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Hotfixes: November 17 2023, Restriction on Purchase of WoW Token

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November 17, 2023

Classes

  • Shaman
    • Elemental
      • Resolved an issue causing Earth Shock Overload from Mountains Will Fall to deal 6% less damage than intended.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope
    • Council of Dreams
      • Fixed a rare timing issue where the Council members could finish casting Rebirth when the encounter should have ended.

Items

  • The Great Vault should now display consistent item levels when previewing raid rewards.

Player versus Player

  • Hunter
    • Beast Mastery
      • Resolved an issue that could cause unintended spells to be cast during Call of the Wild.

Restriction on Purchase of WoW Token

Quote from: Blizzard

In order to preserve the integrity of the game and provide a better token market to players, with an update to World of Warcraft on Tuesday, November 21, we will enable the following restriction in this region.

• Players will no longer be allowed to purchase a WoW Token from the Auction House or the in-game Shop for gold if they have not spent real money to purchase and consume at least 30 days of game time (a “Time Limited License”) since 2017.

This does not affect the consumption of existing WoW Tokens, however, game time provided by the consumption of a WoW Token does not count toward the qualification to purchase a WoW Token for gold.

After November 21, 2023, any player who cannot purchase a WoW Token for gold in-game will need to first purchase and consume at least 30 days of game time for real money. This can be done on any World of Warcraft account across the player’s Battle.net account to qualify.

Thank you.

Hotfixes: November 16, 2023

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November 16, 2023

Classes

  • Monk
    • Mistweaver
      • Fixed an issue that caused Essence Font to fire one more bolt than intended per second channeled.
      • Developers’ notes: We’re aware of an issue that will cause Essence Font’s tooltip to display an incorrect channel rate after this fix. This will be addressed in a future update.
  • Rogue
    • Assassination
      • Fixed an issue that allowed Sanguine Blades damage from vulnerability damage increases on enemies to be unintentionally doubled.
      • Fixed an issue that allowed Poisoned Edges (Aberrus 2-piece set bonus) damage from vulnerability damage increases on enemies to be unintentionally doubled.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope
    • Fyrakk
      • Developers’ notes: Both player feedback and data have indicated that Heroic Fyrakk doesn’t pose as much of a challenge as we’d intended. We’d like Fyrakk to be a satisfying ending to Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope for the vast majority of players who have yet to encounter him, so we’re making a few adjustments to the overall difficulty of the encounter.
      • Burning Scales damage increased by 40%.
      • There is now an additional occurrence of Blaze during Stage Three.
      • Blaze damage increased by 40%.
      • Damage of colliding with a Swirling Firestorm increased by 60%.
  • Dawn of the Infinite
    • Resolved an issue that could cause Chromie to get stuck channeling on Blight of Galakrond during a Mythic Keystone run.
    • Resolved an issue which could prevent Manifested Timeways from spawning.

Items

  • Fixed an issue that prevented Gift of Ursine Vengeance from stacking Rising Rage properly.
  • Fixed an issue preventing Hearthstone of the Flame from being tradeable to other eligible party members.
  • Rings and neck pieces from Throne of the Tides should now drop correctly for all classes.

User Interface

  • Restricted addon functions that allowed for in-combat distance checking between players.
  • Developers’ notes: This change was intended to be implemented with the launch of the Guardians of the Dream patch, to avoid requiring that addon authors update their addons separately after the content is already being played. We apologize for the confusion and inconvenience.

Patch 10.2.5 Seeds of Renewal PTR Development Notes

Quote from: Blizzard

Dragonflight: Seeds of Renewal 10.2.5 Update Development Notes

FOLLOWER DUNGEONS

  • Follower Dungeons are available for all 8 of the original Dragonflight dungeons on Normal difficulty. Queue solo or partner up with up to four players in your party and queue into any follower dungeon. Once entering the dungeon, a follower NPC will join your party and fill any role that wasn’t filled by one of your pre-existing party members.
  • Rewards given will be the same to that of running Normal dungeons with a full party of players.

