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Published on 2012-06-09 06:02 AM
Diablo 3 - Act III Inferno Farming, Treasure Creatures Drop Rates, RMAH ToS Update - Authenticator Required, Commodity Auctions, Blue PostsPeak of Serenity
Monks get a new spell called Zen Pilgrimage at level 30, which teleports them to the Peak of Serenity, a part of Kun-Lai Summit. This area is likely to function similar to the Death Knight starting area.
Currently it isn't very populated, just a few monk trainers and some students, but that is likely to change in a future patch. When a Monk wants to return, they can cast Zen Pilgrimage: Return, which should return them to a safe location that is near from where they left.
Level 90 Talent Animations Preview
The video we posted yesterday did not show spell effects at maximum particle density due to a change in the Mists of Pandaria client that we were not aware of. When other players cast a spell, you will see the low quality version, no matter how high your game settings are set. This made some of the effects look weak, like in this example.
We also looked at the effects in a more neutral colored zone and made some easier to see. Give your class another look if you had effects that depended on spell effects being turned up!
Jade Forest Going Offline in Next Beta Patch
Diablo III Real-Money Auction House ToS UpdateYou now need an authenticator to use Battle.net balance and the RMAH.
Diablo in Starcraft II
One of the entries in the SC2 arcade contest is Diablo in Starcraft II using some WoW art assets.
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Published on 2012-06-08 06:20 AM
Diablo 3 - Trading Forum Changes, Commodity Sales Return, Disparity Between Melee and Ranged, Blue PostsLevel 90 Talent Animations Preview
Be sure to turn on annotations if you want to use the menu to skip to your classes' talents.
Warning - Some of these spells were recorded from the point of view of another player and might show up with lower particle effects than you would see them if you casted them yourself. You can see an example of this with the Mage Rune of Power spell.
Dragon Turtle Vendor
The latest beta build added a vendor for the Dragon Turtle mounts, with all of them selling for 3,000 gold. This price is very unlikely to be final! The vendor is located just outside of the Stormwind city walls near the Cataclysm portals.
WoW China Developer Interview
otarma was able to translate the latest China Developer's interview for us once again! Keep in mind that things can get lost or mistranslated when doing translation.
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Why don’t you allow cross-realm trade between Real ID friends?It would make cross-realm item circulation too easy, which would impact the economy of individual realms. However, if you really want to play with someone, you can transfer to their realm.
Some players are nostalgic about the raid attunement quests. These players sometimes feel the only reason to kill the raid bosses is the loot. Some players are even asking for the return of raid attunement quests. Will this change in MoP?
Quest lovers and raid lovers don’t have much in common. For many raiders, it is a chore to be forced to do a bunch of raid attunement quests. We are not going to introduce any raid attunement quests at all. On the contrary, because players want to have a reason to raid, we will tell the stories through the means other than quests, such as dialogues of NPCs, events in instances, and the quotes of raid bosses.
How do players reach Pandaria?
Through portals. Currently there are no routes to Pandaria.
Will there be regular championships for pet battles?
Currently we don't have any plans to do so.
Some changes in Cata made some reputations ungrindable (such as the two centaur factions). Will this be fixed?
If the reputations are achievement-relevant, we will fix it, otherwise we don’t want players to grind the reputations that reward nothing.
When people try to do The Loremaster achievement, it’s difficult to find the quest lines that they abandoned halfway. How do you think of it? Is there a way to make the achievement easier?
If you can give us a specific example then we can probably fix it. Besides, the Loremaster achievement in MoP has a little tweak. The quest achievements of the new zones will credit the quest lines instead of numbers of quests accomplished. So the credits are “complete X Y Z story lines”.
Are the mounts from Jewelcrafting profession BoP?
No, they are BoE.
I ask this out of curiosity. Are there more quests in MoP than in Cata LV 80-85?
