May 7, 2024

Cataclysm Classic

• Legendary appearances may now be added to your Transmogrification collection. In anticipation of community response to this change, we have also added a pitchfork.
• Fixed an issue that would cause the Monstrous Clams in the quest “Clammy Hands” to be non-interactive.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Naralex and his discipline from correctly spawning in the Southern Barrens.
• Druid Thrash now benefits from and consumes the Clearcasting effect from Omen of Clarity.
• Fixed an issue where Blessing of Kings and Mark of the Wild were incorrectly stacking their stat increases.
• Fixed an issue where level 80 boosted characters were not properly learning their class and spec’s Mastery abilities.
• Prayer of Mending now scales by the intended amount from spell power.
• Conflagrate will no longer consume lower-rank Immolates belonging to other Warlocks.
• Player versus Player
  • Fixed a bug causing Resilience to do much less mitigation than intended.
  • Fixed an issue where crowd con...

May 7, 2024

Classes

• Demon Hunter
  • Vengeance
    • Sigil of Silence duration reduced to 4 seconds (was 5 seconds).
    • Sigil of Silence cooldown increased to 90 seconds (was 60 seconds).
    • Cycle of Binding now reduces Sigil cooldowns by 2 seconds per trigger (was 3 seconds).
    • Soul Cleave damage reduced by 8%.
• Druid
  • Balance
    • Season 4 (2) Set Bonus now increases the damage of your next Wrath or Starfire by 50% (was 30%).
    • Season 4 (2) Set Bonus new reduces the Astral Power cost of your next Starsurge or Starfall by 30 (was 15) and increases the damage it does by 60% (was 40%).
• Monk
  • Brewmaster
    • Keg Smash damage reduced by 10%.
    • Spinning Crane Kick damage reduced by 10%.
    • Summon White Tiger Statue damage reduced by 30%.
    • The effectiveness of Stagger against magical attacks increased to 55% (was 45%).
    • Healing Sphere healing increased by 10%.
• Rogue
  • Assassination
    • Ability and auto-attack damage increased by 6%. Does not affect PvP combat.
    • Fixed an issue that caused the Assassination Rogue Seas...

May 6, 2024

Cataclysm Classic

• Account wide achievements that reward titles now grant them at an account level.
• Fixed an issue that prevented players from receiving daily Random Battleground rewards.
• Smoke Bomb will now properly cancel Stealth, Prowl, and Shadowmeld from enemy players.
• Fixed an issue that would prevent Warden Stillwater from spawning during the “Lawn of the Dead” quest.
• Fixed an issue where Death Knights in Blood Presence could be incorrectly, critically hit by all melee attacks.
• Reduced the cost of all honor and arena gear from Wrath of the Lich King, to better match honor gain while at level 80 compared to level 85.
• Holidays
  • Made some improvements to the Children’s Week Quests “The Banshee Queen”, “Malfurion Has Returned!”, and “The Fallen Chieftain” to more consistently grant quest credit.
• Warlock
  • The Warlock Demon Soul ability will now work with the Incubus pet.
  • Fixed an issue where Warlock Demonology pets were not properly updating from Mastery.
  • Fixed an issue...

May 2, 2024

Cataclysm Classic

• If a Paladin misplaces the Symbol of Faith during the quest “Materials of Significance”, they may now buy a replacement from the Lost and Found vendor in Booty Bay.
• Fixed the Children’s Week quest “Cruisin’ the Chasm” so that it can now be completed.
• Boosted Paladins should now have Collective Book of Healing or Secondhand Book of Healing as expected.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Worgen from being eligible for some daily quests.
• Mage
  • Ignite damage will no longer be counted double toward Combustion.
  • Refreshed Ignite that now has 3 ticks over 6 seconds will do the same amount of damage on each tick.
  • Ignite spread by Impact and Fire Blast will no longer have a missing 2nd or 3rd tick that adds damage to future Ignites.

