World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

July 3, 2024

WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria

• Fixed several issues with the achievement Elusive Foes: Timeless Isles.

July 3, 2024

Achievements

• What’s Down There? now requires 1 Massive Lunker (was 2).
• That’s not a Fish… now requires 5 Massive Lunkers (was 10).
• We’re Going to Need a Bigger Harpoon now requires 10 Massive Lunkers (was 25).

Items

• Ominous Conch cooldown lowered to 1 minute (was 5 minutes).
• Increased the drop rate of Ominous Conch found in Tuskarr Tackle Boxes.
• Ominous Conch now has a maximum stack size of 20.
  • Developers’ notes: Ominous Conch used to have a maximum stack size of 20 in earlier patches, and that was removed. Since we’re putting the max back on it, we think it’s best to also reduce the associated achievement requirements and cooldown.

Here are this week’s changes to the War Within Pre-Expansion PTR:

CHARACTER SELECT SCREEN

• There is a known issue that characters may appear to be missing articles of clothing on the character select screen. Logging in and out of the game client will address this.

CLASSES

• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Frost
    • Icy Death Torrent has had the following changes:
      • Damage now scales with Mastery.
      • Damage increased by 100%.
      • Now has a 50% chance to trigger on auto-attack critical strikes while dual wielding and 100% while wielding a two-handed weapon.
      • Now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
    • Pillar of Frost’s Strength increased to 30% (was 25%).
    • Enduring Strength’s Strength increased to 20% (was 15%).
    • Long Winter now extends Pillar of Frost by 2 seconds, up to a maximum of 6 seconds.
    • Shattering B...

Additional testing for Silken Court on Heroic difficulty will begin today at 1:00 p.m. PDT (4:00 p.m. EDT, 22:00 CEST).

Please use this thread for feedback and bug reports regarding this encounter or related issues. Noting the nature of your group (guild premade, PUG, etc.) is helpful, as are any logs.

Thank you to everyone who has come out to help test!

Additional testing for Broodtwister Ovi’nax on Heroic difficulty will begin today at 12:00 Noon PDT (3:00 p.m. EDT, 21:00 CEST).

Please use this thread for feedback and bug reports regarding this encounter or related issues. Noting the nature of your group (guild premade, PUG, etc.) is helpful, as are any logs.

Thank you to everyone who has come out to help test!

Additional testing for Sikran, Captain of the Sureki on Heroic difficulty will begin today at 11:00 PDT (2:00 p.m. EDT, 20:00 CEST).

Please use this thread for feedback and bug reports regarding this encounter or related issues. Noting the nature of your group (guild premade, PUG, etc.) is helpful, as are any logs.

Thank you to everyone who has come out to help test!

Greetings! Here are this week’s updates to the War Within Beta:

CLASSES

• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Hero Talents
    • Rider of the Apocalypse (Frost/Unholy)
      • A Feast of Souls no longer has a chance to refund a rune.
      • Damage from Runic Power abilities is increased by 30% while 2 or more Horsemen are active (was 20%).
    • San’layn (Unholy/Blood)
      • The Blood is Life accumulator deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
      • The Blood is Life accumulator can no longer critically strike.
      • Corrupted Blood ability of the Blood Beast deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
      • Essence of the Blood Queen’s Haste granted per stack reduced to 1% (was 1.5%).
      • Vampiric Strike now heals for 1%/2% of your maximum health for Blood/Unholy (was 3%/5%).
      • Vampiric Strike damage reduced by 15%.
      • Infliction of Sorrow now ex...

We’re aware of issues with the new Skyfury raid buff, and we expect to address it with hotfixes to the Beta tomorrow.

Greetings Shamans!

Earlier today, we unfortunately deployed a small part of our Shaman update to the Beta. This may have put the class into a bad state for testing, but that will only be the case for the next day or so. We have significant updates to the Shaman talent trees coming in tomorrow’s new Beta build.

First, we’d like to outline our philosophy and goals for these changes. We’ll start by addressing the new Shaman raid buff: Skyfury, and then go over each of the tree updates individually.

Skyfury

Throughout Dragonflight and The War Within’s development, the topic of raid buffs has been actively discussed and we’ve come to the decision to add a new raid buff to the Shaman class. Our goal with this buff is for it to fully replace the Windf...

Datamining today is not revealing more than a small fraction of the package of changes coming in the next Beta build.

We’ll fully outline it for you here as soon as possible.

Testing for The Silken Court (Heroic) begins today at 12:00 PDT (15:00 EDT, 21:00 CEST).

Please use this thread for feedback and bug reports regarding this encounter or related issues. Noting the nature of your group (Mythic guild premade, PUG, etc.) is helpful, as are any logs. Thank you to everyone who has come out to help test!

Testing for Sikran, Captain of the Sureki (Heroic) begins today at 11:00 PDT (14:00 EDT, 20:00 CEST).

