World of Warcraft Dev Tracker

In response to player feedback and internal data, we’ve developed the following class tuning changes to address several over- and under-performing classes.

These adjustments will be applied to the live game with scheduled weekly maintenance on Tuesday, July 25 in this region.

Classes

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 d...

JULY 20, 2023

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Fixed an issue where certain spells were not removing the effects of Piercing Shots, Ignite, or Deep Wounds from a target.

Hello! Here are the latest hotfixes:

JULY 20, 2023

Classes

• Paladin
  • Protection
    • Fixed an issue with Tirion’s Devotion causing free Word of Glory casts to grant excessive cooldown reduction.

Customizations

• Fixed a bug that could prevent players from being able to change the customization state of their Renewed Proto Drake.

Events

• Iskaara Community Feast

  • Vendors Hanu and Tikukk should now display their vendor windows to players on associated tasks, even if the players have bought all renown items from them.
  • Patchu should no longer hide his gossip option to purchase feast items from players that are in the middle of certain pet training questlines.

• Time Rifts

  • Resolved ...

July 20, 2023
Build: 50547

Testing Focus

With our build update today, we’ve brought the WoW Classic Hardcore PTR realm back online. We encourage testers to resume their adventures on this realm. Please don’t forget to report any issues you see using the in-game Bug Reporter!

Bug Fixes and Adjustments

• Hardcore Realms – General
  • Fixed a bug that allowed players to resurrect dead hardcore characters that were logged out for a certain amount of time in rested XP areas.
  • Fixed an issue that sometimes allowed players to die in a normal Duel.
  • A new art unique art Duel to the Death flag asset has been added to WoW Classic Hardcore.
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As you can see, we’ve updated the title and OP in this thread.

We appreciate everyone’s participation in our Brawl with the Blues event last Friday.

We got a lot of great data from that playtest, and even discovered two major issues that we were able to identify and fix due directly to everyone’s participation.

We previously planned to hold another Brawl with the Blues event tomorrow, but we need some more time to work on our algorithms, so we’re now planning to hold the next playtest on August 4, 2023 at 02:00 p.m. PDT.

The WoW Classic team wants to again stress how appreciative we are for your assistance in helping us make this new Honor system the best it can be.

Here are today’s hotfixes:

JULY 19, 2023

Achievements

• The Draconically Superior and Draconically Epic achievements should now only be granted to players who earned them.

Classes

• Evoker
  • Augmentation
    • Fixed an issue causing Time Skip’s animation to occasionally freeze.
    • Fixed an issue that allowed Prescience to be able to be cast on pets and guardians.
• Mage
  • Arcane
    • Fixed an issue that caused Concentrated Power to make the echoed Arcane Explosion deal more damage than intended.
  ...

Hello everyone. Here are this week’s changes to the Fury Incarnate PTR:

DRAGONRIDING

• CHALLENGE COURSE
  • As you adventure across the Dragon Isles, test your dragonriding race skills with the new Challenge Course. How well can you fare without resource generation?
  • New Challenge Courses in each zone will unlock weekly, first in the Waking Shores, then Ohn’ahran Plains, the Azure Span, Thaldraszus, the Forbidden Reach, and finally Zaralek Cavern. Once unlocked, each set of courses will remain permanently available.
    • Developers note: Challenge courses are now available in the Waking Shores and Ohn’ahran Plains.

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

• DEMON HUNTER
  • Vengeance
    • Illidan’s Grasp has been redesigned – You strangle the target with demonic magic, stunning them in place and dealing Shadow damag...

UPDATED JULY 20

Thank you to everyone who participated in our Brawl with the Blues event last week. It was a lot of fun and it was great to jump in and get schooled by all of you.

Thanks to you, we identified a bug in the new system that was preventing HKs from properly granting Honor in real time. We now believe that we’ve fixed that bug.

