World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

With a hotfix that is now live on all realms, Whizbang’s portal should now spawn simultaneously in all three locations, every hour.

This should continue for the duration of the Hearthstone’s 10th Anniversary event.

March 12, 2024

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Fixed an issue with Piercing Shots, Deep Wounds, and Ignite that causes them to sometimes do too much damage to players.

March 12, 2024

WoW Classic: Season of Discovery

• Class restrictions on Arathi Basin reputation armor rewards have been lifted on all Classic Era and Season of Discovery realms.
• Fixed a bug causing Blood for the Blood Loa stacks to not be exchanged when the battle is not active.
• Hunter
  • Steady Shot damage increased to 75% weapon damage (was 60%).
  • Rune of the Trapper icon should no longer be a question mark.
• Mage
  • Living Flame movement speed adjusted to 86% of normal player movement speed (was 100%).
  • Living Flame duration reduced 10 seconds (was 20 seconds)
  • Living Flame cooldown reduced to 30 seconds (was 60 seconds).

March 12, 2024

Classes

• Druid
  • Restoration
    • Rejuvenation healing increased by 12%. Does not affect PvP combat.
• Evoker
  • Preservation
  • Developers’ notes: Preservation has been underutilized lately, in part due to the range restrictions of the specialization. To help compensate for that, we’re increasing the healing and defensiveness of Preservation so they can traverse the battlefield more easily and safely.
    • Time of Need clone’s overall healing increased by 100%. Time of Need clone’s Living Flame healing increased by 16%.
    • Live-Giver’s Flame heals for 40/80% of damage done (was 35/70%).
    • Inherent Resistance reduces magic damage taken by 4/8% (was 2/4%) for Preservation Evoker.
    • Attuned to the Dream increases healing done and received by 3/6% (was 2/4%) for ...

Today we previewed some changes we’re planning for Season 4.

In our Americas, EU, and Asia regions this week, we’ve planned for an estimated 8 hours of downtime to do some critical server infrastructure improvements to our Network File System (NFS).

At this time, the 8 hour window is just an estimate, and we can’t determine in advance how much time it’s going to take with much certainty. While we hope that NFS updates won’t take the full 8 hours, we have to allow for the scenario where the update processes take much longer than expected.

We’ll let you know during maintenance tomorrow if it looks like it’s going to go long.

Today we’ve developed an additional adjustment and added it to the OP of this thread.

Player versus Player

Warlock

• Call Observer health reduced to 6% of Warlock’s health (was 8%) and Laserbeam damage reduced to 8% of enemy health (was 10%).

This will go live with weekly maintenance tomorrow, along with all of the other adjustments.

Feel free to let us know what you think here.

As always, we’ve closely monitored data on class performance as well as player feedback. With all of that in mind, we’ve developed the following adjustments to classes that are over- and under-performing in group content and PvP. These changes will go into effect with scheduled weekly maintenance in each region.

Classes

Druid

• Restoration
  • Rejuvenation healing increased by 12%. Does not affect PvP combat.

Evoker

• Preservation
• Developers’ notes: Preservation has been underutilized lately, in part due to the range restrictions of the specialization. To help compensate for that, we're increasing the healing and defensivene...

If you haven’t done so yet, head over to our WoW Classic website and select the opt-in button to become a beta tester.

Players who have opted-in can be selected to be a tester, and invitations will go out regularly throughout the test.

Once you’ve been added:

• Open the Blizzard Battle.net App and select World of Warcraft from your Games list.
• In the selector above the Play button, change your Game Version to In Development: Cataclysm Classic Beta.
• Click Install to install the Beta client. This becomes a Play...

We’ve just opened the Cataclysm Beta, and while we have many parts of Cataclysm offline at this time, we intend to enable them in the days to come.

For those of you who are testing Cata with us, please post here with any feedback or discussion or questions you may have.

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Welcome to the Cataclysm beta test. Throughout this test period, we will deploy fixes and improvements to the Cataclysm test environment and provide information and updates in this thread.

At this time, the following are unavailable for testing in the Cataclysm beta:

• Reforging
• Archaeology
• Goblins and Worgen Races
• Transmogrification
• Guild system updates
• Leveling past 80
• Endgame dungeons
• Dungeon Journal
• Tol Barad
• Character info screen updates

We’re currently tracking the following Known Issues:

• Testers may receive a Lua error relating to Blizzard_SettingsDefinitions_Frame_Classic.toc when logging into the game.
• The World map has some selection and highlight issues.
• There may be a LUA error when opening the Collections UI or selecting a new pet or mount.
• Minimaps are not working inside a majority of the indoor environments.
• ...

This is true, and I’ve removed the reference to it from yesterday’s reply. That was a mistake.

Additionally, please note that Demolish will be cancelable. You can cancel Demolish if you decide you need to move or do something else while unleashing the attacks.

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We’ve noticed a few common questions about Colossus, and we’d like to clarify some points.

First, on the flavor, Colossus Warriors are big and mighty, but they are also veterans of countless battles and have the expertise to use that brawn most effectively. They are the fearsome combination of raw physical ability and mastery of warfare that no one wants to face on the battlefield. Mechanically, Colossus will aim to deliver some of the biggest melee hits around, and sometimes those big hits come from knowing precisely when and where to hit their target for maximum effectiveness.

Regarding Demolish:

• Demolish is a 2 second channel, and the Warrior is unable to move or use other abilities while channeling, similar to Eye Beam. A Colossus player will have to think tactically about when and where is optimal to use it. This is an intentional part of the flavor of the ability.
• Every hit of Demolish will hit hard, so you’ll want to use it as soon...