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Normal Difficulty Cross-Realm Siege of Orgrimmar
It looks like we won't be seeing cross-realm Normal difficulty Siege of Orgrimmar anytime soon.



Patch 5.4.2 Hotfixes: January 6
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Classes
  • Death Knight (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
    • Frost
      • Icy Talons now increases melee attack speed by 45% (up from 30%).
    • Unholy
      • Unholy Might now increases Strength by 35% (up from 25%).
  • Hunter (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
    • General
      • Aspect of the Hawk now increases ranged attack power by 35% (up from 25%).
    • Talents
      • Aspect of the Iron Hawk now increases ranged attack power by 35% (up from 25%).
  • Shaman (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
    • Elemental
      • Elemental Focus now increases spell damage done by 20% (up from 15%).

EU Connected Realms Update - 06/01
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
We will be connecting the realms listed below later this week:

English Realms
  • (PvP) Trollbane and Shattered Halls/Talnivarr/Chromaggus/Daggerspine/Boulderfist

French Realms
  • (PvP) Rashgarroth and Arak-arahm/Throk’Feroth
  • (PvP) Sinstralis and Eldre’Thalas

Spanish Realms
  • (PvE) Colinas Pardas and Tyrande

German Realms
  • (PvP) Gul’dan and Anetheron/Rajaxx

The following realms are scheduled to be connected next week:

English Realms
  • (PvP) Ahn'Qiraj and Shattered Halls/Talnivarr/Chromaggus/Daggerspine/Boulderfist/Trollbane
  • (PvP) Bloodfeather and Kor’gall/Burning Steppes/Executus

French Realms
  • (PvP) Cho'gall and Eldre’Thalas/Sinstralis

German Realms
  • (PvP) Festung der Stürme and Anetheron/Rajaxx/Gul’dan
  • (PvE) Nozdormu and Garrosh

We do not yet have a date for the following realm connections, but will update you when we do:

English Realms
  • (RP PvP) Ravenholdt and Scarshield Legion/The Venture Co/Sporeggar
  • (PvP) Balnazzar and Shattered Halls/Talnivarr/Chromaggus/Daggerspine/Boulderfist/
    Trollbane/Ahn’qiraj

German Realms
  • Shattrath and Garrosh/Nozdormu

FAQ
Q. My realm needs connecting, is it on your list?
A. All low and some medium population realms will be connected. They’ll all have a healthy population when we’re done.

Q. When will my realm be connected?
A. We'll try to keep you posted on the latest schedules as we get them.

Q. My realm has a lower population than those on the list, why isn’t mine being connected first?
A. The order we connect realms depends on a number of technical factors, but we will get to them all.

US Connected Realms Update 1/6
Don't miss reading the EU FAQ! "All low and some medium population realms will be connected."
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
We will be connecting the realms listed below on Thursday, January 9th during a scheduled maintenance beginning at 6 a.m. PST through approximately 11:00 a.m. PST. Once maintenance is finished, these realm connections will be complete.

  • Bladefist and Kul Tiras
  • Nazgrel and Nesingwary/Vek'nilash
  • Nazjatar and Blood Furnace/ Mannoroth
  • Norgannon and Kargath
  • Stormscale and Drak'Tharon/Firetree/Malorne/Rivendare/Spirestone
  • Uldaman and Ravencrest

We do not have a date for the following realm connections, but will update this post when we do.

  • Antonidas and Uldum
  • Blade's Edge and Thunderhorn
  • Bonechewer and Aegwynn/Daggerspine/Gurubashi/Hakkar
  • Destromath and Azgalor
  • Jaedenar and Agamaggan
  • Shu'halo and Eitrigg
  • Anvilmar and Undermine (TBD- On Hold)

*​Plans for these connections may change at any time, but we’ll provide additional updates on specific dates for future connections here as we can. Please note that as a part of the connection process realm times may change to match each other.

FAQ

Q. My realm needs connecting, why isn’t it listed?
A. The connections listed are the phases we’ve currently finalized and have planned connection dates or estimates available for. Additional connections are possible, but they just haven’t reached that stage yet. We’ll be updating the realm connection list as phases complete and new phases are planned.

