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Category: Dragonflight

Patch 10.1 PTR Update Notes & Raid Testing 4 April 2023

Quote from: Blizzard

Hello! Here are this week’s updates to the Embers of Neltharion PTR:

DRAGONFLIGHT SEASON 2

  • MYTHIC+
    • Incorporeal affix is now immune to damage and has more consistent spawn behavior.
      • Developers’ note: The Incorporeal affix plays a similar role to Afflicted, but with emphasis on crowd control utility. A few things we’re hoping to smooth out include both the rate at which these spawn (sometimes too many at once), and the ease with which crowd control can be accidentally broken once applied. We are discussing a change to Incorporeal Beings that would cause them to fade away when combat with non-Incorporeal Beings has ended.
    • Afflicted affix now has less health and has more consistent spawn behavior.
      • Developers’ note: The Afflicted affix is meant to incentivize a greater focus on dispel utility, while also offering players with healing spells an alternative solution in cases where dispel availability is more limited or where other enemies have threatening dispellable abilities. This is mostly working out, but their health (especially at higher key levels) is a bit too high for healing to feel like a practical option.
    • New Affix: Entangling – While in combat, entangling vines snare players.
      • Developers’ note: We’re keeping an eye on the potency of the snare and required response from players to successful snap the vine with movement. We are also looking to improve visual clarity and audio cues for the Entangling affix.
    • Explosive affix now has less health and has more consistent spawn behavior.
      • Developers’ note: We’ve heard feedback both that explosives in their new form have too much health, and that in general it makes sense to try and ignore them, thus making them a “healer problem” in a different way than before. We are discussing a redesign for the Explosive affix to shift responsibility away from healers. The proposed change would cause Explosives to instead shield creatures for a percentage of the Explosive’s remaining health when its cast completes.
    • Developers’ note: In addition to the above, we are also discussing a change to the progression of affixes on keystones. With item rewards now increasing up to level 20, we’re evaluating which levels affixes are added to keystones. Our proposed change would delay when affixes are added to keystones. This is to give players more time to acclimate to baseline dungeons before additional mechanics come online, and to better match the complexity of a Mythic+ dungeon to the rewards it offers.
      • Keystone Level 7 Affixes (was level 4):
        • Spiteful
        • Sanguine
        • Bursting
        • Bolstering
        • Raging
      • Keystone Level 14 Affixes (was level 7):
        • Incorporeal
        • Afflicted
        • Entangling
        • Explosive
        • Storming

CHARACTERS

  • Added 4 new skin tones and 4 new hair colors for Dark Iron Dwarves.
  • Blind eye options have been moved from Eye Color to the new Eyesight customization option. Now all eye colors for all races can be customized to be blind.

