Please join us for the WoW Forever Stress Test on October 19.

On that day, we will first take the WoW Forever Beta offline, and we will then open WoW Forever on the regional hardware that it will operate on when the game goes live.

On October 19, the Stress Test will begin at 19:00 CEST for players in the EU region, 2:00 p.m. PDT for players in the Americas+Oceania, and at 5:00 a.m. in Taipei and 6:00 a.m. in Korea on October 20.

Any player with a WoW account is eligible to participate. No active subscription is needed.

Once you’re in, make a character, do a few quests, trade some items, chat, and group up with others to really put the game through its paces. This is a highly valuable event, since you’ll participate in our discovering of issues that would have otherwise happened on launch day.

WoW Forever will be available on production realms for a few hours, and then when we shut down the Stress Test, all characters will be deleted* and we will re-open the Beta.

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The Nebulous Voidcore Current Season Maximum is at 5/2 for me. “Nebulous voidcores transmuted” shows 1/2.

Last week it was 5/1 for the current season maximum. I will lose five bonus rolls because of this

Hello!

Some players have started to encounter our latest weapon in our efforts against the Real Money Trade (RMT) aka gold buying. If your account is suspected of being involved in RMT, either the selling or receiving of illicit gains, you may find your account subject to a Temporary Economy Hold. You will have restricted use of trade, mail, guild banks and the Auction House while this economic hold is in place.

Our aim with this new system is to aggressively shut down the flow of suspicious gold before it has been transferred or put into circulation into the economy, while providing us the time needed to investigate more thoroughly.

If you are just playing the game normally, it is unlikely you will ever see this restriction applied to your account. If this restriction is applied to your account, it will be either automatically removed when the actions that triggered it have been investigated and found false, or you will receive account actions if found to have been involved in RMT.

This system is new. There may be false positives while things are fine tuned, but merely having a Temporary Economy Hold will leave no permanent strikes against your account unless also later proven to be RMT motivated.

Thank you for joining us! We remain committed to ensure that WoW Forever is not marred by the Real Money Trade, and all of these systems will also be deployed to all versions of World of Warcraft if proven successful.

Thanks for the reports! We’re looking into the issues where the quests “In the Belly of the Beast” and “What the World Sees” cannot be completed.

The Midnight: 12.1.5 content update is now live. Please read on for a list of known issues that we’re working on and further information about this update.

12.1.5 KNOWN ISSUES

updated October 14 at 2:16pm PDT

Housing

The Large Karabor Fountain decor unintentionally has collision enabled within the fountain’s water.

The Anima-Powered Kyrian Oven decor is missing collision.

The Hall of Fame for The Venomous Abyss is now full, and we will close it for further entries with the next weekly reset (tomorrow in this region). Congratulations to all who made it, and good luck to all of those who are pushing to complete The Venomous Abyss before weekly resets!

The following dungeon and raid tuning adjustments will go live with the 12.1.5 content update this week (tomorrow, October 13 in this region).

Dungeons and Raid

Altar of Fangs Primal Serpent Piercing Hiss damage reduced by 25%. Piercing Hiss cooldown increased by 10%. Ravenous Descendant Health reduced by 9%. Twinfang Harrower Health reduced by 6%. Paralyzing Shot periodic damage reduced by 20%. Paralyzing Shot duration reduced to 14 seconds (was 20 seconds). Ritual Chieftain Blood Sacrifice healing absorb reduced by 12%. Rattling Writhe Health reduced by 6%. Rattle periodic damage reduced by 25%. High Evolutionist Evolve now has a more prominent visual effect during channel. Bloodletter Health reduced by 5%. Ascendant Serpent Health reduced by 21%. Living Venom Health reduced by 25%. Venom Burst damage reduced by 50%. Rav’i Carrion Burst periodic damage reduced by 10%. Zul’jan Axegrinder periodic damage reduced by 15%.

Primal Serpent Piercing Hiss damage reduced by 25%. Piercing Hiss cooldown increased by 10%.

Piercing Hiss damage reduced by 25%.

Piercing Hiss cooldown increased by 10%.

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We’ve been reviewing decor collection patterns, among other housing-related data, and based on that internal data (and player feedback as well!) we’re making a change in 12.1.5 that I’d like to highlight now that the patch release is right around the corner. All crafted decor from pre-Midnight professions will be getting their crafting cost reduced. 12.1 saw us do the same for Midnight profession recipes, and now we’re following it up with a significant reduction in decor crafting costs from all professions in all other expansions.

Some of these reductions are dramatic, some are merely significant. But this isn’t just a reduction in general reagent costs; lumber costs are coming down as well. We want players to craft and enjoy this decor, and we want players who have older professions leveled to see the benefit of those professions, and that will all be easier after the release of 12.1.5.

While some of the details may have changed, it looks like wowhead did a pretty good job collecting these changes a few weeks ago here: https://www.wowhead.com/news/over-200-decor-recipe-costs-nerfed-in-patch-12-1-5-382919

Happy crafting!

Chimes

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We’re opening the WoW Forever Beta today with the following known issues.

Known Issues September 18, 2026

Barber Chairs cause a LUA error.

Character friends in Beta disabled.

The minimap may be partially off the screen.

Waylaid Crates do not function on items with a maximum stack size smaller than the quantity required. This is fixed in the next Beta build.

Today, we updated the WoW Forever Beta with a new build that includes the following updates.

Change Log

Bugfixes Fixed a bug with casters not playing their precast animations and sometimes standing while casting. Changed the sound effect that plays while jumping in water to be more aesthetically pleasing. Adjusted Human death sounds. Fixed an issue where attempting to craft items or cast spells was causing players to stand up while waiting to obtain their Campfire buff. Players may now buff each other, cast, and craft while waiting for their Campfire buffs. Players may now obtain a Campfire buff if they are sitting, sitting in a chair, sleeping, lying down, or using the kneeling emote. Resolved an issue where Huey Sunnydale’s legs failed to render properly. Fixed an issue that made a Season of Discovery rune ability visible. Fixed an issue where Pet Happiness was not decreasing once your pet was at max loyalty. Fixed an issue causing the Undercity Canal ooze to be much brighter than intended. Removed a setting that could disable fog in an unintended manner. Resolved a water display issue and fixed various other display artifacts on Mac. Fixed a memory leak causing gradual performance degradation for some players. Fixed an issue where in-game mail could ignore surnames.

Fixed a bug with casters not playing their precast animations and sometimes standing while casting.

Changed the sound effect that plays while jumping in water to be more aesthetically pleasing.

Adjusted Human death sounds.

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Hi All, One thing I did want to make sure we mentioned that did NOT get mentioned in the podcast is that we are also fixing a bug with XP in dungeons. In previous beta builds, the XP earned per kill was awarded based on the highest level person in the group. If you are running, say, Deadmines with…

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We’ve corrected the following line to say the following. This was purely human error. Combat and Subtlety have support for all weapon types, with Combat focusing on hard hitting direct damage and little bit of cleave damage with Blade Flurry, and Subtlety focusing on combat tricks and Bleeds.

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Hello raiders!

The following Ula’tek raid encounter adjustments will arrive with scheduled weekly maintenance (October 6 in this region).

Dungeons and Raids

The Venomous Abyss Ula’tek General Spectral Coils damage reduced by 20% on Heroic and Mythic difficulties. Stage 02 Warden’s Protection damage reduced by 80%. Reduced the number of ground targets during Virulent Spit. Grasping Fangs periodic damage reduced by 30% on Heroic and Mythic difficulties. Blight Vein duration reduced to 4 seconds on Heroic and Mythic difficulties (was 6 seconds). Stage 03 Blightscale Shrieker health reduced by 20% on Heroic and Mythic difficulties. Blightscale Clutch health reduced by 20% on Heroic and Mythic difficulties. Slithering Clutch health reduced by 20% on Mythic difficulties. Circling Prey raid damage reduced by 30% on Heroic and Mythic difficulties. Adjusted the Drain Rate of Serpent’s Bite so you no longer need more than 3 people to soak regardless of raid size. Toxic Burn damage reduced by 30% on Mythic difficulty. The number of waves that emit from a tail during Caustic Waves reduced to 3 on Mythic difficulty (was 7).

Ula’tek General Spectral Coils damage reduced by 20% on Heroic and Mythic difficulties. Stage 02 Warden’s Protection damage reduced by 80%. Reduced the number of ground targets during Virulent Spit. Grasping Fangs periodic damage reduced by 30% on Heroic and Mythic difficulties. Blight Vein duration reduced to 4 seconds on Heroic and Mythic difficulties (was 6 seconds). Stage 03 Blightscale Shrieker health reduced by 20% on Heroic and Mythic difficulties. Blightscale Clutch health reduced by 20% on Heroic and Mythic difficulties. Slithering Clutch health reduced by 20% on Mythic difficulties. Circling Prey raid damage reduced by 30% on Heroic and Mythic difficulties. Adjusted the Drain Rate of Serpent’s Bite so you no longer need more than 3 people to soak regardless of raid size. Toxic Burn damage reduced by 30% on Mythic difficulty. The number of waves that emit from a tail during Caustic Waves reduced to 3 on Mythic difficulty (was 7).

General Spectral Coils damage reduced by 20% on Heroic and Mythic difficulties.

Who broke it? Gnomes, of course. But earlier this afternoon, we fixed it. Thanks for your reports!

Update 04:00 AEDT October 4

We’ve fixed the bug that was causing this.

With the new build of the WoW Forever Beta, we have an unexpected bug where Australian players are being presented with a dialog when they log in telling them their social features are locked down. This is not the case, of course.

We’ll get the bug fixed as soon as possible.

The following class adjustments will arrive with scheduled weekly maintenance (October 6 in this region).

CLASS CHANGES

Death Knight Unholy Developers’ notes: A recent bug fix resulted in Blightfall dealing significantly more damage than we expected. Alongside this tuning change, we’re also making sure the damage is represented accurately when an Augmentation Evoker is present in the group. Blightfall now deals 100% of the remaining plague damage (was 200%). Resolved an issue causing Augmentation Evoker Reattribution damage from plague erupt effects to be attributed to the Death Knight.

Death Knight

Unholy Developers’ notes: A recent bug fix resulted in Blightfall dealing significantly more damage than we expected. Alongside this tuning change, we’re also making sure the damage is represented accurately when an Augmentation Evoker is present in the group. Blightfall now deals 100% of the remaining plague damage (was 200%). Resolved an issue causing Augmentation Evoker Reattribution damage from plague erupt effects to be attributed to the Death Knight.

Developers’ notes: A recent bug fix resulted in Blightfall dealing significantly more damage than we expected. Alongside this tuning change, we’re also making sure the damage is represented accurately when an Augmentation Evoker is present in the group.

A new week brings even more to discover across World of Warcraft. Explore the latest WoW: Forever class spotlights featuring the Hunter, Druid, Priest, and Warrior, and tune in for episode 2 of the WoW: Forever Podcast. Then, see what’s on the horizon for Midnight with the 12.1.5 content update. Discover it all in this week’s WoW Weekly.

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A number of additional updates for Warriors in WoW Forever made it into today’s new Beta build, and we just added all of the following to our Development Notes for today.

