Following a deluge of criticism (includingfrom yours truly),World of Warcraft’sRadiant Echoes pre-patch event is getting some big tweaks today.In a blogpostover on the forums, community manager Kaivax breaks down the changes.
Less waiting, more rewards
Long story short, the event is going to have less waiting around and, when you do complete it, you’ll get more rewards.
Before the patch, you’d have to show up at the beginning of the 90-minute window to complete the event within a rotating zone. Once this event was finished (which took anywhere from 5 to 8 minutes), you were out of luck if you missed it. With this patch, the event will continuously refresh throughout the entire duration. In the active zone, scenarios will appear and, after defeating them, a boss will spawn. Rinse and repeat.
If you do want to farm the lesser mobs that appeared in the zone once the event was over, those will be available in the other, “inactive” zones.
Furthermore, rewards are being increased, and the weekly quests that rewarded 1,500 Residual Memories will now be daily across your account (to cut down on the urge to run the event across multiple alts). With bosses spawning so much more quickly and dropping the same loot, you should be getting a lot more event gear from drops alone, so those memories can be put to good use buying the event’s mounts and pets.
Leave it to Blizzard to outdate my blogpost in just 24 hours, but as Kaivax says, “we hear you!”
