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Hello everyone. Here are a few answers to some of your questions on the upcoming change:

Hello everyone

You bring up a valid point about the conduit upgrade items not being specialization specific. It can be frustrating when you get a conduit for a spec that you may never use.

To address this, we’re working on a change that will go live with next week’s restarts that will allow Soultwining Crescent and Death-Bound Shard to grant conduits based on your current specialization instead of by class. In order to receive the conduits of the spec of your preference, you will need to switch your specialization fully, changing Loot Specialization won’t work.

In addition to this change, we’re increasing the drop rate of Death-Bound Shard when completing Adamant Vaults in Torghast, Tower of the Damned.

Thank you for your feedback!

With hotfixes that will go live during scheduled weekly maintenance this week (tomorrow, August 10 in this region), we will make the following tuning adjustments to many dungeon and raid encounters.

Dungeons and Raids

• Sanctum of Domination
  • Painsmith Raznal
    • A gap now appears in every row of spikes during Stage Two on Mythic difficulty.
    • Health of Painsmith Raznal, Spiked Balls, and Shadowsteel Horrors reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
• Mythic+
  • De Other Side
    • Enraged Spirit’s Rage duration reduced to 5 seconds (was 6 seconds).
  • Halls of Atonement
    • The completion timer has been increased to 32 minutes (was 31 minutes).
    • Echelon
      • Stone Shattering Leap damage reduced by 15% in Mythic and Mythic+ difficulties.
    ...

We’re working on PvP tuning changes that will be applied to the game with weekly maintenance in each region (August 10 in this region). Here’s what to expect:

Player versus Player

• Death Knight
  • Rune of the Fallen Crusader no longer has its Strength bonus reduced in PvP situations (was reduced by 33%).
  • Unholy
    • Necrotic Wounds (PvP Talent) debuff duration increased to 15 seconds (was 12 seconds).
• Hunter
  • Arcane Shot damage increased by 9% in PvP situations.
  • Marksmanship
    • Aimed Shot PvP damage increased by 10% in PvP situations.
• Monk
  • Mistweaver
    • Mana regeneration reduced by 30% in PvP situations (was 40%).
    • Renewing Mist healing increased by 10% in PvP situations.
    • Vivify healing increased by 10% ...

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PTR Update
August 4, 2021

PvP Rewards

Outland factions’ PvP gear now unlocks with Phase 2 and requires Revered reputation to purchase.

• These are items sold in Thrallmar, Honor Hold, Cenarion Expedition, The Sha’tar, Lower City, and the Keepers of Time.
• The reputation requirement will be adjusted to Honored when Sunwell Plateau is released, to match the original Burning Crusade patch 2.4.

Honor will not be reset at the beginning of Season 2. When Season 1 ends, there will be a two-week off-season period. When Season 2 begins, any remaining unspent Arena points will be converted to Honor Points at a rate of: 1 Arena Point = 10 Honor Points.

Raid Rewards...

If you’re still not testing the PTR (Public Test Realm) with us, and you want to, we’ve made it easy to get started. Just follow these steps:

CREATE A PTR ACCOUNT:

• Log in to Blizzard Account Management.
• Select Games and Subscriptions.
• In the Starter Editions & Public Test Regions section, select Create PTR Account.
• Click the Create Account button.

JOIN THE PTR:

• Open the Blizzard Battle.net App and select World of Warcraft Classic from your Games list.
• In the selector above the Play button, change your Region / Account to Public Test Realm (Classic).
• Click Install (or Update) to install th...

PTR Update
August 4, 2021

PvP Rewards

Outland factions’ PvP gear now unlocks with Phase 2 and requires Revered reputation to purchase.

• These are items sold in Thrallmar, Honor Hold, Cenarion Expedition, The Sha’tar, Lower City, and the Keepers of Time.
• The reputation requirement will be adjusted to Honored when Sunwell Plateau is released, to match the original Burning Crusade patch 2.4.

Honor will not be reset at the beginning of Season 2. When Season 1 ends, there will be a two-week off-season period. When Season 2 begins, any remaining unspent Arena points will be converted to Honor Points at a rate of: 1 Arena Point = 10 Honor Points.

Raid Rewards

• High King Maulgar, Gruul the Dragonkiller, and Magtheridon will drop two Tier 4 tokens each when Serpentshrine Cavern and The Eye are ...

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Hiya everyone! Here’s today’s hotfixes:

JULY 21, 2021

Classes

• Druid
  • Born Anew’s (Conduit) primary stat bonus reduces to 20 upon the beginning of a new encounter.
    • Developers’ note: The intent of this bonus is to provide a benefit when using resurrections in combat. But it is best to avoid situations where players might feel compelled to min/max something like this before starting a pull.
• Priest
  • Shadow
    • Shadow Crash’s (Talent) ground visual will now match the area effect.
    • Void Volley’s (PvP Talent) ground visuals will now match the area effect and has more defined edges.
• Warrior
  • Arms
    • Fixed an issue where Swift Patrol (Niya Soulbind) caused the auto-attack timer to reset.
  ...

We believe the bug has now been fixed.

Hello everyone! Here are today’s hotfixes, which includes some nice additions like making the socket adding item and conduit upgrade item on Archivist Roh-Suir account-bound.

JULY 20, 2021

Classes

• Mage
  • Arcane
    • Fixed an issue with the Clearcasting effect gained from Mirrors of Torment (Venthyr Ability) not granting the effects of Amplification while Arcane Empowerment is talented in PvP.
• Priest
  • When Mass Dispel dispels multiple targets, the order of dispels is now random.

Dungeons and Raids

• Sanctum of Domination
  • Defeating Sylvanas on any difficulty will now always drop a Shard of Domination for players who do not yet have all possible Shards.
  • Remnant of Ner’zhul
    • The pendulum around...