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by Published on 2022-09-16 12:32 AM

Dragonflight Beta - New Rogue Talent: Danse Macabre
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Hello, Rogues.

Your feedback, here and elsewhere, has not fallen on deaf ears. In hindsight, stopping by the forums sooner to say as much would probably have helped, and I hope you are willing to accept a peace offering (in the form of a previewed upcoming change to the talent that was previously Shadow Mist):



Iteration and implementation for Rogue talents continues in earnest. A handful of iterative changes and significantly more functional talents will be hitting the PTR and Beta across the next couple builds, many of which are related to topics previously discussed here, and we will be back tomorrow to chat with you about more of what’s coming.

Cheers.
by Published on 2022-09-15 07:24 PM

What to do before Dragonflight Launch and Dragonflight Pre-Patch
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
When the Dragonflights of Azeroth return, you'll leave the Shadowlands behind. Before you journey back to the realm of the living, you may want to spend your remaining moments in the afterlife seeking out a few rewards that will no longer be obtainable (or more difficult to acquire) in the upcoming expansion—Dragonflight.

Continue reading for a full list, and make sure you collect what you need before time runs out.

Going Away with Dragonflight Launch

Leave the Shadowlands a Better Place

The Feat of Strength meta-achievement Back from the Beyond will no longer be obtainable, along with the Veilstrider title. Most achievement requirements can be completed solo, and you can use the Raid Finder to complete any raiding requirements. For the Mythic Dungeon achievements, you'll want to recruit allies and have an average item level of at least 250 or higher to get it.

Meet Your Fate Before You Go


Jigglesworth Sr.

The Fates of the Shadowlands Raids achievement (along with its rewards) goes away when Dragonflight launches. Rewards for earning this achievement include the Jigglesworth Sr. mount (Normal), the Hero of Fate title (Heroic), and Shadowlands Raid Teleports (Mythic).

Grab a New Crab on the Way Out


Carcinized Zerethsteed

The Carcinized Zerethsteed mount quest item, obtained from defeating the Jailer on Heroic difficulty or above, will no longer be available. The Jailer is the last boss in the Sepulcher of the First Ones, located in Zereth Mortis. To take on Zovaal, you'll need at least a 10-player raid with an average item level of 275 or higher if the raid is Fated.

Catch a Fallen Star

Get the We Are All Made of Stars Heroic and Mythic achievements (available on both non-Fated and Fated raids) while you still can. To attain this achievement, gather your allies and defeat Rygelon in Sepulcher of the First Ones while under the effects of Herald of the Cosmos. Everyone must stay alive throughout the encounter, or else the raid fails. But don't worry! Unlike past Immortal achievements, you can reset the encounter and try again.



Going Away with Dragonflight Pre-patch

Before the Dragonflight Pre-Patch, brave champions who have not already received Mythic+ achievements and rewards will want to do so before they fade away.

Season 4 Mythic+ Achievements and Rewards

Restoration Deathwalker Mount


Restoration Deathwalker

With the death of Zovaal the Jailer and the ascension of a new Arbiter, the Shadowlands is returning to its Great Purpose. Some deathwalkers recognize the role that mortal heroes have played and are willing to serve as mounts. Players wishing to earn the Restoration Deathwalker mount must reach the 2,000 M+ rating.

Last Stop, All Passengers Must Depart

Completing the Mythic Keystone level 20 or higher within the time limit, thus awarding portals to Grimrail Depot, Iron Docks, Operation: Mechagon, Return to Karazhan, and Tazavesh will be going away when Season 4 ends.

Season 4 Rated PvP Achievements and Rewards

Eternal Gladiator's Soul Eater Mount and Title

The Eternal Gladiator's Soul Eater mount and the Eternal Gladiator title are not long for this world. You'll want to be the top champion and win fifty 3v3 games at Elite rank to earn these rewards.

Weapon Illusion: Eternal Flux

If you're after the weapon illusion: Eternal Flux, there's still time. You can earn this illusion when you reach a 2,100 rating.

Season 4 Elite PvP Armor Set

The full transmog of the Season 4 Elite PvP Armor set can be unlocked at a 2,100 rating.



Difficulty Increasing When Dragonflight Launches

Before you venture back into the land of the living (and Dragons), you'll want to make sure that you try to earn the rewards listed below before the ability to acquire them increases once Dragonflight launches.

