In case anyone is interested, here is my conversation with a couple GMs about the issue. It seems they do intend to revert all the bugged items, although I suspect they're still kinda clueless and have no idea how to actually do that
I did submit a big report as the second GM suggested.
ME: Hello! As you may or may not know, low level green items with suffixes were broken at the start of TBC. In general the items were low rolling, and in some cases they were rolling stats that should not have been possible. For example, the Zircon Band(s) of Frost (or Shadow) Resistance in my bags are only supposed to have +5 or +6 Resistance. Any database, including your own (since the issue has been fixed), will confirm this. However, despite fixing the drop tables, the items that dropped during the issue remain nerfed. My question is - will items such as the rings in my bag be re-rolled into the correct stats? Or will those items remain grandfathered in their nerfed state? Thank you for any assistance or insight you can provide into this matter!
GM#1: I hope you're well in this stressful time. Thank you for your patience with any extended wait time you've had,as you can imagine working from home can make thins take a slight bit longer than we'd prefer! I can still look into your ticket about your items however! I had a check into this by logging into your character and it seems the hotfix has been applied. All of the rings now show as +4. If you're still seeing them displayed incorrectly you may need to update your addons
I hope I was able to explain everything clearly! Please let do get in touch if you need any more help.
ME: I appreciate you looking into this matter, however I think you may have misunderstood my ticket. As I stated, the rings dropped during the period where the suffixes were broken. They SHOULD be +5 or +6. They should NOT exist as +4. Will items such as the rings in my bag be re-rolled into the correct stats? Or will those items remain grandfathered in their nerfed state? Thank you for any assistance or insight you can provide into this matter!
GM#2: I appreciate your patience while waiting for a reply! I hope that this message reaches you in good spirits. I'm sorry to hear that your Zircon Bands still aren't displaying the correct stat. From what I'm seeing a hotfix went out that should have fixed these, so if you're seeing the incorrect stat, we should definitely report the issue to our devs so they can double check and see what happened. There are two ways this can be done and I'll list them both below. 1) In-game bug report (Esc > Support > Report Bug) - it's great becau se it goes straight into the Quality Assurance inbox for review and testing. They don't receive replies but are never overlooked. 2) Bug forums (
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/c/support/bug-report) - the plus side to this is that the community can contribute and if you get others posting on your thread, it draws more attention to the issue and gives the QA and dev team a better idea of how many people are affected. The downside is that it can sometimes feel like your reports are lost in a sea of other reports, but there are actually people who monitor and review all reports made there, even if they don't directly reply. Once our Quality Assurance team receives the report, they can test the issue and attempt to recreate it. If they are able to replicate the bug and pinpoint the cause of it, they will send their information over to the Development team. From there, they can correct any issues within the code that need fixing, and then you'll see that reflected in patch notes or bug fix blog posts. I know it's disappointing that we don't have an immediate fix for this, but I do hope this information helps. May you otherwise have a good week and take care.
