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Patch 7.1.5 - Mage Barriers
Mages get two new barrier spells in Patch 7.1.5, complete with new spell animations: Blazing Barrier and Prismatic Barrier.





Glowcap Festival
Glowcap Festival allows players to help keep Fshoo alive in Sporeggar to earn reputation.

  • Head to Sporeggar in Zangarmarsh to take part in this holiday.
  • Mushrooms will spawn around the town, giving you Glowcap and other helpful items:
  • You can purchase all four of the items above from Mycah, the Sporeggar Quartermaster.
  • You can also loot a Pungent Truffle, allowing you to transform into a sporeling for 24 hours.
  • Fshoo spawns periodically, gaining stacks of Fshoo Grow. Each stack increases his size by 1% and health by 100%.
  • Fshoo also loses health at a constant rate, making him harder and harder to heal as the grow stacks appear.
  • Using the items and healing him to keep him alive as long as possible is the objective.
  • When Fshoo dies he will give everyone 50 Sporeggar reputation for every stack of the buff he had.



Un'Goro Madness
Un'Goro Madness allows players to defeat group bosses in Un'Goro Crater to obtain temporary buffs from Dino Mojo.

  • Adaptation - Become strong, like a dinosaur.
  • Adaptation: Poisonous Skin - The caster's skin secrets toxins that will inflict 699 Nature damage to all players within 100 yards every 3 sec.
  • Adaptation: Adrenaline - The caster's adrenal gland is hyperactive. Every 3 sec. the caster's damage dealt is increased.
  • Adaptation: Heavy Footed - The caster is heavy footed. Any time the caster moves, nearby enemies are flung by the shock waves their steps create.
  • Adaptation: Spores - The caster's skin is infested with volatile spores. Every 5 sec. a series of spores are launched at nearby enemies. Anyone caught within 0 yards of the impact will suffer Nature damage.
  • Adaptation: Caustic Blood - The caster is bleeding profusely, every 3 sec. a pool of Caustic Blood forms. Players standing in these pools suffer 838 Nature damage every second.
  • Adaptation: Chronometric Instability - The caster's ties to the timeline are unstable. Many abilities will echo at the same location several seconds later.



Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Classes
Survival Hunters have a DPS increase for Scorpids,Riverbeasts,Carrion Birds. Be nicer to use whatever pet we want without DPSloss.
.I believe this *should* no longer be the case (Muffinus)

Lore
Did the Legion always have spaceships?It'd be weird if they were a new thing since they had millions of years to craft some.
for quite a long time, though Argus may shed some light on this. (Alex_Afrasiabi)

Build of the Month - December 2016
Each month or so we will post a couple of hardware setups for those of you who are thinking of upgrading their computer!

All of the parts on this page are Amazon affiliate links. When you purchase your parts through them it helps support the site!

This month
The current SSD prices are fairly flat right now, with most SSDs under $0.50 per gigabyte when on sale.

Depending on how much you want to overclock, you may need to spend a bit more for a better CPU cooler like the NH-D15.

Unless you are doing a lot of video rendering or streaming, you do not need the 6700K and would get more performance from spending that money elsewhere.

Make sure to keep your AMD and Nvidia drivers up to date.

Don't forget to visit the Computer Forum for any extra questions!

Peripherals


Narwhal

MonitorDell U2414H Monitor$200
KeyboardLogitech G710+$80
MouseLogitech G502$52
SpeakersLogitech Z323 2.1$50

Unicorn

MonitorDell U2715H Monitor$420
KeyboardCorsair K70$80
MouseRazer Naga 2014$64
SpeakersLogitech Z523$60


Puppy and Dolphin
All of these parts can be mixed and matched to create a build between Puppy and Dolphin.

Puppy

Updated December 18, 2016
$609
Case NZXT Source 210$40
Power Supply EVGA 600B$50
CPU Intel i3-6100$110
Heatsink Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO$35
Motherboard ASUS Z170-P$110
Memory 8GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4$70
Graphics Card ASUS RX 460$105
Hard Drive Western Digital Black 1TB$69
DVD Asus 24X SATA DVD+/-RW$20

Dolphin

Updated December 18, 2016
$849
Case NZXT Source 210$40
Power Supply EVGA 600B$50
CPU Intel 6600K$230
Heatsink Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO$35
Motherboard ASUS Z170-A$150
Memory 8GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4$70
Graphics Card RX 480 OR
GTX 1060 3GB
$185 / $205
Hard Drive Western Digital Black 1TB$69
DVD Asus 24X SATA DVD+/-RW$20


Narwhal and Unicorn
All of these parts can be mixed and matched to create a build between Narwhal and Unicorn.

Narwhal

Updated December 18, 2016
$1133
Case Cooler Master HAF 912$51
Power Supply EVGA G2 650W$90
CPU Intel 6600K$230
Heatsink Scythe Mugen 4$55
Motherboard ASUS Z170-A$149
Memory 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4$94
Graphics Card GTX 1060$255
Hard Drive Western Digital Black 2TB$119
SSD Crucial MX300 275GB OR
Samsung Evo 850 250GB
$70
$90
DVD Asus 24X SATA DVD+/-RW$20

Unicorn

Updated December 18, 2016
$1265
Case Corsair Air 540$100
Power Supply EVGA G2 650W$90
CPU Intel 6600K$230
Heatsink Noctua 6 NH-D15$88
Motherboard ASUS Z170-A$149
Memory 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4$94
Graphics Card GTX 1060 OR
GTX 1070
$255
$385
Hard Drive Western Digital Black 2TB$119
SSD SanDisk Extreme PRO 240GB OR
SAMSUNG 850 Pro 256GB
$120
$130
DVD Asus 24X SATA DVD+/-RW$20


Dark Legacy Comics #564
DLC #564 has been released.

