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With weekly resets in each region, we’re making the following adjustments to three raid encounters.

• Battle of Dazar’alor
  • Lady Jaina Proudmoore
    • The random Bombard locations in stage one are now less likely to light a Zandalari Ballista on fire when players are not nearby.
    • Chilling Touch now begins when Arcane Barrage is interrupted (previously was when Nathanos is freed).
    • Prismatic Images now spawn closer to Jaina (was centered on the middle of the area).
    • Icefall is timed to no longer coincide with full power Gathering Blizzard in Mythic difficulty.
    • Gathering Blizzard and Freezing Blood should now be more responsive in Mythic difficulty.
    • Jaina’s health has been reduced by 5% in Mythic difficulty.
• Crucible of Storms
  • The Restless Cabal
    • Void Crash and Crushing Doubt now prefer ranged targets...

Just want to confirm-- we made a live hotfix to Arathi Basin and Warsong Gulch about two hours ago.

Thank you for the report!

Just want to confirm-- we made a live hotfix to Arathi Basin and Warsong Gulch about two hours ago.

Thank you for the report!

In WoW Classic, you’ll have the following character limits per WoW account:

• A maximum of 10 characters per WoW Classic realm
• A maximum of 50 characters across all of the WoW Classic realms in your region
• Only one faction per realm on PvP realms
• No overlap or regard with the character limits in Battle for Azeroth

You’ll be able to have up to 50 Battle for Azeroth characters and up to 50 WoW Classic characters at the same time.

And after you’ve done some testing in Nazjatar, please share your experiences with us here.

After you’ve tested the dungeon, please post your feedback here.

A new build with lots of new testable content has been published to the Public Test Realms (PTR) for our upcoming content update, Rise of Azshara.

Now Available for Testing

• New Zone-- Nazjatar
• New Dungeon-- Operation: Mechagon

Nazjatar is starting in an advanced state for ease of testing and access to more of the content. This area has a wide variety of activities that are available to test, including rare mobs, treasures, timed events, PvP War Mode events, and World Quests. To get started, you’ll need to find the “Dread Pirate Placeholder” NPC. For Alliance test characters, you’ll find him in Boralus, in Tradewinds Market, on the way to the Flight Master. For Horde test characters, look for him on the dock in the Port of Zuldazar, right next to the Banshee’s Wail. Talk to him and he will port you to Nazjatar in the correct state and unlock followers for you. And after you’ve done some testing in Nazjatar, please share your...

Really looking forward to this. I like any chance I get to set my TV to https://www.twitch.tv/gcdtv.

I apologize for the miscommunication. The bug, and resulting correction, apply to Army of the Dead Ghouls, not your main pet Ghoul. We believe the main pet Ghoul isn’t exhibiting this bug and doesn’t need changes.

I’ve updated the first post above.

For clarification, this only applies to Essences that already had a global cooldown. Azeroth’s Undying Gift (the short-duration defensive cooldown) still does not.

This is already the case, and has been for a very long time. I just did clean installs of the retail game and then the PTR, and the PTR download was about 1/10th the size of the retail download.

In the next update to the Rise of Azshara PTR, we have a few class and Essence changes coming as we continue to iterate on these areas.

Class Updates

• Death Knight

• Frost

  • Breath of Sindragosa now has a 50% increased chance to activate Runic Empowerment.

• Unholy

  • Fixed a bug that caused Army of the Dead Ghouls’ Energy to benefit doubly from Haste. To compensate, Army of the Dead Ghouls’ damage has been increased by 6%.

• Druid

• Guardian

  • Ironfur now has a maximum of 8 stacks (was 6 stacks).
  • Frenzied Regeneration, at ...

Hello. Please feel free to name any specific mounts that are having this issue, and we’ll check into it.

Thank you!

If you’re still not testing the PTR (Public Test Realm) with us, and you want to, we’ve made it easy to get started. Just follow these steps:

CREATE A PTR ACCOUNT:

• Log in to Blizzard Account Management.
• Select Games and Subscriptions.
• In the Starter Editions & Public Test Regions section, select Create PTR Account.
• Click the Create Account button.

JOIN THE PTR:

• Open the Blizzard Battle.net App and select World of Warcraft...

We recently completed a wave of suspensions for World of Warcraft accounts that were found to be operating third-party software that undermines the security of the World of Warcraft client. Reverse engineering and bypassing security protocols that safeguard against client modification is a clear violation of our Terms of Service, and we regularly take action against such behavior.

Many of the suspensions issued were for 180 days, as the exploit we detected allows for very malicious activities such as gameplay automation or rotation/interrupt botting. Upon further review, we found that some suspended accounts appeared to be only using the detected exploit to do client-side character model alteration. That is an activity that we would prefer to respond to with a warning, rather than a suspension, this time. As a result, we have reversed all of the suspensions issued in this action.

The use of third party software that modifies the World of Warcraft game client is against...

*So much for some trolls’ dreams of limitless regeneration. #SorryNotSorry.

It’s been a lot of fun over the last couple of months to dive into the development of WoW Classic with the team, while trying to answer some of the many questions that have been posed here and elsewhere. Looking at the plans for a phased content release, unlocking dungeons and raids, and unlocking other systems, it’s clear that the aim is to create a progression experience that resembles the original arc from when WoW first launched. In thinking about what belongs in each of those phases, the team’s focus has always been on rewards.

Developers have scoured through vendor lists and treasure tables for items that were added in patches, and then attached them to the staged content unlock plan. This means that if a new item was originally added to a dungeon boss’s loot table with Ahn’Qiraj, you shouldn’t expect it to appear in WoW Classic until Phase 5, which is the phase that contains Ahn’Qiraj content.

Along the way, we’ve seen many questions asking if we’re also retraci...

We’ve published a new build for the upcoming content update – Rise of Azshara – to our Public Test Realms. Here is an outline of what is now testable, and what is coming in this PTR.

Now Available for Testing

• (New April 23) Gnome and Tauren Heritage Armor quest lines
• New Zone: Mechagon
  • (New April 23) Battle Pets and Pet Battle World Quests
• Heart of Azeroth system update: Introducing Essences
• New Arena: The Robodrome
• Mount Equip...