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I edited the subject line of this thread.

We can confirm that Honor will not reset with the start of Season 3. Our intention is for it to carry-over.

And we’re working to correct our messaging on this.

It means that once the Creation Catalyst is available, your character who’s using it will need to have completed Chapter 4.

While we don’t intend to publish the affix schedule in advance, we do have quite a bit to say about affix changes here:

With each new season of Mythic+ dungeons, we take time during the development and testing of the content update to consider how M+ affixes have been working, design and implement new affixes, adjust dungeons where necessary, and add new dungeons.

M+ is played by a diverse range of players, so we try to make sure our feedback sources are just as diverse, to maximize our chances that we’ll spot pain points, knowing that different types of players have different experiences in M+. We look at data and statistics, forum posts, streams, and of course, we play a great number of keys ourselves at various levels and discuss our own experiences internally.

A major focus in these efforts is always how different weeks “feel” for players. An example of this was the adjustment to Ingra Maloch in Season 2. Player feedback was aligned with our own experiences that the penalty for missing a burst damage check felt overly punishing and made the dungeon less fun, and we didn’t want to wa...

We can clarify how things work in a case like this.

A game needs to conclude prior to the cutoff time.

Rewards are based on a snapshot of the ladder that was taken at precisely 1:00.000 a.m. EST on Tuesday. Play results that were determined after that time are considered post-season results.

Several people above have correctly noted that the cutoff ratings for various levels of rewards usually go down when rewards go out, as players who are found to have misbehaved are removed from the final calculations. In this particular case, that may be enough to help the unnamed Death Knight over the finish line. But it may not.

It’s worth noting that the subject line of this discussion thread is exactly what we intend to do. We don’t consider it sufficient to issue a suspension and then have the offender log back in with their ill-gotten gains intact.

We’ll remove both the reward(s) and the kill credit(s) from any player who was actioned for having their account piloted.

Correct. This is because we wanted to ease the reputation requirement, and it no longer made sense for it to be offered by the Enlightened vendor.

Just want to paint that post from Chimes in the color blue, to make sure no one misses it:

In this post, we’ll update the score required to earn the Tormented Hero title for Shadowlands Season 2. As a reminder, the title will go to all players who end Shadowlands Mythic+ Season 2 with a Mythic+ Rating in the top 0.1% for your faction in each region.

Updated February 21

In this region, if Season 2 ended today, the title would go to those who scored at least:

• 2767 (Alliance)
• 2845 (Horde)

Good luck!

We’ve got some updates to reputation rewards on the way. Chimes has an outline of them here.

As you can see, we’re currently adding a large new wave of players to the WoW Community Council. You can expect to see many more of them introduce themselves and get started posting here over the next few days.

We’ve really enjoyed our time so far with the inaugural Council Members, and this new series of invites is intended to fulfill one of our original goals: ensure that the Council includes numerous players who represent all of the different playstyles and perspectives of our diverse community.

We expect to continue to add additional new waves of Council Members at times during this first year, and so on throughout the life of the program, whenever we see areas of discussion where more voices would be welcome, and especially when current Council Members r...

The Free Character Transfers are now open.

We have made the following Season of Mastery Free Character Transfers available in this region:

Please note that restrictions apply:

• A character cannot move if the character:
  • is a guild leader.
  • has active auction listings or bids.
  • has mail.
• You may be required to change your character’s name once you’ve reached the destination realm.
• You cannot move a character to a PvP realm where you already have...

Hello. Thank you for the feedback.

After further consideration, we will be reverting the Icy Propulsion ICD change, and we will instead further reduce the damage of Frozen Orb and Blizzard.

Our goal with the initial change to the internal cooldown was to help curb some of the power that it has gained over the expansion from other bonuses and changes such as: the uncapping of Frozen Orb, the upcoming tier set bonus, and iLvl increase of the conduit itself. However, we recognize that the Icy Veins uptime it has provided as the expansion progressed is something that Frost Mages have grown accustomed to, and losing that power in Eternity’s End would end up feeling like a regression in both performance and enjoyment of how the spec plays.

These updates will be coming to the PTR shortly and our ...

We’re currently investigating offering a number of Free Character Transfers on Season of Mastery realms, as soon as later this week.

In this region, the arrangement could look like this:

We’ve followed community discussions on this subject very closely, and appreciate your feedback!

Soon today, we’re closing Blackwing Lair on the Season of Mastery PTR.

Thank you very much for testing with us!

The complete list of source and destination realms in the first post of this thread has been updated, as several new free character transfers are now available.

That would not be fine.

To provide more clarity for those who have been wondering where the lines are drawn in this new policy, we’d like to summarize that part of it.

Advertising for gameplay activities should be done by a WoW player-character who intends to participate in the gameplay activities. This means there should be no cross-realm advertising, and there should be no advertising from non-participating players.

And as before, the only place that advertising a “for gold” activity is allowed is the Trade channel. Advertising in any other...

Organizations who disruptively advertise across all realms and establish escrow services are the primary target of this policy update. Guilds and individuals who are inviting players from another realm to join them in traditional game activities in exchange for gold are allowed, as they were before.

As of today, we will now prohibit organizations who offer boosting, matchmaking, escrow, or other non-traditional services, including those offered for gold. World of Warcraft accounts found to be in violation of this policy are subject to account actions. These actions can include warnings, account suspensions and, if necessary, permanent closure of the disruptive World of Warcraft account(s). Organizations operating across multiple realms and excessively advertising non-traditional in-game sales are contrary to the...