Full 10.2.5 Patch Notes for WoW Seeds of Renewal
Full Official 10.2.5 Patch Notes World of Warcraft Dragonflight Seeds of Renewal
- Players can now use Dragonriding in all areas of World of Warcraft were flying is possible.
- The Azerothian Archives content is now available for all players to participate in and learn about the ancient history of the Dragon Isles.
- The Night Elves have a new home in Bel’ameth and King Greyman is ready to reclaim Gilneas for the Alliance.
On January 16th World of Warcraft released the final patch for 10.2.5 the Seeds of Renewal. This patch brought with it the epilogue for the Dragonflight expansion story, several major quality-of-life changes for players, and several balance changes for classes. It also included new content for players to focus on while waiting for the next expansion release, The War Within.
Here are the full, official patch 10.2.5 notes for World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Seeds of Renewal.
The final phase of Dragonflight begins today:
— World of Warcraft (@Warcraft) January 16, 2024
🐉 Dragonriding unlocks in Azeroth
🐺 Reclaim Gilneas
📜 Uncover the Azerothian Archives
⚔️ Form dungeon parties with NPC followers
🎉 And more! pic.twitter.com/z6ZFRvxU5q
Visit Bel’ameth, the arms of the Goddess
With the completion of the Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope raid, and the defeat of Fyrakk the Blazing, the new world tree could enter Azeroth. This new location has become the official capital city of the Night Elves. In the events leading up to the Battle for Azeroth, Sylvanas had set fire to Teldrassil.
Now players can visit Bel’amath, the arms of the Goddess to see new and old NPCs alike taking up residence here. It includes multiple new points of interest, NPCs, and wildlife for players in World of Warcraft to explore.
Dragonride All Over Azeroth
One of the biggest quality-of-life changes for players in Patch 10.2.5 is the ability to use Dragonriding anywhere in the game. Wherever flying is possible, players can use dragon-riding to move at all new speeds around the World of Warcraft.
Azerothian Archives
The Seeds of Renewal’s first major piece of repeatable content for players is the Azerothian Archives. Through this event in Patch 10.2.5, players can discover the history of the Dragon Isles and work with a unique cast of characters.
With the Azerothian Archives players can uncover ancient history and get new mounts and unique transmog as rewards. This content includes both solo and group activities and a weekly public event.
Reclaiming Gilneas
The Night Elves aren’t the only Alliance faction reclaiming their home in Patch 10.2.5. In the Seeds of Renewal, players will be able to help King Greyman retake Gilneas. But there’s a bit more work to be done here than in Bel’ameth.
Follower Dungeons
Taking a page out of Final Fantasy XIV’s book, players can now queue up solo or with others into normal difficulty dungeons in Dragonflight. For every empty slot in your party, a follower NPC will join your group to fill the missing roll.
The rewards will not be affected and will be the same as if you finished the dungeon with a full party of players.
Players can even elect to let one of the NPC followers lead the dungeon, or you can lead yourself and pull at your pace. This new feature is a great way to enjoy the dungeon, take time with its story, and learn the ins and outs of each encounter.
The Outland Cup
Starting on January 18th and going through January 31st, players can soar through the Outland skies with the dragonrider racing event, the Outland Cup.
Players will be able to challenge thirteen races across Outland in Normal, Advanced, and Reverse variations to earn Riders of Azeroth Badges. This new currency can be used to exchange for rewards with Maztha in Valdrakken.
If players can complete all Outland Cup races on Gold they will earn the achievement Outland Racing Completionist: Gold, an Outland Racer title, and the Ruby Riders of Azeroth tabard. Head to Valdrakken and speak to Lord Andestrasz near the Rostrum of Transformation to pick up the initial quest.
New rewards are available for purchase with Riders of Azeroth Badges. They include the Drake Racer's Scarf, Outlandish Drake Racer's transmog set, new dragon customizations, Valdrakken Accord Insignia, and Manuscript of Endless Possibility that randomizes mount customizations each time you mount up on a customizable mount.
- The introductory quest for the Outland Cup has been changed to require the player to complete all the races.
- Players will now be rewarded with 80 Riders of Azeroth Badges for completing the quest.
- Mount customizations will now be used when racing in the Outland Cup.
- Players will be granted a maxed out Dragonriding Talent Tree when racing in the Outland Cup.
- Players that haven't unlocked dragonriding yet will also be able to fly the race courses using loaned dragonriding mounts.
- The Grotto Netherwing Drake and Flourishing Whimsydrake have been added the the list of available loaned dragonriding mounts.
- Since worldwide dragonriding is now available, you will no longer be dismounted after completing the race if dragonriding is unlocked on that character. If dragonriding hasn't been unlocked, you will be dismounted after completing a race.
New Character Customization
With the release of Patch 10.2.5, a slew of new character customization options have been added to the game. Some of these new options include hair colors for trolls, skin colors for Dranei, new demon customizations for Tyrant and Darkglare Demons, and more.
