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An Update on This Year’s BlizzCon and Blizzard’s 2024 Live Events

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After careful consideration over the last year, we at Blizzard have made the decision not to hold BlizzCon in 2024. This decision was not made lightly as BlizzCon remains a very special event for all of us, and we know many of you look forward to it. While we’re approaching this year differently and as we have explored different event formats in the past, rest assured that we are just as excited as ever to bring BlizzCon back in future years.

Over the next few months, we’ll be sharing more details about our launches coming later this year, including World of Warcraft: The War Within and Diablo IV’s first expansion, Vessel of Hatred. To celebrate these upcoming releases and to bring our communities together in new and special ways, we will soon share some exciting plans for other industry trade shows and conventions like Gamescom. We can’t wait to tell you more about those plans soon. We’re also looking forward to the Overwatch Champions Series’ stops at both Dreamhack Dallas and Dreamhack Stockholm. And we’re thrilled to be planning multiple, global, in-person events to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Warcraft, which will be held in addition to the in-game celebrations across our Warcraft games throughout 2024. While these events are distinct from BlizzCon, we’re harnessing all of our creativity and imagination to ensure that they carry the same spirit of celebration and togetherness.

Our hope is that these experiences – alongside several live-streamed industry events where we’ll keep you up to date with what’s happening in our game universes – will capture the essence of what makes the Blizzard community so special.

No matter how you choose to connect with us at these events this year – whether it be in person or virtually – we can’t wait to see you there!

The WoW Companion App Retiring

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With the release of The War Within™ pre-expansion content update, we will no longer support the WoW Companion App. After this date, players will not be able to update, download, or use the companion app and its features.

We want to thank everyone who has used the app as their companion for their adventures over the years!

Hotfixes: April 23 2024, Account Character Limit Increase to 65

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April 23, 2024

Items

  • Season 3 (Dreaming) crests are now correctly removed from players’ currency tabs. Players have received a small amount of gold for their unused Dreaming Crests.
  • Players can now earn up to 120 crests of each type per week in Dragonflight Season 4 (was a maximum of 90 per week in Season 3). This will allow for up to 8 upgrades per week, per crest type (was 6 in Season 3).
    • Developers’ notes: For players who don’t reach their maximum crest earnings in a given week, we’ve implemented the increasing-seasonal-cap system from previous seasons. Please note that this increase is likely applicable to Season 4 only. We expect the weekly maximum to return to 90 for The War Within Season One.

Quests

  • Resolved an issue where abandoning the quest “Something Worth Celebrating” could make it unavailable.

Account Character Limit Increase to 65

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With the Dark Heart patch, we will increase the maximum number of characters that can be created on a WoW account from 60 to 65.

Have fun!

Dark Heart and WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria Ahead

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Mark your calendars for the release of the next content update for Dragonflight—Dark Heart— on May 7, and for the World of Warcraft Remix: Mists of Pandaria event on May 16 at 19:00 CEST globally!

Dragonflight: Dark Heart

The Dark Heart content update launches, May 7 and ushers in the final chapter of the Dragonflight expansion setting the stage for the story in the upcoming expansion, The War Within™.

Draenei and Troll characters can also embark on new questlines to lay claim to their new heritage armors,  Kul Tiran Humans can  select from six new hair colors, maximum-level characters will gain access to all Dragonflight regardless of Renown —and more.


World of Warcraft Remix: Mists of Pandaria

Get into the mix of things when the World of Warcraft Remix: Mists of Pandaria event goes live on May 16! This time-limited event allows players to re-experience the entirety of the Mists of Pandaria expansion at an accelerated rate from level 10-70. 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 upgrade items or purchase cosmetics.
  • Keep what you collect: Take your collection of transmogs with you into The War Within.

Read our previously published article on the World of Warcraft Remix: Mists of Pandaria and check out the latest PTR content update notes (English only) on the forums to learn more details.

We look forward to taking on these new adventures with you. We’ll see you in the Dragon Isles and Pandaria!

