[2021] PTR Eternity’s End Development Notes

World of Warcraft Version 9.2 PTR – Eternity’s End

CHARACTERS

• Added 3 new Night Elf male face options based on the 3 scowling faces, but now with a more natural and less aggressive mouth.

CLASSES

• Death Knight
  • Final Sentence (Kyrian Runecarving Power) now grants 4% damage per stack (was 3%), duration reduced to 15 seconds (was 18 seconds), and now grants the Rune and Damage buff on the initial cast of Shackle the Unworthy (and again each time it spreads).
    • Rampant Transference (Night Fae Runecarving Power) Strength per stack of Death’s Due increased by 3% (was 2%).
  • Abomination Limb (Necrolord Ability) damage increased by 20%.
  • Abomination’s Frenzy (Necrolord Runecarving Power) now increases enemy damage taken from the Death Knight by 20% (was 10%), and enemies affected by Abomination’s Frenzy now also take increased damage from your Minions for the duration.
  • Convocation of the Dead (Conduit) now reduces the cooldown of Apocalypse by 1 second per Festering Wound burst at all ranks and now also increases Festering Wound damage by 15%.
  • Eternal Hunger (Conduit) increases Minion damage by 6% (was 3%).
  • Embrace Death (Conduit) causes Sudden Doom to increase Death Coil damage by 40% (was 35%).
  • Brutal Grasp (Conduit) increases Abomination Limb damage by 30% (was 15%).
  • Fixed an issue with Killing Machine that caused it to trigger less often than intended while Dual Wielding.
  • Class Sets
    • Blood
      • 4-piece: When you take damage, you have a chance equal to 100% of your Parry chance to lash out, Heart Striking your attacker. Dancing Rune Weapon now summons 2 Rune Weapons.
    • Unholy
      • 4-piece: Soul Reaper now grants 25% damage (was 20%) from minions below 35% health.
      • 4-piece: Now grants the Death Knight the Harvest Time buff if the enemy dies while Soul Reaper is active on them before it explodes.
• Demon Hunter
  • Sinful Brand (Venthyr Ability) can no longer be overwritten by a lower duration Sinful Brand when applied via Metamorphosis.
  • Class Sets
    • Havoc
      • 2-piece: Increases Blade Dance and Chaos Strike damage by 20%. This bonus also applies to Death Sweep and Annihilation while in Metamorphosis.
      • 4-piece: Reworked – Every 60 Fury you consume reduces the cooldown of Metamorphosis by 1 second.
    • Vengeance
      • 4-piece: Consuming a Lesser Soul Fragment reduces the remaining cooldown of your Immolation Aura or Fel Devastation by 1 second.
• Druid
  • Kindred Affinity’s (Kyrian Runecarving Power) stat bonus for the Druid reduced to 6% (was 8%) and the stat bonus for their partner reduced to 3% (was 8%).
  • Sinful Hysteria (Venthyr Runecarving Power) now increases the duration of Ravenous Frenzy by 0.1 second with each application (was 0.2 seconds) and you will not be overcome by Frenzy for 3 seconds after it ends (was 5 seconds).
    • Developers’ note: We are currently workshopping Sinful Hysteria to bring it in line with other legendaries available for Druids. Future builds may see additional changes to Sinful Hysteria so we invite any and all feedback to ensure the spirit of this legendary remains intact.
  • Restoration
    • All healing abilities increased by 10%.
    • All damage abilities increased by 10%.
    • Lifebloom healing over time increased by 12% and bloom heal increased by 20%.
    • Nourish healing (Talent) increased by 15%.
    • Overgrowth (Talent) mana cost reduced by 60%.
    • Inner Peace (Talent) now has an additional effect – While channeling Tranquility, you take 20% reduced damage and are immune to knockbacks.
    • Germination (Talent) now has an additional effect – Rejuvenation duration increased by 2 seconds.
  • Class Sets
    • Feral
      • 4-piece: Now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
      • 4-piece: Damage done reduced by 65%.
        • Developers’ note: This adjustment is pretty heavy so we wanted to explain why this is necessary. Sickle of the Lion’s damage was set too high due to a bug that caused external power increases, such as Mastery and abilities that enhance Feral’s rotation, to double dip and even triple dip into those benefits. The damage reduction reflects the removal of those repeat benefits and bringing the damage in line with other set bonuses. We are watching feedback closely and will adjust, even post launch, if the need arises. Thank you for testing and providing feedback, we genuinely appreciate the support!
    • Guardian
      • 4-piece: Damage done reduced by 32% and healing done reduced by 25%.
    • Restoration
      • 2-piece: Reworked – Healing from Rejuvenation has a 25% chance to grant Renewing Bloom, healing 356 over 8 seconds. Swiftmend can consume Renewing Bloom.
      • 4-piece: Reworked – Every 3 casts of Swiftmend grants you Incarnation: Tree of Life for 9 seconds.
• Hunter
  • The following beneficial effects will now show up above the player’s resource display: Bestial Wrath, Coordinated Assault, Steady Focus, and Trueshot.
  • Class Sets
    • Survival
      • Fixed several issues that caused the damage from the set bonuses to be higher than intended.
• Mage
  • Harmonic Echo (Kyrian Runecarving Power) now also echoes the damage to the primary target affected by Radiant Spark’s Vulnerability.
  • Frost
    • Comet Storm (Talent) no longer removes Winter’s Chill.
    • Frozen Orb damage reduced by 8%.
    • Blizzard damage reduced by 5% and reduces the cooldown of Frozen Orb by 0.25 seconds each time Blizzard deals damage (was 0.5 seconds).
    • Icy Propulsion’s (Conduit) cooldown reduction can now only occur every 0.35 seconds.
  • Class Sets
    • Arcane
      • 2-piece: Enemies affected by Touch of the Magi take 10% increased Arcane damage (was 18%).
      • 4-piece: Reworked – Touch of the Magi’s duration is increased by 4 seconds and 25% mana regeneration for 12 seconds.
    • Fire
      • 4-piece: Fire Blast and Phoenix Flames now recharge 50% faster while Combustion is active (was 100%).
    • Frost
      • 2-piece: Removed the requirement to be in Icy Veins to trigger Comet Storm.
• Monk
  • Bonedust Brew’s (Necrolord Ability) damage and healing effectiveness has been increased to 40% (was 35%) and the ability can no longer critically strike.
  • Bountiful Brew (Necrolord Runecarving Power) now extends the duration of Bonedust Brew if it triggers while a target is currently afflicted by Bonedust Brew.
  • Sinister Teachings (Venthyr Runecarving Power) now reduces the cooldown of Fallen Order by 2.5 seconds when you critically strike (was 5 seconds).
  • Class Sets
    • Brewmaster
      • 4-piece: Reworked – Keg Smash deals an additional 50% damage, heals you for 66% of damage dealt, and grants 66% of damage dealt as maximum health for 10 seconds.
        • Developers’ note: We pivoted Brewmaster to a new bonus that has more impact. This new 4pc bonus offers easy-to-access power, but savvy players who maximize the damage dealt by their Keg Smash will be able gain additional benefits from the healing and maximum health bonuses.
    • Mistweaver
      • 2-piece: Essence Font Healing increased by 5% in addition to the duration extension.
        • Developers’ note: Due to overlapping, this wasn’t increasing heal throughput as much as we’d like. Adding some additional love for Essence Font so the bonus is X.
      • 4-piece: Drinking Thunder Focus Tea with the bonus active no longer interrupts Soothing Mists.
• Paladin
  • Ashen Hallow (Venthyr Ability) healing reduced by 15% for all specializations.
  • Ashen Hallow (Venthyr Ability) can now be canceled early by pressing its button again.
  • Radiant Embers (Venthyr Runecarving Power) now increases Ashen Hallow’s duration by 50%. Cancelling your Ashen Hallow early will reduce its cooldown by up to 50%, proportional to its remaining duration.
  • Holy
    • All healing abilities increased by 6%.
    • Ashen Hallow, Hammer of Wrath, Judgment, and Holy Shock damage reduced by 12%.
    • Avenging Wrath (Rank 3) has been removed.
  • Class Sets
    • Holy
      • 4-piece: The chance to trigger the effect reduced to 50% (was 100%).
    • Protection
      • 4-piece: When you take damage, you have a chance equal to 100% of your Block chance to cast Judgment at your attacker.
• Priest
  • Pallid Command’s (Necrolord Runecarving Power) Rattling Mage’s Unholy Bolt damage has been reduced by 40%, and Brooding Cleric’s Stitch Wounds healing has been reduced by 5%.
