Patch 9.2.5 Launches May 31 - Patch Notes

[Stoy]

Patch 9.2.5 Launches May 31 - Patch Notes

The Shadowlands 9.2.5 content update arrives on May 31 and comes with a variety of features and experiences such as cross-faction play, new questlines for Blood Elf and Dark Iron Dwarf characters, a new PvP arena, and more!

ACHIEVEMENTS

• All Covenant Sanctum feature achievements are now visible and count towards your character's total achievement points, regardless of which covenant your character currently belongs to. Nonetheless, all characters must belong to a Covenant to earn that Covenant’s specific achievements.
  
• Tower Ranger criteria now requires The Jailer's Gauntlet: Layer 4 (was Layer 8).
  
• The Dancing Machine achievement text now specifies that the reward is a toy.
  
• Anima Cannisters required for Kaal-ed Shot now respawn after General Kaal resets and the Slammed! debuff is no longer removed by immunity effects.
  
• Fixed an issue that was causing The Enlightened faction to not count towards the Exalted Reputations achievements.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Azeroth at War achievements to not be obtainable by players.

CHARACTERS

• Removed the experience point reduction that is applied to level 51–60 characters while in Party Sync.

Classes

• Death Knight
  
  • Fixed an issue that caused Bone Shields consumed by Tombstone (Talent) to not reduce the cooldown of Blood Tap by the correct amount.
    
• Warlock
  
  • Fixed an issue that caused Scouring Tithe (Kyrian Ability) to grant both the death and survive effects when used against certain enemies.
    

CROSS-FACTION INSTANCES

• Players are now able to directly invite members of the opposite faction to a party if you have a BattleTag or Real ID friendship, or if you are members of a cross-faction WoW Community.
  
• Premade Groups in the Group Finder listings for Mythic dungeons, raids, or rated arena/RBGs are now open to applicants of both factions, though the group leader may choose to restrict the listing to same-faction applicants if they so choose.
  
• WoW Communities now have the option to be cross-faction, while Guilds will remain single-faction.
  
• Random matchmade activities like Heroic dungeons, Skirmishes, or Random Battlegrounds will all remain same-faction. [LEARN MORE]
  
• The following instances are not cross-faction:
  
  • Trial of the Champion
    
  • Trial of the Crusader
    
  • Vault of Archavon
    
  • Icecrown Citadel
    
  • Baradin Hold
    
  • Siege of Boralus
    
  • Battle of Dazar'alor
    
  • Darkmaul Citadel (Exile's Reach dungeon)
    

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

• SEPULCHER OF THE FIRST ONES
  
  • Cross-Realm raiding is now available on Mythic difficulty.
    
• MYTHIC+
  
  • With Cross-Faction Instances becoming available, the Cryptic Hero: Shadowlands Season 3 achievement now requires a Mythic+ Rating in the top 0.1% of all players in your region.
    

ITEMS AND REWARDS

• Broker Mark of Distinction now increases the Renown of your currently active Covenant to 60 (was 40).
  
• Renown catch-up is accelerated through Renown 60 (was 48).
  
• These activities will now have a 100% chance to reward 1 Renown upon completion:
  
  • Mythic and Mythic+ dungeons
    
  • Torghast Layers 9-16
    
  • Defeating a Shadowlands raid boss encounter
    
  • Winning a Rated Battleground
    
• Reward boxes from Callings now contain twice as many Grateful Offerings, still scaling with your covenant sanctum's Anima Conductor level.
  
• The Zereth Mortis weekly quest "Patterns Within Patterns" now awards Grateful Offerings.
  
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused Blizzard Shop transmog cosmetics to temporarily disappear from your collection.
  
• Fixed an issue where Jingles battle pet would display as "Unknown" when summoned and its wreath and candy cane accessories were the incorrect size in the Pet Journal.

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

• NEW ARENA: ENIGMA CRUCIBLE
  
• SOLO SHUFFLE BRAWL
  
  • The minimum item level combatants will be scaled up to has been raised to 252 (was 239).
    
  • Fixed an issue that caused some abilities to not be removed from players in between rounds.
    
  • Fixed an issue that caused a round to not reset properly if a player on each side of the brawl died at the same time.
    
• Death Knight
  
  • Anti-Magic Zone's spell damage reduction increased to 50% (was 20%) in PvP combat.
    
  • Dome of Ancient Shadow (PvP Talent) has been removed.
    
• Warlock
  
  • Demonic Embrace now increases your Stamina by 20% (was 10%) in PvP combat.
    
  • Demon Armor (PvP Talent) has been removed.
    
  • AFFLICTION
    
    • New PvP Talent: Shadowfall – Gain the Nightfall talent with 100% increased chance to gain its effect. If you already have this talent, you may select another in the same row.
      

PROFESSIONS

• Increased the experience points earned when crafting Specialized Armor and Jewelry for creating Runecarving items by 400%.

QUESTS

• Blood Elves can start a quest to earn a new mount, weapon appearance, and the Blood Knight armor set for Blood Elf Paladins by speaking to Liadrin in Oribos. Requirements: Level 60 and Exalted with Silvermoon.
  
• Dark Iron Dwarves can start a quest to earn a new mount and weapon appearances by speaking to Anvil-Thane Thurgaden in Shadowforge City, Blackrock Depths (accessed via Mole Machine). Requirements: Level 50.

TORGHAST, TOWER OF THE DAMNED

• All wings are now open (was 2 wings available per week).
  
• Layers 1–8 are now unlocked by default.
  
• Layers 9–12 now unlock after completing Layer 8.
  
• Layers 13–16 now unlock after completing the previous Layer.

USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY

• All search filter dropdowns now have a button that lets you easily remove all active filters.
  
• The default hand cursor now has new, higher resolution art for its larger sizes under Interface Options → Accessibility.
  
• The Report Player pane has been redesigned, with new categories added.

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[Caprias]

In 6 days?
Wat?

[Phob]

In 6 days?
Wat?

where you been? lol

[Greyvax]

hopefully the cross faction LFG tool boosts the amount of pugs i see. really lacking on the alliance side. i usually pug normal/heroic and the quantity of groups has been dwindling for weeks.

[exochaft]

We're about 2.5 months through the raid tier, and only 18 Alliance guilds listed on the Hall of Fame for this mythic raid... which is insanely low compared basically any HoF timing of past raids. Considering the patch is going to make cross-realm mythic raiding open, maybe Blizz will finally ditch the HoF restriction on cross-realm mythic raiding? Didn't see any mention if the HoF is closing or will only apply if 18 out of 20 members are Alliance, but I think it's safe to say that the HoF is a complete failure when trying to stimulate more faction balance in mythic raiding.

Would be curious if cross-faction raiding will stimulate more raiding on Alliance side. My guess is there may be a short-term boost of some degree, but it won't last due to various factors (such as how late it is in the expansion/raid tier despite ilvl increases coming, people leaving the game, etc.).

[Maljinwo]

Is heritage armor scrapped at this point...?
They add stuff that was datamined in early BfA/Legion buut still no sign of heritage armor quest or anything of the sort

[Daan]

And still no M+ nerfs for SV and Destro.

[AcidicSyn]

What I am most curious about:

Will the blood elf scenario be gone in 10.0? Or will players always be able to do it once they meet requirements.

[OokOok]

This won't fix anything,

Most horde players won't open it up to alliance to troll them and the majority of Horde aren't going to suddenly race change to play alliance.....all their friends at this point and guilds are horde and if they REALLY want an alliance chances are they already do.
This "Cross faction" shit is about 18 years late

[Jester Joe]

This won't fix anything,

Most horde players won't open it up to alliance to troll them and the majority of Horde aren't going to suddenly race change to play alliance.....all their friends at this point and guilds are horde and if they REALLY want an alliance chances are they already do.
This "Cross faction" shit is about 18 years late

No one's going to genuinely care about faction at decent levels, they're just going to care about experience.

And it still lets Alliance players at least find horde players to do content with

[rogueMatthias]

Do you need to have unlocked heritage armour to do the new faction quests?

[darklogrus]

Most of these things are stuff they could of hot-fixed into the game months ago..

[Mazzic518]

Waiting for 10.1

[Jasper Kazai]

Is heritage armor scrapped at this point...?
They add stuff that was datamined in early BfA/Legion buut still no sign of heritage armor quest or anything of the sort

Yeah, why are races that have heritage armor already getting something else, when there's still 7 races that don't have anything? (8 if you count Pandaren twice.)

[Lawlhero]

hopefully the cross faction LFG tool boosts the amount of pugs i see. really lacking on the alliance side. i usually pug normal/heroic and the quantity of groups has been dwindling for weeks.

It'll boost the amount of people you'll see by a large margin if you're Alliance. I"m sure if you're horde tho you wont even notice the difference. x3

[hawaiianJ]

These activities will now have a 100% chance to reward 1 Renown upon completion:
Mythic and Mythic+ dungeons


with that being said does this mean we can farm mythic 0's and get renown ever time we clear the dungeon? hmmmm if so good way to catch up fast less stress

[wombinator04]

And the content drought starts now...........I mean it started months ago but this added SOME content, SOME lol

[hobskins]

Yeah, why are races that have heritage armor already getting something else, when there's still 7 races that don't have anything? (8 if you count Pandaren twice.)

Because they were initially supposed to get a set of weapons. Said weapons were already in the game which NPC's were using and they didn't implement a way to aquire such weapons yet. This was that implementation.

As for the other races who don't have any heritage armor yet. There are plans during next expansion (Dragonflight) to create more heritage armor.

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And still no M+ nerfs for SV and Destro.

Who cares.

It's the end of the expansion. They are in full swing on developing the next expansion.

It really doesn't even matter.

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What I am most curious about:

Will the blood elf scenario be gone in 10.0? Or will players always be able to do it once they meet requirements.

It most likely will not get removed. They haven't removed the worgen scenario's, or any other scenarios like it, yet they were implemented since BFA.

[Heavens Night]

Excuse my ignorance, but can anyone tell me what mount the new Blood Elf one is?

[wowrefugee]

Excuse my ignorance, but can anyone tell me what mount the new Blood Elf one is?

Elusive Emerald Hawkstrider is the name, I think.

Imagine a hawkstrider but a dark green.