Patch 7.3.5 Live this Week

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Patch 7.3.5 Live this Week
Patch 7.3.5 brings old world leveling scaling, Ulduar Timewalking, Silithus quests, legendary tokens, the Seething Shore Battleground and more!

Allied Races are not going live this week! Much of the data for them is in the patch, so we may see them later as a pre-order bonus.

• Legendary Changes - You can now purchase Purified Titan Essence
• Mythic Plus Battle Resurrections - Battle resurrections in Mythic+ dungeons now function similarly to the way they currently do in raids.
• Seething Shore Battleground - Seething Shore will become available as the story in Silithus unfolds
• Zone Scaling and XP Changes - Older zones now scale with your level. XP required to level has been adjusted.
• Flying Changes - There are no longer any expansion specific flying requirements until Warlords.
• Silithus: The Wound - Players who have defeated Argus in Antorus will be able to continue the Legion story quest chain into Silithus.

Official Notes
The official notes have been released.

Legendary Item Changes
You can now turn in 1000 x Wakening Essence for Purified Titan Essence and 300 for Awoken Titan Essence.

Wakening Essence reward sources now reward roughly 6x more than they did in Patch 7.3.2. For example, your first daily heroic dungeon now rewards 30, up from 5.

Mythic Plus Battle Resurrections
Combat resurrections in Mythic+ dungeons will now function similarly to the way they currently do in raids.

• Combat resurrections start with 1 charge for the group and gain a new charge every 10 minutes.
• Raise Ally, Rebirth, Soulstone and Hunter battle resurrections all share the same charges.
• You can accumulate a total of 5 charges at a time, however, it would take 40 minutes to reach this point.

New Battleground - Seething Shore
Seething Shore will become available as the story in Silithus unfolds. This new battleground takes place in Silithus and features the Horde and Alliance descending upon the wound that Sargeras put in Azeroth to fight over Azerite bubbling to the surface.

Zone Scaling and XP Changes
Every zone through Draenor now use the level scaling system introduced in Legion. All corresponding dungeons and the rewards therein now scale. XP required to level has been adjusted as well.

NPC Health Changes
Along with all of the leveling and XP changes, the health of NPCs (including bosses in old raids) have been increased.

• Vanilla - 288% increase @ lvl 63. 25% at lvl 10, 119% @ lvl 20, 183% @ lvl 30, 222% @ lvl 40, 263% @ lvl 50
• Burning Crusade - 261% increase @ lvl 73, 310% @ lvl 65
• Wrath of the Lich King - 237% increase @ lvl 83, 291% @ lvl 75
• Cataclysm - 185% increase @ lvl 88, 228% @ lvl 85
• Mists of Pandaria - 341% @ lvl 93
• Warlords - 92% increase @ lvl 103
• Legion - Same

Flying Changes During Leveling
Expert Riding now unlocks the ability to fly in all zones prior to Draenor.

The following requirements have been removed from the game:

• Cold Weather Flying
• Flight Master's License
• Wisdom of the Four Winds

Draenor Pathfinder and Broken Isles Pathfinder, Part Two still need to be completed to unlock flying.


Legion Epilogue - Silithus: The Wound
Players who have defeated Argus in Antorus will be able to continue the Legion story quest chain into Silithus. Look for this new questline upon logging in.

Ogmot the Mad is a new rare elite ogre in Silithus that drops Ogmot's Dream Journal. This journal contains 10 pages that detail the events of a nameless person who deals with the whispers of the Old Gods. See the full post for more details.

Ulduar Timewalking
Ulduar Timewalking will be available when the Wrath of the Lich King Timewalking week rolls around on February 18, 2018.

A long-forgotten evil has awakened once more. Travel back in time with 10-30 other adventurers to cleanse Ulduar of Yogg-Saron’s evil influence. While you journey through this memorable Wrath of the Lich King raid, your character will be scaled to player level 80.

Your fate is sealed. The end of days is finally upon you and ALL who inhabit this miserable little seedling. Uulwi ifis halahs gag erh'ongg w'ssh.

Achievement Changes
Check out the full list of achievement changes.

