World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

Here are today’s hotfixes for Dragonflight:

November 29, 2023

Classes

• Evoker
  • Augmentation
    • Fixed an issue that made it possible for Sands of Time to fail to extend Ebon Might.

Dungeons

• The Everbloom
  • Lady Baihu and her Kirin Tor Battle-Mages no longer trigger on-death affix effects in Mythic Keystone difficulty.

Items

• PvP Class set items that were obtained from the Great Vault or converted at the Revival Catalyst and were previously on the Veteran track should now be using the Champion track.

WoW’s 19th Anniversary

• Emeriss and Lethon’s Aura of Nature debuff now deals significantly less damage.

This effect on addons that make the game playable for some players was definitely unintended, and we apologize for that. We’re working on a hotfix that will hopefully narrow the original change so that only friendly targets are restricted. Thereafter, enemy targets will resume being available to range checking.

We’re also going to reach out to addon developers to make sure they get this message.

Looking forward, we’re working on future changes to better address the need for range checking for accessibility purposes, so we really appreciate hearing from you about things you’d find most useful.

Thanks again for all of your feedback!

Hello. I checked in with our UI/UX design team and I can confirm that this request has been received by them and is being considered alongside some similar updates they’re planning for future patches. We don’t have any details to share at this time, but we’re looking into it!

Greetings heroes of the Dream!

While Mythic champions begin to harness the intense Shadowflame within Fyr’alath the Dream Render, we’d like to share some details on how other denizens of Azeroth may get their hands on this igneous item.

We have observed many thousands of Evokers swooping down into Aberrus to forge their new legacy and heard their triumphant roars echoing eternally upon acquiring Nasz’uro. We’ve also heard feedback about how this process felt for players and have made some adjustments for Fyr’alath’s acquisition with that in mind, in hopes of better aligning players’ chances and effort.

Fyr’alath can be obtained with any loot specialization for Death Knights, Paladins, and Warriors by defeating Fyrakk within the heart of Amirdrassil on all difficulties, which will be very rare on Raid Finder difficulty (when available) and significantly increases in drop rate with each difficulty. As with Nasz’uro, completion on higher difficulties will include y...

Here are today’s hotfixes:

November 28, 2023

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Frost
    • Aberrus, the Shadow Crucible 2-piece set
      • The damage of your next Frostwyrm’s Fury is increased by 4% (was 5%). Stacks unchanged.
      • The effectiveness of Frostywrm’s Fury reduced to 25% (was 30%).
      • Howling Blast damage reduced to 10% (was 20%).
    • Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope 4-piece set
      • Chill Streak can bounce 3 additional times (was 2 times).
      • The chance to proc a bonus effect increased to 35% (was 30%).
    • Chill Streak damage increased by 10%.
    • Obliterate damage increased by 8%.
    • Enduring Chill chance to bounce increased to 25% (was 20%).
    • Piercing Chill damage increased to 12% (was 10%).
• Druid
  • Restoration
    • All he...

Hello everyone! Here are the changes that you can find in this week’s Seeds of Renewal PTR update:

BEL’AMETH

• The night elves are hard at work constructing their new home, Bel’ameth, but like all great things that take time to perfect, it’s currently a work in progress.

CLASSES

• All remaining class talents that were previously Shadowlands Covenant Abilities have had their spell visuals updated to match their class visual kit.
  • Developers’ note: Based on your feedback for wanting the option to keep the Shadowlands spell visuals, we’ll be adding a way to revert these talents back to their Shadowlands visuals in a future update.
• EVOKER
  • Source of Magic now lasts 1 hour (was 30 minutes).

ITEMS

• REVIVAL CATALYST
  • Renascent Dream charges are now granted weekly (was eve...

When we updated the PvP honor system in patch 1.14.4, our changes were focused on making it so that we no longer needed the old PvP Honor system script, eliminating ranking points, and removing de-ranking due to decay. As we look to the future, we’ve carefully considered the role of decay in today’s Honor system and how it interacts with increasingly competitive Honor requirements in higher ranks.

As a result, we’ve arrived at the decision to disable Honor decay in Classic Era and Season of Discovery. This will become effective starting with scheduled weekly maintenance (on December 5 in this region).

When the weekly Honor rollover occurs on December 5, you will no longer decay due to having not met the minimum Honor requirements for your rank. Please note that decay is not the same as the penalties incurred by earning dishonorable kills, which is now the only way a player can lose rank progress.

