8.2 PTR Build 30329 Preamble - Beguiling is the Season 3 Mythic+ Affix

Posted 2019/05/07 at 5:52 PM by Squishei

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Queen's Gift

NEW Beguiling
Azshara's Emissaries are present throughout the dungeon.

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NEW Test Dungeon PvP
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NEW Najzatar Bodyguard - Neri Sharpfin
Grants experience for Neri Sharpfin.

NEW Najzatar Bodyguard - Vim Brineheart
Grants experience for Vim Brineheart.

NEW Najzatar Bodyguard - Poen Gillbrack
Grants experience for Poen Gillbrack.

NEW Najzatar Bodyguard - Bladesman Inowari
Grants experience for Bladesman Inowari.

NEW Najzatar Bodyguard - Hunter Akana
Grants experience for Hunter Akana.

NEW Najzatar Bodyguard - Farseer Ori
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Azshara's Eternal Palace
Face Queen Azshara in the dark depths of Nazjatar. What horrors does she keep within hers ready to receive you. What horrors lurk in the depths of her ancient palace?

Operation Mechagon
Enter the Mechagon megadungeon and take down King Mechagon before his doomsday device destroys all life as we know it.xplore the wonders of this vast mythic-only megadungeon. Can you stop the mad king from eradicating the Curse of Flesh?

Heroic: Battle for Stromgarde
The Heroic difficulty warfront is now available. Report to Boralus Harbor for transport to theChampions, report to Boralus Harbor! Prepare to engage the enemy in a new Heroic difficulty warfront. For the Alliance!

NEW Azshara's Eternal Palace
Queen Azshara is ready to receive you. What horrors lurk in the depths of her ancient palace?

Tauren Heritage Armor
GoThe spirit realm is in turmoil. Travel to the Orgrimmar Embassy andto help the Spiritwalker Isahi solve the mystery of restless spirits in Mulgors restore peace.

Heroic: Battle for Stromgarde
The Heroic difficulty warfront is now available. Report to the Port of Zandalar to launch the attack on Stromgarde!Champions, report to the Port of Zandalar! Prepare to engage the enemy in a new Heroic difficulty warfront. For the Horde!

NEW Azshara's Eternal Palace
Queen Azshara is ready to receive you. What horrors lurk in the depths of her ancient palace?

Gnome Heritage Armor
GoThe gnome nation faces troggaggedon! Travel to the Stormwind Embassy and helpjoin Captain Sparknozzle save all Gnomanity!'s cause.

In the Shadow of Crimson Wings

Stage 1: Vermillion Holdout
Defeat the Void-Twisted attackers at the vVermillion holRedoubt.

$n, you made it! I wasn't sure you would after Fenn told me of your task! Fenn informed me of your incursion into the naga camp. What have you found?

If we can locate their cache, then we can strip them of their arsenal and arm our own forces.

Obtaining the tidestone must be our top priority, but we cannot press further into Azshara's realm without first knowing what we're up againstIf we are to push further into Azshara's realm and obtain the Tidestone, we will need to know the lay of the land.

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It' is safe to assume that the naga have a storeare maintaining an arsenal of these weapons somewhere.

If we're able to locate the cache can determine where they are being stored, we can takseize the weaponsm for ourselves and arm our allies.

Oculeth has been working on a waydevised a method to detect even trace amounts of aAzerite. Let's ensure that he hasProvide him with whatever he needs to complete the taskdo so.

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NEW Kua'fon
Once a little hatchling, raised into a mighty pterrordax by a loving handler. He eventually learned to fly.
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Kua'fon
Once a little hatchling, raised into a mighty pterrordax by a loving handler. Flight did not come easy for himHe never did learn to fly.
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NEW Swift Spectral Armored Gryphon
Even the dead need a lift every now and then.
Legacy

NEW Swift Spectral Fathom Ray
Even the dead need a lift every now and then.
Legacy

NEW Swift Spectral Pterrordax
Even the dead need a lift every now and then.
Legacy

NEW Swift Spectral Magnetocraft
Even the dead need a lift every now and then.
Legacy

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Mechagon

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The Eternal Palace

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Thwart the maniacal King Mechagon before he de-fleshifies all of Azeroth!

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Earn new rewards in Mythic Keystone dungeons and PvP.

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Operation: Mechagon

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Face Queen Azshara's most devoted champions in this new raid!

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Gather Essences to infuse new powers into your Heart of Azeroth.

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Heart of Azeroth Essences

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Explore the long-lost island of the mechagnomes.

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New in Rise of Azshara!

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Plunge beneath the tides into the kingdom of the treacherous naga!

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Nazjatar

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Comments

Comment by Spanky2k

Hmmm... maybe Beguiling is added minibosses in dungeons.

Comment by DelliWow

Hope there is some variability to the emissaries that beguiling brings. I need something much more interesting than reaping to get me to run another waycrest/king's rest etc.

Comment by Garadus

New affix basically = more mobs? :D

Comment by Wraknar

I almost had a mini-heart attack when I misread "Begulling", thinking they were bringing back the pre-nerf gulls from EoA.

Comment by jjcash

Reaping is the most fun affix so far

Comment by DelliWow

Reaping is the most fun affix so far

It's not hard to beat infested. Reaping is still pretty bad, you barely have to think about it

Comment by Zachen

Hope there is some variability to the emissaries that beguiling brings. I need something much more interesting than reaping to get me to run another waycrest/king's rest etc.

But Waycrest is probably one of the easiest dungeons, and KR one of the hardest... are you saying you think WCM is too difficult on par with KR?

Comment by Gortusk

I almost had a mini-heart attack when I misread "Begulling", thinking they were bringing back the pre-nerf gulls from EoA.

Haha I thought the same. They need to get on this right now and make it a thing!

Comment by orionaegis7

Hope there is some variability to the emissaries that beguiling brings. I need something much more interesting than reaping to get me to run another waycrest/king's rest etc.

But Waycrest is probably one of the easiest dungeons, and KR one of the hardest... are you saying you think WCM is too difficult on par with KR?

WCM is AIDS in a lot of affixes

Comment by megablast

For some reason I read that the affix was Bellular gaming. I was very confused for 3-4 seconds.

Comment by Saruzeufel

I almost had a mini-heart attack when I misread "Begulling", thinking they were bringing back the pre-nerf gulls from EoA.

Can't think of any affix that would be more horrifying than this

Comment by Jaigar

Beguiling seems more annoying than anything if its just a pulsating AoE. Greivous? Good luck. Bolstering? Forced to ST down a mob and get stacks on targets you don't want. If its a random trigger on mobs its worse. If specific mobs have it like infested, its not as bad.

Comment by Archernick

Actually, I think the new Beguiling Affix comes in two parts!

First of all, these "Emissaries" are "Images of Azshara" - there's a good chance they are either static or can even spawn dynamically (while fighting a pack) throughout the dungeon.

These Images of Azshara will place the first component of the "Queen's Gift" on a mob: this gives it a 10-second Channel where it heals for 5% of its Maximum Health, per second. Also, it gains "Add Creature Immunity (?) (Asleep, Gripped, Disarmed, Disoriented, Snared, Slowed)", meaning it's harder to preemptively CC this target beforehand (hence why I think it's dynamic).

After the 10-second Channel is over, it will then gain the second component of the "Queen's Gift", which will be the 1-second pulsating Arcane damage, which will continue until death. It also gains "Apply Aura: Mod Increase Maximum Health - % Value: 100%", meaning it will have up to double its original HP depending on how much you focused it down. It will also likely be able to return to casting all its native abilities too during this.

Due to this, I personally believe that these "Images of Azshara" can pop up while you're fighting the trash, including mid-pull, and begin the process of buffing a mob. This means that even when a mob is on low health, they can still become a threat when they suddenly start healing. You're then rewarded for focusing it down, by either possibly killing it before it finished the channel, or having much less "bonus health" to deal with once it starts pulsing.

Now the only things I'm unsure of is if you're able to interrupt this channel, or even spell-steal the buff as a Mage. I'm guessing no, as it would completely mitigate the affix. Of course, this is just further speculation - but from what we've heard about Blizzard wanting a Single-Target oriented affix, it plays even further into that line of thinking.

Comment by NatPaggleIsaPOS

Reaping is the most fun affix so far

It's not hard to beat infested. Reaping is still pretty bad, you barely have to think about it

You DO have to think about it though.....lol...

You have to be very careful when you proc a reap. For example if you have 5 mobs up and the kill count is at 19% and then you reap that's going to be a lot of problematic then AoEing them all down together and causing a reap when the mobs are dead. Clearly you haven't done much m+ this season. Reaping is awesome.