World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth Patch 8.2 Rise of Azshara has been released on the PTR and Blizzard has shared additional details of what’s coming in this PTR.
Battle for Azeroth’s next major content update became available on Blizzard’s Vendor CDN last week and details about its contents surfaced somewhat later. The patch has now been made available for testing on World of Warcraft’s PTR and Blizzard has posted some development notes. As covered earlier, the 8.2 patch on the PTR will offer various class changes, including changes for Hunters, Demon Hunters, Rogues, Warriors and Druids.
“We’re deploying our first build for the upcoming content update—Rise of Azshara—to our Public Test Realms”, community manager Kaivax wrote. “It is now testable.”
Heart of Azeroth system update: introducing Essences 88New Zone: MechagonNew Arena: The RobodromeMount EquipmentCrestfall and Snowblossom Island ExpeditionsAshran Epic BattlegroundOur initial testing will be primarily technical, so some Rise of Azshara features will be locked/unavailable for the first few days while we work on initial concerns with the above content. Please note that Ashran may not easily complete a queue in the PTR.
Coming Soon
Heroic Battle for StromgardeNew MissionsNew Zone: NazjatarExplore the new zone including quest lines, World Quests, and World PvP Events focused on strengthening alliances with the new aquatic races
Heritage ArmorsNew Profession RecipesNew Raid-- Azshara’s Eternal PalaceAs always, we’ll coordinate the testing of this new raid’s encounters via scheduled announcements.
New Dungeon-- Operation: MechagonPet Battle Dungeon: StratholmeDirehorn Training questsUpdates to BrewfestWe plan to do a wipe of all characters in a few weeks after getting focused feedback on the Heart of Azeroth Essences. This will allow us to test the feel and pacing of obtaining them all naturally. We’ll give you a heads up on that character wipe here in this forum.
World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is available globally now.