Hotfixes

JUNE 15, 2022

Dungeons and Raids

• Sepulcher of the First Ones
  • Halondrus
    • Fixed an issue causing Planetcracker Beams to be invisible during the final stage.
• Theater of Pain
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent Putrid Butcher’s Devour Flesh from being cast.

JUNE 14, 2022

Creatures and NPCs

• It is no longer possible to see two Tess Greymane NPCs in The Hall of Shadows.

Quests

• Fixed an issue that allowed the mirror to be entered before completing “Through Glass,” causing the player to have to return to the quest starting location to turn in.
• Vial of Wracking Poison will once again apply the Wracking Poison weapon effect during the quest “The Power of Poison.”

JUNE 13, 2022

Achievements

• Credit for the Path of Ascension achievement To the Moon should now be granted consistently.

Dungeons and Raids

• Sepulcher of the First Ones
  • Rygelon
    • Fixed an issue where players could incidentally consume two Collapsing Quasar Fields that overlap.

Quests

• Fixed an issu...

As Patch 9.2.5 unlocks cross-server Mythic Sepulcher, and as we move into the later months of the tier, the team wants to continue to smooth out pain points for both progression and repeat kills on several bosses in the zone. Including this round of changes, we’ve made quite a few adjustments to Sepulcher in recent weeks, so we wanted to share a bit more context around our goals.

We’ve heard extensive feedback from players running Sepulcher on all difficulties that a number of mechanics in Sepulcher feel too unforgiving, and that there are just too many places where a single error by a single player can cause an unrecoverable wipe. We agree, and several of our recent changes have been aimed at reducing those penalties. This is a major topic of discussion within the team as we plan Dragonflight raid encounters and focus on delivering satisfying progression experiences for players on all raid difficulties.

Below are the changes that will be included in 9.2.5 next week during maintenance,...

Please use this thread for feedback and bug reports regarding the new Mythic+ seasonal affix, Shrouded. Providing your group’s composition, keystone level, and any logs is helpful.

New Mythic+ Seasonal Affix – Shrouded

Nathrezim infiltrators have disguised themselves among the enemies throughout the dungeon. Cartel Ta will reward you handsomely for assisting in their capture.

Thank you for coming to help test the new affix!

The Season 4 Mythic+ Affix is now available for testing on the PTR.

SHADOWLANDS SEASON 4

• Mythic+
  • New Seasonal Affix: Shrouded – Nathrezim infiltrators have disguised themselves among the enemies throughout the dungeon. Cartel Ta will reward you handsomely for assisting in their capture.
  • New Dungeon Rotation
    • Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
    • Tazavesh: So’leah’s Gambit
    • Operation Mechagon: Junkyard
    • Operation Mechagon: Workshop
    • Return to Karazhan: Lower
    • Return to Karazhan: Upper
    • Iron Docks
    • Grimrail Depot

We’ve received and agreed with a lot of feedback about the color scheme for the Keystone Master mount for Season 4. It did look too similar to the Season 2 Soultwisted Deathwalker mount.

Our art team has updated it so that the colors are more unique, like the other Keystone Master mounts. Here’s a preview for you:

Let us know what you think, and thanks again for all of the feedback that led to the Season 4 Deathwalker getting its new appearance.

Hello Collectors!

To help you on your trip to obtaining the Violet Proto-Drake mount, we have a hotfix in the works that removes the School of Hard Knocks requirement for the Children’s Week achievement For the Children. This hotfix should be deployed soon and will be noted in the hotfixes update.

The 9.2.5 PTR has been updated with following:

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

• The Enigma Arena has returned to the PTR with a new name: Enigma Crucible.
  • Developers’ note: Our intention was to release this map with a unique mechanic, a central button that allowed players to manipulate the pillar configuration throughout the match. Unfortunately, we encountered challenges during implementation that would have resulted in a poor quality experience. While we continue to work on this arena’s unique mechanic and evaluate it for a future release, we’ve decided to go forward with a version of the Arena that has a single pillar configuration that remains locked throughout the match.

