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We made slight edits to the tank mitigation changes to clarify that the damage reductions will only be effective in PvE situations, not in PvP.

• Death Knight
  • Blood
    • [With regional restarts] Veteran of the Third War (Rank 2) now also reduces all damage taken by 10% in non-PvP situations.
• Demon Hunter
  • Vengeance
    • [With regional restarts] Demonic Wards (Rank 1) damage reduction increased to 10% (was 5%) in non-PvP situations.
• Druid
  • Guardian
    • [With regional restarts] Ursine Adept now also reduces all damage taken by 10% in non-PvP situations.
• Monk
  • Brewmaster
    • ...

Today’s update to the beta realms introduces a new level cap and bug fixes:

• The level cap has been increased to 68 (was 64).

BUG FIXES
Art and Visuals

• Fixed a variety of issues to lighting and fog effects.
• Outlands zones are currently missing some ground foliage and detail objects.
• Fixed an issue where male Trolls had an invalid skin color option.
• Fixed an issue with Crust Burster’s spell visuals.
• Fixed an issue with FelReaver’s movement animation.

Combat

• Fixed an issue where area-of-effect damage caps were not functioning properly.
• Teleport: Moonglade is no longer missing from the level 58 Druid character templates.
• The Hunter ability The Beast Within now functions properly.
• The Paladin ability Seal of Blood now properly performs its primary damage effect.
• The Paladin ability Pure of Heart ...

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• Dates: March 27 and 28
• Broadcast Start time: 10:00 a.m. PDT / 1:00 p.m. EDT

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We’ve followed this discussion carefully, and we have a couple of thoughts that could stand to be clarified.

Looking Back

Drums of Battle were a meaningful part of the raiding experience in 2008. Sunwell Plateau was tuned with the improved Drums in place, and guilds tested the 2.4 PTR using them, and then all of the first Kil’jaeden kills in 2008 used them. Changes to how Drums work in this later phase of Burning Crusade Classic would make Sunwell Plateau harder or easier than it was in 2008. That would compel us to do raid tuning, which goes against our goal of establishing as much authenticity as possible. Yes, we’re planning on a progressive tuning model for the raids, but we want that to approximate how the original Burning Crusade played out.

The importance of professions in The Burning Crusade is part of the fabric of The Burning Crusade. While today the focus is on Leatherworking, we know that many casters will feel the need to ...

Check out today’s hotfixes, including the removal of the Soul Ash cap.

MARCH 26, 2021

Classes

• Improved the auto-targeting of player spells that are intended to avoid out-of-combat enemies. This hotfix includes further enhancements to the 9.0.5. changes that reduced spells pulling extra enemies.
• Death Knight
  • Blood
    • [With regional restarts] Veteran of the Third War (Rank 2) now also reduces all damage taken by 10% in non-PvP situations.
• Demon Hunter
  • Vengeance
    • [With regional restarts] Fixed an issue where both the Havoc and Vengeance versions of Demonic Wards were being applied to Vengeance Demon Hunters.
    ...

Recently, players observed that Vengeance Demon Hunters seemed to be receiving up to 15% less magic damage than expected. We have investigated and found the bug causing this.

When a specialization is overperforming in raid and dungeon content, we prefer to wait to rein them in until the next major patch that brings with it all-new challenges, different gear, and other changes that shake up balance. This is because even if we’re improving overall balance, mid-tier nerfs can cause entire groups to potentially struggle with raid or dungeon content they could previously complete without issue, and this is especially true for the tank role.

However, because of the magnitude of the bug, combined with extensive feedback about the current strength of Vengeance relative to other tank classes, we feel that we need to act quickly. We therefore plan to fix this bug during scheduled weekly maintenance next week (March 30 in this region). To reduce the impact to Vengeance tanks and ...

It’s hotfix time!

Hotfixes

MARCH 25, 2021

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Chains of Ice will once again be removed from the target when spells like Blessing of Freedom are used.
• Demon Hunter
  • Fixed an issue where Spirit of the Darkness Flame (Runecarving Power) would not heal when Fiery Brand is cast.
  • Fixed an issue where the damage from The Hunt’s (Night Fae Ability) damage-over-time effect was not increased by Momentum (Talent).
• Monk
  • Windwalker
    • Keefer’s Skyreach’s (Runecarving Power) critical strike increase is now properly applied by, and affects your Storm, Earth, and Fire spirits.
    • Hit Combo (Talent) properly increases the damage of Chi Explosion (Jade Ignition Runecarving Power).
    • Storm, Earth, and Fire spirits now a...

With hotfixes that have gone to beta realms today, we have:

• Fixed a bug that caused players to experience disconnects while being stunned/rooted in the middle of a jump, strafe, or falling.
• Fixed a bug that caused experience gains to be incorrectly calculated.
• Fixed a bug that caused incorrect damage reduction from armor.
• Fixed a condition where the character select screen was too dark.
• Improved the F6 function for hovering over a creature and submitting a bug report.

Confirmed.

Leatherworking drums have been a hot topic since we first started working on Burning Crusade, since they would make Leatherworking feel mandatory.

In the first few patches of original Burning Crusade, the drums had a cast time and smaller radius, which limited their effective use. Leatherworking was an unattractive profession at the time, so the drums were improved in patch 2.3. That led to the fond memories we all have of drum rotations as one of the added layers of teamwork in later Burning Crusade encounters.

Right now in the Burning Crusade Beta, all Leatherworking drums now have an Uncommon and Rare (i.e., “Greater”) vers...

Correct.

The 1-month, 3-month, and 6-month subscription options are unaffected and can all still be found here: https://us.shop.battle.net/en-us/product/world-of-warcraft-subscription

WoW Tokens are also unaffected here in the Shop: ...

This is correct. The subscription options are unchanged here on the Shop: https://us.shop.battle.net/en-us/product/world-of-warcraft-subscription

The change mentioned in the original post only impacts the Game Time option found here: ...

The pricing for the purchase of both WoW subscriptions and WoW Tokens are not impacted here. Details and both of these options can be found here:

• Subscriptions: ...

The pricing for the purchase of both WoW subscriptions and WoW Tokens will remain unaffected. The WoW Token process/redemption system is also unaffected. Details and options for these items can be found here:

• Subscriptions: https://us.shop.battle.net/en-us/product/world-of-warcraft-subscription
• WoW Tokens: ...

As there has been some confusion, I wanted to backup what you said.

The pricing for the purchase of both WoW subscriptions and WoW Tokens will remain unaffected. Details and options for these items can be found here:

• Subscriptions: https://us.shop.battle.net/en-us/product/world-of-warcraft-subscription
• WoW Tokens: https://us.shop.battle.net/en-us/product/world-of-warcraft-token

This change is specifically in regards to game time which can be found here: ...