WOW Classic | Phase 5 Content Patch is Now Available on the PTR

World of Warcraft: Classic aims to replicate the Vanilla WoW experience, which means keeping all the events that the original game loaded. Soon, the door of Ahn'Qiraj will open again, and classic wow gold players will have the opportunity to experience this legendary event again. PTR now provides upcoming patches and content. As a reminder, the stage 5 content patch includes:

Tier 0.5

Ahn’Qiraj War Effort

Ruins & Temple of Ahn’Qiraj (AQ40 is not available on the PTR)

In addition, they also made some changes to people's use of game mechanics, which was undesirable at the time. The next patch and content unlock for WoW Classic can now be tested in World of Warcraft classic Public Test Realm (PTR).

Ahn’Qiraj

The 20-player raid zone, Ruins of Ahn’Qiraj is now open in the PTR and available for testing.

The 40-player raid zone, Temple of “Ahn’Qiraj will not be available for public testing. This raid will only be available after it is opened on each realm.

The “Sceptre” quest to open the gates is available for testing, however, when the gates are already open, it is not possible to trigger the gate-opening event on the PTR.

Content Updates

The Tier 0.5 dungeon questline, items, and vendor are now available.

This update makes Wizard Oil and Mana Oil available.

Abyss Crystals can now be rewarded from disenchanting epic items.

This update includes WoW patch 1.10 Dungeon loot table adjustments, increasing the drop chance of epic items, and many new caster DPS items.

Several Relics are now available.

Reputation rewards from Warsong Gulch, Alterac Valley, Thorium Brotherhood, and Timbermaw Hold vendors are updated.

Alterac Valley Updates

This patch includes many bugfixes for issues found in the 1.12 version of World of Warcraft. These were issues that were clearly unintended by the design of the time, and are now fixed:

Terrain exploits

You can no longer climb the waterfall and enter the Frostwolf base near the Relief Hut.

You can no longer climb the cliff and enter Dun Baldar near the Aid Station.

You can no longer bypass Icewing Bunker.

Reputation inconsistencies between Alliance and Horde

Alliance now always receive Reputation and Honor for defeating Captain Galvangar, regardless of whether Captain Balinda Stonehearth is alive.

Developers’ notes: This now correctly mirrors the Horde behavior, which grants them Reputation and Honor for defeating Captain Balinda Stonehearth, regardless of Galvangar’s status.

Alliance Druids can no longer have their actions disrupted by talking to them.

Developers’ notes: This now correctly mirrors the behavior of the Horde Elementalists, who were already just as steadfast in executing their intended actions.

Exploits for defeating the enemy general

The Horde War Masters can no longer be kited far enough to allow General Drek’thar to be engaged and defeated alone.

The Alliance Prospector can no longer be tricked into pulling General Vandar Stormpike out of the bunker so that he can be defeated alone.

Developers’ notes: As always, our intention is to accurately represent the 1.12 design intent of the game, and these bugs are clear examples of behaviors that were never intended.

Addon APIs

Recently, developers have discovered an increase in chat traffic generated by addons that synchronize data between their users. Although most addons are responsible, some plugins may reduce the game service level of all players. They have previously fixed the chat function on the server side of the game to alleviate some problems, but during our investigation, they found common use cases that can be improved for addons developers.

Threat

The community has largely solved the threat computing problem and created powerful tools for displaying the game in the game. Developers want to improve the plugin API so that they can display this data in the plugin without transmitting a lot of chat traffic.

Larger combat log range

The developers initially limited the scope of the combat log in the open world to prevent a larger scouting radius than in the original "World of Warcraft", but this is not a problem in "Dungeon and Assault". As a result, the plug-in authors sent a lot of chat messages to synchronize combat events throughout the raid. In this patch, we will increase the range of combat records in dungeons and raids, so that the damage meter attachment can obtain accurate data without chatting.

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