Dragonflight season 1 will consist of 4 out of the 8 new Dragonflight dungeons and 4 previous expansion dungeons! Check out the quickstart guides for all 8 down below:
Last night’s hotfixes comprised of more bugfixes and at the same time Blizzard has announced a large amount of tuning changes coming with the next weekly reset. They include buffs for rogues, shamans and hunters. AoE spell will also be getting soft target caps, reducing damage to targets beyond 5 or 8 enemies!
In preparation for the Dragonflight release (a little more than a week away!) Blizzard will be performing a launch test upcoming Monday on a new Beta realm.
Quote from: Blizzard
November 18, 2022
Classes
- Fixed an issue where Healers’ Cleanses were going on cooldown incorrectly.
- Evoker
- Hover will no longer cancel when the Evoker is struck by crowd control effects.
- Preservation
- Lifebind now only shares the Evoker’s healing between bonded allies, instead of sharing all healing received.
- Developers’ note: We are happy with Preservation’s tuning overall but had concerns about the very high healing throughput of Lifebind when other healers were casting healing spells onto the Evoker during Lifebind.
- Lifebind now only shares the Evoker’s healing between bonded allies, instead of sharing all healing received.
- Hunter
- Beast Mastery
- Corrected an issue where the Hunter’s Prey talent does not properly reset the cooldown of Kill Shot when activated.
- Beast Mastery
- Mage
- Frost
- Fixed an issue that caused Brain Freeze to not trigger from Ebonbolt if Brain Freeze was already active.
- Frost
- Shaman
- Elemental
- Fixed an issue causing Improved Flametongue Weapon to be removed upon death.
- Warlock
- Affliction
- Fixed an issue where Malefic Affliction would not be removed at the end of combat.
- Demonology
- Fixed an issue where Demonic Cores would be granted without knowing Demonbolt.
- Affliction
- Elemental
Creatures and NPCs
- The Experience Eliminators now allow players up to level 59 to disable XP gains.
- The Escaped Wilderling’s great escape has come to an end, and it can correctly be recaptured again.
Items and Rewards
- Fixed an issue where the Underlight Angler fishing rod could not gain Artifact Power.
- The Large Green Bags that Evokers start with can now be sold to vendors.
- Fixed an issue where Unstable Elemental Confluence was incorrectly dealing Holy damage instead of Nature damage.
Professions
- Fixed an issue where players couldn’t craft legacy profession recipes that required special objects to craft them.
Quests
- The Battle for Azeroth Allied Race unlock quests are now correctly available at level 50.
- Evokers should now be able to accept the quest “From Within.”
- Fixed an issue where Evokers were not able to loot some required items for the Tarecgosa’s Rest legendary questline.
Reputation
- Dracthyr can now correctly gain reputation with the Sha’tari Skyguard and The Tillers.
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
- Classes
- Paladin
- Fixed an issue where Hammer of Wrath was incorrectly scaling its damage from ranged Attack Power instead of melee Attack Power.
- Warlock
- Fixed an issue where Soul Siphon was increasing damage by more than its intended 18% limit in some cases.
- Paladin
Class Tuning Incoming 23 November
Quote from: Blizzard
We’re preparing a tuning pass that focuses on high target count situations, based on data gathered from the Dragonflight Beta.
We’re adding reduced-damage-beyond-5/8-targets to a number of AOE spells, reducing the damage of a few spells, and increasing the damage of others with the intent of improving balance across specs in this damage profile.
We’ll be hotfixing these changes into the Beta very soon, and we’ll then apply them to the live game with scheduled weekly maintenance, which is early Wednesday, November 23 in this region.
Death Knight
- Unholy
- Epidemic now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
- Bursting Sores damage reduced by 10%.
Demon Hunter
- Immolation Aura now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
- Havoc
- Fel Rush now deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
Druid
- Feral
- Tear Open Wounds now deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
Hunter
- Marksmanship
- All damage dealt increased by 10%.
- Survival
- All damage dealt increased by 5%.
Mage
- Frost
- Frozen Orb damage reduced by 15%.
- Blizzard now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
- Fire
- Ignite damage reduced by 12%.
- Master of Flame now increases Ignite’s damage by 15% (was 18%).
Monk
- Resonant Fists now deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
Priest
- Shadow
- Mind Sear now deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
- Psychic Link now causes Mind Blast, Mind Flay, and Mind Spike to deal 30%/60% of their damage to all other targets affected by your Vampiric Touch within 40 yards (was 15%/30%).
Rogue
- Assassination
- Indiscriminate Carnage cooldown reduced to 45 seconds (was 60 seconds).
