Dragonflight Season 1 Content Update Notes

[Lumy]

Dragonflight Season 1 Content Update Notes

Dragonflight Season 1 arrives to World of Warcraft on December 13 and brings a new raid, Mythic+ dungeons, a new Arena, and a new PvP season.

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Vault of the Incarnates Raid

The Primalists breached the Titan prison used to hold the Incarnates for millennia. Within, Raszageth performs a foul ritual to unleash her siblings, so together they can purge the world of the Titans' influence. The champions of Azeroth must assault this impregnable fortress and break their defenses to end this threat. While many could fall, defeat condemns all the realms to the Incarnates' reign of fire and blood. There is no map available for this zone.

Vault of the Incarnates is the first raid players will experience in Dragonflight, featuring eight all-new boss encounters: Eranog, Terros, The Primal Council, Sennarth, the Cold Breath, Dathea, Ascended, Kurog Grimtotem, Broodkeeper Diurna, and Raszageth the Storm-Eater.

Raid release schedule:

• Week of December 12: Normal, Heroic, and Mythic Vault of the Incarnates will open with the weekly maintenance for each region
  
• Week of December 19: Vault of the Incarnates Raid Finder Wing 1: The Primal Bulwark (Eranog, Dathea Ascended, and The Primal Council)
  
• Week of January 2: Vault of the Incarnates Raid Finder Wing 2: Caverns of Infusion (Kurog Grimtotem, Sennarth, the Cold Breath, and Terros)
  
• Week of January 16: Vault of the Incarnates Raid Finder Wing 3: Fury of the Storm (Broodkeeper Diurna, and Raszageth the Storm-Eater)

Hall of Fame entries will require at least 16 out of 20 raiders from the same guild and faction to be eligible for rewards. Cross-realm will unlock later in the season.

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Primalist Class Armor Sets

Death Knight




Demon Hunter




Druid




Evoker




Hunter




Mage




Monk




Paladin




Priest




Rogue




Shaman




Warlock




Warrior

Earn bonuses to your abilities based on your specialization when equipping two Primalist set pieces and four Primalist set pieces. Class armor sets drop from certain bosses in the Vault of the Incarnates raid and are available in the Great Vault by completing the weekly raid, Rated PvP, and Mythic+ dungeon requirements.

The Inspiration Catalyst used to turn non-set pieces of the appropriate slot into a new armor set piece of the same item level will be available later in Season 1.

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Four New World Bosses

Four new World Bosses are raging through the Dragon Isles and will be on a weekly rotation: Basrikron, the Shale Wing, Bazual, the Dreaded Flame, Liskanoth, the Futurebane, and Strunraan, the Sky's Misery.

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Primal Storms

The Primalists are calling forth the harsh elements once again and causing Primal Storms to sweep across the Dragon Isles to destroy everything in their wake.

Collect Elemental Overflow from primal storms and spend it with Mythressa in Valdrakken to earn a full set of item level 359 armor for your class and specialization, Stormie and Ghostflame pets, and the Stormhide Salamanther mount. Enemies in each storm (Earth, Fire, Air, and Water) have a chance to drop their Primal Core which can be redeemed for 1 Storm Sigil each week from Rethelshi in Valdrakken that can be used to upgrade your gear to item level 385.

Additionally, the Unstable Elemental Confluence heirloom trinket and the Bag of Furious Winds toy make their return. Defeat unique enemies in Primal Storms for a chance at the Dimmed Primeval element heirloom items and the toy.

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Mythic+ Season 1

Dragonflight Season 1 will feature a new dungeon rotation for Mythic+. Four dungeons from Dragonflight are included, and four returning dungeons from previous expansions. Here’s the full lineup:

• Ruby Life Pools
  
• The Nokhud Offensive
  
• The Azure Vault
  
• Algeth’ar Academy
  
• Halls of Valor (from the Legion™ expansion)
  
• Court of Stars (from the Legion™ expansion)
  
• Shadowmoon Burial Grounds (from the Warlords of Draenor™ expansion)
  
• Temple of the Jade Serpent (from the Mists of Pandaria™ expansion)
  
• There will be no loot caps for Mythic+ on the first week, as Mythic Vault of the Incarnates will open simultaneously.

The seasonal dungeon affix is Thundering: Enemies have 5% more health. While in combat, players are periodically overcharged with primal power from Raszageth's unending storm. This power comes with great risk, and failure to discharge it quickly can have stunning consequences.

Seasonal rewards for Mythic+ include the two new titles: "the Thundering" and "the Thundering Hero", the Hailstorm Armoredon mount, and dungeon teleports.

The weekly Valor cap will start at 1500 and increase by 750 per week.

