Patch 6.2: Some thoughts...

I honestly don't know what was I expecting. I mean, I was expecting something but I didn't know what. So far, situation is so hectic that it is pretty close to impossible to kill a Rare Creature unless you accidentally aggro it while walking along it's spawn point or you join a group of "Rare Hunters" that are camping them and announcing themselves on General Channel.

In correlation with the release of the Patch, price of [WoW Token] jumped by about 10.000 gold over night and it's current price is ~53.000 gold per Token on EU realms while price on US realms stands steady at ~25.000 gold pieces per Token. (Source: WoWTokenInfo, 27.06.2015.)

 [Cursed Feather of Ikzan] dropped by High Priest Ikzan. Why isn't this classified as a Toy?

Overall, Tanaan Jungle has the same vibe that Timeless Isle had only bigger. Vast area with lots of Achievements, Treasures, Rare Creatures that drop ILVL650 Baleful Tokens which are useless if you are seasoned Raider that's a member of the Guild with a Raid Progression... But very useful thing if you are gearing up an Alt Character as iLVL650 is minimum requirement (announced by Blizzard Devs) in order to even be considered for Normal version of Hellfire Citadel.

Timewalking event was finally implemented and it brought a bit of Nostalgic feel to the game. You can queue through RDF for it and band up with 4 other players to re-live old dungeons as it was meant to be played rather than going back as High Level player and facerolling through. Currently available dungeons are from TBC era: The Arcatraz, The Black Morass, Mana-Tombs, The Shattered Halls and The Slave Pens. Timewalking is a Weekend event that lasts for 3 days and will end on Monday. Next Weekend event will be Apexis Bonus event where drop of Apexis Crystals will be multiplied and they will be found more often while looting. Next Timewalking event will happen on July 17th when we will have the chance to tackle down WotLK dungeons in same manner.

Mythic Dungeons are finally opened. Same Dungeons only a bit more challenging. They are on a weekly lockout, drop item level 685 gear, and allow you to use [Seal of Inevitable Fate] for bonus rolls. Speaking of Seals, cap for [Seals of Tempered Fate] was increased to 20 and you can buy them at your Tanaan faction hub vendors for 300 gold pieces per Seal.

In "Garrison Related" news, I created The Shipyard and for a moment everything looked awesome. Then I found out that I need to grind reputations so I can obtain more ships and I got easily bored by it. As every ship has a chance to be destroyed if mission fails (win chance less than 100%) and because I am Resource Efficient, The Shipyard won't see my foot setting onto it's soil for a while now because all current available missions has a chance of success around 50%, which are odds that I don't like at all. Especially if Rare ship is in question.

Drop chance of Salvage Crates was nerfed and you will see them in less quantities than you could. High-value Gold follower missions are nerfed and you will see less of them, especially on your alts. (Since it is semi-related to the Garrison) Ashran's grouping system was nerfed and you can't queue for it while in Raid group so, goodbye Nemesis pre-made groups... Profession cooldowns and Buildings yield double amounts of materials now and you get twice as much as before. Profession Upgrade Tokens underwent a change so it could be easier to create them and amount of materials needed to create them has been normalized. And for some god damn reason, we are getting dismounted AGAIN while interacting with finished Work Orders.

Patch 6.2: Fury of Hellfire, Next Week

Release date for Patch 6.2 is June 23. The day we venture into Tanaan Jungle to face Gul’dan and the twisted remnants of the Iron Horde.

If you are a member of the guild with serious raid progression, take this week as a last chance to get few more gear upgrades from Blackrock Foundry by spending all remained [Seals of Tempered Fate] because you won't be needing them that much after 6.2 goes live.

This is also your last chance to obtain Ahead of the Curve / Cutting Edge achievements from Highmaul and Blackrock Foundry.

Find your path...

As I mentioned in previous publication, [Draenor Pathfinder] is a new achievement added in Patch 6.2 and initial reward for completing said achievement, [Soaring Skyterror], is a re-color of [Iron Skyreaver], just as I suspected.

