The October 15 class and racial update, including Frost Blast, Arcane Wrath and revised talent trees.
Recent builds and restarts
Date and build
Announced changes
15 October 1.60.1.70425
Current captured client build. Class and racial changes include Frost Blast, Arcane Wrath, redesigned talents and raid-wide buffs. The update also changes items, quests and controls. Official development notes.
14 October 1.60.1.70374
A client update was recorded before the October 15 overhaul. No separate official gameplay change list was captured for this build.
10 October 1.60.1.70338
New records include Tabard of Eternal Exploration, Eternal Explorer's Backpack and Azurky; the records alone don't establish how to obtain them. See the extracted comparison.
9 October 1.60.1.70334
A client update and evening realm restart were recorded. No separate official gameplay change list was captured for this build.
8 October 1.60.1.70291
City of Dalaran opens, dungeon experience increases, every tester receives 16 Legacy points, and class and quest fixes arrive. Official development notes.
6 October 1.60.1.70245
Priority fixes for missing quest-chest items, occasional disconnects on elevators or transports, and errors when joining or leaving a guild. Official restart announcement.
5 October 1.60.1.70235
A short restart for service fixes. Blizzard did not name individual fixes in the announcement. Official restart announcement.
3 October 1.60.1.70205
Client build recorded between the level-30 update and the October 5 restart. No separate official gameplay change list was captured for this build.
1-2 October 1.60.1.70170
Level 30, Excavation Site: Wetlands, class balance and talent updates. The October 2 revision adds the second warrior pass summarized below. Official development notes and warrior follow-up.
Reading these changes
The latest tables summarize Blizzard's October 15 development notes, published just after midnight UTC on October 16 and checked that day. They describe announced gameplay changes. The build comparison separately reports packaged records, matching server-cache changes and source catalog additions. Client build numbers alone don't establish server hotfix behavior.
High ranks no longer prevent another druid from applying Rejuvenation.
Faerie Fire and Omen of Clarity
Free Faerie Fire casts in Cat, Bear or Dire Bear Form cannot trigger Omen of Clarity. Bear and Dire Bear casts now generate threat. Multiple Faerie Fire debuffs no longer stack.
Shred
Rank 1 is trained at level 20 instead of 22. Its tooltip now includes Savage Fury correctly; that correction does not change damage.
Feral talents at login
Heart of the Wild, Feral Swiftness, Thick Hide and Leader of the Pack apply correctly after login.
Insect Swarm
Multiple applications no longer stack their hit-chance reduction.
Moonkin Aura and Leader of the Pack
Both affect the raid. Moonkin Aura affects spell critical chance; Leader of the Pack affects melee and ranged critical chance.
Furor
Preserves the Energy from the last Cat Form even after entering Bear or Dire Bear Form. Those bear forms still prevent Energy regeneration.
Requires standing still for 0.5 seconds before firing. It can still fire during casts such as Aimed Shot or Sniper Shot. Drawn arrows are visible again.
Traps
Fire traps scale with Attack Power. One Fire Trap and one Ice Trap can be active together.
Pet stats
Pets benefit from Expertise and inherit the higher of the hunter's melee and ranged critical chance.
Dismember
Crocolisk healing reduction falls from 50% to 25%, duration from 10 to 6 seconds, and cooldown rises from 6 to 15 seconds.
Sonic Blast
Bat cast-speed reduction falls from 60% to 30%, duration from 30 to 20 seconds, and cooldown rises from 30 to 60 seconds.
Mine!
Bird of Prey disarm lasts 3 seconds instead of 4, with a 90-second cooldown instead of 60.
Summon Hawk
The hawk spawns on the chosen target and stays with it.
Improved Mend Pet
Reduces Mana cost instead of increasing it.
Trueshot Aura and Sniper Shot
Trueshot Aura affects the raid. Sniper Shot benefits from the previously missing Marksmanship talents.
Strider Kick and Resourcefulness
Strider Kick works while disarmed or without a main-hand weapon. Resourcefulness reduces its Mana cost and activates only from melee or ranged ability critical strikes, not traps.
Predator's Edge
The tooltip specifies that its critical damage bonus applies to abilities.
New level-24 spell with a 1.5-second cast and a 40% movement slow. Frostbolt talents affect it. It provides a short slow cast while older Frostbolt ranks retain their downranking penalty.
Presence of Mind and Missile Barrage
Presence of Mind is consumed correctly. Missile Barrage no longer benefits a second Arcane Missiles cast.
