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We’ll be making the following change to increase the performance of Elemental Shaman in next week’s realm maintenance.

Classes

Shaman

• Elemental
  • All damage increased by 5%.

See the full list of the upcoming class tuning changes here.

We’ll be making the following change to increase the performance of Outlaw Rogues in next week’s realm maintenance.

Classes

Rogue

• Outlaw
  • Blade Flurry now strikes nearby enemies for 50% of normal damage (was 40%).

See the full list of the upcoming class tuning changes here.

We’ll be making the following change to increase the performance of Mistweaver Monk in next week’s realm maintenance.

Classes

Monk

• Mistweaver
  • Spinning Crane Kick damage increased by 30%.

See the full list of the upcoming class tuning changes here .

We’ll be making the following changes to increase the performance of Beast Mastery Hunters in next week’s realm maintenance.

Classes

Hunter

• Beast Mastery
  • Beast Cleave now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets (was 5).
  • All damage increased by 3%.

See the full list of the upcoming class tuning changes here.

We’ll be making the following changes to increase the performance of Feral Druids in next week’s realm maintenance.

Classes

Druid

• Feral
  • All damage increased by 3%.
  • Primal Wrath damage increased by 10%.
  • Brutal Slash damage increased by 20%.
  • Swipe damage increased by 15%.
  • Thrash damage increased by 20%.

See the full list of the upcoming class tuning changes here.

We’ll be making the following change to increase the performance of Unholy Death Knights in next week’s realm maintenance.

Classes

Death Knight

• Unholy
  • All damage increased by 5%.

See the full list of the upcoming class tuning changes here.

We’ll be making the following changes to increase the performance of select specializations in next week’s realm maintenance.

As always, these are subject to further change before they go live, and we’ll have the final adjustments in our hotfixes update next week.

Additionally, we’re not planning on nerfing any over-performing specializations with this week’s pass, as we want to gather more data and provide more advance notice.

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Here’s the hotfix that went live today in Burning Crusade Classic:

MARCH 23, 2022

Burning Crusade Classic

• Fixed an issue preventing Blood Elves from completing “A Gesture of Commitment.”

Hello! Here are today’s hotfixes:

MARCH 23, 2022

Classes

• Hunter
  • Marksmanship
    • Fixed an issue where Rapid Fire was not dealing reduced damage to secondary targets while under the effects of Trick Shots.
• Paladin
  • Retribution
    • (2) Set Bonus: Fixed a rare issue which could incorrectly cause Divine Purpose (Talent) to be usable twice after Ashes to Ashes triggered.

Covenants

• Night Fae
  • Podtender (Dreamweaver Soulbind) no longer activates if the user is mind controlled.

Dungeons and Raids

• Sepulcher of the First Ones
  • Vigilant Guardian
    • Fixed an issue that could cause the Vigilant ...

Today’s hotfixes are:

MARCH 22, 2022

Classes

• Demon Hunter
  • Vengeance
    • (4) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue with the set bonus not always reducing the cooldown of Fel Devastation or Immolation Aura while Unity (Kyrian Blind Faith) was equipped.
• Hunter
  • Fixed an issue with Marksman’s Advantage (Conduit) that could cause it to apply to targets without your Hunter’s Mark active.

Dungeons and Raids

• Sepulcher of the First Ones
  • Artificer Xy’mox
    • Players affected by Spirit of Redemption will no longer trigger Interdimensional Wormholes during the encounter.
  • Lords of Dread
    • Fearful Trepidation’s visual should more closely match its effect radius.
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World of Warcraft Version 9.2.5 PTR

ACHIEVEMENTS

• All Covenant Sanctum feature achievements are now visible and count towards your character’s total achievement points, regardless of which covenant your character currently belongs to. Nonetheless, all characters must belong to a Covenant to earn that Covenant’s specific achievements.

CHARACTERS

• Blood Elves can start a quest to earn a new mount, weapon appearance, and the Blood Knight armor set for Blood Elf Paladins by speaking to Liadrin in Oribos. Requirements: Level 60 and Exalted with Silvermoon.
• Dark Iron Dwarves can start a quest to earn a new mount and weapon appearances by sp...

Here’s today’s hotfix update:

MARCH 21, 2022

Classes

• Priest
  • Discipline
    • (2) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue where Manifested Twilight would sometimes not affect Shadow Mends if cast in succession.
• Warlock
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the Sayaad’s Whiplash ability from stacking its debuff on targets immune to snares.

