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The "Profession Knowledge Point Catch-up" system in World of Warcraft's The War Within expansion provides players with opportunities to catch up on missed profession knowledge points. This new mechanic was introduced to address some of the limitations in the previous Dragonflight crafting system.
With Patch 11.2 being available on PTR, we have our first look at the trinkets coming with Ghost of K'aresh, coming from Manaforge Omega and Mythic+ on Season 3.
New Trinkets for Patch 11.2
Below is a list of all the trinkets added with patch 11.2. Note that the trinkets were all set to Item Level 723 for a more accurate comparison. Trinkets are still limited by the item level from their source.
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With Patch 11.2 being all about the ethereals, players will even have a way to play as one with a new Gleeful Glamour recipe!
Ethereal Gleeful Glamour
Introduced at the start of The War Within, Gleeful Glamours behave functionally as a temporary race change to your character. Enchanters can craft these Glamours where they are used to transform your character into an entirely different race, even ones of your opposing faction.
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We've datamined several of the in-game cinematic cutscenes for the Ghosts of K'aresh story campaign in Patch 11.2.
Patch 11.2 Overview: Ghosts of K'aresh
K'aresh Campaign Cutscenes
Below are the in-game cutscenes for the Ghosts of K'aresh story campaign.
Entering Tazavesh
Locus Walker escorts Alleria and the player to Tazavesh.
Monster & Wasterlanders
The Wastelanders confront the player until Xal'atath intervenes.
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N'zoth perished at the end of Battle for Azeroth... but what if he didn't? Let's speculate on how N'zoth might have survived right under our noses, and how it's been set up the whole time.
What We Know about N'zoth
N'zoth is a character with a presence spanning the history of Warcraft, with roots in ancient lore and modern expansion stories alike. To fully understand this theory, we'll first have to lay out the facts about N'zoth and his past.
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With today's Patch 11.2 development notes, Blizzard announced a change to Bursting Sores which will somewhat hard cap Unholy Death Knights in AoE scenarios. Our Unholy DK writer, Taeznak, takes a look at its impacts and how much it will actually matter for players.
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In the latest PTR build, we've datamined a new one-handed mace with a model reminiscent of T'uure, Beacon of the Naaru, the Holy Priest Artifact weapon from Legion. Is this the return of Naaru on a stick?
Patch 11.2 Overview: Ghosts of K'aresh
Update: There appears to be a new cosmetic item that grants players this new appearance with special text "A relic memorializing T'uure's sacrifice.
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This week's Patch 11.2 PTR build includes several class spell and tier set changes, particularly for Death Knights, Hunters, and Warlocks! Some changes, such as the removing empowered mechanics from Breath of Sindragosa and target capping Bursting Sores, were also highlighted with developer comments in the PTR Development Build Notes.
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Bubbles was a menace in War Within Season 2 and now it's time to say goodbye.
On the Patch 11.2 PTR, Bubbles has relocated and it's time to Press F to pay your respects. The most dangerous mob in Operation: Floodgate got too much of an ego and tried to become the 3rd boss of the dungeon, but quickly gets outclassed by Swampface.
Bubbles has killed so many groups either from the raw damage of his AoE or groups trying to skip him and failing.
Here's a clip from Zorthas on Twitch.
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We've datamined two new splash screens in this week's PTR build, one highlighting features coming in Patch 11.2 and the other for Season 3 of The War Within!
Patch 11.2 OverviewSeason 3 Overview
Ecological SuccessionEco-Dome Al'dani DungeonManaforge Omega Raid
Among the features highlighted include our exploration of K'aresh, homeworld of the Ethereals, the Ecological Succession world activity, a brand new dungeon and raid in which we face Dimensius the All-Devouring!
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Blizzard has posted Patch 11.2. PTR development notes and class tuning which includes target capping Unholy DK Bursting Sores to 7 additional targets.
Hello testers! The Ghosts of K’aresh PTR has been updated with this week’s changes:
THE WAR WITHIN SEASON 3
The War Within dungeons: Priory of the Sacred Flame, Operation: Floodgate, The Dawnbreaker, and Ara-kara, City of Echoes are now available for testing this week. See the dungeon testing schedule for more information:
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We've datamined many changes to the War Within dungeons in Season 3 and many spells now have an increased cast time!
