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World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Classic Patch 4.4.0 Notes

New Player Races: Goblin and Worgen

The cursed worgen and the cunning goblins join the Alliance and Horde, each bringing their own unique edge to Azeroth. Create all-new charactersfor these races.Available classes for these two races are:

• Worgen: Warrior, Hunter, Rogue, Priest, Death Knight, Mage, Warlock, Druid
• Goblins: Warrior, Hunter, Rogue, Priest, Death Knight, Shaman, Mage, Warlock

New Race and Class Combinations

Players may now create characters with the following classes that were previously unavailable in Classic:

• Dwarf: Mage, Shaman, Warlock
• Gnome: Priest
• Human: Hunter
• Night Elf: Mage
• Blood Elf: Warrior
• Orc: Mage
• Tauren: Paladin, Priest
• Troll: Druid, Warlock
• Undead: Hunter

Class Updates: New Tal...

April 29, 2024
Season of Discovery

• Shaman
  • Rolling Thunder can now trigger from Overload versions of Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning.
• Warlock
  • Felguards summoned by Warlocks will now have their appropriate demon names, instead of just ‘Felguard’. This name will not be permanent like other Warlock pets, and the Felguard’s name will change upon every summon.

April 29, 2024

Dungeons and Raids

• Algeth’ar Academy
  • Fixed an issue where Vile Lasher’s Detonation Seed was not spawning on the ground.
• Neltharus
  • Lava Flare’s Melt now goes on cooldown after the cast is interrupted.
  • Chargath, Bane of Scales
    • Fiery Focus’s Fire damage reduced by 25%.
• Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr
  • The Mythic+ timer increased by 1 minute.
• Vault of the Incarnates
  • Cuzolth now provides their item upgrade services to players in Vault of the Incarnates.
  • Terros
    • Fixed an issue where Explosive Reaction was hitting pets on Mythic difficulty.

Items

• Libergo, Head Librarian of the Azure Archives Annex in Valdrakken, has...

As Deathwing approaches, we want Classic progression players to know about some features from original Cataclysm (4.0.3a) that are going to differ in the Cataclysm Classic pre-patch (4.4.0).

Hunter Pets

Hunter pets will function differently in the 4.4.0 Cataclysm Classic Pre-patch than they did in original Cataclysm patch 4.0.3a.

In original Cataclysm, Hunter players were able to place 5 pets in their stable and summon them anywhere in the world.

Initially in patch 4.4.0, Hunter pets will work the same way they do in Wrath Classic. Hunters will continue to be able to summon 1 pet and will need to go to a Stablemaster to switch to a different one. We will update this Hunter functionality with the Cataclysm Classic expansion content launch (or sooner).

Additionally, original Cataclysm launched with Pet Aggressive stance, and Pet Assist stance later replaced Pet Aggressive stance in patch 4.2.0. We plan to have Pet Aggressive stance i...

Hello!

As we head towards our Cataclysm Classic launch in late May, we’re planning some special test weekends in the Cataclysm Beta.

May 3-6 – Cataclysm Raids Test 1

We’re opening the doors to the new raids that will launch shortly after the expansion, and your testing will help to ensure it’s a great experience.

• Take on the pit Lord Argaloth deep in the prison of Tol Barad.
• Battle the cult of the Twilight’s Hammer in Bastion of Twilight.
• Storm the personal lair of the Windlord in Throne of the Four Winds.
• Survive the gruesome draconic experiments and the reanimated Nefarian, son of Deathwing, in Blackwing Descent.

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With scheduled weekly maintenance (tomorrow, April 30 in this region), we’ll make the following adjustments to classes in Season of Discovery:

Hunter

• Raptor Fury now increases the damage done of Raptor strike and Mongoose Bite by 10% per stack (was 15%).
• The Beast Mastery rune now increases pet damage by 10% (was 20%).

Shaman

• The Burn rune now also grants a significant bonus to spell power when Flametongue Weapon is imbued on your weapon.
• Rolling Thunder now has a 50% chance to trigger (was 30%).
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With hotfixes that are now live, we’ve made the following adjustments to Mythic+ dungeons:

Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr

• Timer increased by 1 minute.

Neltharus

• Chargath, Bane of Scales
  • Fiery Focus’s Fire damage reduced by 25%.

We’re currently working through two sets of issues with combat throughput and logging in Awakened raids.

The first is a damage scaling issue affecting passive spells such as:

• Evokers’ Obsidian Shards
• Rogues’ Caustic Spatter and Sanguine Blades
• Monks’ Bonedust Brew
• Druids’ Burning Frenzy

These spells are doing less damage than intended, and we have hotfixes coming for this issue as soon as possible.

The second is a bug with logging values on Blood Plague, Vampiric Touch, and other similar leech effects. They’re displaying higher than intended healing amounts in both the user interface and the combat log in Awakened raids.

We have confirmed that the actual amount of healing being done is correct, and this is purely a logging/UI issue. We intend to fix this with the 10.2.7 patch.

April 25, 2024

Season of Discovery

• Using an Unconscious Dig Rat no longer dismisses pets.
• Mage
  • Displacement no longer functions if the most recent use of Blink was on a different continent or in a different instance.

