Patch 7.3 Live This Week
Patch 7.3 brings Argus, Invasion Points, Artifact changes, the Netherlight Crucible, Profession changes, and more.

Data for Antorus, the Burning Throne ships with this patch, but the raid will not be unlocked anytime soon. This means that any Patch 7.3 content that requires the raid will also not be available yet.






Patch 7.3 Official Notes







Content Unlock Schedule
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Week 1: Begin the invasion of Argus and embark on an epic storyline beginning in Krokuun. Team up with the Army of the Light and take the fight to the very heart of the Legion in the Antoran Wastes. Gain access to new World Quests and Emissaries on Argus.

Week 2: Finish the story of Krokuun and travel to the ruined draenei city of Mac’Aree. Gain access to Invasion Points and thwart the Burning Legion’s plans on other worlds. Additional World Quests in Mac’Aree are available along with access to Invasion Points.

Week 3: Finish the Shadows of Argus storyline, unlock all World Quests, and venture into the new dungeon, the Seat of the Triumvirate. Activate your Netherlight Crucible on the Vindicaar to begin forging Relics.

Calculators Updated
All of the calculators have been updated to reflect changes coming in Patch 7.3.




Artifact Changes and the Netherlight Crucible
The Netherlight Crucible empowers your artifact, increasing the item level and adding new and existing traits for your relics.

  • As soon as you hit Level 110 on a character, all of your relic slots are unlocked right away.
  • You no longer have to do the Broken Shore quest line to allow your artifact to go beyond 34 points.
  • As soon as you hit 110 in Patch 7.3 you will have Level 41 Artifact Knowledge. After that it will increase weekly automatically, no more research required.
  • The Netherlight Crucible is unlocked account wide in Week 3, allowing you to increase the item level and select traits on each Relic slot.
  • Hidden Appearances and Challenge Appearances no longer require you to use your spec's specific hidden or challenge artifact appearance to unlock the others.



New Dungeon - Seat of the Triumvirate
The Seat of the Triumvirate dungeon will unlock for Week 3. Don't miss all of the dungeon item level and keystone changes in the official notes!

Seat of the Triumvirate Boss Strategies and Loot List


New Factions - Army of the Light and Argussian Reach
Patch 7.3 adds two new factions and some catch up items.

Patch 7.3 New Factions, Army of the Light and Argussian Reach


Argus
In Patch 7.3 we are taking the fight to the Legion by traveling to Argus! The world quests here reward item level 895+ gear.



Invasion Points
Invasion Points are public scenarios that require multiple players, with Greater Invasion Points requiring a raid to defeat bosses that drop item level 930 gear.



Profession Changes
Patch 7.3 adds new crafted items, materials, upgrade items that allow you to upgrade the new crafted items to item level 935, and more!



New Mounts
There are lots of new mounts in this patch!



New Spell Animations
Patch 7.3 adds some new spell animations for Mage, Druid, Priest, and Shaman.



New Weapon Models
There are some new weapon models coming in Patch 7.3!



New Music
Lots of new music is coming in this patch, as well as some new VO.



Battle Pet Changes
Patch 7.3 adds the Raiding with Leashes V: Cuteaclysm achievement, sending you back to Cataclysm raids to collect pets! There are also the regular new zone pets, trainers, summon random pet feature, and more!



Legendary Ring - Insignia of the Grand Army
Patch 7.3 adds a new legendary ring, Insignia of the Grand Army!

  • This ring is a reward from The Death of a Titan, which requires you to defeat the soul of Argus in Antorus, the Burning Throne.
  • This means that the ring will not be available with the release of Patch 7.3, but instead with the release of the raid coming in Patch 7.3: Antorus, the Burning Throne
  • The ring's effect increases the effects of Light and Shadow powers granted by the Netherlight Crucible by 50%.


Heirloom Neck
Patch 7.3 adds a new Heirloom neck item, the Man'ari Training Amulet. This item allows you to sacrifice 10% health to increase movement speed by 40% for 10 sec. It is rewarded from the Assault on Felfire Armory Order Hall mission.



Fixed World Boss Rotation
Patch 7.3 will change the world boss rotation to be fixed instead of random.



Order Hall Followers and Items
Patch 7.3 adds new missions, troops, and increases the item level cap for followers to 950. There are also some new follower item level boost items.



NPC Conversation Lines
Lots of interesting dialogue was added in this patch. We've highlighted some of the more interesting pieces.



