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World of Warcraft Version 10.1.5 PTR – Fractures in Time
Well, I guess since Conzil didn't announce anything today, I'll put out some simplified news for 20s. The next PTR is setup to expand Warlock pet customizations, and fixing Chromie time, as well as removing most restrictions. Other notable changes include Cross-realm trading, Dragonriding in Eastern Kingdoms/Kalimdor (requires level 30, sadly) and Allied Races being unlocked at level 40. Also, quite a few UI changes and updates, and Garrison + Dalaran Hearthstones become toys. 20s also get a few new interesting talents.
THE WARLOCK CLASS EXPANDS TO NEW RACES
The Warlock class will become available to Night Elves, Draenei, Lightforged Draenei, Pandaren, Kul Tiran, Tauren, Highmountain Tauren, Mag’har Orcs, and Zandalari Trolls.
Warlocks will also be able to undertake a new quest line starting with the quest "Beginning Impositions” which will unlock a new imp pet customization. Players will also be able to visit the Barbershop to customize their pets.
- Developers’ note: Warlock glyphs are now on-use Grimoires to unlock pet customizations. Grimoires can be learned on the PTR this week, but selecting the appearance of your pets in the Barbershop will be available in a future PTR update.
CHARACTERS
- Added 5 new fur colors for Worgen.
- All Allied Races can now be unlocked once you have a level 40 character on your account (was level 50).
- Newly created Allied Race characters will now be directed to Chromie, not the warboard.
- Characters level 10–60 that have not been logged into for 60 days will now have the option to receive a Welcome Back Gift on the character select screen. The Welcome Back Gift includes:
- Select a specialization upon log in to become equipped with updated bags and gear that is appropriate to the character’s level and selected specialization. All previously worn items and bags can be collected from the mailbox.
- Teleport to the character’s home city of Orgrimmar or Stormwind.
- All quests in the quest log will be cleared to provide a clean slate. To continue your leveling journey, head to Chromie in Orgrimmar Embassy or Stormwind Embassy.
- Characters now learn the appropriate mount riding skill upon reaching the appropriate level without needing to visit a mount trainer:
- Level 10 - Apprentice Riding
- Level 20 - Journeyman Riding
- Level 30 - Expert Riding
- Level 40 - Master Riding
- Characters that reach level 30 will receive the quest “Time to Fly” and be awarded with a flying mount, Harbor Gryphon for Alliance characters and Scarlet Pterrordax for Horde characters.
CLASSES
- DRUID
- NEW TALENT! Improved Sunfire has been moved to row 3, connected to Sunfire.
- Feral
- NEW TALENT! Dire Fixation – Attacking an enemy with Shred fixates your attention on it for 10 seconds. You can fixate on a single target at once. Your attacks deal 5% increased damage to your fixated target.
- Guardian
- NEW TALENT! Dream of Cenarius moved into row 2 from row 9.
- MAGE
- Invisibility is now learned by all specializations at level 16.
- Incanter’s Flow now replaces Invisibility in the Class tree.
- NEW TALENT! Shifting Power (Night Fae ability) has been moved to Incanter’s Flow previous location.
- Arcane
- Clearcasting no longer makes Arcane Missiles channel time faster.
- Arcane Barrage is now learned baseline at level 11.
- Clearcasting is now learned baseline at level 12.
- NEW TALENT! Reverberate is no longer a choice node with Nether Tempest and is located directly after Arcane Missiles.
- (PVP) Mass Invisibility is no longer available at 20.
- Fire
- Flamestrike has been removed from the talent tree and is now learned at level 12.
- Flamestrike cast time reduced to 3.5 seconds (was 4 seconds).
- Cauterize has been removed from the talent tree and now learned at level 19.
- NEW TALENT! Fuel the Fire – Flamestrike has a chance equal to 100% of your critical strike chance to contribute to Hot Streak.
- Frost
- Blizzard has been removed from the talent tree is and is now learned baseline at level 12.
