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by Published on 2024-03-30 12:19 AM

WoW Hotfixes - March 29, 2024
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Classes

  • Evoker
    • Preservation
      • Fixed an issue where Time of Need functioned incorrectly and could stop casting Living Flame when the Evoker had a high amount of Haste.

Mounts

  • Fixed a bug preventing players from seeing their properly earned Coralscale Salamanther upon login. The mount will be mailed to players who previously completed the Into the Storm

Plunderstorm

  • The Plunderlord's Silver Cutlass weapon option should now be selectable from Da'kash Grimledger in Brew Bay for players at or above Renown 36.
  • Goblin Glue Rockets can no longer apply snares to players in Faeform, casting Repel, or casting Earthbreaker.
  • Any Keg Leg's Crew Renown rewards that were not granted to players of the appropriate Renown levels are now retroactively granted.
  • Added a Kill Counter to the in-game user interface. Kills are now counted next to Plunder Collected.
  • Fixed a bug that caused Earthbreaker’s range and visual sizes to be inconsistent.
    • Developers’ notes: The effective range of Earthbreaker has not been changed. This fix makes its visuals appear to be about the same size as the spell effect.
by Published on 2024-03-29 05:18 PM

The Trading Post - April 2024 Rewards
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Embrace your inner pirate with the coolest styles on the high seas while still looking spring fresh in this month’s Trading Post. Have a quacking good time with Aura, a magical baby duck pet, everywhere you go.

Visit T&W** (Tawney and Wilder) just outside the Mage District in Stormwind or the Zen’shiri Trading Post next to Grommash Hold in Orgrimmar to check out all the latest items*** they have available.



Here's What's in Stock for April

Pets, Mounts, and Toys


The Dreadwake

Name Item Type Trader’s Tender
The Dreadwake Mount 800
Savage Blue Battle Turtle Mount 500
Delicate Silk Parasol Toy 200




Armor Transmogs



Spring Reveler’s Dandelion Transmog Items


Spring Reveler’s Lavender Collection

Name Item Type Trader’s Tender
Spring Reveler’s Dandelion Pants Legs 50
Spring Reveler’s Dandelion Belt Waist 50
Spring Reveler’s Dandelion Boots Feet 50
Spring Reveler’s Dandelion Attire Chest 150
Spring Reveler’s Dandelion Dress Chest 200
Spring Reveler’s Dandelion Sun Hat Head 300
Ensemble: Spring Reveler’s Lavender Apparel Chest, Waist, Legs, Feet 300
Ensemble: Spring Reveler’s Lavender Collection Head and Chest 500
Dueler’s Lively Shoulder Cape Shoulder 75
Dueler’s Violet Shoulder Cape Shoulder 75
Gilded Emerald Longcloak Cloak 100
Gloves of the Violet Gala Hand 100
Classic Violet Tabard Tabard 100
Trader’s Violet Sarong Legs 100
Ensemble: Wanderer’s Camo Trappings Head and Cloak 100
Ensemble: Vagabond’s Camo Threads Head and Cloak 100
Mantle of the Scholarly Raven (Returning) Shoulder 150
Gossamer Emerald Gown Chest 150
Dread Admiral’s Bicorne (Returning) Head 175
Irontide Raider’s Bicorne (Returning) Head 175
Crimson Bicorne Head 175
Frenzied Hat of the Deep Blue Head 175
Blademaster’s Violet Stones Chest 200
Helm of the Stout Head 225
Assassin’s Bandolier Cloak 250
Ensemble: Swashbuckling Buccaneer’s Slops (Returning) Chest, Waist, Legs, Feet 650
Ensemble: Fearless Buccaneer’s Slops Chest, Waist, Legs, Feet 650
Trusty Treasure Trove (Returning) Cloak 750



Frenzied Hat of the Deep Blue


Trusty Treasure Trove


Dread Admiral's Bicorn


Crimson Bicorne



Weapon Transmogs


Emerald Guardian's Longbow


Envenomed Gutripper

Name Item Type Trader’s Tender
Deforester’s Hatchet 1-Hand Axe 75
Apprentice’s Twisted Crook Staff 75
Champion’s Jade Cleaver Polearm 150
Codex of Classic Conjurations Off-Hand 175
Emerald Guardian’s Longbow Bow 250
Envenomed Gutripper 1-Hand Knife 300
Warhammer of Hubris 2-Hand Mace 300




This Month's Bonus Reward


Aura
At a young age Aura donned her magic hat, took her crystal staff, and set off for adventure into the unknown.

Complete activities to fill the bar at the top of the Traveler’s Log found in the Adventure Guide (Shift-J)***, and you'll receive this month's bonus reward — Aura the magical baby duck pet. You’ll have a quacking good time as you adventure throughout Azeroth.



