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Patch 8.0.1 Hotfixes - September 18, 2018, Blue Posts 

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chaud
Published on 2018-09-19 04:53 AM

Patch 8.0.1 Hotfixes - September 18, 2018
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Classes

Dungeons and Raids
  • Scarlet Monastery
    • Scarlet Fanatic’s Hands of Purity no longer deals excessive damage.
  • The Underrot
    • Ticks now do less damage and spawn in smaller numbers.
    • Unbound Abomination now spawns pools of Vile Expulsion around him.
  • Uldir
    • Fetid Devourer
      • Corruption Corpuscle health reduced by 10% on Mythic difficulty.

Island Expeditions
  • The bonus XP reward for completing a normal Island Expedition has been increased.

Player versus Player
  • The PvP Brawl first win of the day now properly awards 40 Conquest.
  • The Seasonal PvP Mount now properly indicates you need Combatant Rated PvP rank or higher to earn it.
  • Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
    • Feral
      • Earthen Grasp now only affects melee hit chance, and no longer reduces spell hit chance.

Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
X Exalted Reputation Achievements
Do you have any info on how Reps that you have to pick 1 of two will count? like oracles/frenzyheart and scryers/aldor? if I have 2 characters 1 with each does it count as 2 or do only 1 of the reps count.
It should count as 1. The intention is not to nerf the achievement or raise the number of reps you can have exalted at once, just to make it ease the burdens of alts/character-switching. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

WoW Token Price
From end of July 2018 to today the WoW Token price has dropped by half.
Make of that metric what you will but it tells me that such a steep decline in such a short timeframe is not a good thing.
This means that more people are buying the Tokens with real money faster than those buying the token with gold. Thus causing the price to fall. It unfortunately means a little less gold for your token, but the market dictates that is how much it's worth at the moment. Lot's of gold is moving around as its still the start of an expansion. It's pretty normal.

In fact it means the opposite of what you're proposing, its good for WoW as a whole because it means people are buying plenty of tokens to sell for gold. Slightly negative for token sellers if anything.

I totally see the point you're making though, in that it implies less people are buying tokens with gold. Which isn't necessarily the truth but rather the value of those selling them for gold has drastically changed causing the price to fall.

It’s because the Legion mission tables don’t give gold anymore. I was making 100K/day. Now I make like 5K a day
I think we're still a little too early to see the impact of that within the tokens but it will definitely have an impact in the long run.

I totally see the point you're making though, in that it implies less people are buying tokens with gold. Which isn't necessarily the truth but rather the value of those selling them for gold has drastically changed causing the price to fall.

And I think there's more to the equation than A + B = C.

It's very hard to imply or interpret player interest through a single point of data.[/i]
Definitely true as well! It's a little harder to infer fully the impact of the token within the economy as you guys don't have sight on the buying and selling rates. I'm pretty sure people can pick up on what I implied though in my explanation. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Weekly Conquest Reward
To clarify, the weekly conquest item (from the conquest cap quest, not the chest) gives a set item level. This does not increase based upon your rating. However, it could be boosted to an item level corresponding to your current rank with a Battleborn Sigil. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
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Elemental Shaman Changes in Patch 8.1, Account Wide Reputation Achievements 

by
chaud
Published on 2018-09-18 10:42 PM

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Elemental Shaman Changes in Patch 8.1
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
As the patch 8.1.0 information starts to comes out, we wanted to share the current plans of what is being changed for Elemental Shaman.

Core Ability Changes:
  • Shifted some damage from Earth Shock to Lightning Bolt.

    Elemental Shaman is the only lightning based spell caster. However, over time, Lightning Bolt has gone from being a significant portion of your total damage to one of your least damaging abilities. It should be a powerful and effective spell for you to cast, and not something that feels like a burden to your rotation. Earth Shock will still be your hardest hitting spell, but Lightning Bolt should feel a bit better as part of your rotation.

  • Lava Burst has had its functionality changed behind the scenes to allow an in-flight Lava Burst to gain a guaranteed critical strike from a Flame Shock cast after the Lava Burst has been cast.

    This change should help your initial spells cast against a monster, boss, enemy player, or whatever else feel much better. You can cast Lava Burst before combat, and when it finishes, cast Flame Shock, and the Lava Burst will gain the critical strike benefit from your Flame Shock.