This is what we've datamined so far on the 11.2 PTR. For more information on other chagnes that can't be datamined, please check out Blizzard's official post..
Datamining cannot track new and removed abilities, new mob positions and more, so things are subject to be changed.
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In our journeys to K'aresh in Patch 11.2, we'll be able to collect some transmog cosmetics in the style of the Ethereals! These items complement the sets from outdoor activities in K'aresh, and include Ethereal Defense weapons, tools, and shadowy soulbinder cloaks!
The Ethereal Defense weapons, tools, and three-piece Trust set are all from various levels of The K'aresh Trust renown.
The Phasebound Visor helm is a reward from My Stab-Happy Nemesis from delves.
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The War Within Season 3 Tier Set bonuses and models have been revealed. Our Paladin Guide Writers breakdown each of their two tier set bonuses, offering insight into the Hero Talent-specific implementation, relative strength, and theorize which you're likely to use in Patch 11.2.
War Within Season 3 Tier Sets for All Specs & Hero Talents
Our Guide Writers have provided initial first impressions on the War Within Season 3 Tier Set bonuses for both of their Hero Talents.
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Today, we are looking at the DPS balance on Liberation of Undermine during the week of June 24th on The War Within Season 2. For this analysis, we will use data provided by Warcraft Logs Raid statistics for The War Within Season 2.
Mythic Liberation of Undermine Statistics Page
Liberation of Undermine Raid Tier Lists
Looking for more insight into the raid balance? Check out our Tier Lists, which include more information besides pure throughput for Liberation of Undermine.
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Struggling to remember which mounts you still need to collect for Collector's Bounty? Track your full progress from Vanilla to Shadowlands with Completionism.net.
Completionism.net - Collector's BountyCollectors Bounty Guide
What is Completionism.net?
Completionism.net is a free website that helps players track their collection progress in a variety of events sorted into easy to follow categories like expansion.
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Today, we are looking at the dungeon data for the week of June 24th during The War Within Season 2. For this analysis, we will use data provided by Raider.IO statistics for The War Within Season 2.
Raider.IO TWW Season 2 Dungeon Statistics
The War Within Mythic+ Tier List
Looking for more insight into Mythic+ dungeon balance? Check out our Tier Lists, which include more information besides raw popularity for Season 2 dungeons.
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Blizzard has announced that Warcraft Rumble will continue to be supported with in-game events and bug fixes, but no longer receive new content updates moving forward.
Citing struggles with sustainability, this announcement echoes the path taken by Heroes of the Storm some three years ago, and comes amidst wide-spread reports of layoffs across Microsoft's Xbox gaming division, including a 10% reduction of personnel at King (Candy Crush).
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With week 5 of Dastardly Duos, there is a new weekly quest from Vinnie Sweets along with certain achievements players can earn.
Dastardly Duos Event Guide
Week 5 Weekly Quest
This quest will be available from Vinnie Sweets at any of the three Dastardly Duos Hubs. The Dornogal Hub location is provided in the map below.
Completing the quest will net players a Dastardly Prize Purse, containing a piece of Champion-track gear, and Resonant Crystals.
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Blizzard has posted War Within Season 3 Dungeon tuning which includes nerfing the last boss of Arak-Kara and moving Bubbles in Floodgate!
The War Within Season 3 dungeon testing continues on PTR today. The test period starts on Wednesday July 2nd at 12:00 PST (15:00 EDT, 22:00 CEST) and ends Tuesday July 8th at 10:00 PST (13:00 EDT, 20:00 CEST). Please note that the test period may be adjusted in the event of technical difficulties.
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This week, players can reach Rank 19 on the Gallagio Loyalty Rewards Club renown track, unlocking Loyal Customer: GOLDEN LEGENDARY!!! to max out the raid-wide Liberation of Undermine buff at +18% damage and healing!
That's the last one we got! You're on top of the world, sweetheart.
This is the final rank of raid buff and second to last overall rank on the renown track, a lengthy 20-week grind since the Liberation of Undermine became available this past March.
