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Updated the notes with the following Legacy Raid changes:

Dungeons and Raids

• Legacy Raids
  • The following encounters have been adjusted to be less challenging for solo play:
    • Antorus, the Burning Throne
      • Antoran High Command
      • Eonar the Life-Binder
      • Varimathras (This change will be available in a later PTR build)
      • Coven of Shivarra
      • Aggramar
    • Tomb of Sargeras
      • The Desolate Host
      • Fallen Avatar
      • Kil’Jaeden
    • The Nighthold
      • Gul’dan
    • Trial of Valor
      • Helya

Hotfix update time.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Classes

• Hunter
  • Beast Mastery
    • Fixed an issue that caused more pet abilities than intended to have their cooldown reduced by Kindred Beasts (PvP Talent).

Dungeons and Raids

• Sanctum of Domination
  • Eye of the Jailer
    • Fixed an issue that sometimes caused Annihilating Glare to be cast on transition into Phase 2.
  • Painsmith Raznal
    • Fixed an issue causing players to be hit by two floor spikes in quick succession when moving through them at very high speeds.
  • Sylvanas Windrunner
    • Implemented additional performance improvements to the beginning of the encounter.

Here are today’s hotfixes for Burning Crusade Classic:

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Burning Crusade Classic

• The Shartuul’s teleporter event has been enabled once again.
• Fixed an issue where some bosses in Serpentshrine Cavern and Tempest Keep were missing certain items from their loot table.
• Fixed an issue where Horde characters weren’t automatically barking when riding a ram through Orgrimmar for the Brewfest quests “Bark for T’chali’s Voodoo Brewery!” and “Bark for Drohn’s Distillery.”
• Fixed an issue during “Terokk’s Downfall” that prevented Skyguard Ace from casting Skyguard Flare.
• Fixed an issue preventing some players from using Skyguard Bombs during the “Bombing Run” quest.

Here are today’s hotfixes!

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Dungeons and Raids

• Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
  • Playing instruments in Myza’s Oasis no longer cancels shapeshift forms.

Burning Crusade Classic

• The Shartuul’s teleporter event has been enabled once again.
• Fixed an issue where some bosses in Serpentshrine Cavern and Tempest Keep were missing certain items from their loot table.
• Fixed an issue where Horde characters weren’t automatically barking when riding a ram through Orgrimmar for the Brewfest quests “Bark for T’chali’s Voodoo Brewery!” and “Bark for Drohn’s Distillery.”
• Fixed an issue during “Terokk’s Downfall” that prevented Skyguard Ace from c...

Hello everyone! Here are the PTR notes for this week:

Classes

• Druid
  • Restoration
    • Efflorescence now has a new visual. For those who enjoy the previous visual, Glyph of the Wild Mushroom is available to return the spell to its fungi appearance.
• Monk
  • Chi Burst (Talent) now deals reduced healing beyond 6 targets.
    • Developers’ note: This spell previously used a complicated, invisible AoE-capping scheme for healing. This is being replaced with a clearer one where the amount of healing decays on each target after the 6th target is healed.
• Priest
  • Divine Star (Talent) and Halo (Talent) now deal reduced healing beyond 6 targets.
    • Developers’ note: These spells previously used a complicated, invisible AoE-capping scheme for healing. This is being replaced wit...

Hey everyone! Here are today’s hotfixes, including raid tuning changes to expect with tomorrow’s maintenance.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Achievements

• The 9.1 world achievements On the Offensive and Breaking the Chains are now properly account-wide. Completing Breaking the Chains should properly award the Hand of Salaranga mount.

Dungeons and Raids

• Sanctum of Domination
  • Painsmith Raznal
    • [With realm restarts] Reduced the distance between floor spike gaps during Stage Two on Mythic difficulty.
      • Developers’ note: The distance between safe locations should now be more consistent with this change.
    • [With realm restarts] Shadowsteel Chains periodic damage reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
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PTR notes have been updated with the following changes:

Dungeons and Raids

• Mythic+
  • Affixes
    • Bolster now has a 20 second duration (was permanent).
    • Necrotic Wound duration now lasts 6 seconds (was 9 seconds).
    • Raging damage bonus is now 50% (was 75%).

Updated the PTR notes with:

Dungeons and Raids

• Timewalking
  • New: Legion Timewalking (Legion Timewalking dungeons are now available for testing)
    • Timewalking Dungeons: Black Rook Hold, Eye of Azshara, Darkheart Thicket, Vault of the Wardens, Neltharion’s Lair, and Court of Stars.
  • Timeworn Keystones (These features are now available for testing)
    • While Legion Timewalking is active, players can speak to Ta’hsup in Oribos to acquire a Timeworn Keystone, allowing access to max-level, Mythic+ difficulty for the 6 Legion dungeons.
    • Legion Mythic+ dungeons accessed in this way have their own set of affixes, reward loot of the same item level as Shadowlands Mythic+ dungeons, and count toward weekly Great Vault reward options.
      • Items acquired from Legion Mythic+ dungeons can be upgraded with Valor points, but will not appear ...

Here are this week’s PTR notes.

Allied Races

• New character customization options for Highmountain Tauren.

Classes

• The following area-of-affect abilities are no longer maximum target capped and instead deal reduced damage beyond 5 targets:
  • Demon Hunter
    • Havoc
      • Glaive Tempest (Talent)
  • Monk
    • Spinning Crane Kick
• The following area-of-affect abilities are no longer maximum target capped and instead deal reduced damage beyond 8 targets:
  • Death Knight
    • Sacrificial Pact
    • Blood
      • Consumption (Talent)
      • Bonestorm (Talent)
    ...

