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In this post, we’ll update the score required to earn the Draconic Hero title for Dragonflight Season 4. As a reminder, the title will go to all players who end Dragonflight Mythic+ Season 4 with a Mythic+ Rating in the top 0.1% in each region.

If the season ended today, in this region, the title would go to those who scored at least:

3643

Good luck!

Greetings everyone,

Last week, we announced several updates to our Classic Era realms. These updates included changes originally developed for Season of Discovery but intentionally brought to Classic Era as well, such as one that specifically addressed a longstanding imbalance in World of Warcraft Classic, by providing Alliance players with the Might of Stormwind buff as a comparable buff to the Horde’s Warchief’s Blessing.

In that time, we have listened to the community response to changes in Classic Era and the concerns about what updates like this could mean for the future. Thank you for your feedback.

Effective immediately, we are reversing the following changes to Classic Era:

• Alliance players now have access to the Might of Stormwind, to a version of the Warchief’s Blessing world buff effect.

• Druids can now train and use polearms.

• The 6-hour wait between applications of Rallying Cry of the Dragonslayer a...

Noting that I’ve updated the first Death Knight note:

• Death Strike can now only heal the Death Knight for a percentage of damage taken from a given damage event once. Death Strikes that heal the minimum health amount do not count as using damage events in this way.

We have a significant update for Protection Warriors coming in today’s new Beta build.

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We have a significant update for Protection Paladins coming in today’s new Beta build.

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We have a significant update for Brewmaster Monks coming in today’s new Beta build.

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We have a significant update for Guardian Druids coming in today’s new Beta build.

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We have a significant update for Vengeance Demon Hunters coming in today’s new Beta build.

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We have a significant update for Blood Death Knights coming in today’s new Beta build.

Please read all about our overall philosophy here:

Class Updates

In The War Within, all character Stamina has been increased by 60% as part of an overall adjustment to the pace of healing gameplay. This increases the relative value of abilities that heal a percentage of a character’s maximum health. Many of these ability changes are to counteract that relative change. For instance, the percentage health that Frenzied Regeneration restores has been reduced by about a third, but the amount of health it restores has remained the same.

Blood Death Knight

Death ...

With the introduction of the Dragonflight talents system and season-over-season changes, tanks in World of Warcraft have become extremely durable relative to non-tank characters. Their active defenses can mitigate high percentages of incoming damage and they have strong self-healing. Today, in the hardest content in the game, many tanks can sustain themselves without much assistance from healers. In some cases, we’ve seen it become optimal to do group content without a healer at all.

World of Warcraft is an MMO, and its multiplayer aspects are a major strength. Group content is extremely rewarding when players performing different roles come together to overcome a challenge. We want to reinforce the importance of the healer role and work towards gameplay where tanks and healers collaborate to reduce the damage the tank is taking and to restore the tank’s lost health.

Tank durability can cause some other problems as well, especially in challenging endgame content, that ...

July 16, 2024

Season of Discovery

• Demon Fall Canyon
  • Possibly due to “Demonic Deceptions”, the Owlbeasts of Winterspring have attended a guided meditation retreat, expanding their pineal glands.
  • Zilbagob will now always be accessible when The Destructor's Wraith and Grimroot have been defeated.
• Items
  • A new item -- Hand of Injustice -- is now available from Pix Xizzix, the Undermine Real vendor.
  • Added new shield enchant that grants 30 spell power and 55 healing power – Law of Nature. Available to learn for Enchanters. The pattern is available from Timbermaw Hold at Revered.
  • Added a temporary shield enchantment that grants 24 spell power, much like wizard oil -- Conductive Shield Coating. Available to learn for Enchanters. The pattern is available from Thorium Brotherhood at Honored.
  • Drinkable Stratho...

Please join us for a Play with the Blues event on Friday, July 19 at 1:00 p.m. PDT (4:00 p.m. EDT).

We’ll have the Cataclysm Classic PTR open for testing the Rise of the Zandalari content, with a focus on the new Troll dungeons. On Classic PTR Realm 1, queue up for the Zul’Aman or Zul’Gurub dungeons, and you just might be partnered with members of the WoW Team.

We’ll see you there!

July 15, 2024

Season of Discovery

• Activities involving Reginald Windsor event in Stormwind Keep should now complete more reliably when Highlord Bolvar Fordragon, Lady Katrana Prestor, and Reginald Windsor are all alive.
• Hellscream’s Phantom should now respawn after an unsuccessful attempt.
• Fixed some ring engravings so that all the benefitting classes can learn them:
  • Arcane Specialization: Now learnable by Druid and Hunter (was only Mage).
  • Defense: Now learnable by Rogue, Warlock, Warrior, Paladin, and Shaman (was only Druid).
  • Frost: Now learnable by Hunter (was only Mage).
• The correct version of Necromantic Band now drops from the Death Knight Darkreaver in Scholomance.
• The Ashenvale quests “Clear the Forest!” and “Repelling Invaders” have been scaled to level 60.
• Fixed the health and damage of creatures inside Alterac Valley Battleground so that...

July 15, 2024

WoW Classic Era and Hardcore

• Fixed an issue preventing certain dungeon upgrade quests from being able to be accepted from Deliana in Ironforge and Mokvar in Orgrimmar.

We don’t have an ETA yet.

We’re working on it. This is a top priority.

For your realm, yes.

It’s every two hours – even-numbered hours – realm time.

The first one should be exactly one hour after launch, and then every two hours thereafter.

We believe that there may be a caching issue. We’re working on it.

While we do, you should be able to get around it by doing this:

• Log out
• Wait at least 30 seconds
• Log back in

We believe that there may be a caching issue. We’re working on it.

While we do, you should be able to get around it by doing this:

• Log out
• Wait at least 30 seconds
• Log back in