World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

On November 28, we enabled the Free Character Transfer service for players who have characters on high population realms that were experiencing consistent, extended queues.

• Free Character Transfers will be closed for all realms after 11:00 a.m. PST (2:00 p.m. EST) on Thursday, December 17. ​ ​

We strongly suggest that any players who intend to use a Free Character Transfer do so as soon as possible. If this service is available on your realm, you’ll find it in the Services section of the Shop on your character selection screen for that realm.

We have the final PvP adjustments for this week, going into effect with weekly maintenance in each region:

Player versus Player

• Demon Hunter
  • (Conduit) Unnatural Malice’s effect is reduced by 50% in PvP.
• Mage
  • Arcane
    • (Legendary) Arcane Harmony may only reach a maximum of 10 stacks in PvP (was 15).
• Rogue
  • (Conduit) Reverberation effectiveness reduced by 50% when engaged in combat with enemy players (was a 30% reduction).
  • (Kyrian Covenant) Echoing Reprimand initial damage reduced by 50% when engaged in combat with enemy players.
  • Assassination
    • Nightstalker increases damage dealt while Stealth is active by 25% (was 50%).
  • Subtlety
    • Cold Blood (PvP Talent) damage is now properly reduced by effects such as...

We’ve made a few further adjustments to the plan for tuning coming with scheduled weekly maintenance.

Druid

• Balance
  • Starfall damage reduced 6%.
  • Balance of all Things [Legendary] now causes Eclipse to increase your critical strike chance with Arcane or Nature spells by 40%, decreasing by 8% every 1 second (was 50% crit, decreasing by 10% per second).

Hunter

• Marksmanship
  • Aimed Shot damage reduced by 5%.
  • Arcane Shot damage reduced by 5%.

Death Knight

• Unholy
  • Mastery: Dreadblade effectiveness reduced by 20%.

There currently is a bug, yes.

The mouseover tooltip that lists your top runs has been excluding runs that fail the timer. That is a display issue only. The rewards will be correct on Tuesday, and you do not need to beat the timer for your Mythic Keystone dungeon completions to count towards progress.

And that is a separate issue. There’s often a delay of a few minutes before the Great Vault UI updates to reflect a recent Mythic Keystone completion. While we look into that, we’ve found that logging out of WoW and back in will force it to update.

I present to you, today’s hotfixes!

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Achievements

• Players that die during the Stone Legion Generals encounter in Castle Nathria will now properly earn the Feed Me, Seymour! achievement with the rest of their raid.

Classes

• Tank Specializations
  • [ With regional restarts ] Threat generation for all Tanks increased by 10%.
• Death Knight
  • Blood
    • [ With regional restarts ] Blood Boil damage increased by 10%.
    • [ With regional restarts ] Heart Strike damage increased by 15%.
    • [ With regional restarts ] Marrowrend damage increased by 10%.
    • [ With regional ...

For example, in PvP, we’re looking into specializations that may have some high-damage conditions.

Again, we’ll update you as soon as we’re set on adjustments to that.

We have the final PvP adjustments for this week, going into effect with weekly maintenance in each region:

Player versus Player

• Demon Hunter
  • (Conduit) Unnatural Malice’s effect is reduced by 50% in PvP.
• Mage
  • Arcane
    • (Legendary) Arcane Harmony may only reach a maximum of 10 stacks in PvP (was 15).
• Rogue
  • (Conduit) Reverberation effectiveness reduced by 50% when engaged in combat with enemy players (was a 30% reduction).
  • (Kyrian Covenant) Echoing Reprimand initial damage reduced by 50% when engaged in combat with enemy players.
  • Assassination
    • Nightstalker increases damage dealt while Stealth is active by 25% (was 50%).
  • Subtlety
    • Cold Blood (PvP Talent) damage is now properly reduced by effects such as...

Soon after the Castle Nathria raid went live for Normal and Heroic difficulties this week, we discovered a bug that was causing an unintended additional amount of loot to drop. Due to this bug, bosses have been dropping an average of 5 items for a 20-player raid group, when an average of 3 items is intended.

Throughout the design and testing of Shadowlands, we’ve had a consistent goal of bringing a similarity to the rate of loot acquisition that players experience in each of the main endgame activities: Raiding, Mythic Keystone Dungeons, and PvP. This bug, if left unaddressed, would prioritize Normal and Heroic raiding over similar-difficulty dungeons and PvP progression.

We’re developing a fix for the issue, which we will implement with scheduled weekly maintenance (Tuesday, December 15 in this region). Neither the bug nor the fix will affect Conduits and Legendary Memories, as their drop chances are determined separately.

Check out the latest hotfixes!

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Classes

• Hunter
  • Survival
    • Resolved an issue that could cause Wildfire Bomb to deal more damage than intended to targets that were falling.
• Monk
  • General
    • Fixed an issue where Tear of Morning (Legendary Effect) would cause the replicated Enveloping Mist to cast Gust of Mists.
  • Brewmaster
    • Fixed an issue that caused the Stagger passive to not apply to the character when switching specializations while in Soulshape (Night Fae Ability).
• Rogue
  • Assassination
    • Resolved an issue that prevented Doomblade (Legendary Effect) from working in Rated Battlegrounds and Arenas.

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