World of Warcraft News and Raiding Strategies

As part of a renewed effort this year to maintain our focus on development, for our current games and our future projects, we won’t have a booth at gamescom 2019. The show is an important one for the European and global gaming community, and we’re going to miss meeting players in Cologne this year. You’ll still be able to find Blizzard gear in the gamescom 2019 shop area, and we’re looking forward to returning to the gamescom show floor in the future. We’re also looking forward to sharing more details about the projects we’re currently working on when the time is right.

Defy the law of gravity in this week’s PvP Brawl: Gravity Lapse!

Every other week, a new PvP Brawl will be available to players looking for something just a little different. Each Brawl will offer a variety of modes, rules, and scenic changes to the usual Battleground gameplay, and you’ll find them in the Group Finder tool (hotkey “I”) in the Player vs. Player tab. Just like Random Battlegrounds, you’ll receive a reward for achieving victory. Here are just a few of the Brawls you can look forward to:

Gravity Lapse


Gravity getting you down? Step into the Eye of the Storm and be prepared for a whole new en-lighten-ing experience. Every minute, players on the battlefield will find themselves launched into the air, only to gently fall toward the ground again in a perpetual aerial ballet as they try to accrue enough resources to take the win home for their team.

The following hotfixes are now active for all regions.

Uu’nat, Harbinger of the Void

• Uu’nat no longer can cast Oblivion Tear immediately following Unstable Resonance in Mythic difficulty.
• Adjusted the timing of Eyes of N’Zoth to be further spread out from Unstable Resonance in Mythic difficulty.
• Unstable Resonance duration increased from 12 seconds to 15 seconds.

The following hotfixes are scheduled to be live this week.

• Shadowstrike no longer deals reduced damage in PvP (was a 10% reduction).
• Eviscerate no longer deals reduced damage in PvP (was a 15% reduction).
• Mastery: Executioner is now reduced by 20% in PvP (was 33%).

Developers’ notes: We’ve been keeping an eye on Subtlety’s damage during Season 2 and have identified a few prior PvP reductions that we’re going to relax to help with its overall damage throughput. With this improvement to Eviscerate combined with the existing PvP-only reduction to Night’s Vengeance (Azerite Trait) and the removal of Shuriken Combo we feel Subtlety’s potential Eviscerate damage will be brought into an acceptable range for PvP combat. Subtlety will continue to keep its PvP-only reductions to their stackable cooldown strength, but we also felt that it was necessary to increase throughput outside of those windows.

Dungeons and Raids

• Crucible of Storms
  
  • Uu’nat, Harbinger of the Void
    
    • Uu'nat no longer can cast Oblivion Tear immediately following Unstable Resonance in Mythic difficulty.
      
    • Adjusted the timing of Eyes of N'Zoth to be further spread out from Unstable Resonance in Mythic difficulty.
      
    • Unstable Resonance duration increased from 12 seconds to 15 seconds.
      

Items

• Heart of Azeroth
  
  • Fixed an issue that prevented Ancestral Resonance from extending the duration of some Bloodlust and Heroism effects.
    
• Fixed a bug that allowed The Well-Worn Blindfold to drop from Darkmoon Game Prizes.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused “Against Overwhelming Odds” to display the incorrect item level for some rewards.

Quests

• Goblins are once again easily able to vanquish “Volcanoth!” with their Bootzooka on the Lost Isles.
  
• "A Scarlet Letter" can now be completed by Zandalari trolls.

User Interface

• The experience bar for Heart of Azeroth will now indicate when a player has reached maximum level.