Friday, June 26, 2015

What's in 6.2?

I will admit to having done very little research or reading on what was being released in 6.2. I've done a little exploring since the patch was released on Tuesday (and a little reading on wowhead!), and here's a brief outline of what I know so far:


  • a new zone, Tanaan Jungle
  • a new raid tier, Hellfire Citadel 
  • Shipyard for the garrison; you build ships, send them out for missions, and can equip them with different upgrades to handle the obstacles the missions have for you. Each upgrade must be purchased for 500 garrison resources and then is used up when you equip it on a ship. To even have access to those upgrades, you must first find the Blueprint. Most of the Blueprints drop from rare mobs in Tanaan, but one drops from the new raid zone and one drops from a world raid boss (an epic shark, in fact - bringing Sharknado to WoW!)
  • Sending missions with ships costs Oil, a new resource that you can get from regular garrison missions as well as quests in the new zone
  • Many new mounts and battle pets from various vendors, rare mobs, and factions
  • FLYING is back! You need to finish an achievement that requires you to have explored a number of areas, found a number of treasures, and reached Revered (I think) with the new factions in Tanaan
  • New upgrades for crafting items - 700 and 715, I believe. Both of these take a new material (RIP Savage Blood) that can only be obtained with gathering professions in the new zone (Blizzard's attempt to revive the dead gathering professions); they can also be caught while fishing??!
  • Several new factions in Tanaan; I'm not sure exactly what you get from these outside of some mounts, pets, and toys, but one of them requires Honored to buy the blueprint to the third type of ship for your Shipyard
  • Rare mobs in Tanaan have a chance to drop Baleful gear tokens. Using them creates a 650 ilvl blue item for whatever spec you want and then you can upgrade them to iLvl 695 epics by purchasing upgrades for 20k Apexis Crystals (might be a gold component as well?). You can also buy any Baleful token for 5k Apexis Crystals
  • Speaking of Apexis Crystals, the cap has been raised (removed?) and there is a pretty sweet mount available for 150,000 crystals. You can take a look at it here and read about how a very clever fellow got it the moment 6.2 was released!
  • Obviously a new PvP season and new raid tier means new gear. Some of the new gear looks pretty sweet, some looks pretty dopey. I like the new Druid look! I think wowhead has a link to all of them on their front page if you are curious about a particular class.
  • The new blue PvP gear bumps you to 710 iLvl ... I've already purchased the weapons on all of my characters! 
  • Supposedly the Nemesis quests were supposed to change from 500 to 100 ... but the quest I was currently on is still at 500. I'm not sure if I need to drop it and retake it or if it just never happened.

2 comments:

  1. Have you guys started the new season yet? Explored much of 6.2?

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Yep, hopefully I'll actually write something up in the next couple of days!

      Delete