May 2, 2024

Classes

• Druid
  • Feral
    • Fixed an issue preventing Smoldering Frenzy (Season 4 (2) Set Bonus) from triggering effects like Seal of Diurna’s Chosen.

Dungeons and Raids

• Algeth’ar Academy
  • Echo of Doragosa
    • Arcane Rift now spawns Uncontrolled Energy 20% less frequently.
    • Overwhelming Power now spawns Arcane Rift at 4 stacks (was 3).
• The Nokhud Offensive
  • Addressed an issue where the rim visual on Static Spear and Crackling Upheaval can disappear under certain situations.

Items

• Fixed an issue that prevented Eye of Awakening from functioning on rings purchased from Antique Bronze Bullion vendors.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Tiered Medallion Setting from functioning on necklaces purchased from Antique Bronze Bullion vendors.
• Rings and necklaces purchased from Bullion vendors should now be eligible for socket upgrades. This fix is retroactive.

Non-player Characters

• Vaskarn in the Emerald Dream no longer erroneously mentions that they can upgrade your gear with the u...

• WARRIOR (Warrior Feedback)
  • Developer’s note: The Warrior class talent tree has been significantly reorganized to allow for more player choice and build diversity in Warrior builds, as well as improve access to utility abilities like Storm Bolt and Shockwave. Rage generation for all Warrior specs in Dragonflight has been higher than we’re happy with so we’ve removed or reduced the power of several Rage-generating effects. With tuning, this will introduce more tactical gameplay around when to use Rage spenders and make those spenders more impactful. More details can be found in the Feedback: Warrior Updates thread.
  • Significant re-arrangement of many talents on the Warrior tree.
  • Berserker Rage now auto-learned at level 12.
  • Thunder Clap base Rage cost reduced to 20 (was 30).
  • Slam damage normalized across all specializations (Arms-only Slam damage bonus removed), and damage increased by 200%.
  • Blood and Thunder no longer increases Rage cost or damage of Thunder Clap.
  • Crackling Thunder also...

April 29, 2024

Dungeons and Raids

• Algeth’ar Academy
  • Fixed an issue where Vile Lasher’s Detonation Seed was not spawning on the ground.
• Neltharus
  • Lava Flare’s Melt now goes on cooldown after the cast is interrupted.
  • Chargath, Bane of Scales
    • Fiery Focus’s Fire damage reduced by 25%.
• Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr
  • The Mythic+ timer increased by 1 minute.
• Vault of the Incarnates
  • Cuzolth now provides their item upgrade services to players in Vault of the Incarnates.
  • Terros
    • Fixed an issue where Explosive Reaction was hitting pets on Mythic difficulty.

Items

• Libergo, Head Librarian of the Azure Archives Annex in Valdrakken, has been watching your actions closely and now offers to reacquaint you with your legendary weapon if you happened to misplace it.
• PvP staves now properly filter for Warlocks on vendors.

April 29, 2024
Season of Discovery

• Shaman
  • Rolling Thunder can now trigger from Overload versions of Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning.
• Warlock
  • Felguards summoned by Warlocks will now have their appropriate demon names, instead of just ‘Felguard’. This name will not be permanent like other Warlock pets, and the Felguard’s name will change upon every summon.

We’ve made a couple updates to the Season 4 content update notes:

• Awakened raids will rotate weekly, instead of every two weeks.
  • Developer’s note: In an effort to ensure players have variety week over week we are adjusting the schedule of our Awakened raids to rotate weekly.
• Earn 1 Antique Bronze Bullion a week per character by defeating Awakened bosses, with the cap rising by 1 each week. Note that if you miss a week, you’ll be able to catch up to the current weekly max.
• Revival Catalyst charges have been reset to 1. One charge is earned each week (was every 2 weeks).

The War Within Alpha Development Notes

NEW ZONES AND DELVES

• Isle of Dorn
• The Ringing Deeps
• Hallowfall
• Azj-Kahet

NEW DUNGEONS

• Cinderbrew Meadery
• The Rookery
• The Stonevault
• Darkflame Cleft
• The Dawnbreaker
• Priory of the Sacred Flame
• City of Threads
• Ara-Kara, City of Echoes

NEW ALLIED RACE: EARTHEN (Earthen Race Feedback)

• 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 choice: abide by tradition or embrace a new path forward.

