Bug; I approached the WQ at WS far northwest, flew through a loot ring at high speed and the game immediately put me back at my hearth location! Luckily I had just pitched my tent at Dragonbane Keep, so I could get back relatively quickly.
On returning it had not counted any rings yet.
Fixed an issue where some Echoes could occasionally not be consumed by spell casts.
Dungeons and Raids
Vault of the Incarnates
Fixed an issue preventing players from returning to other areas of the raid when returning to an instance with Broodkeeper Diurna already defeated.
Kalecgos now summons a portal that will return players to the raid entrance after Broodkeeper Diurna has been defeated.
Mythic+
Completing a Mythic 21 or higher dungeon, but exceeding the target time, now awards Mythic+ Rating as if the dungeon were a Mythic 20.
Developers’ note: We award partial Mythic Rating credit for untimed dungeons (up to 40% over the target time) to recognize the skill and effort involved, and to encourage groups to stick together even if it seems like they’re going to fall a bit short of the timer. But at the very high end of the system, we’ve heard feedback that sometimes the surest path to further incremental Rating increases lies in seeking out keys a group may have no hope of clearing within the timer. We don’t want to change the way the system works for the vast majority of players who are working their way towards new Valor upgrade tiers, or cosmetic unlocks, but past the Mythic 20 threshold, there are no further tangible rewards other than the leaderboards and eventual end-of-season competition for the Thundering Hero title. The goal of this change is thus to ensure that the way to climb the leaderboards and earn a title meant for the best Mythic+ players in the world is by successfully completing dungeons within the allotted time, without negatively impacting the majority of players using the system. When this change takes effect, some players who are just barely at 2400 rating, with some of that rating coming from untimed 21+ keys, may drop below 2400 and need to re-earn that Rating in order to continue to upgrade new items to Rank 13.
Items and Rewards
Fixed an issue where certain item upgrade previews would display higher item levels than intended.
Player versus Player
Druid
Feral
Fixed an issue that could cause Leader of the Pack to not always apply correctly to the character while in Cat Form.
Mage
Frost
Fixed an issue where Snowdrift would inconsistently be applied on elevated terrain.
Quests
Fixed an issue where Benthic gear could not be upgraded preventing the completion of “Create Your Own Strength.”
System
Fixed an issue that caused performance decreases when using certain addons.
Skull Bash will no longer trigger Precognition when successfully interrupting a Holy Paladin with Concentration Aura.
Guardian
Fixed an issue where Tooth and Claw did not correctly grant 15% magic damage mitigation.
Evoker
Temporal Anomaly can now be cast while moving when releasing it through Stasis.
Monk
Mistweaver
Fixed an issue that caused Lesson of Anger to not duplicate some damage or healing sources.
Items and Rewards
Fixed an issue that prevented Blueprint: Utility Mechanoclaw from dropping from the Caustic Mechaslime in Mechagon.
Player versus Player
Classes
Evoker
Quell will no longer trigger Precognition when successfully interrupting another player who is affected by Concentration Aura.
Solo Shuffle
Fixed an issue where summoned pets’ cooldowns were not correctly being reset between rounds.
Professions
Rabul of the Artisan’s Consortium now sells a Satchel of Coalescing Chaos that binds to your Blizzard Account. This item costs 80 Primal Chaos and provides 60 Primal Chaos to the character who uses it.
Developers’ notes: We’ve heard and agree with feedback that players have amassed surplus Primal Chaos on their mains while their alts need all the Primal Chaos they can get. Some Primal Chaos will be lost in the transaction. This is because we want to make sure that while this is a great way for a main to help an alt, the best way to gear up a character should generally be via actually playing that character. Nonetheless, this should provide an additional use for your Primal Chaos, as well as a good way to get some powerful gear to your alts quickly.
Inscription
Fixed an issue with Darkmoon Decks where the Sagescale Sigil’s shuffle-when-jumping mechanic was being extended to all Darkmoon Decks.
Here is another ANCIENT issue that is very vexing, and it doesn’t seem to be an addon issue:
The transmog appearances list, general listing and transmogger interface one, often, with no discernible pattern, have a non-working search function. Each character entered will simply do a quick visual update pass of the full list. It simply ignored search terms. - This is unacceptable" I basically makes the whole feature only semi-usable, multiplying the time needed to accomplish anything.
