Hello everyone! Here are today’s hotfixes and the class tuning hotfixes arriving with this week’s restarts:

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Blood
    • Fixed an issue with Bonestorm not activating Icy Talons.
  • Unholy
    • [With weekly restarts] Epidemic now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
    • [With weekly restarts] Bursting Sores damage is reduced by 10%.
    • Fixed an issue with the Coils of Devastation not applying to enemies within Battlegrounds and Arenas.
• Demon Hunter
  • [With weekly restarts] Immolation Aura now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
  • Havoc
    • [With weekly restarts] Fel Rush now deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
• Druid
  • [With weekly restarts] Protector of the Pack talent now stores 5% of damage/healing (was 10%). The maximum stored amount increased to 160% of spell power (was 140%).
    • Developers’ note: Protector of the Pack was reaching its cap too quickly to be a satisfying build up. The slower build up and increased cap should result in a better pa...

Hiiiii. I have brought you today’s hotfixes:

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Achievements

• New Dracthyr should no longer cause multiple chat messages about achievements.

Classes

• Evoker
  • Fixed an issue causing newly created Evokers to be unable to enter Iron Docks and Grimrail Depot dungeons.
  • Fixed an issue where spells could be cast while in Soulshape.
  • Resolved an issue where Evokers were unable to purchase Eternal Aspirant or Eternal Gladiator Armor pieces.

Dungeons and Raids

• Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr
  • The dungeon should now show up in the Dungeon Finder under World Events during the pre-expansion Tempest Unleashed event even if the player is low item level.

Items and Rewards

• The drop chances for Son of Galleon’s Saddle, Reins of the Heavenly Onyx Cloud Serpent, Reins of the Cobalt Primordial Direhorn, Reins of the Thundering Cobalt Cloud Serpent, and Solar Spirehawk have been greatly increased.
• Fixed an issue that caused the creation of some bind-on-equip items to be the incorrect item ...

Here are today’s hotfixes for Wrath of the Lich King Classic:

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Classes
  • Warlock
    • Fixed an issue where pets were not properly benefiting from resilience.
• Player versus Player
  • The PvP rating calculation has been adjusted to provide a continuous, modest increase of MMR for the rest of the season.
    • Developers’ note: We’ve been monitoring players’ rating distribution, and the percentage of players who have reached the rating requirements is much lower than we want it to be.

Hello! Here are today’s hotfixes:

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Fixed an issue where both charges of Death’s Grip could be accidentally used in quick succession when talented into Death’s Echo.
• Demon Hunter
  • Havoc
    • Chaos Strike and Annihilation damage reduced by 5%.
    • First Blood damage bonus reduced to 75% of attack power (was 85%).
    • Inner Demon damage increased by 25%.
    • Fixed an issue that prevented Inner Demon damage from being increased by Havoc’s Mastery and Demon Soul effects.
• Druid
  • Feral
    • Brutal Slash is now usable in Bear Form and replaces Swipe while in Bear Form. It does not generate combo points or cost energy while in Bear form.
• Hunter
  • Beast Mastery
    • War Orders now grants Barbed Shot a 25/50% chance to reset the cooldown of Kill Command (was 50/100%)
    • Healing done to your pets from Mend Pet or Exhilaration no longer grants any healing to the Hunters from Leech.
  • Marksmanship
    • Corrected an issue where Chimaera Shot had two chances to trigger the L...

Here are today’s hotfixes to Wrath Classic:

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Art
  • Several ability’s animations and visual effects should now be displaying correctly (i.e. Will to Survive and Divine Storm).
• Character
  • The Tauren Endurance racial bonus now works as expected.
  • Fixed an issue where sometimes after a name change there are some areas in-game where the previous character name shows up.
• Classes
  • Fixed an issue where Shamans could summon more than one elemental at a time.
• Player versus Player
  • Losing a Random Battleground at max level will now correctly reward zero gold.
• User Interface and Accessibility
  • Fixed an issue where some areas in the game would sometimes show your previous character name after a name change.

Trinketaur is making his way to Stormwind. A hotfix is in the works to mark his arrival in the next day or two.

