April 9, 2025 • 28 mins
The Pig and Whistle Tales from Azeroth podcast dives deep into the upcoming World of Warcraft Patch 11.1.5 and Season of Discovery Phase 8, breaking down all the new content, changes, and rewards players can expect.
• Patch 11.1.5 releases April 22nd with content spread throughout until July 15th
• Nightfall Scenarios let players defend Arathi with the Flames Radiance faction for cosmetic rewards
• New UI improvements allow tracking class ability cooldowns without needing addons
• Horrific Visions return May 20th with a companion option for solo players and new masks
• Dastardly Duos event starting June 3rd features boss fights with scoring system and weekly rewards
• Season of Discovery Phase 8 introduces New Avalon, where players can infiltrate in disguise
• The new 8-boss Scarlet Enclave raid opens April 10th, designed to be challenging for Naxx-geared groups
• A legendary quest line begins in the raid, likely leading to the Ashbringer for hunters, warriors, and paladins
• Several quality-of-life improvements include reduced tier set costs and mysterious new secrets added
• Speculation continues about what happens after Phase 8 - possible reset or continuation
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Speaker 1 (00:45):
Thank you, hello and welcome to the Pig and Whistle
Tales from Azeroth.
As always here at the Pig andWhistle in Stormwind, I go for a
variety of subjects withregards to world of warcraft.
Pick up a bottle or a pint, sitback and enjoy this midweek
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episode.
We will be going over a fewbits and bobs.
We're going to be going overpatch 11.1.5 as well as phase 8
for season of discovery.
These are the two main piecesthat we're going to be looking
over and going into exactly whatthey entail, what's in them,
etc.
So, without further ado, wewill start with 11.1.5 because,
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um well, it's the shorter of thetwo.
I would say, um, this doesn'tmean that it doesn't have a lot
of content, but there is a lotto get through.
So, on april 22nd, which is therelease date of this patch,
which is really early, actually,it's a very quick 0.5 patch
release, which is good, by theway, I'm not gonna um question
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it.
I think that it's very goodthat it's a early patch release.
This means that we'retechnically halfway through the
patch when this releases, whichis amazing, um, but what we have
coming to this content isnightfall, uh, cooldown managers
, uh, winds of mysteriousfortune, horrific visions and
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dastardly duos.
These are the five main sort offeatures that you're going to
be seeing throughout this patch.
So with they all happen atdifferent times.
So nightfall and cooldownmanager is going to happen on
the release day.
From the release day to May20th you're going to have Winds
of Mysterious Fortune, and fromthe May 20th you're going to
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have Horrific Visions, and thenJune 3rd to July 15th you're
going to have Dastardly Duos.
Now July 15th is the the end ofthis patch, you would think,
because this is when, uh, thelast thing will run out.
So we're looking at the patchending mid july, um, which is
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really good because we actuallyget a good sort of idea of when
this patch will run to, and Ilike that.
They have spread out thecontent over the course of the
patch.
They haven't just front loadedit and then a lot of people
speed run it and inevitably justsay, oh, my god, blizz, where
is the content.
So I'm glad that they arespreading out this content.
So we'll start with nightfalland cooldown management.
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So the cooldown one is verysimple.
It's you can track classability cooldowns on the main ui
hub, which is really reallygood.
Now this main ui hub um isgoing to slowly be improved
throughout patches, and what Ialways think it is going to do
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is eventually take over from uh,what is it?
Add-ons within the game,because I use add-ons to track
ability cooldowns right now.
I think if I am able to do thison the base ui, I will be doing
so.
It's that simple.
Therefore, I will need to takeone less add-on when I like,
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load up the game essentially,which means that it's just
running more smoothly.
Um, so this is really good andthey will be constantly doing
these UI improvements.
Um, so yeah, it's going to justget better and better from here
on out with the UI improvements.
But the nightfall scenarios nowyou defend the Arathi in
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Nightfall Scenarios is what itsays here.
So Thais will take up armsbeside a new faction, flames
Radiance, to defend the Arathiagainst the Suraki forces
Following the defeat of QueenAnsarac.
This faction consists ofvolunteer militia-led veterans
Thade Pyremaker and MiltonWildbrun.
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Milton does not sound like amilitia leader, just saying as
you rise through the ranks, youwill earn up to 10 levels of
renown and unlock new rewards.
Alongside the Flame's Radiance,players will be split between
Task Force within the Nightfallpublic scenario to clear the
battlefield and push back theSurakai.
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You'll also be able to strikeback against the Surakai forces
throughout Hallowfall andAshkahet to continue to earn
renown and rewards withadditional quests and activities
available between scenarios.
So, firstly, there is a littlebit more, but I want to say what
I want to say.
I think this is really good.
This looks promising becausewhen the patch, when an
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expansion, drops, you obviouslyhave your zones, your main zones
, and these zones are good forthe start of the patch, but we
usually leave them um as weprogress the expansion and we
never really make use of themthroughout the expansion.
Um.
A good example of this isbattle for azeroth, where we had
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mechagon, we had nazjatar, allof these different places that
we went to and spent patchesthere, but they could have done
a lot more with you knowzandalar or cultiris or you know
these sort of places, um.
So I'm glad that they areputting these events in zones
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that are the original four zoneslike for the expansion, because
these expansion like or theseexpansion zones are very good,
hello fall being one of the bestones, in particular, from
recent memory.
So I'm glad that they are doingthis.
Players can expect a variety ofrewards for taking part in the
scenario and quests, includingnew armor sets, a tabard that
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will update visually as youprogress through the ranks.
