World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

The timeline should align for Classic and BCC with the mainline event. Should that change for some reason, we’ll make sure to update as quickly as possible and keep you all informed. As should also be expected, the mainline event and Classic event are a bit different in what they offer, but still should be a lot ...

Week 2 of open Beta (October 13)

• Player levels will now be capped at 45.
• The “Adventure Awaits” buff now grants 40% increased experience from Quest turn-ins (was 25%).
• Meeting Stones can now be used to summon appropriately-leveled party members for the associated dungeon(s).
• There is now a PvP realm available.

The Season of Mastery Beta is back online and available for testing. With today’s update to the Season of Mastery Beta, we’re now testing the following changes:

• Player levels will now be capped at 45.
• The “Adventure Awaits” buff now grants 40% increased experience from Quest turn-ins (was 25%).
• Meeting Stones can now be used to summon appropriately-leveled party members for the associated dungeon(s).
• There is now a PvP realm available.

As a reminder, the following planned Seasonal changes are not yet active in the Season of Mastery Beta, and will be tested in future Beta updates:

• Increased Debuff and Buff limits.
• Increased health for raid bosses.
• Restored raid boss mechanics.
• Removal of world buffs in raid instances.
• Adjustments to curtail powerleveling and boosting.

Thank you!

Hello everyone!
Here are this week’s 9.1.5 PTR notes:

Achievements

• The following changes have been made to Mecha-Done:
  • Developers’ note: We’re smoothing out the rough edges in this epic meta-achievement to help players who are stuck on one of the more rare elements finally get that wheel mount!
  • Vinyl: Triumph of Gnomeregan – Now a guaranteed drop from the Hard Mode version of the Reclamation Rig event.
  • Vinyl: Battle for Gnomeregan – Drop rate increased from all hologram bosses.
  • Blueprint: Holographic Digitalization Relay – Drop rate increased from all hologram bosses.
  • Blueprint: Emergency Rocket Chicken – OOX-Fleetfoot/MG respawns faster and no longer despawns if not killed ...

Here is the hotfix that went live in Burning Crusade Classic with this week’s maintenance:

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Burning Crusade Classic

• All “pre-made” groups may now queue for Battlegrounds. Grouped players will primarily face opponents who queued in groups of similar sizes.
  • Developers’ note: With this change, the matchmaker will now match raid groups of 6 or more players against at least one group of 6 or more players. If the total number of players in your raid is smaller than the maximum size of the Battleground, the matchmaker will automatically fill your side with other groups or individuals. If there are no large pre-mades in the queue, party groups of 5 or fewer players will be placed against other parties of 5 or fewer players. Queuing alone or in small parties will not guarantee an opposing team with no large pre-mades.

The first week of testing of the Season of Mastery Beta is now behind us, and we’re thankful for everyone who hopped onto the Beta realm and leveled and submitted bug reports.

We’re currently planning to do maintenance on the Beta tomorrow (October 13), and at that time, we’ll update it with a new build and settings that give us more to test. We’ll post an update to the development notes with all the details at that time.

Again, thank you very much!

With the next weekly Burning Crusade Classic reset in each region, all “pre-made” groups will again be allowed to queue for Battlegrounds.

After this hotfix, grouped players will primarily face opponents who queued in groups of similar sizes and the matchmaker will now match raid groups of 6 or more players against at least one group of 6 or more players.

If the total number of players in your raid is smaller than the maximum size of the Battleground, the matchmaker will automatically fill your side with other groups or individuals. If there are no large pre-mades in the queue, party groups of 5 or fewer players will be placed against other parties of 5 or fewer players.

Please note: Queuing alone or in small parties will not guarantee an opposing team with no large pre-mades.