11.1.5 PTR Development Notes

In Development The War Within Patch 11.1.5 PTR
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This Public Test Realm (PTR) is a testing environment for upcoming World of Warcraft content.

The War Within: 11.1.5 Development Notes

NIGHTFALL

Players will take up arms beside a new faction, Flame’s Radiance, to defend the Arathi against the Sureki forces following the defeat of Queen Ansurek. This faction consists of volunteer militia led veterans Thaed Pyremaker and Mylton Wyldbraun. As you rise through the ranks, you will earn up to ten levels of Renown and unlock new rewards.

Alongside the Flame’s Radiance, players will be split between task forces within the Nightfall public scenario to clear the battlefield and push back the Sureki. You’ll also be able to strike back against Sureki forces throughout Hallowfall and Azj-Kahet to continue to earn Renown and rewards with additional quests and activities between the scenarios.

Developers’ notes: This feature is still in development and is not in its completed state.

HORRIFIC VISIONS REVISITED

Return to N’Zoth’s corrupted versions of Stormwind and Orgrimmar, complete objectives, and take on the challenges within. As you make your way through these encounters, you’ll need to maintain your sanity or ultimately fail.

You will be able to go it alone or create a party of allies to join you. Players who want to experience Horrific Visions alone or need an additional helping hand in their party will also be able to use a Construct of Soridormi to join them. This follower will be able to Tank, DPS, or Heal and will not be affected by sanity.

For players looking for an bigger challenge, you’ll be able to activate higher difficulties of play for additional gear up to Heroic difficulty items appropriate to your level. Horrific Vision Masks are also returning including: Mask of Pain, Mask of Dark Imagination, Mask of the Long Night, Mask of the Burned Bridge, and Mask of the Daredevil. Three additional new masks will also be available.

A new currency to collect becomes available to spend at the vendor for previous rewards—Displaced Corrupted Memento. Players will be able to earn new rewards in Horrific Visions such as mounts, toys, transmogs, weapon enchantments, and more.

Head to Soridormi located in The Coreway of Dornogal to revisit Horrific Visions of Stormwind and Orgrimmar.

  • The last of the Horrific Visions talent points are available this week.

DASTARDLY DUOS

Vinnie sweets, showrunner, and announcer, is promoting Dastardly Duos a new six-week event where players can step up to take on ‘animatronic’ versions of past bosses, gain powerups, and strive for higher and higher scores for bragging rights. You and your party will fight two (or more) bosses at a time to rack up your highest score and earn a variety of cosmetics, toys, and even some dungeon items based on the bosses you encounter.

Testing the event on the PTR will begin on March 17 and the event will be sped up into a one week duration, instead of its live six-week cadence. Be sure to log in each day during the Dastardly Duos event test to challenge the new bosses the event has to offer.

  • Dastardly Duos week long testing is underway and will end on March 24. Be sure to check it out every day to test the new bosses.

COOLDOWN MANAGER

The Cooldown Manager’s purpose is to help inform you of the state of your important class and spec cooldowns in a consolidated space on your UI.

The Cooldown Manager is a new display that can be enabled by opening the Options Menu, navigating to Advanced Options, and checking the box labeled “Enable Cooldown Manager”. There’s also a search bar at the top of the Options menu! Once enabled, you can make further adjustments to the size, position, opacity, and other options in Edit Mode, just the same as you would adjust any other User Interface element.

For more information and to submit feedback on this new feature, visit the Feedback: Cooldown Manager in 11.1.5 thread.

  • Tutorials added for the Cooldown Manager.

CLASSES

  • Warrior
    • Arms
      • Warbreaker visuals have been updated.

USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY

  • Guilds can now be renamed with gold at the Guild Master NPCs in major cities.
  • Shopping cart functionality has been added to the Trading Post, allowing players to add multiple items into their shopping cart before confirming a purchase.
  • New color blind option allows players to custom set the various Item Rarity colors.
  • There is now a filter “Show Collected Only” for Warband Campsites collection.
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COOLDOWN MANAGER

  • Fixed various bugs with the Cooldown Manager.

