Greetings Moonkins.

We noticed that Balance druid gameplay was seeing a trend towards sitting in Solar and trying not to leave it, especially in Multi-DoT situations. Not engaging with a decent chunk of your core rotation to stay in Solar Eclipse is not a playstyle that we nor the original developers had intended, so we released a change last week that was aimed at preventing mastery snapshotting pre-pull by resetting Eclipse when engaging a boss.

Having your Eclipse state reset on boss pull does a few things:

• It lets Balance druids start pulls on a relatively even playing field (even after wiping)
• It makes you less reluctant to participate in trash pulls instead of saving an Eclipse state, and
• It also doesn’t punish a player who was recently in Solar, and starts a boss with their bar pushing towards Lunar Eclipse

We acknowledge this change required breaking a few Moonkin eggs and understand this could be a damage reduction in many scenarios. As a result, we went looking for a lightw...

Hello everyone, welcome to the start of Delves end game testing on the realm, “These Go To Eleven”!

We’re very excited to have people come in and see what we have in store for our endgame difficulty.

We wanted to start things off with a layout of what we currently have, what we’re planning next, and our goals behind these decisions.

Before Season 1 begins in The War Within players will have access to Tiers 1, 2, and 3 difficulty in delves. We expect players who have been keeping up with the current season will prefer tiers 2 and 3, while newer players will begin in tier 1 before graduating up to 2 and eventually 3 when they gear up.

When Season 1 begins we will open up tiers 4 through 11 along with introducing a few mechanics in tiers 4 and above: seasonal progression, death counters, and Zekvir’s Influence.

Seasonal Progression

Seasonal progress can be obtained from any delve when the season begins. Playing at higher tiers will reward more progress, but players will still be able to c...

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June 11, 2024

Player versus Player

• Paladin
  • Fixed an issue that caused Blessing of Sacrifice to not break Psychic Scream.

June 11, 2024

WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria

• Players who are holding the Tusks of Mannoroth cosmetic item on their non-plate wearing characters will now see an option on Pythagorus at any Infinite Bazaar to trade their item for a version that they can use to learn the Tusks of Mannoroth appearance for plate characters on their account.

June 11, 2024

Cataclysm Classic

• Valor Points will now behave like Conquest and the current weekly cap will be replaced with a rolling seasonal cap.
  • Developer’s note: If you’ve missed any Valor Points in previous weeks since Cataclysm Classic launched, you’ll now be able to catch up from those weeks.
• There is no longer a cap to the number of times you may earn Valor Points from Random Dungeon Finder each week, up to your normal Valor Points cap.
• The Hood of Malefic wing affect should work once again.
• Fixed an issue where the Wrack spell during the Sinestra fight could cause your game to freeze and crash.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the Staff of Disintegration from working to help you in the Tempest Keep Kael’Thas encounter.
• Rotten to the Core is now granted properly after completing the achievement.
• Darkmoon Faire
  • Starting this weekend, Darkmoon Faire will become available every two weeks, instead of once a month.
• Hunter
  • Scatter Shot will now correctly break if the target take...

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

CLASSES

• DEATH KNIGHT
  • Hero Talents
    • San’layn (Unholy/Blood)
      • Infliction of Sorrow has been redesigned – When Vampiric Strike damages an enemy affected by your Virulent Plague, it extends the duration of the disease by 3 seconds and deals 20% of the remaining damage to the enemy. After Gift of the San’layn ends, your next Scourge Strike consumes the disease to deal 200% of its remaining damage to the enemy.
      • An issue with Blood Beast heal and damage values have been fixed.
  • Blood
    • New Talent: Carnage – Blooddrinker and Consumption now contribute to your Mastery: Blood Shield. Each time an enemy strikes your Blood Shield, the cooldowns of Blooddrinker and Consumption have a chance to be reset.
  • Unholy
    • Decomposition now functions with Gargoyle.
    • Ghoulish Frenzy is now a 1-point talent (was 2). Value at 1-point unchanged.
    • Improved Death Coil is now a 1-point talent (was 2). Value at 1-point unchanged.
    • Apocalypse now always summons 4 ...

Hello Hunters! We’re very excited to unveil the class and spec tree updates for Hunter today!