CLASSES

  • DEATH KNIGHT
    • Frost
      • Vault of the Incarnates: 2-Set Bonus has been adjusted – Obliterate and Frostscythe critical strike damage is increased by 10% (was 15%).
  • DEMON HUNTER
    • Havoc
      • Vault of the Incarnates: 4-Set Bonus has been adjusted – Chaos Strike and Blade Dance have a 20% chance to increase damage you deal by 5% for 6 seconds (was 8%).
  • DRUID
    • Guardian
      • Several new combat animations added to the Might/Blight of the Grizzlemaw Druid Bear Form customizations.
    • Restoration
      • Fixed an issue that caused Wild Growth’s healing to falloff incorrectly and heal for less than intended.
      • Wild Growth’s healing has been decreased by 4%.
        • Developers’ note: Wild Growth’s healing is being decreased to offset the increased healing that the fix to the falloff issue provides.
  • EVOKER
    • Devastation
      • Developers’ note: Thanks to the invaluable feedback from all of you, we’ve made further changes to Devastation’s talents. The bottom section of the tree has been significantly rearranged, and has fewer 2-point nodes. Causality has been iterated on, maintaining the goal of rewarding fully-channeled Disintegrates, but addressing the concerns with how the new design would have interacted with Haste. Finally, some under-used talents have gotten partial or full reworks to introduce new build and playstyle options.
      • Causality has been redesigned – Disintegrate reduces the remaining cooldown of your empower spells by 0.5 seconds each time it deals damage. Pyre reduces their cooldowns by 0.4 seconds per enemy struck, up to 2 seconds. Causality is no longer a choice talent.
      • Font of Magic now also causes your empower spells to reach maximum level in 20% less time.
      • Everburning Flame is no longer a choice node with Feed the Flames.
      • Feed the Flames has been redesigned – After casting 12 Pyres, your next Pyre will explode into a Firestorm. Does not trigger from Volatility bounces.
      • Imminent Destruction has been redesigned – Deep Breath reduces the Essence costs of Disintegrate and Pyre by 1 for 10 seconds after you land. Now a 1-rank talent.
      • Lay Waste is now a 1-rank talent (was 2 ranks) and damage bonus increased to 20% (was 15%).
      • Burnout is now a 1-rank talent (was 2 ranks) and its chance to trigger is now 16%, the former 2-rank value.
      • Scintillation is now a 1-rank talent (was 2 ranks) and damage effectiveness is 60%, the former 2-rank value.
      • Power Swell is now a 1-rank talent (was 2 ranks) and the duration is 4 seconds, the former 2-rank value.
      • New Talent: Event Horizon – Eternity Surge’s cooldown is reduced by 3 seconds. Choice talent with Eye of Infinity.
      • Eye of Infinity has been redesigned – Eternity Surge deals 15% increased damage to your primary target.
      • Arcane Vigor has been redesigned – Shattering Star grants Essence Burst.
      • Snapfire’s chance to trigger Firestorm increased to 15% (was 12%).
      • Raging Inferno’s Firestorm radius bonus reduced to 25% (was 50%) and Pyre damage bonus reduced to 20% (was 25%).
  • HUNTER
    • Revive Pet now has a 2.5 second cast time (was 3 seconds).
    • Revive Pet’s spell school is now Physical, and can no longer be stopped by Silence and Interrupt effects (was Nature).
    • Survival
      • Developers’ note: The Dragonflight Season 1 Survival Hunter tier set bonus is very powerful in single target scenarios, but will potentially cause issues in Season 2 where you are not encouraged to upgrade your gear to the new tier set. We’re lowering the values on the Season 1 2-piece and 4-piece set bonuses, and increasing the damage dealt by your class to compensate for these changes.
      • Vault of the Incarnates: 2-Set Bonus has been adjusted – Raptor Strike/Mongoose Bite, Carve, and Butchery damage increased by 12% (was 15%).
