Here are the complete patch notes for WoW Patch 8.3 Visions of N’Zoth

The complete patch notes for WoW Patch 8.3 have been published in German. Read here to find out what new features and changes await you soon in Blizzard’s World of Warcraft!

In just a few days, the next content update for World of Warcraft will finally be here. Patch 8.3 Visions of N’Zoth is one of the larger updates and brings a lot of new content, changes to existing game systems, and some new mechanics. To allow players to prepare for the update in advance, Blizzard has already released the patch notes.

When is Patch 8.3 released? In Europe, Patch 8.3 will be released on January 15th, so already on Wednesday next week. In America, the patch goes live a few hours earlier due to different maintenance times, so it will be available on January 14th.

What are the highlights? Among the big highlights of the patch are:

• the Corrupted Zones with their regular invasions by various races.
• There are also Death Knights for all races if you have pre-ordered Shadowlands.
• If you want, you can finally play as a Vulpera or a Mechagnome.
• Additionally, better rewards from Island Expeditions, as loot can now be purchased via “loot boxes” for Doubloons.
• Raid friends will be excited about Ny’alotha, the Awakened City – a new raid, which will start a bit later.

Patch notes for WoW Patch 8.3 Visions of N’Zoth in English

Corrupted Zones: Uldum and the Vale of Eternal Blossoms

The Old God N’Zoth has been freed from his prison built by the Titans and now spreads destruction and terror in Azeroth. N’Zoth’s forces have gathered and are ready to besiege the Titan facilities in Uldum and the Vale of Eternal Blossoms. When these ancient defenses fall, N’Zoth’s nightmarish visions will become reality.

New raid: Ny’alotha, the Awakened City

Explore Ny’alotha, the Awakened City, where nightmares manifest. This raid with twelve bosses is located in the void-infused heart of the ancient Black Empire. There, you will face insane Heralds and unfathomable terrors before ultimately facing N’Zoth himself in a decisive battle for the survival of Azeroth.

New affix: Awakened

Season 4 has a new affix – Awakened. While it is active, players can discover obelisks in dungeons that will pull their characters through the veil into the shadow world of Ny’alotha. There, they will face a powerful servant of N’Zoth, whom they must defeat to prevent him from joining the final boss of the instance in battle. Once this servant is defeated, the group returns to the normal reality at the spot they were at. This gives players an interesting opportunity to bypass encounters that are not based on the rogue spell ‘Cloak of Shadows’ or invisibility.

Assaults: The Servants of N’zoth

Characters at level 120 will experience the overwhelming power of the Old Gods first-hand in the new assaults on the Titan facilities in Uldum and the Vale of Eternal Blossoms. Players must repel N’Zoth’s servants by fulfilling objectives in the area, such as defeating enemies and rare creatures, looting treasures, or participating in events.

Once you have made enough progress, you will have to face the lieutenant commanding the enemy forces. Defeating him grants you a powerful piece of equipment and a Vessel of Disturbing Visions – a key that grants you access to a new feature: Disturbing Visions.

The assaults will alternate between Uldum in Kalimdor and the Vale of Eternal Blossoms in Pandaria. So keep an eye on the bottom left corner of your map (shortcut: M) for N’Zoth’s burning eye to find out which enemies you will face today.

Assault of the Mantid (Vale of Eternal Blossoms)

The peaceful lands of Pandaria are once again being besieged by the Mantid swarm. Crush Shek’zaras insectoid servants and thwart the swarm’s plans.

Assault of the Mogu (Vale of Eternal Blossoms)

The warrior clans of the Mogu are rampaging through the Vale and leaving nothing but devastation in their wake. Beat back their forces and force this proud people to their knees.

Assault of the Black Empire (Vale of Eternal Blossoms)

The restored Vale of Eternal Blossoms is once again threatened by the Old Gods. Defeat the insanity of the Black Empire fleet and restore harmony.

Assault of the Amathet (Uldum)

The zealots of the Amathet are using their status as servants of the Titans as a weapon and have seized power in Uldum to solidify their position as the sole guardians of the Azerite. Drive this arrogant tribe back into the dusty graves from which they crawled.

Assault of the Aqir (Uldum)

The Aqir are haunting Uldum and threaten to destroy the Titan facilities of the region in the name of N’Zoth and the Black Empire. End their rebellion and put a stop to their senseless destruction.

