[0:00] Hi, I'm Hazel. It's Saturday today,
[0:02] which makes it time to sit down and
[0:04] catch up on the WoW news of the week.
[0:07] This week, we got lots of news. Blizzard
[0:09] has freshly announced patch 12.1, hot on
[0:12] the heels of the release of patch
[0:13] 12.0.7.
[0:15] We don't have a release date yet, so
[0:17] that is still up in the air, although
[0:18] there are rumors it could be soon. It
[0:21] could be not so soon. It probably won't
[0:23] be too long. There's not a world in
[0:25] which they leave us languishing until
[0:26] Christmas time. What we did find out is
[0:29] lots and lots of details about
[0:31] everything that is coming in the new
[0:33] patch. Lots of it is kind of stuff that
[0:35] you might expect for a new season and
[0:37] some things are surprising. I want to in
[0:39] this video focus on the things that I
[0:41] was most excited about or surprised by
[0:43] and then kind of dig more into various
[0:46] topics as we get closer to the patch
[0:47] release. The thing that stood out to me
[0:49] the most from the patch 12.1
[0:51] announcement were the housing updates.
[0:54] There are quite a few of them. Firstly,
[0:56] our housing blueprints. This is the long
[0:59] for spoken about ability to save a
[1:03] house, export a house, import a house,
[1:05] or indeed just a room. Save your whole
[1:08] layout and then reset it to play with it
[1:10] and then revert back. These are all
[1:12] blueprint things and they are coming in
[1:13] 12.1.
[1:15] I am super impressed that this feature
[1:17] is going to be ready that soon. When
[1:18] they first had talked about this in a
[1:20] blog post, it really sounded like a very
[1:22] down the road thing. I'm hoping that it
[1:25] works well. I think that they know how
[1:28] bad it would be if they promised that
[1:30] you could save something and then it
[1:32] like messed it up. You know, people are
[1:35] going to be kind of relying on this. So,
[1:37] you know, hopefully it's in good shape
[1:39] when they ship it. I do think that
[1:41] template houses are going to be super
[1:42] fun to import to start off from. It'll
[1:45] be super fun to make versions of them
[1:47] that you can share with people. This is
[1:48] going to give a lot of people the
[1:49] freedom that they need to kind of let
[1:51] loose and actually try new things
[1:52] without worrying about throwing away
[1:54] everything they've done with their house
[1:55] up until this point. But that's not the
[1:57] only thing that is coming for housing in
[1:59] 12.1. Pets are going to be placeable in
[2:01] houses in 12.1. You'll be able to place
[2:03] a pet bed in your house and then choose
[2:05] to either have the pet that you
[2:07] associate chill on the bed or you can
[2:09] have it wander and kind of path around
[2:11] the house. And that's not all. There's
[2:13] going to be four new endeavors promising
[2:14] new decor. The themes are knockoff
[2:17] Ammani with our favorite uh knockoff um
[2:21] vendor Grifta. There's also going to be
[2:23] an anar and centaur endeavor, a cobalt
[2:25] endeavor, and Tortolins. And each of
[2:28] those will have, you know, themed decor
[2:29] that's going to be available from that
[2:30] endeavor. So, excellent categories for
[2:32] new decor. It'll be nice to have another
[2:34] reason to get kind of excited about
[2:35] endeavors and pay attention to them. I
[2:37] was very into them before midnight
[2:39] launched and then once we actually got
[2:40] midnight content to play, I can't
[2:42] remember really. They kind of happened
[2:43] by accident and by then I'd already
[2:44] bought everything. So, new ones will be
[2:46] fun. And then they are expanding and
[2:48] streamlining dye and die crafting. So,
[2:51] they're moving into a system where there
[2:53] will be fewer types of pigments to craft
[2:55] from and then more types of dye that you
[2:57] can make, more colors of dye that you'll
[2:59] be able to use. They had quite an
[3:01] interesting um write up about this and
[3:03] kind of like why they've done this and
[3:06] how they got there, but effectively
[3:07] they're trying to make it so that you
[3:09] can craft and make a various dyes
[3:11] without needing to use like a 100 mag
[3:12] slots. And also evidently they had
[3:15] patched a bug that was dealing with
[3:17] colors after the housing had come out,
[3:20] but in doing so kind of changed the way
[3:22] some of them were looking because they
[3:23] hadn't been looking correct and people
[3:25] had already kind of designed around the
[3:27] bugged version of the color. So, one of
[3:29] the things that they're doing is they're
[3:31] patching in new colors of dye that kind
[3:33] of replace those old versions of them.
