Patch 11.1.7 PTR Development Notes - Timewalking Difficulty Increased & Titan Disc Belt Testing

Posted 2025/05/08 at 1:02 PM by Jaydaa

The Legacy of Arathor PTR has been updated with the following changes:

OVERCHARGED DELVES

Overcharged Delve quests and the new customizable Titan Disc Belt are available for testing.

CLASSES

Resolved an issue that caused Recuperate’s tooltip to incorrectly display a larger value. The tooltip has been updated to reflect that it heals the caster for 50% of their maximum health over the course of 30 seconds.
Developers’ notes: This change will be reflected in next week’s PTR update.

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

TIMEWALKING DUNGEONS

Battle for Azeroth Timewalking is now available for testing. See the raid testing schedule for more information.
Developers’ notes: These changes aim to make it possible to experience Timewalking dungeons more authentically, giving players the opportunity to use more abilities and practice their class’s damage rotations, healing spells, or defensives. When players wish to use Timewalking dungeons to level up, we want you to learn your class in realistic combat encounters, especially boss encounters. This also acknowledges and rewards players who take the time to acquire powerful gear, since better gear increases your damage, healing, and survivability. We will actively monitor testing and feedback and we will make further adjustments as needed.
Enemy health increased in all Timewalking dungeons.
Boss health significantly increased in all Timewalking dungeons.
Adjusted difficulty scaling via the following changes:

Lower-geared players are now slightly more damage-resistant.
Incoming damage should be more noticeable against geared players.
Fixed an issue where item level scaling did not account for enchantments, gems, and other power sources.

Timewalking dungeons will now drop Adventurer gear (was Explorer).
Completing a Timewalking dungeon now rewards 25 Timewarped Badges (was 10).

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Comment by mobistimewalking was already too hard, L blizzardComment by tronklesI know people are gonna say "Fun detected" but timewalking dungeons were literally just a walking simulator where you press 4 buttons on bosses and they implodedComment by KarthusTeemoAnother terrible change. They seem to be making a lot of those this xpac.Comment by QwagsoirI know people are gonna say "Fun detected" but timewalking dungeons were literally just a walking simulator where you press 4 buttons on bosses and they implodedComment by draconicmanSounds great! Beating timewalking dungeon bosses in 15 seconds or less just wasn't fun. Nether was level 11 twink fury warriors soloing everything with whirlwind spam.Comment by stinfectiousI don't mind making them harder, but please increase the XP too to make it a similar efficiency.Comment by ApanonarGood changes timewalking was a joke even for people with no armsComment by Darkkiz"practice their class’s damage rotations"
also 1button rotationComment by TerribleTurnipFinally, timewalking has been so boring since Shadowlands it used to feel like actual normal dungeons but now its like lfr for dungeonsComment by BrunopolarUpping rewards and difficulty is fine by me, but boost badge drop if you're going to keep releasing weapon mogs that cost 2500 each.Comment by Saber3Depending on the expansion? Adding difficulty isn't that bad

Until you remember it IS BfA, and those dungeons were tedious long ones that drag on and on...Comment by SoeroahMe: Man, Timewalking sucks, I always hate running it

Blizzard: Hmmm. What if we increased the chance of failure and made it take longer?Comment by tronklesI know people are gonna say "Fun detected" but timewalking dungeons were literally just a walking simulator where you press 4 buttons on bosses and they implodedComment by Exter33I'm happy for the timewalking changes, hopefully it makes fury warrior 'tanks' obsolete.

Any time I'd walk into a dungeon just for a super fast warrior to one shot mobs and be so far into the dungeon that you dont even get mob xp was the most abysmal experience.

Sure it's fast, but I pay to -play- this game, not sit on my butt through it. If I wanted that I'll pay for boosts.Comment by kyuubi75I know people are gonna say "Fun detected" but timewalking dungeons were literally just a walking simulator where you press 4 buttons on bosses and they implodedComment by pghcrewTimewalking will still be super easy.Comment by ThorinixBoring gamemode that nobody cares about outside of the 4 for the box.Comment by CorpselanceRIP Timewalking.Comment by MarkElfThis got so much backlash last time, who had the bright idea to try adding it again?Comment by SiegemakerIncreased health is good, but their damage should increase too. Otherwise it's still just gonna be a boring damage sponge. But maybe I'm wrong, will see for myself in PTR! It's nice they're trying to be a little more authentic.

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