The Love is in the Air world event is right around the corner, and we’re sharing the love this holiday season.

We’ve heard your feedback on the frustrations with X-45 Heartbreaker’s low drop rate and feeling the pressure of having to farm the mount by cycling through as many alts as possible every day. From now on, the first Heart-Shaped Box you receive each day across your Battle.net account will have a greatly increased chance to contain the X-45 Heartbreaker mount.

Any subsequent Heart-Shaped Boxes you earn on your characters after the first each day will drop the mount at the previous, original rate.

Love is in the Air begins on February 6 at 10:00 a.m. PST in all regions. So spritz on your favorite perfume and head to the Shadowfang Keep event dungeon to defeat Apothecary Hummel for your chance at the fantastic flying fuschia fuselage you’ve fancied far too fervently for what seems like forever.

Good luck adventurers!

World of Warcraft Version 10.0.7 PTR

This Public Test Realm (PTR) is a testing environment for the content coming with the Dragonflight 10.0.7 update.

Dragonflight 10.0.7 Update Development Notes

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RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN REACH

In a future PTR build, players return to the Forbidden Reach to learn more of the story of the dracthyr Evoker awakening now that the defeat of Raszageth has been ...

Hello everyone. Here are all the hotfixes for today and with this week’s weekly restarts:

JANUARY 30, 2023

Classes

• Hunter
  • Marksmanship
    • Fixed an issue where Calling the Shots was incorrectly receiving more benefit than intended while using the Chimaera Shot talent.
  • Survival
    • Fixed an issue where Deadly Duo was not properly increasing the damage of Kill Command.
• Monk
  • Brewmaster
    • Fixed an issue where Stagger’s effect was incorrectly reduced.
  • Mistweaver
    • Fixed an issue that caused Rapid Diffusion to consume Thunder Focus Tea, Tea of Plenty, and Tea of Serenity Renewing Mist procs.
• Shaman
  • Mana Spring now restores 200 mana when triggered at...

Hello everyone! Here are today’s hotfixes:

JANUARY 13, 2023

Dungeons and Raids

• Ruby Life Pools
  • Fixed an issue where Storm Warrior’s Thunderclap was increasing Haste instead of decreasing Haste as the tooltip states.

Player versus Player

• Battlegrounds
  • Evoker’s Time Stop can no longer be used to drop Orbs of Power in Temple of Kotmogu, or flags in Warsong Gulch or Twin Peaks.

Hello everyone! Take a look at the notes for this week’s 10.0.5 PTR update:

NEW EVENT: THE STORM’S FURY

• The Storm’s Fury event is now available to test. We look forward to hearing your feedback!

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Fixed an issue that caused the Archivists’ Codex faction achievements to grant double achievement points. Players may see a drop in 20 points if they were maxed out with the Archivists’ Codex.

CLASSES

• DRUID
  • Feral
    • Taste for Blood changed to a single point node that increases Ferocious Bite damage by 5% per bleed on the target (was a 2-point node).
    • Sudden Ambush changed to a single point node that grants 6% chance per combo point spent to cause your next Shred or Rake to deal damage as though stealthed (was a 2-point node).
    • Tear Open Wounds now deals 70% of the Rip damage it consumes (wa...

We bring you more goodies to the PTR:

HOLIDAY EVENTS

• TRIAL OF STYLE
  • Added more cosmetics to the Transmogrification vendors, Warpweaver Dushar in Orgrimmar and Warpweaver Hashom in Stormwind.

Hello champions.

We have identified an issue with the Solo Shuffle matchmaking algorithms that is causing issues with various PvP Group Finder queues. We are currently working to address the issue and we will provide an update once a fix has been finalized.

Added to this week’s PTR update:

NEW EVENT: THE STORM’S FURY

A new event has begun taking place in The Primalist Future! Head to the portal that can be found at the Temporal Conflux in Thaldraszuz, and The Storm’s Fury event will spin up every 5 hours.

The Primalists are bringing some of their strongest forces to bear to preserve their future plans and dominate Azeroth. You will want to head out with a group of mighty adventurers to seal their portals and defeat their mighty monstrosities.

For participating, you will receive Essence of the Storm, which can be exchanged for rewards. Look out for other vendors who can sell you items to help weather the storm, as the Primalists try to Freeze all of their enemies to the bone.

This will be testable in a later PTR update. We’ll provide an update once it’s available to test.

