World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

Next week, please join us at the following times to test the initial raids in Burning Crusade Classic.

Testing will take place on a new Beta realm specifically configured for getting into the raids as quickly as possible. The new Beta realm will have level 70 template characters enabled, as well as consumables and professions vendors in Shattrath.

As always, please use the in-game bug reporter (default hotkey: F6) if you come across any bugs, and look ...

Hotfix time~

APRIL 7, 2021

Player versus Player

• Fixed an issue that caused Epic Battlegrounds to reward less experience than intended for characters between levels 50 and 60.

Quests

• Slightly reduced the difficulty of the Paragon’s Challenge for the Bastion World Quest “Flight School: Flapping Frenzy.”

APRIL 6, 2021

Items and Rewards

• The ability to purchase items from Ve’nari is now unlocked for all characters on your account based on the character with the highest reputation. To gain access to purchasing the items across all characters on your account, you must log into the character with the highest Ve’nari reputation.

With today’s build, which is now available, the Burning Crusade Beta now allows testing of all leveling content up to level 70. Additionally, we have enabled:

• The Eye of the Storm battlegroun
• Heroic dungeons
• Arena Skirmishes

Please note that ranked/rated PvP is disabled for testing.

Shadowlands has seen tremendous participation in Arena with the number of unique players and total matches exceeding those seen in recent seasons. As some have noted, this level of participation has had some unintended effects at the very top of the ladder. The nature of our rating system means that the more people that participate, the more likely it is that the very best players in the world will reach extremely high matchmaking ratings. In this case, a number of players have reached the upper boundary of our rating system and as a result, they may achieve victories that don’t result in rating increases. Since the number of players capable of playing at this level is limited, if they choose not to participate, it becomes difficult for those players immediately below them to also gain rating.

We have two solutions to this problem, one of which is already in place and the other will take effect with weekly restarts on Tuesday.

First, over the past 7 years World of Warc...

World of Warcraft Patch 9.0.5.0.5

[This is an early draft version – PLEASE don’t store this document on any public drives. Thank you! – R.J.]

Content

New Raid: The Winter Queen’s Gambit

Come face to face with the Jailer’s lowliest servant, the Janitor, as he teaches you how to use the Medley of Transplanar Spices to envision each raid encounter upside down on the ceiling in preparation for a gauntlet of successively older and more difficult enemies. Once you no longer need the Janitor, move on to unadvisedly drinking Inconceivably Aged Vinegar as you work your way toward the final boss and learn that you can only win if you share the effort with your friends. Let’s play.

New Dungeon: A Fungus

Brave the depths of the fungal network beneath Ardenweald with a group of 5-10 players, where 1-2 of members of your group are accosters randomly selected to try to kill you! Communication is key when you d...

Hello! Today’s hotfixes to the beta realms include:

• The use of third-party addons are now enabled.
• Fixed an issue where engaging certain dungeon bosses could sometimes cause the game client to crash.

Hotfixes!

MARCH 31, 2021

Classes

• Warlock
  • The absorption value of Dark Pact (Talent) will now match the tooltip.

Covenants

• Kyrian
  • Mort and Imer now despawn shortly after the Path of Ascension: Mad Mortimer encounter ends.
  • Fixed an issue where Imer could sometimes become stuck on the starting platform during the Path of Ascension: Mad Mortimer encounter.

Items and Rewards

• Fixed an issue where two-handed Legion Artifact appearances were unable to be transmogrified onto one-handed weapons and vice versa.

Player versus Player

• Unsquashed Classic Ashran’s Empowered Blackrock Ore.

With 9.0.5 behind us, we wanted to take a moment to update you on the 9.1 content for Shadowlands.

In about 2 weeks, we will have Chains of Domination available for the community on the PTR. Also, raid testing details will be posted a week or so after the PTR is online.

There will be a wide variety of content to check out for Chains of Domination, so as usual, your testing will play a key role in iterating on this update. We can’t wait to get this in front of you and look forward to your feedback soon.