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May 4th Hotfixes

All of the hotfixes expected a few days ago were recently deployed to the servers, and that includes a fix to the Death's Bargain exploit. For more on that, including leaderboard changes, make sure to read the next topic.

Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

The hotfix list has been updated:

[UPCOMING HOTFIXES]
There are no additional upcoming hotfixes at this time.

[LIVE HOTFIXES]
General

• Fixing an issue where the Greater Rift timer will occasionally start with less than 15 minutes remaining (5/4)
• Fixing an issue where the Spectral Hound pet will despawn upon character death (5/4)

Items

• The legendary affix for the item Death's Bargain has been re-enabled (5/4)
• Fixing an issue where the 6-piece bonus from Zunimassa's Haunt is overwritten when more than one Witch Doctor applies the effect to the same enemy (5/4)
• Fixing an issue where some players are not able to access their BlizzCon 2014 transmogrification appearances (5/4)
• Fixing an issue where the combination of Rogar's Huge Stone and Molten Wildebeest's Gizzard would occasionally cause the game to crash (5/4)

Monsters

• Reduced the number of targets that the Gelatinous Sire can split into in multiplayer games (5/4)
• Gelatinous Sire spawns will now have a small moment of invulnerability when they initially split (5/4)

Death's Bargain Resolution

Nevalistis made a post explaining what exactly was the Death's Bargain exploit discovered last week and why its affix was temporarily disabled. She also discusses what measures were taken to prevent the leaderboards from being tainted with this. Bottom line being that people who took advantage of it were removed from the leaderboards. Read more below.

Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

UPDATE - May 5 @ 5:40 p.m. PDT

This issue has been resolved. We know a lot of you have questions about this resolution, so we’d like to provide a quick summary and some additional insight.

Once the unintended interactions between Death’s Bargain, Rogar’s Huge Stone, and Molten Wildebeest’s Gizzard were discovered, we set straight to work on a hotfix to resolve the issues they caused. However, we knew this hotfix might take some time and some of the nastier repercussions of this bug included game crashes and decreases in game performance.

As an interim solution, we temporarily disabled the Legendary affix on Death’s Bargain until we could complete testing and deploy a proper fix. This hotfix is now live as of May 5, 2015, and we have reactivated Death’s Bargain’s power so that it is once more available for use.

In addition, we agree that players should remain on a level playing field throughout the Season and have reviewed the leaderboards, removing any individuals who were found to be using this particular arrangement to obtain unusually high rankings. As in the past, we opted to action accounts on a case-by-case basis. This issue was identified and disabled quickly and, as a result, very few individuals were found to have taken advantage of this situation.

Thank you to everyone who made time to report this issue to us. We love that the vast majority of our fans opt to Play Nice, Play Fair, and we will continue to monitor and maintain the fair and fun gameplay experience you’ve come to expect.

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