Shadowlands Patch 9.1 Chains of Domination Goes Live Today

DanielD • Updated June 29, 2021

Author: DanielD
Date: June 29, 2021
Updated: June 29, 2021
Expansion: World of Warcraft

The latest content update for Shadowlands unlocks today, June 29th, and brings with it a whole bunch of new quests, rewards, and balance changes, plus some neat QoL stuff like text-to-speech in chat and voice transcription. As of time of writing, patch 9.1 is slated to go live at 3PM PDT.

The new content will roll out over the next couple of months. Here’s what the first two weeks will look like:

Week 1

Personal Mythic+ Rating system becomes visible
The new zone Korthia (content includes daily/weekly quests, rare spawns, two new factions: Archivist’s Codex and Death’s Advance) becomes available
Covenant Assaults become available
Torghast Updates (Torment revamp, Box of Many Things, removal of Death Counter)
Layer 9 of Torghast becomes available
Darkmoon Faire returns
Class tuning and new PvP talents
Renown 43 becomes available
Castle Nathria and Season 1 Mythic+ Achievements will still be obtainable

Week 2

Shadowlands Flying becomes available to players who have completed the Renown 44 campaign chapter
Renown 46 becomes available
Sanctum of Domination Raid (with Sylvanas Windrunner as final boss) opens, includes new Shards of Domination System
Season 2 of Shadowlands begins for PvP Mythic+ July 6th, with new affix Tormented
Dungeon and Mythic+ rewards increased by 26 item levels
8 Boss Mega-Dungeon Tazavesh, the Veiled Market opens
Castle Nathria and Season 1 Mythic+ Achievements will no longer be obtainable

You can see the full list of changes and new content on Blizzard’s official site, but be warned — it’s huge. See you in the Shadowlands!

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DanielD

An avid reader of sci-fi, fantasy, and history. Believes disagreement should mean discourse, not flame wars. Still searching for that next game that grabs him the way (those mimics in) Dark Souls did.