World of Warcraft News and Raiding Strategies

Welcome the summer with great WoW® deals on special items up to 50% off now through April 18! Read on to discover what’s on sale.

The Time for Diploma-sea Has Come
Sail across the Great Sea with confidence as you sport this elegant attire fit for an envoy of any nation. Get the Waveborn Diplomat’s Regalia* and be the talk of the town at every port.

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A Bundle for Heroes of Every Kind
No matter if you’re a loyal champion of the Horde or the Alliance, or if you play both to experience everything Azeroth has to offer, the perfect pack for your heroes has just arrived! Fireworks to celebrate your PvP victories? Check. A ground mount proudly representing Alliance Kul’Tirans or Horde Zandalari? Check. Majestic alabaster mounts ideal for special functions? You bet. The Faction Pack Bundle* has you covered.


The items in The Faction Pack Bundle will leave the battlefield on April 18, 2023 and will no longer be available in the Blizzard® Shop or in-game shop until further notice. Players who want to purchase these items outright now have the chance to get them on sale before they arrive on the Trading Post vendor in the future.


Chill Out with Wrath of the Lich King Classic™

New Introductory Offer: Race Change Packs
Sometimes a simple touch up of your character’s looks isn’t enough; you may want to go all the way and change which race you belong to! And with a race change service, you can do just that.

To mark the launch of this service in Wrath of the Lich King Classic, you can now get a special Race Change offer for a limited time**, including Race Change Packs!

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Save 30%* on the Northrend Heroic Upgrade or Northrend Epic Upgrade
Purchase of the Northrend Heroic Upgrade or Northrend Epic Upgrade will allow one character boost for Wrath of the Lich King to level 70 (limit one per World of Warcraft account; not usable on Death Knight characters). The boosted character will receive:

Northrend Heroic Upgrade

• Expert Riding Skill
  
• A race-specific epic ground mount
  
• A faction-specific rare flying mount
  
• Weapon skills up to level 70
  
• Access to Azeroth and Outland flight paths
  
• A set of level 70 Uncommon (green) quality gear
  
• Up to four Draenic Leather Pack bags (14 slots each)
  
• A little bit of gold to start their journey

In addition, the Northrend Heroic Upgrade includes Pebble, a penguin pet, and the Fishspeaker’s Lucky Lure, a toy to summon your very own tuskarr fishing companion.

Northrend Epic Upgrade


This edition includes the level 70 Character Boost^†† and all the items from the Northrend Heroic Upgrade, in addition to:

• The Kalu’ak Whalebone Glider, a flying mount for your Classic characters for use only in Wrath of the Lich King Classic and designed to match the look of the original expansion.
  
• The Tuskarr Shoreglider, a flying mount variant for use in modern World of Warcraft and reflecting the game’s current visual style
  
• 30 Days of Game Time, providing access to WoW Classic Era Realms, Wrath of the Lich King Classic, and modern World of Warcraft.

*Toys, pets, mounts, and transmog sets not available in World of Warcraft® Classic or Wrath of the Lich King Classic.
**Offer valid through April 18, 2023.
***Race change services not available for World of Warcraft® Classic Era Realm characters.

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.

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• [With weekly restarts] Fixed a bug that caused tanks to benefit from roughly twice the intended amount of Dodge from the Dodge Rating statistic.
  
  • Developers’ notes: We’re fixing this to avoid seeing raid groups skew toward maximizing for it. This fix will not change your Dodge % displayed on your character sheet, as the bug was invisible to players.
• [With weekly restarts] Reduced Algalon’s melee damage by 10% in both 10-player and 25-player difficulties.
  
  • Developers’ notes: We feel that the increase in pressure on tanks and healers from the Dodge bugfix will be manageable in other encounters, but this one needs a compensatory tweak.
• Classes
  
  • Druid
    
    • Omen of Clarity will now always trigger when Faerie Fire (Feral) is used on a non-player-controlled target. It will no longer trigger from casting Gift of the Wild.
      
      • Developers’ notes: This change is intended to make Feral DPS gameplay more accessible to the average WotLK Classic player and resolve many of the design challenges created by “Bear-weaving” and “Flower-weaving” combat strategies. It is expected to be a slight buff to the best Feral DPS players around 5% to 10% depending on encounter, and a larger buff to players who were not employing these strategies.

With a month left in the season, the last person to be above 2400 currently on the ladder is rank 950. Season 1 of BfA there was 3600 people above 2400 when the season ended. Will try to add SL Season 1, but statistics page isn’t loading correctly at the moment.

Shuffle has taken away from the other brackets because how easy it is to just queue up, but nothing has been done to compensate for the loss of activity in regular 2s and 3s. Fighting rank 1s at 2k mmr is frustrating. A lot of people have been vocal outside of the forums about this issue as well, nothing has seem to be done besides the 20 mmr a week.

Is anything being done about this before the season ends?

The team has continued to watch this topic throughout Season 1. An additional bump in the weekly inflation rate was done recently and we continue to monitor the impact of this.

For Season 2, additional changes are being investigated to reduce the disparity in general ratings between Solo Shuffle and the other brackets.

Greetings,

Within the next 24 hrs we will be making an adjustment via hotfix that will cause Omen of Clarity to always trigger when Faerie Fire (Feral) is used on non-player, non-pet targets. At the same time, Omen of Clarity will no longer proc from Gift of the Wild. This change is intended to smooth out Feral DPS gameplay for most players and resolve many of the social and gameplay challenges that were created by the so-called “Bearweaving” combat strategy. In many situations, Bearweaving not only increases the mechanical complexity of the class to a degree far above what was intended in original Wrath of the Lich King it also places a strain on the raid to keep up with the Druid’s added threat generation, with said impact continually increasing as the Druid becomes more adept at optimizing the rotation.

When crafting this change, it was a goal to ensure we did not “nerf” or decrease the effectiveness of the Feral DPS spec in PvE at all. It was also a goal to not increase the effectiveness of Feral in PvP, where the spec is already strong. Our final goal was to raise the relative skill “floor” for the class without too greatly increasing the output of Druids’ playing at the very highest levels before this adjustment. With this adjustment we expect that the best Feral DPS players in the world may expect somewhere between a 5% and 10% damage increase depending on the encounter while no longer requiring shifting into bear form to optimize output and will provide an even larger percentage increase in the damage output of those players who were not employing the Bearweaving rotation prior to this change.

As always, we are hesitant to make major adjustments to the basic playstyle of many classes, but we feel that this is necessary to bring the gameplay of Feral Druids much closer to the intent from the original Wrath of the Lich King and make the spec slightly more intuitive and approachable to the majority of players.

We appreciate all of the feedback we’ve received since launch on this and many other topics. Thank you!