Assault of the Black Empire (Uldum)

Now that the veil between worlds is fading, N’Zoth’s servants are infiltrating Uldum. Purge the desert sand of its ancient corruption.

Participating in assaults grants you additional reputation for two new factions: the Accord of Uldum and Rajani. New rewards can be obtained from each of these factions. Players can also venture into lower visions of N’Zoth during active assaults. These visions can be entered solo or with a group and present a distorted glimpse of the future that strains your mind and requires all your skill to survive. Always keep an eye on your mental health display and work with your team.

New Feature: Disturbing Visions

Disturbing Visions are instanced challenges for one to five players that grant you a glimpse of the horrors of the future that N’Zoth has planned for Orgrimmar and Stormwind. While experiencing a disturbing vision, your mental health is constantly under attack. This increases the difficulty of the instance – and forces you to leave the vision before madness consumes you.

Each time you are exposed to a disturbing vision, you collect more knowledge and fragments of N’Zoth’s corruption. Bring them to Silithus to Furorion and MOTHER to strengthen your defenses and unlock new means to delve deeper into N’Zoth’s disturbing visions and obtain better rewards.

To enter a vision, you need to bring a Vessel of Disturbing Visions to the Heart Chamber and enter the disturbing vision of Stormwind or Orgrimmar.

Titan Research Archive

When you turn in fragments of N’Zoth’s corruption, you gain access to abilities that allow you to delve deeper into future disturbing visions, overcome greater threats, and resist N’Zoth’s attacks on your mind. You can choose from a variety of passive abilities that reveal treasures or reduce the amount of mental health you lose within the instance.

Bring these fragments to Furorion and MOTHER in the Heart Chamber in Silithus.

Faceless Masks

Players looking for greater challenges and better rewards can venture into bonus areas of the disturbing visions to secure Faceless Masks. These masks increase the difficulty of the disturbing visions and unlock improved rewards.

New Legendary Cloak: Ashjra’kamas, Shroud of Resolve

To combat N’Zoth’s corruption, Furorion returns and creates, with the help of players, a legendary cloak – Ashjra’kamas, Shroud of Resolve. This legendary item can be upgraded and starts at rank 1 with an item level of 470. Each subsequent rank increases its power and unlocks unique effects. Players wearing this cloak can delve deeper into N’Zoth’s disturbing visions, receive better rewards, and uncover the secrets behind the Old God’s power. This cloak could also prove to be useful when you face N’Zoth himself in the upcoming raid.

When you equip the cloak, the loss of your mental health is automatically reduced while you are in a disturbing vision. At rank 6, the cloak gains a usable effect that banishes all effects of N’Zoth’s corruption and makes the wearer immune to further corruption effects for 6 seconds (3-minute cooldown). At rank 12, the cloak adds the passive ability ‘Draconic Empowerment’, giving your spells and abilities a chance to greatly increase your primary stat.

Once Ashjra’kamas, Shroud of Resolve reaches rank 15, you can start collecting Malevolent Cores that increase your corruption resistance by 3, up to a maximum of 125. You can obtain only one Malevolent Core per week from all sources. These sources include defeating N’Zoth in Ny’alotha on Normal, Heroic, or Mythic difficulty, as well as completing all objectives within a disturbing vision.

Characters at max level who have unlocked the Heart Forge can take on the quest to obtain this new legendary cloak.

New Corrupted Items and Rewards

In Visions of N’Zoth, you can find equipment with Corruption. Corrupted items are tainted by N’Zoth. They grant incredible power – but this power comes at a cost. When you wear multiple corrupted equipment pieces, you will notice that your spells deal more damage or your healing spells are more effective – but at the same time, Corruption begins to affect you in increasingly dangerous ways. At low Corruption levels, you may be slowed intermittently when taking damage – while at high Corruption levels, dark powers from the Void might attack you at any moment.

The decision of how much Corruption you want to risk is a difficult balancing act, but you can mitigate the Corruption with your new legendary cloak and all new essences. By equipping these powerful artifacts, you can neutralize some of the Corruption and take advantage of N’Zoth’s power without feeling the full extent of the downsides.

You can also cleanse your items of Corruption through Titanforging. This process costs you some corrupted mementos – but your item also loses its positive effect.

Here are a few of the Corruption effects that you may encounter on your equipment:

Unspeakable Truth

Your spells and abilities have a chance to convey unto you the unspeakable truth, accelerating your cooldowns by 50% for 10 seconds.