Currently we have about 1300 quests, of which about 300 are dailies. Some quests are available to Alliance or Horde only, but most quests are neutral. The number of faction-specific quests is probably less than 200. We don't have data to compare with the previous expansions yet, but it is likely that the number is close to WotLK. The quests are more focused on dailies (MoP focuses on dailies more than any other expansion).
Of course, the dailies will be randomized. You can never accept all of them at the same time. If you max out the reputation levels of all factions to provide their quests at max numbers, you can accept about 48 level 85+ dailies at the same time.
After the launch of MoP, will you continue to introduce more world bosses in the following patches?
Yes, depending on how well the world bosses are received. If it's a success then we will certainly introduce more.
The Rise of Zandalari patch seemed unfinished; the whole story was not fully described. Will there be more stories about Zandalari?
Yes, you will see a lot about Zandalari in Kun-lai, and you will discover the connections between Zandalari, Pandaria and Mogu.
LFR provides a lot of convenience for players who are not in raiding guilds. Simply clicking a button to find a raid also decreased the communications within realms. The communications between strangers became less and less. How do you plan to deal with it?
We don't have plans to force players to communicate; it is not necessary for those who try LFR to befriend total strangers. Our bottom line is, we think if you play this game with your friends it will be happier, but if you don’t have friends to play with, then LFD and LFR will also help you experience dungeons and raids.
The popularity LFR received and the benefits it brought are undisputed, but did it bring negative effects too? For example, do players get bored more easily because they can experience raid so easily without the efforts of teamwork?
This system certainly has some flaws. One of them is that it gives players more reasons to not play with friends, make new friends or join a guild. But according to the statistics before and after the release of patch 4.3, we didn’t find players more easily bored about the new raid.
A more functioning guild finder may solve the problem to an extent, but a single system could not possibly fulfill the needs of all players. We hope to make more improvements in 5.0 (including off-line communications or a database website).
WoW China and Korea Server Merges
There is also some older news out of China and Korea about server shutdowns!
They have shut down servers with very low populations, allowing players and guilds to transfer to another server. If a player comes back to the game after their realm has been shut down, they are still able to transfer by using the website. Thanks goes to otarma again for translation.
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Since the announcement of the Gaming Environment Optimization Program Phase 1, we have received a lot of support from the players of the relevant realms. So far, Phase 1 goes very well. Most players have arrived at the target realms and received a much better gaming experience. In order for players to begin their new gaming experience more efficiently, we will initiate Phase 2 of the Gaming Environment Optimization Program On June 5th. Hence the source realms will be shut down. The players of the source realms need to organize and take care of the items and money in mailboxes and AH so the transfer can be completed more efficiently.
Blue Posts
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The Daily Blink - And He Shall Be Known as Sparkle-Tony
The Daily Blink has predicted the next Blizzard Store mount! For the full comic, read it on their site.
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Published on 2012-06-07 06:02 AM
Diablo 3 - Diablo III Developer AMAA, Update on Auction House Commodity Sales (Working on US servers), Account Security Alert: LinkedInSilvershard Mine Battleground Preview
Keep in mind that this is just a preview using a Wargame and not the final product.
Temple of Kotmogu Battleground Preview
Keep in mind that this is just a preview that uses a Wargame, of a battleground that was not meant to be tested during this patch, and is not the final product.
Player Faction In Tooltips
The default tooltips now contain the faction of other players, allowing you to see if the unflagged Pandaren are Alliance or Horde. This can be augmented with the various unit frame addons to make it easier to tell which faction a Pandaren belongs to.
Human Character Selection Screen Update
The Human character selection screen has been updated once again! This time it was just smaller tweaks, as you can see with the previous two versions.
Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Orgrimmar Layout Organization
It's a bit more "organized" since Garrosh took the reins. Though, his organization style may not be the most impartial. After awhile you get used to where things are and how to get there. The same goes for Undercity (even though people say they get lost there.)
