World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

Hello everyone! Here are today’s hotfixes in Burning Crusade Classic.

JUNE 18, 2021

Burning Crusade Classic

• [With regional restarts] Area 52 Bruisers are no longer shirking their job duties and will now intervene to break up nearby fights.
• [With regional restarts] Fixed an issue where repeatedly clicking a Soulwell would unintentionally consume additional charges under certain conditions.
• Fixed an issue where a Priest’s Prayer of Mending would persist on the target if it fails to find a new target to jump to, true to reference behavior.
• Activating Prismatic Sphere’s cooldown should no longer put enchanting materials on cooldown.
• Fixed an issue where Socrethar was not made vulnerable by Voren’thal’s Presence for “Turning Point.”
• The Aldor will now come to your aid during the quest “Deathblow to the Legion.”
• Fixed an issue where Halaa Batt...

For the last week, we’ve received inquiries and seen community concerns stemming from the fact that a player was able to purchase Arena gear earlier than intended.

Please know that we’ve investigated it thoroughly, even after quickly identifying the player and reversing the unintended transactions. This was an isolated incident that only affected one player, and we resolved it shortly after it was first reported.

In our subsequent investigations, we’ve found no other examples of this issue or any similar issue.

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This seems like a good place to remind ourselves that often, a test environment is where we test works in progress, and works in progress can sometimes be applied to that test environment in an incomplete state.

In this case, “lieutenant” (level 61) enemies that are generally immune to crowd control are keeping their new every-other-swing behavior. The intent of the previous change on the PTR was clearly to nerf Necrotic, but the nerf was likely too much.

In the live game, Necrotic is probably a little more oppressive than we want it to be, so don’t be surprised if more tweaks to it hit the PTR over the next few days.

That is correct, except it’s a 20% reduction from Season 1 to Season 2, and then another 20% from Season 2 to Season 3.

An example:
Sergeant’s Cloak Season 1 cost: 11794 Honor (+20 AB Marks)
Sergeant’s Cloak Season 2 cost: 9435 Honor (+20 AB Marks)
Sergeant’s Cloak Season 3 cost: 7548 Honor (+20 AB Marks)

As the original issue was hotfixed on Monday, I’m going to close this thread.

We don’t have any evidence that Paladins are generating no threat in Black Morass, but we’d sure like some if it’s happening! We’ll check that out further and look for bug reports on it.

Thank you!

On Tuesday, a bug with our initialization of Burning Crusade Classic Arena Season 1 made three Season 2 rings available on Honor vendors on NA realms for about two hours before we hotfixed the situation.

We immediately got to work designing and implementing a process for identifying the 81 players who purchased the Season 2 rings and reversing their transactions.

That process is underway at this time. All Season 2 PvP gear that was inadvertently available will soon be removed, and the Honor spent refunded.

As always, we appreciate everyone who reported it to us, so that we could act quickly to ensure fair play.

Thank you!

Here are today’s hotfixes for Burning Crusade Classic.

JUNE 17, 2021

Burning Crusade Classic

• Warlocks are no longer revealed on the arena frames if they sacrifice a demon before the gates have opened.
• Magtheridon’s Lair
  • Fixed animation issues with Blast Nova and Quake.
  • Blast Nova now always has a raid warning when cast.
  • Blast Nova will no longer be immediately recasted if he was interrupted before he began channeling.
    • Developers’ note: Magtheridon’s Blast Nova was set up in original Burning Crusade in a way that it was possible for players to see a raid warning for an attack that would never come, or for Mag to use an ability without warning. These misbehaviors were recreated in Burning Crusade Classic as we matched the boss configuration with our pre-nerf reference. With the fixes above, we’ve made it so that Blast Nova is used consistently ...

No, it does not.

Raid achievements will still be earnable until realms go down for maintenance.

The current season of Shadowlands PvP and Mythic+ content will end at 3:00 p.m. AEST (1:00 p.m. AWST, 5:00 p.m. NZST) on Tuesday, June 29 in this region. At that time, it will no longer be possible to earn seasonal rewards, titles, or Shadowlands Season 1 rankings.