      • Vault of the Incarnates: 4 Set Bonus has been redesigned – Raptor Strike/Mongoose Bite, Carve, and Butchery have a 20% chance to make your next Raptor Strike/Mongoose Bite, Carve, and Butchery cost 10 less Focus and deal 40% increased damage (was 100% Focus cost reduction and 50% increased damage).
      • All damage dealt by you and your pet’s abilities increased by 8%.
  • MONK
    • Fixed an issue that prevented Ferocity of Xuen from not increasing your summoned pet+ damage.
    • Brewmaster
      • Fluidity of Motion’s tooltip has been updated to clarify that the damage of Blackout Kick is reduced.
  • PALADIN
    • Fixed a tooltip error with Consecrated Ground displaying Divine Hammer for non-Retribution Paladins.
    • Protection
      • Added support for Sentinel to Glyph of Winged Vengeance.
      • Removed spell replacement text for Sentinel.
      • Fixed errors causing Heartfire to trigger from incorrect spells.
      • Heartfire should now trigger from Divine Toll and Divine Resonance.
  • PRIEST
    • Discipline
      • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible: 2-Set Bonus has been redesigned – Shadow Word: Pain/Purge the Wicked damage increased by 25%. Power Word: Radiance healing increased by 15%.
      • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible: 4-Set Bonus has been redesigned – Atonements applied by Power Word: Radiance last 3 sec longer. Your spells have a chance to cause your next Power Word: Radiance to be instant and cost 100% less mana. Can accumulate up to 2 charges.
    • Holy
      • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible: 2-Set Bonus has been redesigned – When you cast Prayer of Mending, there is a 35% chance its effect is duplicated to another ally.
      • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible: 4-Set Bonus has been redesigned – When Prayer of Mending jumps or expires, it increases the damage and healing of your next Holy Word by 4%, stacking up to 15 times.
        • Developers’ note: These set bonuses are now available in this week’s PTR update.
    • Shadow
      • Shadow Word: Death damage increased by 10% for Shadow.
      • Mind Flay and Mind Sear damage from Idol of C’Thun reduced by 30%.
      • Distorted Reality increases the damage of Devouring Plague by 20% (was 8%) and increases its Insanity cost by 5 (was 10).
      • Auspicious Spirits causes Shadowy Apparitions to have a chance to generate 1 Insanity (was 2).
  • SHAMAN
    • Deeply Rooted Elements should now activate more consistently for all specializations.
      • Developers’ note: The Deeply Rooted Elements talent could sometimes feel like you received many Ascendance activations, or none. We have made adjustments to how this talent works to lower the very high and very low proc rates.
  • WARLOCK
    • Destruction
      • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible: 4-Set Bonus has been redesigned – Demonfire bolts increase your Fire damage by 1% for 13 seconds, stacking up to 8 times. Gaining a stack does not refresh the duration. Casting Channel Demonfire resets this effect.
  • WARRIOR
    • Arms
      • Fatal Mark now lasts 3 minutes (was 2 minutes).
      • In addition to its current effect, Bloodletting now causes Mortal Strike to inflict Rend on targets below 35% health if you have Rend talented.
      • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible: 4-Set Bonus has been redesigned – Deep Wounds critical strikes have a chance to increase the damage of your next Mortal Strike by 10% and cause it to deal (38% of Attack Power) Physical damage to enemies in front of you, stacking 3 times. Damage reduced above 5 targets.
    • Fury
      • Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible: 4-Set Bonus has been adjusted – Rampage causes your next Bloodthirst to have a 10% increased critical strike chance, deal 25% increased damage and generate 2 additional Rage. Stacking up to 10 times.

