World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

As soon as we’ve completed our testing, we intend to make the following adjustments to the Halondrus the Reclaimer encounter in Sepulcher of the First Ones:

• Reduced the amount of damage absorption provided by Reclaim by 20% on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
• Reduced the amount of damage Reclaim gains periodically from 50% of its initial value to 25% of its initial value on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
• Reduced the base speed of Ephemeral Motes by 20% on Heroic difficulty.

At the start of each PvP season, we perform a game wide adjustment to players’ matchmaking ratings to re-normalize their distribution. After this process, most players don’t notice much of a difference with their matchmaking rating, but players at the far ends of the distribution may notice a significant change.

Unfortunately, this process did not occur prior to the start of Season 3 in this region (all of the Americas and Oceanic realms). This re-normalization needs to happen as soon as possible to prevent players’ personal ratings from far exceeding their re-normalized matchmaking ratings, particularly at the high end of the ladder.

We will be performing this re-normalization this evening, and players may notice a change to their matchmaking rating when they log in tomorrow.

With today’s weekly maintenance, you’ll see following changes to Mistweaver Monk, Restoration Shaman, and Protection Warrior:

• Monk
  • Mistweaver
    • Reverted a change in Eternity’s End to Fallen Order’s (Venthyr Ability) Crane Adept’s Enveloping Mist cooldown and cast variance that caused Enveloping Mist to only be cast once per summon.
      • Developers’ notes: In 9.1, it was identified that the Crane Adept guardians summoned by the ability Fallen Order would cast an additional Enveloping Mist if players reached a certain amount of Haste. Generally, we try to avoid these “Haste Breakpoints” that introduce big jumps in power with arbitrary amounts of a particular stat. In 9.1.5, we shared that we intended to fix this problem in the player’s favor, by ensuring that the Adept’s always cast Enveloping Mist twice per summon. However, upon further review, we opted to not make this change due to balance concerns. For 9.2, w...

For a few players, there could be a tricky situation at the Great Vault just after Season 3 starts this week, and it needs some explanation.

As we previously explained, the thresholds required to qualify for Great Vault rewards are lowered in Season 3. These lowered thresholds will first apply to the Vault after the completion of the first week of Season 3 activities, which is next week.

However, the UI for this has now been updated. What this means is: it’s possible to have completed 8 Mythic+ Dungeons last week (Season 2) and see that the Great Vault is not offering you a reward, even though it says 8 Mythic+ Dungeons in the tooltip, because for the last week, the reward still requires 10 Mythic+ Dungeons.

Good luck with...

Hello! Here are today’s hotfixes:

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Cypher of the First Ones

• Pets are no longer visible to other players during the Toccatian and Glissandian Protolock puzzles.
• Cypher talent “Trebalim Understanding” will no longer incorrectly state that another character is researching it.

Creatures and NPCs

• The Anima Reservoir in Haven will now have a permanent icon on the minimap.

Items and Rewards

• Fixed an issue where players only had a chance to loot the Deepstar Polyp from Hirukon once a day, even if they completed the puzzle and returned to defeat Hirukon again that day.
• The Coilclutch Vine for the Deepstar Polyp puzzle is now visible across all phases.
• Zereth Mortis’s aurelid mounts will now properly move at a ground mount speed appropriate to your Riding skill when used in areas where fl...

Here is today’s hotfix update:

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Classes

• Druid
  • Fixed an issue where Ravenous Frenzy (Venthyr Ability) was not always correctly adding stacks.
• Warrior
  • Arms
    • Fixed an issue with Warbreaker (Talent) not always properly applying the Colossus Smash effect to enemies.

Creatures and NPCs

• Fixed an issue where Gluttonous Overgrowth’s Leaf Storm increased player’s movement speed instead of reducing it.

Items and Rewards

• Instructor’s Divine Bell now always provides its Mastery over 15 seconds (was 9 seconds).
  • Developers’ note: This fixes an issue where existing versions of this trinket used a different duration than new versions.
• With next week’s scheduled...