World of Warcraft just previewed some of the visual updates coming to certain Shadowlands covenant abilities soon. These skills have their appearances, along with some of their names and gameplay effects, altered in World of Warcraft Patch 10.2.5.

Seeds of Renewal, the first World of Warcraft patch of 2024, goes live on January 16, bringing with it the new World of Warcraft city of Bel'ameth, story epilogues, worldwide Dragonriding, and other exciting gameplay updates. One of these new features is a visual upgrade to most of the former Covenant abilities introduced in Shadowlands, and later baked into various class talent trees in Dragonflight.

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Now, World of Warcraft has shown off some of these visual updates in a brief video shared on its official Twitter account. Each of these retooled abilities uses new visual and sound effects to make the abilities better meld with each class’ aesthetic. The video shows off Faeline Stomp, Shifting Power, The Hunt, Spear of Bastion, and Soul Rot, but players can expect almost every one of these former Shadowlands abilities to look and feel different once Seeds of Renewal goes live in World of Warcraft.

Shadowlands Abilities Changing in WoW Patch 10.2.5

Some of these abilities are changing in more ways than just visually. Covenant abilities that specifically refer to Shadowlands elements are being renamed to better fit each class’ fantasy, like Spear of Bastion becoming Champion’s Spear and Faeline Stomp becoming Jadefire Stomp. A few are even having their gameplay effects changed, such as Shifting Power dealing Arcane damage instead of Nature, letting them better synergize with certain class builds.

Fans are excited about these new visual updates. Though Shadowlands was a divisive expansion, the Covenant abilities were both powerful and fun to use, and players were glad to see many of them make their way into the talent trees. However, the jarring visuals they used made them stand out from the rest of each class kit, and even caused some players to avoid taking the abilities completely. This update makes these World of Warcraft abilities fit better visually and mechanically, making them even better tools in each class kit.

This change will be even more important once The War Within comes out. The next expansion adds Hero Talents to World of Warcraft, which will also include visual changes to certain abilities that let characters embody iconic classes from the game’s long history. Between Hero Talents and these updated Shadowlands Covenant ability visuals, World of Warcraft players will soon have a whole new look on the battlefield.

World of Warcraft: Dragonflight

World of Warcraft: Dragonflight was developed by Blizzard Entertainment and is the ninth expansion pack for the iconic massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.

Dragonflight features an overhauled user interface, raises the level cap to 70, and introduces a new race and class.

Franchise

Warcraft

Platform(s)

PC

Released

November 28, 2022

Developer(s)

Blizzard , Activision

Publisher(s)

Blizzard , Activision

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