ITEMS AND REWARDS

  • Legacy Legendary items should now have the correct item levels.
  • Elemental Potions of Ultimate Power are no longer bind-on-pickup.
  • Potion of Chilled Clarity can no longer be canceled and affects the global cooldown.
  • Profession recipe raid boss drops have moved to Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible on all difficulties (was Vault of the Incarnates on Heroic and Mythic difficulty).

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

  • Net-o-Matic 5000 can now be used in all areas outside of the Dragon Isles, but not inside the Dragon Isles zones.
  • CLASSES
    • DRUID
      • Balance
        • New PvP Talent: Master Shapeshifter – Your abilities are amplified based on your current shapeshift form, granting an additional effect:
          • Bear Form – Ironfur grants 30% additional armor and generates 12 Astral Power.
          • Caster Form – Rejuvenation and Swiftmend heal for 30% more and generate 8 Astral Power.
          • Cat Form – Rip, Ferocious Bite, and Maim deal 60% additional damage and generate 60 Astral Power when cast with 5 combo points.
      • Guardian
        • Master Shapeshifter has been redesigned – Your abilities are amplified based on your current shapeshift form, granting an additional effect:
          • Caster Form – Rejuvenation and Swiftmend heal for 30% more and cause you to instantly generate 25 Rage after entering Bear Form.
          • Cat Form – Rip, Ferocious Bite, and Maim deal 60% additional damage and cause you to instantly generate 50 Rage after entering Bear Form when cast with 5 combo points.
          • Moonkin Form – Wrath, Starfire, and Starsurge deal 30% additional damage and cause you to instantly generate 25 Rage after entering Bear Form.
        • Toughness (PvP Talent) has been removed.
        • Den Mother now additionally reduces the duration of all stun effects on you by 15%.
        • Sharpened Claws (PvP Talent) has been removed.
      • Restoration
        • Master Shapeshifter has been redesigned – Your abilities are amplified based on your current shapeshift form, granting an additional effect:
          • Bear Form – Ironfur grants 30% additional armor and generates 1250 Mana.
          • Cat Form – Rip, Ferocious Bite, and Maim deal 60% additional damage and generate 5000 Mana when cast with 5 combo points.
          • Moonkin Form – Wrath, Starfire, and Starsurge deal 30% additional damage and generate 2000 Mana.
    • PALADIN
      • Holy
        • Aura Mastery now reduces the damage allies in your aura take by 30% in PvP combat (was 15%).
    • SHAMAN
      • Burrow damage increased by 200%.
      • Burrow now moves the Shaman’s nameplate closer to the ground while the effect is active.
      • Elemental
        • Lava Burst no longer consumes Volcanic Surge and the cast time of Lava Burst is no longer reduced by Volcanic Surge.
        • Volcanic Surge increases the damage of Chain Lightning and Lightning Bolt by 25% (was 20%).
        • Volcanic Surge increases the damage of Lava Burst by 45% (was 20%).
    • WARLOCK
      • New PvP Talent: Soul Rip – Fracture the soul of up to 3 target players within 20 yards into the shadows, reducing their damage done by 25% and healing received by 25% for 8 seconds. Souls are fractured up to 16 yards from the player’s location. Players can retrieve their souls to remove this effect. 1 minute cooldown, costs 2 Soul Shards.
      • Fixed an issue where Bonds of Fel was not correctly receiving some damage modifications.
      • Affliction
        • Bane of Shadows (PvP Talent) has been removed.
    • WARRIOR
      • Protection
        • Shield Bash (PvP talent) has been redesigned – When Shield Slam is used on targets that are casting, it reduces their damage done by 15% for 8 seconds and the cooldown is instantly reset.

PROFESSIONS

  • New Optional Reagents are available for upgrading items to a higher item level.
    • Concentrated Primal Infusions now go up to 421 item level to match upgrade systems.
  • Players can now minimize the crafting window to a reduced size for ease of use.
  • Players can now click on a tracked recipe in their quest log to pop open a small recipe window.
  • Currency on the public order page are now right aligned.
  • All gathering professions now work in the Zaralek Cavern.
  • Profession recipes have been added for the following professions but not all are fully enabled. Sources and recipe costs are still being worked on. You can find these on the temporary crafting vendors.
    • ENGINEERING
      • Momentum Redistributor Boots (Shadowlands) can no longer be used in dungeons and raids.
    • JEWELCRAFTING
      • Obsidian Combatant’s Jeweled Amulet
      • Obsidian Combatant’s Jeweled Signet
      • B.B.F. Fist
      • Statuette of Foreseen Power
      • Figurine of the Gathering Storm

QUESTS

  • Heritage armor quests for non-Allied Races no longer requires Exalted reputation with their home factions.

USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY

  • Group Loot roll results frame (/loot) has been redesigned with a new look.
  • Group Loot now has a Transmogrification option that replaces Greed if the player has not collected the appearance. Transmog rolls take priority over Greed rolls.
    • Known issues:
      • Players can Transmog roll on items that are not their primary armor type (i.e. Warriors can Transmog roll on cloth items).
      • Transmog rolls and Greed rolls are treated equally (a Greed roll can beat a Transmog roll).
Quote from: Blizzard

Hello raid testers! The schedule for this week’s Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible raid test has been updated:

Thursday, April 6

  • Heroic
    • Assault of the Zaqali – 13:00 PDT (16:00 EDT, 22:00 CEST)
  • Mythic
    • The Amalgamation Chamber – 14:00 PDT (17:00 EDT, 23:00 CEST)
    • The Forgotten Experiments – 15:00 PDT (18:00 EDT, 00:00 CEST)

