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Battle for Azeroth Timewalking Dungeons Testing

Schedule

Week 1

• Starts: Wednesday, May 7 at 8:00 a.m. PDT (11:00 EDT, 17:00 CEST)
• Ends: Tuesday, May 13 at 8:00 a.m. PDT (11:00 EDT, 17:00 CEST)

Week 2

• Starts: Tuesday, May 20 at 8:00 a.m. PDT (11:00 EDT, 17:00 CEST)
• Ends: Tuesday, May 27 at 8:00 a.m. PDT (11:00 EDT, 17:00 CEST)

Please use this thread for feedback and bug reports regarding Battle for Azeroth Timewalking, or related issues.

Thank you to everyone who has come out to help test!

With hotfixes that are now live, we have reinforced the measures taken to prevent players from obtaining information about their potential PvP opponents in advance of a battleground. This is applicable to all rated battlegrounds, unrated battlegrounds, rated brawls, and unrated brawls.

As a reminder, we regularly take action against accounts using third-party software that is found to be in violation of the Blizzard End User License Agreement.

HOTFIXES

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May 22, 2025

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Unholy
    • Resolved an issue where certain bonuses could be retained by despawning and respawning the Death Knight’s pet.
• Paladin
  • Retribution
    • An issue causing Avenging Wrath to not function properly when talented into Radiant Glory has been resolved.
• Warlock
  • Hellcaller: Fixed an issue where Vile Taint would trigger Blackened Soul more times than intended.
  • Destruction
    • Fixed an issue where Crashing Chaos would persist after the start of a Mythic+ run.

Horrific Visions

• Fixed a bug where if you destroyed the Voidfire Deathcycle that Haymar the Devout is riding too fast it would fail to go out of control and let you bring it out with you.
• Torie’s items no longer require the achievement We Have the Memories.

May 16, 2025

Classes

• Paladin
  • Retribution
    • An issue with Radiant Glory and Avenging Wrath interaction has been resolved.
• Hunter
  • Marksmanship
    • Fixed an issue where dying while channeling Rapid Fire could keep Hunters in combat upon resurrecting.

Dungeons

• Priory of the Sacred Flame
  • Addressed an issue where Captain Dailcry can sometimes be rooted after Savage Mauling.

Player versus Player

• Warrior
  • Wrecking Throw’s damage increase to shields is now 75% less effective in PvP combat (was 30% less effective).
  • Shattering Throw’s damage increase to shields is now 75% less effective in PvP combat (was 30%).

Trading Post

• Earning reputation with the Flame’s Radiance and The Cartels of Undermine factions now counts for the Trading Post activity “Earn Reputation Throughout Khaz Algar”, as intended.

May 9, 2025

Dungeons and Raids

• Liberation of Undermine
  • Lentil Sprocket now sends players to a slightly different location for the X-Treme transit One Armed Bandit shortcut within the Gallagio.

May 8, 2025

Classes

• Hunter
  • Survival
    • Fixed an issue where Aspect of the Eagle variants of Raptor Strike and Mongoose Bite were dealing less damage than intended.
    • Fixed an issue where casting Coordinated Assault at greater than 30 yards away could grant Howl of the Pack Leader twice.
    • Fixed an issue where Aspect of the Eagle was not correctly extending the range of Spirit Bond.

Dungeons and Raids

• Liberation of Undermine
  • Mug’zee
    • Fixed an issue where placing Hot Mess on the stairs of the encounter would cause it to sometimes not reach the arena floor.

Player versus Player

• Hunter
  • Master’s Call now applies its effect to you and your pet when targeting your own pet.
  • Master’s Call now correctly applies to you and your pet if you are targeting an enemy.
  • Master’s Call now correctly applies to you and your pet if you are targeting nothing.
  • Command Pet will now maintain its overridden spell when entering arenas and other instances.
  • Survival
    • Fixed an issue causing Raptor Strike and Mongoose Bite to not deal damage when cast onto targets in breakable crowd control.
    • Flanking Strike will now correctly fail to cast and not go on cooldown if your pet is rooted or crowd-controlled.

User Interface and Accessibility

• Players in Random Battleground matches can no longer see the names of opposing members until the match begins.
  • Developers’ notes: We have reinforced the measures taken to prevent players from obtaining information about their potential PvP opponents in advance of a battleground. This is applicable to all rated battlegrounds, unrated battlegrounds, rated brawls, and unrated brawls.

