Our engineers have been working on an issue with this week’s update to World of Warcraft that could cause game display issues, including crashes, for some players using the Overlay feature in Discord.
We’re working on a fix for this issue, and we expect to deploy that fix to World of Warcraft soon.
Just want to confirm-- this is happening at level 120?
I’d love to see it.
March 13, 2019 -
Yes. With the introduction of stat templates in Legion, xp-off players couldn’t get a significant advantage over xp-on players, so we combined the brackets for low level battlegrounds. Now that we’ve removed stat templates, we’ve returned xp-off players to their own bracket.
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Several changes that were made in the Tides of Vengeance update in December got misplaced with today’s update. We’re working on a hotfix that will carry them back into the live game. This includes a damage increase for Marksmanship Hunters, as well as Equipoise and Replicating Shadows.
The Key Bindings for selecting a specific action bar page (shift+1-6), paging forward (shift+mousewheel up), and paging backward (shift+mousewheel down) have been reset. These can be re-bound in the Action Bar section of the Key Bindings menu.
In 8.1.5, we are making some improvements to how World of Warcraft uses DirectX. In essence, our old DirectX 11 is now called DirectX 11 Legacy, and our new DirectX 11 is multi-threaded. More details on each DirectX version is below:
DirectX 11 Legacy
A single-threaded rendering backend. This is provided to be the most compatible with older hardware, operating systems, and drivers. This is also the least performant. This is very similar to the functionality of DirectX 11 in 8.0.1.
DirectX 11
A new multi-threaded rendering backend using DirectX 11. This should improve performance for older GPUs or operating systems that don’t support DirectX 12. This is new for 8.1.5.
DirectX 12
A multi-threaded rendering backend using DirectX 12 for hardware, drivers, and operating systems that support it. There are some performance improvements in 8.1.5, but it is mainly the same as the 8.1.0 release.
March 5, 2019 -
We’ve just updated our hotfixes blog post, including a significant change to the Twin-Pipe Buster Cannon:
Aloha! We don’t want anyone who wishes to know what the developers are posting on Twitter to miss a single update.
So we’ll put them here as quickly as we can. Here’s the WarcraftDevs twitter feed:
It’s right there in the update notes!
Enemies of the opposite faction in Zandalar and Kul Tiras now drop invitations, and a new vendor named A. Shady occasionally has them for sale in Orgrimmar and Stormwind.
After we saw the performance gains of using multi-threaded rendering in DirectX 12 for the initial Tides of Vengeance update, we worked together with Microsoft and our hardware vendors to bring similar performance gains to our Windows 7 users. We are pleased to announce that with today’s content update, World of Warcraft will now support DirectX 12 on Windows 7. This allows our Windows 7 users to take advantage of the performance benefit of using DirectX 12, which was previously only available to our Windows 10 users.
Windows 7 users will need to make sure they have the latest graphics drivers to use DirectX 12. If your GPU supports DirectX 12 on Windows 7, you may enable it by selecting it in the Advanced System settings, under "Graphics API".
Read moreAfter we saw the performance gains of using multi-threaded rendering in DirectX 12 for the initial Tides of Vengeance update, we worked together with Microsoft and our hardware vendors to bring similar performance gains to our Windows 7 users. We are pleased to announce that with today’s content update, World of Warcraft will now support DirectX 12 on Windows 7. This allows our Windows 7 users to take advantage of the performance benefit of using DirectX 12, which was previously only available to our Windows 10 users.
Windows 7 users will need to make sure they have the latest graphics drivers to use DirectX 12. If your GPU supports DirectX 12 on Windows 7, you may enable it by selecting it in the Advanced System settings, under "Graphics API".
Read moreCheck out everything that’s been added to WoW with today’s content update right here:
Read moreI don’t think it’s my rarest but I’m most proud of Salty and I’ve used it on every character for ten years now.
I've messaged you privately to see if I can figure out what's going on. While we can't provide support here directly, the forums are my bailiwick.
The 8.1.5 content update is now live. Please read on for a list of known issues that we’re working on, and further information about the update.
As always, Blizzard Customer Support is here for you! If you don’t see your issue in the list below, Get help here 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
8.1.5 KNOWN ISSUES
Updated March 12, 2019
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