Warrior

Additional Rage generated from landing Critical Strikes increased to 100% increased Rage (was 75%).

Fixed a bug that was causing Dual Wield Specialization to grant its increase to Hit Chance to both weapons.

Developers’ notes: Because of the above bug, our tests needed some correcting, so we did another pass on Fury Warrior.

Fury Developers’ notes: Our goal here is to give Fury more access to utility and meaningful choices early in the tree for leveling, and free up points later for more choices instead of being stuck placing points into Enrage to get Flurry. Booming Voice is now a 10/20/30/40/50% increase area of effect to your Shouts and a 5/10/15/20/25% reduction to their Rage costs. Unbridled Wrath no longer grants twice as much Rage to two-handed weapons. New Talent Lingering Rage in Row 2 of Fury. Lingering Rage increases the time before your Rage begins to decay when leaving combat by 2/4/6/8/10 seconds. Blood Craze no longer activates off of Bloodthirst casts. The Improved Cleave talent has been removed. The Boundless Rage talent has been removed. New Talent Furious Precision in Row 3 of Fury. Furious Precision increases your chance to hit with off-hand attacks by 4/7/10%. Raging Blows now reduces the Rage cost of your Cleave and Whirlwind abilities by 3. Raging Blows no longer causes your Whirlwind to strike with your offhand. Whirlwind will now always strike with both weapons without requiring a talent point. Dual Wield Specialization no longer grants hit to your off-hand attacks. Enrage is no longer required to reach the Flurry talent. Death Wish is now required to reach the Flurry talent. New Talent Gore Drinker in Row 6 of Fury, requires the Enrage talent. Your Enrage, Berserker Rage, Bloodrage, Death Wish, and Bloodthirst abilities cause your next 3 melee attacks to restore 0.5/1% of your maximum Health. Improved Berserker Rage moved to Row 5 of Fury (Was Row 6). Berserker Rage is now available at level 30 (Was 32) Bloodthirst’s Attack Power ratio has been increased to 45% (Was 35%).

We’re aware of and working to address an issue that appears to be preventing testers from logging into the WoW: Forever Beta. We will continue to work to fix this as swiftly as possible.

They might not have the answer to every question but their guiding approach is rock solid. This is a team that gets everything that was great about Classic and is passionate about preserving and building on it. It sounds like they’re open minded enough to experiment with stuff but will always bring it back to core principles that are rock solid.

I’ve never been as pumped for WoW as I am now and I was there in 2004. Round of applause for all of them.

Over the first two weeks of the WoW Forever Beta, we’ve seen an increasing number of testers pushing to earn points in the Legacy system.

In a future week of the Beta, we’re planning to grant all testers 16 Legacy points so that the system can be tested without first requiring a great deal of leveling different classes, clearing dungeons, etc.

Once applied, we expect to keep that grant in place until the end of the Beta.

Since our previous note on the subject of addressing Real Money Transactions (RMT) in WoW: Forever, we have been continuously actioning accounts that were found to be botting to amass gold in the WoW: Forever Beta, as well as the accounts of those who were found to have purchased or knowingly received illicit gold. We will continue to take action against RMT in both the Beta and the live game after the launch of WoW: Forever.

We will soon add a warning to the game that will appear whenever you trade with strangers. The warning reads:

Be wary of accepting gold from unknown or suspicious sources. If the provider is engaged in Real Money Transactions, you could put your account at risk of closure. Please see the following support article for more information: https://support.blizzard.com/help/article/379634

Be wary of accepting gold from unknown or suspicious sources. If the provider is engaged in Real Money Transactions, you could put your account at risk of closure. Please see the following support article for more information: https://support.blizzard.com/help/article/379634

Our stance on RMT in World of Warcraft is crystal clear: any account belonging to any player that is found to have participated in generating, selling, buying, or receiving illicit gold is subject to the gold being removed, account suspensions, or permanent account closures.

Thank you to every player who has provided feedback on this subject. You’ve participated in making this Beta invaluable to us as we refine our processes around this and many other issues.

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This is a double post. Please see the other forum thread for any discussions.

My Husband was very sad that the Make a Wish Quest involving Kyle wasn’t in Mulgore.

He got Beta Access, but not actual gametime so he can’t post this feedback himself, but he asked me to request that the Kyle quest got ported in, because he really liked that quest.

Yes it wasn’t added until TBC, but this is WoW: Forever, we already have new quests added in, and it was a cute little quest, and a Make a Wish addition for a poor kid.

I would think that adding it back in wouldn’t be too much work.

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OTK announced they’re doing another classic dueling tournament, with a prize pool of $50,000 for the beta at level 30, and immediately after that announcement was confirmed a number of streamers mysteriously found themselves loaded with amounts of gold they should not have.

You then have a streamer being traded over 500 gold total split between two separate level 1 characters and laughing about it knowing full well it’s not legit gold and there is 0 punishment.

As it turns out, the gold buying enforcement and the whole “we’re not playing nice guys anymore” “no more lenience” “we’re taking it seriously this time for sure” was once again all a facade.

So, I seem to be misunderstanding the new technology surrounding these new mega servers. I was under the impression that the new way of doing this meant there isn’t a server, there is an essentially endless layers of servers. As the player base grows and shrinks, the layers automatically repopulate to accommodate the number.

Why are we getting “realm full” if there is an endless number of layers? Or is it not what has been explained to me, or I’ve misunderstood (more likely the case) what this new way is.

To implement fixes that should address stability issues, we will shutdown and restart the Beta in the next few minutes. The maintenance period should be very brief.

Greetings!

We’ve been super excited about the reception to our first episode of the WoW: Forever Podcast and are already gearing up for next week’s show!

This next episode is going to focus heavily Class Design with special guests from our systems design team, so please look forward to that!

Looking forward past that, the team wanted to know if there are any other topics that you would like developer insights on for future episodes?

So, feel free to post and let us know what topics you’d like to see us dig into and discuss in the WoW: Forever Podcast!

Get to know World of Warcraft: Forever through our latest articles on choosing your ruleset, naming your character, class and race combinations, the new Skyborne race, and the Legacy System, then watch episode 1 of the World of Warcraft: Forever Podcast. You can also look ahead to October’s Trading Post and catch up on the Brewfest in-game holiday, what’s happening in the WoW Portal Room, and more in WoW Weekly.

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We’re tracking server issues that are affecting some Beta testers, and our fix for this will almost certainly result in restarting servers today. Thank you for these reports.

We are in the process of issuing forced name changes to characters found to be in violation of our character naming policies that were created in the Forever Beta. Additionally, we have removed beta access for some users who created names that were far outside of our Code of Conduct. The use of dual names has allowed players new levels of creativity and personalization with your characters, some took this opportunity to reveal too much about themselves and will no longer be participating in this Beta.

The World of Warcraft team takes the safety and inclusiveness of our game very seriously. These actions were performed directly by the World of Warcraft Development team and were individually reviewed. The Customer Service team cannot and will not assist with any appeals. Our system for enforcing naming standards will be coming online very shortly, we would appreciate testers refraining from “testing” this system, as you run the risk of being actioned and losing access to the Beta. Please keep your character names respectful and within policy.

For anyone needing a refresher our code of conduct can be found at: https://us.support.blizzard.com/en/help/article/42673

Today, we updated the WoW Forever Beta with a new build that includes the following updates. Change Log Bugfixes Fixed a bug with casters not playing their precast animations and sometimes standing while casting. Changed the sound effect that plays while jumping in water to be more aesthetically pleasing. Adjusted Human death sounds. Fixed an issue where attempting to craft items or cast spells was causing players to stand up while waiting to obtain their Campfire buff. Players may now buff …

*We are making additional English versions of the World of Warcraft: Forever Collector’s Edition available for purchase starting as early as today (exact timing will vary by retailer) in North America, United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, giving those interested another opportunity to add this keepsake set to their collection to display their Warcraft pride beyond Azeroth. Carve a new path through an Azeroth reimagined with the World of Warcraft®: Forever Collector’s Edition, featuring keepsake physical collectibles and a digital code for the Warcraft Forever Collection. Pre-purchase from the Blizzard Gear Store and be ready when World of Warcraft: Forever launches globally on November 4, 2026, at 3:00 p.m. PST.

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Coming soon to the Beta [Increased weather effects are coming to WoW: Forever Beta Zones]

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We’ve been tracking an issue in the WoW Forever Beta where the 0.5-second cast time that precedes a Hunter’s auto-shot or the use of a wand is not functioning properly.

Due to a bug, these auto-shots are currently incurring a much shorter cast time, which in practice means that Hunters and wand users don’t need to stop to shoot for as long as intended.

This is something that we will fix in an upcoming Beta build, hopefully next week.

A few moments ago, we made a new client build available to Beta testers: WoW Forever 1.60.1 Build 69977

Exit the Beta, go to your Battle.net App, and update your client to this new build to test fixes for:

Fixed some display issues and stability issues on Macs.

Controller navigation should now work more properly in the character selection screen if you launch with gamepad active.

You can now interact with items that give you quests on gamepad.

This client build also includes other fixes for issues that are not testable in-game.

The Skyborne—also known as the shen’dorei, or hidden people—are a new playable race in World of Warcraft: Forever. Their journey begins on Zephras Isle, a level 1–12 starting experience that blends classic Warcraft aesthetics with elemental architecture and a story shaped by wind and ancestry. At character creation, you’ll choose whether your Skyborne joins the proud Horde or the noble Alliance.

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CHANGELOG

I’m editing this post rather than reposting, so this is what changed and when. If you’ve read it before, skip to the first date you haven’t seen. Everything below the changelog is the current state of things.

25 September — “ghost shadows” identified, fault 7 retraction, two new faults

Found what “ghostly shadows” is, and there’s a workaround. In Fullscreen (Windowed) mode, setting a Resolution below your display’s native resolution breaks shadow and light rendering — lit surfaces stop catching light and shadows appear with nothing casting them. In Windowed mode at the same resolution it’s correct. Isolated with one variable, Render Scale held at 100%. New fault 18, and it likely explains why three of us gave three different Shadow Quality thresholds for this — we were on different resolutions and the Shadow Quality number was incidental.

New fault 17: /console gxRestart crashes the client during precipitation. Confirmed by walking out of rain (rebuild works), back into it (crash), repeatedly. Fog is clean — it’s falling precipitation, and it crashes indoors too, so it tracks the zone’s weather state rather than particles in view. This breaks the workaround this whole thread relies on.

Retracting the fault 7 fix. I called it fixed on 24 September and that was half right. Volumetric fog now draws at every Shadow Quality setting — that part is genuinely fixed. God rays only draw at Good and above, which is inverted from the original fault where Low was the only setting that worked. Full sweep in the fault 7 section.

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I was logged into the game when at about 8:15 EST there was an announcement for a server restart, with a 15 minute timer. After about ~15 minutes of normal gameplay, i was taking the boat from Menethil harbor, when we did not transition through the loading screen and became stuck floating in the air. Eventually the servers went down again but once they came back up me and multiple friends are stuck with the same error, while others are able to play anyone else experiencing this?

EDIT-Full 12 hours later, 8:10 EST still same error. Our characters are definitely stuck active in server and clearly no auto-logout is kicking in for us…

Final Edit- 1:18EST, Server restart fixed it! I was able to log in now. Thanks for all the interactions and the community managers for addressing this!

