Greetings! Recently, several folks pointed out that the item level for crafted Season Four gear was lower than expected by the equivalent of one upgrade level. After investigating, we identified a bug that was causing the issue, and are correcting it for an upcoming PTR build. Players should expect that Season Four gear enhanced with an Enchanted Aspect’s Awakened Crest will max out at item level 525, equivalent to upgrade level Myth 3. (Before the correction, that gear was maxing out at 522, equivalent to Myth 2.)
As always, we appreciate player feedback on the PTR. Y’all the real MVPs.
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 damage reduced by 15% on Mythic difficulty.
Pulsing Heat damage reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
Fyrakk
Shadow Cage now lasts 12 seconds on Mythic difficulty.
Flamebound now increases damage taken from Flame Orbs by 5% on Mythic difficulty (was 30%).
Shadowbound now increases damage taken from Shadow Orbs by 5% on Mythic difficulty (was 30%).
Blaze damage decreased by 20% on Mythic difficulty.
Maximum health of Darnassian Ancient decreased by 20% on Mythic difficulty.
Primal Storms
Primal Storms should now appear with a more evenly distributed pattern across the zones of Dragon Isles.
Though not reported in official hotfix notes, Wowhead reports that an increased loot chance has been added to Daetan Swiftplume on your first kill of the day.
Dragonflight Season 3 will be ending 23 April at 21:00 BST, the night before the regularly scheduled maintenance, with Dragonflight Season 4 beginning immediately following on April 24. Here’s what you can expect as the seasons transition.
Dragonflight Season 3: Mythic+ and Raids
With the season’s end, ratings that qualify for the 0.1% Dreaming Hero: Dragonflight Season 3 achievement will be recorded.
The “Dreaming Hero” title and achievement will be rewarded during the weeks following after the season ends, so make sure to wait to change factions until after you have received the title.
All other Mythic+ achievements and rewards can still be earned until Dragonflight Season 4 begins.
Seasonal Rewards Going Away with the Start of Dragonflight Season 4
Ahead of the Curve: Fyrakk the Blazing (Reward: Renewed Proto-Drake: Embodiment of Shadowflame)
Cutting Edge: Fyrakk the Blazing
Hall of Fame: Fyrakk the Blazing (Reward: “Famed Slayer of Fyrakk” title)
Dragonflight Keystone Explorer: Season Three
Dragonflight Keystone Conqueror: Season Three (Reward: “the Dreaming” title)
Dragonflight Keystone Master: Season Three (Reward: Verdant Armoredon)
Dragonflight Keystone Hero: Season Three
Dreaming Hero: Dragonflight Season 3 (Reward: “the Dreaming Hero” title)
Dragonflight Season 3 Master (Reward: Emerald Mark of Mastery)
Dragonflight Season 3 Hero (Reward: Emerald Blossom Dreamstone)
Keystone Hero Dungeon Portals
Dragonflight Season 3: PvP
With the season’s end, it will no longer be possible to earn PvP seasonal rewards, titles, or Dragonflight Season 3 rankings.
Seasonal PvP Rewards Going Away with the Start of Season 4
Combatant I: Dragonflight Season 3 (Reward: Season 3 PvP Cloak)
Combatant II: Dragonflight Season 3 (Rewards: Season 3 PvP Legs and Bracers)
Challenger I: Dragonflight Season 3 (Rewards: Season 3 PvP Gloves and Boots)
Challenger I: Dragonflight Season 3 (Rewards: Season 3 PvP Chest and Belt)
Rival I: Dragonflight Season 3 (Rewards: Season 3 PvP Head, Shoulder, and Helm)
Duelist: Dragonflight Season 3 (Reward: Illusion: Verdant Crush)
Gladiator: Dragonflight Season 3 (Reward: Verdant Gladiator’s Slitherdrake)
Verdant Gladiator: Dragonflight Season 3 (Reward: “Verdant Gladiator” title)
Elite: Dragonflight Season 3 ( Rewards: Verdant Gladiator’s Prestigious Cloak and Verdant Gladiator’s Tabard)
Legend: Dragonflight Season 3 (Reward: Verdant Legend’s Pennant)
Verdant Legend: Dragonflight Season 3 (Reward: “Verdant Legend” title)
Best of luck battling to a glorious finish of the season!
