World of Warcraft’s latest patch offers a whole new way to play the game
World of Warcraft: Dragonflight has been a well-received expansion so far; now, the Fractures in Time update delves deeper into some of the mysteries of the Bronze Dragonflight. The heroes, alongside their dragon allies, have arrived at the ancestral home of the Dragon Isles, only to find that problems have been brewing under the surface for the last 10,000 years. The Fractures in Time patch unrolls a nefarious new plot from the Infinite Dragonflight, but players will have new tools to fight back — including a new and unprecedented player specialization.
Longtime World of Warcraft players know that the game operates on the holy trinity of tank, healer, and damage. Some classes can jump across those archetypes, like a Priest respeccing from Holy (healing) to Shadow (damage). Now there’s a new contender to shake up the class dynamics: the Dracthyr Evoker’s Augmentation specialization. The Evoker launched with two specializations: the damage-dealing Devastation spec and Preservation for healing. Fractures in Time introduces this new third spec, and it’s designed around helping your allies hit harder and kill faster. It’s World of Warcraft’s first dedicated support spec.
“One of the big themes for the class is, you have five dragonflights of magic, and you want to use them all. For Devastation and Preservation, we focused on Red, Blue, and Green,” says senior game designer Graham Berger in a call with Polygon. “We’ve seen a lot of corrupted Black dragons, but not the original form that Neltharion used before he became Deathwing. So the team wanted to explore that now, and talked internally about what we could do with Black dragon magic. We also wanted to explore the Bronze, there’s a lot to play with in time magic.”
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