This article was originally published in forum thread: Patch 7.1.5 - Mage Barriers, Glowcap Festival, Tweets, Build of the Month, DLC #564 started by chaud View original post
Comments 53 Comments
  1. Penric's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by charizma View Post
    New barriers look awesome, I wonder if the frost is gonna get an update as well
    Yup, Frost one needs an update to compete with the other two.
  1. charizma's Avatar
    Yeah the frost one has been in since like vanilla
  1. Daan's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Zatachi View Post
    Damn its about time.
    Felt so weird to still have the ice barrier when the mages are so explicitly distinct now with their schools.
    Wish all the spells would change the color appropiate, but its a start.
    It feels more weird that a fire mage can sit in ice block lol
  1. Sierra85's Avatar
    what if argus is earth. Ohhh damnnn...
  1. effs's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Mokoshne View Post
    what if argus is earth. Ohhh damnnn...
    Argus is where we order stuff from. I'm lookig for deals on demon plushies.
  1. gutnbrg's Avatar
    bleh i dont like this sporeggar event. Stop making things easier for players to get when older players had to go thru hell to get it. Im speaking of the rep boost from this event
  1. splatomat's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by gutnbrg View Post
    bleh i dont like this sporeggar event. Stop making things easier for players to get when older players had to go thru hell to get it. Im speaking of the rep boost from this event
    Seriously? There are like 100 better things to complain about than *slightly* reducing the grind for a rep most players either 1) dont care about at all and/or 2) don't even remember exists.
  1. Notdev's Avatar
    Monthly reminder that the listed builds of the month are pretty terrible for the price, and the links are affiliate links so MMO Champ gets money if you buy products with those links. 600W PSU for an i3/rx 460? You can knock off over $100 from the budget build by getting an H110 board, using a stock cooler, not worrying about overclocking, and getting a WD Blue instead of Black.

    You can easily get a 1070 build for the price of their Narwhal and 1080 build for the price of their Unicorn.
    Don't buy everything from Amazon.
  1. justandulas's Avatar
    Because if there's one class that needed more buffs in pvp, it's mages. Lol
  1. Alki's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Foxhoundn View Post
    I wish you would stop putting Razer scam shitty products in the BOTMs. It's the worst hardware out there, why are we so obsessed with it? It lasts literally 6 months before it starts malfunctioning.
    And yet I've been using the same "Razer" mouse for 6 years. Please stop saying things that simply are not true.
  1. Kerrigan009's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Alki View Post
    And yet I've been using the same "Razer" mouse for 6 years. Please stop saying things that simply are not true.
    My Razer Naga lasted a year to the day. Sure, maybe we just were unlucky, but I do see this complaint about their products a lot.
  1. mmoc5be3929c9d's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Daan View Post
    It feels more weird that a fire mage can sit in ice block lol
    They did not push the update that far...

    Actually they probably could have done something, like some kind of "out of space and time" thing for arcane.
    For fire ... still difficult to imagine what could be an immune spell. That does not fit the fire spec at all. Maybe an upgrade to cauterize would make it more acceptable.
  1. Brightbrown's Avatar
    Funny, in most places I hear nothing but praise for Razer products... until I got one for myself. One the first go round, after a month or two I had to unplug and re-plug the mouse 2-3 times per week. Had MANY e-mails back and forth with them to replace it, they finally relented and did so. Took a week before I had to start doing the same routine with the replacement. No wasn't my ports in any way, no mouse every had this issue. Got a G700s and in the past year plus, never had to un and re-plug it (either wired or wireless, and that one relies on their dongle plugged into my keyboard).
  1. Krusza's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Foxhoundn View Post
    I wish you would stop putting Razer scam shitty products in the BOTMs. It's the worst hardware out there, why are we so obsessed with it? It lasts literally 6 months before it starts malfunctioning.
    Probably sponsored, the same reason why anyone uses their garbage (apart from fanboys of said people)
  1. gutnbrg's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by musicallittle1 View Post
    Seriously? I think I'm exalted with them on most of my alts.... it's called spam-running that one stupid dungeon to level up, followed by repeating ad naueseum for all the transmog.
    exactly my point...
  1. ZazuuPriest's Avatar
    new barriers, fuck off mages have like 2 useful legendaries up date them shits
  1. Gadzooks's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kellorion View Post
    Well fucking of course mages get new shit
    It's pretty obvious mages are getting a lot of the attention right now. Ion said, Warlocks won't get fixed...er..."tweaked", until after this patch. Which is ludicrous in itself.

    But I'm still kind of surprised to see new talents popping up for classes that don't seem to really need them. This is the kind of changes that should have happened in the beta.

    They tried to rebuild all of the classes, and balance them, something companies take 3-4 years to design for a new game, and they tried to do it in what, a year and a half?

    I'd love to know what the sentiment inside Blizzard is - is the class team in the doghouse for screwing up, or is this just business as usual...
  1. mmocebc4a63931's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by faguoren View Post
    They did not push the update that far...

    Actually they probably could have done something, like some kind of "out of space and time" thing for arcane.
    For fire ... still difficult to imagine what could be an immune spell. That does not fit the fire spec at all. Maybe an upgrade to cauterize would make it more acceptable.
    no i really hope they never touch ice block for mages, it is to iconic for mages to get removed just for the speccs.
  1. clayman's Avatar
    I'm not trying to be a jerk or whatever, but Blizzard, heard about affliction lock?
    You know we still have those cast animation from vanilla days? How about updating that?
    Or maybe repairing those godawful buggy destro portal into chaos bolt animations with a green fire?
    Sigh, they should just rename the game into World of Mages and be done with it.
  1. Akusa202's Avatar
    Oh look, more stuff for the dev's favorite class. Seriously, how about you guys play a different class for once.

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