Dragonflight S3 Patch 10.2 Release Date & Leaks - New Zone, Raid, Dungeons, Tier Sets, Class Changes & PvP Updates

Other Special Raid Items and Effects

There are also a whole bunch of special items and effects to collect from the raid including powerful trinkets, various weapons with special effects and a new helmet engine. This enchant does different things depending on your active role, and it's not consumed upon use. So when you get this, you can keep re-enchanting your headpieces as you replace them.

Dragon Riding Raid Boss

Another very unique thing about the new range is that we're going to have a dragon riding encounter. We'll be zooming around collecting things, dodging things, typical Dragon riding stuff.

Dragon Riding Updates

We have quite a few updates there as well, we'll have several new glyphs to collect in the new Emerald Dream zone, as well as three new talents to spend those glyphs on. Second Wind lets you instantly generate one figure, you can hold 3 charges on a 3-minute cooldown each, so you can hold up to 3 vigor in the bank, so to speak and just generate them whenever you need them. Winds respite causes aerial halt to let you hover for 4-seconds by the sound of things. So you can redirect yourself without immediately dropping out of the sky and swift skimming lets ground skimming occur while at high speeds, giving you even more Vigor generation. We're also going to get new dragon riding customization options including some options for the Grotto Netherwing Drake.

Old Flying in Dragon Isles

Something that we definitely weren't expecting was a new Pathfinder achievement. The implementation is not final, but the idea and the reward definitely seemed to be. Earning the dragon Isles Pathfinder achievement will let you use normal flying mounts in the Dragon Isles, so you won't be locked into just Dragon riding mounts, you can then use any of your old flying mounts with the old style of flying as well.

Dragonflight Season 3 Dungeons 

Patch 10.2 also brings us into Season 3 of Dragonflight. Obviously, we've got the new raid, a new PVP season, as well as a Mythic+ season. The dungeon pool is changing once again and the next season has some very interesting choices. 

• Dawn of the Infinite: Galakrond’s Fall

• Dawn of the Infinite: Murozond’s Rise

• Waycrest Manor

• Darkheart Thicket

• Black Rook Hold

• The Everbloom

• Throne of the Tides

• Atal' Dazar

Dragonflight 10.2 Huge Gearing Overhaul

- It's not just new dungeons to run through though, patch 10.2 will completely change the upgrades system for gear. So we have a massive gearing overhaul coming our way as well. To start with fragments are being removed, so we only have to worry about crests going forward. It's just going to be one currency instead of two and it will actually also be a currency in 10.2 as well. So your crests are going to go into your currency tab, freeing up a bunch of backspace.

- The upgrade tracks for Heroic and mythic level gear have also been extended, so we'll be able to upgrade gear further than before allowing us to achieve much higher item levels when all of our gear is fully upgraded. 

- On the topic of upgrades, as you progress through the upgrade system, you will now be allowed to trade up your crests. So if you upgrade all of your gear to the point where you can no longer benefit from or use whelpling crests for example, you will then be allowed to trade your whelp crests up to drake crests and continue with your gear upgrading adventures. When you're then done with drake crests, you'll be able to trade them up for wyrm crests and then you can even trade up to aspect crests if you get a high enough item level. That means everyone will be able to upgrade their gear much higher than before and have access to every type of crest as long as you keep upgrading gear, and reaching higher item levels. This also means that as you reach those higher item levels and can then only benefit from a certain crest, those lower crests aren't worthless because you can just trade them up and trade them up until you get to a crash that you can use. 

- There is one kind of negative change to rein in the potential of this New Freedom though. Crests are going to be capped at 90 per week, limiting you to just 6 upgrades per week of crest farming, down from the 10 per week we could get in Season 2. So while we will be earning crests slower and upgrading slower, the overall upgrade potential is higher and more accessible. Thankfully there's another great change being squeezed in here too, when you are capped on crests for the week, doing content that would reward you with additional crests past your cap will automatically just give you the next tier down of crests. So you don't have to actively target wyrm crests if you're full on aspect crests, you'll get the next tier down of crests automatically. 