AZEROTHIAN ARCHIVES

  • Discover the history of the Dragon Isles and meet a unique cast of characters, hear stories of old, and witness the iconography of a time before. Participate in Solo and Group activities within Traitor’s Rest with a Weekly Public Event, plenty of opportunity to explore, and earn rewards like battle pets, mounts, and a transmog set. Start your journey as an Archivist today by examining their advertisement in the Sapphire Enclave library located in Valdrakken.
    • Developers’ note: Group activities won’t be available on the PTR.

RECLAIMING GILNEAS

King Greymane is ready to retake his kingdom, but Gilneas isn’t as empty as expected. Help reclaim what was lost and return the kingdom to Gilnean hands.

  • Developers’ note: Reclaiming Gilneas won’t be available for testing on the PTR.

DRAGONRIDING AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE

  • Dragonriding is now available throughout Azeroth wherever flying is available. Outside of the Dragon Isles, Dragonriding mounts move at 80% of their maximum speeds.
    • Developers’ note: We are restricting the speed of dragonriding outside of the Dragon Isles in order to not make travel times on old world contents trivially short. We believe 80% dragonriding speed will strike a balance between giving players exciting and engaging traversal, while still preserving a sense of immersion. The Dragon Isles continent is pretty massive compared to some of our older continents, so we need to adjust speed accordingly.

OUTLAND CUP

  • The Outland Cup is available for testing from November 16 through November 29. Mount up and rediscover the skies of Outland with a new Dragonriding racing event arriving on the shattered world.
  • Thirteen new races are spread across Outland and are available in Normal, Advanced, and Reverse courses. Hellfire Hustle, Coilfang Caper, Blade’s Edge Brawl, Telaar Tear, Razorthorn Rise Rush, Auchindoun Coaster, Tempest Keep Sweep, Shattrath City Sashay, Shadowmoon Slam, Eco-Dome Excursion, Warmaul Wingding, Skettis Scramble, and Fel Pit Fracas.
  • New rewards available for purchase with Riders of Azeroth Badges: Drake Racer’s Scarf, Outlandish Drake Racer’s transmog set, new dragon customizations, Valdrakken Accord Insignia, and Manuscript of Endless Possibility that randomizes mount customizations each time you mount up on a customizable mount.
  • Complete all Outland Cup races on Gold to earn the achievement Outland Racing Completionist: Gold, Outland Racer title, and Ruby Riders of Azeroth tabard.
  • Mount customizations will now be used when racing in the Outland Cup.
  • Players will be granted a maxed out Dragonriding Talent Tree when racing in the Outland Cup.
  • The introductory quest for the Outland Cup has been changed to require the player to complete all the races.
  • Players will now be rewarded with 40 Riders of Azeroth Badges for completing the quest.
  • Players that haven’t unlocked dragonriding yet will also be able to fly the race courses using loaned dragonriding mounts.
  • The Grotto Netherwing Drake and Flourishing Whimsydrake have been added the the list of available loaned dragonriding mounts.
  • Since worldwide dragonriding is now available, you will no longer be dismounted after completing the race if dragonriding is unlocked on that character. If dragonriding hasn’t been unlocked, you will be dismounted after completing a race.

ACHIEVEMENTS

  • New Appearance achievements have been added.

CHARACTERS

  • 5 new hair colors for Trolls.
  • 1 new skin color for Draenei.
  • Customizations for Warlock Tyrant and Darkglare demons.
  • DRACTHYR
    • New Passive Ability: Empowered Soaring – Soar is now equivalent to dragonriding, granting access to vigor and all dragonriding abilities.
    • New Passive Ability: Expedited Takeoff – Soar’s cooldown is reduced to 10 seconds.
      • Developers’ note: Soar dragonriding will become available after learning dragonriding on the account and the Evoker has completed the Forbidden Reach starting experience.
    • Familiar Skies (Racial) has been removed.

