World of Warcraft News and Raiding Strategies (2024)

With Battle for Azeroth in full swing, we’re sitting down with Game Director Ion Hazzikostas to get a peek at the next content update.

Join us live on Twitch Tuesday, September 18 at 11:00 a.m. PDT.

Classes

• Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • Skystep Potion and Lightfoot Potion will no longer drop shapeshifting forms, and shapeshifting while having one of these active will no longer cancel them.
    
  
  
• Paladin (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • Protection
    
    • Last Defender now has a cap of up to 50% reduction in damage taken.
      

Dungeons and Raids

• Shrine of the Storm
  
  • Vol'zith the Whisperer
    
    • Consume Essence cast time increased by 2 seconds.
      
    • Abyssal Eruption damage decreased by 20%.
      
• Uldir
  
  • G’huun
    
    • Bursting Boils should no longer spawn close to the boss.
      

Items

• The Frenetic Corpuscle now activates more often.
  
• Heart of Azeroth
  
  • Archive of the Titans: Primary stat bonus increased by 20%
  • Laser Matrix: Damage reduced by 30%
  • Thunderous Blast: Damage reduced by 35%
  
  Death Knight (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  
  • (Frost) Frozen Tempest: Damage increased by 100%
  
  Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  
  • (Feral) Blood Mist: Damage increased by 125%
  
  Hunter (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  
  • (Beast Mastery) Feeding Frenzy: Damage increased by 400%
  • (Marksmanship) Arcane Flurry: Duration increased to 10 seconds, damage reduced by 45%
  
  Mage (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  
  • (Arcane) Brain Storm: Duration increased to 30 seconds, Intellect bonus reduced by 75%
  • (Fire) Firemind: Intellect bonus increased by 30%
  
  Monk (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  
  • (Windwalker) Iron Fists: Required targets reduced to 3
  • (Windwalker) Swift Roundhouse: Damage bonus reduced by 55%
  
  Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  
  • (Assassination) Shrouded Suffocation: Damage bonus reduced by 40%
  
  Shaman (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  
  • (Elemental/Enhancement) Natural Harmony: Secondary stat bonuses increased by 40%
  
  Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  
  • (Affliction) Sudden Onset: Damage bonus reduced by 30%
  • (Demonology) Demonic Meteor: Damage increased by 200%
  • (Destruction) Flashpoint: Duration increased to 10 seconds, Haste bonus increased by 25%
  
  Warrior (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  
  • (Fury) Simmering Rage: Damage increased by 35%

Player versus Player

• Hook Point Arena has reopened for play.
  
• Epic Battlegrounds now award bonus Conquest for first win of the day (was the first win of the week).
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Enlistment Bonus gained from participating in battlegrounds as a Mercenary to not increase Honor gain from some sources.
  
• The absorb granted by Mchimba's Ritual Bandages is reduced by 55% while engaged in combat with enemy players.
  
• The absorb granted by Xalzaix's Veiled Eye is reduced by 70% while engaged in combat with enemy players.

Professions

• Hydrocores now have a chance to drop off the final bosses of BfA dungeons in Heroic difficulty.
  
• Inscription
  
  • [With weekly maintenance in each region] The strength of Vantus Runes has been reduced to the same potency they had in Legion.
    
    • Developers’ notes: Vantus runes are a unique consumable that provide an extra boost when your raid group is focusing on a single boss. But if they’re too powerful, they can create a sense of regression as you try to re-kill the boss without their aid in subsequent weeks.
      

Quests

• Fixed a bug where Pa’ku could fail to appear as expected during “Zandalar Forever!”.
  
• Collecting Incandescent Duskwings or Crown of Torcali in a group now shares credit on “Alchemy is an Inexact Science”.

The yearly Harvest Festival is now underway in Azeroth. This is a solemn time when the Alliance honors Uther the Lightbringer by lighting a candle at his tomb in the Western Plaguelands, while members of the Horde show their respect to Grommash Hellscream by leaving a bottle of spirits at the base of the Hellscream Memorial in Demon Fall Canyon in Ashenvale.

When: September 18-25
Where: Outside Ironforge and Orgrimmar

Commemorate those who have sacrificed their lives to help friends and allies. Feasts are also held outside Ironforge and Orgrimmar in honor of these fallen heroes.

An extra weekly quest and rewards are here— the Pet Battles bonus event is underway!

This Week
All week, get out there and fight with your mighty minions. When the time comes to take on other players, open your Pet Journal and hit the “Find Battle” button to be matched up with an opponent whose team is competitive with yours.

Look for the following all week long:

• The Adventure Guide has a quest for you.
  
  • Quest requirement: Win 5 pet battles versus other players with a team of three level-25 pets.
    
  • Reward: One Ultimate Battle-Training Stone.
    
• Passive bonus: All Pet Battle experience gains are increased by +200%.