World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

Testing for Sikran, Captain of the Sureki (Heroic) begins today at 11:00 PDT (14:00 EDT, 20:00 CEST).

Please use this thread for feedback and bug reports regarding this encounter or related issues. Noting the nature of your group (Mythic guild premade, PUG, etc.) is helpful, as are any logs. Thank you to everyone who has come out to help test!

Hello Survival Hunters!

We’ve been reading your feedback regarding the recent changes to Mongoose Bite, Mongoose Fury, and Flanking Strike and want to provide an update regarding those changes.

One of our goals with the Survival Hunter spec tree update was to better define niches for each of Survival’s tandem pet-and-hunter attack abilities. Since then, we’ve made changes to Coordinated Assault and Spearhead to better define their use cases as well as the narrative sell of their effects, and last week we felt that it was Flanking Strike’s turn for an update.

We don’t feel that our previous iteration of Flanking Strike fits perfectly within Survival’s kit, but given your feedback, we also don’t think that it being an occasional replacement for Kill Command is a better direction. We plan on reverting Flanking Strike to its previous iteration, where it will remain a separate ability that doubly benefits from Tip of the Spear. We’ll put more thought into Flanking St...

With this week’s build, NPC Crafting Orders are now available for testing! To use the feature, travel to your nearest crafting bench and open the Crafting Order tab. Click the “NPC” tab, which may appear blank at first, and you should start seeing orders appear. If at first you don’t see any orders, please wait a moment and try again.

How it works

NPC Crafting Orders are personal orders that populate on a regular, predetermined cadence. Throughout the week, various familiar characters from the world will submit orders directly to you with a variety of possible rewards. You may discover that some customers tend to be more willing to provide reagents to assist in the final craft than others. Certain customers are very picky...

Hello! Here are this week’s changes to the War Within Pre-Expansion PTR:

CLASSES

• Developer’s note: In this week’s build, Avoidance and Leech rating on gear gives half as much percent value as before, and we’ve reduced the amount of these stats given by most talents. Both stats, Avoidance in particular, are extremely effective against the damage non-tank players face. By the end of an expansion, the amount of Avoidance appearing on gear reduces so much damage that acquiring pieces with it can feel required to do the hardest content, particularly extremely high Mythic+ keys. By reducing the amount of value given per rating, our goal is for pieces with those stats to remain valuable, but for the gap between players with and without them to be closer.
• Reduced the percentage granted by Avoidance and Leech rating by 50%.
• The following Leech and Avoidance effects have also been reduced:
  • Death Knight ...

We recently deployed the following changes to the War Within Beta:

CLASSES

• ROGUE
  • Hero Talents
    • Trickster (Subtlety/Outlaw)
      • Flawless Form buff duration increased to 12 seconds (was 6 seconds).
      • Unseen Blade damage increased by 36%.
      • Outlaw
        • Nimble Flurry now increases Blade Flurry damage by 15% (was 10%).
      • Subtlety
        • Nimble Flurry now deals 40% of listed abilities’ damage to nearby targets (was 15%).
        • Nimble Flurry now includes Echoing Reprimand, Goremaw’s Bite, and Unseen Blade in addition to currently listed abilities. Tooltip will reflect this change in a future update.
  • Assassination
    • All ability damage increased by 15%.
  • Outlaw
    • All ability damage increased...

Here are this week’s changes to The War Within beta:

CLASSES

• Developer’s note: In today’s build, Avoidance and Leech rating on gear gives half as much percent value as before, and we’ve reduced the amount of these stats given by most talents. Both stats, Avoidance in particular, are extremely effective against the damage non-tank players face. By the end of an expansion, the amount of Avoidance appearing on gear reduces so much damage that acquiring pieces with it can feel required to do the hardest content, particularly extremely high Mythic+ keys. By reducing the amount of value given per rating, our goal is for pieces with those stats to remain valuable, but for the gap between players with and without them to be closer.
• Reduced the percentage granted by Avoidance and Leech rating by 50%.
• The following Leech and Avoidance effects have also been reduced:
  • Death Knight
    • Lichborne now g...

Hello wielders of the elements!

Over the first few weeks of testing, we gathered a lot of feedback from you. Subsequently, we aligned that feedback with our design goals, and got to work.

We’ve been recently working through a package of updates for Shamans, and we can now confirm that we’ll have the majority of the changes implemented and ready for testing in the next Beta build, next week.

Before then, we intend to deploy some Beta tuning hotfixes for the class in the next couple of days. But please know that this tuning is not a part of the package coming next week.

Thank you for your testing and feedback!