They're like any city you visit for the first time. It's going to take you a bit to figure out where the bank is, or where the auction house is, how to get to flight masters etc, but after a bit, it will be like coming "home". (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Death Knight (Forums)
Compendium of Issues
Death runes were designed to provide flexibility to an otherwise inflexible rune resource. By making abilities directly cost death runes, this flexibility is lost.
Only to an extent. (Abilities like Blood Tap were really the intended solutions for flexibility.) Death Runes were also included just to add variation to the rotation so that it didn't become so predictable and metronome-like: Frost, Unholy, Blood, Blood, Frost+Unholy, Repeat.
Adding a Death Rune cost to some abilities is an elegant way to allow all 3 specs to fit an attack into their rotations. Otherwise, you'd see a lot of "Costs 2 Blood for Frost, and 1 Unholy and 1 Frost for Unholy" and so on. Some of these abilities are also talents -- if you hate Death Rune costs, skip over them.
Unholy's execute is much stronger than Frost's. In a vacuum, that sounds OK. You just have unholy do less damage in pre-execute stages, right? Damage is damage, right? But no, actually it causes all kinds of problems.
We just don't agree that these are really problems. Some classes and specs do more damage during Execute phases and some don't. We don't want every spec to perform equally in every possible situation (largely because the only reasonable way to deliver on that would be for everyone to work exactly the same). We just want reasonable players to feel like they can choose the spec they want to play. We don't anticipate a great deal of "Okay everyone, switch to Frost for this fight," or at least not because of Soul Reaper.
Why do 2H frost and DW frost have to play differently, when it has proven impossible to balance? Why can't switching from DW to 2H be a purely cosmetic change?
Because it's boring. Why not make switching from Frost to Unholy spec be purely cosmetic since that would be easier to balance too? We like that dual-wield (for any class) feels faster and that frequency of auto attacks influences your overall rotation. It adds interest for a DK who wants to try something else. It lets a player wonder if that shiny new axe that dropped is worth swapping to a different rotation or not.
Believe me, if we could go back to a world where equipping an axe felt different than equipping a sword, we'd do that too. It has just been historically challenging for us to provide enough weapons for everyone. Providing 1H Str weapons as well as 2H Str weapons hasn't been a serious issue.
Lastly, DKs already have 4 separately refreshing resources to manage (blood, frost, unholy runes and runic power). No other class in the entire game has more than two. Monks originally had three, but this was reduced to two because it was "too confusing". Asking DKs to manage death runes means we will now have five.
While we continue to tweak it, overall we like the DK resource model. It's definitely not a class for players who don't like resource management. The issue with the monk wasn't the number of resources -- there is nothing inherently magical about having 1 or 3 or 6 resources -- it's that the overall package wasn't intuitive. Players weren't sure if they were supposed to save up black and white chi or just use them as they came in. The monk abilities were also individually pretty complex, which is why we thought the resource model could be simpler. For DKs, several of the abilities are just various forms of damage and it's the resource model that provides the depth. Yet most DKs seem to grasp the basic mechanic of cheap diseases being necessary in order to make the more expensive double rune "finishers" do decent damage.
Frost presence is too good. It forced you to degrade base runic power generation way too far. DW frost is 100% GCD-locked at all times..
We agree this is a problem. We think it would feel better if Frost Presence didn't provide so much Runic Power. The problem is that it has to in order to be competitive with Unholy Presence. It would be goofy if, in order to compete with Frost Presence, Unholy Presence only lowered the cooldown of abilities by 0.1 sec.
One potential solution we might try is just to give Frost and Unholy Presence a 1 sec GCD (or all DKs for that matter), lower the Runic Power from Frost Presence and give Unholy Presence a different bonus. We generally have shifted classes that are resource constrained to having a 1 sec GCD, and most existing DKs are already pretty used to it.
(As an aside, it's interesting from a game design nerd point of view to look at the history of stances / presences / auras / seals / aspects / armors in WoW and even other games. Usually when there is supposed to be a choice between two modes that convey different bonuses, there nearly always ends up not being a choice, or else the answer becomes to stance dance frequently. With the exception of needing to be in "healer mode" or "tank mode" the overall modal design has some non-trivial problems. But I digress.)