In the Zephras Isle Zone the quest A Fine Response seems to be completely bugged and halts progress. The quest says to confront Belathaan Brightwish, but when you talk to him he says one line and then nothing happens. I have been talking to a lot of other players in general and ones standing around him and no one seems to has gotten past this quest. I tried relogging several times both by him and then back in Valanaar and walking back and nothing works he is always bugged. High Priestess Lorthuna and two Living Storms are automatically here too before even talking to him and I imagine they are supposed to show up after talking to him so, it definitely seems bugged.

In this thread, we’ll collect everything you need to know about World of Warcraft: Forever. [World of Warcraft: Forever | New Horizons | Cinematic Trailer] [World of Warcraft: Forever | Gameplay Trailer]

In World of Warcraft: Forever, every character name is an opportunity to express yourself and establish your identity in Azeroth. With the addition of two names, players have more room to create something personal while keeping each full name unique within a region. That means you may still be able to use the same first name as another character, but your complete two-name combination is unique to you.

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World of Warcraft: Forever is taking a new approach to where and how players begin their journey. Instead of choosing from a long list of realms, players will select a ruleset—Normal, PvP, Roleplaying, or Hardcore—that matches how they want to experience Azeroth. Each option operates as its own large ecosystem for grouping, dungeons, raids, and community, with Hardcore joining the available lineup sometime after launch.

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Our tuning pass this week is mostly targeted at low performers across Mythic+, Raid, and PvP. In addition to helping low performers, we are looking at some hero talent disparity to see if we can create a little more competitive balance between the options to better facilitate more gameplay options.

CLASS CHANGES

DEATH KNIGHT

Blood Developers’ notes: San’layn is dealing quite a bit more damage in AoE than our intended target for tanks. We will be reducing their overall damage to reduce the disparity. However, we will be increasing Death Strike’s damage and reducing its cleave effectiveness to buff Blood’s single target which is a little on the lower end of tanks. In addition, we are making some Deathbringer specific targeted buffs to counter the overall aura nerf and be a small net positive buff to both their AoE and single target damage. All ability and minion damage reduced by 6%. Death Strike damage increased by 15%. Deadly Reach now causes Death Strike now to deal 60% of its damage to 2 nearby enemies (was 75%). Deathbringer Exterminate damage increased by 25%. Reaper’s Mark damage increased by 20%. Wave of Souls damage increased by 20%. Bind in Darkness now increases Blood Boil damage by 50% (was 30%). Deathly Blows now increases Death Strike damage by 20% (was 12%). Swift and Painful now increases Strength by 15% (was 10%).

Blood

Developers’ notes: San’layn is dealing quite a bit more damage in AoE than our intended target for tanks. We will be reducing their overall damage to reduce the disparity. However, we will be increasing Death Strike’s damage and reducing its cleave effectiveness to buff Blood’s single target which is a little on the lower end of tanks. In addition, we are making some Deathbringer specific targeted buffs to counter the overall aura nerf and be a small net positive buff to both their AoE and single target damage.

Just want to clarify that this discussion forum is accessible by all players with an active WoW subscription. I’m not a qualified tech supporter by any stretch, but I had that issue one time following an inelegant shutdown due to a sudden power outage. The solution for me in that case was to go t…

As suggested in the title, I am getting the error: We Can’t install World of Warcraft: Forever because your operating system doesn’t meet the minimum specs to run it. Your OS: Windows 11 / Minimum: Windows 10. Error code: BLZBNTAGT000009CF.

Please help!

I’ve stupidly never left my dad’s battle.net account after all these years - I think I could’ve moved off years ago.. but whatever. My dad and I both purchased the beta on our separate WoW accounts, but on the same battle.net account. It doesn’t select which account and just launches. So my dad signed me out, and vice versa. This is for the WoW Forever beta that it’s not working

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We’ve opened this new forum for WoW: Forever Beta discussions. See you there!

We’re seeing a lot of people waiting to get into the Beta. Thank you for joining us!

We’re working through a couple of final issues, and we hope to throw the doors open soon.

Thank you for your patience!

We’ve seen your feedback that achievable PvP ratings are not meeting expectations, so we’re applying a significant increase to PvP rating inflation starting now for all rated PvP modes with emphasis on Battleground Blitz, Rated Battlegrounds, and Rated 3v3 Arena.

As with past changes to inflation, this adjustment is intended to improve progression as the season continues and support healthier ladder movement. We’ll continue monitoring rating distribution and make further adjustments as necessary.

Thank you for your continued feedback and we’ll see you on the battlefield!

During the Midnight: What’s Next Panel at BlizzCon 2026, players got an early look at Season 3 and what lies ahead including new seasonal dungeons. To take things a bit further, the development team has provided even more insight on what kinds of changes are planned for these dungeons and the next steps leading up to the Public Test later on.

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During the Midnight: What’s Next Panel at BlizzCon 2026, players got an early look at Season 3 and what lies ahead including new seasonal dungeons. To take things a bit further, the development team has provided even more insight on what kinds of changes are planned for these dungeons and the next steps leading up to the Public Test later on.

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Updated September 15

We completed a restoration process today.

In rare cases, we overcompensated. There is now a background process running that will catch where players might have been given extra sparks and remove them.

Updated September 2

As we previously indicated, we had an issue where some players did not receive Sparks of Tides that were due to them. Our previous remedy for this left a number of players still missing Sparks. We’re continuing to work on this, and we’re getting closer to a solution.

We expect to restore Sparks to most players who are still missing them over the next few days, and we’ll update this thread again when that effort is complete.

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Season 1 Mythic+ 0.1% and 1% rewards will be distributed during this week’s maintenance in each region.

0.1% Rating Final Cutoff

1% Rating Final Cutoff

Congrats to those who earned the new title and mount!

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We’ve spotted one item from BlizzCon that we want to clarify. In various places, the new Krol’dok Stronghold dungeon is listed alongside an incorrect level range. In WoW: Forever, Krol’dok Stronghold will be for levels 40-45. Here’s the full list of nine new dungeons coming in WoW: Forever. D…

Players can expect this to be the final round of raid and dungeon trinket adjustments for Season 2 when making loot-related decisions, barring any unexpected outliers that may arise. This pass is primarily intended to promote a more viable niche for single-target healing effect options with a few more miscellaneous minor buffs as well.

In addition, several trinkets from Season 1 remain more desirable than we would like due to a combination of aggressive initial tuning and lack of direct Season 2 trinket competition in a particular niche (in this case, Mastery on use).

Given the later-than-usual timing of this tuning, we are announcing these changes a full week ahead of their implementation to inform player decisions and allow for feedback.

The following changes will be applied with the September 22 weekly maintenance:

Preternatural Antivenom – Healing increased by 75%.

Seed of Radiant Hope – Cooldown reduced to 1 min (was 1.5 mins). Healing increased by 40%.

Hello raiders.

With this week’s server maintenance, we’ll be making the following changes to reduce the difficulty on several encounters in the Venomous Abyss raid.

The Venomous Abyss

Sszorak Tempest damage reduced by 20% on Heroic and Mythic difficulties. Caustic Claws no longer forms a pool of Caustic Residue on Heroic difficulty.

Tempest damage reduced by 20% on Heroic and Mythic difficulties.

Caustic Claws no longer forms a pool of Caustic Residue on Heroic difficulty.

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Use this forum to post about your community in WoW: Forever. Connect with new friends and find old guildmates right here!

Welcome to the World of Warcraft: Forever General Discussion forum! This forum is here to provide you with a friendly environment where you can discuss World of Warcraft: Forever with other players.

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Greetings!

The raid testing schedule is very fluid and subject to the realities of a test environment. There’s the possibility of having to change the time of a testing session, change the bosses being tested, or cancel a test entirely due to bugs, server hardware issues, etc.

Multiple vendors are set up on the PTR in Silvermoon City, Stormwind, and Orgrimmar to allow players to quickly and easily test out end-game content (Profession Vendors and Trainers, Class Set Vendors, PvP Gear Vendors, and Trinket Vendors).

Keep an eye on the PTR forum for the encounter feedback threads and the latest information. Thank you in advance for testing and providing feedback.

The Unbinding of Kith’ix Raid Testing Schedule

Wednesday, September 16 Kith’ix Heroic Difficulty – 13:30 PDT (16:30 EDT, 22:30 CEST) Mythic Difficulty – 14:30 PDT (17:30 EDT, 23:30 CEST)

[Collect Trader’s Tender in Midnight’s Winds of Mysterious Fortune] The forecast calls for fortune! Log in during the Winds of Mysterious Fortune event to earn Trader’s Tender, collect Mysterious Satchels, and breeze through your adventures with bonus experience and reputation gains. View Full Arti…

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A magnificent new addition to players’ mount collections is coming in the 12.1.5 content update, and we’ve got all the details for you here.

When 12.1.5 releases, you’ll find the Sporebearer Fungal Strider for sale in Harandar for 5 Million gold. This rideable beast will include a mailbox, a repair vendor, and a novel utility – for the first time, players will be able to customize the NPCs who are available on the mount when the mount is summoned.

A vendor in Harandar will sell you access to the additional, interchangeable NPCs, including NPCs such as an auctioneer or a transmogrifier. We’re also considering adding additional mount NPCs in future patches.

Players who collect more NPCs than the mount can hold at a time will be able to switch them in and out by speaking to an NPC in Harandar.

The Sporebearer Fungal Strider mount will only be available for purchase until the end of World of Warcraft: Midnight, however, the purchase of and access to the interchangeable NPCs will remain available indefinitely.

Welcome to the Midnight: 12.1.5 PTR forum! This forum is here to provide you with a friendly environment where you can discuss the PTR with other players.

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We recently deployed a fix for interrupts that weren’t counting as credit for this quest. You may need to abandon and accept the quest again for the fix to apply.

Some players have noticed that we have a bug associated with the Black Temple attunement questline. With scheduled weekly maintenance next week (September 8 in this region), we’re going to implement a fix for it. The result of that fix will be that the full quest chain to unlock Black Temple will be required for entry, as intended.

At the same time, players who have not completed the attunement quest chain will lose access to Black Temple if they currently have access.

Additionally, if you’re raiding on alts, you’ll need to log-in to a character who has completed the full quest chain in order to unlock the attunement for the rest of your account.

Thank you for your feedback and reports on this!

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This week, we’ve continued to examine Mythic+, Raid, and PvP data. Considering last week’s tuning, there are some specs that could benefit from further adjustment, especially underperforming specs in Raiding and Mythic+. For PvP, our goal is to reduce overall defensiveness and healing while also increasing offensive capabilities for low performing specializations.

Classes

Death Knight Frost Developers’ notes: We’re aiming to increase Frost Death Knight’s performance in single target and two target cleave scenarios. Howling Blast main target damage increased by 15%. Obliterate damage increased by 15%. Frost Strike damage increased by 20%. Melee damage increased by 10%.

Frost Developers’ notes: We’re aiming to increase Frost Death Knight’s performance in single target and two target cleave scenarios. Howling Blast main target damage increased by 15%. Obliterate damage increased by 15%. Frost Strike damage increased by 20%. Melee damage increased by 10%.

