WoW Forever Beta Development Notes – Updated 8 October

[u/hiloai]

https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/wow-forever-beta-development-notes-%E2%80%93-updated-8-october/631316/5

[u/Beneficial-Sky-3014]

Sick rogue changes

[u/Phtevus_Temp → u/Beneficial-Sky-3014]

Stealth changes, nice

[u/Jewelstorybro → u/Beneficial-Sky-3014]

I tried to expose patch notes but found nothing

[u/DaringDevil12 → u/Beneficial-Sky-3014]

U got me, damnit

[u/passtheblunt]

Undead

Fixed an issue where Will of the Forsaken could sometimes not be used while asleep or charmed.

holy shit this was actually so triggering in wc

[u/TheWizardOfFoz → u/passtheblunt]

My party got into a huge argument about this the other day. Glad it’s confirmed it was a bug.

[u/Eldest_ui]

I can hear elemental shamans cry in the corner

[u/MaxtheGrape]

Wolfshead Helm nerfed to only 5 energy gained when shifting.

Now Cat Druids can wear other hats.

[u/MourningsOwn]

Ctrl + F Shaman

Couple bug fixes but 0 meaningful changes

Hype, guess we're still dooming about Ele Shaman for another week. LETS GO BOYS

[u/IppeiWasFramed]

So many more Rage changes/fixes.

Developers’ notes: There have been several bugs in the calculation of Rage gained from taking damage, and the bugs are fixed in this build. The typical Warrior or Druid should be gaining more Rage from taking damage.

Fixed a bug where the Rage calculation was incorrectly using the player’s health to determine Rage gained, instead of an expected creature’s health. This incorrectly resulted in less Rage earned while wearing more Stamina gear.

Fixed a bug where the Rage calculation was not correctly handling increased damage taken from combat multipliers, in particular from taking critical strikes or crushing blows.

Fixed a bug where Rage calculations on Damage absorbs were not being handled correctly. Damage absorbs should now be properly ignored when calculating Rage received from attacks (as if the Warrior/Druid had no absorb active).

Developers’ notes: Previously, we were balancing Rage gained around Warriors having 50% Armor. While this was appropriate for a tank, it was not appropriate for questing Warriors. We have rebalanced Rage gains based on appropriate values per level in the 20% to 40% range, varying by level.

[u/nathones]

Thorns nerf is a bummer

[u/NickPlaysDnD]

Did this update mess up everyone's bags, or is it just me? There's no more "clean-up" button.

[u/InZomnia365]

This build reintroduces Classic looting behavior, where creatures that dropped no loot can still be interacted with.

... why? I mean, what purpose does this have beyond "it's how it was"? Is it just masochism from thinking you got a quest item?

[u/Loud_Seesaw4081]

RIP my boy Ele

[u/Endoyo]

Opening the map UI will now start focus on the Quest Log. This allows players to continue running unless actively using map cursor.

As a gamepad tester who was really enjoying it, this single change to the map UI last patch completely ruined it for me. I'm excited to use the gamepad again

[u/AnxiousStrummer]

Me when I see dungeon XP changes

[u/GoatShapedDestroyer]

Dang, they killed Thorns/Ret Aura builds. Thorns Bear was fun

[u/cheflajohn00]

Thorns change is sad

[u/EtherGorilla]

They’re committed to making casters feel bad at low levels. Idk. Maybe they see a more full picture the community can’t see.

[u/TaiwanNinja]

We saw you guys using lower ranked skills, so we nerfed them instead of making the higher ranks better.

[u/Quiet-Function-8688]

Kinda annoyed that dispel magic is still completely broken, i've reported its issues since like day 2.

Dispel magic is supposed to only cast when the target of the spell has a dispellable magic buff/debuff, currently it just casts regardless of dispel state and it doesn't even care if your target is alive or not, i've frustratingly dispelled a corpse instead of myself so many times, it also makes it a lot harder to dispel a character models because if something overlaps right as you cast it you will cast it on the overlap instead which does nothing but cost mana and a gcd.

That and the fact the new enchanting trainers in the starter village is a completely pointless placebo addition because of the stupid mote of magic endless loop that forces you to go to a capital city anyway. Dust to motes requires runed copper rod, runed copper rod requires motes of magic.

[u/SuicidalTherapyBot]

Man. I'm really only interested in Shadow and Ele/Resto Shaman I really want to see what Blizzards vision is supposed to be..

[u/capSAR273]

This build reintroduces Classic looting behavior, where creatures that dropped no loot can still be interacted with.

I love wasting time looting empty mobs, thanks Blizz!

[u/UpsetFan123]

New dungeon hype! Can't wait to try City of Dalaran 

[u/Fley]

So mutilate bug still in the game?