Grouping & Reset Timer Changes
by Its_Immanis - 8 years ago show comments
In a post earlier today on the forums, Community Manager Nethaera revealed two additional quality-of-life changes coming to World of Warcraft with the Legion Pre-patch.
The first change is that all players in North American, Latin American, and Oceanic realms will be able to see each other in the open world if they are in a group together. Previously players in these different regional realms could group and see each other while inside instances but not for world bosses or events. As a result of this, players could also not see these groups when listed in the group finder either.
Now players will be able to group up with other players from the different countries for things like World Quests, and also have more opportunities to join raid groups with players who have different schedules through the group finder.
The second announced change is that, in the North American region, which encompasses the areas listed above, all daily and weekly quest and raid resets now take place at 15:00 UTC (8am PDT, 1am AEST) with weekly resets still occurring on Tuesday morning (Wednesday for Australian players).
Additionally, reset timers for recurring in-game activities such as daily/weekly quests and raid/dungeon lockouts will be updated to a single unified lockout time of 15:00:00 UTC (8 a.m. PDT / 1 a.m. AEST) for all North American, Latin American, and Oceanic realms. This change will make it more convenient for players, as you will only need to keep track of one reset time. Weekly resets will occur on Tuesdays (early Wednesday mornings for Oceanic realms) at this time.