Dragonflight Season 4 dungeon testing continues on PTR realms. The test period will begin today Tuesday April 2nd at 10:00 PDT (13:00 EDT, 20:00 CEST), and end Monday April 8th at 10:00 PDT (13:00 EDT, 20:00 CEST). Please note that the test period may be adjusted in the event of technical difficulties.
The following dungeons are available for testing on Mythic, and Mythic+ difficulty with the new dungeon progression update:
• The Azure Vault
• Brackenhide Hollow
• Ruby Life Pools
• Halls of Infusion
• Algeth’ar Academy
• The Nokhud Offensive
• Neltharus
• Uldaman, Legacy of Tyr
Based on feedback from last weeks’ testing additional dungeon adjustments have been made:
Uldaman
• The Lost Dwarves
○ Fiery Surge damage reduced by 50%
○ Burning Pitch’s maximum radius reduced from 10 yards to 6 yards
○ Addressed an issue where Heavy Arrow is damaging pets
• Sentinel Talondras
○ Earthen Shards initial damage reduced by 20%
○ Earthen Shards periodic damage reduced by 12.5%
• Emberon
○ Burning Heat’s duration reduced from 10s to 6s
○ Adjusted Seeking Flame’s visual so it does not clip into the terrain
Ruby Life Pool
• Primalist Flamedancer
○ Flame Dance’s end of channel damage reduced by 25%.
• Kyrakk
○ Reduced the number of Flamespit targets from 3 to 2.
Algeth’ar’s Academy
• Vexamus
○ Mana Bomb periodic damage is reduced by 20%
○ Corrupted Mana now has a slight delay before inflicting damage to players inside of its effect.
During the test period you’ll be able to acquire and customize Mythic Keystones by talking to the Keystone Vendor in Stormwind or Orgrimmar, and the nearby Dungeon Teleports NPC will assist you with transportation.
Noblegarden springs to life from 1 April through 8 April. Sport your bunny ears and hop to it by hunting for eggs, eating delectable chocolate, and collecting toys, pets, etc.
The great feast of Noblegarden has long been celebrated by the races of the Alliance and recently adopted by those of the Horde. During this joyous event, it is customary for the nobles and lords from each race to hide coins, candy, and the occasional treasures within special eggs painted to look like wildflowers. These eggs are then scattered around major cities for the citizenry to find.
When: 1–8 April Where: Visit Azure Watch, Dolanaar, Goldshire, Kharanos, Brill, Razor Hill, Bloodhoof Village, Falconwing Square, or Valdrakken to join in the festivities. Currency: Noblegarden Chocolates are used as currency during this holiday to purchase garments, mounts, pets, and other special rewards. These can be collected by completing quests and opening the eggs found in the event areas.
New This Year
Valdrakken is decked out in Noblegarden festiveness, and the quests “A Tisket, a Tasket, a Noblegarden Basket” and “The Great Egg Hunt” are now available.
Defend Against Disruptive Ducks
Furious ducks, led by the druid Daetan Swiftplume, disrupt the Noblegarden festivities in Goldshire and Razor Hill. Discover Daetan’s hideout and scare off the disruptive ducks. To start the “What the Duck” quest, seek out Zinnia Brooks in Goldshire or Sylnaria Fareflame in Razor Hill.
Find a giant golden egg that appears in the area and drag it to Daetan’s nest to summon him. Defeat Daetan daily for a chance at some desirable new rewards:
Noble Flying Carpet mount, level 60-70 only.
Spring Reveler’s Turquoise Attire transmog set piece (Sun Hat, Pants, Dress, Boots, Belt).
The following fresh rewards can also be acquired during this season’s Noblegarden festivities:
The Lovely Duckling battle pet can be obtained from the Noblegarden Alliance vendor and Horde merchant.
After completing the yearly questline, “What the Duck?” receive the Duck Disguiser toy as a quest reward.
Holiday Activities
Daily Quests
The Great Egg Hunt rewards you with money, a small amount of experience, and a Blossoming Branch in exchange for Brightly Colored Shell Fragments gathered during your travels.
Egg Hunting
Search around Azure Watch, Dolanaar, Goldshire, Kharanos, Brill, Razor Hill, Bloodhoof Village, or Falconwing Square for these (mostly) well-hidden Brightly Colored Eggs. To help you get to them more quickly, you’ll want to purchase an Egg Basket from the Noblegarden merchants and vendors to increase your speed and beat the competition.
