Guardians of the Dream Patch 10.2 Campaign Chapter 2: Enter the Dream (Story Spoilers)
09.09.2023 - 10:21
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With the first Patch 10.2 Guardians of the Dream PTR build, the 10.2 campaign is now available for testing. We played through the campaign to bring all the details. This post focuses on Chapter 2 of the campaign, Enter the Dream.
WARNING: Patch 10.2 Guardians of the Dream spoilers ahead!
Note: You may have noticed that this «first» chapter is actually marked as Chapter 2. As of the time of this post, on the 10.2 PTR, Chapter 1, «Coalition of Flames», is actually the Shandris Feathermoon questline completable in Patch 10.1.7. Completing this quest is required to start the Patch 10.2 campaign. Completing Chapter 2 at least once will grant the ability for future alts to skip Chapter 1 entirely, via Shandris's Scouting Report when starting the quest Call of the Dream.
The questline starts with Call of the Dream, where you will meet with everyone by the Ancient Bought in Ohn'ahran Plains. You must have completed the Shandris questline in Patch 10.1.7 to gain access to this quest. In there, you will meet with Alexstrasza, Ysera, Merithra, Vyranoth, Tyrande, Kalecgos, Khadgar, and the Khan Matra of the Maruuk Centaur.
You will then cross into the Emerald Dream in Emerald Welcome and talk to Merithra, who will request you to watch a cutscene currently not available. This is also where we'll receive the new Dragonriding mount of this patch, the Flourishing Whimsydrake. You're then requested to dragonride through fiery patches to help cleanse the Dream in Feast or Flaming. We then meet up with Cenarius, who tells us that although Fyrakk hasn't directly attacked the tree quite yet, he might do so at any moment.
We then request the help of Wild Gods to defend the World Tree in Wild Gods in Our Midst — Goldrinn accepts readily, while Q'onzu, the Loa of Change, refuses, believing that she cannot stop the Dream from changing. However, as we were looking for Wild Gods, Fyrakk's forces arrived on the tree with the Druids of the Flame — We need to stop them in Burning Assault and The Face of Our Enemies. We then attempt to help Merithra close the druid portals in The Cruel, but this is not enough, as the Djaradin arrive with Elder Igira to bolster the attack.
After meeting up once again with Merithra and Cenarius, we're invited to go to Amirdrassil, the new World Tree. As we fly to Amirdrassil with Merithra, she tells us a bit about the new tree. As we arrive in the main area, Tyrande approaches us, telling one of the elder dryads of the Dream was lost to the Druids of Flame.
Merithra: Amirdrassil! «Crown of Harmony.» Grown of two realms, a window between death and life.
Merithra: Its seed was gifted to Tyrande by the Winter Queen. Here in the Emerald Dream, it thrives.
Merithra: But there are others who would seize