Once the Dragonflight pre-expansion update arrives, all Shadowlands raids will become Fated for the rest of the expansion. This may make these mounts more challenging to attain, but the bosses are guaranteed to each drop two mounts until Dragonflight launches.

Upon launch, the guaranteed drop rate for Vengeance's Reins obtained from defeating Mythic Sylvanas and the Fractal Cypher of the Zereth Overseer mount obtained from defeating Mythic Jailer will see a significant decrease. The number of dropped mounts will be reduced to one (currently two).

Vengeance's Reins


Vengeance

Vengeance served Sylvanas well, and now the ebony dragonhawk can serve you when you take the Dark Lady down. To defeat Sylvanas in Sanctum of Domination on Mythic difficulty, you'll want to recruit 20 of your bravest allies to enter the raid, and it's recommended that all players are at least 278 item level or higher.

Fractal Cypher of the Zereth Overseer Mount


Fractal Cypher of the Zereth Overseer

Enigmatic and aloof, this construct of the First Ones flies on a graceful stream of perfect geometric understanding. To get this mount, gather 20 of your strongest allies and take the fight to The Jailer on Mythic difficulty in Sepulcher of the First Ones. It is recommended that players are at least 265 item level or higher.



As you ponder your stay in the afterlife and prepare to return, which rewards are you hoping to bring back with you to the realm of the living?

World of Warcraft®: Dragonflight™ will be available on or before December 31, 2022. Visit the Dragonflight site to pre-order. Check WorldofWarcraft.com/news for updates, and follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

See you in the Dragon Isles!
by Published on 2022-09-15 03:15 PM

Dragonflight Beta Key Giveaways Are Here!
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
The Dragonflight beta is in full swing, with more opt in testers joining the test weekly. To help those who have yet to have fortune smile upon them with beta access, we’re happy to share we’re expanding the number of ways you, too, can join the ranks of beta testers.

For the next several weeks, dozens of your favorite content creators will be providing various ways to access beta keys—with your participation, of course. Whether it’s via Twitch chats, Twitter profiles, Podcasts, YouTube channels, or other mediums, each one will be giving out their keys for only a short time. To make sure you don’t miss your chance at securing a beta key of your own, you’ll need to check in with new creators every few days.

To stay on top of who is actively participating* in these giveaways, check back here on our official news post for updates as we add more creators. Here is our current schedule, with more on the way after.

Thursday– Saturday 9/15- 9/17

Content CreatorChannelLanguage
AnnieFuchsia https://twitter.com/anniefuchsia English
bunten https://twitch.tv/thebunten English
dratnos https://twitch.tv/dratnos English
eiya https://twitch.tv/eiya English
jdotb https://twitch.tv/jdotb English
kaiito https://twitch.tv/kaiito English
Maximum https://twitch.tv/maximum English
Nobbel https://twitter.com/Nobbel87 English
sco https://www.twitch.tv/sco English
Towelliee https://twitch.tv/towelliee English
yumytv https://twitch.tv/yumytv English
Kusa https://www.twitch.tv/Kusa French
Zoltan https://twitter.com/ZoltanTV French
PewPewMika https://www.youtube.com/c/PewPewMika Italian
MigguzTV https://twitter.com/Migguz Spanish (EU)
Biscoitãohu3 https://www.twitch.tv/biscoitaohu3 Portuguese (LatAm)
G4mehouse https://www.twitch.tv/g4mehouse Portuguese (LatAm)
Yetz https://www.twitch.tv/yetz Portuguese (LatAm)
Blizzholics https://www.youtube.com/c/Blizzholics/featured Spanish (LatAm)
ChowdeerST https://www.twitch.tv/chowdeerst/about Spanish (LatAm)
El Diario de Karlana https://www.youtube.com/user/Karlana2010 Spanish (LatAm)


Sunday – Tuesday 9/18 – 9/20

Content CreatorChannelLanguage
Celheals https://twitch.tv/celheals English
Haughty Chicken https://twitch.tv/haughtychicken English
Naesam https://twitch.tv/naesam English
Naguura twitter.com/naguura English
SamTalkz https://twitch.tv/samtalkz English
Supatease https://twitch.tv/supatease English
BigBadHater https://twitter.com/BigBad_Hater French
Cruelladk https://twitter.com/cruelladk French
Manacrew https://twitter.com/ManacrewDE German
GreedyGolds https://www.twitch.tv/greedygolds Italian
IannaTV https://www.twitch.tv/iannatv Italian
Wochi https://twitter.com/wochinimen Italian
Palanakir https://www.twitch.tv/palanakir Portuguese (LatAm)
Moviendose del Fuego https://www.youtube.com/c/MoviéndosedelFuego Spanish (LatAm)
Xano https://www.facebook.com/yosoyxano Spanish (LatAm)