Brightly Colored Eggs will often contain delicious chocolate you can eat or use to purchase items from the Noblegarden merchants and vendors including, toys, costumes, and mounts. These eggs can also contain a variety of special items.
The Noble Gardener’s Hearthstone summons a flurry of springtime critters to whisk you away.
Here are some of the items you could either find in Brightly Colored Eggs or purchase from vendors with Noblegarden Chocolates:
New! A Drake’s Big Basket of Eggs: This toy equips your Dragonriding drake with a festive basket filled with eggs while they fly through the Dragon Isles skies. Toy: Noble Gardener’s Hearthstone Appearances: Blue Spring Circlet, Brown Spring Circlet, Yellow Spring Circlet Mounts: Swift Springstrider Pets: Mystical Spring Bouquet, Spring Rabbit’s Foot, Noblegarden Bunny Costumes and Fun Items: Festival Garments, Blossoming Branch, Egg Basket, Spring Flowers, Noblegarden Egg Consumables: Mages can purchase the Tome of Polymorph: Rabbit in exchange for 100 Noblegarden Chocolates.
Noblegarden Finery
Show off your style by strutting your stuff through town while wearing some of the great Noblegarden fineries. These can either be found within Brightly Colored Eggs or purchased from the merchants and vendors.
Achievements
Completing 8 Noblegarden Achievements will reward the title “the Noble” and count toward the What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been meta-achievement.
Embrace your inner pirate with the coolest styles on the high seas while still looking spring fresh in this month’s Trading Post. Have a quacking good time with Aura, a magical baby duck pet, everywhere you go.
Visit T&W** (Tawney and Wilder) just outside the Mage District in Stormwind or the Zen’shiri Trading Post next to Grommash Hold in Orgrimmar to check out all the latest items*** they have available.
Aura At a young age Aura donned her magic hat, took her crystal staff, and set off for adventure into the unknown.Complete activities to fill the bar at the top of the Traveler’s Log found in the Adventure Guide (Shift-J)***, and you’ll receive this month’s bonus reward — Aura the magical baby duck pet. You’ll have a quacking good time as you adventure throughout Azeroth.
Fixed an issue where Time of Need functioned incorrectly and could stop casting Living Flame when the Evoker had a high amount of Haste.
Mounts
Fixed a bug preventing players from seeing their properly earned Coralscale Salamanther upon login. The mount will be mailed to players who previously completed the Into the Storm
Plunderstorm
The Plunderlord’s Silver Cutlass weapon option should now be selectable from Da’kash Grimledger in Brew Bay for players at or above Renown 36.
Goblin Glue Rockets can no longer apply snares to players in Faeform, casting Repel, or casting Earthbreaker.
Any Keg Leg’s Crew Renown rewards that were not granted to players of the appropriate Renown levels are now retroactively granted.
Added a Kill Counter to the in-game user interface. Kills are now counted next to Plunder Collected.
Fixed a bug that caused Earthbreaker’s range and visual sizes to be inconsistent.
Developers’ notes: The effective range of Earthbreaker has not been changed. This fix makes its visuals appear to be about the same size as the spell effect.
March 27, 2024
Achievements
Fixed bugs causing mounts related to A World Awoken to be unavailable, including Bestowed Ottuk Vanguard, Bestowed Trawling Mammoth, Bestowed Thunderspine Packleader, Bestowed Sandskimmer, Bestowed Ohuna Spotter, Coralscale Salamanther, Stormtouched Bruffalon, and Taivan.
Player versus Player
Fixed an issue that prevented Splintered Sparks of Dreams from dropping from PvP sources while eligible for catch-up.
Plunderstorm
The Storm’s fury swells! Lightning strikes during the final stage of the Storm are faster and more dangerous than before.
There is now a delay of 20 seconds after being revived where players no longer drop collected Plunder.
Additional enemies now spawn at Witherbark Village, the wild area northeast of Go’Shek Farm, and the wild area between Witherbark Village and Boulderfist Hall.
Fixed an issue where swapping back to default sword and gun appearances were not saving correctly.
Fixed an issue so that now, picking up an additional rank 2 spell while the same rank 2 spell is equipped properly grants the rank 4 version of the spell.
The Captain’s Orders quest “X Marks the Spot” now requires 1 item to be picked up (was 2 items).
