[0:00] Hey folks, this is Kehani. Patch 12.1
[0:02] has finally been revealed and it's going
[0:04] to shake up the Midnight expansion in a
[0:07] massive way. Not only will we have a
[0:09] bunch of new content to explore,
[0:10] including a new zone full of openw world
[0:13] gameplay options, a new dungeon and
[0:15] raid, and several new delves, but world
[0:17] bosses are seeing a huge overhaul that
[0:20] lets them reward myth track gear. Raid
[0:22] gear is getting a huge buff to secure
[0:24] its spot as the best gear available in
[0:26] the game once again. Bonus roles will be
[0:28] available from the very start of season
[0:30] 2, and there are updates for every type
[0:32] of seasonal content. Housing will see
[0:35] blueprints that let you copy and paste
[0:36] entire setups. There are a bunch of user
[0:39] interface updates and a crazy amount of
[0:41] class changes, including some complete
[0:43] reworks for various specs. There is a
[0:46] lot coming in the first major patch for
[0:48] the Midnight expansion. So, let's go
[0:50] over all the new features coming in
[0:52] patch 12.1 and how it's shaping up so
[0:54] far. Now, before we jump in, be sure to
[0:56] hit up that like button and subscribe so
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[1:01] Most new content in the patch will
[1:02] revolve around the new 12.1 zone, the
[1:04] Coiled Isisle. It's just off the coast
[1:06] of Zulon, pretty much exactly where
[1:08] everyone thought we would be going, and
[1:10] it's a pretty decentsized zone. It looks
[1:13] to be larger than most of the original
[1:14] Midnight Zones, and it's chocker block
[1:16] with new content options. After working
[1:19] your way through the main campaign story
[1:21] line, you'll unlock world quests for the
[1:23] new zone, which seem to reward
[1:24] adventurer gear, reputation, and some
[1:27] currencies. There will be plenty of side
[1:29] quests that dig a bit deeper into the
[1:31] lore of the zone, the local inhabitants,
[1:33] and the history of the Ammani trolls.
[1:35] And then there are these special public
[1:36] events called curse surges. They usually
[1:39] have a few different stages that
[1:40] culminate in a rare boss fight. And the
[1:42] rares reward you with reputation, coffer
[1:44] key shards, and can drop adventurer gear
[1:47] by the looks of things.
[1:49] We'll have a new weekly quest to take
[1:51] part in curse surges that rewards the
[1:53] new crafting spark for season 2, the
[1:55] spark of tides, which you can use to
[1:57] craft up to item levels 324 gear. So, as
[2:00] always, they will be huge for picking up
[2:02] some early big upgrades. Now, if you'd
[2:05] rather not take part in the new open
[2:07] world content because you just prefer to
[2:09] run dungeons or raids, don't worry.
[2:11] There's a new weekly quest in Silver
[2:13] Moon that just requires you to collect a
[2:15] specific item from group content. and
[2:17] that also offers a weekly spark. You can
[2:19] only get one spark per week still, so
[2:21] only the first weekly quest you complete
[2:23] will reward one, but this does give you
[2:25] a choice for how to earn your sparks. Do
[2:27] the new open world content or spam some
[2:30] group content. Defeating these cursed
[2:32] surges will also open up cursed fishing
[2:34] opportunities, which is a whole fishing
[2:36] mini reputation on the aisle with its
[2:38] own daily quests and unique rewards,
[2:41] including some mounts, new transmog
[2:42] options, profession recipes, housing
[2:44] decor, and even a new fishing rod that
[2:47] turns you into a snake while swimming.
