NEW Endgame Content For ALL Players, Big Class Buffs & Prepatch Release Date Confirmed!

Summary

Kanani The War Within pre-patch has an official release date of July 23rd, bringing significant changes including class reworks, the Warband system for account-wide progress, easier transmog collection, and new endgame content. Players will experience streamlined gameplay with faster leveling, account-wide features, and more options for solo and open-world content. Major updates include healing system changes, new Mythic Plus affixes, and numerous class adjustments. The pre-patch will also introduce special assignments, world events, and a new event starting July 30th, providing ample opportunities for gear upgrades and character progression.

Takeaways

• 📅 The War Within pre-patch has an official release date of July 23rd.
• ⚔️ New endgame content includes solo and open world content with more options at max level.
• 🔄 The War Within will offer more freedom and choice for acquiring big gear upgrades.
• 🛠️ Significant class changes and reworks, including a paradigm shift in healing mechanics.
• 🔄 New affixes and changes to the Mythic Plus Keystone system for better gameplay experience.
• 📦 Introduction of the War Band system, making most progression and achievements account-wide.
• 🎒 An account-wide bank and the ability to earn gear for other characters are new features.
• 🎨 New character select screen with customizable backgrounds and scenes to unlock.
• 👕 Easier transmog collection with removed restrictions, and introduction of Sky Riding for flying mounts.
• 🗺️ The Radiant Echoes event starts on July 30th, offering various rewards in old zones.

Q & A

What is the official release date for 'The War Within' pre-patch?

The official release date for 'The War Within' pre-patch is July 23rd.

What new feature in 'The War Within' will make most progression and achievements account-wide?

The new feature is the War Band system, which makes important systems and progression like Renown, reputations, currencies, achievements, flight paths, and exploration account-wide.

How will playing alternate characters (alts) change with the introduction of the War Band system?

Playing alts will be different because all progress such as important system and progression like Renown, reputations, currencies, achievements, flight paths, and exploration will be shared across the account, eliminating the need to repeat these tasks for each character.

What are 'special assignments' in the 'The War Within' expansion?

Special assignments are new world quests that require players to complete three other world quests in the same zone to unlock them, rewarding players with epic caches containing upgrade materials, gold, and more.

What is the Radiant Echoes event and when does it start?

The Radiant Echoes event starts on July 30th, a week after the pre-patch goes live. It involves visiting old zones and earning various rewards.

What changes are being made to healing in 'The War Within'?

Healing changes include increased health pools, reduced power of percentage-based heals, and increased power of hybrid and single-target heals to ensure sufficient throughput.

What are Bountiful Delves and how do they work?

Bountiful Delves are special delves with extra chests and better rewards, unlocked using Coffer keys. These delves rotate daily and provide better gear and character progress for solo players.

What new feature allows players to switch between different types of flying mounts?

Players will be able to switch between Dragon riding (Sky riding) and steady flying with almost any flying mount, allowing for flexibility in mount usage.

What are the new updates to the user interface in 'The War Within' pre-patch?

The new updates include a redesigned character select screen featuring favorite characters around a campfire, new backgrounds and scenes to unlock, and various UI updates to enhance gameplay smoothness.

What new world content or solo content options will be available at max level in 'The War Within'?

Max level players will have new special world quests, various world events, and special packs to earn rewards. These activities are designed to keep players busy and provide gear upgrades without needing to participate in dungeons or raids.

Outlines

00:00

📅 Prepatch Release Date and New Features

Kanani announces that 'The War Within' prepatch will be released on July 23rd. This update will introduce new endgame content for solo and open-world players, offering more options for gear upgrades and class changes. The war band system will make many game elements account-wide, enhancing gameplay for alt characters. The update also brings new user interface updates, easier transmog collection, and the ability to Dragon ride with almost any flying mount. Additionally, the Radiant Echo's event will start on July 30th.

05:01

🔑 Unlocking Coffer Keys and Bountiful Delves

Players can earn Coffer key fragments from the first four caches they obtain. These keys unlock extra chests in Bountiful delves, providing better rewards. This creates a gameplay loop where players complete events to earn caches, use the keys in Bountiful delves, and obtain more gear. Even after collecting weekly keys and caches, players can still work towards more keys for additional upgrades.

