We made the following edits to this week’s beta update notes:

• PRIEST
  • Shadow
    • Mind Melt now stacks up to 3 times (was 4).

The following note has been removed. Mythic+ rewards remain the same and can be viewed in the Season 1 and Raid Schedule Overview article.

• Hero track loot from Mythic+ now drops at a maximum of 1/6 (was 2/6).

With the War Within Beta update coming later this week, we’d like to share the update notes ahead of time for feedback:

BETA REALMS

• Khadgar, Alleria, and Turnip’s Delight realms are available once again.

CLASSES

• Hero Talents that require an investment in other talents will now display as red and show error text if you are missing a dependency.
• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Hero Talents
    • Deathbringer (Blood/Frost)
      • Frost
        • Exterminate first scythe damage increased by 50%.
        • Reaper’s Mark initial ability hit damage increased by 300%.
        • Reaper’s Mark stacking debuff damage increased by 35%.
    • Rider of the Apocalypse (Frost/Unholy)
      • Apocalyptic Conquest’s Strength reduced to 3% while Nazgrim is active (was 5%).
    • San’layn (Unholy/Blood)
      • Frenzied Bloodthirst now increases the damage of your Death Coil and Death Strike by 4% per stack (was 3%).
  • Blood
    • All damage increased by 10%.
    • Bonestorm now consumes up to 5 Bone Shield charges (was 10).
    • Bonestorm now lasts 2 seconds per Bone Shield charge spent (was...

July 25, 2024

Season of Discovery

• Increased the number of Firelands Invader, Obsidian Reaver, and Obsidian Surger spawns for the Blackrock Eruption event across Searing Gorge.
• The Might of Stormwind buff will now appear properly in the tooltip when a Chronoboon is used.
• Items
  • Devilcore Leggings and Devilcore Gloves patterns can now drop from additional sources other than King Mosh.
  • All of the revamped or new Molten Core items that were strictly Unique are now Unique-Equipped to allow master looters to hold these items during raids.
  • Season of Discovery versions of recipes should be available again from their trainers, making turn-ins for professions quests possible.
• Mage
  • Rewind Time can no longer be cast if the target will not benefit from its healing.
• Priest
  • Priests who don’t have the Divine Spirit talent learned are now prevented from casting higher ranks of Divine Spirit and Prayer of Spirit.
• Rogue
  • The cooldown on Rogue Shuriken Toss has been reduced to 20 seconds (was 30 ...

July 25, 2024

Classes

• Druid
  • Balance
    • Wrath cast by Convoke the Spirit now consumes Dreamstate buffs from Nature’s Grace and the Amirdrassil Season 3 (2-piece) Set Armor bonus.
    • Amirdrassil Season 3 (2-piece) Set Armor: Dreamstate now increases the damage of Wrath and Starfire by 80% (was 100%).
  • Hunter
    • Survival
      • Players who had a Wildfire Bomb override from Wildfire Infusion’s previous iteration have had them removed.
  • Warrior
    • Protection
      • Fixed a bug causing Spell Reflection to occasionally fail to reflect a spell.

Dungeons and Raids

• Algeth’ar Academy
  • Fixed an issue where Vexamus would not face its target during the cast of Arcane Expulsion on Heroic and Mythic difficulty.

Flying

• Pathfinder requirements for Skyriding have been removed from Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands zones.

Player-versus-Player

• Malicia and Field Master Emberath now correctly offer their Dragonflight Season 4 War Mode equipment until the launch of War Within.
• Resolved an issue that sometimes...

Hello testers! Here are this week’s updates to the War Within Beta:

CLASSES

• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Hero Talents
    • Deathbringer (Blood/Frost)
      • Reaper’s Mark debuff damage has been reduced by 30%.
      • Blood
        • Exterminate damage has been reduced by 10%.
      • Frost
        • Exterminate damage has been reduced by 25%.
    • Rider of the Apocalypse (Frost/Unholy)
      • Trollbane’s Icy Fury damage reduced by 35%.
    • San’layn (Unholy/Blood)
      • Vampiric Strike now scales with Unholy Assault and other similar effects.
      • Visceral Strength’s Strength granted increased to 6% (was 5%).
      • Each stack of Frenzied Bloodthirst’s Essence of the Blood Queen increases your Death Strike and Death Coil damage by 3% (was 2%).
  • Frost
    • All ability damage reduced by 5%.
  • Unholy
    • All ability damage reduced by 10%.
    • Clawing Shadow damage increased by 25%.
• DEMON HUNTER
  • Hero Talents
    • Fel-Scarred
      • Demonsurge damage increased by 80%.
      • Burning Blades damage over time effect increased by 50%.
      • Enduring Torment now grants 10% increased Chaos Strike and B...

