World of Warcraft patch 7.1.5 coming next week with new content

The Nighthold raid will open the following week.

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The World of Warcraft 7.1.5 patch finally has a released date, coming next week on January 10.

Although the patch notes are not quite ready yet, we do know that the update will bring timewalking dungeons from Mist of Pandaria, a new season of the Brawlers Guild (complete with Overwatch tribute), and micro-holidays, which are events held for fun over just a couple of days. The accompanying survival guide video also shows some significant class changes coming, as well as an early look at the new Nighthold raid opening up in Suramar. 

If you are looking forward to the 10-boss raid, there will be a staggered opening, as always happens with new raids. Here's the schedule, which begins the following week:

  • January 17: Nighthold Normal and Heroic difficulties open.
  • January 24: Nighthold Mythic difficulty and Raid Finder Wing 1 (Arcing Aqueducts) open.
  • February 7: Nighthold Raid Finder Wing 2 (Royal Athenaeum) opens.
  • February 21: Nighthold Raid Finder Wing 3 (Nightspire) opens.
  • March 7: Nighthold Raid Finder Wing 4 (Betrayer’s Rise) opens.

 The patch has already begun to preload on most machines, so there shouldn't be much to wait on next Tuesday, short of extended server downtime as the patch is deployed server-side.

There are still no release hints on the more signficant 7.2 patch, which is expected to open the Tomb of Sargeras raid, implement flying, and updates to artifacts.

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    January 6, 2017 12:19 PM

    John Keefer posted a new article, World of Warcraft patch 7.1.5 coming next week with new content

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      January 6, 2017 12:26 PM

      there's a typo in there, where it says there should be much to wait for, im assuming it should read shouldn't be much, shouldn't it?

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      January 6, 2017 1:47 PM

      Anyone still playing? I've been pugging random +5-8 ish mythics. It's actually fairly rewarding and I only have to dedicate 30 minutes as opposed to finding a raiding guild and spending hours per night. Just not my thing any more I guess.

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        January 6, 2017 1:49 PM

        Still playing but I'm getting tired again. When it gets to the point where they gate content, for example with the trial of valor, I lose interest

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          January 6, 2017 1:55 PM

          ToV was just stupidly overtuned for too long, especially for the gear it dropped.

          Haven't even bothered since the last round of nerfs, though.

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            January 6, 2017 2:01 PM

            difficulty is not the issue. It's the fact that they gate the souls you get so it basically takes 8 weeks to get the 1000 souls or whatever it was you needed. Once they start pullign that stuff, I start checking out.

            They did the same with the Illidan lore quest

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              January 6, 2017 2:03 PM

              The souls-thing was just for the normal transmog and the illidan lore quest is just for some quest dialog.

              There's rumors about the later being for more, but nothing confirmed yet.

              That's.. not gating.

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                January 6, 2017 2:05 PM

                I don't care what it's for, it's gating They are artificially increasing the time it takes to finish the questline.

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                January 6, 2017 2:42 PM

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              January 6, 2017 3:22 PM

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                January 6, 2017 10:23 PM

                That's a LOT of farming though. I was getting maybe one soul every two-three enemies killed.

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          January 6, 2017 3:27 PM

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            January 6, 2017 3:29 PM

            I really enjoyed the Suramar quests though I know some folks didn't like it. I did enjoy the quests leading up to Nighthold as well.That being said yes I don't look forward to doing all that again on alts. Probably won't ever finish it on my alts.

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            January 6, 2017 3:30 PM

            The worst part of Suramar was doing the limited WQs for any new character. I had a blast hitting exalted on my first character, not so much by my 3rd.

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              January 6, 2017 3:33 PM

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                January 6, 2017 3:36 PM

                Yeah, agreed.
                I found that using the group finder trivialized that stuff tho. Very easy to quickly jump into a group and knock off the WQ quickly.

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                January 6, 2017 4:07 PM

                Using world quest group finder addon helped a lot.

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        January 6, 2017 3:28 PM

        Yeah, I've got a

        865 Prot/Arms Warrior
        864 Assassination Rogue
        855 Destro Warlock

        I've been busy at work and just got married, so I haven't had the time to go crazy with it like most have. Just some PUG Raids and +5-8 M+ every so often.

        Still haven't got that damn Prot hidden artifact after they patched it tho, so I'm logging in almost every day for that.

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        January 6, 2017 3:43 PM

        I'm still playing, not raiding this expansion though. I leveled my DK to see how soloing is now with the changes. Seems ok - I've done a few bosses in Karazhan and I'm working on M+ dungeons now. It takes fucking forever, I'll never beat the timer, but it's doable. Plus my ilvl isn't super high so I'm getting upgrades from the bosses I'm killing in Kara at least.

        My 5 man group is winding down a bit, losing interest it seems. I don't have the Nightbane mount yet and I am going to be a bit annoyed if guys drop out now after they got it.

        Bonus footage of my first Kara kill -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipi1jraSLPo it took over 24 minutes because I needed to kill the adds not to die and just cleave the boss.

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        January 6, 2017 4:48 PM

        My 876 priest can't get new gear :(

        I haven't had a new drop in weeks, my main has only 2 legendaries, yet my alt hunter got 3 in a span of 8 hours.

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          January 6, 2017 5:02 PM

          Wtf how? I don't have any on 4 110s

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            January 6, 2017 5:52 PM

            I have two legendaries and I've never even done a mythic dungeon or a proper raid (one raid finder clear of the emerald nightmare). They both dropped from the world quest faction caches.

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              January 6, 2017 8:17 PM

              Guess I haven't done enough those

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          January 6, 2017 10:26 PM

          My main has 3 legendaries but they are the worst ones. I got Prydaz, Sephuz, and the Norgannon boots.

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        January 6, 2017 5:00 PM

        I unsubbed end of Dec, mostly due to my unhappiness with the direction (or lack thereof) they had taken my favorite class (feral druid). Yah I could play something else, but I've never had a large suite of characters and the druid was my main ever since Vanilla...

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        January 6, 2017 5:37 PM

        Yep, I plan on seeing the end of the suramar story at least.

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        January 6, 2017 7:24 PM

        I'm still playing. My demon hunter is 877 with my shaman at around 855. The guild is still progressing through heroic ToV, we should have it done this week though.

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      January 6, 2017 2:09 PM

      I want to play this for a week and get bored, but not for $65. Impossible right?

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        January 6, 2017 2:41 PM

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          January 6, 2017 3:13 PM

          Yeah, nice suggestion but I want to play Legion :(

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        January 6, 2017 5:47 PM

        Yeah $15 is just too much for me to spend on so something I might only have a few hours a week to play. wish it was cheaper. And all I want to do is explore

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      January 6, 2017 7:56 PM

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        January 7, 2017 2:21 AM

        The artifact grind is becoming a lot less of a headache with 7.1.5 with the ability to buy artifact knowledge with order resources.

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          January 7, 2017 3:14 AM

          It's just allowing alts to catch up to your most advanced main isn't it?

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