Order Hall Campaign, Followers, Upgrades, Shar'thos, Arena Skirmishes, Blue Posts

[chaud]

Patch 7.2 Hotfixes - April 10

New Un'Goro Decks From the Pros: We Don't Always Need Quests

Patch 7.2 - Week 3: Order Hall Campaign, Followers, Upgrades
We have hit Week 3 of the content release schedule for Patch 7.2! This unlocks:

• Chapter 5 of the Class Order Hall Campaign
• New Followers
• New Order Hall talents - You can begin research on these after you have completed the new part of your Order Hall campaign
• Class-specific world quests

Order Hall Campaign
You can see the new achievements that list the chapters of each part of the new class campaigns on WoWDB.

Recruiting your new champion (Champions of Legionfall) awards 1500 Armies of Legionfall reputation and Champions of Legionfall, allowing you to conduct further research.

Mages can also recruit The Great Akazamzarak and Paladins can recruit Maximillian of Northshire.

Order Hall Research
Two new tiers of Order Hall Talents have been added, with a total research cost of 25,000 x Order Resources.

Tier 7

• Costs 10,000 x Order Resources
• New Troop Type - Recruit a new class specific troop type that increases success chance of missions by 30%.
• Roster of Champions - Increase the number of Champions you can have active at once by 1.

Tier 8

• Costs 15,000 x Order Resources
• Legionfall United - Artifact Power items gained from world quests and missions have a chance to grant double Artifact Power.

World Boss - Shar'thos
The Sleeping Corruption is up this week, so you can head to Val'sharah to kill Shar'thos for a chance at item level 860 loot, a Shadow Relic, and a piece of the Fury Warrior hidden artifact appearance.

Weekly Bonus Event - Arena Skirmishes

Sharpen your swords and reinforce your boards, because you’re called to the PvP Arena for the hectic mayhem of Skirmishes.

This Week: Arena Skirmishes
All week, from anywhere in Azeroth, open the Group Finder (default hotkey: i), select the Player vs. Player tab on the bottom of the window, and then under Arena Battles, choose either 2v2 or 3v3 and JOIN BATTLE. You’ll be matched up with teammates and provided with opponents to kill in the Arena.

Look for the following all week long:

• Archmage Timear near Violet Hold in Dalaran has a quest for you.
  
  • Quest requirement: Win 10 Arena PvP Skirmishes
  • Reward: A PvP loot box
    
• Passive buff: +50% honor gains from Skirmishes

If you’ve been looking to make some Honor gains, this is the week to do it!

Blue Posts

Command Center Hotfix
Just to confirm, we recently applied a hotfix to change the Challenge Mission's unintentionally low reward. It now rewards 3.1 million Artifact Power at Artifact Knowledge 26.

Does this count for the people who already sent their followers on the mission when it was still at the low AP value?
If you sent your followers on the mission (and it hasn't completed yet) you'll receive the new, increased, amount of AP when the mission is completed. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Monk (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
Brewmasters in Patch 7.2.5
Continuing to iterate...

Special Delivery already fills the role of giving an offensive value to Brew charges, but not in a reliable way. Instead of the Purifying Brew -> Breath of Fire buff, we're going to try making Special Delivery reliable. If you're the type of player that dislikes Brew charges being wasted when not tanking, Special Delivery already is attractive, and we're just going to make that feel better by being reliable.

FYI, the first datamineable PTR build likely won't have this change.

EDIT: "Reliable" meaning 100% proc chance, damage per keg reduced to compensate. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Blue Tweets

What's current formula for bonus stats percentage in PvP? Is it still the number of ilevels above 800 ilvl times 0.1?
Yes (holinka)

[xskarma]

Excellent. More content

[roi]

Didn't we have arena skirmish event this week already? Together with timewalking for whatever reason.

[Deleted]

Has anyone been able to get Akazamzarak yet?

[chaud]

Didn't we have arena skirmish event this week already? Together with timewalking for whatever reason.

The PvP brawl was live earlier this week.

[Deleted]

The PvP brawl was live earlier this week.

In the EU we had timewalking/skirmishes and the brawl active

[roi]

Yes, but I also got the arena skirmish quest in addition to the brawl on EU. That's why I'm surprised to see it happening two weeks in a row.

[Deleted]

Some of the Champions of Legionfall questlines are hilariously badly designed, with Druids and DKs suffering the worst and paladins being up there too.

DKs have two quests in the same zone that BOTH are horribly designed (this one I did myself). One has you kill a mob which spawns another mob when it gets low which you need to kill....but the first mob dies way too fast because 10 players are zerging it so the second mob never spawns. The other quest is even worse, having you right click corpses of 8 regular mobs and raising them from the dead...but the quest absolutely does not follow tagging rules, being totally random as to who can actually click the corpse of mobs killed. It was not uncommon to tag/kill 50 mobs just to be able to right click one of them.

And did I mention that the zone is not faction specific? The quest is done in the Pit of Saron last boss area and has pretty much turned in to a huge PvP zone where 100 of DK's are gripping the other factions players in to their factions blenders. When I was doing it, makeshift sections of the arena were claimed by alliance and horde, with horde controlling most of the arena and alliance fighting out from a little corner. All around hilarity and frustration.

Druids have to kill a mob that cannot be tagged by more than just a few people, leading to obvious problems with hundreds of people trying to kill it. The area is a bit bigger so PvP hasnt been as bad of a problem from what I heard, but still happens.

