World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

Hello everyone! Here are today’s hotfixes and also the class tuning changes that will be going live after this week’s maintenance.

JULY 12, 2021

Achievements

• Fixed an issue where the Focusing Prisms would sometimes not apply to Anduin Wrynn for The World is a Prism.

Classes

• Hunter
  • Beast Mastery
    • [With regional restarts] Cobra Shot, Barbed Shot, Multi-Shot, and Kill Shot damage increased by 15%.
    • [With regional restarts] Kill Command damage increased by 15% in non-PvP situations.
  • Marksmanship
    • [With regional restarts] Aimed Shot, Arcane Shot, Multi-Shot, and Rapid Fire damage increased by 10%.
    • [With regional restarts] Kill Shot damage increased by 15%.
  • Survival
    • ...

We’ve added some PvP offsets to tomorrow’s update.

Hunter

• Beast Mastery
  • Kill Command, Cobra Shot, Barbed Shot, Multi-Shot, and Kill Shot damage increased by 15%.
• Marksmanship
  • Aimed Shot, Arcane Shot, Multi-Shot, and Rapid Fire damage increased by 10%.
  • Kill Shot damage increased by 15%.
• Survival
  • Serpent Sting, Wildfire Bomb, Raptor Strike, Mongoose Bite, Flanking Strike, and Kill Shot damage increased by 10%.

Mage

• Fire
  • Fireball damage increased by 20%.
  • Fire Blast damage increased by 15%.
  • Pyroblast damage increased by 5%.

Priest

• Shadow
  • Devouring Plague damage reduced by 8%.
  • Dissonant Echoes’ (Conduit) Void Bolt damage reduced by ...

Hello everyone. Here are today’s hotfixes.

JULY 9, 2021

Classes

• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • Shadow Embrace can now be talented if you are below level 58.

Dungeons and Raids

• Sanctum of Domination
  • Soulrender Dormazain
    • Brand of Torment now deals the appropriate amount of damage based on the amount of players in the raid.
  • Painsmith Raznal
    • Fixed an issue that caused Flameclasp Traps to sometimes not target the maximum number of players.
  • Guardian of the First Ones
    • Fixed an issue where Energy Cores could generate les...

Greetings everyone.

This issue has been quiet the pesky one for us to address. Rest assured that we are aware of the issue and we are working adamantly on a fix for it. We appreciate your patience as we find a solution and we apologize for the inconvenience.

First and foremost, thank you to everyone who played Battlegrounds last week and sent us thoughtful and informed feedback on same-faction play. While we don’t plan to re-enable it again over the next few days, we’re analyzing the data we collected, and we’re planning to test more soon.

Here are some of our initial findings that will inform our next test:

• Before this test, most players who joined the queue were unable to get a match, sometimes after waiting for over an hour and/or dropping out of the queue altogether. This was particularly unfortunate at some times of day or in some regions. During the test, BG queue times became short and reliable for both factions.
• Prior to the first test, we wondered if the queue was having an effect on PvP in the outdoor world, and we now have data showing that when same-faction Battlegrounds were available, PvP deaths in the outdoor world were very close to 50/50 between the factions.
• Similarly, win-rates fo...