World of Warcraft News and Raiding Strategies

Greetings!

Midnight Season 1 dungeon testing continues on Wednesday, January 21 at 3:00 p.m. PST (6:00 p.m. EDT / 12:00 a.m. CEST) and runs until Monday, January 27 at 10:00 a.m. PST (1:00 p.m. EDT / 7:00 p.m. CEST). Please note that this schedule may be adjusted if we encounter any technical issues during testing.

During the test period you’ll be able to acquire and customize Mythic Keystones by talking to the Keystone Vendor in Stormwind, Orgrimmar and Silvermoon. The nearby Dungeon Teleports NPC will assist you with transportation. Throughout beta, all Midnight dungeons will be available for testing on Normal and Heroic difficulty. Seasonal dungeons will rotate with each new test period.

For this round, the following seasonal dungeons will be open for testing on Heroic, Mythic and Mythic+ difficulty:

• Magisters’ Terrace
• Maisara Caverns
• Nexus-Point Xenas
• Windrunner Spire
• Algeth’ar Academy
• Seat of the Triumvirate
• Pit of Saron
• Skyreach

Provided that the items equipped on your character are at least item level 226, they will scale automatically to a higher level as needed to support Dungeon testing.

Dungeon Updates

Magisters’ Terrace

• Devouring Tyrant
  
  • Devouring Strike
    
    • Heal absorb reduced by 16%
• Degentrius
  
  • Unstable Void Essence
    
    • Travel time increased from 3 sec to 5 sec
    • Initial damage from soaking an essence reduced by 16%
    • Periodic damage reduced by 20%
  • Stygian Ichor
    
    • Max radius reduced by 22%

Maisara Caverns

• Vordaza
  
  • Lingering Dread
    
    • Initial damage reduced by 10%
  • Unstable Phantom
    
    • Movement speed increased by 25%

Windrunner Spire

• Restless Heart
  
  • Tempest Slash vulnerability increased by 25%
  • Storming Soulfont
    
    • Size increased by 10%
    • Damage increased by 33%
• Commander Kroluk
  
  • Fixed an issue causing the Phantasmal Mystic and the Spectral Axethrower to appear at the same location
• Apex Lynx
  
  • Ferocious Pounce
    
    • Increased damage by 15%

Seat of the Triumvirate

• Zuraal the Ascended
  
  • Coalesced Void
    
    • Movement speed reduced by 12.5%

Pit of Saron

• Location of the first captive camp has been adjusted
• Garfrost
  
  • There are 2 additional seconds between Orebreaker and Glacial Overload
  • Cryostomp
    
    • Damage reduced by 18%
  • Glacial Overload
    
    • Frost damage vulnerability reduced to 50% per stack from 75% per stack
    • Duration of vulnerability increased to 14 seconds from 10 sec
• Plungetalon Gargoyle
  
  • Plungegrip
    
    • Fixed an issue where the channel wasn’t displaying target of target
    • Fixed an issue that was removing and preventing shapeshifts during the channel
    • Fixed an issue that could prevent the ability from functioning if the creature was crowd-controlled prior to the cast
• Rotting Ghoul
  
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent threat generation upon emergence from the ground

Thanks for testing and sharing your thoughts with us! We’ll be reviewing your feedback closely and will continue to post updates throughout the beta as changes roll out.

Hello!

It’s been a long day of testing and fixing and we’re finally going live with the 12.0.0 Midnight Pre-Patch.

During our final internal testing, we discovered an issue that could frequently cause saved transmog loadouts to be cleared, resulting in the loss of saved outfits and the gold spent on them. This issue resulted from a quirk of our live database configuration and never appeared in Beta, PTR, or other test environments, but it was an example of an issue that we have to keep realms offline for, and investigate and fix, before we could open the realms to the public.

We have a couple of other issues that we’re going live with, and working to fix as soon as possible:

• Charter Neighborhoods weren’t able to start Endeavors properly, so Charter Neighborhoods will remain disabled until we can resolve this. Endeavors should work as expected for other kinds of neighborhoods.
• Due to an unforseen issue with the item-level squish, some commodities in the Auction House (e.g. some profession materials) aren’t purchasable. We’ve got the issue identified and a fix on the way in the next day or so.

We thank you for your patience, and are excited to welcome you into the Midnight pre-expansion update!

Thank you for all the reports about the low framerate issue related to pet auto-cast abilities in Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary. We’ve identified the issue and we’re preparing a fix for it, which will require an update to the WoW client.

New client builds are a bit trickier to deploy, and once deployed, the fix will take effect only after you next restart the game. Until then, the following workarounds may provide some relief:

• The issue will happen less frequently if you do not macro pet abilities or /petattack into frequently-cast spells.
• If the low framerate occurs, you should be able to restore your FPS by toggling auto-cast off and then on again for your pet spells.
• If issues persist, a /reload or relog should get you back into a good state.

We’ll get the new client out as quickly as we can. Thank you again!