[3:36] It's an interesting read if you're into
[3:37] housing. I will link it below. Also,
[3:39] level 12 houses are coming. More house
[3:41] levels, which of course is going to mean
[3:42] more budget and the ability to move your
[3:45] house entry to anywhere in your house,
[3:47] including different floors, which
[3:49] effectively enables basements. If you
[3:51] have been dying to have a basement for
[3:52] your gaming room or what have you,
[3:54] whatever else people do with basements,
[3:56] you'll be able to move your entryway to
[3:58] an upstairs floor and then effectively,
[4:00] you know, in in in the brain, which I
[4:03] think is where most of these things are
[4:04] happening, you know, the ground floor is
[4:06] now the basement. So, those are the
[4:07] broadstrokes of the housing things. I'm
[4:09] excited to dig into that more in PTR.
[4:11] But that's not all that's coming in
[4:12] 12.1, of course. Other things that
[4:15] surprised me, updated pings. This is a
[4:17] little one, but it was kind of cool.
[4:18] You're going to be able to ping a spell
[4:21] on your bar in 12.1 to communicate its
[4:23] status. So, for example, you could be
[4:25] running along in your mythic plus
[4:27] dungeon in a pug and you could ping your
[4:29] cool down to let the tank know that your
[4:30] cooldown is available. So, you know, it
[4:32] might be time for like a fun pull or you
[4:34] could you could ping your defensives as
[4:36] a healer to let them know that they're
[4:38] not available [snorts]
[4:39] and it is not time for a fun pull.
[4:42] [sighs and gasps] You'll also be able to
[4:43] ping your own unit frame to communicate
[4:45] the status of your own health bar to
[4:47] alert somebody to their decreasing
[4:48] health or as I foresee happening to
[4:51] harass your healer about your health
[4:53] when they already know when they're
[4:54] working on it. [sighs and gasps]
[4:56] People wouldn't do that, would they? The
[4:59] ping system is one of those things that
[5:00] has turned out to be very useful and has
[5:03] kind of crept into my WoW life over
[5:04] time. So, I'm always excited to see them
[5:06] kind of iterating and working on it.
[5:09] Another new feature coming in 12.1 that
[5:12] is exciting but also was a little
[5:14] confusing to me is something called
[5:16] layers, which is what they're doing for
[5:19] world bosses.
[5:20] So, they're taking world bosses, new
[5:24] ones, and instead of having them out in
[5:26] the world, they're putting them into
[5:28] their own one boss instance, kind of
[5:31] like a delver like the ritual site. So
[5:32] you'll you'll go to the spa and you'll
[5:34] be able to join an instance of that
[5:37] world boss, which is nice because that
[5:39] takes I think the zone leg out of the
[5:41] equation. I think world bosses have had
[5:43] a lot of impact on zone performance. So
[5:45] moving them into their own instances
[5:46] should help that and also makes
[5:48] performance better on the world boss
[5:49] itself. Um there's going to be summoning
[5:52] stones and there's also interestingly
[5:54] going to be various difficulties for the
[5:56] world bosses scaling all the way up to
[5:58] flex mythic with 15 to 25 players. The
[6:01] thing that I got hung up on when I was
[6:03] reading about this and watching the
[6:04] announcement is if you go into an
[6:07] instance and you're finding yourself a
[6:09] group and you're summoning people and
[6:11] you're choosing a difficulty up to
[6:13] mythic,
[6:16] is that not just a one boss raid? What
[6:20] is the difference between these new
[6:22] layers and what we had for Sporefall?
