Last night plenty of new information was released. The blues explained how the Reorigination Array buff works in Uldir, a buff that will act as an increasing buff over time as long as you’re actively playing Uldir content every week. We also had a new round of hotfixes and the Blizzcon virtual ticket and goody bag are now available for purchase!
Uldir Reorigination Array Explained
It is a clever system but I do have some insight to share on how it works. Apologies for the lengthy description but I wanted to explain it given what you pointed out now that I have some information to share on it.
So Reorigination Array is a secondary bonus to traits from Archive of the Titans or Laser Matrix. When those are selected on a piece of Azerite gear that is equipped it provides Reorigination Array. This is a passive buff that is always up while you’re inside the instance.
There is a Reorigination Array hidden quest associated to your character that tracks and gradually improves this buff over time as you progress week over week within Uldir. Every week there is essentially a weekly quest that tracks your kills, and once you kill 3 bosses in Uldir you gain a stack added to Reorigination Array. You do not need a piece for this to track your kills. So if you killed 3 bosses last week and got your piece this week with Archive of the Titans, don’t worry as you’d correctly be at 2 stacks if you killed 3 bosses this week as well. This stacks up to 10 and each stack provides 75 of your highest secondary stat. This also tracks regardless of difficulty so you can even track and obtain the items with these traits on Raid Finder.
Once you obtain a piece you’ll notice the Reorigination Array tooltip changes depending on some certain conditional statuses. If you haven’t killed any bosses this week in Uldir it will read additionally “Defeat 3 more powerful foes in Uldir to increase the effectiveness of Reorigination Array.”. This will be under the current bonus it provides if you have earned any stacks already. As you kill bosses for your weekly count you’ll see this counter go down until it disappears as you’ve earned your 3 needed kills for the week and you’ll instantly get that next stack.
Hotfixes: September 12, 2018
September 12, 2018
Classes
- Death Knight
- Unholy
- Last Surprise no longer gains the benefit of Mastery: Dreadblade twice.
- Unholy
- Warlock
- Affliction
- Deathbolt’s damage now only counts up to the maximum base duration of your DoTs.
- Affliction
Creatures and NPCs
- Scrollsage Nola should no longer be killable, and should safely make it to the water whenever she chooses.
Dungeons and Raids
- Uldir
- MOTHER
- Adjusted Defensive Beams to address an issue that could cause them to sometimes instantly damage nearby players on Mythic difficulty.
- Mythrax
- Obliteration Beam no longer targets pets.
- Vectis
- Omega Vector periodic damage will now scale based on raid size in Normal/Heroic difficulties.
- MOTHER
Items
- Darkmoon Deck: Squalls will no longer trigger from spells that don’t deal damage, such as Polymorph.
- Heart of Azeroth
- Fixed a bug causing Spark Coil to linger on a player who changed zones.
Player versus Player
- Hook Point Arena has been temporarily disabled. An issue was discovered causing some players to have an abnormally long load time while zoning into the arena.
- Cheat death type abilities such as Cheat Death, Purgatory, and Last Resort are now cleared when entering Arenas.
- Players who have earned Duelist: Battle for Azeroth Season 1 now have the weapon illusion ‘Dreadflame’ unlocked.
- Player pets polymorphed by Polymorph: Direhorn will no longer be giant baby dinosaurs.
- Death Knight
- Blood
- Death Chain’s visual no longer lasts longer than its effect.
- Death Chain will now deal damage to other targets in the Death Chain when Bonestorm deals damage.
- Blood
- Hunter
- Beast Mastery
- Barbed Shot can now be removed by effects that remove bleeds, such as Stoneform.
- Beast Mastery
- Warrior
- Execute modified by Death Sentence can no longer be cast out of melee range while rooted.
- Death Sentence will now only charge to your target when they are under 20% health (35% when talented into Massacre).
Professions
- Alchemy
- Reflecting Prism can no longer be used on players under the effects of the Sea Mist Potion.
Quests
- Grasping Thorns should now despawn when their shapers are killed during “Goldfield’s War”.
World Quests
- Fixed an issue that caused a second set of creatures to spawn in front of Priestess Alun’za for “Atal’dazar: From the Shadows”.
- Players should now meet with more Bonebeak Scavenger Meat and Brineclaw Meat on “Instant Meat, Ready to Eat”.
Blizzcon Virtual Ticket and Goody Bag
Blizzard released 2 blog posts giving the low down on the Virtual ticket and the goody bag. You can find all information about the virtual ticket here and the goody bag here.
In addition to that the Blizzcon smartphone app has also been updated.