Linxy

This Public Test Realm (PTR) is a testing environment for the content coming with the Dragonflight: Seeds of Renewal update.

Dragonflight: Seeds of Renewal 10.2.5 Update Development Notes

FOLLOWER DUNGEONS

• Follower Dungeons are available for all 8 of the original Dragonflight dungeons on Normal difficulty. Queue solo or partner up with up to four players in your party and queue into any follower dungeon. Once entering the dungeon, a follower NPC will join your party and fill any role that wasn’t filled by one of your pre-existing party members.
• Rewards given will be the same to that of running Normal dungeon...

November 15, 2023

WoW Classic Era

• [With realm restarts] Fixed an issue that prevented respeccing from refunding all of the character’s talent points as expected.

Hello everyone! Here are today’s hotfixes:

November 15, 2023

Classes

• Evoker
  • Augmentation
    • Ebon Might now properly benefits from the 4-piece class set bonus from Aberrus as well as Close as Clutchmates.
• Hunter
  • Hunter pet attacks now scale with weapon attack power.
  • Kill Command, Bite, Claw, Smack, Flanking Strike, Froststorm Breath, and Burrow Attack damage reduced by 32.5%.
    • Developers’ notes: In a recent hotfix aimed at correcting an issue with Augmentation Evokers and their damage logging, we adjusted how Hunter pet damage is calculated. A side effect of this was that Hunter pet attacks started scaling with weapon attack power, increasing the damage of a Hunter pet’s special attacks by about 32.5% at 450 item level. This is actually something we would like to retain, as it means that Hunter...

Hello! Here are today’s hotfixes:

November 13, 2023

Classes

• Demon Hunter
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Demon Hunter to briefly remain rooted when The Hunt’s cast was cancelled or interrupted.
• Druid
  • Balance
    • Incarnation: Chosen of Elune will no longer transform you into an armored Moonkin if you are using a new barbershop customization. The armored Incarnation model will show if you are using classic Moonkin form.
• Evoker
  • Preservation
    • Spiritbloom will now bounce to friendly targets that are meant to be healed during quests and encounters.
• Hunter
  • Beast Mastery
    • Fixed an issue where Wild Instincts would not properly apply when multiple different hunters wer...

Hello! Here are today’s hotfixes:

November 10, 2023

Achievements

• Treasures of the Emerald Dream again rewards the Forest Lord’s Antlers.
  • Developers’ notes: While this was originally intended to be the reward for the Dream On achievement, a bug resulted in it being rewarded by the Treasures of the Emerald Dream achievement, so we’re going to leave it there permanently and look for something else to potentially reward for Dream On.

Classes

• Druid
  • Guardian
    • Fixed an issue causing Innate Resolve to not correctly increase Frenzied Regeneration healing.
  • Restoration
    • Abundance stacks will no longer incorrectly decrease if you happen to have more Rejuvenations active than the maximum amount of Abundance stacks.
• ...

November 9, 2023

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• 310% mounts now correctly fly at 310% speed in Outland.

Here are today’s hotfixes:

November 9, 2023

Classes

• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the talent frame to show the incorrect number of points on talents when trying to refund talent points for Priest, Demon Hunter, and Rogue.
• Druid
  • Guardian
    • Fixed an issue causing Blood Frenzy to not benefit from Haste or Cycle of Life and Death.
• Priest
  • Discipline
    • Ultimate Penitence now clears root effects when cast, instead of returning the error message “You are unable to move.”

Items

• Fixed an issue with Paracausal Fragment of Thunderfin, Humid Blade of the Tideseeker where the trinket effect was not functioning properly.
• The Sarannis’ Mystic Sheen absorb is reduced by 68% and the cloak now has primary stats.
...

Hotfixes

November 10, 2023

Achievements

• Treasures of the Emerald Dream again rewards the Forest Lord’s Antlers.
  • Developers’ notes: While this was originally intended to be the reward for the Dream On achievement, a bug resulted in it being rewarded by the Treasures of the Emerald Dream achievement, so we’re going to leave it there permanently and look for something else to potentially reward for Dream On.