CLASSES

  • Multiple Class talents that were previously Shadowlands Covenant Abilities (such as Convoke the Spirits, Divine Toll, and Sepsis) have had their spell visuals updated to match their Class visual kit. This is an ongoing effort and more will be added over the course of the Seeds of Renewal 10.2.5 PTR cycle.
  • EVOKER
    • Preservation
      • Developers’ note: We would like maintaining Reversions to feel more rewarding for Preservation Evoker, even when playing an Emerald Blossom focused build. As a result, we are tying in casts of Reversion with Essence Burst. This should make the rotational flow of Preservation smoother and more enjoyable. Since this introduces more mana-free spell casts, we are also increasing mana costs to compensate. As always, feedback on this change is welcome and we will be monitoring discussion around this.
      • Essence Burst may now trigger from casts of Reversion.
      • Mana cost of most spells increased by 10%.
  • MONK
    • Mistweaver
      • Dance of the Wind has been redesigned – Your dodge chance is increased by 10% and an additional 10% every 4 seconds until you dodge an attack.
      • Ancient Teachings now additionally increases Stamina by 5% while active.
    • Windwalker
      • Dance of the Wind has been redesigned – Your dodge chance is increased by 10% and an additional 10% every 4 seconds until you dodge an attack.
  • SHAMAN
    • Earth Elemental, Fire Elemental, and Storm Elemental (as well as the Primal versions of these elementals) now have a reduced size in instances for the Shaman’s allies and enemies. For the Shaman, the Elementals still appear large.

USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY

  • A preview window has been added to the “Quest Text Contrast” setting in Accessibility Options.
  • Art has been updated for predictions and absorbs on unit frames.
  • Limited-time (holiday) Traveler’s Log activities will now be marked as such, with the time left shown.
  • In the Transmog Sets pane, you can now favorite individual set pieces using right-click. Each set piece also now says its slot type in the tooltip (e.g. “Shoulder”).

In Development: Seeds of Renewal

Quote from: Blizzard

The next update, Dragonflight: Seeds of Renewal, is in development and will allow defenders of the Dragon Isles to discover the buried history of Azeroth and the Dragon Isles through the Azerothian Archives Public Event, take Dragonriding to the skies of old-world continents, storm Dragonflight Dungeons alongside AI companions, complete new Campaign chapters in the continuation of the Dragon Isle epilogues, and more!

Dragonriding Available Worldwide

The skies of Azeroth and beyond can be yours in the saddle of your dragon. In Dragonflight: Seeds of Renewal, Dragonriding will be expanded to all old-world continents wherever flying is available.

Azerothian Archives

Discover the history of the Dragon Isles and meet a unique cast of characters, hear stories of old, and witness the iconography of a time before. Participate in Solo and Group activities within Traitor’s Rest with a Weekly Public Event, plenty of opportunity to explore, and earn rewards like Battle Pets, Mounts, and a Transmog set.

Gilneas Reclamation

King Greymane is ready to retake his kingdom, but Gilneas isn’t as empty as expected. Help reclaim what was lost and return the kingdom to Gilnean hands.

Follower Dungeons

Tank, heal, and DPS alongside follower NPC companions that join you on your Dungeon adventures. They will be available in all eight Normal Dragonflight Dungeons and can scale from 1–4 players. These companions will allow players to learn about Dragonflight dungeons at their own pace and provide the freedom to experiment and customize their Party makeup.

New Character Customizations

Get creative with your characters! Trolls, it’s time to hit the salon and change things up with five new hair colors. Unique customization for Draenei, Warlock Tyrant, and Darkglare demons are on their way, and customization Achievements are coming for completionists.

As we enter the next development phase for Dragonflight, watch the official World of Warcraft news site for everything you need to know.

