World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

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We are making a follow-up change on the Omen of Clarity adjustment we made last week. We found the change that prevented Gift of the Wild from trigging Omen of Clarity was unnecessary, and will have a negative impact on Balance Druids, so that change is being reverted. The Bear threat multiplier has also been raised slightly.

• Omen of Clarity now triggers from Gift of the Wild.
• Slightly increased Bear threat multiplier to compensate for reduction to Naturalist.

Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

April 7, 2023

Classes

• Druid
  • Fixed a bug requiring players to shift out and back into Bear Form in order to cast Thrash after having entered certain instances.
• Monk
  • Fixed an issue that allowed Touch of Death to be cast on targets at a higher health threshold than intended.
• Paladin
  • Retribution
    • Execution Sentence’s functionality has changed due to it not working in certain situations as expected. The payoff portion of Execution Sentence will no longer receive damage modifiers. To compensate for this, 30% (up from 20%) of ...

We continue to monitor the performance of classes across various content including Raids, Mythic+ dungeons and PvP. Below, you will find a number of changes meant to balance classes against each other in healing, tanking, and damage in various content.

DEATH KNIGHT

• Unholy
  • Developers’ notes: At high haste levels it was possible for Summon Gargoyle to lose casts of Gargoyle Strike. To help remedy that we are reducing the cast speed of Gargoyle Strike to 2.5 seconds (up from 2 seconds) while increasing the damage done to compensate for the slower cast time. We are also making some targeted tuning adjustments to Unholy to increase their damage outside of their 3-minute cooldowns.
  • Raise Dead damage increased by 10%.
  • Army of the Dead damage increased by 10%.
  • Scourge Strike damage increased by 20%.
  • Clawing Shadows damage increased by 20%.
  • Death Coil damage increased by 10%....

Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

April 6, 2023

Classes

• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • Resolved an issue causing Corruption with Absolute Corruption to not be properly reflected back to the Warlock when using Soul Swap Exhale into a spell reflection effect.

Enemies and NPCs

• Rare enemies in the Forbidden Reach now drop Storm Sigils.

Items and Rewards

• Clockwork Azshara will no longer engage in combat.

Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

April 5, 2023

Classes

• Paladin
  • Retribution
    • All damage reduced by 3%.
    • Instrument of Retribution duration reduced to 9 seconds (was 12 seconds).
    • Fading Light - Blessing of Dusk causes your Holy Power generating abilities to also grant an absorb shield for 3% of damage or healing dealt (was 10%).
    • Aegis of Protection increases the value of Shield of Vengeance by 10% (was 20%).
    • Shield of Vengeance duration reduced to 10 seconds (was 15 seconds).
    • Lightforged Blessing now heals you and your party for 2% of maximum health (was 3%).
    • Developers’ notes: Retribution Pa...

We have seen some concerns regarding the Arena rating cutoff details and wanted to confirm that the increased values are accurate. We resolved an issue where the leaderboards were not updating correctly, it now shows the current season cutoff awards. This increase in the cutoffs in comparison to last season is due to weekly MMR increase that was introduced to the game. We are continuing to monitor the situation and will let you know if anything changes.