That's cool of the flameirradiance weapons, a new color
variation of the Delvers atDirigible, and more as your rank
increases.
You can also expect to earnbuffs, which will help you
become stronger while inHallowfall and Ashkehet.
Okay, I'm a little bit worriedabout the buffs because if
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people do this and then go intowar mode, they're going to be
significantly strongerpotentially, but it's one of
them things.
It's not really going to makeor break the game.
Um, I like that.
They always just put cosmeticsbehind these things because it
allows people to if they want todo it.
If they don't want to, theydon't have to at all.
I will probably do it once ortwice and test it out, but again
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, it's not going to be my sortof thing doing these things.
Um, I'll do it every now andagain.
If it offers a bit of gold orsomething, you know, a bit of
fun, sure I'll do it.
But you know this is very pveorientated, these sort of
patches, in my opinion.
Um, I think this is going to bea really cool scenario.
I think that it's going to beone to look out for alongside
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the horrific visions again, butthis is very much open world pve
solo content for those thatwant to do this and, like I said
, with the cooldown management,this is going to be added
alongside it at the very startso you can toggle the view
option cooldown and buffs inseparate HUD elements.
If that selected,specialization, cooldown
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abilities will show upautomatically in the center of
our screen and include a visualcountdown of when your ability
is ready to use again.
So this is your abilitiescurrently To customize the
cooldown management.
Open the game menu, select editmode and then access the HUD
edit mode and select advancedoptions.
You can select it from there.
Access the HUD edit mode andselect advanced options.
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You can select it from there.
Again, you can adjust all ofthese different things cooldown
options, bar essential cooldowns, bar tracked buffs, bar tracked
bars by clicking on them andadjusting the visual elements to
your preference.
So this is really good.
They've made it reallycustomizable and basically a
very staple point element of theUI, something that is going to
improve it drastically, which isgood.
Now, 20th of May, is when we arerevisiting Horrific Visions.
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Now I don't know why we are.
Horrific Visions was somethingthat was brought into BFA, and
you went through Stormwind orOrgrimmar in a horrific vision
of it being taken over by an oldgod.
I'm very curious to see what itwill look like, because it's
going to be based on Zalatath.
Now, from my understanding, ormy guess anyway, I've not seen
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many versions of this.
So let's see Return to N'Zoth'scorrupted visions of Stormwind
and Orgrimmar, completeobjectives and take on
challenges with him.
As you make your way throughthese encounters, you'll need to
maintain your Turn to N'Zoth'scorruptive visions of Stormwind
and Orgrimmar, completeobjectives and take on
challenges within.
As you make your way throughthese encounters, you'll need to
maintain your sanity orultimately fail.
You will be able to go alone orcreate a party of allies to
join you.
Those who want to experiencehorrific visions alone or need
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an additional helping hand intheir party will also be able to
invite a construct of hersoradormi companion to join them
.
This follower will be able totank dps and heal and will not
be infected by sanity.
So this is your brand bronzebeard for horrific visions.
I'm glad that they've added this, because some people find it a
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bit more difficult to navigatethese um um sort of horrific
visions, and some people do needthe help with playing the game
and that's not me shitting onthem saying that you know
they're worse at the game, thatis like just honestly.
Some people do need more helpwhen playing the game, whether
it be due to a skill issue.
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Some people might just play itvery casually and might not have
enough time to play, which isfair enough.
Some people might not be ableto because they might be limited
in how they can play.
Maybe they have trouble seeingor literally can't play like for
long periods of time, or, youknow, there's many different
factors that can come into this.
So I'm really glad that theyare putting a follower in these
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horrific visions for more casual, friendly people.
I think that it's really goodand I don't see a downside to it
.
I really don't.
I think it's such a goodaddition for players looking for
a bigger challenge.
You'll be able to activatehigher difficulties to play for.
Additional gear up to heroicdifficulty items.
Horrific vision masks are alsoreturning, including Mask of
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Pain, mask of Dark Imagination,mask of Long Night, burned
Bridge and Daredevil I'm notgoing to say Mask of five times.
Three additional new masksVengeance, multitudes and
Nemesis will also be availableto discover and conquer.
So, for those of you that don'tknow, you can collect these
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masks and you can activate thesemasks however many you want
before you go into this horrificvision, and each mask will have
a different effect, applianceapplication, it will have a
different use when you use itand it will change the horrific
visions for better or worseusually for worse, from what I
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remember, um, but it means thatyou get more rewards at the end,
etc.
Etc.
Um, a new currency to collectbecomes available to spend at a
vendor for new and previousrewards.
Despite displacedplaced tocorrupted mementos, players will
be able to earn the new andreturning rewards in Horrific
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Visions, such as mounts, toys,transmogs, weapon enchants and
more, whether you're playing itto new max-level alternate
character or experience it fromthe first time.
You can experience this contentshortly after the launch of the
patch, which is really good.
Now, horrific visions weren'tthe worst thing, but they
weren't the best.
You were forced to do them,which, when you're forced to do
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something in world of warcraft,it is never enjoyable, and
that's the problem, um, so Idon't think you're going to be
forced to do this at all.
I think that the trinkets thatthey give, these corrupted
trinkets and these corruptedpieces are going to proc, but I
think that they are heavilynerfed, okay, so it's not going
to be like you need this.
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It's going to be more like oh,I got a corrupted piece, this
will help my damage by 0.5percent.
You know something like that.
They are very cool visualeffects, by the way, the
corrupted gear that's the reasonyou want them, because they
look so cool.
