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A Wish List of Potential Patch 9.2 Features

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In this article, we're going through a list of potential features/wishes for Patch 9.2.

New Zone: Zereth Mortis

The Jailer opened a portal to the Sepulcher of the First Ones at the end of the Sylvanas Defeat Cinematic. I'm guessing we'll fight alongside Sylvanas Windrunner in the new zones to bring an end to the Jailer's plans.

Blizzard also teased the patch/zone in a cryptic tweet yesterday.

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New Raid

A major content patch means the beginning of a new Season in both PvP and PvE, and with it, they also add a new raid to the game. I'm guessing there will be a raid with Anduin Wrynn as a boss and we'll finally get to see Arthas and learn more about him and what role he plays in the Shadowlands.

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The Return of Tier Sets

Tier Sets have been removed in Battle for Azeroth. Ion talked to Preach in April 2021, and confirmed they would return, but not in Chains of Domination, but in a later content patch, which happens to be 9.2. I am really curious to see how they're going to bring back tier set bonuses with so many borrowed power systems layered on top of each other.

Cross-Faction Play/Raiding

Game Director Ion Hazzikostas acknowledged in a Venture Beat interview that faction imbalance in raiding is an ongoing issue, and is "on the table" soon. Do you think we'll see cross-faction raiding in Patch 9.2? How would it affect the World First Race?

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The Return of Class Order Halls

Legion Class Order Halls gave all classes identity and it wouldn't be too hard to update the existing zones with new and revised vendors and give all players a new Hearthstone. Many, including myself, would welcome the feature with open arms, even without Order Hall Campaigns and Artifacts.

What feature would you personally like to see in Patch 9.2?

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I never understood why they just left the orderhalls behind after legion. They were great for class identity. And because everyclass had their own it also felt more special than the 4 hubs we have now.

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25 minutes ago, edgomatic said:

They were great for class identity. 

So long they rework the warrior one...

Couldn't be further from reinforcing 'class identity'.

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1 hour ago, edgomatic said:

I never understood why they just left the orderhalls behind after legion. They were great for class identity. And because everyclass had their own it also felt more special than the 4 hubs we have now.

I think part of the issue is that they grounded several of them in the Broken Isles. Honestly Legion would have been the best point to end faction wars and have the adventurers split off as neutrals that felt their factions were ineffective, using the class halls as new capitals going forward.

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1 hour ago, edgomatic said:

I never understood why they just left the orderhalls behind after legion. They were great for class identity. And because everyclass had their own it also felt more special than the 4 hubs we have now.

My guess is they wanted to emphasize the Big War in Battle for Azeroth with the two factions.    Having places of faction peace, unity and working togetherness seems counter to that.

One of my earliest and still biggest critiques of BFA (besides the Giant Sword we just left there still killing Azeroth!) was the absolute whiplash in storyline between Legion and BFA.

In Legion we were working hand in hand with the other faction, a few elven arguments (of the silly kind) aside.   We were zooming off to farawary planets in light-tech spaceships, using meks, giant laser beams, etc to fight against space satan.     Who, by the way, stabbed Azeroth with a Giant Sword as a segway into BFA.

Suddenly we're back to medieval times as the alliance besiege a stone wall fortress with catapults and siege weapons you could find in a museum.    Meks?   The spaceship(s)?   The entire Demon Hunter Class?    All forgotten apparently, as were the Draneii who were conveniently ignored as a much better azerite port while Sylvannas used that excuse to genocide the Nelfs.    Khadgar convienently went off to "think" for a while as did all of Dalaran.    As did every other major power that could have obviously had a huge impact.

Except for the Tidestone.   We convienently FORGOT TO PICK IT BACK UP and Asharra got ahold of it.

Sigh.

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I would like very much if new content was multi threaded like Classic content had been.   I mean sure, I made jokes with my guildies about questlines long enough to keep the bootmaker's union in permanent business - what with sending us to other zones across the world... but...

It made sense for someone's sister to be at another zone to find.
It made sense for chasing an evil elementalist/warlock to be hard tracking and chase them across zones.
It made sense for some gnome's getaway chicken to have actually gotten away.

Nowadays we have "oh dear, this Ben fellow, that shouldn't have..." but Kleia has no further curiosity for Azeroth, we see no hint of Ben ever again.   "go rescue a few Night Elf soul names we all know" was good, but IMO turning off finding teldrassil-souls alongside generic souls was a dumbing down they shouldn't have done.

So the biggest new feature I would like is, more content for people who are curious explorers;  AND make that curiosity rewarded in tier work.  

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