Blizzard has posted the new development notes for Alpha 4 of The War Within, including the addition of Stormbringer Shaman for testing!
Here is this week’s update to The War Within Alpha:
NEW ZONES AND DELVES NEW DUNGEONS - City of Threads
- Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
NEW BATTLEGROUND: DEEPHAUL RAVINE - Deephaul Ravine is themed in The Ringing Deeps where the Foreman Uzjax and Architect Ruffious are tasked with collecting as much valuable ore, gems, and crystals for their respective priorities. Ruffious the Unbound Earthen has big plans for the ore and gems found in the Deephaul Ravine, but the Machine Speakers of the Earthenworks are quite possessive of such precious materials. Uzjax and his team plan to secure these materials before Ruffious and his band of misfits get their hands on it.
Mechanics
8v8 and 10v10 Battleground that will be available in all battleground modes. - Hybrid map in which teams earn points by controlling either of the two active mine carts that move along the tracks on the map, or capturing a lucrative gem (the Deephaul Crystal) that is located in the middle of the map.
- The Deephaul Crystal can be returned at either capture point located on the high ground on the opposing sides of the map.
- Additionally, there’s a mine cart track that runs above the battleground playspace where players can hop in a cart vehicle to quickly traverse the map, allowing for quick engagements and repositioning.
How to playtest: open the Group Finder (default hotkey: i), then select Random Battleground and click Join Battle! Only the Deephaul Ravine map will be available as a Random Battleground map for Alpha.
WARBANDS - Roughly 2000 achievements from Dragonflight and earlier have been switched from character specific to account wide in order to allow your entire Warband to make progress on them. Please note, based on the quirks of implementation, any incomplete achievements that were converted will lose all progress on alpha with this change. In the live
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