World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

October 2, 2023

WoW Classic

• Hardcore
  • On Hardcore realms, mind control spells can not be used during normal duels.
    • Developers’ notes: There should be no change to duels on non-Hardcore realms, and this should not prevent players from using mind control spells during Mak’gora duels to the death.
  • Added an identifier that will show you the player class and level on hover-over, when challenged to a duel to the death.
• Wrath Classic
  • Fixed a bug that caused the Joyous Journeys bonus to unintentionally disappear.

October 2, 2023

Enemies and NPCs

• A number of creatures on Mechagon Island have been scaled down so that they are no longer lethal to lower-level players.
• Bragdur Battlebrew again offers the Horde version of “Brew of the Month” Club Membership Form, as intended.
• Lord Andestrasz has been found in Waking Shores, and should no longer be invisible to some players.

WoW Classic

• Hardcore
  • On Hardcore realms, mind control spells can not be used during normal duels.
    • Developers’ notes: There should be no change to duels on non-Hardcore realms, and this should not prevent players from using mind control spells during Mak’gora duels to the death.
  • Added an identifier that will show you the player class and level on hover-over, when challenged to a duel to the death.
• Wrath Classic ...

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, September 2023:

Total Exploitative WoW Account Actions in September 2023: 136014

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.

Added the following fix to today’s PTR update:

• MAGE
  • Fire
    • Fixed an issue with the following critical damage bonuses not attributing the correct amount of damage to Ignite when an ability crit: Overflowing Energy, Wildfire, and Searing Rage (Amirdrassil, the Dreams Hope set bonus effect).

With today’s PTR update, some significant Shaman updates are now testable. Please discuss them here.

• SHAMAN
  • Elemental
    • Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope (4) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue where Chain Lightning and Lightning Bolt were incorrectly highlighted after casting Primordial Wave.
    • Splintered Elements now grants you 20% Haste plus an additional 4% Haste per extra target hit by Primordial Wave, rather than 10% Haste per target hit.
    • Further Beyond can now only increase the duration of Further Beyond by up to 150% of the original duration of Ascendance.
    • Primordial Wave can no longer be used to heal a friendly ally, it is now only an offensive spell for Elemental Shaman.
    • Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope (4) Set Bonus has been redesigned – Lava Burst burns your target for 15% additional damage over 4 seconds, and after consuming Primordial Wave, your next 3 casts of Lava Burst also hit up to 3...

With the PTR build that went live moments ago:

• WARLOCK
  • Affliction
    • Umbrafire Kindling now lasts 20 seconds (was 12 seconds).
  • Demonology
    • Soul Strike has been redesigned – Your primary Felguard learns Soul Strike: Strikes the soul of the target, dealing Shadow damage.
    • New Talent: Shadow Invocation – Bilescourge Bombers deal 20% increased damage, and your spells now have a chance to summon a Bilescourge Bomber.
    • New Talent: Fel Invocation – Soul Strike deals 20% increased damage and generates 1 Soul Shard. The cast time of Summon Vilefiend is reduced by 0.5 seconds and your Vilefiend now deals Fire damage to nearby enemies every 1 second while active.
    • New Talent: Spiteful Reconstitution – Implosion deals 10% increased damage. Consuming a Demonic Core has a chance to summon a Wild Imp.
    • Imp-erator is now a 1-rank talent (was 2).
    • Mal...

With the PTR build that went live moments ago:

• ROGUE
  • Assassination
    • Exsanguinate (Active) has been removed.
    • Exsanguinate (Passive) – Energy threshold changed to 50% of max Energy (was flat 150), Energy consumed reduced to 3 (was 4) and damage duplicated reduced to 20% (was 25%)
    • Sudden Demise’s Bleed damage trigger value reduced to 150% of remaining health (was 200%) and now benefits correctly from Zoldyck Recipe bonus.
    • Indiscriminate Carnage now prioritizes targets without Rupture and Garrote.
  • Outlaw
    • New Talent: Precision Shot – Increases the range of Between the Eyes and Pistol Shot by 10 yards, and Pistol Shot reduces damage you take from the target by 5%.
    • Killing Spree base delay (before Haste) between strikes reduced to 0.3 seconds per combo point (was 0.4 seconds).
  • Subtlety
    • New Talen...

