World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

On Monday, July 31, 2023, we intend to open the following Free Transfers from realms that were created to alleviate massive queues in August, 2022:

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Hello everyone. Here are today’s hotfixes:

JULY 28, 2023

Achievements

• Embers of Neltharion should now properly display all required criteria.

Classes

• Hunter
  • Beast Mastery and Survival
    • Fixed an issue where Ebon Might from an Augmentation Evoker did not properly increase the damage of Kill Command.

Dungeons and Raids

• Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
  • Improved the visibility on Whisper in the Dark’s Umbral Torrent to better match its area of effect.
  • Echo of Neltharion
    • The ...

Hello testers.

The Headless Horseman who terrorizes the denizens of Azeroth during the Hallow’s End event has had his dungeon encounter updated. You can now increase the difficulty of the encounter by speaking to the Wicker men at the dungeon’s entrance to enable extra mechanics. These curses are not party wide and afflict only those who enable them.

We’ve added the updated event dungeon to the PTR for testing over the next two weeks. Jump into the Dungeon Finder to queue for the Headless Horseman event on the PTR and share your feedback in this thread as you make your way through this limited time event dungeon.

Thank you for testing!

The below PvP class adjustments will be applied to the live game with next week’s maintenance starting on August 1.

Player versus Player

• Death Knight
  • Frost
    • Fixed an issue that caused Pillar of Frost’s stacking Strength to not be properly reduced in PvP combat.
    • Frost Strike damage is now increased by 67% in PvP combat (was 45%).
    • Obliterate damage is now increased by 20% in PvP combat (was 15%).
    • Obliterate damage is now increased by 75% when Killing Machine is not active in PvP combat (was 60%).
  • Unholy
    • Developer’s note: We have been monitoring our changes to Unholy this season and feel the damage they bring is slightly higher than our intent. The primary adjustment here is through Festermight which can cause high variance in burst at high stacks. This is consistent with our original goal of reducing burst and focusing...

July 27, 2023

Classes

• Evoker
  • Augmentation
    • Oppressing Roar no longer increases the duration of Breath of Eons while talented into Perilous Fate.

Dungeons and Raids

• Neltharus
  • Burning Chains no longer affect creatures outside of the Smoldering Barracks.

Professions

• Blacksmithing
  • Fixed an issue where the Shadowed Impact Buckler had a higher crafting difficulty than intended.

Quests

• The turn-in for “Hochenblume Harvest” should now...

While today’s new PTR build is mostly focused on bugfixes, we want to share some other adjustments that we’re working on for Classic Era 1.14.4.

• We plan to test a “Coward!” debuff for players who flee a Duel to the Death. We’re adding bespoke logic to this debuff, to help ensure that you cannot gain it while under the effects of crowd control.

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July 27, 2023

Build: 50643

Bug Fixes

PvP/Battlegrounds

• Added a Preparation phase to the beginning of battleground matches in Arathi Basin, Warsong Gulch, and Alterac Valley. During this Preparation phase and before the gates open to begin the battleground, the mana cost of all abilities is reduced by 100%.
  • Developers’ notes: We’d like to encourage teams to buff each other during preparation and this should help with that. Additionally, we’ve disabled the Blink spell in Preparation. Bl...

Cross Realm Trading was recently re-enabled. Thank you for your patience.

Hello. Here are the latest:

July 26, 2023

Dungeons and Raids

• Dawn of the Infinite
  • Fixed an issue where where players protected by Cloak of Shadows or Aspect of the Turtle could still be hit by Displacement and expelled from the Bronze Temple.
• Neltharus
  • Resolved an issue that would sometimes cause Chargath to take no actions after casting Fiery Focus.
  • Fixed a bug that allowed Qalashi Warden’s Volcanic Guard to sometimes change direction.

Player versus Player

• Items
  • Paracausal Fragment of Doomhammer damage reduced by 60% in PvP combat.
  ...

Season of Mastery realms have remained available for login since we first closed off gameplay months ago.

They will be removed from the realm list in-game on Friday, July 28.

If you still have a character that you wish to move for free from a Season of Mastery realm, please do so immediately.

Season of Mastery realms will become permanently unavailable on July 28.

Thank you!

The Fury Incarnate PTR has been updated. See the changes below:

CLASSES

• DRUID
  • Restoration
    • New Talent: Master Shapeshifter – Your abilities are amplified based on your current shapeshift form, granting an additional effect.
      • Bear Form – Ironfur grants 30% additional armor and generates 2,500 mana (at level 70).
      • Cat Form – Rip, Ferocious Bite, and Maim deal 60% additional damage and generate 10,000 mana (at level 70) when cast with 5 combo points.
      • Moonkin Form – Wrath, Starfire, and Starsurge deal 30% additional damage and generate 2,500 mana (at level 70).
    • New Talent: Grove Guardians – Summons a Treant which will immediately cast Swiftmend on your current target. The Treant will cast Nourish on that target or a nearby ally periodically. Lasts 15 seconds. Maximum 3 charges. Replaces Nourish.
    • Wild Synthesis has been updated – If talented int...

All final PvP changes are here. Please note that a previously proposed Beast Mastery change was struck and will not be implemented.

Player versus Player [With weekly maintenance in each region]

• Fixed an issue allowing Turnip Punching Bag to be usable in battlegrounds.
• Druid
  • Balance
    • New Moon, Half Moon, Full Moon no longer deal increased damage in PvP (was 20%).
    • Owlkin Adept (PvP Talent) now reduces cast time by 10% (was 15%).
    • High Winds (PvP Talent) now reduces the targets healing and damage by 15% for 3 seconds (was 30% for 6 seconds).
    • Umbral Embrace now increases damage of Wrath or Starfire by 15% in PvP (was 20%).
    • Eclipse (Solar) gained from Celestial Alignment and Incarnation: Chosen of Elune increases Nature damage dealt in PvP by 10% (was 15%).
    • Eclipse (Lunar) gained from Celestial Alignment and Incarnation: Chosen of Elune i...

JULY 24, 2023

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Fixed some issues around the general interactions of Death Knight’s Desecration with its targets.

Today’s update:

July 24, 2023

Classes [With weekly maintenance in each region]

• Death Knight
  • Blood
    • All ability damage increased by 10%.
• Druid
  • Guardian
    • Ursoc’s Fury absorb shield reduced to 50% of damage dealt by Thrash and Maul (was 60%).
• Evoker
  • Augmentation
  • Developers’ notes: Augmentation is overperforming in dungeons and is doing less direct damage than intended relative to the power of their buffing effects. These adjustments will increase their personal damage i...