The way that they bring downbeams from the sky or spikes
from the ground, stuff like thisit's really cool.
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Um, but yeah, as of the week ofjune 3rd, you have something
called dastardly duos.
Now, dastardly duos I've goneover before, but, um, you'll be
able to experience a newsix-week event providing a
variety of cosmetics, toys andeven some dungeon items based on
your bosses, uh, that youencounter.
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Vinnie sweets, showrunner andannouncer, is promoting
dastardly duos, where playerscan step up and take on
animatronic versions of pastbosses.
Game power-ups must strive forhigher and higher scores for
bragging rights.
You and your party will fighttwo or more bosses at a time to
rack up your highest score.
There will be three hubs fordastardly duos that can be
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visited One in Stormwind, one inOrgrimmar and one in Dornagul
While Vinny Sweet is running theshow.
You'll need to speak with ZiggyMaru To queue for the fight.
In the dastardly dome, a visitwith Wadden, the troll servant
vendor.
You will also get access overthe weeks Of some additional
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power ups or items that can beused to help you in fights.
In one week there will be fourbosses available to fight and
each week thereafter additionalbosses will be added to keep a
total of 10 bosses to face.
Earning specific achievementswill also provide additional
game effects for them withinDastardly Duos.
Earn points for kills, damagedone and more.
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Rack up a high score with yourparty for bragging rights and
see how far you can go.
We look forward to sharing theadventures.
Yeah, so this is essentiallyyou jump into a kind of arena
setting with your friend or witha random and you're basically
going to be um, doing damage,killing bosses as fast and as
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effective as you can, and thiswill give you a certain score,
and this score will eventuallyequate to a currency or
something to give uh, cosmeticsor you know multiple bits and
bobs from it, and you can.
I would imagine they're goingto put a leaderboard in this,
from what I can see withbragging rights, so we just have
to see.
With that, I'm pretty sure itwould be quite cool if there is
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a leaderboard, but it seems likethat's what they're going with
at the start anyway.
So if you really are someonewho wants to push it to the sort
of very limits and to try andget the biggest score that you
can, this is probably somethingthat you and a friend can join
in and hop into, which is reallycool.
Now, that is it for patch 1.1.5or 11.1.5.
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That is releasing on the 22ndof April and this content will
be spread out until the 15th ofJuly.
So 15th of July is when we'relooking at patch 11.2, which
will be really, really cool.
As for Phase 8, phase 8 droppedtoday if you're EU, yesterday
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if you're NA, as of listening tothis podcast, and here is what
this entails.
So you have a new area callednew avalon, so you can go behind
enemy lines in disguise as youinfiltrate the town of new
avalon within the scarletenclave prior to the events that
transpire within the raid.
This is a small, craftingfocused town with access to a
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few common city services, suchas a bank, a neutral auction
house and an alchemy lab.
To navigate new avalon inrelative safety.
All armor crafting professionswill have access to eight new
recipes for their retrospectivearmor types.
Most of the new recipes dropfrom Crusaders local to the area
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, while a few can only beacquired from Scarlet Enclave
Raid itself.
These recipes and items theycreate can be bought, sold and
traded.
Once you have access and acomplete gathering intelligence
from a Scarlet InquisitorCalderan at the scarlet base
camp west of tears hand, you'llgain access to the quest new
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avalon and receive a scarletinsignia which can be used
alongside four of the crafteditems to blend in with the
townsfolk of new avalon whiledisguised.
Most of the residents arefriendly to you and a few among
them even have new quests foryou to get, such as profession
recipes, such as bigger bags,cooking feasts and more.
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This is really cool.
Be aware when mingling withcitizens, however, scarlet
bloodhounds will not be fooledby your disguise and crusaders
are determined to ensure thatintruders do not live to see.
Tomorrow, brian steel blade, thescarlet quartermaster, will
offer a weekly quest to eithercraft or donate equipment in
exchange for a scarlet junk box.
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No idea what's in these junkboxes?
Oh, these boxes containtarnished, undermined reels and
a variety of useful craftingmaterials.
Additionally, they containjostled chalice fragments which,
upon collecting enough, can bereformed into a crusader's
chalice to be traded with piecesof crafted disguise gear for
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class tier set pieces.
This is really cool.
Inside the town of new avalon,there is a armistice buff in
place that will prevent playersfrom engaging in pvp combat.
This makes sense because ifyou're in disguise, you
obviously get hit.
Uh, the disguise will fall off.
So you don't want that.
It's just a way of griefing.
It's one of them things.
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Now, new avalon is going to belocated in tears hand, so you go
to the back of, or you go to,eastern plaguelands.
You go to the bottom right ofeastern plaguelands and there is
something called tears hand.
You go to the very back oftears hand, there's a giant
cathedral.
You go to the bottom right ofEastern Plaguelands and there is
something called Tear's Hand.
You go to the very back ofTear's Hand, there's a giant
cathedral.
You go to the left of thiscathedral and this is the
entrance to New Avalon.
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They've actually opened it up.
This is basically where theWrath of the Lich King you know
DK's quest zone starts.
They've opened that up andthey've put that into the game
for classic, which is reallycool, by the way, I love it that
you have to.
You can get disguises.
I love that you can get newrecipes.
Um, I love that.
You just have to kill thesenpcs as well to get recipes as
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well as talk to them, do questsand such.
I think that this is reallycool and something that is now
unique to Season of Discovery.
Alongside Karazhan Crypts, whichis really, really cool, there
is a new raid dungeon, theScarlet Enclave.
This raid will be opened onThursday, april 10th, so
tomorrow, and it will beavailable for all players to
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enter.
So to enter this raid, theentrance can be found near the
Scarlet Base Camp west of TearsHand.
This is just.
There's a river just south orjust west of Tears Hand, it's
just south of there.
There is no attunement orprerequisite quest needed to
enter the raid, but they dorecommend progressing.
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The quest line started byBartholomew the Revered at
Light's Hope Chapel prior toentering the Scarlet Enclave has
8 bosses and is designed for 20people.
The raid instance accepts up to40 people, which is very good.
This is sticking with howthey've done it in the past.
The Scarlet Enclave raid has asingle difficulty mode and is
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tuned to be a significant fororganized groups in naxramas
level gear.
So I really hope that it isactually quite challenging for
people.
I really really do, becausethat's all I want from season of
discovery, where it's like, ohfuck, that's actually quite
difficult.
Um, so a developer note here asthe first all new raid in
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original WoW setting, we felt itwas appropriate for the Scarlet
Enclave to present a challengefor those who have progressed
significantly in previous raidtiers.
This is a slight departure fromthe previous approach to raid
content, but we hope for thiscontent to have a significant
progression arc for most raidgroups.
We will watch progress closelyand will make adjustments as
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needed if there are anysignificant outliers in terms of
difficulty, and we have built amechanism to allow us to reduce
the difficulty progressively,similar to the toggleable raid
buffs presented in ice crowncitadel in wrath of the lich
king.
We have no plans to turn thison right now, but we may elect
to enable it in the future.
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That's really good.
I'm really glad to hear that.
So if people can't catch upwith gear, this is the best way
to do it.
You can just yeah, we'll givethem a little bit of a damage
buff to compensate for the badgear that this new character is
bringing kind of deal, which isfair enough.
Now, new legendary quest linethe ray groups, progressive
through the scarlet enclave, mayencounter a ruined light forge
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blade a legendary quest item asa drop from a certain boss
encounter.
This item is a quest starterfor legendary weapon quest lines
.
Now you, this quest line isbasically for hunters, warriors
and paladins.
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Very simple, now this is justthe Ashbringer.
It is the Ashbringer.
It's obviously the Ashbringer.
There's no doubt about it.
We know that.
There's been so many data minestuff about it.
I'll be very curious to seejust how this quest line is done
.
I think it will be so cool tosee the actual ashbringer in
game in classic world ofwarcraft.
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I think that's going to be ahighlight for a lot of people,
as well as a few other changesto uh the system or classic wow
as a whole or sod.
The contents of the supplycrates that you can get from the
tarnished reels have changed.
There are several of the lessdesirable materials out of this
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cache and more desirablematerials replacing them.
You can now get blackwing lairweapons, like class specific
weapons, from tarnished,undermined reels.
This is 150 of them.
Uh, karazhan crypts no longerrequires the introductory quest
line to complete.
To enter the karazhan curiosstill requires the crypts quest
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line to be completed in order tobe handed in for the rewards.
The number of tarnished reelsthat you can get in karazhan and
demonfall canyons has beenincreased.
You you have Uncaraj and Naxxtier sets have been reduced by
50% roughly.
The cost of Naxxramas tierrings has been reduced by 3 or 7
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Arcane Crystals it is 3 now andit was 10.
World buffs can't be used inBattlegrounds as well as world
buff consumables can no longerbe used used in battlegrounds as
well as world buff consumablescan no longer be used while
inside battlegrounds.
A new graveyard has been addedto new avalon in the eastern
plaguelands.
Any players that die in tearshand or new avalon should
resurrect there and be able toutilize the drained blood debuff
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from the blood moon slashblackrock eruptions event to
quickly recover their corpse.
That's kind of cool.
Mysterious new secrets havebeen added to the game.
World happy hunting.
That one's curious.
I love that.
I love that they add these likelittle secrets that are in the
game.
It's so cool.
Um, and then a couple smallchanges that aren't really too
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crazy, but I'm really glad thatthey are constantly looking at
balance changes and justupdating season of discovery a
lot.
We do not know what ishappening after season or phase
eight, though, and that's whatworries a lot of people who play
season of discovery.
Will it just not get updates?
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Will it just die out?
Will it merge with Classic?
Who knows what can happen, Iimagine.
I think that it's a greatproduct and I would say that
they go to Phase 10, because 10is a nice round number and then
they say great, I'm so glad thateveryone loved it, we'll
restart again.
Yeah, because, let's face it,that's what classic players like
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.
Some people might not like that, but they can restart it and
they can fully do a full seasonof discovery.
They don't do molten core, theydon't do blackwing, lair or nax
or aq.
They do a full fledged seasonof discovery.
Like everything, new raid wise,end game content wise.
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So karazhan crypts, demonfallcanyon can stay, because they
are new content.
You can have the scarletenclave as your first raid and
then you can have like fromthere.
You can do a second raid, athird raid.
You know you can do a giantstratholme raid.
Instead, you can do a high gelraid.
You can oh god, we've done ahigh gel raid.
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You can do high gel there.
You know you can do whatever.
Um, you can revamp azhara andmake that an entire raid
instance.
You know there's multiplethings that you can do with
Season of Discovery, but we'llsee.
Because in Azshara there's agiant furbow gate.
Do people know about this?
There is a giant gate in thenorth of Azshara that not many
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people know about and you canhave that as a raid entrance and
do that as a sort of giant cavesystem or like a labyrinth raid
.
There's multiple things thatyou can do with it.
Um, but I think that's whereseason of discovery will go.
I think that it will reset atone point that more people can
get into it.
That's my honest opinion.
Um, it really is.
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But that is where I will end itfor this episode today.
Thank you all very much forwatching.
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But yeah, thank you all verymuch once again, and go aval, a
friend, goodbye all, thank you.
Thank you, hello and welcome to the Pig and Whistle
Tales from Azeroth.
As always here at the Pig andWhistle in Stormwind, I go for a
variety of subjects withregards to world of warcraft.
Pick up a bottle or a pint, sitback and enjoy this midweek
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episode.
We will be going over a fewbits and bobs.
We're going to be going overpatch 11.1.5 as well as phase 8
for season of discovery.
These are the two main piecesthat we're going to be looking
over and going into exactly whatthey entail, what's in them,
etc.
So, without further ado, wewill start with 11.1.5 because,
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um well, it's the shorter of thetwo.
I would say, um, this doesn'tmean that it doesn't have a lot
of content, but there is a lotto get through.
So, on april 22nd, which is therelease date of this patch,
which is really early, actually,it's a very quick 0.5 patch
release, which is good, by theway, I'm not gonna um question
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it.
I think that it's very goodthat it's a early patch release.
This means that we'retechnically halfway through the
patch when this releases, whichis amazing, um, but what we have
coming to this content isnightfall, uh, cooldown managers
, uh, winds of mysteriousfortune, horrific visions and
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dastardly duos.
These are the five main sort offeatures that you're going to
be seeing throughout this patch.
So with they all happen atdifferent times.
So nightfall and cooldownmanager is going to happen on
the release day.
From the release day to May20th you're going to have Winds
of Mysterious Fortune, and fromthe May 20th you're going to
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have Horrific Visions, and thenJune 3rd to July 15th you're
going to have Dastardly Duos.
Now July 15th is the the end ofthis patch, you would think,
because this is when, uh, thelast thing will run out.
So we're looking at the patchending mid july, um, which is
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really good because we actuallyget a good sort of idea of when
this patch will run to, and Ilike that.
They have spread out thecontent over the course of the
patch.
They haven't just front loadedit and then a lot of people
speed run it and inevitably justsay, oh, my god, blizz, where
is the content.
So I'm glad that they arespreading out this content.
So we'll start with nightfalland cooldown management.
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So the cooldown one is verysimple.
It's you can track classability cooldowns on the main ui
hub, which is really reallygood.
Now this main ui hub um isgoing to slowly be improved
throughout patches, and what Ialways think it is going to do
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is eventually take over from uh,what is it?
Add-ons within the game,because I use add-ons to track
ability cooldowns right now.
I think if I am able to do thison the base ui, I will be doing
so.
It's that simple.
Therefore, I will need to takeone less add-on when I like,
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load up the game essentially,which means that it's just
running more smoothly.
Um, so this is really good andthey will be constantly doing
these UI improvements.
Um, so yeah, it's going to justget better and better from here
on out with the UI improvements.
But the nightfall scenarios nowyou defend the Arathi in
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Nightfall Scenarios is what itsays here.
So Thais will take up armsbeside a new faction, flames
Radiance, to defend the Arathiagainst the Suraki forces
Following the defeat of QueenAnsarac.
This faction consists ofvolunteer militia-led veterans
Thade Pyremaker and MiltonWildbrun.
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Milton does not sound like amilitia leader, just saying as
you rise through the ranks, youwill earn up to 10 levels of
renown and unlock new rewards.
Alongside the Flame's Radiance,players will be split between
Task Force within the Nightfallpublic scenario to clear the
battlefield and push back theSurakai.
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You'll also be able to strikeback against the Surakai forces
throughout Hallowfall andAshkahet to continue to earn
renown and rewards withadditional quests and activities
available between scenarios.
So, firstly, there is a littlebit more, but I want to say what
I want to say.
I think this is really good.
This looks promising becausewhen the patch, when an
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expansion, drops, you obviouslyhave your zones, your main zones
, and these zones are good forthe start of the patch, but we
usually leave them um as weprogress the expansion and we
never really make use of themthroughout the expansion.
Um.
A good example of this isbattle for azeroth, where we had
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mechagon, we had nazjatar, allof these different places that
we went to and spent patchesthere, but they could have done
a lot more with you knowzandalar or cultiris or you know
these sort of places, um.
So I'm glad that they areputting these events in zones
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that are the original four zoneslike for the expansion, because
these expansion like or theseexpansion zones are very good,
hello fall being one of the bestones, in particular, from
recent memory.
So I'm glad that they are doingthis.
Players can expect a variety ofrewards for taking part in the
scenario and quests, includingnew armor sets, a tabard that
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will update visually as youprogress through the ranks.
That's cool of the flameirradiance weapons, a new color
variation of the Delvers atDirigible, and more as your rank
increases.
You can also expect to earnbuffs, which will help you
become stronger while inHallowfall and Ashkehet.
Okay, I'm a little bit worriedabout the buffs because if
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people do this and then go intowar mode, they're going to be
significantly strongerpotentially, but it's one of
them things.
It's not really going to makeor break the game.
Um, I like that.
They always just put cosmeticsbehind these things because it
allows people to if they want todo it.
If they don't want to, theydon't have to at all.
I will probably do it once ortwice and test it out, but again
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, it's not going to be my sortof thing doing these things.
Um, I'll do it every now andagain.
If it offers a bit of gold orsomething, you know, a bit of
fun, sure I'll do it.