Hotfixes: November 14-15 2023, Hunter Pet Damage Adjustment

Quote from: Blizzard

November 15, 2023

Classes

  • Evoker
    • Augmentation
      • Ebon Might now properly benefits from the 4-piece class set bonus from Aberrus as well as Close as Clutchmates.
  • Hunter
    • Hunter pet attacks now scale with weapon attack power.
    • Kill Command, Bite, Claw, Smack, Flanking Strike, Froststorm Breath, and Burrow Attack damage reduced by 32.5%.
      • Developers’ notes: In a recent hotfix aimed at correcting an issue with Augmentation Evokers and their damage logging, we adjusted how Hunter pet damage is calculated. A side effect of this was that Hunter pet attacks started scaling with weapon attack power, increasing the damage of a Hunter pet’s special attacks by about 32.5% at 450 item level. This is actually something we would like to retain, as it means that Hunter pet damage will now benefit from weapon upgrades.
    • Mend Pet and Revive Pet are now separate pet utility buttons and are no longer automatically swapped back and forth based on your pet’s state. This is a temporary change to resolve some issues with interactions between Call of the Wild, Mend Pet, and Revive Pet. Mend Pet can be found in the “Pet Utility” flyout menu in the main Hunter spellbook.
  • Rogue
    • Outlaw
      • Fixed an errant interaction that caused Soulrip to apply without the rogue dealing combat damage.
  • Warlock
    • Fixed an issue where damage from Dimensional Rift would not break Fear effects.
    • Demonology
      • Resolved an issue causing Malefic Impact to not grant the proper amount of critical strike chance to Hand of Gul’dan.

Dragonriding

  • Fixed an issue where Ride Along passenger whelps were animated incorrectly.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Amirdrassil
    • Smolderon
      • Reduced the duration of Smoldering Ground puddles to 2.5 minutes (was 5 minutes) on Raid Finder difficulty.
    • Volcoross
      • Fixed an issue that caused Shadowstrike to teleport Subtlety Rogues into the lava.
  • Antorus the Burning Throne
    • Resolved an issue causing Foul Steps to remain on players after defeating the Eonar the Life-Binder encounter.
  • Dawn of the Infinite
    • Fixed an issue that caused Coalesced Time and Timestream Leech to be Arcane damage, instead of the intended Physical damage.
  • The Everbloom
    • Reduced the effectiveness of Enraged Growth on players.
  • Throne of the Tides
    • Fixed an issue that allowed players to line of sight Commander Ulthok’s Festering Shockwave.

Items

  • Cataclysmic Signet Brand’s self-damage effect can no longer be dispelled.
  • The Porcelain Crab trinket from Throne of the Tides should no longer drop for non-melee classes.

Player versus Player

  • The Battleground Blitz brawl no longer grants progress toward the PvP quest “Proving in Battle”, which is intended to reward participation in random battlegrounds.
  • Shaman who reached Combatant I during Dragonflight Season 3 should now be granted the Elite cloak appearance.
  • Priest
    • Discipline
      • Fixed an issue that caused the Guardians of the Dream 2-piece tier set to not extend Atonements while using the Trinity PvP talent.

Superbloom

  • The Emerald Bounty location for Whisperbloom planting should now be available at all times, and not just during the Superbloom.

WoW Classic Era

  • [With realm restarts] Fixed an issue that prevented respeccing from refunding all of the character’s talent points as expected.

