The WoW team dropped a big info dump about the 8.2 patch coming to the PTR. This patch is a mega patch that will not just add to the story of Battle for Azeroth but will even change one of its most hated systems. The Twitch stream they did was hosted by Senior Game Designer Jeremy Feasel. Now let’s try to squeeze all the information into a signal post.
In 8.2 we will be exploring the two new lands of Nazjatar and Mechagon Island. Nazjatar will be the focus of the patch. Like any new area we will be building up forces, and making new allies. They are adding a new system called Combat Allies. These allies will be powerful friends to have along side you and will gain experience. You will be exploring and questing threw the now risen city of Nazjatar the home of the Naga. You will be teaming up with one of two factions to make your way to the Eternal Palace. This will be the raid for 8.2 where we will confront Queen Azshara. This area will have new world quest, and rare spawns that act kind of like mini world bosses.
Mechagon is a long-lost island of the Mechagnomes. The gnomes here are half gnome half robot. They are led by King Mechagon. This area is a gnomish island where you will be helping to rebuild a mechagnome town. This area will have its own new world quests and have special rare spawns, like the old Timeless Island in Pandaria. The island will also have a new mega dungeon, much like return to Karazan in legion this will be an 8 boss mythic only dungeon. In the dungeon you will be making your way to King Mechagon to stop his plan to detonate a bomb that will turn everyone into robots.
One of the biggest changes coming to the game will be a change to the much hated Heart of Azeroth. You will be helping to rebuild the chamber of hearts. The Heart Forge will be the new focal point of the necklace. Like in legion where you had some kind of place to put your artifact when you added power to it. Now you will be doing this with your Heart of Azeroth. Once you place it there you can unlock traits with some passive abilities and some will have active abilities. From their description of this new system it seems like artifact system 2.0.
For PVP players you will be getting a new arena called the Robodome. PVPers will also be getting Ashran as epic battle ground, and mounts for season 3 of Battle for Azeroth. They will be adding new content for war mode as well.
We are not done yet because in 8.2 you will be able to unlock flying in both Kul’Tiras and Zandalar, when you complete path finder part II you will be rewarded with a new robot parrot mount. On the subject of mounts they are adding something new called mount equipment. These items can be equipped to your mount journal and can give your mounts special abilities. One of those abilities being water walking. Any mount can walk on water or many other things. If you are a fan of island expeditions, they will be adding two new islands.
They dumped a lot of information on us today. For those of you who want to see this content before released you can hop on to the PTR and try it out next week. An official launch date for the patch was not mentioned. You can watch todays stream in its entirety here. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/409517953?t=29m44s
