The 7.03 Patch of World of Warcraft works as the pre-expansion update for Legion. Before new expansion, there are a lot of things you need to know. For new players or those who decide to return, the 60 tips hopefully can help you pick up the game and catch up fast. For veterans, you may miss something but can find it here.
General
1. An additional character slot is added and those who have used all slots before don't have to delete an existing character for the new Demon Hunter class.
2. Many shirts become bind on equip — it has no impact on most players.
3. Again, like previous expansion, many items are turned to toys in this expansion. You can see details here.
4. Classes that can use Mail and Plate no longer graduate to a higher armor level, they just start with the ability to use their armor type. Remember this change if you plan to buy gear for your alternative characters.
5. All creatures and NPCs can now be tapped by up to 5 other characters. This mechanism was applied on rare mobs. Now it applies to all creatures.
6. The Fishing Extravaganza in Stranglethorn is temporarily suspended.
7. Set bonuses prior to Warlords of Draenor are removed, but the text describing their former function still remains.
8. For players who have characters between LvL 90-100, the progression perks have been removed.
9. The Mass Resurrection guild perk has been removed. However, healers now have a similar ability. Non healer class can revive an ally with Gnomish Army Knife (required engineer profession with at least 350 skill).
10. Two stats: Spirit and Bonus Armor, are removed from gear and replaced by new stats.
11. Spell Power on all caster weapons have been consolidated into Intellect. You now can directly tell which caster weapon is better by comparing their Intellect stat.
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Talents
12. Dual spec has been removed and you can use any of the 3 specs freely now.
13. Changing spec is free, and it will change your action bar as well.
14. You can now change your talents in safe area or Order Hall freely.
15. Changing talents in other areas is not free as materials are required.
Appearance
16. The glyph pane is gone. All major glyphs have been removed. Most bonuses and effects provided by prime glyphs are consolidated into class' abilities.
17. All minor glyphs are converted to cosmetic items or spells in spellbook.
18. You can use Class Trial, a new free service allows you to play any level 100 class for free for a limited time.
19. Druid's forms and Warlock's demons get new models.
Transmogrification
20. You can finally hide your shoulder armor.
21. Shirts and doublets can be transmogrified now.
22. You can preview transmogrification effect via wardrobe, but you still need to visit NPC to transmogrify.
23. You need to visit NPC to hide your helmet and cloak. Previously you just have to do it in the setting menu.
24. It seems that there are many bugs in the transmogrification system in current build.
25. Previous transmog rewards acquired by completing quests will be unlocked in this patch.
26. To alter an item, the "skin" item must be equip-able for your class.
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PvP
27. Conquest and Honor as a currency to purchase PvP gear have been removed.
28. A new Honor Level system will be used. You can earn Honor Points (similar to XP in PvE) in Battlegrounds or Arenas to level up your Honor Level. As your Honor Level increases you'll earn corresponding rewards including PvP gear.
29. 5v5 Arena is no longer available.
30. Character under level 110 will be rewarded a gear chest which contains a gear for your class.
31. New PvP Progression and Honor System release – Blizzard has tweaked the damage for each class’s talent in arena and battleground.
32. Tuning is ongoing to ensure that Hellfire Citadel remains slightly easier than it was before the patch.
33. Many of the trinkets have been nerfed – It’s common for DPS to lower than before.
34. Loot from Normal difficulty and higher is part of the new upgrade system, with a chance to be randomly upgraded some multiple of 5 item levels.
35. You can still obtain the Grove Warden, Ironhoof Destroyer, and Felsteel Annihilator, they change with the expansion launch.
36. You can still obtain the heirloom trinkets that scale to 110 from Mythic dungeons until the expansion launches.
37. The ability to start the legendary quest line has been removed, but you can keep working on it if you already are on the quest. – You will still have 5 weeks to finish off the Legendary quest.
38. Normalized gold from Legacy raids prior to Warlords of Draenor. Heroic difficulty Cataclysm Raids now award less gold than before, while raids from Mists of Pandaria and Wrath of the Lich King will now award more gold.