While previous seasons have ended when realms were taken offline for maintenance, we’ve chosen to set this season to end a few hours earlier, at a time that should be more convenient for most players.

Shadowlands Season 2 will begin the week of July 6 with the weekly reset in each region.

Please note – the Shadowlands Season 1 PvP Illusion Sinful Flame won’t be available in Season 2, which will reward the new Unchained Fury Illusion. So if you’re close to the required 2100 rating, now’s the time to push!

The current season of Shadowlands PvP and Mythic+ content will end at 10:00 p.m. PDT on Monday, June 28 (1:00 a.m. EDT on June 29) in this region. At that time, it will no longer be possible to earn seasonal rewards, titles, or Shadowlands Season 1 rankings.

While previous seasons have ended when realms were taken offline for maintenance, we’ve chosen to set this season to end a few hours earlier, at a time that should be more convenient for most players.

Shadowlands Season 2 will begin the week of July 6 with the weekly reset in each region.

Please note – the Shadowlands Season 1 PvP Illusion Sinful Flame won’t be available in Season 2, which will reward the new Unchained Fury Illusion. So if you’re close to the required 2100 rating, now’s the time to push!

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

JUNE 15, 2021

Burning Crusade Classic

• Short term buffs are no longer removed upon the Arena gates opening, true to 2.4.3 reference.
• Fixed an issue where the events from “Deathblow to the Legion” Netherstorm quest could fail to progress.
• Paladins who are defeated in Netherstorm or Tempest Keep dungeons and resurrect automatically at the Spirit Healer will once again generate threat with their periodic abilities.
• Fixed an issue where weapon master’s would also teach the Crossbows skill when learning the Bows skill.
• Fixed an issue where Priest’s Shadowfiend would attack enemies that are crowd-controlled.
• Fixed an issue where some dungeons and raids were not...

World of Warcraft Version 9.1.0 PTR

Chains of Domination PTR Notes – Updated June 15

CLASSES

• Druid
  • Guardian
    • Ursine Adept’s damage reduction now only applies to Druids in Bear Form.

ITEMS AND REWARDS

• Gladiator’s Emblem on-use health reduced by 30%.

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

• Fixed an issue that caused many absorption spells from soulbinds, conduits, and covenant abilities to ignore the healing reduction from Dampening and Focused/Brutal Assault.
• Priest
  • Shadow
    • New PvP Talent: Void Volley – Upon entering Voidform, send a slow-moving bolt of Shadow energy at a random location every 0.5 second for 3 seconds, dealing Shadow damage to all targets within 8 yards and causing them to flee in horror for 3 s...

World of Warcraft Version 9.1.0 PTR

Chains of Domination PTR Notes – Updated June 15

CLASSES

• Druid
  • Guardian
    • Ursine Adept’s damage reduction now only applies to Druids in Bear Form.

ITEMS AND REWARDS

• Gladiator’s Emblem on-use health reduced by 30%.

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

• Fixed an issue that caused many absorption spells from soulbinds, conduits, and covenant abilities to ignore the healing reduction from Dampening and Focused/Brutal Assault.
• Priest
  • Shadow
    • New PvP Talent: Void Volley – Upon entering Voidform, send a slow-moving bolt of Shadow energy at a random location every 0.5 second for 3 seconds, dealing Shadow damage to all targets within 8 yards and causing them to flee in horror for 3 seconds...

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

JUNE 14, 2021

Burning Crusade Classic

• Priest’s Prayer of Mending now displays on the Raid-style party frames.
• The Alliance now receive the correct amount of bonus honor in Eye of the Storm.
• Flag captures in Eye of the Storm no longer grant bonus honor, true to 2.4.3 behavior.
• The Jewelcrafting design patterns for Don Julio’s Heart and Crimson Sun are now available on Consortium vendors.
• Fixed an issue where Rested would sometimes become active outside of a rest area.
• Fixed an issue where quest givers can fail to offer the Call to Arms daily if it was for Arathi Basin.