[2:50] We'll also have a new world boss to take
[2:52] down. Well, kind of. It's not actually
[2:55] in the open world anymore. So, I'm not
[2:57] sure calling it a world boss really
[2:58] fits, but that's probably why the dev
[3:00] team is calling this new evolution
[3:02] layers. Instead of these world bosses
[3:04] roaming around, we'll have to enter
[3:06] their layer and take the fight to them,
[3:08] which sounds very much just like a one
[3:10] boss raid. You enter a layer in the same
[3:12] way as you enter a delve or the patch
[3:14] 1207 zones with a screen where you can
[3:17] select your difficulty. These new layers
[3:19] will have four different difficulty
[3:21] options: world, normal, heroic, and
[3:24] mythic. I imagine world will be more or
[3:26] less what you would expect from a
[3:27] standard world boss, being relatively
[3:29] easy to overcome as long as you dodge
[3:31] the obvious abilities with new mechanics
[3:34] and more damage from each ability as the
[3:36] difficulty increases. What's super
[3:39] interesting to me is that the lair boss
[3:40] does have a loot table in the raid
[3:42] journal on the PTR right now. And the
[3:44] item level of its drops lines up with
[3:47] the standard raid loot. So, normal drops
[3:49] champion gear, heroic drops hero gear,
[3:52] and mythic drops myth gear. That means
[3:54] these bosses will have a place in every
[3:57] player's to-do list. You may be able to
[3:59] get some easy upgrades here. Even if
[4:01] you're a mythic raider, these one boss
[4:03] raids should also be a great entry point
[4:05] to raiding as a whole for players who
[4:06] don't usually take part in that kind of
[4:08] content, as it does seem to be much
[4:10] simpler when compared to a standard
[4:12] mythic boss.
[4:15] So really, this just turns world bosses
[4:17] into one boss raids with a world
[4:19] difficulty option. That sounds great to
[4:21] me. And if you're worried about having
[4:23] to create a group to kill a world boss,
[4:25] now you actually don't. If you're only
[4:27] interested in the world difficulty
[4:28] option, that works more like the patch
[4:30] 1207 zones where you are technically
[4:33] entering an instance, but it's kind of
[4:35] an open instance where everyone else
[4:37] joining in the world difficulty will get
[4:39] squished together. This will create
[4:41] groups for you, which is even better as
[4:43] you can actually heal or buff your
[4:45] allies without having to set up the
[4:47] group manually. The higher difficulties
[4:49] seem to work more like a standard raid
[4:51] setup though, where you go in with your
[4:52] pre-made group. You can now also summon
[4:55] everyone straight to the boss entrance
[4:56] thanks to the summoning stone right
[4:58] outside. So, it should be much faster to
[5:00] get your world boss kills in, and
[5:02] they'll stay relevant for much longer
[5:03] over the course of a season. Having
[5:06] these bosses inside instances will also
[5:08] probably help out significantly with the
[5:11] crazy zonewide lag the world bosses
[5:13] usually cause. So, that's a nice bonus
[5:15] as well.
[5:17] So, that's most of what we have to look
[5:19] forward to on the surface, but this zone
[5:21] has an underground portion, too. The
[5:23] vaults of Ital work similarly to Zarc
[5:26] cabins if you played during dragon
[5:28] flight. So we go through these long
[5:30] hallways which will give you a massive
[5:32] speed boost to get through them a bit
[5:33] faster. And then they open up into a
[5:35] cavernous almost temple-like space where
[5:37] the sneaky snake followers are
[5:39] slithering around. So obviously we have
[5:42] to put a stop to that. But this
[5:43] underground zone has its own gameplay
[5:46] loop completely separate from the zone
[5:48] surface. There are various side and
[5:50] story quests that introduce you to the
[5:52] vaults and how the different activities
[5:54] work. There are patrols, which are
[5:56] basically just extra side quests that
[5:58] you have to pick up out in the zone.
[6:00] These NPCs are asking for help, so
[6:02] interacting with them will give you a
[6:04] little quest, like picking up weapons or
[6:06] killing monsters. The strikes are larger
[6:08] public events where everyone contributes
[6:10] to the same goal and progress bar. So,
[6:12] when these pop up, you want to head on
[6:14] over and contribute as much as you can
[6:15] to complete them quickly. And then when
[6:17] enough strikes have been completed, it
[6:18] will trigger an incursion, a zonewide
[6:21] public event that also has a timer. So,
[6:23] not only will everyone have to work
[6:25] together to complete the objective, but
[6:27] you'll need to do it within the time
[6:28] limit. If the incursions are successful,
[6:30] you'll summon an ancient foe, which is
[6:32] basically just a big rare boss mob. The
[6:35] description text for them does mention
[6:36] we'll need to strike them down before
[6:38] they flee. So, maybe they'll be on a
[6:40] timer as well. After the ancient foe is
[6:42] dealt with, the zone will reset back to
[6:44] strikes to build up the next incursion,
[6:46] and so on and so on.