With the PTR build that went live moments ago:

• MONK
  • Mistweaver
    • Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope (4) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue that caused some healing spells to not properly contribute to Chi Harmony.
    • Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope (4) Set Bonus: Fixed an issue that caused some healing spells to double dip contribution to Chi Harmony.
    • Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope (4) Set Bonus: Now accumulates up to 15% of healing done (was 20%).
    • Healing Elixir now additionally heals if excess healing elixirs are generated.
    • Healing Elixir now restores 20% of maximum health (was 15%).
    • Healing Elixir now automatically triggers at 40% health (was 35%).
    • Expel Harm now costs 1.4% base mana (was 3%).
    • Expel Harm healing increased by 550%.
    • Expel Harm now deals damage equal to 25% of the amount healed (was 10%).
    • Expel Harm’s damage range increased to 20 yards (was 8...

With the PTR build that went live moments ago:

• DRUID
  • Balance
    • Orbital Strike has been redesigned – Call down a bombardment of celestial energy over the target area, blasting all enemies for Astral damage and applying Stellar Flare to them for 16 seconds. Generates 30 Astral Power. Orbital Strike still hits enemies in a 40 yard line and has a 90 second cooldown. Now a choice node with Wild Mushroom.
    • Mastery: Astral Invocation has been updated – Your Nature spells deal increased damage and additional damage to targets affected by Sunfire. Your Arcane spells deal increased damage and additional damage to targets affected by Moonfire.
    • Friend of the Fae’s tooltip changed to “When a Faerie Dragon is summoned, your spells deal 10% increased damage for 20 seconds.”
      • Developers’ note: This is a tooltip consistency change, not a functional changes. Balance spells whose tooltips say they modi...

With the PTR build that went live moments ago:

• DEMON HUNTER
  • Spectral Sight cooldown is now 1 minute 30 seconds (was 1 minute, and 30 seconds with rank 2 talented).
  • Spectral Sight cooldown reduced to 30 seconds (was 1 minute/30 seconds), and Haste now affects its global cooldown.
  • Demonic’s duration for Demon form reduced to 5 seconds (was 6 seconds).
  • Elysian Decree has been moved to the Demon Hunter class tree.
  • Fodder to the Flame has been moved to the Demon Hunter class tree.
  • Fodder to the Flame now increases Spectral Sight cooldown by 30 seconds in addition to previous effect.
  • The Hunt initial damage increased by 22% and damage over time damage increased by 30%.
  • Sigil of Flame now moved to Demon Hunter baseline.
  • Sigil of Flame initial damage increased by 200%.
  • New Talent: Live by the Glaive – When you parry an attack or have one of your attacks parried, re...

Hiya! Here’s what you can find in this week’s Guardians of the Dream PTR update:

DRAGONFLIGHT SEASON 3

• MYTHIC+
  • The Everbloom will be available for this week’s Mythic+ test.

BATTLEGROUND BLITZ BRAWL

• EYE OF THE STORM
  • Slightly increased resource rate from bases.
  • Added a timer widget that will display during the 15 second period when bases are inactive until the next set are active.
• All rune buff respawn rates (including Shadow sight) decreased to 60 seconds (was 90 seconds). This includes already existing power runes in addition to the new ones introduced in the brawl.
• Various Power Runes have been added to Eye of the Storm, Battle for Gilneas, Arathi Basin, and Deepwind Gorge.

CLASSES

• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Frost
    • Am...

September 26, 2023

WoW Classic Era

• Fixed an issue that prevented Ouro from spawning after a post-wipe reset.

September 26, 2023

Classes

• Druid
  • Restoration
    • Fixed an issue that caused the Unstoppable Growth talent to not function.

Events

• Brewfest Hops no longer affect dragonriding mounts.
• When dragonriding in Eastern Kingdoms Cup races, players will now be temporarily granted fully unlocked dragonriding, regardless of their current Dragonriding Talent Tree state.

WoW Classic Era

• Fixed an issue that prevented Ouro from spawning after a post-wipe reset.

The PTR has been updated with
Build 51505

Icecrown Citadel

Icecrown Citadel raid testing will resume on September 26 at 12:00 p.m. PDT and will close on Friday September 29 at 5:00 p.m. PDT.

Bug Fixes and Adjustments

• Fixed an issue causing various abilities in the Professor Putricide encounter to occasionally deal more or less damage or healing than intended.
• Fixed an issue causing Lady Deathwhisper to occasionally Mind Control tanks and offtanks.
• Fixed an issue preventing long cooldown abilities from resetting after wiping to Festergut.
• Resolved an issue causing Prince Valanar’s Shocking Vortex ability to only ever target a tank rather than random raid members during the ...