Friday, April 7

  • Mythic
    • Rashok, the Elder – 13:00 PDT (16:00 EDT, 22:00 CEST)
  • Normal
    • Start – 14:00 PDT (17:00 EDT, 23:00 CEST)
    • End – Monday, April 10 at 09:00 PDT (12:00 EDT, 18:00 CEST)

Hotfixes: April 3, 2023

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April 3, 2023

Classes

  • Evoker
    • Fixed an issue causing Ancient Flame to incorrectly be consumed by instant-cast Living Flames, such as from the Burnout talent or Lifespark set bonus.
  • Paladin
    • Fixed an issue with the timing of Eye of Tyr’s floating combat text.

Player versus Player

  • Classes
    • Paladin
      • Fixed an issue causing Retribution Aura to trigger from incorrect amounts of incoming damage.
      • [With weekly restarts] Judgments of the Pure (PvP Talent) now causes Judgment casts on an enemy to cleanse 1 Poison, Disease, and Magic effect they have caused on you (was allies within your aura).
        • Developers’ note: With Judgment’s cast frequency increasing in patch 10.0.7, Judgments of the Pure has been overperforming as a PvP talent. In a hotfix being applied this upcoming Tuesday, the talent will only apply to the Paladin and no longer have its effect applicable to allies.

Quests

  • Heritage
    • During “The New Clessington Estate,” Cecilia Clessington will no longer accuse the player of smelling like rotten blubber when provoked.
  • Ohn’ahran Plains
    • Fixed an issue causing some players to be unable to interact with the Waygate at the Shady Sanctuary.
    • The “Waygate Travel” debuff received from using the waygates will now continue to expire while the player is offline.

Dragonflight Season 1 Ending Soon

Quote from: Blizzard

Greetings Champions.

Dragonflight Season 1 will be closing the week of May 2. Here’s what you can expect:

Dragonflight Season 1: PvP

  • The current season of Dragonflight PvP content will end at 10:00 p.m. the night before maintenance begins in each region. This is 10:00 p.m. PDT for North American realms and 22:00 CEST for European realms.
  • With the season’s end, it will no longer be possible to earn PvP seasonal rewards, titles, or Dragonflight Season 1 rankings.

Dragonflight Season 1: Mythic+

  • The current season of Mythic+ content will end at 10:00 p.m. the night before maintenance begins in each region. This is 10:00 p.m. PDT for North American realms and 22:00 CEST for European realms. With the season’s end, ratings that qualify for the 0.1% Thundering Hero: Dragonflight Season 1 achievement will be recorded.
  • The “Thundering Hero” title and achievement will be rewarded during the following weeks after the season ends, so be 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 2 begins.

Best of luck battling to a glorious finish of the season!

Patch 10.1 Embers of Neltharion Launches May 2nd/3rd 2023!

Quote from: Blizzard

Each week we’ll look ahead to what’s in store for World of Warcraft, share the latest news, and keep you in the know byte by byte.

Mark Your Calendars: Embers of Neltharion Goes Live May 2!

Join your allies for the continuing adventure through the Dragon Isles with our next content update. You’ll explore an all-new zone, meet new allies, discover hidden treasures, and more.

  • New Zone: Zaralek Caverns – Gather your courage as you venture into this mysterious underground cavern.
  • Cross-Faction Guilds: Players who have been enjoying Cross-Faction Instances now can join the same guild as their opposite-faction friends and benefit from conveniences like shared chat and guild repairs.
  • Fyrrak Assaults: Fyrakk’s forces are gathering resources at Suffusion Camps located in the Azure Span and Ohn’ahran Plains. It’s up to the heroes of Azeroth to disrupt their efforts to lure Fyrakk and his disciples out.
  • Meet New Allies: As the heroes of Azeroth pursue enemies into the dangers of Zaralek Cavern, they are aided by the local inhabitants found under the Dragon Isles — the molefolk known as “Niffen” and the Drogbar.
  • And more…

Dragonflight Season 2

Dragonflight Season 2 begins the week of May 9. Players will be able to gather their allies and breach Neltharion’s secret laboratory in Normal, Heroic, and Mythic difficulty.

