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We’ve found and fixed this bug. The fix was deployed at 12:00 Noon PST today, and will appear in our next hotfixes update.

When we previously posted about today’s hotfixes, there was still one Hunter adjustment underway. It’s now finalized and has just gone live:

• Hunter Kill Command now only increases the damage done by Claw and Bite.

This will appear in the next hotfixes update, but has just now taken effect (~6:20 p.m. PST).

Today, the WoW Community Council met with World of Warcraft developers Ion Hazzikostas and Jeremy Feasel to talk about development of content in Dragonflight and beyond.

Please feel free to keep the discussion going here, if you have any follow-up questions or comments on what was discussed.

Thank you!

December 12, 2023

Season of Discovery

• Druid
  • Starsurge rune ability damage increased 182%.
  • Starsurge cooldown reduced to 6 seconds (was 10 seconds).
  • Starsurge mana cost reduced to 1% of base mana (was 3% of base mana).
• Hunter
  • Flanking Strike now gains the benefit of weapon enhancements like sharpening stones, is now on global cooldown, and is now properly treated as a melee attack, letting it benefit from attack power and combat modifiers to dodge, parry, block, crit, hit, etc.
  • Flanking Strike is now prevented by Pacify.
  • Flanking Strike now requires a weapon equipped.
  • Flanking Strike pet damage is now properly treated as a melee attack, with same benefits as listed above for the hunter’s damage.
  • All damaging Hunter pet abilities now gain damage from Attack Power based on their Focus costs. Hunter pets no...

December 12, 2023

Achievements

• Fixed a bug that prevented Assassin Bounties from progressing the Bounty Hunting and Band of Brothers

Dungeons and Raids

• Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope
  • Tindral Sageswift
    • Fire Beam number of beam spawns per pulse reduced to 6 (was 8).
    • Fiery Growth duration increased to 20 seconds (was 16 seconds) in Mythic difficulty.
    • Lingering Cinder duration reduced to 2 seconds (was 3 seconds).
    • Pulsing Heat damage reduced by 33%.
    • Fiery Vines health reduced by 7% in Mythic difficulty.
    • Addressed an issue where Mass Entanglement can fail to root tank players.
    • Addressed a performance issue that caused a server delay at the start of the encounter.

Items and Transmog

• Ashes of the Embers...

The following additional hotfixes have been added to the OP, and will come into effect with maintenance.

• Hunter
  • Hunter pet attack values have been updated to better scale with Hunter attack power.
    • Developers’ notes: Pets that cast spells such as scorpid poison or Lightning Breath were scaling too well and pets using physical abilities were scaling too little. We’ve now normalized the amount of attack power gained, to scale with the focus cost of individual pet abilities. This means that abilities with a higher focus cost, that are cast less often, will receive more benefit from attack power per attack than abilities with a lower focus cost that can generally be used more often. Overall this should level out the damage and reduce situations where some abilities were scaling too much or too little with hunter attack power.
  • Scorpid poison now distributes the additional damage it gains from attack power evenl...

At the beginning of Dragonflight Season 3, we reduced the maximum rating gap healers could have going into a Solo Shuffle match, across all ratings, based on feedback we received. We’ve seen that this resulted in long queue times at higher ratings.

To help address this, about a week ago, we increased the rating gap moderately, but only at higher ratings, to best preserve matchmaking within the entirety of the ladder.

We’ve been watching the results of changes like that, and we’ll continue to watch all of these issues very carefully so that we can make surgical changes wherever necessary.

Along with scheduled weekly maintenance in each region (tomorrow, December 12), we’re going to make the following adjustments to the Tindral encounter in Amirdrassil.

Dungeons and Raids

• Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope
  • Tindral Sageswift
    • Fire Beam number of beam spawns per pulse reduced to 6 (was 8).
    • Fiery Growth duration increased to 20 seconds (was 16 seconds) in Mythic difficulty.
    • Lingering Cinder duration reduced to 2 seconds (was 3 seconds).
    • Pulsing Heat damage reduced by 33%.
    • Fiery Vines health reduced by 7% in Mythic difficulty.
    • Addressed a performance issue that caused a server delay at the start of the encounter.

Tomorrow, with scheduled weekly maintenance in each region, we’re going to implement some adjustments based on class performance and feedback.

Season of Discovery

• Druid
  • Starsurge rune ability damage increased 182%.
  • Starsurge cooldown reduced to 6 seconds (was 10 seconds).
  • Starsurge mana cost reduced to 1% of base mana (was 3% of base mana).
• Hunter
  • Flanking Strike now gains the benefit of weapon enhancements like sharpening stones, is now on global cooldown, and is now properly treated as a melee attack, letting it benefit from attack power and combat modifiers to dodge, parry, block, crit, hit, etc.
  • Flanking Strike is now preven...

We revisited this today, and believe that it’s about to work out for everyone.

As you know, there was an issue that was fixed on November 27 that resulted in a one-time mailing of missing Echoed Ephemera to players. At the same time, we made an additional update*.

Since then, we’ve seen some players report they’re not at the expected amount of Echoed Ephemera. The currency is capped per week, so you can reach 10 on week one, 20 on week two, etc. All players who’ve been maximizing this should be done on week five.

*The additional update we made was to increase the cap for week five to 60 Echoed Ephemera. All players who have been raiding each week should be able to earn the enchantment on week five.

It was a challenging bug and realm restarts were required, but once we got it sorted, we didn’t want to wait until Tuesday for the buff to return.

Have fun!

Opened a discussion on this here.

We want to acknowledge a known issue that we’ve been working to identify and fix.

It’s possible in the Battle for Ashenvale PvP event to have two lieutenants get killed at precisely the same time, resulting in the entire event hanging in error for an extended time, and even affecting the start/reset of the next round of the event.

We completely understand how disruptive this is, and we’re working diligently to deliver a fix as soon as possible.

Today, the WoW Community Council met with Classic World of Warcraft developers Nora Valleta, Ana Resendez, and Josh Greenfield to talk about Season of Discovery, Classic Era, and the Wrath Classic to Cataclysm Classic update.

Please feel free to keep the discussion going here, if you have any follow-up questions or comments on what was discussed.

Thank you!

While all of the changes made to Ashenvale PvP in the first week of Season of Discovery have been included in our hotfixes update, I’ve gone ahead and compiled them here:

• The lieutenant and general NPCs in the Season of Discovery Ashenvale PvP event now have much higher health.
• Generals are now immune to damage until all of their lieutenants have been defeated.
• While no lieutenants are dead, generals and their nearby allies gain 1000% increased damage.
• The Horde general’s chain lightning will now hit up to 40 targets.
• When a player 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 ...

This is working correctly. It is not intended that reputation can be gained from leaders once you’re Revered.

With a hotfix that we’ll apply to the game soon:

• Tindral Sageswift
  • Fallen Feathers now spawn 6 feathers (was 4) on Mythic Difficulty.

And as always, this change will be listed later in our Hotfixes Update.

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, November 2023:

Total Exploitative WoW Account Actions in November 2023: 197455

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.

We’re on it!

We’ve been working on fixing this all day. It’s a surprisingly challenging bug, but we expect to get the buff back on soon.

We’ve had a trend of pricing Trading Post class sets at 450 Trader’s Tender, and for the first few days of December, a bug caused the Imminence of Krag’wa’s Executor set to sell for 500 Tender. We’ve now hotfixed the game to set that price at 450, as we originally intended.

If you’ve already purchased the set, please hang tight. We’re working on a second hotfix that will refund you the extra 50 Tender. You don’t have to take any steps. That refund will come as soon as we can implement it this month.

We apologize for the mix-up.