July 20, 2023
Build: 50547
Testing Focus
With our build update today, we’ve brought the WoW Classic Hardcore PTR realm back online. We encourage testers to resume their adventures on this realm. Please don’t forget to report any issues you see using the in-game Bug Reporter!
Bug Fixes and Adjustments
- Hardcore Realms – General
- Fixed a bug that allowed players to resurrect dead hardcore characters that were logged out for a certain amount of time in rested XP areas.
- Fixed an issue that sometimes allowed players to die in a normal Duel.
- A new art unique art Duel to the Death flag asset has been added to WoW Classic Hardcore.
- PvP Honor System
- Fixed a bug that prevented HKs and PvP objectives from appropriately granting Honor.
- Fixed an issue where the Honor conversion algorithm was not granting the appropriate ranking progress.
- Please note that this bug will not be fully resolved before the weekly reset on Tuesday, July 25. Testers will not receive the correct ranking progress for this week.
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused honor gains from certain Battleground PvP objectives to be subject to diminishing returns.
- Fixed a bug that allowed players to go into negative ranks if they de-ranked due to Dishonorable Kills.
- User Interface
- Fixed an issue that was causing the target of target frame to not update target of target health bar in real time.
- Fixed an issue where players could cancel an in-progress Duel to the Death by cancelling a second Duel to the Death contract after the Duel has begun.
- Fixed an issue where an instance save notification frame would pop up every time a boss was killed in a dungeon in WoW Classic Hardcore.
- Classes
- Fixed an issue where Summon Incubus costs less mana to use than Summon Succubus.
- Fixed an issue that caused Eyes of the Beast to immediately cancel when the player attempted to move the pet that is being controlled.
- Quests
- Fixed an issue where certain escort quests NPCs that path across zone boundaries to become stuck when hitting the zone boundary.
- Dungeons
- Additional adjustments were made to XP gain in Dungeons on WoW Classic Hardcore realms:
- Non-boss enemies will now grant 50% of their base XP value.
- Developers’ notes: After playing on the PTR ourselves and evaluating feedback from testers, we agree that getting zero XP from non-boss enemies doesn’t feel great, and has practical implications, in that many player abilities that require killing enemies that grant experience or honor don’t function for most of the dungeon. As a result, we’ve toned down the amount of XP that bosses give slightly, and also restored partial XP gain to all the other enemies in the dungeon. We feel that this should be sufficient to prevent dungeon spam groups that avoid boss kills from being an optimal way to level, but not be as punishing to legitimate dungeon groups in hardcore.
- Mac
- Fixed an issue that prevented WoW Classic Era clients from launching properly on MacOS 14.0 Sonoma.
PvP Honor System Testing