Early Nerub'ar Palace Raid Buff Discovered in The War Within
In a recent interview, Associate Game Director Morgan Day revealed that a Reorigination Array style buff was being considered as a soft nerf the first raid tier of The War Within over time, and it looks like an early version of the idea may have already been discovered!
Morgan Day
We're discussing introducing a system that has similar vibes to Reorigination Array back in Uldir, the first raid tier of BFA, except we'll be leveraging the quest system. It'll buff players over time. Right now we're looking at the buff capping out at about 20% increased player power while you're within that raid and that will also apply to your Warband! That'll be cool, that'll be something that if you come in later with your alts, you can have that extra player power across everyone on your account for that content. Depending on how that's received and how well that achieves our goals, we'll look to expand that system or try to tie it more closely with our itemization system. There's a lot of ways we could expand that itemization, but we wanted to try to do something for War Within.
The original Reorigination Array served as a soft nerf for Uldir in Battle for Azeroth, featuring a hidden weekly quest to kill 3 raid bosses to increase its power over the course of 10 weeks. Only working inside the raid zone, this allowed players to grow in power, whether or not they're getting gear upgrades each week.
A hidden weekly quest stacked the power of the Reorigination Array to soft nerf the instance over time. Thanks to AMR for the pretty picture.
Unlike Uldir's Array, which also required activating a specific Azerite trait to gain its secondary stat buff, Rebel Yell appears more straightforward and similar to previous raid specific buffs Strength of Wrynn and Power of the Aspects, which also grew week to week throughout Icecrown Citadel and Dragonsoul. Currently not affecting absorption shields, pets, or guardians, the half complete effect may not actually be the final version of what the