We identified an issue that caused Antique Bronze Bullion to become discontinued early unintentionally. Bullions will begin dropping again with the next weekly reset, allowing players to get the one they would have missed (the 13th) as catch-up, alongside the regular 14th Bullion. After this reset, Bullion will continue to drop each week until the War Within launches.

Thanks for the reports!

Hello everyone.

This week’s update to the War Within Beta is now available to test. Please note that there is a possibility of some server instabilities over the next few days. If you encounter any issues with instabilities, please report them in the bug reporter.

CLASSES

• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Death Strike can now only heal the Death Knight for a percentage of damage taken from a given damage event once. Death Strikes that heal the minimum health amount do not count as using damage events in this way.
  • Enfeeble reduces damage dealt to you by 12% (was 15%).
  • Null Magic reduces Magic damage taken by 8% (was 10%).
  • Hero Talents
    • Deathbringer (Blood/Frost)
      • Reaper’s Mark is now a 45 second cooldown (was 60 seconds).
      • Swift End now reduces the cooldown of Reaper’s Mark by 15 seconds (was 30 seconds).
      • Frost
        • Reaper’s Mark now scales with Mastery: Frozen Heart.
        • Wave of Souls now scales with Mastery: Frozen Heart.
        • Exterminate now scales with Mastery: Frozen Heart.
    • Rider of the Apocalypse (Frost/Unhol...

Once The War Within pre-expansion update arrives, items, achievements, and customizations will fly off into the sun-kissed horizon. So, you’ll want to take some time to do the following before it’s too late:

Dragonflight Season 4

Awakened Raids

• All current Dragonflight raids become Awakened, and obtaining the Renewed Proto-Drake: Embodiment of the Blazing and Renewed Proto-Drake: Embodiment of the Storm-Eater Dragonriding customizations will be more of a challenge.

Mythic+

• The Mythic+ leaderboards will lock at 10:00 pm PDT the night before maintenance in each region—July 22 at 10:00 pm PDT for NA / July 23 at 22:00 CEST for EU. With the season’s end, ratings that qualify for the 0.1% “Draconic Hero” title and achievement will be recorded. The title will be rewarded in the following weeks after the season ends.

PvP

• The current season of PvP content will end at 10:00 pm PDT the night before maintenance in each region—July 22 at 10:00 pm PDT for NA / July 23 at 22:00 CEST for EU.
• Wit...

Hello everyone! We’ve got some more delve news.

We’ve activated Season 1 of Delves on our Alleria and Khadgar realms. This means players can begin to access tiers 4 and up naturally to experience our seasonal progression. It also means the Great Vault is activated for players to see our new World slot! Xekvir’s lair is still planned to only be accessible when the season goes live after the expansion launches.

Please hop on in and try out our sneak peak of Delves Season 1!

Known Issues:

• Delver’s Journey may not properly fill up your seasonal progression bar. We’re investigating a fix for this.

Hello everyone! You can now obtain Restored Coffer Keys from Zandelvari for use in Bountiful Delves on the This Goes to Eleven realm.

Heya! Here are this week’s updates to the War Within Beta:

CLASSES

• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Unholy Strength (Rune of the Fallen Crusader) now heals for 4% maximum health (was 6%).
  • An issue causing Raise Abomination to deal less damage than it should has been fixed.
  • Hero Talents
    • Deathbringer (Blood/Frost)
      • Frost
        • Exterminate first scythe damage increased by 25%.
        • Exterminate second scythe damage increased by 20%.
        • Soul Rupture now deals 30% of the damage dealt to nearby enemies.
        • Reaper’s Mark melee ability damage (not the stacked debuff) increased by 88%.
        • Wave of Souls damage increased by 15%.
    • Rider of the Apocalypse (Frost/Unholy)
      • Whitemane Death Coil cast frequency increased.
      • Whitemane Undeath cast frequency increased.
      • Trollbane’s Icy Fury now correctly deals Shadowfrost damage (was dealing Frost damage).
      • Trollbane’s Icy Fury deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
      • Unholy
        • Undeath damage now scales with Unholy Death Knight’s Mastery.
        • Trollbane’s Icy Fury now scales correctly with Unholy Deat...

Hello everyone! We’d like to share some updates for you on Delves.

Tuning and Experience

Across the board we’ve increased the XP rewards from delves during level up as they felt a bit too low.

We’ve also done a general tuning pass across all tiers and will continue to monitor difficulty for all specs and classes. From your feedback and from our testing we saw that delves became particularly punishing throughout level up, and that many specs felt like they had to be several item levels higher than the recommended item level to survive.

We’re continuing to review the tuning for classes that are struggling in delves. We’ve seen your feedback on which classes are having a hard time. We also have our own data that shows performance in each delve by class and spec. We’ll be using your feedback and our data points to help improve the experience for players that are struggling. Keep it coming and we’ll keep you updated!