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New Arena: Hokhudon Proving Grounds

Within Clan Nokhud's stronghold are their Proving Grounds, where the centaurs compete to be named the clan's greatest warrior. Compete for glory in this new Arena that has a unique gameplay layout, utilizing ramps, pillars and a middle wall to break your opponents' line of sight.

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Arena Season 1

Dragonflight Season 1 introduces a weekly map pool rotation for Rated and Skirmish Arenas to keep matches exciting and fresh week to week.

POOL A	POOL B	POOL C
Nagrand Arena	Nagrand Arena	Nagrand Arena
Dalaran Sewers	Ruins of Lordaeron	Hook Point
Tiger’s Peak	Tiger’s Peak	Tol’Viron Arena
Enigma Crucible	Empyrean Domain	Ashamane’s Fall
Empyrean Domain	Blade’s Edge Arena	The Robodrome
Ashamane’s Fall	Maldraxxus Coliseum	Mugambala
Maldraxxus Coliseum	Black Rook Hold Arena	Enigma Crucible
Nokhudon Proving Grounds	Nokhudon Proving Grounds	Nokhudon Proving Grounds

The seasonal rewards for PvP include a new Arena title: "Crimson Gladiator", Crimson's Gladiator's Drake, Dragonriding Appearance: Highland Drake: Embodiment of the Crimson Gladiator, a new weapon illusion, pennant, tabard and cloak, achievements, and new Vicious mounts–Alliance and Horde themed Sabertooth.

Just like in Rated Battlegrounds and Arenas, Rated Solo Shuffle players can earn seasonal rewards and achievements, credit towards Vicious mounts, weekly Great Vault progress, and Conquest with rewards being based on the highest rating amongst all of a player’s specializations. Players will earn all seasonal titles and achievements that they would normally in Rated Arenas, with the exception of Gladiator and its associated reward, and the top 0.1% of Rated Solo Shuffle players will earn the title "Crimson Soloist."

The weekly Conquest cap will start at 1350 and increase by 550 per week.

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Items and Rewards

• Kyrakka’s Searing Embers effect now triggers more often.
  
• Irideus Fragment's Mastery granted per stack has been reduced.
  
• Tome of Unstable Power radius increased to 8 yards (was 5 yards).
  
• Integrated Primal Fire cooldown reduced to 2 minutes (was 3 minutes). Damage adjusted to compensate.

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[doodle90]

No mention of fixing contagious cowardice. Let's hope it is. I am sick of hearing it.

[Dark-Zarupia]

Why even bother showing the Evoker set if it just turns into garbage

[Cosmic Janitor]

Why even bother showing the Evoker set if it just turns into garbage

Too bad that the evoker set is one of the few that isn't completely ugly either.. well I guess shaman and hunter will have fun with the off pieces.

[Runicblood]

Why even bother showing the Evoker set if it just turns into garbage

you know you can be out of dragon form like 95% of playtime right? and shoulders and belt are visible while in dragon form so? what you on about?
Are you really looking at your mog while in combat?

[Dark-Zarupia]

you know you can be out of dragon form like 95% of playtime right? and shoulders and belt are visible while in dragon form so? what you on about?
Are you really looking at your mog while in combat?

95% of playtime ok so you cast 95% of the time Living Flame then?

And the shoulders and belt don't look good in Dragon form at all, it doesn't take an expert to see that Blizzard has just been lazy with the Dracthyr in terms of transmog

[doodle90]

you know you can be out of dragon form like 95% of playtime right? and shoulders and belt are visible while in dragon form so? what you on about?
Are you really looking at your mog while in combat?

Yes, tmogs and fashion are end game. Not being able to see them was the dumbest move they have made. Especially when they have races like worgen and tauren and Dranei. meaning they could easily have made tmogs show on them

[Dark-Zarupia]

Too bad that the evoker set is one of the few that isn't completely ugly either.. well I guess shaman and hunter will have fun with the off pieces.

That's personally taste, i'm not saying the set looks bad, i am saying it looks bad in dragon form, 80% of the set is just gone ,They could have at least made an effort to adjust the armor to the dragon form, it's not an impossible thing to do, many of the heritage armors only can fit the race it was made for, surely they could have done the same for Dracthyr but chose not to

[Danuel]

I don't know what you all taking about! My dragon is fully transmoged!

[Kathranis]

Yes, tmogs and fashion are end game. Not being able to see them was the dumbest move they have made. Especially when they have races like worgen and tauren and Dranei. meaning they could easily have made tmogs show on them

They probably nixed mogging for the drac'thyr form because the geometry of the model changes depending on body type, which would cause clipping / floating issues with any extra 3D pieces on the gear models. That and they put a ton of effort into giving them fully customizable armor at character creation. Plus the wings prevent back items.