  • Holy
    • All healing abilities increased by 10%.
    • All damage abilities increased by 15%.
    • Symbol of Hope cooldown reduced to 3 minutes (was 5 minutes) and channel time reduced to 4 seconds (was 5 seconds).
    • Holy Word: Chastise damage increased by 25%.
    • Holy Word: Serenity mana cost reduced to 2.5% (was 4%).
    • Holy Word: Sanctify mana cost reduced to 3.5% (was 5%).
    • Prayer Circle (Talent) now also reduces the mana cost of Prayer of Healing by 25%.
    • Guardian Angel (Talent) now has an additional effect – When Guardian Spirit saves the target from death, it does not expire.
    • Afterlife (Talent) now has an additional effect – As a Spirit of Redemption, you may cast Resurrection, which ends the Spirit of Redemption. Afterlife’s Resurrection cast time is 6 seconds and Afterlife now prevents combat resurrections on the Priest for 30 seconds after using Resurrection.
    • Binding Heal (Talent) has been removed.
    • Cosmic Ripple (Talent) has been moved and replaces Binding Heal (Talent) on row 40.
    • New Talent (Row 30): Binding Heals – 20% of Heal or Flash Heal healing on other targets also heals you.
  • Class Sets
    • Discipline
      • 2-piece:
        • Freely cast Shadow Mends grant 2 extra seconds of Atonement to the target, up to 16 seconds total.
        • The duration of Manifested Twilight has been increased to 20 seconds (was 10 seconds).
        • Shadow Mend no longer consumes all stacks of Manifested Twilight.
    • Shadow
      • 2-piece: Reworked – You have a 0.8% chance per Insanity spent on damaging spells to trigger Dark Thought.
      • 4-piece: Reworked – Consuming a Dark Thought causes your shadow to animate, following you and dealing 3,715 Shadow damage over 8 seconds to all enemies within 10 yards of your target.
      • 4-piece: Your Shadow’s Torment Mind damage has been reduced by 40%.
• Rogue
  • Class Sets
    • Outlaw
      • 4-piece: Pistol Shot has a 100% chance to grant a Hidden Bullet (was 50%). At 6 Bullets, your next Pistol Shot fires a free Between the Eyes as though 6 combo points were spent.
    • Subtlety
      • 2-piece: Shadowstrike has a 15% chance to grant Shadow Blades for 5 seconds (was 20%).
      • 4-piece: Your finishing moves have a 3% chance per combo point spent to cast Shadowstrike at up to 5 nearby targets (was 4%).
• Shaman
  • Discover 2 new glyphs to change the appearance of the Ghost Wolf form: Spectral Lupine and Spectral Vulpine
  • Elemental Conduit (Venthyr Runecarving Power) now also reduces the cooldown of Chain Harvest (Venthyr Ability) by 1 second when Flame Shock critically strikes.
  • Flame Shock now has a target cap of 6.
  • Frost Shock damage increased by 40%.
  • Unruly Winds (Conduit) chance to trigger is now 15% to 50% based on item level (was 20% to 35%).
  • Magma Fist (Conduit) additional critical strike chance is now 12% to 37.2% based on item level (was 15% to 25%).
  • Focused Lightning (Conduit) damage or healing increase is now 5% to 12% based on item level (was 1% to 4.5%).
  • Chilled to the Core (Conduit) chance to trigger is now 30% to 72% based on item level (was 21% to 35%).
  • Elemental
    • Icefury (Talent) now causes your next 4 Frost Shocks to deal 225% increased damage (was 300%).
    • Fire Elemental has had the mana cost of its abilities reduced by 90% and should no longer run out of mana.
  • Enhancement
    • If you Lava Lash a target that has Flame Shock on them, Lava Lash will now spread Flame Shock to up to 3 nearby enemies in an 8 yard radius. If all enemies in the area are already affected with Flame Shock, it will refresh the duration of Flame Shock instead.
    • Feral Spirit no longer shows up under the unit frame “totem timers” slots. This is to prevent too many Spirits in conjunction with other summons overflowing these slots and despawning the Spirits prematurely.
    • Ice Strike (Talent) and Sundering (Talent) can now properly cause the Flametongue weapon damage effect.
    • Ice Strike and Sundering are no longer able to used while disarmed.
  • Enhancement
    • Lava Lash mana cost reduced to 0.8% base mana (was 4%).
    • Crash Lightning mana cost reduced to 1% base mana (was 5.5%).
    • Fire Nova mana cost reduced to 1% base mana (was 5.5%).
    • Windfury Totem mana cost reduced to 1.5% base mana (was 12%).
  • Class Sets
    • Enhancement
      • 4-piece: Fixed an issue that prevented the duration extension to Storm Elemental or Fire Elemental from triggering.
    • Restoration
      • 2-piece: Reworked – Your critical healing increases the critical chance of your next Chain Heal by 2%, stacking up to 50 times.
        • Developers’ note: This includes periodic healing and proc’ed healing, so it should stack up pretty quickly from Healing Rain and Riptide ticks as well as any other healing you’re doing. This is intended to push you to really want to cast Chain Heal every now and then, but otherwise not feel like you need to spam Chain Heal to get value out of it. More of an ebb and flow feeling than the previous 2-piece.
      • 4-piece: Reworked – Your Chain Heal critical hits reduce the remaining cooldown of one of your totems by 2 seconds. Your Healing Stream Totem, Healing Tide Totem, Mana Tide Totem, and Spirit Link Totem now also cast Chain Heal when you drop them.
        • Developers’ note: Any totem that’s on cooldown is currently a valid choice for the cooldown reduction effect. The Chain Heal is currently cast by you, not by the totem, but the intent is for the visual to end up shooting from the totem.
• Warlock
  • Summon Succubus has been replaced with Summon Sayaad – Randomly summon your Incubus or Succubus. Warlocks may speak to the Warlock trainers in Stormwind or Orgrimmar to enact a pact with their Incubus or Succubus, ensuring that only they are summoned.
  • Summon Sayaad
    • Seduction (Pet Ability) now causes the target to slowly walk towards the demon. It now also has a chance to break on damage taken, rather than always breaking on the first instance of damage.
    • Whiplash (Pet Ability) now also causes enemies to take 1% increased damage from the Succubus or Incubus each time it strikes, stacking up to 10 times. Duration increased to 15 seconds (was 10 seconds).
  • Contained Perpetual Explosion (Venthyr Runecarving Power) now caps the amount of bonus periodic damage it provides at 275% when hitting 10 additional targets.
  • Class Sets
    • Affliction
      • 2-piece: When Malefic Rapture extends Absolute Corruption, it instead causes the target to take damage equivalent to a tick of Corruption.
      • 4-piece: Drain Soul’s chance to trigger a free Malefic Rapture has been increased to 10% (was 4%).
    • Demonology
      • 4-piece: Malicious Imps no longer grant a Demonic Core and no longer grant a Soul Shard when slain. Malicious Imp damage has been increased and chance to summon a Malicious Imp has been increased to 15% per Soul Shard spent (was 5%).
    • Destruction
      • 2-piece: The chance to trigger the effect is no longer random. Chaos Bolt or Rain of Fire can now be cast for free after every 10 Soul Shards are spent.
      • 4-piece: Name changed from Blasphrit to Blasphemy and now summons a Blasphemy Infernal instead of a generic Infernal. If a Blasphemy Infernal is already active and would be summoned again, its duration is extended by 8 seconds instead and does impact damage at its current location. Additionally, Blasphemy grants Rain of Chaos for his duration if it’s talented.
• Warrior
  • Class Sets
    • Arms
      • 2-piece: Reworked – Colossus Smash lasts 3 seconds longer and increases your damage dealt to affected enemies by an additional 5%.
      • 4-piece: Reworked – Tactician has a 50% increased chance to trigger against enemies with Colossus Smash and causes your next Overpower to grant 2% Strength, up to 8% for 15 seconds.
    • Fury
      • 4-piece: Now appropriately grants Crushing Blow and Bloodbath when Reckless Abandon is talented, and no longer grants 50 Rage when Recklessness triggers while Reckless Abandon is talented.
    • Protection
      • 2-piece: Outburst no longer increases the effectiveness of your next Ignore Pain, and instead now causes your Shield Slam or Thunderclap to grant a free Ignore Pain.
      • 4-piece: Avatar no longer consumes Seeing Red stacks and instead directly grants Outburst.

