World of Warcraft News and Raiding Strategies

Classes

• Death Knight
  
  • Frost
    
    • All ability damage reduced by 3%.
• Druid
  
  • Balance
    
    • Denizen of the Dream's trigger rate was unintentionally increased. It has been restored to its intended value.
      
  • Restoration
    
    • Fixed an issue that caused Forest's Flow to not properly extend heal over time effects on allies.
      
• Evoker
  
  • Fixed an issue where empower spells could fail to auto-fire at Rank 1 when released prior to that point.
    
  • Fixed an issue preventing Oppressing Roar's cooldown from being reduced when dispelling Enrage effects with the Overawe talent.
    
• Hunter
  
  • Beast Mastery
    
    • Kill Command damage reduced by 10%.
  • Marksmanship
    
    • All ability and pet damage reduced by 4%.
  • Survival
    
    • Mongoose Bite damage reduced by 10%. This does not affect PvP Combat.
• Warlock
  
  • Developers’ notes: We’re modifying the output of Grimoire of Sacrifice to bring it in line with the output of Warlock demons. At the end of the day Warlock is a pet-centric class and while we want there to be an option to opt-out of your pet, we don’t want it to always be the clear answer.
  • Wrathful Minion now increases the damage of Grimoire of Sacrifice by 10% (was 15%).
  • Demonic Inspiration now increases the damage of Grimoire of Sacrifice by 10% (was 15%).
  • Grimoire of Sacrifice damage reduced by 15%.
  • Affliction
    
    • Developers’ notes: With the removal of less impactful talents in both their class and specialization trees, Affliction received a lot of additional damage options that have increased their damage beyond what was intended. We’re making these adjustments to bring them in line with other damage dealers.
    • Damage done by spells and abilities reduced by 2%.
    • Darkglare damage reduced by 20%.
  • Demonology
    
    • Developers’ notes: We’re targeting Demonology’s multi-target profile with these adjustments to bring them closer to other damage dealers. We will continue to watch both single-target and multi-target performance, along with the output of new talents and adjustments delivered in 10.0.7, and make further adjustments down the road if needed.
    • Demonic Strength now increases the damage of Felstorm by 300% (was 400%).
    • Dreadbite damage reduced by 10%.

Dungeons and Raids

• Temple of the Jade Serpent
  
  • Wise Mari
    
    • Freezing Ice Stone (Primordial Stone) triggers no longer disrupt the direction of Wash Away casts.
      
• Zul'Gurub
  
  • The Archaeology skill requirement for the Cache of Madness event has been reduced to 1 (was 225).
    
  • Brazier of Madness, Shattered Hakkari Bijou, and Fragmented Hakkari Bijou no longer have a level requirement.
    
  • Warblades of the Hakkari, Reborn are now bind on account (was bind on pickup) to allow anyone to acquire the appearances regardless of who their blacksmith is.
    
  • Fixed an issue that allowed the Brazier of Madness to be lootable prior to completing Relics of a Fallen Empire.
    
• Zul'Aman
  
  • Fixed an issue that allowed Bijous and Coins to drop in the instance.
    

Enemies and NPCs

• Fael'lin
  
  • Hellfire Walls will now correctly display the cast bar.
    
  • Living Fuse will no longer target player's pets.
    

Items and Rewards

• Fixed an issue where Primordial Stones were pulling enemies that you were not in combat with.

Player versus Player

• Paladin
  
  • [Live March 24] Crusader’s Reprieve healing reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
    
  • Protection
    
    • [Live March 24] Judgment of Light healing reduced by 35% for Protection Paladins in PvP combat.
      
  • Retribution
    
    • Developers’ note: Retribution Paladins have been heavily overperforming in PvP with their recent 10.0.7 changes. We’re primarily targeting their burst damage, passive survivability, and PvP talents that we feel are contributing too much overall damage.
      
    • [Live March 24] Judgment of Light healing reduced by 35% for Retribution Paladins in PvP combat.
      
    • [Live March 24] Inquisitor’s Ire effectiveness reduced by 40% in PvP combat.
      
    • [Live March 24] Fading Light effectiveness reduced by 50% for Retribution Paladins in PvP combat.
      