10:02

🌍 World Content and Solo Play Enhancements

The 'War Within' will offer various world events and special assignments for solo players, rewarding them with gear and materials. These activities contribute to the weekly Great Vault, allowing players to earn valuable rewards. The new affix system in Mythic Plus dungeons will introduce impactful but manageable challenges. Major class changes are also implemented, particularly for healers, to adjust health pools and healing dynamics.

15:04

🔧 Class Changes and Healing Adjustments

Healing across all classes has been significantly adjusted, with an increase in health pools and changes to the effectiveness of percentage-based heals. Specific class adjustments include buffs and nerfs to abilities and talents for Death Knights, Demon Hunters, Druids, Hunters, Mages, Monks, Paladins, Priests, Rogues, Shamans, Warlocks, and Warriors. These changes aim to balance self-healing and ensure healers are essential in high-difficulty content.

Keywords

💡The War Within

The War Within refers to the upcoming expansion for a game, which is the main topic of the video. It signifies new content, features, and changes that players can expect, such as new endgame content and class changes. For example, the video mentions 'the war within is that you're going to have a lot more freedom and choice for where you get your big gear upgrades.'

💡Pre-patch

A pre-patch is an update released before the main expansion, containing significant changes and new features to prepare players. In the context of the video, the pre-patch for The War Within is set to release on July 23rd and includes class reworks and the new War Band system. 'Prepatch hits live servers on July 23rd, so we don't have too much longer to wait.'

💡War Band system

The War Band system is a new feature making most in-game progress account-wide, such as achievements and currencies. This change aims to streamline gameplay and make alt characters more viable. The video states, 'The most important change is the addition of the war band system this makes almost everything account wide.'

💡Special Assignments

Special Assignments are new world quests in The War Within expansion that provide rewards upon completion. They are designed to give players valuable rewards and are similar to previous expansions' Emissary quests. 'We'll have these special New World quests called special assignments that are kind of a return of the Emissary style objectives.'

💡Coffer keys

Coffer keys are items obtained through various in-game activities, used to unlock special chests in Bountiful delves for additional rewards. They add a layer of gameplay for players focusing on solo content. 'The first four caches you get will also reward you with 100 Coffer key fragments which you can combine into Coffer keys to use in Bountiful delves.'

💡Bountiful delves

Bountiful delves are special areas in the game that provide extra rewards when unlocked with Coffer keys. They offer more valuable loot, making them a significant activity for solo content players. 'These delves have extra chests at the end with much better rewards but you need those Coffer keys to unlock them.'

💡Mythic plus Keystone system

The Mythic plus Keystone system is a high-difficulty dungeon mode with affixes that modify encounters. The video discusses new changes to this system, aiming to make affixes more interactive and rewarding. 'Then there are even more changes to the new affixes in the Mythic plus Keystone system.'

💡Healing changes

The video details significant changes to how healing works in The War Within, including increased health pools and adjustments to healing spells' effectiveness. These changes aim to make healing more dynamic and challenging. 'Perhaps most importantly healing was changed quite significantly across the board and the general goal of healing will be a bit different in the War within.'

💡Transmog

Transmog refers to the feature allowing players to change their gear's appearance. The pre-patch removes many restrictions on collecting transmog items, making it easier for players to complete their collections. 'We'll also be able to collect transmog much easier after pre patch almost all restrictions for collecting transmog have been removed.'

💡Open world content

Open world content includes activities and quests that can be completed in the game's open world, outside of instanced content like dungeons. The War Within expansion promises more engaging open world content for solo players. 'This week also gave us a clearer picture of how open world and solo content is going to work at max level in the war within.'

Highlights

Pre-patch for 'The War Within' has an official release date of July 23rd.

New endgame content includes more options for solo and open-world players.

The war band system will make almost all progress account-wide.

Introduction of the account-wide bank for shared storage across characters.

New character select screen with customizable backgrounds and scenes.

Transmog collection will be easier with removed restrictions.

Sky riding feature allows flying mounts to be used for Dragon riding.

Chromie time can be used up until level 70, speeding up leveling.

The Radiant Echoes event starts on July 30th, offering various rewards.

Special assignments return, similar to Emissary quests, rewarding epic caches.

Bountiful delves offer extra rewards but require coffer keys.

Mythic plus keystone system gets significant changes, including new affixes.

Healing changes in 'The War Within' increase health pools and adjust healing mechanics.

New affix, Zota's Bargain: Void Bound, introduces void emissaries in Mythic plus.

