World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

HOTFIXES

September 16, 2024

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Rider of the Apocalypse: Apocalyptic Conquest now correctly modifies total Strength (was modifies base Strength).
  • San’layn: Visceral Strength now correctly modifies total Strength (was modifies base Strength).
  • Blood
    • Bloodied Blade now correctly modifies total Strength (was modifies base Strength).
  • Mage
    • Fixed an issue that caused Frostfire Bolt to consume Ice Floes when instant cast from Frostfire Empowerment.
    • Fixed an issue that caused Ice Wall to not be reduced by Elemental Affinity for Fire Mages.
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We’re currently working on some updates to Dungeon encounters that we’ll implement before Mythic+ gets underway.

Mists of Tirna Scithe

• Mistcaller
  • Addressed an issue where Dodgeball was inflicting damage to unintended targets.

Ara-kara, City of Echoes

• Ki’katal the Harvester
  • Erupting Webs
    • Stun duration reduced to 3 seconds (was 6 seconds).
    • Damage reduced by 18%.
    • Grasping Blood is now susceptible to interrupt effects.

Siege of Boralus

• Players can now use both Alliance and Horde portal to enter the dungeon.
• Leaving Siege of Boralus now puts players at the correct exit location based on their factions.
• Jaina Proudmoore now teleports players to the correct exit location based on their factions.
• Chopper Redhook...

Added the following to the OP:

Mage

• Arcane
  • Arcane Blast damage reduced by 5%.
  • Arcane Missiles damage reduced by 8%.

Warrior

• Fury
  • All ability damage reduced by 3%.

This Firelands test has concluded.

Thank you to everyone who jumped in and tested with us!

We will post the dates for the next raid test soon.

Over the past several days, we’ve heard player reports of much variance in Brann’s performance and contribution in Delves, and we’ve investigated anomalous data along those lines. We recently identified a serious bug that could, under specific circumstances, cause Brann to inherit all the health and damage bonuses meant for enemies in a given difficulty tier. When this bug took effect, the higher the tier of Delve you were running, the stronger Brann would get.

We’ve just deployed a hotfix that will correct this bug. There should now be a consistent baseline of power for Brann, which will increase with your own gear and with his level.

Some specs, whose gameplay tended towards hanging back and letting Brann take the lead, were much more likely to trigger the bug than others, so for those players we understand that this could make Brann feel significantly weaker than he has been, especially in the highest tier delves.

We’ve also seen feedback tha...

September 13, 2024

Achievements

• Players will now earn the achievements Harbinger of the Weathered, Harbinger of the Carved, and Harbinger of the Runed immediately upon outgrowing the use of those crests.

Classes

• Demon Hunter
  • Vengeance
    • Shattered Souls missiles will no longer display for allies.
• Druid
  • Feral
    • Fixed a bug preventing Ferocious Bite from damaging crowd-controlled targets.
• Evoker
  • Devastation
    • Fixed an issue where Mass Disintegrate was not benefiting properly from Iridescence or Titanic Wrath.
  • Preservation
    • Cycle of Life no longer accumulates healing done to pets and guardians.
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During scheduled weekly maintenance on September 17, we will adjust items that have been over- and under-performing in the first few days of The War Within Season 1.

Our goal is to get these changes out ahead of the first Great Vault of the season, to lower the impact on players’ gearing journey.

• Ara-Kara Sacbrood - Primary stat reduced by 5%.
• Burin of the Candle King - Absorb increased by 15%.
• Cinderbrew Stein - Primary stat increased by 5%, absorb increased by 20%.
• Cirral Concoctory - Effects increased by 5%.
• Harvester’s Edict - Damage and Mastery effect increased by 5%.
• Mereldar’s Toll - Versatility effect increased by 8%.
• Overclocked Gear-A-Rang - On-use damage increased by 10%.
• Refracting Aggression Module - Absorb increased by 25%.
• Scrapsinger’s Symphony - Absorb increased by 15%.
• Shadow-Binding Ritual Knife - Primary stat reduced by 5%.
• Shining Aratho...

We’ve identified an issue with Valorstones not being discounted across your Warband after upgrading an item on a character. This should be fixed with next week’s scheduled maintenance.

During scheduled weekly maintenance on September 17, we will adjust classes that have been over- and under-performing in the first few days of The War Within Season 1.

Class Changes

• Death Knight
  • San’layn: Vampiric Strike chance to trigger increased to 25% (was 10%).
  • San’layn: Frenzied Bloodthirst damage of Death Coil and Death Strike increased by 5% per stack (was 4%).
  • San’layn: Visceral Strength grants 8% Strength (was 6%).
  • San’layn: Fixed an issue with Visceral Strength modifying base Strength instead of total Strength.
  • Blood
    • San’layn: Vampiric Strike damage increased by 20%.
    • San’layn: Infliction of Sorrow deals 15% of the remaining damage-over-time damage (was 10%).
• Demon Hunter
  • ...

Greetings Adventurers!

The PTR has recently been updated with more 20th Anniversary content. Come and visit the updated Caverns of Time celebration area, world bosses, and queue up to the new Codex of Chromie scenario.