COVENANTS

• Soulbinds
  • Venthyr
    • The root effect from Nimble Steps (Nadjia the Mistblade) now properly breaks when enough damage is taken.

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

• New Raid: Sepulcher of the First Ones
  • Deep in the Sepulcher of the First Ones lies the key to unlock the Jailer’s plans. Gather the power of the First Ones as you pursue Zovaal into the Sepulcher and fight through his forces—but first, you must face Anduin, and discover a way to resist the Jailer’s terrifying Domination magic.
• Mists of Tirna Scithe
  • Drust Spiteclaw’s Bloodletting now has a minimum range, and is only used on players at least 10 yards away.
  • Drust Spiteclaw’s Dying Breath now has a much smaller area of effect. A warning visual and delay has been added to allow time to play around it.
  • Dying Breath debuff duration reduced to 20 seconds (was 30 seconds), and is no longer automatically removed upon leaving combat.
    • Developers’ note: We hoped to see Dying Breath used for high-risk/high-reward plays, but players have found that the risk generally outweighed the reward. This update should make the risk more manageable & make the ability more interesting to play around.
• Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
  • Now separated into two dungeons on Heroic and Mythic+ difficulties: Streets of Wonder and So’leah’s Gambit.
  • Mythic 0 difficulty will continue to be the full mega-dungeon experience, but for those who’d wish to skip deeper into the dungeon, Ta’piks will provide a teleport for quick travel.
  • Hylbrande
    • Players no longer channel on the Titan Console to view the Bypass Code, instead click the Titan Console to gain a debuff named Titanic Insight. Titanic Insight allows the player to see signs on the Titan Console for 15 seconds, but now you will be able to move and engage during the stage. The Titan Console can only be accessed by a single player every 15 seconds.
• Mythic+
  • Affixes
    • New Seasonal Affix: Encrypted – Enemies throughout the dungeon possess relics of the First Ones. Destroy the relics to summon the First Ones’ Automa and gain powerful bonuses, based on the order in which they were destroyed.

ITEMS AND REWARDS

• Progenitor Armor Set
  • Collect your class armor set from defeating bosses in the Sepulcher of the First Ones raid and from the Great Vault to unlock 2-piece and 4-piece set bonuses that power certain abilities for your specialization.
    • Developers’ note: When the PTR is live, Setzertauren can be found in the central ring of Oribos to purchase the armor sets for testing the set bonuses.
• Mechagon Peacekeeper, Rusty Mechanocrawler, and Scrapforged Mechaspider can now soar into the sky with their unique flying animation.
• Toys that change your weapon’s appearance now correctly show your original enchant or illusion enchant on the new weapon.

PET BATTLES

• New wild pets to capture in Zereth Mortis.

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

• New Arena: Maldraxxus Coliseum
  • Developers’ note: Maldraxxus Coliseum will be the only arena available in the queue on the PTR for testing.
• New Brawl: Solo Shuffle
  • The Solo Shuffle brawl pits six players (two healers, four damage dealers) against each other in exciting 3v3 Arena matches. As the name implies, you can only queue for this brawl solo. Play a series of short matches as teams are shuffled and earn rewards based on your performance.
• Shaman
  • Restoration
    • The root effect from Earthgrab Totem (Talent) now properly counts absorbed damage when determining if enough damage has been taken to break the root effect.
• Warlock
  • Deathbolt (PvP Talent) now deals its damage over 3 seconds (was immediate damage). This periodic effect cannot be dispelled.

