wow Battle for Azeroth 8.3 Season 4 Survival Guide, Conquest Schedule and More

[Starym 3,800]

 

The new season begins tomorrow in the US and Wednesday in the EU, and Blizzard have a survival guide video as well as the scedule ffor the Conquest PvP items to go along with the previously announced season 4 conquest notes!

Check out everything else that's arrived with the new patch right here and the patch notes here.

Season 4 (source)

Battle for Azeroth Season 4 begins, January 21 and includes an all-new Affix—Awakened— for Mythic Keystone Dungeons, Heroic Difficulty Darkshore Warfront, and more.

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Mythic Keystone Dungeons Season 4

Season 4 has a new affix—Awakened. While the Awakened affix is active, players will discover obelisks throughout the dungeon, which will pull players through the veil to the shadowy world of Ny’alotha. There, players will confront a powerful servant of N’Zoth which they must defeat or the servant will join forces with the final boss in the instance. Once the lieutenant has been taken down, the party will be returned to their regular reality in the location they’re currently standing in.

Reward Updates

Item levels of rewards from level 120 Normal, Heroic, and Mythic dungeons have been increased by 30 and can now be corrupted by N’Zoth. Baseline rewards are now item-level 400 from Normal, 415 from Heroic, and 430 from non-Keystone Mythic dungeons. During the first week of Season 4, rewards from end-of-run chests will be capped at item-level 445 for Mythic Keystone at +6 difficulty or PvP Rank 2, and the reward cache will contain a Season 3 reward. With the start of the second week of Season 4, the weekly cache will not be affected by the cap, and will reward Season 4 items at higher item levels.

Check out the Mythic Keystone Dungeon Leaderboards to see who’s staying on top of the clock.

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PvP Season 4

Season 4 brings new player-versus-player content including the new Teeming Islands Brawl. This large-scale battle brings together two teams of 10 on an island overflowing with powerful creatures. This Brawl brings an additional challenge to the shores of PvP Island Expeditions by increasing the total amount of players from six to 20 on the biggest Islands (Havenswood and Jorundall).

Participants can earn two new mounts—the Vicious White Bonesteed (Horde) and Vicious White Warsaber (Alliance) and the highest-rated players will unlock the new Corrupted Gladiator’s Proto-Drake mount.

Reward Updates

Item level rewards in Random Battlegrounds have also been increased by 30. During the first week of Season 4, end-of-match rewards will be capped at item-level 445. This will require Challenger rank to earn. Beginning in week 2, Challenger rank rewards will be item-level 460.

Conquest Schedule (click to see the full list)

Week	Item Level	Item 1	Item 2
1	440	Weapon
2	445	Head
3	445	Legs	Wrist
4	445	Trinket
5	445	Chest
6	445	Hand	Waist
7	445	Shoulder
8	445	Trinket
9	445	Feet	Finger
10	460	Weapon
11	460	Head
12	460	Legs	Waist
13	460	Trinket
14	460	Chest
15	460	Hand	Wrist
16	460	Shoulder
17	460	Trinket
18	460	Finger	Feet
19	460	Weapon
20	460	Head
21	460	Waist	Legs
22	460	Trinket
23	460	Chest
24	460	Legs	Finger
25	460	Shoulder
26	460	Head
27	460	Hand	Feet
28	460	Chest
29	460	Shoulder
30	460	Wrist	Waist

Keep an eye on the Player vs. Player Leaderboards during the season to follow who’s making waves at the top.

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Learn more about the Season 4 updates in our forum post and official notes. Join the discussion in the forums.

 

[Amateurpeeweeeeh 37]

Out of curiousity:

If I happen to start playing WoW in like 6 months, is any sort of catch-up mechanic known that makes me catch-up with this whole legendary back and horrific visions? 

Obviously I would come back at a time where gear does not really matter anymore since the next addon is almost out, but if I wanna go for M+ mount reward for example every catch-up could help.

[Seksi 208]

1 hour ago, Amateurpeeweeeeh said:

Out of curiousity:

If I happen to start playing WoW in like 6 months, is any sort of catch-up mechanic known that makes me catch-up with this whole legendary back and horrific visions? 

Obviously I would come back at a time where gear does not really matter anymore since the next addon is almost out, but if I wanna go for M+ mount reward for example every catch-up could help.

Right now, it would mean you could do all the legendary quest cloak upgrade quests back to back, but you'd still need to get the keys to enter, which are quite limited atm. Thus, I think down the line Blizzard will make the keys much easier to acquire / farm, without the current huge weekly restrictions.

[Bobbis 208]

36 minutes ago, Seksi said:

Right now, it would mean you could do all the legendary quest cloak upgrade quests back to back, but you'd still need to get the keys to enter, which are quite limited atm. Thus, I think down the line Blizzard will make the keys much easier to acquire / farm, without the current huge weekly restrictions.

It's more likely they'd simply lower their cost. 10k a pop now, maybe 5k or even 1k further down the line would be easiest I think 

[Seksi 208]

Yeah that works ?