Now Available For Testing
Celestial Dungeons
The new Season 3 Celestial Dungeons are now available.
In this patch, players will finally confront Garrosh Hellscream for his crimes against the Horde, the Alliance, and Pandaria. They’ll soon find that the Warchief and his Kor’kron Guard have taken over more than just the Horde capital of Orgrimmar. They also control every Mists of Pandaria dungeon. Players will face Kor’kron soldiers throughout the dungeons and some of Garrosh’s most elite followers will appear to strengthen the dungeon bosses. To survive the new challenges ahead of them, players will need to petition the Celestials for their most powerful blessings.
New Enemy Buffs
- Glory to the True Horde: Creatures in the Celestial Dungeons will have their Damage and Health increased.
- Kor’kron Banners: Banners are now planted throughout the dungeons that empower nearby enemies
- Periodically, a boss is influenced by Garrosh Hellscream, and will use an ability based on one of his loyal followers from the Siege of Orgrimmar Raid.
- General Nazgrim, Wavebinder Kardis, and Siegecrafter Blackfuse have answered Garrosh’s call to arms.
New Player Buffs
Sensing the impending conflict against the Kor’kron, the Celestials have a final empowering boon that is bestowed upon players when all four Celestials are summoned simultaneously. The stars themselves will reshape in the sky to signify this immense moment.
- Celestial Witness
- Witnessing the arrival of the August Celestials infuses players with the Celestial Witness buff, increasing their Damage and Healing done, and reducing their damage taken for an extended period.
Transmog
The new Transmog system is now available. Gold costs will be adjusted in a future PTR build.
Item Updates
CURRENCIES
- New Currency creation August Stone Clusters (3rd August Celestial Currency).
- Daily Quest updated to grant the new currency when the 3rd Celestial phase is active.
- Introduced the same currency conversion to the Throne of Thunder Celestial dungeon currency, allowing you to downgrade your currency to the old August Stones, buy Valor, buy Justice, transfer August stones to characters on your account, and buy mount/pet loot boxes.
VENDORS
- Vendor created and placed in both shrines for Horde and Alliance.
- Vendor list creation. Including placing all items on the vendor lists, conditioning them based on class/requirements, and applying extended costs based on the new currency to all of them.
- Updating the costs for all of the ‘Legendary Quest’ progression available from the Throne of Thunder Vendor, to now also be available from the Siege of Orgrimmar Celestial Vendor at 50% the cost of the Throne of Thunder Vendor’s. This means if you’re trying to catch up, you’ll be able to buy the pieces twice as fast from these August Stone Clusters when the final version of Celestial Dungeons release.
DUNGEONS
- All final bosses of Celestial Dungeons now drop Siege of Orgrimmar Celestial items and all of their loot tables have been updated to reflect that. These loot tables turn on with the release of the Celestial Dungeon Phase 3.
- Dungeon bosses all drop the new currency.
UPGRADES
- Players can now upgrade their items 2 times. The additional 2 will be introduced later on, just like in original MoP.
- If you are upgrading Non-Warforged Items - it will cost 250 Valor Points per upgrade and you may upgrade twice for 7 item levels each (total of 14). This makes Non-Warforged items on par with Warforged items.
- If you are upgrading a Warforged Item - it will cost 1000 Justice Points per upgrade and you may upgrade twice for 4 item levels each (total of 8).
- The Legendary cape starts with 2/2 upgrades automatically. This was a change back in the day that we’re going to keep.
PvP
- Updated the Base Resilience from 65% to 72% (71% in 2s, 72% in 3s and open world, and 73% in 5s). 72% was the original 5.4.0 release Base Resilience for the season.
- Updated Battle Fatigue from 45% to 55% reduction in healing. 55% is the original 5.4.0 release Battle Fatigue.
The following features are not currently available for testing
- Challenge Mode updates
- Proving Grounds
Known Issues
We are tracking the following known issues and we are working to address them.
General
- Heirloom items levels don’t increase with character level, although the stats do increase.
- Fishing pole items become invisible when equipped to the main hand.
Celestial Dungeons
- The Extra Action Button appears in the top left of the screen, instead of lower middle.
- Hovering over the Celestial Power UI bar gives a LUA error.
- The previous bosses’ health will be displayed on the right under the minimap until you engage the next boss.
Timeless Isle
- Censor of Eternal Agony and Fire-Watcher’s Oath turn players transparent instead of red.
Class & Combat
- Hunter
- Aspect of the Iron Hawk appears on 2 slots after logout.
- Warlock
- Selecting the Demonology specialization causes a LUA error.
- Highlighting the Demonology resource bar causes a LUA error.
User Interface
- Opening the Pet Collections UI causes a LUA error.
- Scrolling in the Interface tab causes a LUA error.
- Nameplates are using the modern WoW version instead of the Classic one.
- Purchasing additional Transmog outfit slots causes a LUA error.