Hallow's End 2014, Oct 17 Class Balance Hotfixes, Blue Posts and Tweets, Comic

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Hallow's End 2014
Hallow's End begins tomorrow morning and this year there are finally some updates! Our friends over at Icy Veins have the full guide.


This year includes Headless Horseman loot that has been upgraded to item level 540, new pets that cost 150 x Tricky Treats, costumes for you and your pug, new wands, and more! The Lich King costume will cost Tricky Treats from a vendor.

Level Type Spec Slot Name
540FingerMeleeFinger Band of the Petrified Pumpkin
540FingerSpell SpiritFinger Wicked Witch's Signet
540FingerPhysical DPSFinger Seal of Ghoulish Glee
540FingerSpell DPSFinger The Horseman's Ring
540PlateMeleeHead The Horseman's Horrific Hood
540One-handed SwordPhysical DPSOne Hand The Horseman's Sinister Slicer
1Companion Pets Cursed Birman
1Companion Pets Widget the Departed
1Holiday Exquisite Costume Set: "The Lich King"
1Holiday "Mad Alchemist" Costume
1Holiday "Lil' Starlet" Costume
1Holiday "Yipp-Saron" Costume
1Consumable Hallowed Wand - Slime
1Consumable Hallowed Wand - Ghoul
1Consumable Hallowed Wand - Abomination
1Consumable Hallowed Wand - Geist
1Consumable Hallowed Wand - Spider


Patch 6.0.2 Hotfixes - October 17
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Character Undelete
  • Players are now able to undelete their characters.
  • Details on eligibility and limitations of the undeletion system can be found in the blog titled: New Feature Incoming: Undelete Character.

Class Balancing
Note: All class balancing changes below will require a realm restart to take effect.

Class Bug Fixes
  • Druid
    • Feral
      • Rake Bleed effect should now always be applied to the target if the initial hit lands.
    • Talents
  • Mage
  • Paladin
    • Holy
      • Holy Radiance should now be correctly healing 6 allies that are within range.
  • Rogue

World Environment
  • Creatures
    • High Marshal Twinbraid should now be able to hit Horde players with explosions again.
    • Ishi's Corrupted Slash debuff should now be working correctly again.
    • Krakkanon's knockback abilities should be working correctly again.
    • Sra'thik Drone and Sik'thik Venomspitter should now be able to use their Caustic Spray ability again.

Quests
  • Infiltrating the Black Temple: Resolved an issue where Ashtongue Primalist can cause Warlocks to become permanently stunned.
  • Noodle Time and Noodle Time: Bonus: Resolved an issue where customers were not sitting correctly and not getting up from their seats.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
Raids
  • Siege of Orgrimmar
    • Thok the Bloodthirsty should now be dropping Tier armor tokens for the correct difficulty level.
  • Throne of Thunder
    • Damage of Vampiric Cave Bat's Drain the Weak ability now triggers at a lower health threshold.
    • Nest Guardians' Screen ability should correctly apply a stacking debuff on players once more on Heroic difficulty.
    • Durumu the Forgotten should no longer be targeting the same player repeatedly with Lingering Gaze.
    • Quet'zal, the Stormcaller's Frost Spike knockback should now be working correctly on Heroic difficulty.
    • Resolved a number of issues with boss abilities that were not working correctly on the Twin Consorts encounter.
  • Heart of Fear
    • Amber-Shaper Un'sok: Amber Monstrosity's health has been reduced to a more reasonable amount.
    • Grand Empress Shek'zeer: Corrupted Dissonance Field's damage has been toned down.
  • Dragon Soul
    • [Requires a realm restart.] Searing Plasma's heal absorption effect has been reduced to a more reasonable amount.
  • Firelands
    • [Requires a realm restart.] Magma Flow's damage from Volcanos during the Lord Rhyolith encounter has been toned down to a more reasonable amount.
  • Icecrown Citadel
    • [Requires a realm restart.] Damage dealt by the cannons in the Gunship Battle now scales with the player’s item level.
    • [Requires a realm restart.] Sindragosa's Chilled to the Bone damage has been reduced to a more reasonable amount.
    • [Requires a realm restart.] The Lich King: Harvest Souls' damage has been toned down to a more reasonable amount.
  • Trial of the Crusader
    • [Requires a realm restart.] Snobolds' Fire Bomb damage has been toned down to a more reasonable amount.
    • [Requires a realm restart.] Damage of Gormok the Impaler's Impale ability has been toned down to a more reasonable amount.
    • [Requires a realm restart.] Damage of Dreadscale's Burning Bile ability has been toned down to a more reasonable amount.
  • Ulduar
    • Flame Leviathan: Damage dealt by the vehicles now scales with the player’s item level.
    • Constrictor Tentacle's damage has been reduced to a more reasonable amount.