Q. When will my realm be connected?
A. We'll update this thread with the latest information on currently planned phases.

Q. My realm has a lower population than those on the list, why isn’t mine being connected first?
A. Realm connections are based on a number of factors including population, faction balance, the realm’s physical location in the world compared to other realms it may be connected to, among others. It’s also worth noting that websites which attempt to track population, while helpful in many ways, are estimates based on public data which may not provide the clearest picture of actual population.

Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Warlords of Draenor Stats
With Crit being on gear much more often in WOD are there any plans for making Crit better for Elemental with no reforging?
A) Where did you get that Crit will be on gear much more often? B) We're considering some changes, but nothing to announce yet. (Source)

Will tertiary stats appear on PvP gear in WoD? Sockets etc. are supposed to appear randomly, though, so...
We're talking about it still. If PvP gear doesn't have it, then PvE gear becomes better by default. (Source)
Wish we could chose our tertiary stats on PvP gear, kinda like reforging but for 100% value...
Keep in mind that tertiary stats are intended to be very rare. So, whatever the PvP design, the rarity would match PvE. (Source)

What about removing Spirit and let Haste be the main factor of mana regen? Throwing ideas around. @Celestalon
Spirit's value varies significantly between classes. One contributor is what the other secondaries do for regen. (Source)
We're looking at potential changes in that regard, to standardize that better between classes. (Source)

What will you do with hit, exp etc in 6.0? Convert to other stats or just remove them?
Convert them to other stats. (Source)
What about Spirit? On clothes? On Jewelry? Some DPS casters are using them on rings/neck at least.
No spirit on armor may involve increasing the amount of spirit on non-armor. That makes it more complex to change existing armor. We recognize the problem and are planning potential solutions, but aren't ready to give specifics yet. (Source)
Wouldn't increasing the amount of regen spirit gives instead avoid that issue?
That may be part of it, but we may change how we itemize non-armor pieces. Just complicates the issue. (Source)
If healers have enough regen with 1-2 spirit pieces in first raid tier, what happens to mana regen later on?
"Enough" is a very ethereal concept. It also varies with other gear. And definitely not from 1-2 items in the first tier. (Source)
Then between 3 and 6 (of 7) slots. If item stats triple again, will only need max 2 spirit pieces in final tier. Also, sockets.
Sounds like you're ignoring the fact that "enough" changes between tiers. (Source)

Warlords of Draenor PvE
... or the difference between LFR/normal/hc/mythic could also be a tad lower, like 10 itemlevels instead of the current 13.
A larger gap between tiers allows us to have bosses that test performance more. It also makes upgrades "feel" noticeable. (Source)

you know how battle rez will work in normal/heroic? 3 regardless of size like current flex?
We're investigating some possible solutions. We want to make it scale by size, but know that breakpoints are not the answer. It ... (Source)
... may be an opportunity to solve some other problems with the system, like # available being hidden, and the # being the same ... (Source)
... on short vs long fights. We don't have details to share yet, but those are concerns we're thinking about. May not fix all those (Source)

PvP
Why not go GW2 sPvP style? They made it all skill based and still rewarding. Cooler looking gear as you progress.
The Trial of the Gladiator is our plan for a "gearless" PvP ecosystem. 0% chance we're removing gear in PvP overall. (Source)

Any chance PvP trinket will have a unique sound in the near future?
Excellent idea. Thanks for pointing it out. (Source)
Definitely a great idea!
Well, the proper authorities have been notified! (Source)

ok death grip bugs on tolviron and shado pan for over a year now 100% chance when target is next to a wall. Why are you ignoring it
We'll have to follow up on it. It requires geometry and collision work. We've discussed it before. (Source)

Please encourage pvp participation in random bgs with CP, 100 when you win and 50 when you lose. I hate Arenas and Rbgs.
I could see doing something similar to what we do in RBGs (base on final score). Would have to give it more thought. (Source)

winning one awarded 5,6 or 7, losing takes you 14
Aware of MMR issues. We've been doing some work on the system but it isn't appropriate to roll it out mid season. (Source)

Poll - Cross-Realm Siege of Orgrimmar Normal
Would you like to see cross-realm Normal difficulty Siege of Orgrimmar enabled before Warlords of Draenor?


Fan Art
We have some more WoW fan art today!