[6:24] And it's okay if there's no difference.
[6:26] That's that's fine. I just kind of want
[6:27] to know where they fit into the the
[6:30] hierarchy of WoW bosses. And I'll
[6:32] probably know that once I actually get
[6:33] on to PTR and uh see things like the
[6:36] loot level and I guess the difficulty
[6:38] levels of them because it sounds a lot
[6:40] like a raid boss. I've been having a lot
[6:43] of fun in sportfall. I think Rott Meer
[6:44] is a good time and I don't I'm not
[6:46] opposed to them doing more of that. I'm
[6:48] just I guess it being positioned as the
[6:52] thing for world bosses but then having
[6:54] like all the different difficulties is
[6:55] throwing me off. I'm just trying to
[6:56] figure out like how to how to think
[6:58] about it. What is it? It's quacking like
[7:01] a duck and it's got a beak like a duck,
[7:03] but I just don't want to throw it into
[7:04] my pond and then it turns out it was a
[7:06] chicken and it can't swim so good.
[7:10] I don't have to make sense. Other
[7:12] [snorts] things coming. One interesting
[7:16] one is they're announcing the ability to
[7:19] connect Battlelet and Discord. They've
[7:22] got this new Discord integration coming
[7:24] and it sounds like when set up you'll be
[7:26] able to use this to send messages to
[7:29] Discord, like to your guild Discord
[7:31] directly from your in-game client chat
[7:34] and vice versa, like send a message in
[7:36] Discord that will hit a certain tab or
[7:38] channel of Guild chat in game. They have
[7:40] a whole post about it that explains like
[7:42] how you'll be able to set it up and what
[7:44] it specifically does. And I read through
[7:47] the whole thing and maybe I'm just too
[7:50] antisocial for this, but I don't really
[7:53] get the point of this one because in my
[7:55] brain and I'm I have Discord, you know,
[7:57] that's how I that's how I talk with
[7:59] guild during raids and stuff, but like
[8:01] if you're playing WoW
[8:03] and you're on a PC because that's how we
[8:05] play WoW and you're a Discord user, you
[8:09] probably are also running Discord on
[8:12] your PC.
[8:14] like you're probably you have both on
[8:16] either separate tabs or monitors. Maybe
[8:17] it's to make it easier for like guildies
[8:19] that can't make it to raid to use their
[8:21] phones to let the guild know. Although I
[8:24] think you can be message from your
[8:25] phone, but I don't know. I don't I don't
[8:27] know if anybody who does that. I guess
[8:28] I'm just struggling to see what the use
[8:30] case is for it, but I'm sure people will
[8:32] use it. Anyway, I might just be too much
[8:34] of a social hermit for this one. Perhaps
[8:35] other people will be making good use of
[8:37] that. Other things coming, all of the
[8:40] things you'd expect from a new major
[8:41] patch. There's going to be a new zone.
[8:43] is called the coil dial this time and
[8:45] it's going to have its own custom talent
[8:46] tree to provide outdoor power and
[8:48] quality of life perks in the zone. I did
[8:51] get very brief flashbacks to the MA when
[8:54] they announced that for a quick second,
[8:56] but it it might be fine. It looks fun.
[8:58] There will be po dangerous rivers of
[9:00] poison to cross and we'll just figure
[9:02] that out. There will be a new reputation
[9:04] coming with a Tortullan sea captain
[9:06] associated with a new thing called
[9:07] cursed fishing. Um you'll be unlocking
[9:10] cursed fishing spots which sounds kind
[9:11] of cool. There's of course going to be a
[9:13] new raid. It'll be eight bosses. It
[9:15] seems very troll themed. Looks cool.
