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With hotfixes that are now live, we’ve updated many items that drop in Sunken Temple to be better for casters and more rewarding in general.

A number of previously non-Epic items are now Epic quality, and in many cases, stats have been added or increased.

Realm restarts this morning included fixes for this issue.

We’ve been looking for any feedback players who experienced it may have, following restarts.

We have been monitoring the impact of the Gulp Frog farming that some players did during the first three days of WoW Remix. We’ve also been working on ways to respond to player feedback about Bronze acquisition, increased difficulty at higher levels, and feeling too far behind those who took advantage of the frogs.

A small number of players received an extreme advantage that has distorted the gameplay experience for some in WoW Remix. With hotfixes later today, May 24, we will adjust characters with an unreasonably large number of Gulp Frog kills prior to the loot bug fix, and those players will see the power of their Cloak of Infinite Potential reduced to an amount that a very engaged player could reasonably achieve. This change will have a larger impact on players who took advantage of the situation for longer.

For everyone that did not take advantage of the frog farming, we’re providing three additional quests with large Bronze rewards for reaching levels 50, 60, an...

Alpha realms are again open for testing.

Today at about 4:00 p.m. PDT (7:00 p.m. EDT), we will take Alpha realms down for maintenance. We do not currently know how long this maintenance period will last.

Thank you for your patience.

May 22, 2024

Cataclysm Classic

• Fixed a bug preventing Diabolical Plans from dropping in Ashenvale for Horde players wanting to do “Never Again”.
• Cataclysm Honor Vendors should now be available in Stormwind and Orgrimmar to purchase ilvl 352 Blue PvP Gear for Honor Points.
  • Conquest and Elite Conquest vendors will not sell anything until Arena Season 9 begins with next week’s regional resets.
• Fixed a bug with the Thirty Tabards
• Fixed a bug preventing Engineers and Alchemists from making discoveries while crafting.
• Crafted “Vicious” gear that was unintentionally created at item level 377 has been adjusted to item level 339.
• In “Stonefather’s Boon”, the Stonefather’s Boon buff duration has been reduced to 10 seconds (was 3 minutes).
• Fixed some quest issues. Erunak Stonespeaker should now still be visible to players who have advanced further in the qu...

May 22, 2024

Non-Player Characters

• Doc Nanners in Valdrakken will again offer players “A Cataloger’s Paradise” upon reaching Renown 8 with the Dragonscale Expedition.

WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria

• Added clarity to the quest “The Great Water Hunt” to speak with Mudmug before gathering water.
• Nostwin now sells Glyph of Shadow for Priests.
• Fixed an issue preventing the quest “Where are My Reinforcements?” from proceeding as expected.
• Improved the respawn rate and treasure from rares and rare elites across Pandaria.
• Increased the amount of bronze and raised the drop chance for threads of time from airborne bronze.
• Fixed an issue where players who faction-changed could not use the group finder for dungeons and scenarios.
• Fixed an issue preventing the quest “Riding the Skies” from granting the appropriate Cloud Serpent mount.
• Fixed...

May 22, 2024

WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria

• Added clarity to the quest “The Great Water Hunt” to speak with Mudmug before gathering water.
• Nostwin now sells Glyph of Shadow for Priests.
• Fixed an issue preventing the quest “Where are My Reinforcements?” from proceeding as expected.
• Improved the respawn rate and treasure from rares and rare elites across Pandaria.
• Increased the amount of bronze and raised the drop chance for threads of time from airborne bronze.
• Fixed an issue where players who faction-changed could not use the group finder for dungeons and scenarios.
• Fixed an issue preventing the quest “Riding the Skies” from granting the appropriate Cloud Serpent mount.
• Fixed an issue causing Wise Mari in the Temple of the Jade Serpent to not spawn Corrupt Living Water as intended.
• Hutia was out of control in the Jade Forest, and has been convinced to relax a b...

The vendors are now in-game.

May 21, 2024

Cataclysm Classic

• Players experiencing phasing issues from Wrathgate or Battle for Undercity quests that are deprecated in Cataclysm Classic should now be in the correct phase in Orgrimmar and Undercity.
• Hunter
  • Hunter traps are now faster and more consistent in their arming times.
• Shaman
  • Fixed an issue with Shaman Greater Fire Elemental dealing too much damage with its Fire Nova spell.
• Warrior
  • Fixed an issue preventing Slam from being logged properly in the combat log.

May 21, 2024

WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria

• We have made the following changes to improve Thread of Time gain for the Cloak of Infinite Potential. Our goal with these additional items is to give players access to more Threads of Time from daily repeatable sources. These should serve as readily attainable power-ups from a wide variety of content, so players can enjoy the breadth of Pandaria while also gaining additional power. There are four new items that grant players escalating amounts of power for the Cloak of Infinite Potential:
  • Minor Spool of Eternal Thread
  • Lesser Spool of Eternal Thread
  • Spool of Eternal Thread
  • Greater Spool of Eternal Thread
• Players will be able to find these new items from a variety of solo and group sources, ensuring all players have accessible ways to improve their cloak:
  • Infinite Bazaar Repeatable Dailies
  • First-Time Daily Scenario,...

Devastation Evokers will want to check out today’s updates.

The goal of these changes is primarily to increase the viability of the left side of the Devastation tree. We hope this can allow Devastation to be more flexible in their talent choices and have options to build around Firestorm if they wish.

The cap we added for Animosity was primarily to help keep the extension gameplay healthy and not reliant on effects like Power Infusion.

