World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

In this thread, please discuss ongoing changes to the Hunter class in the Guardians of the Dream PTR.

Beast Mastery

Aspect of the Wild and Call of the Wild have struggled to be compelling choices during Dragonflight. Both of these cooldowns were competing for similar design space to make you and your pets feel stronger in a way that feels different than Bestial Wrath. After evaluating these abilities, we have decided to replace Aspect of the Wild entirely and convert it into passive options on the talent tree.

The removal of Aspect of the Wild allows us to double down on Call of the Wild being a strong pet summoning cooldown for the Beast Mastery spec. We’re also lowering the number of talent points in the Thrill of the Hunt and Dire Comma...

In this thread, please discuss ongoing changes to the Warlock class in the Guardians of the Dream PTR.

Affliction

• Grand Warlock’s Design has been redesigned – Summon Darkglare cooldown is reduced by 30 seconds.

Demonology

Demonology’s damage profile is currently too reliant on Nether Portal and Tyrant windows. In Guardians of the Dream, we’re redistributing this power to other parts of Demonology’s rotation and decoupling the synergy between these two cooldowns so that they can stand on their own rather than ...

In this thread, please discuss ongoing changes to the Rogue class in the Guardians of the Dream PTR.

In Guardians of the Dream, we’re updating all four Rogue talent trees to bring them up to current standards. A sweeping pass was needed to make significant adjustments to address notable concerns, like: moving the first gate from row 3 to row 4 to match all other classes; improving pathing and increasing interconnectedness on every tree; removing 3-point nodes; and reducing the percentage of minor DPS talents taken in the Class tree to make room for more flavorful and robust utility options.

We also want to use the opportunity where so many things are changing to rework or redesign some talents that needed the update, and also just to make some new talents to experience and (hopefully) enjoy.

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In this thread, please discuss ongoing changes to the Priest class in the Guardians of the Dream PTR.

Changes are coming in Guardians of the Dream that will have an impact on Haste in group play. Power Infusion grants you and another target 25% bonus Haste for 20 seconds, with a 2-minute cooldown. This injection of Haste significantly amplifies a few specs by a large amount when combined with their own personal cooldowns. We don’t want to take away the noticeable gameplay feel of Power Infusion, but we feel that we should reduce the value and duration of it slightly.

A few specs can stack multiple cooldowns and bonuses that really increase their damage during cooldown windows, and they also scale very well with Haste. We’re making changes to Demonology Warlocks and Unholy Death Knight talents and cooldowns to lessen the combined value of stacking everything together. This should reduce the peaks of damage output during cooldown windows, and should increase their sustai...

In this thread, please discuss ongoing changes to the Druid class in the Guardians of the Dream PTR.

Balance

In Guardians of the Dream, we’d like to diversify Balance’s talent builds in different content and provide more viable options.

Wild Mushrooms was too expensive to compete with other talent options, so we combined it and Fungal Growth into a single point. Wild Mushrooms is now a choice node with a revised Orbital Strike that is no longer tied to Celestial Alignment – you can choose the steady damage of Wild Mushrooms or a less frequent, big burst of damage with Orbital Strike.

We also removed the conflict between maintaining Rattle the Stars and maximizing Starlord – we like the “save resources and spend during Eclipse” gameplay of Balan...

Healers have a lot of decisions and resources to manage that change depending on the type of content you are doing. At its core, we want healers to have interesting abilities and choices to make while healing, and we want you to have to manage your mana pool. We’re hoping our changes reduce the amount of overhealing and make mana matter slightly more, which should make healing across the game a more enjoyable experience.

Single target healing spells currently don’t feel like they move the health bar enough. We want these heals to be impactful and have a purpose, and hope this makes healing a Mythic+ dungeon less stressful for healers.

Group healing spells have seen a lot of modifications and increases to their total throughput over the course of Dragonflight. These spells often feel like they are rapidly increasing a raid from a damaged state to a full health state. We plan on adjusting the effectiveness of many of these spells.

Raid survivability cooldowns feel...

