Shadowlands Pre-Patch Death’s Rising Event Guides

by (4 years ago).

We just pushed out a new update (Version 7.0.23575) that adds in the first week of Shadowlands Pre-Patch content, which includes the scourge invasion Death’s Rising Questline and Dailies. You can find these new guides easily from the Home screen of the Guide Menu, or you can browse to them here:

Events:
Death’s Rising Questline

Dailies:
Death’s Rising Dailies

Zygor’s Shadowlands Pre-Patch Update Now Available

by (4 years ago).

Despite Shadowlands getting delayed until later this year, its pre-expansion patch will go live later today. We have just pushed out a new update for the Zygor Guide Viewer that adds compatibility for the pre-patch, as well as guide changes to address the level squish, and updates for the new content added. Below you’ll find a summary of the major new things and how they affect the guides:

General Game Changes

New abilities and talents have been added for your character. Some class defining abilities, like Shaman’s Healing Stream Totem, and all of Rogue’s poisons, are now available regardless of spec, but you can make certain abilities that are closely associated with your spec more powerful as you level up.

All characters have undergone a “level squish” that changes the former leveling range of 1-120 down to 1-60. The max level will be 50 in the pre-patch, with 50-60 being achievable in the Shadowlands content releasing later this year.

Numerous new cosmetic options are now available for every race, like tattoos for Dwarves, and being able to control the level of decay on Undead characters.

Exiles Reach Starter Guide

The Shadowlands pre-patch has introduced the first of new changes to the leveling system. For all new players starting their journey in Azeroth for the first time you will now begin in a new starter zone shared by all races called Exiles Reach. You can use our Exiles Reach guide to complete this. Once you’ve done so, you’ll have the option in the future to choose either Exiles Reach or your races traditional starter zone.

Leveling Changes

With this pre-patch all characters have undergone the first-ever “level squish”, which has converted the 1-120 level range down to 1-50. The default leveling progression beyond level 10 will now have you pick a single expansion and it will scale to level you all the way from 10-50. You can also choose to level through all the expansions like before. As a result, guide names and step conditions have been updated to reflect the new level ranges.

However, as this change is extensive and it’s not entirely clear how all former requirements have been converted, you may encounter some issues. Please report any problems over on our official forums.

Shadowlands Launch

The official release date of Shadowlands is unknown but is said to be later this year.

We will be releasing Zygor’s Shadowlands Guides shortly before the release of the new expansion, but well in advance to make sure everyone has plenty of time to sign up for Zygor Elite and download the new guides.

In the lead up to our release we will have more announcements to make regarding what content you can expect on day one of the release as well as what new features and improvements will be coming in Zygor Guide Viewer 8.

Zygor’s Shadowlands Pre-Patch Update Coming October 13th

by (4 years ago).

Blizzard Entertainment announced earlier today that the Shadowlands expansion will be getting a delay until later this year. We’re quite pleased to hear this because, while we do have our guides updated from the beta, it was obvious the expansion itself needed more time for polish.

While this may be disappointing news, the good news is that the Shadowlands pre-patch, which will add in new player customization options, the level squish, and a new pre-patch event, is scheduled to go live on October 13th. Likewise, we will be releasing an update to our addon to make it work with the patch and new guides to cover the event.

The expansion delay will also give us time to refine some of the new features and enhancements we have in store for Zygor Guide Viewer 8, which we’re really excited about and think you will be as well. Stay tuned for more…