• All existing 10-player and 25-player Ulduar Achievements have been moved to the Legacy -> Raids tab.
• Anyone who earned either the 10- or 25-player versions of the Ulduar Achievements should receive the new Achievement upon logging in.
• The new Glory of the Ulduar Raider Achievement should now award both the Rusted Proto-Drake and the Ironbound Proto-Drake mounts.
• Old achievements that required you to complete a number of quests in a zone have been changed to require you to complete the story quests instead.
• Allied Race achievements, more Prestige achievements, Legion Season 7, Seething Shore, New Pet Battle PvP achievements and were added.

Increased Bag Space
Attaching an authenticator to your account will increase the size of your initial backpack by 4 slots.

Druid Lunarwing Flight Form Sit Animation
The Druid Lunarwing flight form now has a sitting animation! You can see the Night Elf, Tauren, Troll, and Worgen versions of the animation in the modelviewer.

Profession Leveling
Profession leveling has been streamlined:

• Several reagents no longer exist: Greater Astral Essence, Lesser Astral Essence, Greater Mystic Essence, Lesser Mystic Essence, Greater Nether Essence, Lesser Nether Essence, Nexus Crystal, Large Glimmering Shard, Small Glimmering Shard, Soul Dust, Vision Dust, Small Glowing Shard, Large Glowing Shard, Dream Dust, Small Radiant Shard, Large Radiant Shard
• Illusion Dust is now Light Illusion Dust
• Rich Illusion Dust has been added

Faction Leader Model Updates
Gallywix got a new Azerite cane topper and ring! You can see the old model on the right in the image below.

New Icons and UI Elements

New Loading Screen

New Maps

Patch 7.3.5 - New Music and VO
Patch 7.3.5 adds some new music and VO. Be sure to check out the Allied Race VO as well.

Call of the Scarab Temporary Mounts
Several new Silithid mounts are available for the Call of the Scarab micro holiday! These mounts only last for a few days and are bag slot items much like the Magic Broom from the Hallow's End Event.

• Sapphire Qiraji Resonating Crystal
• Ruby Qiraji Resonating Crystal

New Racial Icons at Character Creation Screen
The icons on the character creation menu have all received face lifts!

New Command Boards
The command boards in Orgrimmar and Stormwind have received visual upgrades on top of a new UI. They use the same menu now that we used to choose our artifact weapons and your options change as you level up. You also get a small picture and a brief description of the zone and what the story will contain.

Alliance Embassy
An embassy for Allied Races has been added to Stormwind. Allied Races cannot be unlocked yet, but you can see the requirements to unlock them inside.

Lightforged Draenei Requirements

• Achievement: You Are Now Prepared!
• Exalted with The Army of the Light

Void Elves Requirements

• Achievement: You Are Now Prepared!
• Exalted with The Argussian Reach

Horde Embassy
An embassy for Allied Races has been added to Orgrimmar. Allied Races cannot be unlocked yet, but you can see the requirements to unlock them inside.

Highmountain Tauren Requirements

• Achievement: Ain't No Mountain High Enough
• Exalted with The Highmountain Tribe

The Nightborne Requirements

• Achievement: Insurrection
• Exalted with The Nightfallen

The Nighthold Updates
The uninstanced version of the Nighthold has seen some changes, becoming more of a small faction hub. Both Alliance and Horde can visit as of now. There are teleport stations that lead to Dalaran and Orgrimmar usable by the Horde as well as all of your favorite characters from the Suramar campaign, such as Thalyssra and Theryn. Pandaren monks have also arrived to teach the Nightborne the ways of the Monk class.

Thunder Totem Updates
While most of the Bloodtotem tribe became corrupted by the Legion, the few who did not have now sought refuge at Thunder Totem. On top of this, Pandaren monks have arrived to teach the Highmountain Tauren the ways of the Monk class.

Hardware Deprecation Warnings
DirectX 9 support will be dropped in the future.