Developers’ notes: We’re aiming to increase Frost Death Knight’s performance in single target and two target cleave scenarios.

Howling Blast main target damage increased by 15%.

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With scheduled weekly maintenance next week (September 1 in this region), we’re implementing a change to raid loot.

Bonus Rolls can only be used on encounters where the player is eligible to receive loot.

This means that on each difficulty, once a player has been locked out of receiving loot for the week, defeating a boss a second or subsequent time before the end of the week will not provide an opportunity for the use of a Bonus Roll. While this is a change in loot behavior from Season 1, we feel that it more closely aligns with how loot works in general, and will be healthier for the acquisition of loot overall.

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As we previously indicated, we’re doing broad class tuning each week for the first three weeks of the Curse of Ula’tek content update. With scheduled weekly maintenance in each region, we’ll make the following tuning adjustments.

Classes

Death Knight Developers’ notes: Frost Death Knight has performed under our expectations at the beginning of Curse of Ula’tek, especially in the Venomous Abyss raid. Frost All ability damage and melee damage increased by 6%. Obliterate damage increased by 15%.

Developers’ notes: Frost Death Knight has performed under our expectations at the beginning of Curse of Ula’tek, especially in the Venomous Abyss raid.

Frost All ability damage and melee damage increased by 6%. Obliterate damage increased by 15%.

All ability damage and melee damage increased by 6%.

First and foremost, we’d like to thank everyone who participated in raid testing on the PTR. Thanks to your testing, we were able to identify and fix several issues, including the first wave of attackers for the Horde base sometimes de-spawning, the wave counter UI at the top of the screen disappearing, and some boss abilities incorrectly targeting the tank.

We’re also adding extra tier token drops to bosses, just like we did previously. That increase was not on the PTR, but will be in place when the new raids open on Thursday, August 27 at 3:00 p.m. PDT (6:00 p.m. EDT).

One question we saw a bit was asking for clarity on our previously-posted statement “We will plan to make other Phase 3 loot changes to heroic dungeon bosses in Phase 3.” As some players correctly concluded, that was intended to call out the Phase 3 changes that players are already familiar with, such as the Epic Gems. We do not have any surprise additional loot changes in the works.

As a reminder, Arena Season 3 starts with the weekly reset next week – that’s the morning of September 1 in this region.

We’ll see you there!

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Have been playing an Evoker, Druid and Monk this season.

Evoker gets disconnected and sent to WoW login screen at a frequency of every 5-10mins.

No issues at all with Druid or Monk. Is this a known issue atm with Evokers or something else?

And just for good measure… everytime I relogin after this happens, my skyriding style is set back to old school flying…

Hello,

We just sent a hotfix with the following changes to Nymrissa Wavecaller on Mythic difficulty:

Abyssal Rain’s initial damage reduced by 12.5% on Mythic difficulty

Abyssal Rain’s periodic damage reduced by 20% on Mythic difficulty

Reduced Abyssal Rain’s damage scaling based on group size for larger groups

Frost Burst damage reduced by 40%

With hotfixes that are now live, we’ve made some adjustments in Altar of Fangs to improve the readability of key abilities and give players more time to respond during some of the dungeon’s more demanding moments, while preserving their intended challenge.

Dungeons

Altar of Fangs Ravenous Descendant’s Ravenous now grants 10% attack speed per stack (was 20%), and movement speed reduced by 20%. Twinfang Harrower’s Paralyzing Shots initial damage reduced by 50%. Venom Leech’s Septic Spatter no longer creates a puddle at the leech’s corpse location. Ritual Chieftain’s Blood Sacrifice absorb reduced by 10%. Caustic Mist Totem’s Unstable Totem damage reduced by 10%. High Evolutionist’s Evolve cooldown increased, Envenom cast time increased to 3 seconds (was 2.5 seconds), and Mass Envenom cast time increased to 3.5 seconds (was 2.5 seconds). Bloodletter’ Bloodletting now procs less frequently. Ascendant Serpent health reduced by 10%. Rav’i Feeding Frenzy no longer increases the rate of Messy Eater and Carrion Burst. Fresh Meat piles now display a warning visual when Rav’i is close enough to eat from them. Hydrastrike damage reduced by 33%. Zul’jan The initial cast of Ritual of the Fang now occurs a few seconds later in the encounter. Ritual of the Fang cast time increased to 5 seconds (was 4 seconds). Fang Empowered damage reduced by 20%.

Ravenous Descendant’s Ravenous now grants 10% attack speed per stack (was 20%), and movement speed reduced by 20%.

Twinfang Harrower’s Paralyzing Shots initial damage reduced by 50%.

Venom Leech’s Septic Spatter no longer creates a puddle at the leech’s corpse location.

I am unable to zone into the new raid with my guild. I logged in late while they were on boss 6 so I suspect that there is a phasing issue.

I was unable to be summoned in and I was unable to walk in the door. I see the raid loading screen, then the silvermoon loading screen and am instead teleported to silvermoon (as if I tried to get to an inaccessible area) and my guildies see me as a “hostile” target. Both summoning and walking in did this.

e: i was able to do raid finder

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We applied a hotfix for this issue 2.5 hours ago, at about 12:45 p.m. PDT today. We’ll continue to keep an eye on it. Thanks for the reports!

With a hotfix that will go live with scheduled weekly maintenance on August 25, we’re adjusting one item:

Items

Aqirbane Reliquary now grants a smaller quantity of all secondary stats (was a large quantity of only Critical Strike). Its first on-equip effect is unchanged, and its second on-equip effect has been updated to increase a random secondary stat (was only Critical Strike) while decreasing the other three.

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We looked into this quest to make sure it’s being offered by Lady Liadrin as intended. With maintenance (now complete in this region), we’ve made an update to the quest rewards. Specifically, now: Silvermoon Defender’s Emblem is now a single item that awards the Silvermoon City warband campsite. …

During scheduled weekly maintenance in each region, we’ll make the following adjustments to dungeons:

Dungeons

The lockout for Mythic difficulty for Season 2 dungeons now resets daily.

The Blinding Vale Thorny Saptor Hunting Leap visibility of ground visual improved. Ziekket Lightbloom’s Essence periodic damage reduced by 25%.

Thorny Saptor Hunting Leap visibility of ground visual improved.

Hunting Leap visibility of ground visual improved.

With the first week of the Curse of Ula’tek content update, we’re making some adjustments to low and high performers to start Season 2 next week. We’ve identified several tier sets that would greatly overperform our expected targets if we didn’t make targeted adjustments to bring their throughput to more expected power levels. At the same time, we’re increasing affected specs baseline abilities to limit the impact of the changes to their tier set bonuses.

CLASS CHANGES

DEATH KNIGHT Blood San’layn Visceral Strength now grants 6% strength (was 10%). Transfusion increases Dancing Rune Weapon damage by 5% (was 10%). Developers’ notes: The tooltip will be updated at a later date to reflect the new value. Frost All ability and auto-attack damage increased by 9%. The Venomous Abyss 2-set bonus has been updated – Now grants 1% attack speed per stack (was 2%). Now increases Icy Death Torrent damage by 2% per stack (was 4%).

DEATH KNIGHT

Blood San’layn Visceral Strength now grants 6% strength (was 10%). Transfusion increases Dancing Rune Weapon damage by 5% (was 10%). Developers’ notes: The tooltip will be updated at a later date to reflect the new value.

San’layn Visceral Strength now grants 6% strength (was 10%). Transfusion increases Dancing Rune Weapon damage by 5% (was 10%). Developers’ notes: The tooltip will be updated at a later date to reflect the new value.

The curse surge quest or collect 100 void whispers gives a spark for pve

Sparks of war in voidstorm or naigtal gives the second spark for the week via pvp.

However, if you never did the midnight tour quest, to do all the faction community events, you can get a 3rd spark from that and be ahead of everyone else immediately on crafting items next week.

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With the launch of Curse of Ula’tek, the first major content update for Midnight, we’re sharing an updated look at our class tuning roadmap for Season 2.

The Curse of Ula’tek content update brings a broad set of class updates along with the opening of the Coiled Isle and its new challenges. As we monitor class performance across the Venomous Abyss, Mythic Keystone dungeons, PvP, Delves, and other endgame activities, we will use a combination of internal data and player feedback to identify opportunities for targeted adjustments, while preserving the strengths and gameplay identity of each specialization.

Our next planned tuning pass will arrive with the start of Midnight Season 2 on August 18, when Normal, Heroic, and Mythic difficulties of the Venomous Abyss open and the new Mythic+ and PvP season begins. We expect to follow with additional adjustments after reviewing the first full week of live Season 2 data.

Thereafter, we will continue to evaluate balance as players progress through PvP, Mythic difficulty, push higher Mythic Keystone levels, and acquire Season 2 class sets and optimized gear. Early progression tuning will generally be conservative, especially before Ula’tek has been defeated on Mythic difficulty, to avoid unnecessary disruption to competitive progression. That said, if we notice unhealthy trends begin to emerge, we’ll quickly develop tuning changes to ensure a more equitable start to the season. Once more representative data is available, we’ll make broader adjustments where appropriate and schedule additional check-in passes throughout the season.

Our currently-planned tuning dates are listed below. Planned changes will be applied with scheduled weekly maintenance in each region.

August 18 - Midnight Season 2 begins

The item “Demystifyin’: Tailoring” did not provide any Midnight Tailoring Knowledge, it used the item and removed it from the vendor, without giving me anything.

Occured after using “Demystifyin’: Enchanting”, maybe using both in quick succession caused the tailoring knowledge to not be rewarded.

In case you didn’t notice, there’s a whole forum for sharing and discussing Blueprints:

Welcome to the Housing Blueprints forum! This forum is here to provide a space for players to share and discuss Blueprints. All other Housing talk can go into the Housing forum.

Community forums work best when participants treat their fellow posters with respect and courtesy, so we ask that you take the time to read through the forum Code of Conduct and guidelines before posting.

Code of Conduct: https://battle.net/support/article/000256989

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Maybe our article here can help out- https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/news/24295382/curse-of-ulatek-housing-updates-new-blueprints-pets-and-more-arrive-for-your-home

I just tried to run the Blinding Vale twice in heroic LFG and it kept bugging at the second boss, the Pedal Wings would not appear after the boss was killed. Could you look into this? Thanks!

This is the result of a bug affecting many dungeons and scenarios. We’re working to fix it as a top priority, and we’ll provide another update as soon as possible.

During the quest The Arcantine, Bob the Bartender is not showing up so you can’t buy a round of drinks during Arator’s campaign story line.

With a hotfix that is now live on all realms, we have addressed this issue. Now, once players are in combat with the boss, the queue should no longer look for additional players.

Due to an unexpected bug, a few players who participated in raid kills during the last few hours of Season 1 did not receive their intended Trophies. Specifically, affected players did not receive:

March on Quel’Danas Vanquisher’s Aureate Trophy

March on Quel’Danas Vanquisher’s Aureate Trophy

March on Quel’Danas Vanquisher’s Argent Trophy

March on Quel’Danas Vanquisher’s Argent Trophy

March on Quel’Danas Vanquisher’s Gleaming Trophy

This was completely unexpected, and we’ve had engineers working on it as a top priority. Thank you for your patience. We’ll continue to do everything we can to get Mal’ganis back up.

