World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

Hello! Here is today’s hotfix for WoW Classic Era:

DECEMBER 15, 2021

WoW Classic Era and Season of Mastery

• Hallowed Brazier can once again be purchased on Classic Era realms.

Hello everyone! Here are today’s hotfix notes:

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Dungeons and Raids

• Timewalking
  • Mage Tower
    • The Highlord’s Return
      • Blood Death Knight, Vengeance Demon Hunter, and Guardian Druid
        • Nether Storm no longer recasts immediately after being silenced or interrupted.
      • Guardian Druid
        • Reduced the size of Inquisitor Variss’ Aura of Decay by 0.5 yards.
    • Thwarting the Twins
      • Fixed an issue where players could get out of range of Raest Magespear’s spells. Raest Magespear’s damage bonus when Karam Magespear is defeated first has been reduced to compensate for the change.
      • Fixed an issue that caused enemies summoned during the encounter to despawn prematurely.
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• Fixed an issue where certain channeled auras, such as Mind Flay from Fel Eye Stalks, were not stacking correctly.
• Effects that increase damage taken from spells by a flat amount, such as Shadow Resonance, will now work correctly with stacking damage-over-time auras.

Hello! Here are today’s hotfixes for Burning Crusade Classic:

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Burning Crusade Classic

• Fixed an issue where players would be saved to Tempest Keep before defeating any bosses.
• Tempest Keep and Serpentshrine Cavern are now in their post-nerf state (Original Burning Crusade version 2.4.3).
  • Attunements are no longer required to gain entry into Tempest Keep and Serpentshrine Cavern.
  • Lady Vashj’s bridge console in Serpentshrine Cavern can now be activated without having to defeat any other bosses.
  • The doorway to Keal’thas Sunstrider’s room is now immediately open without needing to defeat other bosses.

Hello~ Here are today’s hotfixes:

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Dungeons and Raids

• Timewalking
  • Legion Timewalking (including the weekly quest, dungeon queue, Mythic+, and Mage Tower components) will now run for two additional weeks, ending on January 4th (in NA).
• Halls of Atonement
  • Halkias
    • Player immunities should no longer make the player susceptible to Sinlight Visions.

Player versus Player

• Spoils of War now increases Honor gains by 40%, in addition to increasing Conquest gains by 25%.
  • Developers’ note: Honor gains lagged behind Conquest gear acquisition after enabling Spoils of War. This change matches the 25% gain in Conquest, with a little extra to give players just starting out easier access to gear late in the season.
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While we don’t typically publish a full testing calendar as we proceed through each PTR, we want testers to know that today’s PTR update will be our last full build update for the month of December.

The design team will continue to work on Eternity’s End, and hotfixes will be issued to the PTR as necessary, but our next full build update will come to the PTR the first week of January, 2022.

Thank you for testing with us!

Hello everyone! Here are the patch notes for this week’s PTR update

CHARACTERS

• Added 3 new Night Elf male face options based on the 3 scowling faces, but now with a more natural and less aggressive mouth.

CLASSES

• Druid
  • Sinful Hysteria (Venthyr Runecarving Power) now increases the duration of Ravenous Frenzy by 0.1 second with each application (was 0.2 seconds) and you will not be overcome by Frenzy for 3 seconds after it ends (was 5 seconds).
    • Developers’ note: We are currently workshopping Sinful Hysteria to bring it in line with other legendaries available for Druids. Future builds may see additional changes to Sinful Hysteria so we invite any and all feedback to ensure the spirit of this legendary remains intact...

Here is today’s update for WoW Classic Era and Season of Mastery:

DECEMBER 13, 2021

WoW Classic Era and Season of Mastery

• Thrash Blade, Carrot on a Stick, and Rune of the Guard Captain are now Unique-Equipped items.
  • Developers’ note: The ability for players to get another copy of Trash Blade, Carrot on a Stick, or Rune of the Guard Captain was meant to exist only as a means to restore a lost or deleted iconic quest reward without contacting Customer Support. Equipping two copies of the item was unintentional.
    If you had two copies of these items equipped, the second copy should be pushed into your inventory. If you happen to have a full inventory at the time of this change an...

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Here are today’s hotfixes:

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Dungeons and Raids

• Timewalking
  • Mage Tower
    • Guardian Druid
      • The change made to the Nether Horror’s ability to cast while moving has been reverted.
        • Developers’ note: When we were looking into Guardian Druid difficulty we thought that by making the Nether Horrors stop to cast their spell we’d make it a little easier by creating some more time to react to them; but it turns out we were wrong and we made it harder. So, we’re reverting that change to back to the way it was (which is once again identical to the way it was in Legion).
    • Holy Priest
      • Corrupted Risen Soldier damage reduced by 30%.
  • Timeworn Mythic+
    • Eye of Azshara
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In our previous announcement on this subject, we did not clarify the following:

All of Legion Timewalking, including the weekly quest, the Dungeon queue, Mythic+, and Mage Tower will now go for two additional weeks. Other events on the calendar from December 21 - January 4 will also occur as scheduled.

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The menacing scowl has been a customization option for male Night Elves since the launch of World of Warcraft. Back in the Warlords of Draenor expansion, the Night Elves had their character models updated and that’s when we updated the 3 menacing scowl faces to be the somewhat less menacing faces that you see today.

We looked into the number of male Night Elves that players have created with those faces and we found that they aren’t as popular as the other face selections. We agreed with your feedback that having 3 of the 9 faces with the scowling mouth may be hindering your face options, so we have copied these scowling faces and added a more natural posed mouth as 3 new face options for you to choose from in Eternity’s End.

We understand that there’s a long history with these male Night Elf faces, so we would love to know what you think. To help visualize the changes, the three new face options should be available for testing in this week’s PTR build. ...

Heads up! The world bosses Azuregos and Lord Kazzak will begin appearing on Season of Mastery realms on Thursday, December 16 at 3:00 p.m. PST (6:00 p.m. EST).

This means the beginnings of some Season of Mastery players obtaining Benediction or Anathema, which are started by Lord Kazzak, and the Ancient Sinew Wrapped Lamina, which is dropped by Azuregos.

See you in Azshara and Blasted Lands!

Hey everyone!
Here are today’s hotfixes:

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Classes

• Warlock
  • Demonology
    • Fixed an issue where Shard of Annihilation (Runecarving Power) was also affecting Shadow Bolt critical strike chance and damage.

Dungeons and Raids

• Timewalking
  • Mage Tower
    • End of the Risen Threat Encounter
      • Corrupted Risen Mages now wait 1 to 2 seconds before they can start casting Arcane Blitz.
      • Arcane Blitz damage bonus is now 40% per stack (was 50%).
      • Arcane Blitz cast time now increased by 0.5 seconds and increases by another 0.5 seconds for each bonus...