NEW BATTLEGROUND: DEEPHAUL RAVINE

• Deephaul Ravine is themed in The Ringing Deeps where the Foreman Uzjax and Architect Ruffious are tasked with collecting as much valuable ore, gems, and crystals for their respective priorities. Ruffious the Unbound Earthen has big plans for the ore and gems found in the Deephaul Ravine, but the Machine Speakers of the Earthenworks are quite possessive of such precious...

Here are this week’s updates to the Dark Heart PTR:

USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY

• Several changes have been made to improve the experience of finding Mythic+ groups in Premade Group Finder:
  • Advanced filters will now only appear for max level characters.
  • Filter options will now save between sessions.
  • Language filters will no longer appear for characters on North American realms.
  • Declined applications will now save between refreshes.
• When previewing an ensemble or arsenal, the Dressing Room will now show a list of items included in the bundle. Each item can be viewed independently by clicking its name in the list.
• Solo Shuffle scoreboards will now show the results of the match (Victory, Draw, or Defeat) in the title.

Added the following hotfixes to today’s update:

Items

• The following cast time trinkets will now trigger a 1 second global cooldown and may not be used when the global cooldown is active:
  • Manic Grieftorch
  • Beacon to the Beyond
  • Belor’relos, the Suncaller
  • Algeth’ar Puzzle Box
• Manic Grieftorch damage increased by 1.2%. Can now be channeled while moving.
• Storm-Eater’s Boon damage reduced by 25%.
• Dragonfire Bomb Dispenser damage reduced by 15%. Flash of Inspiration may now only occur every 2 seconds (was 0.74 seconds).
• Neltharion’s Call to Chaos primary stat reduced by 6.4%.
• Neltharion’s Call to Dominance primary stat reduced by 15%.
• Nymue’s Unraveling Spindle now triggers a 1 second global cooldown (was 1.5 seconds).
• All Fyrakk’s Tainted Rageheart’s damage reduced by 5%.
• Fixed an issue causing Inexorable Resonator to grant more primary stat than intended.
• Fixed an issue causing Whispering Incarnate Icon to grant significantly more passive secondary stat than intended.

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

Dragonflight: Dark Heart 10.2.7 Update Development Notes

WOW REMIX: MISTS OF PANDARIA EVENT

World of Warcraft Remix is a time-limited event which allows players to re-experience the entirety of the Mists of Pandaria expansion at an accelerated rate from level 10 through 70. All loot has been completely overhauled and has powerful new effects allowing players to shape their experience, power up, and power on. Features include:

• Accelerated Leveling and Content allowing you to take on nearly every quest, scenario, dungeon and raid.
• Create a new WoW Remix character starting at level 10 to adventure through the event up to level 70.
• A mountain of loot: Get powerful items from everywhere— quests, chests, creatures, bosses.
• Customizable items allowing you to power up as far as you can go to take on tougher content.
• Convert unwanted items into Bronze which can be used to upg...

April 5, 2024
Season of Discovery

• Fixed issues around the Leatherworking Wild Leather Vest and Way of the Weaponsmith
• The Rugged Traveler will now also despawn if greater than two players enter the quest area.
• Level 50 players who are Exalted with the Arathi Basin reputations can now complete the battleground quests usually reserved for level 60 allowing them to obtain their Exalted reputation tabards.
• The Sunken Temple
  • Significant adjustments were made to trash and boss health. Please note: In order for these health adjustments to take effect you will need to soft reset your instance. We’re sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
    • Developer’s note: When developing and tuning the Sunken Temple raid encounters, we had concerns about player power going into Phase 3 so we aimed high when tuning enemy health. We feel that we aimed too high and have recently deployed a hotfix that lowers the health of all enemies and bosses within the Sunken Temple to help ensure this content remains ...

