Blizzard
The existing Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King Timewalking events have been expanded to include an additional dungeon each:
New rare mount:
Reins of the Infinite Timereaver, has been added as a random drop from any Timewalking boss.
Added a vendor near the Cataclysm portals in
Stormwind and
Orgrimmar during the Cataclysm Timewalking Bonus Event that sells modernized Cataclysm gear and cool new toys.
Cross-Realm Mythic Raiding
- Cross-Realm raiding has been enabled for Hellfire Citadel on Mythic difficulty. You'll now be able to join with friends or fill that last raid spot to take on the most difficult encounters in Warlords of Draenor.
Item Upgrades and Valor are back!
- Item upgrades are back! Players will be able to earn and spend Valor to upgrade items from Hellfire Citadel, crafted profession items, items created from Baleful tokens in Tanaan Jungle, and all Draenor dungeon drops. All the items you've already earned are eligible for upgrades retroactively.
- Characters can earn Valor in a number of ways.
Completing the first random Heroic Dungeon of the day - Completing Mythic Dungeons
- Completing weekly Bonus Event quests (except for the Pet Battle Bonus Event)
- Completing a Raid Finder wing for Highmaul, Blackrock Foundry, or Hellfire Citadel for the first time each week.
To upgrade, visit your friendly neighborhood ethereal in
Orgrimmar and
Stormwind, or
Stormshield and Warspear to upgrade your gear by 5 item levels at a time for 250
Valor, up to twice per item, for a total potential boost of 10 item levels.
Improved Item Rewards
Mythic Dungeon Loot Improvements
Baleful Item Level Boost
- Baleful items now have a chance to create items ranging in quality from item level 655 to 695 in 5-item-level increments, with a progressively lower chance as item level increases.
Warlords Season 3
- Around the release of Patch 6.2.3, a transition to Warlords Season 3 will take place. More information and details on the close of Warlords Season 2 and transition to the new season will be available in the future.
- With the new season comes new gear. New Warmongering Aspirant gear scales up to PvP item level 715, Warmongering Combatant gear scales to 730, and Warmongering Gladiator gear scales to 740.
Class Tuning Changes
Frost Unholy Talents - Defile and damage has been increased by 10%.
Balance Retribution - General
, , Lava Burst, , and damage has been increased by 4%.
Elemental Enhancement - General
now increases all damage dealt by 15% (up from 10%).
Arms - now increases all damage dealt by 15% (up from 10%).
Raids and Dungeons
Timewalking
- Pepe should now remain with players that enter into a Timewalking dungeon.
Items