Hello everyone! Here are the notes for this week’s PTR update:

ACHIEVEMENTS

• All Covenant Sanctum feature achievements are now visible and count towards your character’s total achievement points, regardless of which covenant your character currently belongs to. Nonetheless, all characters must belong to a Covenant to earn that Covenant’s specific achievements.

ITEMS AND REWARDS

• Reward boxes from Callings now contain twice as many Grateful Offerings, still scaling with your covenant sanctum’s Anima Conductor level.
• The Zereth Mortis weekly quest “Patterns Within Patterns” now awards Grateful Offerings.

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

• Enigma Arena has been temporarily disabled.
• Death Knight
  • Anti-Magic Zone’s spell damage reduction increased to 50% (was 20%) in PvP Combat.
  • Dome of Ancient Shadow (PvP Talent) has been removed.
• Warlock
  • Affliction
    • New PvP Talent: Shadowfall – Gain the Nightfall talent with 100% increased chance to gain its effect. If you already have this talent, you may select another in the same row.

PROFESSIONS

• Increased the experience points earned when crafting Specialized Armor and Jewelry for creating Runecarving items by 400%.
  • Developers’ note: In order to allow more players to engage with the crafting system late in the expansion, as well as finish their legendary leveling for a reasonable cost, we are increasing the XP gained by rank so it only takes three crafts per rank to reach the next rank.

After further investigation, we’re revisiting our adjustment to Destruction Warlock and lowering Inferno’s target threshold to 5. We’re finding that this synergy is still overperforming at 8 targets due to the resource generation and by adjusting this we avoid having to make changes that could affect Destruction’s lower target count output.

Warlock

• Destruction
  • Inferno (Talent) now has a reduced chance for Rain of Fire to generate Soul Shard Fragments when it deals damage beyond 5 targets (was 8).

Greetings!

The Creation Catalyst will become available to players after scheduled maintenance the week of April 12. To access it, you will travel to the far south area of Zereth Mortis that is the Catalyst Gardens. The Creation Catalyst is on a floating island above the main pool area and can be reached via flying or using a small teleporter right below it.

At a base level, how it works is you input a piece of Season 3 gear and a corresponding tier set piece will be made with a matching item level. The useable items can be Season 3 gear from raids, Mythic+, PvP, World Boss Antros, or items purchased with Sandworn Relics from Rafiq in Pilgrim’s Grace, Zereth Mortis. The applicable slots are helms, shoulders, cloaks, chests, bracers, gloves, belts, legs, and boots. Note that the 2-piece and 4-piece set bonuses will only be on the helms, shoulders, chests, gloves, and legs.

The Creation Catalyst can transform one item per week, but it can sto...

In order to address an issue where some Shadowlands commodities weren’t properly sorting ahead of other items in the Reagent Bank, we changed the item level of those items. This had the unexpected result of making existing player Auction House favorites entries for those items invalid. We’re going to work on making the favorites system more resilient in the future, but in the meantime, players can re-favorite these items and it should fix the issue.

Hello everyone! Here are this week’s PTR notes:

ITEMS AND REWARDS

• Broker Mark of Distinction now increases the Renown of your currently active Covenant to 60 (was 40).
• Renown catch-up is accelerated through Renown 60 (was 48).
• These activities will now have a 100% chance to reward 1 Renown upon completion:
  • Mythic and Mythic+ dungeons
  • Torghast Layers 9-16
  • Defeating a Shadowlands raid boss encounter
  • Winning a Rated Battleground

Hello and thank you so much for the report.

We’re currently working on a fix to address the issue with Zereth Mortis world quests not counting towards the weekly bonus event quest, “The World Awaits.”

Hello! Here are today’s hotfixes and hotfixes that are coming with this week’s maintenance:

APRIL 4, 2022

Achievements

• Fixed an issue that prevented the Heart of Fear raid achievement I Heard You Like Amberfrom being able to be completed.

