Patch 8.2.5 PTR Development Notes
It looks like Alliance will be getting the bee mount!

Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)
A new content update for World of Warcraft is in development and will soon be available on the Public Test Realms (PTR). While not all features will be fully functional and available for testing, here’s a look at some of the new content coming in this version.

Worgen and Goblin Character Model Updates
First introduced in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, worgen and goblins are getting a long-anticipated suite of visual improvements to their character models. These updates include every aspect of how the worgen and goblins look—from their faces to their animations.

Celebrate 15 Years of World of Warcraft
This November marks the 15th anniversary of World of Warcraft, and we have some special things planned to celebrate the occasion. Players who log in during the event period will receive a celebration package in the mail with a Lil’ Nefarian pet and some other in-game goodies. Throughout the duration of the event, you’ll be able to participate in three unique raids with iconic encounters from past expansions along with an old-school-inspired Alterac Valley battleground. Players who defeat all nine bosses in the raid wings will receive the Obsidian Worldbreaker, a Black Dragonflight mount inspired by Deathwing. Players who participate in Alterac Valley will receive a new anniversary event currency which can be exchanged for two new mounts: the Stormpike Battle Charger (Alliance) and the Frostwolf Snarler (Horde).

A Fuzzy, Buzzy Mount
Alliance players rejoice – Stormsong Valley beekeepers have figured out how to grow ‘em big enough to ride! Barry the Beekeeper has some quests for you, so you should talk to him to get started on this honey of an adventure.

New Timewalking Raid: Firelands
When Cataclysm Timewalking is active, max-level players will be able to form a raid group and enter the Sulfuron Spire once more. As with previous Timewalking raids (Black Temple, Ulduar), your gear and power are scaled to the challenge, and all the bosses and rewards you expect lie in wait.

Introducing Party Sync
During this PTR we’re experimenting with a new mode that makes it easier for players in a party to do quests and play together: Party Sync. When players activate Party Sync, everyone in the party becomes aligned to the same quest state, including phases. By mousing over a quest in your tracker, you can see who is on the quest, what their progress is, and who’s ready to turn in the quest. There’s something else we’re going to try out on the PTR, a “replay” quest feature. This will allow players who have already completed certain quests to replay those quests with their friends for rewards that are appropriate to their current level, regardless of the original level of the quest.
We’re also relaxing level restrictions on queueing for instanced content with your friends. This allows lower-level players to queue for content in their level range, and higher-level players can choose to join them by having their level scaled down while they’re in the instance. This feature will be available for dungeon instances for PTR Week 1, with PvP instances being flagged in the following weeks. Please note that unlike Timewalking, when your level is scaled down via Party Sync you will temporarily lose access to abilities and powers (such as Azerite traits) with requirements that exceed your reduced level.

Recruit A Friend Returns
Coming in 8.2.5 is a revamped Recruit A Friend system. If you have active game time you’ll be able to recruit your friends—both brand-new to the game and returning champions—to share in your adventures. To do so, you’ll be able to use a new URL generation tool to create a custom link to give to your friends. By following the link, you’ll be connected to each other and will be able to see if they have purchased game time, resulting in rewards for you! For each month your recruits have active game time, you’ll earn a new reward such as unique pets, mounts, game time and more. These rewards unlock per month and scale with how many months your recruits have subscribed for. And, of course, with Party Sync you’ll be able to journey with your friends on any of your characters. We’ll have more information about Recruit A Friend rewards when we get closer to its release.

Thanks for reading, and we’ll see you on the 8.2.5 PTR!