While I admire the persistence of my fellow DKs, and agree fully with the above issues, I can't help but look at the plethora of ignored threads that exist and throw my hands up in despair.
Not helpful. You guys have an enormous capacity to influence the quality of these forums. We're not going to ban our way to a higher level of discussion, nor are the busy developers going to post every time someone feels neglected. Post your feedback. If you have done so, then consider your job done. Once you go from posting feedback on the game to posting about about how we have not yet responded to or acted upon your feedback, then you are doing damage to the forum discussion. Think like a good newspaper or magazine writer - make sure the most important part of your message gets across. Don't distract from that message with a bunch of clutter or needless posts (including shameless bumps).
Consider this: it is not in your best interest to make it harder for community managers or developers to find actionable, detailed, constructive feedback.
I try not to make it a habit of posting in really whiny threads, so if you don't get a response, that is certainly one potential reason why. It's far more likely though that we are just really busy and reading takes much less time than responding.
Unholy will have the best execute in the game by a fairly large margin. The spec was balanced around its extremely strong execute. That means that the spec does pretty terrible damage when not in execute range.
Last I looked, Soul Reaper is like 7% of Unholy damage and 4% for Frost. If you guys think the numbers work out differently, then let us know, but it's helpful to provide documentation. (Please understand that the class team doesn't have the bandwidth to debug everyone's theorycrafting - it's nothing personal.) Frost vs. Unholy DPS is pretty close in our internal tests. Once we see more players posting beta fight parses, we'll make sure our internal tests match reality.
Besides, single-minded Fury warriors probably have "the best execute in the game by a fairly large margin."
Could you please address our Level 90 talents as they relate to PvE content? Is it your intention that this is a PvP-only tier?
It's a narrow-minded view, IMHO, to call anything that isn't +damage a PvP ability. There are plenty of raid bosses where crowd control is vital. It's really useful in challenge modes and scenarios as well. If you're running relatively easy content and never crowd controlling anything, then no, crowd control abilities aren't going to be as useful to you, but if every ability in WoW has to be +damage and every encounter has to be only about how quickly you DPS something down, then that narrows our design space quite a bit.
The problem with the DK 90 row when it did damage was then all of those abilities had to be factored into DPS rotations, which meant you were balanced around using them on cooldown, which also meant they likely weren't available when you did need to Gorefiend's Grasp someone. (This point isn't just relevant to DKs either.)
Abilities costing death runes isn't intuitive or even interesting. It's complexity for the sake of complexity.
You're entitled to your opinion of course, but we thought it was less confusing than having Necrotic Strike and Soul Reaper cost different resources for different specs, or worse, having three differently named abilities that essentially did the same thing. We could have tried a Runic Power implementation, but then the abilities would be used more frequently than we intended, so they'd also need longer cooldowns or something else and they'd compete with abilities like Frost Strike. It's just a different design.
What happened with our windfury raid haste buff? Is it gone for good or coming back at some stage?
Yes, it's just a bug that it's missing. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Hunter (Forums)
Ranged Weapon Visibility
Ranged weapons will show up sheathed on your back. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums
It's a bit more "organized" since Garrosh took the reins. Though, his organization style may not be the most impartial. After awhile you get used to where things are and how to get there. The same goes for Undercity (even though people say they get lost there.)
They're like any city you visit for the first time. It's going to take you a bit to figure out where the bank is, or where the auction house is, how to get to flight masters etc, but after a bit, it will be like coming "home". (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Death Knight (Forums)Compendium of Issues
Death runes were designed to provide flexibility to an otherwise inflexible rune resource. By making abilities directly cost death runes, this flexibility is lost.
Only to an extent. (Abilities like Blood Tap were really the intended solutions for flexibility.) Death Runes were also included just to add variation to the rotation so that it didn't become so predictable and metronome-like: Frost, Unholy, Blood, Blood, Frost+Unholy, Repeat.
