World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

• Enigma Arena has been temporarily disabled.
• Death Knight
  • Anti-Magic Zone’s spell damage reduction increased to 50% (was 20%) in PvP Combat.
  • Dome of Ancient Shadow (PvP Talent) has been removed.
• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • New PvP Talent: Shadowfall – Gain the Nightfall talent with 100% increased chance to gain its effect. If you already have this talent, you may select another in the same row.

PROFESSIONS

• Increased the experience points earned when crafting Specialized Armor and Jewelry for creating Runecarving items by 400%.
  • Developers’ note: In order to allow more players to engage with the crafting system late in the expansion, as well as finish their legendary leveling for a reasonable cost, we are increasing the XP gained ...

The time has come for Arena teams to push to the finish and climb to the top of the leaderboards. Burning Crusade PvP Season 3 will end with maintenance May 3, 2022.

Burning Crusade Classic PvP Season 4 will begin later in May 2022. We’ll let you know exactly when and all the details surrounding that soon.

Later today, we’ll conclude the current Sunwell test on the 2.5.4 PTR.

We got a lot of great data over the weekend, so thank you very much!

After further investigation, we’re revisiting our adjustment to Destruction Warlock and lowering Inferno’s target threshold to 5. We’re finding that this synergy is still overperforming at 8 targets due to the resource generation and by adjusting this we avoid having to make changes that could affect Destruction’s lower target count output.

Warlock

• Destruction
  • Inferno (Talent) now has a reduced chance for Rain of Fire to generate Soul Shard Fragments when it deals damage beyond 5 targets (was 8).

The Burning Crusade Classic version 2.5.4 Public Test Realm (PTR) is now open for testing. Players may copy their character to the PTR or create a template character to test:

• The Isle of Quel’danas
• The Sunwell Plateau raid

We’re currently working on a pair of class adjustments, with the intent of making these changes during scheduled weekly maintenance (Tuesday, April 19 in this region).

Hunter

• Survival
  • Wildfire Cluster (Runecarving Power) explosions now deals reduced damage when striking beyond 8 targets.

Warlock

• Destruction
  • Inferno (Talent) now has a reduced chance for Rain of Fire to generate Soul Shard Fragments when it deals damage beyond 5 targets.

In both cases, we’re deliberately making changes that will not affect either spec engaging with fewer than 8 targets. In the case of Survival Hunters, we want the Wildfire Cluster to remain an excellent Legendary choice in AoE situations, with damage that is more similar to other AOE abilities. For Destruction, we’re focusing on the synergy between Inferno and Rain of Fire that lea...

Greetings!

During our weekly maintenance on the 9.2.5 PTR Realms we encountered an issue that will require a new build to resolve. We currently estimate that PTR realms will remain offline until we can deploy that build, which we hope to have ready by early next week.

Apologies for any inconvenience!

We’re working on the following hotfixes today:

Dungeons

• Reduced the health and damage of most Legion dungeon bosses.
• Darkheart Thicket
  • Reduced the damage of Festerhide Grizzly’s Maddening Roar by 30%.
• Vault of the Wardens
  • Reduced the damage of Cordana Felsong’s Detonating Moonglaive by 60%.

We’ll get these hotfixes tested and deployed as soon as possible.