World of Warcraft News and Raiding Strategies

Classes

• Demon Hunter
  
  • General
    
    • Fixed an issue that caused Glyph of Crackling Flames to break the animations of several abilities.
      
  
  
• Rogue
  
  • General
    
    • Tricks of the Trade can now be cast on characters level 10 and above.
      
  
  
• Shaman
  
  • Enhancement
    
    • Fixed an issue where the Hailstorm (Talent) buff persisted after switching specializations.
      
  
  
• Warlock
  
  • General
    
    • Warlocks below level 10 now have a pet action bar to control their summoned demons.
      

Dungeons and Raids

• Ny'alotha, the Waking City
  
  • The damage and health of all enemies have been reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
    
  • Carapace of N'Zoth
    
    • Infinite Void damage reduced by 50% per stack on all difficulties.
      
    • Black Scar damage reduced by 10% on all difficulties.
      
    • Mandible Slam damage reduced by 25% on all difficulties.
      
• Icecrown Citadel
  
  • The Lich King
    
    • Fixed an issue where the Necrotic Plague debuff wouldn’t be removed upon exiting the instance.
      

Items and Rewards

• Wands can now be transmogrified into two-handed Legion Artifact weapons.

Player versus Player

• Battleground gates will once again open when the countdown timer expires.

Quests

• During the quest, "The Day that Deathwing Came: What Really Happened", the falling rocks in the Scar of the Worldbreaker are no longer quite so punishing on Martek's Hog.
  
• Players are once again able to steer the Keg Bomb during the "Do a Barrel Roll!" quest in Kun-Lai Summit.

Late yesterday, we made the following adjustments to Ny’alotha on Mythic difficulty:

• Damage and health of all enemies reduced 10%.
• Carapace of N’Zoth
  
  • Infinite Void damage reduced by 50% per stack, Black Scar damage reduced by 10%, and Mandible Slam damage reduced by 25%.

These hotfixes are live, and will appear in our next hotfixes update.

Classes

• Hunter
  
  • General
    
    • Fixed an issue that caused Feign Death to not cancel an enemy’s spell cast when used towards the end of the cast.
      
  
  
• Paladin
  
  • General
    
    • Blessing of Protection is now learned at level 32 (was level 41).
      
  • Retribution
    
    • Retribution Aura now correctly extends an existing Crusade (Talent) without resetting its stacks.
      

Dungeons and Raids

• Ny'alotha, the Waking City
  
  • N'Zoth the Corruptor
    
    • Fixed an issue where Basher Tentacles would cast Void Lash more frequently on all difficulties.
      

Items and Rewards

• Blink-Trigger Headgun and Tactical Headgun on-use effects now have a 5 minute cooldown (was 30 seconds).

Quests

• Sylvanas Windrunner should now be present in Grommash Hold if you have quests to turn in to her while you're also in the middle of the Vulpera Allied Race questline. Shhh... Don’t tell Tyrande.

Friday, October 23, we will continue our raid tests in Naxxramas, with the Abomination Quarter.

NA - 2:00 p.m. PDT (5:00 p.m. EDT) to 6:00 p.m. PDT (9:00 p.m. EDT)
EU - 23:00 CEST to 03:00 CEST.

Bosses Available:

• Patchwerk
• Grobbulus
• Gluth
• Thaddius

This testing schedule is very fluid and subject to the realities of a test environment. We might have to change the time of a testing session, change the bosses being tested, or cancel a test entirely, due to bugs, server hardware issues, etc. Keep an eye on this forum for the latest information, and thank you in advance for testing and providing feedback.

Q: How do I get into the raid zone?
A: To facilitate and expedite testing, there is an NPC named Johnny McWeaksauce that has taken up temporary residence at Light’s Hope Chapel in Eastern Plaguelands. He will provide players with Naxxramas attunement and instant teleportation into the Naxxramas raid. Johnny’s brother Jimmy, can be found within the raid and will provide access to consumables and reagents.

Q: Can I test with less than a full, content-ready raid group?
A: There will be a zone aura present within the raid that will provide players with a significant health and damage boost to help them overcome the challenges of Naxxramas. The intent of these raid tests is not to provide a challenge that perfectly matches what we expect players to experience when the raid goes live. The intent is to exercise boss mechanics and give us additional confidence that the raid encounters are behaving as expected. The hope is that even if you cannot muster a full 40-person raid to test with, or wish to form a pick-up-group on the PTR, you can still participate and make considerable progress within the dungeon if you so desire.

Please use the in-game bug reporter to send us any bug reports or issues that you encounter while playtesting on the PTR. We appreciate you taking the time to test this content, and we look forward to your feedback.