The Midnight: Curse of Ula’tek content update is now live. Please read on for a list of known issues that we’re working on and further information about this update.

12.1 KNOWN ISSUES

Updated August 11

Housing

Blueprints Importing Exteriors from different plots can result in an undesireable Orientation.

Importing Exteriors from different plots can result in an undesireable Orientation.

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Midnight Season 2 dungeon testing continues on Tuesday, July 28th. The following dungeons are available for testing during this period:

Altar of Fangs

Altar of Fangs

Murder Row

Murder Row

So, I reported this bug over a month ago, when blueprints became available for testing. Now, with one week before release, I returned to PTR to check if it was fixed, and it’s still there.

BE WARNED: As soon as the patch goes live, save full blueprints for both your houses! If you don’t and this bug hits you, you can lose your entire work with no way to revert it!

I hastily made a low-effort video showing the bug, but since I can’t post videos here, I also made the same post in the /wowhousing community in Reddit. If you want to check it out, just search for this post’s title.

This happens if you have a blueprint of ONLY exterior or ONLY interior. Having a full blueprint (exterior AND interior) and applying it entirely won’t cause this bug. Also, I didn’t encounter issues with room-only blueprints.

If you import an exterior blueprint, and then activate Edit Mode while on your interior, almost ALL your interior decor will be instantly removed, leaving your interior empty (only the rooms will remain).

Plus, if you import an interior blueprint, then activate Edit Mode while on your exterior, almost ALL your exterior decor will be instantly removed, leaving your exterior empty (only the house itself will remain).

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Hello. We’d like to confirm that yes, we’ve recently had a recurring issue with hardware at a partner facility that serves the game for many realms in this region. Specifically, we’ve had some realms for Midnight, Classic Era, and Mists of Pandaria that went offline three times: Sunday, August 2 …

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Venture beyond the mists of the Coiled Isle as the fog lifts from the island off Zul’Aman’s eastern coast. Join Zul’jarra in her pursuit of Zul’jan while exploring the Vaults of Atal’Utek, facing Curse Surges, unlocking the powers of the Altar of Corrosion, and discovering the treasures hidden within the isle’s cursed waters.

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In this post, we’ll update the score required to earn the Umbral Champion and Umbral Hero titles for Midnight Season 1. As a reminder, the Umbral Champion title will go to all players who end Midnight Mythic+ Season 1 with a Mythic+ Rating in the top 1% in each region, and the Umbral Hero title will go to players who make the top 0.1%.

In this region, if Season 1 ended today, the top 1% would score at least:

3949

In this region, if Season 1 ended today, the top 0.1% would score at least:

4207

Good luck!

The current Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary PvP season is coming to an end.

In this region, Season 2 will end at 10:00 p.m. PDT on Monday, August 17. (1:00 a.m. EDT Tuesday, August 18)

Burning Crusade PvP Season 3 will start with the weekly reset on Tuesday, September 1. At that time, Season 2 rewards will be distributed.

Have a good fight to the finish!

Starting tomorrow, Tuesday August 4 at, at 1:00 p.m. PDT (4:00 p.m. EDT), all housing dye items will be temporarily adjusted to become Warbound. This will not change how the items are created or used or purchased on the Auction House, but it will prevent players from posting any new housing dye auctions.

Our goal is to ensure that no housing dyes are up for sale on the Auction House during the deployment of the Curse of Ula’tek content update, to alleviate issues with the upcoming dye conversion.

After the Curse of Ula’tek content update goes live and all existing housing dye and housing dye pigment items are converted to the new housing dye items, players will once again be able to freely trade, sell, or auction the new housing dye items.

We appreciate your patience as we prepare for this changeover.

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With the Curse of Ula’tek content update on the horizon, we’ve prepared an outline of details players may want to know about the end of Season 1 and the beginning of Season 2.

Here’s a rundown of the entire content update.

As in previous seasons, Midnight Season 1 competitive PvP will end at 10:00 p.m. (22:00) the night before patch maintenance begins in each region. Season 1 Mythic+ dungeons will remain available, and achievements such as Cutting Edge and Ahead of the Curve can be obtained, until maintenance begins. When realms go into maintenance the week of August 11, Mythic+ and PvP percentile cutoffs will be calculated. When the game comes back online with the Curse of Ula’tek update, Midnight Season 2 will be underway in a pre-season state, with certain content and rewards not yet available.

World Content and Delves

During the pre-season week, Delve difficulties 1-11 will be available, along with the “?” Nemesis difficulty. Bountiful Delves do not appear during the pre-season, and the maximum tier of rewards available from Delves will be Adventurer 3/6 gear and Veteran Crests.

New outdoor features such as Curse Surges and Vaults of Atal’Utek are available during the pre-season. Pinnacle Caches drop Season 2 Veteran gear and appear during the pre-season week. Hard Prey is available during the pre-season and drops Season 2 Veteran gear.

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[Curse of Ula’tek: The Venomous Abyss Raid Goes Live August 18] Descend into the Venomous Abyss and confront Ula’tek within the inner sanctum of her lair. Awakened by Zul’jan’s actions, this ancient creature of hatred, corruption, and venom waits at the heart of a new eight-boss raid dungeon, where …

On Friday at about 12:30 p.m. PDT, we deployed this hotfix: Fixed a bug that caused the Dance of Midnight Apex talent ranks 2 and 3 to incorrectly increase damage taken. They now decrease damage taken, as intended. This will appear in our next hotfixes update.

Greetings!

Midnight Season 2 dungeon testing continues on Tuesday, July 21st. The following dungeons are available for testing during this period:

Altar of Fangs

Altar of Fangs

Murder Row

Murder Row

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On July 21, three Classic Hardcore realms in North America were impacted by a malicious DDoS attack, resulting in the deaths of some player-characters.

Today, we’ve restored the dead player-characters who were lost during the DDoS timeframe and remained on their Hardcore realm.

Restorations are now complete. Players who fit the above criteria should be able to log back into their character on the Hardcore realm.

Thank you!

As we mentioned, we internally monitored and confirmed a recent incident in which a World of Warcraft group gained an unfair advantage by abuse of access to development-only spells on a live realm. Our tools confirmed what was also surfaced in community discussions, and we have investigated the incident carefully. We can confirm that this was the action of a single Blizzard employee, in violation of our Code of Conduct. This employee is no longer with the company effective immediately. We are also taking action against the player accounts that were complicit in this violation.

It has always been the case that a small number of Blizzard employees can use developer tools and spells on live servers: this lets us test and make urgent fixes to the live game when they’re needed. Every use of these internal spells and commands on live realms is logged and shared with our Platform Security team to help ensure that the occasional use of this access is warranted. The use of development tools for anything other than development work is against company policy. It’s because of the process we have in place around use of these tools that we’re confident this incident was isolated to one individual.

We want to thank those of you in the WoW community who reached out with information and real concern for the integrity of the game, as well as the community sites that are also working to remove the results of this violation from their records. When your findings line up with ours, it helps confirm that our own tools are catching what they should, and we’re grateful for the way we work alongside you all to protect the game and each other.

The World of Warcraft Development Team

Greetings!

The raid testing schedule is very fluid and subject to the realities of a test environment. There’s the possibility of having to change the time of a testing session, change the bosses being tested, or cancel a test entirely due to bugs, server hardware issues, etc.

Multiple vendors are set up on the PTR in Silvermoon City, Stormwind and Orgrimmar to allow players to quickly and easily test out end-game content (Profession Vendors and Trainers, Class Set Vendors, PvP Gear Vendors, and Trinket Vendors).

Keep an eye on the PTR forum for the encounter feedback threads and the latest information. Thank you in advance for testing and providing feedback.

The Venomous Abyss Raid Testing Schedule

The final boss in the Venomous Abyss will not be available for testing.

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According to wowhead, reddit and others a game master intervened in a +23 NPX and ported himself into the dungeon to kill some trash for the group who finished the last boss under %. The group is friends with the GM and were in VC at the time and asked for him to do them a solid.

All the details on wowhead, but this is wild. We can’t even get real people to respond to tickets but a GM has the time and ability to cheat in a M+ for his buddies?

Alleged Cheating in +23 Nexus Point Xe’nas Log - Wowhead News

Blizz, you cannot remain silent on this.

With scheduled weekly maintenance in each region, we’ll make tuning adjustments that are primarily targeted at healer balance and Demon Hunter survivability in PvP.

Player versus Player

Demon Hunter Developers’ notes: Both Devourer and Havoc Demon Hunters have been more difficult to land kills against than intended. We’re reducing the potency of shared mitigation effects that are contributing to their survival. Demon Muzzle now reduces magic damage taken by 5% in PvP combat (was 15%). Glimpse now reduces damage taken by 25% (was 35%) while airborne after using Vengeful Retreat.

Developers’ notes: Both Devourer and Havoc Demon Hunters have been more difficult to land kills against than intended. We’re reducing the potency of shared mitigation effects that are contributing to their survival.

Demon Muzzle now reduces magic damage taken by 5% in PvP combat (was 15%).

Glimpse now reduces damage taken by 25% (was 35%) while airborne after using Vengeful Retreat.

Update July 17

With hotfixes that are now live, the following have been added to Burning Crusade Classic:

User Interface

Raid Frames Added interface options for Raid Frames to select health bar color and background color. Added interface options for Raid Frames to show or hide dispellable debuff indicators (default: off). Edit Mode: Added Layout Template, Opacity, and Aura Icon Size options to Raid Frames Edit Mode: Fixed a bug where some aura icons would appear larger in the Edit Mode Raid Frame preview.

Added interface options for Raid Frames to select health bar color and background color.

Added interface options for Raid Frames to show or hide dispellable debuff indicators (default: off).

Greetings!

Midnight Season 2 dungeon testing continues on Tuesday, July 14th. The following dungeons are available for testing during this period:

Altar of Fangs

Murder Row

Den of Nalorakk

Voidscar Arena

Hello,

Please share any feedback you have about your experience in The Tidebound Grotto (Mythic) in this thread.

Noting the nature of your group (pre-made vs. guild), the size of your raid, and the class/spec you played can also provide great context for your feedback.

Thank you for spending your time to test on the PTR - we really appreciate it!

Hello,

Please share any feedback you have about your experience in The Tidebound Grotto (Heroic) in this thread.

Noting the nature of your group (pre-made vs. guild), the size of your raid, and the class/spec you played can also provide great context for your feedback.

Thank you for spending your time to test on the PTR - we really appreciate it!

Hello,

We will be testing the following raid encounters on Friday, July 17th.

Unlike our normal raid testing, players will be required to make their way to the entrance of the instance. The entrance to the instance is south of Tokka’s Landing on The Coiled Isle, the new zone introduced in The Curse of Ula’tek update.

Nymrissa Wavecaller (Heroic) – 13:00 PDT (16:00 EDT, 22:00 CEST)

Nymrissa Wavecaller (Heroic) – 13:00 PDT (16:00 EDT, 22:00 CEST)

Nymrissa Wavecaller (Mythic) – 14:00 PDT (17:00 EDT, 23:00 CEST)

With hotfixes to the PTR that are now deployed, today we’ve made the following updates to healers in Curse of Ula’tek.