We had a few goals going into this update, and we wanted to communicate those so the Hunter community will have some more direction when giving feedback in the coming weeks.

Across the Hunter core tree and all spec trees, we had these goals:

• Improve secondary stat scaling across all Hunter specializations
• Condense existing damage effects
• Conservatively expand on the range of Hunter utility
• Solidify rotational gameplay and fantasy of each spec

Core Tree

The Hunter core tree had a substantial amount of throughput relative to other core trees, which all had to be generic given how differently each spec can utilize the Hunter class tools and spells. This led to a lot of passive damage instances and didn’t do a ton to expand on each spec’s gameplay.

We’ve culled a lot of passive damage procs in the core tree, added some more situational utility, expanded on Hunter defensives, and made sure that e...

Hello again! Currently there is a visual issue in the Valor Points UI and we’re working on a fix that shows the correct number of points that you’ve earned this season as of this week (maximum of 6400). We’ll be sure to update the hotfix thread once the fix is live.

Additionally, the hotfix for removing the Valor Points cap from Random Dungeon Finder should now be live. Thank you so much for your reports.

The following changes will be made to the Darkmoon Faire schedule and the Valor Points cap in Cataclysm Classic:

Darkmoon Faire

• Starting this weekend, Darkmoon Faire will become available every two weeks, instead of once a month.

Valor Points

• With regional realm restarts this week, Valor Points will behave like Conquest and the current weekly cap will be replaced with a rolling seasonal cap. If you’ve missed any Valor Points in previous weeks since Cataclysm Classic launched, you’ll now be able to catch up from those weeks.
• There is no longer a cap to the number of times you may earn Valor Points from Random Dungeon Finder each week, up to your normal Valor Points cap.

This Friday, June 14, please join members of the World of Warcraft development team in PvP on The War Within Beta Test Realms as we playtest Rated Battleground Blitz and Deephaul Ravine. Rated Battleground Blitz is a new Rated solo battleground game mode and Deephaul Ravine is a new battleground, both coming with the expansion launch. Check out the Beta notes for more information on these features.

We’ll get underway at 2:00 p.m. PDT (4:00 p.m. CDT, 5:00 p.m. EDT) with two hours of playtesting. We’ll start first with playtesting Rated Battleground Blitz for an hour, then continue into Deephaul Ravine for the final hour at 3:00 p.m PDT (5:00 p.m. CDT, 6:00 p.m. EDT).

To playtest this with us, log onto the End Game Realm “These Go To Eleven”, which has max level character templates and access to various vendors. To queue up, open the Group Finder (default hotkey: i), then select Random Battlegrounds and click Join Battle. Deephaul Ravine will be the only battleground available for Random...

Come help us test the Warband feature on your favorite characters! We want to test how character info on multiple characters merge when it becomes account wide.

This is how the testing will work:

• June 12 – The PTR realms for The War Within Pre-Expansion update (11.0.1) will become available to copy characters only. We will ask that you copy as many characters as you like to the PTR, especially multiple characters that you have played a lot will be particularly helpful for this test.
• June 17 – We will run the conversion and open the servers for logging in.

Please be patient. The Warband conversion may take some time:

• Your account may take several minutes to gather and convert all characters on first log in.
• Not-yet-implemented: There will be a dialog letting you know your characters are being added to a Warband.

When we open the servers for log-in on June 17, please reply to this thread and let us know your feedback, along with the answers to the following questions:

• For any achiev...

With The War Within, we’re removing the PvP category from the Great Vault. As a part of this change, we’ll be increasing the amount of Conquest you can earn each week and increasing the rate at which you earn it.

Here are the new weekly Conquest caps as compared to Dragonflight Season 3:

Here are the new Conquest earnings for certain game modes as compared to Dragonflight Season 3. These are subject to change:

June 6, 2024

Cataclysm Classic

• Fixed an issue that could cause the Brutal and Focused Assault debuffs in Warsong Gulch and Twin Peaks to become misaligned.
• Fixed an issue preventing some players from seeing the Siege Tank during “Battlezone” after reconnecting from a disconnect.

