WoW Classic Devs

Burning Crusade PTR & Increased Drops in Raids Phase 2 of Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary opens for testing on the PTR soon. We've also announced: - Raid testing this coming weekend - Raid difficulty tuning - Increased drop rates for raids us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/22988…

Siege of Orgrimmar Raid Now Open on PTR The Siege of Orgrimmar raid is now open for testing on the Mists of Pandaria Classic PTR. Thank you for joining us to help test it! We've also posted new PTR notes here: us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/22932…

The Joyous Journeys XP boost is now live in MoP Classic!

Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary Season 1 Ends in 2 Weeks PvP Season 1 is coming to an end at the following times: - NA: 10:00 p.m. PDT on Monday, May 4 - EU: 22:00 CEST on Tuesday, May 5 Season 1 Rewards will be distributed and PvP Season 2 will start with the weekly reset on May 19 in NA and May 20 in EU. Have a good fight to the finish!

The Mists of Pandaria Classic: Siege of Orgrimmar patch is now live on the PTR! We will also run our first Siege of Orgimmar raid playtest from Friday, April 24 - Sunday, April 26. Thank you for testing with us! PTR notes, including known issues, here: us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/22932…

Update Regarding Recent Adjustments to Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary Yesterday, we implemented hotfixes to support core gameplay in instances in Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary. Unfortunately, these changes were impaired by bugs that did not appear in our pre-release testing. The result was unintended behavior of drops for both solo and group players. For example: one bug resulted in some players becoming completely disallowed from rolling on loot. With an update we sent to the live game a few minutes ago, we have reverted the original changes while we investigate these bugs. Thank you for your feedback.

Pandaria is booming thanks to Joyous Journeys starting on April 21 in MoP Classic ✨ Adventure through the expansion with a 50% XP boost up to level 90 Read more: blizz.ly/3Q7juFP

Outland is bringing the fel-fueled fight to you on May 14 😈 Take on… 🤺 Two new Raids 👥 New Reputation Factions ⚔️ Arena Season 2 ‼️…and more in BCC Anniversary Edition Get ready: blizz.ly/4ct6G3U

Adjustments to Reduce Non-Participation in Dungeons in Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary We’ve observed a significant number of Burning Crusade players entering dungeons and then participating in no meaningful gameplay, often while only one party member plays through the instance. When this is prominent, it can lead to detrimental economic effects, among other concerns, so we’re implementing a series of hotfixes to address it. - Players must participate in combat to receive experience from dungeons. - The amount of loot dropped by non-boss enemies in high-level dungeons is now determined by how many players participate in the kill. The vast majority of players who participate in dungeon groups as usual should see no difference after these updates. These changes will go into effect with scheduled weekly maintenance in each region.

Increases to Honor in Battlegrounds in Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary We’ve been closely monitoring both player feedback and in-game data around Honor gains in battlegrounds, and we agree that the current pace of Honor earned isn’t quite where we want it to be. To address this, we’ve significantly increased Honor earned from all battlegrounds via a hotfix that is now live. Thanks again for taking the time to share your feedback with us.

MoP Classic: Escalation arrives March 31 Mists of Pandaria Classic: Escalation arrives March 31 in NA (April 1 in EU)! The PTR is still available; thank you to everyone who has jumped in to help us test Escalation and ready it for release. news.blizzard.com/en-us/article/…

PvP Flagging Fixes in Burning Crusade We’ve been steadily working to fix some issues with PvP flagging in Burning Crusade Classic. Thank you for all of your reports. Update here: us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/22666…

Burning Crusade Population Density Adjustments Incoming Over the last couple of days, we’ve seen a lot of feedback from players that in many cases, there are too many others nearby when you’re questing or doing gathering professions in the open world. Today, we’ve developed some configuration changes that should hopefully reduce the congestion while retaining the feeling that the world is still well-populated. Those changes will go live during our currently scheduled realm restarts. We’ll continue to keep a close eye on this going forward, and we’ll adjust things further if necessary. Thank you!

Grouping Fixes in Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary For the last 24 hours, we’ve been aware of and working to solve multiple issues affecting players who form parties intending to play on the same layer together. Today, we deployed some changes that we think helped, and we’re continuing to look at every report we receive to hopefully find more adjustments or fixes that we can make. There is one issue in particular that we want to call out: If you don’t see your party after walking through the Dark Portal, we strongly recommend that you stay on one side of the portal and do not continually walk back-and-forth through the portal. We’ve noticed players doing this and it appears to make you increasingly unlikely to get onto the same layer! We’re developing a fix for this particular issue and we expect to implement it next week, after thorough testing. Thank you very much for your feedback, and we hope you're enjoying your adventures in Outland!

As some of you in Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary have already noticed, we've made a few adjustments, just in time for launch: - Relaxed crowd control immunity and movement speed for creatures ("anti-boosting measures") to be more forgiving for groups - Increased the swing range ("hitbox") for Tauren back to its original size - Timed with today's launch, adjusted the gold cost of PvP gear purchased from Outland Factions to balance it appropriately with PvP gear acquired with Honor Points Thank you for all the feedback, and we hope you're 'prepared' to enter the Dark Portal today!

Outland calls as the Dark Portal reignites 🌀 Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary Edition awaits!

For those who beheld the power of the demon within and lived to tell the tale 😈

Launch week is here! Journey to Outland once more in Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary Edition! Relive the story on February 5. blizz.ly/3MlCIps

Riding Skill Bug Fix in Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary Earlier this week, we identified a bug in the Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary pre-patch which incorrectly granted the 150 Epic riding skill to some player-characters. Purchasing Journeyman Riding is an important milestone in each character’s journey, and this milestone deserves to be preserved. To address this, we will remove the incorrectly-granted riding skill from player-characters who were identified as affected by this bug, and we’ll revert their riding skill to 75. The fix-up will occur during next week's scheduled weekly maintenance. Until then, for affected players: enjoy the next few days racing around Azeroth!