To accommodate the achievement requirements, [Master Treasure Hunter] will be renamed to [Expert Treasure Hunter] with old name being used for new achievement awarded to people when they gather 100 Treasures. All other Treasure Hunter achievements are being updated not to include/count treasures found in Tanaan Jungle.

Along with that, [Tanaan Diplomat] (A) / [Tanaan Diplomat] (H) are making an entry, being awarded when players reach Revered status with new Reputation Factions. So far, estimates are that Revered status for these factions can be obtained in different time spans with the longest one being reachable within 2.5/3 weeks from the launch, if Daily Quests are completed every day.

Models for next Tier of Armor Sets are released and, to avoid cluttering the post, you can check all of them on WoWhead. Personally, I like Rogue set the most. Shoulders and Helm look really nice and those daggers on the belt... Awesome...

In order to spare you from sifting through achievements and check everything by yourself, WoWhead launched a new app on their website to allow players to easily check if we are ready to be attuned for Draenor Flying so, check it out on http://wowhead.com/flying

Apparently, Redub and Myself are 100% ready to grind some reps in Tanaan upon release.

If YOU ARE NOT PREPARED! (sorry, I just had to) then check out WoWhead's guide on Draenor Pathfinding so you can be ready as fast as possible.

[Dwarven Bunkers] are being updated and they will offer [Seals of Inevitable Fate] instead of [Seals of Tempered Fate] that will be used in upcoming Hellfire Citadel Bonus Drop Rolls.

Another new thing is 6.2 are [The Shipyards] and I am looking forward to construct it. I just hope it does not turn out to be a total trainw... I mean, shipwreck.

We WILL be Flying in Draenor!

Looks like we will be flying in Draenor after all... Blizzard "caved".

Patch 6.2 was marked as a "Release" on PTR and we can expect the launch announcement any time now.

Be prepared to spread the wings of your flying mounts but, you will need to meet a few conditions. Patch 6.2 brings new meta-achievement called [Draenor Pathfinder] and in order to obtain it, you will need to complete following:

• Achievement [Explore Draenor]: Head to every corner of Draenor and reveal every obscured section of the map.
• Achievement [Treasure Hunter]: Only 100 are required. If you don't have 100, download HandyNotes_DraenorTreasures addon (HandyNotes is required for it to work) and collect them. If you don't want to bother with addons, you can buy Treasure Maps from Grakis (Stormshield) and Srikka (Warspear) at a price of 100 gold pieces per Map.
• Achievement [Loremaster of Draenor]: Only main Quest Chains need to be completed. If you didn't do them... What are you waiting for?
• Achievement [Securing Draenor]: Bonus Objectives / Apexis Daily Quests. If you haven't completed them by now, you can buy Scouting Missives from Sergeant Crowler (A) and/or Sergeant Grimjaw (H).
• Earn Revered status with 3 new Tanaan Jungle factions coming in Patch 6.2:
  The Saberstalkers, Order of the Awakened, Hand of the Prophet (A) / Vol'jin's Headhunters (H)

Initially, this new meta-achievement will give a new mount as a reward, The Soaring Skyterror. There are no images related to this mount for now but, using in consideration the name we may be looking at a re-color of either a [Dread Raven] or [Iron Skyreaver]. You never know, though... We may be looking at something new as well.

Players will remain ground-bound on Draenor until a small follow-up patch (6.2.x), when all players who have earned Draenor Pathfinder on at least one character will unlock the ability to fly in Draenor on all their level 90+ characters.

A new Mount is introduced as a Garrison Mission reward as well. If you are annoyed with camping [Poundfist] for hours only to find out he spawned some time after you left the party, like it happened with me a few times because I got tired of waiting, you will have a chance to obtain your own [Coalfist Gronnling] by sending your Followers to do the camping for you :)

Mission is called [Breaker Two] (our fans for sure), it will cost you a 100 Resources and will be 12 hours long.