Classes

• Druid
  • Guardian
    • [With realm restarts] (4) Set Bonus: Architect’s Aligner damage and healing reduced by 35%.
      • Developers’ note: The performance of Architect’s Aligner has become an outlier amongst other tank tier set bonuses in both single- and multi-target situations. Due to this, with weekly maintenance we will be adjusting Architect’s Aligner to bring its performance closer to other bonuses. Thank you for the feedback and we will continue to watch the ongoing discussions across the community.
• Mage
  • Fire
    • [With realm restarts] Fireball damage increased by 20%. This change does not apply to PvP combat.
    • [With realm restarts] Fire Blast damage increased by 10%. This change does not apply to PvP combat.
    • [With realm restarts] Pyrobl...

Hello everyone! Here are this week’s 9.2.5 PTR notes:

CHARACTERS

• Blood Elves can start a quest to earn a new mount, weapon appearance, and the Blood Knight armor set for Blood Elf Paladins by speaking to Liadrin in Oribos. Requirements: Level 60 and Exalted with Silvermoon.
• Dark Iron Dwarves can start a quest to earn a new mount and weapon appearances by speaking to Anvil-Thane Thurgaden in Shadowforge City, Blackrock Depths (accessed via Mole Machine). Requirements: Level 50.

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

• New Arena: Enigma Arena
  • The mysterious Enigma Arena from Zereth Mortis was created by the Progenitors and serves as an ever-changing battlefield. A switch located at the center of the Arena can be used to create cover for yourself and your allies—or deny it from your opponents. Clever strategists will control and dictate the flow of battle; those who cannot adapt will surely be defeated.
• PvP Talents
  • In 9.2.5 we’re planning adjustments to a few PvP talents for specs that could benefi...

A few more tuning changes and bug fixes are now live:

Halondrus the Reclaimer

• Health reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
• Ephemeral Motes base movement speed reduced on Heroic difficulty.
• Number of Ephemeral Motes in Stage 3 reduced on Heroic difficulty.
• Volatile Charges no longer trigger a Charge Detonation when coming into contact with Ephemeral Motes or Lightshatter Beam on Mythic difficulty.
• Fixed an issue causing Druid’s Mount Form to interact with Volatile Charges in unintended ways.

The Jailer

• Corrected issue where Defile’s growth can be triggered by Priests in Spirit of Redemption form.

The following changes in Sepulcher of the First Ones will be available after weekly regional maintenance:

Artificer Xy’mox

• Artificer Xy’mox health reduced by up to 10% based on raid size (10% at 10-player, 0% at 30-player) on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
• Reduced Genesis Rings initial and periodic damage by 40% on Normal difficulty.

Prototype Pantheon

• Health reduced by 10%.
• Members of the Prototype Pantheon now retreat at 40% health during Stage 1 and Stage 2.
• Sinful Projections has been removed from Normal difficulty.

Halondrus the Reclaimer

• Health reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
• Ephemeral Motes base movement speed reduced on Heroic difficulty.
• Number of Ephemeral Motes in Stage 3 reduced on Heroic difficulty.
• Volatile Charges no longer trigger a Charge Detonation when coming into contact with Ephemeral Motes or Lightshatter Beam on Mythic difficulty.
• Fixed an issue causing Druid’s Mount Form to interact with Volatile Charges in unintended ways.

The Jailer

• Corrected issue ...

We’ll be making the following change to increase the performance of Unholy Death Knights in next week’s realm maintenance.

Classes

Death Knight

• Unholy
  • All damage increased by 5%.

See the full list of the upcoming class tuning changes here.

We’ll be making the following changes to increase the performance of Feral Druids in next week’s realm maintenance.

Classes

Druid

• Feral
  • All damage increased by 3%.
  • Primal Wrath damage increased by 10%.
  • Brutal Slash damage increased by 20%.
  • Swipe damage increased by 15%.
  • Thrash damage increased by 20%.

See the full list of the upcoming class tuning changes here.