World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

Hello again!

Now that we’re wrapping up our Beta testing phase, we want to follow up on our design intentions, clarify some topics that have come up, and answer questions we’ve seen from Beta testers.

Content Adjustments

One notable aspect of our content phases is the decision to make the Dungeon Set 2 (AKA “tier 0.5”) questlines available at launch. We also adjusted the availability of many dungeon and reputation items, making them become available earlier than they did in original World of Warcraft.

Most of the changes and additions made to boss loot tables, reputation vendors, and other sources of gear were made later in original WoW to fill an obvious gap in viable late-game pre-raid gear or resistance gear. It makes sense with the accelerated content release cadence in Season of Mastery to move these changes up to Phase 1. This will provide more variety and value in the items available as players gear up for late-game content. This a...

We’ve developed some adjustments to a few items that we want to see more available early in Season of Mastery (than they were in WoW Classic).

We’re increasing the availability of Plaguebloom, adding a small chance for Black Lotus to drop from high level Herbalism nodes, and increasing the availability of Elemental Fire, Elemental Earth, and Elemental Water.

These adjustments are not yet testable on the Season of Mastery Beta, but they will be deployed there at some point over the next few days.

We’ll let you know when this slate of adjustments is in place in the Beta.

Hello everyone.
Here are the hotfixes from today:

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Classes

• The following abilities have been updated to have their cooldowns reset when a raid boss encounter ends:
  • Blessing of Sacrifice (Paladin)
  • Die by the Sword (Arms Warrior)
  • Enraged Regeneration (Fury Warrior)
• The following Covenant abilities have been updated to have their cooldowns reset when a raid boss encounter ends:
  • Fleshcraft (Necrolord)
  • Convoke the Spirits (Night Fae)
• Several Racial abilities with cooldowns greater than 2 minutes have been updated to have their cooldowns reset when a raid boss encounter ends.
• Rogue
  • Subtlety
    • Fixed an ...

We’ve published a new build of the app for Android, and Android 12 users should be able to install again.

If you don’t yet see it, it should appear in the Google Play store very soon.

Here are the hotfixes that went live in Burning Crusade Classic today:

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Burning Crusade Classic

• You can now report players from the /who menu.
• Fixed an issue where an extra confirmation pop-up would appear when entering a War Game.
• Fixed an issue where keybinds were not correctly loading for the War Game Commentator User Interface.

Heya everyone! Here are today’s hotfixes:

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Classes

• Paladin
  • Retribution
    • Fixed an issue with Divine Storm not hitting all nearby enemies if your primary target is affected with Judgment.

Creatures and NPCs

• Fixed an issue that was causing Observer Yorik to respawn too quickly.

Items and Rewards

• Temporarily removed the Conquest and Valor cap until the next season begins.
  • Developers’ note: Early in a season, it’s beneficial to pace gear acquisition by adding a maximum amount of Conquest and Valor that can be earned weekly to prevent having a dominant advantage by playing an excessive amount of hours in PvP and Mythic+. As the weeks go by and the cap increases, we reach a point where there’s no longer a dominant advantage ...

Early in a season, it’s beneficial to pace gear acquisition by adding a maximum amount of Conquest and Valor that can be earned weekly to prevent having a dominant advantage by playing an excessive amount of hours in PvP and Mythic+. As the weeks go by and the cap increases, we reach a point where there’s no longer a dominant advantage in gear acquisition with grinding Conquest and Valor and it’s friendlier to simply remove the cap entirely for those who are catching up or gearing alts until the next season begins. We’ve reached that point and have removed the Conquest and Valor caps for the rest of Season 2. When the next season begins, all Conquest and Valor will be converted into gold and sent to the character’s mail.

Safe travels, friends!

Tomorrow, November 4, we’re going to open Onyxia’s Lair for further raid testing at 2:00 p.m. PDT (5:00 p.m. EDT). We came out of last week’s test with the desire to make a few more tweaks to that encounter.

Please join us. We’ll leave the test open for 24 hours.

Thank you!

Hello.

We’re working on a fix for this issue, which appears to be an Android-only problem.

We’ll let you know as we make progress on it.

Here is today’s hotfix for Burning Crusade Classic.

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Burning Crusade Classic

• Fixed an issue where players who accepted a battle resurrection into a raid boss encounter after releasing their spirit could be teleported to their Hearthstone location.

Hotfixes

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Dungeons and Raids

• Tomb of Sargeras
  • Fixed an issue that would prevent progress to Kil’Jaeden after defeating Fallen Avatar too quickly.

Items and Rewards

• Several Shadowlands on-use trinkets with cooldowns greater than 2 minutes have been updated to have their cooldowns reset when a raid boss encounter ends.
• Traveler’s Anima Cache can no longer be consumed by players who have not yet selected a Covenant causing the anima to be sent into the ether.

Quests

• The ...

No, the chance for Renown with a win is not being removed from Comp Stomp.

It’s a chance on all Battleground wins, and Comp Stomp is a Battleground. So it’s staying.

Thanks for the reports everyone. We’re working on a fix for the Mythic+ Rating UI right now and it should be addressed in the near future. We’ll post it in hotfixes as soon as it’s fixed.