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Warlords of Draenor Beta - Build 18950
Build 18950 will be deployed to the Beta realms soon. This build is flagged as a Release build on the PTR!


Warlords of Draenor Credits - Jay Wilson Working on WoW
The Warlords of Draenor credits are here!

You can see that Jay Wilson is now listed as a Designer now, rather than just being on the strike team like he was for Mists of Pandaria. You may remember that he stepped down as Game Director of Diablo III in January 2013.


New Strings
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Game Text
  • Game Text #80533 - Yes, Tuulani. Now you see.
  • Game Text #80534 - Your efforts were valiant. I did not think the anchorites could power the defenses with only one of the crystals.
  • Game Text #80535 - But nothing will stop my plan, nor that of my masters. And the only things in our way...
  • Game Text #80536 - Protector! Destroy these intruders!
  • Game Text #81534 - Nyami! We are here -
  • Game Text #81535 - What is this? Oh, no... no...
  • Game Text #81536 - You have to stop them!
  • Game Text #81537 - ...The protector... still answers her call... you'll have to defeat it!
  • Game Text #81538 - Ahhh!
  • Game Text #81555 - Are YOU, Tuulani, and your outsider friends.
  • Game Text #81556 - Try as you might, this place is doomed. It is only a matter of time...
  • Game Text #81557 - Yes! Yes! The crystal hums... just a bit of focus and...
  • Game Text #88053 - It is done! As for you, I think it is fitting that one of my tools dispatches the others...

GarrAbility
  • GarrAbility #244 - Orcslayer - Increases success chance when fighting orcs.



Achievement Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Legacy
  • Chapter V: Judgment of the Black Prince Work with Wrathion to create your legendary-quality cloak and complete his quest to defeat Garrosh Hellscream. Tiitle Reward: Legend of Pandaria. Title Reward: Legend of Pandaria.

Pet Battles
  • Taming Draenor Defeat all of the Pet Tamers in Draenor listed below. Quest Reward: Draenor Pet Battle Daily Quests. 5 points. Account Wide. 5 points. Account Wide.



Spell Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Companions
  • Argi Name Changed from Karabor Kid to Argi

Item Set Bonuses
  • Item - Death Knight T17 Frost 4P Bonus While Pillar of Frost is active, your special attacks trap a soul in your rune weapon. When Pillar of Frost fades, your rune weapon discharges the souls at your current target, dealing (60% 40% of weapon damage) damage per soul.
  • Item - Hunter T17 Survival 4P Bonus When you hit a target with Explosive Shot, your multistrike damage is increased by 50% for 3 sec. 15% for 3 sec.
  • Item - Mage T17 Fire 4P Bonus When Pyroblast! activates, you have a chance to cause all Pyroblasts to have no cast time and be guaranteed critical strikes for 6 4 sec. (Approximately procrppm procs per minute)
  • Item - Mage T17 Frost 2P Bonus While Frozen Orb is active, you permanently have the Fingers of Frost effect. gain Fingers of Frost every 2.5 sec.
  • Item - Mage T17 Frost 4P Bonus Each Ice Lance cast while Frozen Orb is active reduces the cast time of Frostbolt by 4% 2% and increases the damage of Frostbolt by 4% 2% for 10 sec. Stacks up to 10 times.
  • Item - Monk T17 Windwalker4P Bonus While Tigereye Brew's damage effect is active, your multistrike damage is increased by 1% 3% per stack of Tigereye Brew consumed.

Misc

Death Knight (Forums, Talent Calculator)
  • Dark Succor (New) When you kill an enemy that yields experience or honor, while in Frost or Unholy Presence, your next Death Strike within 15 sec is free and its healing is increased by 100%.

Druid (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Talents
  • Nature's Vigil now has spec specific tooltips. Balance, Feral, Guardian now only heal nearby targets with their spells, not damage them. Restoration still damages nearby targets of their healing spells.

Feral
  • Predatory Swiftness proc now increases the healing done by Healing Touch by 20%, down from 50%.

Mage (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Talents

Monk (Forums, Talent Calculator)
  • Jab now costs 3.5% of Base Mana, up from 2.6%.

Paladin (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Protection

Shaman (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Enhancement
  • Maelstrom Weapon proc now increases direct healing done by your next Nature spell by 10%, down from 20%.

