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Upcoming Artcraft Posts
It looks like we will get a little bit more Warlords of Draenor content next week with Female Draenei character model previews!



Patch 5.4.7 Hotfixes - March 25
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Character Boost
  • Resolved an issue where some boosted characters were unable to see the portal to Pandaria in capital cities.

Classes
  • Priest (Forums / Skills / WoD Talent Calculator)
    • General
      • Resolved an issue where the amount of healing received from Prayer of Mending was not benefitting from PvP Power.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
  • Throne of Thunder
    • Reduced the health and damage of Gurubashi, Amani, Drakkari, and Farraki adds during the Horridon encounter by 20% on Raid Finder difficulty.

Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Classes
Ok, core if issue inc. Value of crit PvP != Value of crit PvE. Value of other stats PvP = Val other stat PvE. Given that, how can you possible make balanced with other values in PVE and PvP at the same time? If you can't, crit classes will be weak in PvP. If you buff them, they'll be strong in PvE.
It's worth remembering that at 200%, crit is *more* valuable in PvP, than PvE. (Celestalon)
Will elemental shamans still get their buffed crit modifier in PvP?
It's a 25% reduction to crit damage. So they still get extra crit damage, but then reduced by 25%. (holinka)
So (200% base +50% extra) -25% = 187.5% crit for ele shamans in PvP?
Yes (holinka)

Warlords of Draenor Stats
'Afternoon. WoD Tank info seems hard to come by. 3 ?s, if you are willing: Value of Multistrike for tanks(just dps or more)?
Multistrike will have defensive value. (Celestalon)
Is that just self-heals, or a chance for damage reduction to multistrike? I.e., get another 30% of your armor?
Just like there are passives that give defensive value to crit, there will be passives that give defensive value to Multistrike. (Celestalon)

.Meaning 30% Multistrike = one 30% roll in PvP (max 130% damage), two 15% rolls in PvE (max 160% damage), same avg dmg?
Yes. (Celestalon)

Also, the same argument can be made for haste because haste bonus to CC casts. Separate value there too?
Multistrike will also have a PvP modifier. One extra roll instead of two. (holinka)
Everyone will just avoid crit and multistrike like the plague, don't see how it's a good idea
Multistrike's combines the two rolls into one. Same average chance. Multistrike will definitely *not* be avoided. (Celestalon)
are you sure that multistrike isn't causing a similar problem that you just fixed with 150% crits? Peaky dmg.
Multistrike caps out at 130%, and is much *much* more common, such that it will be the common occurrence, not a rare burst. (Celestalon)

PvE
Pugging is a prob. a niche audience too though, saying that just because personal is an option, organizers might not take it
I'd expect PUG organizers using personal loot will see more takers. It's nice to not worry whether you can trust the master loot (WatcherDev)

any plans for an increase of tank dmg taken to make room for dedicated tank healers again?
If we hit tanks any harder today, we'd just one-shot them. Vengeance and smart heals are the major culprits. Agree with the goal. (WatcherDev)
Just tank healing or Single-Target healing in general? I think targeted healing is more interesting than aoe/smart
Absolutely. Making decisions is more interesting than pushing a button and having them made for you. (WatcherDev)

how are heroic lockouts handled? had a shammy, not able to join H.Galakras because he was locked to 3/4 /w H.Norushen down.
Heroic lockouts assign a single fixed raid ID for the week, and you can't enter any other Heroic ID for that zone once locked. (WatcherDev)

PvP
If silences are gone from interrupt, what happens to silencing shot? Gone too?
Replaced with Counter Shot (holinka)

Is there a reason a lot of classes dodge/parry monks in arenas? 6% over pvp expertise cap, and I don't get issue on other toons
Agility classes gain dodge & strength classes gain parry. Attack them from behind to avoid getting dodged/parried. (holinka)

Will Movement speed stack in RBG disapear totally anytime soo ?
We're reimplementing this speed system in Warlords to avoid alot of these stacking bugs slipping through. (holinka)

Warlords of Draenor
There isn't a word in the English language that would adequately convey how much I want new Garrison info. ETA on info dump?
Soon™ (Muffinus)
and beta?
Probably less soon? Gotta make sure it's #Savage enough (Muffinus)

Heroes of the Storm - Demonic Tyrael and Angelic Valla Skins
Some new and improved skins were added in today's Heroes of the Storm patch.

This article was originally published in forum thread: Upcoming Artcraft Posts, March 18 Hotfixes, Blue Tweets, Heroes Skins started by chaud View original post
Comments 42 Comments
  1. Aelric70's Avatar
    Is anyone else exhausted by the endless stream of dumbasses worrying about how new stat X is going to be worthless for situation Y?