Dungeons
  • Mogu'shan Palace
    • Kargesh Highguard's Hurl Shield ability should now work properly.
  • The Stonecore: High Priestess Azil's Force Grip ability has been temporarily disabled.
  • [Requires a realm restart.] Utgarde Pinnacle: Skadi the Ruthless should require 3 harpoons to knock them off their mount once more.

Scenarios
  • [Requires a realm restart.] Arena of Annihilation: Reduce the damage of Little Liuyang's Fireball to a more reasonable amount.
  • Brewmoon Festival: Resolved an issue where Li Te's Water Shell was not popping when they are brought to a Waterspout.

Battlegrounds and Arenas
  • Warsong Gulch: Capturing a flag should award reputation once more.
  • Resolved an issue that could cause Mages and Hunters in an Arena match to incorrectly drop out of Invisibility or Camouflage.

Items

Bug Fixes
  • Resolved an issue where players were taking more damage than intended while under a mind control effect.
  • Resolved an issue where Boosted Characters were unable to learn some Talents.
  • Resolved an issue where favorited mounts in the Mount Journal may not display the favorite status properly.

Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Raid Loot Downgrading
1. This shouldn't happen any longer, so going forward, the items downgrading themselves should be fixed. If you see it happen in a fresh circumstance, please let us know immediately.

2. For those that have had mythic items downgrade themselves, please open a petition with the exact item name.

Our ticket volume is a bit larger than normal, so it may take a little while to get to all requests, but we will work through these as quickly as possible. (Official Forums)

Thok Dropping Higher Quality Gear Than Intended
Thok is also bugged with this gear issue. Last night in normal, he dropped all mythic gear. The night before in normal, he dropped all heroic.
We're aware of that issue with Thok. Enjoy the upgrades in the meanwhile. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Iron Starlette Noise
The cute little guy sure can project! We're aware and tracking a couple different bugs with the Iron Starlette's audio. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Classes
Secondary Stat Attunements as a "Guideline not a rule" is not what I expected. Is the goal for the design not to make this work
For some specs, especially tanks and healers, different stats are situationally more or less valuable. (Celestalon)
Attunements being a guideline, not a rule, is the intended design. (Celestalon)
what about specs where the attuned stat is your worst in 90% of situations?
That's not ideal, and we hope to improve upon them in the future. (Celestalon)

Is there any way we can get DoT tooltips on targets to update dynamically to reflect the changes to snapshotting?
It's an issue that we're aware of, but is quite a big undertaking. Working on it for the future. (Celestalon)

Character / Items
If I pug Sha of Pride on personal loot, would all 30 people have to wait for their turn to open the box to see if they got loot?
Thankfully, no. It may have taken 10 years, but we solved the "chest already being used" issue, at least for personal loot. (WatcherDev)

will the Dark Shaman set be able to drop still once warlords hits
Yes. (WatcherDev)

Proving Grounds
The "You're really doing it wrong" was NOT retroactive like you said it would be. Any incoming fix?
Unfortunately, we were not able to make it retroactive. Only the level 100 Feat of Strength will be available. Apologies. (Celestalon)

PvE
why did the ordos cloak change get reverted? kinda disappointed
I believe it was a technical issue. We are sad about it, too. (_DonAdams)

PvP
for below max-level characters, will skirmishes scale player numbers up to bracket maximum like bgs do?
yes it will (holinka)

Free Character Migrations (FCM) 17/10
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
The following Free Character Migrations are scheduled to be available until 23 October, 2014. They are all open for both factions:

PvE Realms
Draenor -> Emerald Dream, Shadowsong
Silvermoon -> Azjol-Nerub, Khadgar

PvP Realms
Kazzak / Stormscale / Ragnaros / Twisting Nether -> Darksorrow, Auchindoun

RP Realms
Argent Dawn -> Moonglade, Darkmoon Faire

If you wish to discuss an FCM for a specific realm, the dedicated discussion threads are linked above.

Please note that FCMs are opened based on realm population tracking and analysis, not by request. If you’re looking for a specific migration (from realm A to realm B), you should in most cases use the Character Transfer service. Although we will try to avoid doing so without giving notice in advance, these FCMs may be closed before the scheduled date.

Character Transfers (CT)
All realms follow the regular CT rules, found here.

