World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

Hey all!

Just wanted to stop in and point to a variety of Retribution changes that we posted this afternoon that may help out with some of the Ret-related issues brought up in this thread.

With a hotfix that will be deployed to Live environments shortly, we are making the following adjustments to Retribution Paladins:

Damage

Retribution Paladins have been overperforming in terms of their damage output, so we’re making some adjustments here to bring them more in line with our intentions.

• All damage reduced by 3%.
• Instrument of Retribution duration reduced to 9 seconds (was 12 seconds).

In addition to this we have a hotfix coming at a later date related to Execution Sentence and its unintended interactions with various damage boosts.

Defenses

One of our major goals with the rework of Retribution Paladin was to give them a significant boost to their survivability, as this was an area where they were previously underperforming. We overshot the mark here and Retribution Paladins are proving to be more durable than we intended. As such, we are making some defensive reductions t...

Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

April 4, 2023

Classes

• Hunter
  • Marksmanship
    • Fixed an issue where the Find The Mark buff effect could be consumed by Wind Arrows rather than Aimed Shot.
• Paladin
  • Fixed an issue with Blessing of Dawn’s tracking.
• Priest
  • Holy
    • Resolved an issue causing Holy Word: Salvation to not be castable during Divine Ascension nor have its ranged increased by Divine Ascension.

Dungeons and Raids

• Temple of the Jade Serpent...

Hello raid testers! The schedule for this week’s Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible raid test has been updated:

Thursday, April 6

• Heroic
  • Assault of the Zaqali – 13:00 PDT (16:00 EDT, 22:00 CEST)
• Mythic
  • The Amalgamation Chamber – 14:00 PDT (17:00 EDT, 23:00 CEST)
  • The Forgotten Experiments – 15:00 PDT (18:00 EDT, 00:00 CEST)

Friday, April 7

• Mythic
  • Rashok, the Elder – 13:00 PDT (16:00 EDT, 22:00 CEST)
• Normal
  • Start – 14:00 PDT (17:00 EDT, 23:00 CEST)
  • End – Monday, April 10 at 09:00 PDT (12:00 EDT, 18:00 CEST)

Hello! Here are this week’s updates to the Embers of Neltharion PTR:

DRAGONFLIGHT SEASON 2

• MYTHIC+
  • Incorporeal affix is now immune to damage and has more consistent spawn behavior.
    • Developers’ note: The Incorporeal affix plays a similar role to Afflicted, but with emphasis on crowd control utility. A few things we’re hoping to smooth out include both the rate at which these spawn (sometimes too many at once), and the ease with which crowd control can be accidentally broken once applied. We are discussing a change to Incorporeal Beings that would cause them to fade away when combat with non-Incorporeal Beings has ended.
  • Afflicted affix now has less health and has more consistent spawn behavior.
    • Developers’ note: The Afflicted affix is meant to incentivize a greater focus on dispel utility, while also offering players with healing spells an alternative solution in cases ...

Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

April 3, 2023

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• [With weekly restarts] Fixed a bug that caused tanks to benefit from roughly twice the intended amount of Dodge from the Dodge Rating statistic.
  • Developers’ notes: We’re fixing this to avoid seeing raid groups skew toward maximizing for it. This fix will not change your Dodge % displayed on your character sheet, as the bug was invisible to players.
• [With weekly restarts] Reduced Algalon’s melee damage by 10% in both 10-player and 25-player difficulties.
  • Developers’ notes: We feel that the increase in pressure on tanks and healers from the Dodge bugfix w...

Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

April 3, 2023

Classes

• Evoker
  • Fixed an issue causing Ancient Flame to incorrectly be consumed by instant-cast Living Flames, such as from the Burnout talent or Lifespark set bonus.
• Paladin
  • Fixed an issue with the timing of Eye of Tyr’s floating combat text.

Player versus Player

• Classes
  • Paladin
    • Fixed an issue causing Retribution Aura to trigger from incorrect amounts of incoming damage.
    • [With weekly restarts] Judgments of the Pure (PvP Talent) now causes Judgment casts...

The team has continued to watch this topic throughout Season 1. An additional bump in the weekly inflation rate was done recently and we continue to monitor the impact of this.

For Season 2, additional changes are being investigated to reduce the disparity in general ratings between Solo Shuffle and the other brackets.

Haha… Yeah. It was… a lot. I’m still doing… a lot. But I’m also still reading here and trying to keep on top of all that’s going on. I have a solid team helping write articles. We always appreciate feedback on those or if people notice errors that slip through (it happens much as it pains me.)

Aww, thanks! I appreciate that.

As you can see in the PTR Development Notes , we have been making changes to several PvP Talents in the Embers of Neltharion update.

We’ll use this thread to discuss further changes in the coming weeks, and we greatly appreciate any feedback you might have.

Thank you!

Greetings Champions.

Dragonflight Season 1 will be closing the week of May 2. Here’s what you can expect:

Dragonflight Season 1: PvP

• The current season of Dragonflight PvP content will end at 10:00 p.m. the night before maintenance begins in each region. This is 10:00 p.m. PDT for North American realms and 22:00 CEST for European realms.
• With the season’s end, it will no longer be possible to earn PvP seasonal rewards, titles, or Dragonflight Season 1 rankings.

...