20th Celebration

• The new celebration hub is now available including new activities such as Mount Mania, Fashion Frenzy, and the Storyteller stage.
• Explore the hub and turn into your pet in the Pet Corner, hop on the ice rink, take a photo at the photobooth, or venture through portals for unique vista selfies.

Codex of Chromie

• Queue up for our new scenario with 10-20 other players to help Chromie knock some unintended guests from her tour of the opening of the Gates of Ahn’Qiraj.

World Bosses

• Face off against new gatecrashing World Bosses like the Sha of Anger and Archavon the Stonewatcher.
• Challenge the past anniversary ...

Hello.

Following recent hotfixes to address issues in Delves, we’ve seen a great deal of concern about enemy scaling in various situations. We’ve been working on additional updates to Delves to address the current state of things.

This is a top priority for us and we expect to deploy further fixes later today.

Thank you for your feedback!

September 12, 2024

Delves

• Fixed a bug causing bosses to scale incorrectly with more players.
• Increased the health scaling of enemies in Delves while grouped with other players.
• Reduced the damage scaling of many enemy abilities in Delves while grouped with other players.
• Adjusted enemy targeting preferences in Delves.
  • Developers’ notes: Our goal is to match the difficulty of solo and group play as much as possible in Delves. When looking at data on group delves, we noticed unexpectedly low combat times coupled with unexpectedly high lethality. We identified the root cause of this issue and corrected it. This fix will increase the health scaling of enemies per additional player present, but we are also reducing the damage scaling of many abilities to compensate.
• Zekvir’s influence has grown stronger, introducing a new enemy variant in Delve Tier 8.
• Fixed an...

September 11, 2024

Classes

• Mage
  • Frost
    • The Death’s Chill aura will now be removed alongside Ice Form.
    • Frost Splinterstorm will now correctly apply Winter’s Chill to shielded targets.

Delves

• Fixed an issue causing some trinkets to drop for the wrong specialization in Delves.
• Fixed an issue where killing a group buffed by Zekvir’s Influence could fail to count for extra rewards.
• Fixed an issue where Web Spreaders can target stealthed and invisible players.
• Weekly Quest delve icons have been moved slightly to make it easier to see if a delve is bountiful or not.
• Tak-Rethan Abyss
  • Added an exit button to the Kobyss Killer vehicle.

Dungeons and Raids

• Nerub-ar Palace
  • ...

September 11, 2024
Season of Discovery

• Crimson Tempest can no longer be used unless the primary target is within melee range.

PUBLIC TEST REALMS

• Character copy is now available and character templates have been turned off.

THE DRACTHYR SPREAD THEIR WINGS TO NEW CLASSES

• Dracthyr Racial Updates
  • Tail Swipe is no longer a racial for Dracthyr. Tail Swipe is now learned baseline for Evokers.

CLASSES

• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Blood
    • San’layn
      • Gift of the San’layn has been updated – While Dancing Rune Weapon is active you gain Gift of the San’layn (was Vampiric Blood).
• DRUID
  • Restoration
    • New Talent: Twinleaf – Nature’s Swiftness now has 2 charges.
    • New Talent: Wildwood Roots – Abundance now also reduces the cast time of Regrowth by 5% per stack. Cenarion Ward’s cooldown is reduced by 10 seco...

To ensure the accessibility of Ironclaw Weightstone and Whetstones for the duration of this season and beyond, we will increase the total amount produced through crafting to 4.

This change will come with the next weekly reset, which is September 17 in this region.

Today, we updated the 1.15.4 PTR with a new build that includes changes to classes and items, as well as several bug fixes.

General

• PvP Damage Reduction: Players now take 30% reduced Physical damage from other players and pets (was 20%) and 40% reduced Magic damage from other players and pets (was 20%).

Classes

Druid

• The Nature’s Reach talent will now correctly increase the range of Starfall by 10%/20%.
  • This increases the range to 36 yards, or 21 yards when the Idol of Celestial Foc...

On Friday, September 13, we will open the Firelands raid for testing at 1:00 p.m. PDT (4:00 p.m. EDT).

We intend to keep the raid open for testing on the PTR until Monday, September 16.

See you there!

September 10, 2024

Achievements

• Fixed an issue that resulted in the Machine-Warden title being incorrectly granted to all players. It is now properly granted by the achievement It’s Not Much, But It’s Honest Work.
• General’s Scouting Shadecaster has been removed from the achievement Itsy Bitsy Spider.

Classes

• Death Knight
  • An issue causing Trollbane’s Icy Fury to display as snare mechanic on creatures that are immune to snares has been resolved.
• Monk
  • Fixed an issue where Clarity of Purpose was not correctly triggered by Gusts of Mist from several spells.
• Shaman
  • Stormbringer
    • An issue causing Arc Discharge to make Lightning Bolt deal damage as though Maelstrom Weapon was spent has been resolved.
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We’ve been seeing chatter from some hunters thinking that Aradan isn’t available to tame yet. While capturing this secretive stormrook isn’t as obvious as most tameable hunter pets, we wanted to confirm to those of you looking to tame Aradan that there’s nothing preventing the capture of this spirit beast.

Good luck taming this blue birb!