Adding a Death Rune cost to some abilities is an elegant way to allow all 3 specs to fit an attack into their rotations. Otherwise, you'd see a lot of "Costs 2 Blood for Frost, and 1 Unholy and 1 Frost for Unholy" and so on. Some of these abilities are also talents -- if you hate Death Rune costs, skip over them.
Unholy's execute is much stronger than Frost's. In a vacuum, that sounds OK. You just have unholy do less damage in pre-execute stages, right? Damage is damage, right? But no, actually it causes all kinds of problems.
We just don't agree that these are really problems. Some classes and specs do more damage during Execute phases and some don't. We don't want every spec to perform equally in every possible situation (largely because the only reasonable way to deliver on that would be for everyone to work exactly the same). We just want reasonable players to feel like they can choose the spec they want to play. We don't anticipate a great deal of "Okay everyone, switch to Frost for this fight," or at least not because of Soul Reaper.
Why do 2H frost and DW frost have to play differently, when it has proven impossible to balance? Why can't switching from DW to 2H be a purely cosmetic change?
Because it's boring. Why not make switching from Frost to Unholy spec be purely cosmetic since that would be easier to balance too? We like that dual-wield (for any class) feels faster and that frequency of auto attacks influences your overall rotation. It adds interest for a DK who wants to try something else. It lets a player wonder if that shiny new axe that dropped is worth swapping to a different rotation or not.
Believe me, if we could go back to a world where equipping an axe felt different than equipping a sword, we'd do that too. It has just been historically challenging for us to provide enough weapons for everyone. Providing 1H Str weapons as well as 2H Str weapons hasn't been a serious issue.
Lastly, DKs already have 4 separately refreshing resources to manage (blood, frost, unholy runes and runic power). No other class in the entire game has more than two. Monks originally had three, but this was reduced to two because it was "too confusing". Asking DKs to manage death runes means we will now have five.
While we continue to tweak it, overall we like the DK resource model. It's definitely not a class for players who don't like resource management. The issue with the monk wasn't the number of resources -- there is nothing inherently magical about having 1 or 3 or 6 resources -- it's that the overall package wasn't intuitive. Players weren't sure if they were supposed to save up black and white chi or just use them as they came in. The monk abilities were also individually pretty complex, which is why we thought the resource model could be simpler. For DKs, several of the abilities are just various forms of damage and it's the resource model that provides the depth. Yet most DKs seem to grasp the basic mechanic of cheap diseases being necessary in order to make the more expensive double rune "finishers" do decent damage.
Frost presence is too good. It forced you to degrade base runic power generation way too far. DW frost is 100% GCD-locked at all times..
We agree this is a problem. We think it would feel better if Frost Presence didn't provide so much Runic Power. The problem is that it has to in order to be competitive with Unholy Presence. It would be goofy if, in order to compete with Frost Presence, Unholy Presence only lowered the cooldown of abilities by 0.1 sec.
One potential solution we might try is just to give Frost and Unholy Presence a 1 sec GCD (or all DKs for that matter), lower the Runic Power from Frost Presence and give Unholy Presence a different bonus. We generally have shifted classes that are resource constrained to having a 1 sec GCD, and most existing DKs are already pretty used to it.
(As an aside, it's interesting from a game design nerd point of view to look at the history of stances / presences / auras / seals / aspects / armors in WoW and even other games. Usually when there is supposed to be a choice between two modes that convey different bonuses, there nearly always ends up not being a choice, or else the answer becomes to stance dance frequently. With the exception of needing to be in "healer mode" or "tank mode" the overall modal design has some non-trivial problems. But I digress.)
While I admire the persistence of my fellow DKs, and agree fully with the above issues, I can't help but look at the plethora of ignored threads that exist and throw my hands up in despair.
