With Patch 11.1 steadily approaching, the WoW devs have deployed a playable PTR version for the community to try out and provide feedback. Given the Mythic+ dungeon pool changes coming in Season 2 of The War Within, we can expect a lot of fine-tuning in the coming weeks.
Having that in mind, we will go over everything we know about the available PTR version and how you can start trying out the new changes for the Season 2 Mythic+ pool.
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The War Within 11.1 PTR
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.
Testing schedule for Dungeons
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Week 1: Operation: Floodgate
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Week 2: The War Within Dungeons (Cinderbrew Meadery, Darkflame Cleft, Priory of the Sacred Flame, Rookery)
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Week 3: Legacy dungeons (Operation Mechagon: Workshop, THE MOTHERLODE!!!, Theater of Pain)
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Week 4: The War Within dungeons + Operation: Floodgate
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Week 5: Legacy dungeons + Operation: Floodgate
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Week 6+: All season 2 dungeons
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Affix Changes
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.
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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.
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New affix: Xal’atath’s Bargain: Pulsar
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While in combat, Xal’atath summons pulsars that orbit players and must be intercepted within a time limit.
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This affix replaces Xal’atath’s Bargain: Oblivion
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Xal’atath’s Guile
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Redesigned. Now causes keystones above level 12 to increase health and damage of enemies by 12% per level instead of 10% per level.
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Xal’atath’s Bargain: Voidbound
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Dark Prayer is no longer a channel and the Void Emissary no longer grants damage reduction to creatures while active.
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Dark Prayer now has a 15 seconds cast time, and grants all nearby creatures in combat Xal’atath’s Gift when it finishes casting.
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The Potency of Xal’atath’s Gift granted by Dark Prayer is based on the remaining shield percentage of the Void Emissary.
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New Achievement and Rewards
Keystone Legend
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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.
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Players can still speak with Lindormi to lower their keystone level.
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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.
And that covers everything you need to know about the Season 2 PTR so you can start getting used to the new pool of dungeons once Patch 11.1 goes live. You can check out the announcement, here.
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