Fixed an issue causing Echo of Doragosa’s Arcane Missiles to fail to cast.
Mythic+
Shadowmoon Burial Grounds
Bonemaw
Quaking will no longer apply to players during Inhale.
Items and Rewards
Rare Vintage Arcwine now correctly consumes upon use.
Professions
The factions of the Dragon Isles have decided to make their overflowing supply bags more lucrative. They are now going to include some Primal Chaos, as well as rarely including a Dragon Shard of Knowledge or Bottled Essence. The tooltips of these caches will be adjusted to reflect this change in the future.
Quests
Storm’s Fury
The map icons for “Storm Warning” will no longer overlap with the event icon, obscuring if the event is active.
As a fresh 70, you really struggle with primal chaos, to get your first crafts. You need to farm heroic for a long time, until you get your first one.
Yes if you have 10+ on farm, you have more than enough. But a fresh character need to run like 30+ Heroic dungeons for a single item craft. This change is meant as a catch:up
[With weekly restarts] Layered Mane’s chance to trigger increased to 10/20% (was 5/10%).
[With weekly restarts] Lunar Beam healing increased by 230% and cooldown reduced to 1 minute.
Developers’ notes: We are keeping a close eye on variances in survivability across tank specializations. These changes are intended to alleviate some difficulties Guardian Druids have been experiencing with certain damage types, as well as targeting some underperforming talents which were not delivering meaningful survivability improvements.
Restoration
[With weekly restarts] All healing reduced by 3%. This does not apply to PvP combat.
Evoker
Devastation
Living Flame healing will once again have a chance to grant Essence Burst when cast with Leaping Flames.
Preservation
[With weekly restarts] All healing reduced by 5%.
Hunter
Beast Mastery
[With weekly restarts] Damage dealt by Hunter and pet abilities increased by 5%.
Marksmanship
[With weekly restarts] Damage dealt by Hunter and pet abilities increased by 5%.
Survival
[With weekly restarts] Damage dealt by Hunter and pet abilities increased by 5%.
Monk
Mistweaver
[With weekly restarts] All healing increased by 3%.
[With weekly restarts] Vivify healing increased by 5%.
[With weekly restarts] Clouded Focus now increases healing and decreases mana cost by 20% (was 15%) for Enveloping Mist and Vivify.
[With weekly restarts] Peaceful Mending now increases the healing of Enveloping Mist and Renewing Mist by 25/50% (was 15/30%).
[With weekly restarts] Spinning Crane Kick damage increased by 15%.
[With weekly restarts] Ancient Concordance increases the chance for Rising Sun Kick to reset by 5/10% (was 3/6%).
[With weekly restarts] Lesson of Doubt increases healing and damage by up to 40% (was 35%).
Paladin
Protection
[With weekly restarts] Avenger’s Shield damage increased by 10%.
[With weekly restarts] Blessed Hammer/Hammer of the Righteous/Crusader Strike damage increased by 30%.
[With weekly restarts] Hammer of Wrath damage increased by 15%.
Priest
Holy
[With weekly restarts] All healing done increased by 3%.
Shaman
[With weekly restarts] Healing Surge healing increased by 10%.
[With weekly restarts] Chain Heal healing increased by 10%.
Restoration
[With weekly restarts] Healing Wave healing increased by 10%.
[With weekly restarts] Healing Rain healing increased by 10%.
[With weekly restarts] Overflowing Shores healing increased by 10%.
Warlock
[With weekly restarts] Inquisitor’s Gaze Fel Barrage damage increased 35%.
[With weekly restarts] Inquisitor’s Gaze no longer casts Fel Blast.
Developers’ notes: Inquisitor’s Gaze and Summon Soulkeeper are not contributing to the Warlock damage profile as much as we’d like. After this adjustment, we’ll continue to watch Warlocks’ overall performance and we will make further adjustments if needed.
Developers’ notes: We feel that both Destruction and Demonology could use some improvements to their overall contribution in single-target situations. These adjustments are specifically targeting talents that we feel could be more competitive, while also putting additional power into rotational spells.
