World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

March 21, 2024

Plunderstorm

• Player matchmaking ratings (MMR) have been adjusted so that players should find themselves in better matches with continued play.
• Fixed a bug that caused plunder dropped by players on death to unintentionally despawn when the killed player left the match.
• Players are now immune to knockbacks when standing near Da’kash Grimledger in the preparation area.
• Adjusted experience gained when playing Duos and fixed a bug that was increasing experience gain at level 3.
• Fire Whirl Movement speed bonus reduced to 70% across all ranks (was 140%).
  • Developers’ notes: Our goal is to balance Fire Whirl’s effectiveness relative to the performance of other offensive spells without detracting from the effectiveness of other utility spells.
• Star Bomb cast time reduced to 2 seconds across all ranks (was 2.25 seconds).
  • Developers’ notes:...

Today, with hotfixes that are all now live, we’ve made the following adjustments to offensive and utility abilities in Plunderstorm:

• Fire Whirl Movement speed bonus reduced to 70% across all ranks (was 140%).
  • Developers’ notes: Our goal is to balance Fire Whirl’s effectiveness relative to the performance of other offensive spells without detracting from the effectiveness of other utility spells.
• Star Bomb cast time reduced to 2 seconds across all ranks (was 2.25 seconds).
  • Developers’ notes: We’d like to improve the effectiveness of this ability.
• Toxic Smackerel cooldown reduced at ranks 1, 2, and 3. Rank 4 unchanged.
  • Developers’ note: This is intended to ensure this ability is more in-line with expected power at early levels.
• Explosive Caltrops trap radius increased by 40%.
  • Developers’ notes: The traps placed by Explosive Caltrops are intende...

And we’ve just increased Plunder gains:

We’re working on a fix to make it so that player weapon and clothing appearances get reapplied when you enter a new match.

March 20, 2024

Dungeons

• Afflicted cast time increased to 12 seconds (was 10 seconds).
• Incorporeal now spawns closer to the group’s general location.
  • Developers’ notes: The changes above were originally intended for Dragonflight Season 4, but we decided we’d prefer to have players to experience them sooner.
• Addressed an issue where Afflicted Cry’s debuff duration was increased by 2 seconds instead of its cast time.

Items

• Fixed an issue that could cause raid bosses to not drop tier tokens as expected.
• Fixed an issue where items from the Cache of Overblooming Treasures awarded from the Superbloom were dropping at a lower item level and upgrade track than intended.
• Fixed a bug that prevented some mounts, such as the Auspicious Arborwyrm or the mounts associated with the Dragonflight achievement A World Awoken, from b...

You can leave if you’re dead (in Solos) or if your squad is dead (in Duos) without penalty.

Just stand in the circle around them! You’ll see a resurrection progress bar when you do.

You can also practice this in the prep area before a match. There’s a mostly-dead NPC with a resurrection circle around them for you to stand in, and as you know, mostly dead is still slightly alive.

To be clear-- no. You get the same Renown if you leave two seconds after you’ve completed the match as you’d get if you spectate the match to the end.

You can leave if you’re dead (in Solos) or if your squad is dead (in Duos) without penalty.

We think we’ve seen cases where it might take a short time for your Renown to update after your match is over, but that’s being investigated and not considered a bug yet.

We think this may be the same bug that’s causing some players to be unable to join a friend from their Friends list in a Duo Plunderstorm match. It’s intended that you should be able to do that.

We’ve recently encountered some server issues. We’re investigating and working on resolving them.

In the meantime, if you finish a Plunderstorm match and aren’t able to re-queue for a new match (i.e. the button is grayed out), you can work around it by restarting the game.

Thank you!

Once you’ve had a chance to play a few rounds of Plunderstorm, let us know your thoughts here!

Arrrrr-ange your adventure in seven easy steps:

1. Launch the Battle.net desktop app.
2. Click the World of Warcraft icon at the top. If the icon is missing, click on All Games and select the game from the list.
3. On top of the Install button is a drop-down menu. Confirm that you wish to install World of Warcraft.
4. Click Install.
5. Launch World of Warcraft, and then select Plunderstorm on the top-left of the character selection screen.
6. Create a new character.
7. Choose between Solo or Duo (to play with a friend). If you queue for a Duo without a partner, you’ll be automatically matched with one.

Discover lootable spells, abilities, and upgrades as you plunder treasure chests and defeat enemies. Upon picking up, spells and abilities are automatically added to your Action Bar, with two slots dedicated to offensive sk...

With the release of the 10.2.6 content update, players can get swept away in the Plunderstorm— a fun, new, limited-time, pirate-themed event of prodigious proportions lasting the next several weeks. Scour the map and try to be the last pirate standing while dashing across the Arathi Highlands to find abilities, upgrades, and loot to plunder just to survive!

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