Wrath of the Lich King Classic Beta Dev Notes: July 20th

We plan to open the Naxxramas, Eye of Eternity, and Obsidian Sanctum raids for initial testing tomorrow, July 21.

See you here!

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In today’s new beta build, we’ve completed an update to Warlocks that should address a situation that has persisted since original Wrath of the Lich King.

Demonic Pact will no longer overwrite an existing Demonic Pact buff, unless:

There are less than 10 seconds left on the buff (e.g. it has been up for 35 seconds or more).

The spell power bonus of the new buff are higher than or equal to the power of the existing buff.

Additionally,

The internal cooldown of Demonic Pact has been lowered to 5 seconds (was 20 seconds).

This compensates for the changes above and helps ensure that Demonic Pact is refreshing on your target before it expires with a similar consistency to before this adjustment.

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Welcome to the Wrath of the Lich King Classic Beta!

The team has been working hard to get Northrend ready for you to jump in and begin your adventures, and we’re excited to have you join us! Over the coming weeks we will post notes and updates in this forum with each new update to the Beta.

Beta Test Release Build 44729
July 20, 2022

Testing Updates

The Death Knight starting zone is now separated into different phases by faction.

The Guild event log is now functional.

Addons are now enabled in the Wrath Classic beta.

We will start a Beta Arena Season on July 21.

Initial raid testing will begin on July 21.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug causing players to disconnect when exiting a vehicle.

Fixed a bug that generated unintended errors when opening the Auction House.

Heroic Dungeons now drop Emblems of Heroism.

Quests

Entering a Horde siege engine should no longer generate an error during “The Plains of Nasam”.

“The Battle for The Undercity” should no longer include Deathguard Elites who spawn and prevent the quest from continuing.

Fixed a bug on “Mystery of the Infinite” where summoned creatures could unintentionally be level 80.

Classes

Death Knight

Numerous fixes have been made to make Runes functioning as expected, and recharge rates are fixed.

Fixed a bug with Ebon Gargoyle summon casting inconsistently.

Fixed bugs causing dual spec swap issues with Buffed Ghouls and Unholy Frenzy.

Druid

Berserk should no longer remove Tigers Fury.

Paladin

Judgement spells should now trigger Seal of Corruption.

Warlock

Fel Armor ranks 1 and 2 should now provide health regeneration

Demonic Pact and Flametongue Totem should no longer stack.

Player versus Player

Fixed a bug causing Battleground scoreboards to incorrectly display Honor accrued.

Selected Known Issues

Ring of Valor and Strand of the Ancients are disabled at this time.

A bug is preventing Fishing from being testable at some low skill levels.

A bug is preventing Kel’Thuzad from properly giving credit for the “Scourge Leader Identified” step of “The Plains of Nasam”.

Beta Test Release Build 44369
June 29, 2022

Level Cap: 80
Focus:

Flying In Northrend

Normal and Heroic Max-Level Dungeons

Questing/Level-up Experience

Northrend Zones

Dungeons

New Spells, Talents, and Abilities

Death Knight Starting Experience

New Systems and Features:

Revamped Group Finder

Vehicles

Quest phasing

Glyphs and Inscription

Update: We’ve placed additional Glyph Vendors in Shattrath near A’dal

Beta Test Release Build 44301
June 22, 2022

Level Cap: 76
Focus:

Questing/Level-up Experience

Northrend Zones

Dungeons

New Spells, Talents, and Abilities

Death Knight Starting Experience

New Systems and Features:

Revamped Group Finder

Vehicles

Quest phasing

Glyphs and Inscription
Note: To facilitate Glyph testing, a Glyph Vendor has been placed in Dalaran, near the Inscription building.