World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

Here’s the hotfix that went live today in Season of Mastery:

AUGUST 9, 2022

Season of Mastery

• Naxxramas
  • Fixed an issue where bonus loot could not be rewarded when defeating a boss using Runes of Fortune.
    • Developers’ note: Raid groups should always receive an extra Set Piece Token, piece of Gear the boss normally drops, or Splinter of Atiesh per stack of Rune of Fortune the raid has active.

Here are today’s hotfixes:

AUGUST 9, 2022

Dungeons and Raids

• Fated Castle Nathria
  • Sludgefist
    • Adjusted the Fated Power cooldowns to better align with their ability cadence.
• Fated Sanctum of Domination
  • Guardian of the First Ones
    • Adjusted the Fated Power cooldowns to better align with their ability cadence.
  • Kel’Thuzad
    • Fixed an interaction where Protoform Barrier (Fated Power) could erroneously trigger after Kel’Thuzad’s health is depleted.
  • Sylvanas Windrunner
    • Adjusted the Fated Power cooldowns to better align with their ability cadence in Phase 2.
• Mythic+
  • Shrouded Affix
    • Fixed an issue that could cause Zul’ga...

At 10:00 a.m. PDT tomorrow (Wednesday, August 10), we’ll initiate the Zombie Plague for testing on the Pre-expansion PTR.

For the purposes of Alpha we’ve added a consumable, Professor Instructataur’s Top Secret Guide, on the Associate Professor Instructaur vendor that gives players 50 Specialization points. Below are a couple of Specialization paths.

• Draconic Needlework – Source the magic of the Dragon Isles to craft exceptional clothwear with reagents such as Azureweave and Chronocloth, gaining +1 Skill per point in this specialization.
  • Azureweave Tailoring – Focus on the Arcane nature of the Blue Dragonflight in your tailoring, gaining +1 Skill per point in this specialization when making and using Azureweave.
• Garmentcrafting – Improve at tailoring Cloth Armor to take on the most powerful foes in the Dragon Isles, gaining +1 Skill per point in this specialization.
  • Outerwear – Improve at tailoring the major aspects of an outfit, such as Chest and Leg pieces of armor, gaining +1 Skill per point in this specializations.

Tailoring is now available for testing and can be trained by the Associate Professor Instructaur in Orgrimmar and Stormwind.

Tailoring, much like the other armor-crafting Professions, has a plethora of new set and item equip effects. We’re particularly interested in hearing feedback about how these new effects feel. Spellthreads are also making a comeback as leg enchants for Intellect users.

Engineering is now available for testing and can be trained by the Associate Professor Instructaur in Orgrimmar and Stormwind. There are a few new concepts that we’re exploring for Engineering in Dragonflight:

• Engineers are able to craft Wrists for each Armor type, which can be socketed with different Tinkers that have a variety of on-use effects (such as temporary invisibility or summoning an Alarm-O-Turret).
• We’ve added a combat resurrection consumable for non-engineers: the Convincingly Realistic Jumper Cables. These are weaker versions of the engineering variant, the Reusable Jumper Cables, and we’re very interested in hearing feedback on how they play out over the course of Alpha.
• Various Safety Components can be used as Optional Reagents for crafting Engineering items - these Safety Components can reduce the chance of tinker malfunctions or outright prevent catastrophic malfunctions.
• Speaking of malfunctions, the chance for engineering i...

These trees were built to emphasize the strong thematic and rotational gameplay that is already present with each specialization.

That said, we are making a few changes to address the pain points we’ve experienced while playing and concerns that have been brought up by the community. You can read more about these changes below and our thoughts regarding why the change was made.

• Core Changes
  • Spell Lock in the talent tree
    • With Dragonflight, we’ve removed Spell Lock from Felhunters and Spell Lock is now available for Warlocks to learn themselves. With this change, we are aiming to allow for more pet diversity in content where Felhunters feel required like dungeons and PvP.
  • Dark Soul is not in the talent tree for Dragonflight intentionally. There are a few reasons for this:
    • All Warlock specs have access to a powerful summon cooldown that interacts with the rest of their spells where Dark S...

In this thread, please post your feedback on the revamped Warlock talent tree, once you’ve had a chance to test Warlocks in the Alpha.

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Once you’ve tested out Brackenhide Hollow, please leave your feedback on this dungeon here.

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Once you’ve tested out The Azure Vault, please leave your feedback on this dungeon here.

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Once you’ve tested Ohn’ahran Plains, please leave your feedback on this zone here.

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The Holy Paladin Talent tree is now enabled in today’s Alpha build.

For Dragonflight, we want to give Holy Paladins more options for caster-focused playstyles by bringing back the Power of the Silver Hand passive effect from the Legion Artifact, in addition to the active button Tyr’s Deliverance.

Hello everyone! Here are this week’s Dragonflight Alpha development notes:

DISCOVER THE DRAGON ISLES

• Ohn’ahran Plains
• Removed: Thaldraszus

NEW DUNGEONS

Developers’ note: Throughout the testing period, character levels will be scaled when entering Dragonflight dungeons. When this happens, the amount of talent points that your character will have available will reflect the original level, not the scaled level.

• The Azure Vault
• Brackenhide Hollow

CHARACTER LEVEL

Developers’ note: With each phase, we encourage players to make a new template character and avoid using their previous characters as they could potentially be in a broken state. After making a new template character, make sure to talk to Questzertauren and he will prepare you for any available content.

• Level 62 Character Template
• Maximum Level: 65...