World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

One addition to the pre-patch tomorrow that players may wish to note:

• The level-60 character Boost now provides item level 327 gear (was iLvl 180).

This will go into-effect once patch 11.0 goes live.

We’ve just deployed a new Beta build intended to resolve some issues Mac testers have encountered.

Mac testers, please let us know how the Beta is now working for you.

Thank you very much!

This is a known issue in the Beta. Players can lose the ability to interact with objects, and a logout only straightens it out some of the time.

We’re working to resolve this in our next Beta build.

We’re expecting Beta realms to come back online in the next 30-60 minutes or so.

We’ve had a bug with Drained of Blood in BRM for the last day or two, however, we just applied a hotfix that should restore it as we expected it to work.

We’ll keep a close eye on this today.

We’re continuing to work on this. Players are seeing authentic behavior here, but our goal is to get Bolvar to respawn a bit faster when this event has been initiated.

Due to unexpected technical difficulties, we have not yet been able to resolve login and stability issues in the Beta.

Our next update on this will be on Monday, July 22.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

We identified an issue that caused Antique Bronze Bullion to become discontinued early unintentionally. Bullions will begin dropping again with the next weekly reset, allowing players to get the one they would have missed (the 13th) as catch-up, alongside the regular 14th Bullion. After this reset, Bullion will continue to drop each week until the War Within launches.

Thanks for the reports!

We’re currently working to address an issue with resurrection. For the time being:

• When dying and releasing inside of each raid, you will momentarily be ported to Westfall or the Barrens before being transported to the correct graveyard.

Thank you for your patience!

We’re currently working on a fix that should address some issues, especially the login issue for Mac testers.

We’ll let you know when we’ve deployed a new build for that.

July 17, 2024

Season of Discovery

• The tooltip for the Draconic Infused Emblem is now correct. The spell effect is not changed.
• Blackrock Eruption
  • The Drained of Blood aura from the Stranglethorn Vale PvP event is now applied when participating in the Blackrock Mountain PvP event. This applies to players exiting instances in Blackrock Mountain.
• Druid
  • Flame Wrath has been redesigned with a lower spell power ratio on the Thorns portion of the proc and an internal cooldown for Feral Druids.
• Hunter
  • Trap Launcher will no longer augment Frost Trap.
    • Developers’ notes: A Trap Launcher version of Frost Trap has only existed in versions of WoW in which mobility and freedom effects were more plentiful. Without them, the safety and agency a 9-15 second ranged Frost Trap grants Hunters is simply too m...

We’ve got you.

Tier-0 will become available from the Undermine currency vendor tomorrow when the raids open.

We’ve just applied a hotfix to address Hunter mobility.

• Trap Launcher will no longer augment Frost Trap.

A Trap Launcher version of Frost Trap has only existed in versions of WoW in which mobility and freedom effects were more plentiful. Without them, the safety and agency a 9-15 second ranged Frost Trap grants Hunters is simply too much. We’re making it so that Hunters either need to put themselves at risk in order to place a Frost Trap or have someone engage on them to trigger it.

Please note: if you currently have the Rune equipped, you must unequip and reequip it, zone, or relog before you can use Frost Trap again.

With today’s new build update, we’re tracking a number of stability issues that we’re expecting for testers to experience until we apply fixes and/or deploy the next build.

For example:

• Your game may crash when you enter or exit Delves, or sometimes you may get stuck unable to log out and have to force-close the client.
• There may be situations in which hearthing results in a crash.
• Heroic Dungeon queues may instantly fail.

Update July 19

Due to unexpected technical difficulties, we have not yet been able to resolve login and stability issues in the Beta.

Our next update on this will be on Monday, July 22.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Please feel free to report any bugs you encount...

In this post, we’ll update the score required to earn the Draconic Hero title for Dragonflight Season 4. As a reminder, the title will go to all players who end Dragonflight Mythic+ Season 4 with a Mythic+ Rating in the top 0.1% in each region.

If the season ended today, in this region, the title would go to those who scored at least:

3643

Good luck!

Greetings everyone,

Last week, we announced several updates to our Classic Era realms. These updates included changes originally developed for Season of Discovery but intentionally brought to Classic Era as well, such as one that specifically addressed a longstanding imbalance in World of Warcraft Classic, by providing Alliance players with the Might of Stormwind buff as a comparable buff to the Horde’s Warchief’s Blessing.

In that time, we have listened to the community response to changes in Classic Era and the concerns about what updates like this could mean for the future. Thank you for your feedback.

Effective immediately, we are reversing the following changes to Classic Era:

• Alliance players now have access to the Might of Stormwind, to a version of the Warchief’s Blessing world buff effect.

• Druids can now train and use polearms.

• The 6-hour wait between applications of Rallying Cry of the Dragonslayer a...

Hello everyone.

This week’s update to the War Within Beta is now available to test. Please note that there is a possibility of some server instabilities over the next few days. If you encounter any issues with instabilities, please report them in the bug reporter.

CLASSES

• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Death Strike can now only heal the Death Knight for a percentage of damage taken from a given damage event once. Death Strikes that heal the minimum health amount do not count as using damage events in this way.
  • Enfeeble reduces damage dealt to you by 12% (was 15%).
  • Null Magic reduces Magic damage taken by 8% (was 10%).
  • Hero Talents
    • Deathbringer (Blood/Frost)
      • Reaper’s Mark is now a 45 second cooldown (was 60 seconds).
      • Swift End now reduces the cooldown of Reaper’s Mark by 15 seconds (was 30 seconds).
      • Frost
        • Re...

Noting that I’ve updated the first Death Knight note:

• Death Strike can now only heal the Death Knight for a percentage of damage taken from a given damage event once. Death Strikes that heal the minimum health amount do not count as using damage events in this way.

We have a significant update for Protection Warriors coming in today’s new Beta build.

Please read all about our overall philosophy here: