Blizzard's 9.1 PTR Patch Notes for June 2nd - Torghast Scoring Tweaks, New Seasonal Affix

PTR Posted 2021/06/02 at 5:45 PM by perculia

PTR 9.1 Build 38872 Datamining

Character & Class Changes

Dungeon & Raid

Death Knight

Anti-Magic Zone ~~cooldown increased to 3 minutes (was 2 minutes),~~ duration reduced to 8 seconds (was 10 seconds) and it will now fade when it absorbs 150% of the caster’s health .

Druid

Well-Honed Instincts (Conduit) cooldown increased by 50% at all ranks.

Monk

Mistweaver

Soothing Mist’s channel is no longer interrupted by Mana Tea or Zen Focus Tea.

Priest

Shadow

Death and Madness (Talent) will now grant Insanity and reset Shadow Word: Death’s cooldown when Shadow Word: Death is cast while the target is already dying.

Rogue

Serrated Bone Spike (Necrolord) bleed now properly benefits from critical strike chance.

COVENANTS

An item to increase your Renown has been added to Trinketaur to enable testing of the new soulbind traits.

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

New Seasonal Affix: Tormented – Servants of the Jailer can be found throughout the dungeon and grant powerful boons when defeated. If a servant is not dealt with, they empower the final boss.

Players on the test server can speak with the Keystone Vendor in Oribos to acquire test Keystones for all available dungeons and affixes.

ITEMS AND REWARDS

Cardboard Assassin (Cataclysm Engineering Tinker) now shares a cooldown with potions and its stats no longer scale past level 35.

RUNECARVING

New Runecarving Powers that empower each classes’ Covenant Ability.

Warrior has new powers available in the June 1 update.

TORGHAST, TOWER OF THE DAMNED

New Scoring System and Perks

Save souls and defeat the Jailer’s forces to become Anima Empowered, allowing you to more effectively crush your foes through a variety of combat and score bonuses.

Developers’ note: We want to thank everyone for taking the time to provide feedback on the updates to Torghast. The team has been reading through and iterating the design based on your feedback. A specific change that we’ve made focuses around the common feedback that the Empowered Bar creates a feeling of time pressure that was negatively impacting the playstyle of Torghast. We’ve addressed this by changing the mechanic and we’d love to hear your thoughts after trying out these changes:

The Empowered Bar is now more like a “Special” meter than a “Streak” or “On Fire” bar and is filledby performing actions that earn score and no longer decays over time or with deaths.

Once you meet a certain threshold on the Empowered Bar, an extra action button appears that you can use to become Empowered. You will remain Empowered for a duration based on the amount of bar that was filled.

Empowered provides a number of combat bonuses that can be increased or added at the Box of Many Things. Also, all actions while Empowered contribute to a score bonus at the end of the run.

Comment by sikhjatt23much better change to torghast. hated the timed aspectComment by JimbrooksI am so bloody glad that they removed the special bar in Torghast to no longer decay over time!Comment by CarthacLove that Torghast change. Great idea Blizz dev teamComment by Kalyarmost op cd in the raid 2 min gg bring back 4 dk in raid for perma amz yeahComment by dwolf010much better change to torghast. hated the timed aspectComment by EyeOculusI wonder now if you can hold the buff active if you keep killing enemies once you activated it.
I really enjoyed chaining kills which ultimately ended up with a 90% uptime across the floors.
Oh well this is nice to i guess.Comment by SeganoDK tears got to BlizzComment by GaviinNice change to Torg scoring. Like.Comment by TheRedRogueI've been reporting the bone spike bleed crit thing since beta. xD Glad to see they finally fixed, and Sudden Fractures procs can crit now too which is pretty sweet.Comment by worgenfearReally looking forward to this patch! Every new build on the PTR brings the patch that much closer to release :) Cannot wait to start Korthia!Comment by SielinthAn item to increase your Renown has been added to Trinketaur to enable testing of the new soulbind traits.
Comment by OdrihmCan't find the item to increase the renown.Comment by KalcheusAn item to increase your Renown has been added to Trinketaur to enable testing of the new soulbind traits.
Comment by KalcheusCan't find the item to increase the renown.Comment by JotaRandomSound better now, that torghast change Is welcome

Now the only issue remaining for me Is the all or nothing that you have, maybe making the rewards proportional to how far you got in a run if you death/éxit before last boss would be crear, i don't have the time for a torghast run but 3 or 4 floors Is enough Time for meComment by Sielinth
Didn’t they say that the first one is an extra 250 anima token where the reward is 250, and the second one is an extra token from the dungeon weekly quests?Can't find the item to increase the renown.Comment by polksc33Waiting for 9.2. No need to grind at 9.1.Comment by wallrochainb4 Torghast remains the same and people start calling it Choreghast because it is too boring and offers no challenge.Comment by Sielinth
Didn’t they say that the first one is an extra 250 anima token where the reward is 250, and the second one is an extra token from the dungeon weekly quests?Comment by EyeOculusAlright. This new Torghast change with the empowerment is absolute trash. No joking. Torghast became so much slower now. Whoever complained about the previous iteration now shot themselves in their damn foot. Man this is really putting me off.