After revealing the new and first ever Renown track for a raid earlier this week, Blizzard are now making changes to it after player feedback.
We have plenty of changes, from removing raid items as rewards, to moving the skip earlier, adding two new mounts, and more!
Hey folks, wanted to make a quick update concerning how the Raid Renown has changed per your feedback & some internal conversations:
- In hopes of not burying the lede, the Puzzling Cartel Chip previously present at Ranks 17 & 19 on the track that allowed for purchase of Raid Items directly have been removed. However, it’s noteworthy that this feature isn’t intended to be gone from the Undermined Update entirely, just that they’re moving away from the 11.1 Raid Renown track. More details to come, so hang tight and we’ll have more to say on what’s becoming of them soon!
- ‘Fixer-Upper’ Repair Stations previously present at Rank 5 have been removed. While this is the sort of thing that could end up being perfectly reasonable for certain raid layouts, much of Liberation of Undermine is already outdoors and mountable – not to mention the Rewards Card allowing you quick access to the Incontinental even when no engineers or repair mounts are available. Overall it just didn’t feel that satisfying, so they’re removed for now.
- Raid Skip has been moved to Rank 5 (was Rank 8), now requires Mug’Zee to have been defeated on that difficulty (was any difficulty). We’ve heard a lot of feedback in both directions here – that 7 weeks would be too long for certain guilds that normally clear higher difficulties quicker, and the possible risks it could pose to late-stage Mythic Progression. As a result, we’re simply pushing this up sooner and making it a more traditional style of Raid Skip unlock/quest that you’re used to, with the tradeoff being you’re only required to kill Mug’Zee once per difficulty rather than multiple times. This is the sort of thing we could see evolving into something more robust one day, but for Raid Renown’s debut it feels safer and more appropriate to make it as close to the live raiding experience as possible rather than risk too much disruption at once.
- Lastly, taking the Rank 8 and Rank 17 spots as a result of some of the previous rewards shuffling are two mounts – the Thunderdrum Misfire & the Darkfuse Chompactor. A reminder that this Renown will still be available with all of its rewards redeemable even after 11.1 is over, so non-raiders and collectors won’t have to lose out on the chance to collect cosmetics found within it just because they didn’t raid during the season.
Thanks for all of the feedback and discussion over the last few weeks, and we’ll see you in the Undermine!