But you know this is very pveorientated, these sort of
patches, in my opinion.
Um, I think this is going to bea really cool scenario.
I think that it's going to beone to look out for alongside
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the horrific visions again, butthis is very much open world pve
solo content for those thatwant to do this and, like I said
, with the cooldown management,this is going to be added
alongside it at the very startso you can toggle the view
option cooldown and buffs inseparate HUD elements.
If that selected,specialization, cooldown
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abilities will show upautomatically in the center of
our screen and include a visualcountdown of when your ability
is ready to use again.
So this is your abilitiescurrently To customize the
cooldown management.
Open the game menu, select editmode and then access the HUD
edit mode and select advancedoptions.
You can select it from there.
Access the HUD edit mode andselect advanced options.
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You can select it from there.
Again, you can adjust all ofthese different things cooldown
options, bar essential cooldowns, bar tracked buffs, bar tracked
bars by clicking on them andadjusting the visual elements to
your preference.
So this is really good.
They've made it reallycustomizable and basically a
very staple point element of theUI, something that is going to
improve it drastically, which isgood.
Now, 20th of May, is when we arerevisiting Horrific Visions.
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Now I don't know why we are.
Horrific Visions was somethingthat was brought into BFA, and
you went through Stormwind orOrgrimmar in a horrific vision
of it being taken over by an oldgod.
I'm very curious to see what itwill look like, because it's
going to be based on Zalatath.
Now, from my understanding, ormy guess anyway, I've not seen
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many versions of this.
So let's see Return to N'Zoth'scorrupted visions of Stormwind
and Orgrimmar, completeobjectives and take on
challenges with him.
As you make your way throughthese encounters, you'll need to
maintain your Turn to N'Zoth'scorruptive visions of Stormwind
and Orgrimmar, completeobjectives and take on
challenges within.
As you make your way throughthese encounters, you'll need to
maintain your sanity orultimately fail.
You will be able to go alone orcreate a party of allies to
join you.
Those who want to experiencehorrific visions alone or need
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an additional helping hand intheir party will also be able to
invite a construct of hersoradormi companion to join them
.
This follower will be able totank dps and heal and will not
be infected by sanity.
So this is your brand bronzebeard for horrific visions.
I'm glad that they've added this, because some people find it a
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bit more difficult to navigatethese um um sort of horrific
visions, and some people do needthe help with playing the game
and that's not me shitting onthem saying that you know
they're worse at the game, thatis like just honestly.
Some people do need more helpwhen playing the game, whether
it be due to a skill issue.
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Some people might just play itvery casually and might not have
enough time to play, which isfair enough.
Some people might not be ableto because they might be limited
in how they can play.
Maybe they have trouble seeingor literally can't play like for
long periods of time, or, youknow, there's many different
factors that can come into this.
So I'm really glad that theyare putting a follower in these
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horrific visions for more casual, friendly people.
I think that it's really goodand I don't see a downside to it
.
I really don't.
I think it's such a goodaddition for players looking for
a bigger challenge.
You'll be able to activatehigher difficulties to play for.
Additional gear up to heroicdifficulty items.
Horrific vision masks are alsoreturning, including Mask of
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Pain, mask of Dark Imagination,mask of Long Night, burned
Bridge and Daredevil I'm notgoing to say Mask of five times.
Three additional new masksVengeance, multitudes and
Nemesis will also be availableto discover and conquer.
So, for those of you that don'tknow, you can collect these
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masks and you can activate thesemasks however many you want
before you go into this horrificvision, and each mask will have
a different effect, applianceapplication, it will have a
different use when you use itand it will change the horrific
visions for better or worseusually for worse, from what I
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remember, um, but it means thatyou get more rewards at the end,
etc.
Etc.
Um, a new currency to collectbecomes available to spend at a
vendor for new and previousrewards.
Despite displacedplaced tocorrupted mementos, players will
be able to earn the new andreturning rewards in Horrific
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Visions, such as mounts, toys,transmogs, weapon enchants and
more, whether you're playing itto new max-level alternate
character or experience it fromthe first time.
You can experience this contentshortly after the launch of the
patch, which is really good.
Now, horrific visions weren'tthe worst thing, but they
weren't the best.
You were forced to do them,which, when you're forced to do
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something in world of warcraft,it is never enjoyable, and
that's the problem, um, so Idon't think you're going to be
forced to do this at all.
I think that the trinkets thatthey give, these corrupted
trinkets and these corruptedpieces are going to proc, but I
think that they are heavilynerfed, okay, so it's not going
to be like you need this.
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It's going to be more like oh,I got a corrupted piece, this
will help my damage by 0.5percent.
You know something like that.
They are very cool visualeffects, by the way, the
corrupted gear that's the reasonyou want them, because they
look so cool.
The way that they bring downbeams from the sky or spikes
from the ground, stuff like thisit's really cool.
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Um, but yeah, as of the week ofjune 3rd, you have something
called dastardly duos.
Now, dastardly duos I've goneover before, but, um, you'll be
able to experience a newsix-week event providing a
variety of cosmetics, toys andeven some dungeon items based on
your bosses, uh, that youencounter.
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Vinnie sweets, showrunner andannouncer, is promoting
dastardly duos, where playerscan step up and take on
animatronic versions of pastbosses.
Game power-ups must strive forhigher and higher scores for
bragging rights.
You and your party will fighttwo or more bosses at a time to
rack up your highest score.
There will be three hubs fordastardly duos that can be
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visited One in Stormwind, one inOrgrimmar and one in Dornagul
While Vinny Sweet is running theshow.