Dungeons and Raids
Vault of the Incarnates
Sennarth, the Cold Breath
Suffocating Webs now reliably hits the intended number of targets.
Items and Rewards
Chronologically Unstable Loop, Bronze Band of Destinies, and Heat of Primal Winter are now eligible for socket upgrades. This fix is retroactive and requires relogging.
[With weekly restarts] Outdoor activities have generally had their item levels increased by 6 to 7 item levels. This includes: World Quests, Elite World Quests, and first weekly completion of Hunts, Dragonbane Keep, and Community Soup event.
Vestment of the Raging Tempests and Drakebreaker’s Vestment should now be eligible for the Revival Catalyst when fully upgraded.
Player versus Player
Items
[With weekly restarts] Neltharax, Enemy of the Sky now grants 1% attack speed in PvP (was 5%).
Classes
Demon Hunter
[With weekly restarts] Restless Hunter (Talent) damage bonus for next Blade Dance/Death Sweep reduced by 40% in PvP combat.
Developers’ notes: We’ve continued to see the potential burst provided by Restless Hunter much higher than we would like, especially in combination with Essence Break and The Hunt.
Druid
Guardian
[With weekly restarts] Frenzied Regeneration healing now 50% (was 62%) effective in PvP Combat.”
Developers’ note: This is intended to offset Reinvigoration’s buff noted above.
Evoker
[With weekly restarts] Living Flame healing increased by 30% in PvP Combat.
[With weekly restarts] Verdant Embrace healing increased by 20% in PvP Combat.
[With weekly restarts] Oppressing Roar increases the duration of incoming crowd control by 30% (was 20%) in PvP Combat.
Developers’ notes: This is intended to offset the above noted game-wide 5% healing reduction by targeting abilities that we would like to see more prominent in a Preservation Evoker’s PvP healing profile. Additionally, Oppressing Roar has not been as valuable a talent point as we’d hoped, so we are slightly increasing its effectiveness.
Hunter
Beast Mastery
[With weekly restarts] Stormwing Harrier’s Camouflage 4-piece now increases the damage of your next Kill Command by 10% in PvP (was 20%).
Marksmanship
[With weekly restarts] Rapid Fire damage increased by 15% in PvP Combat.
[With weekly restarts] Aimed Shot damage increased by 15% in PvP Combat.
[With weekly restarts] Chimaera Shot damage increased by 30% in PvP Combat.
[With weekly restarts] Unerring Vision critical Strike Damage bonus effectiveness reduced by 50% in PvP Combat.
Developers’ notes: With the removal of Double Tap, Marksmanship Hunter damage has been lower than we would like to see, so we are increasing several main rotation abilities while decreasing Unerring Vision, with the goal of higher sustained damage.
Monk
Mistweaver
[With weekly restarts] Healing Sphere (PvP Talent) now triggers the dispel backlash effects from Unstable Affliction and Vampiric Touch. Healing increased by 320%.
Developers note: This change is to have more consistency among dispel effects that are intended to require careful consideration of the risks and benefits of dispelling it. Additionally, we felt that the healing on Healing Sphere has been too weak.
Priest
Shadow
[With weekly restarts] Psyfiend (PvP Talent) healing reduction no longer stacks with similar effects.
Developers’ notes: Psyfiend’s healing reduction effects appear mechanically similar to many others, but were stacking with other such effects and each other in a way that was not clearly communicated to players, and yet was having a significant impact on which specializations were being favored and often overperforming in PvP. We are standardizing their behavior to follow the same rules as similar effects.
Rogue
Assassination
[With weekly restarts] Vault Delver’s Toolkit 4-piece set bonus Bleed damage bonus reduced by 50% in PvP Combat.
Developers’ notes: The 4-piece set bonus for Assassination has been more significant in their damage profile than we would like.
[With weekly restarts] Wound Poison (Deathmark version) healing reduction no longer stacks with similar effects.
Developer’s note: The Wound Poison (from Deathmark) healing reduction effects appear mechanically similar to many others, but were stacking with other such effects and each other in a way that was not clearly communicated to players, and yet was having a significant impact on which specializations were being favored and often overperforming in PvP. We are standardizing their behavior to follow the same rules as similar effects.
