wow Official Patch 9.1.5 Feature List Preview

[Staff 1,488]

 

Here comes the full preview for the 9.1.5 features, including some new additions like talent and ability improvements, Allied Race unlock changes, remote Anima turn-ins, transmog linking and more! 

9.1.5 (Source)

With the arrival of the 9.1.5 PTR, we wanted to share more information on the variety of new features and updates arriving with the content update. Not all of these features and updates will be available immediately within the PTR, but we are looking forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback as they do.

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Covenant Updates

Players who reach max Renown for their Covenant will be able to freely switch among any of the four Covenants without cooldown or restriction. Cosmetic rewards, including pets and mounts, that have been earned from that covenant will thereafter be available regardless of your membership in a different one. Covenant switching and the use of cosmetic rewards will also apply to any alternate characters once the Renown threshold is reached on one character.

Conduit Energy is being removed and Conduits will be freely swappable without any restrictions.

Completing a Covenant campaign on one character will allow alternate characters the ability to skip that same Covenant’s campaign, earning the Renown and a third Soulbind unlock immediately without needing to replay the full narrative arc.

Learn more about the design decisions behind these changes in our Shadowlands Development Update.

New Character Customizations

A variety of new character customizations are being introduced for Nightborne and Lightforged Draenei along with additional updates to ear size options for void elves, new travel forms for druids, and new Soulshapes for Night Fae.

Introducing Legion Timewalking

Delve back into Legion Dungeons with Legion Timewalking and take on the challenges within, including access to Legion Mythic+ dungeons. This event will run for two weeks the first time it runs within the game and then will resume a regular one-week schedule for subsequent bonus events.

Maw Introduction Skippable

Players who have completed the introduction in the Maw on one character will be able to speak to Highlord Darion Mograine in the capital cities to skip it on their alternative characters on their account.

Island Expeditions: Queue Solo or with a Party

Players who want to take on Island Expeditions are now able to queue for them solo or with a party to enter Normal, Heroic, or Mythic difficulties. There are a bounty of awards just waiting to be plundered.

Talent and Ability Improvements

In 9.1.5 we are working on additional updates to a variety of class talents and class abilities including Conduits, Runecarving, and Covenant class ability tuning.

Allied Race Unlocks

Allied races such as the Kul’Tiran humans, Mechagnomes, and Dark Iron Dwarves, which had a dungeon requirement to unlock them, will no longer need to complete the associated quest to gain access to these races. Players will be able to skip it instead.

Additional Travel Points in The Maw

Players will be able to take advantage of additional fast travel options from Ve’nari’s Refuge to Perdition Hold and Desmotaeron within the Maw by unlocking access to them.

Remote Anima Turn-Ins

Completing quests from Archivist Roh-Suir will provide access to an Anima Diverter within Korthia where Anima can be directly deposited.

Transmogrification Linking

Show off your complete transmog outfit to chat or online by easily sharing a link to it from the Dressing Room. Players will be able to mouse over these items to see how they can be collected, if they’ve already collected the appearance, or if it’s an appearance that is accessible to the character viewing it.

Alt Leveling Improvements

A variety of improvements will be introduced in support of a smoother experience leveling alternate characters through Shadowlands, such as an additional rank of Heirloom upgrades, and improvements to Threads of Fate such as the addition of Torghast as an option and Renown gains for completing bonus objectives.

PvP Gear Power Adjustments

Lower item-level PvP gear will now scale to a higher item-level in PvP situations than before. This should reduce the power level gap so that new characters can feel that they're able to compete in Battlegrounds and Arenas more readily. This change will not affect high item-level PvP gear.

Runecarving Recipes

Drop rates for Runecarving recipes will be increased to 100% drop rate in any dungeon difficulty.

Battle for Azeroth Legacy Loot Rules

Legacy loot rules will be enabled for players at level 60 in all Battle for Azeroth raids and dungeons, causing encounters to drop the number of items as they would randomly drop for a 5-player dungeon party or a 20-player raid.

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Keep an eye on the official World of Warcraft site for the complete 9.1.5 content Update notes and more over the span of development.

[durdyenglish 298]

This is the definition of a "give the people what they want" list. Total fan/player service and I am 100% OK with it, frankly it's about time they gave us a game we want to play instead of the game they want us to play.

[Danthalas 15]

Interesting. Some nice changes coming, it sounds like.  Still want to hear something about 9.2, though.

[Arcling 898]

Mainly some smaller improvements, but it's something at least. Of course, it won't fix main issue with covenant systems like conduits, which are quite impossible to balance with how many combinations are there. There still going to be better or worse covenants for certain specs, because specific spells are still tied to them. Also those customizations, there will be even more blonde elves now!

[BobTheHuman 72]

So are you gonna be able to earn current patch high end gear through the Legion TW M+?

[Danthalas 15]

Can finally swap covenants without penalty? Now that's a huge improvement. Question is, will your renown move with you?

[lolblizzard 38]

guys we need a damage reduction patch to calm down people leaving the game as they realise how *filtered* up our company is so lets give them everything they cried in the last years immediately after telling them its not possible. ok chef..

[Dejo93 1,023]

Loving that the Lightforged can have a broken horn as a customization option, as well as facial hair for the Nightborne. 

 

WP Blizz, keep it up

[Bobbis 208]

I guess the ripcord is getting pulled

[Elfomal 55]

7 hours ago, Staff said:

Players who reach max Renown for their Covenant will be able to freely switch among any of the four Covenants without cooldown or restriction.

Of course you would need max renown.

 

Because if it isnt time gated, its not blizzard.

[Zainal 1]

Most of these are long overdue. At long last Blizzard are catering to the casual WOW gamer

[Nayrusa 50]

8 hours ago, Elfomal said:

Of course you would need max renown.

 

Because if it isnt time gated, its not blizzard.

well i dont see the patch going live sooner then sometime around end of october and since we will able to reach renown 80 in october i dont see a problem

especially if they make renown farming easier with that patch but i guess people have to find a cloud in every silver lining
 

[Elfomal 55]

5 hours ago, Nayrusa said:

but i guess people have to find a cloud in every silver lining

If you consider the fact you need to lose the equivalent of 3~4 months of 'farming' for a simple thing that should be base on the game, then yes, i agree with you.

[Guest]

On 8/27/2021 at 4:01 PM, lolblizzard said:

guys we need a damage reduction patch to calm down people leaving the game as they realise how *filtered* up our company is so lets give them everything they cried in the last years immediately after telling them its not possible. ok chef..

like the introduction of the main backpack going from 16 slots to 20 slots!  For years that was said not to be possible, then to get their authenticator  out, and one's cell phone number (for selling to other companies, I am suspecting), 4 more slots were added!  Now to get a 30 slot backpack (if an extra 4 slots were available, then another 10 can be also) - yes, I will give up a pinky toe for this.