[6:49] We'll have a weekly quest to complete
[6:51] activities in the vault that rewards you
[6:53] with half a piece of champion gear. So,
[6:55] I guess weekly quests have had their
[6:57] rewards bumped up to champion gear,
[6:59] where they were previously more or less
[7:00] locked to only rewarding veteran gear,
[7:02] and there are a few daily quests that
[7:04] ask you to complete specific activities
[7:06] in the underground zone, too. All of
[7:09] these activities will be earning you
[7:11] corrosive coins, which can be traded in
[7:13] for various cosmetic rewards and
[7:14] goodies, including some new transmog
[7:16] sets and some new mounts. But this
[7:18] currency also seems to be tied to the
[7:20] new altar of corrosion feature, which is
[7:22] another talent tree style system that
[7:24] unlocks various buffs, powers, and perks
[7:27] to help you out in the new zone. You can
[7:29] spend 1,000 corrosive coins to corrode
[7:32] your spirit, which might be how you gain
[7:34] talent points to spend in this feature.
[7:36] It's not fully available to test in this
[7:38] first build, but from the Wowcast
[7:40] preview video, we can see there are 18
[7:42] talents to choose from with four more up
[7:45] at the top. They might unlock as you
[7:47] progress through the tree as a whole.
[7:49] The only example we have for a talent is
[7:51] venom walking, which significantly
[7:53] reduces the damage you take from venom
[7:55] pools, which is going to be very useful
[7:57] with how much venom there is in this
[7:59] area. The cost to corrode your spirit
[8:01] does seem to increase every time you do
[8:03] it. So, we'll have to farm more and more
[8:05] coins as you progress through the tree.
[8:08] Now, you may have noticed that I've been
[8:10] running around on the ground this entire
[8:11] time. So, I'll go ahead and answer that
[8:13] inevitable question. No, we cannot fly
[8:16] in this underground portion of the zone,
[8:18] so you will need to be fairly careful as
[8:20] you're running around. A lot of these
[8:22] mobs can kill you very quickly. This
[8:24] zone is definitely designed with a lot
[8:26] of player activity in mind, so grouping
[8:28] up where you can will probably be
[8:30] beneficial.
[8:32] This patch also introduces two new
[8:34] delves which are located in the new
[8:36] zone. We've got the ring of glory and
[8:38] the Nile door is having new delves to
[8:41] explore is always great as running the
[8:42] same ones over and over does get a bit
[8:44] boring eventually. To help things out on
[8:47] that front, we'll also see new del
[8:49] variants for all of the older midnight
[8:50] delves with a strong focus on snakes and
[8:53] poison. So that will fit the theme of
[8:55] this patch quite well. In addition to
[8:58] those two new delves, we'll also get a
[8:59] new nemesis delve for season two. That
[9:02] means we'll see different nemesis
[9:03] effects throughout the rest of the delve
[9:05] system, including a different nemesis
[9:07] summon for your guaranteed bounty map
[9:09] and of course a new nemesis challenge to
[9:11] take on. Now, if you were playing at the
[9:14] start of Midnight Season 1, you may
[9:16] remember the Hall of Fame drama for the
[9:18] season 1 Nemesis delve. The first 4,000
[9:21] players to kill the Nemesis on the
[9:22] higher difficulty all by themselves
[9:24] earned a special achievement and title.
[9:26] Unfortunately, the Hall of Fame closed
[9:28] after just 9 hours of the season, which
[9:31] was so fast that some people didn't even
[9:34] know about it until after it had closed.
[9:36] The Hall of Fame will return for season
[9:38] 2, but instead of it being the first
[9:40] 4,000 players, it will be open for the
[9:42] entire first week of the season. So, as
[9:45] long as you get your kill in that first
[9:46] week, you'll join the Hall of Fame and
[9:48] earn some very special rewards, which is
[9:51] a much better way of doing things in my
[9:53] opinion.
[9:55] As for our trusty delve companion,
[9:57] Valero will follow us into season 2 and
[9:59] she'll keep all of her levels, so you
[10:01] won't have to rele her or anything like
[10:03] that. She'll most likely have a higher
[10:05] level cap, so we can power her up even
[10:07] further. But, one thing we will have to
[10:09] replace are all of the combat and
[10:11] utility curios. those get reset and
[10:13] we'll have a new set to collect and
[10:15] upgrade. So, that's going to change
[10:16] things up a little bit. But then we also
[10:18] have this new poisons option. There are
[10:20] a few different options to pick from
[10:22] baseline and then you can unlock a few
[10:24] more by completing the Delve intro quest
[10:26] line with Valyri. We might be able to
[10:27] find even more and upgrade them just
[10:29] like the other curios as you work
[10:31] through delves. So, that's going to be
[10:32] another way to customize and power up
[10:34] Valer. We'll also have a new seasonal
[10:38] delve track to work through with new and
[10:40] returning rewards. Most of them line up
[10:42] with season 1, so we'll have to progress
[10:44] to be able to get myth crests from
[10:46] delves again, buy champion gear from the
[10:48] del vendor, be able to earn warbound
[10:50] champion gear and hero track gear from
[10:52] tier 11 bountiful delves.
