World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

We’ve deployed the following changes to the PTR realms:

CLASSES

• ROGUE
  • Outlaw
    • Fixed an issue that caused the Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible 4-Set Bonus to deal less damage than intended.
• SHAMAN
  • Enhancement
    • Vault of the Incarnates 4-Set Bonus has been adjusted – Consuming Maelstrom Weapon stacks increases your Haste by 1% per stack for 3 seconds (was 4 seconds).

ITEMS AND REWARDS

• Algeth’ar Puzzle Box (Trinket) on-use effect duration has been increased to 30 seconds (was 20 seconds) and its Mastery bonus has been decreased by 38%.
• Furious Ragefeather (Trinket) damage decreased by 10%.

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

• CLASSES
  • DEMON HUNTER
    • Havo...

The following changes have been made to the PTR:

CLASSES

• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Unholy
    • Fixed an issue with Gargoyle stutter casting when the cast time of Gargoyle Strike was lower than 1 second.
    • Gargoyle Strike damage reduced by 8%.
      • Developers’ note: Now that Gargoyle properly casts without stuttering when falling below 1 second cast times, we are reducing the damage of Gargoyle Strike to counter the extra casts.
    • Reaping damage bonus increased to 30% (was 25%).
    • Festering Wound damage increased by 10%.
    • Scourge Strike/Clawing Shadows damage increased by 15%.
    • Death Coil damage increased by 10%.
    • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible: 2-Set Bonus has been adjusted – The duration of Death Dealer has been increased to 25 seconds (was 20 seconds).
• DRUID
  • Balance...

In addition to the class changes that were implemented in yesterday’s new PTR build, we’re making the following adjustments to classes on the Embers of Neltharion PTR today via hotfixes. These changes will all be in place before our Mythic Raid testing later today.

As always, we really appreciate your testing and feedback!

Death Knight

Unholy

• Fixed an issue with Gargoyle stutter casting when the cast time of Gargoyle Strike was lower than 1 second.
• Gargoyle Strike damage reduced by 8%.
  • Developers’ note: Now that Gargoyle properly casts without stuttering when falling below 1 second cast times, we are reducing the damage of Gargoyle Strike to counter the extra casts.
• ...

Today, several members of the WoW Community Council met with World of Warcraft designers Morgan Day, Matt Villers, and Andrew De Sousa.

The discussion covered many topics related to the development of Mythic+ Dungeons, especially in Dragonflight going from Season 1 to Season 2, thoughts about players’ experiences with affixes, and how the Encounters team approaches making improvements to the system.

Please feel free to use this thread for any follow-up questions or discussion that you might have.

Thank you!

Hello everyone! Here are the changes in today’s PTR update:

CLASSES

• DEMON HUNTER
  • Havoc
    • Serrated Glaive now causes enemies hit by Throw Glaive to take 20% increased damage from Chaos Strike, in addition to its current effect.
    • Accelerating Blade has been renamed to Accelerated Blade.
    • Accelerated Blade now causes Throw Glaive to deal 60% increased damage (was 20%) and its damage is reduced by 30% for each previous enemy hit.

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

• Updates to many non-boss enemies and all 3 bosses in the Vortex Pinnacle.
• Update to improve spawn consistency for the Afflicted and Incorporeal affixes.

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

• ITEMS
  • Gladiator’s Distinction (PvP trinket 2-set bonus) now provides 300 Stamina (was 2703) and 1600 primary stat (was...