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With Burning Crusade Classic launching only three weeks ago, we decided to postpone the Midsummer Fire Festival this year. It felt a little too soon to have players who might be taking their time feel the need to level up (or level up their alts) so they could make the most of Ahune, among other things. But we don’t want to skip a whole year, so we’ve decided to open the Midsummer Fire Festival in Burning Crusade Classic the week of July 20, 2021. It will return to its usual time coinciding with the real-world Northern hemisphere solar calendar in 2022.

Speaking of the week of July 20, there’s something else going on that week that we’re going to celebrate. The 2020 Summer Olympics is set to kick off that week, and we see that as the perfect opportunity to reintroduce the Spirit of Competition. This event only occurred once before in the history of WoW, to coincide with the 2008 Summer Olympics during the original Burning Crusade. We’re really looking forward to getting into ...

Over the first few days of ranked Arena play in Burning Crusade Classic, we’ve seen some feedback and inquiries from players that we’d like to answer with a brief explainer.

There are multiple PvP performance ratings used by the game. Every Arena team has a team rating that starts at 0 and increases as the team plays Arena matches together. Additionally, each player who is on a team has a personal rating that is calculated based on the results of the Arena matches they’ve played as a part of their team. If a player leaves a team, their personal rating associated with that team will be reset. If a player joins a team that has already played matches, the player will join with up to 1000 rating points of the team’s current team rating. These values are displayed in the PvP frame, and they are used to determine end-of-season awards and weekly points.

To keep players matching against opponents of similar skill, the game also calculates a matchmaking rating (MMR) for each ch...

For the last week, we’ve received inquiries and seen community concerns stemming from the fact that a player was able to purchase Arena gear earlier than intended.

Please know that we’ve investigated it thoroughly, even after quickly identifying the player and reversing the unintended transactions. This was an isolated incident that only affected one player, and we resolved it shortly after it was first reported.

In our subsequent investigations, we’ve found no other examples of this issue or any similar issue.

Hello.

This seems like a good place to remind ourselves that often, a test environment is where we test works in progress, and works in progress can sometimes be applied to that test environment in an incomplete state.

In this case, “lieutenant” (level 61) enemies that are generally immune to crowd control are keeping their new every-other-swing behavior. The intent of the previous change on the PTR was clearly to nerf Necrotic, but the nerf was likely too much.

In the live game, Necrotic is probably a little more oppressive than we want it to be, so don’t be surprised if more tweaks to it hit the PTR over the next few days.

That is correct, except it’s a 20% reduction from Season 1 to Season 2, and then another 20% from Season 2 to Season 3.

An example:
Sergeant’s Cloak Season 1 cost: 11794 Honor (+20 AB Marks)
Sergeant’s Cloak Season 2 cost: 9435 Honor (+20 AB Marks)
Sergeant’s Cloak Season 3 cost: 7548 Honor (+20 AB Marks)

As the original issue was hotfixed on Monday, I’m going to close this thread.

We don’t have any evidence that Paladins are generating no threat in Black Morass, but we’d sure like some if it’s happening! We’ll check that out further and look for bug reports on it.

Thank you!

On Tuesday, a bug with our initialization of Burning Crusade Classic Arena Season 1 made three Season 2 rings available on Honor vendors on NA realms for about two hours before we hotfixed the situation.

We immediately got to work designing and implementing a process for identifying the 81 players who purchased the Season 2 rings and reversing their transactions.

That process is underway at this time. All Season 2 PvP gear that was inadvertently available will soon be removed, and the Honor spent refunded.

As always, we appreciate everyone who reported it to us, so that we could act quickly to ensure fair play.

Thank you!

No, it does not.

Raid achievements will still be earnable until realms go down for maintenance.

The current season of Shadowlands PvP and Mythic+ content will end at 3:00 p.m. AEST (1:00 p.m. AWST, 5:00 p.m. NZST) on Tuesday, June 29 in this region. At that time, it will no longer be possible to earn seasonal rewards, titles, or Shadowlands Season 1 rankings.

While previous seasons have ended when realms were taken offline for maintenance, we’ve chosen to set this season to end a few hours earlier, at a time that should be more convenient for most players.

Shadowlands Season 2 will begin the week of July 6 with the weekly reset in each region.