Missile Barrage
Moves to the first talent row with two ranks. Arcane Missiles hits can also trigger it.
Arcane Blast
Cast time is 1.5 seconds. Each cast grants spell damage equal to 15% of Intellect, up to four stacks, while also raising Arcane Blast cost. The effect lasts 15 seconds from its first application instead of ending with the next spell. Base Mana cost is unchanged; damage and spell coefficients fall 40%.
Arcane Wrath
New 16-point talent: a 3.5-second cast with Fireball-like base damage and additional scaling as though spell power were increased by 5% of maximum Mana. Cooldown is 6 seconds.
Heating Up
Presence of Mind prevents Pyroblast from consuming Heating Up. Fire Blast always adds one charge, or two on a critical strike.
Improved Fire Blast
Replaces Wake of Fire. The kill bonus is removed, and Fire Blast range increases by 8/15 yards.
Critical Mass
Has five ranks for up to 10% critical chance.
Fire Power
Has three ranks. Each of the mage's eligible Fire effects increases Fire damage by 1/2/3%, capped at 12%. Ignite, Improved Scorch, Fireball, Pyroblast and Impact qualify. Frostfire Bolt benefits but does not add a qualifying effect.
Clearcasting
Rolls once rather than for every target hit. Dampen Magic, Amplify Magic and out-of-combat casts cannot trigger it.
Frost Channeling and Ice Block
Frost Channeling reduces threat correctly, and Ice Block is no longer overly transparent.
Frostbite and Fingers of Frost
Can trigger from Ice Armor and Frost Armor.
Ice Lance
The damage bonus against frozen targets is 200%, down from 300%.
Cone of Cold
The first four targets receive an additional 10% slow and 3 seconds of duration. Its visual position is adjusted.
Winter's Chill
Frostbolt, Frost Blast and Fingers of Frost-empowered Ice Lance have a 20/40/60/80/100% chance to add a stack. Each stack adds 5% damage taken from the next Cone of Cold and 7% of spell damage, up to five stacks. This matches the current client and the later of two descriptions in the official notes.
Replace Blessing of Salvation and Greater Blessing of Salvation without excluding other blessings. Revoke is learned alongside Salvation and removes either effect from a party or raid member.
Seal of Fury
Power Word: Shield no longer overwrites it. Rank 3 is trained at level 26, correcting level 25.
Righteousness and Fury scaling
Judgement of Righteousness and Judgement of Fury use the correct instant-spell coefficients. Seal of Righteousness no longer gains nearly twice the intended benefit from spell damage.
Consecration
Spell power coefficient per tick falls from 0.095 to 0.042.
Righteous Fury
Bonus threat from Holy damage rises from 60% to 90%.
Light's Vigil and Infusion of Light
Focus macros target Light's Vigil correctly. Infusion of Light no longer grants Holy Shock an unintended 50% damage increase against enemies.
Shield Specialization
Restores 4% Mana instead of 6%, retaining its 3-second internal cooldown.
Reckoning
Stores up to four charges. The next automatic melee swing consumes all charges for one extra attack each, preserving the swing timer when instant attacks are used.
Champion of the Light
Spell damage from Intellect falls from 20/40/60% to 10/20/30%.
High Renew ranks no longer block another priest's Renew. Holy Fire rank 5 no longer deals more periodic damage than rank 6.
Power Word: Shield
Reports when an existing shield is stronger and no longer duplicates the SHIELDED combat-text message.
Devouring Plague and Shadow Word: Death
Devouring Plague cooldown falls from 60 to 24 seconds. Shadow Word: Death cooldown rises from 12 to 18 seconds and correctly benefits from Shadowform critical damage.
Mind Vision and Inner Focus
Mind Vision no longer interrupts the target's drink. Inner Focus affects only one spell, including when another spell is queued during Penance.
Divine Aegis
The tooltip specifies non-periodic critical heals and the maximum shield size.
Power in Light and Silent Resolve
Power in Light benefits Smite and Penance when the target has Holy Fire or Shadow Word: Pain. Silent Resolve reduces threat for all spells.
Mental Strength and Improved Power Word: Shield
Mental Strength moves from row 4 to row 2 and increases Intellect by 2/4/6/8/10%. Improved Power Word: Shield moves from row 2 to row 3.
Twin Disciplines
Benefits Shadow Word: Death, Mind Flay, Starshards and Penance.