Talent Changes:
  • The level 15 talent Elemental Blast will now always pick a different secondary stat buff when causing an Elemental Overload.
  • The level 30 talent Master of the Elements can now also benefit a Physical damage spell, allowing it to increase the damage of an Earthquake.
  • The level 100 talent Stormkeeper now also increases the damage of your next two Lightning Bolts by 250% in addition to its existing effects. This damage bonus will also apply to the Elemental Overloads of Lightning Bolt from Stormkeeper.

    The Master of the Elements and Stormkeeper changes are primarily to help keep balance between single target damage and area damage of the talent rows. Master of the Elements will now affect your next Earthquake spell to keep the talent more competitive when dealing area damage, and Stormkeeper will grant you two really powerful Lightning Bolts that also cause Elemental Overloads when fighting just a single target.

  • The level 15 talent Exposed Elements has been removed, and the level 90 talent Earthen Rage has taken its place
  • The level 60 talent High Voltage has been removed.
  • New talent in the level 60 row: Call the Thunder
  • New talent in the level 90 row: Surge of Power

When looking at the whole sum of changes made to Elemental Shaman this expansion, we feel that some of the passive talent choices weren’t holding up well, and had no interaction with how you played the game at all. We’re adding some experimental new talents that should allow some additional decision making on how you choose to use some of your abilities. Please keep in mind that both of these new talents, as well as all of the other changes, are still under iteration and may change entirely throughout the patch 8.1.0 PTR cycle.

Just as a quick update, here's the current version of the experimental new talents that will be hitting the PTR soon. Reminder that these are experimental, the PTR is for testing, we'll probably iterate on or completely replace these designs, etc.

Call the Thunder - Your maximum Maelstrom is increased by 30, and the Maelstrom cost of Earth Shock and Earthquake is reduced by 10.

Surge of Power - Earth Shock also enhances your next spell:
  • Flame Shock: The next cast does not incur a cooldown.
  • Lightning Bolt: Your next 3 casts will cause an additional Elemental Overload.
  • Lava Burst: Reduces the cooldown of your Fire (or Storm) Elemental by 6 sec.
  • Frost Shock: Roots the target in place for 6 sec.

Account Wide Reputation Achievements
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Does this mean for example I'm halfway through honored with 7th legion on this toon. If I get on another alt and level through the 3 zones doing the questline that also give 7th legion rep that will count towards rep on this toon as well and I should be revered? Or vice versa all my alts should be halfway honored when they enter bfa?

Rep gain won't be account wide, however progress towards the achievement will.

Say for example I have Character A that I haven't touched since Wrath, that has all of the previous reps exalted (not using exact numbers here just making an example). Let's say we have 20 reputations at exalted on this character that are unique.

Now I play Character B that I haven't touched those reps with, because I just don't want to grind them again. Let's say this character has 40 unique reputations that Character A doesn't have at exalted. Since its the highest progressed character the achievement only looks at this character. Meaning that I just have 40 reps as far as the achievement is concerned.

Now once I've logged into both of those characters when this change is added into the game, I will then receive credit towards the achievement tracker and I would now show as having 60 reputations on that achievement. So I effectively don't have to go back and get those reps again, unless I want to make my Rep window look pretty.

Any word on how it will treat faction exclusive reps?
They will uniquely act as a singular rep to avoid double credit, similar with how mounts are tracked.

So if you have exalted 7th Legion on your Alliance character, and exalted with Honorbound on your Horde. Then your account only has credit for 1 of those 2 reps in the achievement tracker. Account wise they're the same rep.
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Upcoming Content Patch - Developer Live Stream 

by
chaud
Published on 2018-09-18 05:56 PM

Upcoming Content Patch - Developer Live Stream
Patch 8.1 - Tides of Vengeance is coming to the PTR this week!



Tides of Vengeance
  • The Horde and Alliance conflict may feel more distant right now, but that's all about to change.
  • Tides of Vengeance is the next update!
  • Coming to the PTR by the end of the week!

New Content
  • The War Campaign continues.
  • Incursions are coming - Similar to Legion Assaults. Horde/Alliance forces will invade an area, turning off World Quests, and adding an objective for the area.
  • New World Quests are coming.
  • Saurfang, Tyrande, and Vol'jin story lines will be advanced.
  • Heritage Armor is coming for other races: Dwarves and Blood Elves. It is unlocked via a racial quest, Exalted and Max Level? You can log in, do the quest, and unlock it!
  • New Warfront - The Battle for Darkshore. Night Elves vs Forsaken. New Structures and Upgrades. Darkshore will have max level character content and zone updates.

