World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

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With hotfixes that are rolling out, we’re making two significant adjustments.

• The Battle for Ashenvale will now progress about 50% faster than previously.
• The reputation gain for participating in killing an enemy Keeper of the Grove or Blade Master has been increased to 400 (was 200).

Together, these should reduce as well as compensate for the longer time between battles.

We’re implementing rating inflation.

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We’ve been monitoring player feedback on rating in PvP, and we will make some significant adjustments to inflation, beginning with a hotfix that is going live as soon as possible, to help alleviate concerns.

Going into Dragonflight Season 3, we took preemptive measures, with the goal of making a player’s PvP rating and progression feel as they would expect relative to previous seasons. The rating system, calculations, and rating gains throughout a season can be difficult to predict. They’re impacted by various factors, including player activity. We need to be cautious about making changes to MMR and rating, to best ensure that we’re not creating unwanted effects or trends that do more harm than good to the ladder overall.

MMR, rating, and associated rewards are topics that the team monitors and discusses frequently, and we’ll continue to do so in future seasons.

Suggestions that are offered here are generally in alignment with our internal discussions about what...

With an update we’re applying to the game right now, we’re changing Tindral Sageswift’s Sunflame visual to address accessibility concerns about too many flashing lights in the encounter.

Sunflame is now darker and much smaller, retaining the appearance of tongues of flame on players without the big flashy sunbursts.

After closely monitoring data on class performance as well as player feedback, 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

• Demon Hunter
  • Sigil of Flame damage reduced by 10%.
  • Havoc
    • Collective Anguish (talent) damage from summoned Fel Devastation reduced by 10%.
    • Ragefire (talent) damage stored from Immolation Aura critical strikes reduced to 30% (was 35%).
    • A Fire Inside (talent) chance to reset Immolation Aura reduced to 25% (was 30%).
• Evoker
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Thank you for all of your feedback, we agree that it would be best to have individual set options as well and are going to deliver those to you in the upcoming Seeds of Renewal update. All players who have completed 12 months will get the two additional sets retroactively and any new players that hit 12 months will get all 3 sets immediately.

The Seeds of Renewal PTR has been updated with the following changes:

USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY

• All appearances received from quest rewards will now have a chat message.
• Interacting with the Auction House quantity field should now be a much more consistent experience.
• All toasts can now be immediately dismissed with a right click. This includes toasts that appear near the top-center of the screen, such as Great Vault unlocks.
• Artwork for the leader ability toggle in Follower Dungeons has been updated.
• Edit Mode Frame Snapping Improvements:
  • Can now snap a frame to any intersection of grid lines.
  • Can now snap a frame’s center to any grid line (previously only available for center purple grid lines).
  • Edges of frames can now snap to the horizontal and vertical center lines regardless of whether the grid is enabled.

December 14, 2023

Season of Discovery

• Healing Rain will no longer interrupt the auto-attack swing timer of the casting Shaman every time it heals.
• Living Flame will now cease to spread and deal damage if the Mage caster no longer has the rune equipped.
• Regeneration and Mass Regeneration will now properly consume Arcane Blast when they benefit from it, regardless of the Mage’s healing targets.
• Mage Temporal Beacon will now also heal based on damage done by Arcane wands.
• The radius of healing for Mass Regeneration has been increased to 30 yards (was 15 yards).
• Battle for Ashenvale
  • The Priestess of the Moon Felore Moonray and Far Se...

December 14, 2023

Classes

• Druid
  • Feral
    • Heart of the Wild no longer unintentionally grants Combo Points to Feral Druids.
  • Guardian
    • Fixed an issue causing Blazing Thorns and Dream Thorns to clear when engaging a Mythic+ boss.
    • Fixed an issue causing Blazing Thorns to proc on targets which were not in combat with the player.

Dungeons and Raids

• Darkheart Thicket
  • Addressed an issue where Tormented Bloodseeker’s Darksoul Bite is draining more health than intended in Mythic+ difficulties.
• Waycrest Manor
  • Addressed a Heartsbane Triad issue where Sisters without the iris can quickly melee nearby targets upon being interrupted.

Season of Discovery

Tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. PST, we intend to open the Public Test Realm for a few days of Ruby Sanctum testing.

Please have a look inside the raid, and if you come across any bugs, please report them using the in-game bug reporter (default hotkey: F6).

We’ll close this test on Thursday, December 21.

Thank you!

December 13, 2023

Season of Discovery

• Population adjustments have been made to layers in the Ashenvale PvP event which should result in an improved experience for players.
• Ashenvale progress should be much more consistent.
  • Developers’ notes: In a future hotfix, the Battle for Ashenvale progress will no longer reset to 0% when the final layer on the server finishes their battle.
• Runes sold at the Honored tier of Azeroth Commerce Authority and Durotar Supply and Logistics reputation are now sold at the Friendly tier.
• Drop rates for higher-level Waylaid Supplies have been slightly raised and unfulfillable Waylaid Supplies have been removed.
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December 13, 2023

Classes

• Paladin
  • Protection
    • Amirdrassil 4-piece: Fixed an issue causing Cleansing Flame to not trigger from Lay on Hands.
• Rogue
  • Damage dealt from Shadow Blades, Blade Flurry, and Sanguine Blades will now be logged correctly when buffed by an Augmentation Evoker.
• Warlock
  • Demonology
    • Fixed an issue that allowed several Immutable Hatred attacks to be queued up prior to combat.
    • Fixed an issue where Wild Imps summoned via Spiteful Reconstitution would stray from the Warlock.

Dungeons and Raids

• Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent Gnarlroot, Igira, and Smolderon from leashing as expected.
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With realm restarts earlier today, we applied a hotfix to Season of Discovery that was designed to help with the issue where players were sometimes being suddenly moved to a different layer mid-combat.

We’ve been working on additional fixes that we intend to apply to the game with realm restarts later this week. One of these is an additional adjustment for the % progress counter moving backwards or resetting.

Mainly, we want everyone to know that these issues ...