- Subtlety
- Shuriken Storm damage increased by 10%.
- Shadowstrike damage increased by 10%.
- Black Powder damage increased by 5%.
- Secret Technique damage increased by 5%.
- Shadow Blades cooldown reduced to 2 minutes (was 3 minutes).
- Fixed an issue that prevented Secret Technique’s built-in cooldown reduction from benefitting from Echoing Reprimand’s Animacharged combo points.
- Outlaw
- Fatal Flourish chance to restore Energy reduced to 60% (was 65%)
Shaman
- Enhancement
- All damage dealt increased by 5%.
Warlock
- Affliction
- Malefic Affliction now causes your active Unstable Affliction to deal 8/13% additional damage (was 5/10%), up to 24/39% (was 15/30%), for the rest of its duration.
- Dread Touch now causes your target to take 30% (was 20%) additional damage from your damage over time effects for 6 seconds.
- Doom Blossom damage increased by 15%.
- Destruction
- Rain of Fire damage increased by 15%.
- Demonology
- Dreadbite now deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
Warrior
- Arms
- Executioner’s Precision now grants 35% increased damage per stack to Mortal Strike (was 30%).
- Bloodsurge now triggers 10% of the time (was 7%).
- Bladestorm Damage increased to 60% (was 50%).
- Fury
- Odyn’s Fury now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
Beta Launch Test on Monday November 21
Quote from: Blizzard
On Monday, November 21, we’re going to test the launch of Dragonflight content in the Dragonflight Beta, and we hope you’ll join us.
There will be a new Beta realm called Launch Test.
- At 21:00 CET, we’ll take all of the Beta realms offline.
- 21:30 CET – The Launch Test realm will come online in the pre-expansion-launch state (max level 60).
- 22:00 CET – Pre-launch closures (e.g. Elemental Storms) will occur.
- 23:00 CET – The Dragon Isles will become available, with leveling content and transport boats running.
- 0:00 Midnight CET – End of test. Launch Test realm will be shut down. Other realms will come back online in post-launched state, with characters preserved from before.
Please join us on Monday. See you there!
This morning a new batch of hotfixes have rolled out fixing a bunch of bugs. Additionally players that stopped playing can play WoW for free this weekend in a welcome back weekend event.
On the Beta side of things Mythic+ has opened again for an additional day for testers to test the new bug fixes and tuning changes.
Quote from: Blizzard
November 17, 2022
Classes
- Evoker
- Preservation
- Temporal Anomaly will no longer occasionally fail to apply its absorb to full health targets.
- Using Temporal Anomaly with Resonating Sphere will no longer replace a full strength Echo.
- Preservation
- Priest
- Fixed an issue causing Rhapsody to be removed at the start of dungeon encounters.
Items and Rewards
- Fixed an issue where Evokers were unable to roll Need on certain off-hand weapons and trinkets.
Professions
- Fixed an issue where Bone Fishing Pole and Seth’s Graphite Fishing Pole incorrectly had combat stats on them.
- Quests
- Fixed an issue where legacy quests were not correctly identifying Dracthyr.
- Fixed an issue where Evokers were not eligible to complete the Tarecgosa’s Rest questline.
- Fixed an issue where Storm Huntress Suhrakka would not appear while progressing through the Vashj’ir introduction if players had accepted the quest “Call of Duty.”
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
- Player versus Player
- Updated the Arena Points cap from 5,000 to 10,000 to be consistent with original Wrath of the Lich King’s season 5 cap.
Feedback: Mythic+ Testing – 17-21 November
Quote from: Blizzard
Greetings!
Dragonflight Mythic+ testing will once again be available on Beta this weekend. The test period will begin Thursday November 17th at 10:00 PDT (13:00 EDT, 20:00 CEST), and end Monday November 21st 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 tuning, bug fixes, and quality of life improvements. We’d particularly appreciate testing with affixes to help us identify any issues with affix interactions in specific dungeons.
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.
We look forward to hearing your feedback!
Join the Welcome Back Weekend November 17–20
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Dragonflight is nearly here, and you and your allies can prepare to embark on a new adventure. This weekend, we’re giving all players with inactive World of Warcraft accounts full access to the game* and all your characters without a subscription. You’ll be able to access all expansions, including Shadowlands, so that you can play the most recent content—including the Tempest Unleashed pre-expansion event— and get ready for Dragonflight when it launches on November 28, 2022, at 3 p.m. PST. Rejoin your guild, rally your comrades, and prepare to take flight.
During the Welcome Back Weekend, you can also prepare for all your adventures when you save up to 30% off Character Transfer, Faction Change, Race Change, and Name Change services.