November 14, 2023

Classes

  • Death Knight
    • Unholy
      • Death Coil damage increased by 10%.
      • Scourge Strike/Clawing Shadows damage increased by 10%.
      • Ghoul damage increased by 8%.
      • Virulent Plague damage increased by 20%.
      • Apocalypse ghoul damage increased by 5%.
  • Demon Hunter
    • Havoc
      • Chaotic Disposition has been reworked to directly benefit the damage of affected abilities instead of duplicating portions of the damage they dealt. The amount of damage generated by the effect has not changed.
      • Chaotic Disposition: Your Chaos damage has a 7.77% chance to be increased by 17%, occurring up to 3/7 total times.
    • Vengeance
      • Sigil of Silence base duration reduced to 5 seconds (was 6 seconds). PvP duration has not changed.
      • Fel Flame Fortification reduction to magic damage taken reduced to 10% (was 12%).
      • Illuminated Sigils now increases Parry chance against affected targets by 15% (was 20%).
  • Druid
    • Guardian
      • Mangle now grants 12 Rage (was 10).
      • Cat Form energy regeneration increased by 50% (was 35%).
    • Balance
      • Cat Form energy regeneration increased by 50% (was 35%).
    • Restoration
      • Rip damage increased by 140%. Does not apply in PvP Combat.
      • Rake damage increased by 60%.
      • Shred damage increased by 140%.
      • Ferocious Bite damage increased by 200%. Does not apply in PvP Combat.
      • Cat Form energy regeneration increased by 50% (was 35%).
  • Evoker
    • Augmentation
    • Developers’ notes: The amount of utility that Augmentation Evoker brings on top of its high damage has proven to be too powerful despite recent changes. Therefore we are further reducing their damage contributions to the group in order to balance them against other specializations.
      • Ebon Might grants 6.5% of the Evoker’s primary stat (was 8%).
      • Close as Clutchmates increases the effectiveness of Ebon Might and Breath of Eons by 10% (was 20%).
      • The amount of Versatility granted by Shifting Sands has been reduced by 15%.
  • Hunter
    • Various pet abilities that deal damage such as Kill Command, Bite, and Flanking Strike will now properly reattribute damage to an Augmentation Evoker who has buffed the Hunter in the combat log.
    • Beast Mastery
      • Corrected an issue where the Bloody Frenzy talent was granting the effects of Beast Cleave for longer durations than intended and was not properly updating the personal nameplate Beast Cleave icon.
  • Paladin
    • Retribution
      • All ability damage increased by 3%.
  • Priest
    • Discipline
    • Developers’ notes: Discipline healing throughput (particularly in raids) is slightly higher than we would like, given their damage and utility contributions to the group. To balance them, we’re reducing some talents that are giving a lot of power for only 1 talent point. The goal is to improve talent balance while also bringing them in line with other healers.
      • Divine Aegis absorption reduced to 5% of healing done (was 10%).
      • Inescapable Torment damage reduced by approximately 19%.
  • Rogue
    • Assassination
      • Fixed an issue that caused Internal Bleeding to be incorrectly applied by Deathmark’s version of Rupture.
      • Fixed an issue that caused Internal Bleeding to not contribute to Sudden Demise.
      • Fixed an issue that caused Shrouded Suffocation to incorrectly generate combo points when a duplicated Garrote was applied with Deathmark’s effect.
  • Warlock
    • Destruction
      • Unstable Tear damage increased 5%.
      • Shadowy Tear damage increased 5%.
      • Chaos Tear damage increased 30%.
    • Demonology
      • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible 2-piece Set Bonus now reduces the cooldown of Grimoire: Felguard by 0.5 second (was 1 second).
      • Developers’ notes: We’re reducing the power of Demonology’s previous set bonus to bring it in line with other set bonuses from Aberrus.

Items

  • Renown items purchased from Moon Priestess Lasara should now be eligible for conversion at the Revival Catalyst.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented Emerald Dream pets from being caged.
  • Seedbloom now stacks.
  • Jewelcrafting
    • Fixed a bug that granted the Band of New Beginnings a higher stamina value than intended.

