Bug Fixes

# IRON GATE — WHAT WE'VE BEEN FIXING
### Mid-September to 30 September 2026

Everything below is live on both realms unless it says otherwise.

*(Discord tip: each section below is short enough to post as its own message. The forum can take the lot in one go.)*

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## PROFESSIONS — ALCHEMY WAS BROKEN AT THREE DIFFERENT POINTS

Reported by **Tippietoes**, who hit the wall and told us instead of shrugging. All three are fixed on both realms.

- **Expert Alchemy could not be trained anywhere.** Every "Expert Alchemist" in the game — Lilyssia in Stormwind included — was missing the ability to teach the Expert rank. Alchemy was hard-capped at 150 for everyone.
- **Expert alchemy trainers had no Expert recipes.** Their list stopped at skill 140, so even after ranking up there was nothing new to learn. They now teach through to 215.
- **Journeyman alchemy trainers were stuck on an apprentice list.** Six recipes, nothing past skill 55, and they couldn't sell the Journeyman rank — which capped brand-new alchemists at 75. They now teach to 150 and sell the rank.

**We then audited every other profession on both realms.** Blacksmithing, Leatherworking, Tailoring, Engineering, Enchanting, Jewelcrafting, Inscription, Cooking, First Aid and Fishing all came back clean. Alchemy was the only one affected.

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## RAIDS & WORLD

- **Naxxramas entry issues resolved** and confirmed by testing.
- **Removed the floating Naxxramas necropolis** that a module had left hanging in the Eastern Plaguelands sky, along with its stray teleporter and meeting stone.
- **Removed Lord Kazzak** from the Tainted Scar. He was replaced by Doom Lord Kazzak when the Dark Portal opened, and the stock database had both spawned at once. Doom Lord Kazzak in Hellfire Peninsula stays exactly where he should be.
- **Seasonal holidays checked and confirmed working** on both realms — Hallow's End, Winter Veil, Brewfest, Midsummer and the rest. Hallow's End is not far off.
- Reminder: **the Ahn'Qiraj opening event is switched on deliberately** so people can run it for the Black Qiraji Battle Tank. Those NPCs and gongs are meant to be there.

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## BOTS

**A new server build went in on 29 September with three class fixes:**

- **Strategies you set on a bot are now saved properly** instead of being wiped the next time that bot re-rolled.
- **Mages can conjure a Refreshment Table again.** The spell had been pointing at a name that doesn't exist in 3.3.5a, so no mage bot had ever placed one.
- **Warlocks no longer spam Ritual of Souls**, and only cast it when the group actually needs healthstones.

**More bots, and better spread:**

- **Iron Gate: 1,200 → 1,400 bots.**
- **Iron Gate Classic: around 500 → around 1,000 bots.** Roughly double.
- **Low-level bots topped up and scattered back to the starting zones.** Teldrassil, Azuremyst and Eversong had nobody in them at all; they don't now.
- Performance was measured before and after both changes. No difference worth reporting — the world just got busier.

**Bot chat cleaned up (25 September):**

- Around **100 crude, insulting or offensive canned bot lines removed** across the whole bot-chat system, including a block of thirty-three personal insults aimed at whoever the bot was grouped with.
- The good stuff stayed — the Monty Python taunts, the Shakespearean insults, the real boss quotes and the Thunderfury running joke are all still in there.

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## WEBSITE & SIGNING UP

- **The site now detects your browser's language automatically** and serves the right one of the twelve we support — English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Russian, Korean, Persian, and both Chinese variants. No clicking required, and the language switcher still overrides it.
- **The Spanish translation was two years out of date** and was missing the client download link entirely. Rewritten.
- **The connect instructions were rewritten in all twelve languages and in the welcome email.** They now tell you that `realmlist.wtf` usually exists *twice* and both copies need changing, that Notepad's "Save As" silently adds `.txt` so you must use "Save", and what to do if Windows says the file is read-only. Those two catch nearly everybody.
- **The Contact page was rewritten** and now gives equal weight to three ways of reaching us: an in-game GM ticket, email, or Discord. It also says plainly that not using Discord is fine, and that you're welcome to write to us in your own language.
- **A dead contact email link was fixed.** Anyone who used it was writing into a mailbox nobody could read. It now goes to **support@irongatewow.com**.

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## CLIENT FIXES YOU CAN DOWNLOAD

Both of these patch **your own copy** of the game on your own machine. Neither hosts anything of Blizzard's, both back your file up first, both check the result, and both can be undone.

- **Camera snap/jerk fix.** The 3.3.5a bug where right-clicking sometimes throws the camera straight up or down. It's a known client fault that no setting fixes. Tested over a full day of play with no recurrence.
- **4GB patch**, still available — stops the client crashing in certain areas.

Both are on the **How to Connect** page.

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## SUPPORT & DISCORD

- **GM tickets reach us within a couple of minutes** now, and ping the staff directly.
- **Worth knowing:** in the red **?** menu, use **"Talk to a GM"**. The "Report Problem" button looks almost identical but its submissions don't reach anybody.
- Discord status channels now say **Iron Gate** and **Iron Gate Classic** instead of the old placeholder names.
- The online-players channel no longer posts ten lines when one person logs in with several characters.

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## COMING MONDAY 5 OCTOBER

- **Every newly created character gets a free 12-slot bag.** Four of them on Iron Gate, one on Iron Gate Classic. Convenience, not power — no gold, no gear.
- **More bots on Iron Gate Classic**, filling out the low-level zones further.

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## KNOWN ISSUES — WE KNOW, WE'RE ON THEM

- **Shaman bots sometimes drop Grounding Totem instead of the air totem you asked for.** The cause has been traced into the bot code and a fix is being worked on.
- **Bots don't take the Rut'theran Village portal.** They try to walk and get left behind saying "Wait for me". Reported by **Auralis**.

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## THANK YOU

Almost everything on this list started with somebody saying "that doesn't look right".

**Tippietoes** found the alchemy wall by grinding into it and reporting it rather than assuming that's just how it is — three separate faults came out of that one report, and they'd have quietly capped every crafter on the server.

**Auralis** reported the bot portal problem.

If something looks wrong, say so. Even if you're not sure. A ticket, an email, or a message on Discord — all three work, and we read all three.