[0:00] Hey folks, this is Kalani. Patch 1207 is
[0:03] almost here. It goes live with the next
[0:05] weekly reset, but that doesn't stop the
[0:07] dev team from squeezing in some
[0:08] last-minute changes. And some of these
[0:10] updates are very significant. The way in
[0:13] which you unlock the heroic world tier
[0:15] has completely changed. The rewards from
[0:17] almost all content in the new zones have
[0:19] been increased. There are new catch-up
[0:21] mechanics for the myth track gear.
[0:23] Various vendor prices were massively
[0:25] reduced. Almost all classes will see
[0:27] significantly reduced repair bills. And
[0:29] the turbulent time race experience buff
[0:31] will be better than ever before. So,
[0:33] let's go over some very important
[0:35] last-minute changes the dev team has
[0:37] made to patch 1207 over the last week or
[0:39] so. Now, before we jump in, be sure to
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[0:46] To start with, the dev team removed
[0:47] almost all of the requirements for the
[0:49] new heroic world tier difficulties for
[0:52] the Val and Night Tal zones. When the
[0:54] patch first popped up on the PTR, the
[0:56] heroic difficulty was locked behind an
[0:58] achievement called heroic tendencies.
[1:00] This required you to kill the world boss
[1:02] from either zone on normal mode first,
[1:04] and then you could jump into the higher
[1:06] difficulty. In the later PTR builds, the
[1:09] achievement and requirement were just
[1:10] completely removed. So, the only
[1:13] requirement left to enter heroic mode is
[1:15] to be level 90, meaning everyone can
[1:18] jump straight into the harder mode to
[1:19] earn the better rewards right away.
[1:22] That does bring up an interesting
[1:24] question, though. Can you enter these
[1:26] zones on characters that are below level
[1:29] 90 even if it's just on normal mode? And
[1:31] the answer is yes. In fact, one of the
[1:34] latest PTR builds also increased the
[1:37] experience rewards from completing world
[1:39] quests, events, and killing rares in the
[1:41] normal modes for these zones. So, this
[1:44] could be another way to level up any
[1:46] alts that you haven't gotten around to
[1:47] yet, at least from level 80 to 90.
[1:51] Almost every activity will reward you
[1:53] with experience, so you can get a few
[1:55] thousand per treasure you loot. Each
[1:58] rare is going to reward you with around
[1:59] 20,000 experience when you take the kill
[2:02] credit and the experience token into
[2:04] account. So, that's pretty huge. World
[2:06] quests are worth about 35,000 experience
[2:09] each with the world boss quest rewarding
[2:11] you with a bit more. And then the weekly
[2:12] quest offers you about 100,000
[2:15] experience as well. So, there are some
[2:17] half decent options for leveling up your
[2:19] alts in the new 1207 zones. But perhaps
[2:22] the best part is that you can actually
[2:24] start earning field accolades from the
[2:26] rare kills while leveling up. So, if you
[2:28] level up in these new zones, you should
[2:31] be able to buy some hero gear right away
[2:33] when you hit level 90. So, even if it
[2:35] takes you a bit longer to level up,
[2:37] you'll save time overall because you're
[2:39] working towards some big gear upgrades
[2:41] in the same time.
[2:44] Something else that's going to help out
[2:45] your alts a lot is the option to skip
[2:47] over the introduction experience for the
[2:49] new zones once you've worked through it
[2:51] once. After you've established your
[2:52] little foothold in the new zones, every
[2:55] other character should be able to skip
[2:56] over that initial quest line to jump
[2:58] straight into the zones to farm up some
[3:00] field accolades or whatever rewards
[3:02] you're interested in. What's even better
[3:04] is that you can use the teleporter in
[3:06] Silvermoon right away, too, which means
[3:08] you don't even have to track on over to
[3:10] Void Storm. And with the requirements on
[3:12] heroic world tier completely removed,
[3:14] your alts can jump straight into heroic
[3:16] difficulty to get the higher field
[3:17] accolade rewards.
[3:20] Speaking of field accolades, the field
[3:22] accolade vendor was updated recently to
[3:24] offer more efficient gear boxes to help
[3:26] you gear up even faster. The most
[3:28] important is probably the new heroic
[3:30] gear boxes that contain specific gear
[3:33] slots, so you can target the exact items
[3:35] that you want on the hero track. Those
[3:38] will cost you 750 field accolades each,
[3:41] and they were introduced a couple of
[3:42] weeks back. But the most recent update
[3:45] was for the war-bound champion boxes.
[3:47] This used to just be a war-bound box of
[3:49] random champion gear that cost 100 field
[3:52] accolades, and that would have been
[3:53] nice, I guess. But, what's even better
[3:55] than that is a war-bound box of specific
[3:58] champion gear. So, you can target gear
[4:00] slots just like you can with the heroic
[4:02] boxes, and the price wasn't increased at
[4:04] all. So, each box of champion gear will
[4:07] cost 100 field accolades, and then you
[4:09] can send those to your alts to help them
[4:11] gear up much faster. I think this is the
[4:13] only source of specific gear slot
[4:16] champion gear. So, if you really need a
[4:17] belt or some boots or a weapon to round
[4:20] out your alt set of champion gear, these
[4:22] boxes should help out quite a bit.
