World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

Greetings Destruction Warlocks.

Due to an increase in the Soul Shard generation available to Destruction, we are seeing that Rain of Fire is overtaking the role of Chaos Bolt as the primary damaging ability in single-target encounters. To address this, we have deployed the following changes to Beta:

Destruction

• Pyrogenics now increases damage taken from your Fire spells by 3% (was 5%).
• Avatar of Destruction now generates 1 Soul Shard Fragment every 1 second (was 0.5 seconds).
• Summon Infernal now generates 1 Soul Shard Fragment every 1 second (was 0.5 seconds).

Diabolist

• Destruction
  • Infernal Bolt now generates 2 Soul Shards (was 3 Soul Shards).

We will continue to watch and test and make further adjustments if needed.

Thank you for the feedback!

We looked into this and yes,

The reason was something like a bug or crash that was invoked the instant that the mount was initially supposed to be awarded, and then a fix for that as a result of a recent update.

And there may be other achievements that a very small number of players have been missing, until now.

Hello Arcane Mages!

We’ve been closely watching Arcane, and in particular, the discussion around the most recent change to fix the ability to double-dip on the last charge of Nether Precision with Arcane Barrage.

While opinions on this change have not been unanimous, it’s true that the existence of this bug does deepen the rotational gameplay of Arcane. Given the current state of Arcane and our vision for the spec in The War Within, we’re opting to revert our bug fix for now and allow players to continue to double-dip on the last stack of Nether Precision.

You should see this change on the Beta in the coming days.

As always, thank you for your continued feedback!

Hi everyone,

We’ve got some updates for you as we’re nearing launch. Thank you for all the great feedback so far.

The issue regarding not being able to leave a delve should be resolved with the latest Beta build. We’re also working on better messaging for you when you’re on a team, regarding which teammates are eligible for delves. You should see some progress on that in the current Beta build.

On the content side of things, we’ve flagged objects that Brann should never attack – specifically the Nerubian cocoon. No more Brann surprising you with a face full of webs.

We’ve continued doing tuning to make sure certain classes don’t feel like they’re having a vastly different experience in the delves. Most notably, we’ve reduced unavoidable damage for casters wearing cloth armor.

On that note, we’ve introduced a new curio designed to help Brann feel more impactful for healers. It’s called the Rage-Filled Idol, a combat curio. Players in a healer spec w...

August 1, 2024

Season of Discovery

• Molten Core
  • Players can no longer line of sight Flamewaker Priests from Sulfuron Harbinger or outrange them to prevent the cast from Dark Mending, it must be interrupted!
  • Adjusted the recast time and cooldown of Dark Mending so that players can interrupt more sufficiently.
• Shaman
  • The Spirit Wolves summoned by Feral Spirits should now display all four of their active abilities on their pet bar.
• Warrior
  • The Tier 1 Warrior 2-piece set bonus, Tactician, will now correctly reduce the cost of Meathook.

August 1, 2024

Player-characters

• Priests will now automatically restart Shadowform after using Ride Along if Shadowform was enabled when they become a passenger.

Quests

• “The Lightforged” and “Heritage of the Lightforged” now correctly direct players to the Lightforged Beacon.

Radiant Echoes Event

• Updated the event so that now, after the zone boss is defeated, memories begin resurfacing again, repeating the event immediately.
• The event now rotates between zones once each hour, and while the Radiant Echoes are active in a zone, they will remain up for the entire hour.
• Increased earnings from scenarios and bosses, which now include flightstones and crests.
• The event quest is now daily and account-bound (was weekly, per-character).
• Dalaran Defender’s gear is now eligible to be upgraded at the Creation Catalyst.
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Good catch. I’ve eradicated that little leftover.

The first updated version of the event should start in about 8 minutes.

Confront the memories of Azeroth during the updated pre-expansion event and collect Residual Memories to purchase new items to add to your Warband collection. We've made changes to the event so that players have less down time between stages and more opportunities to gain rewards.

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Testing feedback thread right here

Thank you!

As Kaivax mentioned, we’d love your help testing out these changes on the 11.0.0 PTR. The Character Copy feature is currently experiencing some problems there, so in the meantime we’ve enabled the Character Template option on those realms. Using this button on the character selection screen will allow you to make a level 70 character and jump into the action instantly.

Thank you!

We’ve just deployed our changes to the Radiant Echoes event to the 11.0.0 PTR.

Please feel free to reply to this thread with any feedback you have on this version of the event from the PTR.

Thank you!

In a few minutes, we’ll deploy our changes to the Radiant Echoes event to the 11.0.0 PTR.

