8.1.7 Patch Notes

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8.1.7 Patch Notes

New & Updated Features

New Zone: The Grind Isle
- A new island has emerged off the coast off Stormsong Valley. There are no treasures or rare creatures. (There are creatures labeled as rare which respawn every 5 minutes though. The rare label is removed once you kill it for the first time.)
- Team up with your friends and kill creatures.
- The island will be story-gated despite the fact that there is no story. To progress further into the island, the player must complete the weekly quest chains. These storylines will be spread across eight weeks! Based off our data, we know players love this type of content.

Story and World

  • To help players enjoy world content again, we are adding over five new world quests! Enjoy!
  • The data has indicated that players thoroughly enjoy world quests. We plan on adding over twenty new world quests in the next major update!
  • The item level cap for world quests is now 420. You can be on par with a mythic raider just by doing world quests now!

Portals

  • The cataclysm portals have been removed. What content are folks doing in like Uldum or twilight highlands that the portals help so much with?

Changes

Azerite

  • From our data, we can clearly see that players are enjoying the azerite grind. With that said, we will be increasing the level cap to 500.
  • With the new azerite level cap, we have increased the level requirement for azerite traits drastically.

Mission Table

  • We have added twenty new missions that involve Nazjatar! Send your followers to retrieve the naga loot! (8.2 will not contain Nazjatar.)

Reputation

  • The old reputations are too creative compared to the ones we have today. To fix this issue, we have made every single reputation in the game a world quest ONLY grind. We are excited to see the data for this.

Classes

  • A crazy little imp has hacked into our systems and now all class spells are on a ten-minute cooldown. Luckily, we have added a toy to fix this madness!

Items

  • Players can buy the “Spell Cooldown Fixer” toy from the in-game shop for only $60 to fix their class spell cooldowns.
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Great when can I sign up for the beta?
I have feedback noone wants to hear.

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Yawn.

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You seem upset

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One time use only, one hour duration and does not persist through death.

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I know it’s a April Fools joke, but not gonna lie I wouldn’t mind some older reps get the WQ/Emissary treatment. Like the Timbermaw or the Netherwing Drakes. With how fast getting modern reps to Exalted (if you do Emissary’s when they pop up) is I would love that for older reps.

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I was seven minutes into a ten minute rant about those patch notes before l realized…

  1. I have been drinking…a lot.
  2. It is April Fool’s day.