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Patch 8.2 Hotfixes - August 27, 2019
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Dungeons and Raids
  • Siege of Boralus
    • Corrected an error during Mythic Keystone Dungeon instances that caused a pack of enemies to not appear in Upton Borough if the World Quest “Breaking the Alliance” was active.

Items
  • Fixed an issue that prevented Dribbling Inkpod from inflicting damage on targets under crowd control effects or that were not in line of sight.
  • Anu-Azshara, Staff of the Eternal’s Potency buff should now respect line of sight.
  • Leviathan's Lure should no longer break enemies out of crowd control effects.
  • The Map to the Last Worldvein no longer shows up as a quest reward when finishing the weekly Island Expedition quests “Azerite for the Alliance” or “Azerite for the Horde.” The item will still have the same chance to come from the quest as it does now.
  • The Rank 4 Essence items that drop from Mythic Queen Azshara (Vitality Conduit and Azeroth's Undying Gift) now display red text for classes that cannot use them.
    • Developers’ note: This should help Mythic raiders who wish to trade an Essence to a different player verify that it’s compatible with that character’s class.

Mounts
  • Siltwing Albatross mount scale increased by 25% for most races; 50% for larger races.

WoW Classic
  • Realm populations are now measured against a realm’s absolute capacity.
    • Developers’ note: This system now measures each realm against a realm’s absolute capacity. Medium indicates a healthy total population on a realm—well in excess of what we considered Full in 2006—with room for more players to log-in. You’ll now see a High label if the realm is close to having a queue, and a Full label if the realm currently has a queue.

PTR 15th Anniversary Alterac Valley Play with the Blues
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Thank you all for testing Classic Alterac Valley with us on Thursday afternoon and posting the feedback above! It was fun to reminisce about the Alterac Valley of olde while we got more information on issues that we can address:

  • There were some NPCs (notably Durgen Stormpike) who weren’t the correct level. We’ve fixed this issue and other related bugs players have reported.
  • We hear you about the item-level of rewards from Classic AV, and we’re working on increasing them. We’ll let you know what that looks like once we’ve made a final adjustment.
  • We really appreciate your feedback on specific NPCs you thought were too easy or too tough, and we’re going to take all of it into account as we make a final tuning pass.

We noticed some players had questions about the specifics of this event battleground that haven’t been answered yet, so here are some additional details:

  • Players can queue up from level 10 to level 120, and will be set to level 60 in the instance.
  • Lower-level players will earn experience from monster kills, completing quests, and participating during events in the battleground, so we hope it will be a fun way to level characters during the World of Warcraft 15th Anniversary event.
  • Rewards are intended to be appropriate to your level.
  • You can queue up with a party or even a complete raid!

Thanks again, and we’ll see you again in Alterac Valley.

New Realm Population Label System
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
With a hotfix to WoW Classic a few moments ago, we’ve changed how the realm population labels work in order to display realm populations in a more meaningful way.

How it worked before this hotfix
As we explained here, the system previously calculated the population labels by comparing all realms to the most-populated realm. This could result in a very crowded realm (with a lengthy queue) showing up as “Medium”, since it was being compared to the realm that had the highest population and a potentially massive queue.

How population labels work now
This system now measures each realm against a realm’s absolute capacity. Medium indicates a healthy total population on a realm – well in excess of what we considered Full in a 2006 – with room for more players to log-in. You’ll now see a High label if the realm is close to having a queue, and a Full label if the realm currently has a queue.

We will continue to monitor this system closely and take further steps if necessary.

Thank you very much!

US - New Realms Open
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
We have opened new realms in this region:

Thunderfury - PvP - Pacific
Azuresong - Normal - Pacific
Windseeker - Normal - Eastern
Benediction - PvP - Eastern

We recommend that players looking to avoid queues on Full realms move to this new realm for a smoother experience.

Thank you!

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This article was originally published in forum thread: New Classic Realm Population Label System, New Classic Realms started by chaud View original post
Comments 16 Comments
  1. Biged781's Avatar
    >This system now measures each realm against a realm’s absolute capacity. Medium indicates a healthy total population on a realm – well in excess of what we considered Full in a 2006 – with room for more players to log-in. You’ll now see a High label if the realm is close to having a queue, and a Full label if the realm currently has a queue.

    Just logged on. My realm, which isn't the realm I created my pre-launch character on, says "Medium". Queue length: 3944. WTF ever.
  1. JacobMarley's Avatar
    And there it is. Blizzard’s secret weapon to get people to move realm. Thunderfury is a realm name.
  1. Asaliah's Avatar
    13k queue on FR realms yesterday night lol
  1. Doffen's Avatar
    Patch 8.2.5 hotfixes, we knew the patch wouldn't be much but to implement it with only hotfixes and no heads up is surprising
  1. mmocfd1b0ab5a3's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by JacobMarley View Post
    And there it is. Blizzard’s secret weapon to get people to move realm. Thunderfury is a realm name.
    Do anyone really care about realm name?
  1. twothe's Avatar
    Set full or not hint based on how close that particular realm is to it's limit. Sometimes these guys at Blizzard are pure geniuses.
  1. Segus1992's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by mmocfd1b0ab5a3 View Post
    Do anyone really care about realm name?
    Given that Mograine on EU became one of the biggest servers despite being added hours before launch, yes.

    Also, when there's nothing else to go on, why *wouldn't* the name matter?
  1. Al Gorefiend's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by mmocfd1b0ab5a3 View Post
    Do anyone really care about realm name?
    I always wondered how they came up with the names, some realms are named after important NPCs, then we get a realm named after a fish.
  1. morrouac's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Al Gorefiend View Post
    I always wondered how they came up with the names, some realms are named after important NPCs, then we get a realm named after a fish.
    PVP Servers - Character Name
    Normal - Location
    RP - Faction
  1. aeuhe4yxzhds's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Segus1992 View Post
    Given that Mograine on EU became one of the biggest servers despite being added hours before launch, yes.

    Also, when there's nothing else to go on, why *wouldn't* the name matter?
    Mograine queue: 11k
    Firemaw queue: 16k
    Shazzrah queue: 17k

    Mograine is small and not one of the biggest realms at all
  1. Exer's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by morrouac View Post
    PVP Servers - Character Name
    Normal - Location
    RP - Faction
    Wrong. Alleria is a normal realm. So are Thrall, Khadgar, Proudmoore and so on.
  1. cparle87's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Exer View Post
    Wrong. Alleria is a normal realm. So are Thrall, Khadgar, Proudmoore and so on.
    My understanding was PVE realms were good guys or safe places, PVP realms were named after bad guys and dangerous places.
  1. Segus1992's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by aeuhe4yxzhds View Post
    Mograine queue: 11k
    Firemaw queue: 16k
    Shazzrah queue: 17k

    Mograine is small and not one of the biggest realms at all
    Ok. Compare it to the other realms released at the same time if you didn't understand my post.
  1. Kayze's Avatar
    This is how they should have had population indicators work before. Like, why was the old way considered good?
  1. Exer's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by cparle87 View Post
    My understanding was PVE realms were good guys or safe places, PVP realms were named after bad guys and dangerous places.
    I don't think there's an elaborate plan behind server names. You have PvE servers named after bad guys, tho I'll give you this, there is more names associated with threats on the PvP side.
  1. Chonar's Avatar
    Hmmmmmmmm.
    The anniversary Alterac Valley will be lvl 60 timewalking?
    Excellent.

    Time to bust out the double Legion Legendary, Pandaria Cloak, Shadowmourne and Sulfuras combo.

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