Player versus Player

  • Fixed a bug that prevented the first-win-of-the-day bonus from being properly awarded in Battleground Blitz.
  • Battlegrounds
    • The following items will be enabled for unrated battlegrounds and battleground brawls, excluding Battleground Blitz:
    • Engineering Bombs:
      • The chance for bomb malfunctions is now standardized to 5% for all players while in a battleground, regardless of other factors.
      • Grease Grenade
      • Primal Deconstruction Charge
      • Polarity Bomb
      • Gravitational Displacer
      • Sticky Warp Grenade
        • and their EZ-Thro counterparts.
    • War Mode Consumables:
      • Curious Primordial Fungus
      • Pest Fogger
      • Wild Dragon Fruit
      • Wild Truffle
        • Duration reduced to 12 seconds (was 20 seconds).
      • Energized Temporal Spores
      • Gritty Stone Potion
        • Speed penalty reduced to 15% (was 30%).
      • Warbanner of Ire
        • Now on the Battle Standard cooldown of 10 minutes.
        • Bonus primary stat reduced to 5% (was 10%).
      • Prismatic Snail Mucus
        • Critical strike chance bonus reduced to 30% (was 50%).
      • Soothing Emerald Tea
        • Now on the Healing Potion cooldown of 5 minutes.
        • Immediate health increased to 25% (was 20%). Health over time increased to 40% (was 15%).
      • Volatile Crimson Embers
        • Damage bonus increased to 30% (was 25%).
        • Damage taken over time reduced to 1% every 3 seconds (was 3% every 3 seconds).
        • Duration increased to 24 seconds (was 15 seconds).
    • Additionally, War Mode consumables have been adjusted to no longer be Unique and no longer have charges. These will be stackable items all the way up to 200, and their cost has been reduced from 100 Bloody Tokens down to 50 for a stack of 5. Seltherex now offers these items for 500 Honor for a stack of 5.

Hunter Pet Damage Adjustment

Quote from: Blizzard

In a recent hotfix aimed at correcting an issue with Augmentation Evokers and their damage logging, we adjusted how Hunter pet damage is calculated. A side effect of this was that Hunter pet attacks started scaling with weapon attack power, increasing the damage of a Hunter pet’s special attacks by about 32.5% at 450 item level. The side effect is something we would like to retain, as it means that Hunter pet damage will now benefit from weapon upgrades.

We’re currently testing the following hotfix, and intend to apply it to all realms as soon as possible today:

  • Kill Command, Bite, Claw, Smack, Flanking Strike, Froststorm Breath, and Burrow Attack damage reduced by ~25%.

After this hotfix goes live, it will be added to our next Hotfixes Update.

Hotfixes: November 13 2023, Changes to Consumables in Unrated Battlegrounds with Season 3

Quote from: Blizzard

November 13, 2023

Classes

  • Demon Hunter
    • Fixed an issue that caused the Demon Hunter to briefly remain rooted when The Hunt’s cast was cancelled or interrupted.
  • Druid
    • Balance
      • Incarnation: Chosen of Elune will no longer transform you into an armored Moonkin if you are using a new barbershop customization. The armored Incarnation model will show if you are using classic Moonkin form.
  • Evoker
    • Preservation
      • Spiritbloom will now bounce to friendly targets that are meant to be healed during quests and encounters.
  • Hunter
    • Beast Mastery
      • Fixed an issue where Wild Instincts would not properly apply when multiple different hunters were using Call of the Wild.
  • Monk
    • Fixed an issue causing Chi Torpedo to not trigger Mighty Roar.
  • Priest
    • Discipline
      • Fixed an issue where Schism could fail to apply to your target if they ran out of your range or line of sight as Mind Blast completed.
  • Rogue
    • Leeching Poison should no longer fall off when changing instances.
    • Fixed an issue with the interaction between Premeditation and Shadow Technique.
    • Assassination
      • Lethal Dose should no longer cause Crimson Tempest, Serrated Bone Spike, or Mutilated Flesh (from Doomblade) to benefit, but not contribute from its effect.

Dungeons and Raids

  • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
    • Scalecommander Sarkareth no longer casts an erroneous Void Slash in Stage 3.

Items

  • Fixed an issue that could cause some gear, such as gear obtained in Fyrakk Assaults, Time Rifts, or Dreamsurges to lose the option to be further upgraded when converted to an Aberrus set item.

Player versus Player

  • Demon Hunter
    • Fixed an issue that prevented Darkness from having its effect increased to 50% in PvP combat, as intended.
  • Hunter
    • Rapid Reload (Marksmanship Blazing Dreamstalker 4-piece set bonus) effectiveness reduced by 40% in PvP situations.