Twilight Devastation

Your attacks have a chance to unleash a “Twilight Devastation” beam, dealing damage equal to 5% of your health to all enemies in front of you.

Revamp of Deepwind Gorge

With Visions of N’Zoth, we are also introducing a graphical and gameplay revamp of Deepwind Gorge. The new Deepwind Gorge, inspired by the Arathi Basin, features five objectives for teams to fight over control. The key to victory lies in controlling the market, the yard, the ruins, the shrine, and the mine, as the first faction to reach 1,500 points wins!

Players can sign up for the new Deepwind Gorge in the dungeon browser (standard shortcut: I) in the battlegrounds area.

Pet Battles

Along with seven new battle pets and eight new world quests for battle pets, your army of small but tough companions awaits a fiery new challenge in Visions of N’Zoth.

Pet Battle Dungeon: Blackrock Depths

It’s time to rally your furry companions, as a new pet battle dungeon awaits you in the lava labyrinth of Blackrock Depths on Normal and Challenge difficulty. You will receive an Ultimate Battle Training Stone after completing the dungeon on Normal difficulty.

Pet battlers who complete the Challenge difficulty will receive the achievement “Pet Battle Challenge: Blackrock Depths” and the Shadow Silhouette. This toy transforms you into a shadowy form for 15 seconds. Completing the Challenge difficulty will also grant you progress for a weekly quest that rewards you with Shadowy Gems. This account-bound currency can be exchanged for an unopened Blackrock Supply Box full of pet supplies or the three new pets Wailing Wailer, Experiment 13, and Tinyclaw. Talk to Burt Macklyn at the dungeon entrance to bolster your team with one of these powerful little fighters.

To get started, you need to have completed the four pet battle dungeon quests “Whelps of Wailing”, “The Death Mines Strike Back”, “Gnomeregan’s New Guardians”, and “Tiny Horrors of Stratholme”. Once you’ve completed all four questlines on Normal or Challenge difficulty, you can accept a new quest from Tizzy Cogsworthy in Boralus or Radek Wrenchfist in Dazar’alor and head to Blackrock Depths with your battle pets.

New Allied Races: Vulpera and Mechagnomes

With Visions of N’Zoth, the resourceful Vulpera join the Horde and the industrious Mechagnomes join the Alliance. As with the other allied races, you will receive a unique mount when unlocking these races. If you level a new character of Vulpera or Mechagnome from level 20 to level 110, you also unlock their heritage armor as a special transmogrification set.

Horde players can unlock the Vulpera by completing the Vol’dun storyline and reaching Exalted reputation with the Voldunai. Alliance players who reach Exalted reputation with the Rustbolt Resistance and complete the Mechagon storyline can begin a questline to create their own Mechagnome.

Death Knights for All

With the release of Visions of N’Zoth, players who pre-purchased World of Warcraft: Shadowlands can create Death Knights of Pandaren and all allied races – including the newly available Vulpera and Mechagnomes, once they are unlocked.

Auction House Overhaul

The auction house has been revamped to be smoother, faster, and more user-friendly. The revised functionality is based on how players most commonly use the auction house.

Trade goods (stackable items) will no longer be sold as stacks. Now you simply enter how much you want to buy, and the auction house will automatically select the cheapest auctions. Because the cheapest auctions are always displayed first, you’ll never have to sift through to find the best deal again. You can also create a favorites list for quickly searching for items you frequently need.

New Quests

Many new stories and adventures are now available throughout Azeroth.

The Black Prince Returns

Azeroth cries out for help! She needs you to defend against the relentless invasion of the Black Empire. Max-level players should follow the call of Furorion to begin liberating the world from N’Zoth’s forces.

Servants of N’Zoth

The whispering of N’Zoth corrupts the spirits of brave warriors around the world, awakening in them the desire to spill the blood of their own brothers and sisters. When a player gives in to this desire and takes this quest, they ally with N’Zoth and carry out his will by slaying members of their own faction. If you defeat 10 players without dying, you will receive the new title “Servant of N’Zoth”, an item that allows you to defect to N’Zoth at will, and the achievement “Servant of N’Zoth”.

New Heritage Armor: Goblins and Worgen

Celebrate your heritage with heritage armor sets for Goblins and Worgen.