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Gold and Garrison Changes
39. Some Garrison follower upgrades such as Goredrenched Weaponry now sell for significantly less.
40. Treasure Hunter is replaced by Extreme Scavenger
41. The especially rewarding missions that reward gold, such as Blood, Gold, and Regret are being changed to reward something else, such as Apexis Crystals, Oil, Primal Spirit, or other non-gold rewards.
42. Felblight is now sold at the Primal Trader in your garrison for 25 x Primal Spirit.
43. Big Crate of Salvage will no longer be rewarded, existing crates will be unaffected. You can still get transmog gear.
44. The number of Pet Charms rewarded by quests have been halved.
45. The Garrison Resource cost of many items on the Trader NPC at the Trading Post have been increased by around 4 times.
46. The amount of Garrison Resources rewarded by the random dungeon quest has been reduced.
47. The maximum amount of gold that can be held at once has been increased to 9,999,999 gold. Guild bank maximum has also been increased to 9,999,999 gold.
48. Potion of Luck and Greater Potion of Luck no longer have an effect.
Professions
49. The UI has been updated. Check out the UI changes post for details.
50. Tome of Illusions have been added to allow you to collect old weapon enchant appearances.
51. Other Illusions come from vendors or boss drops.
Others
52. The Brawler's Guild is going away for now
53. Stormwind Park has been fixed
54. Addon authors have been hard at work updating their addons for Patch 7.0.3 and Legion. Now might be a good time to take advantage of the Curse Client to update your addons
55. There are still many bugs in the Patch 7.0.3
56. The new class Demon Hunter will be available in the mid August
57. New class and race’s models have been implemented to the game
58. Stormwind City and Orgrimmar are Cross-realm zones
59. All Survival Hunters and Frost DKs will get an one hand sword and a Polearm
60. Black Market Auction House is temporarily removed from the game, and it will be available along with the official expansion.
And a burning question, which class has the highest DPS in Legion? Take a look at the picture below.
The test result is for your reference only
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Finally, below is a video survival guide for you.
General
1. An additional character slot is added and those who have used all slots before don't have to delete an existing character for the new Demon Hunter class.
2. Many shirts become bind on equip — it has no impact on most players.
3. Again, like previous expansion, many items are turned to toys in this expansion. You can see details here.
4. Classes that can use Mail and Plate no longer graduate to a higher armor level, they just start with the ability to use their armor type. Remember this change if you plan to buy gear for your alternative characters.
5. All creatures and NPCs can now be tapped by up to 5 other characters. This mechanism was applied on rare mobs. Now it applies to all creatures.
6. The Fishing Extravaganza in Stranglethorn is temporarily suspended.
7. Set bonuses prior to Warlords of Draenor are removed, but the text describing their former function still remains.
8. For players who have characters between LvL 90-100, the progression perks have been removed.
9. The Mass Resurrection guild perk has been removed. However, healers now have a similar ability. Non healer class can revive an ally with Gnomish Army Knife (required engineer profession with at least 350 skill).
10. Two stats: Spirit and Bonus Armor, are removed from gear and replaced by new stats.
11. Spell Power on all caster weapons have been consolidated into Intellect. You now can directly tell which caster weapon is better by comparing their Intellect stat.
Talents
12. Dual spec has been removed and you can use any of the 3 specs freely now.
13. Changing spec is free, and it will change your action bar as well.
14. You can now change your talents in safe area or Order Hall freely.
15. Changing talents in other areas is not free as materials are required.
Appearance
16. The glyph pane is gone. All major glyphs have been removed. Most bonuses and effects provided by prime glyphs are consolidated into class' abilities.
