World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

We expect to have the Auction House re-opened in the next few minutes.

In Valdrakken, Malicia remains disabled, as we work on this issue. The PvP upgrade currency (Trophy that was tradeable) is taking a little while to clean up and preserve competitive fairness.

After reading player feedback, we looked at the number of large maps available to players in each pool per week and Pool C ended up with more of the larger maps than the rest. To address this, we swapped Tiger’s Peak from Pool B with Tol’Viron Arena from Pool C.

We’ve recently deployed a fix to allow for the Obsidian Collar to be eligible for socket upgrades. This change is retroactive to previously obtained collars upon logging out and back into the client.

Here is today’s hotfix for WoW Classic Era:

DECEMBER 12, 2022

WoW Classic Era

• Corrected an issue that caused PvP Rank to fail to be calculated for the week ending December 6.
  • Developers’ notes: The December 6 calculations were recorded incorrectly, so we’ve reversed any decay incurred on December 6, and replaced it with rank points calculated using your best weekly ranking from the last 30 days. Additionally, players who began doing PvP the week ending December 6 (and therefore have no history to look at in the previous 30 days) have been granted 5000 rank points as compensation.
  • Sorcerer’s note: The long-lost Eldritch incantation required to update PvP Rank was ...

Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

December 12, 2022

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Blood
    • [With weekly restarts] Blood Fortification no longer reduces damage taken (was 10% damage reduction).
• Demon Hunter
  • [With weekly restarts] Fixed an issue that unintentionally permitted Fodder to the Flame’s heal effect to crit.
  • [With weekly restarts] The Hunt now heals for 10%/20% (as Havoc/Vengeance) of damage dealt to the marked target for 20 seconds (was 25%/50% for 30 seconds).
  • [With weekly restarts] Charred Warblades now heals for 3% of Fire dam...

We’ve updated the OP with the following additional changes that will go live tomorrow.

Warrior

• Protection
  • Demoralizing Shout now reduces damage taken by 20% (was 25%).
  • Ignore Pain now ignores 50% of damage taken (was 55%).

The map pools are for Rated Arena and Arena Skirmishes at this time, not Solo Shuffle.

I’ve updated the original post with this information. Thanks for asking Mhortai.

Thanks for the catch Stagheim. I’ve updated the article with the caps:

• The weekly Conquest cap will start at 1350 and increase by 550 per week.
• The weekly Valor cap will start at 1500 and increase by 750 per week.

With the introduction of Nokhudon Proving Grounds as a new Arena map in Dragonflight, we’ve hit 15 total Arena maps that are available when players queue up. We feel that this is a large number to have in the pool at once and waters down a map’s impact in an Arena experience. That being said, we think it will be interesting and fun to divide up the maps into a rotation to keep the pool dynamic for players.

We feel a weekly cadence ensures players will see their favorite maps frequently during a season. Additionally, the decision for 8-map pools was made to compact the rotation so players will be able to more easily refine strategy on certain maps with specific compositions within a week.

After working with a few combinations, the iteration we will be implementing for Dragonflight Season 1 will be a rotation of 3 buckets with 8 maps each, that captured all our current maps: