Upcoming Radiant Echoes Improvements Incoming

Posted 2024/08/01 at 1:37 PM by Squishei

We’re working on major updates to the Radiant Echoes event, based on your feedback.

Since the event went live, we’ve been working to address two main concerns: the wait time for the event, and the rate at which you can earn rewards.

We’re quickly changing it so that the event rotates between zones once each hour, and while the Radiant Echoes are active in a zone, they will remain up for the entire hour.
Now you’ll defeat the memory scenarios that surface, and after enough are defeated, the zone boss will rise. After the zone boss is defeated, the memories will begin resurfacing again, repeating the event immediately. If you’re still interested in farming the basic mobs that appeared when the event ended, you’ll find that those remain available in the other zones.

As far as the rewards are concerned, we’ve re-evaluated the numbers and increased earnings. You’ll see the scenarios and bosses giving more currency than before, in addition to providing flightstones and crests so you can upgrade your gear with the vendors now present in Dalaran. The increased rate of completing scenarios and killing bosses should also result in many more drops coming your way.

We spotted players funneling the weekly quests from their alts to their mains, and we don’t want that to feel necessary, so these quests will now be account-bound and they will repeat daily instead of weekly.

As a reminder, you’re still able to transfer the residual memories currency between members of your warband as you wish.

There are some other things we’re working on, such as the occasional scenario getting stuck and not completing. But with this new format, even if a scenario gets stuck, there will be others around that you can switch to and continue to make progress.

TLDR: More, faster, rewards, bugfixes, we hear you!

In a few minutes, we’ll deploy our changes to the Radiant Echoes event to the 11.0.0 PTR.

We’ll be testing the event there for a few hours today, before we bring all of the event improvements to the live game. Please feel free to join us!

If you haven’t tested this particular PTR yet, you’ll find it looking like this in your launcher:

Thank you very much for all of your feedback. Keep it coming!

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Comment by KlaskovskygoodComment by dabone1337If we only would have gotten a PTR in before where people gave feedback about the bad construction of the event ...Comment by F4K3ZWComment by EmernoWe spotted players funneling the weekly quests from their alts to their mains, and we don’t want that to feel necessary, so these quests will now be account-bound and they will repeat daily instead of weekly.Comment by ZettaraidI hope by spreading players more (by not pushing them all to the same time frame every 90 minutes), this solves the massive lag issues as well. I have good hopes for this change. But I'm still shocked that after previous similar events that they didn't see these lag issues coming.Comment by bones83How about they fix the lag during these events.Comment by ToridianFantastic response to the issues and a better than hoped for solution! Well done!Comment by RealchuckyGood but why making the Quest Account-Bound? Make no sense!

Make them Character bound and daily so all can farm the echos with alts and transfer them to the needed characters.Comment by Deadsmoke"Thanks to your player feedback we have started to remake the event as it obviously should have been when it went live"

I feel like I have heard this before.Comment by MekaManiacWhat about the fact that the event is unplayable due to lag on EU?
You have like 2k ping as soon as the bosses spawn and it's just a lagfest...Comment by BumpstockThank you for listening to the players. Now when can we get are remix toons.Comment by KoveeGeddeGood jobComment by dabone1337How about they fix the lag during these events.Comment by PeacemoonSurely this was fed back to Blizzard on the PTR though?
Why wait until it is live, to receive the exact same feedback, and then be shocked?Comment by pankracFast changes, that's great.

Now I only wish we could use the drops to transform them into set pieces.Comment by GilneanAnd still nothing about the lag.. 20sec before a spell works.Comment by RannirdinHeck yeah! This is so much better!Comment by TehquoMaking it account bound and daily? Doesn't that decrease rewards for people with more than 7 characters? You could do it on 30 toons in a week and get 45000 currency, now it's capped to 10500.. that's what I'm seeing right? Forcing players to grog it out everyday instead of doing a couple characters in a day? Idek, someone do the math and correct me please xD Need more clarification xDComment by Kurai1518Ya make the bosses respawn, good! But then you make the quest once per account? Are you just trolling?Comment by BulldevilSo they addressed the ability to farm the quests on fresh level 10s, sure I can handle that. But they still didn't address the gear not being able to be put in the catalyst. Such an easy change to make people happy and they just ignore it.

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