The War Within 11.1 Raid and Dungeon Testing

As promised by Blizzard at the end of 2024, the time has come to test some of the upcoming raid encounters in Liberation of Undermine and the new Dungeons arriving in The War Within 11.1 Patch called Undermine(d). It's starting off light with 1 simple Raid boss test at the end of this week as well as the new Dungeon Operation: Floodgate while ramping up the amount of tests in the following weeks.

The final encounter of the raid, Chrome King Gallywix, will not be available for testing.

Heroic, Friday, January 10th

• Stix Bunkjunker - 11:00 PDT (14:00 EDT, 20:00 CEST)

Heroic, Thursday, January 16th

• Vexie and the Geargrinders - 11:00 PDT (14:00 EDT, 20:00 CEST)
• Cauldron of Carnage - 12:00 PDT (15:00 EDT, 21:00 CEST)
• Rik Reverb - 13:00 PDT (16:00 EDT, 22:00 CEST)

Heroic, Friday, January 17th

• Sprocketmonger Locknstock - 11:00 PDT (14:00 EDT, 20:00 CEST)
• One-Armed Bandit - 12:00 PDT (15:00 EDT, 21:00 CEST)
• Mug’Zee, Heads of Security - 13:00 PDT (16:00 EDT, 22:00 CEST)

Normal, Full Raid (except Gallywix), January 17th - 20th

• Start - Friday, January 17th at 14:00 PDT (17:00 EDT, 23:00 CEST)
• End - Monday, January 20th at 09:00 PDT (12:00 EDT, 18:00 CEST)

Mythic, Thursday, January 23rd

• Vexie and the Geargrinders - 11:00 PDT (14:00 EDT, 20:00 CEST)
• Cauldron of Carnage - 12:00 PDT (15:00 EDT, 21:00 CEST)
• Rik Reverb - 13:00 PDT (16:00 EDT, 22:00 CEST)

Mythic, Friday, January 24th

• Stix Bunkjunker - 11:00 PDT (14:00 EDT, 20:00 CEST)
• Sprocketmonger Locknstock - 12:00 PDT (15:00 EDT, 21:00 CEST)
• One-Armed Bandit - 13:00 PDT (16:00 EDT, 22:00 CEST)
• Mug’Zee, Heads of Security - 14:00 PDT (17:00 EDT, 23:00 CEST)

Raid Finder

• Wing 1: Shock and Awesome – Cauldron of Carnage, Rik Reverb
  • Start - Friday, January 24th at 14:00 PDT (17:00 EDT, 23:00 CEST)
  • End - Monday, January 27th at 09:00 PDT (12:00 EDT, 18:00 CEST)
• Wing 2: Maniacal Machinist – Sprocketmonger Locknstock, Stix Bunkjunker
  • Start - Friday, January 24th at 14:00 PDT (17:00 EDT, 23:00 CEST)
  • End - Monday, January 27th at 09:00 PDT (12:00 EDT, 18:00 CEST)
• Wing 3: Two Heads Are Better – Vexie and the Geargrinders, One-Armed Bandit, Mug’Zee
  • Start - Friday, January 24th at 14:00 PDT (17:00 EDT, 23:00 CEST)
  • End - Monday, January 27th at 09:00 PDT (12:00 EDT, 18:00 CEST)

For season 2 of The War Within, Blizzard is refining their testing format to better concentrate feedback and facilitate larger content and balance updates between each PTR cycle. Alongside the daily rotation of affixes for +2 to +12 key levels, each week will spotlight a subset of 11.1 (Season 2) dungeons for focused testing.

• Week 1: Operation: Floodgate
• Week 2: The War Within Dungeons (Cinderbrew Meadery, Darkflame Cleft, Priory of the Sacred Flame, Rookery)
• Week 3: Legacy dungeons (Operation Mechagon: Workshop, THE MOTHERLODE!!!, Theater of Pain)
• Week 4: The War Within dungeons + Operation: Floodgate
• Week 5: Legacy dungeons + Operation: Floodgate
• Week 6+: All season 2 dungeons

Affix Updates

We have a number of adjustments to affixes and supporting systems available for testing. Affixes will cycle each day on PTR realms to facilitate testing.

• Unified creature buffs on all Xal’atath’s Bargain affixes with Xal’atath’s Gift, increasing damage done up to 50% and reducing damage taken up to 100% for 20 seconds on all nearby creatures in combat.
• New affix: Xal’atath’s Bargain: Pulsar
  • While in combat, Xal’atath summons pulsars that orbit players and must be intercepted within a time limit.
  • This affix replaces Xal’atath’s Bargain: Oblivion
• Xal’atath’s Guile
  • Redesigned. Now causes keystones above level 12 to increase health and damage of enemies by 12% per level instead of 10% per level.
• Xal’atath’s Bargain: Voidbound
  • Dark Prayer is no longer a channel and the Void Emissary no longer grants damage reduction to creatures while active.
  • Dark Prayer now has a 15 seconds cast time, and grants all nearby creatures in combat Xal’atath’s Gift when it finishes casting.
  • The Potency of Xal’atath’s Gift granted by Dark Prayer is based on the remaining shield percentage of the Void Emissary.

New Achievement and Rewards

Keystone Legend

• Attaining a rating of 2850 Lindormi will offer players a quest that prevents keystones level 12 and above from being reduced below level 12 for the remainder of the season.
• Players can still speak with Lindormi to lower their keystone level.
• This functionality includes keystone level decay from the great vault.

That concludes the current known Raid and Dungeon testing for 11.1

Written by: Xerwo

Reviewed by: Rycn