To make sure we’ve got everything fixed, we’d like for you to join us again on Friday, August 4 for Brawl with the Blues Part Two, to help us gather more data and to everything is working as expected at scale.

As with our last Brawl, we plan to have some fun with things*.

We’ll see you on the PvP test realm at 2:00 p.m. PDT on Friday, August 4.

*We heard Onyxia deep breathes more in Arathi Basin, but we weren’t able to verify to voracity of these claims during our last test, so we’ll need to look more clos...

JULY 18, 2023

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Titan Rune Dungeons - Protocol Alpha and Beta
  • Azure Ring Captains will no longer proc mirror images.
  • Mage-Lord Urom will no longer have mirror images proc when Empowered Arcane Explosion is cast.

JULY 18, 2023

Classes

• Druid
  • Balance
    • Fixed a bug that could cause Shooting Stars to hit enemies not affected by Moonfire or Sunfire.
• Evoker
  • Augmentation
    • Spatial Paradox now increases the range of melee spells for Paladins, Monks, and Druids. It now also increases the radius of Ancient Teachings and Stampeding Roar while it is active.
    • A single player may now only benefit from a maximum of 4 each of the Ebon Might, Prescience, and Shifting Sands effects.
    • Breath of Eons can no longer proc the Fate Mirror effect.
• Mage [With weekly restarts]
  • Developers’ notes: Mage AoE damage is generally trending a little higher than we’re comfortable with after the most recent update. We’re planning to make a few targeted ...

We’re bringing the PTR down in the next few minutes, so that we can deploy some fixes to it – primarily we’re going to apply a fix for the issue where players aren’t receiving Honor as expected.

The Honor that testers will receive should be a rough estimate and not accurate, however, further Honor gains in the test environment should be accurately counted.

We expect to bring the PTR back online later this evening.

Added to OP:

Holy Paladin is overperforming in all content in Fractures of Time. We are targeting a global decrease of healing and damage as we are not looking to change preferred playstyles, but Tyr’s Deliverance will also be receiving additional adjustments as this talent in particular has been more effective than we would like.

Holy Paladins’ mana pools have been more plentiful than we would like in PvP. We’re targeting their base Mana regeneration to encourage player engagement with the variety of mana talents available.

Paladin

Holy

• All healing decreased by 8%.
• All damage decreased by 12%.
• Tyr’s Deliverance healing decreased by 15%.
• PvP
  • Holy Paladins now re...

Today, the WoW Community Council met with World of Warcraft developers Ion Hazzikostas and Graham Berger to talk about Dragonflight content.

Please feel free to keep the discussion going here, if you have any follow-up questions or comments on what was discussed.

Thank you!

Hotfixes

JULY 20, 2023

Classes

• Paladin
  • Protection
    • Fixed an issue with Tirion’s Devotion causing free Word of Glory casts to grant excessive cooldown reduction.

Customizations

• Fixed a bug that could prevent players from being able to change the customization state of their Renewed Proto Drake.

Events

• Iskaara Community Feast

  • Vendors Hanu and Tikukk should now display their vendor windows to players on associated tasks, even if the players have bought all renown items from them.
  • Patchu shou...

We wanted to give everyone a heads up regarding an upcoming change to the Echoing Tyrstone, the healing trinket from the Dawn of the Infinite mega-dungeon. The heal currently restores all nearby allies for a flat amount, but with this change will be split among the targets within its radius and deals increased healing based on how many targets received it. And with the heal now being split among those targets, we’ve also increased the amount of healing that can be recorded by 70%.

We are making this change as we’ve seen this trinket performing strongly in raids to the point of competing with major class cooldowns, but its performance overall is varied based largely on how many people are with the healer. We’re hoping that this change to its functionality will help stabilize its performance in both dungeons and raids so that it doesn’t under, or over perform as much as it currently does.

Cross Realm Trading has been temporarily disabled while we address an issue causing realm instability. An update will be provided when this feature is re-enabled. Thank you for your patience.