Not helpful. You guys have an enormous capacity to influence the quality of these forums. We're not going to ban our way to a higher level of discussion, nor are the busy developers going to post every time someone feels neglected. Post your feedback. If you have done so, then consider your job done. Once you go from posting feedback on the game to posting about about how we have not yet responded to or acted upon your feedback, then you are doing damage to the forum discussion. Think like a good newspaper or magazine writer - make sure the most important part of your message gets across. Don't distract from that message with a bunch of clutter or needless posts (including shameless bumps).
Consider this: it is not in your best interest to make it harder for community managers or developers to find actionable, detailed, constructive feedback.
I try not to make it a habit of posting in really whiny threads, so if you don't get a response, that is certainly one potential reason why. It's far more likely though that we are just really busy and reading takes much less time than responding.
Unholy will have the best execute in the game by a fairly large margin. The spec was balanced around its extremely strong execute. That means that the spec does pretty terrible damage when not in execute range.
Last I looked, Soul Reaper is like 7% of Unholy damage and 4% for Frost. If you guys think the numbers work out differently, then let us know, but it's helpful to provide documentation. (Please understand that the class team doesn't have the bandwidth to debug everyone's theorycrafting - it's nothing personal.) Frost vs. Unholy DPS is pretty close in our internal tests. Once we see more players posting beta fight parses, we'll make sure our internal tests match reality.
Besides, single-minded Fury warriors probably have "the best execute in the game by a fairly large margin."
Could you please address our Level 90 talents as they relate to PvE content? Is it your intention that this is a PvP-only tier?
It's a narrow-minded view, IMHO, to call anything that isn't +damage a PvP ability. There are plenty of raid bosses where crowd control is vital. It's really useful in challenge modes and scenarios as well. If you're running relatively easy content and never crowd controlling anything, then no, crowd control abilities aren't going to be as useful to you, but if every ability in WoW has to be +damage and every encounter has to be only about how quickly you DPS something down, then that narrows our design space quite a bit.
The problem with the DK 90 row when it did damage was then all of those abilities had to be factored into DPS rotations, which meant you were balanced around using them on cooldown, which also meant they likely weren't available when you did need to Gorefiend's Grasp someone. (This point isn't just relevant to DKs either.)
Abilities costing death runes isn't intuitive or even interesting. It's complexity for the sake of complexity.
You're entitled to your opinion of course, but we thought it was less confusing than having Necrotic Strike and Soul Reaper cost different resources for different specs, or worse, having three differently named abilities that essentially did the same thing. We could have tried a Runic Power implementation, but then the abilities would be used more frequently than we intended, so they'd also need longer cooldowns or something else and they'd compete with abilities like Frost Strike. It's just a different design.
What happened with our windfury raid haste buff? Is it gone for good or coming back at some stage?
Yes, it's just a bug that it's missing. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Hunter (Forums)Ranged Weapon Visibility
Ranged weapons will show up sheathed on your back. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums
Account Security Alert: LinkedIn
The Daily Blink - The Only Info We Really Care to Inspect
The Daily Blink proposes a different type of inspection update!
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Published on 2012-06-05 09:32 PM
Mists of Pandaria Beta - Build 15752
A new beta build will be deployed on beta realms soon. Don't miss the /flirt Pandaren emotes below!
New Models
A Celestial Serpent and Celestial Human were added in this build.
Pandaren Race Intro Audio
This is just the audio, we will update with the video as soon as we can!
Pet Battle Music
This is some of the music that will play during pet battles.
New Pandaren Emotes
The Pandaren got a few new emotes in this build!
New Loading Screens
Scarlet Halls and Terrace of Endless Spring have loading screens now.
New Items
For a full list of new items, check out WoWDB!
Achievement Changes
Exploration
Pet Battles
Pet Battles
Pandaria
Quests
Spell Changes
Druid (Forums)
Major Glyphs
Hunter (Forums)
Talents
Pets
Mage (Forums)
Talents
Fire
Monk (Forums)
Talents
Brewmaster
Mistweaver
Windwalker
Priest (Forums)
Talents
Discipline
Holy
Holy & Discipline
Shadow
Warlock (Forums)
Affliction
New and Updated Maps
Several maps were updated or had concept art added to them in this build.
