Is this implying that they will remain Awakened permanently? Or only for the duration of the pre-patch?
I hope it’s not permanently, as not only is that redundant as the expac will be over, but that it’ would scale all of DF’s raids up to the highest difficulty permanently at the end of an expac, beyond what their original difficulty was, which will make soloing DF’s raids as legacy content in the future unnecessarily far more difficult. It will also make it near impossible to obtain transmog of the non-S4 tier sets as those old tokens do not drop anymore.
Please do not do this if this is a permanent change. Or just allow us to turn Awakened off entirely when we go into the raid so we can have access to the original difficulty level with their original loot tables and tier sets.