Devouring Contagion
Spreads to two targets. Bounces no longer cost Mana, play a cast animation or restart the caster's Devouring Plague cooldown.
Vampiric Embrace
Cannot be resisted; cooldown falls from 60 to 30 seconds.
Shadow talents
Improved Fade and Shadow Infinity are removed. Improved Mind Blast moves from row 3 to row 2.
Dark Inspiration
New row-4 talent: Mind Blast and a fully channeled Mind Flay increase the caster's and party's Spirit by 3/6/9/12/15% for 10 seconds.
Improved Mind Flay
Each damage instance deals 10/20% more damage than the previous one.
Shadow Weaving
The tooltip specifies that its increased damage taken applies to damage from the casting priest.
Totemic Recall training costs 22 silver instead of 70. Grounding Totem is destroyed after redirecting a spell.
Totem buffs
Grace of Air can coexist with Windfury or Flametongue, which remain mutually exclusive. Grace of Air, Strength of Earth, Windfury and Flametongue affect the raid. Windfury and Flametongue affect players only.
Chain Lightning
Mana cost falls by approximately 35% at all four ranks.
Fire Nova
Spell power coefficient falls from 0.214 to 0.143; base damage and Mana cost also fall. Trial By Fire now updates the tooltip correctly.
Clearcasting
Cannot be spent by the Fire Nova that activates it or by Lightning Overload activations.
Elemental Mastery
Returns as the 31-point talent, requiring Lava Burst. For 15 seconds, Lightning Bolt and Lava Burst cast 0.5 seconds faster and Chain Lightning has no cooldown. Cooldown is 3 minutes.
Lava Burst and Earthbound
Lava Burst moves to row 5 as the 21-point talent, loses its prerequisite and gains rank 4 with redistributed rank levels. Earthbound moves to row 4 as the 16-point talent.
Elemental prerequisites
Elemental Fury requires Lightning Overload; Lightning Overload requires Elemental Alacrity. Elemental Alacrity moves to row 2 and Elemental Warding to row 3. Call of Thunder is removed; several columns change.
Elemental Reach and Call of Flame
Elemental Reach also reduces Totemic Projection cooldown by 10/20 seconds. Call of Flame also extends Flame Shock by 3/6/9 seconds.
Stormstrike
Costs 8% of base Mana instead of a flat 125. Missed spells and other players or pets no longer consume the debuff.
Mana Tide Totem
Adds a level-38 rank, producing training levels of 25, 38, 48 and 58.
Restorative Totems
Improves the whole Healing Stream Totem effect rather than only its base value.
Tidal Focus and Totemic Focus
Swap places: Tidal Focus is in row 1 and Totemic Focus in row 2.
Water Shield
Can trigger from any critical spell cast by the shaman, rather than only critical heals.
Combat visuals
Windfury Weapon attacks appear as white hits. Chain Heal gains a small green accent.
Slam ignores spell pushback. Overpower can activate against much lower-level enemies.
Weaponmaster's Sword Specialization
Cannot trigger from Shield Bash or Shield Slam.
Lingering Rage and Improved Berserker Rage
Lingering Rage no longer prevents out-of-combat health regeneration. Improved Berserker Rage removes movement-impairing effects correctly.
Racial changes
System
October 15 update
Tauren
Endurance replaces 1% hit chance with 2% increased critical damage and healing. Plainsrunning adds a stacking 3% mounted speed bonus and requires a minimum movement distance each second. Cultivation cooldown falls from 60 to 15 minutes; War Stomp from 120 to 90 seconds.
Dwarf
Earth Fury replaces Mace Specialization with 2% increased critical damage and healing. Find Treasure adds a chance for extra items in most chests.
Skyborne
Wind Blessed grants 3% haste instead of 1%. Skysight and Read Leyline can be cast while moving; Read Leyline has a 30-second minimum duration. Walk on Air cooldown falls from 120 to 90 seconds. More Elemental Convergence and Leyline spawn positions are added across both continents.
Human
Ruthless replaces Sword Specialization with 2% critical chance.
Orc
Savage replaces Axe Specialization with 1% critical chance. Blood Fury cooldown rises from 2 to 3 minutes. Shatter Curse dispels Curses and Banes without granting immunity, and reduces magic damage by 5% instead of 15%.
Undead
The health-drain racial has a 25-second internal cooldown, a 30% proc chance for casters and 20% for paladins, rogues and warriors. Shadow damage modifiers and lower spell ranks no longer alter it. Its visuals improve. Will of the Forsaken is unavailable during Scatter Shot. The notes call the drain both Touch of the Grave and Touch of the Dead.