Achievements
Players who have previously completed Trading Post Enthusiast will be granted the static Gleaming (Sun) and Moonlit (Moon) transmog sets when they next log in. Anyone who completes it going forward will get all 3 sets immediately.
Characters
DRACTHYR
- New Passive Ability: Empowered Soaring – Soar is now equivalent to dragonriding, granting access to vigor and all dragonriding abilities.
- New Passive Ability: Expedited Takeoff – Soar's cooldown is reduced to 10 seconds.
- Soar dragonriding will become available after learning dragonriding on the account and the Evoker has completed the Forbidden Reach starting experience.
- Familiar Skies (Racial) has been removed.
Class Changes
- Multiple Class talents that were previously Shadowlands Covenant Abilities (such as Convoke the Spirits, Divine Toll, and Sepsis) have had their spell visuals updated to match their Class visual kit. We'll be adding a way to revert these talents back to their Shadowlands visuals in a future update.
- DEMON HUNTER
- Elysian Decree is now Chaos damage (was Arcane).
- The Hunt is now Chaos damage(was Nature).
- EVOKER
- Source of Magic now lasts 1 hour (was 30 minutes).
- Preservation
- Developers' note: We would like maintaining Reversions to feel more rewarding for Preservation Evoker, even when playing an Emerald Blossom focused build. As a result, we are tying in casts of Reversion with Essence Burst. This should make the rotational flow of Preservation smoother and more enjoyable. Since this introduces more mana-free spell casts, we are also increasing mana costs to compensate.
- Essence Burst may now trigger from casts of Reversion.
- Mana cost of most spells increased by 10%.
- Grace Period now increases your healing by 10/20% on targets with your Reversion (was 5/10%).
- Timeless Magic now also affects Temporal Anomaly, and reduces the mana cost of Reversion, Temporal Anomaly, Echo, and Time Dilation by 10/20% (was just duration at 15/30%).
- MAGE
- Shifting Power is now Arcane damage (was Nature).
- MONK
- Mistweaver
- Dance of the Wind has been redesigned – Your dodge chance is increased by 10% and an additional 10% every 4 seconds until you dodge an attack.
- Ancient Teachings now additionally increases Stamina by 5% while active.
- Teachings of the Monastery now highlights Blackout Kick on the action bar when it reaches max stacks.
- Thunder Focus Tea now has additional functionality with Expel Harm, causing it to transfer 25% more healing to damage and create a Chi Cocoon on yourself.
- Tea of Plenty now has the possibility to grant Expel Harm and Enveloping Mist instead of Essence Font and Renewing Mist.
- Secret Infusion now has additional functionality with Expel Harm, granting Versatility.
- Faeline Stomp has been renamed to Jadefire Stomp.
- Awakened Faeline has been renamed to Awakened Jadefire.
- Windwalker
- Dance of the Wind has been redesigned – Your dodge chance is increased by 10% and an additional 10% every 4 seconds until you dodge an attack.
- Faeline Stomp has been renamed to Jadefire Stomp.
- Faeline Harmony has been renamed to Jadefire Harmony.
- Way of the Fae has been renamed to Path of Jade.
- Fae Exposure has been renamed to Jadefire Brand.
- ROGUE
- Echoing Reprimand changes to Physical damage (was Arcane) and damage increased by 43% to account for armor.
- SHAMAN
- Earth Elemental, Fire Elemental, and Storm Elemental (as well as the Primal versions of these elementals) now have a reduced size in instances for the Shaman’s allies and enemies. For the Shaman, the Elementals still appear large.
- Updated the tooltip of Thorim’s Invocation to include a value for the damage of Lightning Bolts and Chain Lightnings triggered by the effect. Functionality unchanged.
- WARRIOR
- Spear of Bastion has been renamed to Champion’s Spear.
- Elysian Might has been renamed to Champion’s Might.
- Piercing Verdict has been renamed to Piercing Challenge.
Items
REVIVAL CATALYST
- Renascent Dream charges are now granted weekly (was every other week).
Discover the Dragon, Explorer's League, and Tuskarr appearances for Pepe located in the Dragon Isles.
Player Versus Player Balances
- SHAMAN
- Enhancement
- Developers' note: We’re removing a previous PvP reduction to the base damage of Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning and focusing the reduction on spells triggered during Ascendance to target burst damage.
- Lightning Bolts and Chain Lightnings triggered by Thorim’s Invocation now deal 30% reduced damage in PvP combat.
- Thorim’s Invocation now increases the damage of Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning by 20% in PvP combat (was 10%).
- WARRIOR
- Fury
- Slaughterhouse (PvP Talent) now triggers off of Odyn’s Fury and Onslaught damage, in addition to Rampage damage.
Quests
DRAGONFLIGHT EPILOGUE QUESTS
A small quest chain where players join the Aspects as they reflect on the events of Dragonflight and look to the future, are introduced to the new night elf city of Bel’ameth, and can stay awhile and listen to the conversations of key characters throughout Valdrakken.
