World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

JULY 31, 2023

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Fixed a bug allowing Divine Shield, Divine Protection, Hand of Protection, or Lay on Hands to be cast while Avenging Wrath was still active.

Here’s the latest update:

July 31, 2023

Events

• Time Rifts
  • The Ragged Mantid Sword now has a chance to drop from any Klaxxi during a Time Rift event, rather than specifically blade wielding Klaxxi.

Items and Rewards

• Fixed an issue preventing collectibles from being dropped by the Temporal Investi-gator.

Player versus Player [With Weekly Maintenance]

• Death Knight
  • Frost
    • Fixed an issue that caused Pillar of Frost’s stacking Strength to not be properly reduced in PvP combat.
    • Frost Strike damage is now increased...

The estimate given can balloon when a high number of player-characters are all requested at the same time. For today’s new transfers, you can expect longer-than-normal times to process, and the time it takes will go down as the system works through them.

Hello everyone.

An incorrect image was shared for the Hunter weapons set. We’ve adjusted the Hunter weapon image to show the correct set.

On Monday, July 31, 2023, we intend to open the following Free Transfers from realms that were created to alleviate massive queues in August, 2022:

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Hello everyone. Here are today’s hotfixes:

JULY 28, 2023

Achievements

• Embers of Neltharion should now properly display all required criteria.

Classes

• Hunter
  • Beast Mastery and Survival
    • Fixed an issue where Ebon Might from an Augmentation Evoker did not properly increase the damage of Kill Command.

Dungeons and Raids

• Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
  • Improved the visibility on Whisper in the Dark’s Umbral Torrent to better match its area of effect.
  • Echo of Neltharion
    • The ...

Hello testers.

The Headless Horseman who terrorizes the denizens of Azeroth during the Hallow’s End event has had his dungeon encounter updated. You can now increase the difficulty of the encounter by speaking to the Wicker men at the dungeon’s entrance to enable extra mechanics. These curses are not party wide and afflict only those who enable them.

We’ve added the updated event dungeon to the PTR for testing over the next two weeks. Jump into the Dungeon Finder to queue for the Headless Horseman event on the PTR and share your feedback in this thread as you make your way through this limited time event dungeon.

Thank you for testing!

The below PvP class adjustments will be applied to the live game with next week’s maintenance starting on August 1.

Player versus Player

• Death Knight
  • Frost
    • Fixed an issue that caused Pillar of Frost’s stacking Strength to not be properly reduced in PvP combat.
    • Frost Strike damage is now increased by 67% in PvP combat (was 45%).
    • Obliterate damage is now increased by 20% in PvP combat (was 15%).
    • Obliterate damage is now increased by 75% when Killing Machine is not active in PvP combat (was 60%).
  • Unholy
    • Developer’s note: We have been monitoring our changes to Unholy this season and feel the damage they bring is slightly higher than our intent. The primary adjustment here is through Festermight which can cause high variance in burst at high stacks. This is consistent with our original goal of reducing burst and focusing...

July 27, 2023

Classes

• Evoker
  • Augmentation
    • Oppressing Roar no longer increases the duration of Breath of Eons while talented into Perilous Fate.

Dungeons and Raids

• Neltharus
  • Burning Chains no longer affect creatures outside of the Smoldering Barracks.

Professions

• Blacksmithing
  • Fixed an issue where the Shadowed Impact Buckler had a higher crafting difficulty than intended.

Quests

• The turn-in for “Hochenblume Harvest” should now...

While today’s new PTR build is mostly focused on bugfixes, we want to share some other adjustments that we’re working on for Classic Era 1.14.4.

• We plan to test a “Coward!” debuff for players who flee a Duel to the Death. We’re adding bespoke logic to this debuff, to help ensure that you cannot gain it while under the effects of crowd control.

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July 27, 2023

Build: 50643

Bug Fixes

PvP/Battlegrounds

• Added a Preparation phase to the beginning of battleground matches in Arathi Basin, Warsong Gulch, and Alterac Valley. During this Preparation phase and before the gates open to begin the battleground, the mana cost of all abilities is reduced by 100%.
  • Developers’ notes: We’d like to encourage teams to buff each other during preparation and this should help with that. Additionally, we’ve disabled the Blink spell in Preparation. Bl...

Cross Realm Trading was recently re-enabled. Thank you for your patience.

Hello. Here are the latest:

July 26, 2023

Dungeons and Raids

• Dawn of the Infinite
  • Fixed an issue where where players protected by Cloak of Shadows or Aspect of the Turtle could still be hit by Displacement and expelled from the Bronze Temple.
• Neltharus
  • Resolved an issue that would sometimes cause Chargath to take no actions after casting Fiery Focus.
  • Fixed a bug that allowed Qalashi Warden’s Volcanic Guard to sometimes change direction.

Player versus Player

• Items
  • Paracausal Fragment of Doomhammer damage reduced by 60% in PvP combat.
  ...

Season of Mastery realms have remained available for login since we first closed off gameplay months ago.

They will be removed from the realm list in-game on Friday, July 28.

If you still have a character that you wish to move for free from a Season of Mastery realm, please do so immediately.

Season of Mastery realms will become permanently unavailable on July 28.

Thank you!