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Hello everyone! Here are the changes that you can find in this week’s update to The War Within Alpha:

NEW ALLIED RACE

• Earthen and their introductory questline are now available to test.

CLASSES

• The following Hero Talents are available for playtesting in Public Alpha 5:
  • SHAMAN
    • Totemic (Enhancement/Restoration)
      • Totemics excel at unlocking the full power of their totems, strengthening their totems and gaining access to new ones. They have honed their imbuement skills to further improve their combat capabilities.
• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Frost
    • New Talent: Shattered Frost – When Frost Strike consumes 5 Razorice stacks, it deals 50% of the damage deal to nearby enemies. Deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets. Available as a capstone talent after Shattering Blade.
    • New Tale...

Starting Today
1:00 p.m. PDT (4:00 p.m. EDT)

We’ll see you on the Cataclysm Beta PvE realm for raid testing.

Please feel free to leave any feedback you have about in-raid content here.

Thank you!

Hello! We updated the Dark Heart patch notes with the following changes:

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

• The lockouts for the following raids in Mists of Pandaria content now reset each day, for both Dragonflight and WoW Remix characters:
  • Normal and Heroic 10-player Mogu’shan Vaults, Heart of Fear, Terrace of Endless Spring, and Throne of Thunder.
  • Normal and Heroic 10-30 player Siege of Orgrimmar
  • Mythic 20-player Siege of Orgrimmar
  • Raid lockouts will return to a weekly cadence after WoW Remix closes.
• Battle for Azeroth raid mechanics which block legacy encounter completion for small groups have been adjusted to be more permissive. Groups of five or fewer players should no longer be blocked by mechanics that cannot be completed at that raid size.

May 10, 2024

Classes

• Warlock
  • Fixed an issue where the scaling of Inferno would become reduced when Rain of Fire affected more than 5 targets.

Dungeons

• Dawn of the Infinite end bosses should now drop Awakened Crests.

Mounts

• Taivan awoos when summoned, like a good boy.

Non-player Characters

• Kessa, the Personal Tabard Vendor located in Valdrakken should now be available to all alts after completing the questline to unlock the personal tabard.

Professions

• Tailoring
  • Fixed a bug where Blue Silken Lining was not granting more mastery for equipping a second item embellished with Blue Silken Lining while the buff was already active.

Quests

• Fixed ...

May 10, 2024

Cataclysm Classic

• Blood Queen Lana’thel should now Vampiric Bite more consistently.
• Kadrak now allows players to complete “To the Rescue!” even when Brutusk is busy.
• Fixing an issue where sacks of oatmeal were not interactable during the “Keepin’ the Haggis Flowin’” quest.
• Fixed an issue that would prevent players from completing the “Devastation” quest. “Devastation” can now be reacquired by walking near the foliage that begins the quest in the Badlands.
• Fixed an issue that would prevent players from interacting with Sewer Caps on the “Fungus Among Us” quest.
• The Troll racial ability Berserking will now reset when an encounter ends.
• Paladin
  • Selfless Healer now correctly increases Word of Glory healing when Word of Glory is cast on others.
• Priest
  • Fixed some issues with Prayer of Mending. Tw...

May 10, 2024

WoW Classic Era and Hardcore

• Corrected Seal of Righteousness so that it cannot crit.

Specifically, this will happen with the first raid release.

In original Cataclysm, level 85 heirlooms were tied to guild perks. To obtain those heirlooms, players were required to join a guild and boost it to guild level 10, which was meant to be a significant barrier to obtaining them.

In Cataclysm Classic, we chose to make heirloom rewards much more available to players, and since our intention is not to have level 85 heirlooms available during the initial 80-85 leveling, we’ve capped heirlooms at level 80.

When the first raids open, heirlooms that are intended to max at level 85 will be increased to level 85.

Last weekend’s PvP play looked pretty good, so we’re going again starting today, with one adjustment.

This weekend we’re increasing the healing reduction to 30%, which means it will stack with Mortal Strike to a 65% healing protection for 10 seconds after taking damage.

We’ll turn the adjusted PvP aura on at 10:00 a.m. PDT (1:00 p.m. EDT).

The Tol Barad Brawl with the Blues playtest gets underway later today.

Don’t forget

We’ll see you back on the Cataclysm Beta Pv...

Later today, we’re testing the instanced Tol Barad in the Cataclysm Classic Beta. Please join us!

• WHEN: 1:00 p.m. PDT May 10
• WHERE: Cataclysm Classic Beta PvP Realm

Before then, feel free to hop into the Beta PvP realm and create a Template Character at level 85 on the Character Selection screen. Log into the Beta and speak with all of the enormous vendors nearby to prepare for battle.

At 1:00 p.m. PDT, open the PvP window (default hotkey: H) and select Battle for Tol Barad and join us.

See you there!

Greetings Rogues,

This week’s Alpha build includes many changes to Class and Spec talent trees, including a handful of positional swaps, tuning changes, and a few new and redesigned talents.

Feedback about these changes is welcome, so please post here with any notable experiences or opinions from your play in the Alpha test.

More change will be coming over the next few weeks, focused primarily on hero talents. Deathstalker is still lurking in the shadows and will be revealed when it’s ready (sometime in the next few weeks).

For Fatebound, more completed talents will be rolling in over time, and we have also been following gameplay and written feedback which will be cause for iterations to existing talents.

For Trickster, we’...

Please note that the updates described above will be coming in future Alpha builds.

We’ve recently experienced a technical issue causing game crashes.

We’ve temporarily disabled the Earthen Allied Race in the War Within Alpha, so that we can find and fix the issue.

The Earthen will return in a future test build.

Today’s Alpha update focuses primarily on Destruction.

The Path Ahead

Before we dive in, we want to acknowledge that our work with each specialization tree is not complete. We’ve seen the recent discussions regarding how bloated the Demonology and Destruction tree are in terms of available talents and ranks, as well as thoughts on the pathing of the Affliction tree.

In the near future, you will see that the Demonology tree is being restructured and condensed. Both the Destruction tree and the Affliction tree will also undergo a restructuring in the near future. In this context, a restructuring means that: the amount of 2-rank talent nodes will be reduced, talents may be removed, talents may be added, new pathing will be...