Class reworks and talent changes, including buffs and nerfs across multiple classes.

Weekly Great Vault updates include world content, events, and delves for solo players.

New affix changes focus on creating impactful gameplay with counterplay opportunities.

Transcripts

hey folks this is Kanani The War within

pre patch finally has an official

release date and it's going to arrive a

bit sooner than we thought we also have

some new endgame content for all players

including solo content or open world

content players and they're going to

have more options than ever before up at

max level but perhaps the most important

change in the war within is that you're

going to have a lot more freedom and

choice for where you get your big gear

upgrades we also have some big class

changes to go over including a bit of a

paradigm shift for how healing is going

to work and feel and then there are even

more changes to the new affixes in the

Mythic plus Keystone system there's a

lot to talk about so let's break it all

down now before we jump in be sure to

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you never miss another video first up

this week we finally have an official

release date for the war within prepatch

and the new event coming our way

prepatch hits live servers on July 23rd

so we don't have too much longer to wait

we're in the final stretch before the

new EXP ion and all the new adventures

that await us there are some very

important changes coming in prepatch you

can find a link in the comments to a

video that goes over them in more detail

but for a quick rundown we're going to

see all of the class and talent changes

for the war within and some classes are

getting significant reworks so I'll have

some time in Pre patch to get used to

all of those changes perhaps the most

important change is the addition of the

war band system this makes almost

everything account wide things like

important system and progression like

Renown and reputations a lot of

currencies almost every achievement

flight pass and exploration you only

have to do this kind of stuff once now

and every character on your account will

have that progress shared playing alts

is going to be so different this time

around I am super excited for war bands

in general we'll also have an account

wide Bank to fill up and there are even

opportunities to earn gear for your

other characters so this system is

really expansive and it will change your

gameplay experience quite significantly

we'll also get this really cool

character select screen where you have

your four favorite characters chilling

around a campfire the dev team also

confirmed that we will get new

backgrounds and scenes to unlock for

this character select screen which is

super cool I think L St did this

incredibly well and they had a bunch of

different login screen options that you

could collect for completing various

types of content imagine if we got a new

Mage Tower style challenge which then

rewarded you with a unique character

select screen that would be awesome

we'll also be able to collect transmog

much easier after pre patch almost all

restrictions for collecting transmar

have been removed so you can earn the

transmar for items you can't even use to

fill up your collection much faster

you'll be able to Dragon ride or Sky

Ride as it's going to be called going

forward with almost any flying Mount and

you can freely swap between Sky riding

and steady flying so you can change that

whenever you want leveling will become

much faster and you can use chromy time

up until level 70 there are a whole

bunch of user interface updates and new

options to make your gameplay smoother

and then we'll also have a brand new

event to play around with where we visit

some old zones and earn various rewards

the radiant echo's event starts up a

week after prepatch goes live on July

30th so we'll have a week to get used to

everything in prepatch and then the

event will run from the 30th pretty much

up until the expansion launches prepatch

is the perfect time to jump back in play

around with all of these big changes and

get your characters all set up and ready

for the war within expansion this week

also gave us a clearer picture of how

open world and solo content is going to

work at max level in the war within

we'll have these special New World

quests called special assignments that

are kind of a return of the Emissary

style objectives the special assignments

reward you with an epic cache that

contains upgrade materials gold and more

to unlock that special World quest you

need to complete three other world

quests in the same zone so it's very

similar to the Emissary system we saw in

previous expansions and due to these big

purple boxes of goodies completing World

quests should end up being more valuable

in general in the war within when

compared to dragonflight then there are

also various world events in the war

within too you can find the theater

troop in the Isle of dawn Zone The

Awakening the machine event in the

ringing deeps the spreading the light

event can be found in hallof fall and

then you can also make special packs

down in ajat for even more weekly

rewards all of this content is going to

reward you with a similar cash full of

upgrade Mater materials and various

other goodies but the first two caches

you get from any Source will also

contain a random piece of gear before

the season starts that gear will be on

