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Just want to be very clear–
The final chapter for the Embers of Neltharion questline will open up to all players, regardless of their personal raid progression, when Scalecommander Sarkareth becomes available in Raid Finder.

That story is related to the end of the raid. So in order for players to see the content as intended, we’ve made two possible requirements for the quest to be given: either (this week) you must have killed Sarkareth, or, for those who do not raid, the last chapter will open to you the same week as the final Raid Finder wing opens.

This way, we’re able to deliver the content to all without spoiling it for players who want to experience it chronologically.

There’s a reason for this.

Up to this point, there have been hidden tracking event quests that could count towards quest-completion Achievements. Those hidden tracking quests could result in a player (who carefully counts what they’ve been doing) receiving a ‘50 quests completed’ Achievement after only counting 44 visible quests.

We’ve made a change in the forthcoming Fractures in Time patch that will put a stop to that. After this patch is released, only quests that you see and accept and complete will count towards quest-completion Achievements. Players won’t lose any progress or lose any Achievements they already have, but from tha...

We’re getting ready to brawl!

As a reminder, the PTR for this test is named Public Test Realm (Wrath Classic) in your Battle.net app. We’ll gather on Classic PTR Realm 2.

Later this week, Time Rifts will open for testing on the PTR.

This week, testers will be able to play through stage one of the Time Rift event. Stage two, which is coming in a later build, will take you through a portal into the alternate timeway from which the incursion is coming. When you complete stage one on the PTR, you should get a message saying that this is all that is available for testing.

Initially, testers will see invasions from the murloc world of Azmerloth and from the Titan-inspired world of Ulderoth. Future PTR builds will include incursions from other worlds.

Thank you for your testing and feedback!

On Thursday, May 18 at 2:00 p.m. PDT (5:00 p.m. EDT), please join us on the Call of the Crusade PTR and get your driving gloves on.

We’ll be heading out to Isle of Conquest for some 40 v. 40 war … craft, and we want to fill up both sides of the isle and fire up all of the workshops, turrets, and war machines.

The test will end at 4:00 p.m. PDT (7:00 p.m. EDT). We hope to see you there!

With todays PTR update, the following changes have arrived for the new Augmentation specialization:

• EVOKER
  • Emerald Blossom’s flower now grows immediately on cast and heals after 1.5 seconds (was 2 seconds).
  • Augmentation
    • Pupil of Alexstrazsa now only launches 1 additional Living Flame when Leaping Flames is active (previously, it was casting an extra Living Flame for every Leaping Flames charge).
    • New Talent: Dream of Spring – Emerald Blossom no longer has a cooldown, deals 35% increased healing, and increases the duration of your active Ebon Might effects by 1 second, but costs 3 Essence. Emerald Blossom will now benefit from and consume Essence Burst.
      • Developer’s Note: In a future PTR update, Dream of Spring will be moved to be a choice node with Prolong Life.
    • Activate Weyrnstone is now usable while moving.
    • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible Set Bonus has...

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Abomination Limb damage is now reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
  • Empower Rune Weapon’s Haste bonus is now 33% effective in PvP combat.
  • Spellwarden no longer reduces the duration of Anti-Magic Shell.
  • Frost
    • Developers’ note: We’re making updates to Frost Death Knights in PvP with the goals of a rewarding the spec for uptime by increasing its overall sustained damage and lowering its reliance on cooldowns.
    • The base Strength increase from Pillar of Frost is now 40% effective in PvP combat (was 60%)
    • The stacking Strength increase from Pillar of Frost is now 50% effective in PvP combat.
    • The Mastery increase from Frostwhelp’s Aid is now 50% effective in PvP combat.
    • The Frost damage increase from Bonegrinder is now 50% effective in PvP combat.
    • The Frost Strike damage increase from Shattering Blade i...

As Senior Game Producer Aggrend just confirmed on the Hardcore All-Stars stream, we’ve been working to bring official Hardcore Classic gameplay to WoW Classic. We’ve been very energized by the community’s enthusiasm for Hardcore, watching along with you, and doing a lot of Hardcore play ourselves.

