Patch 6.2 - First Look

[Poisonenvy]

Blizzard have announced the first patch notes for the next patch to be placed on the Test Realm.  To see the full notes, head to their post (currently only showing on the US site).

The main points include:

• Tanaan unlocked
• New raid
• New garrison building and missions
• New dungeon difficulty level, with better gear rewards
• New Adventure Guide
• Update to the Legendary questline.

Various other changes and tweaks have been made around classes, PvP and gear.

[Poisonenvy]

Although it hasn't been mentioned in the 6.2 patch notes, the following has apparently been seen either via the Test Realm or from datamining:

 

 

I need to point out, firstly, that this is not even in the patch notes, so there is certainly no guarantee that this will make it to live servers, especially for this patch.  However, if this does make it in, it means that we can run old (Lich King) 5 man dungeons as if they were "on level", and gain the reward of an ilevel 690 item at the end.  And opening up Lich King instances means there is the possibility of other instances following ...

 

[Poisonenvy]

Haha ... in fact not long after I saw that .. I came across this! http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/18710308/patch-62-preview-timewalking-4-14-2015

As we get started testing Patch 6.2 on our public test realms, we’re looking forward to discussing all of the new features and content coming to World of Warcraft. First up, we’re excited to present Timewalking.

In Patch 6.2, we’re introducing seven different weekend events that will run from noon Friday through noon Monday every week. Two of those events will be Timewalking weekends, in which you’ll be able to queue up for a randomly selected old-school dungeon with a new sort of “heroic” difficulty: When you Timewalk these dungeons, you’ll find that your character’s power and gear has been scaled down to a fraction of what they normally are. For the first time in years, some dungeons you outgrew long ago will once more put your skills to the test.

 A good challenge deserves a good reward, so to go along with scaling you down, we’re going through most every piece of loot in each Timewalker dungeon and scaling it up. That’s right, when you Timewalk through Utgarde Pinnacle, take down King Ymiron, and loot his Red Sword of Courage, it will scale up to an item level appropriate for use at your level.


Courage comes in several shades of red.

Over the coming weeks, we’ll test Timewalking on the PTR in the following dungeons:

    The Arcatraz
    Black Morass
    Mana-Tombs
    The Shattered Halls
    The Slave Pens
    Ahn’kahet: The Old Kingdom
    Gundrak
    Halls of Lightning
    The Nexus
    Utgarde Pinnacle

Timewalking will be available to characters who are level 71 and higher for Burning Crusade content, and level 81 and up for Wrath of the Lich King dungeons. It will open up only during certain three-day-long weekend holidays. While Timewalking, your power will be adjusted down to the level of the Heroic dungeon, but you’ll retain all of your skills and talents. We will also be testing additional rewards, such as a level 100 quest that rewards one Seal of Tempered Fate per weekend, so keep an eye on the in-game calendar.

[Poisonenvy]

As expected there are changes to the PTR patch notes (which you can see here) .. some of which are changes to things people were complaining about in guild only recently. 

Please note these are changes affecting test realm changes and they are no guarantee to get to live without change again.  They are on the test realm TO BE TESTED and sometimes Blizzard just sticks stuff on the test realm just to see what happens, with very little intention of making it to live.  In other words, please don't suddenly decide you are going to rage quit because they've nerfed your favourite class to hell and back based on stuff you see on patch notes .. these don't reflect the full picture (as they often don't put every little under-the-hood tweak on the patch notes) and they're playing with the numbers all of the time. 

If it upsets people for me to put information up about test realm patch notes, let me know and I'll stop doing it.  I just thought it was interesting to see some of the bigger plans in the works.

 

[Jayondaga]

I'll be honest - this sounds AWESOME!!!