Hello adventurers! Here are this week’s changes in Dragonflight Beta!

CLASSES

• Druid
  • Feral
    • Brutal Slash now replaces Swipe in bear form as well. Brutal Slash does not cost energy or generate combo points while in Bear Form.
  • Guardian
    • The Guardian druid tree has undergone changes to its node connections and talent positions.
      • Scintillating Moonlight, Twin Moonfire & Galactic Guardian are now after the 20 point gate.
      • Survival of the Fittest, After the Wildfire/Guardian of Elune choice node & Soul of the Forest are now after the 8 point gate.
      • Dream of Cenarius has been split out of it’s choice node with Ursoc’s Fury.
    • Maul – Damage has been increased by 40%
    • Mangle – Damage has been increased by 15%
    • Twin Moonfire – Damage bonus to Moonfire has been reduced to 10% (was 20%) in addition to its existing effects.
    • Guardian of Elune – Mangle now increases the duration of your next Ironfur by 3 sec (was 2 seconds) in addition to its existing effects.
    • After the Wildfire – Healing from this...

In this thread, please post your feedback on the Dragonflight dungeon trinkets, which are now available for testing in the Dragonflight Beta. You can pick up the trinkets by visiting Trinketaur in Orgrimmar. Trinketaur will make his way to Stormwind over the next day or two.

Here are the update notes to Beta this week. Additional class tuning will be hotfixed throughout the week for raid testing on Friday.

CLASSES

• NEW TALENT SYSTEM
  • DEATH KNIGHT
    • Unholy
      • Fixed an issue with Magus of the Dead, Army of the Dead, and Gargoyle’s damage not scaling with Mastery: Dreadblade.
      • Morbidity now affects ranged caster summons (ex: Army of the Dead, Magus of the Dead) in addition to caster pets (ex: Risen Ghoul).
  • DEMON HUNTER
    • General
      • Immolation Aura damage increased by 8%.
    • Class Tree
      • Eye Beam damage reduced by 8%.
      • The Hunt damage reduced by 10%.
      • Illidari Knowledge damage reduction increased to 3/6% (was 2/4%).
      • Will of the Illidari - Max Health bonus increased to 3/6% (was 2/4%).
    • Havoc
      • Chaos Strike/Annihilation damage reduced by 10%.
      • Blade Dance/Death Sweep damage increased by 18%.
      • Immolation Aura (Rank upgrade) duration bonus reduced to 4 seconds (was 6 seconds).
      • First Blood damage bonus value reduced to 85% of base (was 135%).
      • Unbound Chaos damage bo...

Take a look a this week’s Dragonflight Beta update:

CLASSES

• NEW TALENT SYSTEM
  • DEATH KNIGHT
    • Blood
      • Shattering Bone – Damage reduced by 40%. Now properly deals increased damage when Tombstone consumes multiple Bone Shield charges.
    • Frost
      • Everfrost – Damage per stack increased to 6% (was 4%).
      • Biting Cold – Increases Remorseless Winter damage by 35% (was 30%).
      • Chill Streak – No longer costs runic power. Now costs 1 Rune.
  • DRUID
    • Class Tree
      • Natural Recovery – Effectiveness reduced to 2/4% (was 3/6%).
    • Balance
      • Umbral Embrace – Now increases the damage of Wrath and Starfire by 25/50% (was 50/100%).
      • Astral Smolder – Now causes targets to languish for an additional 20%/40% (was 4%/8%).
      • A new connection exists between Lunar Shrapnel and Force of Nature.
      • A new connection exists between Orbit Breaker and Astral Communion.
      • A new connection exists between Rattle the Stars/Starweaver and Wild Mushroom.
      • Warrior of Elune has been moved to row 10.
      • Sundered Firmament has been moved to t...

Added the following Mage notes to this week’s updates:

• MAGE
  • Arcane
    • Nether Precision moved to Impetus position
    • Impetus moved to Slipstream position
    • Slipstream now available directly after Crackling Energy and Nether Precision
    • Arcing Cleave and Resonance swapped positions in the tree.
  • Fire
    • Master of Flame swapped positions with Pyromaniac/Firefall choice node.