17. All minor glyphs are converted to cosmetic items or spells in spellbook.
18. You can use Class Trial, a new free service allows you to play any level 100 class for free for a limited time.
19. Druid's forms and Warlock's demons get new models.
Transmogrification
20. You can finally hide your shoulder armor.
21. Shirts and doublets can be transmogrified now.
22. You can preview transmogrification effect via wardrobe, but you still need to visit NPC to transmogrify.
23. You need to visit NPC to hide your helmet and cloak. Previously you just have to do it in the setting menu.
24. It seems that there are many bugs in the transmogrification system in current build.
25. Previous transmog rewards acquired by completing quests will be unlocked in this patch.
26. To alter an item, the "skin" item must be equip-able for your class.
PvP27. Conquest and Honor as a currency to purchase PvP gear have been removed.
28. A new Honor Level system will be used. You can earn Honor Points (similar to XP in PvE) in Battlegrounds or Arenas to level up your Honor Level. As your Honor Level increases you'll earn corresponding rewards including PvP gear.
29. 5v5 Arena is no longer available.
30. Character under level 110 will be rewarded a gear chest which contains a gear for your class.
31. New PvP Progression and Honor System release – Blizzard has tweaked the damage for each class’s talent in arena and battleground.
Dungeon and Raid Changes
32. Tuning is ongoing to ensure that Hellfire Citadel remains slightly easier than it was before the patch.
33. Many of the trinkets have been nerfed – It’s common for DPS to lower than before.
34. Loot from Normal difficulty and higher is part of the new upgrade system, with a chance to be randomly upgraded some multiple of 5 item levels.
35. You can still obtain the Grove Warden, Ironhoof Destroyer, and Felsteel Annihilator, they change with the expansion launch.
36. You can still obtain the heirloom trinkets that scale to 110 from Mythic dungeons until the expansion launches.
37. The ability to start the legendary quest line has been removed, but you can keep working on it if you already are on the quest. – You will still have 5 weeks to finish off the Legendary quest.
38. Normalized gold from Legacy raids prior to Warlords of Draenor. Heroic difficulty Cataclysm Raids now award less gold than before, while raids from Mists of Pandaria and Wrath of the Lich King will now award more gold.
Gold and Garrison Changes
39. Some Garrison follower upgrades such as Goredrenched Weaponry now sell for significantly less.
40. Treasure Hunter is replaced by Extreme Scavenger
41. The especially rewarding missions that reward gold, such as Blood, Gold, and Regret are being changed to reward something else, such as Apexis Crystals, Oil, Primal Spirit, or other non-gold rewards.
42. Felblight is now sold at the Primal Trader in your garrison for 25 x Primal Spirit.
43. Big Crate of Salvage will no longer be rewarded, existing crates will be unaffected. You can still get transmog gear.
44. The number of Pet Charms rewarded by quests have been halved.
45. The Garrison Resource cost of many items on the Trader NPC at the Trading Post have been increased by around 4 times.
46. The amount of Garrison Resources rewarded by the random dungeon quest has been reduced.
47. The maximum amount of gold that can be held at once has been increased to 9,999,999 gold. Guild bank maximum has also been increased to 9,999,999 gold.
48. Potion of Luck and Greater Potion of Luck no longer have an effect.
Professions
49. The UI has been updated. Check out the UI changes post for details.
50. Tome of Illusions have been added to allow you to collect old weapon enchant appearances.
51. Other Illusions come from vendors or boss drops.
Others
52. The Brawler's Guild is going away for now
53. Stormwind Park has been fixed
54. Addon authors have been hard at work updating their addons for Patch 7.0.3 and Legion. Now might be a good time to take advantage of the Curse Client to update your addons
55. There are still many bugs in the Patch 7.0.3
56. The new class Demon Hunter will be available in the mid August
57. New class and race’s models have been implemented to the game
58. Stormwind City and Orgrimmar are Cross-realm zones
59. All Survival Hunters and Frost DKs will get an one hand sword and a Polearm
60. Black Market Auction House is temporarily removed from the game, and it will be available along with the official expansion.
And a burning question, which class has the highest DPS in Legion? Take a look at the picture below.
The test result is for your reference only
Finally, below is a video survival guide for you.