The Battle or
Dazar’alor and a New Affix
At BlizzCon 2018, developers announced that the raid named Battle or Dazar’alor would be included
in Patch 8.1. This is because they want guilds to play current raids as much as
possible. With no new raid instances for this patch, it’s safe to assume that
there will be no item level cap increase as well. That means players don’t have
to worry about falling behind until the next update is released.
Another thing they have also postponed until the next patch
is the Mythic +, AKA seasonal affix
for season 2, “Reaping”. While the
season 1 affix, Infested, puts a Ghun’s parasite inside non-boss enemies,
the 2ndseason’would cause all dead enemies to rise up and swarm the
adventuring party every time they finish a 20% portion of the dungeon.
Next Season of PVP
Speaking of season 2, the next season of PVP will be released
in January. This is a good decision on Blizzard’s part but some players
disagree, as they believe that it could cause a few balance issues.
A poster in Battle.net forums even said: “many large and
untested changes are going to be live which opens the door to last-minute
rating gains with new traits/ abilities/ changes/gear scaling
that may truly capture the mastery of players of these new mechanics.”
Will that actually be the case or not? The answer to that
will be on the next update.
The Last Two Allied
Races
One of the things that were heavily promoted in Battle forAzeroth was allied races–variations of already existing races–being selectable
as characters. While most of these new inclusions to the lore and options to
the character creation are already available since the launch of the expansion,
two have yet to see Azeroth’s light of day. For the Alliance, that would be
humans of KulTiras. As for the Horde,
it would be the Zandalari trolls.
Players who are excited for these two can’t be blamed for
being impatient. Especially for the latter, as it was advertised before the Mag’har Orcs. But according to Blizzard,
the wait is inevitable but necessary, as they believe that the lore should take
precedence before gameplay in this issue.
The Additional
Azerite Gear Ring
The Fifth Azerite GearRing is also something that didn’t arrive in the game in Patch 8.1. A buff
to something players have been claiming as underwhelming, players were expecting
to find it in Tides of Vengeance. It
goes without saying that those expectations have been shafted, but thankfully
Blizzard, despite the delay, will add it to the game (hopefully) really soon.
Flying, Finally?
Last but definitely not least would be the ability to fly.
Players not being able to fly at the start of expansions has always been an
issue big enough to be discussed in online gaming forums, so it’s no surprise
that it’s still the same this time around. Thankfully, Blizzard is hinting that
there will be certain parts of the Pathfinder
2 quest line to be added to the game really soon.
As much as game devs would like to add as many things as
possible in a single update, there are certain reasons, valid or otherwise, why
some content has to wait. It’s a good thing that Blizzard, despite their
shortcomings, does its best to correct its mistakes and deliver on its promises
when the time is right—or when they finally got their stuff together.
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