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World of Warcraft Patch Notes
Version 10.6.2
April 1, 2024

Producers’ notes: Now that we’ve released a whole patch without any leaks, we can rest assured that we’ve eliminated leaks forever. There’s no way this one will leak. Nope. No chance.

CLASS CHANGES

We’re pleased to announce that, due to the unprecedented state of nearly-perfect balance across all classes in all content, we cannot find any spell or ability that would be better changed than left unchanged. This patch is a celebration of players’ incredible skills in both PvE and PvP, where all are equal and seemingly no class is undesirable.

Thank you very much for bringing about such a wonderful moment!

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March 29, 2024

Classes

• Evoker
  • Preservation
    • Fixed an issue where Time of Need functioned incorrectly and could stop casting Living Flame when the Evoker had a high amount of Haste.

Mounts

• Fixed a bug preventing players from seeing their properly earned Coralscale Salamanther upon login. The mount will be mailed to players who previously completed the Into the Storm

Plunderstorm

• The Plunderlord’s Silver Cutlass weapon option should now be selectable from Da’kash Grimledger in Brew Bay for players at or above Renown 36.
• Goblin Glue Rockets can no longer apply snares to players in Faeform, casting Repel, or casting Earthbreaker.
• Any Keg Leg’s Crew Renown rewards that were not granted to players of the appropriate Renown levels are now retroact...

We know what’s causing this, and we’ll have it sorted out in about two minutes.

Making manual changes to your installation of WoW is not recommended!

Thank you for your patience.

Today, we’ve updated the Cataclysm Beta to build 53973, which includes the 80-85 Cataclysm leveling experience, the character copy function, and templates to get you straight into the endgame.

At this time, the following features have been added:

• Level 80-85 zones are unlocked.
  • Vash’jir (Level 80-82)
  • Mount Hyjal (Level 80-82)
  • Deepholm (82-83)
  • Uldum (83-84)
  • Twilight Highlands (84-85)
• Leveling Dungeons
• Level 80 players will begin to gain experience.
• Character copy
• Archaeology

The following features are still a work-in-progress, and are unavailable for now:

• Reforging
• Transmogrification
• Guild system updates
• Dungeon Journal
• LFD
• Tol Barad

We’re curren...

You’re correct.

The intention is for the party lead to be the pilot. The bug has resulted in the same player in a Duo always being put in the pilot’s seat.

We actually fixed this bug a couple of days ago, but the fix won’t fix things until we do realm restarts.

So-- probably after scheduled weekly maintenance on Tuesday, you’ll see that the Leader is always piloting the bird.

March 27, 2024

Achievements

• Fixed bugs causing mounts related to A World Awoken to be unavailable, including Bestowed Ottuk Vanguard, Bestowed Trawling Mammoth, Bestowed Thunderspine Packleader, Bestowed Sandskimmer, Bestowed Ohuna Spotter, Coralscale Salamanther, Stormtouched Bruffalon, and Taivan.

Player versus Player

• Fixed an issue that prevented Splintered Sparks of Dreams from dropping from PvP sources while eligible for catch-up.

Plunderstorm

• The Storm’s fury swells! Lightning strikes during the final stage of the Storm are faster and more dangerous than before.
• There is now a delay of 20 seconds after being revived where players no longer drop collected Plunder.
• Additional enemies now spawn at Witherbark Village, the wild area northeast of Go’Shek Farm, and the wild area between Witherbark Village and Boulderf...

March 26, 2024

Classes

• Priest
  • Holy
    • Resolved an issue causing Lightwell to be able to use its healing charges on allies that are in immunity effects such as Cyclone.
    • Resolved an issue causing Lightwell to sometimes despawn the Priest’s Shadowfiend when used.

World

• Forbidden Reach
  • A Forbidden Hoard that was inadvertently inaccessible due to having fallen through the floor has been moved to an accessible spot.

Plunderstorm

• Plunder contained in dropped piles of Plunder increased by 50% in Solos matches.
• Reviving a teammate now takes 10 seconds (was 15 seconds).
• Health Brew cooldown for a revived player reduced to 10 seconds (was 15 seconds).
• Adjusted the in-match leveling curve to increase the rat...

Greetings!

Dragonflight Season 4 dungeon testing begins on PTR realms today. The test period will begin today, Tuesday March 26, and end Monday April 1 at 10:00 a.m. PDT (13:00 EDT, 18:00 CEST). Please note that the test period may be adjusted in the event of technical difficulties.

The following dungeons are available for testing on Heroic, Mythic, and Mythic+ difficulty with the new dungeon progression update:

• The Azure Vault
• Brackenhide Hollow
• Ruby Life Pools
• Halls of Infusion
• Algeth’ar Academy
• The ...

