Here are this week’s updates to the Guardians of the Dream PTR:

BATTLEGROUND BLITZ BRAWL

• Temple of Kotmogu resource acquisition rate increased in the middle areas of the map.
• Shadow Sight’s duration increased to 12 seconds (was 8 seconds).

CLASSES

• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Blood
    • Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope (2) Set Bonus – Now triggers from consuming Runic Power (was previously triggering on consuming Bone Shield charges).
  • Frost
    • Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope (4) Set Bonus – Chance to trigger reduced to 30% (was 40%) and reduces the cooldown of Empower Rune Weapon by 6 seconds (was 10 seconds).
    • Fixed an issue with Chill Streak not decrementing a bounce when it bounced off of the Death Knight.
• DEMON HUNTER
  • Developers’ note: 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 in...

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September 13, 2023

Player versus Player

• Sarannis’ Mystic Sheen effectiveness reduced by 70% in PvP.

Secrets of Azeroth

• On the secret day starting with “They Are Always Listening”, you should now get the quest “A Complete Inventory” from Fangli Hoot if you do not get it automatically by investigating all 6 notes.
• Updated some of the quests to address issues where players could fail to receive a clue because secrets had been started on different characters.

WoW Classic Era and Hardcore

• Fixed an issue where certain hunter pets could be dismissed and attack nearby players.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

WoW Classic Era and Hardcore

• Fixed an issue where certain hunter pets could be dismissed and attack nearby players.

• ROGUE
  • Developer’s note: In Guardians of the Dream we are updating all 4 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 wanted 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. Let us know what you think!
  • Many changes have been made to Class talent positions and connections.
  • Sap is now a baseline ability.
  • Shiv damage increased by 20%.
  • Shiv now costs 30 Energy (was 20) and has a 30 second cooldown (was 25 seconds).
  • New Talent: Featherfoot (Passive...

September 8, 2023

Dragonriding

• The Loamm Roamm Reverse Challenge silver medal should again be rewarded correctly.

Quests

• Chromie now offers “No Limits”, a questline delving into Eternus’s past, without requiring the Dawn of the Infinites dungeon to be completed.
• When “Stepping into the Shadows”, Maiev Shadowsong should no longer point at invisible Felflame Braziers.
• Moraidormi now stops disappearing and Nozdormu will enter stealth more appropriately during the quest “Not Today, Fate.”
• Demon Hunters who previously could not interact with the Control Console can now return to The Fel Hammer continue with their Order Hall campaign.
• Tinkmaster Overspark is visible, and “The Legend of Mechagon” is once again available to players above level 60.

WoW Classic Era

• For each player-character’s current Rank, weekly PvP contribution calculations now only award up to the amount of contribution points missing in progress towards the next Rank threshold.
  • Developers’ note: In higher ranks, player...

This Public Test Realm (PTR) is a testing environment for the content coming with the Dragonflight: Guardians of the Dream update.

Dragonflight: Guardians of the Dream 10.2 Update Development Notes

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NEW ZONE: THE EMERALD DREAM

• Defend the Dream and the World Tree, Amirdrassil from Fyrakk, primalists, djaradin, and his new ally: the Druids of the Flame.
• New Campaign Chapters are available for testing. Chapters 5 and 6 will not be available on the PTR.
• Emerald Dream world quests, local stories, treasures, and rares are available for testing.
• New Faction: Dream Wardens

NEW PUBLIC EVENTS: SUPERBLOOM AND EMERALD BOUNTY

• SUPERBLOOM
  • Follow the ancient, Sprucecrown, as he blooms life around Amirdrassil. Assist Sprucecrown with tasks and defeat any enemies that try to get in their way.
  • Boost your strength with power ups from the magical Dreamfruit that appear during the event.
• EMERALD BOUNTY
  • Gain Dreamseeds and Emerald Dewdrops from activities in the zone.
  • Plant Dreamseeds in various dirt...

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.”

August 24, 2023

Dungeons and Raids

• Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
  • Echo of Neltharion
    • Fixed an issue where Volcanic Heart can target players with Corruption.

Events

• Kalimdor Cup
  • The Kalimdor Cup is now open to all players level 30 and above. NPCs have been added to Orgrimmar and Stormwind to start the quest and spend your winnings.
• Time Rifts
  • Fixed an issue where The Lich King’s Remorseless Winter was targeting melee players too often.

Player versus Player

• Fixed an issue that caused Precognition to trigger from interrupts reduced by a Paladin’s Concentration Aura.
• Warlock
  • Demonology
    • Fixed an issue causing our recent changes to Demonbolt’s damage in PvP combat to be applied incorrectly.

The Fury Incarnate PTR has been updated with the following changes:

USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY

• PING SYSTEM
  • Added a new cursor for when the ping wheel is active.
  • Ping wheel opens quicker.
  • Opening the Options > Ping System for the first time will pop open the tutorial.

My turn!

Be careful of spell casting enemies, their spells can be surprisingly powerful even when they’re at the same level as you. Use line of sight to your advantage.