[10:55] Before we move on to talk about the new
[10:56] group content options, there will also
[10:58] be these new corrosive powers that you
[11:00] can add onto belt or wrist slot items.
[11:03] To do so, you'll need to acquire a
[11:05] corrosive soul. These seem to come from
[11:07] most openw world sources like delves,
[11:09] prey, weekly quest boxes, and the new
[11:11] layer bosses. Using a corrosive soul
[11:13] will add a random effect onto your gear.
[11:16] And you can keep using more corrosive
[11:17] souls to change the effect that you get.
[11:20] You can see the full list of effects by
[11:22] using this pamphlet item that you can
[11:23] get from the Dell vendors. If we quickly
[11:26] go down the list, we have a big damage
[11:28] proc, some repositioning effects that
[11:30] can group up enemies. This one applies a
[11:32] buff to allies that lets them poison
[11:34] enemies. There's one that stuns all
[11:35] enemies around you if you drop below 50%
[11:38] health. There are some defensive or
[11:39] absorb shield options, an effect that
[11:41] gives you cycling stat bonuses. This one
[11:44] trades secondary stats for primary
[11:46] stats. There's another defensive option
[11:48] that can negate big hits. This one will
[11:50] automatically interrupt spells, which
[11:52] sounds kind of funny. The next one is
[11:54] just a stacking poison debuff. There's
[11:56] another damage proc, but it also heals
[11:58] any allies inside the effect. And then
[12:00] the last one is another stacking damage
[12:02] proc that will deal all of its damage if
[12:04] it reaches 20 stacks. What's kind of
[12:07] interesting here is that some effects
[12:08] poison your target while others poison
[12:11] you. And there are different
[12:12] interactions depending on whether you or
[12:14] your target is poisoned. So you could
[12:16] get some extra benefits from mixing and
[12:18] matching certain effects. This reminds
[12:20] me a lot of corruption powers from the
[12:22] end of BFA, except you'll have far more
[12:24] control over what powers you want to
[12:26] have active, but they'll only be on two
[12:27] slots of gear. They also probably won't
[12:30] be anywhere near as powerful as
[12:31] corruption effects were, but I guess
[12:32] we'll have to wait and see. There are
[12:34] some interesting and potentially very
[12:36] powerful effects that you can obtain
[12:38] from these souls. You can have up to two
[12:40] different powers active or maybe just
[12:42] double down on one effect. We'll have to
[12:43] wait and see what the best options end
[12:45] up being. The key here is that these
[12:48] effects will only work during season 2,
[12:50] so they're definitely more of a borrowed
[12:52] power type of deal, and they only work
[12:55] outside of dungeons and raids. So, as
[12:57] soon as you enter actual group content,
[12:59] they'll be totally worthless. So, these
[13:01] effects will help you in the open world
[13:03] while taking on rare bosses and in your
[13:05] delve runs, which means it's kind of for
[13:07] solo content players specifically.
[13:11] Moving on, patch 12.1 introduces a brand
[13:14] new dungeon for us to explore, the Altar
[13:16] of Fangs. As with everything else in
[13:18] this patch, expect lots of green poison
[13:20] pools and snake- like monsters. The
[13:22] dungeon isn't available for testing in
[13:24] this first build. So, we'll have to wait
[13:25] and see what the inside looks like, but
[13:27] we do know it's going to be a three boss
[13:29] dungeon and it's inside the vaults of
[13:31] Ital. So, I imagine it's going to be
[13:33] fairly important lorewise. This new
[13:36] dungeon will also be included with the
[13:37] season 2 mythic plus dungeon rotation.
[13:40] So, that's always exciting. We'll have
[13:41] the other four midnight dungeons that
[13:43] weren't a part of season 1. So, that's
[13:45] the Den of Narak, Murder Row, the
[13:47] Blinding Veil, and the Void Scar Arena.