Welcome to the Dragonflight Season 4 PTR. This forum is here to provide you with a friendly environment where you can discuss Season 4 testing with other players.

Community forums work best when participants treat their fellow posters with respect and courtesy, so we ask that you take the time to read through the forum Code of Conduct and guidelines before posting.

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The Free Character Transfer service for this realm is temporarily disabled while we investigate a bug.

We’re working on fixing bugs that emerged following the recent bugfix we did on these issues.

Simply put, the achievements are not properly rewarding a number of things, such as mounts and the dragonriding manuscript.

This is a priority for us. We’ll note it for you once it’s really, actually fixed.

Today, with hotfixes that are all now live, we’ve made the following adjustments to offensive and utility abilities in Plunderstorm:

• Fire Whirl damage reduced by 20%.
  • Developers’ notes: we want to reign in Fire Whirl’s damage a bit more, so that it’s close to the performance of other offensive spells.
• Faeform now provides a 50% damage reduction for the first 1 second you’re in Faeform (was 90%).
  • Developers’ notes: Faeform offered too much defense without providing for counterplay.
• Rime Arrow cooldown increased at higher ranks, and now has a cooldown of 10/8.5/7/5.5 seconds (was 10/8/6/4 seconds).
  • Developers’ notes: Rime Arrow’s short cooldown made it a too-low-risk poke, often used to deny healing and chase fleeing targets. Increasing the cooldown at higher ranks will give targets more chances to act against Rime Arrow.

We’ll have all of the above, a...

This Public Test Realm (PTR) is a testing environment for the content coming with the Dragonflight: Season 4 update.

Dragonflight: Season 4 Update Development Notes

SEASON 4 MYTHIC+ DUNGEONS

• Season 4 brings back all eight Dragonflight dungeons to the Mythic+ rotation: Ruby Life Pools, Brackenhide Hollow, The Nokhud Offensive, Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr, Neltharus, The Azure Vault, Halls of Infusion, and Algeth’ar Academy.
• DIFFICULTY CHANGES
  • One of the most notable changes players can look forward to is the removal of the timer for Mythic Keystone dungeons for what are currently 0 and 10. Players can ru...

March 21, 2024

Plunderstorm

• Player matchmaking ratings (MMR) have been adjusted so that players should find themselves in better matches with continued play.
• Fixed a bug that caused plunder dropped by players on death to unintentionally despawn when the killed player left the match.
• Players are now immune to knockbacks when standing near Da’kash Grimledger in the preparation area.
• Adjusted experience gained when playing Duos and fixed a bug that was increasing experience gain at level 3.
• Fire Whirl Movement speed bonus reduced to 70% across all ranks (was 140%).
  • Developers’ notes: Our goal is to balance Fire Whirl’s effectiveness relative to the performance of other offensive spells without detracting from the effectiveness of other utility spells.
• Star Bomb cast time reduced to 2 seconds across all ranks (was 2.25 seconds).
  • Developers’ notes:...

Today, with hotfixes that are all now live, we’ve made the following adjustments to offensive and utility abilities in Plunderstorm:

• Fire Whirl Movement speed bonus reduced to 70% across all ranks (was 140%).
  • Developers’ notes: Our goal is to balance Fire Whirl’s effectiveness relative to the performance of other offensive spells without detracting from the effectiveness of other utility spells.
• Star Bomb cast time reduced to 2 seconds across all ranks (was 2.25 seconds).
  • Developers’ notes: We’d like to improve the effectiveness of this ability.
• Toxic Smackerel cooldown reduced at ranks 1, 2, and 3. Rank 4 unchanged.
  • Developers’ note: This is intended to ensure this ability is more in-line with expected power at early levels.
• Explosive Caltrops trap radius increased by 40%.
  • Developers’ notes: The traps placed by Explosive Caltrops are intende...

And we’ve just increased Plunder gains:

We’re working on a fix to make it so that player weapon and clothing appearances get reapplied when you enter a new match.

March 20, 2024

Dungeons

• Afflicted cast time increased to 12 seconds (was 10 seconds).
• Incorporeal now spawns closer to the group’s general location.
  • Developers’ notes: The changes above were originally intended for Dragonflight Season 4, but we decided we’d prefer to have players to experience them sooner.
• Addressed an issue where Afflicted Cry’s debuff duration was increased by 2 seconds instead of its cast time.

Items

• Fixed an issue that could cause raid bosses to not drop tier tokens as expected.
• Fixed an issue where items from the Cache of Overblooming Treasures awarded from the Superbloom were dropping at a lower item level and upgrade track than intended.
• Fixed a bug that prevented some mounts, such as the Auspicious Arborwyrm or the mounts associated with the Dragonflight achievement A World Awoken, from b...

You can leave if you’re dead (in Solos) or if your squad is dead (in Duos) without penalty.