[4:25] Another interesting change for the
[4:27] heroic world tier difficulty is that the
[4:29] special quest that rewards a piece of
[4:31] myth track gear for killing the world
[4:33] bosses four times on heroic mode has
[4:35] been updated to also include a catch-up
[4:37] mechanic. This quest requires you to
[4:40] kill the world bosses four times and to
[4:42] loot an item, and it will take four
[4:43] weeks to fully complete the quest to
[4:45] earn your shiny piece of myth track
[4:47] gear. With kill credit for the world
[4:49] bosses locked to just once per week,
[4:51] there wouldn't be any real way to catch
[4:53] up with this quest if you got left
[4:55] behind. So, with the latest PTR builds,
[4:57] if you don't keep up with the quest as
[4:59] the weeks go by, you'll be able to pick
[5:01] up the missing quest items from the zone
[5:03] weekly quests as well. I imagine this
[5:06] mainly includes the showdown on zone
[5:08] weekly quest, which is a fill-the-bar
[5:10] style quest that requires you to just
[5:12] take part in general zone activities
[5:14] like completing world quests and killing
[5:16] rares, you know, that kind of thing. So,
[5:18] that will give you at least two sources
[5:20] for quest credit per week to help you
[5:22] catch back up to everyone else.
[5:25] There were also some pretty significant
[5:27] increases for various rewards for both
[5:29] normal and heroic difficulties. Normal
[5:32] world quests and rare kills used to
[5:34] reward you with veteran crests, and
[5:36] they'll now reward champion crests
[5:37] instead. For heroic, world quests and
[5:40] rare kills used to reward champion
[5:42] crests, and that was bumped up to heroic
[5:44] crests. So, both difficulties will be
[5:46] more rewarding in general, and you'll
[5:48] have plenty of crests to upgrade your
[5:50] gear or trade up to higher tiers of
[5:52] crests for other gearing opportunities
[5:54] that will most likely make these zones
[5:56] the best farming method for both
[5:57] champion and heroic crests, depending on
[6:00] what difficulty you're on and which
[6:01] crests you actually need. Farming rares
[6:04] in heroic mode will probably be the
[6:06] go-to method for heroic crest farming
[6:08] and field accolade farming, assuming the
[6:10] rare spawn rate is at least half decent.
[6:14] Another huge change was to the vendor
[6:16] costs for specific items. Any vendor
[6:18] reward that requires an achievement to
[6:20] be purchased, which is a lot of the new
[6:22] cosmetics like mounts, pets, and
[6:24] transmogs coming in the new patch, has
[6:26] had its cost reduced significantly to
[6:28] the point where it's not really a cost
[6:30] anymore. Almost all of these items went
[6:32] from costing around 1,500 void light
[6:34] mall all the way down to just 15 void
[6:37] light mall. So, that makes those costs
[6:39] more of a formality than anything else,
[6:41] and it makes the vendors a convenient
[6:43] location to see all the rewards that you
[6:45] can pick up from the new zones and what
[6:47] achievements you might need to complete
[6:49] to buy the ones you want. This is
[6:51] significantly better, in my opinion.
[6:54] Having these rewards locked behind an
[6:55] achievement requirement and a currency
[6:57] purchase was really just double dipping
[7:00] on time investments. It really should
[7:02] always just be one or the other. Earning
[7:04] an achievement or farming a currency.
[7:06] So, I'm glad to see the dev team make
[7:08] this change. Keeping things on the
[7:09] vendor for visibility is also pretty
[7:11] smart, as it's not always easy to see
[7:14] what rewards might be on offer if
[7:16] they're just tied to earning
[7:17] achievements, especially if those
[7:19] achievements are a little bit obscure.
[7:23] It's not just changes for the new zones,
[7:25] though. One very interesting update is
[7:27] for how durability damage works for
[7:29] certain classes and specs. After the
[7:32] patch goes live, weapons and armor will
[7:34] no longer take durability damage from
[7:36] combat events, which includes things
[7:38] like attacking and blocking. This is
[7:40] going to be huge for tanks, especially
[7:43] warriors, as they are kind of built
[7:45] around the whole idea of blocking, which
[7:47] basically destroys your shield's
[7:49] durability extremely quickly, leading to
[7:51] significant gold repair costs. There
[7:53] have actually been quite a lot of
[7:55] complaints across the forums and Reddit
[7:57] about how warrior shields can break from
[7:59] just a handful of dungeon runs, even if
[8:01] they don't die at any point during those
[8:04] runs. Just being a tank with a shield
[8:06] leads to massive repair costs, which
[8:09] some of the classes just don't have to
[8:11] deal with. The other main camp that's
[8:13] going to benefit from this change are
[8:14] any classes or specs that actually use
[8:17] their weapon to attack. So, basically
[8:19] every melee, as well as the hunters. If
[8:22] weapons don't take durability damage
[8:24] when attacking, your weapons won't break
[8:26] nearly as often, which leads to lower
[8:28] repair bills overall. So, this change
[8:30] could save you a good chunk of gold,
[8:32] depending on the class and spec that you
[8:34] play the most.