Strings Changes
A new beta build will be deployed on beta realms soon. Don't miss the /flirt Pandaren emotes below!
New Models
A Celestial Serpent and Celestial Human were added in this build.
Pandaren Race Intro Audio
This is just the audio, we will update with the video as soon as we can!
Pet Battle Music
This is some of the music that will play during pet battles.
New Pandaren Emotes
The Pandaren got a few new emotes in this build!
New Loading Screens
Scarlet Halls and Terrace of Endless Spring have loading screens now.
New Items
For a full list of new items, check out WoWDB!
| Level | Type | Slot | Name | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90 | Junk | N/A | Ghost Iron Lockbox | |
| 1 | Junk | N/A | Krastinov's Bag of Horrors | |
| 1 | Quest | N/A | Nat's Fishing Journal | |
| 1 | Quest | N/A | Nat's Fishing Journal | |
| 414 | Armor | Trinket | Explosive Barrel | |
| 429 | Armor | Trinket | Dislodged Stinger | |
| 429 | Armor | Trinket | Nurong's Gun | |
| 500 | Sword | One Hand | Plasma Sword | |
| 1 | Spear | Main Hand | Sharpened Tuskarr Spear | |
| 419 | Food & Drink | N/A | Cup of Kafa | |
| 85 | Other | N/A | Iron Belly Spirits | |
| 85 | Other | N/A | Totem of Harmony | |
| 85 | Other | N/A | Exploding Keg | |
| 85 | Other | N/A | Trophy Wolf | |
| 419 | Other | N/A | Covered Basket | |
| 85 | Other | N/A | Jin Warmkeg's Brew | |
| 85 | Other | N/A | Trophy Fox | |
| 85 | Other | N/A | Ken Ken's Mask |
Achievement Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
KalimdorExploration
- R. P. Walker (New) Speak with Randall P. Walker in the following zones of Kalimdor.
Pet Battles
Pet Battles
- Newbie (New) Raise a pet to level 3.
Pandaria
Quests
- One Step at a Time - Complete The Crumbling Hall and The Thunder Below without taking damage from any source.
Spell Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Companions- Thundering Serpent Hatchling is now a battle pet.
Druid (Forums)Major Glyphs
- Glyph of Shred no longer removes the positional requirement from Ravage.
Hunter (Forums)- Fetch now has a 0.1 sec cast time.
Talents
- Narrow Escape now lasts until cancelled.
Pets
- Cackling Howl (New) The hyena lets out a cackling howl, increasing the melee and ranged attack speed of all party and raid members within 100 yards by 10% for 2 min. Instant. 1.5 min cooldown. Special Ability.
- Dust Cloud weakens the armor of the target by 4% for 30 sec. Stacks up to 3 times.
- Serpent's Swiftness (New) Increases the melee and ranged attack speed of all party and raid members within 100 yards by 10% for 2 min. Instant. 1.5 min cooldown. Special Ability.
- Tear Armor weakens the armor of the target by 4% for 30 sec. Stacks up to 3 times.
Mage (Forums)Talents
- Cauterize has a 2 minute cooldown.
Fire
- Pyroblast DoT damage remains the same, but is spread out over 18 sec instead of 12 sec.
Monk (Forums)- Legacy of the Emperor now costs 50 Energy / 6% of Base Mana, down from 60 Energy / 6% of Base Mana.
Talents
- Rushing Jade Wind no longer allows you to move at 100% speed while using Spinning Crane Kick after you cast Rushing Jade Wind.
- Zen Sphere had a tooltip fix to show damage at 460 + 65% of AP.
Brewmaster
- Avert Harm now works on nearby party and raid targets rather than all friendly targets.
- Breath of Fire had the bonus damage from when Dizzying Haze is on the target increased by 355%.
