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 the spec on sustained DPS in PvP.
    • Festermight is now 50% effective in PvP combat.
    • Festering Wound damage is now increased by 230% in PvP combat (was 250%).
• Mo...

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 into Grove Guardians, now causes your Treants from Grove Guardians to also cast Wild Growth immediately when summoned, healing allies within 40 ya...

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.
• Paladin
  • Fixed an issue causing Divine Toll to hit an incorrect number of targets.
  • Protection
    • Fixed an issue causing Shining Light to fail to be consumed by a Word of Glory cast when Divine Purpose was also active.

Dungeons and Raids

• Dawn of the Infinite
  • Resolved an issue that caused Chrono-Lord Deios and Chromie to not speak their voice over lines when Deios cast Infinite Corruption.
  • Resolved an audio issue that caused Chrono-Lord Deios to not use positional-audio for his voice over li...

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 damage over 5 seconds while the target is grasped. Can move while channeling. Use Illidan’s Grasp again to toss the target to a location within 40 yards, stunning them and all nearby enemies for 3 seconds an...

Hello raiders,

With weekly maintenance next week, we’ll be making the following changes to Mythic Rashok, the Elder in the Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible raid:

Rashok, the Elder

• Searing Slam base damage reduced by 6.5% in Mythic difficulty.
• Overcharged damage reduced by 10% in Mythic difficulty.
• Conduit Flare damage reduced by 12% in Mythic difficulty.

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

Dragonflight: Fury Incarnate Update Development Notes

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DREAMSURGE

• Each week one of the four original zones of the Dragon Isles will be affected by the Dreamsurge. World quests will be focused on this zone, extra activities and weeklies will be active, group rares will have new powers and a chance to drop upgraded gear, and new Waking Dream portals (think invasions) will open across the zone.
• A major Waking Dream portal will open as a group event every half hour. Defeating it will require a large group of players and has the chance to reward raid level gear.
• Minor Waking Dream portals can be found scattered across the zone and can be defeated by solo players or small groups.
• Players in the Dreamsurge will gain access to a variety of buffs that range from useful to powerful to chaotic. Every half hour a new buff will be selected for the whole region, with the play...

The following changes have been made to Motes of Possibility:

• Motes of Possibility now reduce the cooldown of Invoke Niuzao instead of Fortifying Brew for Brewmaster Monks.
• It now also reduces the cooldown of Dancing Rune Weapon for Blood Death Knights and Pillar of Frost for Frost Deathknights, and no longer affects Empower Rune Weapon.
• No longer reduces the cooldown of Aspect of the Wild for Hunters.
• No longer reduces the cooldown of Survival Instincts for Druids.
• No longer reduces the cooldown of Recklessness for Fury Warriors. This is not live yet, but it will affect Avatar for all three Warrior specializations.

Hello Evokers.
The following Augmentation hotfixes have been made to the Fractures in Time test server:

• Fixed an issue where Deep Breath would not cause Eruptions to be cast, via the Overlord talent.
• Fixed an issue where Breath of Eons’ final damage would benefit from damage taken modifiers such as Chaos Brand.
• For Warriors, the Armored to the Teeth talent will no longer benefit from armor granted by Augmentation Evoker’s Blistering Scales spell.
  • Developer’s note: As a part of Augmentation’s utility/survivability kit, Blistering Scales is intended to be one of the main bonuses they give to tank-specialized characters. While it can be used on occasion to help save a non-tank character (especially with the talent Molten Blood), Warrior’s Armored to the Teeth too strongly incentivizes leaving Blistering Scales on DPS characters for extended periods of time.

Hello everyone. Here are today’s hotfix notes:

JULY 6, 2023

Classes

• Druid
  • Balance
    • Wild Mushroom and Fury of Elune will now deal their damage even if the target is out of line of sight of the Druid.

Dungeons and Raids

• Mythic+
  • Affixes
    • Fixed an issue that caused Incorporeal Beings’ Destabilize effect to apply to targets not in combat with players when charmed.
  • The below Mythic+ changes were applied on June 30:
  • Brackenhide Hollow
    • Hackclaw’s War-Band
      • Gashtooth’s Gash Frenzy periodic damage reduced by 25%.
    • Decatriarch Wratheye
      • Withered Eruption damage reduced by 10%.
      • Rotburst Totem’s Rotting Burst cast time increased to 7 seconds (was 5 seconds).
  • Halls of Infusion
    • Watcher Irideus
      • Power Overload now targets 2 players (was 3).
  • Neltharion’s Lair
    • Fixed an issue that caused Vileshard Crawler’s Acid Splatter to inflict more damage than intended.
    • Rokmora
      • Blightshard Skitter health reduced by 25%.
      • Crystalline Ground damage reduced by 25%.
    • Naraxas
      • Toxic ...

