Warcraft Reborn

Adventurers,

Danger beckons on Warcraft Reborn! Onyxia and Molten Core are released, World Bosses ravage Azeroth with both PvPvE and instanced encounters, and PvP Season 3 introduced new PvP gear to power up and dominate foes in Battlegrounds and Arenas. Mid-February updates bring even more excitement to Warcraft Reborn:

• Explore New Content Live Right Now
  • Reimagined Onyxia’s Lair with a completely new, custom boss fight, new items, achievements, mechanics, and more
  • All World Bosses available
  • New Custom World Boss: Snowgrave - released in January
  • PvP Season 3
• New Heroic World Bosses on the Horizon
  • Starting with Setis, Heroic Difficulty will unlock for ALL World Bosses
  • …including custom World Bosses! (Snowgrave, Atal’zul, Soggoth)
    • and more to come…
• Reduced Cost on Worldforged Item Upgrades
• Aura of Experience arrives on Bronzebeard

Heroic World Bosses

Starting this weekend, February 21st at 18:00 Server Time, Heroic Difficulty begins unlocking for World Bosses! Setis is the first World Boss you can challenge on Heroic, complete with new Heroic versions of his loot.

World Bosses are colossal creatures that you can challenge with anywhere between 10-40 people. You can fight them in 2 distinct ways:

• PvE Instanced Version
  • Challenge World Bosses that scale between 10 to 40 players.
  • Instanced - Tuned for PvE
  • Stronger than their Open World counterparts, making the instanced Boss Fights a more intense challenge.
  • 7 day loot lockout for each boss.
  • Will receive multiple levels of difficulty over time, similar to Dungeons and Raids so that you can tackle these foes at multiple challenge levels (Heroic coming with this update!)
  • A Boss Shrine nearby will allow you to access Instanced World Bosses at any time near the original spawn of the World Boss

• PvPvE Open World Version
  • 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.
  • Boss awards loot to the group who has the tag whenever it dies
  • Respawns on their normal spawn timer at the locations you remember in the Open World.
  • No Loot Lockout
  • Loot upgraded to Heroic with this update (Setis only at first, more bosses coming over time)
  • No difficulty increase

All World Bosses will eventually unlock on Heroic (and higher) Difficulty!

With this update, you can fight Heroic Versions of World Bosses, starting with Setis.

To fight a World Boss on Heroic, speak to the boss’s shrine. You can find a World Boss’s shrine near the original location of the world boss. They are what can 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. 

If you can take down a World Boss on Heroic difficulty, you’ll find Heroic versions of World Boss items.

Additionally, the Open World PvPvE versions of World Bosses will begin dropping Heroic versions of their gear when slain (no difficulty increase). 

This ensures that world bosses continue to be relevant, challenging, and rewarding as the realm continues! Look forward to even greater difficulties to come.

Onyxia’s Lair Expanded

Deep in the fetid marshes of Duskwallow, an ancient cavern bellows with smoke and flame: Onyxia, the Broodmother, released with an expanded lair early February!

This expanded Onyxia’s Lair introduced an enormous visual overhaul and a brand new boss complete with new mechanics to challenge and new treasures to claim. It’s another step in expanding Azeroth with new content.

Dive into rock and magma…

…and face all new dangers.

For a chance at epic rewards.

Reduced Cost on Worldforged Item Upgrades

Whether you’re in the thick of your adventure or returning after a break, you need a way to power up for what comes next. Worldforged Upgrades now have reduced prices for previous tiers! Moving forward, each time a new tier releases, the price for previous tiers will reduce.

With the implementation of this change, you can expect a mail with the difference in Runes from items you’ve upgraded. This won’t happen every time, just this once!

With Onyxia released, all previous Worldforged Upgrade costs are reduced.

Previously:

Now:

Previously:

Now:

Aura of Experience to Bronzebeard

A recent player poll on Bronzebeard revealed that the greater population would like to see the Aura of Experience active on Bronzebeard in some form. 

In accordance with this, the Aura of Experience will be released on Bronzebeard as an optional boost for prestige and for those who have already achieved a level 60 on the realm. After the Aura has been active for some time, a second poll will go up so you can vote your opinion on this change.

See you in Azeroth, Heroes!