Kaivax

With today’s PTR update, you might notice mount size changes for gnome and tauren player characters. For a very long time, we’ve had issues that stem from gnomes and tauren riding on mounts that appear larger than intended. We’re adjusting their sizing down on normal* mounts.

This allows us to correct many art and animation bugs with these specific races when mounted, and they look better. Gnomes and tauren now look more like they should, gnomes can actually reach their reins, and tauren can fit through more doorways when mounted.

Here’s an example of how a gnome character looks when mounted-
Before the change-

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The Jaina change is now live.

A new build with new testable content has been published to the Public Test Realms (PTR) for our upcoming content update, Rise of Azshara. This build retains progress made since test characters were deleted on May 14.

Now Available

• Test characters are now granted access to all Rank 3 Essences within the class Proving Grounds. Players can access the Proving Grounds by speaking to their respective class trainer in a capital city.

Continuing Testing

• Heart of Azeroth system update-- Essences
• New Zone-- Mechagon
• New Zone-- Nazjatar
• New Raid-- Azshara’s Eternal Palace
• New Dungeon-- Operation: Mechagon
• New Arena-- The Robodrome
• Mount Equipment
• Crestfall and Snowblossom Island Expeditions
• Ashran Epic Battleground
• New Missions
• Gnome and Tauren Heritage Armors
• New Profession Recipes
• Pet Battle Dungeon-- Str...

The Grong and Mekkatorque changes are now live. The change to the Jaina encounter is not yet live.

We’re working on the following adjustments to raid encounters. These changes are not live yet, but will go live later this evening or tomorrow.

Dungeons and Raids

• Battle of Dazar’alor
  • Grong, the Jungle Lord
    • Death Empowerment (Alliance) and Apetagonize (Horde) cast time increased to 5 seconds on Mythic difficulty (was 4 seconds).
    • Death Specters (Alliance) and Apetagonizers (Horde) health reduced by 20% on Mythic difficulty.
  • High Tinker Mekkatorque
    • Gigavolt Charge’s radiation zone duration reduced to 2 minutes on Mythic difficulty (was 3 minutes).
    • Tampering duration increased to 30 seconds on Mythic difficulty (was 25 seconds).
  • Lady Jaina Proudmoore
    • Jaina now kills all players instantly if the entire raid is frozen solid during an intermission phase.
      • Developers’ note: Pr...

Yes we had it inadvertently marked live for a few minutes. It’s not supposed to be until tomorrow, Wednesday, May 22, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. PDT.

See you tomorrow!

We tested this issue in our reference environment today.

First, we looked at a video from the WoW Classic Beta, where the player was tanking Rhahk’zor in Deadmines at level 20:

If you look at his portrait while he’s getting hit, you can see him receiving 65-83 damage from Rhahk’zor. The average hit is ~75.

We then recreated it in the WoW Classic Beta-- a level 20 human warrior with similar gear, with Defensive Stance, and with Mark of the Wild. Here’s what that looked like:

This change was not intended. We’re investigating the issue and plan to fix it in the Rise of Azshara PTR as soon as possible.

This change was not intended. We’re investigating the issue and plan to fix it in the Rise of Azshara PTR as soon as possible.

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• At all levels of player characters and enemies, aggro radius is set to the intended distance.

We saw many similar reports in the first few days of the WoW Classic Beta Test.

As a result, we ran a multitude of comparisons with our 1.12 reference client. In doing so, we varied the player levels and enemy levels. In conclusion, we didn’t see any discrepancies with aggro radius.

I’m adding this to our not-a-bug list / forum post.

Thank you for the feedback!

I’ve added this to the OP:

• You are unable to Polymorph enemy targets that are tapped by players with whom you are not grouped.

As we’ve discussed before, the nature of WoW Classic sometimes invokes different memories for different players, and this leads to certain misconceptions for some about what is or isn’t working as intended.

The following is a list of commonly-reported gameplay in WoW Classic that is not actually a bug, and is working as we expect it to:

• Tauren’s hitboxes and their melee reach is slightly larger than other races.
• Being critically struck while using /sit to sit does not cause abilities like Enrage, Blood Craze, and Reckoning to activate.
• Using the “Automatic Quest Tracking” option does not auto-track newly accepted quests. (It instead will start to track an existing quest once progress towards an objective is started.)
• Warrior health Regeneration is working at the expected rate.
• Quests objectives and points of interests are not tracked on the map or minimap.
• Completed quests are marked on the minimap with a dot. (and not...

Today, Friday, May 17, the PTR will go into maintenance at 4:00 p.m. PDT.

We expect to have it back up and available after about 30 minutes.

After testing the Blackwater Behemoth encounter, please post your feedback here.

Thank you!

After testing the Za’qul encounter, please post your feedback here.

Thank you!

After testing the Queen’s Court encounter, please post your feedback here.

Thank you!

A new build with new testable content has been published to the Public Test Realms (PTR) for our upcoming content update, Rise of Azshara. All test characters previously created on PTR realms have been deleted.

Now Available

• Nazjatar can now be tested from its beginning stage.

Continuing Testing

• Heart of Azeroth system update: Essences
• New Zone: Mechagon
• New Raid-- Azshara’s Eternal Palace
• New Dungeon-- Operation: Mechagon
• New Arena: The Robodrome
• Mount Equipment
• Crestfall and Snowblossom Island Expeditions
• Ashran Epic Battleground
• New Missions
• Gnome and Tauren Heritage Armors
• New Profession Recipes
• Pet Battle Dungeon: Stratholme

Coming Soon

• Heroic Battle for Stromgarde Warfront
• Mythic Keystone Dungeon Updates

Keep an eye out here in this f...

With the first WoW Classic Beta Test getting underway imminently, it’s a good time to remind all testers and potential testers that there are no such things at ‘Beta Keys’ for WoW Classic, and there is no way to transfer access to the WoW Classic Beta Test.

To become a tester for the WoW Classic Beta: browse to ...

With the first WoW Classic Beta Test getting underway imminently, it’s a good time to remind all testers and potential testers that there are no such things at ‘Beta Keys’ for WoW Classic, and there is no way to transfer access to the WoW Classic Beta Test.

To become a tester for the WoW Classic Beta: browse to ...