The PTR notes have been updated with the following:

CHARACTERS

• Characters level 10–60 that have not been logged into for an extended period of time will now have the option to receive a Welcome Back Gift on the character select screen. The Welcome Back Gift includes:
  • Select a specialization upon log in to become equipped with updated bags and gear that is appropriate to the character’s level and selected specialization. All previously worn items and bags can be collected from the mailbox.
  • Teleport to the character’s home city of Orgrimmar or Stormwind.
  • All quests in the quest log will be cleared to provide a clean slate. To continue your leveling journey, head to Chromie in Orgrimmar Embassy or Stormwind Embassy.
  • Developers’ note: The Welcome Back Gift time restriction has been lifted on the PTR for testing purposes.

Hello! Here’s this week’s changes to the Fractures in Time PTR:

CLASSES

• DRUID
  • New Talent: Rising Light, Falling Night – Increases your damage and healing by 3% during the day. Increases your Versatility by 2% during the night.
  • Improved Sunfire has been moved to row 3, connected to Sunfire.
  • Rising Light, Falling Night occupies Improved Sunfire’s previous location.
  • Restoration and Balance Druid starter builds have been updated.
  • Feral
    • Developers’ note: Dire Fixation is a new talent Feral Druids can take to focus on single target damage. The changes to Rampant Ferocity allow its value to be tuned independent of Ferocious Bite’s damage.
    • New Talent: Dire Fixation – Attacking an enemy with Shred fixates your attention on it for 10 seconds. You can fixate on a single target at once. Your attacks deal 5% increased damage to your fixated target.
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Thank you for all your reports. Rest assured, we’ve investigated the reports and have confirmed that the Zaqali Elders are still dropping their loot. These items will not be displayed in the public loot log due to the particular setup of the world boss encounter having multiple NPCs in it.

The PTR has been updated with the following:

NEW MEGA-DUNGEON: DAWN OF THE INFINITE

The Bronze Temple has lain dormant for millennia, awaiting a time when its dragonflight would return. But just as the bronze dragons have reclaimed their sacred temple, dark forces now threaten to overtake it. Will the infinites take hold of the Timeways and bring about the rise of Murozond? The champions of Azeroth must venture into time itself to ensure that the future remains a bright one.

• The Dawn of the Infinite mega-dungeon is now available for testing and will remain open throughout the remainder of the PTR! Head to Temporal Conflux in Thaldraszus to find the entrance and challenge the eight-boss Mythic-only mega-dungeon.

CLASSES

• DRUID
  • Developers’ note: We’re moving forward with our mana economy changes for hybrids, now for all hybrid DPS and tank specializations. To restate, ...

We reduced Mythic Zskarn’s health by an additional 10%, to a total 25% health reduction.

Greetings raiders.

We will be addressing an emerging tactic that trivializes certain aspects of the Vigilant Steward, Zskarn encounter. We’re planning on implementing these changes live tomorrow, May 26.

We hope that these changes will encourage more interaction with the encounter’s existing mechanics, while maintaining its prior level of difficulty.

Dungeons and Raids

• Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
  • Developers’ note: The Zskarn changes address an emerging tactic that trivializes certain aspects of the encounter. We hope these changes will encourage more interaction with the encounter’s existing mechanics, while maintaining its prior level of difficulty.
  • The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn
    • The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn health reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Dragonfire Golem health reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Zskarn will now Berserk on all ...

The Fractures in Time PTR has been updated with the following changes:

THE WARLOCK CLASS EXPANDS TO NEW RACES

The Warlock class is now available to Night Elves, Draenei, Lightforged Draenei, Pandaren, Kul Tiran, Tauren, Highmountain Tauren, Mag’har Orcs, and Zandalari Trolls in this week’s update.

CLASSES

• DRUID
  • Balance
    • Astral Smolder duration is now 6 seconds (was 8 seconds).
  • Guardian
    • Untamed Savagery now also increases maximum Thrash stacks by 1 per rank.
    • Thorns of Iron moved to row 6.
    • Galactic Guardian moved to row 9.
• EVOKER
  • Augmentation
    • Developers’ note: This week’s changes are intended to make it less trivial to achieve 100% uptime on Ebon Might, to ensure there’s room for player growth and mastery. Addit...

