WOW - PTR: Essence of Immortal Quest Chain No Longer : World of Warcraft General Discussions

The once touted Essence of Immortal quest chain that would bring back AQ War-like competition between servers has been removed from the PTR. These items would drop of "lesser" raid bosses, and when a server turned in a certain number, it would unlock more Sunwell content.

Apologies that this update is coming so late but we pulled the Essence of Immortal quest chain about 2 weeks ago. That's why you haven't seen it on the Public Test Realm. The 3 gates will open automatically over time at equal intervals on all servers.

Regarding the taking back of the town on the Isle, however, that will still be dependent on completion of daily quests. Servers can race to see who can open their quest hub the fastest. But access to raid bosses has been made equal.

We really like the concept of cross-server competition. But the concept of the gates being tied to specific boss kills was not playing out as we had hoped. We plan to do future things that involve servers competing with one another through major events.