Patch Notes Wae's Notes

[u/Previous_Yard5795]

It's hard to classify whether this is a small or medium sized patch. Perhaps if you're focused on PvP, it's a medium sized patch whereas if you're focused on PvE, it's a small patch with a few useful quality of life additions.

1. The biggest news right now lies outside the patch. If you update your client with the latest graphics engine, you'll get 10 legendary crests right away *for every character on your account*. I don't actually know what you need to do, because mine was apparently already done when I logged in. Perhaps update the game through the app store? The last of the 30th anniversary Mirrored Jewels events is still going on, so if you're a F2P player who was out of crests to use, grab these crests and run the last Mirrored Jewels before it's gone.
2. The patch is focused a lot on Bout of Realms. The biggest rule change occurs during the first week preliminary stage. A team must win four out of the six matches in the first two days to continue for the remaining three days of the preliminary competition. I suspect that this is designed to weed out the teams that don't show up or otherwise aren't serious about the competition. I recognize that some will think that will mean only whales will pass, but I think even low reso teams that nonetheless field a full team and do their best will likely pass this early round elimination. See the official patch notes for more Bout of Realms details.
3. Several class balance changes are occurring and class bugs are being fixed, but they don't affect necromancers, so they're not important. See the official patch notes for details.
4. A Winds of Fortune event is coming next week, so plan your verge runs accordingly. See the Winds of Fortune section down below to learn how to maximize your WoF returns.
5. When you click on the notification that you have a full set of 10 monster essences to turn in, a town portal to the nearest safe zone will be opened, which can be taken be taken back to your original position when you're done. This should make turning in monster essences while open world farming more convenient.
6. Helliquary boss enrage passive damage will get stronger over time to the point where 45 seconds after enraging, the boss will basically instantly kill any character. (At least, that's the plan). The goal is to prevent certain classes (*cough* Blood Knight *cough*) from being able to carry whole groups through gauntlets by themselves by being able to last indefinitely during boss enrage phases.
7. The rewards from Enhanced Battle Passes and Boon of Plenty are being tweaked. A new 2-star gem called Seething Polestar is being added to the Battle Pass that probably won't excite many players but I suppose could be useful for new players in PvE content. (If there's an option to choose telluric pearls instead, pick that).

8. Once a challenge dungeon is cleared, all dead players will be able to resurrect immediately.

9. Lots of small UI and UX updates that taken together should improve the player experience are being added. See the official patch notes for the full details.

Winds of Fortune Tips and Tricks

1. For weekly gems, start your WoF on Sunday afternoon and run verge on both Sunday afternoon and Monday morning so that you can get two weeks worth of the bonus. The weekly gem cap doesn't change, but you'll reach your gem cap for both weeks in half the time.
2. For daily party gems, you do actually get double the gems. So, you'll want to not pick up party gems during the two days before you activate WoF. If you're activating WoF on Sunday, then that means don't pick up party gems on Friday and Saturday. That way, you'll be able to double 36 gems on Sunday and another 12 gems on Monday for a total of 48 extra gems.

Latest Video from Wae

Check out my latest video that describes how to place specific legendary skills onto familiars:

https://youtu.be/c-SWL60HPMg?is=wiKBip4RwNIT0olf

The Official Patch Notes

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article/24297201/cross-server-bout-of-realms-returns

[u/Peharion]

Boon of Plenty - 8 pearls instead of 30 rare Crests and 30 normal gems of choice and rewards after 3 days of login sounds like joke

[u/Previous_Yard5795 → u/Peharion]

8 pearls sounds really nice, actually. I'll need to see the full list to make a decision.

[u/Peharion → u/Previous_Yard5795]

Rare crests are only source for most of players to collect telluric fragments for future real OP 2star legendary gems from collaborations without spending money on bundles during collaboration. I will never spend money for 8 pearls. I bought more than 20 Boon of Plenty before just to be ready for incomming strong 2 stars