Each week we’ll look ahead to what’s in store for World of Warcraft, share the latest news, and keep you in the know byte by byte.
The Final Surge for the September Trading Post is now active. It’s a good time to make a final push, fill the bar in your Traveler’s Log, and collect the Crusty Crawler’s Mount—before things get ghastly for October’s Trading Post.
News and Events This Week
Embrace your piratical side or show off your class pride with this month’s Trading Post offerings. You’ll be able to sidle up to any adventure with this month’s signature item—the Crusty Crawler mount.
Visit T&W** (Tawney and Wilder) just outside the Mage District in Stormwind or the Zen’shiri Trading Post next to Grommash Hold in Orgrimmar to check out all the latest items*** they have available.
This month, new activities are available to help players catch up on their activity bar. These events will begin one week before the end of the month.
Hello Mistweavers!
We have a few updates planned for Guardians of the Dream and we’d like to share some of our thoughts here.
Mistweaver is squishier than we would like, particularly for a primarily melee-based healer, and its defensive toolkit is based mainly around active spell use. We don’t feel it’s appropriate to ask Mistweavers to actively manage nearly every part of their defensive kit to play at the highest level, so we want to explore passivity for Healing Elixir.
We also agree there is room for improvement with the current updated passive design and players can expect updates in upcoming PTR builds that are intended to provide va...
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We’ve deployed an update to the 3.4.3 PTR.
Build: 51470
We’ve received a lot of feedback and bug reports from Icecrown Citadel testing, and we plan to have one more raid test next week from Tuesday, September 26 at 10:00 a.m. PDT to Friday, September 29 at 5:00 p.m. PDT.
We’ll post an update with bug fixes and other adjustments specific to Icecrown Citadel sometime early next week.
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Events
Fixed an issue that prevented Keg-Shaped Treasure Chest from being awarded to players below level 70.
Quests
The weekly Time Rifts quest “When Time Needs Mending” can now be completed in a raid.
Demon Hunter talent updates will be starting to roll in as they become ready, starting with Havoc tree changes in this week’s PTR build. In some cases, talents may be missing or marked as a work in progress [WIP], but there are enough changes to the Havoc tree and individual talents that we’d like to get it in players’ hands to begin gathering feedback. Vengeance and Class tree changes are coming soon.
Here are this week’s updates to the Guardians of the Dream PTR:
BATTLEGROUND BLITZ BRAWL
CLASSES
On Friday, September 22, starting at 4:00 p.m. PDT, come join members of the World of Warcraft development team on the Iridikron PTR realm as we playtest the new Superbloom public events that are being added in the Guardians of the Dream update.
The Superbloom is the new major public scenario event in the Emerald Dream. You will follow an Ancient of Life, Sprucecrown, as he begins a ritual to bloom life all around Amirdrassil, the budding world tree. He will need your help with various tasks along the way, such as watering flowers and pulling weeds. But danger also awaits, as the Primalists will not stand idly by while we empower the tree with life.
The event begins at the start of the hour, every hour. For the purposes of this PTR playtest, we’re going to be starting at 4:00 p.m., so we encourage you to log on at 3:45 to prepare your character and get setup!
In addition to the Superbloom, there are other public events that will also be active during this playte...
Read moreIn the Guardians of the Dream patch, there are some new public events that feed into each other in the Emerald Dream zone.
The Superbloom is the new major public scenario event in the Emerald Dream. You will follow an Ancient of Life, Sprucecrown, as he begins a ritual to bloom life all around Amirdrassil, the budding world tree. He will need your help with various tasks along the way, such as watering flowers and pulling weeds. But danger also awaits, as the Primalists will not stand idly by while we empower the tree with life.
The event begins at the start of the hour, every hour.
Dreamfruit
As Sprucecrown conducts his ritual, some trees will grow which bear large Dreamfruit. These Dreamfru...
Read moreWe’ve ended this ICC test period, and we’re planning to open the raid for a third round of testing next week, after we’ve implemented fixes that we’re working on. We’ll open ICC again on Tuesday, September 26 at 10:00 a.m. PDT, and conclude that test period at 5:00 p.m. PDT on Friday, September 29.
Thank you very much for your testing and feedback and bug reports.
The current PvP season in Wrath Classic is ending soon. The evening before weekly maintenance, at 10:00 p.m. (October 2 in this region), Season 7 will end. There will be an off-season period until the 3.4.3 patch goes live.
The 3.4.3 patch will then mark the beginning of Season 8 on October 10 in this region.
Have a good fight to the finish!
“First celebrated by the dwarves, Brewfest now holds appeal among all the races of Azeroth!”
Do you love eating delicious food, drinking bountiful beverages, and riding rams around barrels of apples? Brewfest has arrived, and you can do all that and more from September 20–October 6.
September 20–October 6
Ironforge Entrance (Alliance), Orgrimmar Entrance (Horde), Valdrakken
Completing quests and activities on the Brewfest grounds will generally reward you with Brewfest Prize Tokens. These are used to purchase most of the items you will find on sale at Brewfest.
Brewfest com...
Read moreA hotfix has been deployed to address this issue.
Thank you for your reports!
September 19, 2023
WoW Classic Era
September 19, 2023
Quests
WoW Classic Era
Confirming that the issue was resolved at about 11:30 a.m. PDT, and we’re seeing all realms with players logging in as expected.
Have a good day!
We’re continuing to work on this priority issue. We don’t have an ETA for a fix yet.
Hoist sail and make way for Booty Bay because Pirate’s Day begins September 19! A WoW Classic version of Pirate's Day will also be available for hardy heroes wishing to embrace the pirate's life.
Pirates have taken over the goblin town of Booty Bay, and Captain DeMeza is recruiting any scurvy dog she can into her buccaneer ranks. Visit her or her henchmen in the capital cities if the pirate’s life is for you!
Feeling out of place in Booty Bay without a proper costume? Don’t worry. /Dance one little jig with the Dread Captain DeMeza, and she’ll be impressed enough to press you into her crew and outfit you properly. If you get attached to your new look, you can do the quest ...
Read moreAt the beginning of the Alterac Valley bonus weekend in Classic Era, we had a bug that prevented some bonus Honor from being properly awarded. That bug was fixed 1-2 days into the weekend (depending on your region).
As a result, we’re extending AV weekend on all Classic Era realms, so that it will continue to run until the Warsong Gulch weekend starts on Friday.
Take no prisoners!
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