World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

We’ve identified an issue that is going to take some time to fix. Therefore:

• Brawl: Deepwind Dunk has been replaced with Brawl: Comp Stomp this week.

It will return to its normal slot next Brawl rotation.

August 27, 2024

Achievements

• Worm Theory is no longer missing its quest criteria.

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Deathbringer
    • An issue causing Painful Death to reduce the cost of Obliterate/Marrowrend by 2 Runes instead of 1 has been resolved.
  • Frost
    • Resolved an issue causing Frostwelp’s Aid talent to display 0%.
• Evoker
  • Chronowarden
    • Fixed an issue where Temporality and Motes of Acceleration talents would not function when Hover was cast mid-air.
• Hunter
  • Survival
    • Grenade Juggler Explosive Shot procs no longer proc from Explosive Shot.
    • Grenade Juggler now procs from Wildfire Bomb casts rather than on damage dea...

Greetings, Alchemists!

We have been closely monitoring feedback and the experience with Alchemy in The War Within and are working on a series of adjustments to improve the overall experience that we intend to push live within the next day or so. The below list includes most of our planned adjustments, but any additional bug fixes or improvements will be noted in the hotfix logs once the changes have been finalized and pushed to live. Since some of these changes may impact immediate decision making, we wanted to inform the community as soon as possible.

• Algari Potion Cauldrons and Algari Flask Cauldrons will no longer cost Artisan’s Acuity as part of their recipe.
• Algari Potion Cauldron charges will be increased to 80 (up from 40) and the cost increased to compensate.
• Meticulous Experimentation will have its cost and cooldown increased, however it will guarantee a new recipe when crafted.
• Wild Experimentation’s success and failure chance...

Later this week, we will open the Season of Discovery PTR for testing Blackwing Lair and Zul’Gurub.

We intend to open the raids for testing at 10:00 a.m. PDT (1:00 p.m. EDT) on Friday, August 30. So that testers can get set up, we will have:

• Character copy and template characters available
• Most Molten Core loot available from vendors
• The usual consumables and world buffs available

Please note that we want to be as flexible as possible with ending raid testing. We may need to bring the raids down at any time over the weekend, so we recommend you try to get in and test on Friday or Saturday if you plan to participate.

We’ll open feedback threads for testers’ use on Friday at Noon. See you there!

As players have jumped into The War Within and begun leveling up, we’ve seen data and heard a great deal of feedback that players coming into Khaz Algar with endgame Dragonflight gear were extremely powerful relative to that initial content. It is entirely intended that effort put into gearing translates into a significant combat advantage at the start of a new expansion, but the values we’ve been seeing are extreme, often not even allowing time for normal combat rotations. This disparity also caused mixed-level groups to experience skewed results, with lower-level players contributing drastically more than level 80s. Tomorrow, Wednesday, August 28, we’re going to apply hotfixes to the game to address this.

The hotfixes will adjust the scaling of enemies in War Within leveling content to increase the power of lower-level enemies, bringing the duration of combat more in line with expected WoW behavior. These changes will be most noticeable at level 70, and will have a reduced ...

On Wednesday, August 28, we’re going to deploy a hotfix that we want to precede with some advance notice.

Along with all of the new Hero Talents and updates to classes and specializations in The War Within, the power values of some Dragonflight tier set bonuses have remained relevant in level 80 end-game content. We don’t want anyone to feel obligated to go do the previous expansion’s content for upgrades. We do want players to graduate out of their Dragonflight gear with the new content.

On Wednesday, we will disable all Dragonflight tier set bonuses when your character reaches level 80. They will still aid you throughout leveling, but will cease to function when your character hits level 80.

Thank you!

HOTFIXES

August 29, 2024

Characters

• Fixed an issue where Chasm Makers in Azj-Kahet could get stuck in combat.

Classes

• Demon Hunter
  • Aldrachi Reaver
    • Fixed an issue with Art of the Glaive not respecting line-of-sight.
    • Fixed an issue with Preemptive Strike not respecting line-of-sight.
• Evoker
  • Preservation
    • Fixed an issue where Lifespark and Call of Ysera were incorrectly increasing the healing of Living Flames cast by Afterimage and Leaping Flames if the buff was active when they occurred.
• ...

Happy War Within Launch!

Now available in The War Within:

• Heroic Dungeons
• Honor Vendorlist (and currency conversion of Dragonflight Honor/Conquest)

And with first weekly reset (about 17 hours from now), you’ll see the introduction of the following:

• Profession Sparks
• Weekly PvP Quest
• Profession Weekly Knowledge gains
• Zone Weekly wrapper quests, Delves Weekly wrapper quest, Worldsoul Memories Weekly wrapper quest
• Awakening the Machine scenario
• Worldsoul: Spreading the Light
• Notoriety with Severed Threads leaders

The requisite achievement is this one:

And that fourth storyline chapter will become available on September 3 in this region.

August 23, 2024
Cataclysm Classic

• Fixed an issue preventing Darkmoon Faire quests from resetting as expected.
• Darkmoon Faire quests now reset weekly.
  • Developers’ notes: This means that, each Darkmoon Faire holiday, players will have two chances to complete each of these quests.

August 23, 2024
Season of Discovery

• Firelands Embers and Emerald Chips now stack to 2500.
  • Developers’ notes: Hang on to these currencies, as new items will be made available for purchase in the next major patch.
• Nightmare Incursion boss experience has been reduced by 50%.
• Bosses in Molten Core should no longer spin around and face random raid members on higher Heat difficulties.

August 23, 2024

Classes

• Priest
  • Shadow
    • Fixed an issue causing Void Tendrils from Idol of C’Thun to attack enemies not in combat with the Priest.

Delves

• Brann should no longer sometimes get stuck flying his gryphadin into a wall.
• Tak-Rethan Abyss
  • Fixed an issue where air bubbles created by rescuing the Preserved Niffen would not stick around.

Events

• Corrected an issue with the Theater Troupe Audience Approval rewards not being granted by the Theater Troupe event in The Proscenium.

Professions

• Enchanting
  • Disabled Enchanting weekly quests that were unintentionally available for the first day of Early Access.
    • Developers’ notes: We’ve disabled...

This unexpected behavior was due to a bug that we have now fixed. It should not happen again.

We will now create and deploy an adjustment for affected players. This will not be a step that we can take immediately, but once we’re ready, we will remove the errant renown and rewards.