaccurate.
• Quest and Map
  • Right-clicking on a tracked World Objective may cause a Lua error.
  • Gossip windows may display the incorrect icon for an in progress wrapper quest.
  • Accepted Daily Quests may show the wrong icon.
  • The Lore Book help tip may appear outside of the log frame.
  • The Quest objective icon may still be present after disabling the quest objectives map filter.
  • Clicking on the Great Vault world map icon may not open the UI.

Warbands

• Entering the world on a character on a different realm may result in a blank character select screen.
• Some account-wide reputations may not show correctly across all characters.

In addition, Blizzard has stated that it has temporarily disabled the Warbands Warbank to fix a critical issue they have discovered with it and will bring it back up as as soon as possible.