    STFU already, its always just ignorant speculation, and always wrong.
  1. Yig's Avatar
    Look at RObinsons twitter you alarmist chicken littles. They constantly shift around on the races. He just gave you a list of what they are currently working on. They don't work on those models until they are finished and then move on down the list, it's an organic process, and whenever Robinson feels one of them looks ready to show, he shows it. He doesn't show them when they are 100% finished. And NOTHING IS DELAYED. They likely have started on every single race, the first race they said they were working on 6 months before MOP came out was dwarves, then a month before MOP, orcs and HUMANS. We then saw Forsaken, Tauren, Gnomes, orcs, and dwarves before any humans. Stop thinking with such rigid binary logic and stop being alarmist drama queens over your favorite race.

    They have been careful to always never make any guarantees, but they've significantly changed their tone and clearly feel the races will be ready for launch by what we've heard in the last few months by including both blood elves and draenei on the websiite, at worst worgen and goblins will be later to get the new bone rigging system and cloth stylized physics. A dev even said they would all be released for free in the preparation content patch before WOD's release in a blue quote last month. Go find it yourself.
  1. Nalam the Venom's Avatar
    Did they really have too nerf ToT? It's not even current content anymore :O
  1. Nexsa's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Nalam the Venom View Post
    Did they really have too nerf ToT? It's not even current content anymore :O
    I suppose it helps with all the new 90s and also allows for a bit of a quicker grind for the legendary cloak.
  1. kamuimac's Avatar
    i call it now april fools this year will be artcraft with ultra booby skanky dranei female cause people are droping game like flies and sex sells best -_-
  1. Lemons's Avatar
    I honestly did not know that they were going to update the BC character models as well. I'm quite pleased.
  1. Granyala's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Yig View Post
    Look at RObinsons twitter you alarmist chicken littles. They constantly shift around on the races. He just gave you a list of what they are currently working on. They don't work on those models until they are finished and then move on down the list, it's an organic process, and whenever Robinson feels one of them looks ready to show, he shows it. He doesn't show them when they are 100% finished. And NOTHING IS DELAYED. They likely have started on every single race, the first race they said they were working on 6 months before MOP came out was dwarves, then a month before MOP, orcs and HUMANS. We then saw Forsaken, Tauren, Gnomes, orcs, and dwarves before any humans. Stop thinking with such rigid binary logic and stop being alarmist drama queens over your favorite race.

    They have been careful to always never make any guarantees, but they've significantly changed their tone and clearly feel the races will be ready for launch by what we've heard in the last few months by including both blood elves and draenei on the websiite, at worst worgen and goblins will be later to get the new bone rigging system and cloth stylized physics. A dev even said they would all be released for free in the preparation content patch before WOD's release in a blue quote last month. Go find it yourself.
    Problem is that People always over analyze stuff.
    Just because NE weren't mentioned doesn't mean they aren't being worked on.
  1. Xucuroz's Avatar
    They should have focused on the original races first, as those more than anything are what people want updated for WoD (and care about) ... though i can see the reasoning behind why Draenei are coming first.

    Should be interesting to see none the less. Though i always thought the draenei models had more detail than the original races? Could be wrong there.
  1. Moradim's Avatar
    beta "not soon"

    what the hell, it's almost april.
  1. Bepples's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Bantokar View Post
    Well there were even WOTLK commercials made with the dance studio. So even if you see a commercial for an expansion you can´t be sure everything will be there when you buy. False advertising some would call it.. Remember path of the titans? Scrapped completely.
    No, not true. The dance studio WAS in the preview trailer for WotLK, but it did not appear in the commercials which came much later on.
  1. Dawnseven's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Moradim View Post
    beta "not soon"

    what the hell, it's almost april.
    Not for nothing, but those tweets were from March 10/11th. No idea why they're hitting the front page now.
  1. mmocd950f823e3's Avatar
    Demonic Tyrael is just awesome ! I love the purple ans the orange version !
  1. Click911's Avatar
    Draenei female models inc in April! Saving up to fap then
  1. Tisane's Avatar
    Female Draenei... how can their look be improved still apart from the additional polygons?
  1. Shaverdian's Avatar
    Get ready for all the incoming female Draenei porn. I hope the tits/ass don't get nerfed on the new models.
  1. Woa's Avatar
    I hope the guy working on Draenei male can make them look...not so noob appealing. Every male dranaei i see in pvp is just backpeddling worthless. Same as male dranaei tanks. Back peddling, keyboard turning, clicking everything.....all of them.
  1. Xilurm's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Shaverdian View Post
    Get ready for all the incoming female Draenei porn. I hope the tits/ass don't get nerfed on the new models.
    I hope they don't make them bigger either.
  1. Instructor Soki's Avatar
    Pretty sure this is the artcraft everybody's been dying for
  1. Alayea's Avatar
    Guess Blizzard changed its direction on character models somewhat?
  1. Duridi's Avatar
    Aww poop. I seem to have picked the race which we'll see updates of last Well, certainly feels like it. I was hoping to see nightelves like 2 months ago.

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