Thank you!

This fix-up is quite complex and will be done in multiple parts. The first part was preventing more Veteran gear from going out, which allows us to focus on a fixed set of items and affected players.

Only the first part of the fix has been accomplished. The rest will be coming soon.

Thank you for your patience!

November 27, 2023

Classes

• Monk
  • Mistweaver
    • The 2-piece class set Chi Harmony now only increases healing taken from Monk abilities.
    • The 4-piece class set Chi Harmony no longer accumulates healing taken by Revitalizing Voodoo Totem.
• Paladin
  • Protection
    • Fixed an issue causing Cleansing Flame to deal incorrect damage and healing when cast on a target with vulnerability or increased healing taken.
• Warlock
  • Demonology
    • Fixed an issue where Soul Strike would be relearned whenever Felguard is summoned.
    • Felguard should now prioritize using Soul Strike once it’s off cooldown.

Dungeons and Raids

• Darkheart Thicket
  ...

We’re working on a hotfix that should address this. Once the hotfix is live, this full screen effect will be included among effects that are disabled when you enable enabling motion sickness settings.

We continue to closely monitor data on class performance in-game as well as player feedback. With scheduled weekly maintenance in each region, we’ll make the following adjustments to classes that are over- and under-performing in group content and PvP.

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Frost
    • Aberrus, the Shadow Crucible 2-piece set
      • The damage of your next Frostwyrm’s Fury is increased by 4% (was 5%). Stacks unchanged.
      • The effectiveness of Frostywrm’s Fury reduced to 25% (was 30%).
      • Howling Blast damage reduced to 10% (was 20%).
    • Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope 4-piece set
      • Chill Streak can bounce 3 additional times (was 2 times).
      • The chance to proc a b...

We have a hotfix on the way. Thereafter, Dreamsurge buffs should no longer apply to player-characters who are in Valdrakken.

Season of Discovery realms will open at 1:00 p.m. PST on Thursday, November 30.

Yes! It will be 1:00 p.m. PST on Thursday, November 30.

That’s:

November 21, 2023

Achievements

• Added Ivy as a reward for Don’t Let the Doe Hit You On the Way Out.

Classes

• Hunter
  • Beast Mastery
    • Beast Cleave and Kill Cleave now log correctly when the Hunter is buffed by an Augmentation Evoker.

Creatures and NPCs

• Fixed issue causing rare elites in The Forbidden Reach, Zaralek Cavern, and The Emerald Dream to not award credit to players in a raid group.
• Unpulled rare elites in Forbidden Reach and Zaralek Caverns should now despawn after 15 minutes, unless players are in their immediate vicinity.

Dungeons and Raids

• Developers’ notes: Through the first week of Season 3 Mythic+ dungeons, data and feedback suggest that Murozond’s Rise, Throne of the Tides, and Atal’Dazar ar...

We’ve looked at data and feedback from players over the first week of Season 3 PvP and intend to make some adjustments with scheduled weekly maintenance to address a few classes where we’re seeing over- and underperformance.

Player versus Player

• Death Knight
  • Unholy
    • Death Coil damage is now increased by 70% in PvP combat (was 90%).
• Demon Hunter
  • Havoc
    • Inertia damage bonus reduced to 12% (was 18%) in PvP combat.
    • Elysian Decree damage reduced by 20% in PvP combat.
    • The Hunt initial and periodic damage reduced by 30% (was 20%) in PvP combat.
    • Throw Glaive damage reduce...

With scheduled weekly maintenance tomorrow, we will make adjustments to several enemies and spells in Mythic+ dungeons.

Data and feedback suggests that Murozond’s Rise, Throne of the Tides, and Atal’Dazar are outliers in terms of difficulty. While Murozond’s Rise and Throne of the Tides are too difficult, Atal’Dazar is proving too easy and may affect player progression through the content in a negative way.

Our adjustments aim to better align overall balance across the Mythic+ dungeon pool for Season 3.

Atal’Dazar

• The required enemy forces count for Atal’Dazar has been increased.
• Toxic Saurid’s Leaping Thrash no longer triggers Poisoned Claws on the target.
• Dazar’ai Juggernaut’s Merciless Assault damage reduced by 25%.
• Dazar’al Augur’s Wildfire periodic rate reduced to 1 second (was 2 seconds).
• Dinomancer Kish’o’s Deadeye Aim damage reduced by 25%.
• T’lonja’s Frenzied Charge is now avoidab...