April 25, 2024

Classes

• Fixed a bug with damage dealt by Rip & Tear, Internal Combustion, and Tear Open Wounds in Awakened raids.

Dungeons and Raids

• Raid Finder now required item level 463 if the raid is Awakened.
• Brackenhide Hollow
  • Addressed an issue where Stinkbreath can turn while casting Stinkbreath.
  • Addressed an issue where Wilted Oak’s Necrotic Breath visual can be out of sync with the creature’s facing.

Items

• Veteran track items or items obtained from Awakened Outdoor Activities should now properly be able to be converted into Class Set items at the Revival Catalyst.
• Resolved multiple issues with Dragonflight Season 4 tier set items not functioning after equipping certain Season 3 set items.
• Dreambound gear caches from the Dreamsurge Coalesence vendor will now cor...

This week’s Alpha build brings more updates to Windwalker and we’d like to go over the underlying philosophy and reasoning for these changes. The main changes we’ll be discussing are to Tiger Palm and its damage distribution, making Combo Strikes more consistent and intuitive, and some incoming shifts to their spec tree talent layout.

Tiger Palm
Tiger Palm is the most commonly used button for Windwalker, but historically it has represented very little overall damage itself. We want Tiger Palm to remain mostly about generating Chi, but also represent a more meaningful percentage of Windwalker’s damage breakdown. Our goal is not to change rotational priorities, but to make every button press feel directly meaningful to your overall damage.

This also helps us tackle some interesting damage profiles by increasing their priority target damage, even in AoE scenarios. We’re excited about talents like Martial Mixture for this reason, which could offer som...

Greetings Warlocks,

Today, we have various Core and Affliction tree changes hitting the Alpha. We want to take a moment to go a bit more in depth as to what certain changes were made and why. As a refresher, here are the goals for our Core and Afflictions that we posted last week along with some additional goals that we can dig into here.

Class

• Ensure each capstone is interesting and exciting.
• Reduce the amount of throughput talents, to free up utility choices.
• Reduce the number of ranks for talents that don’t warrant multiple ranks.

Affliction

• Address the tuning of Malefic Rapture in single-target and multi-target situations.
• Reduce complexity and the amount of active buttons that contribute to it.
• Erase the need to choose between a single-target or multi-target profile by adding more adaptability and flexibility.

While we cannot go over every ch...

Hello Mages!

We have a lot of Fire Mage changes hitting the Alpha today, and we want to take some time to go over what changes were made and why. As mentioned in our update post last week, we have a few goals that span all mage specializations. These are:

• Allow you to acquire each specialization’s core gameplay with less talent point investment.
• Simplify rotational complexity.
• Provide new nodes that can help you adapt your damage profile to better match a given encounter’s demands.
• Provide competitive choice nodes that let you opt-out of complex gameplay.

Since we’re talking about Fire only, we can get a bit more granular:

Fire’s AOE
The biggest issue we were looking to address with this iteration was giving you more ways to adjust your talents and rotation to better suit different profiles, which goes hand-in-hand with increasing the effectiveness and excitement of Flamestrike, Phoenix Flames,...

With today’s Alpha update, Fel-Scarred Hero Talents are now available for testing.

Fel-Scarred Demon Hunters embrace the monster within! Blasts of devastating Fel fire are unleashed while in demon form, and activating Metamorphosis greatly empowers additional Fel-themed abilities.

The Fel-Scarred endure a pain that bubbles just beneath the surface, granting increased maximum Fury and a portion of their demon form bonuses at all times. Those who stand in their way will inevitably be introduced to that pain by intense fiery abilities and blades that burn with Fel energy.

Please try it out and let us know what you think here!

Greetings, Alpha testers!

With today’s Alpha update, testers can all rock the Earthen first hand.

First, some context.

To get right into the action, new Earthen on the Alpha bypass their starting quest experience. We also have abilities that are in the final stages of design but aren’t quite ready in terms of visuals or corner-case functionality. If you’d like a higher level experience, you can create a template character using an Earthen, but in this release, we’re particularly looking for your impressions of the extensive customization options the Earthen have to offer. Feel free to show us your awesome creations!

We’re also looking for your thoughts on the set of racial abilities we’ve imbued in our rocky friends.

Earthen’s active ability is Azerite Surge, an empower spell which has the following effects:

(We’re still working on the visuals for this spell, so expect to see changes in the near future as we refine ...

• MONK (Monk Feedback)
  • Developer’s note: Our main goals for the Monk Class tree are to introduce more optionality, refresh the cappers, and add a few new pieces of utility (such as an Enrage dispel), while still cutting down on overall keybind requirements. To accomplish this, we’ve added choice nodes to most active options that offer a passive option or changed pathing to allow more skipping of these spells. More details can be found in the Feedback: Monk Updates thread.
  • New Talent: Crashing Momentum – Targets you Roll through are snared by 40% for 5 seconds.
  • New Talent: Bounding Agility – Roll and Chi Torpedo travel a small distance further.
  • New Talent: Wind’s Reach – The range of Disable is increased by 5 yards. The duration of Crashing M...

Did you buy the insurance?

We are not planning to convert these. Going forward, you can collect them and use them as before.

A few minutes ago, we deployed a hotfix for this issue that should alleviate it going forward.

We’re working on a fix-up for players who were already affected.