World Quest Group Finder, BM Hunter Changes, Blue Posts, Overwatch Hits 30M Players

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PTR Patch 2.6.0 45183

Weekend Wacky Wild Decks

World Quest Group Finder Updated
World Quest Group Finder has been updated to work with the recent addon changes. You now have to click a button in the center of the screen to trigger searching for and applying to groups.

Beast Mastery Hunter Changes in 7.2.5

Hi Beast Masters. We’ve been reading your feedback and trying different sets of changes for Beast Mastery Hunters internally and on PTR.

To start, we are reverting all 7.2.5 changes we’ve made so far to how Wild Call triggers. Instead, Dire Beast and Dire Frenzy will have 2 charges baseline. The Mantle of Command (legendary shoulders that currently add +1 charge to Dire Beast/Dire Frenzy) will be changed to instead further increase the proc chance of Wild Call.

Overall, this will result in more Focus for all Beast Mastery Hunters, resulting in a more active rotation. Additionally, this gives all Beast Mastery Hunters access to a Dire Beast/Dire Frenzy with 2 charges playstyle that is more engaging and fun, allowing you to make decisions on when to use the buttons, instead of feeling like you should most often simply push them on cooldown.

We’ve been trying other iterations of changes surrounding Dire Beast/Dire Frenzy and Wild Call, including increasing Dire Beast/Dire Frenzy Focus generation or versions that avoided changing the legendary shoulders drastically, but ultimately reached the conclusion that giving 2 charges to the abilities baseline, which many of you have asked for, was the best change for the spec at the current time. We appreciate your patience while we try different iterations on PTR.

We are also making a few other less major changes to the spec in the next PTR patch, including:

• Aspect of the Wild will reduce the global cooldowns of your damaging abilities by 0.2 seconds, allowing you to more reliably spend the Focus you’re generating while it's active, especially with Dire Beast/Dire Frenzy going off.
• Kill Command and Dire Frenzy will cause your pet/Hati to charge up to 40 yds (up from 25 yds) to the target, matching the max range of your ranged abilities.
• When your pet casts Dash, Hati will also gain Dash for the same duration.

FEEDBACK: Tomb Raid Finder Wing 1

Tomb of Sargeras is now open for testing Raid Finder difficulty. Specifically, the first wing (The Gates of Hell) is now available on the PTR. We expect to keep the wing open for the entire weekend.

Please use this thread for feedback and bug reports regarding the first wing encounters, or related issues. Noting the nature of your group (Mythic guild premade, PUG, etc.) is helpful, as are any logs.

Thank you to everyone helps test!

Blue Tweets

Relics
IN the Q&A you said relics would be throughput, yet all the rogue relics that drop off BS bosses are cloak, sprint etc
We dropped our preliminary "second bonus trait" plan. As always, the base properties of Relics span the entire range of available traits. (WarcraftDevs)

PvP
Good day indeed, how do you feel about the 50% dampening games?
Don't like it. We'll spend a lot of time looking into it. (holinka)
Do you feel like that causes another problem by making meta/balance changes with tournaments around the corner?
Yup. (holinka)

Auction House Dance Party
Please tell me the music for AH Dance Party is a placeholder..? Def doesn't make me want to dance... More beats plz!
It is (Muffinus)

Overwatch - 30 Million Players
Overwatch hit a new milestone recently, with 30 million players! This is after hitting 25 million players just 3 months ago, 20 million players 6 months ago, and 15 million players 9 months ago.

FinalBossTV #137 - Feral Druids
This week focuses on Feral Druids!

[Jester Joe]

An average rate of 5 million every 3 months is impressive I would say for Overwatch.

Also sounds like a good time to actually give my hunter a whirl finally.

[Teaon]

30m in less than a year, bro that is a insane, i mean wow got like 100m in 10 years.

seems overwatch is going to bypass wow in being best game blizzard made

[Feerles]

30m in less than a year, bro that is a insane, i mean wow got like 100m in 10 years.

seems overwatch is going to bypass wow in being best game blizzard made

no, it will not. Especially in revenue.

[Teaon]

no, it will not. Especially in revenue.

was talking about players number, however in wow you can easily count cash revenue via subs, but overwatch, you cannot figure how many people use the cashshop.

only blizzard knows.

[Daeveren]

was talking about players number, however in wow you can easily count cash revenue via subs

In wow things are blurry too nowadays, due to the fact that many people don't pay a subscription anymore, but pay with ingame gold.

