FAZ 44 – “Timey-Whimey Things”

This week on FAZ, Joce and Manny take a look at some Warcraft beta news, take a look at the Pawn add-on, and discuss time travel in World of Warcraft. You can now join the conversation on the official For Azeroth Discord channel by heading to https://bit.ly/fazdiscord

Mythic 15+ Achievement  

The Keystone Master achievement will be permanent moving into BfA.

• you can unlock the artifact appearance connected with this achievement by completing a 15+ in BfA at 120.
• You have until August 14th to complete the Legion achievement at level 110
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Battle for Azeroth Comic

Issue #1 for Reunion is online and follows what Lady Jaina Proudmore has been doing since leaving the Kirin Tor.

• https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/story/comic/jaina-reunion
• 3 Reasons Why The Horde Needs Sylvanas as Warchief

Beta News

Sparkle, sparkle! This week’s patch has added another layer of shine to the beta as we near release. There was

• New Models
  • Elementals, Rainbow Grubs, Jaina’s new jewelry
  • New Mount Rewards for Warfronts and Island Expeditions
• Legion Prestige rewards have been put into the new BfA structure
  • Pacing is not the same, but if you already have a reward you will retain it after the expansion goes live.
  • Revised requirements to unlock the PvP tints
• Finalized UI for Azerite Gear
  • Leveling Gear has 3 tiers and Heroic Dungeon Gear has 4 tiers
• Tuning Changes to classes including Balance Druids, Protection Paladins, Discipline Priests, and Fury Warriors
• Mag’har Orcs and Dark Iron Dwarves behind War Campaign Reputation
• Pathfinder Part 1 Requirements
• New Models and More New Mounts
• PvP Restructure
• Azerite Gear UI
• Tuning Passes
• Pathfinder Part 1

Pawn

Pawn helps you find upgrades for your gear and tell which of two items is better for your spec.

• Comes with a bunch of presets from AMR
• Puts a number in your tooltip that shows both the overall value of the gear piece, as well as the percentage upgrade over what is currently equipped (if applicable)
• Scale
  • Allows you to choose which scales to show in tooltips
  • You can import or export, and create new scales here
• Weights
  • Shows you the weights assigned to each stat for each scale
• Compare
  • You can drop an item in this tab to get an in-depth look at where the upgrade numbers are coming from
• Gems
  • Gives two options, best gem available or gems for a specific item level
• Options
  • Choose between displaying only scale values, only % upgrade, or both
  • Change how upgrades are displayed (arrows in bags, green outline on tooltips)

Tips and Tricks

• Pawn is very widely used, so you can find stat weights and import strings quite easily
• You can generate your own stat weights on AMR by running a gearing strategy simulation, which is much more advanced but also specific to your character and currently equipped gear
  • Can also use Simulationcraft and Raidbots (covered in FAZ ep #36)
• Pawn will not work with Titan Panel Artifact Power or Combat Numbers Separator.

Links

• Pawn

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