The War Within Alpha Interview Roundup Part 3

More interviews have come out for The War Within and datamining has continued as well!

Below is a roundup of new information, of course you can expect some spoilers:

Quests/World content

  • You’ll be able to use the LFG tool to find a group for Delves (Warcraft)
  • Once the Delve companion is high enough level you can equip them with curios, which are trinket-like effects (Warcraft)
  • The secret 13th Delve will unlock in season 1 and will contain a boss encounter (Warcraft)
  • The 13th Delve will be as difficult as they can get it, a sort of Mage Tower challenge as it were (Naguura)
  • Difficulty tiers 9, 10, 11 will stop giving better loot and are therefor the challenge (Naguura)
  • The variation of Delve objectives is unlocked at max level (Warcraft)
  • Delve objectives change on a daily cadence (Warcraft)
  • The Delve collectables purchasable with a currency can also drop directly in the end of Delve chests (Warcraft)
  • Brann is always with you in the Delve even if you have a group of 5 (Naguura)
  • Under the hood Delves use a lot of the same tech as Torghast to tune the experience properly depending on group size and role composition (Naguura)
  • They’re building new types of zone/world events. Not all of them will be like the Dragonflight world events (Iskaara Cooking/Hunts/etc) (LeystTV)
  • One example of a new zone event is putting on a play with a group of people (LeystTV)
  • When the Hallowfall crystal changes to shadow it will influence the mobs in the zone. They become a lot more aggressive, they change behavior, they do more damage and things like that (LeystTV)
  • They plan to bring the player into the raid during a quest so that the environment can be used outside of the normal raiding context (LeystTV)

Classes/Earthen

  • The Earthen will have unique racials, as they are made of stone rather than flesh (T&E)
  • When it comes to Hero Talent balance they will do what feels right for the most players. That could mean tuning a hero talent tree differently for 1 spec that uses it than the other. (Naguura)
  • They are looking at classes/specs that don’t provide a buff to raid groups. You shouldn’t have to feel like you need to exclude a class because they don’t provide a buff for the group (Naguura)

Dungeons/Mythic+/Raiding

  • They’ll be talking about Mythic+ affixes soon but they are not ready to yet (Naguura)
  • They are not really happy with high end content becoming about pressing a cooldown to survive a boss mechanic to otherwise go from 100% health straight down to 0. No big changes planned for season 1, but iterative improvements on mechanics (Naguura)
  • They like having a Fated/Awakened season at the end of the expansion but they are not ready to commit to always doing it. They are very much listening to the feedback players are giving on the Awakened season (Naguura)

Dynamic Flying/Transportation

  • They’re having conversations about potential teleportation/modes of transport so that you don’t have to always fly from the surface zone all the way through the other zones to the bottom zone. (LeystTV)

Lore

  • By mapping out a larger story over a trilogy it allows them to plan much more beforehand. Allowing for setting up arcs per expansion, as well as for a larger arc over the trilogy. (T&E)
  • They know the ending to the World Soul Saga (T&E)
  • They have already mapped out the back bone to the story. Story moments, allies, enemies. (T&E)
  • They thought a lot about the controversy of the burning of Teldrassil and do not think crashing Dalaran will be the same. It’s a shared pain among the entire player base (T&E)
  • They will make sure that players learn who characters like Xal’atath are. You do not need to play old content to learn who they are (T&E)
  • We’ll get the opportunity to learn more about Xal’atath’s motives and if you pay close attention you might see some foreshadowing as well (T&E)
  • Maria cannot give a clarification on whether the Amirdrassil ending cinematic means that Azeroth is not a titan (T&E)

Warbands

  • You’ll be able to transfer currency over to other characters directly from the currency tab (Warcraft)

