World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

With todays PTR update, the following changes have arrived for the new Augmentation specialization:

• EVOKER
  • Emerald Blossom’s flower now grows immediately on cast and heals after 1.5 seconds (was 2 seconds).
  • Augmentation
    • Pupil of Alexstrazsa now only launches 1 additional Living Flame when Leaping Flames is active (previously, it was casting an extra Living Flame for every Leaping Flames charge).
    • New Talent: Dream of Spring – Emerald Blossom no longer has a cooldown, deals 35% increased healing, and increases the duration of your active Ebon Might effects by 1 second, but costs 3 Essence. Emerald Blossom will now benefit from and consume Essence Burst.
      • Developer’s Note: In a future PTR update, Dream of Spring will be moved to be a choice node with Prolong Life.
    • Activate Weyrnstone is now usable while moving.
    • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible Set Bonus has...

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Abomination Limb damage is now reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
  • Empower Rune Weapon’s Haste bonus is now 33% effective in PvP combat.
  • Spellwarden no longer reduces the duration of Anti-Magic Shell.
  • Frost
    • Developers’ note: We’re making updates to Frost Death Knights in PvP with the goals of a rewarding the spec for uptime by increasing its overall sustained damage and lowering its reliance on cooldowns.
    • The base Strength increase from Pillar of Frost is now 40% effective in PvP combat (was 60%)
    • The stacking Strength increase from Pillar of Frost is now 50% effective in PvP combat.
    • The Mastery increase from Frostwhelp’s Aid is now 50% effective in PvP combat.
    • The Frost damage increase from Bonegrinder is now 50% effective in PvP combat.
    • The Frost Strike damage increase from Shattering Blade i...

Hey all! Here are today’s hotfixes.

May 15, 2023

Achievements

• Fixed an issue causing the Eggscellent Eggsecution to not grant achievement points.

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Frost
    • [With weekly restarts] All ability damage increased by 3%.
    • [With weekly restarts] Obliterate damage increased by 5%.
    • [With weekly restarts] Frost Strike damage increased by 6%.
    • [With weekly restarts] Howling Blast damage increased by 6%.
    • [With weekly restarts] Remorseless Winter damage increased by 8%.
    • [With weekly restarts] Frost ...

Here’s a bit of info on how this works:

Once Scalecommander Sarkareth has been defeated for the first time on Mythic difficulty, the Cracked Titan Gem item that begins a Legendary weapon questline for Evokers will have a chance to drop from Scalecommander Sarkareth on all difficulties after the weekly reset in the region that he’s been defeated in. The item will be very rare on Raid Finder difficulty (when available) and slightly increases in drop rate with each difficulty.

As Senior Game Producer Aggrend just confirmed on the Hardcore All-Stars stream, we’ve been working to bring official Hardcore Classic gameplay to WoW Classic. We’ve been very energized by the community’s enthusiasm for Hardcore, watching along with you, and doing a lot of Hardcore play ourselves.

We’ll let you know much more about it soon!

It should be safe to earn the achievement now and collect your reward. Anyone who’s earned the achievement prior to this fix will earn their reward early next week.