World of Warcraft News and Raiding Strategies

If you’ve been looking for the perfect addition to your mount collection, then look no further. The Dreadwake Mount has returned to harbor in the Blizzard Shop and in-game shop.


True to nautical tradition, the Dreadwake pirate ship mount has a unique figurehead inspired by an unknown kraken-faced god of the deeps.

Classes

• Priest (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • Shadow
  • Auspicious Spirits damage reduced to 70% (was 100%).
  • Developers’ notes: The damage reduction to this talent is meant to curb the synergy of Insanity and Shadowy Apparition generation when combined with some Azerite traits, while still leaving it as a fun and interesting combo.
    

Items

• World Quest reward gear maximum item level has been increased to item level 370 (was ilvl 360).
  
• Emissary rewards gear maximum item level has been increased to ilvl 395 (was ilvl 385).
  
• Emissary rewards for Azerite Armor will now drop at a maximum of ilvl 400 (was ilvl 385).
  
• The item level of gear rewards for “Against Overwhelming Odds" has been increased to item level 395 (was ilvl 385).
  
  • Developers’ notes: With the Raid Finder (and Mythic) difficulty for Crucible of Storms opening today, we have increased the maximum item level for certain World Quests and quests rewards to help players get raid-ready.
    

• Harbinger's Inscrutable Will now always fires a silencing spear at the player's location, regardless of which direction they face.
  
• Fathom Dredgers will now benefit from Versatility as intended.
  
• Fathom Dredgers will now grant the correct amount of shield per mana spent.

Player versus Player

• Abyssal Speaker Gauntlets’s shield absorption effect is reduced by 66% when engaged in combat with enemy players.
  
• Trident of Deep Oceans’s shield absorption effect is reduced by 50% when engaged in combat with enemy players.

Raid Finder (and Mythic) difficulty for Crucible of Storms will open next week, April 23. Similar to Battle of Dazar’alor, you will need an average item level of 350 to queue for it. To help ensure players get raid ready, we are increasing the maximum item level for certain World Quests rewards. This will include the following:

• World Quest rewards will go up to ilvl 370 (from 360)
• Emissary equipment will go up to ilvl 395 (from 385)
• Emissary Azerite Armor will go up to ilvl 400 (from 385)
• Against Overwhelming Odds (when available) will go up to ilvl 395 (from 385)

Once the update is live it will affect active rewards like the Emissaries, so you may want to plan for when you will turn those in.

An extra weekly quest and rewards are here.

Get out your best map and plan your route across every part of Kul Tiras and Zandalar, as this is a great time to immerse yourself in World Quests.

This Week
All week, open your map (default hotkey: m) and then select any of the six main Battle for Azeroth zones to consider the World Quests available to you. Hover your mouse over a World Quest on the map to see what tasks are needed complete it, the rewards you’ll receive, and the time remaining that the quest is available to you.

Look for the following all week long:

• Your Adventure Guide has a quest for you.
  
  • Quest requirement: Complete 20 World Quests
    
  • Reward: 1,000 War Resources
    
• Passive buff: +50% to Reputation gains from World Quests

If you’ve been looking to impress some emissaries, this is the week to do it!

Every Week
The Bonus Events system consists of a rotating schedule of different activities, currently scheduled to run each week beginning on Tuesdays. Each Bonus Event grants a passive bonus to a particular game activity and offers a once-per-event quest with a noteworthy reward for accomplishing a related goal. The in-game calendar can serve as your one-stop reference for the event schedule. The Adventure Guide also offers a direct link to active Bonus Events, allowing you to easily accept any associated quests.

The changes below will be going live this week.

Classes
DoT specs are often in the "normal" damage range for single-target fights and can be significantly above "normal" for multi-target fights. Please note that the goal here isn’t to just counter-tune specs in each bit of new content as we believe specs that work well in an encounter should continue to do so.

Regarding this specific Shadow Priest change, their multi-target performance was beyond our tuning targets and so we simply want to bring them back into range while minimizing the impact to their single-target performance.

Priest (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

• Shadow
• Auspicious Spirits damage reduced to 70% (was 100%).

Developers’ notes: The damage reduction to this talent is meant to curb the synergy of Insanity and Shadowy Apparition generation when combined with some Azerite traits, while still leaving it as a fun and interesting combo.

Player versus Player

• Abyssal Speaker's Gauntlets shield absorption effect is reduced by 66% when engaged in combat with enemy players.
• Trident of Deep Ocean shield absorption effect is reduced by 50% when engaged in combat with enemy players.

We have a few more class changes coming to the Rise of Azshara PTR. We made the initial changes and the following will be active on the PTR soon.

Demon Hunter (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

Vengeance

• Metamorphosis
  
  • Health bonus 50% (from 30%)
  • Now causes Shear to generate 20 additional Pain and 1 additional Lesser Soul Fragment (was: generates 7 Pain per second).
    
    • Developers’ Note: This significantly increases the self-healing potential of Metamorphosis, as well as the health buffer, making it a more reliable major cooldown against all types of damage.

Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

Guardian

• Frenzied Regeneration (Rank 3) is learned at level 85:
  
  • Frenzied Regeneration spends up to 30 additional Rage to immediately heal you for up to 18% additional health.
    
    • Note: This spell is affected by Guardian of Elune, but not affected by mastery.

Death Knight (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

Frost

• Runic Empowerment has a 2.0% chance to proc per Runic Power spent (from 1.5%)
• Frost Fever’s chance to generate Runic Power increased to 30%
  
  • Chance now diminishes on targets beyond the first
• Breath of Sindragosa now has double the usual chance to proc Runic Empowerment
• Breath of Sindragosa costs 18 Runic Power/sec (from 15)
  
  • Developers’ Note: Frost was starved of resources too often, especially when using Breath of Sindragosa. This increases Frosts’s Rune income baseline and includes a further change that returns many extra Runes while using Breath of Sindragosa. Breath builds will now be able to fill more global cooldowns with casts of Obliterate, to make up for the lost Frost Strikes. The cost of Breath itself is increased to keep its overall duration roughly unchanged.