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I’m looking at Old Blanchy right now and we’re near peak time of the day, and the numbers of players on the realm are 3x to 4x higher than that. Players are continuing to take the free transfers to it, too, and others appear to be returning to it after having been away for a time.

Which is to say, Old Blanchy is both populated and growing. There’s every reason to believe it will continue to have a healthy population into Wrath.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Dungeons and Raids

• Fated Raids
  • Sepulcher of the First Ones
    • The Jailer
      • Resolved an issue where the Creation Spark fated power could negatively affect the following ability durations: Arcane Vulnerability, Azerite Radiation, Rune of Domination, Rune of Compulsion, Rune of Damnation, Torment, Imprisonment, and Death Sentence.
      • Resolved an issue where Rune of Compulsion-afflicted players negatively interact with movement speed increasing effects.

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Druid
  • Shapeshifting into Cat Form once again automatically activates Track Humanoids.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Tauren from using the Barber Shop.
• It will now rain blood when Highlord Darion Mograine says “The skies t...

This is something we’re considering, but we’re planning to close Free Transfers to Sulfuras tomorrow for two reasons:

1. The total active population is approaching full.
2. The Alliance/Horde ratio is approaching 50/50.

If that faction balance trend holds, we’ll close Free Transfers and consider it a very fortunate result.

But we’re considering additional Alliance-only free transfers. We’ll see how it looks tomorrow afternoon.

Hello! Here are this week’s updates to Dragonflight Beta:

CLASSES

• NEW TALENT SYSTEM
  • STARTER BUILD
    • Evokers now have access to the Starter Build in their loadouts menu (this feature will be available to other classes in future updates). The Starter Build is a preset talent build created for players who prefer not to choose their own talents yet, but simply want a decent build that’s suitable for most content. This will be available to both leveling characters and max level characters.
  • DEATH KNIGHT
    • Class Tree
      • Festermight maximum stacks reduced to 20 (was 30).
      • New Talent: Enfeeble – Your Ghouls attack has a chance to reduce the targets movement speed by 30% and the damage they deal to you by 15%.
    • Unholy
      • Eternal Agony epidemic effect now also extends the duration of Da...

If you’re interested in a lot more detailed information about these issues, Aggrend posted an essay on it here.

World of Warcraft Version 10.0.0 PTR – Dragonflight Pre-Expansion Patch

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This is incorrect. Eranikus can only be populated via free transfers from Benediction, Faerlina, or Grobbulus.

Update

To provide players who wish to escape the queues with a pristine environment to begin creating communities together, we have now opened a new destination realm for Free Character Transfers from overpopulated realms: Eranikus (PvP).

This realm can only be accessed via free transfer from Benediction, Faerlina, or Grobbulus. Additionally, all four of these realms are now locked for character creation, which means that it is only possible to create a character on the realm if you already have a character on that realm.

Please note: we will close free transfers to Eranikus when we see it approaching a population that is so high that it might begin queueing. This may occur without a great deal of warning.

Over the last week, tra...

Hello! Here’s today’s hotfixes to Lower Karazhan:

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Dungeons and Raids

• Mythic+
  • Return to Karazhan: Lower
    • Developers’ note: The Opera events in Lower Karazhan have proven to be more lethal than we’d like, particularly given the weekly rotation that makes them more challenging to master in Mythic+. We’ve made a number of adjustments here in hopes of bringing the difficulty of these events in line with our expectations.
    • The Opera Hall: Beautiful Beast
      • Silver Forks health reduced by 50%.
      • Silver Forks Bloody Jab damage over time reduced by 50%.
      • Mrs. Cauldrons’ Soup Spray damage reduced by 30%.
      • Luminore’s Heat Wave damage reduced by 30%.
    • The Opera Hall: Westfall Story
      • Gang Ruffian’s Poisonous Shank damage over time reduced by 50%.
      • Mr...