PROFESSIONS

• Many skinnable, mineable, and gatherable enemies can now be skinned, mined, and gathered by all the players who engaged with the enemy and have the correct gathering skill.
  • Developers’ note: In order to help make “skinning” (skinning, mining, and herb gathering of enemies) a more group friendly experience, we have adjusted skinning rules. The majority of “skinnable” enemies will now following the normal tapping rules, and be skinnable by everyone who engaged with them and has the ability to skin them. Some weaker and very specific enemies can still only be skinned once, while some rare and powerful enemies will be skinnable by everyone who engages them and is capable.
• Rare Crafted Equipment recipes now have an additional Optional Reagent slot.
• New Recipes (All of these new recipes and reagents can be found on the Craftataur NPC in Oribos during the 9.2 PTR)
  • Optional Reagent: Crafter’s Mark IV– Set the crafted equipment to item level 233 and the required level to 60.
  • Optional Reagent: Crafter’s Mark of the First Ones – Set the crafted equipment to item level 262, required level to 60, and adds Unique Equipped: Shadowlands Crafted.
  • Alchemy
    • Optional Reagent: Sustaining Armor Polish
    • Optional Reagent: Infusion: Corpse Purification
    • New Potion: Cosmic Healing Potion (Flaskataur in Oribos sells the potions during the PTR)
  • Cooking
    • Empty Kettle of Stone Soup – Set out a Kettle of Stone Soup, ready to fill with delicious ingredients. Contribute ingredients to finish it and feed up to 35 people in your raid or party. Spend at least 10 seconds eating to become well fed with 20 in a stat for 1 hour.
    • New Meat: Protoflesh
  • Enchanting
    • Optional Reagent: Cosmic Protoweave
    • Optional Reagent: Magically Regulated Automa Core
  • Engineering
    • Optional Reagent: Pure-Air Sail Extensions
    • Optional Reagent: Erratic Genesis Matrix
  • Fishing
    • New Fish: Precursor Placoderm
  • Herbalism
    • Hew Herb: First Flower
  • Inscription
    • Vantus Rune: Sepulcher of the First Ones
    • Contract: Enlightened Brokers
  • Jewelcrafting
    • Optional Reagent: Devourer Essence Stone
    • Optional Reagent: Ephemera Harmonizing Stone
  • Mining
    • New Ore: Progenium Ore
  • Skinning
    • New Hide: Protogenic Pelt
  • Tailoring
    • New Cloth: Silken Protofiber

QUESTS

• New Campaign Chapters are available.

RUNECARVING

• New Legendary belt and Runecarving Power: Cinch of Unity – Empowered with your current covenant’s Runecarving Power that will switch freely alongside your character whenever swapping covenants. Additionally, this new Legendary can be equipped alongside another Shadowlands Legendary in a different armor slot, giving you two powerful legendary effects to boost your power.
  • If you’d like to craft the new covenant-swapping Runecarving Power on a different armor slot, a new Runecarving Memory is available on the Enlightened reputation vendor that will let you do so.
  • Developers’ note: Setzertauren in Oribos has the Legendary belt available for testing on the PTR.
• Cosmic Flux – A new currency for upgrading Runecarving legendaries, buying items off Enlightened brokers, and for using the new Creation Catalyst feature. Rewarded from a variety of activities in Shadowlands Season 3, such as defeating raid bosses, PvP, Mythic+, Torghast, Tower of the Damned, and Zereth Mortis activities.
  • Developers’ note: The Creation Catalyst will become available in a later PTR build.

TORGHAST, TOWER OF THE DAMNED

• New Game Mode: The Jailer’s Gauntlet
  • Run through a series of increasingly challenging encounters, across 8 floors per layer and 8 layers total to earn unique rewards.
• Four new challenging Layers have been introduced, Layers 13–16.
• Torments
  • New: Empowered Torments – Existing Torments that have increased in strength.
    • 1 Empowered Torment will be applied to Layers 13–14, and 2 Empowered Torments will be applied to Layers 15–16.
• Anima Powers
  • Monk
    • Corrosive Dosage now stacks up to 3 times (was 5).
  • Shaman
    • Heart of the Deathseer no longer causes increased Flame Shock spreading.

USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY

• New Feature: Click Casting
  • This feature allows you to cast spells by simply clicking on a unit frame.
  • Set up your spell bindings by going to the Key Bindings menu or Interface Options → Combat.
• New Setting: Unit Frame Mouseover Casting
  • This setting allows you to mouse over a unit frame and cast a spell on that character without targeting them.
  • Access this setting under Interface Options → Combat.
• Arena groups in Group Finder now show their party members’ specialization in the mouseover tooltip.
• Mythic+ Rating chat links now also show the player’s highest rating from a previous season.
• The quest log now displays a clock icon next to quests that have a time remaining counter.
• The gold, silver, and copper coin icons have been adjusted to have more contrast from each other and the background.

ZERETH MORTIS
Zereth Mortis was created by the First Ones as a workshop to create afterlives. Its denizens—the automa—have built all that exists in the Shadowlands. It is a strange, otherworldly location that defies all concepts of reality or physics. The Jailer intends to use the secrets of Zereth Mortis to reshape reality and bend it to his malevolent will.

• New Reputation: The Enlightened
  • The Enlightened are brokers that arrived on Zereth Mortis a long time ago. They no longer see their world in a transactional manner, but instead they treat their dwelling as a sacred place, and hope to answer to a higher calling—the pursuit of knowledge. Find common ground with The Enlightened to succeed and defend Zereth Mortis.
• Cypher of the First Ones
  • The automa of Zereth Mortis speak in a musical language that is incomprehensible to mortal races. Team up with a curious automa sidekick in this new progression system to learn the lost language of the Progenitors and delve deeper into the secrets of Zereth Mortis, unlocking an array of new zone activities, daily quests, events, and rewards.
    • Developers’ note: This feature is currently under development so any aspects being discussed could be subject to change.
• Protoform Synthesis
  • A new crafting system that allows you to gather reagents and create Zereth Mortis-themed mounts and battle pets.
• New World Boss: Antros, Keeper of the Antecedents located on Antecedent Isle in Zereth Mortis.
• New World Quests are available after completing Chapter 2 of the new campaign.
• New side quests.
• New rares and treasures to discover.
  • Developers’ note: Zereth Mortis rewards and combat tuning are still under development.

Hello everyone! Here are the notes for this week’s PTR update.