Misc

  • For Last Titan the artists are working on creating concept art. For Midnight the world builders/artists are already hard at work making new maps (T&E)
  • Microsoft has let Blizzard be Blizzard. They are not asking Blizzard to do anything particular when it comes to World of Warcraft (VideoGamesChronicle)
  • They talk about the business model of Expansions all the time but for now using expansions to release/sell new content works for them (VideoGamesChronicle)
  • They are planning the future of WoW for the next 20-30 years and they will not abandon it as a project that would not make sense. It’s a vibrant game with many players (Bellular)
  • It took until mid 2023 to really see the goal of the Live team (former experimental gameplay team) come to life. To make the world feel alive and provide new content for all sorts of WoW players. They work on fun and wacky things (Bellular)
  • They’ve learned more is not always better. 10.2.5 did not have the same staying power as 10.1.5 did for example (Bellular)
  • They’ve done patches that felt like a disconnected set of additions and a problem of that is discoverability. The team has ideas on how to improve that (Bellular)
  • They’re looking at improving both the new player experience as well as returning player experience (Bellular)

Full Interviews/Sources:
Warcraft Warbands Feature Overview
Taliesin & Evitel Narrative Interview Maria Hamilton
Videogameschronicle Interview Holly Longdale
Warcraft Delves Overview
Bellular Holly Longdale Interview
Developer Interview End-Game Content Naguura
Developer Interview LeystTV

Previous Roundups:
The War Within Alpha Interview Roundup Part 1
The War Within Alpha Interview Roundup Part 2

The War Within Alpha Upcoming Class Update 19 April 2024: Warlocks & Mages

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Greetings Warlocks,

We’ve been very excited to see the community’s reactions to the Warlock Hero Talents, and we appreciate all of your feedback.

In the coming weeks, you’ll see multiple changes to the Warlock class and specialization trees, and we’d like to provide some context for these changes here.

Core Goals

  • Ensure each capstone is interesting and exciting.
  • Reduce the amount of throughput talents, to free up utility choices.
  • Reduce the number of ranks for talents that don’t warrant multiple ranks.

Affliction
The Affliction specialization tree forces a choice between a single-target or multi-target profile rather than providing a viable build that is adaptable in both situations. We want to redesign, introduce, and remove talents, as well as address the tuning of Malefic Rapture to help reduce this friction.

Demonology
For Demonology, we want to address the number of long cooldowns available as well as reduce the amount of resource flooding. We’ll also look at underused talents such as Doom. The feedback provided during Season 3 was instrumental in helping illuminate a path forward for Doom, and you should expect a redesign of it in a future build.

Destruction
For Destruction, we have plans to reduce the fluctuation in power based on target count. We also want to take another look at how Destruction plays in multi-target situations and look for ways to improve underused talents such as Cataclysm and Soulfire.

More to come
As always, we’re reading feedback and discussing other changes. We’re still monitoring discussions about Hero Talents, and will make adjustments as needed.

Thank you for your thoughts thus far. We look forward to hearing more as development progresses!

Mages

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Hello mages!

We have some updates coming to the Alpha in the next few weeks and want to give you an early look at a significant talent shakeup.

These changes will be almost exclusively specialization tree changes, but the goals are similar across them all. In general, we’re happy with the core gameplay of each mage specialization. These changes aim to elevate existing gameplay, provide choice, and ease frustration.

Goals

  • Allow you to acquire each specialization’s core gameplay with less talent point investment.
  • Simplify rotational complexity.
  • Provide tools to help you adapt your damage profile to better match a given encounter.
  • Provide competitive choice nodes that let you opt-out of complex gameplay.

Mage Class Tree

So far there is one change in the Mage class tree:

  • Temporal Warp is being removed.

Temporal Warp has some experiential issues we aren’t happy with, like mages not being able to use it in raid fights where Time Warp is not used at the start of the fight. We’re also unhappy with the significant APM requirements it creates, and how failing those might snowball into substantially reduced damage over the course of a fight.

Mage damage overall will be tuned taking Temporal Warp’s removal into account as these changes roll in.

