Dear friends ! Awakening has truly awakened the community, and today's feature takes a close look at this new content. So, without further ado, let's dive into this fall's first Raid Digest.
Awakening and Graces
You can find the essence of Awakening functionality in our recent YouTube videos and in the 6.00 Patch Notes. However, we would like to address here some aspects that require additional clarification.
Firstly, there will be no Events or Tournaments for Awakening-related activities (Descent of the Fort of the Iron Twins, Summoning Souls, Awakening Champions, etc.) in the near future. This means that to complete at least several upcoming Mergers, you can safely focus on well-known activities. Secondly, there will be no Soul Summon x2 or x10 boost events, at least for the immediate future. Don't forget to fill your Souls wishlist, as it is specially designed to permanently increase your chances of getting the Souls you need.
Let us now turn our attention to the Graces. Please note that neither the Accuracy of a Champion who applies a Grace nor the Resistance of the target affects the chances of the Grace succeeding. Therefore, the target cannot resist or otherwise block Graces, unless otherwise specified in the Grace's description. Likewise, Active or Passive Skill Block debuffs, being applied to an Awakened Champion, do not prevent him from activating his Graces or gaining passive benefits from them.
Changes and Fixes
We continue to refine the Iron Twins boss to provide a challenging and meaningful gameplay experience in this Dungeon. The Boss will be able to bypass the Incapacitate buff with some of their Skills so that single Champion Incapacitate-based teams cease to be a one-size-fits-all solution.
Following quick reports from the community, we were able to quickly track down some bugs that appeared after the 6.00 update. Here are several of them that we've already fixed in today's patch:
– Soul Stones now drop as an additional bonus from Hydra chests, not as a replacement for regular rewards.
– Being defeated in Faction War Crypts no longer causes you to lose Faction War Keys.
– Fixed a bug with Brimstone's Grace recharging even if it didn't trigger.
Here are also some known visual issues that will be fixed in future patches:
– Sometimes, when the Polymorphic Grace transforms the target into a sheep, the visual model of the unfortunate Champion remains the same, although the Sheep debuff applies its effects and even appears above its head.
– There is a visual issue with the Ultimate Death Knight's health bar not showing the actual number of HP remaining. Because of this, sometimes, even when it looks like his HP has dropped to 0, our bellowing Undead Champion stubbornly refuses to die for good.
– Veil, Perfect Veil, and certain other effects sometimes do not appear visually correctly when applied to Death Knight Ultimate. It seems he's become too big of a celebrity to hide.
Various
We've overhauled the combat effectiveness of several of our Champions and strengthened many of them in a series of rebalances. If a Champion in your Collection has improved significantly after a rebalance, don't forget to update the ratings you previously gave them. We and your fellow raiders, not to mention the Champion in question, would appreciate a more up-to-date assessment of the Champion's usefulness in different areas of the game.
Clan vs. Tournament Clan and Personal Rewards
The next Clan vs. Clan will be without Personal Rewards.
That's all for now, friends.
Have a great weekend and see you in two weeks!
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