Dragonflight Pre-Expansion Patch 10.0.0 Phase 1 Live This We

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Dragonflight Pre-Expansion Patch 10.0.0 Phase 1 Live This Week

The pre-expansion phase 1 patch is launching this week in both NA and EU! Maintenancehas been extended to 6:00 PM PT.



The Winds of Wisdom 50% EXP buff will remain until Phase 2 on November 15.

What is Releasing This Week?

Lots of changes are coming in the Dragonflight Pre-Expansion Patch Phase 1.

• Official Patch Notes
• New Dragonflight Login Screen
• New Talent Tree System
• New Class and Race Combinations
• New UI and Interface Overhaul
• New Achievements and Rewards
• Rated PvP Solo Shuffle
• Miscellaneous Changes

What Is Coming in Phase 2 on November 15?

• New Race/Class: Dracthyr Evoker Available: Players will menace their foes (or empower their allies) as the new dracthyr Evoker, World of Warcraft’s first-ever race and class combination. Able to switch between a humanoid visage and a fearsome draconic form, the dracthyr are highly mobile, and their unique Evoker class can specialize in ranged damage-dealing or in aiding their allies as a healer by harnessing the mystical gifts of dragonkind.
  
• New Zone: The Forbidden Reach: Play through the starting zone for WoW’s newest hero class, the Dracthyr Evoker
  
• New Dungeon: Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr: Located in the Badlands within the Eastern Kingdoms, players will venture into Uldaman to lay claim to a legacy of knowledge left behind by the titans. This ancient titan facility is where, long ago, allies of the heroic Keeper Tyr hid the Discs of Norgannon.
  
• In-Game Events: Primal Storms: Ward off attacks from the Primalists with new quests and world events, setting the stage for Dragonflight’s launch.
• Leveling Experience Changes - Dragonflight will see a significant reduction in the amount of experience to level from 1-60, and 50 to 60 will be included in Chromie Time.

Official Dragonflight Prepatch Notes

Here are the Official Patch notes for Phase 1 of the Dragonflight 10.0.0 Prepatch.

Dragonflight Login Screen and Music

The prepatch will transition the Shadowlands login screen into the new Dragonflight login screen.

New Talent Tree System

All classes in the game will get access to the Dragonflight Talent Trees overhaul.

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

The Dragonflight pre-expansion patch contains major updates to World of Warcraft classes, centering on the re-introduction of talent trees. The new talent system empowers players to make creative and meaningful talent choices without compromising their effectiveness—and most importantly, it gives them meaningful options at every level. Gain talent points with each level-up and spend them in two distinct talent trees – Class talent trees featuring utility skills for your class, and Specialization talent trees that boost your offensive, defensive, or healing powers.



Take a look at some of the features the new talent system brings:

• Change your talents anywhere, for free. Switching talents no longer requires being in a rested area or using tomes. However, you can’t change talents during combat, Mythic+ runs, and active PvP matches.
• Starter Build – The Starter Build is a preset talent build available for players who prefer not to choose their own talents, but want a decent build that is suitable for most content.
• Loadouts – Save and switch between multiple talent builds with ease.
  
  
  • Import Loadouts – Easily import talent builds from outside sources.
  • Export Loadouts – Copy a loadout code you can share with friends or online communities.
  • Saved Action Bars – By default, each loadout has its own saved set of action bars. However, you can set specific loadouts to share action bars by enabling the loadout option “Use shared action bars.”
• Unlearned Talent History – Unlearning a talent high up in the tree may automatically unlearn lots of talents below it. To make it easier to reconstruct your build, these unlearned talents are clearly marked, and you can mass relearn them by using shift click.
• Search Bar
  
  
  • Locate specific talents, keywords, and even related talents for spotting synergies. For example, searching for “Tidal Waves” will also highlight Riptide, Healing Wave, and Healing Surge since they are mentioned in Tidal Waves’ description.
  • The search bar also has a preset search to help you easily locate abilities missing from your action bars.

New Class and Race Combinations

Mage, Priest, and Rogue are now available to all races in the game.

Originally Posted by MMO-Champion

New Class/Race Combinations

• Draenei - Rogue
• Lightforged Draenei - Rogue
• Orc - Priest
• Tauren - Mage, Rogue
• Highmountain Tauren - Mage, Priest, Rogue

User Interface and Menu Overhaul

The default UI has been modernized and is completely customizable.

New Achievements and Rewards

Several New achievements and rewards have been added to the game.

Originally Posted by MMO-Champion

• New mount collection achievement: Thanks for the Carry! – Obtain 500 mounts (useable by a single character). Mount Reward: Otterworldly Ottuk Carrier
• New pet collection achievements have been added:
  
  
  • Many More Mini Minions – Collect 1250 unique pets. Pet Reward: Crystalline Mini-Monster
  • Proven Pet Parent – Collect 1500 unique pets. Pet Reward: Secretive Frogduck
  • What Can I Say? They Love Me. – Collect 1750 unique pets. Pet Reward: Violet Violence
  • Good Things Come in Small Packages – Collect 2000 unique pets. Pet Reward: Mister Muskoxeles

Rated PvP Solo Shuffle

The Solo Shuffle Brawl has been made into an official solo queue category where players can earn seasonal PvP rating and rewards.

Miscellaneous Changes

There are quite a few more changes coming in the Patch.

Originally Posted by MMO-Champion

• Character slots per account going up from 50 to 60.
• Barbershop services are now free of cost.
• Up to 5 players of any faction can tag an enemy to earn quest credit and drops (was faction specific). War Mode is unchanged.
• Resurrection Sickness now lasts 1 minute (was 10 minutes). Characters that resurrect at a Spirit Healer below level 10 now suffer 10% durability loss, and characters that resurrect at a Spirit Healer at level 10 and above now suffer 50% durability loss (was all levels suffer 25% durability loss).
• New Toy: Seed of Renewed Souls – Embrace the spirits of the weald, transforming into your Soulshape. 5 minute cooldown. Available from Lady Muunn in Heart of the Forest.
• Eternity’s End class set bonuses are now legacy and disabled in combat.
  
  
  • Developers’ note: While it’s routine for us to mark older set bonuses as Legacy, we do not normally take this step so soon after they were acquired. Unfortunately, the extent of class changes coming in the pre-patch is an exceptional circumstance that has led to this decision. In the future, it is not our intention to repeat this timing when marking class sets as Legacy.
  • To account for the removal of set bonuses and addition of the new talent trees, game content will be re-tuned so that difficulty remains relatively the same.
• Additional Gamepad support.

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