I’ve updated the OP:

• Keystone levels +2 through +11 have the following affixes:
  • +2 Xal’atath’s Bargain affixes appear on a weekly rotation.
  • +4 Fortified or Tyrannical is active, alternating on a
    weekly rotation.
  • +7 Challenger’s Peril is active on all keystones.
  • +10 Tyrannical or Fortified is active, alternating on a
    weekly rotation.
  • +10 Tyrannical and Fortified are active.
    • The one that was not active at +4 that week becomes active at +10.

Greetings, dungeoneers!

This week’s Beta update includes major changes to the Mythic Keystone affix system in
The War Within, based on player feedback. Our primary goal with these updates is to refine the Mythic+ experience to better serve a diverse playerbase.

Previously, we approached Mythic Keystones with a one-size-fits-all approach, which proved challenging in striking the right balance and limited our design space.

In this new build, you will see significant shifts in our design philosophy. We recognize the importance of weekly variety for those progressing through the system. However, for players pushing high keys, this variance has sometimes felt restrictive. We’ve also heard your feedback about wanting affixes with both positive and negative effects, as well as a desire for thematic nods similar to past affixes.

This update to the affix system aims to meet those diverse expectations. We’re maintaining the core goals of our last round of cha...

June 21, 2024

Cataclysm Classic

• Shaman Fire Elementals will now prefer targets that have their master’s Flameshock active on them, and will switch to those targets over targets without their master’s Flameshock. This check occurs only once every several seconds, so may take a little time to occur.
• Temporarily removed the Elemental Shaman (2) Set Bonus on the Burning Crusade Tier 4 set.
  • Developer’s note: The 2 Piece Elemental Shaman Tier 4 bonus has a bug that existed in original Cataclysm, but was found later on in Warlords of Draenor. If this bonus were to remain in its bugged state, it would cause Elemental Shamans to wear 2 Pieces of The Burning Crusade tier for the entire expansion and we kind of like it when people have to progress their gear. Because the real fix we wish to do requires server restarts, we are removing the 2-set bonus off of the set for the weekend, and then placing it back after server...

June 21, 2024

WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria

• Fixed an issue causing Echo of Light from Holy Priest to scale incorrectly when there’s a level disparity.

PvP with the Blues is underway with playtesting the new battleground, Deephaul Ravine.

Deephaul Ravine

Deephaul Ravine is themed in The Ringing Deeps where the Foreman Uzjax and Architect Ruffious are tasked with collecting as much valuable ore, gems, and crystals fo...

The War Within Pre-Expansion PTR has been updated with the following:

CLASSES

• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Blood
    • New Talent: Bloodied Blade – Parrying an attack grants you a charge of Bloodied Blade, increasing your Strength by 0.5%, up to 4% for 15 seconds. At 8 stacks, your next parry consumes all charges to unleash a Heart Strike at 200% effectiveness, and increases your Strength by 10% for 6 seconds.
    • Several talents have moved around on the Blood tree.
  • Frost
    • Obliteration now has an additional effect – While Pillar of Frost is active it will now also increase the cost of your Frost Strike by up to 15 Runic Power to deal up to 52.5% additional damage.
  • Unholy
    • Foul Infections now correctly increases disease crit chance by a flat 5% (was previously multiplicative crit chance).
    • Unholy Blight is now ...

June 18, 2024

Cataclysm Classic

• Faster than the Speed of Light and Vigorous VanCleef Vindicator are now granted properly after completing the achievement.
• Archaeology Survey equipment should now appropriately despawn.

June 18, 2024

WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria

• Ensemble: Trailseeker’s Laminar Armor (White) now grants the correct set.

June 18, 2024

Dungeons and Raids

• Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr
  • Emberon
    • Fixed an issue where Purging Flames precast visual effect was not matching the spawn location of the beam.

This Friday, June 21, please join members of the World of Warcraft development team in PvP on The War Within Beta Test Realms as we playtest Deephaul Ravine. We came across some issues with queueing the battleground last week that we have since resolved, and want to get the map into players hands for feedback!

We’ll get underway at 3:00 p.m. PDT (5:00 p.m. CDT, 6:00 p.m. EDT) with an hour of playtesting. To playtest this with us, log onto the End Game Realm “These Go To Eleven”, which have max level character templates and access to various vendors. To queue up, open the Group Finder (default hotkey: i), then select Random Battlegrounds and click Join Battle. Deephaul Ravine will be the only battleground available for Random Battlegrounds on beta.

Before we get things rolling, we recommend taking some time to get your character setup properly for PvP combat. Please check out the various gear and profession vendors in Orgrimmar and Stormwind and utilize...