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This is my favorite bonus event week.

While my favorite pet is still Lil Rag, I use a couple of addons that bust out a pet regularly in various situations. For example, I really like automatically summoning Muckbreath/Snarly/Toothy/Chuck when I start fishing.

My favorite renamed pet is my Dragon Kite, which has gone through many names, and is currently known as Shockolate. You know … because it occasionally shocks you.

My question for this week is always: what’s the PBPvP team du jour? And what will you be using to counter it? And then what will you switch to to counter that counter?

Okay that was three questions...

Hello! There are four things to report so far–

• The Storm, Earth, and Fire + Mark of the Crane interactions should be fixed in 8.1.5
• Pressure Point should work with Storm, Earth, and Fire in 8.1.5
• Dance of Chi-Ji should work with Storm, Earth, and Fire in 8.1.5
• We’re still investigating the Glory of the Dawn trait.

Thank you for the bug reports.

Hello.

After investigating this, we think there is some discrepancy between the cooldown shown on the action bar and the cooldown shown on the tooltip.

We believe that we’ve got this fixed in 8.1.5, and so far we haven’t been able to reproduce it in the 8.1.5 PTR.

We’ll keep an eye on it, and thank you for the heads-up.

All of the changes listed above are now live.

[Updated 19:30 PST – all changes below are now live]

Good evening!

We’ve taken a careful look at healer mana during longer PvP engagements in both Arenas and battlegrounds, and we’re deploying some changes to address several concerns.

In PvP, we want mana to feel like a more critical resource, and we want mana efficiency to be an important part of PvP healing. At the beginning of Battle for Azeroth, mana regeneration from all healer specs was reduced by 15-30% (depending on the class), and after reviewing the current state of the game, we feel like further reductions are necessary to both healer specs and a few hybrid specs.

With a hotfix that is coming very soon:

Player versus Player

• Restoration Druid mana regeneration is now reduced by 55% in PvP.
• Holy Priest, Holy Paladin, Restoration Shaman, and Mistweaver Monk mana regeneration is now reduced by 50% in PvP.
• Discipline Priest mana...

In the most-recent new build on the PTR (that was deployed yesterday), the prices of the upgrade tokens were adjusted. They should now be:

|Tier|Armor|Weapon|
| 90 | 500g | 750g |
|100| 1000g| 1500g |
|110| 2000g| 3000g |
|120| 5000g| 7500g |

I’ve updated the OP! Sorry…

Yes, Everbloom is featured in WoD Timewalking. The list above is now correct.

Thanks!

This week’s update to the PTR includes some new content that we haven’t publicly tested before. Please join us in:

Warlords of Draenor Timewalking

Check out six memorable dungeons:

• Auchindoun
• Bloodmaul Slag Mines
• Everbloom
• Iron Docks
• Shadowmoon Burial Grounds
• Skyreach

New Micro Holiday – Vashjir Diving Day

Look out for the whale shark!

New Professions Questlines – Tools of the Trade

All 8 of the crafting secondary professions now have new questlines to acquire a tool of the trade that is unique for that profession. Note: Your test character will have to be at max level in the Kul Tiras or Zandalari segment of the profession to get started. Each questline begins at the profession’s main trainer in Boralus or Dazar’alor.

As always, thank you for your feedback. Feel free to post about bugs encountered while testing in ...

Thanks for the feedback!

We’re continuing to work on this ability. However, there don’t appear to be any changes to it in the immediate next new PTR build (coming very soon this week).

I’ve updated the OP again - with the 3% damage increase to Marksmanship.

I’ve updated the OP.

We’re still contemplating PvP tuning.

UPDATED JANUARY 28 20:30 PST

With scheduled maintenance this week, we’re going to make some adjustments to several specs in PvE and PvP, as well as a number of Azerite Traits. We’re keeping a close eye on both early performance in the new raid as well as how things have been going in Mythic Keystone dungeons in Tides of Vengeance.

Our usual disclaimers apply - these may still change slightly:

Classes

• Death Knight
• • Unholy
• • Death Coil damage increased by 20%.
• Druid
• • Restoration
• • Efflorescence healing increased by 15%.
• • Lifebloom and Wild Growth cost reduced by 7%.
• Hunter
• • Marksmanship
• • All damage and pet damage in...

We’re updating the PTR with a new build today, and with it comes several new things to test.

Many new quests are now ready. These include questlines for the Alliance and Horde War Campaigns, Magni’s future, and Hunters’ reunion with Hati.

The new Brawler’s Guild is now open for testing. There’s more to Brawler’s Guild this time around, with a mysterious new questline that’s slightly different for Alliance and Horde, in addition to the challenging fights.

We’re also set to take a look at two new micro-holidays: Wanderer’s Festival and Free T-Shirt Day. Please note that these may not be turned on at all times on the PTR.

Hunters should now see a visual on their target when they slow it with Concussive Shot. Marksmanship Hunters will see an improvement to Explosive Shot: it now explodes at the target’s location after 3 seconds, even if the target dies before the explosion.

Several class teleport spells have been updated to be better at returning you t...

The changes above were all taken live a few minutes ago.

On the PTR, Regeneratin’ should now stop channeling upon taking damage.

5:15 pm PST - The changes below are now live.

We’re currently working on some targeted adjustments to three specs in PvP. We don’t have a precise time these will go live, but we’re estimating late today or perhaps tomorrow afternoon:

Monk

• Mistweaver
• Surging Mist (PvP Talent) mana cost increased to 3.8% of base mana (was 2% of base mana), and healing reduced by 20%.
• Way of the Crane (PvP Talent) increases physical damage by 25% (was 35%), and now heals for 150% of damage dealt (was 200%).

Shaman

• Elemental
• Earth Shock damage reduced by 10% when engaged in combat with enemy players.
• Stormkeeper increases Lightning Bolt damage by 115% when engaged in combat with enemy players (was 125%).
• Surge of Power can now cause up to an additional 2 Lightning Bolt overloads against enemy players (was 3 addit...

It was enabled in the PTR about 5 hours ago.

I’ve started a thread for Reaping feedback here.

Please feel free to use this thread to post your thoughts about and issues with the new Reaping affix in Mythic Keystone dungeons on the 8.1.5 PTR.

The affix was enabled earlier today, and testers should be able to obtain Mythic Keystones and then enter Keystone difficulties and experience it.

It’s worth noting:

1. These values are not final.
2. The aspect of this where it is not interrupted by damage is unintended.
3. We’re discussing it.

Thank you.