Get the Burden of Unrelenting Justice Transmog Sets

It’s been a year since T&W (Tawney and Wilder) and the Zen’shiri Trading Post have been supplying a variety of delightful mounts, pets, toys, and transmogs to the citizens of Azeroth. To celebrate, players who have earned the monthly special reward from the trading Post twelve times will be rewarded with a new achievement, “Trading Post Enthusiast” along with a new color-shifting transmog — the Burden of Unrelenting Justice transmog set.


The Burden of Unrelenting Justice Transmog Set includes 9 pieces: Head, Shoulder, Chest, Waist, Legs, Feet, Wrist, Hand, and Cloak.

With the release of the Seeds of Renewal content update, players who complete the twelve months will also receive two non-color-shifting sets representing the day and night version of the color-shifting transmog for a total of three sets retroactively. Players who earn the achievement after the launch of the Seeds of Renewal Content update will automatically receive all three sets for their collection.

You don’t need to earn the special reward twelve times consecutively to get the achievement and the transmog sets.



How it Works

Get Tender Every Month

At the first of each month, players with an active account in good standing will receive 500 Trader’s Tender automatically every month from a chest called the Collector’s Cache. If you don’t have active game time on your account or aren’t a subscriber at the start of a new month, don’t worry. Your Tender will be awarded on the first day of the month when you do have game time or an active subscription. This will be the same amount for everyone, regardless of how you pay for your game time.

The Traveler's Log

Complete monthly activities listed in the new Traveler’s Log. Each month features a rotating, themed set of activities. These activities provide the opportunity to earn up to 500 additional Trader’s Tender. There’s only a set amount of Tender you can earn each month through completing activities, so you won’t need to complete all the ones in the log each month. You’ll be able to pick and choose from a variety of fun in-game activities to easily earn Tender. Players can choose to earn by continuing to play the game as they already do, such as completing quests, competing in battlegrounds, participating in holiday activities, and even running Mythic+ dungeons. But you can also choose to take part in activities uniquely designed for the month.

Freeze an Item

Before the month comes to an end, if you haven’t purchased that one “must-have” item yet, don’t worry. You can “freeze” an item so you can purchase it later. When you freeze an item, it will stay available month over month until it is purchased or replaced.

If this month’s offerings didn’t have the items you wanted, you can hang on to your Trader’s Tender to spend later. It won’t go anywhere, and unspent Tender will continue to accumulate each month.



Learn more about the Trading Post in our previously published news post on the official site.

*The Trading Post feature is not available in WoW Classic titles.
**Requires World of Warcraft Subscription or Game Time
***Requires Level 10 to access the Adventure Guide.
by Published on 2024-03-29 05:03 PM

Spring into April with the Community Discords Program
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Get out your umbrellas for the storm of great activities the Community Discords program members have in store for April.



Starship

The MD-WHY?

  • Date: 28th April

Starship community proudly presents "The MD-WHY" – A new Mythic+ tournament. Teams gather in the usual Mythic+ contest format, but with a twist. Starship are adding their own unique Affixes! Join the action on Twitch on 28 April. Want to take part? Head to their Discord and say, “hi!”

Sunday Raid School for New Players and Alts

  • Date & Time: Every Sunday from 20:30 realm time.

Are you new to raiding or looking to enhance your skills in a supportive and nonjudgemental environment? Join Starship every Sunday for their Raid School. All skill levels are welcome as our experienced raid leaders guide you through current content raid strategies. If you can’t make it in-game, catch the action on Twitch.

Streamers Wanted!

Starship is looking for streamers to represent the Starship community. If you're a content creator and believe you'd be a great fit, reach out to the team via the Starship Discord! Various opportunities, including casting roles, will be available.

Join the Starship Discord today.



Lord of the Reins

The Lord of the Reins team is proud to present their new guide to A World Awoken achievement.

This guide will take you through everything you need to know to obtain the A World Awoken achievement.

Join the Lord of the Reins Discord.



GoldGoblinNet (DE)

The GoldGoblinNET team is preparing a new Plunderstorm-themed giveaway for their community!

  • Dates: Friday 29.03. to Sunday 14.04

All you need to do is join the community and share your coolest, most beautiful, or saddest experience from your Plunderstorm runs.

There will be one big winner among all entries in the Discord.

Join the GoldGoblinNet Discord.



ChromieDE (DE)

ChromieDE Discord has two exciting events coming in April!

Plunderstorm screenshot contest

  • Dates: from April 8th to April 15th

Join the community and post your coolest wins, most epic deaths, or the best time you spent hiding in a bush! The three screenshots rated best by the community will receive prizes.

2nd Timelost Event >Storming Haala<

  • Dates: End of April

The Timelost Project is still running as the ChromieDE community continues to roam around Outland!