We’ll let you know much more about it soon!

In response to initial Season 2 results and player feedback, we’re working on the following adjustments to classes. We plan to implement all of the changes below during scheduled weekly maintenance, which is Tuesday, May 16 in this region.

Classes

Death Knight

• Frost
  • All ability damage increased by 3%.
  • Obliterate damage increased by 5%.
  • Frost Strike damage increased by 6%.
  • Howling Blast damage increased by 6%.
  • Remorseless Winter damage increased by 8%.
  • Frost Fever damage increased by 12%.

Demon Hunter

• Havoc
  • Chaos Strike/Annihilation damage increased by 10%.
  • First Blood...

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Greetings Holy Paladins!

Significant changes are being made to the Holy Paladin specialization tree in Fractures in Time and we’d like to go over our goals and plans for these changes.

Meaningful Choices

The previous tree layout and talent nodes did not offer as much choice between content as we’d like. A main goal of this update is to encourage diversity between talent builds so gameplay feels varied between content and encounter types.

To achieve this goal, we’re taking a hard look at the tuning and integration of underrepresented talents to ensure they are both competitive and can fit within multiple builds. Too many talents felt like they worked for one playstyle, but not another. This is generally fine in moderation b...

Hello fellow Mages!

In the Fractures in Time PTR, we have some updates coming to both the Class and Arcane talent trees. We’re also working on changes for Fire and Frost in future PTR builds. Below, we’ll cover some high-level changes as well as our plans moving forward.

Class

The current Mage class tree has a variety of talents which offer a variety of utility and survivability talents options, but with its current layout, a lot of that choice feels difficult to navigate. This is due to the nature of their current capstones and how impactful and important they are to the overall rotation for each of the specs. In Fractures in Time, we’re making a few changes such as making some abilities baseline, removing Rune of Power, a slightly new tree layout, and a...

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The bug was fixed, and this resumed being rewarded immediately about two hours ago.

In order to address a bug, we have disabled a part of Keystone Master.

At this time, players will not get the Draconic Mark of Mastery from completing Keystone Master. Once we re-enable it, the fix will be retroactive.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

We agree with a lot of the feedback around this.

The Highland Drake: Embodiment of the Hellforged dragonriding manuscript has a very low chance to drop from Sarkareth on Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic raid difficulties.

Mythic raiders will always receive two manuscripts per Sarkareth kill until the end of the expansion.

I think I have good news for you. If you’ve completed the quest to learn the Onyxia Scale Cloak, but lost the recipe, you can relearn it by speaking with Major Mattingly in Stormwind or Overlord Natoj in Orgrimmar.

Noting that these two typos were typos, and will not be applied to the game:

Druid

• Restoration
  • All healing and damage increased by 2%.

Paladin

• Holy
  • All healing and damage decreased by 3%.

In response to data and feedback immediately following the Embers of Neltharion patch, we’re planning to make adjustments to several classes. This tuning includes changes to talents in the live game and the testing values of several items that will soon become available in Season 2 (provided below).

The following will take place during scheduled weekly maintenance in each region.

Classes

Demon Hunter

• Havoc
  • Melee auto attack damage increased by 10%.
  • Demon’s Bite damage increased by 10%.
  • Demon Blades damage increased by 10%.
  • Felblade damage increased by 10%.
  • Isolated Prey now increases Eye Beam damage by 30% when striking 1 target (was 25%).
• Vengeance
  • ...

Hotfixes

May 4, 2023

Classes

• Monk
  • Windwalker
    • Fixed an issue that caused the critical damage bonus of the Rising Star talent to be lower than intended.
• Warlock
  • Call Observer (PvP Talent) Laserbeam no longer procs from unintended effects, and no longer damages player pets and summons.
  • Demonology
    • Fixed an issue where Legion Strike from Grimoire: Felguard was benefitting from Immutable Hatred.
    • Fixed an issue where Pact of the Imp Mother was not correctly benefitting from being Rank 2.

Items and Rewards

• Rae’ena and Cataloger Jakes of the Dragons...