Please use this thread for feedback and bug reports regarding this encounter or related issues. Noting the nature of your group (Mythic guild premade, PUG, etc.) is helpful, as are any logs. Thank you to everyone who has come out to help test!

Hello Survival Hunters!

We’ve been reading your feedback regarding the recent changes to Mongoose Bite, Mongoose Fury, and Flanking Strike and want to provide an update regarding those changes.

One of our goals with the Survival Hunter spec tree update was to better define niches for each of Survival’s tandem pet-and-hunter attack abilities. Since then, we’ve made changes to Coordinated Assault and Spearhead to better define their use cases as well as the narrative sell of their effects, and last week we felt that it was Flanking Strike’s turn for an update.

We don’t feel that our previous iteration of Flanking Strike fits perfectly within Survival’s kit, but given your feedback, we also don’t think that it being an occasional replacement for Kill Command is a better direction. We plan on reverting Flanking Strike to its previous iteration, where it will remain a separate ability that doubly benefits from Tip of the Spear. We’ll put more thought into Flanking St...

With this week’s build, NPC Crafting Orders are now available for testing! To use the feature, travel to your nearest crafting bench and open the Crafting Order tab. Click the “NPC” tab, which may appear blank at first, and you should start seeing orders appear. If at first you don’t see any orders, please wait a moment and try again.

How it works

NPC Crafting Orders are personal orders that populate on a regular, predetermined cadence. Throughout the week, various familiar characters from the world will submit orders directly to you with a variety of possible rewards. You may discover that some customers tend to be more willing to provide reagents to assist in the final craft than others. Certain customers are very picky...

Hello! Here are this week’s changes to the War Within Pre-Expansion PTR:

CLASSES

• Developer’s note: In this week’s build, Avoidance and Leech rating on gear gives half as much percent value as before, and we’ve reduced the amount of these stats given by most talents. Both stats, Avoidance in particular, are extremely effective against the damage non-tank players face. By the end of an expansion, the amount of Avoidance appearing on gear reduces so much damage that acquiring pieces with it can feel required to do the hardest content, particularly extremely high Mythic+ keys. By reducing the amount of value given per rating, our goal is for pieces with those stats to remain valuable, but for the gap between players with and without them to be closer.
• Reduced the percentage granted by Avoidance and Leech rating by 50%.
• The following Leech and Avoidance effects have also been reduced:
  • Death Knight ...

We recently deployed the following changes to the War Within Beta:

CLASSES

• ROGUE
  • Hero Talents
    • Trickster (Subtlety/Outlaw)
      • Flawless Form buff duration increased to 12 seconds (was 6 seconds).
      • Unseen Blade damage increased by 36%.
      • Outlaw
        • Nimble Flurry now increases Blade Flurry damage by 15% (was 10%).
      • Subtlety
        • Nimble Flurry now deals 40% of listed abilities’ damage to nearby targets (was 15%).
        • Nimble Flurry now includes Echoing Reprimand, Goremaw’s Bite, and Unseen Blade in addition to currently listed abilities. Tooltip will reflect this change in a future update.
  • Assassination
    • All ability damage increased by 15%.
  • Outlaw
    • All ability damage increased...

Here are this week’s changes to The War Within beta:

CLASSES

• Developer’s note: In today’s build, Avoidance and Leech rating on gear gives half as much percent value as before, and we’ve reduced the amount of these stats given by most talents. Both stats, Avoidance in particular, are extremely effective against the damage non-tank players face. By the end of an expansion, the amount of Avoidance appearing on gear reduces so much damage that acquiring pieces with it can feel required to do the hardest content, particularly extremely high Mythic+ keys. By reducing the amount of value given per rating, our goal is for pieces with those stats to remain valuable, but for the gap between players with and without them to be closer.
• Reduced the percentage granted by Avoidance and Leech rating by 50%.
• The following Leech and Avoidance effects have also been reduced:
  • Death Knight
    • Lichborne now g...

Hello wielders of the elements!

Over the first few weeks of testing, we gathered a lot of feedback from you. Subsequently, we aligned that feedback with our design goals, and got to work.

We’ve been recently working through a package of updates for Shamans, and we can now confirm that we’ll have the majority of the changes implemented and ready for testing in the next Beta build, next week.

Before then, we intend to deploy some Beta tuning hotfixes for the class in the next couple of days. But please know that this tuning is not a part of the package coming next week.

Thank you for your testing and feedback!

I’ve updated the OP:

• Keystone levels +2 through +11 have the following affixes:
  • +2 Xal’atath’s Bargain affixes appear on a weekly rotation.
  • +4 Fortified or Tyrannical is active, alternating on a
    weekly rotation.
  • +7 Challenger’s Peril is active on all keystones.
  • +10 Tyrannical or Fortified is active, alternating on a
    weekly rotation.
  • +10 Tyrannical and Fortified are active.
    • The one that was not active at +4 that week becomes active at +10.