Paid BattleTag Changes, Patch 7.1 Raid Testing, Sept 15 Hotfixes, 7.1 Notes Update

Hotfixes: Several class hotfixes are in testing.

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Patch Notes for September 13th

Craig Amai Leaves the World of Warcraft Team
Lead quest designer Craig Amai is leaving the WoW team after more than ten years. He most recently worked on the Artifact system in Legion.



Paid BattleTag Changes Now Available
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Looking to change up how you identify yourself in the Blizzard online community? The BattleTag® you originally chose doesn’t have to be your nickname for all eternity—sometimes you want to switch to something more suited to the hero (or villain) you’ve become since you first arrived in the Blizzard universe.

While we’ve always provided players with one free BattleTag change per account, now we’re pleased to offer an additional paid BattleTag change service for those of you who would appreciate the opportunity to choose yet another new moniker.

Free First Change
If you’re ready for something new and haven’t already used your free BattleTag change, simply visit your Account Management Dashboard, and click the Change link under your Account Details to the right of your current tag.

If you haven’t used your free change yet, don’t worry—BattleTag changes don’t expire and yours will be waiting for you if and when you ever decide to use it.

If you’ve already used your first free change and still feel like a new nickname would be a better fit, the option to purchase an additional change will be available within Account Management. Changes are available for 10 € each, and your new moniker will be reflected on your friends list automatically after making the change.

For more details on the feature, check out our support article or visit the Shop page.

Paid BattleTag Change FAQ
If I want to change my BattleTag, does it have to be something unique?
BattleTags do not need to be unique. You can use any name you want, as long as it follows our Naming Policy. Each BattleTag is assigned a numeric ID to create a unique identifier (for example, FallenSlayer#3592).

Will changing my BattleTag affect my friends list?
Your friends will now automatically see you listed under your new BattleTag, but otherwise your friends list will not be affected by this change.

Will new accounts still get a free name change upon creation?
Yes. All new Battle.net accounts will continue to receive one free BattleTag change upon creation.

Patch 7.1 PTR Dungeon/Raid Testing Plans
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
This is an unusual PTR, in that we don't typically have fresh dungeon and raid content to test when a new expansion has just launched, but then again, Legion isn't exactly the typical expansion.

For testing purposes, we'll be treating Karazhan like a Normal-mode raid, since that's what it resembles in most ways except raid size. That means it'll be closed for the majority of the PTR cycle, but we'll open it up at least a couple of times for a couple of days (without any attunement required, though one will be on live - for testing you'll be able to just zone in) at a time for open-ended testing and feedback.

We also have Trial of Valor to test, as well as a few Nighthold bosses we'll want to revisit for numerical tuning. We realize that most raiding guilds are going to have their hands quite full starting next week, but we're going to try to sneak in one raid testing day on Monday (probably around 1pm PDT, 10pm CEDT). We'll update with exact testing details within a day or so, assuming server stability holds up.

I sincerely apologize on behalf of the team for all this content, and thank you in advance for any time you take away from the live servers in order to help us test it.

Raid Testing Schedule - September 19
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)
On Monday, September 19, we will be conducting a focused raid test of two Trial of Valor Heroic bosses, and one Mythic Nighthold boss.

Remember that Heroic difficulty scales for any group size between 10 and 30 players, so feel free to assemble and bring a group of any size within that range. Mythic, of course, requires a fixed 20-player group.

Monday, September 19

Odyn - Heroic Trial of Valor
13:00 PDT (16:00 EDT, 22:00 CEST)

Guarm - Heroic Trial of Valor
14:00 PDT (17:00 EDT, 23:00 CEST)

Spellblade Aluriel - Mythic Nighthold
15:00 PDT (18:00 EDT, 00:00 CEST)

As always, this testing schedule is very fluid and subject to the realities of a PTR environment. We might have to change the time of a testing session, change the bosses being tested, or cancel a test entirely, due to bugs, server hardware issues, etc. Keep an eye on this forum for the latest information, and thank you in advance for testing and providing feedback.

Legendary Item Drop Rate Bug
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
We’ve identified and hotfixed an issue that could cause Legion legendary items to drop more frequently than intended, if a player had already received their first legendary.

Thanks to everyone who reported this - the ability to look at specific cases where this was and wasn’t happening was invaluable for isolating what exactly was causing this bug to occur.

Patch 7.0.3 Hotfixes - September 15
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Classes

Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  • The Restoration Druid artifact trait Power of the Archdruid will now correctly always spread Regrowth to additional targets when you cast Regrowth instead of sometimes spreading Rejuvenation.