Gnome
Eureka! becomes an 8-second buff without charges and also benefits Power Word: Shield. The notes flag its use during stealth or invisibility as an issue.
Night Elf
Quickness movement speed stacks with other movement bonuses. Shields are hidden in Wisp Form.
Troll
Regeneration bonuses rise from 10% to 20%.
Combat, items and Legacy
System
October 15 update
Wands
Require standing still for 0.5 seconds before firing.
Creature regeneration
Creatures regenerate health correctly outside combat.
Mystic Mushroom and Insight
Both increase Spirit correctly.
Scrolls and crafted items
Scrolls trigger the global cooldown. Many crafted items have lower vendor sell prices.
Draught of Predatory Senses
Becomes a potion on the combat-potion cooldown with a shorter duration.
Morbent's Bane and Night Watchman's Torch
Morbent's Bane no longer plays effects on nearby players. Horde torch-holding visuals are corrected.
Drinks
Affected tooltips show the correct total Mana regeneration.
Bartering
No longer discounts training or repairs.
Master Chef and Luremaster
Move one column left visually. Their five-point access requirement is unchanged.
The Quick and the Dead
Affects more priest spells.
Battleground Marks of Honor
Stack to 30 instead of 20.
Quest and world fixes
System
October 15 update
Dalaran
Horde characters are attacked on sight in the open-world city and cannot gain Kirin Tor reputation. The Sewer Key questline no longer grants city access; entry to the City of Dalaran dungeon is unaffected.
Quest items
Several items no longer drop for multiple players when they should not.
Raene's Cleansing
More Bloodtooth Guards are available in Ashenvale.
Darkshore quests
Furbolg camps grant credit for How Big a Threat? For Love Eternal can always be turned in to Cerellian Whiteclaw. Body and Heart no longer consumes Cenarion Moondust, allowing another Lunaclaw summon.
Sparring Match
Novice Warriors no longer flag players for PvP.
The Attack!
Is no longer an escort and can be shared while its event is running. Tyrion starts the event when it is inactive.
Twisted Hatred
Lord Melenas no longer evades at low health.
Wetlands
Dragonmaw Orc, Gnoll and Incendicite Ore respawn rates increase and become more consistent.
The Anchors of Zephras
Halaan's Gift can be used correctly to scry on the anchors.
Interface and graphics
System
October 15 update
New-player tutorial
A new tutorial experience and updated in-game tutorials are added.
Lighting
Bloom Intensity becomes a slider under Advanced graphics. Excessively bright fog at low shadow settings is fixed.
Auto Attack/Auto Shot
An optional setting switches hunters between melee and ranged automatic attacks, including with gamepad controls.
Unit frames and minimap
Unit-frame and minimap-header displays are updated.
Cooldown Manager
Different ranks of a spell share one entry.
Auction House
Shows equippable level and correctly displays stats on random-suffix items.
Combat text and threat
Detailed scrolling combat-text options are added under Gameplay > Combat. Searching for Threat finds Aggro Display.
Nameplates
Vertical visibility ranges change for enemies and NPCs; the current target is unaffected.
Level-up messages
Stat increases and talent points gained appear again.
Group Finder
Dungeon eligibility updates correctly for mixed-level parties and when Show All Level Ranges changes.
Professions and Who List
Profession-panel artwork is fixed. Who searches include subzones and their parent zones.
Refresh world
The prompt cannot be accepted during combat.
Gamepad controls
System
October 15 update
Reticle and chat
The center reticle gains a swing timer. Chat Channels adds voice-transcription bindings.
Fishing and ground targets
The player's fishing bobber remains targetable. Using a ground-targeted item a second time confirms placement.
Edit Mode and flyouts
Fixes cover action bars disappearing after relogging with a custom layout, cast-bar customization and class flyout activation.
Quest completion
Reward selection works correctly, and quests from interactive objects or other non-character givers can be turned in.
Casting and dialogs
Press and Hold Casting works with gamepads. Trade, Guild & Communities, Chat Channels and Transmog dialogs support gamepad controls.
October 8 update
The City of Dalaran and Legacy update remains below for reference. Full October 8 notes.
Warrior
Ability or talent
October 8 update
Rage from damage
Rage calculations now use expected creature health, handle critical and crushing damage correctly, and ignore absorbs. Armor assumptions vary from 20% to 40% by level. These fixes also affect druids.