Druid

Restoration Abundance increases critical chance of Regrowth by 60% (was 50%) and reduces cost by 60% (was 50%). Regrowth healing increased by 25%.

Abundance increases critical chance of Regrowth by 60% (was 50%) and reduces cost by 60% (was 50%).

Regrowth healing increased by 25%.

Evoker

With hotfixes that are now live, we’ve fixed the bug causing this to persist outside of Naigtal. The extra action button should now only appear for you if you’re in Naigtal.

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During this week of PTR testing I did this dungeon 7 times. I think there some issues with the difficulty as well as issues with the pacing of the dungeon. I think its about one key level harder than the other keys on the PTR. Now this could change but, pugs were struggling on this on PTR and I expect it to be a menace on live for more casual players. I know two title level teams that are not pushing next season in part because of this dungeon.

• The 2nd boss trash is completely on rails. You have to do FIVE pulls in a row where you fight 1-3 mobs. It really drags on and DPS players hate this kind of thing. – FIX - make all four king packs active so that players may combine them as they choose. – FIX 2 - Make 2 of the king packs activate at the same time so its two sets of two instead of four separate pulls – FIX 3 - Reduce the health of these packs so its rapid fire killing fun

• The Shaman’s Healing tide totem is stronger than a resto shaman on retail. Like a resto shaman tide totem is 3 min cd and this mob can summon one every 15 seconds that does MORE healing than a shaman lmao. – FIX 1 - Make the totem heal every 4 or 6 seconds instead of every 2 seconds. – FIX 2 - Make the totem a Healing STREAM totem instead of a TIDE totem. So it only heals a few mobs at a time. – FIX 3 - Put a cap so it can only spawn 2 totems before running out of energy. This would prevent packs living for 3 min and limit the amount of problems a low knowledge group faces

Hopefully blizz makes it fun but I felt like I could give them ideas

Hello,

Please share any feedback you have about your experience in The Venomous Abyss (Normal) in this thread.

Noting the nature of your group (pre-made vs. guild), the size of your raid, and the class/spec you played can also provide great context for your feedback.

Thank you for spending your time to test on the PTR - we really appreciate it!

Greetings!

Midnight Season 2 dungeon testing continues on Tuesday, July 7th. The following dungeons are available for testing during this period:

Temple of Sethraliss

Kings’ Rest

Ruby Life Pools

During the test period you’ll be able to acquire and customize Mythic Keystones by talking to the Keystone Vendor in Stormwind, Orgrimmar and Silvermoon. The nearby Dungeon Teleports NPC will assist you with transportation. This NPC will now also appear at the beginning of each dungeon on Mythic difficulty who can teleport players back to a capital city.

Hello,

Please share any feedback you have about your experience in The Venomous Abyss (Mythic) in this thread.

Noting the nature of your group (pre-made vs. guild), the size of your raid, and the class/spec you played can also provide great context for your feedback.

Thank you for spending your time to test on the PTR - we really appreciate it!

Looking at players’ gear in Midnight Season 1, improved by upgrades, Voidcores, and powerful loot that became available in 12.0.7, we need to make sure that Season 2 is offering meaningful upgrades to players as they embark upon their journey through their preferred content.

Based on early PTR feedback, it’s clear that a 39-iLvl increase wasn’t quite enough to hit the mark there, so we’re shifting everything up 7 additional iLvls, making Season 2 rewards a 46-iLvl increase.

This update has been applied to the Curse of Ula’tek PTR today, and is now available for testing.

Based on your feedback, we’ve made some updates!

On Friday, July 10 starting at 10:00 PDT (13:00 EDT, 19:00 CEST), come join members of the World of Warcraft development team on the Nobundo PTR realm as we playtest the Vaults of Atal’Utek—now featuring quality-of-life improvements such as:

An all-new quest to introduce players to the space and the Altar of Corrosion.

A new flight network to mini-hubs within the vaults, so you can get from one end to another safely.

Movement and stealth abilities are now baseline—unlock upgraded versions at the Altar of Corrosion.

Flying as a ghost has been enabled in the area. No more long walks back to your corpse!

Greetings!

Midnight Season 2 dungeon testing continues on Thursday, July 2nd. We are making an adjustment to our Mythic+ testing schedule.

July 2nd - July 6th: Midnight Dungeons The Blinding Vale Den of Nalorakk Murder Row Voidscar Arena

July 2nd - July 6th: Midnight Dungeons

The Blinding Vale

The Blinding Vale

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Since the 12.0.5 content update, we’ve been building on your feedback with targeted improvements aimed at enhancing the play experience. Recent hotfixes along with Midnight: Revelations changes have already addressed some issues with rewards, looting, quest experience, and durability loss. More updates are planned in the Curse of Ula’tek content update, including account-wide user interface settings, Auction House improvements, a one-time Profession Knowledge reset, and fixes for common combat and travel issues.

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Greetings!

Midnight Season 2 dungeon testing begins on Thursday, June 25th. Please note that this schedule may be adjusted.

June 25 - July 1: Altar of Fangs

July 2 - July 8: Midnight Dungeons The Blinding Vale Den of Nalorakk Murder Row Voidscar Arena

The Blinding Vale

Den of Nalorakk

With scheduled weekly maintenance in each region, we’ll make tuning adjustments that are primarily targeted at specs that are unperforming in group content.

In PvP, we’re continuing to improve underperforming specs, address over-performing specs, and adjust burst damage where specs have too much or too little.

Classes

Druid

Balance All damage increased by 4%.

All damage increased by 4%.

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The Tidebound Grotto

We will be opening up The Tidebound Grotto for testing on World difficulty at 8pm Pacific Time for one hour. This is an instance with a single raid boss.

Instructions for Entering the Instance

You can enter the instance by swimming down to the instance’s entrance near the Wreck of Gral’s Belly on The Coiled Isle, the new zone in the Curse of Ula’tek. Once outside the instance, approach the instance portal and select “World” difficulty from the UI.

Feedback

During this testing window, we’d like to get some feedback on the new “World” difficulty experience. Some questions that might help guide your feedback are below:

Hello,

Please share any feedback you have about your experience in The Venomous Abyss (Heroic) in this thread.

Noting the nature of your group (pre-made vs. guild), the size of your raid, and the class/spec you played can also provide great context for your feedback.

Thank you for spending your time to test on the PTR - we really appreciate it!

With hotfixes that are now live, we’ve made changes in response to feedback from players. In Normal World Tier, our goal is to make it easier for players to more easily gain power and graduate to Heroic World Tier content. For Heroic World Tier, we’re adding more powerful Warbound-until-equipped gear to accelerate alt gearing. We’re also increasing the frequency of rare spawns to reduce periods of downtime after all quests and objectives have been cleared:

Void-Touched Heroic Caches from Maren Silversong in Silvermoon City are now Warbound.

Rare enemies now drop twice as many crests as before.

Warp Riders and Blasktar Legion enemies can now drop Heroic Crests in the Heroic World Tier.

Dark Particles now drop in Val and Naigtal and stack to 1000.

Rare enemies can now drop Heroic items that are Warbound-until-equipped.

On Friday, June 26 at 3:00pm PDT (6:00pm EDT, 00:00 CEST), come join members of the World of Warcraft development team on the Nobundo PTR realm as we playtest the new Vaults of Atal’Utek feature being added in the Curse of Ula’tek update.

The Vaults of Atal’Utek provide a challenging play space that requires players to work together to defeat the forces of Ula’tek. Aid ancient Amani spirits in fighting back evil undead and Children of Ula’tek monsters, gathering the Corrosive Coins required to power up the Altar of Corrosion and gain permanent benefits to help you survive the Coiled Isle.

The playtest starts at 3:00pm PDT (6:00pm EDT, 00:00 CEST), but activities will be available nonstop within the Vaults of Atal’Utek so feel free to show up at any point!

To prepare for this test session, make sure you’ve followed the following steps:

Open the Battle.net App and select the WoW playscreen.

Open the Battle.net App and select the WoW playscreen.

We’ve been paying close attention to the discussion around the Midnight Season 2 dungeon pool. Some of that discussion has focused on returning dungeons with pain points from past seasons, and some has focused on the unique mechanics in the Midnight dungeons. That feedback is useful, and it lines up with the work we do internally when building a season. We want to take this opportunity to share more about how we choose dungeons, how we update them for Mythic+, and what we’ve already done for Midnight Season 2.

Choosing Dungeons

When we begin choosing dungeons for a Mythic+ season, the first thing we look at is which dungeons might fit the theme of the upcoming update. Sometimes that means reconnecting players with a story, character, or place that is relevant to the game’s current story. With L’ura threatening the Sunwell in March on Quel’danas, it was a great time to bring that character back and show the start of her relationship with Alleria in Seat of the Triumvirate. Other times, it is more about shared themes, like the connection between trolls, snakes, and the Curse of Ul’atek. Not every dungeon needs to point at the same story or tone, though. A dungeon like Ruby Life Pools can help the pool feel more varied by giving players a change of pace from the patch’s main themes, as can a dungeon like Skyreach from Midnight Season 1.

From there, we think about the shape of the full pool. Each dungeon should bring something distinct, whether that is its theme, layout, pacing, visual style, or mechanical identity. We want the season to feel varied from key to key, with a strong mix of different places, different problems to solve, and different reasons to be excited about each dungeon in the pool.

Updating Dungeons

Selecting a dungeon for a new season is a big commitment. We need to believe that the dungeon can contribute to the goals of the season, but we also must commit to addressing aspects of the dungeon that didn’t play out well last time it was featured in a Mythic+ season.

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This is the story of how we got to the Dye Update in Curse of Ula’tek, streamlining dye crafting, reducing bag space requirements, fixing unintended color changes, and adding a bunch of new colors to use with all dyeable decor.

“These colors don’t match,” many players said after 12.0.5’s release. “This Obsidium Black isn’t as black. This Mesquite Brown isn’t as brown.”

We agreed, so we got to work.

Here’s how we got from those comments to the Dye Update that’s coming in Curse of Ula’tek.

HOW IT BEGAN

When we were first building Housing, we knew we wanted crafting to be a significant part of decor collection. Crafting is a part of WoW and has been since the very beginning, and one of the core philosophies in Housing’s rewards design was “as if it had always been there”, which is how we got to putting all those retroactive rewards on old quests and achievements and added decor rewards to all those old gameplay bits. Dyes seemed a natural fit here as well, so all 62 colors became recipes that both alchemists and scribes could make.

We are currently able to repeat Sporefall. My guild plans to do this with a small group and then a large group, back to back.

Blizzard has not made a statement if this is intended or not, and there are articles coming out now saying this is an exploit that has resulted in account suspensions.

I see no topics here about account bannings or the like.

Blizzard should be required to make a clear post/statement about this current functionality and if it is indeed an exploit, and which part of the function is the exploit. -Is it solely the multiple Bonus Rolls similar to Heroic? -Is it the ability to kill the boss multiple times? -Is it both?

Has anyone been banned/suspended for doing this? Has Blizzard made a statement that I cannot find?