Monk (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  • Soothing Mist cast from the Monk’s Jade Serpent Statue should cancel on targets farther than 60 yards from the statue.
  • (Windwalker) The Tornado Kicks Artifact trait will no longer sometimes reduce your first Rising Sun Kick damage.

Shaman (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  • Players who use the Portal to the Maelstrom instead of the Astral Gate to the Maelstrom will now be granted credit for "The Voice of Thunder" quest.

  • Bodyguard: Rehgar Earthfury now correctly makes Ghost Wolf move at 100% extra speed (was 130%).

Warrior (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  • Rampage weapon trails now show for every swing of rampage regardless of whether the weapon was sheathed.

Class Halls
  • Druids who abandoned either "Essence of Balance" or "Essence of Regrowth" should now be able to reaccept the quests by returning to the Emerald Dreamway.
  • Druids should now receive Naralex or Zen'tabra after entering their order halls.

Dungeons
  • Players are now able to summon other players into Mythic dungeons as long as the player being summoned meets the requirements of the dungeon.
  • Eye of Azshara
    • Restless Tides now cast Imprisoning Bubble and Undertow correctly when more than one player is in melee with them.

Items
  • Identified and fixed an issue that could cause Legion legendary items to drop more frequently than intended if a player had already received their first legendary.
  • Coins caught in the Dalaran Fountain are now Bind on Pickup.
  • Jeweled Signet of Melandrus now correctly increases the damage of Auto Shot for Hunters.
  • Stabilized Energy Pendant no longer causes resources to drain when the player changes zones.

NPCs
  • Players are no longer able to use the Bribe and Mind Control abilities on Ysera.

Professions
  • Cooking
    • Players who have previously killed Myonix should be able to acquire the Leybarbeque Ribs recipe on subsequent kills.
  • Enchanting
    • Fixed an issue where some epic quality items awarded from world quests provided incorrect disenchant materials.
    • Enchant Cloak – Gift of Critical Strike, Enchant Cloak – Gift of Haste, Enchant Cloak – Gift of Mastery, and Enchant Cloak – Gift of Versatility now increase the player’s movement speed by 2% (was 10%).
      • Developers’ Notes: In fights where movement speed is important, Draenor cloak enchants (which reward run speed) were outperforming the best Legion cloak enchants (which do not). To protect enchanters from having to farm Draenor materials, we've reduced the run speed bonus on Draenor cloak enchants to 2%. We feel that cloak enchants aren’t the ideal place for run speed enhancements, and we will continue to look at interesting run speed options as the expansion continues.

PvP
  • PvP World Quests should have rewards restored for Prestiged players.
  • Hired Underbelly Guards should be much less likely to leave you.
  • Warrior
    • Pain Train now provides a Battle Cry to all nearby allies that increases critical strike by 30%.

Quests
  • The Lightning Rod cannot be used on the same mob multiple times during the World Quest “Electrosnack”.
  • "Shallow Graves" should now appear at all times for players on the quest "A Grisly Task".
  • Guardian Druids should no longer be prevented from completing "When Dreams Become Nightmares" when looting the Claws of Ursoc.
  • Fixed a bug that caused some players on "Cry Thunder!" to be forced to get their dragon killed to be able to dismount.
  • On “Shrine of the Truthguard”, players who navigate to Dalaran by using their Dalaran Hearthstone, regular Hearthstone, or by getting ported, will receive the “Return to Dalaran” objective and become able to turn in the quest to Lord Maxwell Tyrosus.
  • The Mining World Quest “Leyworms” now requires 10 Leystone-Encrusted Spikes (was 40).
  • Valewalker Farodin should now properly tell his story during the quest "Fragments of Disaster."
  • In Maw of Souls, Ymiron’s Broken Blade now drops on Normal, Heroic, and Mythic difficulties for Warriors who have completed "Champions of Skyhold".
  • Hunters are now able to complete "Delicate Enchantments" by using the "I'm ready" chat option after leaving the quest objective area.
  • On-death effects should no longer behave unusually when the player reaches 1 HP during “Withered Army Training”.

Services
  • Performing a faction transfer on a character who has completed an Artifact Acquisition quest, but not yet turned it in, will no longer destroy the artifact when the quest is removed from players' logs. Players may then re-accept the Artifact quest after the transfer has completed and will receive full credit for the quest.

Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
PvP
I heard that all honor talents are unlocked when you queue rated arenas. is this true?
Not for Rated Arenas, no. However, Wargames played in Tournament Mode give fully unlocked Honor Talents & Artifacts. (WarcraftDevs)

Patch 7.1 PTR Notes Update
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Trial of Valor Raid
  • Quests to unlock Vrykul transmog appearances.