- Cold Snap has been removed from the talent tree and is now learned baseline at level 19.
- NEW TALENT! Winter’s Blessing – Your Haste is increased by 3% and you gain 10% more of the Haste stat from all sources.
- PALADIN
- Holy
- Blessing of Freedom is now granted by default for Holy Paladins.
- NEW TALENT! Glimmer of Light has moved to row 2 (was row 10).
- Holy Light is now learned baseline at level 11.
- NEW TALENT! Beacon of the Lightbringer – Mastery: Lightbringer now increases your healing based on the target’s proximity to either you or your Beacon of Light, whichever is closer.
- NEW TALENT! Light’s Conviction – Holy Shock now has 2 charges.
- Holy
- PRIEST
- Holy
- NEW TALENT! Burning Vehemence has moved to Searing Light’s position in the talent tree and is now a 1-point talent. Increases Holy Fire damage by 30%.
- Holy
- WARLOCK
- Added 2 new Imp color customization options in this week’s ptr update.
- Developers’ note: Customizing your demons in the Barbershop is still under development and will be available in a future PTR update.
- Glyph of the Observer is being deprecated and will no longer be an available customization option for felhunters.
- Demon customizations are now available in the Barbershop after learning the Grimoire.
- Developers’ note: Sayaad and Infernal customizations will be available in a later PTR build.
- Demonology
- Fel and Steel has been redesigned – Your primary Felguard’s Legion Strike damage is increased by 10%. Your primary Felguard’s Felstorm damage is increased by 5%.
- NEW TALENT! Heavy Handed – Increases your primary Felguard’s critical strike chance by 10%.
- Added 2 new Imp color customization options in this week’s ptr update.
DUNGEONS AND RAIDS
- Adjusted boss health in Classic dungeons during Chromie Time.
- Developers’ note: Health values for some Classic dungeon bosses were scaling incorrectly in Chromie Time. This change brings Chromie Time and the present timeline into better alignment.
ITEMS AND REWARDS
- CROSS-REALM TRADING
- Players will now be able to trade items and gold directly to characters on other realms in their region. Previously this was limited to things like conjured items or eligible raid/dungeon loot, but all those cross-realm restrictions will now be lifted. Play with your friends and trade whatever you want to whoever you want!
- Inert Phoenix Ash is now found on both varieties of fire elementals in the area it drops in (was only one type), and at a significantly increased drop rate.
- Garrison Hearthstone and Dalaran Hearthstone are now toys.
- Improved Exile’s Reach item rewards.
- PROFESSIONS
- Leatherworking
- The patterns for Deviate Scale Cloak, Deviate Scale Gloves, and Deviate Scale Belt can now sometimes be found within Stuffed Deviate Scale Pouches which drop from Druids of the Fang inside Wailing Caverns.
- The patterns for Girdle of Insight, Mongoose Boots, Swift Flight Bracers, Chromatic Cloak, Hide of the Wild, and Shifting Cloak can now sometimes be found within Knot Thimblejack’s Cache for players who acquire the Gordok Shackle Key within Dire Maul.
- Tailoring
- The pattern for Belt of the Archmage can now sometimes be found within Knot Thimblejack’s Cache for players who acquire the Gordok Shackle Key within Dire Maul.
- Leatherworking
- CHROMIE TIME
- Chromie will now teach you what Chromie Time is, suggest timelines to choose, and share the opening cinematics.
- The maximum level in Chromie Time is now 61 (was level 60).
- Chromie Time expansion restrictions have been removed.
- Dragonflight, Shadowlands, and Battle for Azeroth dungeon quests are now also available inside their respective dungeons.
- Both Exile’s Reach and Battle for Azeroth now have campaigns to make it easier to track progress and pick up where you left off.
- Alliance players can now enter Nazjatar after completing “A Nation Divided” (was “Unlocking the World”).
- Available starter zone quest lines and Battle for Azeroth side quests now display on the zone map.