Return to World of Warcraft FREE from November 17 to November 20, 2022.**
Get Back in Action
If you’ve been away for a while, you can play through the new starting experience starting at level 1 to learn the ropes.
You can also choose to opt out of the starting experience and begin instead at level 1 in the starting area for your race. Upon reaching level 10, you can either continue into Battle for Azeroth or speak with Chromie to choose a Timewalking Campaign. Choose an expansion and continue leveling until you’re ready to enter the Dragon Isles at level 60 when Dragonflight goes live. Players with Allied race characters will begin at level 10. Non-Allied race Death Knights and Demon Hunters will automatically begin at level 8 and play through their own starting experience before moving on around level 10.
If you’d like to select a different Timewalking Campaign, simply speak to Chromie again. With phase 2 of the Dragonflight pre-expansion patch, Timewalking Campaigns scale to level 60 and include Shadowlands.
Need Help Logging Back In?
- Download the Battle.net desktop app
- Launch the app and log in to your account.
- Within the app, click on the World of Warcraft tab, then either Install or Update.
- When the installation or update is complete, click Play.
- Play free through November 20, 2022!
New to World of Warcraft?
Download the free trial experience here.
Learn more about the latest updates and support options in our previously published article — Finding Your Way to the Dragon Isles.
*Welcome Back Weekend not available in WoW Classic. Dracthyr Evokers only available with the Dragonflight expansion.
**Ability to return to WoW without a subscription ends on November 21, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. PST. Player is responsible for any online connection fees.
While today’s hotfixes include the expected bug fixes, they also include a special change we don’t usually see. The droprate for the mounts from the MoP World Bosses + Rukhmar in Spires of Arak has been increased! These infamous mounts used to have a droprate of roughly 1 in 2000. We don’t know what the new droprate is yet but it can only be better than what it was!
Quote from: Blizzard
November 16, 2022
Achievements
- New Dracthyr should no longer cause multiple chat messages about achievements.
Classes
- Evoker
- Fixed an issue causing newly created Evokers to be unable to enter Iron Docks and Grimrail Depot dungeons.
- Fixed an issue where spells could be cast while in Soulshape.
- Resolved an issue where Evokers were unable to purchase Eternal Aspirant or Eternal Gladiator Armor pieces.
Dungeons and Raids
- Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr
- The dungeon should now show up in the Dungeon Finder under World Events during the pre-expansion Tempest Unleashed event even if the player is low item level.
Items and Rewards
- The drop chances for Son of Galleon’s Saddle, Reins of the Heavenly Onyx Cloud Serpent, Reins of the Cobalt Primordial Direhorn, Reins of the Thundering Cobalt Cloud Serpent, and Solar Spirehawk have been greatly increased.
- Fixed an issue that caused the creation of some bind-on-equip items to be the incorrect item level.
- Fixed an issue where Return to Karazhan Mythic+ end-of-run chests contained incorrect item level loot.
- Fixed an issue where some enemies and game objects appeared at max level for characters below level 60 in Shadowlands max level dungeons.
Quests
- Fixed an issue that prevented opposite faction players from being able to earn a chance at loot for defeating Fire Revenant, Lava Elemental, Earth Revenant, Air Revenant, and Water Elemental.
- Quaking Spikes during Earth Storms will no longer hit flying players.
- Fixed an issue where the level requirements for heritage questlines were incorrectly scaled.
- Fixed an issue where users on lower graphics settings were having difficulty locating Talon Kethahn during the “Awaken, Dracthyr” quest.
- Fixed an issue where players could get stuck in the Forbidden Reach.
- Fixed an issue where the objectives of the quest “To Be Prepared” were phased out once the pre-expansion quests were completed.
- Dracthyr can now accept and complete the quest, “The Archon’s Answer.”
Wrath of the Lich King Classic
- Classes
- Warlock
- Fixed an issue where pets were not properly benefiting from resilience.
- Warlock
- Player versus Player
- The PvP rating calculation has been adjusted to provide a continuous, modest increase of MMR for the rest of the season.
- Developers’ note: We’ve been monitoring players’ rating distribution, and the percentage of players who have reached the rating requirements is much lower than we want it to be.
- The PvP rating calculation has been adjusted to provide a continuous, modest increase of MMR for the rest of the season.
Patch 10.0.2 is now live on the EU servers and with it comes the updated weekly reset time. There have been a couple of hotfixes already and there’s a large list of known issues!
Quote from: Blizzard
November 15, 2022
Items and Rewards
- Fixed an issue where optional Dragonflight reagents could drop during the Uldaman Prologue.
Quests
- Fixed an issue where Aquabombs in Ice/Water Storms could instantly kill players.
