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8.2 PTR Dev Notes, April 23rd: Heritage Armor, Pet Battle WQs

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Today's Rise of Azshara development notes show us the major additions in this week's build of the PTR, namely the Tauren and Gnome Heritage Armor quest lines, as well as Battle Pets and Pet Battle World Quests in Mechagon. We also get a reminder of everything else that will be coming soon to the PTR.

For more info on everything that's been added to the PTR so far and announced for later, check out our 8.2 content hub.

Blizzard LogoApril 23 (source)

We’ve published a new build for the upcoming content update – Rise of Azshara – to our Public Test Realms. Here is an outline of what is now testable, and what is coming in this PTR.

Now Available for Testing

  • (New April 23) Gnome and Tauren Heritage Armor quest lines
  • New Zone: Mechagon
    • (New April 23) Battle Pets and Pet Battle World Quests
  • Heart of Azeroth system update: Introducing Essences 1
  • New Arena: The Robodrome
  • Mount Equipment
  • Ashran Epic Battleground
  • Crestfall and Snowblossom Island Expeditions

The content above continues to be developed and iterated on like the Vision of Perfection. We appreciate your feedback on all of it. Please note that Ashran may not easily complete a queue in the PTR.

Coming Soon

  • New Zone: Nazjatar
    • Explore the new zone including quest lines, World PvP Events, and World Quests.
  • New Raid-- Azshara’s Eternal Palace
    • As always, we’ll coordinate the testing of this new raid’s encounters via scheduled announcements.
  • New Dungeon— Operation: Mechagon
  • Heroic Battle for Stromgarde
  • New Missions
  • New Profession Recipes
  • Pet Battle Dungeon: Stratholme
  • Updates to Brewfest

We plan to do a wipe of all characters in a few weeks after getting focused feedback on the Heart of Azeroth Essences. This will allow us to test the feel and pacing of obtaining them all naturally. We’ll give you a heads up on that character wipe here in this forum.

Get into the PTR!

The PTR is now available. To log in to the PTR, simply create a PTR account and copy the character you wish to test from your account. Step-by-step directions can be found here.

Note: World of Warcraft PTR realms are only available to players who have a full World of Warcraft account.

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Just need to be able to transmog the tauren heritage back into a 2 hander and I can finally fulfill my first class fantasy of being a tauren warrior like from WC3

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19 hours ago, Shadehallow said:

Just need to be able to transmog the tauren heritage back into a 2 hander and I can finally fulfill my first class fantasy of being a tauren warrior like from WC3

Wait - that thing is supposed to be a cape? I can see all sorts of aesthetic problems with that... I'm trying to imagine my Fury Warrior in full heritage armor. That'd mean he'd have two big *filtered* weapons on his back plus the totem. Should also make for interesting combinations with staffs as they sheathe exactly like that, "over the Characters left shoulder", whereas normal two handers sheathe "over the right shoulder". Don't get me wrong, the thing looks badass. I just don't think it works as back gear - tbh when I first saw the image I was sure, this was a two handed weapon

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On 4/25/2019 at 4:53 AM, Evincare said:

Wait - that thing is supposed to be a cape? I can see all sorts of aesthetic problems with that... I'm trying to imagine my Fury Warrior in full heritage armor. That'd mean he'd have two big *filtered* weapons on his back plus the totem. Should also make for interesting combinations with staffs as they sheathe exactly like that, "over the Characters left shoulder", whereas normal two handers sheathe "over the right shoulder". Don't get me wrong, the thing looks badass. I just don't think it works as back gear - tbh when I first saw the image I was sure, this was a two handed weapon

 

You can already get similar totems from legion albeit smaller and as non toybox toys. I don't think it's a cape if it's anything like the HMT Totems it's probably attached to the chest piece. HMT heritage has clipping issues already as well. If that were a 2 hander I would be sooo friggin happy!

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