    • [Live March 24] Justicar’s Vengeance now deals 15% additional damage to stunned targets in PvP combat.
      
    • [Live March 24] Justicar’s Vengeance healing reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
      
    • [Live March 24] Blessing of Dawn effectiveness reduced by 25% for Retribution Paladins in PvP combat.
      
    • [Live March 24] Divine Arbiter direct damage reduced by 25% in PvP combat.
      
    • [Live March 24] Vanguard of Justice effectiveness reduced by 25% in PvP combat.
      
    • [Live March 24] Empyrean Legacy increases the damage of Divine Storm by 15% in PvP combat (was 25%).
      
    • [Live March 24] Luminescence (PvP Talent) now increases damage and healing by 2% (was 4%).
      
    • [Live March 24] Lawbringer (PvP Talent) now deals 2% of maximum health (was 4%).
      
    • [Live March 24] Fixed an issue that caused Avenging Wrath’s 75% PvP multiplier to not function for Retribution Paladins.
      
• Shaman
  
  • Precognition will no longer be activated when players are successfully interrupted while affected by Tranquil Air Totem.
    

Quests

• "Brew for the Ages" should now correctly point to the Zskera Vault door to find the recipe pages, in case you have not unlocked that vault door yet.

Wrath of the Lich King Classic

• Fixed an issue where Val'anyr, Hammer of the Ancient Kings was absorbing more than intended. Accumulated absorb amounts are now correctly capped at 20,000 health.
  
  • Developers' note: The absorb shield from Val'anyr was always intended to have a cap of 20,000 health, but there was a typo in the spell script in original Wrath of the Lich King version 3.3.5. The script was set the absorb amount to 200,000! This was never noticed by players in original Wrath.
    

The Dragonflight Season 1 Arena World Championship & Mythic Dungeon International Global Finals are here! Over two weekends, celebrate the top Arena Gladiators and Dungeon Runners as they compete for their share of $600,000 (USD). Tune in live between March 31-April 9 on Twitch & YouTube!


Mythic Dungeon International 2023 Global Finals, March 31-April 2

Following some incredible strategies and routes in the new Dragonflight Dungeons, the top eight teams from across the globe will test their mettle in the Mythic Dungeon International (MDI) 2023 Global Finals. Winners of each MDI Group and the Last Stand Tournament will do battle in the Dragonflight Season 1 Dungeons one last time for their share of $300,000 (USD). This is the ultimate opportunity for dungeoneers to showcase their speed running prowess. Teams will face off starting March 31 in a series of Best of 3, double-elimination matches on their path to the Grand Finals. Each broadcast day will begin at 10 am PDT / 7:00 pm CEST, live on Twitch and YouTube.


Details

Venue: Online – Twitch.tv/Warcraft & YouTube.com/Warcraft
Watch Parties are invited to participate via the MDI Watch Party Form.
Dates: Friday, March 31 – Sunday, April 2
Broadcast Start Time: 10:00 am PDT / 7:00 pm CEST
Prize Pool: $300,000 (USD)
Format: Best of 3, double-elimination / Best of 5 Grand Final
Brackets: Follow the brackets live on Raider.IO!
Language Streams:

• French
  
• German
  
• Spanish (EMEA)

Dungeons & Affixes: Dungeons will be set to Keystone 21-23. Check out the full Dungeon pool on the WoW Esports Twitter!



Arena World Championship Gauntlet & Grand Finals, April 7-9

With an updated program format to go alongside the fast-paced game meta, the first season of Dragonflight has brought a breath of fresh air into the Arena World Championship (AWC). The AWC Finals weekend starts with AWC Gauntlet on April 7, a fierce single-elimination bracket to determine each Region’s last Finalist. The next day, the AWC Grand Finals begin, with the top 4 European & North American teams clashing to establish the first Dragonflight Champion of each region with $300,000 (USD) in combined prizing on the line.


