It’s 8.2 time! Manny and Joce go over all the info that came out in the Blizzard live stream, as well as all the info from the community content posted afterwards.
Cross-Realm Mythic Dazar’Alor
With the Alliance Hall of Fame reaching 100 guilds over the weekend. Mythic BoD is available for cross-realm progression. Congratulations to the guilds that earned the Feat of Strength: Hall of Fame: Lady Jaina Proudmoore and those who now hold the title of Famed Conqueror of Dazar’alor for Dazar’alor // Famed Defender of Dazar’alor!
The 8.2 Info Dump
- General
- 8.2 will have:
- 2 New Zones: Nazjatar and Mechagon
- New Raid: Azshara’s Eternal Palace
- New Megadungeon: Operation: Mechagon
- New End Game System: The Heartforge
- A new Arena: the Robodrome
- Ashran returning as an epic BG
- Arathi Heroic Warfront
- 2 New Islands
- New Quests for Magni and the War Campaign
- Gnome and Tauren Heritage Armor
- Additional content for Professions and War Mode
- Do not expect many class changes in 8.2 outside of relatively small tuning (Tank balancing was mentioned)
- Mechagon and Nazjatar outdoor content will be fully available on day 1 (no portioning out a la Argus; or, Isle of Thunder)
- Season 3, including Mechagon Megadungeon and the Eternal Palace, is tentatively scheduled to open on week 2 or week 3 after the patch?!
- Pathfinder Part 2 will have rep requirements and achievement requirements from both new areas.
- Completing the Achievement will grant a flying mechanical parrot mount.
- Mount Equipment will be made by crafters and are destroyed when they are replaced
- Comfortable Rider’s Barding (Anti-daze)
- Inflatable Mount Shoes (Water Walking)
- Saddleshute (deployable parachute when dismounted)
- Mount Equipment is enabled after one character on the account reaches level 100 and then can be used by all characters on that account at level 20 or above.
- Water-striders will be losing innate water walking but anyone who owns the mount will be mailed a free Inflatable Mount Shoes item. The vendors who sold the water strider mounts will also give a large discount to player’s that earned that mount from them.
- Sky Golem still allows you to harvest while mounted; but, it DOESN’T benefit from equipment like the other mounts.
- No visuals for inflatable mount shoes or Rider’s Barding
- 8.2 will have:
- Heart of Azeroth
- Essence Slots unlocked as you gain HoA levels past 50. First unlocking a Major and then two Minor slots.
- Between the slots, there are extra stamina upgrades.
- Essences can be switched into these slots like PvP talents.
- Each Essence has a Major and Minor ability.
- When put into a minor slot only the minor ability is active.
- When in a major slot, BOTH the major and minor abilities are active.
- Major abilities are mostly active while minor abilities are passive.
- There are essences that can be used universally and there are tank, dps and healer specific essences.
- Essences come from specific activities and are not RNG drops for the first 3 ranks: Uncommon, Rare, Epic.
- Epic ranks are reported to become available to most players at a heroic raiding level or analogous difficulty.
- Rank 2 or 3 can be collected without previously obtaining earlier ranks.
- Legendary essences can have some RNG tied to their unlock process (Reputation Legendary is a chance from the Paragon Chest.)
- The criteria for the next rank is shown on the tooltip of the current rank you have.
- The ranks of essences will come from accomplishments in a particular activity. (ie: rep being locked behind friendly, honored, revered, exalted)
- Essences are treated like talents(and the UI is like the PvP talent pane).
- You can switch them out in any rested area or using a tome.
- They are not consumed on use but are unique equip.
- Getting Rank 4 Legendaries are not RNG based but gated behind top levels of content.
- New Azerite Traits from Azshara’s Eternal Palace and Mechagon Mega Dungeon.
- Mechagon
- Mechagon is relatively the same size as the Timeless Isle but not as vertical.
- No hard time-gating on Mechagon content.
- The core progression for Mechagon is building up the town of Rustbolt.
- Mechagon is closer to a classic grind with resources to collect. These resources are called Spare Parts and are donated to progress with the Rustbolt Rebellion.
- Spare Parts are collected from rares, limited availability quest that are not WQ, and other avenues.
- Spare Parts can be put towards a number of small projects as well as used as a pseudo currency for some features in the land.
- You should not easily come against the same soft cap that AP has in live when farming Spare Parts in Mechagon.
- Mechagon is billed to be more of a persistent area that has different events happening at different times.
- Mechagon is said to have the most secrets crammed into one area than anywhere before.
- Operation: Mechagon
- 8 Boss Mythic only Mega Dungeon
- King Gobbamak
- Gunker
- Trixie & Naemov
- H K-8 Aerial Oppression Unit
- Tussie Tonks
- KU-JO
- Machinist’s Keep
- King Mechagon
- Drops schematics for the punch-card modules for the trinket
- 8 Boss Mythic only Mega Dungeon
- Nazjatar
- Story quest will take place over the course of two weeks.
- Alliance meet a group of water warriors who have been hunted to near extinction levels and now live only to topple Azshara.
- Horde meet a group of former Naga slaves that have banded together to form the Unshackled.
- You will build up a base of operations and take 1 of 3 combat allies out into the area.
- Combat allies level up as you do various activities each having 30 levels and gaining unique abilities as you level them.
- You will also receive cosmetic rewards as you level your combat allies.
- World Quests in Nazjatar will be themed around Azshara.
- They will also be affected by affixes which should change the experience on the same WQ done at different times.
- Around the central hub there are several daily quest that are more traditional dailies.
- Azshara’s Eternal Palace
- 8 boss raid
- Naga Centaur
- Rage of Azshara
- Underwater Monstrosity
- Lady Priscilla Ashvane
- The Hatchery, featuring Zoatroid, Empowered Brute, Empowered Warrior
- Naga Council
- Herald of N’Zoth
- Queen Azshara
- The underwater boss is said to have platforms which you stand on and no issue with breathing.
- Swimming is used to get from one platform to the next as a transition and not needed during the core phases of the fight.
- Druid swim form will have an advantage here it seems.
- By the end of the raid, we will know who is the final boss of BfA.
- 8 boss raid
- https://www.twitch.tv/videos/409517953
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESs-7QXFFAo&feature=youtu.be
- https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/22956187/rise-of-azshara-preview-heart-of-azeroth-updates
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