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Hello everyone! Here are the recent hotfixes to Wrath Classic:

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Classes
  • Mind Flay, and other similar spells, will no longer benefit from movement impairment reduction as a cast speed bonus.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause Blessing of Wisdom to sometimes incorrectly provide an increased benefit in raid encounters when changing to a specialization that did not have Improved Blessing of Wisdom.
  • Adjusted Warrior’s Taste for Blood talent to improve its timing.
    • Developers’ note: This change should make Rank 3 of the talent trigger every 6 seconds, instead of sometimes taking 9 seconds to trigger. Other ranks have the same change, but aren’t guaranteed to happen, and so are less noticeable.
• Creatures and NPCs
  • Fixed incorrect levels with some player summoned creat...

We’re also excited to make this function work, and we’re going to.

The update to make illusions appear properly on Artifact weapons is going to require a lot of testing. We’re planning to do that in a patch soon after Dragonflight launches, but not this initial launch patch (10.0.2).

Thanks!

We have disabled all transfer selections, so that we can troubleshoot and fix an unexpected bug.

Here are the update notes to Beta this week. Additional class tuning will be hotfixed throughout the week for raid testing on Friday.

CLASSES

• NEW TALENT SYSTEM
  • DEATH KNIGHT
    • Unholy
      • Fixed an issue with Magus of the Dead, Army of the Dead, and Gargoyle’s damage not scaling with Mastery: Dreadblade.
      • Morbidity now affects ranged caster summons (ex: Army of the Dead, Magus of the Dead) in addition to caster pets (ex: Risen Ghoul).
  • DEMON HUNTER
    • General
      • Immolation Aura damage increased by 8%.
    • Class Tree
      • Eye Beam damage reduced by 8%.
      • The Hunt damage reduced by 10%.
      • Illidari Knowledge damage reduction increased to 3/6% (was 2/4%).
      • Will of the Illidari - Max Health bonus increased to 3/6% (was 2/4%).
      ...

Update 6:55 p.m. PDT – October 18

We have disabled all transfer selections, so that we can troubleshoot and fix an unexpected bug.

Soon, Season of Mastery players are now offered free transfers for their characters to either a Classic Era realm or a Wrath Classic realm. In this region, the available choices are:

I’d like to respond to that with a couple of thoughts I believe I heard from Quest Leads today:

1. Players don’t need to play questlines on alts at all if they don’t want to. One of our goals with Adventure Mode in Dragonflight to give your alts as much freedom as possible.

2. We put a lot of focus on making quests fun. “Kill 30 of something” is a quest type that, ideally, we’re implementing much less often, while we design more and more quests that we feel players might enjoy revisiting (or visiting for the f...

We’ve just concluded a live chat among several WoW Community Council members and our three Lead Quest Designers for Dragonflight. The discussion went for 90 minutes and ranged across many quest design topics such as the balance between campaign quests and local-story quests, and the ways that player feedback have impacted how designers approach creating and implementing quests.

Please feel free to continue the discussion here.

One of the Lead Quest Designers ended the live chat with questions:

If you’re the sort of WoW player who typically skips quest content altogether, especially at the beginning of a patch when that content is first released, why do you do that, and what do you imagine could be changed about the game that might result in you becoming more interested in / likely to play quest content?

If you’re a player who feels that you must reach max level as quickly as possible at the start of an expansion, ca...