Players with a Goblin or Worgen character at max level (120) who have achieved Exalted status with their faction (Bilgewater Cartel or Gilneas) can look forward to a new questline for each of the two races to learn more about their history. After completing your quest, you will receive a new transmogrification set – a unique heritage armor for your race.

New Heroic Warfront: The Darkshore

As with the heroic warfront Stromgarde, you must coordinate with an organized group of 10 to 20 players to stand against the relentless forces of the enemy. Interact as a raid group with the war map in Boralus or at the port of Zandalar to join the fight.

New Brawl: Teeming Islands

In this large-scale battle, two teams of ten players face off on an island teeming with powerful creatures. This brawl expands the beaches of the PvP island expeditions with an additional challenge by increasing the player count on the largest available islands (Tideswept and Jorundall) from six to twenty.

When the brawl is active, you can join the fight by opening the dungeon browser (standard shortcut: I), selecting the brawl under “Player vs. Player”, and queuing up.

Arcade of the Darkmoon Faire

Get your tokens ready. A new attraction is ready for you, built by the best gnomish engineers: the Arcade of the Darkmoon Faire! Here you will find games inspired by world quests, including HexSweeper, Barrel of Fun, Totemic Matrix, THREAD-X, Demolition Derby, and Rune Puzzle.

Look for this mechanical wonder by Lynnish Ultraskeleton just behind the roller coaster when the Darkmoon Faire returns to town.

Mounts

Roam the corrupted regions of Uldum and the Vale of Eternal Blossoms on the backs of various mounts inspired by shadow and void. Here we present six of them. But many more await to be discovered by you!

Allseer of Ny’alotha

The grotesque appearance of this tentacle-laden nightmare resembles that of the many-eyed Old God himself. Dropped by N’Zoth, the Corruptor on Mythic difficulty.

Ivory Cloud Serpent

When Ivory Cloud Serpents slither through the sky at breakneck speed, they are often mistaken for thunder. With a bit of luck, players may secure their own by defeating the Ivory Cloud Serpent in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms.

N’zoth’s Black Serpent

N’Zoth’s black serpents are the harbingers of his ultimate vision becoming reality. Only servants or foes who can enter this realm have the chance to tame them. Reward for completing the achievement “Through the Depths of Visions”.

Claw of Ha-Li

Ha-Li’s brood is at home in the blue skies of Pandaria and hunts innocent prey there. Defeat Ha-Li in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms and with a bit of luck you can add this mount to your collection soon.

Shadowthorn Drone

Players can now raise their own Shadowthorn Drone as a mount. Keep an eye out in Uldum for void-touched eggs to begin your journey!

Springing Alpaca

Thanks to their friendly nature, alpacas make the perfect companions for bold adventurers. You can earn your alpaca by completing the quest “Let’s Alpaca It Up” in Uldum.

Holiday Updates

Moon Festival

Embark on an adventure in Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms to complete the Rites of the Moon and help an ancient druid bless her staff of moonflowers. In return, she will enchant your flower crowns so they never wilt and you can transmogrify them year-round!

Achievements

• Players who possess the Mighty Caravan Brutosaurus as a mount now receive the feat of strength “Brutosocial Product”.

Character Templates

• The glowing effects of the eyes of Blood Elves, Night Elves, and Death Knights of all races have been updated.
• Guardian Druids using the Legion Artifact Template Wrath of the Wailing from the Mage Tower now have a unique dance animation.

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Blood
    • The talent ‘Blood Curse’ can no longer heal targets with very high maximum health for more than 5% of the maximum health of the casting Death Knight.
  • Unholy
    • The talent ‘Bursting Sores’ now increases the healing absorption granted by ‘Necrotic Strike’.
    • Summoned resurrected ghouls through the talent ‘Everyone Will Serve’ can now benefit from ‘Frosty Path’.
    • The cast time and damage of the ‘Ghoul Strike’ ability from resurrected ghouls have been increased by 25%.
  • Druid
    • Balance
      • The damage as well as the periodic damage of ‘Sunfire’ and ‘Moonfire’ have been reduced by 10%.
      • The damage of the Azerite bonus ‘Strike Twelve’ has been increased by 11%.
      • The damage of the Azerite bonus ‘Might of the Moon’ has been increased by 11%.
    • The abilities of Feral Druids now feature improved sound effects.
      • The sound effects of finishing moves now stand out better from those of other abilities.
      • Bonus damage caused against bleeding targets is now audible.
    • Restoration
      • The healing bonus of ‘Mastery: Harmony’ has been reduced by 9%.
      • The damage of the Azerite bonus ‘Strike Twelve’ has been reduced by 34%.
  • Wizard
    • Frost
      • The damage of ‘Ice Lance’ has been increased by 20%.
  • Monk
    • Brewmaster
      • The stamina bonus has been reduced to 30% (previously 35%).
      • The damage delayed by ‘Stealth’ has been reduced to 90% of Dexterity (previously 105%).
      • ‘Giver Qualities’ now increases the effectiveness of ‘Stealth’ by 5% (previously 8%).
  • Windwalker
    • The damage of ‘Rising Sun Kick’ has been increased by 25%.
    • The damage of ‘Blackout Kick’ has been increased by 10%.