Classes

• Druid
  • Guardian
    • Fixed an issue causing Innate Resolve to not correctly increase Frenzied Regeneration healing.
  • Restor...

Here is the latest updates to the Guardians of the Dream PTR. The patch notes article will be updated with this information shortly.

DRAGONFLIGHT SEASON 3

• At the beginning of Season 3 (November 14 in this region), Keystones will drop 11 levels in addition to any normal weekly reduction that may have occurred. Here’s what that might look like:
  • Example 1: You completed a +15 the week of November 7-14, but didn’t time it. The resulting key would normally drop by 1 level, because your highest key wasn’t timed (15 > 14). It will then drop an additional 11 levels due to the season rollover decay (14 > 3).
  • Example 2: You timed a +15 the week of November 7-14. The resulting key would normally be level 15, because you had timed the 15 last week. But would then drop the additional 11 levels due to season rollover decay (15 > 4).

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

• MYTHIC+
  • ...

Hello! We’ve identified the issue with the missing Cosmic Weapon Cache items. The missing items should be returned over the course of this week.

The below hotfixes have been applied or will be applied to the Guardians of the Dream PTR as hotfixes over the course of this week and next week.

CLASSES

• DEMON HUNTER
  • Havoc
    • Demon Hide bonus to magic damage reduced to 3% (was 4%).
    • Fel Barrage damage reduced by 6%.
    • Shattered Destiny now requires 12 Fury spent per increase to demon form duration (was 10 Fury).
  • Vengeance
    • Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope (2) Set Bonus – Flare Up damage now benefits from talents that increase Fire damage.
• EVOKER
  • Preservation
    • Developers’ note: We have concerns about the amount of Essence Bursts Preservation is able to generate through the new 2 piece bonus, so we’re reducing the number of Living Flames it can cast. We are also tweaking the 4 piece bonus to be more c...

The Guardians of the Dream PTR has been updated with the following changes:

ITEMS

• Developers’ note: As players prepare to delve into Amirdrassil, we are adjusting several Aberrus trinkets to account for changes to tuning targets and philosophy as well as to mitigate effects which have proven simply too synergistic with class power. As with Vault of the Incarnates, we want to avoid scenarios where item power could drive players to continue running old content that they otherwise would leave behind.
  • Rashok’s Molten Heart mana restore reduced by 70%, healing reduced by 50%, and Versatility reduced by 20%.
  • Beacon to the Beyond damage reduced by 11%.
  • Ominous Chromatic Essence secondary stat granted reduced by 5%.
  • Neltharion’s Call to Dominance duration increased to 20 seconds (was 10 seconds), but primary stat granted reduced by 50%.

Hello everyone. The below changes will be applied to the Guardians of the Dream PTR as hotfixes over the course of this week:

CLASSES

• Demon Hunter
  • Vengeance
    • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible (4) Set Bonus – Souls required to trigger Recrimination increased to 60 (was 20).
    • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible (4) Set Bonus – Duration of Fiery Brand applied by Set Bonus reduced to 3 seconds (was 6 seconds).
• Monk
  • Mistweaver
    • Blackout Kick damage increased by 15%. Does not apply in PvP combat.
    • Tiger Palm damage increased by 50%. Does not apply in PvP combat.
    • Spinning Crane Kick damage increased by 5%.
    • Faeline Stomp healing and damage increased by 150% (was 100%).
    • Ancient Teachings of the Monastery may now stack up to 4 times (was 3).
    • Essence Font now heals 5 targets (w...

The Guardians of the Dream PTR has been updated with the following:

BATTLEGROUND BLITZ BRAWL

• Arathi Basin / Deepwind Gorge resource acquisition increased to 7/10/15/50/65 for bases held (was 7/10/13/20/80).
• Eye of the Storm resource acquisition increased to 7/15 for bases held (was 5/12).
• Into the Shadows movement Speed increased to 100% (was 50%).