Arcane

The Arcane spec tree will be receiving updates aimed at providing more options for players who enjoy the fantasy of Arcane and want to play it without some of the demanding elements of its current playstyle.

Arcane has a lot of inherent complexity with mana management, and that complexity is not well represented in the spec tree. Talents that might seem simple to manage on other specs become a headache to juggle alongside Arcane’s burns and mana management. This, paired with the new elements being added by Hero Talents, make it seem like the right time to address these issues.

We’re still working on the changes, but we can share this: Radiant Spark will be redesigned to be much simpler. It will also have a competitive choice node for people who do not like the scripted style of gameplay it incentivizes. We’re also looking at increasing the power of Arcane’s procs and giving them more exciting procs, such that responding to them as they come up is almost always the best move, even in your burns.

Fire

Fire will likely be the first to test new changes. These changes are targeted at giving Fire more talent options, particularly in AOE. We want you to be able to assess the encounter and adjust your talents accordingly, and that means being able to alter how good Ignite/Flamestrike/Phoenix Flames are at different target counts. We’re also taking a look at Fire’s suite of maintenance buffs and culling a select few of them.

Frost

With the exception of a few talents, which we’re looking to address, we’re feeling good about Frost’s gameplay and tree. Our first batch of changes for Frost will be small in scope, and targeted at adding a new build that should reminiscent of the Deathborne playstyle from Shadowlands, while also freeing up some talent points.

Thank you for your continued feedback, and we’re excited to hear more from you in the weeks to come.

Dragonflight Season 4 Content Update Notes

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Dragonflight Season 4 arrives to World of Warcraft on April 23!

New updates are highlighted in gold.


DRAGONFLIGHT SEASON 4

Powerful rewards await in Season 4 to deliver the best of what the Dragonflight expansion offers. Jump into the new Mythic+ dungeon rotation, rally your forces for new challenges in raids, prepare for the new PvP season, and ready yourselves for The War Within. [LEARN MORE]

Awakened Raids

  • Every week during Dragonflight Season 4, one of the three Dragonflight raids will become Awakened: Vault of the Incarnates; Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible; or Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope. Enemies within Awakened raids are stronger and drop upgraded loot with a higher item level.
  • A buff that increases reputation gain with Dragonflight reputations will be enabled whenever a specific raid is Awakened:
    • Schedule
      • Vault of the Incarnates: Sign of Awakened Storms – Dragonscale Expedition, Maruuk Centaur, and Iskaara Tuskaar
      • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible: Sign of Awakened Embers – Loamm Niffen, Soridormi, and Sabellian/Wrathion
      • Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope: Sign of Awakened Dreams – Dream Wardens and Valdrakken Accord
      • All raids Awakened: All the above reputations are increased
  • All three raids will also drop a new tier token to exchange for new tier pieces with the appearance and set bonus combination that players voted for.
  • 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.
    • Exchange 2 Bullion for weapons and powerful items from the Dragonflight raids from the vendors in the Parting Glass in Valdrakken.
    • An additional vendor nearby sells Jigglesworth Sr mount for 3 Bullion and cosmetics that grant you the choice of any raid weapon appearance at any difficulty color for 1 Bullion each.
  • Legendary items will drop as usual from raids, but players who have previously obtained them can purchase a Scale of Awakening to upgrade their items to the Season 4 ilvls (base is 502 and can be upgraded further through Crests and Flightstones).
  • Rewards
    • Complete all three Awakened Dragonflight raids on Normal difficulty to receive the Voyaging Wildering dynamic flying mount.
    • Earn the new title, “Awakened Hero”, for completing the Awakened raids on Heroic difficulty.
    • Those who complete the Awakened raids on Mythic difficulty are rewarded with Path Portals to the three raids.