Demoralizing Shout
Generates threat on every affected enemy.
Deep Wounds and Impale
Deep Wounds is again required for Impale. Off-hand Attack Power no longer increases its damage; the effect remains a rolling damage-over-time effect.
Last Stand
Grants the intended health when activated.
Druid
Ability or talent
October 8 update
Mana potions and Cat Form
Mana potions work in Bear, Dire Bear and Cat Form. Cat Form no longer lowers maximum health.
Rage and threat
Critical strikes generate 100% extra Rage, up from 75%. Bear and Dire Bear threat bonuses rise from 30% to 50%.
Thorns
Base damage returns to Vanilla values and spell-power scaling falls from 13.3% to 6%.
Demoralizing Roar
Generates threat on every affected target.
Wrath
Ranks 1-5 are adjusted so damage progresses consistently through rank 6.
Natural Instinct
Predatory Instincts is renamed Natural Instinct and also adds healing equal to 12/25% of Intellect.
Shifting Power
Cannot be used at full Energy.
Thick Hide
Implementation changes fix equipment bonuses failing to update while shapeshifted.
Transformation effects
Fewer cosmetic effects override combat forms. Some transformations with other benefits, such as underwater breathing from Noggenfogger Elixir, still work.
Hunter
Ability or talent
October 8 update
Disengage
The intended doubling of threat reduction is now applied.
Pet health and Unleashed Fury
Pets no longer repeatedly gain health while injured, and Unleashed Fury correctly raises pet damage.
Improved Concussive Shot
Uses its intended activation chance.
Improved Wing Clip
Uses the intended proc chance and reduces it for ranks far below your level.
Expose Prey
Lasts 10 seconds instead of 5.
Entrapment
Uses diminishing returns and triggers only when Frost Trap activates, rather than on later ticks.
Mage
Ability or talent
October 8 update
Impact
Cannot trigger from periodic Flamestrike damage.
Early spell ranks
Frostbolt and Fireball ranks 1-5, and Arcane Missiles ranks 1-3, are adjusted so each following rank improves consistently.
Paladin
Ability or talent
October 8 update
Retribution Aura
Uses the casting paladin's spell power. Base damage returns to Vanilla values, roughly one-third lower, and scaling falls from 13.3% to 6%.
Reckoning
Can trigger at most once every 1.5 seconds.
Seal of Fury
Mana restoration requires Improved Seal of Fury.
Improved Seal of Fury and Shield Specialization
Restored Mana no longer generates threat.
Priest
Ability or talent
October 8 update
Smite
Ranks 1-4 are adjusted to give consistent progression through rank 5.
Lesser Heal and Heal
Lesser Heal ranks 1-3 and Heal ranks 1-2 are adjusted for consistent progression through Heal rank 3.
Penance
Damage and healing calculations now use its two-second channel. Mana costs are adjusted to keep it more efficient than Heal/Greater Heal; rank 1 costs 50% more Mana. Ranks 2 and 4 also receive healing increases.
Shaman
Ability or talent
October 8 update
Flametongue Totem
Uses a shapeshifted target's actual attack speed instead of its equipped weapon speed.
Lightning Bolt
Ranks 1-5 are adjusted for consistent progression through rank 6.
Elemental Focus
Fire Nova no longer activates and immediately consumes it.
Water Shield
The buff displays the correct Mana return and removes the incorrect 15-second cooldown text.
Mana Tide Totem
Its pulse visual returns.
Warlock
Ability or talent
October 8 update
Summoning
The current demon is stunned while its replacement is summoned.
Shadow Bolt
Ranks 1-4 are adjusted for consistent progression through rank 5.
Demonic Brand
Its bonus pet damage generates high threat only when dealing Shadow damage.
Rogue
Ability or talent
October 8 update
October 8 notes
No separate rogue balance changes were listed. The patch adds quest markers for Plundering the Plunderers.
Dungeons, leveling and Legacy
System
October 8 update
City of Dalaran
The dungeon opens for beta testing.
Dungeon experience
Creature kills award about 20% more experience. The lower-level enemy adjustment now uses each party member's own level. A vastly overleveled party member still prevents everyone from receiving kill experience.
Legacy points
Every tester receives the Legacy Challenge and its 16 points. The lowest reset price is 1 silver and the reset-cost counter decreases once per hour during beta.