• • Paladin
    • Holy
      • The healing of the Azerite bonus ‘Light’s Reflection’ has been reduced by 12%. Only a maximum of 8 targets can now be affected by ‘Light’s Reflection’.
  • Priest
    • Discipline
      • The base healing of the talent ‘Repentance’ has been reduced by 25%.
      • The healing of ‘Repentance’ is now affected by mastery as intended.
      • The healing of ‘Atonement’ has been increased by 15%.
      • ‘Schism’ now only increases the damage caused by Priest spells and abilities.
      • The damage of ‘Shadow Word: Pain’ has been reduced by 9%.
      • The damage of ‘Purification of Evil’ has been reduced by 10%.
      • The damage of the talent ‘Power Word: Comfort’ has been reduced by 10%.
      • The healing of ‘Penance’ has been reduced to 50% (previously 55%).
      • The effectiveness of ‘Mastery: Grace’ has been increased by 12%.
  • • Shadow
      • The bonus to critical strike from ‘Refrain of Madness’ has been reduced by 25%.
      • The damage bonus from ‘Promising Spirits’ has been reduced to 25% (previously 50%).
      • The Azerite bonus ‘Malevolent Manifestations’ now deals the intended amount of damage when the Shadow Priest has selected the talent ‘Promising Spirits’.
      • The damage of ‘Vampiric Touch’ and ‘Shadow Word: Pain’ has been reduced by 8%.
  • Shaman
    • Elemental
      • The talent ‘Prime Elementalist’ now stores its own settings for summoned companions automatically deployed abilities.
  • Warlock
    • Affliction
      • The following summons are now displayed with a timer under the player portrait: Dreadstalker, Dark Fiend, and ‘Grimoire: Fel Guard’.
      • ‘Death Bolt’ now deals 20% of the total remaining damage from the Warlock’s active damage-over-time effects on the target (previously 30%).
      • The chance for ‘Nightfall’ to trigger has been increased by 33%.
      • ‘Nightfall’ now increases the damage of ‘Shadow Bolt’ by 50% (previously 25%).
      • The damage of ‘Soulsteal’ has been increased by 50%.

