The Best, Worst and Weirdest Things Coming in 12.1 - Saturday WoW News

[00:00] Hi, I'm Hazel. It's Saturday today,

[00:02] which makes it time to sit down and

[00:04] catch up on the WoW news of the week.

[00:07] This week, we got lots of news. Blizzard

[00:09] has freshly announced patch 12.1, hot on

[00:12] the heels of the release of patch

[00:13] 12.0.7.

[00:15] We don't have a release date yet, so

[00:17] that is still up in the air, although

[00:18] there are rumors it could be soon. It

[00:21] could be not so soon. It probably won't

[00:23] be too long. There's not a world in

[00:25] which they leave us languishing until

[00:26] Christmas time. What we did find out is

[00:29] lots and lots of details about

[00:31] everything that is coming in the new

[00:33] patch. Lots of it is kind of stuff that

[00:35] you might expect for a new season and

[00:37] some things are surprising. I want to in

[00:39] this video focus on the things that I

[00:41] was most excited about or surprised by

[00:43] and then kind of dig more into various

[00:46] topics as we get closer to the patch

[00:47] release. The thing that stood out to me

[00:49] the most from the patch 12.1

[00:51] announcement were the housing updates.

[00:54] There are quite a few of them. Firstly,

[00:56] our housing blueprints. This is the long

[00:59] for spoken about ability to save a

[01:03] house, export a house, import a house,

[01:05] or indeed just a room. Save your whole

[01:08] layout and then reset it to play with it

[01:10] and then revert back. These are all

[01:12] blueprint things and they are coming in

[01:13] 12.1.

[01:15] I am super impressed that this feature

[01:17] is going to be ready that soon. When

[01:18] they first had talked about this in a

[01:20] blog post, it really sounded like a very

[01:22] down the road thing. I'm hoping that it

[01:25] works well. I think that they know how

[01:28] bad it would be if they promised that

[01:30] you could save something and then it

[01:32] like messed it up. You know, people are

[01:35] going to be kind of relying on this. So,

[01:37] you know, hopefully it's in good shape

[01:39] when they ship it. I do think that

[01:41] template houses are going to be super

[01:42] fun to import to start off from. It'll

[01:45] be super fun to make versions of them

[01:47] that you can share with people. This is

[01:48] going to give a lot of people the

[01:49] freedom that they need to kind of let

[01:51] loose and actually try new things

[01:52] without worrying about throwing away

[01:54] everything they've done with their house

[01:55] up until this point. But that's not the

[01:57] only thing that is coming for housing in

[01:59] 12.1. Pets are going to be placeable in

[02:01] houses in 12.1. You'll be able to place

[02:03] a pet bed in your house and then choose

[02:05] to either have the pet that you

[02:07] associate chill on the bed or you can

[02:09] have it wander and kind of path around

[02:11] the house. And that's not all. There's

[02:13] going to be four new endeavors promising

[02:14] new decor. The themes are knockoff

[02:17] Ammani with our favorite uh knockoff um

[02:21] vendor Grifta. There's also going to be

[02:23] an anar and centaur endeavor, a cobalt

[02:25] endeavor, and Tortolins. And each of

[02:28] those will have, you know, themed decor

[02:29] that's going to be available from that

[02:30] endeavor. So, excellent categories for

[02:32] new decor. It'll be nice to have another

[02:34] reason to get kind of excited about

[02:35] endeavors and pay attention to them. I

[02:37] was very into them before midnight

[02:39] launched and then once we actually got

[02:40] midnight content to play, I can't

[02:42] remember really. They kind of happened

[02:43] by accident and by then I'd already

[02:44] bought everything. So, new ones will be

[02:46] fun. And then they are expanding and

[02:48] streamlining dye and die crafting. So,

[02:51] they're moving into a system where there

[02:53] will be fewer types of pigments to craft

[02:55] from and then more types of dye that you

[02:57] can make, more colors of dye that you'll

[02:59] be able to use. They had quite an

[03:01] interesting um write up about this and

[03:03] kind of like why they've done this and

[03:06] how they got there, but effectively

[03:07] they're trying to make it so that you

[03:09] can craft and make a various dyes

[03:11] without needing to use like a 100 mag

[03:12] slots. And also evidently they had

[03:15] patched a bug that was dealing with

[03:17] colors after the housing had come out,

[03:20] but in doing so kind of changed the way

[03:22] some of them were looking because they

[03:23] hadn't been looking correct and people

[03:25] had already kind of designed around the

[03:27] bugged version of the color. So, one of

[03:29] the things that they're doing is they're

[03:31] patching in new colors of dye that kind

[03:33] of replace those old versions of them.