May 6, 2025

Classes

• Demon Hunter
  • Aldrachi Reaver
    • Fixed an issue where stacks of Art of the Glaive were not correctly being tracked on the Cooldown Manager.
  • Havoc
    • Fixed an issue that prevented A Fire Inside from dynamically updating the damage bonus granted to Immolation Aura based on your current Mastery amount, like when activating a trinket that increases Mastery.
• Druid
  • Guardian
    • Bristling Fur and several PvP talents added to the Cooldown Manager.
    • Tooth and Claw added to Tracked Buffs.
    • Maul now only displays on the Cooldown Manager when either Tooth and Claw or Ravage is known.
• Evoker
  • Augmentation
    • Fixed an issue where Mass Eruption would not benefit from other effects that increased the damage of Eruption.
    • Fixed an issue where Mass Eruption and Bombardments could trigger from Eruptions cast from Overlord while not talented into Breath of Eons.
• Monk
  • Zen Flight no longer restricts casting.
  • Fixed an issue that caused physical damage modifiers to reduce the healing magical damage transfers through Ancient Teachings.
  • Fixed an issue that caused Aspect of Harmony to not apply to targets with a healing absorb present.
  • Fixed an issue that caused Unity Within to not automatically if no enemy targets are present when the channel ends for Windwalker Monks.
• Paladin
  • Protection
    • Added support for Sentinel and several PvP talents to the Cooldown Manager.

Dungeons and Raids

• Liberation of Undermine
  • Stix Bunkjunker
    • Stix Bunkjunker health reduced by 5% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Scrapmaster health reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
  • Sprocketmonger Lockenstock
    • Polarized Catastro-Blast damage reduced by 60%.
  • One-Armed Bandit
    • Reel Assistant health reduced by 10% on all difficulties.
    • Reward: Coin and Bomb health bonus reduced by 25% on all difficulties.
    • Scattered Payout damage reduced by 10% on all difficulties.
    • Traveling Flames damage reduced by 19% on Mythic and 7% on Heroic difficulty.
    • Crushed! damage reduced by 47% on Mythic and 20% on Heroic difficulty.
• Darkflame Cleft
  • Fixed an issue where Ol’ Waxbeard can unexpectedly reset during the encounter

Items

• When casting Reins of Anu’relos you will now be awarded the bonus items if you need them. If you have the item in your inventory or already have the tracking quest completed, you will not be given that matching item. Each item is checked separately.
• The Feather of the Blazing Somnowl can now be destroyed if you have a duplicate.

Player versus Player

• Hunter
  • Marksmanship
    • Spotter’s Marks applied via Ohn’ahran Winds will now correctly obey PvP mults.
• Monk
  • Mistweaver
    • Fixed an issue that caused Feather Feet to not function with Song of Chi-Ji.

May 5, 2025

Nightfall Event

• Dissenter Troosilver and Whisperer Bravefort have now joined the Sureki assault in eastern Hallowfall.

Player versus Player

• Shaman
  • Elemental
    • Fixed an issue that caused Storm Conduit to not grant its interrupt protection or cooldown reduction on Tempest casts.

This Public Test Realm (PTR) is a testing environment for upcoming World of Warcraft content.

The War Within: 11.1.7 Legacy of Arathor Development Notes

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ARATHI HIGHLANDS CAMPAIGN

While attentions have been focused on Khaz Algar, a new storm is brewing in the Arathi Highlands. Tensions are rising between the Horde and Alliance; join Faerin and Danath as they attempt to quell the rising tides of hostility between the two factions in a new multi-quest campaign. You’ll get to experience this new two-chapter storyline with branching viewpoints for each faction as you play through.

Players will receive a few new rewards for their efforts:

• Alliance: Stromgarde Tabard
• Horde: Mag’har Tabard
• Shoulder Transmog inspired by Faerin’s own pauldrons.

GO LOREWALKING WITH LOREWALKER CHO

Players level ten and above can speak with Lorewalker Cho in either Stormwind,Orgrimmar, or Dornogal for a renewed questing experience. You’ll step back into some iconic lore moments in Azeroth with both previous quests and a few new ones.