[13:50] And then as per usual, we'll have some
[13:51] returning dungeons to round things out.
[13:53] This time we'll see the return of King's
[13:56] Rest, the Ruby Life Pools, and the
[13:58] Temple of Sethis. And I have to say, I
[14:00] was not expecting to see King's Rest or
[14:03] Temple of Sethis return, let alone
[14:06] return together in the same season. This
[14:08] will be an interesting lineup for sure.
[14:11] I just hope they're making some
[14:12] significant changes to those returning
[14:14] dungeons because they were quite painful
[14:16] back in the day.
[14:18] We'll also have a new raid to look
[14:20] forward to called the Venomous Abyss.
[14:22] This will be an eight boss raid full of
[14:24] venom snakes, trolls, and venom snake
[14:26] trolls. If you are getting a bit tired
[14:28] of the void blues and purples, this
[14:30] plastering of green should give you a
[14:32] nice break before we get back to the
[14:34] void in 12.2.
[14:36] Now, a new raid is always awesome, but
[14:39] 12.1 is overhauling raid loot in a
[14:42] massive way. So far in Midnight, raid
[14:44] loot has kind of fallen behind in terms
[14:46] of value for time invested, especially
[14:49] after the bonus rolls were introduced.
[14:51] They were also the only content type
[14:53] that didn't get better rewards from the
[14:55] weekly vault when compared to the
[14:57] content that you're running. All of that
[14:59] is going to change moving forward. The
[15:02] raid row in the weekly vault is getting
[15:03] a huge buff. So, every difficulty will
[15:06] now reward one tier up from what it
[15:08] actually drops. So, LFR weekly vaults
[15:10] will be champion, normal will be hero
[15:13] gear, heroic weekly vaults are now myth
[15:15] gear, and then mythic weekly vaults will
[15:17] always be six of six myth gear or myth 9
[15:20] gear for very rare loot or any gear from
[15:23] the last two bosses. This gives raiders
[15:25] far more access to myth track gear,
[15:27] which should be very useful if there are
[15:29] powerful best in slot items or trinkets.
[15:31] In season 1, you had to kill those
[15:33] bosses on mythic to get your myth
[15:35] versions, but now anyone killing heroic
[15:38] bosses will have a chance to get their
[15:39] best in slot raid gear. In addition, the
[15:43] last two bosses on mythic will always
[15:45] drop loot at myth 9. So 9 to 10 item
[15:48] levels above six of six myth track gear.
[15:51] That creates a huge jump from boss six
[15:53] to boss 7, where boss 6 drops item level
[15:56] 318 gear on mythic and bosses seven and
[15:59] eight drop item level 337 gear. So, not
[16:02] only will every vault reward be way
[16:04] better than before, but anyone who can
[16:06] push through to the last two mythic
[16:08] bosses will have the very best loot in
[16:10] the game waiting for them. As for
[16:13] specific raid loot, there are some
[16:15] potentially powerful trinkets on offer,
[16:17] a bunch of cantrip weapons that apply
[16:19] poisons or debuffs, and a special set
[16:21] bonus tied to a trinket, a strength
[16:23] two-handed axe, and an agility
[16:25] one-handed axe. So, you'd need the
[16:27] trinket and one of the weapons to
[16:28] trigger the two set bonus, which could
[16:30] end up being quite strong if it's tuned
[16:33] right.
[16:34] That's not all for the big loot changes
[16:36] in 12.1. Bonus rolls will be returning
[16:39] and they're available right from the
[16:41] start of season 2 as a consolation prize
[16:44] in the weekly vault. So, if you don't
[16:45] get a good item in your vault, you'll be
[16:47] able to pick up a bonus roll instead to
[16:49] try for something specific. So, it's
[16:52] kind of like getting two chances for an
[16:53] upgrade in every single weekly vault.
[16:56] After 8 weeks in the season, we'll be
[16:58] able to pick up one bonus roll every
[16:59] week for the rest of the season. And
[17:01] there will be no weekly quests tied to
[17:03] their acquisition this time. So, no
[17:05] crazy void forge to keep up with or
[17:07] anything like that. So, at that point,
[17:09] we'll be able to gear up much faster.