We consider the flow of testing, feedback, final design, and adjustments to be crucial to the success of an addition to the game as impactful as new class sets. In Guardians of the Dream, set bonuses will have a more significant impact on talent builds than sets in previous seasons. As you test the new class sets in the Guardians of the Dream PTR and provide your feedback here, please review the following guidelines.

To make a feedback post here, please provide:

• The class and specialization being discussed
• The game content type being referred-to (raiding, M+ dungeons, PvP)
• When and where you feel like your set bonuses will be the most and least useful
• Some sort of feeling about the above (positive, negative, indifferent)

The types of feedback posts that are most useful include all of the above, and might also detail:

• How bonuses may not have their expected value, given how the class is often played
• Ho...

Guardians of the Dream features all new Tier Set armor for every class. We’re excited to share them with you today.

Please note that the designs and values below are a work in progress. When these sets are ready for testing, the Guardians of the Dream PTR may include values that are older than what you see here, and values may be updated on the PTR with changes to these sets via hotfix at any time.

Class Set Design

In the Guardians of the Dream update, set bonuses can interact with or modify talents anywhere on the talent tree. We expect them to shake up some builds that you’ve been using, enable entirely new builds, or further augment some high-powered abilities as you gear up in Season 3.

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Our first venture into a solo rated PvP in World of Warcraft was Solo Shuffle. Following its success, we’re now looking to experiment with a format we’re calling “Battleground Blitz”, for solo queue Rated Battlegrounds.

Battleground Blitz is an 8v8 solo queue Battleground experience, and our first foray into what could potentially become solo queue rated battlegrounds in the future. We learned a lot from Solo Shuffle that informed the gameplay considerations of battlegrounds in a solo queue environment for this brawl, which will be discussed here.

Design Considerations

We’ve been happy with how Solo Shuffle lowered the barrier to entry in rated Arenas and served as an accessible PvP game mode. The biggest obstacle we faced ...

Welcome to the Guardians of the Dream PTR! This forum is here to provide you with a friendly environment where you can discuss the Guardians of the Dream PTR with other players.

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To provide more transparency on the actions we take against cheating and exploitation, here is a breakdown on the number of actions that were taken over the last month, August 2023:

Total Exploitative WoW Account Actions in August 2023: 145566

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.

With hotfixes that went live a few hours ago, Mechagon should be fixed up.

Today,

WoW Classic Hardcore

• The String of Ears buff earned for Mak’gora kills now persists through death.
• Developers’ notes: This will allow the new Classic API to report the correct Mak’gora kill count for deceased characters.

September 6, 2023

Classes

• Evoker
  • Preservation
    • Rescue will no longer cause Verdant Embrace to be placed on cooldown if used while Flow State is active.

Items

• The Whirring Chainblade now has its appropriate minimum level required.
• Engineering
  • Fixed a bug that caused Chromatically Calibrated engineering goggles to require level 58 to transmogrify.

Quests

• The Legend of Mechagon can now be properly completed by all characters.

WoW Classic Hardcore

• The String of Ears buff earned for Mak’gora kills now persists through death.
• Developers’ notes: This will allow the new Classic API to report the correct Mak’gora kill count for deceased characters.

Hello.

The original bug that reduced the number of polished pet charms in Dragonflight was fixed soon after it was discovered. The charm rewards for Dragonflight quests should be back to where they were before that bug occurred.

We hear your desire for more sources of pet charms, and we’re currently looking into ways we can do that, though we’re not ready to announce any yet.

Thank you for the feedback!

In case you missed it, running now through the end of the game week on Tuesday morning, Ulduar raid Timewalking is available.

To get started, join a raid group and head to Dalaran. In the middle of Dalaran, Vormu has a quest for you that rewards a Heroic raid level piece of gear and a hefty 500 Timewarped Badges. All of the usual bonus rewards are also in play, such as pets and mounts. And Vormu can also teleport you to Ulduar.

Then all you have to do is kill Yogg-Saron!

Do you want to find a snowman?

September 5, 2023

Events

• Secrets of Azeroth
  • Fixed an issue that was causing the quest “Using the Idol” to not show up after you completed “An Idol in Hand.”

Quests

• Fixed an issue where credit was not being assigned correctly for the final objective in “Urgent Exfiltration.”