Patch 9.1.0 PTR - Build 38394

9.1.0 Chains of Domination PTR Notes - April 21

New Covenant Legendaries for Paladins, Rogues and Shamans
Several new covenant legendaries have been added in Build 38394. Note that some of the legendaries below are unconfirmed, however new memory items related to them were added to the database.
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Druid

  • Kindred Affinity NYI (Kyrian) - Name changed from "Kindred Affinity" to "Kindred Affinity NYI". While your Bond is empowered, and you and your partner are within 15 yards of one another, the benefits are improved by 50%. You and your partner each gain Kindred Affinity when bonded, increasing a secondary stat based on your partner's Covenant. While your bond is empowered, Kindred Affinity is doubled. Kyrian: Mastery increased by 5%. Night Fae: Critical Strike increased by 5%. Venthyr: Haste increased by 5%. Necrolord: Versatility increased by 5%.


Paladin

  • Divine Resonance (Kyrian) - Every 10 seconds after casting Divine Toll you cast it again at 60% effectiveness. This effect lasts 30 seconds.
  • Duty-Bound Gavel (Necrolord) - Vanquisher’s Hammer now has 2 charges and empowers an additional cast of [Templar’s Verdict/Word of Glory/Word of Glory].
  • Seasons of Plenty (Night Fae) - Casting Blessing of Summer or Blessing of Winter grants Solstice to you and up to 4 allies, increasing Haste by 5% and increasing cooldown recovery by 10%.


Rogue

  • Resounding Clarity (Kyrian) - Echoing Reprimand now animacharges 4 combo points.
  • Deathspike (Necrolord) - Serrated Bone Spike has 2 additional charges and hits 2 additional nearby enemies.
  • Toxic Onslaught (Night Fae) - Your ability used from Stealth while Sepsis is active grants you one of Shadow Blades, Adrenaline Rush, or applies Vendetta to your current target for 8 sec.
  • Obedience (Venthyr) - Flagellation now also increases your Versatility by 1%. Each combo point spent while Flagellation is active decreases it's cooldown by 1 sec.


Shaman

  • Splintered Elements (Necrolord) - Each additional Lightning Bolt/Healing Wave/Lava Burst generated by Primordial Wave increases your Haste by 5% for 10 sec.


Warrior




New Dungeon Teleports for Completing Mythic Level 20 Dungeons in Time
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Dungeons
Feats of Strength
This article was originally published in forum thread: Patch 9.1.0 PTR Build 38394 - New Covenant Legendaries and Dungeon Teleports started by Lumy View original post
Comments 36 Comments
  1. kiramon's Avatar
    Oh boy. Bring on the flames for catering to the hardcore lvl20 mythics while everyone has to walk, LOL.
  1. Guidance's Avatar
    Retri paladin with divine tool in pvp with this legendary or balance with convoke legendary
  1. Semihagez's Avatar
    Splintered Elements (Necrolord) - Each additional Lightning Bolt/Healing Wave/Lava Burst generated by Primordial Wave increases your Haste by 5% for 10 sec.

    Just by reading the description I know for sure this will not replace the current top legendary for Elemental/Restoration shaman.
  1. whywhatwhowhenhow's Avatar
    Dungeon teleports for the boosters.

    More boosts per hour = more taken sales.

    Just joking!

    Or am I???
  1. kiramon's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by kiramon View Post
    Oh boy. Bring on the flames for catering to the hardcore lvl20 mythics while everyone has to walk, LOL.
    I wonder why blizzard hates us...

    I wonder why they don’t just make a single legendary like “Union of the covenants: gain a legendary effect based on your class and chosen covenant” instead of individual legendary items for each covenant...
  1. Cæli's Avatar
    FoS for m+20? what? and a teleport? uh
    100% time limited fomo marketing decision
  1. Sentynel's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Cæli View Post
    FoS for m+20? what? and a teleport? uh
    100% time limited fomo marketing decision
    Going by the description, this doesn't look like to be a seasonal achievement. Although it will probably go away next expansion (just like previous CM teleports).
  1. Othraerir's Avatar
    meh, they can just summon you quicker
  1. Dzonathan's Avatar
    Kyrian new legendary + Mikanikos's Effusive Anima Accelerator = Prot Pala Itano Circus
  1. Niwes's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by kiramon View Post
    I wonder why blizzard hates us...

