World of Warcraft: Shadowlands 9.0.5 Update Available

While Blizzard Entertainment is busy working on the big Chains of Domination content update for World of Warcraft’s Shadowlands expansion, we get this smaller patch that attempts to make the game’s Mythic Keystone dungeons more rewarding, fine-tunes the Covenant and Legendary systems, and fixes a number of bugs.

Here’s a quick snippet from the patch notes:

The 9.0.5 update is focused on improving systems, rewards, Covenant and Legendary tuning, and bug fixes. Valor Points are now earnable in Mythic Keystone dungeons, and Valor can be used to upgrade new Mythic Keystone gear rewards. Changes to Covenants and Legendaries are intended to provide more gameplay options for crafting and utilizing Legendary items in specific situations, and to make sure that more players feel that the Covenant that suits their aesthetic, narrative, or other preferences for their character also feels more viable for their preferred playstyle.

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ITEMS AND REWARDS

• The community voted mount, The Wandering Ancient, is now available!
• Gear acquired from Mythic Keystone dungeons are now upgradable with Valor, a new currency that is earned from completing Mythic Keystone dungeons and covenant Callings. The weekly Valor cap will start at 5000 Valor earnable in the first week, and will increase by 750 Valor each week. There will be a maximum of 1500 Valor a character can hold at a time. Gear that dropped before the patch is unable to be upgraded.
  • 200 Item Level: Initial item upgrade level.
  • 207 Item Level: Requires the Keystone Explorer achievement – Earned by completing all eight Shadowlands dungeons at Mythic 5 or higher, within the time limit.
  • 213 Item Level: Requires the Shadowlands Keystone Conqueror achievement – Earned by completing all Shadowlands dungeons at Mythic 10 or higher, within the time limit.
  • 220 Item Level: Requires the Shadowlands Keystone Master achievement – Earned by completing all Shadowlands dungeons at Mythic 15 or higher, within the time limit.
• Completing a Mythic Keystone dungeon after the timer has ended will now reward a second item. The item level of the second item will be slightly lower (e.g. finishing a Mythic 7 Keystone dungeon, but not completing the timer now rewards the party with a 200 iLvl item and a 197 iLvl item).
• The Great Vault raid loot requirements is now defeat 3/6/9 raid bosses (was 3/7/10).
• Potency Conduits now also drop in Castle Nathria.
• Once players reach 40 Renown with their Covenant, the weekly quest to gather 1000 Anima will now award you with 1500 gold.
• Once players have recruited the maximum amount of Souls for their Covenant, the weekly quest to rescue Souls from the Maw will now award you with 500 Anima.
• Rhinestone Sunglasses can now be used in transmogrification and will appear in your collection once found.
• Vendor prices for items below item level 75 have been adjusted.
• The Lightless Force weapon enchant no longer targets out-of-combat or crowd-controlled enemies.
• The Hunger of the Pack trinket now grants the Speed stat instead of movement speed percentage.
• The Barrier Generator Toy can no longer be used in instanced PvP.