Wednesday – Friday 9/21 – 9/23

Content CreatorChannelLanguage
CoryMissildine https://twitch.tv/missildineonline English
Hali https://twitch.tv/heyyyli English
Krista https://twitch.tv/krista English
Lambbchops https://twitch.tv/lambbchops English
LeystTV https://twitter.com/LeystTv English
MarcelianOnline twitch.tv/marcelianonline English
MrGM https://www.twitch.tv/mrgm English
Preach https://twitch.tv/preachlfw English
Tettles https://twitch.tv/tettles English
Tiqqle https://twitch.tv/tiqqlethis English
Xyronic https://twitch.tv/xyronic English
Nayru https://twitter.com/Nayruuu French
Spiralusgtm https://www.twitch.tv/spiralusgtm Polish
AlterTime https://www.twitch.tv/altertimesk Spanish (EU)
Phoebina https://twitter.com/PhoebinaYagami Spanish (EU)
Alurana https://www.twitch.tv/alurana Portuguese (LatAm)
IKVITE https://www.twitch.tv/ikvite Portuguese (LatAm)
Nanda https://www.twitch.tv/nanda Portuguese (LatAm)
SrBabinski https://www.twitch.tv/srbabinski Portuguese (LatAm)
RocketRamy https://www.twitch.tv/rocketramy Spanish (LatAm)
viciosin https://www.youtube.com/c/Viciosin Spanish (LatAm)



These giveaways will continue for several weeks, so keep checking back to this article for more creator Beta key giveaways!

Visit our official news post to learn more about the Dragonflight beta and opt-in to become a tester.

*Please be aware of any additional third-party e-mail messages, websites, or in-game whispers that offer beta keys or access to the Dragonflight beta. Please see our Phishing Scams support article for more details on dealing with such messages.
by Published on 2022-09-14 05:17 PM

Wrath of the Lich King Classic Survival Guide
Blizzard has a posted a Survival Guide for Wrath of the Lich King Classic, featuring content creators Quissy, Sarthe and Ziqo.

by Published on 2022-09-14 04:09 PM

Dragonflight Priest Abilities Feedback - September 14, 2022
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Greetings Priests,

Today, we’re shining some light on decisions we’ve made for Priests over the past few weeks for Dragonflight. First, we want to share thoughts on how things are shaping up overall and then go into some specific spells that we’re reading feedback about.

Number of Active Spells
We agree. Priests have too many active spells. While we think there will be more to assess as the expansion plays out, the first spell that comes to mind is Shadow Mend feeling unnecessary with Flash Heal being available to all Priests. Instead of Shadow Mend as a talent that overrides Flash Heal, we are working towards removing the spell. We realize that losing a secondary healing school lockout may not sit well with Discipline Priests in PvP, but we’re happy with this direction overall. While no plans are in place right now, we’re also discussing Mindgames and Power Word: Life as contributing to the number of active spells for Priests.

Class Tree
Overall, we feel the class tree is in a good spot. As mentioned above, there are too many active spells and we’re looking to pull back on that. For Shadow, the Class tree has shaped out well. We’re less happy about how many nodes can feel mandatory for Holy and Discipline and this is something we’ll be looking to improve over time.

Discipline
We will continue to monitor feedback surrounding the changes we’ve made to Renew and Power Word: Shield for Dragonflight. Currently, we do not have plans to change this and think it is playing well.

Historically Discipline has revolved heavily around Penance. We want to allow for builds that are centered around Penance, but also open opportunities for other spells in the Discipline toolkit to shine if invested into, such as Smite and Power Word: Shield. We look forward to your feedback on if this is felt with the tree, tuning aside.

For Shadow Covenant, we’re looking to take away the downsides so that it encourages Shadow spells but doesn’t discourage Holy spells. Shadow Covenant has gone through a lot of change, but we’re hoping this is a step in the right direction.