Season 1 is off to a roaring start, and we’ve been playing lots of dungeons and gotten lots of great feedback from players during this first week of Mythic+ in Dragonflight. While we want to be careful not to change too much as players are still figuring out the new dungeons, we’ve identified some areas where we’d like to act on feedback sooner than later.

The following Mythic+ dungeon tuning adjustments will go live with scheduled weekly maintenance this week (tomorrow, December 20 in this region):

Algeth’ar Academy

• Aggravated Skitterfly Darting Sting damage reduced by 25% and should now try to sting different targets.
• Resolved an issue that caused Spectral Invoker’s Arcane Missiles to not scale prop...

Added:

Professions

• Alchemy
  • Transmutation crafts have been temporarily disabled in order to address an exploit. It is our top priority to resolve the underlying issue and re-enable Transmutations as soon as possible.

The Dragonflight 10.0.5 PTR update is now live.
Added a few extra notes to the update below:

PROFESSIONS

• CRAFTING UI PANEL
  • Multiple charge cooldowns will now list the time of when next charge will be available
  • Track recipe checkbox is available for recrafting
  • Enchanting items will now display an “Enchantment” prefix text in the Crafted Items window
• CRAFTING ORDERS
  • Added “Use Highest Quality Reagent” checkbox to customer
  • Added option to reject an order by right-clicking on it under Personal orders tab
  • “Open All” for crafting order mail will now auto-delete the mail after receiving the item.
• Overload Elemental Deposit and Overload Elemental Herb has been slightly redesigned:
  • Overloading cooldown is no longer modified by gathering mining or herb nodes.
  • Overload is now taught to all Miners and Herb...

Added the below changes to this week’s class tuning update:

Player versus Player

Demon Hunter

• The Hunt deals 20% less damage in PvP.
• Misery in Defeat now increased damage dealt to the target by 10% in PvP (was 20%).

World of Warcraft Version 10.0.5 PTR

This Public Test Realm (PTR) is a testing environment for the content coming with the Dragonflight 10.0.5 update.

DRAGONFLIGHT 10.0.5 UPDATE DEVELOPMENT NOTES

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NEW FEATURE: TRADING POST
The Trading Post is currently disabled on the PTR. Thank you again for your testing and feedback!

A new feature is making its way to World of Warcraft — ...

Hello everyone.

We recently made some adjustments to the Community Feast that was contributing to lag in the Azure Span slowly over time after each feast as servers were up for a few days. How has your experience in the Azure Span been recently?

These fixes should have improved the performance in the zone since the feast was the main culprit, but we’ll continue to keep a close eye out for any other sources of lag that may appear.

After reading player feedback, we looked at the number of large maps available to players in each pool per week and Pool C ended up with more of the larger maps than the rest. To address this, we swapped Tiger’s Peak from Pool B with Tol’Viron Arena from Pool C.

We’ve recently deployed a fix to allow for the Obsidian Collar to be eligible for socket upgrades. This change is retroactive to previously obtained collars upon logging out and back into the client.

The map pools are for Rated Arena and Arena Skirmishes at this time, not Solo Shuffle.

I’ve updated the original post with this information. Thanks for asking Mhortai.

Thanks for the catch Stagheim. I’ve updated the article with the caps:

• The weekly Conquest cap will start at 1350 and increase by 550 per week.
• The weekly Valor cap will start at 1500 and increase by 750 per week.

With the introduction of Nokhudon Proving Grounds as a new Arena map in Dragonflight, we’ve hit 15 total Arena maps that are available when players queue up. We feel that this is a large number to have in the pool at once and waters down a map’s impact in an Arena experience. That being said, we think it will be interesting and fun to divide up the maps into a rotation to keep the pool dynamic for players.

We feel a weekly cadence ensures players will see their favorite maps frequently during a season. Additionally, the decision for 8-map pools was made to compact the rotation so players will be able to more easily refine strategy on certain maps with specific compositions within a week.

After working with a few combinations, the iteration we will be implementing for Dragonflight Season 1 will be a rotation of 3 buckets with 8 maps each, that captured all our current maps:

Hello! Here is the hotfix update for today:

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Achievements

• Fixed an issue where some players were not correctly receiving the Shadowlands Season 4 Shrouded Hero title and achievement.

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Blood
    • Fixed an issue where Leeching Strike was not healing as intended.
• Priest
  • Fixed an issue causing Shadowfiend to not grant Mana for Holy and Discipline specializations.

Creatures and NPCs

• Cauldronbearer Blakor’s Molten Pour effect reduced to 1 minute.
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