With Legion’s patch 7.1 only a few days away from going live, it’s time to go over what you’ll be able to get your grubby little hands onto. So here’s a breakdown and my thoughts.
Note that this doesn’t really cover the small things. Blizzard themselves will likely go over the fine details on patch day.
-Karazan gets a complete overhaul, yet still remains as a 9 boss mega-dungeon. This worries me even more that the current Karazan won’t be soloable anymore.
Though I wonder if this revamped Karazan is to celebrate Halloween this year. Possibly why it’s being released before the infamous holiday.
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-Coming two weeks after the release of 7.1 (and BlizzCon), the ‘Trial of Valor’ raid opens up. It’ll be a 3 boss raid, in Stormheim. I find that quite odd, with only having three bosses. I also feel it isn’t going to be enough content.
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-Two new World Quests, with one I assume would be similar to the Horde only raptor mount in Un’Goro Crater (starting from a hatchling and growing up to be a ground mount). Very interesting.
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-The Suramar questline will be extended with one questline opened up every week for 10 weeks in total. This includes two Mythic-only dungeons. Not sure what I feel about forced Mythic only. I still remember Cata’s endgame had Heroic-only dungeons.
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-‘Blood of Sargarus’, due to how easy it is to acquire, will become a currency in exchange for trade goods in Dalaran. This does worry me, as I saw an image of trading the blood for Ore. This means ores will lose value on the AH, and it’ll be pointless to acquire in that form.
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-The ‘action cam’ which was part of Legion but then removed, is being brought back in 7.1. I hear there will now be a feature for better control when doing dungeons or raiding.
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-An island in Kalimdor will be revamped to include elite only enemies. Rumors are spreading that this is possibly going to be in favor of Hunters, to be able to tame robotic creatures (after they get the required trait to do so).
It is unknown at this time if this island will have a questline behind it.
Lastly, I hear rumors that gearing could be getting easier in 7.1 (insert “catering to casuals” comment here). It’ll be based on a BIB(Best In Bags) system, and have a green up arrow to any piece of gear that is a potential upgrade to your current spec.
I saw this rumor from the patch notes of Pawn(which currently uses weights from AshMrRobot.com), who will overwrite this to make gearing up somewhat easier. This means more people should be doing engaging PvE content (dungeons/raids).
It mentions this is completely optional and can be disabled (for the elitists).
And that’s about it. Some say that this patch has more content than all of WoD. I’m just glad it wasn’t another pointless update.