It should be safe to earn the achievement now and collect your reward. Anyone who’s earned the achievement prior to this fix will earn their reward early next week.

World of Warcraft Version 10.1.5 PTR – Fractures in Time

This Public Test Realm (PTR) is a testing environment for the content coming with the Dragonflight Fractures in Time update.

Dragonflight Fractures in Time Update Development Notes

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NEW MEGA-DUNGEON: DAWN OF THE INFINITE

The Bronze Temple has lain dormant for millennia, ...

Hey raiders! Here is the schedule for this weekend’s raid test:

Friday, April 28

• Raid Finder
  • Wing 3: Neltharion’s Shadow – Magmorax and Echo of Neltharion
    • Start – 13:00 PDT (16:00 EDT, 22:00 CEST)
    • End – Monday, May 1 at 09:00 PDT (12:00 EDT, 18:00 CEST)

Thank you so much for testing Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible!

We’ve deployed the following changes to the PTR realms:

CLASSES

• ROGUE
  • Outlaw
    • Fixed an issue that caused the Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible 4-Set Bonus to deal less damage than intended.
• SHAMAN
  • Enhancement
    • Vault of the Incarnates 4-Set Bonus has been adjusted – Consuming Maelstrom Weapon stacks increases your Haste by 1% per stack for 3 seconds (was 4 seconds).

ITEMS AND REWARDS

• Algeth’ar Puzzle Box (Trinket) on-use effect duration has been increased to 30 seconds (was 20 seconds) and its Mastery bonus has been decreased by 38%.
• Furious Ragefeather (Trinket) damage decreased by 10%.

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

• CLASSES
  • DEMON HUNTER
    • Havo...

The following changes have been made to the PTR:

CLASSES

• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Unholy
    • Fixed an issue with Gargoyle stutter casting when the cast time of Gargoyle Strike was lower than 1 second.
    • Gargoyle Strike damage reduced by 8%.
      • Developers’ note: Now that Gargoyle properly casts without stuttering when falling below 1 second cast times, we are reducing the damage of Gargoyle Strike to counter the extra casts.
    • Reaping damage bonus increased to 30% (was 25%).
    • Festering Wound damage increased by 10%.
    • Scourge Strike/Clawing Shadows damage increased by 15%.
    • Death Coil damage increased by 10%.
    • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible: 2-Set Bonus has been adjusted – The duration of Death Dealer has been increased to 25 seconds (was 20 seconds).
• DRUID
  • Balance...

Hello everyone! Here are the changes in today’s PTR update:

CLASSES

• DEMON HUNTER
  • Havoc
    • Serrated Glaive now causes enemies hit by Throw Glaive to take 20% increased damage from Chaos Strike, in addition to its current effect.
    • Accelerating Blade has been renamed to Accelerated Blade.
    • Accelerated Blade now causes Throw Glaive to deal 60% increased damage (was 20%) and its damage is reduced by 30% for each previous enemy hit.

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

• Updates to many non-boss enemies and all 3 bosses in the Vortex Pinnacle.
• Update to improve spawn consistency for the Afflicted and Incorporeal affixes.

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

• ITEMS
  • Gladiator’s Distinction (PvP trinket 2-set bonus) now provides 300 Stamina (was 2703) and 1600 primary stat (was...

Hello raiders. The raid testing schedule has been updated for the week:

Friday, April 21

• Mythic
  • Assault of the Zaqali – 13:00 PDT (16:00 EDT, 22:00 CEST)
  • Rashok, the Elder – 14:00 PDT (17:00 EDT, 23:00 CEST)
• Raid Finder
  • Wing 2: Fury of Giants – * Assault of the Zaqali, Rashok, the Elder, and the Vigilant Stewart, Zskarn
    • Start – 15:00 PDT (18:00 EDT, 00:00 CEST)
    • End – Monday, April 24 at 09:00 PDT (12:00 EDT, 18:00 CEST)

Hello everyone! Here are this week’s updates to the Embers of Neltharion PTR:

CLASSES

• Developers’ note: We’ve decided to increase both player stamina and enemy damage by 25% in Embers of Neltharion. This is very much like an adjustment that was made just before the launch of Dragonflight, and it’s for the same reasons.
  
