20th Anniversary Celebration Update Notes

Blizzard balancing fire around the 1% parses that pad damage in mythic raid

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Is the anniversary and a bunch of talent changes all thatā€™s happening?

Is there more story for the current expansion included in this patch? The notes donā€™t mention it, but I donā€™t know if itā€™s just assumed that the game story will move forward some.

Fixed for you. Yes, I want to know about the changes I care about more than the changes I donā€™t. Iā€™m crazy like that.

Do you need The War Within to access the other classes for Dracthyr?

Is there some reason you didnā€™t just do a weekly bronze cap and give bronze from a variety of sources like you did in MoP remix?

Why for example do you think thereā€™s value in pushing people back into doing the wax weekly they may not have bothered to do in weeks?

Iā€™d rather just farm bronze in timewalking or something instead of having to try to track a list of weekly chores to do.

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WoW day 1 of patch with hundreds of players in all the major zones:
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The word for the 20th Anniversary event is ā€œunderwhelmingā€. The entire look of the celebration area is dang near monochromatic in color, stark, and barren. No animations, no colors or surprises, uninterested NPCs posted there like they donā€™t like their job. The happiest looking area is Appleboughā€™s fruit cart. Where is the celebration? Not even an ingame mail from the devs and Blizz to the WoW community touting 20 years of battles fought and won, the journey of millions together. Not even commemorated with a little pet or a cool mount or a freaking balloon that actually refers to the 20th anniversary? We couldnā€™t even bring in our entire guild raid team to raid together on for the Anniversary. Not to mention all the events are grind grind grind to get anywhere with them and then only tiny amounts given of the key so that it guarantees people with limited time will only get an item or two if they bust out that grind. My entire guild was so excited for the Anniversary Event and it is a slap in the face to all our years spent in a game we love. WTF Blizz? So disappointing.

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Blizzard saw how players preferred that and decided doing it again was giving players too much choice.

The Maintenance Within

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Iā€™m really struggling to reach my bronze token goals and Iā€™m going line by line down the list of 20th anniversary achievements in the guide. Its imposable to find a group for the raid, thereā€™s no find group option and I just get sent in solo to black rock depths. Overall, Iā€™m kind of burnt out and tired of this event. Iā€™m also convinced the fireworks achievement is unobtainable because it was copy and pasted for the 19th anniversary and unlike the 19th anniversary no fireworks were given to players this year because like mentioned before, no mailbox items were sent this year. This has been a super underwhelming way to highlight 20 years.

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Just want to clearify this detail, in this note, for Shaman it says:

Restoration

  • New Talent ā€“ Coalescing Water: Chain Heal increases the initial healing of your next Riptide by 75%, stacking up to 2 times and Chain Healā€™s mana cost is reduced by 15%. Reactive Warding now also allows Earth Shield and Water Shield to consume charges of the shields 1 second faster.

But in game it says mana cost is reduced by 10%?
I also checked the hotfixes but did not find any related entry.