World of Warcraft: Current Year

Khane said:

Ok so I have no idea how to play prot warrior. This is the last challenge I have besides healers and I just get wrecked. Do I just spam ignore pain?

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Dalien said:

If it's anything like WoD or Legion, there's nothing "soon" about flying there. You probably won't be able to complete the achievement until about a year from now when the third major patch rolls out.

They will do their best to drag it out because Ion is butthurt about flying for some reason. Being able to skip trash mobs hurts their feelings, so everyone just trains mobs around like an asshole on the ground instead (see: Argus).

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• Ahead of the Curve: Argus and Cutting Edge: Argus from Antorus, the Burning Throne
• Warcraft Logs and Mythic+ Season on Raider.IO will come to a close for Legion. If you want to get that raid parse, or that high M+ score, now's your last week!
• First Aid (being rolled into tailoring), Field Medic (gives the title 'Field Medic') - essentially you need to get First Aid Legion quest drops from mobs in each zone, there are 16 in total, average of ~3 in each Broken Isles zone pre-7.2. You can use the Wowhead comments for the best locations to farm mobs. This takes some time and some farming, you can join groups in the premade group finder (First Aid - XXX Zone). The difficulty comes in the RNG of what drops, because you can have a chance to get the same First Aid quest item drop for you. Good luck! It's a decent grind.
• Other First Aid achievements - You will basically lose Heroic Skills to Pay the Bills, First Aid to 800, Ultimate Triage, Make 500 Frostweave Bandages and Make 500 Dense Embersilk Bandages - Ultimate Triage is easy enough since you can get a Warlock to do it, or follow the Wowhead comments to find the exact jump#comments:id=2335854) to get low enough or duel someone to get you low HP, and just get the old specific bandage to heal back up. 500 Frostweave and 500 Embersilk is basically a profession dump. Frostweave is easier to get, a couple transmog runs of Naxx got me more than enough. Embersilk is harder, but Bastion of Twilight clear first trash room, reset, got me ~50 silk on my Tailor per pass, 500 till I hit the 10 instance cap. I don't recommend buying them unless you prefer taking a high rate on these old cloths, on some servers these are actually more expensive than Legion's Shal'dorei Silk!
• Achievements Needy and Greedy (With the old group loot system, roll Need/Greed on a Rare quality item with an ilvl of 185 and get a 100) - according to this post, these will be removed in BfA and made Feats of Strengths because group loot and master loot is being completely removed. Easy enough to do, but took me a few hours - go for a transmog run. You can create a raid group solo, enter an old raid, and change the loot system to Group Loot. Now all the loot you get, you can roll on it. Roll for as much 'Need' loot first, since you can Greed everything but you can only Need a few items you can actually equip. Took me 5+ raids and went on a World Tour. You can use dungeons too.
• Prestige level achievements - Prestige is being reworked into account-wide honour in BfA. The level achievements become Feats of Strengths, BUT the rewards from Legion will be redistributed and put back into new Honour levels in BfA. Here's the 'farm guide' if you wish.
• Other achievements... - basically get Epic Legion gear, get your Artifact Power achieves, NLC etc. Usually quick and easy and near trivial.
• Mage Tower - this will be the last week to get your challenge appearances. There are plenty of guides on Wowheadfor gearing up and your specific challenge, along with your class discords and across the web, including this subreddit. E.g. How Not to Panic, List of Gearing and Items for Mage Tower, Stickied 36/36 Mage Tower guide and an older Mage Tower 36/36 spreadsheet with the Redditor's update.
• Brawler's Guild will temporarily go away - the achievements, well most will return in BfA, and you'll get a chance to earn them back. It's pretty easy since it was tuned to around Nighthold gear, 900s. Check the wowhead guide linked. You can also earn shirts from the Brawler's guild if you do the Random Brawl. The only thing worth noting is completing the 'Rumble' achievement (do a group Rumble - use a Rumble card which then grabs everyone in the Brawler's Guild to fight against the boss) is that there is one Rumble Brawl that is bugged and overtuned - Stranglethorn Streak. Really difficult to solo, usually wants WW/BRMs with Black Ox Statue and a few Hunters, you can look up the strategies and comments I made here.
• Proving Grounds will temporarily go away, the achievements and the titles and the 'tags' in the Group Finder should return in BfA.
• The infamous Karazhan trash leveling from 72 to 80 has been patched out with the pre-patch
• Strand of the Ancients battleground, with its achievements are being retired. We don't know whether this BG will come back.
• Ashran, the rep grind that gives you a title, and its achievements will be going away. Blizzard plans on bringing a 'large scale PvP matchmaking queue' to roll Ashran, Alterac Valley etc.
• 'The Chosen' (Trial of Valor Mythic achievement and 'The Chosen' title - kill all ToV bosses in one lockout without dying) - Much easier with 930+ gear, though you have to be careful on Helya. 'The Chosen' also gives a transmog box called Testament of the Valorous which gives ALL Mythic ToV set, including the exclusive Shoulder and Head pieces that only come from the box. Because of recent changes, this has become BoP, so you need to get the achievement on four armour classes, to get the Mythic transmog, for all four. Here's a video guide. For groups and people to find, check this subreddit for posts, check the Achievement discord or check the Premade Group Finder in game.
• Your artifact will no longer be empowered, and will burn out - equip highest ilvl relics - your traits will no longer work which means get a higher ilvl relic OVER better traits on your relic since that will give you more stats on your weapon. You can still get and equip relics in the pre-patch but they are essentially just ilvl boosts at this point.
• Master Loot and Group Loot are being removed completely, and the game will now be on Personal Loot everywhere in the game.
• Legion PvP season 7 is ending - mount, titles, Elite PvP sets - these will all go away when the season ends, so get them while you can!
• Legion pet charms will no longer buy leveling stones and other utilities - it will get only Legion exclusive stuff, while the BfA pet charms will work for every Pet Shop item, including leveling stones.
• Legion gold missions will be nerfed significantly in pre-patch from ~2500 gold total to ~250 gold total.
• Dump Legion matts, do economy stuff, buy WoW Token - Matts will lose their value, demand and player activity will go up, WoW tokens and gold value will go up.
• Make a copy of your addons and UI and clean reinstall - Your WoW might be taking more space than usual, take some time to reinstall if you have the time. For the addons, make sure you save ALL your addon settings going into 8.0 (manually - just save your WTF folder and Interface folder somewhere else in your WoW installation folder). With 8.0. a lot of addons may start breaking. As a precaution do save your settings beforehand, even screenshotting your UI in case things go haywire. Addon makers will attempt to update their addons as soon as possible but save yourself hassle by backing up your settings. NOTE you can also go up on the 8.0 PTR available now to check how your addons and UI function. As a tip you can download it pretty quickly by following this guide that still works even now.