Details

Venue: Online – Twitch.tv/Warcraft & YouTube.com/Warcraft
Watch Parties are invited to participate via the AWC Watch Party Form.
Dates:
AWC Gauntlet: April 7
AWC Grand Finals: April 8-9
Broadcast Start Time: 10:00 am PDT / 7:00 pm CEST
Prize Pool: $300,000 (USD)
Format: Best of 5, double-elimination / Best of 7 Grand Final
Language Streams:

• French
  
• German

Earning the D.I.S.C.O. Toy In-Game!

From March 21–April 2, any eligible Twitch channel broadcasting in the World of Warcraft section will have Twitch Drops active so that viewers can earn the D.I.S.C.O Toy in-game shortly after 10.0.7 launch. This will be active on the Warcraft Twitch channel & eligible Watch Parties. For more information, read our previously published article.


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It is great that people can now do Work Orders without their materials, but now we, the crafters, need to cooperate with Blizzard to apply a function of reporting obvious trickery and foul play.

We see a lot of Work Orders where it is just people hoping that the crafters press through the menu too fast without noticing that they accept that the customer has no useful materials of their own, nor is their tip befitting the cost.

We need management and reporting tools now for the Work Order system.

• A function to sort who has materials, and who does not.
• A function to sort for a minimum amount of materials needed (0%/25%/50%/75%/100%)
• A function to disregard Primal Flux when making Work Orders (So customers cannot just drop X amount of flux to hope that is enough.
• A function to report obvious attempt at trickery/foul play (Work orders where they just add 5 flux, 10g, and hope you use your materials by accident.

Thank you so much for the feedback! We are aware of the issue where you cannot easily differentiate orders that provide reagents from ones that cannot and are working on a fix to get the same sortable column into the public orders tab as exists in the guild / personal order tabs, where it tells you if all/some/none of the reagents are provided. This should allow you to easily sort and avoid orders that don’t provide all reagents if you so wish.

As far as orders that don’t include reagents and have a poor tip, while it is possible that some players are intentionally trying to deceive crafters into making recipes at a loss, in most cases it is likely a matter of customers learning the changes to the system and experimenting with what orders will get filled. We anticipate that with time, players will learn what orders they can get filled and which ones will not.

It is important to make sure crafters have all the information they need to avoid accidentally crafting something at a loss if they did not intend it. We do predict that in some instances crafters will intentionally choose to do this in cases where they can earn skill from doing so. That said, we will be carefully watching how this change works out. We are also looking into improving the clarity of the order interface to make sure it is as clear as possible which reagents are being provided by the customer and which by the crafter. Meanwhile, you will always get a confirmation dialogue if you are about to spend some of your own reagents on an order to make sure you are aware of what you are doing.

Finally, philosophically we made this change for a few reasons.

• We would like to open the system up as much as possible to player choice and allow the market to help determine what orders are fulfilled and which ones are not.
• The primary purpose of the public order system is to have a low barrier to entry for players to get their items crafted. Removing the need to buy your own reagents helps with that, although it does leave the onus on the customer to provide a reasonable commission. This is something we will also be keeping an eye on.
• We would like to see more public orders to allow more crafters to have a chance to fill them. Lowering the barrier to post orders should help with this. As players learn the system, we are also hoping the ratio of orders that include an ample tip to be worth filling also increases. Finally, we have been looking at adding new recipes that provide opportunities to use the crafting order system, for instance the Curios released in the latest patch.
• To this point, filling public orders has required very little consideration, particularly if there aren’t many, because it was guaranteed profit as all reagents were provided by the customer (this section was slightly clarified through an edit). With the introduction of variations in reagents, the choice of whether to fill an order or not will hopefully become more interesting, where crafters are weighing costs of reagents and skill gains against potential profits or losses from filling the order.

Finally, while this thread has not mentioned the prospect of allowing public orders to specify quality, I have seen other posts that have. I want to re-emphasize that the reason we are not doing this is were we to, nearly all orders would move to be public, and most if not all would be set to require maximum quality. This would remove the opportunity for lowers skill crafters to fulfill public orders, as well as undermine the crafter gameplay and interaction that comes from building a business and getting customers to send you orders.

Thanks and as mentioned above, we will continue to watch how the crafting order system unfolds and iterate. Your feedback is always appreciated!

-Drough