Hello! Here’s the hotfix update for the day.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Classes

• Warlock
  • Demonic Circle can no longer be placed with the Kilrogg’s Cunning conduit while Eye of Kilrogg is off the ground.
• Warrior
  • Arms
    • Fixed an issue causing Warbreaker (Talent) to not apply the Colossus Smash debuff to enemies if it was used while the Warrior was Disarmed.

Dungeons and Raids

• Sanctum of Domination
  • Sylvanas Windrunner
    • [With realm restarts] Optimized game performance at the initialization of the first two phases of the encounter.
      • Developers’ note: Thanks to community reports, we discovered a way to optimize the processes that caused performance drops at the beginning of the fight a...

Hello everyone! Here are the notes for this week’s PTR build.

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Blood
    • Consumption (Talent) now deals 60% more damage.
• Monk
  • Brewmaster
    • Special Delivery (Talent) now deals 100% more damage.
• Paladin
  • Vanquisher’s Hammer (Necrolord Ability) now increases the effectiveness of the free Holy Power spender by 25%.
• Rogue
  • Outlaw
    • Dreadblades (Talent) initial strike deals 26% more damage and now immediately fills your Combo Points in addition to its current effects.
• Warlock
  • Demonology
    • Nether Portal (Talent) cooldown reduced to 2.5 minutes (was 3 minutes).
...

More PTR notes updates:

User Interface and Accessibility

• Group Finder Improvements
  • PvP Rating will now display when browsing for Rated PvP entries and in the applicant window.
• Summon Random Favorite Mounts will now summon a random mount if no mounts are favorited.
• Added a flying mount filter in the Mount Collection.
• New Transmogrifier cursor icon.
• New default backpack bag icon.

Updated the PTR notes with the following change:

User Interface and Accessibility

• Group Finder Improvements
  • Accounts now require an attached Battle.net Authenticator to post custom text when listing a group for Dungeons, Raids, or Rated PvP activities. All players may still search for and join others’ groups.
    • Developers’ note: A Group Finder that’s full of advertisements bothers us as much as it does you, but a challenge we’ve faced in trying to eliminate those ads is that they are often posted by compromised accounts or other throwaway accounts, such that penalties incurred by in-game reporting have not proven to be an effective deterrent. And regardless, relyin...

The four new Druid Travel Forms now have two color variations each.

Updated note:
Classes

• Druid
  • Discover 4 new Travel Form appearances with 2 color variations each.

Added the following change:

Items and Rewards

• The transmogrification appearance of cosmetic items is now learned when the item is used.

World of Warcraft Version 9.1.5 PTR

Achievements

• The following changes have been made to Mecha-Done:
  • Developers’ note: We’re smoothing out the rough edges in this epic meta-achievement to help players who are stuck on one of the more rare elements finally get that wheel mount!
  • Vinyl: Triumph of Gnomeregan – Now a guaranteed drop from the Hard Mode version of the Reclamation Rig event.
  • Vinyl: Battle for Gnomeregan – Drop rate increased from all hologram bosses.
  • Blueprint: Holographic Digitalization Relay – Drop rate increased from all hologram bosses.
  • Blueprint:...

Hey everyone! Here are today’s hotfixes.

AUGUST 30, 2021

Classes

• [With regional restarts] Condensed Anima Sphere (Conduit) effectiveness reduced by 50% in PvP combat for all classes.
• Death Knight
  • Unholy
    • Fixed an issue where Defile (Talent) would activate Kevin’s Oozeling (Necrolord Soulbind).
• Druid
  • Restoration
    • [With regional restarts] Mana regeneration reduced by 60% in PvP combat (was 55%).
• Monk
  • Fixed an issue where Bonedust Brew (Necrolord Ability) caused Kevin’s Oozeling (Necrolord Soulbind) to stay too long.
• Shaman...

Here are more images of some of the new character customizations taken from the new article, 9.1.5 Content Update Preview. Be sure to take a look at what else is to come in 9.1.5.

Additionally, we saw your requests for having the Void Elf tentacle hairstyles to have a tentacle-free option. The team is looking into adding this customization option in 9.1.5 as well. Thanks again for all of your suggestions!

Lightforged Draenei
...

Here are today’s hotfixes.

AUGUST 26, 2021

Covenants

• Necrolord
  • Plague Deviser Marileth
    • Resolved an issue where Kevin’s Oozeling would last longer than it should.
    • Resolved an issue where Kevin’s Oozeling would remain after swapping Soulbinds.

Dungeons and Raids

• Sanctum of Domination
  • Painsmith Raznal
    • Fixed an issue that caused players affected by Priest’s Spirit of Redemption to trigger Flameclasp Traps.
  • Sylvanas Windrunner
    • Fixed an issue causing Rage to cancel the channel effect of Shaman Fae Transfusion.

Hiya Here’s the hotfix update for today.

AUGUST 24, 2021

Achievements

• Players can now continue to give Rendle hats to complete Rendle’s Big Day after becoming his best friend.

Classes

• Priest
  • Fixed an issue where Kevin’s Oozeling (Necrolord Soulbind) would not activate when Unholy Nova (Necrolord Ability) does not heal.

Dungeons and Raids

• Sanctum of Domination
  • Kel’Thuzad
    • Glacial Spikes now properly kill themselves and apply Frozen Destruction even if they receive no damage from the players.

Items and Rewards

• ...