World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

Heya everyone. Here are today’s hotfixes:

AUGUST 3, 2022

Classes

• Rogue
  • Outlaw
    • Fixed an issue that could cause Blade Flurry damage to break Vanish under certain conditions.
    • Fixed an issue that could cause bonus Sinister Strike hits to break Vanish under certain conditions.

Dungeons and Raids

• Fated Raids
  • Fated Castle Nathria
    • Fixed an issue causing some boss abilities to inflict too much damage and causing some player abilities to inflict too little damage.
• Mythic+
  • Affixes
    • Shrouded
      • Zul’gamux Blood Barrier absorb reduced by 33%.
  • Return to Karazhan: Lower
    • Fixed an issue where...

Tomorrow, August 4 at around 2:00 p.m. PDT, we’re going to open the initial raids for further testing in the Wrath Beta.

For a list of selected raid fixes in this build, please see our updated development notes.

As we’ve examined this and related issues, players noticed our fix seemed to come at the exact time bosses’ health appeared to go up.

We’ve looked into this very thoroughly, and it looks like the issue with spell scaling was also causing enemy health t...

In the Wrath Classic Beta, we’ve recently disabled all Matchmaking restrictions, to facilitate finding faster games. This change is for the Beta only.

Please be reminded that the current Beta test arena Season will end on August 9. Please log in, play games, and help us test rewards, with our great thanks.

See you in the Arena!

Beta Test Release Build 44930
August 3, 2022

Testing Updates

• Talent Preview Mode is now active. It can be turned on in the Game Menu → Interface → Features menu.
• The Eye of Acherus, Mind Control, and similar possession interactions now use the proper action bar.
• Northrend story capper quests now have items/Emblems of Heroism to reward players for completing storylines in each zone.
  • Developers’ notes: Wrath Classic adds phasing, a way to make the world to change around players during key storyline moments and feel more alive by making your actions have impact on your surroundings. Phasing can, h...

30 minutes ago, we deployed a fix for a number of abilities scaling improperly in Castle Nathria.

This had the unintended effect of resetting active Castle Nathria instances. We apologize for this.

Abilities should behave correctly now. We’ll continue to watch this issue very closely.

Hello.

We’ve definitely noted feedback on the initial leveling experience taking a lot of effort/time until you reach crafts that are useful.

It’s important to know that Darkmoon Cards will drop from all forms of content. The Darkmoon Booster recipe is not the only way to source them.

That is not intended. Darkmoon Deck Boxes will have primary stats in next week’s build.

Now that this new talent system is being tested, we have some brief thoughts for you all.

Beyond the mid-point of the class tree, we feel that the left side of the tree is more finalized than the right. We’re working on making these feel equally appealing.

We’re also working on expanding pathing where we can. Due to the way dependencies work, it isn’t always possible to open up choices. Generally speaking, we don’t want to put players in a situation where they choose talents that affect abilities they don’t have.

We’ve seen some strong feelings – both positive and negative – regarding Signet of Ancient Kings. We’re aware of this and iterating on adjustments to it.

Our known issues include:

• The Protection specialization doesn’t suffer a penalty while using Defensive Stance. This will be updated in a future test build.
• Battle-Scared Veteran displays the wrong information. It should be: A damage reduction value of 75% and a duration of ...

I’ve edited the title of this thread, because it’s a broad known issue.

We are aware of and working on a bug causing some player abilities to malfunction in Fated Raids.

Our investigation so far has revealed a complicated problem that we do not expect to be able to fix quickly.

This is a top priority for us, and we’ll provide updates as soon as we have them.

I’ve updated my previous post in this thread. The fix for this issue works without realm restarts.

Please note: to receive the missing credit, affected players will need to log into the game and enter Oribos before next week’s weekly raid reset.

Hello~ Here are today’s hotfixes:

AUGUST 2, 2022

Covenants

• Kyrian
  • Fixed an issue that allowed Effusive Anima Accelerator’s (Forgelite Prime Mikanikos Soulbind) explosion to strike enemies that were not within line of sight of its point of impact, causing players to unintentionally engage enemies through floors and walls.

Dungeons and Raids

• Fated Raids
  • Fated Castle Nathria
    • Fixed an issue where Raid Finder difficulty was erroneously granting enemies less stats than intended.
  • Fated Powers
    • Reconfiguration Emitter now show...

Hello again, Shamans!

In today’s new build of the Dragonflight Alpha, we have several adjustments to talents in the Shaman Class Tree intended to reduce the overall defensive and mobility kit of Shaman, which has crept up due to the new system allowing for previously impossible combinations. We’re happy with new talent combinations, but the mobility and defensive power in the tree exceeded our target for Shaman, and individual talent power was above budget compared to other classes.

Elemental
We’ve continued to make minor tweaks to the Elemental tree, based on feedback. This week we focused on improvements to Primordial Wave. It’s generally avoided outside of AoE in the current design, so our aim is to improve its overall value in various game modes to increase build diversity.

We attempted to address node pathing pain points for Storm Elemental with Primal Elementalist. There is now a path available towards Primal Elementalist that doesn’t...

This was a bug that we were able to fix quickly, so that the quest began to behave as expected earlier this afternoon.

However, we have an additional hotfix to clean up the situation for players who didn’t receive credit in the first place, and for this second fix to work, we have to perform realm restarts. We’re planning restarts for 7:00 a.m. PDT tomorrow.

Logging in after the restart and going to Oribos should cause your character to receive the missing credit.

Please note: to receive the missing credit, affected players will need to log into the game and enter Oribos before next week’s weekly raid reset.

In today’s Alpha build, Skinning has been enabled and can be trained by the Associate Professor Instructaur in Orgrimmar and Stormwind. While the core gameplay of Skinning remains largely unchanged for Dragonflight, we are adding a new consumable that aims to give Skinners a new form of gameplay: Creature Baits. Skinners will be able to create and place Creature Baits to lure elusive creatures out of hiding.

Please note that for Alpha purposes, the cooldown on Creature Baits has been removed so that players can use the item and give feedback. These items will have a medium length cooldown in their final version, which can be reduced by Bait Crafter Specialization traits.

• Specializations
  • Unlocking Specializations requires 25 skill in that Profession. Once unlocked, players can spend Specialization points to unlock various bonuses for their Profession.
  • Developers’ note: For the purposes of Alpha we’ve added a consuma...

In this thread, please post your thoughts and feedback on updates to the Gathering professions in the Dragonflight alpha.