Dungeons & Raids

• Operation: Mechagon
  • Operation: Mechagon has been divided into two new dungeons, Mechagon – Junkyard and Mechagon – Workshop.
    • Developer Comment: We introduced Operation: Mechagon with the content update Rise of Azshara as an epic and challenging mega-dungeon. Now we’re integrating it into the mythic keystone system and are making some changes to align its difficulty with other mythic keystone dungeons.
• Mechagon – Workshop
  • The damage potential of some creatures in the dungeon is now less variable.
    • Developer Comment: The main purpose of these changes is to make the damage potential of the affected enemies more consistent by better aligning the timers of various spells.
  • The Platinum Pugilist
    • Now casts ‘K.4.M.P.F. Mine’ more frequently at all difficulty levels.
    • The visual effect of the missiles will now be displayed as intended at all difficulty levels, warning players of impending impact.
  • Gnominator G-800
    • Jet Blast
    • The Gnominator now turns to the target of ‘Fixate’ before casting.
  • Crusher
    • The damage of the circular saws has been reduced by 80%.
      • Developer Comment: Without the necessary adjustments, this fight would have been deadly at high keys with the Tyrannical affix. To keep the fight chaotically unchanged, we’ve reduced the damage of the circular saws while retaining their knockback effect.
  • Waste Processing Unit
    • The cast time of ‘Mega Drill’ has been increased to 3.5 seconds (previously 2 seconds).
      • Developer Comment: ‘Mega Drill’ is an extremely strong ability. By increasing its cast time, we are giving players a little more time to react to ‘Mega Drill’.
  • K.U.-J.0.
    • ‘Release Flames’
      • The range within which player characters are protected behind a scrap cube from ‘Release Flames’ has been increased.
  • Defense Bot Mk. III
    • The damage of ‘Jumping Power Surge’ has been reduced by 12%.
    • The damage of ‘Short Circuit’ has been reduced by 20%.
  • Rumpatron X-80
    • The damage of ‘Capacitor Discharge’ has been increased by 40%.
  • King Mechagon
    • The damage of ‘Impulse Strike’ has been reduced by 37%.
      • ‘Giga Shock’ (Phase 1)
        • The initial damage has been reduced by 44%.
      • ‘Giga Shock’ (Phase 2)
        • The initial damage has been reduced by 50%.
    • The damage of ‘Recalibrate’ has been reduced by 15%.
• Mechagon – Junkyard
  • Bone Scrapper
    • The damage of ‘Headbutt’ has been increased by 25%.
    • The damage of ‘Shockwave’ has been reduced by 9%.
  • Trash Thrower
    • The missile of ‘Throw Trash’ now moves a bit slower.
  • Chopper
    • The damage dealt by ‘Skullcracker’ has been reduced by 11%.
    • ‘Rage’
      • The cast time has been increased to 2 seconds (previously 1.5 seconds).
      • The duration has been decreased to 10 seconds (previously 12 seconds).
  • King Gobbamak
    • The damage dealt by ‘Crumble’ has been reduced by 37%.
  • Mechanic of the Junkyard (Junkyard) and Mechanic of Mechagon (Workshop)
    • ‘Overclocked’ is now a dispellable magic effect for both opponents (previously it was a magic effect for one and a rage effect for the other).
  • Knocker
    • The ground effect of ‘Scrap Grenade’ has been slightly reduced.
      • The damage from ‘Boltbreaker’ has been reduced by 25%.
    • The damage from ‘Tazer’ has been reduced by 20%.
  • Slime Elemental
    • The damage from ‘Slime Wave’ has been reduced by 28%.
  • Greasy
    • The damage from ‘Toxic Fumes’ has been reduced by 25%.
  • ‘Demolish’
    • The damage has been reduced to 100% weapon damage per hit (previously 150%).
    • The stackable vulnerability has been increased to 100% (previously 75%).
      • Developer Comment: Overall, these changes reduce the damage potential of ‘Demolish’ by about 25% and shift the focus more to ensuring tanks recognize this ability in time and mitigate it before the last major damage spike.
    • The periodic damage of ‘Bursting Shock’ has been reduced by 20%.
  • Weaponized Scrabbler
    • ‘Scrap Cannon’
      • Will no longer be cast while ‘Shock Coil’ is active.
  • Bone Scrapper
    • ‘Rage’
      • The cast time has been increased to 2 seconds (previously 1.5 seconds).
      • The duration has been decreased to 10 seconds (previously 12 seconds).
• The King’s Rest
  • General
    • The damage potential of some creatures in the dungeon is now less variable.
  • Shadowborn Warrior
    • The duration of periodic damage from ‘Wind Slash’ has been reduced to 8 seconds (previously 10 seconds).
  • Shadowborn Hex Doctor
    • The damage of ‘Frost Breath’ has been reduced by 15%.
  • King Rahu’ai
    • The damage of ‘Channeling Lightning’ has been reduced by 12.5%.
  • Queen Patlaa
    • The damage of ‘Shoot’ has been reduced by 11%.
  • King Timalji
    • The damage of ‘Blade Storm’ has been reduced by 15%.
  • Bloodsworn Assassin
    • The damage of ‘Shadow Whirl’ has been reduced by 7.5%.
  • Spectral Hex Doctor
    • The damage of ‘Frost Shock’ has been reduced by 21%.
  • Spectral Berserker
    • The damage of ‘Separating Blade’ has been reduced by 13%.
  • Spectral Striker
    • The damage of ‘Ground Smash’ has been reduced by 25%.
  • Spectral Beastmaster
    • ‘Toxic Barrage’
      • The damage has been reduced by 11%.
      • The duration has been decreased to 10 seconds (previously 20 seconds).
        • Developer Comment: With the long duration of the effect, groups without a way to remove poison effects had a hard time healing. This change should make it easier for you to counter this ability.
  • Kula the Butcher
    • The damage of ‘Bladespike’ has been reduced by 9%.
  • Zul’s Shadow
    • Health has been reduced by 6%.
    • Players can no longer enter King Dazar’s room until Zul’s Shadow has been defeated.