Dungeons and Raids

• Sepulcher of the First Ones
  • Vigilant Guardian
    • Fixed an issue that caused Mistweaver Monk’s Crane Adepts summoned by Fallen Order (Venthyr Ability) to fail to cast Enveloping Mist immediately after they spawn during the encounter.
  • Anduin Wrynn
    • [With realm restarts] Wicked Star duration decreased to 2 seconds ...

Hello everyone!

With this week’s weekly realm maintenance, we’ll be making the following changes to the Anduin Wrynn encounter in Sepulcher of the First Ones:

Anduin Wrynn

• Wicked Star duration decreased to 2 seconds on Normal and Heroic difficulty (was 4 seconds).
• Anduin’s Doubt and Anduin’s Hope health reduced by 20% on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
• Anduin’s Doubt and Anduin’s Hope movement speed reduced by 20% on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
• Purging Light damage reduced by 15% on Normal difficulty.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Empowered Wicked Stars to not damage and silence players.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Fragment of Hope to not properly deal damage.

Here’s your daily hotfix update!

MARCH 16, 2022

Classes

• Priest
  • Shadow
    • (4) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue where Living Shadow would persist longer than its intended duration.
    • (4) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue where consuming Dark Thoughts during Living Shadow’s summoning would not extend its duration.

Dungeons and Raids

• Sepulcher of the First Ones
  • Dausegne, the Fallen Oracle
    • Fixed an issue that could cause the visual effect for Disintegration Nova to appear larger or smaller based on character size on Mythic difficulty.
  • Lihuvim, Principal Architect
    • Protoform Radiance now has a duration of 10 seconds on Normal difficulty.
  • The Jailer
    • Fixed issu...

Hello! Here are today’s hotfixes:

MARCH 15, 2022

Classes

• Shaman
  • Enhancement
    • Primordial Wave (Necrolord Ability) will no longer incorrectly reset the cooldown of Frost Shock when used to apply Flame Shock to a target.
  • Restoration
    • (4) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue where Heal the Soul was incorrectly reducing the 1 second cooldown of Cloudburst Totem that prevented you from accidentally double-tapping the button, causing an unintended instant Cloudburst Totem recall.
    • (4) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue where Heal the Soul would sometimes not properly cast a Chain Heal when dropping the appropriate totem.
    • (4) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue where a Chain Heal critical strike on yourself would both generate and consume a stack of the Heal the Soul.
    • (4) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue where there is a minor d...

Here are today’s hotfix notes:

MARCH 14, 2022

Classes

• Priest
  • Discipline
    • (2) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue where Shadow Mend would consume 2 stacks of Manifested Twilight.
• Warlock
  • Demonology
    • Fixed an issue where Implosion would not deal damage to Explosive Orbs (Mythic+ Affix) or totems if the Explosive Orb or totems were the primary target of the Implosion spell.
• Warrior
  • Protection
    • (4) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue with Avatar not gaining an additional 10% damage while active.

Covenants

• Venthyr
  • Fixed an issue where using The Mad Duke’s Tea item without Theotar, the Mad Duke as your active soulbind w...

Here is today’s hotfix for Burning Crusade Classic.

MARCH 4, 2022

Burning Crusade Classic

• Fixed an animation issue on the goblin engineering trinket, Goblin Dragon Gun.

I’m still here Birds!

Mythic+ end-of-run drops will cap at Mythic+10 throughout the week of March 1–7, and Season 3 Rated PvP gear upgrades are initially capped at Rival II (base item level 268) until Mythic Difficulty Sepulcher of the First Ones is available.

Completing the Great Vault participation requirements next week, March 1–7, will reward the new item level thresholds in the March 8 Great Vault after the weekly maintenance.

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To start you on your Shadowlands Season 3 journey, we’ll be lowering some of the Great Vault participation requirements with next week’s maintenance on March 1.

Raid Vault

The new thresholds for the raid requirements will map better to the structure of the Sepulcher of the First Ones raid, especially for groups attempting to move from one difficulty up into the next.

• The first Raid Vault now requires 2 Raid Boss victories (was 3).
• The second Raid Vault now requires 5 Raid Boss victories (was 6).
• The third Raid Vault now requires 8 Raid Boss victories (was 9).

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Below is the hotfix that went live today in Burning Crusade Classic:

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Burning Crusade Classic

• Fixed an issue that caused Mother Shahraz in Black Temple and Al’ar in Tempest Keep: The Eye to swing faster after performing a parry.
  • Developers’ note: This behavior was not true to reference, and they should now behave after parrying as they did in original Burning Crusade.