This article was originally published in forum thread: Patch 8.2.5 PTR Development Notes started by chaud View original post
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  1. gutnbrg's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by zantheus1993 View Post
    We don't know anything about acquisition

    You might need to do bumbles
    "Alliance players rejoice – Stormsong Valley beekeepers have figured out how to grow ‘em big enough to ride! Barry the Beekeeper has some quests for you, so you should talk to him to get started on this honey of an adventure."

    u walk up to barry the bee keeper and u start the quest chain...
  1. sch1ntus's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Vrinara View Post
    Asmongold is a whiney man child. Who cares what he thinks.
    I honestly don't care what he thinks, but is curious as to what feature that might be :P

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    Quote Originally Posted by Will View Post
    people give WAY too much credence to what that guy thinks. Stop worshipping him and just play the game for yourself.
    I don't really worship him, and mostly can't watch him for more than 5 mins. His autism/disability gives me ticks
  1. Stelio Kontos's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by MikeBogina View Post
    So why is the Alliance getting an exclusive mount? I don't remember any of the Zandalari mount models being exclusive...
    Horde already got two mounts available to them, and they're usable by Alliance toons once a Hordelet's unlocked them. Will probably be the same with the bee. Let's not clutch your pearls yet, eh?
  1. Valysar's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by gutnbrg View Post
    Where the alliance just have to walk up to an npc to start their questchain for the bee...
    Hum? We have to loot a rare item first too you know.
  1. Revamp Man's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by gutnbrg View Post
    "Alliance players rejoice – Stormsong Valley beekeepers have figured out how to grow ‘em big enough to ride! Barry the Beekeeper has some quests for you, so you should talk to him to get started on this honey of an adventure."

    u walk up to barry the bee keeper and u start the quest chain...
    True but it doesn't say if there is a prerequisite maybe just maybe you have to have bumbles in order to trigger the quest but nobody knows until it goes on to the test realm and I understand how it reads however keep in mind they don't put everything in the notes heck even now people don't understand what blizzard beads when they post that s*** so yeah you might just have to talk to him to start a quest line cool or maybe you have to do the previous quest that had something to do with Abby already and being able to grow it so you don't have to worry about training in New be

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    Quote Originally Posted by sch1ntus View Post
    I honestly don't care what he thinks, but is curious as to what feature that might be :P

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    I don't really worship him, and mostly can't watch him for more than 5 mins. His autism/disability gives me ticks
    The feature was the new recruit a friend system which essentially you create a link and then the more that the other person plays the more game time they buy so on and so forth every month can unlock new rewards from free game time to exclusive pets or exclusive mounts similar to fortnite Creator code I guess but I don't know anything about fortnite because I'm not an autistic 12 year old
  1. Vrinara's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by sch1ntus View Post
    I honestly don't care what he thinks, but is curious as to what feature that might be :P

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    I don't really worship him, and mostly can't watch him for more than 5 mins. His autism/disability gives me ticks
    That's kinda what I was thinking aswell. I know that the party feature thing is being taken from FF14. But I don't see what else they are taking.
  1. Kemsa's Avatar
    WoW pary sync finally blizzard realize that level scaling should also work for older content with friends (cof cof guild wars 2) it was a god damn time yo.
    For the Bee mount, i have my Kultiran toon ready to start the quest hell yeah new mount for my Hordy.
    That Deathwing mount its glorious and AM GOING TO DO THE SHIT OUT OF FIRELANDS, thats probably one of the best raids in Cata, oh lord i hope we can see more of the next allied races and men cant wait for that juicy Goblin Heritage.
  1. gutnbrg's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Xu Sheng View Post
    Hum? We have to loot a rare item first too you know.
    no i didnt know that, bc blizzard doesnt know how to describe things properly...
  1. PelinalWhitestrake's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kemsa View Post
    WoW pary sync finally blizzard realize that level scaling should also work for older content with friends (cof cof guild wars 2) it was a god damn time yo.
    For the Bee mount, i have my Kultiran toon ready to start the quest hell yeah new mount for my Hordy.
    That Deathwing mount its glorious and AM GOING TO DO THE SHIT OUT OF FIRELANDS, thats probably one of the best raids in Cata, oh lord i hope we can see more of the next allied races and men cant wait for that juicy Goblin Heritage.
    The Bee mount is exclusive, No bees for greenskins.
  1. kaiba1's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by clevin View Post
    For another 4 months? No.
    Hmm... What can get done in 4 months...

