- The Embers of Neltharion campaign is now available for testing.
NEW RAID: ABERRUS, THE SHADOWED CRUCIBLEMillennia ago, Neltharion carved deep places in the earth where he conducted world altering experiments. After his death, these sites were lost to time, until now. Forces seeking to claim the Earth-Warder’s legacy raid his dominion in search for powerful artifacts. Now the champions of Azeroth must venture into darkness and ensure the crucible’s dangerous power doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible features nine boss encounters: Kazzara, the Hellforged, The Amalgamation Chamber, The Forgotten Experiments, Assault of the Zaqali, Rashok, the Elder, The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn, Magmorax, Echo of Neltharion, and Scalecommander Sarkareth.
CRUCIBLE CLASS ARMOR SETS
- Death Knight, Havoc Demon Hunter, Druid, Mage, Brewmaster Monk, Holy Paladin, and Protection Paladin class armor sets are available for testing. Visit Setzertauren in Stormwind and Orgrimmar to pick up the sets.
- Class armor set details can be found in this feedback thread. Please share bugs you find via the in-game bug reporting tool and your feedback about the bonuses in the feedback thread.
DRAGONFLIGHT SEASON 2
Four dungeons from past expansions will provide new challenges to keep the Mythic+ rotation fresh:
Seasonal affixes are in development and will be available for testing in a future PTR build.
Dragonflight Season 2 Mythic+ testing begins on Thursday, March 16. Visit the feedback thread for details.
CLASSES
- DRUID
Balance
The second Moonfire cast by Twin Moons no longer generates Astral Power.
Developers’ note: With the increase in Moonfire Astral Power generation from 2 to 6 in Embers of Neltharion, this doubling of AP from Twin Moons is stronger than we intend. This change makes it consistent with Astral Power generated by Sunfire.
Feral
- Fixed an issue where Sudden Ambush was not affecting Shred and Rake attacks during Berserk.
- Fixed an issue where Raging Fury was not extending the duration of Tiger’s Fury.
- Updated descriptions of Pouncing Strikes and Bloodtalons to specify they increase the damage of your attacks for their full duration.
Developers’ note: This copies the language from Tiger’s Fury and distinguishes effects which snapshot their benefits at the time a damage over time spell is cast (Tiger’s Fury, Bloodtalons, Rake from Stealth) from those that only increase spell damage as long as they’re active (Sabertooth, new Berserk).
PALADIN
- Holy
Avenging Crusader has been redesigned – You become the ultimate crusader of light for 12 seconds. Crusader Strike and Judgment cool down 30% faster and heal up to 5 injured allies for 750% of the damage done, split evenly among them. If Avenging Wrath is talented, also increases Judgment, Crusader Strike, and auto-attack damage by 30%.
PRIEST
Shadow
- Shadow Crash damage reduced by 70%.
- Shadow Crash now has a 20 second cooldown (was 30 seconds).
- Death and Madness Insanity generation reduced to 8 (was 30).
- Death and Madness generates Insanity immediately instead of over 3 seconds.
- Shadow Word: Death now generates 4 Insanity.
- Deathspeaker trigger rate increased by 50%.
- Deathspeaker now increases the damage of Shadow Word: Death by 25% while active.
- Deathspeaker now temporarily increases the maximum charges of Shadow Word: Death by 1.
- Deathspeaker no longer triggers Death and Madness’ cooldown.
- New Talent: Distorted Reality – Increases the damage of Devouring Plague by 20%, but Devouring Plague deals its damage over 12 seconds and its Insanity cost is increased by 25.
- Encroaching Shadows has been removed.
- Devouring Plague instant damage increased by 75%.
- Surge of Insanity has moved to Encroaching Shadows’ position.
- Surge of Insanity now has a Spell Alert while active.
- Mental Decay now updates the maximum duration of Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch so that the remaining durations are more easily understood.
SHAMAN
Enhancement
- Flame Shock’s dispel protection from Control of Lava (PvP Talent) is now a baseline part of Flame Shock.
PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER
- CLASSES
HUNTER
Interlope (PvP Talent) has been redesigned – Misdirection now causes your pet to redirect the next 3 hostile spells cast on your target. Misdirection cooldown increased by 15 seconds. Your pet must be within 20 yards of the target for spells to be redirected.
Developers’ note: We’re still working on this talent, so there may be a few bugs with this ability in this week’s PTR.
MAGE
PRIEST
- New PvP Talent: Phase Shift – Step into the shadows when you cast Fade, avoiding all attacks and spells for 0.5 seconds. Interrupt effects are not affected by Phase Shift.
- Phase Shift has been added to the Personal Resource Display.
- New PvP Talent: Absolute Faith – Leap of Faith also pulls the spirit of the 3 furthest allies within 40 yards and distributes health between you and the affected allies.
- Eternal Rest (PvP Talent) has been removed.
- Delivered from Evil (PvP Talent) has been removed.
SHAMAN
Enhancement
- Thundercharge (PvP Talent) has been removed.
WARLOCK
Demonology
- Call Fel Hunter (PvP Talent) has been removed.
- Pleasure through Pain (PvP Talent) has been removed.
QUESTS
- Several new side questlines are now available: “A Swallow’s Tale” from Effervesta in Loamm, “Slime Time Live” from Elder Honeypelt in Loamm, “Mouse Detective” from Yarren in Hermit’s Hollow, and “This Might Sting” for Dracthyr in Zaralek Cavern.
USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY
OPTIONS
- The Graphics Quality section has been reorganized into tabs.
- The Auto Self Cast and Self Cast Key settings have been combined into a single dropdown.
- Each Action Bar now has its own keybind section that appears if that Action Bar is enabled (they were previously grouped together under one section).
- Mousing over a keybind row will now highlight the corresponding action bar button, and vice versa.