When developing and tuning the Sunken Temple raid encounters, we had concerns about player power going into Phase 3 so we aimed high when tuning enemy health. We feel that we aimed too high and have recently deployed a hotfix that lowers the health of all enemies and bosses within the Sunken Temple to help ensure this content remains accessible to all players.

We’ll be watching progress closely and making additional adjustments as needed in the coming days. Thank you and have fun in Sunken Temple!

The Sunken Temple Raid

• Significant adjustments were made to trash and boss health. Please note: In order for these health adjustments to take effect you will need to soft reset your instance. We’re sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

April 4, 2024

Plunderstorm

• Explosive Caltrops now drops caltrops along the entire jump path.
• Explosive Caltrops now affects all targets in the effect range when triggered.

April 4, 2024
Season of Discovery

• Players can now correctly activate their other talent specialization while under the effects of the preparation aura in Battlegrounds.
• Druid
  • Efflorescence will now work properly when Swiftmend is used on a guardian or pet belonging to a party member.
• Shaman
  • Healing Rain can no longer be cast when targeted a non-player (as intended in its text).
• Nightmare Incursions
  • Vengeful Ancient and Doomkin are now categorized Elite (was Rare Elite).
  • Credit for defeating Larsera, Florius, Ylanthrius, and Tyrannikus is now awarded cross-faction.
• The Blood Moon
  • Zanzil the Outcast
    • Ward of Zanzil will now despawn after 30 seconds, summon a reduced number of zombie skeletons, and will be recast less frequently.
    • Ward of Zanza no longer has totem immunities, and Zombies will despawn after a short period of time.
  • The Crystal Shore Blood Moon graveyard is now farther north.

April 4, 2024
WoW Classic Era

• Temple of Ahn’qiraj
  • Twin Emperors
    • Fixed an issue that prevented Vek’nilash and Vek’lor from sharing health.

April 3, 2024

Season of Discovery

• Fixed an issue with the Spirit of Zandalar buff given out by turning in the “Heart of Hakkar” quest not being granted to players in Booty Bay.
• The quest “Salvaging the Salvagematic” can once again be picked up from Ziri Littlesprocket after completing the “Salvagematic 9000” quest.

April 2, 2024

Season of Discovery

• Fixed an issue that was preventing the Blood Moon event from working properly.
• Hunter
  • Fixed an issue where the Frenzy tooltip on the master Hunter now correctly shows 6% instead of the incorrect 40%. This has no effect on the actual damage done by the pet.
• Shaman
  • Electromantic Caster Mail set – Reduced Lightning Bolt cast time reduction to 0.1 seconds (was 0.2 seconds).
    • Developer’s note: This set bonus was really strong and resulted in 10% more Lightning Bolts. We’ve reduced the cast time reduction to avoid the possibility of this older set bonus not being replaced with later Phase 3 gear.
  • Fixed an issue with Way of Earth that caus...

April 3, 2024

Items

• The following adjustments have been made to the Water’s Beating Heart trinket:
  • When an ally not equipped with Water’s Beating Heart dispels a player affected by Primal Wellspring Water, the buff will correctly apply to the debuffed player.
  • The Primal Wellspring Water debuff is now visible to allies.
  • The shield value is now split between affected players.
• Fixed an issue where the following trinkets were dropping at an incorrect item level:
  • Globe of Jagged Ice
  • Granyth’s Enduring Scale
  • Inexorable Resonator
  • Tome of Unstable Power
  • Umbrelskull’s Fractured Heart
  • Water’s Beating Heart

Noblegarden

• Increased the drop rate of the Noble Flying Carpet mount and added a bonus to the mount drop chance on the first defeat of Daetan on the account each day.

April 2, 2024

Dungeons and Raids

• Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope
  • Tindral Sageswift
    • Fiery Growth targets reduced to 3 on Mythic difficulty (was 4).
    • Fiery Growth damage reduced by 20% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Falling Star d...