the adventurer track but when the season

is alive it will be bumped up to veteran

gear so you have two guaranteed sources

of Veteran gear as open world or solo

content players it's also completely up

to you which two events or activities

you want to do to get your first two

caches so if you don't like one of the

events you don't really have to take

part in it do the two that you like to

get your big gear upgrades for the week

in addition to those rewards the first

four caches you get will also reward you

with 100 Coffer key fragments which you

can combine into Cofer keys to use in

Bountiful delves if you check your world

map some of the delves have a different

icon kind of like the door of the delve

is all lit up these are Bountiful delves

and they rotate so you may have

different Bountiful delves each day

these delves have extra chests at the

end with much better rewards but you

need those Coffer keys to unlock them so

delves themselves could be worth running

for solo content players but Bountiful

delves with a coffer key are going to be

worth so much more so that's going to be

another great source of upgrades for

folks who aren't hopping into dungeons

or raids quite as often this creates a

very simple gameplay Loop you'll want to

complete the various events and

activities to get those caches get your

two pieces of gear and your four

guaranteed Keys use those keys in

Bountiful delves and get even more gear

and character progress it's important to

note that these aren't the only sources

of Coffer keys and fragments so even

after you've got your weekly keys and

your weekly caches you can still work

towards more keys to get those shiny

upgrades from Bountiful delves as well

so you actually have a lot of options as

a solo content player in the war within

you don't have to do dungeons or raids

to get good gear and it seems like

you'll be kept quite busy with World

quests and Dells but one of the best

parts of these updates is that they also

tie into your weekly great Vault there's

a new in the war within for World

content and this seems to include those

special World quests any of the events

as well as delves so you'll have plenty

of opportunities to add to your weekly

Vault to get some good rewards on reset

day it seems like the higher tier of the

delves that you complete the higher item

level rewards you are going to get so

there's plenty of room for upgrades here

too the war within is going to give

World content or solo content players

more to do than even dragonflight at

this rate now moving on this week also

brought some more Mythic plus changes

and it's not just minor tuning changes

one of the new affixes zotas bargain

frenzied is being removed the affic

increased the haste of monsters when

they got to low Health but caused them

to take more damage the dev team are

removing it because it's too passive and

there's not really any counterplay which

is a key theme moving forward they want

affixes to be impactful but also give

you a way to actually deal with them so

in its place we're going to see zotas

bargain void bound while in combat zotas

summons void emissaries which try to

buff surrounding monsters increasing

their damage if you kill the Emissary

you'll get a 20% crit buff for 20

seconds so you want to focus these down

when they pop up and use the buff to

Nuke everything else down getting these

big Buffs for overcoming an AIX is a

great change and I hope they keep this

mindset moving forward the other AIX

ascendant was a bit too busy visually so

it will be reduced down to 10 orbs from

20 orbs so that will be easier to deal

with as well it's really interesting to

see the dev team make these big changes

it's not just numbers tuning or little

changes here and there they're still

scrapping stuff that doesn't work and

bringing new ideas to the table that's

refreshing to see and I think Mythic

plots will be much better because of it

and then let's round out this week's

video with the most recent class changes

perhaps most importantly healing was

changed quite significantly across the

board and the general goal of healing

will be a bit different in the War

within Health pools will be increasing

so everyone will have more Health which

means it might take a bit more effort to

keep everyone topped off in addition to

that the dev team are reducing the power

and effectiveness of percentage based

heals while increasing the power of

hybrid healing and single Target heals

to make sure they provide enough

throughput you'll see quite a few of

these changes as we go through the

classes for the death knight the heel

they get from Rune of the Fallen

Crusader was reduced down to 4% of their

Max Health there are some damage buts in

here for the deathbringer hero talent

tree for frost DK some buff to the rider

of the Apocalypse hero talent tree with

more for Unholy allowing various

abilities to also scale with their

Mastery so they should get more out of

that tree in general then there was a

minor buff to the sand Lane Tree as well

for Demon Hunter the aldrachi Riva hero

talent tree saw quite a few Nerfs and

there's a new change for Havoc that

causes Fel blade to consume nearby soul

fragments which is actually a really

important change that hero Talent tree

revolves around consuming Soul fragments

and Havoc didn't really have any way to

suck them up like Vengeance can so that

is a huge change for that tree for Havoc

consuming a soul fragment will also now

