World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

Greetings, dungeoneers!

This week’s Beta update includes major changes to the Mythic Keystone affix system in
The War Within, based on player feedback. Our primary goal with these updates is to refine the Mythic+ experience to better serve a diverse playerbase.

Previously, we approached Mythic Keystones with a one-size-fits-all approach, which proved challenging in striking the right balance and limited our design space.

In this new build, you will see significant shifts in our design philosophy. We recognize the importance of weekly variety for those progressing through the system. However, for players pushing high keys, this variance has sometimes felt restrictive. We’ve also heard your feedback about wanting affixes with both positive and negative effects, as well as a desire for thematic nods similar to past affixes.

This update to the affix system aims to meet those diverse expectations. We’re maintaining the core goals of our last round of cha...

June 21, 2024

Cataclysm Classic

• Shaman Fire Elementals will now prefer targets that have their master’s Flameshock active on them, and will switch to those targets over targets without their master’s Flameshock. This check occurs only once every several seconds, so may take a little time to occur.
• Temporarily removed the Elemental Shaman (2) Set Bonus on the Burning Crusade Tier 4 set.
  • Developer’s note: The 2 Piece Elemental Shaman Tier 4 bonus has a bug that existed in original Cataclysm, but was found later on in Warlords of Draenor. If this bonus were to remain in its bugged state, it would cause Elemental Shamans to wear 2 Pieces of The Burning Crusade tier for the entire expansion and we kind of like it when people have to progress their gear. Because the real fix we wish to do requires server restarts, we are removing the 2-set bonus off of the set for the weekend, and then placing it back after server...

June 21, 2024

WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria

• Fixed an issue causing Echo of Light from Holy Priest to scale incorrectly when there’s a level disparity.

PvP with the Blues is underway with playtesting the new battleground, Deephaul Ravine.

Deephaul Ravine

Deephaul Ravine is themed in The Ringing Deeps where the Foreman Uzjax and Architect Ruffious are tasked with collecting as much valuable ore, gems, and crystals fo...

The War Within Pre-Expansion PTR has been updated with the following:

CLASSES

• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Blood
    • New Talent: Bloodied Blade – Parrying an attack grants you a charge of Bloodied Blade, increasing your Strength by 0.5%, up to 4% for 15 seconds. At 8 stacks, your next parry consumes all charges to unleash a Heart Strike at 200% effectiveness, and increases your Strength by 10% for 6 seconds.
    • Several talents have moved around on the Blood tree.
  • Frost
    • Obliteration now has an additional effect – While Pillar of Frost is active it will now also increase the cost of your Frost Strike by up to 15 Runic Power to deal up to 52.5% additional damage.
  • Unholy
    • Foul Infections now correctly increases disease crit chance by a flat 5% (was previously multiplicative crit chance).
    • Unholy Blight is now ...

June 18, 2024

Cataclysm Classic

• Faster than the Speed of Light and Vigorous VanCleef Vindicator are now granted properly after completing the achievement.
• Archaeology Survey equipment should now appropriately despawn.

June 18, 2024

WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria

• Ensemble: Trailseeker’s Laminar Armor (White) now grants the correct set.

June 18, 2024

Dungeons and Raids

• Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr
  • Emberon
    • Fixed an issue where Purging Flames precast visual effect was not matching the spawn location of the beam.

This Friday, June 21, please join members of the World of Warcraft development team in PvP on The War Within Beta Test Realms as we playtest Deephaul Ravine. We came across some issues with queueing the battleground last week that we have since resolved, and want to get the map into players hands for feedback!

We’ll get underway at 3:00 p.m. PDT (5:00 p.m. CDT, 6:00 p.m. EDT) with an hour of playtesting. To playtest this with us, log onto the End Game Realm “These Go To Eleven”, which have max level character templates and access to various vendors. To queue up, open the Group Finder (default hotkey: i), then select Random Battlegrounds and click Join Battle. Deephaul Ravine will be the only battleground available for Random Battlegrounds on beta.

