World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

Hello testers! Here are this week’s updates to the War Within Beta:

CLASSES

• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Hero Talents
    • Deathbringer (Blood/Frost)
      • Reaper’s Mark debuff damage has been reduced by 30%.
      • Blood
        • Exterminate damage has been reduced by 10%.
      • Frost
        • Exterminate damage has been reduced by 25%.
    • Rider of the Apocalypse (Frost/Unholy)
      • Trollbane’s Icy Fury damage reduced by 35%.
    • San’layn (Unholy/Blood)
      • Vampiric Strike now scales with Unholy Assault and other similar effects.
      • Visceral Strength’s Strength granted increased to 6% (was 5%).
      • Each stack of Frenzied Bloodthirst’s Essence of the Blood Queen increases your Death Strike and Death Coil damage by 3% (was 2%).
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Hello.

In The War Within, we’ve increased health pools by 60% relative to Dragonflight values. Many spells scale with player health values, so we’ve reduced many of these spells so their relative value remains similar between Dragonflight and The War Within.

Life Cocoon was among the percent-health scaling spells chosen to reduce to keep its value the same between expansions, as we did not feel it was a weak spell throughout Dragonflight (with or without modifying talents). So Life Cocoon’s value is about the same relative to its strength in Dragonflight.

We’ll keep an eye on it to ensure it’s handling scenarios appropriately in The War Within all the same.

Thank you for your feedback!

Hello.

We just want to clarify that we implemented the class trees for this patch as intended, and this is not a bug.

The current War Within Pre-expansion patch includes our initial class and spec changes. As you can see in the Beta, there are more changes coming-- changes that we’re adding with the full War Within expansion.

Between now and then, we may deploy urgent tuning and bug hotfixes to classes, but the trees in the live game are working correctly.

We have a couple of known issues with Action Bars that we’re working to quickly fix.

• For some players, upon login, action bars 2-8 are unintentionally disabled on all characters. Players in this state will have to manually re-enable any of your extra action bars through Options > Gameplay > Action Bars. Pre-existing keybinds and spells should display with the re-enabled action bars.

• New characters’ (level 10 and below) spells on the Action Bars may not save on logout. The same issue may cause some existing characters to have all spells wiped from their Action Bar on logout if they do not create a new loadout.

We intend to fix these issues as soon as possible.

Along with the launch of the pre-expansion patch (11.0.0), we’ve temporarily disabled the Warband Warbank while we work on a critical issue.

This is a top priority and we intend to enable the Warbank as soon as possible.

Thank you!

The War Within Pre-expansion patch (11.0.0) is now live. Please read on for a list of known issues that we’re working on and further information about this update.

11.0.0 KNOWN ISSUES

Updated July 23

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Classes

• Some specializations may encounter issues when loading a previously saved Talent loadout. This can be resolved with a character relog.
• Death Knight
  • Unholy
    • Death Knights can sometimes only receive one stack of Festermight for the first proc of Sudden Doom after casting Death Coil.
    • Sudden Doom does not cause all Epidemics to critically strike.
    • Festering Scythe does not gain benefit from Mastery: Dreadblade and does not grant stacks from Festering Wounds that burst on creature death.
    • Raise Abomination’s Virulent Plague is only applied once.
• Priest
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We’re aware of and working on the issue with Bolvar following maintenance this morning.

We expect that the fix to address the situation will require realm restarts.

Updated this change above.

• Gift of Gob will no longer cancel on stealth.

July 22, 2024

Season of Discovery

• Devilsaur gauntlets should no longer require core leather. They now require 12 Devilsaur leather and 8 Essence of Fire in addition to their other existing mats. Devilsaur leggings should now require 20 Devilsaur leather and 10 Essence of fire in addition to their other mats.
• Made some improvements to the respawn rate of mobs and quest objects on Alcaz Island.
• The Chipped Drakefire Amulet and Valor of Azeroth spell book are now available from Squire Rowe in Stormwind and Eitrigg in Orgrimmar for players who have completed the Onyxia quest chain.
• Gift of Gob will no longer cancel on stealth.
• Made some improvements to Bolvar Fordragon’s respawn time.
• Zor Lonetree’s wares are available while completing Rune discoveries.
• Corrected the stats on the Old Guard Retaliator.
• Darkmoon Card: Sandstorm will no longer ignore line-of-sight.
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July 22, 2024

Items

• Fixed an issue where Antique Bronze Bullion were not being awarded this week. Bullion should continue to drop every week until The War Within launches.

This is correct. If you’ve completed the Harbinger questline, the quest should trigger, but you can take part in the pre-expansion event in any state at level 10 and above.

One addition to the pre-patch tomorrow that players may wish to note:

• The level-60 character Boost now provides item level 327 gear (was iLvl 180).

This will go into-effect once patch 11.0 goes live.