Dragonflight

A big change is launching with today's Dragonflight pre-patch -- the newly revamped talent system.

World of Warcraft patch 10.0, which lays the groundwork for the upcoming Dragonflight expansion, is dropping today, October 25, with a big improvement to character customization: all races will be able to become Mages, Priests, and Rogues.

World of Warcraft is bringing the first of two Dragonflight pre-patches this week, and today we get the expansion's various mechanical changes like the new talent system and the loss of the Shadowlands tier set bonuses.

The Dragonflight pre-patch launches tomorrow (at least for some regions), and with it comes yet another overhaul to WoW's talent system.

There's no burying the lede here: the World of Warcraft Twitter account announced that faction no longer impacts mob tagging in Dragonflight.

It's not a secret that I felt pretty disconnected from my main in Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands. Playing a Night Elf felt pretty crummy, at least to me, with the whole storyline hinging around the deaths of thousands of my character's people — including all the vendors and innkeepers and auctioneers and bankers and other NPCs I saw on a fairly frequent basis.

With the Dragonflight pre-patch launching on October 25, you may be wondering what will happening to your carefully collected gear, particularly the tier set bonuses and Shadowlands Legendaries that are currently providing a lot of your power.

The World of Warcraft team announced yesterday that the pre-expansion activities for Dragonflight will be broken up into two patches: one arriving next week that’ll bring new talent trees and HUD changes, and one arriving with new activities the week of November 15 -- less than two weeks before the release of the expansion.

The announcement of the forthcoming end of Shadowlands Season 4 made us pretty confident that the Dragonflight pre-patch (aka patch 10.0) would arrive simultaneously on October 25, and today official word was published confirming its arrival next week with the weekly reset.

A storm is a-brewin' in Dragonflight Mythic+, with the Thundering seasonal affix now in testing on beta. The affix sends a storm through your group on a predictable timer (currently one minute and fifteen seconds).