- PVP gear will now also use flightstones and crests in season 3, and all PVP content will reward flightstones and rated content is going to reward you with crests. Some will have new options for farming these currencies, and PVP players are being brought into the new upgrade system. 

Dragonflight 10.2 Weekly Vault

The great vault is also going to see a pretty big change to help solo and world content players. The dungeon row for the great vault will no longer just require Mythic+ dungeons. You can now also fill up that row by completing standard Mythic dungeons, heroic dungeons, or even time walking dungeons. So it should be easier to get a reward in the weekly vault even if you don't do the harder group content.

Revival Catalyst on Day 1

- Another huge change coming in Season 3 is for the Revival Catalyst. The Revival Catalyst allows you to turn pieces of seasonal gear into tier set gear to get those bonuses more reliably. Usually, the Catalyst doesn't open or become available for quite a while, but that's going to change in Season 3. We're going to get the Catalyst in week 1 of the new season, that gives everyone a chance to get their tier set bonuses super early and you'll have a reliable method of earning that 4 set bonus faster than ever before.

- There is one other important change here however, instead of getting a charge once per week, we will be limited to 1 charge every 2 weeks. That still gives us four charges earlier than before though, this means that no matter what kind of content you do, you should be able to get one of your tier set pieces every two weeks in patch 10.2.

Dragonflight 10.2 PvP Updates

It's not just PvE updates this time though we have some new PvP content to look forward to. The Battleground Blitz Brawl is a new curable PvP option, it's solo queue 8 vs 8 Battlegrounds with a faster pace. So a shorter match timer and faster mount speed by the looks of things. The Dev team also said this is basically the first step towards a potential solo queue rated Battleground option, so we might be getting expanded solo queue rated options in the near future as well.

There are also various new PvP rewards to look forward to including new vicious mounts for horde and Alliance, as well as the new Gladiator to full transmog mount for this Slitherdrake.

Dragonflight 10.2 Class Changes

10.2 also brings so many different class and talent changes. All 3 Rogue specs are getting reworked, so huge changes coming for Rogues as we head into this patch. Demon Hunters are also on the list for a big talent rework, so expect to see more changes for both of these classes when compared to everything else. It looks like Priests will see some huge changes too, Discipline is getting reworked to be easier and simpler to play, while both Power Infusion and Mass Dispel are getting some serious nerfs. Various Druid specializations are getting looked at again and there's just a whole bunch of big class changes coming with this patch.

Dragonflight 10.2 Healing Nerf

There's also a huge change for how healing in general is going to work for the next patch. The Dev team are specifically looking to reduce the power level and effectiveness of AOE heals and raid cooldowns, while increasing the throughput of single target heals. Mana regen effects and abilities are also getting nerfed, and they want mana management to be more important.

Dragonflight 10.2 New Customizations & Druid Forms

We also have some new race customizations to look forward to. On the 10.2 banner with a list of updates, Blood Elf customizations is listed as one of the key features. In this first build, we have four new blood elf hair colors to pick and choose from. 

Druid will also see quite a few updates to their various forms. That Moomkin form is getting updated with new variations, the Fire Cat form is getting an update too, and there are also some other fiery options to unlock via the raid and New World content. A lot of different new forms have been data mined, we're not too sure how many of these will have access to, but quite a few of them have glyphs that have already been data mined as well. If the glyph exists, chances are pretty high that we'll be able to unlock these options at some point during the patch.

Other Night Elf Heritage Armor Colors

A lot of players will be happy about is that we do have confirmation that the White Knight Elf Heritage armor set will be made available in game at some point.

That's everything about patch 10.2 and season 3 of Dragonflight. What are you most looking forward to in the new patch? If you are looking for cheap gold, Aoeah.com is your best choice for getting the most affordable WoW Classic Gold!