- Players who have reached level 60 and have completed the Shadowlands level up campaign on a different character will be able to choose the “Threads of Fate” option, allowing them to skip the level up campaign to begin the endgame of Shadowlands.
- Developers’ note: The Threads of Fate system is still no longer available for any characters who haven’t already entered it prior to the recent update.
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10.0.2 KNOWN ISSUES
Updated November 15
Classes
- Swapping between Choice Nodes on the Talent tree may not properly swap the abilities on player’s action bars.
- (Covenants) The Deepening Bond effect earned through Renown incorrectly states that it increases players’ stamina. These effects have been adjusted to increase movement speed in patch 10.0.2 and their tooltip will be fixed in the near future.
- Classes with Starter Builds updated in patch 10.0.2 may experience issues with Starter Builds. Players in Starter Build mode when the patch launches will still have the previous Starter Build. If you are having issues with Starter Build, leave Starter Build by changing a talent or selecting a different loadout, and then reselect Starter Build to get the updated build. At a future date, all players with outdated Starter Builds will be removed from Starter Build mode on login. You can then reselect Starter Build to get the updated build.
Death Knight
- If a duplicated Soul Reaper triggers after Dancing Rune Weapon expires, it will not deal damage.
- Death Knights are not able to select any Runes to Runeforge except for Rune of Hysteria.
- Blood
- Bloodshot is incorrectly increasing Death Strikes’ damage before the Blood Shield is created.
Demon Hunter
- Shattered Restoration does not increase the healing of Soul Fragments from Shattered Souls.
- Shattered Restoration does not update the tooltip values of Shattered Souls.
Druid
- Prowl cannot be use while Incarnation: Avatar of Ashamane is active.
- Feral
- (PvP) Freedom of the Herd tooltip incorrectly mentions a 1-minute cooldown reduction instead of a 15-second cooldown reduction.
Evoker
- Empowerment Spells are unable to be released through Hold and Release with mouseover macros.
- The empowered casting bar pip may become desynced when reselecting an Evoker casting an empowered spell.
- Soar can potentially cause a disconnect when using a game controller.
- Time Stop (PvP Talent) can cause Eternity Surge and Spiritbloom to have a longer than intended empower time.
- Blizzard Customer Support Article – Common Dracthyr Evoker Questions 76
Hunter
- Call of the Wild’s summon pet temporarily prevents the use of Mend Pet.
- Fortitude of the Bear tooltip does not mention its heal effect.
- Serrated Shots does not increase damage from Hit the Mark.
- Survival
- Flanking Strike can be cast from unintended angles with no error dialogue.
Paladin
- Retribution
- Ashes to Ashes is granting an incorrect amount of secondary stats.
Priest
- Discipline
- Contrition: Rank 1 and Rank 2 tooltips are the same. This is an issue with the text on the tooltip not the ability, it will be resolved in a later patch.
Rogue
- Duskwalker’s Patch incorrectly references Vendetta, which no longer exists. It now affects Deathmark and the tooltip will be updated in a later patch.
- Replicating Shadows extra Rupture does not correctly prefer targets that are not afflicted by Rupture.
- Shadowstep does not function with a focus macro on enemy targets.
Shaman
- Lightning, Earth, and Water Shield’s auras disappear upon entering an instance or logging out.
- Elemental
- Windspeaker’s Lava Resurgence buff aura is consumed if a Lava Burst is cast before Earth Shock.
Warrior
Fury
- Dance of Death does not always grant an extra tick of Ravager.
- Deft Experience is granting 1.4% Mastery per rank (instead of 1%).
Protection - Dance of Death does not always grant an extra tick of Ravager.
Dungeons and Raids
- The prologue version of Uldaman is listed under “Exile’s Reach” in the Group Finder.
- Fated Raid icons are not present for current Fated raid(s) in the Adventure Guide Raid tab
Items
- Neltharax, Enemy of the Sky’s stacking buff Heaven’s Nemesis does not work.
Player Characters
- After the creation of a Dracthyr on one realm, the creation of a subsequent Dracthyr on a different realm may appear to be unavailable. To work around this display issue, close the game and log back in.
- The Faction Change service 6 cannot be used to change the faction of a Dracthyr.
- Bag slots granted by adding an authenticator may remain locked for players who properly have an authenticator.
- Level 10 player characters have an iLvl requirement to do Shadowlands dungeons in Chromie Time.
- Some Cloth, Mail, and Plate dungeon sets may grant their Transmogrification appearances to unintended classes.
Sound
- Music may unintentionally stop playing in The Waking Shores.
User Interface
- The character select screen may hang after logging in.