What is the Timelost project? Learn in their article here.

ChromieDE is delighted to invite you to a new Timelost Project event at the end of April - Storming Haala's!

Two raid groups, one Horde and one Alliance are about to replay the Burning Crusade Haala opening PvP event. The goal of this event is to relive the experience in a more relaxed, role-play (RP) focused way.

Join the ChromieDE Discord.



Dungeon Dojo

Last but absolutely not least, Dungeon Dojo has a lot in store this April!

Mythic+ Monday

Every Monday the whole community comes together to help each other learn how to do Mythic+ content. All are welcome including beginners, returning players, or those who are learning a new class or spec. This is also the perfect time to achieve the Key Stone Master and Key Stone Hero titles before the end of the season.

Ahead Of The Curve Achievement in collaboration with the guild Honolulu

  • Date: 5th of April

With the help of Purke and the guild Honolulu, they will be taking members of the Dungeon Dojo into Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope raid in Heroic difficulty to kill Fyrakk, score a nice achievement, and get a wonderful Dragonriding skin for flying mounts! They will be running as many attempts as people sign up for!

A World Anew - Taivan Meta-Achievement Run!

With the introduction of this new achievement to obtain Taivan, the good boy, the Dojo will be running several sessions to team up and do meta-achievements that can be done while in a group!

  • On the 12th of April, The Dojo will run Vault of the Incarnates, on Normal difficulty, followed by an evening farming Cobalt Assembly reputation.
  • On the 19th of April, the Dojo will run the Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible raid dungeon on Normal difficulty, and then will run several Mythic 0, for another meta-achievement.

Break The Meta

As with every season so far, the Dungeon Dojo will be participating in Break the Meta, an event organized by Raider.IO, to showcase all those classes that usually don't get enough of the spotlight. Several groups will run, helping everyone who wants to obtain the Mythic Dungeon International banner toy for Dragonflight Season 3.

Join the Dungeon Dojo Discord.



April is no joke! Make sure to check in on the various Community Discords for any new activities they may have in store for the month.
by Published on 2024-03-29 12:03 AM

Cataclysm Classic Development Notes and Known Issues - March 28, 2024
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Today, we’ve updated the Cataclysm Beta to build 53973, which includes the 80-85 Cataclysm leveling experience, the character copy function, and templates to get you straight into the endgame.

At this time, the following features have been added:

  • Level 80-85 zones are unlocked.
    • Vash’jir (Level 80-82)
    • Mount Hyjal (Level 80-82)
    • Deepholm (82-83)
    • Uldum (83-84)
    • Twilight Highlands (84-85)
  • Leveling Dungeons
  • Level 80 players will begin to gain experience.
  • Character copy
  • Archaeology

The following features are still a work-in-progress, and are unavailable for now:

  • Reforging
  • Transmogrification
  • Guild system updates
  • Dungeon Journal
  • LFD
  • Tol Barad

We’re currently tracking the following known issues:

Questing
  • The cinematic doesn’t play properly during “The Eye of the Storm”, causing the player to be stuck for ~4 minutes without being able to interact with the questgiver.
  • The quest “Be Raptor” is not completable.
  • Some cinematics don’t play properly, requiring players to Esc out of them.

Class & Combat:
  • Players can still learn some weapon skills.
  • Resistances aren’t calculating properly.
  • Druid - The Euphoria proc rate when casting Starfire and Wrat is significantly lower than it should be.
  • Druid - Mangle (cat & bear) are unlearned on logout.
  • Druid – Rejuvenation is doing significantly lower healing than it should.
  • Death Knight – Raise Dead doesn’t raise a ghoul
  • Death Knight - Rune Tap does not activate a rune immediately.
  • Goblin – Rocket Barrage doesn’t scale with attack power
  • Paladin & Warrior - Block only block 1 damage.
  • Warlock – Blood Pact gives strength instead of stamina

Misc:
  • Some Orc and Gnome NPCs are displaying untextured pink facial hair (questionable fashion choice)
by Published on 2024-03-28 08:55 PM

Plunderstorm - Plunderlord Title Fix
The Plunderlord title for reaching Renown 40 with Keg Leg's Crew is currently not rewarded in Modern World of Warcraft.

To fix the missing title you have to:
  • Join a Plunderstorm game
  • Speak with Da'kash Grimledger
  • Change your title and select Plunderlord



Plunderstorm - Nameplate Distance Trick
The community has found a way to easily see players and NPCs in the distance by adjusting the Minimum Character Name Size setting to 20 or higher. This setting can be found in Accessibility, in the General panel.



Plunderstorm - Player Achieves Plunderkind - 1 Million Plunder Collected!
Soularpower has collected 1,000,000 Plunder and achieved Plunderkind in Plunderstorm!


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