CLASSES

  • Warrior
    • Arms
      • Warbreaker visuals have been updated.
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HORRIFIC VISIONS REVISITED

  • The last of the Horrific Visions talent points are available this week.

DASTARDLY DUOS

  • Dastardly Duos week long testing is underway and will end on March 24. Be sure to check it out every day to test the new bosses.

COOLDOWN MANAGER

  • Tutorials added for the Cooldown Manager.

USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY

  • There is now a filter “Show Collected Only” for Warband Campsites collection.
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Hello testers! Here are this week’s PTR notes:

HORRIFIC VISIONS REVISITED

Thank you so much for your feedback on the corruption themed enchants from the Horrific Visions. In this week’s PTR update you will notice a few changes:

  • We have decided to move the enchantments to the Helm slot. This should allow all classes to get to use them.
  • We did consider Embellishments but as noted balanced against existing embellishments would still have some players and specs feel that the 11.0 effects are better and not allow them to partake.
  • With this change we are going to double down on the enchants being an extension of the Horrific Visions Revisited feature.
    • Players will see a quest that now follows the introduction quests that will allow you to unlock the enchants. These work similar to the cloak quests of the past where the second will ask players to venture further into the visions.
    • We’re currently planning to keep these enchants working until the end of season 2.
  • The enchants are also going to be available for free on the PTR via Trinketaur in this next build.
  • Warbound Drop Unlock
    • We have added new items that will unlock the Veteran and Champion drops in Horrific Visions to be Warbound until Equipped.
    • These are found on the Champion and Heroic weapon vendors and unlocked by the same conditions.
  • Fixed Skip Areas
    • Areas where players try to skip through void corruption now damage through immunities.
    • Some additional spawns have been added on alternative paths.
  • Construct of Soridormi: Healer
    • Should no longer apply damage over time effects on enemies that haven’t been hit by the player.
    • Construct of Soridormi will now run around the player instead of running away when they get aggro.

COOLDOWN MANAGER

  • Mouseover tooltips are added in Edit Mode options.

KNOWN ISSUES

  • Some areas within Group Finder are not working properly in this PTR build.
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Greetings! Here are the notes for this week’s PTR update:

HORRIFIC VISIONS REVISITED

  • Enemy Changes
    • Bosses and lieutenants have had their health increased when running with 1 or more masks.
    • Nemesis enemies have been tuned down slightly.
    • Some caster groups in Stormwind Mage Quarter have had casters removed or swapped for melee.
  • Follower Tuning
    • The orb will now heal constructs.
    • General construct damage increased for all roles.
    • Damage Dealer construct will now hit multiple targets for added area-of-effect damage.
    • Healer construct’s damage-over-time will max out at 5 targets.
  • Vengeance Mask
    • Bonus damage reduced to 15% (was 20%).
    • Now one debuff instead of multiple that would include the bonus from previous buffs.
  • Scorched Feet Madness
    • Cooldown increased from 9 seconds up to 19 seconds to happen less frequently.
  • Split Personality Madness
    • Removed two orbs to increase the opening to get out and add some smaller escape routes in a pinch.
  • Crests and Valorstones
    • Gilded Crest repeatable amounts increased slightly for 5, 6, 7, and 8 mask levels, 3, 4, 5, and 6 respectively.
    • Weekly bonus crests at all levels is 5.
    • Repeatable Valorstone values for 2+ masks slightly reduced.
  • Quality of Life
    • We now remember the Construct of Soridormi selected in your last run and automatically summon that one.
    • Also soon, mask selection will be remembered between runs. For groups it will use the Leaders last selection to start.
  • Various bug fixes. Also, we are disabling the 8.3 Horrific Vision food for Horrific Visions Revisited.