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We’re working on the following changes to several specs, which will go live with scheduled weekly maintenance in each region.

Please note that these adjustments are in testing, and we may add, edit, or strike them between now and maintenance. As always, we’ll let you know here if we make changes to the changes, and we’ll post the final numbers in our hotfixes update immediately after maintenance.

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Frost
    • Damage of all abilities increased by 5%.
  • Unholy
    • Damage of all abilities increased by 5%.
• Warlock
  • Destruction
    • Damage of all abilities increased by 5%.
• Warrior
  • Arms
    • Damage of all abilities increased by 5%.
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Starting 2019-08-12T22:00:00Z, players with an active subscription or game time on their World of Warcraft account can reserve their character names by creating up to three WoW Classic characters. Please note that all of your characters on a PVP realm must be the same faction.

Before creating a character, you’ll choose the realm where you want to play that character. Realms in the Americas will be:

Restarts complete! Back to the testing.

In a few minutes, we’re going to do restarts on all realms in the Pre-launch Test. This is to deploy a number of hotfixes that we’ve developed.

Thank you for your participation!

Here’s a reminder that today, starting at 2019-08-08T18:00:00Z, we’ll open WoW Classic realms in every region for the final pre-launch stress test.

We ask that players please log-in and play as much as possible during the first two hours of the test – 2019-08-08T18:00:00Z → 2019-08-08T20:00:00Z, as that is when we’ll be actively monitoring for issues important to launch.

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We’ve heard your requests and want to let you know that we will be adding an RP-PVP realm in North America for WoW Classic. The comments, feedback, and passion from so many of you about this ruleset has been truly inspiring, and we’re happy to make RP-PVP available for you!

Realm information (names, rulesets, and time zones) will be posted before the weekend so you can make plans with your friends and get ready to reserve your name on your preferred realm(s) on 2019-08-12T22:00:00Z.

Welcome to the WoW Classic New Guild Listings forum! This forum is here to provide you with a friendly environment where you can post guild listings for WoW Classic, find a new guild in WoW Classic, and discuss organizing with your fellow players.

Community forums work best when participants treat their fellow posters with respect and courtesy, so we ask that you take the time to read through the forum Code of Conduct and guidelines before posting.

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In this thread, please share your experience and feedback on the new 8.2.5 Party Sync feature.

Thank you!

The top 8 teams in both NA & EU for Summer Cup #6 have been locked in and are fighting for Summer Finals Qualification. Some teams have locked in their qualification, but others need to place very high this cup in order to qualify not only for the Summer Finals, but to keep their BlizzCon hopes alive.

All Top 8 series will be broadcast on ...

Welcome to the 8.2.5 PTR Bug Report forum.

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Hello!

Our global pre-launch test of WoW Classic will begin on 2019-08-08T18:00:00Z and is scheduled to end on Friday, August 9. This test will be available to all World of Warcraft players with a current subscription or active game time in all regions. The maximum character level will be 15.

We ask that players please log-in and play as much as possible during the first two hours of the test – 2019-08-08T18:00:00Z → 2019-08-08T20:00:00Z, as that is when we’ll be actively monitoring for issues important to launch.

WoW Classic is now ready for all players to install from the Blizzard B...

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...

Welcome to the 8.2.5 PTR General Discussion forum.

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A new content update for World of Warcraft is in development and will soon be available on the Public Test Realms (PTR). While not all features will be fully functional and available for testing, here’s a look at some of the new content coming in this version.

Worgen and Goblin Character Model Updates

First introduced in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, worgen and goblins are getting a long-anticipated suite of visual improvements to their character models. These updates include every aspect of how the worgen and goblins look—from their faces to their animations.

Celebrate 15 Years of World of Warcraft

This November marks the 15th anniversary of World of Warcraft, and we have some special things planned to celebrate the occasion. Players who log in during the event period will receive a celebration package in the mail with a Lil’ Nefarian pet and some other in-game goodies. Throughout the duration of the event, you’ll be abl...

Update: This hotfix went live at 10:40 a.m. PDT

We’re getting closer to end of the 2019 AWC Summer Season, which means the open registration opportunities to qualify to the Summer Finals and Global Finals at BlizzCon are nearly over.

In North America, Cloud9, formally known as Super Frogs, have been dominant all year, earning the title of 2019 Spring Champions and sitting at the top of the region with 360 AWC points. Their BlizzCon Qualification is more than solidified. Just behind them, The Boys have already locked up their Summer Qualifications and their BlizzCon qualification as the top point earner of North America. This leaves teams like M2KC, Method Orange, The Move, and Resurgent...

Update: This hotfix went live at 10:40 a.m. PDT

We have a hotfix in testing that we intend to apply to change the Queen Azshara encounter tomorrow morning (PDT):

• Queen Azshara’s minions Berserk at the beginning of Phase 4 of the encounter on Mythic difficulty. Phase 3 now ends automatically after 3 minutes (was 2 minutes).

We’ll confirm when the hotfix is ready and going live tomorrow morning.

We’re working on a hotfix today that will cause all tank specializations to now generate additional threat, via increases granted at each of the three Essence slot unlocks.

At each of the three Essence slot unlocks, damage-dealing specializations are gaining an increase in their damage output that is substantial enough to sometimes unintentionally disrupt tanking. This change should keep threat generation, relative to DPS, on par with where it was earlier in the expansion.

We’re working on a change to the Arcane Heart Azerite Trait that was introduced in Rise of Azshara. How it works today is:

Arcane Heart gives you a buff for every 1.5 million damage or healing you do. However, damage or healing that comes from something other than you casting a spell is not counted. For example, a Blood Death Knight doing healing from Death Strike isn’t benefitting from that healing counting to the next proc of Arcane Heart.

So we’re developing a fix for that. Currently, the change looks like this:

Items

• Heart of Azeroth
  • Arcane Heart
    • Fixed a bug that caused some damage and healing effects to go uncounted by this Azerite Trait.
    • Damage and healing counted to activate Omnipotence is no longer counted while Omnipotence is active.

The second change there is needed to keep this from being a big buff for a Trait that we feel is fairly well-b...

The hotfix is now live.