World of Warcraft News and Raiding Strategies

Classes

• Warlock
  
  • Affliction
    
    • Fixed an issue where Infirmity would increase all damage done, rather than just class spells and abilities.

Dragonriding

• Fixed an issue where some characters couldn’t Dragonride after the 10.1 update.

Dungeons and Raids

• Ruby Life Pools
  
  • Melidrussa Chillworn
    
    • Ice Bulwark now absorbs 25% less damage.
• Vault of the Incarnates
  
  • Kurog Grimtotem
    
    • Enveloping Earth now absorbs 25% less healing on all difficulties.
  • Broodkeeper Diurna
    
    • Icy Shroud now absorbs 25% less healing on all difficulties.
  • Raszageth
    
    • Stormsurge now absorbs 25% less damage on all difficulties.
    • Shattering Shroud now absorbs 25% less healing on all difficulties.

Professions

• Engineering
  
  • Fixed a bug that prevented players from teleporting to the Zaralek Cavern with their Wyrmhole Generator.
  • Fixed a bug that restricted the Forbidden Reach teleport option on the Wyrmhole Generator until after the Zaralek Cavern teleport was unlocked.

Quests

• Added option for players to turn in this quest to Elder Honeypelt during “In the Wake of Ashes.”
• The quests “A Worthy Ally” and “Tougher Down Under” should now unlock for any level 70 character on an account that has completed the first chapter of Zaralek Cavern on any character.
• Fixed an issue where completing the World Quest “Ending Their Watch” Could prevent you from completing “A Room Without a View.”

System

• Fixed an issue where players were unable to access the support site from the in-game menu.

Greetings!

Very soon we will open up the Wrath Classic patch 3.4.2 PTR and we want to take a moment to lay out the testing schedule we have planned for the next few weeks.

Name of Test	Begins	Ends
3.4.2 PTR Goes Live	May 4th	N/A
Trial of the Crusader Raid (Round 1)	May 5th (11:00AM PDT)	May 8th (11:00AM PDT)
Isle of Conquest (Brawl with the Blues)	May 11th (2:00PM PDT)	May11th (4:00PM PDT)
Titan Rune Dungeons	May 12th	N/A
Trial of the Crusader Raid (Round 2)	May 19th (11:00AM PDT)	May 22nd (11:00AM PDT)

We hope to have the PTR up and playable sometime in the early afternoon tomorrow (May 4th), and we will post a full list of update notes with specific areas of focus for this week’s testing as soon as the PTR goes live. We plan to post weekly updates to these notes as more content comes online to test and the testing focus changes week-to-week.

Before we leave you, we want to acknowledge that in previous PTR releases we expressed that we had hoped to be able to publish testing schedules–particularly raid testing schedules–as far ahead of time as possible. Unfortunately we had to make a last minute change to the testing schedule for 3.4.2 that forced us to move the timeline for raid testing forward from a later date to this coming weekend. We will be having a second round of raid testing per the schedule above, so if you can’t make it this weekend you will have at least one other opportunity to hop in and test Trial of the Crusader. Apologies for any inconvenience this might cause.

Thanks to everyone for their understanding and patience as we are putting the finishing touches in place to get 3.4.2 up and testable.

Classes

• Monk
  
  • Brewmaster
    
    • Fixed an issue causing Blackout Kick and Spinning Crane Kick to deal more damage than intended.

Professions

• Embellishments should not scale with class talents, abilities, or set bonuses that affect the caster’s damage or healing.
  
  • Developers’ notes: This fix addresses a PTR behavior of Embellishments that was unintended.
• Fixed an issue where the Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power crafting order recipe was requesting the wrong reagents.
  
  • Developers’ notes: All Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power crafting orders that have not been fulfilled by the time this hotfix goes live have been canceled.

Quests

• Fixed an issue where players wouldn’t get credit for completing Chapter 1 of Embers of Neltharion.