Guild Transfers
Although Free Guild Master Realm Transfers are not possible at this time, the Free Character Migration will allow you to retain your guild membership and reputation, provided that the guild master completes a Guild Master Realm Transfer first and the faction remains the same as that of the source realm.

Nerf Now - Model Rework
It looks like not everyone is happy about the demise of the smiling female gnomes!

This article was originally published in forum thread: Hallow's End 2014, Oct 17 Class Balance Hotfixes, Blue Posts and Tweets, Comic started by chaud View original post
Published on 2014-10-18 02:32 AM
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  1. Shudder's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Hollowlithic View Post
    almost as good as doing the same thing for over a year now and when a nerd cries about his dps it has to fuck over everything else in the game.
    It should, because it's the only thing that matters. You and pet battlers playing your mini games don't matter.
  1. Tibbles's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Shudder View Post
    It should, because it's the only thing that matters. You and pet battlers playing your mini games don't matter.
    You mean only matters to you. News flash for you, the most populated servers in the USA are PvP focused servers.(Ex. Tich & Dark) So I guess some people actually do give a damn after all.
  1. Shudder's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Tibbles View Post
    You mean only matters to you. News flash for you, the most populated servers in the USA are PvP focused servers.(Ex. Tich & Dark) So I guess some people actually do give a damn after all.
    The most used content is pet battles. Doesn't mean it isn't an irrelevant mini game, like pvp. This is a pve game.
  1. Tibbles's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Shudder View Post
    This is a pve game.
    Again, says you.

    Ashran, Tol'barad, Wintergrasp, Halaa, Hellfire, BGs, Arena, WPvP....there has a been a wider variety of options for PvP than anything PvE..... yea the game is only about PvE alright

    Which kind of players did Blizzard make more in-game NPCs of? Oh yea..... PvP players.
  1. Ilfayt's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Mazaxist View Post
    holy shit fire mage already the weakest class and now another 20% nerf? this is too funny
    I sure hope you're being sarcastic...they were 'weak'(not weakest by far btw, just moreso at lower gear levels), but if you'd been on in the last few days...you'd know they were a little to strong from 6.0 balancing.
  1. ejpaints's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Shudder View Post
    It should, because it's the only thing that matters. You and pet battlers playing your mini games don't matter.
    I hate to burst your bubble here, but most of the tuning changes that happen do in fact happen because of PvP. I'm strictly a raider. I can't even remember the last time I stepped foot in a BG or an arena, but even I am willing to acknowledge where most of our "balancing" changes come from.
  1. Shudder's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Tibbles View Post
    Again, says you.

    Ashran, Tol'barad, Wintergrasp, Halaa, Hellfire, BGs, Arena, WPvP....there has a been a wider variety of options for PvP than anything PvE..... yea the game is only about PvE alright

    Which kind of players did Blizzard make more in-game NPCs of? Oh yea..... PvP players.
    When this game was released they didn't even have pvp. It was tacked on later as a mini game. How many new leveling zones, new dungeons, new raids are we getting next month? How many new battlegrounds? Yeah, I thought so.
  1. Nerraw's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Shudder View Post
    When this game was released they didn't even have pvp. It was tacked on later as a mini game.
    My guess is that you've never read the original instruction manual.
  1. IamRoland's Avatar
    Can anyone confirm that with tonight realms maintenance (EU servers) the hotfixes are online?
    I need to know if i can go back playing frost :P
  1. Lolsteak's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Tibbles View Post
    Again, says you.

    Ashran, Tol'barad, Wintergrasp, Halaa, Hellfire, BGs, Arena, WPvP....there has a been a wider variety of options for PvP than anything PvE..... yea the game is only about PvE alright

    Which kind of players did Blizzard make more in-game NPCs of? Oh yea..... PvP players.
    options =/= content, most of the game is based around PvE, you don't exactly see pvpers advancing the games story now do you.
  1. Ace192's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by IamRoland View Post
    Can anyone confirm that with tonight realms maintenance (EU servers) the hotfixes are online?
    I need to know if i can go back playing frost :P
    I would love a confirmation for US. I log onto all my characters affected by the hotfix and expect to do more damage and I still see no difference. My frost mage still doesnt have any tooltips that are showing the new fixes. Would love a confirmation.
  1. Miink's Avatar
    I have a question. Since the new patch is out and all, how can we complete the one achievement "Tricks and Treats of Eastern Kingdoms" when we can't get the one handful of candy at Nethergaurd Keep in the Blasted Lands, seeing how its overrun and all. Thanks

    - - - Updated - - -

    and Surwich in Blasted Lands too. If you can get back to asap so i can complete the holiday , im sooo close.
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