Paladins have to right click mobs like the DK ones and they are first come, first serve and after they are activated, will walk around for like a minute before disappearing. Simply suffers from the same problem of not spawning mobs fast enough.

[Atremedias]

GG Blizz, really knocked this one out the park. This quest is the biggest clusterfuck since Garrison meltdown in WoD and only slightly behind the Dark Portal Opening for the biggest balls up ever

[chaud]

Yes, but I also got the arena skirmish quest in addition to the brawl on EU. That's why I'm surprised to see it happening two weeks in a row.

Oh interesting, we just had Timewalking up in the US.

[Rage128]

Some of the Champions of Legionfall questlines are hilariously badly designed, with Druids and DKs suffering the worst and paladins being up there too.

DKs have two quests in the same zone that BOTH are horribly designed (this one I did myself). One has you kill a mob which spawns another mob when it gets low which you need to kill....but the first mob dies way too fast because 10 players are zerging it so the second mob never spawns. The other quest is even worse, having you right click corpses of 8 regular mobs and raising them from the dead...but the quest absolutely does not follow tagging rules, being totally random as to who can actually click the corpse of mobs killed. It was not uncommon to tag/kill 50 mobs just to be able to right click one of them.

And did I mention that the zone is not faction specific? The quest is done in the Pit of Saron last boss area and has pretty much turned in to a huge PvP zone where 100 of DK's are gripping the other factions players in to their factions blenders. When I was doing it, makeshift sections of the arena were claimed by alliance and horde, with horde controlling most of the arena and alliance fighting out from a little corner. All around hilarity and frustration.

Druids have to kill a mob that cannot be tagged by more than just a few people, leading to obvious problems with hundreds of people trying to kill it. The area is a bit bigger so PvP hasnt been as bad of a problem from what I heard, but still happens.

Paladins have to right click mobs like the DK ones and they are first come, first serve and after they are activated, will walk around for like a minute before disappearing. Simply suffers from the same problem of not spawning mobs fast enough.

I still don't understand how to this day Blizzard has not addressed this, knowing that things like this are going to be funneled in to.

[Regalbeast]

GG Blizz, really knocked this one out the park. This quest is the biggest clusterfuck since Garrison meltdown in WoD and only slightly behind the Dark Portal Opening for the biggest balls up ever

What are you talking about? It works just fine if you know how to play.

[Deleted]

Again Shar'thos ? They skipped Nithogg ? ...

[Alopex Major]

Too bad the "class dailies" appear to be the same for every class.

[Sulika]

I had a lot of fun doing the DK one. Yeah it was kind of ridiculous but if you can't enjoy a huge DK only free for all between alliance and horde I say there is something wrong with you. What was really cool was that the way you were assigned random corpses to raise (as opposed to those you had tagged personally) meant that often players had to get corpses in the other factions part of the zone. If both sides had just cooperated and given people safe passage the quest would have been a lot easier for everyone, since they didn't it meant the whole thing was made a lot harder for everyone involved. A nice little commentary on the war between the alliance and the horde and maybe even on war in general.

Most people just went with how ridiculous it was, a very vocal few couldn't stop crying about it though. As if it was a personal affront that the experience they were having didn't correspond to some ideal they had in their head. I mean, you have to be pretty inattentive at this stage to not know that doing any content in the first hour it opens is going to be mayhem, that's part of the charm, the DK quest was more mayhem than usual but I don't think anyone can honestly claim to be surprised. If that's going to bother people then they can just wait a day to do it when the initial rush has passed. I know I don't personally like levelling right at expansion launch so I usually play a few hours the first night then take a few days off to let the rush die down. I mean it's a game, we all presumably play it for fun. If you are not enjoying it, go do something else for a while and come back later. You get enough time in work or study where you have to do something even though you are not enjoying it, have more self respect than to let your gaming time be like that too.

[Magistrate]

Some of the Champions of Legionfall questlines are hilariously badly designed, with Druids and DKs suffering the worst and paladins being up there too.

DKs have two quests in the same zone that BOTH are horribly designed (this one I did myself). One has you kill a mob which spawns another mob when it gets low which you need to kill....but the first mob dies way too fast because 10 players are zerging it so the second mob never spawns. The other quest is even worse, having you right click corpses of 8 regular mobs and raising them from the dead...but the quest absolutely does not follow tagging rules, being totally random as to who can actually click the corpse of mobs killed. It was not uncommon to tag/kill 50 mobs just to be able to right click one of them.

And did I mention that the zone is not faction specific? The quest is done in the Pit of Saron last boss area and has pretty much turned in to a huge PvP zone where 100 of DK's are gripping the other factions players in to their factions blenders. When I was doing it, makeshift sections of the arena were claimed by alliance and horde, with horde controlling most of the arena and alliance fighting out from a little corner. All around hilarity and frustration.

Druids have to kill a mob that cannot be tagged by more than just a few people, leading to obvious problems with hundreds of people trying to kill it. The area is a bit bigger so PvP hasnt been as bad of a problem from what I heard, but still happens.

Paladins have to right click mobs like the DK ones and they are first come, first serve and after they are activated, will walk around for like a minute before disappearing. Simply suffers from the same problem of not spawning mobs fast enough.

So, new content was glitchy, Pvp happened on a pvp server.. Got it.

[Marbared]

...100 of DK's are gripping the other factions players in to their factions blenders...

Faction blenders - one of my new favorite WoW terms. Thanks!