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After several rounds of updates to the Fire and Frost talent trees, each tree has seen a significant boost in power, which in turn has put their overall throughput quite a bit higher than their live counterparts. While some gain in power is to be expected due to these changes, their current tuning has them quite a bit higher than we intend. Due to this, in the latest build we’re reducing the damage of many of their spells to get us a better baseline to work from for the two specs. This should make it easier for us to continue to iterate on tuning based on internal and external testing as the Fractures in Time PTR continues to develop.

The intent with these tuning changes is not to disrupt the current flow, playstyles, or talent builds that have arisen with the updates but rather keep the relative balance and breakdown of abilities similar as the are now but with just a bit less output.

• Fire
  • Living Bomb damage increased by 12%.
  • ...

Here are the notes for this week’s update to the Fractures in Time PTR:

CLASSES

• EVOKER
  • Augmentation
    • Mastery: Timewalker grants Shifting Sands to 1 ally (was 2).
    • Prescience duration reduced to 18 seconds (was 20 seconds).
    • Black Attunement health bonus reduced to 4% (was 5%).
    • Aspect’s Favor increases Black Attunement to 10/16% (was 12.5/20%).
    • Ebon Might now increases all of the casting Evoker’s damage by 10%, instead of increasing Eruption’s damage by 20%.
    • Born in Flame has been redesigned – Casting Ebon Might grants Burnout immediately and every 3 seconds for 6 seconds, reducing the cast time of Living Flame by 100% (was Ebon Might caused Living Flame to be instant cast for its duration).
  • Preservation
    • All healing abilities increased by 2%.
    • Rewind now rewinds 40% of damage taken in the last 5 se...

Quick update on some discussions we’ve seen -

Defeating Scalecommander Sarkareth on the highest difficulty will cover your best chance for getting the Cracked Titan Gem that week. Doing the encounter extra times on lower difficulties won’t increase your chances of getting the item.

The Hall of Fame for Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible has now been filled with the first 200 guilds to defeat Mythic Scalecommander Sarkareth. Congratulations to all players who earned a spot in the annals of raiding history this season!

There’s still a few more days left for those who are close to defeating Mythic Scalecommander Sarkareth to earn the coveted Hall of Fame: Scalecommander Sarkareth feat of strength achievement and title, but only the top 200 guilds will be listed in the official rankings. The Hall of Fame will close and Mythic cross-realm raiding in Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible will begin with next week’s weekly maintenance.

Good luck Champions!

Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

June 21, 2023

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Quests
  • Midsummer Fire Festival
    • Fixed an issue where the Heroic version of The Slave Pens had Ahune, and related creatures, set to level 80 instead of level 70. The intention is that level 80 players are to go into the Normal difficulty dungeon to fight the level 80 version of Ahune.

As many players have noted, yesterday’s hotfixes included a reduction to Scalecommander Sarkareth’s Oblivion on Mythic difficulty that resulted in a much bigger reduction than we originally intended.

After deliberating this, we’ve decided to stick with the actual value that has now been live in the game since that hotfix.

We apologize for any confusion this caused.

Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

june 20, 2023

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Classes
  • Mage
    • Ice Armor should no longer fall off when players have either rank 1 or rank 2 of Frost Warding.
  • Warrior
    • Blood Frenzy should now fall off when Deep Wounds falls off the target.
• Dungeons and Raids
  • Ulduar
    • Yogg-Saron
      • Guardians of Yogg-Saron will once again spawn normally during Phase 1.

Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

June 20, 2023

Classes

• Paladin
  • Crusading Strikes can now trigger Empyrean Power.

Dungeons and Raids

• Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
  • Kassara, the Hellforged
    • Kazzara health reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Infernal Fusion damage reduced by 10%.
  • Scalecommander Sarkareth
    • [With June 16 Changes] Resolved an issue that would cause players to take extra durability damage if their corpse fell off the platform.
    • Lowered the damage from Scorching Detonation by 10% on all diffi...

We hotfixed this issue a few minutes ago, and Ice Armor should no longer fall off when players have either rank 1 or rank 2 of Frost Warding.

Today, we’ve lifted transfer restrictions to the largest Wrath Classic realms.

Player-characters may now be transferred to realms such as Benediction and Grobbulus.

For more information, please see our Character Transfer Information and Restrictions support article.