- Author: Luxrah
- Date: January 9, 2025
- Updated: January 9, 2025
- Expansion: World of Warcraft
Patch 11.1 Undermined has made its way to the Public Test Realms, and this next major content patch for The War Within is bringing a new seasonal dungeon rotation that is now available for testing as well.
Blizzard has laid out their six-week testing schedule for this season, giving a reasonable estimate of how much time we have before the season goes live. Each week will test a different set of dungeons, with all dungeons being made available in the final week.
Affixes will cycle daily on the PTR to allow players to test more of them in a short time span. There are changes to some of Xal’atath’s affixes and a new one being added, Xal’atath’s Bargain: Pulsar, which replaces Xal’atath’s Bargain: Oblivion and summons pulsars that orbit players and must be intercepted within a time limit.
There’s also a new reward coming for the Keystone Legend achievement. Once a rating of 2850 has been earned, you’ll be able to pick up a quest that will prevent keystones above level 12 from being reduced below that level for the remainder of the season, including through the level decay in the Great Vault.
As a reminder, here is the dungeon rotation for Season 2 of The War Within:
- New dungeon:
- Operation: Floodgate
- The War Within dungeons:
- Cinderbrew Meadery
- Darkflame Cleft
- Priory of the Sacred Flame
- Rookery
- Legacy dungeons:
- Operation Mechagon: Workshop (Battle for Azeroth)
- THE MOTHERLODE!!! (Battle for Azeroth)
- Theater of Pain (Shadowlands)
Greetings!
The War Within Season 2 dungeon testing begins on PTR realms this week. The test period will begin on Tuesday January 7th at 10:00 PDT (13:00 EDT, 20:00 CEST), and end Tuesday January 14th at 10:00 PDT (13:00 EDT, 20:00 CEST). Please note that the test period may be adjusted in the event of technical difficulties.
For season 2 of The War Within, we are refining our testing format to better concentrate feedback and facilitate larger content and balance updates between each PTR cycle. Alongside the daily rotation of affixes for +2 to +12 key levels, each week will spotlight a subset of Season 2 dungeons for focused testing.
- Week 1: Operation: Floodgate
- Week 2: The War Within Dungeons (Cinderbrew Meadery, Darkflame Cleft, Priory of the Sacred Flame, Rookery)
- Week 3: Legacy dungeons (Operation Mechagon: Workshop, THE MOTHERLODE!!!, Theater of Pain)
- Week 4: The War Within dungeons + Operation: Floodgate
- Week 5: Legacy dungeons + Operation: Floodgate
- Week 6+: All season 2 dungeons
Affix updates
We have a number of adjustments to affixes and supporting systems available for testing. Affixes will cycle each day on PTR realms to facilitate testing.
- Unified creature buffs on all Xal’atath’s Bargain affixes with Xal’atath’s Gift, increasing damage done up to 50% and reducing damage taken up to 100% for 20 seconds on all nearby creatures in combat.
- New affix: Xal’atath’s Bargain: Pulsar
- While in combat, Xal’atath summons pulsars that orbit players and must be intercepted within a time limit.
- This affix replaces Xal’atath’s Bargain: Oblivion
- Xal’atath’s Guile
- Redesigned. Now causes keystones above level 12 to increase health and damage of enemies by 12% per level instead of 10% per level.
- Xal’atath’s Bargain: Voidbound
- Dark Prayer is no longer a channel and the Void Emissary no longer grants damage reduction to creatures while active.
- Dark Prayer now has a 15 seconds cast time, and grants all nearby creatures in combat Xal’atath’s Gift when it finishes casting.
- The Potency of Xal’atath’s Gift granted by Dark Prayer is based on the remaining shield percentage of the Void Emissary.
New Achievement and Rewards
Keystone Legend
- Attaining a rating of 2850 Lindormi will offer players a quest that prevents keystones level 12 and above from being reduced below level 12 for the remainder of the season.
- Players can still speak with Lindormi to lower their keystone level.
- This functionality includes keystone level decay from the great vault.
During the test period you’ll be able to acquire and customize Mythic Keystones by talking to the Keystone Vendor in Stormwind or Orgrimmar, and the nearby Dungeon Teleports NPC will assist you with transportation.
We look forward to hearing your feedback!
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