[9:17] Lots of snakes. Uh raid testing for that
[9:19] is starting very shortly um next week,
[9:21] Thursday, Friday. So, we'll be hands- on
[9:23] with that pretty soon. There are two new
[9:25] proper delves and then a third nemesis
[9:27] delve coming. And there's also going to
[9:29] be a brand new prey season. Prey will be
[9:31] kept up to date. There will be new prey
[9:32] targets and affixes to deal with on the
[9:35] coiled aisle. Speaking of seasonal
[9:37] stuff, the seasonal dungeon pool was
[9:39] announced. It looks like this. We have
[9:41] the four midnight dungeons that were
[9:43] announced that we haven't seen yet as
[9:45] expected. A fifth one that is a brand
[9:47] new three boss dungeon that they just
[9:48] announced with 12.1 and three returning
[9:51] dungeons which are ruby life pools uh
[9:55] lovingly known as ruin my life pools to
[9:57] some king's rest and then of course on
[10:00] account of the snakes we of course have
[10:01] to go back to temple.
[10:03] They do like to match the patch theme
[10:05] when they can.
[10:07] I might be naive. I'm not super worried
[10:09] about any of these. Even though Ruby
[10:11] Life Pools was a tough key in in Dragon
[10:13] Flight. I feel like it's pretty frequent
[10:17] that they bring back a key that was
[10:19] formerly infamous or just really
[10:21] notorious for being tricky and then
[10:23] they've either retuned it or changed the
[10:25] mechanics around and taken like the real
[10:27] gnarly pain points out. You never know
[10:29] how it's going to shake out. I feel like
[10:30] it's going to be fine. I have some
[10:32] really unearned optimism
[10:35] [snorts] specifically for these uh
[10:36] returning dungeons.
[10:39] Speaking of the season, all of the new
[10:40] tier sets have been data of mine, so we
[10:42] can check those out. I think the
[10:44] standout to me here is definitely the
[10:46] monk set. The rest of these, and maybe
[10:49] it's just because we've seen so many
[10:51] tier sets at this point, and I've turned
[10:52] into more of a trading postmog enjoyer,
[10:55] but it's the rest of them look really,
[10:57] they look fine, but they look very
[10:59] familiar. And I think maybe we've just
[11:01] seen too many sets at this point and
[11:03] it's just very tough to make new class
[11:05] sets stand out and have their own kind
[11:09] of vibe while still staying true to the
[11:10] class identity. That's just my opinion
[11:12] though. I will link the data mining post
[11:14] in the description if you want to tap
[11:15] through them and see for yourself.
[11:18] Other things going on this week in the
[11:20] live game, uh 1207 has launched. I've
[11:23] been having fun with that. A new secret
[11:25] finding pet has been discovered and this
[11:27] is something that you can get now if you
[11:28] want. It seems pretty easy to get, but
[11:30] it does require access to Nagtal. So, if
[11:33] you're watching this video as it comes
[11:34] out on kind of like Saturday or the
[11:36] Sunday, Monday following, you can still
[11:38] do it. Otherwise, you'll have to wait
[11:39] another week for Nagal to rotate back
[11:41] because it's going to alternate between
[11:43] Val. The pet is the unfaced diver. It's
[11:46] been around for a while, but it's only
[11:47] just recently that it's become doable.
[11:49] Uh, pretty cute pet looks like this. And
[11:52] then in my life this week, I'm
[11:54] definitely still neck deep in managing
[11:57] the ringorm.
[11:59] um in the house. So, lots of cleaning,
[12:02] lots of laundry, lots of treatment for
[12:04] the kitties. They're doing good. They're
[12:06] getting bigger so fast. I know they're
[12:08] kittens and they're at that age, but it
[12:09] feels like every can of cat food that I
[12:11] put into them just like directly like
[12:13] like levels the cat up one size. I'm
[12:16] feeling impatient for the future when
[12:18] they can be freed from their prison and
[12:20] they're finished with all of this and
[12:21] they can once again, you know, crash the
[12:23] stream with impunity. And that's been
[12:26] the week. Thank you very much for
[12:28] watching. If you have any questions or
[12:29] you just want to say hi, feel free to
[12:30] stop by my Twitch stream. I appreciate
[12:32] you guys and I hope you have a
[12:34] wonderful, wonderful day. Bye.
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