PTR Our own Shadowlands Alpha Q&A

So, I was luckily called to test the Shadowlands Alpha! If any of you want to ask something, I will check if any changes were made and try to post screenshots to proof it.

1. Classes

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1.1. Hunters at Exile's Reach learn Tame Beast after doing a quest, at ~ lvl 4. Some other spells work the same way, like Divine Shield and Polymorph.

1.2. Your "Get +5% Stats if you wearing the correct armor" spell is bugged right now. Leather requires lvl 27, but Cloth, Mail and Plates require lvl 50 (image pending).

2. PvP

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2.1. Normal Battlegrounds available at lvl 10. Epic Battlegrounds at lvl 20.
2.2. Only Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin available at lvl 10.

3. Dungeons

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3.1. Edited: Many dungeons of all expansions are unlocked at lvl 10.
This includes Classic, TBC, WotLK, Mists, WoD, Legion and BfA (Credits to @Kórnikus20 and @Reidor)

3.2. Deprecated: BfA Dungeons available at lvl 10

4. Professions, Riding and Items in General

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4.1. Fishing and other Professions (together with its expansions skills) can likely all be trained at level 5.

4.2. Even if craftable by lower levels, items from expansions do not scale and may not be usuable.

4.3-A. Items from Kul'tiras and Zandalar are able to proc gem slots for low levels.
4.3-B. Low levels can gem their items.
4.3-C. Most of gems still retain the present item level requirements and their scaling is reasonable, except for selected non-crafted ones.

4.4. Pandaria's legendary cloak requires level 35.

4.5. Riding Skills:
- 60% Ground Mount requires level 10.
- 100% Ground Mount requires level 20.
- 150% Flying Mount requires level 30.
- 310% Flying Mount requires level 40. (Credits to @Kórnikus20 and @Reidor)

5. Tech

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5.1. The game can dynamically decrease graphics to increase FPS if it drops bellow a certain number ("Target FPS").

5.2. You can chose to hide non essential spell effects by set amounts (I believe it removes proc effects and spell impacts from other players).

6. Other

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6.1. NPCs move their heads to look at you when close.
6.2. Default Male and Female Night Elves likely get new hair colors, possibly the DK ones.
6.3. Artifact Weapons and items from Battle for Azeroth and previous expansions are 'moggable by lower levels so far.
6.4. The NPC that turns XP-off is on the Alpha (image pending).

7. Lists of questions I will try to answer and provide proof:

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7.01-A. What are level requirements for the different zones?
7.01-B. Is it possible to escape Exiles Reach?
7.01-C. Can low levels enter BfA dungeons through the entrance?
7.02. Do Raids scale and are available at lower levels similarly to Dungeons?
- No. All their items have set level requirements, as the ones seen in posts at Wowhead etc.

7.03. Which are the Brackets for PvP?
7.04. Are non-tier set bonuses working (Vanilla DGs, Professions etc.)?
- Some, most likely the ones that work in Retail (Devilsaur, Slither-scale, Fang, Whitemend, Spellfire, Frostwoven, Dustweave, Frostsavage). Most likely not final.

7.05. Are XPOff and XPOn two different queues?
7.06. Are all Transmogs available?
- I believe all transmog from BfA and down should be available from lvl 1, since the plan is having new character leveling through it. I can't copy my characters right now, but lvl10 Paladin could use mogs from "lvl 120" alpha Paladin, including Warfront and N'zoth gear and Ashbringer.

7.07. What are level requirements for the different zones?
7.08. Can quest rewards upgrade to epic and what is the ilvl difference?
7.09. How sockets and gems interact with scaled gear?
7.10. How Corruption works at different levels?
7.11. Can a level 10 kill and loot Zandalari Warbringers?

Once again, let's see how to terribly break this game apart.

 

It has not been enable yet. You can only create a lvl 1 or a "lvl 110" from a template.

 

Got some new infos in. Will have list of which things I am going to seek next on the main post.
Edit: ... and some brief answer to it w/o photos proofing it.