Season End and New Content Reminders

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With the Ghosts of K’aresh patch on Tuesday, August 5, we’re taking a new approach to ending a season and opening new content. So that players can immediately start gearing up and enjoying everything new, the majority of Ghosts of K’aresh content will be available from the start, including the new campaign chapters 1-3, Reshii Wraps, the new dungeon pool on Normal, Heroic, and Mythic (0) difficulties, class updates, the new world boss, and all of the new tiers of Delves (except Bountiful).

Please note that The War Within Season 2 is ending with the end of the current week of content. All seasonal rewards and titles will cease to be obtainable when the season ends as we go into maintenance to deploy the Ghosts of K’aresh patch on Tuesday, August 5.

For PvP, Season 2 ends at 10:00 p.m. PDT on Monday, August 4.

We hope everyone trying for seasonal rewards has a glorious push to the finish!

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Does this mean you won’t wipe crests and item upgrades until maintenance? Typically it’s like midnight the night before.

To be honest it’s a little hard to follow what any of this means in practical terms.

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S2 crests disappear. You can start earning S3 gear and crests Tuesday but you won’t have access to the raid, M+, or bountiful delves until the full season launch.

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Soo all ends on 5th August or 12th August?

I mean Seasonal Achievements.

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S2 stuff ends on the 5th. The S3 raid/M+ season starts on the 12th.

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hey Kaivax, can you tell one of the devs that’s still there at the office/hasn’t clocked out yet to flip a switch and turn Collector’s Bounty buff back on? Just for the weekend? :pleading_face:

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can we please just have all the quest campaign chapters available in week one so we can finish it and just get it over with?

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Why you guys bully blood so much

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Certainly doesn’t affect me but announcing that CE will be over a week earlier than usual 4 days before the end of the season seems pretty silly. Guilds who might already be done for the week have likely made their plans assuming they’d still be able to get CE next week (which again is how it usually works), surely this deserves at least a few weeks of notice.

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Can you confirm if the mad title from visions is going away with the new patch?

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What makes this new? Its always been like this lol?

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There was no expectation that CE would be obtainable next week. They even made a big post saying exactly when the achievements would be unavailable, including CE/AotC as they were announcing the launch dates for 11.2.

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Dont forget about Undercoins!

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That article you posted says that the meta achievements Dressed to the Mines and Master Blaster are unavailable after August 5th. The cutting edge portion does not have the same information. The achievement itself says “before the next raid tier.”

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Look, I get some things ending - like achievements. I mean, that’s the point of an achievement that is specifically denoted as “doing it before a deadline.”

I will go to my grave protesting removing items from the game. Whether it’s the AotC mount (and to be clear, I have them all), or challenge appearances.

It’s dumb. Plain and simple.

Mount drops should be whatever ungodly fraction of a percent drop mythic mounts become. Objects should still be attainable. Why are the belts going away? You didn’t get rid of the ring, so why remove the belt? Do you know how annoying it was to drop what I was doing to power 12 alts though overcharged delves just to make sure I had the silly things, just in case?

As for challenge rewards, again: the reward is a reflection of your capacity to do challenging current content, not that you had the good fortune to be playing (or alive, since some of this stuff was available before people were born). That’s not skill, that’s luck.

Challenge appearances from any expansion should be available to anyone who passes the current expansion’s challenge content. Let’s say M-15 (because I don’t recall what the current tuning is, and I unlocked the purple crescent BoP Scythe back in BfA on a M-15, but use whatever the current iteration of an “M-15” would be). You complete an M-15, you get a maguffin. You turn the maguffin in for a reward that is one of the challenge appearances that have been put in game. Maybe that’s killing the end boss in heroic or mythic raids (maybe mythic drops 2, maybe normal drops 1/4 of one, so after 4 kills you get one - I dunno, though I wold think Blizzard would be thrilled to have incentives to engage in all sorts of content in a way that isn’t always power). Then you just move the threshold every “season” and whammo, you have endless rewards to doing challenging stuff, and people remain endlessly engaged.

Seriously, it is incredibly foolish to remove stuff from the game, and easy enough to put all these things on a vendor you trot out every season, unlocked by various types of challenge content, to give people something to strive for. It’s not rocket science.

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pvp mentioned

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Will that 2499/2500 bug that many have had for weeks now be magically fixed come Tuesday by any chance?

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Interesting.

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I’m not sure what you were trying to add here. My question was specifically about when they’re wiping crests, like the exact date and time. You’re confirming that they are wiping crests, but that wasn’t really in question. It just feels a bit off-topic.

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Another season blizz does not nothing to stop boosting or cheaters.

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