Shaman
Restoration
[With weekly restarts] Damage dealt to Earthen Wall Totem caused by damage absorbed by pets is reduced by 90%.
Developers’ notes: The intent for this adjustment is to make Earthen Wall Totem feel more impactful as a defensive ability. As we noted, it was being destroyed too quickly in scenarios where teammates have pets.
Warlock
Affliction
[With weekly restarts] Unstable Affliction backlash damage increased by 35%.
Developers’ notes: After our recent changes to normalize Unstable Affliction’s backlash damage, we’re seeing it get dispelled frequently. Our intent is for dispelling Unstable Affliction to require careful consideration of the risks and benefits and its damage was not fulfilling that.
Destruction
[With weekly restarts] Chaos Bolt damage increased by 40% in PvP Combat (was 15%).
[With weekly restarts] Fixed an issue that caused Bane of Havoc (PvP Talent) to deal more damage than intended to targets.
Developer Note: We’re addressing a bug with Bane of Havoc that was causing Havoc to deal full damage instead of the intended 60%, which is a significant nerf to the spec in PvP. Chaos Bolt has not been as threatening as intended in Dragonflight, so we’re increasing its damage to compensate for the bug fix.
[With weekly restarts] Fel Fissure (PvP Talent) Healing reduction no longer stacks with similar effects.
Developers’ notes: Fel Fissure’s healing reduction effects appear mechanically similar to many others, but were stacking with other such effects and each other in a way that was not clearly communicated to players, and yet was having a significant impact on which specializations were being favored and often overperforming in PvP. We are standardizing their behavior to follow the same rules as similar effects.
Warrior
Arms
[With weekly restarts] Executioner’s Precision is now 30% effective in PvP Combat (was 50%).
[With weekly restarts] Martial Prowess is now 33% effective in PvP Combat (was 50%).
[With weekly restarts] Overpower damage increased by 20% in PvP Combat.
[With weekly restarts] Slam damage increased by 40% in PvP Combat.
Developers’ notes: We’ve seen Mortal Strike come to represent too much of Arms Warriors’ total damage in PvP. Additionally, it often results in spikier damage than we’re comfortable with, so we’re moving toward an overall rebalance across several abilities.
Professions
Alchemy
Potion Cauldrons have had their size greatly increased.
Enchanting
The Prismatic Diamond Loop that drops from Avalantus in the Primalist Future should now disenchant into Dragonflight materials.
Quests
[With weekly restarts] Gold rewards from world quests have been increased.
The Azure Span
Big Kinook should now give out tasks to more players at a time when the Community Feast is very busy.
[With weekly restarts] The Tuskarr of Iskaara will now hold their Community Feast once every 1.5 hours (was every 3.5 hours).
Developers’ note: After this change the event timer will always be visible on the map to show the 15-minute meal prep timer before cooking begins, the 15 minutes while cooking is active, and the 60 minutes of dining time for adventurers to chow down on the soup that you worked so diligently on.
There are much better sources for Primal Chaos than Paragon chests. Because first of all you need to get to 25/30 renown where you can earn Paragon. Which is where you will probably have already earnt enough Primal Chaos to craft whatever you need and enough to send them to alts.
But not arguing whether they should be in there or not. I’m just arguing that the Paragon Chests rewards should be better for everyone. Rank 3 profession stuff would be good, and more gold is always useful.
Fixed an issue where Essence Burst would not be granted from Living Flames cast by Echo.
Fixed an issue where Living Flames cast by Leaping Flames would consume Echo.
Fixed an issue where Living Flames cast by Leaping Flames would be stored by Stasis.
Dungeons and Raids
Other players in your raid group should no longer be notified when you receive an Ancient Vault Artifact.
Brackenhide Hollow
Treemouth
Fixed an issue that could prevent Treemouth from casting Grasping Vines.
Vault of the Incarnates
Broodkeeper Diurna
Fixed an issue where immunity effects, such as Anti-Magic Shell, could prevent the application of the visual warning indicator for Broodkeeper Diurna’s Wildfire.
Items and Rewards
Trophy of Strife can no longer be placed in the reagent bag or reagent bank.
Player versus Player
Fixed an issue causing Precognition to not immune cast pushback.
