The developers of MMORPG World of Warcraft: Dragonflight have taken to the official site to discuss changes coming to the game in Guardians of the Dream.
The team describes Dragonflight as the update that introduced many changes to WoW, including the new universal upgrade system in Embers of Neltharion. Update 10.2: Guardians will continue iterating on the system based on player feedback.
Increase the Length of the Hero and Myth Tracks – In Dragonflight Season 3, the Hero track will be six upgrade levels long, letting players upgrade their gear up to Hero 6/6. The Myth track will go to 4.
Put PvP Gear Into the Upgrade System – PvP activity will now allow players to get Flightstones and Crests. Flightstones will come from all activities, and Crests will come from all rated activities with higher level Crests coming from rated play at higher rating levels. Currently those players pay an opportunity cost with their PvE gear advancement any time they play PvP instead of PvE, since those activities don’t give Flightstones or Crests. The devs wanted to change that.
No More Extra Inventory Space Used – For Season 3 and beyond, players will instead collect Crests as a currency in their currency tab. Upgrades will require spending 15 Crests each. The acquisition methods are not changing, and the amount of play needed to earn each upgrade will be the same; essentially instead of getting Crest Fragments like you did in Embers of Neltharion you will get Crest currency in Guardians of the Dream and beyond. Players won’t need to deal with Crests taking up extra inventory in their bags anymore.
Crest Cap Update – In Dragonflight Season 3, players will be able to earn 90 Crests per week of each type.
Trade-Ups. In Season 3, players who have run out of upgrades to purchase with a given Crest will be able to exchange their Crests upwards.
Crest Fallbacks – In Dragonflight Season 3, players who would earn Crests from an activity but cannot because of the cap will instead be awarded the next highest Crest they could earn (if any).
“For Season 3, we’re increasing item levels by 39 item levels over Season 2. Usually, the jump is 26 item levels, but with the new upgrade system in place, players have been using it to achieve more and higher item levels (relative to the maximum seasonal value) than in most previous seasons. This was intended, but a secondary effect is that keeping to the same seasonal item level jump would prevent players from earning rewards from the Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope raid dungeon or other Season 3 sources that are upgrades of their Season 2 gear.
Generally speaking, when you get a piece of gear from the new raid, it should be a useful upgrade over the previous season’s gear immediately. This change ensures that will happen.”