Island Expeditions
  • Two New Island Expeditions - Jorundall (Vrykul) and Havenswood (Gilnean City)
  • Island Expeditions will have new events and enemies, more variety, holdouts that can be triggered, and Azerite Extraction points that you'll have to depend.
  • Island Expeditions will have major spawning improvements. Won't be uniformly blanketed by spawns. More clusters and hubs, more gaps, more navigability between hubs.

New Raids
  • Siege of Zuldazar
    • Different than any raid before.
    • The enemy is the opposite faction, with separate faction experiences.
    • Alliance start at the docks and climb the pyramid, eventually fighting King Rastakhan.
    • The Horde will defend the city, starting outside on the far north of the pyramid. They fight towards Rastakhan, which will be the middle of the raid for them. They then fight Alliance forces down towards harbor, ending with Alliance commanders and Jaina on the high seas.
    • This is two separate six boss experiences.
    • After completing the faction specific experience, you'll be able to experience the other 3 faction bosses that you didn't get to experience firsthand.
    • There are a total of nine new boss encounters.
    • We'll see a new interior of the pyramid that we've never seen before.
  • Crucible of Storms
    • This raid has two bosses and is located under Stormsong Valley,
    • It will be released after Zuldazar.
    • There will be supporting world content.
    • Hints at influence of Queen Azshara

System Improvements
  • Class updates, new Azerite Traits, new profession recipes, Gnomeregan Pet Battle Dungeon, and more!
  • Team has learned from the Azerite Traits, current ones are a floor in terms of complexity, new traits with more complexity coming.
  • Replacements are coming for traits that are not interesting or effective.
  • In the past, first Tier set bonuses were simpler, with more complex ones coming later.
  • Map and Reputation improvements are coming.
  • Champion of Azeroth reputation will be effectively account wide. If you are already Revered, you can level an alt and go get your upgrades right away at Level 120.
  • Reputation restricted transmog items will have restrictions removed.
  • Progress towards the X Number of Exalted reputations achievements will be account wide.
  • In the events following the raid, we should be able to recruit the Kul Tiran and Zandalari Allied Races. If you are Exalted with the Zandalari / Proudmoore and played through the War Campaign, that's enough, nothing additional to do.
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Patch 8.0.1 Hotfixes - Sept 17, PvP Scaling, Azurethos, Pet Battle Event 

by
Stoy
Published on 2018-09-18 03:17 PM

Vanilla WoW Developer Q&A - Submit Questions for John Staats

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Heroes of the Storm PTR Patch Notes - September 17, 2018

Reminder - Developer Live Stream Today at 11 AM PDT
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
With Battle for Azeroth in full swing, we’re sitting down with Game Director Ion Hazzikostas to get a peek at the next content update.

Join us live on Twitch Tuesday, September 18 at 11:00 a.m. PDT.

Patch 8.0.1 Hotfixes - September 17th, 2018
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Classes

Dungeons and Raids
  • Shrine of the Storm
  • Uldir
    • G’huun
      • Bursting Boils should no longer spawn close to the boss.

Items

Player versus Player
  • Hook Point Arena has reopened for play.
  • Epic Battlegrounds now award bonus Conquest for first win of the day (was the first win of the week).
  • Fixed a bug that caused Enlistment Bonus gained from participating in battlegrounds as a Mercenary to not increase Honor gain from some sources.
  • The absorb granted by Mchimba's Ritual Bandages is reduced by 55% while engaged in combat with enemy players.
  • The absorb granted by Xalzaix's Veiled Eye is reduced by 70% while engaged in combat with enemy players.

Professions
  • Hydrocores now have a chance to drop off the final bosses of BfA dungeons in Heroic difficulty.
  • Inscription
    • [With weekly maintenance in each region] The strength of Vantus Runes has been reduced to the same potency they had in Legion.
      • Developers’ notes: Vantus runes are a unique consumable that provide an extra boost when your raid group is focusing on a single boss. But if they’re too powerful, they can create a sense of regression as you try to re-kill the boss without their aid in subsequent weeks.

