Some updates on the other Priest Hero Talent trees: We’ve updated Oracle’s design to be focused on healing instead of support mechanics and are looking for feedback about how it plays. There are a couple of talents that are not currently ready, and we’ll update those in the coming weeks, including …

Hello! Thanks for this well-written post on the state of Voidweaver for Shadow. First, to clarify the functionality of the rift: There are not current plans for there to be a pull-in effect. We’re closely watching the power level of utility coming from hero talent trees. Given the frequency of th…

While we don’t have any specific Hunter changes to announce at this time, we want you to know that we are reading your feedback and we’re working on cleaning up all three of the Hero Talent trees and fixing issues as they arise. Your feedback on the talents has been very helpful thus far, and we ex…

At this time, we’re working on the designs for Shamans’ two remaining Hero Talent trees: Totemic and Stormbringer. We’re pleased with the direction we have planned for them and expect to make these trees available for testing and feedback in the coming weeks. For Totemic, our plan is to make your…

Tomorrow, during each region’s normal maintenance period, we will apply the following adjustments to classes in Season of Discovery. Druid The Natural Weapons talents now increases all damage done by druids in Season of Discovery, instead of just physical damage. The Gale Winds rune now reduces th…

[Dark Heart and WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria Ahead] Mark your calendars for the release of the next content update for Dragonflight—Dark Heart— on May 7, and for the World of Warcraft Remix: Mists of Pandaria event on May 16 at 10:00 am PDT globally! View Full Article

We’ve made a couple updates to the Season 4 content update notes: Awakened raids will rotate weekly, instead of every two weeks. Developer’s note: In an effort to ensure players have variety week over week we are adjusting the schedule of our Awakened raids to rotate weekly. Earn 1 Antique Bron…

Hello mages! We have some updates coming to the Alpha in the next few weeks and want to give you an early look at a significant talent shakeup. These changes will be almost exclusively specialization tree changes, but the goals are similar across them all. In general, we’re happy with the core gam…

Greetings Warlocks, We’ve been very excited to see the community’s reactions to the Warlock Hero Talents, and we appreciate all of your feedback. In the coming weeks, you’ll see multiple changes to the Warlock class and specialization trees, and we’d like to provide some context for these changes …

Hey everyone, we have another bot ban update to share with you. Since our last post, we’ve continued our regular cadence of anti-bot detection and actions. In that time, we’ve actioned over 240,000 additional accounts. In Patch 29.2, we also made an update to Arena matchmaking as a proactive step …

[Dragonflight Season 4 Content Update Notes] Dragonflight Season 4 arrives to World of Warcraft on April 23! View Full Article

[This Week in WoW: April 19, 2024] Catch up on all the latest World of Warcraft news from the last week—take a tour through The War Within in the WoWCast developer chat, pre-purchase the World of Warcraft®: The War Within™ 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition, get a closer look at the new Warbands S…

Hello Death Knights, We wanted to take a moment to let you know that we are planning some updates for the Death Knight talent trees going into The War Within. While we’re still a few builds away from deploying the changes to the War Within Alpha, we’d like to outline some our goals with the changes…

Patch 29.2.1 is a server-side hotfix rolling out now with the following game updates and bug fixes. Weekly Quest Update The Weekly Quest requirements are now as follows: Use your Hero Power 30 times (instead of 40) Play Battlecry cards 75 times (instead of 100) Play Miniaturize or Mini cards 32 …

EVOKER Evokers now start at level 10 (was level 58). Evokers now unlock the talent pane immediately after choosing a specialization in the Forbidden Reach, and they no longer learn “temporary” talents as they complete the Forbidden Reach experience. Several base spells that were previously learned …

Greetings members of the Artisan’s Consortium! As we reveal much of the content coming in The War Within, we’d like discuss a new system we’re cooking up for professions. Inspiration We added Inspiration in Dragonflight to try and capture the fantasy of critical hits while crafting. If you weren’t…

The War Within Alpha Development Notes NEW ZONES AND DELVES Isle of Dorn NEW DUNGEONS Cinderbrew Meadery The Rookery CHARACTER LEVEL Developers’ note: With each phase, we encourage players to make a new template character and avoid using their previous characters as they could potentially be…

We greatly appreciate your feedback and we’re looking forward to your thoughts on Druid changes. There are a few topics we’re especially interested in hearing from you on: How does it feel to build characters for different types of content? Do you feel you are able to get the tools you need? How d…

Holy Paladin Our goals are to replace Light of the Martyr with a passive spell but keep the same thematic sacrifice theme, move more of their throughput from Beacon of Light into their baseline spells, and redesign Blessing of Summer to feel more specific to their role. Blessing of Summer will now …

Mistweaver Monk Mistweaver is seeing a few updates including their class 2-set Chi Harmony bonus and the removal of Essence Font. We’re also adding a talent to help Mistweavers who are focused on melee to gain more value out of their Mastery stat. Essence Font’s removal will have a few outcomes, the…

Windwalker Monk Our updates for Windwalker in The War Within are intended to address a few issues the specialization struggled with throughout Dragonflight. These points of focus for us were the power levels of the Haste and Mastery stats falling behind other options, Jadefire Stomp’s usability, and…

Monk Class Tree Our main goals for the Monk Class tree are to introduce more optionality, refresh the cappers, and add a few new pieces of utility (such as an Enrage dispel), while still cutting down on overall keybind requirements. To accomplish this, we’ve added choice nodes to most active options…

Hey everyone, I am going to lock this topic since the starting post is now outdated. I encourage you to discuss the recent news from our blog post in the comment thread here…

Fury Warrior We feel that Fury is in a good place in terms of fantasy and talents, but the Fury tree in Dragonflight went beyond what we are happy with in terms of overspecialization. Season by season in Dragonflight, Fury’s builds and rotation changed dramatically, often to the point of excluding o…

Arms Warrior Overall, we think that the Arms fantasy, abilities, and talents are in a good place, but a few talents and the abundance of Rage in Dragonflight strongly affected rotations and locked in builds with very little variation. Our goals for Arms in The War Within are to restore Arms Warriors…