[17:11] Not quite as fast as season 1 if you're
[17:13] using bonus rolls on mythic plus
[17:15] dungeons, but having two chances per
[17:17] vault to get an upgrade might make up
[17:19] the difference as long as you're playing
[17:20] the character. Gearing up any of your
[17:22] alts later on in the season will
[17:24] definitely be slower, though. And then
[17:27] the last change for bonus rolls is that
[17:28] raid loot will only cost one roll in
[17:31] season 2, down from two. So that levels
[17:33] the playing field even further. Bonus
[17:35] rolls will still reward you with loot
[17:37] based on the weekly vault reward for the
[17:38] content you're doing, which means
[17:40] raiders will benefit from the increased
[17:42] vault rewards while using their bonus
[17:44] roles, giving you even easier access to
[17:46] myth track gear. And every other content
[17:48] type will work the same way as season 1.
[17:52] Something else that's changing quite a
[17:54] bit as we head into season 2 is the way
[17:56] in which the catalyst works. Previously,
[17:58] the catalyst would turn any piece of
[18:00] tier slot gear into the tier piece
[18:02] itself. The stats were fixed to what the
[18:04] actual item would have if you obtained
[18:06] it from the raid. That's going to change
[18:08] in season 2. The resulting tier piece
[18:11] will now inherit the secondary stats,
[18:13] tertiary stats, and even special cantrip
[18:16] effects of the item that you're
[18:17] converting.
[18:18] I'm in two minds about this because on
[18:21] one hand, having fixed stats meant you
[18:23] just had to pick the four best tier
[18:25] pieces for your current stat
[18:26] preferences. You couldn't really do much
[18:28] about the stats if they weren't ideal.
[18:30] But the four set usually trumps perfect
[18:32] stats. So, oh well, off you go. But in a
[18:35] world where you can specifically target
[18:37] best in slot stats on each piece of tier
[18:40] gear, that creates a new kind of grind.
[18:43] It's also going to be interesting if
[18:44] folks who mainly raid find themselves
[18:46] wanting a specific piece from Mythic
[18:48] Plus to convert into a tier piece or
[18:49] Mythic Plus folks wanting a specific
[18:51] piece from the raid. It moves the
[18:54] goalposts of best in slot gear just a
[18:56] bit further out. So, it's going to take
[18:58] longer overall if that's your goal. With
[19:01] that being said, if you love to minmax
[19:03] your gear and don't mind spending extra
[19:05] time getting the perfect item, this
[19:07] change is going to be great for you.
[19:09] It's also worth noting that there are a
[19:11] lot of cantrip effects in the new patch,
[19:13] especially from the raid. So being able
[19:15] to carry those forward onto tier set
[19:17] gear lets you use the cantrip without
[19:20] being forced to give up a tier set slot.
[19:23] One problem I do see is that it might
[19:25] discourage some players from converting
[19:27] gear early on in the season if the stats
[19:29] on your gear aren't great. It's not
[19:31] going to feel amazing spending a
[19:33] catalyst charge to get a bad piece of
[19:35] tier set, something that wasn't really a
[19:38] thing in the past. But with how catalyst
[19:40] charges work, it will still be better to
[19:42] get your for set as early as possible.
[19:44] Even if every tier piece you have has
[19:46] Baz stats on it, it's just going to be a
[19:48] bit of a mental hurdle to overcome for
[19:50] some folks, I think. Now, the prey
[19:54] feature hasn't been left out of the fun.
[19:55] You'll be able to accept new prey hunts
[19:57] for the coiled aisle zone with new snake
[19:59] and troll themed targets to take down.
