Here come this week’s notes, with a lot of Dreamsurge event details and updates, the new Dragonriding challenge courses, a few class changes, while the Dranei have been temporarily disabled and new Heritage armor quests won’t be appearing on the PTR at all!
July 18 (Source)
DREAMSURGE
Each week one of the four original zones of the Dragon Isles will be affected by the Dreamsurge. World quests will be focused on this zone, extra activities and weeklies will be active, group rares will have new powers and a chance to drop upgraded gear, and new Waking Dream portals (think invasions) will open across the zone.
A major Waking Dream portal will open as a group event every half hour. Defeating it will require a large group of players and has the chance to reward raid level gear.
Minor Waking Dream portals can be found scattered across the zone and can be defeated by solo players or small groups.
Players in the Dreamsurge will gain access to a variety of buffs that range from useful to powerful to chaotic. Every half hour a new buff will be selected for the whole region, with the players themselves choosing which one via collecting and “voting” (turning in) Dreamsurge Coalescence, an item that can be earned by doing activities (including world quests), finding hidden stashes, and killing group rares.
Thaldraszus will be the initial zone active for the PTR.
DRAGONRIDING
CHALLENGE COURSE
As you adventure across the Dragon Isles, test your dragonriding race skills with the new Challenge Course. How well can you fare without resource generation?
New Challenge Courses in each zone will unlock weekly, first in the Waking Shores, then Ohn’ahran Plains, the Azure Span, Thaldraszus, the Forbidden Reach, and finally Zaralek Cavern. Once unlocked, each set of courses will remain permanently available.
Developers note: Challenge courses are now available in the Waking Shores and Ohn’ahran Plains.
CHARACTERS
Follow Velen’s prophecy to reveal a new future for some of the draenei people.
Developers’ note: Draenei have been temporarily disabled to address a bug in this PTR build.
Heritage armor is now available for Night Elf and Forsaken.
Developers’ note: The Heritage armor questlines will not be appearing on the PTR.
5 new skin colors available for Forsaken.
Developers’ note: Available for female Forsaken in a future PTR build.
CLASSES
MONK
Mistweaver
Developers’ note: Mistweavers may notice some changes to the Mana Tea ability in the Fury Incarnate PTR. We’re still working on the final changes to this spell before placing it on the Mistweaver talent tree. Our main goal for this redesign is to centralize Mistweaver’s mana management into a dynamic, evergreen talent that offers a satisfying way to actively engage with mana as a resource and addresses some longstanding mana concerns in a more permanent way. We look forward to hearing your feedback on this topic!
ITEMS AND REWARDS
New holiday rewards for Brewfest, Day of the Dead, Hallow’s End, and Pirate’s Day.
PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER
DEMON HUNTER
Vengeance
Illidan’s Grasp has been redesigned – You strangle the target with demonic magic, stunning them in place and dealing Shadow damage over 5 seconds while the target is grasped. Can move while channeling. Use Illidan’s Grasp again to toss the target to a location within 40 yards, stunning them and all nearby enemies for 3 seconds and dealing Shadow damage.
Developers’ note: We’ve updated Illidan’s Grasp to now cancel its channel when other actions are taken and instead deal periodic damage for its duration. We feel this better matches gameplay expectations and is easier to understand.
USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY
PING SYSTEM
The new Ping system allows you to quickly communicate with your team without having to use voice or text chat. Holding G + Left Mouse Button opens up a ping wheel where you can quickly call out commands such as Attack, Assist, Warning, and On My Way. You can also send contextual pings by holding G and clicking an enemy, the ground, or the unit frames.
Developers’ note: If G is already bound to another function, the Ping entry under Keybindings will be unbound.
Macro support the following Ping commands:
/ping
/ping attack
/ping assist
/ping onmyway
/ping warning
/ping [@target] attack
REAL TIME CHAT MODERATION
Whispers that may contain harassing chat sent from a player you are not friends with will now be hidden. You will be prompted with a warning message asking if you’d like to see it anyway. If the whisper is revealed, there will be a Report Player option directly in the message so the offending player can be reported easily. This feature can be found in Options > Social > Censor Messages.
Added a “Sell All Junk” button to vendors.
Made the scroll bar more noticeable in the Dragon Isles Summary window.
Added an animation for new mail icon.
Battle.net quest icon has been updated.
Increased Party Lead icon size in Dungeon and Raid queue prompts.