Quests

PvP Scaling Clarification on Twitter
PvP Game Designer Chris Kaleiki clarified on Twitter how PvP scaling works!






In Remembrance: The Harvest Festival Has Begun
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
The yearly Harvest Festival is now underway in Azeroth. This is a solemn time when the Alliance honors Uther the Lightbringer by lighting a candle at his tomb in the Western Plaguelands, while members of the Horde show their respect to Grommash Hellscream by leaving a bottle of spirits at the base of the Hellscream Memorial in Demon Fall Canyon in Ashenvale.

When: September 18-25
Where: Outside Ironforge and Orgrimmar

Commemorate those who have sacrificed their lives to help friends and allies. Feasts are also held outside Ironforge and Orgrimmar in honor of these fallen heroes.

Azurethos, The Winged Typhoon - Tiragarde Sound World Boss
Azurethos is this week's BfA world boss!


LevelTypeSlotNameModel Viewer
355TrinketTrinketPlume of the Seaborne Avian
355TrinketTrinketGalecaller's Beak
355TrinketTrinketAzurethos' Singed Plumage
355ClothFeetSandals of Rustling Rage
 Modelviewer
355ClothHandsWindcaller's Down Handwraps
 Modelviewer
355LeatherChestChestguard of Dire Winds
 Modelviewer
355LeatherFeetFootpads of the Encircling Storm
 Modelviewer
355MailHeadFeathered Galeforce Crest
 Modelviewer
355MailWristsBindings of the Winged Typhoon
 Modelviewer
355PlateLegsRoost-Defender's Legguards
 Modelviewer
355PlateFeetGalebreaker's Sabatons
 Modelviewer



Island Expeditions for Week of September 18th, 2018
The islands expeditions for the week are Verdant Wilds, Whispering Reef and Skittering Hollow!




Weekly Bonus Event - Pet Battles
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
An extra weekly quest and rewards are here— the Pet Battles bonus event is underway!

This Week
All week, get out there and fight with your mighty minions. When the time comes to take on other players, open your Pet Journal and hit the “Find Battle” button to be matched up with an opponent whose team is competitive with yours.

Look for the following all week long:

  • The Adventure Guide has a quest for you.
  • Passive bonus: All Pet Battle experience gains are increased by +200%.

Call to Arms: Drustvar
This week's Call to Arms is Call to Arms: Drustvar or Call to Arms: Drustvar. Head to Drustvar with warmode enabled to kill 10 players of the opposing faction. You no longer have to loot an air supply! This will reward you with conquest and 75 reputation for either 7th Legion or The Honorbound.

Also, if you capped your conquest last week you can now work towards this week's reward, a pair of ilvl 355 gloves!


PvP Brawl: Shado-Pan Showdown
The PvP brawl for the week is Shado-Pan Showdown, so use the PvP Group Finder to complete Something Different!
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Step into Tiger’s Peak Arena and get ready for the Shadow-Pan Showdown. You’ll race for control of a center control point to activate one of two bosses. The first to kill the other team’s boss wins!
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Azerite Trait Tuning September 17 

by
Stoy
Published on 2018-09-18 02:10 AM

Vanilla WoW Developer Q&A - Submit Questions for John Staats

Azerite Trait Tuning September 17
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
As mentioned in the Reddit AMA last Friday, we’re working on balance tuning for Azerite Armor traits. We’re planning to make the following changes during this week’s maintenance period. Note that there are more changes already in the works; this is just a first pass, focused on bringing some of the biggest outliers up (or down) to more acceptable levels.

General

Death Knight (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)

Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)

Hunter (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  • (Beast Mastery) Feeding Frenzy: Damage increased by 400%
  • (Marksmanship) Arcane Flurry: Duration increased to 10 seconds, damage reduced by 45%

Mage (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  • (Arcane) Brain Storm: Duration increased to 30 seconds, Intellect bonus reduced by 75%
  • (Fire) Firemind: Intellect bonus increased by 30%

Monk (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)

Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)

Shaman (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  • (Elemental/Enhancement) Natural Harmony: Secondary stat bonuses increased by 40%

Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  • (Affliction) Sudden Onset: Damage bonus reduced by 30%
  • (Demonology) Demonic Meteor: Damage increased by 200%
  • (Destruction) Flashpoint: Duration increased to 10 seconds, Haste bonus increased by 25%

Warrior (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
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