The new season also brings a new PvP Ladder and gear, seasonal affixes, and new dungeons to the Mythic+ rotation: Brackhide Hollow, Halls of Infusion, Uldaman, Legacy of Tyr, Neltharus, Freehold (Battle for Azeroth), The Underrot (Battle for Azeroth), Vortex Pinnacle (Cataclysm), and Neltharion’s Lair (Legion).

Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible Raid

Breach Neltharion’s secret laboratory hidden within Zaralek Cavern. It is here that he created the dracthyr and ultimately succumbed to the whispers of the Old Gods and their corruption.

Raid Release Schedule Week of May 9:

  • Normal, Heroic, and Mythic difficulties become available

More details to follow on the Raid Finder schedule.

Join the PTR to explore the latest content in testing and read the current Dragonflight Embers of Neltharion PTR Development Notes on the test forums.  We’ll have more coverage of the new content update as we lead up to launch.

News and Events This Week

  • April 2-8
    • The Darkmoon Faire Returns
  • April 4
    • Turbulent Timeways: Mists of Pandaria Timewalking
    • Weekly Bonus Event: Arena Skirmish
    • PvP Brawl: Shado-Pan Showdown
    • WoW Spring Deals
  • April 5
    • March of the Tadpoles Micro-Holiday
  • April 7
    • Blues News

Stay tuned here to the official World of Warcraft news site as we journey through the week together.

Hop Over to the Trading Post for April!

Quote from: Blizzard

The Trading Post vendors have updated their inventory for the month of April.  You’ll want to hop to it and add these eggcellent new items to your collection.

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.

Here’s What’s in Stock for April

This Month’s Bonus Reward

Night Elf Female holding two glowing blue swords wrapped in roots and greenery
Transmog- Arsenal: Blades of Elune

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— Arsenal: Blades of Elune— a set of one-handed sword transmogs.

Activities

Title Description Travel Points
Complete the Siege on Dragonbane Keep On the Dragon Isles, complete the scenario Siege on Dragonbane Keep in the Waking Shores. 50
Complete Solo Dragon Riding Races Speak to a Bronze Timekeeper on the Dragon Isles to participate in a solo race. 100
Complete the Trial of the Flood Complete the Trial of the Flood in Ohn’iri Springs on the Dragon Isles. 50
Slay Creatures in Dragonsprings Summit Slay 30 creatures that grant XP in Dragonsprings Summit on the Dragon Isles. 50
Use the Winds of the Isles while Dragonriding While on a Dragonriding mount fly throught he Winds of the Isles to reach even greater heights. 50
Complete Caravan Quests Complete Caravan quests for the Nomad Clan of the Maruuk Centaurs on the Dragon Isles. 100
Get Hit by Tornados Get knocked back by a Tornado during a Primalist Air Storm. 50
Complete the Optional Azure Span Storylines Complete side quests in Azure Span 150

Darkmoon Faire Holiday (April 2-April 8)

Title Description Travel Points
Darkmoon Faire: Dance Dance Darkmoon Complete the quest Dance Dance Darkmoon at the Darkmoon Faire Island. 50
Darkmoon Faire: /cheer on the Carousel or Sandbox Tiger Emote /cheer while riding the carousel or a Sandbox Tiger on Darkmoon Faire Island 50

March of the Tadpoles Micro-Holiday (April 5)

Title Description Travel Points
March of the Tadpoles: Complete “A Gift from Your Tadpole” Complete the quest “A Gift from Your Tadpole” 150

Noblegarden Holiday (April 10-April 17)