Quests

  • Balloon drivers who are “Cataloging Thaldrazsus” are now less confused, and no longer send players on a very strange trip to Waking Shores.

User Interface

  • Fixed an issue where Dragonriding vigor bars would occasionally show incorrect vigor values on login.

Changes to Consumables in Unrated Battlegrounds with Season 3

Quote from: Blizzard

We’ve seen feedback like this, expressing interest in the ability to bring consumable items into unrated PvP environments to spice up the flow of combat. Over the years, we put tight restrictions on these to minimize disruption. We felt this was especially important during a time when the solo battleground player did not have alternative forms of content if the chaotic and sandboxy nature of unrated battlegrounds became too overwhelming.

Now, with a variety of game modes to pick from and a much narrower gap in power disparity between players, we want to take an opportunity to review this philosophy. In a hotfix going out tomorrow with the start of Season 3, we will adjust a variety of Dragonflight consumables to enable their use in Unrated Battlegrounds. We will also make a handful of adjustments to War Mode consumables to make them more practical for players to acquire in bulk. Some items will also receive some moderate tuning adjustments (outlined below) to ensure that they are impactful, but not disruptive. The most significant change to note is that the War Mode items in the below list have had their cooldowns standardized to 5 minutes, shared with other typical combat consumables. Engineering bombs remain on their own separate 5 minute cooldown.

With this hotfix, all of the following items will be enabled for unrated battlegrounds and battleground brawls, excluding Battleground Blitz. Please note that some tooltips may include zone restrictions that are no longer applicable after this change and will be corrected in a future patch.

Engineering Bombs
The chance for bomb malfunctions is now standardized to 5% for all players while in a battleground, regardless of other factors.

  • Grease Grenade
  • Primal Deconstruction Charge
  • Polarity Bomb
  • Gravitational Displacer
  • Sticky Warp Grenade
  • and their EZ-Thro counterparts

War Mode Consumables

  • Curious Primordial Fungus
  • Pest Fogger
  • Wild Dragon Fruit
  • Wild Truffle
    • Duration reduced to 12 seconds (was 20 seconds).
  • Energized Temporal Spores
  • Gritty Stone Potion
    • Speed penalty reduced to 15% (was 30%).
  • Warbanner of Ire
    • Now on the Battle Standard cooldown of 10 minutes.
    • Bonus primary stat reduced to 5% (was 10%).
  • Prismatic Snail Mucus
    • Critical strike chance bonus reduced to 30% (was 50%).
  • Soothing Emerald Tea
    • Now on the Healing Potion cooldown of 5 minutes.
    • Immediate health increased to 25% (was 20%). Health over time increased to 40% (was 15%).
  • Volatile Crimson Embers
    • Damage bonus increased to 30% (was 25%).
    • Damage taken over time reduced to 1% every 3 seconds (was 3% every 3 seconds).
    • Duration increased to 24 seconds (was 15 seconds).

Additionally, we will adjust the War Mode consumables to no longer be Unique and no longer have charges. Instead, these will be stackable items all the way up to 200. We will also reduce their cost from 100 Bloody Tokens down to 50 for a stack of 5, and Seltherex will now also offer these items for 500 Honor for a stack of 5.

For players who may already have a few of these items when this conversion takes place, you should retain the same remaining number of uses left even if your stack size does not visually reflect this.

Finally, we’d like to encourage everyone to share feedback on all of this. We’ll be monitoring it closely when making further decisions about how to approach this sort of gameplay.

Class Tuning Incoming -15 November 2023

Quote from: Blizzard

As a result of recent testing and analysis of class performance now that the Guardians of the Dream patch is live, we’re going to make a few adjustments to over- and under-performing specs just before the beginning of Dragonflight Season 3 on Wednesday. Please note that changes to tier sets are listed below for reference, and their differentials are in comparison to the last public build of the PTR.

Again, we’d like to thank everyone who tested classes on the Guardians of the Dream PTR. Your feedback was very helpful!