    I wonder why they don’t just make a single legendary like “Union of the covenants: gain a legendary effect based on your class and chosen covenant” instead of individual legendary items for each covenant...
    thought exactly the same, but for another reason.

    whats the point in doing x legendaries or adding x legendaries? there will be always just that 1 pve or that 1 pvp bis leggy, like all internet sites / theorycrafters said. so why they putting effort into all the others, noone cares ???

    i dont get why they not just do 1 leggy and you slowly work towards it (the same as we did in 9.0). and in 9.1 you just do higher itemlevel and do a new single leggy, ppl can again work towards. while the old one gets useless and outscaled. thats it. why producing x other leggys along the way, noone cares about ???
  1. cenkadin's Avatar
    Divine Resonance will get a nerf for prot.
  1. Scifix's Avatar
    This makes me really curious if 2 charges on vanquishers is enough to pop necro to the bis ret pala covenant, that kyrian legendary could make for some pretty big consistent damage though
  1. munkeyinorbit's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Niwes View Post
    thought exactly the same, but for another reason.

    whats the point in doing x legendaries or adding x legendaries? there will be always just that 1 pve or that 1 pvp bis leggy, like all internet sites / theorycrafters said. so why they putting effort into all the others, noone cares ???

    i dont get why they not just do 1 leggy and you slowly work towards it (the same as we did in 9.0). and in 9.1 you just do higher itemlevel and do a new single leggy, ppl can again work towards. while the old one gets useless and outscaled. thats it. why producing x other leggys along the way, noone cares about ???
    Last time we had a legendary system it turned out a lot of the useless ones were good for the mage tower. That's why. There's more than just top dps ones.
  1. TheWorkingTitle's Avatar
    Having portals tied to these +20 achievements doesn't make sense. It's not even remotely the same in difficulty compared to Challenge Conqueror: Gold from MoP or Challenge Warlord: Gold from WoD where instance portals have previously been available.
  1. GnomeEU's Avatar
    Well it's a free teleport for mythic raiders and high pvp.
    Someone who does only m+ will probably never get the teleport which is ironic. But yeah Blizzard.

    I remember when a mage in bfa made a guide for high mythic dungeons. And he's like OK, you don't need much, but the following 3 azerite pieces are mandatory, which are at least a 6 month wait, lol
  1. Loveliest's Avatar
    The teleport is probably more of a feat of strength / prestige thing. The CM teleports have an 8 hour CD combined (not one for each, so if you teleport to temple of the ox you can only teleport to stratholme after 8 hrs). So it's not something very useful if they keep it the same. Probably something to get at the end of the expansion.
  1. h4rr0d's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Cæli View Post
    FoS for m+20? what? and a teleport? uh
    100% time limited fomo marketing decision
    Unless they don't do the usual seasonal M+ upscaling shenanigans, timing +20 will remain accessible to such a tiny percentage of the playerbase, that I strongly doubt this is a marketing decision.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheWorkingTitle View Post
    Having portals tied to these +20 achievements doesn't make sense. It's not even remotely the same in difficulty compared to Challenge Conqueror: Gold from MoP or Challenge Warlord: Gold from WoD where instance portals have previously been available.
    Having completed Challenge Warlord: Gold, I'm inclined to say, that unless they introduce something ridiculous like corrupted gear again, timing all dungeons on +20 is going to be much more difficult.
    Besides, CMs relied solely on execution, as gear was scaled down, so pretty much anyone could attempt them, such high keys depend both on godly gear that not everyone has access to and great execution on top of that.

    Feel free to convince me otherwise though.
  1. TheWorkingTitle's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by h4rr0d View Post
    Having completed Challenge Warlord: Gold, I'm inclined to say, that unless they introduce something ridiculous like corrupted gear again, timing all dungeons on +20 is going to be much more difficult.
    Besides, CMs relied solely on execution, as gear was scaled down, so pretty much anyone could attempt them, such high keys depend both on godly gear that not everyone has access to and great execution on top of that.

    Feel free to convince me otherwise though.
    Precisely what I'm saying. I've got both MoP and WoD's portals, and all +20s in time is so much more difficult it's comical.
  1. VanishO2's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by TheWorkingTitle View Post
    Precisely what I'm saying. I've got both MoP and WoD's portals, and all +20s in time is so much more difficult it's comical.
    M+20 teleports instead of fixing Bastion FPs to have something far right and left of the map... ok hahahaha

    Well, we'll be flying anyway.
  1. Cæli's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by h4rr0d View Post
    Unless they don't do the usual seasonal M+ upscaling shenanigans, timing +20 will remain accessible to such a tiny percentage of the playerbase, that I strongly doubt this is a marketing decision.

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    everyone can be subject to fomo, including the top players. blizzard have reasons to want them continue playing. and to push average players to improve with carrot on a stick and pressure.

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