Quoting Blizzard here: "New Affix Continuing with the theme of Xal’atath’s Bargain, where players can harness powerful boons granted to dungeon enemies by the Harbinger, we’re adding a new affix to our Beta testing this week. Xal’atath’s Bargain: Voidbound While in combat, Xal’atath summons Void Emissary to empower nearby enemies, gradually increasing their damage. Upon defeating the Void Emissary, players harness the void energy for themselves, increasing their critical chance by 20% for 20 seconds. Affix Adjustments Xal’atath’s Bargain: Ascendant We’ve seen a lot of feedback regarding the visual noise caused by the number of orbs being created. To address this issue, we’re reducing the total number of Orb of Ascendance from 20 to 10. Xal’atath’s Bargain: Frenzied We’ve heard feedback that this affix feels less visible compared to Ascendant, and is more punishing due to its passive nature without too much counterplay. It’s also less thematic compared to Ascendant where Xal’atath is present throughout the dungeon. With these considerations, we’re removing this affix from Beta testing. With the Xal’atath’s Bargain affixes, we want to create varied challenges that highlight different class skills and utilities in ways that do not feel exclusionary. We look forward to your feedback and discussions on these changes. We’ll see you in dungeons! " I just wanted to provide an update on what that affix is and what it does. Great video as always.

I think what I like about how delves are turning out is that they have their own affixes at the higher levels. So if you've never done any type of mythic content it can help those players get that experience without "ruining" a run in a dungeon group. Not many groups out there really want to take a newbie around and teach them about affixes unless they're guildies or friends with that person already.

DF Prepatch from 2022 called, they want their healing changes announcement back! 😆😆

I love rogue changes

Hello dratnos our name is everybody

Really nice to showcase the new affix in the game. Thank you!

Ret one trick here. The talent points were +2 for AOE or cleave builds and +1 for Single Target (Consecrated blade being made baseline). Damage wasn't highly affected by these changes outside of the Templar nerfs specifically. And the net damage gain from having an extra talent point. (However, none of the talent points being taken will make a monumental difference.) Huge QoL win though, our two, 2 point nodes are now both easily accessible if needed and easily avoidable if not.

3:40 I actually think shadowlands covenants struck a decent balance in the later seasons, with the caveat that required covenants for dungeons were dumb. Some specs only ever played with one, but several specs had covenants that were pretty impactful without dominating the gameplay. Stuff like kyrian destro or venthyr balance served interesting niches that had distinct strengths but were still very playable in all content if you didn’t want to bother switching

40% nerf to Life Cocoon seems kinda big since its the only main MW ability for damage reduction

That last line on the healing changes is exactly what the changes need to achieve to make healing fun again

I am surprised the Enh 4p lasted this long. It was always going to be changed, double duration allowed you to stack up wolves.

The more I hear about Delves and Bran the more I think it’s what garrison missions should have been all alomg

Im sorry but tanks contribute just as much to the current obnoxious dungeon tuning just as much as healers. Most dungeons the tank is the target I put the least amount of globals into, that in itself is a major problem as the tanks job is literally to get constantly hit. It also forces blizz to move the major group damage events from avoidable to unavoidable, ruby life pools and nokhud are on the extreme end but are perfect examples of the least enjoyable dungeons to do as a healer because at a certain key lvl I literally lose all agency and smoothing out the damage intake only shifts that key lvl higher its a bandaid fix that only helps part of the playerbase which is better then nothing but still its mind blowing blizz took the entirety of dragonflight to realize it was a problem.

Im glad to see them removing lots of the heals. It used to be only classes like hybrids and classes like dk, dh, lock had some healing options. They gave heals to pretty much everyone when they had a kit based around not being able to heal well.

Man I hope they pull off the healing changes they want. Get rid of the burst healing and give us more regular steady damage to heal. It even fixes the issue with defensives because they become less powerful if you taking regular smaller damage and leaves the defensives to a I screwed up button or at high end play I can use defensive to do a bit more damage by ignoring a mechanic.

Even with the FC nerf, it will still be meta for all 3 dk specs majority of the time. They just need to improve other rune forges in general.

Yo! Differnet quiestion completly. Will you make a "deranged" spread cheet, like you did for Dragonflight? :)

your UI is not showing it correctly, the add has a huge shield on it that needs to be dps'ed or purged and you then get a 20% crit buff

Hope they can pull off their vision for healing but I'm not holding my breath. Current plan is to not level a healer this expansion for the first time since early Vanilla and will only change that after I can verify healing doesn't feel miserable.

Thanks for all the time and effort to keep us informed, keep up the good work.

I will say I'm mixed, arent we like 1 month away from the release? Fairly heavy changes for a game that's coming out so soon. Also, on the flip side I'm grateful that for once they seem to be so active with balance changes, so hopefully it's going to be amazing. We'll see!

The preservation tier was changed because it was absurdly clunky, didn't synergize with the kit and was overwhelming turbo ass New one is acceptable

Redesigning Warlocks and Mages YET AGAIN, for ANOTHER WEEK IN A ROW. Half of all other specs haven't had a single change.....

Another quality yap session xD Looking forward to the healing changes

Really worried they just gonna ship rogue like this to live servers not single one of the hero talents is fun to play and are buggy af..How you can fail so bad u cant get 1 out of 3 right

for shamans; getting a stronger two wolf summon instead of just one for longer is also just more fun. W.