[20:02] The affixes for hard and nightmare prey
[20:04] hunts have been replaced with a few new
[20:05] ones that cause snakes to spawn while in
[20:07] combat. Enemies will explode with
[20:09] venomous snakes when killed, and you'll
[20:11] have toxic nets thrown at you while in
[20:14] combat. So, all in all, dodge the bad
[20:16] stuff. There also seems to be a new boss
[20:19] encounter tied to Nightmare Prey Hunt
[20:21] specifically. You can summon Ralcala,
[20:24] Terror of the Isisle, while in Nightmare
[20:26] mode, and you can increase the rewards
[20:28] earned by offering more relics while
[20:30] summoning the boss. This doesn't seem
[20:31] available for testing right now as you
[20:33] can't really get on the prey track. So,
[20:35] we'll see how this shapes up in a future
[20:37] PTR build. The rewards seem to have
[20:40] remained more or less the same for your
[20:41] standard prey hunts with rewards capping
[20:43] out on nightmare difficulty. You'll be
[20:45] able to pick up champion gear, champion
[20:47] and hero crests and a couple of those
[20:49] new corrosive soul items. There will
[20:52] also be a new prey seasonal track to
[20:54] work through with similar rewards as
[20:55] season 1, as well as new cosmetics,
[20:58] housing decor, profession recipes, and a
[21:00] handful of other fun items. But one
[21:02] thing does stick out here. At rank four,
[21:05] you'll be able to loot afflicted souls
[21:07] from your bountiful delves, and you can
[21:09] use these souls to speed up your hunt
[21:11] progress and to earn bonus champion
[21:13] track gear. At rank nine, you'll get an
[21:15] upgrade to that passive effect, allowing
[21:17] you to spend tormented souls to earn
[21:20] bonus hero track equipment instead. So,
[21:22] not only will you be able to earn hero
[21:24] gear from delves after reaching rank
[21:26] nine on the delve seasonal journey track
[21:28] again, but you can then get hero gear
[21:30] from prey hunts at rank nine on their
[21:32] seasonal track, too. That should let
[21:34] prey hunts remain relevant for longer
[21:36] throughout the season.
[21:39] Another feature seeing some huge updates
[21:40] in this patch is housing. Houses will
[21:42] now be able to level up to level 12,
[21:44] increasing decor limits and opening up
[21:46] large exteriors. You can now also move
[21:48] your entryway into any room in the
[21:50] house, including other floors. So, if
[21:52] you put your entryway upstairs, it
[21:55] should feel and look like you have a
[21:56] basement, which is kind of cool. But the
[21:59] big new feature is blueprints. be able
[22:02] to save, import, and export blueprints
[22:04] for entire houses, which includes the
[22:06] interior and exterior, just the
[22:09] interior, just the exterior, or a single
[22:11] room. So, you can save everything
[22:13] peacemeal or the whole thing together.
[22:16] If you want to steal just one specific
[22:17] room from your friends or neighborhoods,
[22:19] you can do that, too, if they're kind
[22:21] enough to give you the blueprint.
[22:23] Anyway, when you import a blueprint, it
[22:25] will give you a list of everything
[22:26] included in it, and it will note
[22:28] anything that you don't have unlocked,
[22:30] so you can easily see what you might
[22:32] need to farm or track down to complete
[22:34] that import. We'll also have a new house
[22:36] permission called export. So, if you
[22:38] want players who come into your house to
[22:40] be able to save your stuff to a
[22:41] blueprint, that's going to be an option
[22:43] as well. And while this doesn't help
[22:45] with quickly copying and pasting
[22:47] existing items or duplicating complex
[22:50] creations and being able to move them
[22:51] around freely, it is a huge step forward
[22:54] that will definitely help players try
[22:56] out new things in their home away from
[22:57] home.
[22:59] Something else that a lot of players
[23:01] have been asking for is finally making
[23:03] its way into housing, pet beds. You'll
[23:05] be able to place down beds for your
[23:07] favorite companion pets, and they'll
[23:08] even be able to roam around your house.
[23:10] will be able to place up to 10 beds
[23:12] inside and five beds outside. And you
[23:15] can set your pets to either stationary
[23:17] or roaming, so you get to choose how
[23:19] your pets behave. If only it was that
[23:21] easy in real life. Now, we're only one
[23:23] step away from showing off our mounts in
[23:25] housing as well. There will also be
[23:28] several new endeavors to keep that
[23:30] system fresh and interesting. We'll have
[23:32] the Ammani trolls, Onorum Plains,
[23:34] Centaurs, Cobalts, and Torlin themed
[23:36] neighborhood shenanigans to look forward
[23:38] to. And then the dye system is getting
[23:41] streamlined significantly. So it's going
[23:43] to take up way less space in your bags.
[23:45] So instead of needing a specific item to
[23:48] apply each shade of blue, there's now
[23:50] just going to be a general blue dye item
[23:52] that can apply any blue shade. This
[23:54] means you won't ever need more than nine
[23:56] dye items in your bags. And you can
[23:58] apply any shade of any color that you
[24:01] might want. There are also new die
[24:02] colors that have been added, including
[24:04] some that replicate the darker
[24:06] appearances from before the 1205 bugs
[24:08] were fixed.