Items and Rewards

Corrupted Mementos

Defeating powerful foes in disturbing visions grants you corrupted mementos, which you can use to purchase various new items, such as the Extracted Eye of N’Zoth, which allows you to add a prismatic socket to a suitable piece of equipment.

Manifested Visions

You can use manifested visions to acquire various items from Furorion in the Heart Chamber, such as new gear, vessels of disturbing visions, and a mount. You receive these manifested visions from powerful opponents, as quest rewards, and from other sources.

Equipment of the Black Empire

With the Azerite armor and other equipment from N’Zoth’s infantry, heroes can prepare for the coming horrors. When you repel N’Zoth’s forces in assaults on Uldum and the Vale of Eternal Blossoms or complete disturbing visions, you receive account-bound tokens. With these tokens, you can craft equipment to gain power yourself or send them by mail to your other characters.

• Many legendary weapons are now transmogifiable.
  • Developer Comment: The Twin Blades of Azzinoth, dropped by Illidan in the Black Temple, are the only exception. With the Timewalking: The Black Temple, there is already a way for Demon Hunters to obtain this transmog template, and we do not want to devalue this unique reward.
• New weapon illusions are now available.
• The Rustbolt Resistance Insignia now only grants reputation until Exalted rank.
• The reputation requirements for essences sold in Nazjatar and Mechagon by vendors have been reduced from Friendly, Honored, and Exalted for ranks 1, 2, and 3 to Honored, Friendly, and Honored.
  • Rank 1 now costs 2 boxes of E.R.S.A.T.Z. parts and 1 galvanic oscillator (previously 2 boxes of E.R.S.A.T.Z. parts and 2 galvanic oscillators).
  • Rank 2 now costs 8 boxes of E.R.S.A.T.Z. parts and 4 galvanic oscillators (previously 20 boxes of E.R.S.A.T.Z. parts and 10 galvanic oscillators).
  • Rank 3 now costs 20 boxes of E.R.S.A.T.Z. parts and 8 galvanic oscillators (previously 40 boxes of E.R.S.A.T.Z. parts and 15 galvanic oscillators).
  • The requirements for rank 4 of these essences remain unchanged.
• The required follower experience for ranks 2 and 3 of ‘Memory of the Dreamweaver’ has been reduced from 3,000/6,000 to 2,400/4,800.
• Player characters who have reached a Respectful reputation with their faction in Nazjatar can now exchange prismatic mana pearls for account-bound reputation tokens.
  • Developer Comment: We anticipate that the introduction of account-bound reputation tokens for Nazjatar will complement the already available reputation tokens for Mechagon. This will allow players who have already unlocked Rank 3 of essences with their main characters to speed up the process for their alts.
• Bounty bags now always contain the same loot, regardless of which zone you received them in.
• The Lightningforged Enhancement Rune can be used indefinitely to increase Agility, Intelligence, and Strength by 60 for 1 hour. This reusable rune can be purchased for 50,000 gold. The character must have the Exalted reputation with the Rajani faction for this.
• Players can now purchase uncommon, rare, and epic salvage crates for Seafarer’s Doubloons. The crates contain at least 3 loot pieces from the rewards for completing island expeditions, including templates for transmogrifications, pets, and mounts.
• All Titan Residuum is converted into Silver.
• World quests, world bosses, and other events in Nazjatar now yield more prismatic mana pearls.
• Reputation items obtained with Seafarer’s Doubloons and completed quests for island expeditions no longer grant reputation beyond Exalted rank. Instead, players who reach Exalted rank with a faction now receive account-bound reputation tokens that they can use until they reach Exalted rank.
• Azerite Equipment
  • The Azerite bonus ‘Overwhelming Power’
    • A bug has been fixed, which caused the Azerite bonus ‘Overwhelming Power’ (Rank 2) to trigger more frequently based on your haste, thus being enhanced by that value more than intended.
      • Developer Comment: We discovered a bug related to ‘Overwhelming Power’ that caused the Azerite bonus to trigger more frequently with increasing haste, thus benefiting from haste twice. We are aware that ‘Overwhelming Power’ was especially popular with players due to this bug. We also do not want the Azerite bonus to become useless with our changes. However, the swiftly growing power seemed to render any gear without ‘Overwhelming Power’ inferior, and we had to resolve this issue. In any case, we will keep an eye on the Azerite bonus to ensure this change has the desired effect.