Weapon swapping
Multiple weapon swaps work within one global cooldown again.
Creature behavior
Corpses without loot can be interacted with again. Large-creature visual flicker and unintended long-distance pulls are fixed.
PvP
Critical strikes against players are no longer reduced. The Shipwreck Cove capture marker moves to the correct position.
Items and professions
System
October 8 update
Wolfshead Helm
Adds 5 Energy when Shifting Power is used. Its Rage effect is unchanged.
Dungeon quest rewards
Several rewards change from rare to uncommon, with stats adjusted to match.
Truthseeker's Bow
Now requires level 40, matching the other Greater Friend of the Library rewards.
Desolace rewards
Sixteen rewards from the Gelkis and Magram questlines are retuned. The notes announce a following hotfix to require level 35. Check the current item record for the captured requirement.
Retuned reward list
Abandoned Ferocity; Blade of the Magram Clan; Bludgeon of Betrayed Virtues; Centaur Spear; Ceremonial Centaur Blanket; Desert Crawler's Claw; Desperate Barrier; Greatstaff of the Necrokhans; Kolkar Hunter's Belt; Kolkar Marauder Chain; Scavenged Magram Armament; Soulsplatter Mace; Staff of Revelations; Thrice-Damned Effigy; Traitor's Finger; Wanderer's Broadsword.
Transformative Cocoon and Revelation
Cocoon is correctly a debuff. The Revelation enchant persists through Ghost Wolf and druid forms.
Booty Bay Bruiser's Buckshot
The knockback effect is removed.
Discolored Healing Potion
Its damage no longer breaks crowd control.
Armor kits and Recovery
Attack Power armor kits no longer double their Ranged Attack Power contribution. Enchant Weapon - Recovery works while druids are shapeshifted.
Vendor prices
Recipe: Peace Tea sells for 10 copper, Minor Wizard Oil for 1 silver, and Novice's Practice Wand for 5 copper.
New armor-set shoulder pieces use their intended visual scale.
Quest and world fixes
System
October 8 update
Blood Tithe
Completing other quests no longer incorrectly blocks its start.
Night Watchman's Torch
Only the bearer displays the visible aura.
Capital barbers
Local barbers replace the previous NPCs.
Barrens
The Horn of Echeyakee is no longer consumed when used. The Principal Source gains a map marker.
Desolace
The Gelkis and Magram chains beginning with Valley of Bones require level 35 instead of 30.
Farsen's Watch
Movement and turning no longer cancel Far Sight; right-click cancellation remains available.
Durotar
Break A Few Eggs has more eggs and faster respawns. Lazy Peons are adjusted and northern peons are included in its marker.
Duskwood
Stitches becomes hostile on entering Darkshire again.
Excavation Site: Wetlands
The Titan Relic is returned for Earthen Echo and Prehistoric Prism after Elder Knowledge or Lost Relic Carry.
Hillsbrad Foothills
Stanley no longer gives kill experience during Elixir of Pain; the experience moves to the quest reward.
Loch Modan
Dark Iron Ambushers appear less often at Miran's camp during Resupplying the Excavation.
Mulgore
Grim Tidings gets an accurate turn-in marker. Gloomrise respawns are more even and hatchling experience matches their difficulty.
Orgrimmar
Neeru Fireblade gains a marker and tooltip for Hidden Enemies.
Redridge Mountains
Weapon Racks, Stolen Weapons and Blackrock Supplies respawn faster for Blackrock Blockade.
Rogue quests
Plundering the Plunderers gains map markers.
Storm, Earth, and Fire
Required creatures respawn faster and twisted totems drop more often. Maraudine Scouts can drop Air, Ongeku Earth, and Murdaloc Fire. Badlands Dustbelcher ogres can also drop Fire; large camps respawn faster.
Heed My Call
The Eye of the Tempest can drop for multiple players.
Stonetalon Mountains
Jin'Zil accepts turn-ins after another player completes Jin'Zil's Forest Magic.
Teldrassil
Resetting Sethir the Ancient restores more minions and his respawn is faster. Sentinel Lynessa Duskblossom walks more slowly.
Tirisfal Glades
Quest and creature levels rise around Shadowvale and Bandarion Keep.
Ulag the Cleaver
The Mausoleum Trigger reactivates without the unintended long delay.
Will of the Forsaken
Works reliably while asleep or charmed.
Interface and gamepad
System
October 8 update
Cooldown Manager
Supports every class, racial abilities and trinkets. Consumable support is planned for a later patch.