[24:10] And then to round out this video, there
[24:12] are quite a few interesting user
[24:14] interface updates, including Discord
[24:16] integration. Guild leaders or officers
[24:18] will be able to link guild chat to a
[24:20] Discord channel, which lets you talk to
[24:22] your guild from Discord and vice versa.
[24:25] You can have the Discord chat plugged
[24:26] straight into guild chat or create a new
[24:28] chat channel specifically for guild
[24:30] Discord, so you can ask if anyone wants
[24:32] to run a dungeon or jump into some PvP
[24:34] without them even being logged into the
[24:37] game. This is definitely very
[24:39] interesting and could fix the problem of
[24:40] many guild communities being focused
[24:42] around Discord servers rather than
[24:44] in-game, which can leave guild chat
[24:47] empty in many cases. The cooldown
[24:49] manager will now be able to track
[24:51] trinkets and potions, so you can track
[24:53] consumables much better. And healers
[24:55] will have even more options for how to
[24:57] display important buffs and spells they
[24:59] might want to keep track of. The ping
[25:01] system has a lot of changes coming for
[25:03] it, too. You'll now be able to ping
[25:04] spells on your action bar and the
[25:06] cooldown manager to announce in chat how
[25:08] long is left on your cooldowns, so you
[25:10] can quickly and easily let your party
[25:12] know when you have big cooldowns ready
[25:14] to go or when you have nothing left in
[25:16] the tank. You'll also be able to ping
[25:18] your resources like your health bar to
[25:20] announce that in chat which immediately
[25:23] gives me flashbacks to Overwatch with
[25:25] players spamming I need healing. I'm not
[25:27] sure if healers need to be spammed with
[25:30] 40% health remaining pings as players
[25:32] stand in the bad stuff, but I guess
[25:34] we'll see how it pans out. And then
[25:36] you'll also have the option to ping just
[25:38] the environment, just units or both. So
[25:41] you can ping straight through UI
[25:43] elements and players if you actually
[25:44] want to ping the floor. So, that's going
[25:46] to be a nice change, too. And then the
[25:49] last UI update worth noting in this
[25:51] initial preview is for the currency tab.
[25:53] There are a lot more sub filters for
[25:55] midnight currencies, which should help
[25:56] keep things a bit tidier as we
[25:58] accumulate more and more currencies with
[26:00] each patch and season.
[26:03] Patch 12.1 will also include a lot of
[26:06] class changes, far too many to cover in
[26:09] this video. We'll go over those in
[26:10] detail as part of our weekly news video
[26:12] instead. But as a general overview, the
[26:15] dev team are looking to take a lot of
[26:17] damage and throughput out of cooldowns.
[26:20] So nerfing cooldowns across the board
[26:22] and then putting that damage into the
[26:23] base rotation instead. So your cooldowns
[26:26] won't be as powerful and in some cases
[26:28] they're getting nerfed quite
[26:29] considerably, but you should be dealing
[26:31] more damage baseline and hopefully it
[26:34] all evens out over the course of an
[26:35] encounter or dungeon. We also have our
[26:39] first look at the new set bonuses coming
[26:40] in patch 12.1. And the dev team want
[26:43] these new bonuses to be more involved
[26:45] and a bit more complicated when compared
[26:47] to season 1. So, they should change your
[26:49] priority, your rotation, or your talent
[26:51] choices in most cases. As with the class
[26:54] changes, going over each class set would
[26:56] be a bit much for this video, so we'll
[26:58] cover those in a separate video instead.
[27:00] I will give you a link to the patch
[27:02] notes in the comments section so you can
[27:03] read over everything for yourself if you
[27:05] don't want to wait for the videos
[27:07] though. But that's all of the new
[27:09] content coming our way in patch 12.1
[27:11] from the very first PTR build. As you
[27:14] can see, it's a pretty huge patch with a
[27:17] lot to look forward to. And I imagine
[27:18] more stuff is just going to keep getting
[27:20] added in as the weeks go by. And the
[27:22] class changes especially will undergo
[27:24] many updates before patch 12.1 arrives
[27:27] sometime in August. What do you think
[27:30] from what you've seen so far? And what
[27:32] are you most looking forward to in the
[27:34] new patch? The new zone, a new season,
[27:36] or maybe something else. Leave all your
[27:38] thoughts in the comments section below.
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[28:00] always, I will see you next time.