World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

We have many more steps to take with Hardcore during a full patch update like this one. Those steps are all focused on finding any issue that has even a remote chance of causing players to die. If we find such an issue, we go through a whole process of understanding it, reproducing it, designing a fix, testing the fix, and applying the fix before we open Hardcore realms publicly.

Issues like that can be safely tolerated on the non-Hardcore Classic Era realms for a little while, and of course, we apply our fixes to Classic Era realms as well as Hardcore realms as we go.

We appreciate your patience.

We’ve been working on a fix for this, and couldn’t get it finalized in time for today’s maintenance. Our current solution will be to make Mend Pet and Revive Pet into separate pet utility buttons that are no longer automatically swapped back and forth based on your pet’s state.

We’ll let you know when the fix is deployed.

The only thing that is a “bot” is the system automatically creating a forum thread. Humans write these. Humans publish these. It’s been corrected. Thanks!

We found this bug, and during maintenance today, we fixed it. Emerald Dream pets should now be cageable.

World of Warcraft Classic Era Patch Notes
Version 1.15.0
November 14, 2023

User Interface Adjustments

• Enemy castbars can now be enabled in the default UI in the Options menu under Interface.
• Damage over time abilities and other debuffs will now display their remaining duration on the default enemy unit frame.
• Developers’ notes: These are oft-requested quality-of-life features that are easily accessible using addons, so we’ve decided to just go ahead and add this functionality to the default UI, especially since this functionality has never been a restricted part of the Interface API.

• Added resizable map functionality. By default, the world map now opens in its smaller size, and can be enlarged via the arrow icon near the top-right corner.

Lost and Found

• Added the lost and found vendor Rix Xizzix. This vendor will...

Hello! Here are today’s hotfixes:

November 13, 2023

Classes

• Demon Hunter
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Demon Hunter to briefly remain rooted when The Hunt’s cast was cancelled or interrupted.
• Druid
  • Balance
    • Incarnation: Chosen of Elune will no longer transform you into an armored Moonkin if you are using a new barbershop customization. The armored Incarnation model will show if you are using classic Moonkin form.
• Evoker
  • Preservation
    • Spiritbloom will now bounce to friendly targets that are meant to be healed during quests and encounters.
• Hunter
  • Beast Mastery
    • Fixed an issue where Wild Instincts would not properly apply when multiple different hunters wer...

We’ve seen feedback like this, expressing interest in the ability to bring consumable items into unrated PvP environments to spice up the flow of combat. Over the years, we put tight restrictions on these to minimize disruption. We felt this was especially important during a time when the solo battleground player did not have alternative forms of content if the chaotic and sandboxy nature of unrated battlegrounds became too overwhelming.

Now, with a variety of game modes to pick from and a much narrower gap in power disparity between players, we want to take an opportunity to review this philosophy. In a hotfix going out tomorrow with the start of Season 3, we will adjust a variety of Dragonflight consumables to enable their use in Unrated Battleg...

Hello! Here are today’s hotfixes:

November 10, 2023

Achievements

• Treasures of the Emerald Dream again rewards the Forest Lord’s Antlers.
  • Developers’ notes: While this was originally intended to be the reward for the Dream On achievement, a bug resulted in it being rewarded by the Treasures of the Emerald Dream achievement, so we’re going to leave it there permanently and look for something else to potentially reward for Dream On.

Classes

• Druid
  • Guardian
    • Fixed an issue causing Innate Resolve to not correctly increase Frenzied Regeneration healing.
  • Restoration
    • Abundance stacks will no longer incorrectly decrease if you happen to have more Rejuvenations active than the maximum amount of Abundance stacks.
• ...

As of a hotfix that went live a few minutes ago, the Treasures of the Emerald Dream achievement again rewards Forest Lord’s Antlers.

If you’ve completed the achievement and not received the reward, logging out and back in should do the trick.

As a result of recent testing and analysis of class performance now that the Guardians of the Dream patch is live, we’re going to make a few adjustments to over- and under-performing specs just before the beginning of Dragonflight Season 3 on Tuesday. Please note that changes to tier sets are listed below for reference, and their differentials are in comparison to the last public build of the PTR.

Again, we’d like to thank everyone who tested classes on the Guardians of the Dream PTR. Your feedback was very helpful!

Classes

Death Knight

• Unholy
  • Death Coil damage increased by 10%.
  • Scourge Strike/Clawing Shadows damage increased by 10%.
  • Ghoul damage increased by 8%.
  • Virul...

More crows are on the way!

We also found a bug with their health, and that will be fixed soon.

We have a hotfix on the way that should stop Winter Night Dreamsaber dropping multiple times for the same player.

Please feel free to post about bugs in our Bug Report forum. I didn’t find this one there when I last looked.

Just now!

Players who didn’t receive the swords due to the bug should now start seeing them, and if you don’t, logging out and back in should do the trick.

November 9, 2023

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• 310% mounts now correctly fly at 310% speed in Outland.

Here are today’s hotfixes:

November 9, 2023

Classes

• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the talent frame to show the incorrect number of points on talents when trying to refund talent points for Priest, Demon Hunter, and Rogue.
• Druid
  • Guardian
    • Fixed an issue causing Blood Frenzy to not benefit from Haste or Cycle of Life and Death.
• Priest
  • Discipline
    • Ultimate Penitence now clears root effects when cast, instead of returning the error message “You are unable to move.”

Items

• Fixed an issue with Paracausal Fragment of Thunderfin, Humid Blade of the Tideseeker where the trinket effect was not functioning properly.
• The Sarannis’ Mystic Sheen absorb is reduced by 68% and the cloak now has primary stats.
...

Build 52124
November 9, 2023

Before we launch Season of Discovery, we’ll patch Classic Era and Hardcore to version 1.15.0, which includes UI adjustments and bug fixes for Classic Era and Hardcore realms.

Default UI Adjustments

• Enemy castbars can now be enabled in the default UI in the Options menu under Interface.
• Damage over time abilities and other debuffs will now display their remaining duration on the default enemy unit frame.

Developers’ notes: These are oft-requested quality-of-life features that are easily accessible using addons, so we’ve decided to just go ahead and add this functionality to the default UI, especially since this functionality has never been a restricted part of the Interface API.

Bug Fixes

• The NPC Names Setting in the Options menu under Interface now functions properly.
• Fixed an issue with the “clucking” animation that plays when y...