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The War Within Season 3 Tier Set bonuses and models have been revealed. Our Shaman Guide Writers breakdown each of their two tier set bonuses, offering insight into the Hero Talent-specific implementation, relative strength, and theorize which you're likely to use in Patch 11.2.
War Within Season 3 Tier Sets for All Specs & Hero Talents
Our Guide Writers have provided initial first impressions on the War Within Season 3 Tier Set bonuses for both of their Hero Talents.
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With this weekly reset, players can increase their Titan D.I.S.C. belt to 697 item level with a weekly quest from Dagran in Dornogol.
Overcharged Delves and D.I.S.C. Belt Guide
Weekly Quest Location
This quest will be available from Dagran Thaurissan II in Dornogol at the Delves Hub or in an Overcharged Delve. The weekly quest, New Titan Directives, requires players to Defeat 8 Titan Constructs and complete any Overcharged Delves.
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Taliesin and Evitel cover the latest news and deep dive into pertinent topics in The Weekly Reset. This week, they talk about this month's Collector's extravaganza with the concurrent Collector's Bounty and Greedy Emissary events. They are also joined by Dan Olson of Folding Ideas, who brings us a Special Report.
World of Warcraft: The War Within enters collecting summer with the Collector's Bounty seeing big buffs to drop rates for mounts and transmog in legacy WoW dungeons and raids.
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The War Within Season 3 Tier Set bonuses and models have been revealed. Our Warlock Guide Writers breakdown each of their two tier set bonuses, offering insight into the Hero Talent-specific implementation, relative strength, and theorize which you're likely to use in Patch 11.2.
War Within Season 3 Tier Sets for All Specs & Hero Talents
Our Guide Writers have provided initial first impressions on the War Within Season 3 Tier Set bonuses for both of their Hero Talents.
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The War Within Season 3 Tier Set bonuses and models have been revealed. Our Druid Guide Writers breakdown each of their two tier set bonuses, offering insight into the Hero Talent-specific implementation, relative strength, and theorize which you're likely to use in Patch 11.2.
War Within Season 3 Tier Sets for All Specs & Hero Talents
Our Guide Writers have provided initial first impressions on the War Within Season 3 Tier Set bonuses for both of their Hero Talents.
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The month of July features a Forsaken Themed Trading Post and the opportunity to earn bonus rewards, including 500 extra Trader's Tender!
July's extended Traveler's Log features three rewards and an extra 500 Trader's Tender!
Each month, players are tasked to complete objectives within the Traveler's Log, earning up to 500 Trader's Tender and a special monthly reward.
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So you don't play Classic, but you want to earn Shaohao's Sage Serpent? We've got you covered; simply complete the Pandaren starting experience in MoP Classic by July 30th to earn your Jade Astral Cloud Serpent.
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The War Within Season 3 Tier Set bonuses and models have been revealed. Our Mage Guide Writers breakdown each of their two tier set bonuses, offering insight into the Hero Talent-specific implementation, relative strength, and theorize which you're likely to use in Patch 11.2.
War Within Season 3 Tier Sets for All Specs & Hero Talents
Our Guide Writers have provided initial first impressions on the War Within Season 3 Tier Set bonuses for both of their Hero Talents.
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The Greedy Emissary event is now live on NA Servers! Treasure Goblins are spawning across Azeroth, ready for players to snag their loot both new and old. Players won't just be farming the rares this time, though - there's also a new currency that can purchase recolors of iconic Tier 2 sets.
A Greedy Emissary Diablo Crossover Event
This article was originally published announcing that the first 10 Hellfire Cache bonus was daily. This was incorrect as the article should have said weekly.
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Turbulent Timeways III continues into Week 3 with Burning Crusade Timewalking! Complete dungeons and Black Temple for two Heroic Liberation of Undermine caches and check out all the latest rewards.
Burning Crusade Timewalking Guide
Timewalking Dungeon Event
Venture into six of Burning Crusade's dungeons for updated rewards in this week’s Bonus Event.
While the Event is Active:
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The Collector's Bounty is starting this week, and we have a preliminary list of all mounts that will receive an increased drop rate during the event.