CLASSES

• Developers’ note: In addition to the below changes, there will be additional tuning changes planned that will be applied to the PTR over the course of this week.
• DEMON HUNTER
  • Immolation Aura damage reduced by 8%.
  • Sigil of Flame duration increased by 2 seconds.
  • Havoc
    • Demon Hide magic damage bonus reduced to 4% (was 5%).
• PRIEST
  • Discipline
    • Developers’ note: W...

Hello testers! Here are this week’s notes for Guardians of the Dream PTR:

CLASSES

• DEMON HUNTER
  • Any Means Necessary now correctly shows the same percent value before and after talenting into it.
  • Cycle of Binding now works with Precise Sigils.
  • Inertia now triggers correctly after using Immolation Aura twice before using Fel Rush.
  • Vengeance
    • Retaliation damage increased by 50%.
    • Sigil of Flame with Ascending Flame now reapplies Frailty when hit with another Sigil of Flame.
    • Chains of Anger now correctly increases cast reticle size of Sigils.
    • Developer’s note: The below changes will be applied to PTR over the course of this week.
    • Fiery Brand duration increased by 2 seconds.
    • Shear damage increased by 10%.
    • Fracture damage increased by 10%.
    • Soul Cleave damage increased by 15%.
    • Spirit Bomb damage i...

Here are the changes for this week’s Guardians of the Dream PTR update:

CLASSES

• DEMON HUNTER
  • Concentrated Sigils has been removed.
  • Havoc
    • Tactical Retreat and Unbound Chaos have swapped talent locations.
    • Burning Hatred now generates an additional 40 Fury (was 50).
    • Inner Demon now deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
    • Inertia damage bonus reduced to 18% (was 20%).
    • Chaotic Disposition chaos damage duplicated reduced to 17% (was 21%).
  • Vengeance
    • Darkglare Boon and Sigil of Misery have swapped talent locations.
    • Fel Devastation cooldown reduced to 40 seconds (was 1 minutes).
    • Fiery Brand now deals damage every 1 second (was 2 seconds), dealing the same total damage over its duration.
    • Burning Alive now causes Fiery Brand to spread every 1 second (was 2 seconds).
  ...

Updated the following PTR note:

• DRUID
  • Balance
    • Shooting Stars damage increased by 15%. This does not affect PvP combat.

The Guardians of the Dream PTR has been updated with the following changes:

DRAGONFLIGHT SEASON 3

• MYTHIC+
  • Throne of the Tides now has updated encounters and enemies throughout the dungeon, and the jellyfish elevator has been replaced with a portal. Available for testing in this week’s Mythic+ test.
  • Adjustments to the duration of several story scenes in Dawn of the Infinite on Mythic+ difficulty.
  • The Yalnu encounter in The Everbloom has been updated.

CLASSES

• DEMON HUNTER
  • Many talents have changed locations and/or available connections.
  • New Talent: Champion of the Glaive – Throw Glaive has 2 charges and 10 yard
    increased range.
  • Fodder to the Flame and Unleashed Power have been removed.
  • Chaos Nova cooldown reduced to 45 seconds (was 1 minute) and Fury cost reduced to 25 (was 30).
  • Con...

Added the following fix to today’s PTR update:

• MAGE
  • Fire
    • Fixed an issue with the following critical damage bonuses not attributing the correct amount of damage to Ignite when an ability crit: Overflowing Energy, Wildfire, and Searing Rage (Amirdrassil, the Dreams Hope set bonus effect).

Hiya! Here’s what you can find in this week’s Guardians of the Dream PTR update:

DRAGONFLIGHT SEASON 3

• MYTHIC+
  • The Everbloom will be available for this week’s Mythic+ test.

BATTLEGROUND BLITZ BRAWL

• EYE OF THE STORM
  • Slightly increased resource rate from bases.
  • Added a timer widget that will display during the 15 second period when bases are inactive until the next set are active.
• All rune buff respawn rates (including Shadow sight) decreased to 60 seconds (was 90 seconds). This includes already existing power runes in addition to the new ones introduced in the brawl.
• Various Power Runes have been added to Eye of the Storm, Battle for Gilneas, Arathi Basin, and Deepwind Gorge.

CLASSES

• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Frost
    • Am...