I do think that they should have done something special for their tier sets though, like unlocking new customization options or having some sort of other visual effect, either passively or for their spells. Like an elemental aura with shards of stone and energy floating around their body.

[Koollan]

No mention of fixing contagious cowardice. Let's hope it is. I am sick of hearing it.

You can get an item that gets rid of annoyances like that as far as I know. Pretty sure it's intentional.

[doodle90]

It effecting you is not the problem it effecting 45 people in town and constantly screaming is .

[Argorwal]

Why even bother showing the Evoker set if it just turns into garbage

Sounds like a feral/guardian druid problem.

[Runicblood]

95% of playtime ok so you cast 95% of the time Living Flame then?

And the shoulders and belt don't look good in Dragon form at all, it doesn't take an expert to see that Blizzard has just been lazy with the Dracthyr in terms of transmog

i said 95% of playtime, not combat. are you in combat all the time that you are playing?

and again, are you REALLY looking at your mog during combat, or looking at fight mechanics, the floor, damage meter, weak auras, cds?

Mog fasionista wow is for when you are chilling before boss fight or idling around in valdrakken

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Yes, tmogs and fashion are end game. Not being able to see them was the dumbest move they have made. Especially when they have races like worgen and tauren and Dranei. meaning they could easily have made tmogs show on them

adding you to edit aswel

[Dark-Zarupia]

[QUOTE=Runicblood;53993240]i said 95% of playtime, not combat. are you in combat all the time that you are playing?

and again, are you REALLY looking at your mog during combat, or looking at fight mechanics, the floor, damage meter, weak auras, cds?

Mog fasionista wow is for when you are chilling before boss fight or idling around in valdrakken

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Yes my 95% time in this game is in combat, let it be open world, dungeons/raids, PvP

And it doesn't matter what i look at during combat, i could be looking at ceiling if i wanted to.

You can't deny the fact that the transmog on Dracthyr is lazy and cheap

I don't understand why you are defending this? Just being a Blizzard fanboy or a troll? Either way, my opinion stands, transmog on the Dracthyr dragon form is disappointing.

[Shinchi Migi]

That tier gear is straight ugly as hell.

[Koollan]

I'm going to be that guy for a moment about Evokers:

Originally, Blizzard had said that Evoker tier sets would be the only gear that would fully show up on un-visaged Evokers.

... Well, uh, that was either a lie or they're trying to sweep that promise under the table, from what I can tell. I'm only marginally upset, because I honestly expected it.

[TbouncerT]

[QUOTE=Dark-Zarupia;53993267]

i said 95% of playtime, not combat. are you in combat all the time that you are playing?

and again, are you REALLY looking at your mog during combat, or looking at fight mechanics, the floor, damage meter, weak auras, cds?

Mog fasionista wow is for when you are chilling before boss fight or idling around in valdrakken

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Yes my 95% time in this game is in combat, let it be open world, dungeons/raids, PvP

And it doesn't matter what i look at during combat, i could be looking at ceiling if i wanted to.

You can't deny the fact that the transmog on Dracthyr is lazy and cheap

I don't understand why you are defending this? Just being a Blizzard fanboy or a troll? Either way, my opinion stands, transmog on the Dracthyr dragon form is disappointing.

key 2 words there (they are in bold)). i love when people argue about opinions and subjective things. now, where is my popcorn?

my opinion stands too, that yours is wrong. throwing out arbitrary numbers as you know (95% in combat as an example). must be the type of person that movies make fun of (you know, having to look good while killing things, etc). or are you the person that will complain for the heck of it? you seem like you'd never ever be pleased with anything Blizzard (or anyone else but you) did.

there was someone in general chat the other day complaining that the game is hard. maybe they used the wrong term since hard can mean a number of things, but still. people will complain about something (or echo chamber it). they were clearly just on because they were in a bad mood and just wanted to vent (which is fine outside of a game). people in chat were actually really nice up to the point where we all realized they didn't want help (we then just said it isn't a game issue here, but never attack them like they were to people and the game), they just wanted to hate the game and bring everyone down to their level. you seem like you fit into that category as well, but I don't know you so I am just connecting some dots here.

If it bothers you that much, get some fresh air, take a break, play another game and then come back (if you want). This love/hate relationship needs to chill a little bit. People tend to forget to breathe and relax, no need to feed the 'hate'. it is just a waste of energy that could be used elsewhere.

[SniperCT]

Do we know which color is the raid finder version? I don't really intend to do anything more complicated than LFR this expansion lol

[Nefastus]

Those are some of the ugliest sets I ever saw, for real.