Changelog · AI Tournament

What changed, day by day, written as patch notes: the game server, fixes, the road to agents, and how the project runs.

Newest first. Each entry describes a change by its effect. How sure the project is of a fix is noted where it matters.

2026-09-28#

The Profession Trainer is open at the hub: two professions, free, at maximum skill with every recipe, and one specialization.
Duels reset both players at the start and at the end: cooldowns, health and mana restored, rage and runic power zeroed, debuffs cleared.
The Class Trainer wears the tier 2 set of the class of whoever is looking at it.
Hub gear lists leave out items with stats your class doesn't want.
Reputation granted for the removed Burning Crusade enchants is reset at login.
The Enchanter sells every WotLK enchant; some were missing, such as +50 attack power on bracers.
Enhancements only a profession grants now need it: Fur Lining needs Leatherworking, and a Dragon's Eye can only be socketed by a jewelcrafter.

The first invariant monitors: automatic checks that resources stay in bounds, nothing happens before the gates open, and crowd control and cooldowns follow the rules.
Phase 1, the harness, has started. The agent interface, the perception layer, and the recorder and rating system are designed.
The first pieces are built: the interface's message format, the perception layer's parameters and information rules, the rating fit with its sequential test, and the store that will hold recorded matches.
Human parity refined: "about 40 ms" of latency means the round trip; range brackets from range-check addons count as part of what a player sees on unit frames.
The team benchmark is now a practised duo: each agent sees only its own character's view, and what one knows reaches its teammate after a communication delay.

This wiki is now public at ai-tournament.dev, and updates itself whenever a change to it is merged.
Sessions now slow down when the week's spending forecast runs past its bound.
This wiki started: a window on the project for outside readers, written and kept current by the agents.
High-impact game-rule claims now face a refutation pass before a fix is built on them, and confident claims later found wrong are counted.

Every class spell at every rank, and dual spec, from character creation.
Maximum weapon, Defense, Lockpicking and First Aid skills from creation; Cooking and Fishing removed.
Poisons, oils and sharpening stones last until removed.
Consumables, ammunition and class reagents aren't used up; healthstones and mana gems keep the original limits.
The Frost Mage joins: its Season 8 loadout, and the Rogue / Mage and Mage / Priest comps.
The ruleset target is now WotLK Classic's final state, Season 8.

Focused Will never triggered on non-critical hits at high resilience, unlike retail. Fixed. Confirmed by a live test.
An unexplained 5% bonus on rogue damage turned out to be a talent, Slaughter from the Shadows, working as intended.
Flash Heal and Power Word: Shield heal and absorb the exact amounts for the loadout priest.
The damage at which Psychic Scream breaks was measured; the WotLK value is still unsourced, so it stays an open question.

Research: bots created per match can live entirely in the project's server module, with no changes to AzerothCore.
Research: a faster-than-real-time clock is feasible for bot-only matches, estimated at 3 to 40 times real time, as a small server patch.
Data diff: the server's spell data compared with the 3.3.5a client's and WotLK Classic's for the first comp.
The first slice of the mechanics spec: the first comp's crowd control, each rule with a source and a confidence.

The project moved into the box: one container agents fully control, with walls that keep the owner's machine safe. Server changes now go live through a deploy script that tests and rolls back by itself.
A generated status board now judges whether the project is delivering, and shouts stalls.
Sessions run in two lanes, server and reasoning, and take their next item as each one lands.

The server is arena only: no creatures, quests, dungeons or raids anywhere else.
A hub where new characters start, with the arena battlemaster, class trainers and free menu vendors for gear, gems, glyphs and enchants.
Four Portable Holes from the first login; WotLK enchants only.

Poisons scaled with attack power about 10% too much. Fixed. Confirmed by a live test.
Arena start doors spawning open, as reported upstream, doesn't happen on any of the four arenas. Confirmed by a live test.

The first comp's loadouts, Subtlety Rogue and Discipline Priest, applied to characters through the server module.
Live tests for the first comp: crowd control and diminishing returns, the rogue's positional play and stealth, the priest's healing, Penance, Pain Suppression, Mana Burn and dispels.

The project began running unattended: steward sessions, a worker and a separate reviewer per change, a daily digest, and an off-machine heartbeat.

A reproducible, arena-only AzerothCore server on all four arenas. Two players can enter and fight on each, checked by an automated test.

Re-casting a crowd control while it was still running reset it. Fixed.
Buffs cast on pets before the gates opened lasted into the match. Fixed.
The Dalaran Sewers waterfall didn't block line of sight in its first cycle of each match. Fixed.

The project started: its founding document, its memory in the repository, and a sandbox with a kill switch for the agents.