Bountiful Delves

We are in the middle of reviewing how we want bountiful d...

The War Within Pre-Expansion PTR has been updated. Please note that some of these changes will be hotfixed into the PTR over the course of the week.

CLASSES

• DRUID
  • Swiftmend healing increased by 15%.
  • Restoration
    • Wild Growth healing increased by 15%.
    • Rejuvenation healing increased by 15%.
    • Regrowth healing increased by 15%.
• EVOKER
  • Devastation
    • Eternity Surge damage increased by 15%.
    • Imminent Destruction is no longer the capstone, and has swapped positions with Feed the Flames.
• HUNTER
  • Survival
    • Grenade Juggler has been updated – Casting Explosive Shot reduces the cooldown of Wildfire Bomb by 2 seconds.
    • Grenade Juggler and Sulfur-Lined Pockets procs will no longer grant the cooldown reduction effect. Tooltip will be updated in 11.0.2.
    • Bombardier is no longer consumed by Sulfur-Lined Pockets or Grenade Juggler procs.
• MAGE
  • Arcane
    • High Voltage base chance decreased to 10% (was 20%).
    • High Voltage proc chance increase per failure increased to 10% (was 5%).
    • Aether Attunement da...

July 3, 2024

Achievements

• What’s Down There? now requires 1 Massive Lunker (was 2).
• That’s not a Fish… now requires 5 Massive Lunkers (was 10).
• We’re Going to Need a Bigger Harpoon now requires 10 Massive Lunkers (was 25).

Items

• Ominous Conch cooldown lowered to 1 minute (was 5 minutes).
• Increased the drop rate of Ominous Conch found in Tuskarr Tackle Boxes.
• Ominous Conch now has a maximum stack size of 20.
  • Developers’ notes: Ominous Conch used to have a maximum stack size of 20 in earlier patches, and that was removed. Since we’re putting the max back on it, we think it’s best to also reduce the associated achievement requirements and cooldown.

July 3, 2024

WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria

• Fixed several issues with the achievement Elusive Foes: Timeless Isles.

July 3, 2024

Cataclysm Classic

• Fixed an issue preventing the completion of the Bounce achievement.
• Cataclysm raid premade group activities are now available in Group Finder.

Here are this week’s changes to the War Within Pre-Expansion PTR:

CHARACTER SELECT SCREEN

• There is a known issue that characters may appear to be missing articles of clothing on the character select screen. Logging in and out of the game client will address this.

CLASSES

• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Frost
    • Icy Death Torrent has had the following changes:
      • Damage now scales with Mastery.
      • Damage increased by 100%.
      • Now has a 50% chance to trigger on auto-attack critical strikes while dual wielding and 100% while wielding a two-handed weapon.
      • Now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
    • Pillar of Frost’s Strength increased to 30% (was 25%).
    • Enduring Strength’s Strength increased to 20% (was 15%).
    • Long Winter now extends Pillar of Frost by 2 seconds, up to a maximum of 6 seconds.
    • Shattering Blade now increases Frost Strike damage by 125% (was 100%).
    • Shattered Frost now causes Frost strike to deal 65% of its damage to nearby enemies (was 50%).
    • Hyperpyrexia’s chance to trigger has been increased to 35 an...

Greetings! Here are this week’s updates to the War Within Beta:

CLASSES

• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Hero Talents
    • Rider of the Apocalypse (Frost/Unholy)
      • A Feast of Souls no longer has a chance to refund a rune.
      • Damage from Runic Power abilities is increased by 30% while 2 or more Horsemen are active (was 20%).
    • San’layn (Unholy/Blood)
      • The Blood is Life accumulator deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
      • The Blood is Life accumulator can no longer critically strike.
      • Corrupted Blood ability of the Blood Beast deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
      • Essence of the Blood Queen’s Haste granted per stack reduced to 1% (was 1.5%).
      • Vampiric Strike now heals for 1%/2% of your maximum health for Blood/Unholy (was 3%/5%).
      • Vampiric Strike damage reduced by 15%.
      • Infliction of Sorrow now extends the duration of your disease by 2 seconds (was 3 seconds).
      • Infliction of Sorrow now deals 10% of the remaining damage (was 20%).
  • Frost
    • Icy Death Torrent has had the following changes:
      • Damage now scales with Master...

Testing for Sikran, Captain of the Sureki (Heroic) begins today at 11:00 PDT (14:00 EDT, 20:00 CEST).

Please use this thread for feedback and bug reports regarding this encounter or related issues. Noting the nature of your group (Mythic guild premade, PUG, etc.) is helpful, as are any logs. Thank you to everyone who has come out to help test!