World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

While all of the changes made to Ashenvale PvP in the first week of Season of Discovery have been included in our hotfixes update, I’ve gone ahead and compiled them here:

• The lieutenant and general NPCs in the Season of Discovery Ashenvale PvP event now have much higher health.
• Generals are now immune to damage until all of their lieutenants have been defeated.
• While no lieutenants are dead, generals and their nearby allies gain 1000% increased damage.
• The Horde general’s chain lightning will now hit up to 40 targets.
• When a player makes any hostile action against an opposing faction Lieutenant (e.g. Keepers of the Grove, Blademasters) or faction leader in the various objective areas, they will receive ...

December 7, 2023

Season of Discovery

• Ashenvale PvP
  • When a player makes any hostile action against an opposing faction Lieutenant (e.g. Keepers of the Grove, Blademasters) or faction leader in the various objective areas, they will receive reputation when that enemy dies.
    • It must be an offensive action (harmful spell, harmful ability, melee attack, or ranged attack) against an enemy to receive reputation.
    • Players will receive reputation even if they are dead or no longer nearby as long as they are still in the zone when the enemy dies.
  • Players now receive 200 reputation for killing a Lieutenant and all members of the winning faction will ...

December 7, 2023

Classes

• Paladin
  • Retribution
    • Blessed Champion rebuilt to resolve issues such as pulling enemies that are too far away or through walls.
    • Wake of Ashes, Searing Light, and Seething Flames revised so that they do not damage enemies through walls.

Dungeons

• Critters can no longer benefit from Challenger’s Might and adorably kill your party.
• Black Rook Hold
  • Addressed an issue with Fel Vomit where the line visual can fail to attach to players.
• Darkheart Thicket
  • Updated Rotheart Keeper’s Vile Burst radius to match with the size of Vile Mushroom.
• The Everbloom
  • Addressed an issue where Yalnu’s Verdant Eruption can stun pets and guardians.

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This is working correctly. It is not intended that reputation can be gained from leaders once you’re Revered.

Hello Abàddon,
The Embers of Fyr’alath are working as intended and progress is being made. To help with clarity on the Embers, we’ve recently updated the tooltip text to confirm that the items are permanently increasing your chances of acquiring Fyr’alath the Dreamrender.

The following changes are now live:

• When a character makes any hostile action against an opposing faction Lieutenant (e.g. Keepers of the Grove, Blademasters) or faction leader in the various objective areas, they will receive reputation when that enemy dies.
  • It must be an offensive action (harmful spell, harmful ability, melee attack, or ranged attack) against an enemy to receive reputation.
    • This also affects Healers who must use an offensive actions against the Lieutenant or faction leader.
• Characters will receive reputation even if they are dead or no longer nearby as long as they are still in the zone when the enemy dies.
• Characters will receive 200 reputation for killing a Lieutenant and all members of the winning faction will receive 200 reputation when the faction leader dies.
• The winning team will also receive 100 reputation per friendly Lieutenant remaining.
  • Example: If there are two ...

December 6, 2023

Season of Discovery

• Grizzby will no longer rob you of your extra quest items.
• Ashenvale PvP
  • The lieutenant and general NPCs in the Season of Discovery Ashenvale PvP event now have much higher health.
  • Generals are now immune to damage until all of their lieutenants have been defeated.
  • While no lieutenants are dead, generals and their nearby allies gain 1000% increased damage.
  • The Horde general’s chain lightning will now hit up to 40 targets.

December 6, 2023

Dungeons

• Throne of the Tides
  • Updated the model used by the Ink of Ozumat to reduce the visual effects at its base.
• Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope
  • Smolderon
    • Fixed an issue where players would sometimes gain multiple stacks of Ignited Essence from 1 Living Flame.
    • Fixed an issue where a Seeking Inferno could explode twice on Mythic difficulty.
  • Tindral Sageswift
    • Fallen Feathers now spawn 6 feathers on Mythic Difficulty (was 4).

Items

• Fixed an issue that caused the Large Renown bag of Dragon Isles Supplies to always unintentionally contain a Dream Wardens Tabard.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Gift of Ursine Vengeance to fail to grant its bonuses.