Collectors Bounty Guide - Increased Drops for Mounts, Weapons, Transmog
List of Mounts with Droprate Increased during Collector's Bounty
Looking to farm mounts during the event? The mounts below will have the drop rate increased during Collector's Bounty.
DISCLAIMER:
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With the Reshii Wraps being a new artifact cloak everyone will equip in Patch 11.2, we will not see cloak drops in Season 3. This does leave a question - How can we obtain cloak transmogs for the Manaforge Omega tier pieces?
No Cloak Drops In The War Within Season 3
In The War Within Season 3, there will be no Cloak drops - Neither from the Manaforge Omega raid, nor from the dungeons in the War Within Season 3 rotation.
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The War Within Season 3 Tier Set bonuses and models have been revealed. Our Rogue Guide Writers breakdown each of their two tier set bonuses, offering insight into the Hero Talent-specific implementation, relative strength, and theorize which you're likely to use in Patch 11.2.
War Within Season 3 Tier Sets for All Specs & Hero Talents
Our Guide Writers have provided initial first impressions on the War Within Season 3 Tier Set bonuses for both of their Hero Talents.
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In Patch 11.2, a new Delve-related event is being previewed - A friendly race between the Horde and the Alliance! Participate to gain faction-themed customizations for the Delver's Dirigible mount.
Delve Racing Basics
If you go to the Delver's Headquarters in Dornogal on the Patch 11.2 PTR, you might notice a flag next to Brann Bronzebeard. If you talk to Brann, he'll tell you he's organizing a friendly faction Delve race!
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The War Within Season 3 Tier Set bonuses and models have been revealed. Our Hunter Guide Writers breakdown each of their two tier set bonuses, offering insight into the Hero Talent-specific implementation, relative strength, and theorize which you're likely to use in Patch 11.2.
War Within Season 3 Tier Sets for All Specs & Hero Talents
Our Guide Writers have provided initial first impressions on the War Within Season 3 Tier Set bonuses for both of their Hero Talents.
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Blizzard has revealed in a new short that the Collector's Bounty event will increase the drop rate for affected Mounts and Legendaries by 5% for the duration of the event.
Collector's Bounty Guide
YouTube Short
This Isn't 10x!?
With this information, we have more details about the event. This flat 5% buff means that, regardless of the original drop rate, every mount from Dungeons and Raids before Dragonflight will have at least a 5% drop rate.
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The War Within Season 3 Tier Set bonuses and models have been revealed. Our Warrior Guide Writers breakdown each of their two tier set bonuses, offering insight into the Hero Talent-specific implementation, relative strength, and theorize which you're likely to use in Patch 11.2.
War Within Season 3 Tier Sets for All Specs & Hero Talents
Our Guide Writers have provided initial first impressions on the War Within Season 3 Tier Set bonuses for both of their Hero Talents.
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A new side quest in K'aresh explores the agreement between an Illidari and a Void Elf, and may be setting the stage for a new Demon Hunter class fantasy!
While the full questline isn't testable yet, the introduction takes us to a void elf camp on K'aresh, where their leader Magister Umbric tasks us with ensuring the safety of his apprentice, Leona Darkstrider. What we quickly learn is that Leona has an alliance with Adarus Duskblade -- a demon hunter!
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The War Within Season 3 Tier Set bonuses and models have been revealed. Our Priest Guide Writers breakdown each of their two tier set bonuses, offering insight into the Hero Talent-specific implementation, relative strength, and theorize which you're likely to use in Patch 11.2.
War Within Season 3 Tier Sets for All Specs & Hero Talents
Our Guide Writers have provided initial first impressions on the War Within Season 3 Tier Set bonuses for both of their Hero Talents.
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Moving into Patch 11.2, players can spend their hard earned Undercoins on a new Arsenal: Undermine Weaponry, unlocking twelve weapons appearances which you may have missed in Season 2!
Purchased for 5,000 Undercoin, the arsenal contains 12 appearances previously obtained as end of Delve rewards or dropped by The Underpin nemesis boss.
Razor-sharp Desk Fan
As of Patch 11.1.7, the fan blades now spin!
Oil Gouger
The drill bit also spins!
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