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Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

March 14, 2023

Professions

• Leatherworking
  • Fixed a bug that caused the Leatherworking Weekly Quest “Drums Here!” to misbehave.
    • Developers’ notes: Valdrakken Rep, Artisan’s Consortium rep, and Leatherworking Design rewards are doubled for this week to compensate for the bug. They’ll go back to their previous reward values next week.

Embers of Neltharion features all new Tier Set armor for every class. We’re excited to share them with you today.

• Please note that the designs and values below are a work in progress. When these sets are ready for testing, the Embers of Neltharion PTR may include values other than what you see here, and values may be updated on the PTR with changes to these sets via hotfix at any time.

Class Set Design

Set armor bonuses in Season 1 had relatively low impact on gameplay and rotations, because we wanted to give the new talent system room to shine. In Embers of Neltharion, set bonuses can have more impact on your resources, cooldowns, and talents. Some bonuses are enhanced by playing certain talents, and some build on popul...

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Here are this week’s PTR notes for Embers of Neltharion:

NEW ZONE: ZARALEK CAVERN

• The Embers of Neltharion campaign is now available for testing.

NEW RAID: ABERRUS, THE SHADOWED CRUCIBLE

Millennia ago, Neltharion carved deep places in the earth where he conducted world altering experiments. After his death, these sites were lost to time, until now. Forces seeking to claim the Earth-Warder’s legacy raid his dominion in search for powerful artifacts. Now the champions of Azeroth must venture into darkness and ensure the crucible’s dangerous power doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.

Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible features nine boss encounters: Kazzara, the Hellforged, The Amalgamation Chamber, The Forgotten Experiments, Assault of the Zaqali, Rashok, the Elder, The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn, Magmorax, Echo of Neltharion, and Scalecommander Sarkareth.

• Raid testing begins t...

As you’ll see in our hotfixes update later, we hotfixed the game today to fix the quest Drums Here!

Valdrakken Rep, Artisan’s Consortium rep, and Leatherworking Design rewards are doubled for this week to compensate for the bug. They’ll go back to their previous reward values next week.

The raid testing schedule is very fluid and subject to the realities of a test environment. There’s the possibility of having to change the time of a testing session, change the bosses being tested, or cancel a test entirely due to bugs, server hardware issues, etc.

We’ll be updating this schedule with boss details as we get closer to their testing dates. Keep an eye on the PTR forum for the boss feedback threads and the latest information. Thank you in advance for testing and providing feedback.

Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible Raid Testing Schedule

The final boss of the raid, Scalecommander Sarkareth, will not be available for testing.

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Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

March 13, 2023

Dungeons and Raids

• Vault of the Incarnates
  • Raszageth (Heroic)
    • [With weekly restarts] Electric Lash damage reduced by 20% in Heroic difficulty.
    • [With weekly restarts] Volatile Current damage reduced by 20% in Heroic difficulty.
    • [With weekly restarts] Stormsurge absorb shield reduced by 20% in Heroic difficulty.
    • [With weekly restarts] Lingering Charge periodic damage reduced by 20% in Heroic difficulty.
  • Raszageth (Mythic)
    • [With weekly restarts] Electric Lash damage reduced by 20% ...

Here are a few quick updates to a few questions that have come up in this thread:

• We fixed an issue where players were sometimes not able to join opposing faction guilds.
• Currently, we don’t have any updates regarding the potential for cross-realm guilds.

Thanks again for all of your testing and feedback!

Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

March 10, 2023

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Fixed an issue with some errant messages involving raid difficulty selection.
• Fixed an issue where role icons would not appear on raid frames next to the player’s name.
• Fixed an issue where quests could not be linked in chat.