There are three available repeatable quest chains:

• Meet the Ethereals: Travel to Netherstorm to fight Dimensius, meet up with Alleria and Locus Walker in Legion, and head into the Shadowlands to meet the Brokers and gain access to Tazavesh. You’ll also meet up with Ve’nari.
• Experience Xal’atath’s Storyline: Learn more about the Blade of the Black Empire in Legion, see how Xal’atath gained her body in Battle for Azeroth, and go back in time to the Black Empire to experience Xal’atath’s encounter with the Old Gods.
• Face the Past with Arthas: Return to Stratholme for a condensed version of the culling, feel the stinging cold of betrayal in Wrath of the Lich King, and confront old memories as you step into the role of the Lich King as he faces down the heroes of Azeroth.

While Lorewalking, you won’t be able to undertake any other quests, but you’ll be able to exit any time you like and return to Lorewalker Cho.

OVERCHARGED DELVES

Things are about to become even more dangerous in Delves for you and Brann. We’re introducing a new Delve-specific affix to six Delves to push you to new feats of heroism (or to earn more shiny loot.)

• Kreigval’s Rest
• Skittering Breach
• The Spiral Weave
• Nightfall Sanctum
• Fungal Folly
• Sidestreet Sluice

You’ll engage with rare new enemies, more traps, and unlock traits in a new trait tree specific to Overcharged Delves. Selecting the right traits can turn the tides of traps by making them more beneficial rather than a detriment to your progress.

Additional New Rewards

• Titan Disc Belt: Unlock the Titan Disc Belt at the start of the event and upgrade it through a weekly quest.
• New Mount: Overcharged Mech Suit
• New Gear
• More Delves Currency

NEW UI OPTIONS: COMBAT ASSISTANT AND SINGLE-BUTTON ASSISTANT

Combat Assistant is a new feature coming to the game that highlights the recommended next ability based on resources and the situation your character is in. This feature is designed to help new players, players who are trying out a new specialization, or those looking for additional guidance on the abilities they should use without the need to turn to third party apps or outside guides. This new feature is configured as an additional option that is part of the base UI to assist you with a damage rotation no matter which specialization you’re using.

In addition, a Single-Button Assistant can be used to cast the next recommended ability in the sequence. This assistant is designed to have a small additional global cooldown added between abilities so that it is still useful for learning new skills, aiding those who are looking for additional help, or for those who want to experience the story or game on a more casual basis. It will also detect when an Area of Effect (AoE) spell or multi-target ability should be used.

Both of these new options should aid in lowering the barrier of entry for new players or players looking to explore new characters in a way that’s meaningful to them. As with the new Cooldown Manager added in the 11.1.5 content, it will continue to evolve over time.

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

• TIMEWALKING DUNGEONS
  • Battle for Azeroth Timewalking is now available for testing. See the raid testing schedule for more information.
  • Developers’ notes: These changes aim to make it possible to experience Timewalking dungeons more authentically, giving players the opportunity to use more abilities and practice their class’s damage rotations, healing spells, or defensives. When players wish to use Timewalking dungeons to level up, we want you to learn your class in realistic combat encounters, especially boss encounters. This also acknowledges and rewards players who take the time to acquire powerful gear, since better gear increases your damage, healing, and survivability. We will actively monitor testing and feedback and we will make further adjustments as needed.
  • Enemy health increased in all Timewalking dungeons.
  • Boss health significantly increased in all Timewalking dungeons.
  • Adjusted difficulty scaling via the following changes:
    • Lower-geared players are now slightly more damage-resistant.
    • Incoming damage should be more noticeable against geared players.
    • Fixed an issue where item level scaling did not account for enchantments, gems, and other power sources.
  • Timewalking dungeons will now drop Adventurer gear (was Explorer).
  • Completing a Timewalking dungeon now rewards 25 Timewarped Badges (was 10).

USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY

• COOLDOWN MANAGER
  • The Essential Cooldowns and Utility Cooldowns portions of the Cooldown Manager now display information for Totems (such as Earthbind Totem, Healing Stream Totem) and players summons that are also tracked on the Totem frame (such as Earth Elemental and Call Dreadstalkers).

KNOWN ISSUE

• Mac users may experience graphical distortion.