Dressing Room Update
Patch 7.3 enlarges the dressing room window and adds class specific backgrounds.



WoWDB Addon Data Collection
Quickly populating the database with new additions is done with the help of many players. The more people that contribute data, the more accurate and quickly we can update the database.

To help out, just click here if you have the Twitch Desktop App already installed.

When you are playing the addon will gather data and save it. When you are done playing, Twitch will see the game close and upload the collected data from the addon.

This article was originally published in forum thread: Patch 7.3 Live This Week started by chaud View original post
Comments 17 Comments
  1. Synthium's Avatar
    Hey with patch 7.2. you introduced a bug that prevents Havoc Demon Hunters from dealing damage, could you maybe fix that bug in 7.3.? Thanks!
  1. mmocbab59bb97c's Avatar
    It's tomorrow! Gotta say, getting a little hyped now
  1. Ophenia's Avatar
    Why is the new legendary ring only 940i ? Tooltip mistake ?
  1. grexly75's Avatar
    Well just got the patch and well bit confused as the actual patch was quite small.. Unless they are spacing out the downloads per week now.. lol
  1. Leadsop's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ophenia View Post
    Why is the new legendary ring only 940i ? Tooltip mistake ?
    Wondered this as well.
  1. mmoc8823406b83's Avatar
    When do we hit August 29 exactly? Its almost 30 and the patch isn't out yet.
  1. Galateacyc's Avatar
    So a new raid is coming out, and only 32 guilds to date have completed the current raid.
    Either it's too early for another raid, WoW's population has dropped to catastrophically low levels, or the current tuning for end bosses is way too hard.
  1. Eleccybubb's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Galateacyc View Post
    So a new raid is coming out, and only 32 guilds to date have completed the current raid.
    Either it's too early for another raid, WoW's population has dropped to catastrophically low levels, or the current tuning for end bosses is way too hard.
    No. Raid is 7.3.5.

    Also you are right. It's tuning. KJ was tuned way too high which Blizzard admitted.

    You can't judge the population of a game by Mythic raiders either. They are the minority.
  1. Magistrate's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by grexly75 View Post
    Well just got the patch and well bit confused as the actual patch was quite small.. Unless they are spacing out the downloads per week now.. lol
    You've been downloading chunks of it in the background for a while now. It's in the tens of Gb.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sicc View Post
    When do we hit August 29 exactly? Its almost 30 and the patch isn't out yet.
    It says in the launcher that the realms won't be available from 7:00 AM PDT to 11:00 AM PDT. Convert that to your local time.
  1. Galateacyc's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Eleccybubb View Post
    No. Raid is 7.3.5.

    Also you are right. It's tuning. KJ was tuned way too high which Blizzard admitted.

    You can't judge the population of a game by Mythic raiders either. They are the minority.
    The article says, under the new legendary ring, said that the "raid [is] coming in Patch 7.3: Antorus, the Burning Throne", leading me to think it was coming sometime before 7.3.5.
    And yes, KJ and the previous boss or 2 are overtuned - despite KJ being nerfed at least twice already since the world first for weeks now. Seems the difficulty level is still not quite right for this many good guilds to still be struggling.

    As for mythic raiders being the minority, of course they are. But traditionally, the clear rates have been somewhere around 1-3%. Currently they're at 0.09% of all raiders.
  1. zlygork's Avatar
    Here I was, grinding nightfallen rep, but now I have to wait half a day to keep at my thing even though I am two end game zones behind
  1. mmoc8823406b83's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Magistrate View Post

    It says in the launcher that the realms won't be available from 7:00 AM PDT to 11:00 AM PDT. Convert that to your local time.
    I don't see it in my launcher. Thanks for the info.
  1. Magistrate's Avatar
    It's live for Wyrmrest.
  1. Griffeth's Avatar
    Anyone know where to get the new follower items? I have some upgrading on alts that needs to get done >.>
  1. Magistrate's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Griffeth View Post
    Anyone know where to get the new follower items? I have some upgrading on alts that needs to get done >.>
    It looks like you need to finish a quest on Argus first. I got one that says to finish a champion mission that takes about 11 hours, and then I'll get access to Argus champion missions and champion gear.
  1. Dracullus's Avatar
    Where Krokuun storyline ends this week? At X'era or later?
  1. Darthias's Avatar
    Does this mean that we are FINALLY going to get a decent-sized hairdressing window?

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