World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

Late yesterday, we implemented some adjustments to Torghast intended to improve the experience for rogues and warriors. While we haven’t yet compiled today’s hotfixes update, some players might appreciate a detailed look at the changes that went in.

Torghast – Rogue Anima Powers

• Organized Vial Satchel now reduces the cooldown of Crimson Vial by 10 seconds per stack (was 5 seconds) and has a max stacks of 3, for 30 seconds cooldown reduction (instant cast vials).
• Restless Onyx Geodes now grants 15 seconds of Cloak of Shadows, Evasion, Feint, or Crimson Vial when casting Shadowstep or Grappling Hook (...

With a hotfix to the game that went live yesterday, we improved the drop rates of Legendary Memories relative to dungeon difficulty. Their Mythic difficulty drop rate is now significantly better than on Heroic, which is significantly better than on Normal.

More importantly – the drop rates for Legendary Memories are much higher in Mythic Keystone difficulties, and they ramp upward with the Mythic Keystone level. The availability of Legendary Memories should increase dramatically next week.

More hotfixes hot off the press!

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Achievements

• Players can once again earn the achievement Straight Six from the Elegon raid encounter in the Mogu’shan Vaults.
• Removed the Draenor and the Broken Isles Pathfinder achievement requirements for released spirits to quickly fly back to their bodies.

Characters

• Fixed an issue where Kyrian players using a flight path with the Unburden buff would encounter issues on the resulting flight.

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Unholy
    • Clawing Shadows (Talent) damage is now properly capped at 5 targets while inside Death and Decay.
• Demon Hunter
  • General
    • Growing Inferno (Potency Conduit) damage is now capped at 10 times Immolatio...

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The question raised in threads like this one have been on our minds a lot as we’ve been testing on the PTR the last couple of months.

So let’s take a moment before Naxxramas releases tomorrow and talk about how boss abilities work in WoW Classic and Original WoW.

Why doesn’t Kel’Thuzad use abilities on strict timers?

The simple answer is, for the most part, that’s not how boss abilities work in World of Warcraft (Classic and Original). Bosses and other creatures are rarely set up to have exact timers for spells and ability usage. They often make decisions which were set up to be somewhat unpredictable. Multiple spells or abilities can be available to the boss, and they will deliberately evaluate what to do following their last spell cast.

Additionally, some bosses have abilities that share cooldowns in some way, similar to how players can’t activate two empowering on-use trinkets at the same time. This means that if a boss uses a...

The patch notes are in our WoW blog.

While the bugfixes listed in the 1.13.6. patch notes are now effective, all of the new content included in today’s patch will become available at 2:00 p.m. PST (5:00 p.m. EST) on Thursday, December 3.

This includes everything except the Argent Dawn questgiver who allows you to complete attunement to Naxxramas in advance. ...

Hotfix update for the day!

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Achievements

• Opening Misplaced Supplies should now count progress towards the achievement Treasures of Maldraxxus . Players may need to collect it a second time to earn credit.
• The Elusive Faerie Cache required for Treasures of Ardenweald is now less elusive.

Classes

• Hunter
  • Beast Mastery
    • Wild Spirits (Night Fae Ability) will no longer deal damage multiple times when using Bestial Wrath with Animal Companion (Talent) or when using Barbed Shot with Stomp (Talent).
  • Marksmanship
    • Corrected an issue where Shadowcore Oil Blast would incorrectly interfere with Steady Focus (Talent) when casting two Steady Shots in a row.
    • Corrected an issue where Bursting Shot was causing Wild Spirits (Night Fae Ability)...

With the launch of Shadowlands, great numbers of players have left Azeroth for the afterlife, dramatically increasing player populations on every realm. For a small number of realms, demand has been overwhelming, and we’ve been working around the clock to address issues on those realms and make the game available to the maximum number of players.

Today, we’ve enabled the Free Character Transfer service for players who have characters on high population realms that are experiencing consistent, extended queues. If this service is available on your realm, you’ll access it in the Services section of the Shop on your character selection screen for that realm.

Please note:

• You cannot select a destination realm that also has a high population.
• Realm to realm character transfers take time to complete, and the duration is higher when more players are using the service.
• You cannot log in to your character until...

Hello everyone. The note for Soul Ash has been updated:

Torghast, Tower of the Damned

• Any Soul Ash that was not looted from defeated enemies will now be sent directly to your character’s currency collection the next time you log back into the game.

And I’ve let the team know about the quest “Halls of Atonement: Your Absolution”. Thanks!