- Summon Black Ox Statue passive now absorbs 197.1% of AP + 50 damage, rather than 14,232.
Mistweaver
- Renewing Mist now also generates 1 Chi.
Windwalker
- Legacy of the White Tiger had the energy power cost reduced to 50, down from 60.
Priest (Forums)- Cascade is now instant cast, down from 3 sec. Range reduced to 40 yd from 100.
- Flash Heal now costs 6.6% of Base Mana, up from 6%.
- Halo: Creates a ring of Shadow energy around you that quickly expands and grows in power, up to 30 yds away. Deals up to (20,216 + 195.0% of SP) Shadow damage to enemies, and up to 0 healing to allies, with the greatest effect at 25 yds. 100 yd range. Instant.
- Halo: Creates a ring of Holy energy around you that quickly expands and grows in power, up to 30 yds away. Deals up to (20,216 + 195.0% of SP) Holy damage to enemies, and up to 0 healing to allies, with the greatest effect at 25 yds. 100 yd range. Instant.
- Prayer of Mending now costs 3.9% of Base Mana, up from 3.5%.
- Renew now costs 2.9% of Base Mana, up from 2.6%.
- Shadowfiend no longer grants this bonus effect for Shadow: Your Mind Flay critical strikes reduce the remaining cooldown of this ability by 10 sec.
Talents
- Archangel now has a 2 minute cooldown for the Dark Archangel portion of the spell.
- Mindbender no longer grants this bonus effect for Shadow: Your Mind Flay critical strikes reduce the remaining cooldown of this ability by 10 sec.
Discipline
- Meditation now allows 40% of your mana regeneration from Spirit to continue while in combat, up from 25%.
- Penance now costs 3.4% of Base Mana, up from 3.1%.
Holy
- Divine Hymn no longer has a maximum of 20 heals.
Holy & Discipline
- Greater Heal now costs 6.6% of Base Mana, up from 6%.
- Heal now costs 2.2% of Base Mana, up from 2%.
- Holy Fire is now a Holy & Discipline Specialization spell.
Shadow
- Devouring Plague had the healing component reworked: Also heals the caster for 1% of their maximum health when it deals direct damage, and 0.30% of their maximum health when it deals periodic damage. Damage and healing increased based on the number of Shadow Orbs consumed.
Warlock (Forums)Affliction
- Drain Soul now causes double the normal damage and your periodic damage spells tick 50% (was 100%) faster if the target is at or below 20% health.
- Malefic Grasp: Now your periodic damage spells tick 50% faster while afflicted by Malefic Grasp, down from 100%.
- Unstable Affliction base damage was increased by 100%.
New and Updated Maps
Several maps were updated or had concept art added to them in this build.
Strings Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
- AUTO_OPEN_LOOT_HISTORY_TEXT - Auto Open Loot Rolls Window|TInterface\\OptionsFrame\\UI-OptionsFrame-NewFeatureIcon:0:0:0:-1|t
- CHAT_MSG_WORLDDEFENSE_FORMAT - [%s] %s
- FEATURE_NOT_AVAILBLE_PANDAREN - This feature unlocks after you choose a faction.
- INSTANCE_PARTY_LEAVE - Leave Instance Group
- OPTION_TOOLTIP_AUTO_OPEN_LOOT_HISTORY - When checked, the Loot Rolls window will automatically open to show you your group members' rolls when Bind on Pickup items drop.
- SLASH_OPEN_LOOT_HISTORY1 - /loot
- SLASH_OPEN_LOOT_HISTORY2 - /loot
- SLASH_OPEN_LOOT_HISTORY3 - /lootrolls
- SLASH_OPEN_LOOT_HISTORY4 - /lootrolls
- SPELL_FAILED_CUSTOM_ERROR_165 - You have already sampled sap from this Feeder.
- SPELL_FAILED_CUSTOM_ERROR_166 - Requires you to be near a Mantid Feeder in the Heart of Fear.
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