We’ll be testing the event there for a few hours today, before we bring all of the event improvements to the live game. Please feel free to join us!

If you haven’t tested this particular PTR yet, you’ll find it looking like this in your launcher:

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We’re working on major updates to the Radiant Echoes event, based on your feedback.

Since the event went live, we’ve been working to address two main concerns: the wait time for the event, and the rate at which you can earn rewards.

We’re quickly changing it so that the event rotates between zones once each hour, and while the Radiant Echoes are active in a zone, they will remain up for the entire hour.

Now you’ll defeat the memory scenarios that surface, and after enough are defeated, the zone boss will rise. After the zone boss is defeated, the memories will begin resurfacing again, repeating the event immediately. If you’re still interested in farming the basic mobs that appeared when the event ended, you’ll find that those remain available in the other zones.

As far as the rewards are concerned, we’ve re-evaluated the numbers and increased earnings. You’ll see the scenarios and bosses giving more currency than before, in addition to providing flightst...

July 31, 2024

Classes

• Druid
  • Restoration
    • Fixed an issue that caused Mastery: Harmony to increase healing as if one additional stack was always present.

Dungeons and Raids

• Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope
  • Tindral Sageswift
    • Resolved an issue that caused Fire Beams to move in unintended directions.

Player-characters

• Summoning a mount now cancels Zen Flight.

Quests

• The Frostbrood Skytalon Dragon now does the correct amount of damage to Scarlet Crusaders for the Death Knight quest “An End to All Things”.
• Players that are Time Traveling in Silithus should no longer teleport underneath the world when using the Teleportation Scroll while on “The War ...

July 31, 2024

Season of Discovery

• Further increased drop chances of Libram of Resilience from various sources in the world.
• Added a chance for Libram of Voracity, Rapidity, and Resilience to appear in the Damaged Undermine Supply Crates purchased with Tarnished Undermine Reals.
• Essence of the Pure Flame will now show its reflect damage in the combat log.
• Hydraxian Coronation now binds the target piece of gear.
• The Alliance quest “End of the Dark Horde” is now given by Master Mathias Shaw (was given by General Marcus Jonathan).
• Overcharged rune can now be obtained by those that previously completed the discovery but didn’t get the rune.
• Fine Flarecore Gloves are no longer class restricted.
• Hunter
  • Kill Shot will now have increased ranged with the Hawk Eye talent.
  • Hunters can no longer place multiples of the same trap by unequipping Tr...

July 31, 2024

Cataclysm Classic

• Conquest is now purchasable from the Valor vendor at 250 Conquest per 250 Valor.
• Honor is now purchasable from the Justice Commodities Vendor at 250 Honor per 375 Justice.
• Justice is now purchasable from the Honor Commodities Vendor at 250 Justice per 375 Honor.
• Maelstrom Crystals are available from the Justice Goods Vendors: Togar in Orgrimmar and Talric Forthright in Stormwind City.
• Some rare elite mobs in Cataclysm zones have started dropping item-level 359 epic gear. These include: Mobus, Garr, Xariona, Akma’hat, and Julak-Doom.
• All Midsummer items can now be refunded as intended (Brazier of Dancing Flames and Captured Flame).
• Fixed an issue where the Ritual Tiki Masks were invisible and non-targetable in Zul’Gurub.

Character copy is currently disabled while we work to resolve an issue.

We made the following edits to this week’s beta update notes:

• PRIEST
  • Shadow
    • Mind Melt now stacks up to 3 times (was 4).

The following note has been removed. Mythic+ rewards remain the same and can be viewed in the Season 1 and Raid Schedule Overview article.

• Hero track loot from Mythic+ now drops at a maximum of 1/6 (was 2/6).

July 30, 2024

Season of Discovery

• Shard of the Scale and Flame’s set bonus is now activated by all spells (was only direct healing and spell damage).

• Anathema and Benediction can now correctly be swapped after a one minute cooldown has passed.

• Molten Core

  • Fixed an issue that prevented Shazzrah from casting Gate of Shazzrah twice in a row on Heat 3.
  • Ragnaros no longer submerges twice on Heat 1.
  • Baron Geddon now casts Armageddon at 5% on Heat 1 (was 10%).
  • Baron Geddon now casts 2 Living Bombs at a time on Heat 2 (was 3).
  • Living Bomb no longer leaves Living Fallout pools on Heat 1.
  • Flamewaker Protectors now cast Dominate Mind much less frequently.
  • Maximized the cast and recast times of several dispel mechanics.
  • Damage done to self with spells such as Hellfire is no longer increased by the low Fire Resi...