Join community manager Bethany “Linxy” Hudson as she sits down with lead quest designer Rachel Vought and senior software engineer Taylor Garcia in the latest WoWCast. They’ll take you through some of what’s to come in the next Midnight content update—Curse of Ula’tek.

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We’ve identified an issue with the Cooldown Manager where certain buffs and debuffs aren’t tracking properly for friendly and enemy players. We’re working on fixing the issues and will update this thread after the fix is live in-game.

Thanks for the reports! There is a fix on the way for the Grand Magister tagging issue.

With scheduled realm maintenance tomorrow, we’ll make the following changes.

Raids

March on Quel’Danas Midnight Falls Glimmering damage reduced by 20% on Mythic difficulty. Reduced the spread of Midnight Crystals and Dusk Crystals. Starsplinter can no longer target a player twice at the same time. Criticality cast time increased to 4 seconds (was 3 seconds). Dawn Crystals now begin pulsing Radiance after 6 seconds on Heroic and Mythic difficulties (was 5 seconds). Dark Constellation cast time increased to 3 seconds on Mythic difficulty (was 2.5 seconds). Dark Constellations now spawn further from Light Siphons. Radiance damage reduced by 50% on Heroic difficulty. Tears of L’ura now spawn 1 soak on Heroic difficulty (was 2). Resonance no longer triggers Tears of L’ura.

Midnight Falls Glimmering damage reduced by 20% on Mythic difficulty. Reduced the spread of Midnight Crystals and Dusk Crystals. Starsplinter can no longer target a player twice at the same time. Criticality cast time increased to 4 seconds (was 3 seconds). Dawn Crystals now begin pulsing Radiance after 6 seconds on Heroic and Mythic difficulties (was 5 seconds). Dark Constellation cast time increased to 3 seconds on Mythic difficulty (was 2.5 seconds). Dark Constellations now spawn further from Light Siphons. Radiance damage reduced by 50% on Heroic difficulty. Tears of L’ura now spawn 1 soak on Heroic difficulty (was 2). Resonance no longer triggers Tears of L’ura.

Glimmering damage reduced by 20% on Mythic difficulty.

Reduced the spread of Midnight Crystals and Dusk Crystals.

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Was pretty close to leveling when I froze my XP last night at lvl 50, did a bunch of incursions without gaining xp.

Logged in this morning, turned in an incursion quest I forgot to the night before and leveled.

None of this is Blizzard’s fault…I should’ve realized the XP bar when I logged in this morning.

But why oh why is the XP freeze not frozen until you manually turn it back on like every other implementation of XP freezing that Blizzard has ever put out?

Edit: went back to the NPC and nowhere does it say you’ll have to do this every daily reset. would be a good disclaimer for others that might overlook it

EDIT 2:

New Season 3 Celestial Dungeons will become available with weekly resets in each region on Tuesday, June 16.

New Enemy Buffs Glory to the True Horde: Creatures in the Celestial Dungeons will have their Damage and Health increased. Kor’kron Banners: Banners are now planted throughout the dungeons that empower nearby enemies. Periodically, a boss is influenced by Garrosh Hellscream, and will use an ability based on one of his loyal followers from the Siege of Orgrimmar Raid. General Nazgrim, Wavebinder Kardis, and Siegecrafter Blackfuse have answered Garrosh’s call to arms.

New Enemy Buffs

Glory to the True Horde: Creatures in the Celestial Dungeons will have their Damage and Health increased.

Kor’kron Banners: Banners are now planted throughout the dungeons that empower nearby enemies.

Periodically, a boss is influenced by Garrosh Hellscream, and will use an ability based on one of his loyal followers from the Siege of Orgrimmar Raid. General Nazgrim, Wavebinder Kardis, and Siegecrafter Blackfuse have answered Garrosh’s call to arms.

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Hi there, I am getting the “No realms currently available (WOW51900309)” error when trying to log into MoP Classic after the SoO patch that just went live, last night. Earlier in the day before the maintenance, I logged in just fine. While I was getting this error in MoP Classic, I was able to log into Retail just fine. On version 5.5.4.67969

I have tried the following:

Restart Game

Restart Game

Restart Launcher

Restart Launcher

With a hotfix that went live about ten minutes ago, we’ve reduced Transmog outfix and slot gold costs by 90%. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

We’ve identified an issue that is causing this for some players in this region only. This issue has had the following impacts: Players can’t buy replacement cloaks Players can’t pick up legendary quests or campaign quests The new Brawler’s Guild is inactive It’s looking like we’re going to fix t…

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Why was this not even on the PTR? Saving transmog sets in this new system costs over 3x as much in most cases. Just checked and it was 1480g to save 1 set. I’m looking at 10s of thousands of gold to interact with this system on my characters (which all have multiple sets). I get that the system allows you to save them all and change to them at will, but that amount of gold in MoP compared to retail is actually unacceptable

[Mists of Pandaria Classic: Siege of Orgrimmar Raid Unlocks June 4] Garrosh Hellscream’s arrogance has brought ruin to the Vale of Eternal Blossoms. Champions of the Alliance and the Horde must march on his capital and bring the ruthless Warchief’s reign to an end. View Full Article

With today’s maintenance, we’ve implemented a hotfix to the Arena user interface. Following an Arena match, the user interface now displays the pre-match Matchmaking Ratings (MMR) for each team. Our goal here is to provide more information, so that players can better contextualize their changing …

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We’ve decided to keep the Siege of Orgrimmar Raid available on the PTR so we can continue diagnosing and fixing bugs. We’re especially focusing on diagnosing issues with the crash on Blackfuse and Malkorok’s abilities. Thank you for your participation and feedback!

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[Take a Midsummer Stroll Over to the June Trading Post] The June Trading Post burns bright with a selection of An’she-inspired items. Complete activities to earn Trader’s Tender and unlock this month’s offerings. Fill your Traveler’s Log to claim the Flame-Painted Sun Roc mount. View Full Article

[Add the Omnium Folio to Your Library of Tools Against the Void] Unlock the reawakened Sunstrider Omnium and wield the Omnium Folio, a runic ledger available in the Midnight: Revelations content update, then take part in weekly activities to imbue runes and unlock its full potential in the fight aga…

With scheduled weekly maintenance in each region, we’ll make tuning adjustments that are primarily targeted at Hero Talents that are unperforming in various types of content.

In PvP combat, we’re continuing to improve underperforming specs, address over- and under-performing specs, and either increase or reduce burst damage for specs that need it or have a bit too much.

CLASSES

DEMON HUNTER Developers’ notes: Aldrachi Reaver performance has been below its alternative Hero Talent options, so we’re buffing some of its effects to reduce the disparity. Havoc Death Sweep damage increased by 10%. Developers’ notes: This resolves an issue from a previous update where Blade Dance damage was increased, but Death Sweep’s damage was not correctly updated to match. The base damage of Death Sweep is intended to be 30% more than that of Blade Dance. Aldrachi Reaver: Reaver’s Glaive damage increased by 15%. Aldrachi Reaver: Warblade’s Hunger damage increased by 55%. Aldrachi Reaver: Wounded Quarry now deals 30% of Physical damage to the target of your Reaver’s Mark (was 25%). Vengeance Aldrachi Reaver: Reaver’s Glaive damage increased by 30%. Aldrachi Reaver: Warblade’s Hunger damage increased by 55%. Aldrachi Reaver: Wounded Quarry now deals 25% of Physical damage to the target of your Reaver’s Mark (was 20%).

Developers’ notes: Aldrachi Reaver performance has been below its alternative Hero Talent options, so we’re buffing some of its effects to reduce the disparity.

Havoc Death Sweep damage increased by 10%. Developers’ notes: This resolves an issue from a previous update where Blade Dance damage was increased, but Death Sweep’s damage was not correctly updated to match. The base damage of Death Sweep is intended to be 30% more than that of Blade Dance. Aldrachi Reaver: Reaver’s Glaive damage increased by 15%. Aldrachi Reaver: Warblade’s Hunger damage increased by 55%. Aldrachi Reaver: Wounded Quarry now deals 30% of Physical damage to the target of your Reaver’s Mark (was 25%).

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Hello, Please share any feedback you have about your experience in Heroic Sporefall in this thread. Noting the nature of your group (pre-made vs. guild), the size of your raid, and the class/spec you played can also provide great context for your feedback. Thank you for spending your time to test…

[Prepare to Face Rotmire in the Sporefall Raid] In the Midnight: Revelations content update, we’re introducing a new single-boss raid located in Harandar. You’ll face the fungal giant Rotmire in Raid Finder, Normal, Heroic, and Mythic difficulties. Players can also undertake Mythic difficulty in fle…

With weekly maintenance today, the caps on upgrade crests have been removed. This and other changes will appear in the Hotfixes Update later today.

With scheduled realm maintenance tomorrow, we’ll make the following changes.

Raids

March on Quel’Danas

Midnight Falls Heaven’s Glaives maximum duration reduced to 1 minute (was 2 minutes). Reduced the spread of Midnight Crystals on Mythic difficulty. Starsplinter initial damage reduced by 20% on Mythic difficulty. Criticality damage reduced by 20%.

Heaven’s Glaives maximum duration reduced to 1 minute (was 2 minutes).

Reduced the spread of Midnight Crystals on Mythic difficulty.

The Hall of Fame for March on Quel’Danas is now full! Congratulations to all guilds who reached this place in the history of World of Warcraft. As a reminder, the Hall of Fame will close with weekly resets tomorrow, so if your guild is close to finishing, you have a few more hours to complete the r…

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We determined that crafted items that were in the process of being recrafted or in a mailbox at the time of the original hotfix could not be targeted by that fix. A second hotfix that does not have this limitation is currently in the process of being deployed, and impacted items should be upgradabl…

Hello,

Please share any feedback you have about your experience in Mythic Sporefall in this thread.

Noting the nature of your group (pre-made vs. guild), the size of your raid (15-25), and the class/spec you played can also provide great context for your feedback.

Thank you for spending your time to test on the PTR - we really appreciate it!

Mists of Pandaria Classic PvP Season 13 will end at 10:00 p.m. PDT on Monday, May 25. Season 13 Rewards will be distributed with the weekly reset on June 9.

Later in the day tomorrow, May 13, we intend to deploy hotfixes to adjust Ascendant Voidshard drop rates. Our goal with these changes is not to slow down acquisition rates overall, but to better align the value of Voidshards as a reward with the activities players are participating in.

After these changes go live, Ascendant Voidshards will drop at a 100% rate from:

Heroic and Mythic raid kills.

Mythic+ 10 or higher completions, with no cap.

Delve Tier 11 bountiful chests.

Nightmare Prey Champion gear boxes.

[Mists of Pandaria Classic: The Siege of Orgrimmar Update Arrives June 2] Azeroth's heroes have stood against the Thunder King, yet a darker storm now gathers in Garrosh Hellscream. With the Vale of Eternal Blossoms corrupted and Orgrimmar in chaos, the Warchief must be stopped before all are dragge…

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Our recent adjustments to Guardian have made the Elune’s Chosen build stronger than intended. We’re going to take steps to bring this back in line with realm restarts during scheduled weekly maintenance this week.

