Nov 13 Hotfixes, Deepwind Gorge Legacy, PvP With the Blues, Classic - Keyrings

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November 13, 2019 Hotfixes

WoW's 15th Anniversary

• Spellstone Delight now breaks upon taking damage.
  
• Reduced the speed at which Defile would increase in area and damage during Memories of Azeroth: Wrath of the Lich King.
  
• The achievement Memories of Fel, Frost and Fire is now account-wide.
  
• The Obsidian Worldbreaker mount will now be immediately rewarded once a player earns Memories of Fel, Frost and Fire (previously it was delivered via in-game mail).

WoW Classic

• The Windsor’s Frenzy buff is again properly restricted to the small area around Marshal Windsor.
  
  • Developers’ note: This correction restores the buff’s functionality to its original 1.12 behavior.
    

Patch 8.3 PTR - Deepwind Gorge Achievements Now Legacy
In Patch 8.3, Deepwind Gorge has been redesigned and most of the achievements have been moved to Legacy achievements, including Master of Deepwind Gorge, which rewards the Gorgeous title.

PvP With The Blues – Friday 10:00 a.m. PST

On Friday, November 15, starting at 10:00 a.m. PST, join us on the Broxigar realm in the Visions of N’Zoth PTR for two updated PvP experiences. We’re going to playtest:

Deepwind Gorge Redesigned
In Visions of N’Zoth, Deepwind Gorge has been redesigned. It’s now a capture-point map with five nodes to fight over.

For this playtest, log into the PTR and open Group Finder (default hotkey: i), then switch to the Player vs. Player tab on the bottom of the window and queue for a quick match in the Specific Battleground Deepwind Gorge .

After you’ve gorged on Deepwind, please return here and look for our feedback thread.

Teeming Islands Brawl
These are 10v10 PvP Islands that you can queue for as a Brawl. All appropriate rewards from doing Islands are available, so you can finish both the Brawl weekly and your Island weekly for Azerite in this one.

The map selection will only be the larger islands. For this PTR test, we’re using Havensworth and Jorundall.

To playtest this with us, log into the PTR and open Group Finder (default hotkey: i), then select the active PvP Brawl and queue up. Afterward, please come back to this forum and look for our Teeming Islands Brawl feedback thread.
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We look forward to seeing you on Broxigar in the PTR at 10:00 a.m. PST on Friday, and we really appreciate all of your testing and feedback!

Classic - Keyrings Coming in First Patch This Year

Any word on when this Keyring patch will happen, if not?
Yes – the Keyring will come to WoW Classic with our first patch to the game client later this year.
We don’t yet have a certain date for the patch, but we’ll let you know as soon as we do.

So Phase =/= Patch?
Correct. We’re able to turn on content such as Dire Maul or World Bosses without having to change the game client and require downtime the way a patch does.

Sorry for the confusion.

Upgrading Your Version of Shadowlands Collector's Edition

To answer some questions in regards to the Collector’s Edition and its content:
In the coming months, we will announce our retail-only Collector’s Edition to commemorate the release of Shadowlands, featuring everything in the Epic Edition, and more!

[Teerack]

Oh neat. Just before the end of bfa they are removing/ruining a bg.

[aeuhe4yxzhds]

Reduced the speed at which Defile would increase in area and damage during Memories of Azeroth: Wrath of the Lich King.

Jesus H. Christ

[dragnipur]

What do they mean by saying "Our retail only" collector's edition?Won't i be able to buy it if i'm not subscribed?

[PepperjackJig]

What do they mean by saying "Our retail only" collector's edition?Won't i be able to buy it if i'm not subscribed?

No... retail as in physical copy only, no digital collectors

[Aeula]

Whelp, RIP ever getting that title.

[Explicit Teemo Nudes]

Extremely lame that they are removing the title.
And really, all they needed to do was to remove the stupid slow when running a cart and make bg achievements solo-friendly - which many of them aren't for the new bgs.

[melzas]

Lame. Couldn't they at least put it as seperate queue/Brawl until 8.3 rolls out, so that everyone who is close to getting the meta achiv can get it done before it's removed?

[Cæli]

limited time only! grab it while you can!
disgusting marketing practice for people with ocds to keep them playing, fomo for normal people, exactly like addictive personalities and gambling to push them into using a product/service again and again.
"oh it can't do any harm to players, they're master of their choice, it's just a gameplay decision not a business one" really disgusting, it's fine to make money, to abuse player's weaknesses, not so much

[beanman12345]

Why not add a seperate queue for this revised BG instead of just replacing it altogether?

[Bhanzai]

Good. They need to start retiring more achievements. If you didn't get them during the few years it's been out oh well.

[Twdft]

Jesus H. Christ

Just one idiot/asshole who doesn't move and it was a wipe. LfR is not meant to be wipable by a single troll, good change.

[DTJames]

Jesus H. Christ

That was needed, it was stupid fast and the raid is much more like LFR. People going be slow reacting or trolls.

[Pacster]

Good. They need to start retiring more achievements. If you didn't get them during the few years it's been out oh well.

I think so too. The more achievements are not available anymore the more players will realize how stupid they are to go for achievements...and the faster the system will break down. Once you are out of that treadmill you will not look back again...

[VanishO2]

Good. They need to start retiring more achievements. If you didn't get them during the few years it's been out oh well.

Why should they remove normal achievements? Only for the sake of removing? What do we gain with that? Are the achievements creating technical problems within the client? Performance issues?

Other than adding way too many pointless achievements just to reach their imaginary "minimum number of achievements added per patch" goal, there is no reason to remove achievements just for the sake of removing it.

Are they removing the BG? Is WoW running on such an old technology that they can't update the achievements to reflect whatever they've updated on that map? Don't think so.

Guess they should remove every achievement related to anything they fix/update in the game now then.

[GreenJesus]

Good. They need to start retiring more achievements. If you didn't get them during the few years it's been out oh well.

But this is a PVP achievement.. it doesn't matter what expansion it is, the challenge will remain the same since the opposing party are players.

[Ethule]

Yay... another AB style pvp map. Maybe they should make it a king of the hill map instead. Having 3 capture points that change ever 2ish minutes and you only gain points if your team controls capture points but they're constantly moving. Instead of fixed capture and defend we already have 2 of those. Just a thought.

[Doffen]

Defile on me!!

I've had such a fun time with the LK in lfr now. We joked about it in 2009, and it's just as funny in 2019. Now fun is nerfed.

Defile must be the most iconic boss ability in the game. Now all got to experience it.

[Zstr]

wtf, why removing achievements
this bg not need redesign, instead of making something new, devolpers are going retard and removing content again, no one was asking about

[Redzonetode]

wtf, why removing achievements
this bg not need redesign, instead of making something new, devolpers are going retard and removing content again, no one was asking about

Nah, just like the WSG and AB revamps, I'm excited for a deepwing gorge revamp. I'm happy with this.