Here are the changes you can find in this week’s Dragonflight Beta update:

CHARACTERS

• Resolved an issue that caused Da Voodoo Shuffle (Troll Racial) to reduce the duration of roots by less than intended. Duration reduced by 20%, matching current Snare reduction amount.

CLASSES

• NEW TALENT SYSTEM
  • DEATH KNIGHT
    • Blood
      • Heart Strike now generates 15 runic power (was 10).
    • Frost
      • Obliterate – Damage increased by 15%.
      • Howling Blast – Damage increased by 12%.
      • Breath of Sindragosa – Damage increased by 15%.
      • Remorseless Winter – Damage increased by 10%.
      • Frost Strike – Damage increased by 20%.
      • Unleashed Frenzy – Strength per stack increased to 2% (was 1%).
      • Pillar of Frost – Strength increased to 25% (was 20%) and Strength per rune spent increased to 2% (was 1%).
      • Frostscythe – Damage increased by 15%.
      • Frigid Executioner – Obliterate damage increased to 15% (was 10%) and chance to refund 2 runes increased to 15% (was 12%).
      • Piercing Chill – Damage taken per bounce of Chill Streak increased ...

Here’s this week’s Dragonflight Beta update:

CLASSES

• Resurrection Sickness now lasts 1 minute (was 10 minutes). Characters that resurrect at a Spirit Healer below level 10 now suffer 10% durability loss, and characters that resurrect at a Spirit Healer at level 10 and above now suffer 50% durability loss (was all levels suffer 25% durability loss).
  • Developers’ note: Resurrection Sickness—the penalty that is applied to your character when you choose to be resurrected at a Spirit Healer—is to ensure that death has some consequence and players aren’t intentionally dying as a routine travel shortcut. The repercussion of the quick resurrection is that the long standing penalty of 10 minutes of greatly reduced attributes discourages you from playing the game in any capacity for that duration. With this change, resurrecting at a Spirit Healer will now result in a greater hit to your item durability (50%) but much shorter duration for the debuff (1 minute).
• NEW TALENT SYSTEM
  • STARTER BUI...

Take a look at this week’s updates to Dragonflight Beta:

END-GAME REALM – VALDRAKKEN

• Profession vendors and trainers have now been spawned in Orgrimmar and Stormwind.
• A PvP Vendor now exists in Orgrimmar and Stormwind that sells players PvP trinkets.

CLASSES

• NEW TALENT SYSTEM
  • Developers’ note: We have had to add a lot of extra spells and modifiers with the talent system, which means a lot of new names also needed to be added. While adding these new spell names we also made a pass on the names of almost every talent, and several of them are having their name changed. We tried to avoid changing terms people are very familiar with, we aren’t looking to rename core building blocks of classes or specs. Spells like Fireball, Mortal Strike and Rejuvenation are not suddenly going to be changing names. Several talents with modifiers to your spells may see some names change to get a better identity and cohesive feel with all of the other spells and talents available to your class or spec.
  • ...

Here is what you can find this week’s Dragonflight Beta update:

CLASSES

• NEW TALENT SYSTEM
  • DEATH KNIGHT
    • Frost
      • Frost tree has been updated to a new layout to fix dependency issues, create more depth in choice, as well as new and reworked talents.
      • Unleashed Frenzy – Now grants the Strength buff when any Runic Power ability damages an enemy.
      • Improved Frost Strike and Runic Command – Swapped positions on the tree.
      • Glacial Advance – Removed the cooldown. Moved higher into the tree and is now unlocked after the 1st gate.
      • Frostscythe – Moved higher into the tree and is now unlocked after the 1st gate.
      • Horn of Winter – Now Frost only and placed directly after Improved Obliterate.
      • Improved Killing Machine renamed to Frostreaper and has a new icon.
      • Enduring Strength – Now available directly after Pillar of Frost and has a new icon.
      • Frostwhelp’s Aid – Now available directly after Pillar of Frost.
      • Coldheart – No longer a choice node with Inexorable Assault. Moved to the right side of the tre...