Here are the hotfixes that went live in Wrath Classic today:

JULY 6, 2023

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Dungeons and Raids
  • Utgarde Pinnacle and Utgarde Keep
    • Glaciate and Icy Path will no longer kill players when they are affected by King Ymiron’s Screams of the Dead during Defense Protocol Alpha or Beta.
    • Fire Blast now does 6% max hp damage per second, instead of 10% during Defense Protocol Beta.
    • Fire Blast will now get casted much sooner after Glaciate during Defense Protocol Beta.

One additional PTR note for the week:

ITEMS AND REWARDS

• Gear created at item level 441 or 444 can now be upgraded using the new Myth upgrade track instead of being above the upgrade system entirely.
  • The Myth track is a new track that goes from 441 (Myth 1/3) to 444 (Myth 2/3) to 447 (Myth 3/3). Gear cannot be upgraded above Myth 3/3.
  • This change is retroactive for all gear obtained in Season 2. Any Season 2 gear that was created at item level 441, 444, or 447 will now display its upgrade level along the Myth track and can be upgraded at any item upgrade vendor.
  • Upgrading gear along the Myth track requires Flightstones and an Aspect’s Shadowflame Crest for each upgrade. The usual discount rules apply here (if the character has a higher level piece of gear in the same slot, no crest is needed; if any character on the account has a higher level piece of gear in the same slot the Flightstone cost will be halved).

Hello! Here’s this week’s Fractures in Time PTR notes:

CLASSES

• Developers’ note: We’re continuing to playtest the mana economy for hybrids and feel the changes are not as limiting on off-healing as we’re intending with our upcoming changes, so we’re making some adjustments to all specializations affected by our changes.
• DRUID
  • Balance
    • Mana regeneration is now 1% per second (was 1.3%).
  • Feral
    • Mana regeneration is now 1% per second (was 1.3%).
  • Guardian
    • Mana regeneration is now 1% per second (was 1.3%).
• EVOKER
  • Scarlet Adaptation stores 40% more total power.
  • The amount of damage Scarlet Adaptation adds to Living Flame now matches the amount stated in the tooltip. For Devastation, this damage will still be amplified by Mastery: Giantkiller based on the target’s remaining health.
  • Augmentation
    • Mana regeneration is now 1% per second (was 1.3%).
  • Devastation
    • Mana regeneration is now 1% per second (was 1.3%).
  • Preservation
    • Vault of the Incarnates 2-set bonus has been adj...

This doesn’t apply to regular drops, only the legendary, and you aren’t missing out by doing lower difficulties first.

If a character defeats the encounter on Heroic first, then they will have a low chance to get the item and they are covered for the week. Normal and LFR will not offer chances of receiving the item that week.

If a character defeats the encounter on Normal first, they will have a very low chance to get the item. Then for the rest of that week, Heroic will still offer a very low chance at receiving the item, but LFR will not.

Your chances are the same with these three options in a given week:

• Doing just Heroic
• Doing Normal then Heroic
• Doing LFR, then Normal, then Heroic

Here are the notes for this week’s update to the Fractures in Time PTR:

CLASSES

• EVOKER
  • Augmentation
    • Mastery: Timewalker grants Shifting Sands to 1 ally (was 2).
    • Prescience duration reduced to 18 seconds (was 20 seconds).
    • Black Attunement health bonus reduced to 4% (was 5%).
    • Aspect’s Favor increases Black Attunement to 10/16% (was 12.5/20%).
    • Ebon Might now increases all of the casting Evoker’s damage by 10%, instead of increasing Eruption’s damage by 20%.
    • Born in Flame has been redesigned – Casting Ebon Might grants Burnout immediately and every 3 seconds for 6 seconds, reducing the cast time of Living Flame by 100% (was Ebon Might caused Living Flame to be instant cast for its duration).
  • Preservation
    • All healing abilities increased by 2%.
    • Rewind now rewinds 40% of damage taken in the last 5 seconds (was 50%).
    • Exhilarating Burst now increases critical healing effectiveness by an additional 30% per rank (was 15%).
• MAGE
  • Developers’ notes: After several rounds of updates to ...