We’re monitoring feedback around this ...

We have made the following changes to improve Thread of Time gain for the Cloak of Infinite Potential. There are four new items that grant players escalating amounts of power for the Cloak of Infinite Potential:

• Minor Spool of Eternal Thread
• Lesser Spool of Eternal Thread
• Spool of Eternal Thread
• Greater Spool of Eternal Thread

Players will be able to find these new items from a variety of solo and group sources, ensuring all players have accessible ways to improve their cloak:

• Infinite Bazaar Repeatable Dailies
• First-Time Daily Scenario, Dungeon, and each LFR queue
• World Bosses
• Remix Achievements
  • Each of these achievements are available for additional characters to complete as well for bonus Bronze - and now bonus Spools of Eternal Thread.
• Troves of the Thunder King scenario on the Isle of Thunder

Our goal with these additional items is t...

Hello again Death Knights!

Today’s new alpha build has some further updates to the Class and Unholy trees, mostly as it relates to their respective layouts. We heard plenty of feedback on how the Class tree fell short in some of our stated goals especially in the latter half of the tree. To address this, we’ve split out the newest choice node into individual nodes at the capstone level and added a new talent Unyielding Will that removes harmful magic effects when activated.

Blood Draw is no longer at the capstone level and has moved to an optional location in the 3rd gate. We’ve also reduced the ranks of Osmosis, Subduing Grasp, and Runic Protection which feels more appropriate for their effects. We’ve also restructured talents throughout the 3rd gate of the tree to something that should feel better to navigate in addition to the latter talent half restructure we’ve done some updates to the pathing in the 1st gate.

Mind Freeze and its follow up talent Coldthirst...

Hello mages!

We have another round of Arcane Mage changes hitting the Alpha today, and we want to do a check-in on the state of Arcane Mage and how it relates to our stated goals.

As mentioned in our initial post, our goals for our Alpha Mage changes were:

• Allow you to acquire each specialization’s core gameplay with less talent point investment.
• Simplify rotational complexity.
• Provide new nodes that can help you adapt your damage profile to better match a given encounter’s demands.
• Provide competitive choice nodes that let you opt-out of complex gameplay.

We feel that as of right now, we’re approaching these goals with Arcane, but there have been a few outliers that we’d like to address.

Clearcasting
In this alpha build, we are officially untying Clearcasting’s proc chance from mana spent. While this did add interesting texture to the landscape of Arcane’s rotation, it created some disc...

Hello Feral Druids,

As part of a clarity pass, we’re adding Omen of Clarity’s Clearcasting buff to the personal resource bar and removing the icon highlights it puts on Shred, Swipe, and Thrash. This is an experiment to reduce the visual noise on Feral’s action bars - the highlights can be active frequently, lighting up a significant section of your action bar, and the vine overlay graphics provide the same information.

We’re open to feedback on how this change affects your play.

We’re also reviewing ability icons to eliminate duplicates, such as swapping the Ravage and Dreadful Wound icons so Ravage doesn’t share an icon with Bloodtalons.

Greetings Warlocks.

Today’s Alpha build focuses on restructuring the Destruction specialization tree. We will provide context for some of these changes in this post.

Heads up! Some talents are not yet implemented but should be in a future build.

Soul Fire, Channel Demonfire, and Shadowburn
We’re pivoting away from Soul Fire becoming another execute spell as Shadowburn already fills this purpose. Instead, it will serve as a reward for high critical strike chance and will naturally become more available when Shadowburn benefits from a low health target.

Both Channel Demonfire and Shadowburn spells are retaining their current uses and identities; however, we are introducing new talents that should increase how valuable these spells are in Destruction’s toolkit. We look forward to hearing your feedback regarding the direction of each of these spells.

Summon Infernal
We’ve moved Summon Infernal to a m...

We’ve continued to deploy hotfixes to the game in response to feedback and data that we’re seeing.

We have made the following changes to improve Thread of Time gain for the Cloak of Infinite Potential. There are four new items that grant players escalating amounts of power for the Cloak of Infinite Potential:

• Minor Spool of Eternal Thread
• Lesser Spool of Eternal Thread
• Spool of Eternal Thread
• Greater Spool of Eternal Thread

Players will be able to find these new items from a variety of solo and group sources, ensuring all players have accessible ways to improve their cloak:

• Infinite Bazaar Repeatable Dailies
• First-Time Daily Scenario, Dungeon, and each LFR queue
• World Bosses
• Remix Achievements
  • Each of these achievements are available for additional characters to complete as well for bonus Bronze - and now bonus Spools of Eternal Thread.
• Troves o...

We have the following changes and updates in today’s new build of The War Within Alpha:

CLASSES

• The number of talent loadouts that can be saved on a per character basis to has been increased to 40 (was 10).
• We are removing increased melee range talents across the game, such as Astral Influence and Acrobatic Strikes. Default melee range has increased since these talents were originally created, so they now allow specs to attack from well outside where it appears they should be able to. They make the melee experience inconsistent across classes in a way we’re not happy with, so we’re removing them.
  • ROGUE
    • Deathstalker (Assassination/Subtlety) Hero Talents are now available for testing.
      • The harbingers of death, Deathstalkers strike from the shadows to bring a swift end to their targets.
  • DEATH KNIGHT
    • New Talent: Unyielding Will – Anti-Magi...

We’ve got an issue that we’re working to fix.

We plan to spawn the PvP vendors selling Bloodthirsty (iLvl 352) gear as soon as we can.