CLASSES

• Death Knight
  • Final Sentence (Kyrian Runecarving Power) now grants 4% damage per stack (was 3%), duration reduced to 15 seconds (was 18 seconds), and now grants the Rune and Damage buff on the initial cast of Shackle the Unworthy (and again each time it spreads).
  • Rampant Transference (Night Fae Runecarving Power) Strength per stack of Death’s Due increased by 3% (was 2%).
• Mage
  • Harmonic Echo (Kyrian Runecarving Power) now also echoes the damage to the primary target affected by Radiant Spark’s Vulnerability.
  • Frost
    • Comet Storm (Talent) no longer removes Winter’s Chill.
  • Class Sets
    • Arcane
      • 4-piece: Reworked – Touch of the Magi’s duration is increased by 4 seconds and 25% mana regeneration for 12 seconds.
    • Frost
      • 2-piece: Removed the requirement to be in Icy Veins to trigger Comet Storm.
• Monk
  • Class Sets
    • Brewmaster
      • 4-piece: Reworked – Keg Smash deals an additional 50% damage, heals you for 66% of damage dealt, and grants 66% of damage dealt as maximum health for 10 seconds.
        • Developers’ note: We pivoted Brewmaster to a new bonus that has more impact. This new 4pc bonus offers easy-to-access power, but savvy players who maximize the damage dealt by their Keg Smash will be able gain additional benefits from the healing and maximum health bonuses.
    • Mistweaver
      • 2-piece: Essence Font Healing increased by 5% in addition to the duration extension.
        • Developers’ note: Due to overlapping, this wasn’t increasing heal throughput as much as we’d like. Adding some additional love for Essence Font so the bonus is X.
      • 4-piece: Drinking Thunder Focus Tea with the bonus active no longer interrupts Soothing Mists.
• Paladin
  • Class Sets
    • Protection
      • 4-piece: Fixed an issue which prevented Glorious Purpose from casting Judgment.
• Shaman
  • Class Sets
    • Enhancement
      • 4-piece: Fixed an issue that prevented the duration extension to Storm Elemental or Fire Elemental from triggering.
    • Restoration
      • 2-piece: Reworked – Your critical healing increases the critical chance of your next Chain Heal by 2%, stacking up to 50 times.
        • Developers’ note: This includes periodic healing and proc’ed healing, so it should stack up pretty quickly from Healing Rain and Riptide ticks as well as any other healing you’re doing. This is intended to push you to really want to cast Chain Heal every now and then, but otherwise not feel like you need to spam Chain Heal to get value out of it. More of an ebb and flow feeling than the previous 2-piece.
      • 4-piece: Reworked – Your Chain Heal critical hits reduce the remaining cooldown of one of your totems by 2 seconds. Your Healing Stream Totem, Healing Tide Totem, Mana Tide Totem, and Spirit Link Totem now also cast Chain Heal when you drop them.
        • Developers’ note: Any totem that’s on cooldown is currently a valid choice for the cooldown reduction effect. The Chain Heal is currently cast by you, not by the totem, but the intent is for the visual to end up shooting from the totem.
• Warrior
  • Class Sets
    • Arms
      • 2-piece: Reworked – Colossus Smash lasts 3 seconds longer and increases your damage dealt to affected enemies by an additional 10%.
      • 4-piece: Reworked – Tactician has a 50% increased chance to trigger against enemies with Colossus Smash and causes your next Overpower to grant 4% Strength, up to 20% for 15 seconds.

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

• New Raid: Sepulcher of the First Ones
  • The following Heroic encounters will be available for testing on December 9:
    • Artificer Xy’mox
    • Lihuvim, Principal Architect

QUESTS

• New Campaign Chapters
  • Chapters 4 and 5 are available in the December 7 PTR update.

TORGHAST, TOWER OF THE DAMNED

• New Game Mode: The Jailer’s Gauntlet
  • Floor starting points are now closer to the encounter area.
  • There will now be a number of portals in the encounter area representing the number of waves remaining. These will be removed one by one as waves spawn in.
  • There is now a larger variety of enemies.

ZERETH MORTIS

• Cypher of the First Ones
  • This feature is now available for testing.
• Protoform Synthesis
  • A new crafting system that allows you to gather reagents and create Zereth Mortis-themed mounts and battle pets.
• New side quests are available in the December 7 PTR update.
• More treasures to discover have been added.

Hello everyone! Here are the patch notes for this week’s PTR update

CHARACTERS

• Added 3 new Night Elf male face options based on the 3 scowling faces, but now with a more natural and less aggressive mouth.

CLASSES

• Druid
  • Sinful Hysteria (Venthyr Runecarving Power) now increases the duration of Ravenous Frenzy by 0.1 second with each application (was 0.2 seconds) and you will not be overcome by Frenzy for 3 seconds after it ends (was 5 seconds).
    • Developers’ note: We are currently workshopping Sinful Hysteria to bring it in line with other legendaries available for Druids. Future builds may see additional changes to Sinful Hysteria so we invite any and all feedback to ensure the spirit of this legendary remains intact.
• Priest
  • Class Sets
    • Shadow
      • 2-piece: Reworked – You have a 0.8% chance per Insanity spent on damaging spells to trigger Dark Thought.
      • 4-piece: Reworked – Consuming a Dark Thought causes your shadow to animate, following you and dealing 3,715 Shadow damage over 8 seconds to all enemies within 10 yards of your target.
• Shaman
  • Elemental Conduit (Venthyr Runecarving Power) now also reduces the cooldown of Chain Harvest (Venthyr Ability) by 1 second when Flame Shock critically strikes.
  • Flame Shock now has a target cap of 6.
  • Frost Shock damage increased by 40%.
  • Unruly Winds (Conduit) chance to trigger is now 15% to 50% based on item level (was 20% to 35%).
  • Magma Fist (Conduit) additional critical strike chance is now 12% to 37.2% based on item level (was 15% to 25%).
  • Focused Lightning (Conduit) damage or healing increase is now 5% to 12% based on item level (was 1% to 4.5%).
  • Chilled to the Core (Conduit) chance to trigger is now 30% to 72% based on item level (was 21% to 35%).
  • Elemental
    • Icefury (Talent) now causes your next 4 Frost Shocks to deal 225% increased damage (was 300%).
    • Fire Elemental has had the mana cost of its abilities reduced by 90% and should no longer run out of mana.
  • Enhancement
    • If you Lava Lash a target that has Flame Shock on them, Lava Lash will now spread Flame Shock to up to 3 nearby enemies in an 8 yard radius. If all enemies in the area are already affected with Flame Shock, it will refresh the duration of Flame Shock instead.
    • Feral Spirit no longer shows up under the unit frame “totem timers” slots. This is to prevent too many Spirits in conjunction with other summons overflowing these slots and despawning the Spirits prematurely.
    • Ice Strike (Talent) and Sundering (Talent) can now properly cause the Flametongue weapon damage effect.
    • Ice Strike and Sundering are no longer able to used while disarmed.
• Warlock
  • Summon Succubus/Incubus (Incubus will be available in a future PTR build)
    • Seduction (Pet Ability) now causes the target to slowly walk towards the demon. It now also has a chance to break on damage taken, rather than always breaking on the first instance of damage.
    • Whiplash (Pet Ability) now also causes enemies to take 1% increased damage from the Succubus or Incubus each time it strikes, stacking up to 10 times. Duration increased to 15 seconds (was 10 seconds).
• Warrior
  • Class Sets
    • Arms
      • 2-piece: Now increases Colossus Smash’s debuff by 5% (was 10%).
      • 4-piece: Strength increase per stack is now 2% (was 4%) and stacks up to 4 times (was 5).

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

• New Raid: Sepulcher of the First Ones
  • The following Heroic encounters will be available for testing on December 16:
    • Halondrus the Reclaimer
    • Prototype Pantheon
  • The following Heroic encounters will be available for testing on December 17:
    • Anduin Wrynn
    • Solitary Guardian

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

• Warlock
  • Deathbolt (PvP Talent) now deals its damage over 3 seconds (was immediate damage). This periodic effect cannot be dispelled.

QUESTS

• New Campaign Chapters
  • Chapters 6 and 7 are available in the December 14 PTR update.

TORGHAST, TOWER OF THE DAMNED

• Anima Powers
  • Shaman
    • Heart of the Deathseer no longer causes increased Flame Shock spreading.