Imagine a word where DPS do 80% of their throughput and the other 20% comes from healers activating their cooldowns, enabling DPS to do more effective damage. Because that’s how healing feels with defensives and I don’t see how these changes are moving away from that. We’re shifting more and more power away from healers and into DPS, not a fan at all.

But WOG is not a % based healing , why does it still heal only 1 mil on beta while i got 7 mil on me , while healing others feels even more low , so whats the point of taking hand of the protector when i can heal 600k when people got 5 mil ? it doesn't feel good at all pressing it , it was fine like DF , i had to sacrifice lots of my defensive to get hand of the protector , now it doesn't feel worth healing others at all.

6:40 that is kinda odd, the old tier set was bad and boring but definitely didn’t favor either hero talent tree. The new one kinda does in weird ways, it’s better for chronowarden if damage is taken over an extended period but better for flameshaper for healing burst damage. Hard to say which is better but it could have some weird side effect with certain talents like near 100% uptime powerful dream breaths or threat issues with a really strong dream breath into engulf on pull

for the havoc (Aldrachi Reaver) changes: - Thrill and Mark nerfs come out to about 8%. Does nothing for the actual gameplay. Fel-scarred is still 35% behind. - Mark being stacks now is a change that no one specifically asked for but admittedly is a nice QoL change since it means you wont accidentally overwrite a 24% debuff with a 12% debuff. - Literally any button sucking up souls has been asked for since the tree was revealed. Personally i find it strange that it's on felblade since Aldrachi makes that a 10% DR, but that's my opinion and everyone has their own issues with what to put it on (because souls are a horrible mechanic for havoc and shouldnt have been made the basis for a hero tree). This is a massive QoL improvement for gathering souls, but the rest of the tree's rotation is still untouched and has all of the same problems it has had. - If the soul fragment nerf is because of the broad healing changes then fine whatever, but if it's because of what they are seeing with testing that's an issue. Aldrachi Reaver takes advantage of as many ways to spawn soul fragments as possible, which means they are receiving more healing from them than we have in dragonflight. Nerfing soul fragment healing to make up for that though needlessly nerfs fel-scarred however.

Make Tempest work with Stormkeeper and other Lightning bolt talents

I honestly think we could go back to tanks focusing on beefy defensive focused play styles and having the " tank heals".

Are hero talents just talent choices with a pretty name or they actually something else?

even if the enh chengs is to bring totemic and stormbringer closer wount help when totemic just clashes hard with the bais enh kit like totemic just dont work well for enh

the soul suck on fel blade is a good QOL for aldrachi reaver, but doesnt address any of its core problems. and fel scarred is currently terrible. bottom 3 dps. oh and also they broke aldrachi reaver on the beta and its bugged and not able to be tested properly

Regarding the healing issue, in Dragonflight I played the first season (with Grievous affix), got the keystone achievement and uninstalled wow and its subscription. Not playing for that kind of shit, especially after work. I'm thinking about coming back to War Within because i really miss the Healing gameplay, but if its the same shit, fk this game again

Hybrid healing definitely needs to be decreased. S1? DF was terrible because of it, where we rand spriest druid and shaman just to have enough HPS. Don't want to nerf healers then accidentally unleash these guys again.

WTF totemic still doesn't trigger on enh bc the f'ing spell that it swaps is now class raid buff and has been deleted..... pls explain why/how play enh totemic?

until i see a fix for crest catch up on alts im done bro. idc about anything else.

My name is dratnos, hello everybody

Sooo, by these patch notes lack of prot pally changes..... rework any week now lol

Delves sound suspiciously similar to torghast. =\

Never coming back. They're going in a terrible direction. Used to enjoy healing and I mean all the way from classic (I've been playing that long!) But now it feels awful and has been for a while.

Woot!

always love a lil oopsie XD

Ok, I am out. Tank it is and one less healer in the pool.

Enhance sucks

World of Resto Druid

Self sustain for tanks absolutely needs to be nerfed. They should not be a one man army in a game that's party/raid based.

I'm sad DH is in the state it's in, but I am excited to raid as a hunter next raid tier after raiding as a DH since first season of BFA. Hunters are looking amazing and for the first time I'm not worried about my class being garbage until season 2!

These healing changes fucking suck.

So sad was looking to play shadow this expansion but just seems to be getting slaughtered every patch

Dratnos: "Hunter has become one of the best classes defensively especially at living one-shots." Meanwhile all hunters that are doing any keys above like 12(certainly 15+) having to use a Ward of Faceless Ire in order to not be permanently dead. Hunter's bigger health pools mean nothing with no defensives. Hunters have turtle and survival of the fittest which which have over 3 minute cooldowns(with THREE talent points invested you can get them down to 2.4minutes.) So basically no defensives 90% of the time. In exchange for that they have 8% more max hp. 8% is nothing. Give them feint, or pally shield/1min defensive, or one of mages 5 defensives, or pally/druid/spriest/warlock healing. ANYTHING. That's why hunters are always dead. You just simply don't have a button to press 90% of the time. It's crazy that ward of faceless ire is a hunters best defensive when they have it. Is there any other class in the game that would take that trinket in exchange for their defensive? Because ward>survival of the fittest. Hunter is the only class having to run a huge dps loss trinket in order to play the game at a high level. Survival of the fittest is the worst defensive in the game.

SUPER MEGA BAITED INTO WATCHING NEW AFFIX AND I DONT LEARN SHIT ABOUT IT LOL

Does anyone else feel like there's this weird dark cloud looming over TWW particularly with M+? Even with the amazing change in direction. Something just doesn't feel right but I can't put my finger on it.

might as well delete rogue from the game tbh