Raid & Dungeon Abilities
  • Berserker Rush Kargath cuts his way towards you dealing 125% weapon damage to all targets in front of him, as well as increasing his physical damage done by 15% every 2 sec for 20 sec. Kargath's movement speed also increases by 40% 25% every 2 sec for 20 sec. 45 yd range. Instant.
  • Crusader Strike Inflicts 7,500 damage to an enemy and increases damage taken by 10% 1% for 15 sec. This effect stacks. Melee range. Instant. 3 sec cooldown.
  • Crusader Strike Inflicts 7,500 damage to an enemy and increases damage taken by 10% 1% for 15 sec. This effect stacks. Melee range. Instant. 3 sec cooldown.
  • Curtain of Flame Azzakel engulfs a player in Fel flame, inflicting 10,000 Fire damage to the affected player every 3 4.5 sec for 9 sec. When Curtain of Flame deals damage, it will also spread to any other players within 5 yards of the affected player. 100 yd range. 1.2 sec cast.
  • Debilitating Fixation Name Changed from Debilitating Ray to Debilitating Fixation
  • Felblast (New) The caster conjures a blast of Fel fire, inflicting 37,500 Fire damage to the target. 60 yd range. 10 sec cast.
  • Fire Bomb The bomb explodes, damaging everyone around it for 100,000 Fire damage. Instant. 3,000 Fire damage. Instant.
  • Grapple Inflicts 20,000 Physical damage to the current target and reduces their movement speed by 25% 33% for 4 sec. Melee range. Instant.
  • Impale Kargath skewers an enemy, inflicting 53,750 Physical damage every 1 sec. for 8 sec. If the target survives, they take increased damage from consecutive Impales. 50 yd range. 8 sec cast (Channeled). 5 sec cooldown. 15 sec cooldown.
  • Iron Will The Iron Maidens are bound together with Iron Will - whenever any of them is critically low on health, they will all rise to 100 Iron Fury. Every 20 seconds thereafter their damage dealt will increase by 10%. Instant. 1%. Instant.
  • Jagged Tear Deals 2,125 Deals 531 damage every 3 sec for 24 sec. Stacks. Instant.
  • Magma Increases damage taken from Magma by 250. Stacks. Instant. 60. Stacks. Instant.
  • Seething Hate Inflicts 44,000 Inflicts 35,000 Fire damage split to allies within 6 every 3 secs. Unlimited range. Instant.
  • Solar Detonation The dormant Solar energy bursts outward from the victim, inflicting 25,000 Fire damage to all enemies within 5 2 yards of the victim. 100 yd range. Instant.
  • Time to Feed Oshir pins his prey to the ground and rends them furiously, inflicting 15,000 10,000 Physical damage every 1 sec for 20 sec. 100 yd range. 20 sec cast (Channeled).



Warlords of Draenor - Post-Squish Legacy Content
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
I should have phrased my initial post(s) better. The intent certainly wasn't a blanket dismissal of concerns about new difficulties with soloing content that you can handle easily in 5.4.

Right now, there is a known bug (for which we should have a fix in an upcoming build) that is causing raid bosses (especially in Cataclysm content) to be more challenging for level 90 players than is the intent. There are also specific issues with encounters that we're still hand-adjusting (Gunship in Icecrown, notably). That will get sorted out. The overwhelming majority of players shouldn't see any negative impact to their legacy content experience when they go from 5.4 to 6.0.

The sole exception here, which is what I was clarifying, is that if there's an encounter that you can just barely solo as a tank spec on live today, it's quite possible that you won't quite be able to do so in 6.0. It's also possible that something you can solo comfortably today might be slightly harder in 6.0, but still doable. But that's because of basic changes to self-healing and the potency of tank cooldowns, and not anything related to our item or stat changes. And in any case, I'm talking about smaller differences here, not something like getting destroyed by Morchok when you can solo him easily on live, which is the result of a bug.

Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Art
Keep it civil please. Weapon size is a subjective preference. A change would upset some, please others. (holinka)
Either way, I'm not aware of any plans to change them. (holinka)

Garrisons
If I build an enchanting building and a jewelcrafting building is there still a point for me to still have those professions?
Having the profession yourself doubles (I think) the daily cooldown production, and gives access to some extra recipes. (Muffinus)

OpenRaid - Tanking and Melee Changes Overview
Slootbag of Midwinter and Magdalena of #Acherus will be going over some of the tanking and melee changes for Warlords of Draenor this Saturday at 9 AM PDT / Noon EDT. For more information, see the full post on OpenRaid.

This article was originally published in forum thread: Warlords of Draenor Beta - Build 18950, Soloing Old Content, OpenRaid Workshop started by chaud View original post
Published on 2014-09-30 04:18 AM
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Comments 128 Comments
  1. Ilfayt's Avatar
    well, seeing as he's low on the list(not even on the official design team, he's in the extras with people that had minimal influence on WoD or are gone now), I'm not sure why this is worth making a headline... It's obvious he's not in any major decision making role....
  1. Chromeshellking's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Aliok View Post
    I felt this should go here.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDr0mPuyQc

    think that one is better. Both work for it though.
  1. mmoc3d7f422663's Avatar
    OMG Jay Wilson... WOD is doomed. I hope he didn't have too much say in game's direction.
  1. mmoc6f54e43091's Avatar
    Jay Wilson? Wake me up when he is gone, Diablo 3 got much better after he left.

