Today we have made a change to the Wintergrasp Queue Priority. Simply put, multiboxers were taking too much of the available 120 spots. 

When the queue is full, multiboxers will no longer be able to take up multiple queue spots. Secondary characters will be deprioritized. 

This change was made to ensure everyone has a fair chance to join the battles.

After many stale Arena Seasons, we wanted to shake things up a bit. This season Ring of Valor has been added into the rated Arena Rotation.

For those who remember, Ring of Valor was the most controversial and distinctive arena map, in its current state it was only available during late WotLK. Unlike most flat, predictable maps, it featured rising pillars. That also made it one of the most complex maps to support. Especially when it came to pathing. We have made several major improvements to our pathing system to fully support it.

The Ring of Valor has been added to the rotation as a rare map. It will only pop up every once in a while, approximately once every 25 matches (compared to about 1 in 4 for the other maps).
If you encounter any issues, please let us know on the bugtracker.

After having released the final phase of TBC content on Onyxia, we are quickly moving towards Wrath of the Lich King.

We are currently working on the expansion transition system which will take an existing TBC character and port it to WotLK, while it might seem trivial, it's a rather large task. At the time of writing, we have about 2150 spells which require either removal or converting into another spell. I will give a few examples:

• Seal of Blood was removed in WotLK. Paladins in TBC currently have this spell and it will have to be unlearned.
• Hamstring rank 2, 3 and 4. All of these got combined into a single rank in WotLK, these spells will have to be unlearned during transition. Removal of separate ranks has happened for many more spells.
• Priest racials such as Hex of Weakness, Starshards will also have to be unlearned, except for Devouring Plague.

As you can hopefully tell, things get complicated fast. We have a large list of spells and other systems to go through.
Once we are done we will take it through thorough internal testing and give out a release date for the next stage in the lifecycle of the Onyxia realm.

We have fired up our PTR realm to commence player testing of the next tier of content on Onyxia. Mainly The Sunwell Plateau, all other phase 5 content is available and Isle of Quel'Danas has been fully progressed. Characters from Onyxia have been temporarily cloned.

The following 'cheats' are available to aid with testing:

• Take no damage (Godmode)
• Amplify damage x10
• Movement speed x3
• No cooldowns
• No cast time
• Loss of Control immunity
• Instant teleportation to all around the world.

All of these can be toggled at the PTR helper NPC in the mall.

We have fired up our PTR realm to commence player testing of the next tier of content on Onyxia. Mainly Zul'Aman, all other phase 4 content is available too. Characters from Onyxia have been temporarily cloned.

The following 'cheats' are available to aid with testing:

• Take no damage (Godmode)
• Amplify damage x10
• Movement speed x3
• No cooldowns
• No cast time
• Loss of Control immunity
• Instant teleportation to all around the world.

All of these can be toggled at the PTR helper NPC in the mall.

Recently we held a community vote regarding TBC item progression changes. 
The proposed changes would more closely follow the TBC classic release timeline and move a bunch of items, NPCs and quest hubs to an earlier release phase.

The results were pretty clear, stating 73.4% of the voters are in favour of these changes.

We are currently working on implementing said changes and will have it live on onyxia by the 7th of March.