Quests

With a hotfix that we’ll apply to the game soon:

• Tindral Sageswift
  • Fallen Feathers now spawn 6 feathers (was 4) on Mythic Difficulty.

And as always, this change will be listed later in our Hotfixes Update.

To provide more transparency on the actions we take against cheating and exploitation, here is an accounting of the number of actions that were taken over the last month, November 2023:

Total Exploitative WoW Account Actions in November 2023: 197455

All of these actions were for cheating or exploitation, which primarily result in permanent bans or 6-month suspensions. This number does not include other actions such as those taken on accounts with character name or in-game language violations. We continue to evolve our methods and act against these malicious accounts on a daily basis.

December 5, 2023

Season of Discovery

• Seal of Martyrdom will no longer grant mana to nearby allies who are not in the Paladin’s party or raid.
• Shamanistic Rage will no longer grant mana to nearby players who are not in the Shaman’s party or raid.
• It is no longer possible to have two copies of the Mangle debuff active on a target.
• Multiple Rogues can now have the Saber Slash bleed active on a target. If the Rogues have the Deadly Brew rune, they can each have a Deadly Poison periodic damage effect active on the target.
• Pattern: Phoenix Bindings temporarily removed from the merchant faction vendor while we work to resolve an issue with the recipe.

December 5, 2023

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Blood
    • Aberrus Class Set bonus: Heart Strike and Blood Boil deal 10% increased damage (was 20%) and have a 5% chance (was 10%) to grant Vampiric Blood for 5 seconds.
  • Unholy
    • Virulent Plague damage increased by 15%. Not applied to PvP combat.
    • Epidemic damage increased by 12%.
    • Festering Strike damage increased by 20%.
    • Festering Wound damage increased by 12%. Not applied to PvP combat.
    • Ghoul Sweeping Claws damage increased by 15%.
• Demon Hunter
  • Havoc
    • Fel Rush damage reduced by 12%.
    • Immolation Aura damage reduced by 12%.
    • Fel Barrage damage reduced by 12%.
    • Fixed an issue when talented into A Fire Inside that caused any cast of Immolation Aura beyond the...

We’re on it!

We’ve been working on fixing this all day. It’s a surprisingly challenging bug, but we expect to get the buff back on soon.

We’ve had a trend of pricing Trading Post class sets at 450 Trader’s Tender, and for the first few days of December, a bug caused the Imminence of Krag’wa’s Executor set to sell for 500 Tender. We’ve now hotfixed the game to set that price at 450, as we originally intended.

If you’ve already purchased the set, please hang tight. We’re working on a second hotfix that will refund you the extra 50 Tender. You don’t have to take any steps. That refund will come as soon as we can implement it this month.

We apologize for the mix-up.

We now have a dedicated thread for Season of Discovery hotfixes:

December 7, 2023

Season of Discovery

• Ashenvale PvP
  • When a player makes any hostile action against an opposing faction Lieutenant (e.g. Keepers of the Grove, Blademasters) or faction leader in the various objective areas, they will receive reputation when that enemy dies.
    • It must be an offensive action (harmful spell, harmful ability, melee attack, or ranged attack) against an enemy to receive reputation.
    • Players will receive reputation even if they are dead or no longer nearby as long as they are still in the zone when the enemy dies.
  • Players now receive 200 reputation for killing a Lieutenant and all members of the winning faction will receive 200 reputation when the faction leader dies.
  • The winning team will also receive 100 reputation per friendly Lieutenant remaining.
  • ...

December 4, 2023

Classes

• Warlock
  • Demonology
    • Fixed an issue where Soul Strike would sometimes cast multiple times.

Dungeons and Raids

• Throne of the Tides

  • Fixed an issue where Mindbender Ghu’sha would prevent players from releasing spirit when defeated.

• Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope

  • Tindral Sageswift
    • Fixed an issue where multiple players can benefit from the same Fallen Feather buff.
    • Fixed an issue where Diffuse Magic can cause Tindral to be inflicted with Fiery Growth.
    • Fixed an issue where Dream Essence does not get removed if Tindral finishes casting Supernova during intermission.
    • Ride Along disabled on players with the Fallen Feather debuff on Mythic difficulty.
    • ...