Battle for Azeroth Timewalking Dungeons Testing

Schedule

Week 1

• Starts: Wednesday, May 7 at 8:00 a.m. PDT (11:00 EDT, 17:00 CEST)
• Ends: Tuesday, May 13 at 8:00 a.m. PDT (11:00 EDT, 17:00 CEST)

Week 2

• Starts: Tuesday, May 20 at 8:00 a.m. PDT (11:00 EDT, 17:00 CEST)
• Ends: Tuesday, May 27 at 8:00 a.m. PDT (11:00 EDT, 17:00 CEST)

Please use this thread for feedback and bug reports regarding Battle for Azeroth Timewalking, or related issues.

Thank you to everyone who has come out to help test!

With hotfixes that are now live, we have reinforced the measures taken to prevent players from obtaining information about their potential PvP opponents in advance of a battleground. This is applicable to all rated battlegrounds, unrated battlegrounds, rated brawls, and unrated brawls.

As a reminder, we regularly take action against accounts using third-party software that is found to be in violation of the Blizzard End User License Agreement.

HOTFIXES

---

May 6, 2025

Classes

• Demon Hunter
  • Aldrachi Reaver
    • Fixed an issue where stacks of Art of the Glaive were not correctly being tracked on the Cooldown Manager.
  • Havoc
    • Fixed an issue that prevented A Fire Inside from dynamically updating the damage bonus granted to Immolation Aura based on your current Mastery amount, like when activating a trinket that increases Mastery.
• Druid
  • Guardian
    • Bristling Fur and several PvP talents added to the Cooldown Manager.
    • Tooth and Claw added to Tracked Buffs.
    • Maul now only displays on the Cooldown Manager when either Tooth and Claw or Ravage is known.
• Evoker
  • Augmentation
    • Fixed an issue where Mass Eruption would not benefit from other effects that increased the damage of Eruption.
    • Fixed an issue where Mass Eruption and Bombardments could trigger from Eruptions cast from Overlord while not talented into Breath of Eons.
• Monk
  • Zen Flight no longer restricts casting.
  • Fixed an issue that caused physical damage modifiers to reduce the healing magical damage transfers through Ancient Teachings.
  • Fixed an issue that caused Aspect of Harmony to not apply to targets with a healing absorb present.
  • Fixed an issue that caused Unity Within to not automatically if no enemy targets are present when the channel ends for Windwalker Monks.
• Paladin
  • Protection
    • Added support for Sentinel and several PvP talents to the Cooldown Manager.

Dungeons and Raids

• Liberation of Undermine
  • Stix Bunkjunker
    • Stix Bunkjunker health reduced by 5% on Mythic difficulty.
    • Scrapmaster health reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.
  • Sprocketmonger Lockenstock
    • Polarized Catastro-Blast damage reduced by 60%.
  • One-Armed Bandit
    • Reel Assistant health reduced by 10% on all difficulties.
    • Reward: Coin and Bomb health bonus reduced by 25% on all difficulties.
    • Scattered Payout damage reduced by 10% on all difficulties.
    • Traveling Flames damage reduced by 19% on Mythic and 7% on Heroic difficulty.
    • Crushed! damage reduced by 47% on Mythic and 20% on Heroic difficulty.
• Darkflame Cleft
  • Fixed an issue where Ol’ Waxbeard can unexpectedly reset during the encounter

Items

• When casting Reins of Anu’relos you will now be awarded the bonus items if you need them. If you have the item in your inventory or already have the tracking quest completed, you will not be given that matching item. Each item is checked separately.
• The Feather of the Blazing Somnowl can now be destroyed if you have a duplicate.

Player versus Player

• Hunter
  • Marksmanship
    • Spotter’s Marks applied via Ohn’ahran Winds will now correctly obey PvP mults.
• Monk
  • Mistweaver
    • Fixed an issue that caused Feather Feet to not function with Song of Chi-Ji.

May 5, 2025

Nightfall Event

• Dissenter Troosilver and Whisperer Bravefort have now joined the Sureki assault in eastern Hallowfall.

Player versus Player

• Shaman
  • Elemental
    • Fixed an issue that caused Storm Conduit to not grant its interrupt protection or cooldown reduction on Tempest casts.

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