  When damage mitigation abilities and healing are too strong relative to player health, the only way to threaten players is to make enemy damage very high and spiky. If healers can very quickly top off their teammates and mana isn’t a limiting factor, enemies have to be tuned to have the capacity to do burst damage that kills players before healers can react. That isn’t very satisfying gameplay. Increasing player health gives players more time to react to incoming damage, and it makes players’ choices about cooldowns and mana management more meaningful.
  
  Along with this change, you’...

The following change has been made to the PTR:

CLASSES

• Rogue
  • Outlaw
    • Fixed an issue that caused the Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible 2-Set Bonus to deal more damage than intended.

Here’s the PTR raid testing schedule for the week:

Thursday, April 13

• Mythic
  • Magmorax – 13:00 PDT (16:00 EDT, 22:00 CEST)
  • The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn – 14:00 PDT (17:00 EDT, 23:00 CEST)

Friday, April 14

• Mythic
  • Assault of the Zaqali – 13:00 PDT (16:00 EDT, 22:00 CEST)
  • Echo of Neltharion – 14:00 PDT (17:00 EDT, 23:00 CEST)
• Raid Finder
  • Wing 1: Discarded Works – Kazzara, the Hellforged, the Amalgamation Chamber, and the Forgotten Experiments
    • Start – 15:00 PDT (18:00 EDT, 00:00 CEST)
    • End – Monday, April 17 at 09:00 PDT (12:00 EDT, 18:00 CEST)

Edit: The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn and Echo of Neltharion ha...

Hello everyone! Here’s what you can find in this week’s Embers of Neltharion PTR update:

CLASSES

• Leech rating now gives 25% less Leech stat.
  • Developers’ note: Leech is proving to be a very strong sustain stat in Dragonflight. To keep it at an appropriate level of power, and avoid marginalizing the importance of the Healer role to a group’s survival, we are reducing the value of Leech rating by 25%. Leech percent granted by talents remains unchanged.
• DRUID
  • Feral
    • Increased the damage of Ferocious Bites cast by Convoke the Spirits to be as if 5 combo points were spent (was 4).
    • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible: 4-Set Bonus has been adjusted – When a Shadows of the Predator application resets stacks, you gain 5% increased Agility and you generate 1 combo point every 2 seconds for 8 seconds (was every 1.5 seconds for 6 seconds).
  • ...

Hello! Here are today’s hotfixes:

APRIL 11, 2023

System

• Gamepad
  • Fixed an issue where some targeted spells were not starting in the correct location while using a gamepad.
  • Fixed an issue where a centered cursor could block mouse input while using a gamepad.
  • Fixed an issue where some targeted spells were unintentionally cancelled while moving or jumping while using a gamepad.
  • Fixed an issue where the targeting reticle could disappear with a centered cursor while using a gamepad.

Hello raid testers! The schedule for this week’s Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible raid test has been updated:

Thursday, April 6

• Heroic
  • Assault of the Zaqali – 13:00 PDT (16:00 EDT, 22:00 CEST)
• Mythic
  • The Amalgamation Chamber – 14:00 PDT (17:00 EDT, 23:00 CEST)
  • The Forgotten Experiments – 15:00 PDT (18:00 EDT, 00:00 CEST)

Friday, April 7

• Mythic
  • Rashok, the Elder – 13:00 PDT (16:00 EDT, 22:00 CEST)
• Normal
  • Start – 14:00 PDT (17:00 EDT, 23:00 CEST)
  • End – Monday, April 10 at 09:00 PDT (12:00 EDT, 18:00 CEST)