- Introduction to the capital cities after leaving Exile’s Reach has been improved.
- TRACKING APPEARANCES
- You can now track uncollected transmog appearances by Shift clicking it in the Collections pane.
- This adds it to your Objective Tracker. Click the icon to supertrack it, just like you would for a quest.
- Currently, you can only track appearances sourced from vendors, dungeons, and raids. Hold down Shift to see which appearances can be tracked.
- For appearances that have multiple items, press Tab to cycle through them and Shift click to track the currently selected one.
- Click on a tracked item in the Objective Tracker to open its location on the map.
- For appearances that come from dungeons and raids, click on a boss name in the Objective Tracker to open the Dungeon or Raid Journal.
- Action bar icons have updated animations for:
- Spell procs
- Interrupted casts
- Cooldowns
- Group Loot roll toast plays a new animation when you roll Need for your main specialization.
- Action bar icons now show a cast bar while casting or channeling, and a green targeting circle when placing a targeted ability.
- Arena unit frames have been updated:
- Arena frames now use the compact unit frames style.
- Edit Mode includes settings for width, height, and border and allows you to preview different arena sizes (2v2, 3v3, 5v5).
- Arena frame settings have been added under Options > Interface > Arena Enemy Frames.
- PvP trinket status has been added to the right of the enemy’s frame.
- An icon indicating the enemy’s specialization is now shown during the pre-match phase. Pre-match frames can’t be used for targeting and don’t show power bars.
- Character tooltips now show the player’s specialization.
- Arena frames will always show debuffs.
- Arena frames will now show loss of control debuffs in a larger icon next to the unit frame.
- Arena frames now gray out if players are stealthed or invisible.
- Fixed an issue where battleground flag carriers were not showing.
- While in a scenario, minimap blobs are now yellow instead of blue to increase visibility.
- Added a new quest icon to indicate important quests.
- An animated glow has been added to better highlight needed roles for Rated Solo Shuffle.
- Text-to-Speech now has options for Item Loot, Currency, and Money Loot chat messages.
- Trading Post activities in a series (i.e. “Complete 5/15/30 Mythic+ Dungeons”) will now be collapsed in the Traveler’s Log.
- An icon and tooltip line have been added to indicate if an appearance is not supported for your race (such as for mechagnomes and dracthyr).
- Updated the “open hand” interaction cursor with high resolution art.
- Updated unit frame art for totems.
- Added a “Sell All Junk” button to vendors.
- Updated “Repair” and “Repair All” button art on vendors.
- Added an option to replace player portraits with class icons under Options > Interface > Display.
- Added a way to report players in the Crafting Order pane for inappropriate order notes.
- Updated the ring art around role icons.
- Updated the art on various popup frames, including ready check.
- EDIT MODE
- Added duration bars (breath, fatigue) with size settings.
- Added multi-seat vehicle UI with size settings.
- Added lines that show what edges your element is snapping to.
- Slightly increased corner snapping range.
- Added Archaeology bar.
- Added width and height sliders to the Chat Frame.
- KALIMDOR CUP
- Rediscover Kalimdor’s skies with a new dragonrider racing world event. Challenge 16 races across Kalimdor in Normal, Advanced, and Reverse variations to earn Riders of Azeroth Badges to exchange for rewards with Maztha.
- Head to the Holiday Enthusiast outside Valdrakken’s bank to pick up the initial quest.
TL; DR Notes:
- More races can be warlocks and warlocks can now customize pet apperances in the barbershop.
- Allied races are unlocked at level 40.
- Chromie time restrictions are removed and BFA/Shadowland dungeons have quests.
- Dragonriding in Old World Azeroth will require level 30 or Expert Riding skill.
- Dalaran and Garrison Hearthstones are now toys.
- Cross-realm Trading is now allowed within respective Regions.
- UI and Class Portrait Changes.
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sometimes I feel bad, then I look at the 29 hunters and Im like ehhhhh I can justify my existance, can they?