Mythic+

  • Return to all eight Dragonflight dungeons for a refined and rewarding progression curve for Heroic, Mythic, and Mythic+ with better pacing and meaningful rewards: Ruby Life Pools, Brackenhide Hollow, The Nokhud Offensive, Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr, Neltharus, The Azure Vault, Halls of Infusion, and Algeth’ar Academy.
  • Rewards
    • Dedicated defenders can obtain the new Keystone Master mount, Infinite Armoredon, once the Dragonflight Keystone Master: Season 4 achievement is attained.
    • Earn the new title “The Draconic” after obtaining Dragonflight Keystone Conqueror: Season 4 when you reach a Mythic+ Rating of 1500 during Dragonflight Season 4.
    • “The Draconic Hero” can be earned from the achievement Draconic Hero: Dragonflight Season 4 when reaching a Mythic+ Rating in the top 0.1% of all players in your region.

PvP

  • Season 4 arrives with PvP rankings reset, new gear sets, mounts, titles, and more!
  • Rewards
    • Earn the Vicious Dreamtalon (Horde or Alliance version) for Rated Arena and Rated Battleground, and the Draconic Gladiator’s Drake and “Draconic Gladiator” title for earning the Draconic Gladiator: Dragonflight Season 4 achievement.
    • “Draconic Legend” title can be earned after attaining Draconic Legend: Dragonflight Season 4 when ending the season in the top 0.1% of the Solo Shuffle ladder.

DUNGEON CHANGES

Dragonflight Season 4 brings with it a variety of changes, including new adjustments to dungeons, their progression, and rewards. [LEARN MORE]

  • One of the most notable changes players can look forward to is the removal of the timer for Mythic Keystone dungeons for what are currently 0 and 10. Players can run through these dungeons at their own pace without the need to watch the clock while still honing their skills.
  • Heroic difficulty and rewards will move up to roughly the current level of Mythic 0. These dungeons will remain available to queue into via Group Finder (default hotkey: “I”), though the item level requirement to queue will also go up accordingly.
  • Mythic 0 difficulty and rewards will move up to roughly the current level of Mythic 8-10 (this is a bit hand-wavy – numerically it’s close to M10 but not having a timer at all or affixes really offsets that quite a bit).
  • The existing Mythic+ system will pick up where that leaves off, such that a Mythic 5 in Season 4 is roughly equivalent in difficulty, rewards, and M+ Rating awarded, to a Mythic 15 today.
    • Normal
      • This difficulty is unchanged.
    • Heroic
      • The tuning and rewards of this difficulty are increasing to be equivalent to a baseline Mythic (Mythic 0) dungeon in the current system.
      • Mythic difficulty changes and mechanics will not be present in this difficulty.
      • This remains a queueable experience.
    • Mythic
      • The tuning and rewards of this difficulty are increasing to the equivalent of a +10 dungeon with affixes in the current system.
      • There are no timers, affixes, or limitations on changing specializations or talents while in the dungeon.
      • The goal is to create a mega-dungeon like difficulty for this experience. This difficulty should present a meaningful challenge and provide commensurate rewards without the pressures of the current Mythic+ system.
      • Mythic 0 is still on a weekly lockout under this model.
    • Mythic+
      • The Mythic+ system will have rewards up to level 10, with +2 starting from what would regularly be a +11 in the current Mythic+ system.
        • A +5 should be as hard as a +15 and +10 should be as hard as a +20 in the current Mythic+ system etc.
      • Affixes would slot in at +2, +5, and +10
        • +2 – Fortified/Tyrannical
        • +5 – Entangling / Incorporeal etc.
        • +10 – Bursting / Bolstering etc.
      • Dungeon ratings should be equivalent to what they represent in the current system.
      • There should be a smaller range of keystone levels to find groups for, and more meaningful progression between each level.
  • At the beginning of Season 4, all Keystones will be reset to level 2, regardless of levels. This is done due to our difficulty refactoring of Mythic and Mythic+.
  • It’s important to note that the basic structure of dungeon rewards is not changing significantly, so what you would have earned for completing a Mythic 0 will be earnable in the Heroic difficulty dungeon instead.
  • Crest and Flightstone rewards are changing to match the same difficulty with only some minor adjustments.
    • Flightstone earnings for any given Mythic+ will match the equally challenging Mythic+ from previous seasons. This means that a Mythic +2 in Season 4 will give the same number of Flightstones as a Mythic +12 in Season 3 currently does. The rewards will continue to match difficulty, even if what we’re calling those difficulty changes.
    • Bonus Flightstone awards for increasing any party member’s Mythic+ score remain unchanged.
    • Whelpling Crests are no longer available from Mythic+ dungeons, as those difficulties no longer exist. Players can continue to collect Whelpling Crests from many outdoor sources.
    • Players will earn 10 Drake Crests on successful completion of a Mythic 0 dungeon, as there is no timer to beat.
    • Wyrm Crests will be available in Mythic +2 to Mythic +5 dungeons in the same quantities as existing Mythic+ dungeons.
    • Aspect Crests will be available in any Mythic difficulty from +6 and up, also in the same quantities as existing Mythic+ dungeons.