[03:36] It's an interesting read if you're into

[03:37] housing. I will link it below. Also,

[03:39] level 12 houses are coming. More house

[03:41] levels, which of course is going to mean

[03:42] more budget and the ability to move your

[03:45] house entry to anywhere in your house,

[03:47] including different floors, which

[03:49] effectively enables basements. If you

[03:51] have been dying to have a basement for

[03:52] your gaming room or what have you,

[03:54] whatever else people do with basements,

[03:56] you'll be able to move your entryway to

[03:58] an upstairs floor and then effectively,

[04:00] you know, in in in the brain, which I

[04:03] think is where most of these things are

[04:04] happening, you know, the ground floor is

[04:06] now the basement. So, those are the

[04:07] broadstrokes of the housing things. I'm

[04:09] excited to dig into that more in PTR.

[04:11] But that's not all that's coming in

[04:12] 12.1, of course. Other things that

[04:15] surprised me, updated pings. This is a

[04:17] little one, but it was kind of cool.

[04:18] You're going to be able to ping a spell

[04:21] on your bar in 12.1 to communicate its

[04:23] status. So, for example, you could be

[04:25] running along in your mythic plus

[04:27] dungeon in a pug and you could ping your

[04:29] cool down to let the tank know that your

[04:30] cooldown is available. So, you know, it

[04:32] might be time for like a fun pull or you

[04:34] could you could ping your defensives as

[04:36] a healer to let them know that they're

[04:38] not available [snorts]

[04:39] and it is not time for a fun pull.

[04:42] [sighs and gasps] You'll also be able to

[04:43] ping your own unit frame to communicate

[04:45] the status of your own health bar to

[04:47] alert somebody to their decreasing

[04:48] health or as I foresee happening to

[04:51] harass your healer about your health

[04:53] when they already know when they're

[04:54] working on it. [sighs and gasps]

[04:56] People wouldn't do that, would they? The

[04:59] ping system is one of those things that

[05:00] has turned out to be very useful and has

[05:03] kind of crept into my WoW life over

[05:04] time. So, I'm always excited to see them

[05:06] kind of iterating and working on it.

[05:09] Another new feature coming in 12.1 that

[05:12] is exciting but also was a little

[05:14] confusing to me is something called

[05:16] layers, which is what they're doing for

[05:19] world bosses.

[05:20] So, they're taking world bosses, new

[05:24] ones, and instead of having them out in

[05:26] the world, they're putting them into

[05:28] their own one boss instance, kind of

[05:31] like a delver like the ritual site. So

[05:32] you'll you'll go to the spa and you'll

[05:34] be able to join an instance of that

[05:37] world boss, which is nice because that

[05:39] takes I think the zone leg out of the

[05:41] equation. I think world bosses have had

[05:43] a lot of impact on zone performance. So

[05:45] moving them into their own instances

[05:46] should help that and also makes

[05:48] performance better on the world boss

[05:49] itself. Um there's going to be summoning

[05:52] stones and there's also interestingly

[05:54] going to be various difficulties for the

[05:56] world bosses scaling all the way up to

[05:58] flex mythic with 15 to 25 players. The

[06:01] thing that I got hung up on when I was

[06:03] reading about this and watching the

[06:04] announcement is if you go into an

[06:07] instance and you're finding yourself a

[06:09] group and you're summoning people and

[06:11] you're choosing a difficulty up to

[06:13] mythic,

[06:16] is that not just a one boss raid? What

[06:20] is the difference between these new

[06:22] layers and what we had for Sporefall?

[06:24] And it's okay if there's no difference.