  • Heart of Azeroth
    • Players can now unlock a new minor slot when their Heart of Azeroth reaches level 75.
    • Regularly increases stamina to level 80.
    • The Heart of Azeroth no longer has a maximum level.
      • Above level 80, the Heart of Azeroth receives an increased item level and a minor increase in stats.
    • Upon completion of Magni’s questline to unlock the Heart Forge, the Heart of Azeroth now starts at level 50 (previously level 35).
    • The bonus threat for unlocking minor and major slots has been removed.
      • Tank specializations or Druids in bear form now receive a 50% bonus to threat generated when the Heart of Azeroth is equipped. If another specialization activates, shapeshifts, or the Heart of Azeroth is unequipped, this effect is canceled.
  • Essences
    • New essences can be found while assaulting Uldum and the Vale of Eternal Blossoms, during disturbing visions, or in the raid Ny’alotha. Here is a list of new essences at rank 1 for healing, damage, and tank specialization. In addition to their active and passive abilities, these new essences also grant 10 Corruption resistance.
      • Spirit of Preservation (Rank 1)
        • Great Might: Channels an energy beam onto an ally, healing them over 3 seconds for a substantial amount.
        • Minor Might: You gain ‘Devoted Spirit’ every 5 seconds, causing your next use of ‘Flash Heal’, ‘Healing Light’, ‘Regrowth’, ‘Rebirth’, ‘Shadow Heal’, or ‘Healing Wave’ to heal for an additional minor amount. Can stack up to 3 times.
      • Breath of the Dying (Rank 1)
        • Great Might: Burns your target with an Azerite bolt, dealing a great amount of fire damage instantly. If the target is below 20% health, cooldown is reduced by 30 seconds (from 45 seconds).
        • Minor Might: Your spells and abilities have a chance to deal moderate fire damage to your target.
      • Touch of the Everlasting (Rank 1)
        • Great Might: Your next death will be prevented. Instead, you restore up to 20% of your maximum health and take 85% less damage for 3 seconds. This effect can only occur once every 10 minutes.
        • Minor Might: When your health falls below 35%, your avoidance is increased by a moderate amount for 15 seconds, and your next active mitigation lasts 30% longer.
  • Condensed Lifeforce
    • The weakening effect from Azerite Spikes of your Guardian that increases the damage taken has been reduced to 3% (previously 5%).
    • The cast time of the Guardian’s Azerite Spikes has been increased to 2.5 seconds (previously 2 seconds).
      • Developer Comment: Regarding ‘Condensed Lifeforce’, we resolve a bug by extending the cast time, causing the Guardian to have interrupted their own spells if a character had enough haste to bring them under the global cooldown. This particular essence, which is largely passive, was however the top choice for most specializations against both single and multiple targets. Therefore, we felt it necessary to reduce the damage increase that players receive from the essence as well.
  • Purification Protocol
    • Great Might (Rank 1): Damage has been increased by 15%.
    • Great Might (Rank 2): Can now also affect targets that are part of raids and dungeons.
  • The Unleashed Power
    • Great Might (Rank 1): Damage has been increased by 40%.
    • Minor Might (Rank 1): Duration has been increased to 4 seconds (previously 3 seconds).
    • Minor Might (Rank 3): Duration increase has been increased to 2 seconds (previously 1 second).
    • When the strengthening effect ‘Bold Power’ has triggered, the icon for ‘The Unleashed Power’ is now highlighted.
  • Vision of Perfection
    • The chance to trigger ‘Vision of Perfection’ has been increased by 12%.
  • Vitality Link
    • The effects of ‘Vitality Link’ are now displayed as intended in the combat log and in scrolling combat log text.
  • Resonance of the Worldline
    • When using the great power (Rank 1), you now receive an additional bonus of 300% to primary stats for 18 seconds through Lifebloom Fragments (great slot, previously 10 seconds long with 50% bonus).