NORTHREND CUP

On April 30 through May 14, soar through the Northrend skies with the dragonrider racing event, Northrend Cup.

Challenge twelve races across Northrend in Normal, Advanced, and Reverse variations to earn Riders of Azeroth Badges to exchange for rewards with Maztha in Valdrakken. Complete all Northrend Cup races on Gold to earn the achievement Northrend Racing Completionist: Gold, Northrend Racer title, and Ruby Riders of Azeroth tabard. Head to Valdrakken and speak to Lord Andestrasz near the Rostrum of Transformation to pick up the initial quest.

New rewards are available for purchase with Riders of Azeroth Badges: Icy Drake Racer’s transmog set and Checkered Pennant.


CLASSES

Developer’s note: In Season 4, we’re reducing the overall throughput of some healers to better align with our tuning goals as well as increase the comparative power of Holy Paladin, Preservation Evoker, and Holy Priest without needing to further escalate the capabilities of healers.

  • DRUID
    • Restoration
      • All healing done reduced by 5%. Does not apply in PvP combat.
  • MONK
    • Mistweaver
      • All healing done reduced by 13%. Does not apply in PvP combat.
  • PRIEST
    • Discipline
      • Developer’s note: As part of our goal for balancing healers in raids, we would like to reduce raid healing output for Discipline Priest without affecting them in other content.
      • Atonement transfers 35% of damage to healing (was 40%).
      • Atonement healing increased by 70% outside of raids (was 50%).
  • SHAMAN
    • Restoration
      • All healing done reduced by 5%. Does not apply in PvP combat.