    Ps. **** that loser.
  1. Chromeshellking's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ilfayt View Post
    well, seeing as he's low on the list(not even on the official design team, he's in the extras with people that had minimal influence on WoD or are gone now), I'm not sure why this is worth making a headline... It's obvious he's not in any major decision making role....

    We don't know that for sure at all. Given how awful diablo went and titan sinking, is it really unreasonable to now see this expansion with the utmost dread?
  1. Kashim's Avatar
    Of course if WoD sucks, people will blame Jay Wilson. If it turns out great, he will be completely forgotten; his involvement a fluke and minimal.

    Ah humanity. Such a waste of oxygen.
  1. Tullkas's Avatar
    Nerfing Prot Paladin survivability again? Dont get it.
  1. GoKs's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by RaenavenBlacksun View Post
    Couple weeks, giving us about a month of 6.0 before WoD comes out. *chops one hand into the other palm* Come on, buddy. Keep up.
    Dont they normally give 2 weeks notice for a pvp season end? If that is true for 6.0 to be one month, they must announce pvp season end today.
    Somehow I dont see that happening. I keep refresshing MMOC home page to see if it pops up.
  1. twelvethirty's Avatar
    Jay wilson is poison. get him out of here
  1. mmoce3b239533d's Avatar
    Jay Wilson, an all round turd and the man who said:

    "Shut up PvP guy! It's awesome in PvE so that's what we're doing."
  1. Arkthus's Avatar
    I can't post on US forums but may someone ask how they are changing the Gunship fight in ICC ? How will it be soloable ?

    Because right now, the fight is really horrible to do alone...
  1. Chromeshellking's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Arkthus View Post
    I can't post on US forums but may someone ask how they are changing the Gunship fight in ICC ? How will it be soloable ?

    Because right now, the fight is really horrible to do alone...


    Just make sure you get the jet pack before hand and just hop in turret max out before your gun overheats and jump when mage comes out to freeze cannons.
  1. RaenavenBlacksun's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by GoKs View Post
    Dont they normally give 2 weeks notice for a pvp season end? If that is true for 6.0 to be one month, they must announce pvp season end today.
    Somehow I dont see that happening. I keep refresshing MMOC home page to see if it pops up.
    How long as the last pre-expansion "event"? It's been so long I don't even remember.
  1. Constraint's Avatar
    Why would you put the lead designer of the destroyer of Diablo onto your most successful project? Just wondering why he's such a protected species in these parts.
  1. Ravester's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Eleveneleven View Post
    lol it gets easier and easier to explain to people why this expansion will be the weakest in terms of new and returning subscribers and why it will have the worst retention rate.
    To be honest i really wish to wow come down 4M subs, maybe the community can get better, like it was in 2005/2006.
  1. mmoca123b20796's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by HarryDemeanor View Post
    Considering both Rob Pardo and Greg Street are listed in the same category, I think that just means he's worked on it at some point during the development cycle. I think if he is currently an active member he would be listed under something else. We shall see though.
    This.
    They are probably just finishing the credits before printing the WoD leaflets.
  1. NoWilsonIsBestWilson's Avatar
    Shit, can I get my money back? Honestly "F$%& that loser". The love child of Satan, Obama, Bush Sr. and Jr. would make better choices than that heifer. This guy is equivalent to corporate raiders, he drives and game into the ground, profits off the name then runs from the project. He is the type of moron that would make plainstriders or oozes a fucking playable race..
  1. Buu's Avatar
    You can see that Jay Wilson is now listed as a Designer now, rather than just being on the strike team like he was for Mists of Pandaria. You may remember that he stepped down as Game Director of Diablo III in January 2013.
    The guy screwed Diablo 3. His mere presence destroyed Project Titan.
    It was awesome to play WoW. The last one out turn off the lights.

    IT'S THE TRUE WOW KILLER!!!!!!

    - - - Updated - - -

    Quote Originally Posted by Sesto View Post
    Cool, so will Jay Wilson be the new scapegoat for players to shit on? Like GC or Metzen (for lore)?
    Except that THIS TIME they will be utmost right. Jay Wilson ACTUALLY is to blame.
  1. Salech's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ravester View Post
    To be honest i really wish to wow come down 4M subs, maybe the community can get better, like it was in 2005/2006.
    It was the same back then as now, just on a smaller scale.


    Also Jay Wilson, that dudes influence is already seen with the Tertiary stats, way to diablo-like
  1. Bauwagast's Avatar
    Jay Wilson working on WoD? Begone foul demon!
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