World of Warcraft News and Raiding Strategies

Here are this week’s updates to the Legacy of Arathor 11.1.7 PTR:

The Greedy Emissary Returns

The Greedy Emissary event is now available for testing. During this event you’ll be able to encounter deviously greedy emissaries in Stormwind, Orgrimmar, Dornogal, and Undermine for new diabolical rewards— including a mount. You won’t want to miss some truly iconic rewards including recolors of classic Tier 2 armor sets for your characters.

Treasure Goblins spawn every hour on the hour in Stormwind, Orgrimmar, and Dornogal. In Undermine, each rare can spawn a portal when they are defeated (one portal per rare, per hour). And if you’re lucky enough to find an elixir on a Treasure Goblin, try using it on the next portal!

User Interface and Accessibility

• New Setting: Assisted Highlight – Highlights a suggested ability on the Action Bar to use. Assisted Highlight can be enabled in Options > Advanced Options.
• Removed the Help Tip for minimizing the Spellbook.

Despite the recent blue post stating that Feral Druids were set to receive a 3% buff to their damage output, this change hasn’t actually been implemented as confirmed by the latest datamining results. Many in the community, myself included, were hopeful this small buff might help alleviate some of the performance gaps we’ve experienced lately, but it’s disappointing to see that even this small adjustment hasn’t been implemented yet.

Missing no longer!

This adjustment decided to come with maintenance a week later than all the others.

With an intended adjustment made during maintenance today,

Player versus Player

Warrior

• Wrecking Throw’s damage increase to shields is now 75% less effective in PvP combat (was 30% less effective).
• Shattering Throw’s damage increase to shields is now 75% less effective in PvP combat (was 30%).

We’ll have these and all other changes listed in today’s hotfixes update.

We have identified and resurrected characters who died due to circumstances caused by distributed denial-of-service attacks on the Doomhowl realm on April 24, and on the Doomhowl and Defias Pillager realms on May 3. We are done with these restorations, and affected players should be able to select the ghost character on the Doomhowl and Defias Pillager realms and log into it to complete the process.

Please be reminded:

• If we decide to restore characters lost to a DDoS attack, we will only restore characters that remain on their Hardcore realm. A character cannot be restored if the character was transferred to another realm.
• Blizzard Customer Support cannot assist with issues related to characters who have died on Hardcore realms.

Please do not contact Blizzard Customer Support with any inquiries regarding character deaths on Hardcore realms.

Thank you very much!

We’ve completed a second pass on characters lost during the April 24 DDoS, and additionally resurrected characters that died during the DDoS yesterday, May 11.

All of the above took place on the Doomhowl realm.