ZERETH MORTIS

• More treasures to discover have been added.

Hello everyone! The PTR has been updated with the following addition:

CLASSES

• Warlock
  • Summon Succubus has been replaced with Summon Sayaad – Randomly summon your Incubus or Succubus. Warlocks may speak to the Warlock trainers in Stormwind or Orgrimmar to enact a pact with their Incubus or Succubus, ensuring that only they are summoned.

Happy New Year everyone! Here are the changes in this week’s build:

CLASSES

• Druid
  • Class Sets
    • Restoration
      • 2-piece: Reworked – Healing from Rejuvenation has a 25% chance to grant Renewing Bloom, healing 356 over 8 seconds. Swiftmend can consume Renewing Bloom.
      • 4-piece: Reworked – Every 3 casts of Swiftmend grants you Incarnation: Tree of Life for 9 seconds.
• Warrior
  • Class Sets
    • Protection
      • 2-piece: Outburst no longer increases the effectiveness of your next Ignore Pain, and instead now causes your Shield Slam or Thunderclap to grant a free Ignore Pain.
      • 4-piece: Avatar no longer consumes Seeing Red stacks and instead directly grants Outburst.

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

• Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
  • Tazavesh, the Veiled Market: Streets of Wonder and So’leah’s Gambit keystones are now available on the Keystone Vendor in The Ring of Transference in Oribos.
    • Please submit your feedback for each wing in these threads: Streets of Wonder and So’leah’s Gambit.

Hello everyone! Here’s what you can find in today’s PTR update:

CLASSES

• Death Knight
  • Abomination Limb (Necrolord Ability) damage increased by 20%.
  • Abomination’s Frenzy (Necrolord Runecarving Power) now increases enemy damage taken from the Death Knight by 20% (was 10%), and enemies affected by Abomination’s Frenzy now also take increased damage from your Minions for the duration.
  • Convocation of the Dead (Conduit) now reduces the cooldown of Apocalypse by 1 second per Festering Wound burst at all ranks and now also increases Festering Wound damage by 15%.
  • Eternal Hunger (Conduit) increases Minion damage by 6% (was 3%).
  • Embrace Death (Conduit) causes Sudden Doom to increase Death Coil damage by 40% (was 35%).
  • Brutal Grasp (Conduit) increases Abomination Limb damage by 30% (was 15%).
• Demon Hunter
  • Class Sets
    • Havoc
      • 2-piece: Increases Blade Dance and Chaos Strike damage by 20%. This bonus also applies to Death Sweep and Annihilation while in Metamorphosis.
      • 4-piece: Reworked – Every 60 Fury you consume reduces the cooldown of Metamorphosis by 1 second.
    • Vengeance
      • 4-piece: Consuming a Lesser Soul Fragment reduces the remaining cooldown of your Immolation Aura or Fel Devastation by 1 second.
• Hunter
  • The following beneficial effects will now show up above the player’s resource display: Bestial Wrath, Coordinated Assault, Steady Focus, and Trueshot.
• Paladin
  • Ashen Hallow (Venthyr Ability) can now be canceled early by pressing its button again.
  • Radiant Embers (Venthyr Runecarving Power) now increases Ashen Hallow’s duration by 50%. Cancelling your Ashen Hallow early will reduce its cooldown by up to 50%, proportional to its remaining duration.
• Shaman
  • Discover 2 new glyphs to change the appearance of the Ghost Wolf form: Spectral Lupine and Spectral Vulpine
    • Developers’ note: There’s currently an issue causing the Lupine Form to run faster than intended. This will be addressed in a later PTR build.
• Warlock
  • Class Sets
    • Affliction
      • 2-piece: When Malefic Rapture extends Absolute Corruption, it instead causes the target to take damage equivalent to a tick of Corruption.
      • 4-piece: Drain Soul’s chance to trigger a free Malefic Rapture has been increased to 10% (was 4%).
    • Demonology
      • 4-piece: Malicious Imps no longer grant a Demonic Core and no longer grant a Soul Shard when slain. Malicious Imp damage has been increased and chance to summon a Malicious Imp has been increased to 15% per Soul Shard spent (was 5%).
    • Destruction
      • 2-piece: The chance to trigger the effect is no longer random. Chaos Bolt or Rain of Fire can now be cast for free after every 10 Soul Shards are spent.
      • 4-piece: Name changed from Blasphrit to Blasphemy and now summons a Blasphemy Infernal instead of a generic Infernal. If a Blasphemy Infernal is already active and would be summoned again, its duration is extended by 8 seconds instead and does impact damage at its current location. Additionally, Blasphemy grants Rain of Chaos for his duration if it’s talented.

COVENANTS

• Soulbinds
  • Venthyr
    • The root effect from Nimble Steps (Nadjia the Mistblade) now properly breaks when enough damage is taken.

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

• Shaman
  • Restoration
    • The root effect from Earthgrab Totem (Talent) now properly counts absorbed damage when determining if enough damage has been taken to break the root effect.

RUNECARVING

• New Legendary belt and Runecarving Power: Cinch of Unity – Empowered with your current covenant’s Runecarving Power that will switch freely alongside your character whenever swapping covenants. Additionally, this new Legendary can be equipped alongside another Shadowlands Legendary in a different armor slot, giving you two powerful legendary effects to boost your power.
  • If you’d like to craft the new covenant-swapping Runecarving Power on a different armor slot, a new Runecarving Memory is available on the Enlightened reputation vendor that will let you do so.
  • Developers’ note: Setzertauren in Oribos has the Legendary belt available for testing on the PTR.
• Cosmic Flux – A new currency for upgrading Runecarving legendaries, buying items off Enlightened brokers, and for using the new Creation Catalyst feature. Rewarded from a variety of activities in Shadowlands Season 3, such as defeating raid bosses, PvP, Mythic+, Torghast, Tower of the Damned, and Zereth Mortis activities.
  • Developers’ note: The Creation Catalyst will become available in a later PTR build.

TORGHAST, TOWER OF THE DAMNED

• Anima Powers
  • Monk
    • Corrosive Dosage now stacks up to 3 times (was 5).

ZERETH MORTIS

• Protoform Synthesis
  • More components and schematics have been added.
• New side quests are available.