This article was originally published in forum thread: Normal Cross-Realm SoO, Jan 6 Hotfixes, Connected Realm Updates, Blue Tweets, Fan Art started by chaud View original post
Published on 2014-01-07 08:46 AM
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  1. stgeorge78's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Stormrage View Post
    You work for blizzard and know this as a fact?
    It's called common sense. Zarhym has no idea either, he's just spouting off platitudes because he already knows the answer but is too weak to just say "No, we we will not be doing that." so instead he threatens to delay all of WoD (which is pointless since we have no release date anyway) to get the person to stop bugging him about it.
  1. Koohii's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Paladzins View Post
    http://www.raidbots.com/dpsbot/Overa.../all/7/30/avg/

    Hunters are pure dps class with ZERO raid utility/cd - we deserve those 5-6% dps on top of hybrids with raid CDs and offhealing.

    We are pure dps with ZERO useful raid utility/CD. We get benched all the time, not stacked like other pure dps classes.
    Can't remember last time we were on top - we deserve it!
    WW Monks would like a word with you.

    We are a hybrid with guess what....zero raid CD's and off healing that's minuscule at best. Yet Hunters are brought over us due to ranged favored fights even if the hunter brings nothing but dps, be it less than the monk.

    Right now the fail rate for random SoO N groups would be too high. We open previous tiers when most outgear & know strats.
    The fail rate for most FLEX SoO is f-ing high right now and that's cross realm, what's the difference with making normal that way then. I'm still going with they want people to blow cash to transfer. >.>
  1. Nzete's Avatar
    It would be a whole lot easier to recruit cross realm if you could cross realm normal SoO. Flex is a joke at our level. Make it require a guild group (the standard for guild challenges). Presto... significant fail protection.
  1. mmoc813c9e8448's Avatar
    that with unholy was good but pls do the unholy more powerful more dmg.
  1. Shudder's Avatar
    I've been running flex with my friends guild cross realm. She wants to start doing normals with her guild so I just now had to pay $25 to go over there in order to raid with her. Them saying we'd fail too much as a reason is quite frankly insulting and moronic.
  1. mercychan's Avatar
    I don't really think I understand zarhyms counter argument...

    Obviously they wouldn't implement cross realm SoO as an LFR queue style, more like open-pug flex style. By that late in the tier, so much people would be decked out in normal / heroic gear that finding geared cross-realm pugs wouldn't be so much of an issue...

    If I can go on Open Raid and post "LFM Flex SoO wing X, pst ilvl and achievement", then I can just do the same for normal...

    If it's a technical limitation then I can understand that.. but it works for t14 and t15 after the tiers ended, so why can't it work for current tier?
  1. Blur4stuff's Avatar
    spriest just don't seem so great. i have it as an off spec. gear is set up exactly the way it's suppose to be. he has a higher ilvl than my feral and ww, yet sim dps is 30k+ lower. dps on target dummy is that much lower too.
  1. Kazuchika's Avatar
    It's amazing how they don't even try to make believable arguments anymore.

    "The fail rate would be too high" is an absolutely ridiculous excuse. First off why is it okay that the fail rate in Warlords might be too high but not now? Why should that hold back the idea of me getting my friends who I know are competent raiders from other servers together because little Timmy might try and do an Openraid pug and wipe on immersius for 3 hours?

    Does this guy even remember that LFR exists? You want to talk about something with ridiculously high fail rates at times? Try LFR Garrosh.

    Absolute bullshit. Also love the subtle implication that they basically think a majority of their paying customers are terrible and thus would do nothing but wipe if they made it cross realm.

    Piss off Zarhym and take your terrible excuses with you.
  1. Shudder's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kektonic View Post
    It's amazing how they don't even try to make believable arguments anymore.

    "The fail rate would be too high" is an absolutely ridiculous excuse. First off why is it okay that the fail rate in Warlords might be too high but not now? Why should that hold back the idea of me getting my friends who I know are competent raiders from other servers together because little Timmy might try and do an Openraid pug and wipe on immersius for 3 hours?

    Does this guy even remember that LFR exists? You want to talk about something with ridiculously high fail rates at times? Try LFR Garrosh.

    Absolute bullshit. Also love the subtle implication that they basically think a majority of their paying customers are terrible and thus would do nothing but wipe if they made it cross realm.