- Bags other than the player’s primary bag can become invisible.
- The Party Frame Portrait may be empty for an Evoker.
- Rogue Combo points as shown on the Personal Resource Display can become visually desynced.
- The Mailbox open-all function will occasionally fail to place all mail in the player’s inbox.
- The settings for Debuff Display on Raid-Style Party Frames are not working as intended.
- In the Guild/Community window, players may be aligned far to the left and only display their name.
- Portraits for the gnoll bosses on the quests “A Precision Approach” and “Who’s Next” are not displaying their spell effects.
- Party Frames cannot be the target of SetBindingClick due to being unnamed frames.
WoW Companion App
- Assaults do not appear on the map.
- Pets that have been filtered by pet level and then purchased may differ from what was displayed.
Dragonflight will launch with 8 new dungeons! Check out the quickstart guides for all 8 down below:
The developer cinematic livestream just finished and they showed a new launch trailer cinematic as well as a Dracthyr Evoker preview! Furthermore Blizzard has just posted a new blog post detailing the prepatch event going live with the new patch this week!
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With the second phase of the Dragonflight pre-expansion patch, you will be right in the eye of the (primal) storm. It is up to you to stop the elements from revolting all over the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor, and delve into the Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr dungeon to recover an ancient titan relic.
Primal Storms
Event Overview
Collect Primeval Essence from primal storms and spend it to earn a full set of item level 252 armor for your class and spec, the Bag of Furious Winds toy, and the Primal Stormling battle pet. During this event you can also obtain the “Against the Elements” Feat of Strength, and the Unstable Elemental Confluence heirloom trinket.
Once the primal storms begin, check your map (default hotkey: M) to look for active storms in the Eastern Kingdoms or Kalimdor. Powerful elemental lords are drawn to the area as the storm intensifies, imbuing local wildlife with power, granting them new abilities, and scaling them up in level. Defeating these elementally enhanced enemies can create additional hazards, but to earn Primeval Essence and weaken the protective barrier surrounding these elemental lords, you must press on. Strike once their defenses are depleted, and defeat the elemental lords to earn powerful loot, and even more Primeval Essence for your trouble.
Prime Mover
Primeval Essence is of interest to storm hunters who are looking to learn more about what’s behind these strange events. Seek out Storm Huntress Suhrakka in Durotar if you fight for the Horde, or Storm Hunter William in Stormwind by docks if you fight for the Alliance, and they’ll offer you various wares in exchange for your Primeval Essence, including weapons, trinkets, armor, and the Bag of Furious Winds toy. Once the storms subside and disappear, you won’t be able to obtain more Primeval Essence, so be sure to get everything you need from these quartermasters before then.
Take the Storm With You
Complete the quest chain associated with the Tempest Unleashed event and you’ll also get the Primal Stormling battle pet. To begin your journey, head to Durotar (for the Horde) or the Stormwind docks (for the Alliance) and look for Khadgar. The Primal Stormling will be available throughout this limited time event, so be sure to grab yours before it ends.
Go Down A Storm
During the event, you can earn the “Against the Elements” Feat of Strength. Only obtainable during this event, the Feat requires you to defeat each of the four elemental lords during the Dragonflight pre-launch events. Once the primal storms no longer threaten Azeroth, this Feat of Strength will become unobtainable.
Looking Ahead
As you defeat more and more elemental lords and push back on the Primalists, you may come across Dimmed Primeval elements. Four of these (one each of Earth, Fire, Storm, and Water) can be combined to create the Unstable Elemental Confluence, an heirloom trinket that increases your primary stat and has a chance to call upon primal magic to damage your foes and bolster your allies. Keep in mind that Dimmed Primeval elements can only be obtained in primal storms, and will dissipate when the weather clears up.
The Legacy of a Titan
Dungeon Overview
Uldaman is an ancient titan facility where, long ago, allies of the heroic Keeper Tyr hid the Discs of Norgannon.
After returning to the Dragon Isles, Queen Alexstrasza learned of another disc locked away within Uldaman… one that holds the memories of Tyr himself. Believing this knowledge tis needed to restore the power of the Aspects, Alexstrasza has asked her mortal allies to brave the perils of Uldaman and recover Tyr’s memories to secure the future of dragonkind.
The Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr dungeon early preview will also become available. Survive its perils and five boss encounters, and you’ll get rewarded with plenty of loot to get you up to speed you get ready for the launch of Dragonflight on November 28.
Note: The Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr dungeon is only available as a preview to players with Dragonflight.
Stay up to date with all things Dragonflight on the official World of Warcraft website and pre-purchase World of Warcraft: Dragonflight today!
We’ll see you in Azeroth!