heal you for 6% of Max Health down from

10% so that's going to be a big Nerf to

DH self- sustain for The Druids Swift

men wild growth Rejuvenation and

regrowth healing will all increased by

15% which is interesting because the dev

notes said that they were mostly

focusing on single Target heals but I

guess Druid just needed some buff

overall aokas are going to see a big

damage buff to their scale Commander

hero talent tree bombardment is a big

part of how that tree works so a 30%

damage increase is definitely sizable

Devastation will also see a 15% boost to

Eternity Surge and some talents were

shifted around the preservation tier set

bonuses were also redesigned but there's

still plenty of time for these set

bonuses to change again and again so I

wouldn't worry too much about that until

closer to launch moving on to the

hunters they rejuvenating wind Talent

was nerfed down to 12% of Max Health

down from 20% so that was cut almost in

half survival has quite a few changes to

talant that interact with explosive shot

so the free explosive shots won't Grant

cooldown reduction and won't consume

your Buffs either Mages have quite a lot

of changes reabsorption was nerfed down

to 3% Health down from 5% and cryofreeze

causes ice block to heal you for 25 and

50% Health down from 30 and 80% so they

really want to re in the power of these

percent based heals the Spell slinger

hero talent tree saw quite a few Nerfs

reducing the splinters produced and the

tree's overall effectiveness Arcane also

saw quite a lot of Nerfs which isn't too

surprising Arcane has been doing insane

damage on the beta since their big Buffs

high voltage base chance was reduced but

proc chance per failure was increased e

Attunement damage bonuses were cut down

to

150% down from 150 and 100% Arcane blast

and Arcane missiles damage are both down

5% Arcane barrage is down 10% and

there's a boook fix for things

generating clear casting that shouldn't

have been Frost saw some interesting

changes to Icy Veins and how it

interacts with other talents glacial

Spike damage is up 10% and then some

other talents have shifted around monks

have some quick changes healing Elixir

was nerfed down to 10% Health down from

15% overflowing Mist was knocked down to

6 and 1.2% down from 1 and 2% and then

life cocoon absorb amount was reduced by

40% so a pretty big Nerf there for

mistweaver paladins are up next and

they're actually going to see quite a

few Nerfs to their healing The Herald of

the sun hero talent tree will see some

major Nerfs to Healing effects

especially but also to how much those

effects contribute to Beacon of light

healing so almost a kind of double Nerf

there for Holy paladins Templar saw some

Nerfs as well the haste buff was reduced

damage of imperian hammers was reduced

and the Cleveland AOE potential was

taken down a notch as well for Holy

specifically Holy Light was reduced by

20% and imbued infusions was nerfed down

to 1 second CDR down from two R Paladin

saw quite a few changes to talents which

ones are learned by default some talents

were made Baseline there's a new AOE

Talent some talents had their points

reduced or increased and there were a

handful of other Talent changes too for

the priests void Weaver saw a quick

damaged Nerf and pain transformation

will heal for 15% of Max Health down

from 25 that's all for the priests this

week I'm afraid Rogues have some quick

healing Nerfs too cloaked in Shadows

creates an absorb for 18% of Max Health

down from 30 and soothing Darkness now

heals for 15% Max Health down from 24

shamans have a couple changes this week

too Tempest damage was increased by 50%

which would be pretty significant for

the stormbringer hero talentry echo of

the Elementals lesser Elementals deal

65% of your main Elementals damage an

enhancement Nerf to Elemental blast was

reverted the new for set for enhancement

has been redesigned earn wall totems

Health was slashed almost in half and

then torrent now increases rip TI's

healing by 20% and its crit rate by 10%

warlocks are going to see a Nerf to

demon skin both to how quickly it can

stack up but also the max value so

that'll be reduced to 5 and 10% of your

max Health moving forward a lot of their

hero talents were also redesigned which

is quite interesting big changes can

apparently still happen for these hero

talents even though we are rapidly

approaching the release date so keep

your eyes peeled for big updates if you

aren't liking how your hero talents are

shaping up so far and then Soul conduit

was buffed for both Affliction and

destruction due to their slower

generation when compared to demonology

and then for warriors storm wall now

heals for 5% of Max Health invigorating

Fury will heal for 10% down from 15% and

Pain and Gain was knocked down to 2.1

and 3.5% for both specializations so a

lot of Nerfs to self-healing and self-

sustain especially which is going to put

more pressure onto healers to keep

everyone alive we'll have to see how

everything plays out but this should

make it less likely that we see groups

running no healers in higher difficulty

content in the war within but that's all

of the updates we have for this week so

that's it for this video what are you

most looking forward to in the war

within prepatch how do you feel about

having more World content or solo

content options at max level in the war

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