Hiya!
Here are this week’s PTR notes:

CLASSES

• Death Knight
  • Class Sets
    • Blood
      • 4-piece: When you take damage, you have a chance equal to 100% of your Parry chance to lash out, Heart Striking your attacker. Dancing Rune Weapon now summons 2 Rune Weapons.
• Druid
  • Restoration
    • All healing abilities increased by 10%.
    • All damage abilities increased by 10%.
    • Lifebloom healing over time increased by 12% and bloom heal increased by 20%.
    • Nourish healing (Talent) increased by 15%.
    • Overgrowth (Talent) mana cost reduced by 60%.
    • Inner Peace (Talent) now has an additional effect – While channeling Tranquility, you take 20% reduced damage and are immune to knockbacks.
    • Germination (Talent) now has an additional effect – Rejuvenation duration increased by 2 seconds.
• Mage
  • Class Sets
    • Arcane
      • 2-piece: Enemies affected by Touch of the Magi take 10% increased Arcane damage (was 18%).
    • Fire
      • 4-piece: Fire Blast and Phoenix Flames now recharge 50% faster while Combustion is active (was 100%).
• Paladin
  • Ashen Hallow (Venthyr Ability) healing reduced by 15% for all specializations.
  • Holy
    • Ashen Hallow, Hammer of Wrath, Judgment, and Holy Shock damage reduced by 12%.
    • Avenging Wrath (Rank 3) has been removed.
  • Class Sets
    • Protection
      • 4-piece: When you take damage, you have a chance equal to 100% of your Block chance to cast Judgment at your attacker.
• Priest
  • Holy
    • All healing abilities increased by 10%.
    • All damage abilities increased by 15%.
    • Symbol of Hope cooldown reduced to 3 minutes (was 5 minutes) and channel time reduced to 4 seconds (was 5 seconds).
    • Holy Word: Chastise damage increased by 25%.
    • Prayer Circle (Talent) now also reduces the mana cost of Prayer of Healing by 25%.
    • Guardian Angel (Talent) now has an additional effect – When Guardian Spirit saves the target from death, it does not expire.
    • Afterlife (Talent) now has an additional effect – As a Spirit of Redemption, you may cast Resurrection, which ends the Spirit of Redemption.
    • Binding Heal (Talent) has been removed.
    • Cosmic Ripple (Talent) has been moved and replaces Binding Heal (Talent) on row 40.
    • New Talent (Row 30): Binding Heals – 20% of Heal or Flash Heal healing on other targets also heals you.

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

• Mists of Tirna Scithe
  • Drust Spiteclaw’s Bloodletting now has a minimum range, and is only used on players at least 10 yards away.
  • Drust Spiteclaw’s Dying Breath now has a much smaller area of effect. A warning visual and delay has been added to allow time to play around it.
  • Dying Breath debuff duration reduced to 20 seconds (was 30 seconds), and is no longer automatically removed upon leaving combat.
    • Developers’ note: We hoped to see Dying Breath used for high-risk/high-reward plays, but players have found that the risk generally outweighed the reward. This update should make the risk more manageable & make the ability more interesting to play around.
• Mythic+
  • Affixes
    • New Seasonal Affix: Encrypted – Enemies throughout the dungeon possess relics of the First Ones. Destroy the relics to summon the First Ones’ Automa and gain powerful bonuses, based on the order in which they were destroyed.

ITEMS AND REWARDS

• Mechagon Peacekeeper, Rusty Mechanocrawler, and Scrapforged Mechaspider can now soar into the sky with their unique flying animation.

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

• New Arena: Maldraxxus Coliseum
  • Developers’ note: Maldraxxus Coliseum will be the only arena available in the queue on the PTR for testing.

Hello everyone.
Here are this week’s PTR notes:

CLASSES

• Mage
  • Class Sets
    • Fire
      • 4-piece: No longer causes the Fire Mage to take damage over time while Combustion is active.
• Warlock
  • Contained Perpetual Explosion (Venthyr Runecarving Power) now caps the amount of bonus periodic damage it provides at 275% when hitting 10 additional targets.

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

• Mythic+
  • Affixes
    • New Seasonal Affix: Encrypted
      • Relic’s associated with which Automa summon have been adjusted in an effort to make them more intuitively match the resulting effect.
      • Vy’s Haste reduced to 15% (was 20%) and added an additional effect that deals Cosmic damage to the targeted enemy or healing to the caster’s friendly target when triggered.
      • Urh’s cooldown reduction increased to 200% (was 25%), and it restores 10% HP/Mana every 1 second. Duration reduced to 10 seconds (was 45 seconds).
      • Wo now also grants 15% damage reduction, and for the duration of the effect, you auto-Stealth any time you’re not in combat. Duration reduced to 20 seconds (was 45 seconds).

Added another change for this week’s update:

ACHIEVEMENTS

• The achievement Unlocking the Secrets to learn Zereth Mortis Flying has been added.
  • Developers’ note: After listening to player feedback regarding access to Zereth Mortis Flying being too time consuming, we’ve made the change to now unlock flying more easily by completing a series of achievements around Zereth Mortis instead of researching Cyphers of the First Ones.

More additions to this week’s PTR!

CLASSES

• Shaman
  • Chain Harvest (Venthyr Ability) now grants 3 Maelstrom per target hit when cast while in Elemental Specialization
  • Splintered Elements (Necrolord Runecarving Power) now increases Haste by 10% (was 8%) for 12 seconds (was 10 seconds).
  • Elemental
    • Storm Elemental’s (Talent) Wind Gust now lasts for the duration of the Storm Elemental (was 30 seconds).
  • Enhancement
    • Frost Shock and Flame Shock no longer have a shared cooldown.

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

• Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
  • Increased the cooldown of some enemy and boss spells, and decreased the health and damage on some enemies and bosses across both Streets of Wonder and Soleah’s Gambit dungeons on Mythic+ difficulty.

Hiya! Here are this week’s changes to the PTR:

CHARACTERS

• Fixed an issue where male Night Elf Death Knights were unable to select the 3 newest face options.

CLASSES

• Death Knight
  • Fixed an issue with Killing Machine that caused it to trigger less often than intended while Dual Wielding.
  • Class Sets
    • Unholy
      • 4-piece: Soul Reaper now grants 25% damage (was 20%) from minions below 35% health.
• Demon Hunter
  • Sinful Brand (Venthyr Ability) can no longer be overwritten by a lower duration Sinful Brand when applied via Metamorphosis.
• Druid
  • Kindred Affinity’s (Kyrian Runecarving Power) stat bonus for the Druid reduced to 6% (was 8%) and the stat bonus for their partner reduced to 3% (was 8%).
  • Class Sets
    • Feral
      • 4-piece: Now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
• Hunter
  • Class Sets
    • Survival
      • Fixed several issues that caused the damage from the set bonuses to be higher than intended.
• Monk
  • Bonedust Brew’s (Necrolord Ability) damage and healing effectiveness has been increased to 40% (was 35%) and the ability can no longer critically strike.
  • Sinister Teachings (Venthyr Runecarving Power) now reduces the cooldown of Fallen Order by 2.5 seconds when you critically strike (was 5 seconds).
• Priest
  • Pallid Command’s (Necrolord Runecarving Power) Rattling Mage’s Unholy Bolt damage has been reduced by 40%, and Brooding Cleric’s Stitch Wounds healing has been reduced by 5%.
  • Holy
    • Holy Word: Serenity mana cost reduced to 2.5% (was 4%).
    • Holy Word: Sanctify mana cost reduced to 3.5% (was 5%).
    • Afterlife (Talent) now has an additional effect – As a Spirit of Redemption, you may cast Resurrection, which ends the Spirit of Redemption. Afterlife’s Resurrection cast time is 6 seconds and Afterlife now prevents combat resurrections on the Priest for 30 seconds after using Resurrection.
  • Class Sets
    • Shadow
      • 4-piece: Your Shadow’s Torment Mind damage has been reduced by 40%.
• Rogue
  • Class Sets
    • Outlaw
      • 4-piece: Pistol Shot has a 100% chance to grant a Hidden Bullet (was 50%). At 6 Bullets, your next Pistol Shot fires a free Between the Eyes as though 6 combo points were spent.
    • Subtlety
      • 2-piece: Shadowstrike has a 15% chance to grant Shadow Blades for 5 seconds (was 20%).
      • 4-piece: Your finishing moves have a 3% chance per combo point spent to cast Shadowstrike at up to 5 nearby targets (was 4%).
• Shaman
  • Elysian Dirge’s (Conduit) recent change has been reverted back to increasing Vesper Totem’s effectiveness by 60–100% based on item level (was 123–212%).
  • Enhancement
    • Lava Lash mana cost reduced to 0.8% base mana (was 4%).
    • Crash Lightning mana cost reduced to 1% base mana (was 5.5%).
    • Fire Nova mana cost reduced to 1% base mana (was 5.5%).
    • Windfury Totem mana cost reduced to 1.5% base mana (was 12%).
• Warrior
  • Class Sets
    • Fury
      • 4-piece: Now appropriately grants Crushing Blow and Bloodbath when Reckless Abandon is talented, and no longer grants 50 Rage when Recklessness triggers while Reckless Abandon is talented.