June 6, 2024

Items

• Jepetto Joybuzz and his clockwork assistant have received a new shipment of Prismatic Baubles in stock from the Mad Merchant. They can be purchased during the month of June for the standard price of 250,000 gold.

Quests

• Fixed an issue where raid encounters were not granting quest credit for “To the Test: Rune of Shadowbinding”.

June 6, 2024

WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria

• Found the missing Sky Admiral Rogers and returned her to her post so that players can continue “Onward and Inward”.
• Chelon now spawns as expected on the Timeless Isle.

• SHAMAN (Shaman Feedback)
  • Hero Talents
    • Farseer (Restoration/Elemental)
    • Stormbringer (Elemental/Enhancement)
    • Totemic (Enhancement/Restoration)
      • Surging Totem is now cast at a destination within 40 yards. For Enhancement, it creates Tremors around itself every 6 seconds for the duration, and for Restoration maintains Healing Rain around itself for 24 seconds. Totemic Projection can be used to move the Totem and its effects and it will be prioritized as the central totem.
  • Elemental
    • All damage increased by 30%.
  • Restoration
    • Developer’s note: We are making some changes to raid healing cooldowns in The War Within to increase their effectiveness in content with less than 20 players. Our goal is to make these spells feel powerful in all forms of content, particularly smaller dungeon, PvP, or raid groups. The healing of these cooldowns will remain equal when healing 20 injured allies as they previously did and only take into account injured allies as contributing to their splash cap. T...

• MONK (Monk Feedback)
  • Many talents have moved locations or have had their pathing updated.
  • New Talent: Crashing Momentum – Targets you Roll through are snared by 40% for 5 seconds.
  • New Talent: Bounding Agility – Roll and Chi Torpedo travel a small distance further.
  • New Talent: Wind’s Reach – The range of Disable is increased by 5 yards. The duration of Crashing Momentum is increased by 3 seconds and its snare now reduces movement speed by an additional 20%.
  • New Talent: Ancient Arts – Reduces the cooldown of Paralysis by 8/15 seconds and the cooldown of Leg Sweep by 5/10 seconds.
  • New Talent: Jade Walk – While out of combat, your movement speed is increased by 15%.
  • New Talent: Pressure Points – Paralysis now removes all Enrage effects from its target.
  • New Talent: Energy Transfer – Successfully interrupting an enemy reduces the cooldown of Paralysis and Roll by 5 seconds.
  • New Talent: Quick Footed – The duration of snare effects on you is reduced by 20%.
  • New Talent: Spirit’s Essence: Tran...

The War Within Beta Development Notes

DISCOVER THE LAND OF KHAZ ALGAR

• ISLE OF DORN
  • Discover the land of Khaz Algar, off the western shores of Pandaria and home to the Earthen. Their capital city, Dornogal, will become the new meeting ground for the Horde and Alliance.
• THE RINGING DEEPS
  • This gigantic cavern serves as the home of the Machine Speakers, Earthen who maintain the gigantic Titan machines of old.
• HALLOWFALL
  • Lit by a massive crystal at its center, this bright underground zone is home to the Arathi who are engaged in a continuing battle against the nerubians.
• AZJ-KAHET
  • The pinnacle of nerubian society where Xal’atath, Harbinger of the Void, has been gathering and mutating nerubian forces to create an unstoppable army.

NEW FEATURES

• NEW ALLIED RACE: EARTHEN
  • Within the Halls of Awakening, the future of the earthen flickers with hope once more. As change rattles the once strict foundations of these hardworking titanforged, newly awakened earthen will be offered a ch...

With hotfixes that will go live during scheduled weekly maintenance this week (tomorrow, June 4 in this region), we will make the following tuning adjustments to Neltharus and Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr dungeons.

Dungeons

• Neltharus
  • Chargath
    • Slag Eruption duration reduced to 3 seconds (was 4 seconds).
    • Fetter duration increased to 15 seconds (was 12 seconds).
    • Addressed an issue where canceling Dragon Strike using invisibility will lead to Grounding Chain not being cast.
• Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr
  • Bromach
    • Quaking totem’s health reduced by 10%.
  • Emberon
    • Addressed an issue where Purging Flames’ visual does not line up with the beam area.