Voice chat
Discord Voice is selectable in Audio options. The party leader controls the party mode, and Group Finder listings can prompt joining it.
Character and inspection
Inspect, combo-point displays and Character Info are updated. Buffed stats highlight correctly, and View Talents appears in the target context menu.
Quest display
Quest types appear in the log, tracker and dialogue. The tracker also displays level requirements.
Macros and Legacy
Specific Macros no longer show General Macros. Selecting an earned Legacy Challenge opens its window.
Gamepad input
Hold-button indicators, post-loot input and raid-frame traversal are fixed or updated. Opening the map focuses the quest log so movement can continue.
Gamepad layouts
Action bars support Edit Mode. Layouts are saved per UI type; compact-bar settings move into Edit Mode and need to be selected again.
Known issues recorded on October 8
These issues were listed on October 8. Later fixes may change their status.
System
October 8 update
Textures
Skyborne druid cat form and some Zephras Isle creatures, mounts and pets are awaiting updated textures. Bear and travel forms are updated.
Ferocity
The hunter pet character sheet does not show the added critical chance; Blizzard identifies this as a display issue.
Critical basic attacks generate 100% extra Rage after the October 2 revision, replacing the initial 75% increase.
Rend and Sunder Armor
Immediately tag their target for the warrior.
Heroic Strike
Queuing it no longer raises off-hand hit chance.
Spearing Strike
Allows weapons other than two-handed weapons, but requires Battle Stance.
Booming Voice
Expands shout area by 10/20/30/40/50% and cuts shout Rage costs by 5/10/15/20/25%.
Unbridled Wrath
The proc rate was corrected. Two-handed weapons no longer receive double Rage from a proc.
Lingering Rage
New Fury row-2 talent: delays post-combat Rage decay by 2/4/6/8/10 seconds.
Furious Precision
New Fury row-3 talent: adds 4/7/10% off-hand hit chance.
Dual Wield Specialization
The bug granting hit chance to both weapons is fixed, and the off-hand hit bonus moves to Furious Precision. The old 20/40/60/80/100% off-hand Rage bonus is removed.
Blood Craze
Bloodthirst casts no longer activate it.
Improved Cleave and Boundless Rage
Removed from the Fury tree.
Raging Blows and Whirlwind
Raging Blows reduces Cleave and Whirlwind costs by 3 Rage. Whirlwind strikes with both weapons without needing the talent.
Flurry
Requires Death Wish instead of Enrage.
Gore Drinker
New Fury row-6 talent requiring Enrage. Enrage, Berserker Rage, Bloodrage, Death Wish and Bloodthirst make the next three melee attacks heal 0.5/1% maximum health each.
Improved Berserker Rage
Moves from Fury row 6 to row 5.
Berserker Rage
Training moves from level 32 to level 30.
Bloodthirst
Attack Power scaling rises from 35% to 45%.
Iron Will
Moves from Fury row 2 to Protection row 1.
Anticipation and Improved Bloodrage
Anticipation moves to row 2; Improved Bloodrage moves to row 1.
Toughness
Removed from Protection.
Improved Revenge, Improved Disarm and Improved Shield Bash
Its missing Attack Power scaling is restored at 3%; the tooltip update was deferred.
Shapeshift forms
Immune to new Disarm effects. A Disarm applied before shifting remains and still lowers damage.
Faerie Fire
No longer resets the melee swing timer.
Primal Bite
Threat is approximately doubled.
Tiger's Fury and King of the Jungle
Removed.
Shifting Power
New Feral row-4 talent linked to Shredding Attacks. In Cat Form, spend 55% base Mana for 40 Energy on a 16-second cooldown. Shapeshifting cost reductions also reduce this cost.
Improved Shifting Power
New row-5 talent linked to Shifting Power, reducing its cooldown by 4/8 seconds.
Renamed Soul Harvest and correctly grants 50/100% increased Mana regeneration.
Pet behavior
Aggressive mode returns in the pet spellbook tab.
Incubus
Uses a lower-resolution model.
Leveling, dungeons and PvP
System
October update
Level cap
Raised to 30.
Excavation Site: Wetlands
New dungeon for levels 26-31. Razorfen Downs opens from 25 and Uldaman from 30.
Dungeon quest experience
The extra experience above a normal quest reward is cut by 50%. This is not a 50% cut to the whole reward.
PvP purchases
Most Honor prices rise by about 50%. The Honor cap increases from 15,000 to 25,000.
