World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

July 17, 2024

Season of Discovery

• The tooltip for the Draconic Infused Emblem is now correct. The spell effect is not changed.
• Blackrock Eruption
  • The Drained of Blood aura from the Stranglethorn Vale PvP event is now applied when participating in the Blackrock Mountain PvP event. This applies to players exiting instances in Blackrock Mountain.
• Druid
  • Flame Wrath has been redesigned with a lower spell power ratio on the Thorns portion of the proc and an internal cooldown for Feral Druids.
• Hunter
  • Trap Launcher will no longer augment Frost Trap.
    • Developers’ notes: A Trap Launcher version of Frost Trap has only existed in versions of WoW in which mobility and freedom effects were more plentiful. Without them, the safety and agency a 9-15 second ranged Frost Trap grants Hunters is simply too m...

We’ve got you.

Tier-0 will become available from the Undermine currency vendor tomorrow when the raids open.

We’ve just applied a hotfix to address Hunter mobility.

• Trap Launcher will no longer augment Frost Trap.

A Trap Launcher version of Frost Trap has only existed in versions of WoW in which mobility and freedom effects were more plentiful. Without them, the safety and agency a 9-15 second ranged Frost Trap grants Hunters is simply too much. We’re making it so that Hunters either need to put themselves at risk in order to place a Frost Trap or have someone engage on them to trigger it.

Please note: if you currently have the Rune equipped, you must unequip and reequip it, zone, or relog before you can use Frost Trap again.

With today’s new build update, we’re tracking a number of stability issues that we’re expecting for testers to experience until we apply fixes and/or deploy the next build.

For example:

• Your game may crash when you enter or exit Delves, or sometimes you may get stuck unable to log out and have to force-close the client.
• There may be situations in which hearthing results in a crash.
• Heroic Dungeon queues may instantly fail.

Update July 19

Due to unexpected technical difficulties, we have not yet been able to resolve login and stability issues in the Beta.

Our next update on this will be on Monday, July 22.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Please feel free to report any bugs you encount...

In this post, we’ll update the score required to earn the Draconic Hero title for Dragonflight Season 4. As a reminder, the title will go to all players who end Dragonflight Mythic+ Season 4 with a Mythic+ Rating in the top 0.1% in each region.

If the season ended today, in this region, the title would go to those who scored at least:

3643

Good luck!

Greetings everyone,

Last week, we announced several updates to our Classic Era realms. These updates included changes originally developed for Season of Discovery but intentionally brought to Classic Era as well, such as one that specifically addressed a longstanding imbalance in World of Warcraft Classic, by providing Alliance players with the Might of Stormwind buff as a comparable buff to the Horde’s Warchief’s Blessing.

In that time, we have listened to the community response to changes in Classic Era and the concerns about what updates like this could mean for the future. Thank you for your feedback.

Effective immediately, we are reversing the following changes to Classic Era:

• Alliance players now have access to the Might of Stormwind, to a version of the Warchief’s Blessing world buff effect.

• Druids can now train and use polearms.

• The 6-hour wait between applications of Rallying Cry of the Dragonslayer a...

Hello everyone.

This week’s update to the War Within Beta is now available to test. Please note that there is a possibility of some server instabilities over the next few days. If you encounter any issues with instabilities, please report them in the bug reporter.

CLASSES

• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Death Strike can now only heal the Death Knight for a percentage of damage taken from a given damage event once. Death Strikes that heal the minimum health amount do not count as using damage events in this way.
  • Enfeeble reduces damage dealt to you by 12% (was 15%).
  • Null Magic reduces Magic damage taken by 8% (was 10%).
  • Hero Talents
    • Deathbringer (Blood/Frost)
      • Reaper’s Mark is now a 45 second cooldown (was 60 seconds).
      • Swift End now reduces the cooldown of Reaper’s Mark by 15 seconds (was 30 seconds).
      • Frost
        • Re...

Noting that I’ve updated the first Death Knight note:

• Death Strike can now only heal the Death Knight for a percentage of damage taken from a given damage event once. Death Strikes that heal the minimum health amount do not count as using damage events in this way.

We have a significant update for Protection Warriors coming in today’s new Beta build.

Please read all about our overall philosophy here:

We have a significant update for Protection Paladins coming in today’s new Beta build.

Please read all about our overall philosophy here:

We have a significant update for Brewmaster Monks coming in today’s new Beta build.

Please read all about our overall philosophy here:

We have a significant update for Guardian Druids coming in today’s new Beta build.

Please read all about our overall philosophy here:

We have a significant update for Vengeance Demon Hunters coming in today’s new Beta build.

Please read all about our overall philosophy here:

We have a significant update for Blood Death Knights coming in today’s new Beta build.

Please read all about our overall philosophy here:

Class Updates

In The War Within, all character Stamina has been increased by 60% as part of an overall adjustment to the pace of healing gameplay. This increases the relative value of abilities that heal a percentage of a character’s maximum health. Many of these ability changes are to counteract that relative change. For instance, the percentage health that Frenzied Regeneration restores has been reduced by about a third, but the amount of health it restores has remained the same.

Blood Death Knight

Death ...

With the introduction of the Dragonflight talents system and season-over-season changes, tanks in World of Warcraft have become extremely durable relative to non-tank characters. Their active defenses can mitigate high percentages of incoming damage and they have strong self-healing. Today, in the hardest content in the game, many tanks can sustain themselves without much assistance from healers. In some cases, we’ve seen it become optimal to do group content without a healer at all.

World of Warcraft is an MMO, and its multiplayer aspects are a major strength. Group content is extremely rewarding when players performing different roles come together to overcome a challenge. We want to reinforce the importance of the healer role and work towards gameplay where tanks and healers collaborate to reduce the damage the tank is taking and to restore the tank’s lost health.

Tank durability can cause some other problems as well, especially in challenging endgame content, that ...

July 16, 2024

Season of Discovery

• Demon Fall Canyon
  • Possibly due to “Demonic Deceptions”, the Owlbeasts of Winterspring have attended a guided meditation retreat, expanding their pineal glands.
  • Zilbagob will now always be accessible when The Destructor's Wraith and Grimroot have been defeated.
• Items
  • A new item -- Hand of Injustice -- is now available from Pix Xizzix, the Undermine Real vendor.
  • Added new shield enchant that grants 30 spell power and 55 healing power – Law of Nature. Available to learn for Enchanters. The pattern is available from Timbermaw Hold at Revered.
  • Added a temporary shield enchantment that grants 24 spell power, much like wizard oil -- Conductive Shield Coating. Available to learn for Enchanters. The pattern is available from Thorium Brotherhood at Honored.
  • Drinkable Stratho...

Once The War Within pre-expansion update arrives, items, achievements, and customizations will fly off into the sun-kissed horizon. So, you’ll want to take some time to do the following before it’s too late:

Dragonflight Season 4

Awakened Raids

• All current Dragonflight raids become Awakened, and obtaining the ...

Apologies all, we’re running into some issues with this week’s build deploy and need more time to fix and test it before marking it live.

We’re aiming for tomorrow (Wed), probably around midday Pacific.

Thanks!

Please join us for a Play with the Blues event on Friday, July 19 at 1:00 p.m. PDT (4:00 p.m. EDT).

We’ll have the Cataclysm Classic PTR open for testing the Rise of the Zandalari content, with a focus on the new Troll dungeons. On Classic PTR Realm 1, queue up for the Zul’Aman or Zul’Gurub dungeons, and you just might be partnered with members of the WoW Team.

We’ll see you there!