Bornakk

With Follower Dungeons arriving next week in the ...

Apologies for the confusion over this bug today. We’ll relay to the team your interest in having this mount made available in Classic though, so thanks for sharing that feedback.

To provide more transparency on the actions we take against cheating and exploitation, here is an accounting of the number of actions that were taken over the last month, December 2023:

Total Exploitative WoW Account Actions in December 2023: 270970

All of these actions were for cheating or exploitation, which primarily result in permanent bans or 6-month suspensions. This number does not include other actions such as those taken on accounts with character name or in-game language violations. We continue to evolve our methods and act against these malicious accounts on a daily basis.

Hotfixes

January 4, 2024

Dungeons and Raids

• Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope
  • Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause a stuck black screen upon entering Fyrakk’s chamber.

Season of Discovery

• Boon of Blackfathom no longer applies to pets.
  • Developer’s Note: We are essentially removing the ability for pets to get Boon of Blackfathom for now. Now that pets scale with stats, allowing them to get certain world buffs would effectively let them “double dip” on these effects and gain far more damage than intended. We’ll continue to review this as we move through the content phases and make adjustments to how worl...

Hi all –

The PTR is currently down for maintenance and all character data is being reset to accommodate the latest data updates. New characters will need to be made (or live characters re-copied over) to play on the Seeds of Renewal PTR when the realms are available again.

Thank you for your understanding.

Hi all –

I just wanted to clarify, the additional 500 Trader’s Tender is part of the rewards for the Trading Post Enthusiast achievement, which is completed by earning the Trading Post monthly bonus reward 12 times. An issue has been identified where this isn’t listed as one of the rewards for this achievement and is actively being looked into. Thank you for your patience.

Thank you for all of your feedback, we agree that it would be best to have individual set options as well and are going to deliver those to you in the upcoming Seeds of Renewal update. All players who have completed 12 months will get the two additional sets retroactively and any new players that hit 12 months will get all 3 sets immediately.

The following changes are now live:

• When a character makes any hostile action against an opposing faction Lieutenant (e.g. Keepers of the Grove, Blademasters) or faction leader in the various objective areas, they will receive reputation when that enemy dies.
  • It must be an offensive action (harmful spell, harmful ability, melee attack, or ranged attack) against an enemy to receive reputation.
    • This also affects Healers who must use an offensive actions against the Lieutenant or faction leader.
• Characters will receive reputation even if they are dead or no longer nearby as long as they are still in the zone when the enemy dies.
• Characters will receive 200 reputation for killing a Lieutenant and all members of the winning faction will receive 200 reputation when the faction leader dies.
• The winning team will also receive 100 reputation per friendly Lieutenant remaining.
  • Example: If there are two ...

The caves in World of Warcraft can give some unique experiences. Feelings of seclusion, trapped behind enemy lines, enemies alerting their friends to your presence, battling a large group of powerful enemies…

I don’t recommend seeking out these feelings in Classic Hardcore.

Cross Realm Trading was recently re-enabled. Thank you for your patience.

We wanted to give everyone a heads up regarding an upcoming change to the Echoing Tyrstone, the healing trinket from the Dawn of the Infinite mega-dungeon. The heal currently restores all nearby allies for a flat amount, but with this change will be split among the targets within its radius and deals increased healing based on how many targets received it. And with the heal now being split among those targets, we’ve also increased the amount of healing that can be recorded by 70%.

We are making this change as we’ve seen this trinket performing strongly in raids to the point of competing with major class cooldowns, but its performance overall is varied based largely on how many people are with the healer. We’re hoping that this change to its functionality will help stabilize its performance in both dungeons and raids so that it doesn’t under, or over perform as much as it currently does.

Cross Realm Trading has been temporarily disabled while we address an issue causing realm instability. An update will be provided when this feature is re-enabled. Thank you for your patience.

A hotfix has been deployed and this encounter should now work as intended.

A hotfix has been deployed for this issue and it should now be resolved. Thank you for your patience.

Quick update on some discussions we’ve seen -

Defeating Scalecommander Sarkareth on the highest difficulty will cover your best chance for getting the Cracked Titan Gem that week. Doing the encounter extra times on lower difficulties won’t increase your chances of getting the item.

An update on ratings has been posted: Season 2 MMR Issues - #2 by Bornakk

We’ve seen a lot of discussion around ratings in Dragonflight Season 2 the past couple of weeks and we’ve reviewed and discussed the current state of ratings and matchmaking. For additional context, In Season 1 we shared some of our philosophy around rating and reward acquisition: Dragonflight Season 1 Rated PvP Rating Discussion)

Coming out of Season 1, we saw a large disparity between what rating a player could hit in Solo Shuffle compared to other rated brackets. We wanted to have less rating disparity between the different brackets, so the general skill level between each feels roughly the same, with the goal of being able to obtain the highest ratings in 3v3.

On the topic of Inflation - As noted in the...

We have seen the comments in the community regarding some Chromie quests in Fractures of Time on the PTR and we understand your concerns. We’ve been iterating and discussing all of these quests internally, and we’re in the process of adjusting and removing quests. These changes will be available in an upcoming PTR build. Thank you for your feedback!

The development team spends the majority of their time on the latest content which includes both brand new things and iterating on the latest additions to the game. That said, legacy content is something we cherish and do try to make some focused improvements on it when possible. In this week’s PTR update, a new update is available for testing:

• Players that have defeated Garrosh Hellscream in Siege of Orgrimmar may now skip directly to The Inner Sanctum on all characters on the account by reading the scroll hanging on the wall near Loremaster Cho at the entrance.
  • Developers’ note: Siege of Orgrimmar is a long, linear raid with a rare mount and plate shoulders held covetously by Garrosh Hellscream, its final boss encounter. We hope that the shortcut implemented here will allow players who’ve experienced this part of the story before to skip directly to the final showdown for a chance at earning those unique collectibles.

Hopefu...