New Gear Upgrade System Coming in Patch 10.1: Embers of Neltharion
In multiple 10.1 interviews, Morgan Day announced that a new gear upgrade system is coming in Patch 10.1!
New Upgrade System in Patch 10.1A new upgrade system will be occurring in Patch 10.1 replacing the current upgrade gear from Mythic+, Primal Storms, PvP into a universal upgrade system. There are a lot of them and Blizzard wants a universal upgrade system. Players will collect Flightstones from all content and different types of Crests that acts as your high watermark, assumingly different crests for different difficulty levels of content. Combining these two currencies will allow you to upgrade your gear to an item level relative to the type of crest you have and your content cleared. This system will be available on the PTR early on in the 10.1 PTR cycle.
Interview Transcripts Group interviewIn a group interview that Wowhead was a part of, Morgan Day revealed some aspects of a new upgrade system in a response to Dot Esports.
Actually this is not completely related but I think it’s really cool so I’m going to talk about it anyway. There’s a new item upgrade revamp coming with the Embers of Neltharion. One of the things we identified with Dragonflight was that we really like this idea of upgradable items and feeling like you can make progression even if it’s a couple of time levels at a time. You feel like you can earn some progression on your character, and really work towards that end goal of yours. And what we found was there was a lot of different types of item upgrade systems. We have Valor, we have the ones in the outdoor world, we have Storms gear…and they all work in slightly different ways, and it felt like a lot of complexity and a lot of stuff the player had to wrap their head around that worked Read more on wowhead.com