Respawns
Increased for creatures and objects across Hillsbrad, Ashenvale, Wetlands, Duskwood and Thousand Needles.
Items, professions and camps
System
October update
Savory Whimsyfin Delight
Replaces the placeholder murloc and ogre with orc pirate and ninja appearances.
Uncollected appearances
Selling an eligible bind-on-equip item to a vendor now makes it soulbound, replacing account-bound behavior.
Campfires
Do not damage players below level 5 and deal reduced damage below 90% health. Boosted Rest gets clearer wording and a different icon. Camp features now say mutually exclusive where only one can be used.
Profession recipes
Intended Blacksmithing and Leatherworking dungeon recipe drops become available.
Crafted wands
Common and uncommon Enchanting wands sell to vendors for 1 copper.
Mining and Skinning
Fewer Poor Copper Veins in starting areas. A creature can be skinned only once.
Shenthul
Trains Windshaper Skyborne in Orgrimmar.
Quest fixes
System
October update
Quest sharing and items
Fixes unintended duplicate quest-item drops and sharing of quests that start from items or give an item when accepted. Escorts can start when the quest log contains 25 or more quests.
Druid quests
The Great Cat Spirit and The Great Windborne Cat Spirit grant their loot reliably. High Order Skyborne can learn Cure Poison through Power Over Poison.
Darkshore and Mulgore
Repairs Tharnariun's Hope during Plagued Lands and adds Kyle's Gone Missing!
Deadmines and Ruins of Lordaeron
Destruction in Deadmines and A Frightened Request sort under their dungeons in the quest log. Players can no longer receive duplicate Bloodied Insignias.
Dun Morogh and Loch Modan
Shimmer Ridge trolls respawn more evenly and faster in affected areas. Trogg respawns slow slightly for In Defense of the King's Lands.
Orgrimmar and Redridge
More Smooth Boulders are available for Rocks to Rests. Blackrock Blockade and its spawn rates are updated.
Wailing Caverns
Serpentbloom Snakes despawn after a few minutes.
Westfall
The Forgotten Heirloom pocket watch respawns less often. Undead for Collecting Memories and Foreman Thistlenettle for Oh Brother... respawn faster.
Races, interface and world
System
October update
Gnome Eureka!
No longer benefits periodic effects; channels do not count as periodic effects for this rule.
Undead Cannibalize
Cannot be used while immune to physical damage.
Downranking tooltips
The character sheet explains that ranks far below your level lose spell-power benefit and trigger class effects less often. Blizzard gives rank-1 Frostbolt at level 60 a zero chance to trigger Frostbite.
Barbershops
Added in Darnassus and Thunder Bluff. Barbers are present and guards give directions.
Cooldown Manager
Adds racial abilities and rogue support; duplicate spell-rank entries were removed.
Gamepad
Updates pet stables and party/raid management; repairs action-bar macro movement. UI bindings stay fixed when keyboard/mouse bindings change.
Character and combat display
Character-creation icons match Standard Definition models. Stable and combo-point artwork is updated; loot rolls display full player names and auctions show item suffixes.
World instances
Party leaders should remain in their current instance when party composition changes.
Visual fixes
Rain is more visible and equipped weapon sizes are more consistent across races. Ray Traced Shadows is temporarily removed.
Night Watchman's Torch
Fixes lag and allows the effect to be cancelled.
Known issues recorded on October 1
This is the issue list published with the October 1 build. It does not establish which problems remain in the current beta.
System
October update
Casting visuals
Queued spells can delay their next precast animation and sound until the previous cast finishes.
Close-range attacks
Enemies can parry and block attacks from behind when the attacker is too close. Keeping a little distance was the suggested workaround.
Installation and gamepad
The installation is larger than intended. Switching gamepad UI mode resets the active edit-mode layout.
Mage research and scrolls
Learning Research can leave it inaccessible. Scroll of Liminal Passage does not work correctly.
Spell interactions
Some debuffs, including Faerie Fire and Demoralizing Shout, do not generate threat. Retribution Aura uses the target's spell power. Eureka! misses some eligible spells.
Dual Wield Specialization
The original issue list reports hit chance affecting both weapons. The October 2 revision above announces its correction.
Quest objects
Taillasher Eggs for Break A Few Eggs respawn too slowly.
Visual and sound issues
Dwarves lack updated water-splash sounds. Anduin Wrynn and other children appear with unintended hats.
