Warcraft Reborn: Azuregos Arrives
Adventurers!
Azuregos releases @ 18:00 Server Time!
Prepare to face the blue dragon as he wanders the gold cliffs of Azshara. Just like Setis, you can face Azuregos in two ways: as a classic Open World Boss (tuned to PvPvE) and as an instanced version of the fight where you and your raid can take on an empowered version of Azuregos.
Azuregos will feature all of the changes from the recent World Boss Updates.
Boss Shrine
You can find these Boss Shrines near the original locations of the world boss. They are what take you to the Instanced Version of the World Boss. They will teleport you into whatever difficulty you have currently selected under your character frame.
IMPORTANT: ONLY NORMAL DIFFICULTY IS UNLOCKED. IF YOU TRY TO TELEPORT INTO A NON NORMAL DIFFICULTY YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ENTER.
World Boss Updates
World Bosses recently received their first update so that you can tackle them your way:
Warcraft Reborn is making a few changes to World Bosses to make them more rewarding and more accessible for everyone.
- You now have two different ways to tackle World Bosses
- World Bosses (PvP)
- Traditional Open World boss fight
- Tuned for PvPvE: challenge other groups of adventurers to tag the world boss (or steal it from another group!) and claim its spoils.
- No Loot Lockout
- World Bosses (PvE)
- Instanced
- Tuned for PvE
- More difficult
- 7 day loot lockout
- Will receive multiple difficulties over time. Only normal difficulty will be released at this time.
This update increases the ways you can challenge World Bosses, creating opportunities for the entire realm to engage in crazy Open World PvP battles for loot, while at the same time making World Bosses accessible to everyone who wants to challenge them.
Details
You can now challenge World Bosses in the Open World and lay waste to anyone who crosses paths with you, or you can take your raid team to an instanced version of the boss to challenge its empowered version.
World Bosses (PvP)
First, you can challenge World Bosses in their classic format: by finding them in the Open World and engaging in lethal PvPvE combat.
Open World Bosses have a shorter respawn time compared to the loot lockout time so that you can challenge them more often. Here are some things you can expect from World Bosses found in the Open World:
- Tuned for PvPvE
- Respawns on their normal spawn timer at the locations you remember in the Open World
- These encounters will reward loot to the group who has the tag whenever it dies, rather than to everyone who shows up
Here’s how Open World Boss tagging works now:
- When you attack a world boss, your group will ‘tag’ him–his nameplate will be red for you and go grey for everyone else. Only the people who have the tag will get loot when the world boss dies.
- You can steal the tag from another group who has it by wiping their raid
- You’ll know you have the tag and get loot when:
- The bosses’ name is now red for you rather than grey
- The boss is attacking members of your group
- World Bosses drop their normal loot template in addition to Treasures of Azeroth for the group who kills him with the tag
- This transforms World Bosses into giant PvPvE encounters where large groups can compete against the boss and each other with the main focus being on PvP
- Additional Bloodforged World Boss Gear will drop from the Open World from the respective World Bosses
World Bosses (PvE)
Second, you can now challenge World Bosses in a new way: by going to their Altar and fighting ab instanced version of the boss. Instanced World Bosses are stronger than their Open World counterparts, giving you a new way to experience the intensity of fighting these gigantic foes with teams up to 40.
The instanced versions of World Bosses will have new features:
- Instanced World Bosses will be stronger than their Open World counterparts, making the instanced Boss Fights a more intense challenge
- Instanced World Bosses will receive multiple levels of difficulty similar to Dungeons and Raids so that you can tackle these foes at multiple challenge levels and will reward Heroic, Mythic and even Ascended gear if you can take them down
- Instanced World Bosses will have a loot lockout for each boss.
- A Boss Shrine will be placed that will allow you to access Instanced World Bosses at any time near the original spawn of the World Boss