Title Description Travel Points
Noblegarden: Collect Brightly Colored Eggs Collect 30 Brightly Colored Eggs 100
Noblegarden: Place Eggs Place 12 Intricately-Painted Eggs or 1 Magnificently-Painted Egg 50
Noblegarden: Eat Chocolates in Iskaara Eat Noblegarden Chocolates in Iskaara in the Dragon Isles. 100
Noblegarden: Use Spring Flowers in an Arena or Battleground Use Spring Flowers on an opposing player in an Arena or Battleground 50
Noblegarden: Complete Daily Quests Complete Noblegarden Daily Quests 100
Noblegarden: Complete a Dragonflight Dungeon in a Spring Circlet Complete a Dragonflight dungeon wearing any Spring Circlet. 50

Volunteer Guard Day (April 28)

Title Description Travel Points
Volunteer Guard Day: Slay City Invaders Slay City Invaders as a Guard in Stormwind or Orgrimmar. 200
Title Description Travel Points
Defeat Dragon Isles Master Tamers with Mechanical Pets Defeat 2 Dragon Isles Master Tamers with a lineup of at least 2 Mechanical pets. 200
Title Description Travel Points
Complete Weekly Gathering Quests Weekly profession quests can be obtained within the Artisan’s Market in Valdrakken. 100
Complete Weekly Crafting Quests Weekly profession quests can be obtained within the Artisan’s Market in Valdrakken. 100
Fish Up Items from Tuskarr Fishing Holes Fish up 20 items from a Tuskar Fishing Hole 50
Title Description Travel Points
Earn Honor in Nokhudon Hold Earn Honor while in Nokhudon Hold on the Dragon Isles. 100
Loot a Bounty and a War Supply Crate in Ohn’ahran Plains Loot a Bounty from a slain player and open a War Supply Crate in Ohn’ahran Plains while in War Mode. 150
Title Description Travel Points
Complete the Serene Dream Spa Storyline Complete the Serene Dream Spa Storyline in Thaldraszus on the Dragon Isles. 50
Complete Climbing World Quests Complete 8 Climbing world quests in the Dragon Isles. 100
Title Description Travel Points
/bounce at Critters in the Dragon Isles Emote /bounce at critters in the Dragon Isles (and consider showing them some /love too). 50
Obtain a Spring-Themed Toy Obtain one of the following toys: Spring Flores’s Pouch, Noble Gardener’s Hearthstone, Eagger Basket, Ancient’s Bloom, Mylune’s Call, The Perfect Blossom, Podling Camouflage, or Botani Camouflage. 50

How it Works

Get Tender Every Month

At the first of each month, players with an active account in good standing will receive 500 Trader’s Tender automatically every month from a chest called the Collector’s Cache. If you don’t have active game time on your account or aren’t a subscriber at the start of a new month, don’t worry. Your Tender will be awarded on the first day of the month when you do have game time or an active subscription. This will be the same amount for everyone, regardless of how you pay for your game time.

The Traveler’s Log

Complete monthly activities listed in the new Traveler’s Log. Each month features a rotating, themed set of activities. These activities provide the opportunity to earn up to 500 additional Trader’s Tender. There’s only a set amount of Tender you can earn each month through completing activities, so you won’t need to complete all the ones in the log each month. You’ll be able to pick and choose from a variety of fun in-game activities to easily earn Tender. Players can choose to earn by continuing to play the game as they already do, such as completing quests, competing in battlegrounds, participating in holiday activities, and even running Mythic+ dungeons. But you can also choose to take part in activities uniquely designed for the month.

Freeze an Item

Before the month comes to an end, if you haven’t purchased that one “must-have” item yet, don’t worry. You can “freeze” an item so you can purchase it later. When you freeze an item, it will stay available month over month until it is purchased or replaced.

If this month’s offerings didn’t have the items you wanted, you can hang on to your Trader’s Tender to spend later. It won’t go anywhere, and unspent Tender will continue to accumulate each month.

What a Tender Moment

As a way of saying “Thank you” to the community for continuing to play World of Warcraft with us, we are awarding a bonus 500 Trader’s Tender to players who purchase Dragonflight and add it to their account†. This bonus Trader’s Tender will also be rewarded retroactively to players who have already purchased Dragonflight. Players can collect this bonus Trader’s Tender once the Trading Post feature goes live from their Collector’s Cache.