New rewards from Garrison Missions, introduced in Patch 6.2 include following:

[Elixir of the Rapid Mind], [Frozen Arms of a Hero], [Burning Blade], [Medallion of the Legion], [Cinder Pup], [Bulging Barrel of Oil], [Huge Ogre Cache], [Champion's Honor], and [Void-Shrouded Satcher] which gives a nice Heirloom Trinket [Touch of the Void].

Patch 6.2 is almost upon us!

Patch 6.2 has started downloading in background for players on US realms so, it's only matter of days before that happens to EU players as well. If you are having troubles with extra HDD space (like me), you need to free extra 3GB for the Patch.

New Patch will also bring new Inscription Techniques for Scribes to Mill 20 pieces of Draenor herbs at once (comparing to 5, currently) and those are listed separately for each herb. Question is whether you will receive separate Milling "spell" for each herb or will current Milling get upgraded to support each herb? Using in consideration that ALL Crafting Materials got to stack to 200, it makes you think, why didn't they change the mechanic of the Milling to include all older herbs?

[Rumble in the Jungle] is a new Meta Achievement coming with a title for completing all Tanaan Jungle related achievements. When you complete it, you will receive <name> of the Jungle.

[Wild Goretusk] is a new mount available at Z'tenga the Walker for 1000 [Blackfang Claws] which are obtained by killing Blackfang monsters in Fang'rila.

New Armor Models for Tier 18 (PvE) and Wild and Warmongering Gladiator (PvP) are available and you can check them out at WoWhead. I especially like Priest and Rogue sets as they really match their respective class.

Last but not least, there is a Scavenger Hunt competition going around currently with some awesome rewards so, be sure to check that out as well.

Ehh, crap...

Do you remember that rant from few days ago regarding the [Infernal Direwolf]? Well, I don't know whether we should be even madder than then or should we not...

  

What happened was that gorgeous Direwolf will be an achievement reward for [Glory of the Hellfire Raider] because they traded the place with previous reward for that achievement, [Reins of the Corrupted Dreadwing], which will now be sold at the vendor for 150.000 [Apexis Crystals]. If I could go back in time I would ask people (and myself) not to flame Blizzard for placing Direwolf as a Vendor mount because I would rather have the Dreadwing as achievement reward. And, while some people are pissed off because re-color of "Collector's Edition" mount is being given as a reward, I am still pissed that it requires 150.000 Crystals and farming them is worse than farming a reputation for one of the factions in WoD...

 

New mount has joined the ranks at the Blizzard Store. [Mystic Runesaber] is 10th mount created specifically for the Store and it has a price tag of $25.

Timeless Jung... I mean, Tanaan Jungle

As it turns out, Tanaan Jungle is Draenor's version of Timeless Isle. Blizzard posted the preview of it, which can be found HERE.

To access Tanaan Jungle, you will need to build [The Shipyard] and once you arrive there, you will be set up with a series of quests that resemble Garrison Campaign quests. New currency is [Oil] which will be used as a main resource to power your Battle Ships in a same manner that you spend [Garrison Resources] to send your followers on missions. [Felblight] is new Crafting Reagent that will be used to craft next tier of Draenor Profession Gear and Upgrades in a same way that we currently use [Salvage Blood] and it can be obtained from mining, herb gathering, skinning, or fishing in Tanaan Jungle. To read more about Shipyards, check out WoWhead's article about them.

Just like on Timeless Isle, Tanaan Jungle is home to ~50 new Rare Creatures and you will be required to kill 30 of them to get [Jungle Stalker] achievement. Those same Rare Creatures drop iLVL650 gear.

Many new toys and vanity items await as well with [Jewel of Hellfire], [Accursed Tome the Sargerei], [Podling Camouflage] and [Felfire Campfire] being just a tip of the iceberg.

Tanaan Jungle Preview

Patch 6.2 is in the works and with it, opening of the Tanaan Jungle and venturing into it's wilderness...

And, hey... We get to camp [Supreme Lord Kazzak] once more... As with everything else, he is getting his model updated a little bit.