• Stat Squish - Like with WoD, Battle for Azeroth will feature a 'Stat Squish' where numbers of your gear, your health, your damage, your healing, and that of the entire world will be scaled down to make numbers more readable, impactful and understandable.
• Class changes and Game System changes - Class changes have been made across the board, and game system changes like Tank threat changes etc. Refer to your class discords in the subreddit wiki for more information on how to pilot them and keep an eye on the subreddit for more posts and reports.
• War Mode - World PvP with 10% extra XP and always on Honour Talents in the open world - Post 8.0, there will be no more PvE, and PvP servers. You can at will switch to PvP by going to your capital city of Ogrimmar and Stormwind to activate War Mode. With War Mode you get access to your . Note, War Mode is available from Level 20 onwards (so 10% faster leveling in open world questing), and it gives a 10% XP buff and a 10% WQ reward bonus at max level.
• Prestige from individual characters will be merged in a new account-wide Honour system
• Legacy Loot Mode and faster transmog runs - if you are more than 10 levels higher than the raid or dungeon you run, you automatically enter Legacy Loot mode which lets you earn loot as if you were a full raid. This is to compensate for the removal of Group Loot and Master Loot in 8.0.
• Personal Loot is enforced at all points in the game and Master Loot and Group Loot has been removed
• Communities arriving and Guild UI updates - Communities are cross faction groups, that function like guilds where you can join them (and multiple of them, like say Discord groups) and chat with them in-game and play with them.
• Aesthetics and Fluff - Classes got some animations and models update, the old world got some creature model updates, Orcs can now stand straight, Blood Elves have golden eyes, more Collectathon Achievements got introduced for 400 mounts, 1000 unique pets, 400 toys, 100 Exalted Rep.
• War of the Thorns / Battle of Teldrassil questline - With 8.0, this questline will open up, and with it a set of new WQs to keep you busy.