World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

With scheduled weekly maintenance (August 31 in this region), we’ll release Patch 2.5.2 for Burning Crusade Classic. This will immediately include Guild Banks, the Group Browser Tool, and the Arena standings update that makes team ranking viewable and award cutoff information available at special Arena NPCs.

The following week (September 7 in this region), we’ll end Arena Season 1 with the regional reset. This will begin a one-week offseason, and the adjustments to Season 1 Arena and Honor gear costs will go into effect.

Burning Crusade Classic Arena Season 2 will begin with the regional reset on September 14 in this region.

That same week, the Phase 2 content unlock will occur at the same moment in all regions worldwide: Wednesday, September 15 at 3:00 p.m. PDT (6:00 p.m. EDT). This is the time that the Sha’tari Skyguard and Ogri’la content will become available, and Serpentshrine Cavern and Tempest Keep will open for business.

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That may not be immediately testable in the first version of the 9.1.5 PTR, but we’re working on it.

Here are more images of some of the new character customizations taken from the new article, 9.1.5 Content Update Preview. Be sure to take a look at what else is to come in 9.1.5.

Additionally, we saw your requests for having the Void Elf tentacle hairstyles to have a tentacle-free option. The team is looking into adding this customization option in 9.1.5 as well. Thanks again for all of your suggestions!

Lightforged Draenei
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In the next few days, we will be updating our Public Test Realm with a first look at Patch 9.1.5. Alongside feature updates like new Timewalking experiences (this time we’re revisiting Legion, with a couple of twists…), these “.5” patches, falling in between full content tiers, present an opportunity to focus on balance and revision of core systems based on feedback and data from the season so far. Patch 9.1.5 will include several significant changes to the Shadowlands Covenant systems in particular:

• Once you’ve reached a high Renown threshold, you will thereafter be able to freely switch among any of the four Covenants without cooldown or restriction, as well as use cosmetic rewards that you have earned from one covenant even if you are currently a member of a different one. Both the Covenant switching and the use of cosmetic rewards will also apply to alts once the Renown threshold is reached on one character.

• Conduit Energy is being removed - Co...

Here are today’s hotfixes.

AUGUST 26, 2021

Covenants

• Necrolord
  • Plague Deviser Marileth
    • Resolved an issue where Kevin’s Oozeling would last longer than it should.
    • Resolved an issue where Kevin’s Oozeling would remain after swapping Soulbinds.

Dungeons and Raids

• Sanctum of Domination
  • Painsmith Raznal
    • Fixed an issue that caused players affected by Priest’s Spirit of Redemption to trigger Flameclasp Traps.
  • Sylvanas Windrunner
    • Fixed an issue causing Rage to cancel the channel effect of Shaman Fae Transfusion.

For the past several weeks, we’ve received and acted on reports of lag in the Sanctum of Domination raid, particularly during the Sylvanas encounter. We’ve been working hard to understand and resolve the issues, but we overlooked telling you that. We apologize for that oversight, and we will strive to do better in the future.

The most common complaint we received was that there was a burst of lag when Sylvanas is first engaged. Our server performance group dug into those reports, and we found the cause – there are a higher-than-usual number of calculations being done at the start of the fight to facilitate the complex mechanics of the encounter. We’re looking into ways we can potentially improve this, but we have to be careful to not change the design or mechanics of the encounter. While this is something that we think we can improve over time, there will still be a few seconds of server lag on pull for now.

Outside of that moment, our main challenge in diagnosing thes...

Hiya Here’s the hotfix update for today.

AUGUST 24, 2021

Achievements

• Players can now continue to give Rendle hats to complete Rendle’s Big Day after becoming his best friend.

Classes

• Priest
  • Fixed an issue where Kevin’s Oozeling (Necrolord Soulbind) would not activate when Unholy Nova (Necrolord Ability) does not heal.

Dungeons and Raids

• Sanctum of Domination
  • Kel’Thuzad
    • Glacial Spikes now properly kill themselves and apply Frozen Destruction even if they receive no damage from the players.

Items and Rewards

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Thank you for all of your enthusiasm and suggestions so far! It’s been a pleasure for the team to read how passionate you are about the looks of your in-game characters.

We wanted to share a handful of the customization options you’ll be able to choose for male Lightforged Draenei and female Nightborne, some of which have been requests from the community.

Lightforged Draenei New Customization Options

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Greetings!

Yesterday we announced that after hearing the passionate feedback around our decision to not add additional customization options until after Shadowlands, we’ve decided to implement more options sooner.

The upcoming 9.1.5 update will introduce new character customization options for two Allied Races that didn’t get as much attention as the rest, the Nightborne and Lightforged Draenei. You can look forward to new hair styles, hair colors, facial hair, skin colors, accessories, horns, tail length, tattoos, and more!

After hearing how excited all of you were around the new customization options, we saw that many of your comments were requesting more natural hair colors for Void Elves. We relayed this feedback to the team and they were able to add 5 natural hair color options for Void Elves to the 9.1.5 update.

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Hello everyone! Here are today’s hotfixes.

AUGUST 19, 2021

Classes

• Mage
  • Fixed and issue with Harmonic Echo (Runecarving Power) not damaging nearby enemies on the 4th stack of Radiant Spark Vulnerability (Kyrian Ability).
  • Fire
    • Fixed an issue with Sun King’s Blessing (Runecarving Power) triggering after consuming 9 Hot Streaks instead of the intended 8.
    • Fixed and issue with Sun King’s Blessing (Runecarving Power) not granting the buff when Hot Streak is consumed by Flamestrike.
• Monk
  • Fixed an issue with Call to Arms (Runecarving Power) not correctly tracking Xuen’s empowered lightning damage when activated by Weapons of Order (Kyria...

Hello everyone! Here are the hotfixes from today:

AUGUST 17, 2021

Classes

• Warlock
  • The Demonic Momentum conduit will now grant the correct amount of movement speed at item level 252.

Dungeons and Raids

• Characters must now be level 60 to list Group Finder groups for Mythic+ dungeons or Shadowlands raids.
• Sanctum of Domination
  • Fatescribe Roh-Kalo
    • Fixed an issue where players who have Forgeborne Reveries (Bonesmith Heirmir Soulbind) could be targeted for Grim Portent and Runic Affinity.
• Sanguine Depths
  • Fixed an issue that unintentionally allowed players to leave the dungeon with the Sinfall Boon aura.

Items and Rewards

• The Soultwining Crescent and Death-B...

Hello everyone! Here are today’s hotfixes for Shadowlands:

AUGUST 16, 2021

Covenants

• Kyrian
  • Forgelite Prime Mikanikos
    • Fixed an issue where Bron’s Call to Action would gain 2 stacks for some projectile-based abilities and spells.
    • Fixed an issue where some abilities were not correctly adding stacks of Bron’s Call to Action.

Items and Rewards

• Shards of Domination
  • Blood Link should now be more responsive to damage.