    Piss off Zarhym and take your terrible excuses with you.
    Not surprising coming from a company that says when asked about why they don't just completely separate pvp and pve so nerfs and buffs won't affect the other that we're too stupid to be able to comprehend a spell doing two things depending on where we are.
  1. Gerik's Avatar
    Zarhym makes a good point. Crossrealm basically just enables people to put together pugs, and the developers have to take some measures to protect pugs from their own stupid selves. These are essentially still all the terrible people you see in LFR, just put together using a different tool.

    How many pugs threw themselves like lambs to the slaughter at Oondasta? Pugs on my server virtually never killed him. It just resulted in a bad time for a whole lot of casual players. Blizzard had to nerf Oondasta into the dirt because they couldn't convince people that he was intended for experienced raiders. "Release and run back!" doesn't work in SoO.
  1. Shudder's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Gerik View Post
    Zarhym makes a good point. Crossrealm basically just enables people to put together pugs, and the developers have to take some measures to protect pugs from their own stupid selves. These are essentially still all the terrible people you see in LFR, just put together using a different tool.

    How many pugs threw themselves like lambs to the slaughter at Oondasta? Pugs on my server virtually never killed him. It just resulted in a bad time for a whole lot of casual players. Blizzard had to nerf Oondasta into the dirt because they couldn't convince people that he was intended for experienced raiders. "Release and run back!" doesn't work in SoO.
    You're right. They should also remove heroic mode since it causes a lot of wipes.
  1. Spotnick's Avatar
    I'd love to see cross-realm normal modes, since our flex cross-realm run is really getting out of reasons to run it, and since we don't have 10 on same server we have no other option.
  1. mmoc6adcb1054d's Avatar
    Hunterbuff woho
  1. Rolly's Avatar
    lol@Zarhym

    All that time on GC's knee paid off I see.
  1. Prokne's Avatar
    I dont understand the problem. Normal and Heroic raids become cross realmable when the tier is over, Dragon Soul was after the mid tier patch. So it probably just takes a flip of the switch.

    And the "you will fail too much" is BS. If you could cross realm raids at any time people would also make cross realm guilds or use grouping sites like Openraid and it would be basically the same as playing with people on your same realm. IMO its harder to do the raids with a random group on your own realm because the talent pool is lower. Either that or you cant even try to do it because there arent enough people. I still think its a method to get people to pay them to realm transfer. Theres no other reason you shouldnt be able to do a raid with anyone in your region no matter what server they are on.
  1. Crowfeather's Avatar
    Since nobody's mentioned this: Blizz giving blanket buffs to 3 classes is kinda like a stealthy way of nerfing the content a little bit without saying they're nerfing the content.
  1. Taiknee's Avatar
    Not sure about the other class buffs, but if I did the math right, the 25% to 35% AP buff for hunters translates to about a ~3% damage (*not* DPS) increase on Chimera/Arcane and about ~8% on Explosive/KC in 522 PvP gear.
  1. Bombkirby's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by stgeorge78 View Post
    It's called common sense. Zarhym has no idea either, he's just spouting off platitudes because he already knows the answer but is too weak to just say "No, we we will not be doing that." so instead he threatens to delay all of WoD (which is pointless since we have no release date anyway) to get the person to stop bugging him about it.
    Why does everyone think every feature/art asset/piece of code just manifests itself out of thin air when game companies are creating games? That coding and modeling happens with the snap of a finger. They think the devs are just sitting around twiddling their thumbs and have time to do every idea we give them. They're all very busy working on things that they scheduled to work on RIGHT now. They can't put that all on hold to implement something that wasn't on the schedule. If you people want to make suggestions and requests, it has to be VERY early and you have to make it clear that it will be worth their time/money to implement (over other things.) If they DID go ahead and do that cross realm whatever it was, they're going to cut whatever else they were trying to work on from the game. Is that really worth it for the entire community? Thats the question they have to ask themselves when choosing what to make and what to cut.
  1. mmoc58103573bd's Avatar
    I'd rather the Flex scaling be introduced now, would make recruiting for Mythic a lot easier and make the transition into WoD much smoother and better for the guild I am in.
  1. Hipnos14's Avatar
    Thanks for posting my fanart mmo! ^_^
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