Hello testers. Here are this week’s Fury Incarnate PTR notes:

CLASSES

• DRUID
  • Restoration
    • All healing reduced by 6%. Does not apply in PvP combat.
      • Developers’ note: This adjustment is intended to be a near net-neutral change in overall healing throughput to give room for the new Grove Guardians talent to represent a non-negligible amount of healing.

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

• DRUID
  • Restoration
    • All healing reduced by 4%.

USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY

• PING SYSTEM
  • You can restrict pings to leaders and assistants in the group control menu.
  • A tutorial for the Ping System can be accessed on the Options > Ping System page.
• You can set a bag to ignore the Sell All Junk button (access Bag Settings by clicking the bag’s top-left icon).

AUGUST 10, 2023

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Shaman
  • Fixed an issue where Greater Fire Elemental was not casting Fire Nova on targets of a certain size.

Here are today’s hotfixes:

August 10, 2023

Classes

• Druid
  • Restoration
    • Fixed an issue that caused Lifebloom to be castable in Moonkin Form when talented into Undergrowth.
    • Fixed an issue that caused multiple stacks of Clearcasting to be consumed at once when talented into the Rampant Growth and Undergrowth and when talented into the Rampant Growth and Power of the Archdruid.
• Mage
  • Frost
    • Fixed an issue that caused Ice Floes to be consumed by Flurry and Frost Bomb’s detonation.
• Monk
  • Mistweaver
    • Fixed an issue that caused the Burst of Life talent to not function.
• Paladin
  • Holy
    • Fixed an issue that caused Light of Dawn to consume both Divine Purpose and Shining Righteousness if active at the same time.

Dungeons and Raids

• Brackenhide Hollow
  • Fixed an issue where Wilted Oak’s Stomp ability could stun pets.
• Grimrail Depot
  • Nitrogg Thundertower
    • Fixed an issue where Blackrock Mortar could do excessive damage.
• Neltharus
  • Chargath
    • Fixed an issue that wou...

Here are this week’s updates to the Fury Incarnate PTR:

CHARACTERS

• New face markings and body tattoos for Night Elf.

ITEMS AND REWARDS

• PROFESSIONS
  • Alchemy
    • Greater Draconic Phial Cauldron now lasts 5 minutes (was 3 minutes).

USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY

• PING SYSTEM
  • There are now two modes to activate the ping wheel, removing the need to click and drag the mouse to select pings:
    • Press and releasing the hotkey will trigger a ping at mouse position.
    • Press and holding the hotkey will trigger the radial wheel at the position the hotkey was originally pressed.
  • Ping chat lines are now available for Text-to-Speech.
• Ready Check prompt frame art has been updated.
• Minimap tracking for Tuskarr Tackleboxes can be toggled with Find Fish.

Hello! Here is the hotfix update for the day:

August 7, 2023

Classes [With Weekly Maintenance]

• Except where noted, all changes will be offset so that they do not apply to PvP.
• Death Knight
  • Unholy
    • Epidemic damage increased by 8%.
    • Bursting Sores damage increased by 12%.
• Druid
  • Guardian
    • Thrash damage reduced by 8%. This change will also affect PvP combat.
    • Raze damage reduced by 8%. This change will also affect PvP combat.
• Evoker
  • Augmentation
    • Developers’ notes: Augmentation Evoker is adding a significant amount of damage to their party while also providing strong utility and survivability. For this week, we’d like to reduce some of the damage contributions from their buffs to help bring them more in line with other classes.
    • Breath of Eons accumulates 10% of damage done by allies with your Ebon Might (was 15%).
    • Fate Mirror’s chance to proc has been reduced to 10% (was 15%).
• Hunter
  • Marksmanship
    • Multi-Shot damage increased 8%.
    • Explosive Shot damage increased 10%....

Hello everyone!
Here is what you can find with this week’s Fury Incarnate PTR update:

EASTERN KINGDOMS CUP

• Soar through Eastern Kingdoms skies with the dragonrider racing event, Eastern Kingdoms Cup. Challenge 16 races across Eastern Kingdoms in Normal, Advanced, and Reverse variations to earn Riders of Azeroth Badges to exchange for rewards with Maztha.
  • Head to the Holiday Enthusiast outside Valdrakken’s bank to pick up the initial quest.

CLASSES

• MONK
  • Mistweaver
    • The locations of Mists of Life and the Nourishing Chi / Calming Coalescence choice node have swapped.

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

• DAWN OF THE INFINITE
  • The mega-dungeon has been split into two separate dungeons on Heroic difficulty: Galakrond’s Fall and Murozond’s Rise.
  • Players can use Dungeon Finder or walk into the instance to access Heroic difficulty.
  • The original Mythic difficulty will continue to exist for players who prefer that challenge.

Hello everyone.

An incorrect image was shared for the Hunter weapons set. We’ve adjusted the Hunter weapon image to show the correct set.

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 Normal and Heroic difficulty encounter should no longer respawn if players have previously cleared the encounter and skip defeating Magmorax.
• Dawn of the Infinite
  • Fixed an issue that could cause some enemies’ damage and heal absorb effects to be much weaker than intended.
    • Developers’ note: An issue was recently introduced that caused certain absorb effects in Dawn of the Infinite to be weaker than expected. This change restores these values to roughly what they were just before the patch. We don’t...

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!