[06:26] That's that's fine. I just kind of want

[06:27] to know where they fit into the the

[06:30] hierarchy of WoW bosses. And I'll

[06:32] probably know that once I actually get

[06:33] on to PTR and uh see things like the

[06:36] loot level and I guess the difficulty

[06:38] levels of them because it sounds a lot

[06:40] like a raid boss. I've been having a lot

[06:43] of fun in sportfall. I think Rott Meer

[06:44] is a good time and I don't I'm not

[06:46] opposed to them doing more of that. I'm

[06:48] just I guess it being positioned as the

[06:52] thing for world bosses but then having

[06:54] like all the different difficulties is

[06:55] throwing me off. I'm just trying to

[06:56] figure out like how to how to think

[06:58] about it. What is it? It's quacking like

[07:01] a duck and it's got a beak like a duck,

[07:03] but I just don't want to throw it into

[07:04] my pond and then it turns out it was a

[07:06] chicken and it can't swim so good.

[07:10] I don't have to make sense. Other

[07:12] [snorts] things coming. One interesting

[07:16] one is they're announcing the ability to

[07:19] connect Battlelet and Discord. They've

[07:22] got this new Discord integration coming

[07:24] and it sounds like when set up you'll be

[07:26] able to use this to send messages to

[07:29] Discord, like to your guild Discord

[07:31] directly from your in-game client chat

[07:34] and vice versa, like send a message in

[07:36] Discord that will hit a certain tab or

[07:38] channel of Guild chat in game. They have

[07:40] a whole post about it that explains like

[07:42] how you'll be able to set it up and what

[07:44] it specifically does. And I read through

[07:47] the whole thing and maybe I'm just too

[07:50] antisocial for this, but I don't really

[07:53] get the point of this one because in my

[07:55] brain and I'm I have Discord, you know,

[07:57] that's how I that's how I talk with

[07:59] guild during raids and stuff, but like

[08:01] if you're playing WoW

[08:03] and you're on a PC because that's how we

[08:05] play WoW and you're a Discord user, you

[08:09] probably are also running Discord on

[08:12] your PC.

[08:14] like you're probably you have both on

[08:16] either separate tabs or monitors. Maybe

[08:17] it's to make it easier for like guildies

[08:19] that can't make it to raid to use their

[08:21] phones to let the guild know. Although I

[08:24] think you can be message from your

[08:25] phone, but I don't know. I don't I don't

[08:27] know if anybody who does that. I guess

[08:28] I'm just struggling to see what the use

[08:30] case is for it, but I'm sure people will

[08:32] use it. Anyway, I might just be too much

[08:34] of a social hermit for this one. Perhaps

[08:35] other people will be making good use of

[08:37] that. Other things coming, all of the

[08:40] things you'd expect from a new major

[08:41] patch. There's going to be a new zone.

[08:43] is called the coil dial this time and

[08:45] it's going to have its own custom talent

[08:46] tree to provide outdoor power and

[08:48] quality of life perks in the zone. I did

[08:51] get very brief flashbacks to the MA when

[08:54] they announced that for a quick second,

[08:56] but it it might be fine. It looks fun.

[08:58] There will be po dangerous rivers of

[09:00] poison to cross and we'll just figure

[09:02] that out. There will be a new reputation

[09:04] coming with a Tortullan sea captain

[09:06] associated with a new thing called

[09:07] cursed fishing. Um you'll be unlocking

[09:10] cursed fishing spots which sounds kind

[09:11] of cool. There's of course going to be a

[09:13] new raid. It'll be eight bosses. It

[09:15] seems very troll themed. Looks cool.

[09:17] Lots of snakes. Uh raid testing for that

[09:19] is starting very shortly um next week,

[09:21] Thursday, Friday. So, we'll be hands- on

[09:23] with that pretty soon. There are two new

[09:25] proper delves and then a third nemesis

[09:27] delve coming. And there's also going to

[09:29] be a brand new prey season. Prey will be

[09:31] kept up to date. There will be new prey

[09:32] targets and affixes to deal with on the

[09:35] coiled aisle. Speaking of seasonal

[09:37] stuff, the seasonal dungeon pool was

[09:39] announced. It looks like this. We have

[09:41] the four midnight dungeons that were

[09:43] announced that we haven't seen yet as

[09:45] expected. A fifth one that is a brand

[09:47] new three boss dungeon that they just

[09:48] announced with 12.1 and three returning

[09:51] dungeons which are ruby life pools uh

[09:55] lovingly known as ruin my life pools to

[09:57] 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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