Hello! Here are this week’s updates to Dragonflight Beta:

CLASSES

• NEW TALENT SYSTEM
  • STARTER BUILD
    • Evokers now have access to the Starter Build in their loadouts menu (this feature will be available to other classes in future updates). The Starter Build is a preset talent build created for players who prefer not to choose their own talents yet, but simply want a decent build that’s suitable for most content. This will be available to both leveling characters and max level characters.
  • DEATH KNIGHT
    • Class Tree
      • Festermight maximum stacks reduced to 20 (was 30).
      • New Talent: Enfeeble – Your Ghouls attack has a chance to reduce the targets movement speed by 30% and the damage they deal to you by 15%.
    • Unholy
      • Eternal Agony epidemic effect now also extends the duration of Dark Transformation.
      • Ghoulish Frenzy effect duration is now also extended when Dark Transformation’s duration is increased (i.e. by Eternal Agony).
      • Death Rot epidemic effect now applies Death Rot to your primary t...

Hello everyone! Take a look at what you can find in this week’s Dragonflight Beta update:

NEW DUNGEONS

• Algeth’ar Academy
  • All Dragonflight dungeons are now available.

CHARACTER LEVEL

• All player-characters have been deleted for testing purposes. Please copy or create a new character to continue testing.

CLASSES

• NEW TALENT SYSTEM
  • SAVED ACTION BARS
    • By default, each Talent loadout will now have its own saved set of action bars. However, if you would like certain loadouts to share the same action bars, there is a loadout option called “Use shared action bars.” All loadouts that have this option enabled will share the same action bars.
  • TALENT SEARCH
    • There is now a search bar in the new Talent UI. Players can search for specific spells, talents, or words, and any matches will be highlighted on the UI. It will also highlight talents that don’t directly match the search term, but are related to the searched talent (E.g. searching for “tidal waves” will also highlight Riptide, Hea...

Hello Adventurers! Here are Dragonflight’s development notes for this week:

NEW FEATURES

• DRAGONRIDING
  • Updated the double jump Launch and Skyward Ascent to both be more reliable in their directionality and movement.
  • Re-tuned the turn rate for dragon isle drakes to be more lenient, including a feature wherein the player’s turn rate scales with speed - lower speeds feature quicker turns, while top speeds still come with a need for slightly more planning.
  • Updated the Dragonriding trait window, bringing the zone unlocks and basic skills into the same pane as the unlockable traits for Dragonriding.
    • Developers’ note: We discovered early in Alpha that we’d need a solution for players who rely on /follow or similar features to engage with World of Warcraft, as following wasn’t immediately compatible with Dragonriding. To address this, we’ve added “Ride Along”. Dragonriders can speak with Lithragosa (the Dragonriding Trainer) to opt into this new functionality. With Ride Along on, a player i...

Hello everyone! Take a look at this week’s Dragonflight Alpha updates:

DISCOVER THE DRAGON ISLES

• All Dragonflight zones are available

NEW FEATURES

• FOUR MAJOR FACTIONS
  • Major Factions are a new way of experiencing outdoor progression – an iteration on previous reputation-based gameplay. Participating in content throughout the Dragon Isles grants reputation toward these Major Factions. Earning reputation unlocks renown ranks. Each Major Faction’s progression is different, with content fitting a variety of playstyles. Importantly, major factions are not exclusive – you can be a member of all four factions at once.
  • VALDRAKKEN ACCORD – The faction of the unified dragon flights working together in harmony for the protection of the Dragon Isles.
    • Professions: A variety of activities, Work Orders, and exploration catered towards professions and progression within the system.
    • Dragon Racing: Complete races on your dragon for glory and renown
    • Outdoor Elite locations: Cobalt Assembly, Obsidia...

Here’s the hotfix that went live today in Season of Mastery:

AUGUST 9, 2022

Season of Mastery

• Naxxramas
  • Fixed an issue where bonus loot could not be rewarded when defeating a boss using Runes of Fortune.
    • Developers’ note: Raid groups should always receive an extra Set Piece Token, piece of Gear the boss normally drops, or Splinter of Atiesh per stack of Rune of Fortune the raid has active.