Before we get things rolling, we recommend taking some time to get your character setup properly for PvP combat. Please check out the various gear and profession vendors in Orgrimmar and Stormwind and utilize...

Hello Warlocks.

This beta build contains several changes that have been implemented based off feedback we received over the past few weeks. Before we dive into those though, we wanted to thank you for the bug reports that have been sent in. We are continually working through those reports so expect fixes in this build and future builds.

Without further ado, let’s get into some of the changes you’ll see for Warlock in this beta build.

Demonology

We’ve redesigned Doom to be passive, like the seasons 3 and 4 tier set bonus in Dragonflight. The primary reason for this change is to reduce the increased number of actions per minute we observed during playtesting. Additionally, Demonology has a lot of plates to spin as it is, a...

Hello everyone! Here are this week’s updates to the War Within Beta.

NEW FEATURES

• WARBANDS
  • Known Issue: A Warband conversion popup may appear when you log in, however Warband conversion is not yet implemented for Beta characters.
• CROSS-REALM GUILDS
  • Guild functionality has been extended to allow for recruitment and management of Guild members across all realms in their respective regions.
    • Developer’s note: Guild banks are currently restricted to the realm the Guild is located on for initial testing. Guild bank functionality will be included in a future Beta release.
      To facilitate testing we have spun up an additional level-up realm, “Turnip’s Delight”, so players can create Guilds and invite members across multiple realms in their region.

CLASSES

• DEATH KNI...

Hello testers.

The War Within Pre-Expansion PTR is now live and ready for testing! Please keep the following in mind upon logging in:

Please be patient. The Warband conversion may take some time:

• Your account may take several minutes to gather and convert all characters on first log in.
• Not-yet-implemented: There will be a dialog letting you know your characters are being added to a Warband.

When we open the servers for log-in on June 18, please reply to this thread and let us know your feedback, along with the answers to the following questions:

• For any achievements that are newly account wide, did they combine correctly across your characters?
• Did your Dragonflight reputation progress combine correctly (furthest progress on any character)?
• Do you have flight paths from all your merged characters?

• MONK
  • Many talents have moved locations or have had their pathing updated.
  • New Talent: Crashing Momentum – Targets you Roll through are snared by 40% for 5 seconds.
  • New Talent: Bounding Agility – Roll and Chi Torpedo travel a small distance further.
  • New Talent: Wind’s Reach – The range of Disable is increased by 5 yards. The duration of Crashing Momentum is increased by 3 seconds and its snare now reduces movement speed by an additional 20%.
  • New Talent: Ancient Arts – Reduces the cooldown of Paralysis by 8/15 seconds and the cooldown of Leg Sweep by 5/10 seconds.
  • New Talent: Jade Walk – While out of combat, your movement speed is increased by 15%.
  • New Talent: Pressure Points – Paralysis now removes all Enrage effects from its target.
  • New Talent: Energy Transfer – Successfully interrupting an enemy reduces the cooldown of Paralysis and Roll by 5 seconds.
  • New Talent: Quick Footed – ...

The War Within Pre-Expansion PTR Development Notes

NEW FEATURES

• WARBANDS
  • Expand the potential of your alts with account-wide progression across your family of characters on your Battle.net account, regardless of their Faction. Share Warband Bank access, War Within Renown, achievements, collections and more.
    • Warbands will be converted upon login and may take some time. Please be patient.
      • Your account may take several minutes to gather and convert all characters on first log in.
      • Not-yet-implemented: There will be a dialog letting you know your characters are being ...

Hello everyone. We’ve ran into some hiccups the Warband conversion and have to push the PTR testing date an extra day to June 18. We’ll be sure to keep you posted if anything changes.

Please continue to keep copying your characters until June 18 in the meantime. Thank you!

We’re running into issues with queueing for Deephaul Ravine on it’s own and have to reschedule the new battleground’s test to a later date. Please continue to queue for Rated Battleground Blitz for the rest of the PvP with the Blues testing period.