The most important winners and losers of WoW Dragonflight Patch 10.1.7

Roughly two months after gamers obtained into the “timey-wimey” charades with World of Warcraft Dragonflight Patch 10.1.5, we now have a brand new patch to unpack—10.1.7. The patch is slightly small, particularly in comparison with the previous mid-season patches, however we nonetheless have clear winners and losers of the Fury Incarnate patch.

This patch, should you didn’t already sneak a peek within the patch notes, brings the Dreamsurge events for catch-up gear and extra cosmetics, the long-awaited Heritage Armor for Night time Elves and the Forsaken, and fresh-out-of-the-oven ping system as you lastly learn to play WoW like a real League of Legends fan. Apart from all this, the patch launched some class balancing modifications, however gamers can’t actually look ahead to any big-scale reworks like Mages and Paladins obtained earlier this yr. 

The most important winners of WoW Dragonflight Patch 10.1.7

Alts

Vulpera standing next to the class mount
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Patch 10.1.7 is the catch-up patch supposed to deliver your alts which were amassing mud up to the mark. Dreamsurge occasions can bless these poor alts with greater than first rate gear. However that’s not all, Dawn of the Infinite dungeon is releasing on a Heroic difficulty, which is, fortunately, farmable, and you may snag 402 merchandise degree Veteran gear that may be upgraded as much as 424 merchandise degree.

Collectors

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The most important change this patch has introduced, a minimum of in my eyes, is returning tons of and tons of of long-lost and forgotten objects that have been devoured after Cataclysm hit Azeroth with the Deathwing’s arrival. The complete checklist of restored objects continues to be a thriller, however it could possibly be that objects like Elemental Attuned Blade, Strolling Boots, Blackened Defias Boots, and Spider Internet Gown will make a dashing return.

The avid collectors also can look ahead to amassing all these appearances from Daybreak of the Infinite megadungeon since it can now be farmable, and to not even point out the Quantum Courser, a mount that has an extremely low drop price, however can flip right into a mount from the previous you’ve been lacking. 

And because the icing on high of the cake for collectors, this patch is introducing Heritage Armors for Night time Elves and the Forsaken which might be completely beautiful and make me really feel jealous I’m not enjoying a Night time Elf. 

Mistweaver Monks

Worgen, Goblin, and Draenei Monks in battle stance.
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After being one of many worst healers within the sport for nearly a full yr, Mistweaver Monks are lastly blessed with a few tweaks that won’t make them a top-tier healer, however will a minimum of make their lives bearable. 

The most important modifications revolve round Mana Tea potential, their solely supply of mana regeneration. So, after this patch ships, Mistweaver Monks will get the brand new and improved Mana Tea potential that provides you with one stack of Mana Tea for each 25,000 mana you spend. On high of this, vital strike procs may give you one further stack, so that you’ll absolutely be chugging that tea. This potential can even restore mana and reduce the price of your skills by 50 p.c. 

There’s additionally a brand new expertise, Energizing Brew that can improve the velocity at which Mana Tea channels and it’ll generate 20 p.c extra mana. 

General, these modifications are shifting this spec extra to a caster construct, slightly than melee healer playstyle which was Mistweaver’s id throughout Shadowlands and Dragonflight.

The most important losers of WoW Dragonflight Patch 10.1.7

Priest

Priest using heal in World of Warcraft Dragonflight.
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The one spec that obtained unfortunate with this patch is Holy Priest. Though this class obtained just one change, it’s vital to the way it performs. With Patch 10.1.7, Angel’s Mercy has been redesigned to solely scale back the cooldown of Determined Prayer by 20 seconds.

Initially, this potential decreased the cooldown of Determined Prayer based mostly on the quantity of injury taken. This implies Monks would have their defensive cooldown up extra typically, and this modification is only a straight nerf for his or her survivability in each PvE and PvP.

Trolls and bullies

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You recognize all these gamers who wish to whisper to you to flame you or remark in your gameplay? They may now meet their demise!

Beginning with Patch 10.1.7, chat will now have real-time chat moderation and harassing whispers from gamers who are usually not your pals will now fully be hidden. You’ll be able to nonetheless see the unique content material of the message, however you’ll get a warning message and an choice to right away report this participant. 

In regards to the creator

Izabela Tomakic

Workers Author & World of Warcraft lead. Izabela has an extended historical past with writing and video games like World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Fortnite, and The Sims. Earlier than discovering her house at Dot Esports in 2021, Izabela was an English instructor and a freelancer at Hotspawn, GGRecon, and Gameranx. In her free time, you’ll discover her writing novels, wandering Azeroth, or inting on Summoner’s Rift.

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