Kaivax

With today’s PTR update, some significant Shaman updates are now testable. Please discuss them here.

• SHAMAN
  • Elemental
    • Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope (4) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue where Chain Lightning and Lightning Bolt were incorrectly highlighted after casting Primordial Wave.
    • Splintered Elements now grants you 20% Haste plus an additional 4% Haste per extra target hit by Primordial Wave, rather than 10% Haste per target hit.
    • Further Beyond can now only increase the duration of Further Beyond by up to 150% of the original duration of Ascendance.
    • Primordial Wave can no longer be used to heal a friendly ally, it is now only an offensive spell for Elemental Shaman.
    • Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope (4) Set Bonus has been redesigned – Lava Burst burns your target for 15% additional damage over 4 seconds, and after consuming Primordial Wave, your next 3 casts of Lava Burst also hit up to 3...

With the PTR build that went live moments ago:

• WARLOCK
  • Affliction
    • Umbrafire Kindling now lasts 20 seconds (was 12 seconds).
  • Demonology
    • Soul Strike has been redesigned – Your primary Felguard learns Soul Strike: Strikes the soul of the target, dealing Shadow damage.
    • New Talent: Shadow Invocation – Bilescourge Bombers deal 20% increased damage, and your spells now have a chance to summon a Bilescourge Bomber.
    • New Talent: Fel Invocation – Soul Strike deals 20% increased damage and generates 1 Soul Shard. The cast time of Summon Vilefiend is reduced by 0.5 seconds and your Vilefiend now deals Fire damage to nearby enemies every 1 second while active.
    • New Talent: Spiteful Reconstitution – Implosion deals 10% increased damage. Consuming a Demonic Core has a chance to summon a Wild Imp.
    • Imp-erator is now a 1-rank talent (was 2).
    • Mal...

With the PTR build that went live moments ago:

• ROGUE
  • Assassination
    • Exsanguinate (Active) has been removed.
    • Exsanguinate (Passive) – Energy threshold changed to 50% of max Energy (was flat 150), Energy consumed reduced to 3 (was 4) and damage duplicated reduced to 20% (was 25%)
    • Sudden Demise’s Bleed damage trigger value reduced to 150% of remaining health (was 200%) and now benefits correctly from Zoldyck Recipe bonus.
    • Indiscriminate Carnage now prioritizes targets without Rupture and Garrote.
  • Outlaw
    • New Talent: Precision Shot – Increases the range of Between the Eyes and Pistol Shot by 10 yards, and Pistol Shot reduces damage you take from the target by 5%.
    • Killing Spree base delay (before Haste) between strikes reduced to 0.3 seconds per combo point (was 0.4 seconds).
  • Subtlety
    • New Talen...

With the PTR build that went live moments ago:

• MONK
  • Mistweaver
    • Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope (4) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue that caused some healing spells to not properly contribute to Chi Harmony.
    • Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope (4) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue that caused some healing spells to double dip contribution to Chi Harmony.
    • Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope (4) Set Bonus: Now accumulates up to 15% of healing done (was 20%).
    • Healing Elixir now additionally heals if excess healing elixirs are generated.
    • Healing Elixir now restores 20% of maximum health (was 15%).
    • Healing Elixir now automatically triggers at 40% health (was 35%).
    • Expel Harm now costs 1.4% base mana (was 3%).
    • Expel Harm healing increased by 550%.
    • Expel Harm now deals damage equal to 25% of the amount healed (was 10%).
    • Expel Harm’s damage range increased to 20 yards (was 8...

With the PTR build that went live moments ago:

• DRUID
  • Balance
    • Orbital Strike has been redesigned – Call down a bombardment of celestial energy over the target area, blasting all enemies for Astral damage and applying Stellar Flare to them for 16 seconds. Generates 30 Astral Power. Orbital Strike still hits enemies in a 40 yard line and has a 90 second cooldown. Now a choice node with Wild Mushroom.
    • Mastery: Astral Invocation has been updated – Your Nature spells deal increased damage and additional damage to targets affected by Sunfire. Your Arcane spells deal increased damage and additional damage to targets affected by Moonfire.
    • Friend of the Fae’s tooltip changed to “When a Faerie Dragon is summoned, your spells deal 10% increased damage for 20 seconds.”
      • Developers’ note: This is a tooltip consistency change, not a functional changes. Balance spells whose tooltips say they modi...

With the PTR build that went live moments ago:

• DEMON HUNTER
  • Spectral Sight cooldown is now 1 minute 30 seconds (was 1 minute, and 30 seconds with rank 2 talented).
  • Spectral Sight cooldown reduced to 30 seconds (was 1 minute/30 seconds), and Haste now affects its global cooldown.
  • Demonic’s duration for Demon form reduced to 5 seconds (was 6 seconds).
  • Elysian Decree has been moved to the Demon Hunter class tree.
  • Fodder to the Flame has been moved to the Demon Hunter class tree.
  • Fodder to the Flame now increases Spectral Sight cooldown by 30 seconds in addition to previous effect.
  • The Hunt initial damage increased by 22% and damage over time damage increased by 30%.
  • Sigil of Flame now moved to Demon Hunter baseline.
  • Sigil of Flame initial damage increased by 200%.
  • New Talent: Live by the Glaive – When you parry an attack or have one of your attacks parried, re...

September 26, 2023

WoW Classic Era

• Fixed an issue that prevented Ouro from spawning after a post-wipe reset.

September 26, 2023

Classes

• Druid
  • Restoration
    • Fixed an issue that caused the Unstoppable Growth talent to not function.

Events

• Brewfest Hops no longer affect dragonriding mounts.
• When dragonriding in Eastern Kingdoms Cup races, players will now be temporarily granted fully unlocked dragonriding, regardless of their current Dragonriding Talent Tree state.

