World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

Paid Character Transfers are once again available. Thank you for your patience!

Paid Character Transfers for both WoW Classic Era and Burning Crusade Classic have been temporarily disabled. We currently expect to have these available again later today.

Thank you for your patience.

Due to the extended maintenance, we have delayed the release of the availability of the Dark Portal Pass or De...

We undershot our previous estimate a little, and now estimating that we’ll be done by 1:00 a.m. PDT.

That’s 3:00 a.m. CDT, 4:00 a.m. EDT, 4:00 p.m. AWST, 6:00 p.m. AEST, and 8:00 p.m. NZST.

Almost there!

11:50 p.m. PDT Update

We undershot our previous estimate a little, and now estimating that we’ll be done by 1:00 a.m. PDT.

That’s 3:00 a.m. CDT, 4:00 a.m. EDT, 4:00 p.m. AWST, 6:00 p.m. AEST, and 8:00 p.m. NZST.

Almost there!

We’ve just made the decision to keep realms offline for another two hours while we work through further issues encountered in maintenance.

We’re now estimating that we’ll complete this work by 12:00 Midnight PDT.

That’s 2:00 a.m. CDT, 3:00 a.m. EDT, 3:00 p.m. AWST, 5:00 p.m. AEST, and 7:00 p.m. NZST.

Thank you very much for your continued patience and understanding.

No one on the WoW team that I’ve talked to this afternoon can remember a maintenance that took this long. It looks like that’s because we’ve never done anything like this in World of Warcraft, where we’re basically turning one game into two games and we need every player-character in both games to be perfectly playable as they all were just before maintenance started.

Please know this: there’s a good reason for how long it’s taking, and our live operations team are making solid progress toward a resolution.

There are jobs that copy data and jobs that check the integrity of data and there’s an immense amount of data to process before we even begin the steps that we take to check everything manually. It’s not possible for us to lose anything, but it is possible for us to have an issue that requires a step to be repeated. In today’s case, the step we had to start over was a big one. While performing data integrity checks on the Burning Crusade Classic and Classic Era real...

Updated the full notes with the May 18 updates.

World of Warcraft Version 9.1.0 PTR

Chains of Domination PTR Notes – Updated 18 May

CLASSES

• Death Knight

  • Anti-Magic Zone cooldown increased to 3 minutes (was 2 minutes), duration reduced to 8 seconds (was 10 seconds) and it will now fade when it absorbs a certain amount of damage.

• Monk

  • Mistweaver
    • Tiger Palm damage increased by 10%.
    • Blackout Kick damage increased by 10%.
    • Rising Sun Kick damage increased by 10%.
    • Spinning Crane Kick damage increased by 20%.
    • Enveloping Mist mana cost reduced to 5.6% base mana (was 6%).
    • Revival (Rank 2) now learned at level 56 – Revival now procs Gust of Mists on each target healed.
    • Revival healing reduced by 10%.

• Paladin...

World of Warcraft Version 9.1.0 PTR

Chains of Domination PTR Notes – Updated May 18

CLASSES

• Death Knight

  • Anti-Magic Zone cooldown increased to 3 minutes (was 2 minutes), duration reduced to 8 seconds (was 10 seconds) and it will now fade when it absorbs a certain amount of damage.

• Monk

  • Mistweaver
    • Tiger Palm damage increased by 10%.
    • Blackout Kick damage increased by 10%.
    • Rising Sun Kick damage increased by 10%.
    • Spinning Crane Kick damage increased by 20%.
    • Enveloping Mist mana cost reduced to 5.6% base mana (was 6%).
    • Revival (Rank 2) now learned at level 56 – Revival now procs Gust of Mists on each target healed.
    • Revival healing reduced by 10%.

• Paladin

  • Holy
    • Inflorescence of the ...

We’ve gotten a lot of feedback about how much damage is necessary to break an enemy trapped in a root-effect, such as Frost Nova. Beta testers reported that it took too much damage to break root effects, and it turns out, they were correct. It took quite a bit of sleuthing to find the issue, but we ultimately found a bug that explains the odd behavior we saw in the Beta, and we should be able to fix it well before the first Arena season.

The Story

To start, one of the reasons this was such a challenge to find is that the behavior is intentionally random. There’s no fixed amount of damage that’s necessary to break roots; there’s a range of damage that might be necessary, which makes it a risk/reward calculation for the players. Reproducing the issue isn’t guaranteed, and testing it can look like normal luck streaks.

When this was first reported, we looked at the scripts on the spell, and verified that they matched the original data, which led us ...

I’m so glad I’m not the only one.

I listened to it for about 20 minutes just now.

The daily limit is lifted.

The hourly limit of 5 dungeons per hour has been a part of World of Warcraft for over 15 years and will continue to be in effect on both Classic Era and Burning Crusade Classic realms.

Hello!

The daily limit was a setting that we chose with great care last year, as we measured that it would impact an extremely low number of legitimate accounts, while giving us a helpful means to limit the impact of exploitative accounts before we could detect them and close them.

Now, with The Burning Crusade Classic pre-patch upon us, we understand that players are about to play WoW in a different way as they level up their Blood Elves and Draenei and then go through the Dark Portal and level some more. Over the next few weeks, the impact of the daily limit is more difficult to know, so we’re going to remove the daily limit on all Burning Crusade realms, effective with the launch of pre-patch.

As before, we will carefully observe player activity so that we can decide what daily limit, if any, is appropriate to enact after Outland leveling activities have peaked.

Thanks!

Update!

There’s a way more compact way to do this. Example:

/console nameplateMaxDistance 41

Have fun with that!