In a blog post on the official website, Blizzard developers announced comprehensive dungeon changes for the upcoming Season 4 of WoW: Dragonflight.
What can WoW players expect in Season 4 of Dragonflight? In short: a whole range of changes for dungeons, their progress, and rewards. However, these are so comprehensive that we will break down the details for you below.
First, let’s take a look at what goals the developers want to achieve with the announced changes:
- Heroic dungeons quickly become irrelevant as they are hardly distinguishable from the normal versions. Mythic 0 dungeons also lose their significance too quickly.
- In the WoW dungeon endgame, almost everything revolves around a ticking timer in the background. An alternative gameplay experience only comes when a megadungeon is released.
In other words: There are currently two difficulty levels that are not actually used. Additionally, the endgame area offers too little variety for dungeon fans (considering the available game modes).
Here you can see the release trailer for the current WoW patch 10.2.5:
What does Blizzard want to improve? The developers have announced the following changes for Season 4 of Dragonflight:
- The heroic difficulty is intended to match the current level of Mythic 0 in the future (including the corresponding rewards). It will still be possible to sign up for this difficulty level via the dungeon browser – but your character must have a higher item level than before.
- The current Mythic 0 will in the future match the level of Mythic 10 (the same applies to the rewards). There will still be no affixes or timer.
- The following key stone levels will adjust accordingly. Today’s Mythic 5 in Season 4 will be rather Mythic 15.
- In Season 4, there will be no timer for Mythic dungeon content 0 to 10 anymore.
The developers want to illustrate the adjustment with the following diagram:
What does this mean for the Mythic affixes of Season 4? The affixes of the upcoming season will be available at the following Mythic levels:
- +2 – Fortified/Tyrannical
- +5 – Enveloping/Unholy and so on
- +10 – Stinging/Bursting and so on
In Season 4, Mythic 2 will correspond to today’s Mythic 11, Mythic 5 to today’s Mythic 15, and Mythic 10 to today’s Mythic 20.
What about the rewards? According to the Blizzard developers, the basic structure of dungeon loot should not change significantly. Here are some examples:
| Initial Upgrade Level | Item Level (Season 3) | Reward at the end of the run / Vault (Season 3) | Item Level (Season 4) | Reward at the end of the run / Vault (Season 4) |
| Explorer 3/8 | 421 | Normal Dungeon / – | 460 | Normal Dungeon / – |
| Adventurer 1/8 | 428 | Heroic Dungeon / – | 467 | – |
| Adventurer 4/8 | 437 | Mythic 0 / – | 476 | Heroic Dungeon / – |
| Veteran 4/8 | 450 | Mythic +7/8 / Mythic 0 | 489 | – / Heroic Dungeon |
| Hero 1/6 | 467 | Mythic +19 and above / Mythic + 10/11 | 509 | Mythic +9 and above / Mythic +2/3 |
What about the emblems and flight stone rewards? The granted flight stones from a Mythic Plus dungeon in Season 4 are intended to correspond to the similarly difficult Mythic Plus dungeon from Season 3. Thus, for Mythic 2 in Season 4, you will receive as many flight stones as for Mythic 12 now. Otherwise, the following applies:
- The bonus flight stones for increasing the Mythic Plus score of any party member remain unchanged.
- There will be no Welpling emblems for Mythic Plus dungeons anymore.
- You will now receive ten Dragon Emblems upon successful completion of a Mythic 0 dungeon.
- Wyrm Emblems are available in dungeons at Mythic +2 to +5 in the same quantities as in the existing Mythic Plus dungeons.
- Aspect Emblems are available at any Mythic difficulty from +6, also in the same quantities as in the existing Mythic Plus dungeons.
What does the community say about these changes? The announcement is only a few hours old, but there is already a three-digit number of comments in the German WoW forum. Reactions range from astonishment to skepticism to anticipation and criticism – the full spectrum, in fact.
A player writes, for example: “No idea what to make of this … why damage something that has worked well for years?” Another agrees: “I would have left the Mythic Plus scaling as it is and rather addressed real issues – there are more than enough of those.“
The very active in the community MVP Blades finds the reason for the changes understandable: “Heroic really makes no sense today. This is how the difficulty is increased for “casuals”, and the M+ hunters start at a higher difficulty.“
What do you think? Are you looking forward to Dragonflight Season 4? Let us know in the comments! As for the start of Season 4, there are no details yet. It’s only clear that 10.2.6 will be released before. Only after that should a PTR with the Season 4 content go live.
If you want to know how the current meta from Season 3 is doing, check it out here: WoW DPS Ranking – These classes deal the most damage
