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September 6, 2023

Classes

• Evoker
  • Preservation
    • Rescue will no longer cause Verdant Embrace to be placed on cooldown if used while Flow State is active.

Items

• The Whirring Chainblade now has its appropriate minimum level required.
• Engineering
  • Fixed a bug that caused Chromatically Calibrated engineering goggles to require level 58 to transmogrify.

Quests

• The Legend of Mechagon can now be properly completed by all characters.

WoW Classic Hardcore

• The String of Ears buff earned for Mak’gora kills now persists through death.
• Developers’ notes: This will allow the new Classic API to report the correct Mak’gora kill count for deceased characters.

Hello.

The original bug that reduced the number of polished pet charms in Dragonflight was fixed soon after it was discovered. The charm rewards for Dragonflight quests should be back to where they were before that bug occurred.

We hear your desire for more sources of pet charms, and we’re currently looking into ways we can do that, though we’re not ready to announce any yet.

Thank you for the feedback!

In case you missed it, running now through the end of the game week on Tuesday morning, Ulduar raid Timewalking is available.

To get started, join a raid group and head to Dalaran. In the middle of Dalaran, Vormu has a quest for you that rewards a Heroic raid level piece of gear and a hefty 500 Timewarped Badges. All of the usual bonus rewards are also in play, such as pets and mounts. And Vormu can also teleport you to Ulduar.

Then all you have to do is kill Yogg-Saron!

Do you want to find a snowman?

Dragonflight patch 10.1.7 is now live. Please read on for a list of known issues that we’re working on, and further information about this update.

10.1.7 KNOWN ISSUES
Updated September 5

Quests

• Players can complete “Power Unified” a second time while party-synced, which removes one Splintered Spark of Shadowflame from them.
• Players may not be able to select the quest “Zuldazar” from their Scouting Map.

Sounds

• Ping System sounds for “On My Way” and “Warning” are not playing.

User Interface

• The Overwatch 2 icon is missing from players’ friends list.

The office is closed for holiday. Hope you’re having a good time in Netherstorm.

What’s going on in Eastern Plaguelands today?

Bobby’s Thinking Cap Notes has been restored.

Some players may have gotten these notes a day early. We put out a quick fix yesterday to address bags that had this item locked in them. Today, the notes were restored so players could read them and complete the secret with its clue.

On the PTR, Icecrown Citadel is now closed. We’re very pleased with the results of this test period.

Looking ahead, we plan to next test Random Dungeon Finder and Defense Protocol: Gamma, starting in a few days. Yes, we’re working on making Defense Protocol: Gamma queueable from the Random Dungeon Finder.

And our plan is to open a second test of ICC on September 15. That one will run through September 20.

Thank you very much for testing this patch with us!

Update–

Roughly 24 hours ago, we implemented a fix that should prevent this bug from affecting characters who log in thereafter.

For all the characters who were affected before the fix, we’re running a fixup job at this time. Those players should see the correction over the next few hours/days.

August 30, 2023

Events

• The Kalimdor Cup will now end on September 4 (was August 28), to give players more time to experience the races.

Quests

• Fixed an issue causing some players to be unable to see Merithra in the Ancient Bough to pick up the quest “Into the Azure” to begin the Azure Span storyline.

WoW Classic Hardcore

• Fixed a bug that could prevent a player-character who died from being allowed to be deleted or transferred to another realm.
• Brave Moonhorn will no longer attack passing Alliance players. He remains a friendly questgiver to the Horde and is now a neutral PvP target to Alliance players.

Hello.

This quest appears to be operating as it always has. It takes a very long time to reset, but it does reset. Our best advice is to do it in a group, and wait patiently for it to reset for you.

You might have a better time of it during off-hours when there are fewer other groups around.

Entering Ironforge for the first time on my HC dwarf priest.

The feels

There are gates in front of ICC and the Frozen Halls (where the three dungeons are) that cannot be opened currently.

We’ve set up an NPC at Krasus’ landing that will port you into ICC. Peletort can also be found just outside of ICC.

In addition to Icecrown Citadel, we have several other features which will soon become testable, and others that will arrive in a future PTR update.

Icecrown Citadel Raid

Testing begins at 2:00 p.m. PDT. The raid will close at 2:00 p.m. PDT on Friday, September 1.

• Icecrown Citadel is the final major raid in Wrath of the Lich King Classic and has twelve bosses spread across five different wings.
  • The Lower Spire
    • Lord Morrowgar
    • Lady Deathwhisper
    • Gunship Battle
    • Deathbringer Saurfang
  • The Plagueworks
    • Festergut
    • Rotface
    • Professor Putricide
  • The Crimson Hall
    • Blood Prince Council
    • Blood-Queen Lana’th...

We’ve opened the 3.4.3 PTR for preliminary testing.

There are many closed and non-functional aspects of the PTR initially. Please read on for more information.

The ICC raid will open for testing at 2:00 p.m. PDT today, August 29. We appreciate your patience as we address issues being encountered in the first few hours of this test.

Added to the OP list:

• Celebras the Cursed does not spawn Celebras the Redeemed upon death.
• (Hardcore) Guild death announcements may not show the correct level.
• Mind-controlled enemies don’t have the correct pet bar.

With the realm restarts two hours ago, all non-Hardcore Classic Era realms were returned to one layer.

Have a good Saturday!

This issue was resolved with a hotfix that was implemented during weekly maintenance on Tuesday, August 29.

We have a bug on Hardcore realms where some characters are not able to be deleted or transfer off the realm after their unfortunate demise, ostensibly due to mail.

We’ve been working on it, and we’ve come to the conclusion that it might take some time to resolve.

Thank you for your patience.

We’ve found the configuration bug that caused multiple layers to spin up on non-Hardcore Classic Era realms.

With realm restarts tomorrow morning, we’ll collapse those realms back to one layer.

The Hardcore realms should remain layered, as necessary for their populations, throughout.