World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

We’ve updated the patch notes with the following:

• The maximum of Rank 10 is now available in PvP.

• The Sunken Temple raid now resets twice per week.

Phase 4

Season of Discovery Phase 4 officially begins on Thursday, July 11 at 1:00 p.m. PDT (22:00 CEST). Players will be able to level up to level 60 for the first time, and will gain access to new dungeons, quest and zone content, and a variety of other fun features.

• July 11 at 1:00 p.m. PDT (22:00 CEST) – Phase 4 begins and the level cap is raised to 60.
• July 18 at 1:00 p.m. PDT (22:00 CEST) – The Tainted Scar and Storm Cliffs raid instances become available.
• July 25 at 1:00 p.m. PDT (22:00 CEST) – Onyxia’s Lair and the Molten Core raid instances become available.

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Hello Champions of the Alliance and Horde!

Let it be known that Dragonflight Season 4 will close soon. Players who make a big push to end the season will want to get started on their final weeks of efforts.

• When Season 4 ends, it will no longer be possible to earn PvP seasonal rewards, titles, or Dragonflight Season 4 rankings.
• For a time after the end of Season 4, most Mythic+ achievements and rewards will remain earnable.

We will let you know exact dates and times for the end of Season 4 and the beginning of The War Within Season 1 as soon as possible. Please keep an eye on our official news site for that and all othe...

The War Within Pre-Expansion PTR has been updated. Please note that some of these changes will be hotfixed into the PTR over the course of the week.

CLASSES

• DRUID
  • Swiftmend healing increased by 15%.
  • Restoration
    • Wild Growth healing increased by 15%.
    • Rejuvenation healing increased by 15%.
    • Regrowth healing increased by 15%.
• EVOKER
  • Devastation
    • Eternity Surge damage increased by 15%.
    • Imminent Destruction is no longer the capstone, and has swapped positions with Feed the Flames.
• HUNTER
  • Survival
    • Grenade Juggler has been updated – Casting Explosive Shot reduces the cooldown of Wildfire Bomb by 2 seconds.
    • Grenade Juggler and Sulfur-Lined Pockets procs will no longer grant the cooldown re...

Greetings,

As we prepare to release WoW Classic patch 1.15.3 tomorrow and open Phase 4 on Thursday, we want to remind you that any players who gained Honor via Bloodstained Commendations will need to make sure to gain at least 15 Honorable Kills against players of the opposing faction in normal PvP (i.e. Battlegrounds or World PvP, not in the Blood Moon event) during the week, in order to be eligible rank up the week that begins on July 15.

Gaining honor from Bloodstained Commendations alone is not sufficient to rank up, regardless of the amount of Honor gained in this way. To summarize, the requirements to progress past Rank 7 are:

• Level 60
• At least 15 HKs
• Sufficient Honor to increase in rank

Reminder: in Phase 4, the maximum rank in PvP is Rank 10.

Please note that Bloodstained Commendations will not be purchasable with the old STV Blood Moon Coins after the patch on July 9. We recommend that you us...

July 3, 2024

Cataclysm Classic

• Fixed an issue preventing the completion of the Bounce achievement.
• Cataclysm raid premade group activities are now available in Group Finder.

July 3, 2024

WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria

• Fixed several issues with the achievement Elusive Foes: Timeless Isles.

July 3, 2024

Achievements

• What’s Down There? now requires 1 Massive Lunker (was 2).
• That’s not a Fish… now requires 5 Massive Lunkers (was 10).
• We’re Going to Need a Bigger Harpoon now requires 10 Massive Lunkers (was 25).

Items

• Ominous Conch cooldown lowered to 1 minute (was 5 minutes).
• Increased the drop rate of Ominous Conch found in Tuskarr Tackle Boxes.
• Ominous Conch now has a maximum stack size of 20.
  • Developers’ notes: Ominous Conch used to have a maximum stack size of 20 in earlier patches, and that was removed. Since we’re putting the max back on it, we think it’s best to also reduce the associated achievement requirements and cooldown.

Here are this week’s changes to the War Within Pre-Expansion PTR:

CHARACTER SELECT SCREEN

• There is a known issue that characters may appear to be missing articles of clothing on the character select screen. Logging in and out of the game client will address this.

CLASSES

• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Frost
    • Icy Death Torrent has had the following changes:
      • Damage now scales with Mastery.
      • Damage increased by 100%.
      • Now has a 50% chance to trigger on auto-attack critical strikes while dual wielding and 100% while wielding a two-handed weapon.
      • Now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
    • Pillar of Frost’s Strength increased to 30% (was 25%).
    • Enduring Strength’s Strength increased to 20% (was 15%).
    • Long Winter now extends Pillar of Frost by 2 seconds, up to a maximum of 6 seconds.
    • Shattering B...

Additional testing for Silken Court on Heroic difficulty will begin today at 1:00 p.m. PDT (4:00 p.m. EDT, 22:00 CEST).

Please use this thread for feedback and bug reports regarding this encounter or related issues. Noting the nature of your group (guild premade, PUG, etc.) is helpful, as are any logs.

Thank you to everyone who has come out to help test!

Additional testing for Broodtwister Ovi’nax on Heroic difficulty will begin today at 12:00 Noon PDT (3:00 p.m. EDT, 21:00 CEST).

Please use this thread for feedback and bug reports regarding this encounter or related issues. Noting the nature of your group (guild premade, PUG, etc.) is helpful, as are any logs.

Thank you to everyone who has come out to help test!

Additional testing for Sikran, Captain of the Sureki on Heroic difficulty will begin today at 11:00 PDT (2:00 p.m. EDT, 20:00 CEST).

Please use this thread for feedback and bug reports regarding this encounter or related issues. Noting the nature of your group (guild premade, PUG, etc.) is helpful, as are any logs.

Thank you to everyone who has come out to help test!

Greetings! Here are this week’s updates to the War Within Beta:

CLASSES

• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Hero Talents
    • Rider of the Apocalypse (Frost/Unholy)
      • A Feast of Souls no longer has a chance to refund a rune.
      • Damage from Runic Power abilities is increased by 30% while 2 or more Horsemen are active (was 20%).
    • San’layn (Unholy/Blood)
      • The Blood is Life accumulator deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
      • The Blood is Life accumulator can no longer critically strike.
      • Corrupted Blood ability of the Blood Beast deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
      • Essence of the Blood Queen’s Haste granted per stack reduced to 1% (was 1.5%).
      • Vampiric Strike now heals for 1%/2% of your maximum health for Blood/Unholy (was 3%/5%).
      • Vampiric Strike damage reduced by 15%.
      • Infliction of Sorrow now ex...

We’re aware of issues with the new Skyfury raid buff, and we expect to address it with hotfixes to the Beta tomorrow.

Greetings Shamans!

Earlier today, we unfortunately deployed a small part of our Shaman update to the Beta. This may have put the class into a bad state for testing, but that will only be the case for the next day or so. We have significant updates to the Shaman talent trees coming in tomorrow’s new Beta build.

First, we’d like to outline our philosophy and goals for these changes. We’ll start by addressing the new Shaman raid buff: Skyfury, and then go over each of the tree updates individually.

Skyfury

Throughout Dragonflight and The War Within’s development, the topic of raid buffs has been actively discussed and we’ve come to the decision to add a new raid buff to the Shaman class. Our goal with this buff is for it to fully replace the Windf...

Datamining today is not revealing more than a small fraction of the package of changes coming in the next Beta build.

We’ll fully outline it for you here as soon as possible.