Classes

Death Knight

  • Unholy
    • Death Coil damage increased by 10%.
    • Scourge Strike/Clawing Shadows damage increased by 10%.
    • Ghoul damage increased by 8%.
    • Virulent Plague damage increased by 20%.
    • Apocalypse ghoul damage increased by 5%.

Demon Hunter

  • Vengeance
    • Amirdrassil Tier Set: Bonus Sigil of Flame damage granted reduced by 20%.
    • Illuminated Sigils now increases Parry chance against affected targets by 15% (was 20%)

Druid

  • Guardian
    • Mangle now grants 12 Rage (was 10).
    • Cat Form energy regeneration increased by 50% (was 35%).
  • Balance
    • Cat Form energy regeneration increased by 50% (was 35%).
  • Restoration
    • Rip damage increased by 140%. Does not apply in PvP Combat.
    • Rake damage increased by 60%.
    • Shred damage increased by 140%.
    • Ferocious Bite damage increased by 200%. Does not apply in PvP Combat.
    • Cat Form energy regeneration increased by 50% (was 35%).

Evoker

  • Augmentation
  • Developers’ notes: The amount of utility that Augmentation Evoker brings on top of its high damage has proven to be too powerful despite recent changes. Therefore we are further reducing their damage contributions to the group in order to balance them against other specializations.
    • Ebon Might grants 6.5% of the Evoker’s primary stat (was 8%).
    • Close as Clutchmates increases the effectiveness of Ebon Might and Breath of Eons by 10% (was 20%).
    • The amount of Versatility granted by Shifting Sands has been reduced by 15%.

Mage

  • Frost
    • Amirdrassil Tier Set – 2-piece: Increases Glacial Spike damage by 16% (was 10%).
    • Amirdrassil Tier Set – 2-piece: The damage from the explosion now deals 15% of the damage dealt by Glacial Spike (was 20%).

Monk

  • Brewmaster
    • Amirdrassil Tier Set 2-piece: Breath of Fire’s bonus damage increased to 40% (was 20%).
    • Amirdrassil Tier Set 4-piece: Bonus damage to targets afflicted by Breath of Fire increased to 15% (was 10%).
  • Windwalker
    • Amirdrassil Tier Set: Blackout Reinforcement granted by melee abilities now occurs 66% more often and increases Blackout Kick damage by 200% (was 150%).

Paladin

  • Retribution
    • All ability damage increased by 3%.

Priest

  • Discipline
  • Developers’ notes: Discipline healing throughput (particularly in raids) is slightly higher than we would like, given their damage and utility contributions to the group. To balance them, we’re reducing some talents that are giving a lot of power for only 1 talent point. The goal is to improve talent balance while also bringing them in line with other healers.
    • Divine Aegis absorption reduced to 5% of healing done (was 10%).
    • Inescapable Torment damage reduced by approximately 19%.

Rogue

  • Assassination
  • Amirdrassil Tier Set: 4-piece set bonus tooltip should now accurately reflect its actual output.
  • Amirdrassil Tier Set: 4-piece set single target damage increased by 4%.

Warlock

  • Destruction
    • Amirdrassil Tier Set: Flame Rift damage increased 50%.
    • Unstable Tear damage increased 5%.
    • Shadowy Tear damage increased 5%.
    • Chaos Tear damage increased 30%.
  • Demonology
    • Amirdrassil Tier Set: Doom Brand single-target damage increased 50%.
    • Amirdrassil Tier Set: Doomfiend single-target damage increased 40%.
    • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible 2-piece Set Bonus now reduces the cooldown of Grimoire: Felguard by 0.5 second (was 1 second).
  • Developers’ notes: We’re reducing the power of Demonology’s previous set bonus to bring it in line with other set bonuses from Aberrus. Additionally, we’re increasing the throughput of both Destruction and Demonology’s set bonuses from Amirdrassil while also increasing the power of Dimensional Rift baseline.