Classes
Priest (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  • Shadowform has returned as a new spell for Shadow Priests:
    • Assume a Shadowform, increasing your Shadow damage dealt by 10%, and reducing your Physical damage taken by 10%.
    • You may not cast any Holy spells while in this form.
    • The shadowy visual is now tied to Shadowform.
    • Voidform now acts to intensify Shadowform. It automatically triggers Shadowform if not already active, and you gain the effects of both.
    • When Voidform ends, you return to Shadowform.

Developer Interview - Luis Barriga
MMOGames had the opportunity to talk to Luis Barriga about Legion and Patch 7.1. Most of it is already well known, but there were a few important points:
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
  • One of the issues that we see is there’s a lot of friction in getting things setup. What we’ve seen in games like Diablo and Heroes of the Storm are systems where they just notify you that ‘Hey Eric just joined a queue’ and I click and request to join. Already we’re thinking about stuff to add to our content patches.
  • We finished Legion and then we didn’t stop. Okay, here’s the next patch. It’s going to be ready for testing soon. I can’t recall a time when we’ve been so aggressive when we’ve had plans for this patch and the next patch already.
  • The main thing that we want to drive is that we want our fans to know we mean it when we say we have a lot of content planned for you guys. We’re well aware that it was an issue towards the end of Warlords and we want to reassure our fans that we have a content train that’s not going to stop.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Paid BattleTag Changes, Patch 7.1 Raid Testing, Sept 15 Hotfixes, 7.1 Notes Update started by chaud View original post
Published on 2016-09-16 07:54 PM
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  1. Freedom's Avatar
    One of the issues that we see is there’s a lot of friction in getting things setup. What we’ve seen in games like Diablo and Heroes of the Storm are systems where they just notify you that ‘Hey Eric just joined a queue’ and I click and request to join. Already we’re thinking about stuff to add to our content patches.
    Blegh. If the Call to Arms satchel still works if you accept the other person's request, great. If it doesn't, AND it alerts people other than your direct friends, like guildies... that's going to be annoying. "O u spammin heroics, can i come pls" and an invite request would get old pretty quick. A lot of the time I like to just solo queue : \.
  1. Eleccybubb's Avatar
    Don't see an issue charging for it. You got one free near Overwatch launch and well if it's your first time make sure it's a name you want/like.
  1. mmoc690c3fdb34's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by huldu View Post
    It's great to see these old people leaving and hopefully new blood enters the ring. WoW really needs some NEW inspiration and put an end to this pointless recycling. Hopefully the next expansion they'll just skip out on zones and just focus on RAIDS - mythic raids for the elite players that have been playing since release. They really need to stop making these "normal" and "heroic" raids, what a joke. The second they stop catering to casuals the game will once again rise to the top.
    LOL! You serious? "Casuals" are what makes this game in first place. What you are saying is: Blizzard should focus only on content that maybe 5-10% (my estimate) is doing...at best. Don't get me wrong...I am an "elite player" and I find your idea hilarious and just plain stupid. In fact the best time for raiding was back in WotLK with Ulduar where you had normal raids but with bosses which had certain hard modes you could activate/trigger during the fight if you fancied it. After that they added heroic mode and then mythic in Pandaland...basically they divided the same content into 4 different modes which I find ridiculous. I could understand normal and heroic but adding LFR and Mythic is just going overboard. 2
  1. mmoc1615415e70's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Serissa View Post
    We will see if you can tell the same thing in 2 years

    Remember everyone praised MOP for first month. And everyone praised WOD for first month. Do you remeber what happened next?
    That's what I said. I hated WOD in beta stage.
  1. HitRefresh's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Baikalsan View Post
    What a coincidence on how many left right before and during WoD or a short while after.

    "People who work at a place for 6 years want to move on".....well.....didn't happen during Wotlk/Cata/Mop) at such a frequency and at such high levels now did it?
    Yes it did.

    Really, look at the names in the credits. Also, the end of an expansion is a good time to leave, they just finished a long project (Legion) and want to do something new. And frankly Legion is the most successful expansion yet, so it's nothing to do with the game not doing well.
  1. mmoc1615415e70's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Serissa View Post
    We will see if you can tell the same thing in 2 years

    Remember everyone praised MOP for first month. And everyone praised WOD for first month. Do you remeber what happened next?
    No I don't, i was in beta and it was complete crap. Mop was not good either.
  1. Heladys's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Serissa View Post
    We will see if you can tell the same thing in 2 years

    Remember everyone praised MOP for first month. And everyone praised WOD for first month. Do you remeber what happened next?
    First month was done September 30th. Second month was done October 30th. The sky should have fallen by now.
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