Kaivax

As players have jumped into The War Within and begun leveling up, we’ve seen data and heard a great deal of feedback that players coming into Khaz Algar with endgame Dragonflight gear were extremely powerful relative to that initial content. It is entirely intended that effort put into gearing translates into a significant combat advantage at the start of a new expansion, but the values we’ve been seeing are extreme, often not even allowing time for normal combat rotations. This disparity also caused mixed-level groups to experience skewed results, with lower-level players contributing drastically more than level 80s. Tomorrow, Wednesday, August 28, we’re going to apply hotfixes to the game to address this.

The hotfixes will adjust the scaling of enemies in War Within leveling content to increase the power of lower-level enemies, bringing the duration of combat more in line with expected WoW behavior. These changes will be most noticeable at level 70, and will have a reduced ...

On Wednesday, August 28, we’re going to deploy a hotfix that we want to precede with some advance notice.

Along with all of the new Hero Talents and updates to classes and specializations in The War Within, the power values of some Dragonflight tier set bonuses have remained relevant in level 80 end-game content. We don’t want anyone to feel obligated to go do the previous expansion’s content for upgrades. We do want players to graduate out of their Dragonflight gear with the new content.

On Wednesday, we will disable all Dragonflight tier set bonuses when your character reaches level 80. They will still aid you throughout leveling, but will cease to function when your character hits level 80.

Thank you!

Happy War Within Launch!

Now available in The War Within:

• Heroic Dungeons
• Honor Vendorlist (and currency conversion of Dragonflight Honor/Conquest)

And with first weekly reset (about 17 hours from now), you’ll see the introduction of the following:

• Profession Sparks
• Weekly PvP Quest
• Profession Weekly Knowledge gains
• Zone Weekly wrapper quests, Delves Weekly wrapper quest, Worldsoul Memories Weekly wrapper quest
• Awakening the Machine scenario
• Worldsoul: Spreading the Light
• Notoriety with Severed Threads leaders

The requisite achievement is this one:

And that fourth storyline chapter will become available on September 3 in this region.

This unexpected behavior was due to a bug that we have now fixed. It should not happen again.

We will now create and deploy an adjustment for affected players. This will not be a step that we can take immediately, but once we’re ready, we will remove the errant renown and rewards.

We have a fix for this bug on the way.

The fix is now live to all realms.

We have a fix on the way.

This is not intentional.

We’re investigating it.

August 22, 2024

Classes

• Death Knight

  • Frost
    • Fixed an issue causing Razorice to not persist on the target applied via Arctic Assault when the Death Knight is not talented into Glacial Advance.
  • Unholy
    • Fixed an issue where the ghoul could fail to be resummoned upon dismounting.

• Hunter

  • Survival
    • Harpoon now pulls you to the edge of a target’s hitbox (was the center).

• Rogue

  • Fixed an issue that could remove the Rogue from Stealth if Vanish duration expired while Subterfuge effect was active.
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent Dispatch from triggering in intended circumstances with Crackshot talented.
  • Assassination
    • Fixed an issue ...

Some additional examples:

• Vambraces of Deepening Darkness (Leatherworking)
• Oil of Deep Toxins (Enchanting)
• Siphoning Stiletto (Blacksmithing)

We recently identified an issue that was impacting the damage and healing done by all War Within trinkets and similar items (cantrips), such as Arathi Demolition Charge’s barrel or Reinforced-Wax Plating.

Today, we’re fixing the bug, and the result should be an increase on all of those effects of almost 50%.

Thanks again to everyone who submitted bug reports in the Beta!

We have some additional changes coming to the game soon today.

• All Artisan’s Acuity has been removed from the first-time crafters’ bonus of trainer-taught recipes in The War Within.
• All Artisan’s Acuity has been removed from gathering journal discovery bonuses.
• An additional 150 Artisan’s Acuity has been added to the one-time reagent bag players receive from the quest “Crafting to Order”.

The last change brings the bag from 200 to 350 Acuity.

Thanks again to all of you who tested the Beta and provided feedback. We really appreciate it.

Yes, and we want to get the word out to players who might be counting on leveling through The War Within using first craft XP bonuses.

With a hotfix that is now live to all realms, all Dragonflight profession first craft experience bonuses no longer apply to player-characters at or above level 70.

We’ve just deployed the following additional adjustments to the Beta:

Tyrannical affix

• Health bonus on bosses reduced to 25% (was 30%).

Dungeons

• Reduced all enemy damage dealt by 7% on all Mythic and Mythic+ difficulties.

Before the launch of The War Within, we’re simplifying the Authority of Storms enchant to make it a more consistent option.

The damage will now occur immediately when the enchant activates, rather than granting you a buff which provides a window to trigger the damage multiple times.

We’ll update the tooltip in a future patch.

In order to improve accessibility to the Wild Strikes/Windfury Totem effect, the Wild Strikes aura, which has been limited to the Druid’s party within 20 yards, will become raid-wide with a 100 yard radius.

This change will occur during scheduled weekly maintenance in each region. (Tomorrow morning, August 20 in this region)

For a time, the tooltip will still say that it is restricted to the party. We intend to correct that in the next major patch.

August 19, 2024

Season of Discovery

• Rogue
  • Crimson Tempest will no longer cause the Nightslayer 6-piece set bonus to grant two charges of Clearcasting.
• Warlock
  • The Warlock Molten Core tank set now uses the correct 30-second duration for Banish rank 2 (was incorrectly 20 seconds).
  • Warlocks who log out while Banished will no longer lose the effects of Metamorphosis or their Chronoboon Displacer.