Holy
Lightweaver is our alternative design to Flash Concentration. Weaving between Flash Heal and Heal is fun, but wound up feeling like a maintenance buff. We believe having a back-and-forth between the spells with stacks to improve situational usability is a better direction for single-target focused builds.

When it comes to X’anshi (now known as Restitution), we are excited to keep the effect around for Holy Priests. We were uncertain of where this should belong in the tree, but after more deliberation decided it was best competing with the more powerful talents, so it has been moved to row 10 of the tree. We know adding this in was not desirable for PvP players. While we have no plans to disable the effect in PvP, we are discussing ways to tone down its effect in PvP so that the Priest is in more danger after resurrecting. This node also competes with two charges of Holy Word: Serenity, so they will be giving up valuable throughput for the effect.

Shadow
Now that the tree has been in front of players for a couple weeks, we are reasonably happy with what we have, with room to grow in the future. Our initial thoughts on Voidform being optional is something we stand by. How to accomplish this while continuing to support Voidform and improve its gameplay is a challenge we want to continue to discuss and work on. Currently, we’re happy with where we’ve landed with Void Eruption competing with Dark Ascension so there’s not too many cooldown spells. With that said, Dark Ascension is visually exciting, but we feel it is currently lacking in identity. We’re discussing changes like Dark Ascension being more rotationally transformative while active or having a different cooldown than Void Eruption, so that its use cases over Void Eruption are more clear. We don’t have plans to make major changes to either spell for Dragonflight launch, but they will be on our radar for the future.

Mind Spike and Mind Flay coexisting is something we’re going to try but are wary of. Shadow has many spells to press rotationally, and this isn’t helping that. At the same time, being able to build your own Shadow Priest was a goal with this iteration and we believe the tree allows for that.

Silence
We understand that Holy and Discipline are the two specs without access to an interrupt, either baseline or in a talent tree. We also realize Shadow has Silence in their tree which adds to the number of non-throughput nodes in their tree. With that said, we are not adding Silence to the Priest class tree. Having access to an interrupt is not something we view as necessary for all specializations. In PvP, Holy and Discipline already provide valuable control to their team and additionally having Silence would provide more control than we’re comfortable with. This is especially true with how much control is becoming available across all classes in Dragonflight.

Vault of Heavens
This was discussed early on with this iteration with the intent to add it as a choice against Leap of Faith. Upon further consideration, Vault of Heavens is almost always more useful than Leap of Faith. But Leap of Faith is one of the more fun interactions in WoW. It changes your perspective on the battlefield. You’re always ready to react to save someone. And of course, it has some clever uses to get your friends killed. If we allow for the choice, the choice is clear, or we’d have to nerf Vault of Heavens down to something that won’t feel very powerful. The fantasy of the Priest leaping to their target doesn’t match our expectations for a Priest either, so we instead separated Body and Soul from Angelic Feather for a little extra movement support and kept Leap of Faith as a standalone.

Shining Force
This spell was deliberately removed in Dragonflight. Powerful spells being removed can cause frustration; however, the amount of control available across all classes in Dragonflight is causing concern. On top of this, the prevalence of knockbacks is already increasing in Dragonflight PvP and knockbacks can be the most influential control effect on arena or battleground maps with verticality.

Spectral Guise
We’ve read feedback about a desire for the return of Spectral Guise. We discussed the ability early on and decided against it, and our stance has not changed. We do not want Priests entering stealth especially in PvP, as it removes the Priest from the target and focus frame and occurs frequently. Hunters, Rogues, and Mages already do this often enough.

Mind Bomb
In its current form as a disorient we don’t think it is very compelling as a replacement to Psychic Scream besides preventing movement during the effect. What we anticipate is desired is the AoE stun version of the spell, but we are not planning to bring that forward. We pulled back on AoE stun duration and availability some time ago and decided against adding this one back so that we wouldn’t find ourselves in the same situation we were in the past. If everyone has an AoE stun, then it’s not going to feel special to have one in the first place.

Personal Defenses
For similar reasons as Silence, we will not be adding Dispersion to the Priest class tree. Healing Priests are understandably on the weaker side of the defensive spectrum, but our answer to that isn’t to bring Dispersion to the class tree. Between Desperate Prayer, Power Word: Shield, Angelic Bulwark, Translucent Image, and Spell Warding, we feel Priests are in an okay spot. We’ve also increased the damage reduction effect from Translucent Image to 10% and separated Phantasm from it.

Looking forward to your feedback!

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