The Hall of Fame for Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible has now been filled with the first 200 guilds to defeat Mythic Scalecommander Sarkareth. Congratulations to all players who earned a spot in the annals of raiding history this season!

There’s still a few more days left for those who are close to defeating Mythic Scalecommander Sarkareth to earn the coveted Hall of Fame: Scalecommander Sarkareth feat of strength achievement and title, but only the top 200 guilds will be listed in the official rankings. The Hall of Fame will close and Mythic cross-realm raiding in Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible will begin with next week’s weekly maintenance.

Good luck Champions!

Here are this week’s Fractures in Time PTR notes:

CLASSES

• Developers’ note: We are lowering the effectiveness of all Primordial Stones that deal damage by 40% to increase gearing options for players. We are compensating specific specializations that are commonly using the Onyx Annulet ring for this damage loss. Alongside this, we are reducing the effectiveness of damage to healing spells to maintain similar healing outputs. This will result in an overall increase in Healer damage in content where the Onyx Annulet is not utilized, but we feel there is room for healer damage to increase in this space without overly incentivizing offensive play. See each class section for specifics.
• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Ghouls summoned by Raise Dead now inherit 85% of the Death Knight’s health (was 50%).
  • Death Coil healing increased by 75%.
  • Blood
    • All ability damage increased by 8%.
• DEMON HUNTER
  • Vengeance
    • All ability damage increased by 4%.
• DRUID
  • Rebirth now costs 2% of base mana (was 0%). The...

The PTR notes have been updated with the following:

CHARACTERS

• Characters level 10–60 that have not been logged into for 60 days will now have the option to receive a Welcome Back Gift on the character select screen. The Welcome Back Gift includes:
  • Select a specialization upon log in to become equipped with updated bags and gear that is appropriate to the character’s level and selected specialization. All previously worn items and bags can be collected from the mailbox.
  • Teleport to the character’s home city of Orgrimmar or Stormwind.
  • All quests in the quest log will be cleared to provide a clean slate. To continue your leveling journey, head to Chromie in Orgrimmar Embassy or Stormwind Embassy.
  • Developers’ note: The Welcome Back Gift time restriction has been lifted on the PTR for testing purposes.

Hello! Here’s this week’s changes to the Fractures in Time PTR:

CLASSES

• DRUID
  • New Talent: Rising Light, Falling Night – Increases your damage and healing by 3% during the day. Increases your Versatility by 2% during the night.
  • Improved Sunfire has been moved to row 3, connected to Sunfire.
  • Rising Light, Falling Night occupies Improved Sunfire’s previous location.
  • Restoration and Balance Druid starter builds have been updated.
  • Feral
    • Developers’ note: Dire Fixation is a new talent Feral Druids can take to focus on single target damage. The changes to Rampant Ferocity allow its value to be tuned independent of Ferocious Bite’s damage.
    • New Talent: Dire Fixation – Attacking an enemy with Shred fixates your attention on it for 10 seconds. You can fixate on a single target at once. Your attacks deal 5% increased damage to your fixated target.
    • Primal Claws has been removed.
    • Dire Fixation is located in Primal Claws’ previous location. It is a 1 rank talent.
    • Rampant Ferocity has been redesi...

Thank you for all your reports. Rest assured, we’ve investigated the reports and have confirmed that the Zaqali Elders are still dropping their loot. These items will not be displayed in the public loot log due to the particular setup of the world boss encounter having multiple NPCs in it.

The PTR has been updated with the following:

NEW MEGA-DUNGEON: DAWN OF THE INFINITE

The Bronze Temple has lain dormant for millennia, awaiting a time when its dragonflight would return. But just as the bronze dragons have reclaimed their sacred temple, dark forces now threaten to overtake it. Will the infinites take hold of the Timeways and bring about the rise of Murozond? The champions of Azeroth must venture into time itself to ensure that the future remains a bright one.

• The Dawn of the Infinite mega-dungeon is now available for testing and will remain open throughout the remainder of the PTR! Head to Temporal Conflux in Thaldraszus to find the entrance and challenge the eight-boss Mythic-only mega-dungeon.

CLASSES

• DRUID
  • Developers’ note: We’re moving forward with our mana economy changes for hybrids, now for all hybrid DPS and tank specializations. To restate, our goal is to allow for more continuous casts of utility and healing spells while maintaining limits on how much hyb...