    - Flying
    - Raiding (AotC if you dont already have it)
    - Mythic + R.IO Score
    - Reputations
    - Mount Farming (Yes.... it is content... Stop kidding yourself.... Unless your Asmongold)
    - Classic Raids
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    Classic WoW (for those who hate BfA with a fiery passion)
    - Firelands Timewalking (I can guarantee you Cata babies wont know wtf to do in Firelands)
    - Bee Mount (I guess this falls into Mount Farming?)
    - PVP Season 3 (Unless your bad at it)

    Sounds 4+ months worth right there.... Unless you are planning to play classic, and your not expecting the grind to 60 is harder than you think it may be.
  1. Kyphael's Avatar
    New bee mount, anniversary event and goblins/worgen re-done? Seems more interesting than 8.2 with Azshara raid, definitely staying subbed! I've yet to do TW BT or Ulduar, maybe I'll try FL.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Korru View Post
    no new allied race

    >_>
    Yeah, equally bummed here. I want me some Vulpera or Mok'nathal.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vampyr78 View Post
    Nope. I said there won't be any new allied races in 8.2.5 long before. It's not a surprise they had to finish up worgen and goblin models. There is not time to make new allied races. I also strongly believe that there won't be any until at least next expansion preorder. For BfA Blizzard, in my opinion, is done with Allied Races, Kul Tirans and Zandalari make sense as the last ones in this expansion. We don't need new allied races every .5 patch, it would just bloat the number of races too much.
    That'd be pretty weird since there are like four total slots left to complete for allied races, two on horde and two on alliance. I think we can expect at least 2 new allied races for 8.3 and then the final two allied races for 9.0 pre-order.

    Mecha Gnomes and Vulpera for 8.3.
    ??? and Mok'nathal for Horde 9.0?
  1. clevin's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by kaiba1 View Post
    Hmm... What can get done in 4 months...

    - Flying
    Flying itself is a feature, not playable content (Jesus, people, learn the fucking difference...) but yes, you do content to get it However a) that content is out now and b) most people already have finished this or will soon.
    - Raiding (AotC if you dont already have it)
    My very casual guild clears N in one night now, is 3/8 H on the 2nd night. Once a few more people have seen N they'll clear out H. That won't take 4 months.
    - Mythic + R.IO Score
    This isn't new content. It's grinding old 5 mans to elevate some score.
    - Reputations
    1) reps aren't content. You DO content to raise them, but they're not content themselves. Oh and you mean the reps that are already at revered if you have flight like many people do?
    - Mount Farming (Yes.... it is content... Stop kidding yourself.... Unless your Asmongold)
    This is getting boring - it's not new content. You DO content do get he mounts, but repeated something over and over isn't new content. And if you're talking mounts from 8.1 and before it's NOT NEW 8.2 CONTENT.

    - Classic Raids
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    V
    Classic WoW (for those who hate BfA with a fiery passion)
    - Firelands Timewalking (I can guarantee you Cata babies wont know wtf to do in Firelands)

    Speaking of things that are NOT NEW 8.2 CONTENT....

    Sure people can be completionists and do things like 'get every mount' or 'raise all reps to exalted' but those aren't new playable content, they're doing things you have access to now over and over to raise a score.
  1. kaiba1's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by clevin View Post
    Flying itself is a feature, not playable content (Jesus, people, learn the fucking difference...) but yes, you do content to get it However a) that content is out now and b) most people already have finished this or will soon.

    My very casual guild clears N in one night now, is 3/8 H on the 2nd night. Once a few more people have seen N they'll clear out H. That won't take 4 months.

    This isn't new content. It's grinding old 5 mans to elevate some score.

    1) reps aren't content. You DO content to raise them, but they're not content themselves. Oh and you mean the reps that are already at revered if you have flight like many people do?

    This is getting boring - it's not new content. You DO content do get he mounts, but repeated something over and over isn't new content. And if you're talking mounts from 8.1 and before it's NOT NEW 8.2 CONTENT.


    Speaking of things that are NOT NEW 8.2 CONTENT....

    Sure people can be completionists and do things like 'get every mount' or 'raise all reps to exalted' but those aren't new playable content, they're doing things you have access to now over and over to raise a score.
    So bascially what your saying is, its not content because you find it boring? .... Okay.

    Do what you want in the so called "content-less" game.

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