[Phixion1]

30 Million COPIES SOLD - players is a marketing twist. Hell I haven't touched that game in MONTHS.

[Nevcairiel]

In wow things are blurry too nowadays, due to the fact that many people don't pay a subscription anymore, but pay with ingame gold.

Thats not very blurry, as Blizzard still gets money for every subscription, just another player doing the paying.

[DaGhostDS]

In wow things are blurry too nowadays, due to the fact that many people don't pay a subscription anymore, but pay with ingame gold.

They gain an extra 25% revenue due to that and cut on RMT spam, slightly.

Not like they couldn't count that as "subscribers" since it's just someone else paying for the token.

[Deathknight1700]

The change to WQGF is the dumbest yet, why should we have to press 3 buttons to get into a group now instead of just 1...It's like Windows Vista asking you to confirm that you want to start WoW and then asking, "Are you ABSOLUTELY SURE you want to start World of Warcraft?"

[Queen of Hamsters]

- Aspect of the Wild will reduce the global cooldowns of your damaging abilities by 0.2 seconds, allowing you to more reliably spend the Focus you’re generating while it's active, especially with Dire Beast/Dire Frenzy going off.
- Kill Command and Dire Frenzy will cause your pet/Hati to charge up to 40 yds (up from 25 yds) to the target, matching the max range of your ranged abilities.
- When your pet casts Dash, Hati will also gain Dash for the same duration.

THERE IS A RNGesus, AND HE IS GOOD TO US!!!

Especially the lowered GCD... I might cry a bit... :')

[HitRefresh]

In wow things are blurry too nowadays, due to the fact that many people don't pay a subscription anymore, but pay with ingame gold.

That doesn't really make sense, the people paying in gold are buying a subscription PAID FOR by somebody. And not even at standard subscription cost, they're paying an extra 33%. It just lets the people who have more money to spend spend more while keeping players who do not.

[Queen of Hamsters]

In wow things are blurry too nowadays, due to the fact that many people don't pay a subscription anymore, but pay with ingame gold.

They still count as subs, and their payment being in gold nets Blizzard more actual money even so.
For a sub, I pay 12 euro. For a wow token to sell, I'd pay 20 euro. I buy my sub with gold, and thus create demand for wow tokens which someone else has to pay 20 euro for.

There's nothing blurry about it.

[needbrainholinka]

left OW already shit game thats just entered all tımee players tıme lul

[Kazlehoff]

Hi Beast Masters. We’ve been reading your feedback

https://youtu.be/pYzOQFpGPYE?t=9s

To start, we are reverting all 7.2.5 changes we’ve made so far to how Wild Call triggers. Instead, Dire Beast and Dire Frenzy will have 2 charges baseline. The Mantle of Command (legendary shoulders that currently add +1 charge to Dire Beast/Dire Frenzy) will be changed to instead further increase the proc chance of Wild Call.

https://youtu.be/pYzOQFpGPYE?t=18s

Kill Command and Dire Frenzy will cause your pet/Hati to charge up to 40 yds (up from 25 yds) to the target, matching the max range of your ranged abilities.
When your pet casts Dash, Hati will also gain Dash for the same duration.

https://youtu.be/pYzOQFpGPYE?t=33s

[Super Kami Dende]

30 Million COPIES SOLD - players is a marketing twist. Hell I haven't touched that game in MONTHS.

good for you? Would still be 30 million different accounts so what does it matter?

[Lolsteak]

good for you? Would still be 30 million different accounts so what does it matter?

Overwatch relies on boxes for revenue past the initial sale, Inactive accounts aren't buying boxes.

[DTJames]

The change to WQGF is the dumbest yet, why should we have to press 3 buttons to get into a group now instead of just 1...It's like Windows Vista asking you to confirm that you want to start WoW and then asking, "Are you ABSOLUTELY SURE you want to start World of Warcraft?"

Better than not having addon and actually have to open up group finder and manually find it, oh the horror!

[Kathranis]

Overwatch relies on boxes for revenue past the initial sale, Inactive accounts aren't buying boxes.

Overwatch relies on whales for revenue past the initial sale. Doesn't really matter how many inactive accounts there are if every time a new event crops up a bunch of whales drop a hundred dollars on the game.

[Lolsteak]

Overwatch relies on whales for revenue past the initial sale. Doesn't really matter how many inactive accounts there are if every time a new event crops up a bunch of whales drop a hundred dollars on the game.

I think you misunderstand, Inactive accounts have no chance of purchasing microtransactions, Active accounts do.

Whales don't make up 100% of the income, Normal people buy microtransactions too.