World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

Hello! Here are today’s hotfixes for Shadowlands:

AUGUST 26, 2022

Dungeons and Raids

• Fated Raids
  • Reduced the minimum Item Level to queue for all Fated Raid Finder wings to 230 (was 240).
    • Developers’ note: This restriction was too punishing given Fated LFR’s importance in providing new and returning players with an intermediary step to engage in Season 4’s endgame activities. We believe the power increases afforded from the Fated Powers themselves more than make up for this item level gap, so groups shouldn’t have a vastly more difficult time completing encounters.

Items and Rewards

• Reduced the damage increase on Jeweled Signet of Malendrus by 74%.
  • Developers’ note: The spell effect changes made to Jeweled Signet of Malendrus for the release of Legion Timewalking inadvertently also caused it to incre...

In the next alpha build the Death Knight core tree is being updated to better increase talent choice. In order to do this, we’ve made several abilities baseline and cut talents that were proving to be problematic for the overall health of the resource economy for the specs. The left side of the class tree had 4 talents all dedicated to resources, which felt a little excessive. This has been reduced 2 (specifics noted below). In addition to the resource talents being shifted around, we’ve also made Death’s Advance and Lichborne baseline.*

Death’s Advance

• This has moved baseline and is now learned at level 9.

Lichborne

• This has moved baseline and is now learned at level 9.

Unholy Endurance

• Now positioned where Lichborne was previously located in the talent tree.

New Talent – March of Darkness: Death’s Advance grants additional move...

I’ve updated the original post in this thread.

Following a great deal of feedback from players, we will open two new Fresh Start realms during maintenance on Tuesday:

Skyfury (PvP)
Maladath (Normal)

On Tuesday, August 30, there will be two new Fresh Start realms available for character creation and play immediately after patch maintenance is complete. They will be:

Skyfury (PvP)
Maladath (Normal)

We’re really looking forward to seeing you there next week!

Today we adjusted the Fated Power, Creation Spark:

AUGUST 25, 2022

Dungeons and Raids

• Fated Raids
  • Fated Powers
    • Creation Spark’s raid wide damage-over-time effect reduced by 30%.
      • Developers’ note: This change should reduce the negative impact of missing a Creation Spark impact location.
    • Initial stacks of Creation Spark reduced to 2 (was 3).
    • Number of Creation Spark impact locations reduced to 2 (was 3).

Tomorrow, August 26 at around 12:00 p.m. PDT, we’re going to open the initial raids for further testing in the Wrath Beta.

We expect to keep the raids open through the weekend, and close them again on Monday, August 29.