Radiant Echoes Improvements Are Now Live

We’re working on major updates to the Radiant Echoes event, based on your feedback.

Since the event went live, we’ve been working to address two main concerns: the wait time for the event, and the rate at which you can earn rewards.

We’re quickly changing it so that the event rotates between zones once each hour, and while the Radiant Echoes are active in a zone, they will remain up for the entire hour.
Now you’ll defeat the memory scenarios that surface, and after enough are defeated, the zone boss will rise. After the zone boss is defeated, the memories will begin resurfacing again, repeating the event immediately. If you’re still interested in farming the basic mobs that appeared when the event ended, you’ll find that those remain available in the other zones.

As far as the rewards are concerned, we’ve re-evaluated the numbers and increased earnings. You’ll see the scenarios and bosses giving more currency than before, in addition to providing flightstones and crests so you can upgrade your gear with the vendors now present in Dalaran. The increased rate of completing scenarios and killing bosses should also result in many more drops coming your way.

We spotted players funneling the weekly quests from their alts to their mains, and we don’t want that to feel necessary, so these quests will now be account-bound and they will repeat daily instead of weekly.

As a reminder, you’re still able to transfer the residual memories currency between members of your warband as you wish.

There are some other things we’re working on, such as the occasional scenario getting stuck and not completing. But with this new format, even if a scenario gets stuck, there will be others around that you can switch to and continue to make progress.

TLDR: More, faster, rewards, bugfixes, we hear you!

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In a few minutes, we’ll deploy our changes to the Radiant Echoes event to the 11.0.0 PTR.

We’ll be testing the event there for a few hours today, before we bring all of the event improvements to the live game. Please feel free to join us!

If you haven’t tested this particular PTR yet, you’ll find it looking like this in your launcher:

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Thank you very much for all of your feedback. Keep it coming!

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Please apply similar design philosophy to all future events!

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Thank you for listening to the feedback!
Im actually really impressed and relieved that improvements are coming.

My faith in blizzard is being restored

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Thanks blizz, very nice.
Not even being sarcastic this time around.

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Good news everyone!

(I’m watching old Futurama episodes to pass the time between events).

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Thank you :+1:

if the boss spawns 100% i am happy every other improvement is a big plus.

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You’re killing bosses through the Jurassic Bark tears!? Your keyboard must be soaked.

Thank you, this is excellent news.

Thank you :slight_smile:

Very good improvements!

Wet fart noises

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Well, you’ll have to up the currency from that once-per-account daily massively if this isn’t supposed to be a massive downgrade for people with many alts.

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changing the quests to account wide is a kick in the chuckies for alt armies

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:cry:

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Thanks for looking into it and rolling improvements for the game mode.

I want to think that this event is a large scale trial for warband bound gear/resources/progress, so I hope it provides some good data for how to design the systems.

I dont know if the update has gone through, I just tried Onyxia and not even the first “boss” was spawning, just went back to the timer again. Let’s hope this will work soon!

Changing the quest from a weekly quest to an account-wide daily quest is a welcome change for me. I much prefer just playing one character per season, and cycling through alts for this quest really wasn’t enjoyable.

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Then read the posts, it’s going up on the PTR today, not live until they’ve tested the changes.

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