Please note – the Shadowlands Season 1 PvP Illusion Sinful Flame won’t be available in Season 2, which will reward the new Unchained Fury Illusion. So if you’re close to the required 2100 rating, now’s the time to push!

The current season of Shadowlands PvP and Mythic+ content will end at 10:00 p.m. PDT on Monday, June 28 (1:00 a.m. EDT on June 29) in this region. At that time, it will no longer be possible to earn seasonal rewards, titles, or Shadowlands Season 1 rankings.

While previous seasons have ended when realms were taken offline for maintenance, we’ve chosen to set this season to end a few hours earlier, at a time that should be more convenient for most players.

Shadowlands Season 2 will begin the week of July 6 with the weekly reset in each region.

Please note – the Shadowlands Season 1 PvP Illusion Sinful Flame won’t be available in Season 2, which will reward the new Unchained Fury Illusion. So if you’re close to the required 2100 rating, now’s the time to push!

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We’ve been working on this issue since it was first reported Saturday night, and this morning we’ve now found a good way to reproduce it so that we can continue toward finding a fix (hopefully).

Thanks to everyone who ...

Update June 11 5:00 p.m. PDT

In this region, all Free Character Transfers will be closed at 11:00 a.m. PDT (2:00 p.m. EDT) on Tuesday, June 15.

If you’ve been planning to make use of the Free Character Transfer service, please do so as soon as possible.

Thank you!

With hotfixes earlier today that are in place on all realms, we’ve implemented updates to address Auction House service issues on the largest Burning Crusade Classic realms.

In today’s hotfixes update later, you’ll see them listed like this:

Auction House

• Implemented settings changes intended to lower the time it takes to search the Auction House.
• Players who list, bid, buy out, or cancel a very large number of auctions may now incur a delay between consecutive actions.

As before, we’re paying very close attention to the Auction Houses, and we’ll make further adjustments as necess...

We’re aware of issues with the Auction House on some realms. This includes lag that some players are experiencing as well as the behavior of posting excessive single items to overwhelm the Auction House.

We’re working to address these issues.

Over the last few days, we’ve made several tweaks and fixes to the new Empowered mechanic in Torghast on the Chains of Domination PTR. With today’s new build, we’re testing that anew.

Please leave any feedback you have on Torghast, especially the Empowered bar and how it feels, in this thread after you’ve experienced it in a fresh Torghast run on the PTR.

Thank you very much!

JUNE 7, 2021

Burning Crusade Classic

• [With regional restarts] The Auction House has been upgraded to improve performance.
• [With regional restarts] Commander Ameer in Netherstorm has salvaged a prison orb from his last scouting mission and could use your help retrieving a key to unlock it.
• [With regional restarts] Nether-Stalker Mah’duun in Shattrath now offers a non-Heroic daily dungeon quest.
• Warchief Kargath Bladefist in The Shattered Halls once again has a delay in between charges of his Blade Dance.
• Warlock’s Inferno once again stuns and deals damage to enemies in the area.
• Engineering Schematic: Elemental Seaforium Charge is now available from Consortium faction vendors.
• The reagents required for the following enchants have been adjusted from pre-patch content to level 70 content:
  • Enchant Gloves - Threat
  • Enchant Gloves - Supe...

JUNE 7, 2021

Burning Crusade Classic

• [With regional restarts] The Auction House has been upgraded to improve performance.
• [With regional restarts] Commander Ameer in Netherstorm has salvaged a prison orb from his last scouting mission and could use your help retrieving a key to unlock it.
• [With regional restarts] Nether-Stalker Mah’duun in Shattrath now offers a non-Heroic daily dungeon quest.
• Warchief Kargath Bladefist in The Shattered Halls once again has a delay in between charges of his Blade Dance.
• Warlock’s Inferno once again stuns and deals damage to enemies in the area.
• Engineering Schematic: Elemental Seaforium Charge is now available from Consortium faction vendors.
• The reagents required for the following enchants have been adjusted from pre-patch content to level 70 content:
  • Enchant Gloves - Threat
  • Enchant Gloves - Supe...

Thanks to everyone who came out and tested PvP on the Chains of Domination PTR with us today.

In this thread, please leave any feedback you have on your experiences playtesting PvP today, and please feel free to list as much information as possible about your class/spec/talents and those of your teammates.