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

  • LOOKING FOR RAID
    • In-combat resurrection spells in Looking for Raid difficulty now use the same shared-charge system as other raid difficulties.
    • Groups in Looking for Raid difficulty now start combat with six in-combat resurrection charges, and gain a charge every 90-150 seconds, depending on group size.
  • ABERRUS, THE SHADOWED CRUCIBLE
    • Echo of Neltharion
      • Volcanic Heart now targets 4 players on Mythic difficulty (was 5).
  • VAULT OF THE INCARNATES
    • Raszageth
      • Hurricane Wing’s pushback strength reduced by 10% on all difficulties.
      • Lightning Devastation cast time increased to 4 seconds (was 3 seconds).
      • Flame Shield reduced by 23%.
      • Shattering Shroud healing absorb reduced by 20%.
  • DAWN OF THE INFINITE: HARD MODE
    • Dawn of the Infinite: Hard Mode tuning and rewards have been updated.
    • Hard mode does not have a timer and rewards a Hero track item. Hard mode is intended to be more challenging than a standard Mythic difficulty dungeon.
  • ALGETH’AR ACADEMY
    • General
      • Spellbound Scepter Arcane Rain has been removed.
      • Spellbound Scepter Mystic Blast can no longer be interrupted.
      • Spectral Invoker’s Arcane Missiles damage reduced by 50%.
    • Encounters
      • Crawth
        • Firestorm frequency reduced to 8 seconds (was 5 seconds).
        • Savage Peck’s initial damage reduced by 13%.
        • Savage Peck’s periodic damage reduced by 33%.
        • Addressed an issue where Deafening Screech can go off after the cast is interrupted.
      • Vexamus
        • Mana Bomb periodic damage reduced by 20%.
        • Corrupted Mana now has a slight delay before inflicting damage to players inside of its effect.
      • Echo of Doragosa
        • New Mythic mechanic: Unleash Energy – The Echo of Doragosa unleashes powerful arcane energy, inflicting Arcane damage to all players and opening Arcane Rifts in nearby locations.
        • Astral Breath cast time has been increased to 3 seconds (was 2 seconds).
  • THE AZURE VAULT
    • General
      • Increased the Mythic+ timer by 2 minutes.
      • Crystal Fury
        • Piercing Shard now has a precast visual.
        • Piercing Shard impact area reduced by 25%.
      • Conjured Lasher Mystic Vapors will now be cast less frequently.
      • Arcane Tender’s Erratic Growth cast time increased to 3.5 seconds (was 2.5 seconds).
      • Unstable Curator’s Heavy Tome will now be cast less frequently.
      • Drakonid Breaker
        • Shoulder Slam’s knockback has been removed.
        • Shoulder Slam now inflicts Physical damage and increases Physical damage taken by 10%.
        • Shoulder Slam will now be cast less frequently.
    • Encounters
      • Leymor
        • Erupting Fissures now follows current target player.
      • Azureblade
        • Reduced the frequency of periodic damage from Overwhelming Energy to every 2.5 seconds (was every 2 seconds).
      • Umbrelskul
        • Oppressive Miasma removed in Mythic difficulty.
        • Crystalize now pulses Arcane damage while the crystal is shielded.
        • Crackling Vortex now has a larger movement radius.
        • Detonating Crystals and Hardened Crystal now spawn closer to Umbrelskul’s location
        • Addressed an issue where Detonating Crystals can fail to spawn.
  • BRACKENHIDE HOLLOW
    • General
      • Withering debuff
        • No longer stacks.
        • Periodic damage reduced by 16%.
        • Haste reduction increased to 10% (was 2%).
        • Movement reduction increased to 10% (was 2%).
      • Fetid Rotsinger
        • Decay Totem health reduced by 20%.
        • Addressed an issue where Withering cast by Decay Totem is inflicting more periodic damage than Withering from other sources.
      • Rotbow Stalker
        • Renamed to Rotbow Ranger.
        • Shoot now has a recast of 6 seconds.
        • Diseased Meat renamed to Rotten Meat, and is now a Poison dispel.
      • Brackenhide Shaper Summon Lashers and Touch of Decay have been removed.
      • Stinkbreath
        • Violent Whirlwind radius reduced to 6 yards (was 7 yards).
        • Stink Breath now locks facing after targeting a player.
        • Stink Breath now has a visual while casting.
      • Wilted Oak
        • Necrotic Breath’s casting visual has been updated.
        • Necrotic Breath’s cone width has been adjusted to match with the new visual.
      • Gutstabber Withering Poison has been removed.
      • Bracken Warscourge Bloody Bite has been removed.