Classes

Druid

Guardian Thrash direct damage reduced by 25%. Elune’s Favored now heals for 15% of Arcane damage dealt (was 25%).

Thrash direct damage reduced by 25%.

Elune’s Favored now heals for 15% of Arcane damage dealt (was 25%).

We’re deploying some tuning for tanks with scheduled weekly maintenance, as we feel that tanking has fallen behind our intentions for keeping up with the incoming damage in Mythic+. We’re focusing on two goals.

Increase passive mitigation to broadly reduce damage for tank specs that underperform in higher keys.

Increase uptime and effectiveness on some cooldowns. This should help underperforming specs to better cover periods of heavy damage.

We’re hopeful that these changes will help bridge the gap between tank specs, and we will continue to monitor and tune as necessary.

Classes

Death Knight Blood Developers’ notes: We are looking at smoothing out the damage intake of Blood outside of their cooldown window by increasing the consistency and uptime of their Apex Talent. To further help these windows of high damage intake we are also increasing their Health and Death Strike healing. Dancing Rune Weapon grants 25% Parry (was 20%). Blood Fortification grants 40% Stamina (was 35%). Improved Death Strike healing increased to 15% (was 5%). Dance of Midnight grants Dancing Rune Weapon for 8 seconds (was 6 seconds). Dance of Midnight chance to proc increased to 12.5% (was 10%).

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Well this is a fun bug, and it’s so weird I don’t know if I can explain it right. I haven’t seen this one posted anywhere. I somehow manage to find the weirdest stupid bugs!

I decided to redo my library, which is made in an empty stairwell, and figured I’d attach a second empty stairwell (with a closet inbetween to avoid the known bug) on the 2nd floor of the existing library. That way if nothing I did was better than what I had, I could just keep the existing, and having it so close to the existing library made it easy to move elements I wanted to keep.

Since you know, we don’t have a save option yet.

So I got to the point where I knew I’d keep the new library, and set to moving all the attached rooms so I could delete the exiting library and put the new into place.

It all went exactly as I planned, I got almost everything put back into place, until I went to put one of the closets on the second floor (which is part of a window scene).

There is no second floor, it’s a blank void, and it shows there’s a third floor, but there’s nothing there.

The Siege of Orgrimmar will be available for raid testing on the MoP Classic PTR this weekend. May 8 at 10:00 a.m. PDT - May 11 at 8:00 a.m. Thank you for testing with us!

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With scheduled weekly maintenance in each region, we’ll make the following adjustments.

Raids

The Voidspire Crown of the Cosmos Alleria health reduced by 5% in Mythic difficulty. Alleria’s berserk timer increased by 15 seconds in Mythic difficulty. Demiar, Morium, and Vorelus health in Stage One reduced by 10% in Mythic difficulty. Alleria’s energy generation rate in Stage Two reduced by 10% in Mythic difficulty. Rift Simulacrum health reduced by 10% in Mythic difficulty. Demiar, Morium, and Vorelus energy generation rate in Stage Three reduced by 13% in Mythic difficulty. Rift Simulacrum energy generation rate in Stage Two and Three reduced by 13% in Mythic difficulty. Spawn time between Rift Simulacrum and Cosmic Portal increased slightly in Mythic difficulty. Voidstalker Sting targets 10% fewer players in Stage Three. Silverstrike Ricochet width increased to 5 yards (was 4 yards) in Mythic difficulty to match other difficulties.

Crown of the Cosmos Alleria health reduced by 5% in Mythic difficulty. Alleria’s berserk timer increased by 15 seconds in Mythic difficulty. Demiar, Morium, and Vorelus health in Stage One reduced by 10% in Mythic difficulty. Alleria’s energy generation rate in Stage Two reduced by 10% in Mythic difficulty. Rift Simulacrum health reduced by 10% in Mythic difficulty. Demiar, Morium, and Vorelus energy generation rate in Stage Three reduced by 13% in Mythic difficulty. Rift Simulacrum energy generation rate in Stage Two and Three reduced by 13% in Mythic difficulty. Spawn time between Rift Simulacrum and Cosmic Portal increased slightly in Mythic difficulty. Voidstalker Sting targets 10% fewer players in Stage Three. Silverstrike Ricochet width increased to 5 yards (was 4 yards) in Mythic difficulty to match other difficulties.

Alleria health reduced by 5% in Mythic difficulty.

Alleria’s berserk timer increased by 15 seconds in Mythic difficulty.

As we’ve accumulated a few days of data and player feedback following the 12.0.5 update, we’re planning to make adjustments that address outliers in both group play and in PvP. The following changes will go live with scheduled weekly maintenance in each region (on May 5 in this region).

CLASSES

Death Knight Frost All damage increased by 5%. Does not affect PvP combat. Unholy Developers’ notes: Unholy Death Knight is performing better than intended after recent bugfixes and the 12.0.5 changes. Magus of the Dead Shadow Bolt damage reduced by 15%. Does not affect PvP combat. Graveyard damage reduced by 15%. Does not affect PvP combat. Rider of the Apocalypse: Whitemane’s Epidemic damage reduced by 25%. This does not affect PvP combat. Rider of the Apocalypse: Trolbane’s Icy Fury damage reduced by 25%. Ddoes not affect PvP combat. San’layn: Thrill of Blood now increases the damage of Dread Plague and Virulent Plague by 10% (was 5%).

Frost All damage increased by 5%. Does not affect PvP combat.

All damage increased by 5%. Does not affect PvP combat.

Unholy Developers’ notes: Unholy Death Knight is performing better than intended after recent bugfixes and the 12.0.5 changes. Magus of the Dead Shadow Bolt damage reduced by 15%. Does not affect PvP combat. Graveyard damage reduced by 15%. Does not affect PvP combat. Rider of the Apocalypse: Whitemane’s Epidemic damage reduced by 25%. This does not affect PvP combat. Rider of the Apocalypse: Trolbane’s Icy Fury damage reduced by 25%. Ddoes not affect PvP combat. San’layn: Thrill of Blood now increases the damage of Dread Plague and Virulent Plague by 10% (was 5%).

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In Housing, the floors are now reverting to the Folk Hardwood or Rugged Hardwood appearance, regardless of the setting, whenever the player logs out and back in, or leaves and comes back to the House.

This is similar to the “dark and light revert to medium” bug that afflicted Housing for months. (That one MIGHT be fixed as of today.)

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[Take a First Look at the Midnight: Revelations Content Update] In the next content update, take the next step in thwarting the forces of the Void—hunting down their leaders and uncovering new sources of power. Players will also face a new single-boss raid in Sporefall and Turbulent Timeways returns…

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With the weekly reset, we’re making these adjustments:

Dungeons

Algeth’ar Academy Timer increased 31 minutes (was 30 minutes).

Timer increased 31 minutes (was 30 minutes).

Maisara Caverns Muro’jin and Nekraxx Coordinated Assault damage reduced by 30%, and now ignores armor.

Muro’jin and Nekraxx Coordinated Assault damage reduced by 30%, and now ignores armor.

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Hello!

We want to follow up on our previous post about issues we encountered with the new Voidforge bonus roll system. The Voidforge system is a brand new system using new tech that enables players to earn their desired myth track gear utilizing a bonus roll currency called Nebulous Voidcores to improve the player experience of gearing during Season 1 of Midnight.

What Happened?

We tested the system on our internal environment to make sure it was working as intended and fix issues, but there was a subtle bug we missed that we can now see was a result of a limitation in our internal test environment.

This new bonus roll system is intended to work like this: every time you use your Nebulous Voidcore on an additional piece of endgame loot, whether in Mythic+ Dungeons, Raids, Bountiful Delves, or Prey, it saves a record of the piece of loot and checks it off a list tied to your character, so that you shouldn’t receive the same piece of loot again. After we launched 12.0.5 (and before we fixed the bug), when players queued with other players into M+ dungeons, Bountiful Delves or Raids, it was possible for the roll data to sometimes save to the wrong database, leading to duplicate rolls.

How Could That Happen?

We’ve re-enabled Void Incursions (the major attack portion of Void Assaults) following the deployment of our fix for the issue, and we’re seeing good results.

Thank you for your patience, and good luck defending Zul’Aman!

We’ve discovered a new issue with Void Assault Incursions (the major attack), and while we investigate and design a fix for it, we’re disabling Incursions.

The Void Incursions should wind down and cease over the next hour or so, and we’ll re-enable them as soon as we’ve got a fix for the underlying issue.

Thank you!

We’ve received reports of some game instability occurring on the PTR, most notably when changing zones or during the Siegecrafter Blackfuse fight in the Siege of Orgrimmar raid. We are currently investigating the issue.

We’ll have another Siege of Orgrimmar raid playtest soon, for additional testing.

Thank you for helping us test the raid.

We have recently sent out a large hotfix to address the issues for Unholy that came with the 12.0.5 update. Part of this change was updating Festering Scythe to be a buff on the player that increases their disease tick rate instead of a debuff on the target. The underlying issue here was proving to be problematic for a number of reasons and we felt like this would be the safest approach for now.

We will continue to monitor any potential issues and we appreciate the patience and understanding.

Updated 12:15 p.m. PDT April 24

About an hour ago, we enabled the Midnight Keystone Myth Achievement, and it has been going out to players who qualified.

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In the 12.0.5 patch, we’re introducing the new achievement Midnight Keystone Myth - Season One. This new achievement rewards a saddle that can be exchanged for a mount of your choice once you’ve attained a Mythic+ Rating of at least 3400 during Midnight Season 1.

At this time, we’re working to fix a bug with the new achievement and we’ve disabled it in this region (The Americas and Oceania).

We’re working to enable the achievement as soon as possible, and when the fix is deployed, all players who qualify will receive the achievement. Thank you for your patience!

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With hotfixes that began rolling out a couple of hours ago and are now applicable in all instances, we’ve preliminarily addressed a bug in 12.0.5 where rolling on loot did not remove the received item from the pool for subsequent Bonus Rolls, which made it possible for players to receive the same item from a Bonus Roll.

It is now safe to roll on loot. Newly rolled items will now correctly remove the item from the bonus pool.

We’ll have more information to share tomorrow about this issue and the next steps we’re taking to remediate the situation for affected players.

Thank you very much for your feedback and understanding.

During our routine testing with realms offline to deploy the new patch, we discovered a critical bug in Housing that would cause unacceptable errors for some players.

Fixing this bug is a top priority for us, and while we work on it, we’ve decided to open realms on patch 12.0.5 with Housing and Neighborhoods disabled in this region (The Americas and Oceania).

Once we have a fix developed and tested, we will perform an additional brief maintenance in this region to bring Housing back online for everyone.

Thank you very much for your patience and understanding.

The current Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary PvP season is coming to an end.

In this region, Season 1 will end at 10:00 p.m. PDT on Monday, May 4. (1:00 a.m. EDT Tuesday, May 5)

Burning Crusade PvP Season 2 will start with the weekly reset on Tuesday, May 19. At that time, Season 1 rewards will be distributed.

Have a good fight to the finish!

The Hall of Fame for The Voidspire is now full, and we will close it for further entries with the next weekly reset (tomorrow) in each region. Congratulations to all who made it, and good luck to all of those who are pushing to complete The Voidspire in the next few hours!