Patch 12.1 PTR News and Datamining Recap for Last Week - Build 68570

Posted 2026/07/13 at 4:28 PM by Archimtiros

Patch 12.1 PTR update

The latest datamined class tuning and spell changes include Evoker hero talent updates and tier set changes.

King's Rest and Ruby Life Pools have been nerfed during Mythic+ testing.

Artisanal interior rooms have been discovered on the Patch 12.1 PTR.

We've datamined full-fledged previews of the new artisanal interior rooms from the Patch 12.1 PTR!

Player housing enthusiasts will be able to decorate their homes with huge new wall-spanning murals of Amani origin in Patch 12.1.

Large-size exterior houses for Human, Night Elf, Orc, and Blood Elf styles become available upon reaching Housing Level 12

Class Editorials

Arcane Mages have a new ability in Prismatic Bolt, as well as improved defenses!

Frost Mages have lost some defenses, and the tier sets could encourage some unintentional gameplay.

Scalecommander Evokers took a major nerf to Wingleader talents, which has far reaching effects.

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Comments

Comment by ClownWorld

big fat nothingburger as a whole

vdh buffs when?Dont feel like being bottom tier(if not indisputably worst outright) in raid and m+ for yet another season with 0 good changes.

Comment by Tastelikelemon

RIP resto druid , was fun playing you while you still resembled a healing class , noone will enjoy a healing spec going forward where only one spell /rejuv/ will be doing 80%+ of the healing breakdown. I wholeheartedly congratulate devs responsible for that class , you finally killed it! None could have done what you did even if they wanted to.

Comment by jaywjay

That broken end of the bridge on the island looks like a giant snake head.

Comment by DasPixels

big fat nothingburger as a whole

vdh buffs when?Dont feel like being bottom tier(if not indisputably worst outright) in raid and m+ for yet another season with 0 good changes.

Deserved after being #1 tank for multiple seasons across multiple xpacs. VDH is fine as mid/low tier for at least this entire xpac if not further.

Comment by ispear6

big fat nothingburger as a whole

vdh buffs when?Dont feel like being bottom tier(if not indisputably worst outright) in raid and m+ for yet another season with 0 good changes.

They're the #2 tank on ptr rn, what?

Comment by BestCollector

Release date when ffs

Comment by Spacemanjane

Imagine if people's subs ran out right about now and no one renewed it until some content came out?

Comment by ClownWorld

big fat nothingburger as a whole

vdh buffs when?Dont feel like being bottom tier(if not indisputably worst outright) in raid and m+ for yet another season with 0 good changes.

Deserved after being #1 tank for multiple seasons across multiple xpacs. VDH is fine as mid/low tier for at least this entire xpac if not further.

yeah f right off with that bs.

VDH has been the mythic plus meta tank for exactly ONE season for all of TWW and midnight so far(season 2 TWW).

It's also been consistently bottom tier for raid since goddamn amirdrassil.

If you think VDH has to pay for some perceived slight you're just delusional at this point.

Comment by ClownWorld

big fat nothingburger as a whole

vdh buffs when?Dont feel like being bottom tier(if not indisputably worst outright) in raid and m+ for yet another season with 0 good changes.

They're the #2 tank on ptr rn, what?

"Muh favorite content creator played VDH so it must be good herpderp"

The spec has literally received zero changes compared to s1,other than the healing "buffs" that were merely designed to keep their healing net neutral(and i would argue they didn't even achieve that since they buffed skills and talent points that are either inconsequential or we don't even take).

And you're claiming that took us from the 5th-6th spot to 2nd?Yeah right im gonna claim bs on that it's just idiot "content creators" overhyping VDH for the umpteenth time then the class being unplayable when the patch actually comes out.

Comment by Soleras85

Imagine if people's subs ran out right about now and no one renewed it until some content came out?

Their corporate sheet crunching minions will tell you ''that's expected as this is the current seasonal lull''.

This would only really take effect the way you envision IF the majority chose to continue not subbing.

Comment by Lepanto

Release date when ffs

Most people pin it on Aug 11th. Guess not long now.

Looking forward to Season 2. I might be the minority crowd here but the constant power creep of Season 1 (returning player here) kinda kicked me out of M+ way before I used to. I haven't touched 12.0.7 and looking at Season 2, I plan to do things very differently, as really early season progress is mostly irrelevant if there's significant power increases by the time 12.1.7 rolls out. Just get your 10s done, maybe resi 12, then blast final weeks for title/mount. Feels a bit off.

Comment by aronkoch

mssing profession changes

Comment by Hisinfiniti

What defensive did frost mage lose? Are you trying to make us fall over? We are squishy as it is.