WoW Forever: Gnomeregan bosses dropped nothing for a day

Bosses in Gnomeregan stopped dropping loot on the WoW Forever beta. A tester opened a thread on the official forums on the afternoon of 3 October, Central European time, with one line: bosses are not dropping loot in Gnomeregan, quest or otherwise. Others confirmed it through the day — one guild ran the whole dungeon and finished it with nothing from any boss, and another tester noted that gear feral druids were after never appeared.

Blizzard replied in the early hours of 4 October. Community manager Kaivax answered in the tone the subject deserved: "Who broke it? Gnomes, of course. But earlier this afternoon, we fixed it. Thanks for your reports!" So the fix went in before the reply, without a new build and without downtime.

One detail from the thread is worth keeping in mind for the rest of the beta: a tester wrote that half an hour after the announcement the dungeon still gave nothing, and the player who opened the thread confirmed it worked only after another run. A server-side fix does not always reach every instance at once, so a repeat run is the first thing to try before reporting the same bug again.

Gnomeregan is built for characters in the mid twenties, which puts it squarely in range now that the beta's level cap has gone up to 30. The beta runs until 21 October, and WoW Forever launches at 23:00 UK time on 4 November, which is midnight on 5 November in Central Europe.