ITEMS AND REWARDS

• Toys that change your weapon’s appearance now correctly show your original enchant or illusion enchant on the new weapon.

PROFESSIONS

• Many skinnable, mineable, and gatherable enemies can now be skinned, mined, and gathered by all the players who engaged with the enemy and have the correct gathering skill.
  • Developers’ note: In order to help make “skinning” (skinning, mining, and herb gathering of enemies) a more group friendly experience, we have adjusted skinning rules. The majority of “skinnable” enemies will now following the normal tapping rules, and be skinnable by everyone who engaged with them and has the ability to skin them. Some weaker and very specific enemies can still only be skinned once, while some rare and powerful enemies will be skinnable by everyone who engages them and is capable.

USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY

• Arena groups in Group Finder now show their party members’ specialization in the mouseover tooltip.
• Mythic+ Rating chat links now also show the player’s highest rating from a previous season.
• The quest log now displays a clock icon next to quests that have a time remaining counter.
• The gold, silver, and copper coin icons have been adjusted to have more contrast from each other and the background.

Here are a few Holy Paladin changes in this week’s update:

CLASSES

• Paladin
  • Holy
    • All healing abilities increased by 6%.
  • Class Sets
    • 4-piece: The chance to trigger the effect reduced to 50% (was 100%).

Hello everyone
Here are this week’s PTR notes:

CLASSES

• Death Knight
  • Class Sets
    • Unholy
      • 4-piece: Now grants the Death Knight the Harvest Time buff if the enemy dies while Soul Reaper is active on them before it explodes.
• Druid
  • Class Sets
    • Feral
      • 4-piece: Damage done reduced by 65%.
        • Developers’ note: This adjustment is pretty heavy so we wanted to explain why this is necessary. Sickle of the Lion’s damage was set too high due to a bug that caused external power increases, such as Mastery and abilities that enhance Feral’s rotation, to double dip and even triple dip into those benefits. The damage reduction reflects the removal of those repeat benefits and bringing the damage in line with other set bonuses. We are watching feedback closely and will adjust, even post launch, if the need arises. Thank you for testing and providing feedback, we genuinely appreciate the support!
    • Guardian
      • 4-piece: Damage done reduced by 32% and healing done reduced by 25%.
• Mage
  • Frost
    • Frozen Orb damage reduced by 8%.
    • Blizzard damage reduced by 5% and reduces the cooldown of Frozen Orb by 0.25 seconds each time Blizzard deals damage (was 0.5 seconds).
    • Icy Propulsion’s (Conduit) cooldown reduction can now only occur every 0.35 seconds.
• Monk
  • Bountiful Brew (Necrolord Runecarving Power) now extends the duration of Bonedust Brew if it triggers while a target is currently afflicted by Bonedust Brew.
• Priest
  • Class Sets
    • Discipline
      • 2-piece:
        • Freely cast Shadow Mends grant 2 extra seconds of Atonement to the target, up to 16 seconds total.
        • The duration of Manifested Twilight has been increased to 20 seconds (was 10 seconds).
        • Shadow Mend no longer consumes all stacks of Manifested Twilight.

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

• Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
  • Hylbrande
    • Players no longer channel on the Titan Console to view the Bypass Code, instead click the Titan Console to gain a debuff named Titanic Insight. Titanic Insight allows the player to see signs on the Titan Console for 15 seconds, but now you will be able to move and engage during the stage. The Titan Console can only be accessed by a single player every 15 seconds.

The PTR has been updated with the following change to Frost Mage:

CLASSES

• Mage
  • Frost
    • Reverted the recent change that added an internal cooldown to the Icy Propulsion conduit.
    • Frozen Orb damage reduced by 12% (was 8%).
    • Blizzard damage reduced by 12% (was 5%) and reduces the cooldown of Frozen Orb by 0.25 seconds each time Blizzard deals damage (was 0.5 seconds).
      • Developers’ note: After further consideration we will be reverting the Icy Propulsion internal cooldown (ICD) change and instead further reduce the damage of Frozen Orb and Blizzard. Our goal with the initial change to the internal cooldown was to help curb some of the power it’s gained over the expansion from other bonuses and changes such as the uncapping of Frozen Orb, the upcoming tier set bonus, and ilvl increase of the conduit itself. However, we recognize that the Icy Veins uptime it has provided as the expansion progressed is something that Frost Mages have grown accustomed to and losing that power in 9.2 will end up feeling like a regression in both performance and enjoyment of how the spec plays.

A new hotfix has been added to the PTR.

CLASSES

• Druid
  • Cheetah travel form has now been updated to a new higher resolution form.

Hello everyone! Below is the most recent hotfix added to the PTR:

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

• Covenants
  • Necrolord
    • Fleshcraft absorb value is now 25% of max health in PvP combat (was 30%).
• Death Knight
  • Spellwarden (PvP Talent) now applies Rune of Spellwarding with 50% increased effect (was 100%).
• Druid
  • Frenzied Regeneration healing now reduced by 37.5% in PvP combat (was reduced by 15%).
• Monk
  • Windwalker
    • Reverse Harm (PvP Talent) now increases the healing done by your Expel Harm by 60% (was 100%).
• Paladin
  • Retribution
    • Word of Glory healing reduced by 30% in PvP combat (was 20%).
• Rogue
  • Cloaked in Shadows (Conduit) absorb value now reduced by 33% in PvP combat.
• Shaman
  • Enhancement
    • Healing Surge healing reduced by 29% in PvP combat (was 20%).
• Warrior
  • Arms
    • Defensive Stance now reduces damage taken by 10% in PvP combat (was 20%).