• Warning: Your current graphics API will not be supported in future versions of World of Warcraft, which will require DirectX 11 or Metal.
• Warning: Your current system will not be supported in future versions of World of Warcraft which will require a 64-bit operating system.
• Warning: Your graphics card will not be supported in future versions of World of Warcraft, which will require a Shader Model 5 3 capable graphics card or better.

String Changes and Misc Changes
Allied Race and many other strings were added in this patch.

[Nerraw]

Guess I need to drag myself through LFR already so I can go do stuff in Silithus.

[Jueles]

It doesn't take much to excite me (at least for a few hours). Can't wait to finish my work day and go home and log in. Silithus here I come.

[Deleted]

So, they updated the faction leader models from Horde, but where is the leader of the trolls and why is Blightcaller a faction leader?

[DesoPL]

Stahp lying, is not in EU yet.

[Trollhammer]

Your current graphics API will not be supported in future versions of World of Warcraft, which will require DirectX 11 or Metal.

Good job I have plenty of metal.

[Icoblablubb]

It doesn't take much to excite me (at least for a few hours). Can't wait to finish my work day and go home and log in. Silithus here I come.

so u are excited about a small 15 minutes questchain? wow

[Deleted]

So, they updated the faction leader models from Horde, but where is the leader of the trolls and why is Blightcaller a faction leader?

Isnt Rokhan now a leader of the trolls ? Since he is present at most of the important stuff.. like getting your pvp weapon skin and he was also with the other leaders in embassy on ptr

[Mynarjr]

Kind of disappointed that they nerfed the "Herald of Titans", achievement... Especially someone who had completed it both during WOTLK, and after WOD was released... To allow higher level gear, except weapon slots just make it a cake walk, and you can use all the Cata BoEs.

[Nutri]

I've been out of the news loop for a bit, but weren't players also able to select the upright-Orc at some point?
Saurfang looks absolutely amazing!

[martinboy]

It would be nice, if blizzard would open up for transmogging the ulduar legendary mace, the same way they did with the BT timewalking and the legendary warglaives.

[Davinfelth]

Kind of disappointed that they nerfed the "Herald of Titans", achievement... Especially someone who had completed it both during WOTLK, and after WOD was released... To allow higher level gear, except weapon slots just make it a cake walk, and you can use all the Cata BoEs.

It looked like to me they just changed the wording to more accurately reflect the achievement. It read as gear from Ulduar 10 man, when it was always just 226 gear and 232 weapons. I don't see where they removed any of the old requirements. Also they increased the boss' health significantly. I think this achievement is actually going to be harder. Unless I'm missing something.

[Austilias]

Simply nothing to get excited about until they add the side races.

[Communism]

"Warning: Your current graphics API will not be supported in future versions of World of Warcraft, which will require DirectX 11 or Metal.
Warning: Your current system will not be supported in future versions of World of Warcraft which will require a 64-bit operating system.
Warning: Your graphics card will not be supported in future versions of World of Warcraft, which will require a Shader Model 5 3 capable graphics card or better."

It's looking like the groundwork is being layed for DX12 and or Vulkan as future API's. This change when it comes, not an if in my opinion should hopefully put those 6+ core CPU's to good use in raids and major congested areas like Dalaran.

[LadyLisanna]

So, they updated the faction leader models from Horde, but where is the leader of the trolls and why is Blightcaller a faction leader?

He may have taken over for the Dark Lady for the Undead. Or they updated him cause he is her Right hand.

[Deleted]

Question from EU.

So, i just found out about the Vanilla Enchanting Material changes and I was wondering about if the Dust/Shards/Essences just disappears/greys or will it be converted to Rich Illusion Dust?
Can any NA player confirm this to us?

[Ozzyorcborne]

Theyve mentioned the lvl scaling for the mobs but what about quest rewards and dungeon drops? Will that scale to level as well?

[DemoBytom]

Does Ulduar Timewalking award Valanyr appearance if you have the legendary? Like BT did with Glaives?

[Eleccybubb]

Seems to have gone live by accident for me in EU.

Option was to update now all my servers are incompatible.

[Riordrian]

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Edit: Nvm got the same "bug" as the poster above and could update although i´m in EU size is about 2.2GB fyi