Wow patch rumors

In a new interview with Game Rant about the game's recently announced patch 9. In doing so, he also heavily implies that the next expansion will be a return to the world at the center of the Warcraft universe, Azeroth. Some of that groundwork is laid here, but there's a lot more back on Azeroth we need to get back to, and delve into some storylines and characters there.

There is certainly plenty of story left to tell on Azeroth. Only a handful of Warcraft's major characters, namely Anduin, Sylvanas, Tyrande, and Bolvar Fordragon, played a role in Shadowlands' narrative, so a return to Azeroth and all the characters that didn't make the leap into the various realms of the afterlife would make perfect sense.

Danuser's comments line up with what he himself said in a recent developer preview for WoW's upcoming patch 9. In that video, Danuser described Shadowlands as the final chapter of one particular book of the Warcraft saga, and that the team was already hard at work on the next book. Progenitor tier sets will have 2 set and 4 set bonuses , but it is currently unknown how many pieces the sets will have. These set bonuses will " fun and unique benefits for a certain playstyle" and are trying to get rotations to become more fresh and unique.

Raiders will get their sets more quickly than everyone else from Bosses in the Raid. If you don't raid, you will still be able to interact with the system through the Cypher system on Zereth Mortis, which will eventually unlock the Forge of Creation system. This system allows you to earn a new currency, and spending it will allow you to take any item of appropriate item level and upgradable and turn it into a Tier set piece.

This allows all players to engage with the Tier system. Progenitor Tier pieces can be obtained from the Great Vault. Instead of long levels of trash with trash, traps, puzzles, and events, this fast and furious method is a series of quick boss fights in small packs.

Completing layers of the Jailer's Gauntlet gives rewards such as a pet, new Hearthstone toy, a title, and the Colossal Ebonclaw Mawrat mount.

Comprised of eight single-room levels featuring small groups of level Elites. Does not include Box of Many Things, traps, puzzles, events, Ashen Phylacteries, large numbers of trash packs, mawrats, or Souls to rescue. Difficulty goes up to Layer 8, with special rewards for completing even-numbered Layers. Layer progress is accountwide. Layers will award large amounts of Soul Ash , with Soul Cinders starting at Layer 2 -- more than a typical Torghast run.

This makes it a nice catch-up mechanism for characters who still need to advance Legendaries to Offers a faster pace, with high numbers of high-level Anima powers to make things easier as you go!

Players can enter Jailer's Gauntlet starting at level This is accessed via a new portal just west of the entrance to the Twisting Corridors. Flame Shock now has a target cap of 6. If all enemies in the area are already affected with Flame Shock , it will refresh the duration of Flame Shock instead.

This is to prevent too many Spirits in conjunction with other summons overflowing these slots and despawning the Spirits prematurely. Ice Strike and Sundering are no longer able to used while disarmed. It now also has a chance to break on damage taken, rather than always breaking on the first instance of damage. Duration increased to 15 seconds was 10 seconds. Double Legendary Equipping Players will eventually be able to unlock the ability to equip two Legendaries simultaneously. This will not be available at the start of the Patch and needs to be unlocked from the Cypher of the First ones system on Zereth Mortis.

When equipping two Legendaries, one of them must be the Covenant Legendary, and the other Legendary can be anything. This unlock is account-wide. Covenant Legendary Belt Players will be able to make a universal legendary belt that covers all Covenant legendary powers for their class. What we know: The belt will automatically swap between Covenant powers based on what Covenant the player chooses at the time.

For example, a Warrior's legendary belt would grant Nature's Fury to a Night Fae warrior and switch to Elysian Might when that warrior swaps to Kyrian. This eliminates the need to craft separate Legendaries for the each desired Covenant.

A Runecarver memory will be available to allow you to imbue a different armor slot with this automatic Covenant-swapping ability, if you want it on some armor slot other than a belt. There is no data on how this is acquired.

New Cheetah Druid Travel Form. This maybbe available through a glyph, although they may also be adding this to TBC where glyphs aren't available, so this is still up in the air. You will also have the ability to summon these randomly. There are also a wide variety of new Optional Reagents for many professions, including Alchemy, Enchanting, Engineering, and Jewelcrafting, as well as new Crafter's Marks. New Recipes and Reagents In addition to the Optional Reagent recipes, there will be new recipes for most professions.

Pets There will new wild pets to capture in Zereth Mortis. But these won't substitute for retail players, and if Blizzard's best prospects are from recreating its work 15 years ago, the future of the game and the series is in peril.

All in all, many World of Warcraft players are rightfully concerned about the future of the series and the future of the company at its helm. Home rpg World of Warcraft. What's Next for WoW Shadowlands? With all this in mind - what's next for WoW Shadowlands? Jump To. The Future of WoW Shadowlands. BlizzCon cancellation is a terrible sign for Shadowlands.