[8:37] There have also been a few changes to
[8:38] the Turbulent Timewarped event bonus
[8:40] experience buff. A blue post talking
[8:42] about the event as a whole mentioned the
[8:44] Mastery of the Timewarped buff would now
[8:46] persist through death, which would make
[8:48] it much easier to keep active, and
[8:50] honestly, it should always persisted
[8:51] through death, so that's a nice change.
[8:53] But, then they also said the buff would
[8:55] be account-wide, which would mean you
[8:56] would only have to stack it up once, and
[8:58] then all of your alts should start off
[9:00] with a 30% bonus experience gains, and
[9:02] you would just need to refresh it
[9:04] periodically. Unfortunately, the blue
[9:06] post was updated rather quickly to
[9:09] specify that the account-wide part was a
[9:11] mistake, and would not actually make it
[9:13] into the game. So, that is quite
[9:15] disappointing. Honestly, I don't think
[9:17] it being account-wide would really have
[9:18] broken anything. You can stack that buff
[9:21] up rather quickly on your alts. It just
[9:23] takes four Timewalking dungeon runs, and
[9:25] chances are you'll be running a few
[9:26] Timewalking dungeons anyway, because
[9:28] they're still a quick and easy way to
[9:30] level. So, I wonder if there were maybe
[9:32] some technical difficulties with making
[9:34] this buff account-wide, but oh well. No
[9:37] account-wide mastery of the timeways
[9:38] this time, but it will still persist
[9:40] through death, so at least it's still an
[9:42] upgrade over previous turbulent timeways
[9:44] events. As an extra bonus, the meta
[9:47] achievement will only require you to
[9:49] obtain the mastery of the timeways buff
[9:51] for four weeks out of the event down
[9:53] from the five weeks we usually have,
[9:55] which means you have a bit more leeway
[9:57] for missing weeks while still getting
[9:58] your achievement, which is going to be
[10:00] pretty important this time around
[10:02] actually because the entire turbulent
[10:03] timeways event will only be six weeks
[10:06] long. So, you can only miss two out of
[10:08] those six weeks if you want your spawn
[10:09] of Virenoth mount.
[10:12] And then to round out this video, we
[10:13] also recently found out that this patch
[10:15] would have quite a staggered release of
[10:18] its content. Up until recently, the
[10:20] turbulent timeways event was scheduled
[10:21] to start on June 16th, but that was
[10:23] pushed back to June 30th in the last few
[10:26] PTR builds. So, while the patch goes
[10:29] live on June 16th, the turbulent
[10:31] timeways event won't actually start for
[10:33] two weeks after patch day. That does
[10:35] give the other patch content a bit of
[10:37] time to breathe, but if you are mostly
[10:39] interested in the turbulent timeways
[10:41] event and leveling up your alts, you'll
[10:42] have to wait a bit longer before you can
[10:44] get your experience buffs and earn all
[10:46] of those shiny new rewards.
[10:49] Something else that won't be available
[10:51] right away is the new main story
[10:52] campaign. We'll actually have to wait
[10:54] even longer for that one as the new
[10:57] story quests won't be enabled until July
[10:59] 7th. That's three weeks after the patch
[11:02] launches. I'm not too sure why they
[11:04] would delay this part of the patch
[11:05] specifically when it's only the first
[11:07] chapter of the new story campaign that
[11:09] leads into 12.1. Maybe they want to
[11:12] reveal 12.1 first and have the PTR
[11:14] testing start up before we can work
[11:17] through the story content that then sets
[11:19] the stage for the patch. That's really
[11:21] the only thing I can think of. That does
[11:23] seem a bit odd though, kind of like
[11:25] spoiling the end of the story before you
[11:26] even get to read the beginning, but I
[11:28] guess we'll see how things go. I imagine
[11:31] patch 12.1 should be announced fairly
[11:33] quickly after 12.07 goes live, so maybe
[11:36] there's another reason that will come to
[11:38] light then.
[11:39] But that's all of the last-minute
[11:41] changes to patch 12.07 that happened
[11:43] over the last week or so, so that's it
[11:45] for this video. What do you think of the
[11:47] requirements for heroic world tiers
[11:49] being entirely removed? And would the
[11:51] 30% bonus experience gains buff being
[11:53] account-wide have encouraged you to
[11:55] level up more alts? Or do you think it
[11:57] doesn't really matter? Leave all your
[11:59] thoughts in the comment section below. A
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