Learn more about the Trading Post in our previously published news post on the official site.

 

*The Trading Post feature is not available in WoW Classic titles.
**Requires World of Warcraft Subscription or Game Time
***Requires Level 10 to access the Adventure Guide.
†Bonus Trader’s Tender is granted only once per Battle.net account.

Hotfixes: March 30 2023, Paladin: Judgments of the Pure Tuning – 4 April

Quote from: Blizzard

March 30, 2023

Classes

  • Warlock
    • Affliction
      • Fixed an issue where Soul-Eater’s Gluttony would not reduce the cooldown of Soul Rot if damage was absorbed.
    • Demonology
      • Fixed an issue where Umbral Blaze’s damage would not increase with a second rank.

Items and Rewards

  • Fixed an issue where the Phoenix Wishwing pet would not properly appear in the pet journal.

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

  • Classes
    • Paladin
      • Glyph of Righteous Defense will now properly increase the chance to hit with that ability.
Quote from: Blizzard

With Judgment’s cast frequency increasing in patch 10.0.7, Judgments of the Pure has been overperforming as a PvP talent. In a hotfix being applied this upcoming Tuesday, the talent will only apply to the Paladin and no longer have its effect applicable to allies.

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

  • PALADIN
    • Judgments of the Pure (PvP Talent) now causes Judgment casts on an enemy to cleanse 1 Poison, Disease, and Magic effect they have caused on you (was allies within your aura).

Feedback: Mythic+ Testing – March 30th – April 3rd

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Greetings!

Dragonflight Season 2 Mythic+ testing begins on PTR realms this weekend. The test period will begin Thursday March 30th at 10:00 PDT (13:00 EDT, 20:00 CEST), and end Monday April 3rd 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.

This weekend features the Vortex Pinnacle dungeon and our updated level 7 keystone affixes.

During the test period you’ll be able to acquire and customize Mythic Keystones by talking to the Keystone Vendor in Valdrakken, and the nearby Dungeon Teleports NPC will assist you with transportation.

  • There are new affixes and adjusted affixes available for testing. Players can purchase scrolls from the keystone vendor to add to these to their keystone.
    • New Affix: Incorporeal – While in combat, incorporeal beings appear and attempt to destabilize players with spells that reduce their damage and healing done. Incorporeal beings are susceptible to all forms of crowd control.
    • New Affix: Afflicted – While in combat, Afflicted Souls appear that seek the aid of players. Afflicted Souls spawn with poison, curse, and disease afflictions. Removing any of these afflictions or restoring the spirit to full health causes it to despawn. Fail to remove their afflictions in time will inflict players with a negative status effect.
    • New Affix: Entangling – While in combat, entangling vines snare players.
    • Updated Affix: Explosive – Fewer Explosive Orbs spawn, but they now have substantially higher health. •
  • The following affixes have been retired for Dragonflight Season 2:
    • Quaking
    • Grievous
    • Volcanic

We’re looking for feedback on keystone combinations:

  • Keystone Level 4 Affixes:
    • Spiteful
    • Sanguine
    • Bursting
    • Bolstering
    • Raging
  • Keystone Level 7 Affixes:
    • Incorporeal
    • Afflicted
    • Entangling
    • Explosive
    • Storming

Affix Refresh Goals

  • One of our primary goals is to highlight different forms of player utility week over week. The hope is that different classes will shine with their ability to neutralize the week’s affix.
  • We want to reduce the cognitive load we’re putting on players with affixes with the removal of the seasonal affix and the pacing and design of our new affixes. The intent is to slow down the rate that these affixes trigger and to tone down the required response from players dealing with them.
  • Like dungeons in Dragonflight, we are taking the opportunity to review and refresh affixes more often between seasons.
  • We encourage players to play with different combinations of the level 4 and level 7 affix tiers. Please give feedback on unfair combinations that you come across in testing.

We look forward to hearing your feedback!