You'll need to speak with ZiggyMaru To queue for the fight.
In the dastardly dome, a visitwith Wadden, the troll servant
vendor.
You will also get access overthe weeks Of some additional
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power ups or items that can beused to help you in fights.
In one week there will be fourbosses available to fight and
each week thereafter additionalbosses will be added to keep a
total of 10 bosses to face.
Earning specific achievementswill also provide additional
game effects for them withinDastardly Duos.
Earn points for kills, damagedone and more.
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Rack up a high score with yourparty for bragging rights and
see how far you can go.
We look forward to sharing theadventures.
Yeah, so this is essentiallyyou jump into a kind of arena
setting with your friend or witha random and you're basically
going to be um, doing damage,killing bosses as fast and as
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effective as you can, and thiswill give you a certain score,
and this score will eventuallyequate to a currency or
something to give uh, cosmeticsor you know multiple bits and
bobs from it, and you can.
I would imagine they're goingto put a leaderboard in this,
from what I can see withbragging rights, so we just have
to see.
With that, I'm pretty sure itwould be quite cool if there is
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a leaderboard, but it seems likethat's what they're going with
at the start anyway.
So if you really are someonewho wants to push it to the sort
of very limits and to try andget the biggest score that you
can, this is probably somethingthat you and a friend can join
in and hop into, which is reallycool.
Now, that is it for patch 1.1.5or 11.1.5.
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That is releasing on the 22ndof April and this content will
be spread out until the 15th ofJuly.
So 15th of July is when we'relooking at patch 11.2, which
will be really, really cool.
As for Phase 8, phase 8 droppedtoday if you're EU, yesterday
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if you're NA, as of listening tothis podcast, and here is what
this entails.
So you have a new area callednew avalon, so you can go behind
enemy lines in disguise as youinfiltrate the town of new
avalon within the scarletenclave prior to the events that
transpire within the raid.
This is a small, craftingfocused town with access to a
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few common city services, suchas a bank, a neutral auction
house and an alchemy lab.
To navigate new avalon inrelative safety.
All armor crafting professionswill have access to eight new
recipes for their retrospectivearmor types.
Most of the new recipes dropfrom Crusaders local to the area
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, while a few can only beacquired from Scarlet Enclave
Raid itself.
These recipes and items theycreate can be bought, sold and
traded.
Once you have access and acomplete gathering intelligence
from a Scarlet InquisitorCalderan at the scarlet base
camp west of tears hand, you'llgain access to the quest new
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avalon and receive a scarletinsignia which can be used
alongside four of the crafteditems to blend in with the
townsfolk of new avalon whiledisguised.
Most of the residents arefriendly to you and a few among
them even have new quests foryou to get, such as profession
recipes, such as bigger bags,cooking feasts and more.
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This is really cool.
Be aware when mingling withcitizens, however, scarlet
bloodhounds will not be fooledby your disguise and crusaders
are determined to ensure thatintruders do not live to see.
Tomorrow, brian steel blade, thescarlet quartermaster, will
offer a weekly quest to eithercraft or donate equipment in
exchange for a scarlet junk box.
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No idea what's in these junkboxes?
Oh, these boxes containtarnished, undermined reels and
a variety of useful craftingmaterials.
Additionally, they containjostled chalice fragments which,
upon collecting enough, can bereformed into a crusader's
chalice to be traded with piecesof crafted disguise gear for
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class tier set pieces.
This is really cool.
Inside the town of new avalon,there is a armistice buff in
place that will prevent playersfrom engaging in pvp combat.
This makes sense because ifyou're in disguise, you
obviously get hit.
Uh, the disguise will fall off.
So you don't want that.
It's just a way of griefing.
It's one of them things.
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Now, new avalon is going to belocated in tears hand, so you go
to the back of, or you go to,eastern plaguelands.
You go to the bottom right ofeastern plaguelands and there is
something called tears hand.
You go to the very back oftears hand, there's a giant
cathedral.
You go to the bottom right ofEastern Plaguelands and there is
something called Tear's Hand.
You go to the very back ofTear's Hand, there's a giant
cathedral.
You go to the left of thiscathedral and this is the
entrance to New Avalon.
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They've actually opened it up.
This is basically where theWrath of the Lich King you know
DK's quest zone starts.
They've opened that up andthey've put that into the game
for classic, which is reallycool, by the way, I love it that
you have to.
You can get disguises.
I love that you can get newrecipes.
Um, I love that.
You just have to kill thesenpcs as well to get recipes as
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well as talk to them, do questsand such.
I think that this is reallycool and something that is now
unique to Season of Discovery.
Alongside Karazhan Crypts, whichis really, really cool, there
is a new raid dungeon, theScarlet Enclave.
This raid will be opened onThursday, april 10th, so
tomorrow, and it will beavailable for all players to
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enter.
So to enter this raid, theentrance can be found near the
Scarlet Base Camp west of TearsHand.
This is just.
There's a river just south orjust west of Tears Hand, it's
just south of there.
There is no attunement orprerequisite quest needed to
enter the raid, but they dorecommend progressing.
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The quest line started byBartholomew the Revered at
Light's Hope Chapel prior toentering the Scarlet Enclave has
8 bosses and is designed for 20people.
The raid instance accepts up to40 people, which is very good.
This is sticking with howthey've done it in the past.
The Scarlet Enclave raid has asingle difficulty mode and is
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tuned to be a significant fororganized groups in naxramas
level gear.
So I really hope that it isactually quite challenging for
people.