      • Claw Fighter Bloody Bite has been removed.
      • Decay Speaker Rotchanting Totem has been removed.
    • Encounters
      • Hackclaw’s War-Band
        • Predatory Instincts Haste bonus reduced to 5% (was 10%).
        • Mark for Butchery damage frequency increased to 1 second (was 0.5 seconds).
        • Gash Frenzy damage reduced by 21%.
        • Gash Frenzy duration reduced to 15 seconds (was 45 seconds).
  • HALLS OF INFUSION
    • General
      • Dungeon checkpoint added after defeating Gulping Goliath.
      • Normalized the spawn rate of Crashing Tsunami during the gauntlet.
      • Containment Apparatus’ Containment Beam damage reduced by 42%.
      • Primalist Galesinger
        • Wind Buffet and Thunderstorm have been removed.
        • New ability: Thunderstrike – Inflicts Nature damage to all players within 7 yards of impact.
      • Primalist Earthshaker Rumbling Earth rim visual will no longer clip into the terrain.
    • Encounters
      • Watcher Irideus
        • Titanic Fist now has a visual during cast.
        • Power Overload now has a rim visual around afflicted player.
        • Power Field now gradually grows to its full size.
      • Khajin the Unyielding
        • Added rim visuals on Ice Boulders that will trigger Avalanche.
      • Primal Tsunami
        • Cast Away now occurs at 60% health (was 100% energy).
  • NELTHARUS
    • General
      • Each Burning Chain can only be used once.
      • Burning Chain now stuns all enemies in it and increases their damage taken by 50% for 5 seconds.
    • Encounters
      • Chargath
        • Fiery Focus pulsing damage near the Chargath has been removed.
        • Fiery Focus now channels damage on current target.
        • Grounding Chain now persists on defeated player.
        • Grounding Chain now does a small knockback to the player when applied.
      • Warlord Sargha
        • Curse of the Dragon Hoard now stacks.
        • Curse of the Dragon Hoard duration reduced from to 30 seconds (was 5 minutes).
        • Azure Stone of Might has been removed.
  • THE NOKHUD OFFENSIVE
    • General
      • Nokhud Longbow
        • Multi-Shot has been removed.
        • Rain of Arrows will now be cast less frequently.
      • Nokhud Beastmaster Hunt Prey damage bonus reduced by 25%.
      • Desecrated Ohuna Rotting Wind initial damage reduced by 30%.
      • Ukhel Beastcaller Desecrating Roar frequency reduced by 25%.
      • Nokhud Thunderfist Storm Shock has been removed.
      • Primalist Stormspeaker Storm Bolt has been removed.
    • Encounters
      • Balakar Khan
        • Frequency of Stormwinds during intermission has been reduced to every 10 seconds (was every 6 seconds).
  • RUBY LIFE POOLS
    • General
      • Primal Terrasentry Stone Missiles has been removed.
      • Primalist Flamedancer
        • Blaze of Glory now has a 1 second delay before inflicting damage around the caster.
        • Flame Dance’s end of channel damage reduced by 25%.
    • Encounters
      • Kyrakka and Erkhart Stormvein
        • Infernocore duration increased to 4 seconds (was 3 seconds).
        • Infernocore periodic damage reduced by 25%.
        • Flamespit targets reduced to 2 (was 3).
  • ULDAMAN: LEGACY OF TYR
    • General
      • Reduced the Mythic+ timer by 1 minute.
    • Encounters
      • The Lost Dwarves
        • Fiery Surge damage reduced by 75%.
        • Fiery Surge’s frequency has been significantly reduced – One dwarf reduced by 33%, two dwarves reduced by 50%, and three dwarves reduced by 100%.
        • Burning Pitch maximum radius reduced to 6 yards (was 10 yards).
        • Fiery Surge and Burning Pitch now properly scales with key level.
        • Fixed an issue where Heavy Arrow was damaging pets.
      • Sentinel Talondras
        • Earthen Shards initial damage reduced by 20%.
        • Earthen Shards periodic damage reduced by 12.5%.
      • Emberon
        • Burning Heat duration reduced to 6 seconds (was 10 seconds).
        • Seeking Flame’s visual has been adjusted to no longer clip into the terrain.

ITEMS

  • Revival Catalyst charges have been reset to 1. One charge is earned each week (was every 2 weeks).

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

  • Honor gained from the Battleground Blitz Brawl now contributes towards the PvP track in the Great Vault.
  • MONK
    • Mistweaver
      • Ancient Teachings healing transfer amount reduced to 375% in PvP combat (was 412%).
  • PRIEST
    • Discipline
      • Atonement healing increased by 35% in PvP combat (was 15%).