World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

January 11, 2023

Dragonriding

• Rebalanced Dragonrider’s Cultivation, increasing the amount to 400% (from 10%) and reducing the duration to 3 sec (from 10 sec). This should provide more of a bonus for those that like to gather on the go.

Dungeons and Raids

• Halls of Valor
  • Adjusted the visual of Sanctify cast by Hyrja in Halls of Valor.
• Mythic+
  • Azure Vaults
    • Fixed an issue where being hit with Thundering while on the translocation path would cause you to repeat the path.
  • Shadowmoon Burial Gro...

We have a hotfix coming to the game later this week. With this hotfix, we will have:

• Fixed some situations where players could win Need rolls on duplicate items in a single roll session when it should not have been possible.

This has already been working as intended for most items, but should now include items such as Tier Tokens and weapons.

Additionally, we’ve got some updates to loot distribution coming in 10.0.5–

• Fixed an issue where, in some rare cases, players would get less loot than they should have on certain Raid sizes.
• Fixed an issue where players could unconditionally roll Need on Set Tokens. The system will now check if the player owns the Token or the Set Piece itself at equal or greater power.
• Players can no longer roll Need on any Profession recipe that they have already learned.
• Players can no longer unconditionally roll Need on 1H weapons (or 2H for a Warrior in Fury loot spec).
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Class set items from Mythic Vault of the Incarnates and Elite PVP are intended to display lightning visual effects. These effects are typically attached to the shoulder and helm items. Unfortunately we have a bug that has prevented many of them from functioning as intended.

The bug will be fixed with the launch of 10.0.5.

The Gleaming Incarnate Thunderstone, which you get as a reward for earning the Dragonflight Keystone Hero: Season 1 achievement, is intended to grant the lightning visual effect to non-Mythic difficulty class sets (and to grant the non-lightning version to the Mythic or Elite sets). So if you have the Normal difficulty shoulder appearance for your tier set, using this item will grant an additional appearance with the same color and added lightning effects. This applies to any item appearances you have already unlocked or unlock in the future, so unlocking your Heroic shoulders in the future will also immediately the lightning-infused ...

The update went live late yesterday.

This change also went to the live game late yesterday.

Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

January 9, 2023

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Fixing an issue where Wintergrasp faction win conditions could be unintentionally reset, resulting in players not receiving the Essence of Wintergrasp buff.

Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

January 9, 2023

Classes

• Demon Hunter
  • [With weekly restarts] The Hunt’s damage over time effect no longer deals an additional tick on application. Damage dealt over the total duration remains unchanged.
  • Vengeance
    • [With weekly restarts] Thick Skin armor bonus increased to 130% (was 100%).
    • [With weekly restarts] Calcified Spikes initial damage reduction value increased to 12% (was 10%).
    • [With weekly restarts] Painbringer duration increased to 6 seconds (was 5 seconds).
• Druid
  • Feral...

Hey all! Here is today’s hotfix.

January 6, 2023

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Player-characters who transfer to another realm (paid or free) are ineligible to receive realm first raid achievements for 240 hours (ten days) after the transfer is completed.

Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

January 6, 2023

Classes

• Evoker
  • Preservation
    • Fixed an unintended interaction between the Time of Need talent and Lifespark, the 4-piece tier set bonus.
• Warlock
  • Demonology
    • Fixed an issue where Wrathful Minion and Demonic Inspiration would occasionally cause Warlocks to not generate the correct amount of Soul Shards outside of combat.

Dungeons and Raids

• Adjusted various Arcane visuals in Court of Stars, Algathar Academy, and The Arcane Vaults to be more visibl...

With scheduled weekly maintenance next week, a number of specializations will receive throughput increases to several spells targeted at improving their performance in Raid and M+ content. It’s our intent that these changes help make these Specializations viable options for raid and dungeon content.

Demon Hunter

• The Hunt’s damage over time effect no longer deals an additional tick on application. Damage dealt over the total duration remains unchanged.
• Vengeance
  • Thick Skin armor bonus increased to 130% (was 100%)
  • Calcified Skin initial damage reduction value increased to 12% (was 10%)
  • Painbringer duration increased to 6 seconds (was 5 seconds)

Druid

• Feral
  • All ability damage increased by 3%.

Evoker

• Devastation
  • Fire Breath damage inc...

Newest changes to the PTR:

CLASSES

• DRUID
  • Balance
    • Astral Communion, in addition to its active effect, also passively increases your maximum Astral Power by 20.
  • Guardian
    • Added a tracker buff for After the Wildfire to indicate remaining rage expenditure until a trigger occurs.
  • Restoration
    • New Talent - Forest’s Flow: Nourish extends the duration of your Lifebloom, Rejuvenation, Regrowth, and Wild Growth effects on the target by 2 sec. Choice node with Wild Synthesis.
    • New Talent - Wild Synthesis: Regrowth decreases the cast time of your next Nourish by 25% and causes it to receive an additional 25% bonus from Mastery: Harmony. Choice node with Forest’s Flow.
    • Forest’s Flow/Wild Synthesis choice node connection added below Nourish.
    • Nourish’s tooltip has been updated to reflect it...

We’ve just posted an update on changes coming to improve Rated Solo Shuffle.

Happy New Year champions!

Before the holidays, we posted an update about future improvements that we’re working on for Rated Solo Shuffle, and we want to provide additional information on those updates. For additional information about Rated Solo Shuffle, please refer to the FAQ about Rated Solo Shuffle that was previously posted.

Coming with Weekly Restarts

Next week, we will make an update so that leaving a match will impact both Matchmaking Rating and Current Rating. We’ve received...