I really really do, becausethat's all I want from season of
discovery, where it's like, ohfuck, that's actually quite
difficult.
Um, so a developer note here asthe first all new raid in
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original WoW setting, we felt itwas appropriate for the Scarlet
Enclave to present a challengefor those who have progressed
significantly in previous raidtiers.
This is a slight departure fromthe previous approach to raid
content, but we hope for thiscontent to have a significant
progression arc for most raidgroups.
We will watch progress closelyand will make adjustments as
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needed if there are anysignificant outliers in terms of
difficulty, and we have built amechanism to allow us to reduce
the difficulty progressively,similar to the toggleable raid
buffs presented in ice crowncitadel in wrath of the lich
king.
We have no plans to turn thison right now, but we may elect
to enable it in the future.
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That's really good.
I'm really glad to hear that.
So if people can't catch upwith gear, this is the best way
to do it.
You can just yeah, we'll givethem a little bit of a damage
buff to compensate for the badgear that this new character is
bringing kind of deal, which isfair enough.
Now, new legendary quest linethe ray groups, progressive
through the scarlet enclave, mayencounter a ruined light forge
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blade a legendary quest item asa drop from a certain boss
encounter.
This item is a quest starterfor legendary weapon quest lines
.
Now you, this quest line isbasically for hunters, warriors
and paladins.
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Very simple, now this is justthe Ashbringer.
It is the Ashbringer.
It's obviously the Ashbringer.
There's no doubt about it.
We know that.
There's been so many data minestuff about it.
I'll be very curious to seejust how this quest line is done
.
I think it will be so cool tosee the actual ashbringer in
game in classic world ofwarcraft.
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I think that's going to be ahighlight for a lot of people,
as well as a few other changesto uh the system or classic wow
as a whole or sod.
The contents of the supplycrates that you can get from the
tarnished reels have changed.
There are several of the lessdesirable materials out of this
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cache and more desirablematerials replacing them.
You can now get blackwing lairweapons, like class specific
weapons, from tarnished,undermined reels.
This is 150 of them.
Uh, karazhan crypts no longerrequires the introductory quest
line to complete.
To enter the karazhan curiosstill requires the crypts quest
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line to be completed in order tobe handed in for the rewards.
The number of tarnished reelsthat you can get in karazhan and
demonfall canyons has beenincreased.
You you have Uncaraj and Naxxtier sets have been reduced by
50% roughly.
The cost of Naxxramas tierrings has been reduced by 3 or 7
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Arcane Crystals it is 3 now andit was 10.
World buffs can't be used inBattlegrounds as well as world
buff consumables can no longerbe used used in battlegrounds as
well as world buff consumablescan no longer be used while
inside battlegrounds.
A new graveyard has been addedto new avalon in the eastern
plaguelands.
Any players that die in tearshand or new avalon should
resurrect there and be able toutilize the drained blood debuff
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from the blood moon slashblackrock eruptions event to
quickly recover their corpse.
That's kind of cool.
Mysterious new secrets havebeen added to the game.
World happy hunting.
That one's curious.
I love that.
I love that they add these likelittle secrets that are in the
game.
It's so cool.
Um, and then a couple smallchanges that aren't really too
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crazy, but I'm really glad thatthey are constantly looking at
balance changes and justupdating season of discovery a
lot.
We do not know what ishappening after season or phase
eight, though, and that's whatworries a lot of people who play
season of discovery.
Will it just not get updates?
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Will it just die out?
Will it merge with Classic?
Who knows what can happen, Iimagine.
I think that it's a greatproduct and I would say that
they go to Phase 10, because 10is a nice round number and then
they say great, I'm so glad thateveryone loved it, we'll
restart again.
Yeah, because, let's face it,that's what classic players like
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.
Some people might not like that, but they can restart it and
they can fully do a full seasonof discovery.
They don't do molten core, theydon't do blackwing, lair or nax
or aq.
They do a full fledged seasonof discovery.
Like everything, new raid wise,end game content wise.
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So karazhan crypts, demonfallcanyon can stay, because they
are new content.
You can have the scarletenclave as your first raid and
then you can have like fromthere.
You can do a second raid, athird raid.
You know you can do a giantstratholme raid.
Instead, you can do a high gelraid.
You can oh god, we've done ahigh gel raid.
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You can do high gel there.
You know you can do whatever.
Um, you can revamp azhara andmake that an entire raid
instance.
You know there's multiplethings that you can do with
Season of Discovery, but we'llsee.
Because in Azshara there's agiant furbow gate.
Do people know about this?
There is a giant gate in thenorth of Azshara that not many
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people know about and you canhave that as a raid entrance and
do that as a sort of giant cavesystem or like a labyrinth raid
.
There's multiple things thatyou can do with it.
Um, but I think that's whereseason of discovery will go.
I think that it will reset atone point that more people can
get into it.
That's my honest opinion.
Um, it really is.
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But that is where I will end itfor this episode today.
Thank you all very much forwatching.
Do check out all of the socialsdown below.
Constant stuff happening aswell as the etsy got multiple
things that going up thereconstantly and I will be late
live later today on youtube.
There will be links down below,so do check it out.
I'm going to be competing inawc um later on.
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That is, uh, I believe six uh,gmt or CT.
I forget the um, it's, it's BST, I think.
I think we're in summertime, sosix BST, seven CET, um, cest
for Europeans.
Um, do come check it out.
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We will be live.
We'll just be having funkicking, kicking the shit,
having fun, um.
But yeah, thank you all verymuch once again, and go aval, a
friend, goodbye all, thank you.
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