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Hello. I looked into this and the events are set to start at 0:00 Midnight on July 23 (realm time) in all regions.

This is the place to let us know how the Battlegrounds are going for you. Please feel free to include details about your character, faction, realm, and how you usually play Burning Crusade Classic.

Thank you!

In addition to other hotfixes that we’ll note in the hotfixes update later today, we want to highlight three Sanctum of Domination fixes that we’re currently working on and intend to implement with the weekly reset in each region.

Sanctum of Domination

Painsmith Raznal

• The damage associated with spike waves now more consistently matches their visual effect.

Guardian of the First Ones

• The Physical damage portion of...

Over the last few days, we’ve read thousands of pieces of feedback on the same-faction Battleground test, and we’ve been working through what we can do in Burning Crusade Classic to meet as many of our goals as possible.

Some players literally asked for more understanding of our goals, so we’d like to list out the goals we think are most pertinent to the Battleground queue situation:

• Emulate the design pillars and intentions of original Burning Crusade game systems.
• Leverage modern tech and design to address modern issues.
• Make surgical changes to the game to improve the player experience.
• Address player concerns in ways that capture the spirit of the original design of the game.

We’ve heard a clear majority of players telling us that they preferred same-faction Battlegrounds after our first test. During that test, we saw the benefits of drastically lowered queue times and less unavoidable ganking in the outdoor world. How...

Happy Friday everyone! Here’s the hotfixes from today:

JULY 16, 2021

Classes

• Hunter
  • Fixed an issue preventing allies from gaining the secondary duration increase for Aspect of the Cheetah granted by Cheetah’s Vigor (Conduit) when using Hunting Pack (PvP Talent).
• Paladin
  • Fixed an issue where Divine Resonance (Runecarving Power) would not cast Holy Shock while sitting.
• Warlock
  • Demonology
    • Fel Obelisk (PvP Talent) will now affect all Warlock class spells, including glyphed versions of their summon spells, Summon Vilefiend (Talent), and Call Fel Lord (PvP Talent).

Covenants

• Soulbinds
  • Necrolord
    • Fixed an issue where Plague Deviser Marileth’s Undula...

Here’s the hotfix that went live today in Burning Crusade Classic.

JULY 15, 2021

Burning Crusade Classic

• The Hellfire Peninsula buffs Nazgrel’s Fervor and Trollbane’s Command are no longer removed upon entering a Hellfire Citadel dungeon.

Here are the hotfixes from today.

JULY 15, 2021

Classes

• Druid
  • Balance
    • Star Burst (PvP Talent) will no longer create stars inside the starting areas of battlegrounds and arenas.

Covenants

• Soulbinds
  • Bonesmith Heirmir
    • Fixed an issue where area-of-effect spells were not granting multiple stacks of Carver’s Eye for multiple targets.

Dungeons and Raids

• Sanctum of Domination
  • Adjusted the location where players enter the raid when an instance is restored.
  • Sylvanas Windrunner
    • Added a visual to Veil of Darkness to indicate the debuff jump radius.
    • Reduced the intensity of Banshee’s Fury visual.
    • Mawfo...

We’ve read feedback from players and observed in-game activities that have led us to see that the Fallen Charger could be better configured.

The initial design intention with Fallen Charger was to make it similar to the Time-Lost Proto-Drake, but that setup didn’t match how other rare spawns behave in Shadowlands, so we changed it on the PTR to work like other rares, where players would want to organize to defeat it because the drop chance would be meaningful enough to warrant doing so.

However, there’s a growing sense of frustration for many as the mount currently feels like something that requires repeated and constant grinding in Group Finder. So with a hotfix that is going live soon today, we’re making three updates to the Fallen Charger:

• It will now drop an appropriate amount of Maw loot, such as Stygia, Ve’nari Reputation, and a chance for a Korthian Armament.
• It will now incur the daily loot lockout when you kill it.
• We’ve increase...