WoW Classic Era

• Fixed an issue that prevented Ouro from spawning after a post-wipe reset.

The PTR has been updated with
Build 51505

Icecrown Citadel

Icecrown Citadel raid testing will resume on September 26 at 12:00 p.m. PDT and will close on Friday September 29 at 5:00 p.m. PDT.

Bug Fixes and Adjustments

• Fixed an issue causing various abilities in the Professor Putricide encounter to occasionally deal more or less damage or healing than intended.
• Fixed an issue causing Lady Deathwhisper to occasionally Mind Control tanks and offtanks.
• Fixed an issue preventing long cooldown abilities from resetting after wiping to Festergut.
• Resolved an issue causing Prince Valanar’s Shocking Vortex ability to only ever target a tank rather than random raid members during the ...

Hello Mistweavers!

We have a few updates planned for Guardians of the Dream and we’d like to share some of our thoughts here.

Defensiveness and Healing Elixir Updates

Mistweaver is squishier than we would like, particularly for a primarily melee-based healer, and its defensive toolkit is based mainly around active spell use. We don’t feel it’s appropriate to ask Mistweavers to actively manage nearly every part of their defensive kit to play at the highest level, so we want to explore passivity for Healing Elixir.

We also agree there is room for improvement with the current updated passive design and players can expect updates in upcoming PTR builds that are intended to provide va...

We’ve deployed an update to the 3.4.3 PTR.

Build: 51470

Icecrown Citadel

We’ve received a lot of feedback and bug reports from Icecrown Citadel testing, and we plan to have one more raid test next week from Tuesday, September 26 at 10:00 a.m. PDT to Friday, September 29 at 5:00 p.m. PDT.

We’ll post an update with bug fixes and other adjustments specific to Icecrown Citadel sometime early next week.

T...

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Events

• The Waking Dream public event in the Azure Span should now properly start.
• Brewfest

Fixed an issue that prevented Keg-Shaped Treasure Chest from being awarded to players below level 70.

Quests

The weekly Time Rifts quest “When Time Needs Mending” can now be completed in a raid.

Demon Hunter talent updates will be starting to roll in as they become ready, starting with Havoc tree changes in this week’s PTR build. In some cases, talents may be missing or marked as a work in progress [WIP], but there are enough changes to the Havoc tree and individual talents that we’d like to get it in players’ hands to begin gathering feedback. Vengeance and Class tree changes are coming soon.

Demon Hunter

• Spectral Sight cooldown is now 1 minute 30 seconds (was 1 minute, and 30 seconds with rank 2 talented).
• Fodder to the Flame demon now revealed by Spectral Sight.
• Fodder to the Flame demon now takes fatal damage from Eye Beam/Fel Devastation in addition to Throw Glaive.
• Fodder to the Flame buff is now gran...

On Friday, September 22, starting at 4:00 p.m. PDT, come join members of the World of Warcraft development team on the Iridikron PTR realm as we playtest the new Superbloom public events that are being added in the Guardians of the Dream update.

The Superbloom is the new major public scenario event in the Emerald Dream. You will follow an Ancient of Life, Sprucecrown, as he begins a ritual to bloom life all around Amirdrassil, the budding world tree. He will need your help with various tasks along the way, such as watering flowers and pulling weeds. But danger also awaits, as the Primalists will not stand idly by while we empower the tree with life.

The event begins at the start of the hour, every hour. For the purposes of this PTR playtest, we’re going to be starting at 4:00 p.m., so we encourage you to log on at 3:45 to prepare your character and get setup!

In addition to the Superbloom, there are other public events that will also be active during this playte...

In the Guardians of the Dream patch, there are some new public events that feed into each other in the Emerald Dream zone.

The Superbloom

The Superbloom is the new major public scenario event in the Emerald Dream. You will follow an Ancient of Life, Sprucecrown, as he begins a ritual to bloom life all around Amirdrassil, the budding world tree. He will need your help with various tasks along the way, such as watering flowers and pulling weeds. But danger also awaits, as the Primalists will not stand idly by while we empower the tree with life.

The event begins at the start of the hour, every hour.

Dreamfruit

As Sprucecrown conducts his ritual, some trees will grow which bear large Dreamfruit. These Dreamfru...

We’ve ended this ICC test period, and we’re planning to open the raid for a third round of testing next week, after we’ve implemented fixes that we’re working on. We’ll open ICC again on Tuesday, September 26 at 10:00 a.m. PDT, and conclude that test period at 5:00 p.m. PDT on Friday, September 29.

Thank you very much for your testing and feedback and bug reports.

The current PvP season in Wrath Classic is ending soon. The evening before weekly maintenance, at 10:00 p.m. (October 2 in this region), Season 7 will end. There will be an off-season period until the 3.4.3 patch goes live.

The 3.4.3 patch will then mark the beginning of Season 8 on October 10 in this region.

Have a good fight to the finish!

September 19, 2023

WoW Classic Era

• The most-recent Alterac Valley bonus weekend has been extended. The bonus will end when the next bonus weekend (Warsong Gulch) begins on Friday, September 22.

September 19, 2023

Quests

• Fixed a bug preventing the objective counter from increasing when survivors were rescued for “Refti Retribution”.
• Fixed a bug that prevented some players from turning in the quest “The Nokhud Offensive: Founders Keepers”.

WoW Classic Era

• The most-recent Alterac Valley bonus weekend has been extended. The bonus will end when the next bonus weekend (Warsong Gulch) begins on Friday, September 22.

Confirming that the issue was resolved at about 11:30 a.m. PDT, and we’re seeing all realms with players logging in as expected.

Have a good day!