Cataclysm Animation, Heart of Fear This Week, Lor'themar Audio, Blue Posts, TCG Art

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1.0.5 Undocumented Changes, Blue Posts, Curse Weekly Roundup

Patch 5.1: Cataclysm Animation Updated
In Patch 5.1, Warlocks will get a new spell: Cataclysm. The animations has been toned down from the original version.

Reminder: Normal Difficulty Heart of Fear Opens This Week
Don't forget that Normal difficulty Heart of Fear is opening this week! Heroic and Raid Finder difficulty will open next week.

• Ta'yak
• Zor'lok
• Garalon
• Mel'jarak
• Un'sok
• Shek'zeer

Level	Type	Spec	Slot	Name
496	Finger	Melee	Finger	Ring of the Bladed Tempest
496	Neck	Physical DPS	Neck	Choker of the Unleashed Storm
496	Off Hand	Spell DPS	Held In Off-hand	Tornado-Summoning Censer
496	Cloth	Spell Spirit	Feet	Boots of the Blowing Wind
496	Back	Spell Spirit	Back	Drape of Gathering Clouds
496	Cloth	Spell DPS	Wrists	Twisting Wind Bracers
496	Leather	Physical DPS	Wrists	Bracers of Unseen Strikes
496	Leather	Spell DPS	Head	Hood of Stilled Winds
496	Mail	Spell Spirit	Wrists	Bracers of Tempestuous Fury
496	Mail	Spell Spirit	Hands	Kaz'tik's Stormseizer Gauntlets
496	Mail	Physical DPS	Legs	Sword Dancer's Leggings
496	Plate	Tank	Hands	Windblade Talons
496	Plate	Melee	Waist	Waistplate of Overwhelming Assault

Level	Type	Spec	Slot	Name
496	Finger	Tank	Finger	Vizier's Ruby Signet
496	Neck	Physical DPS	Neck	Pheromone-Coated Choker
496	Finger	Spell DPS	Finger	Fragment of Fear Made Flesh
496	Back	Melee	Back	Hisek's Chrysanthemum Cape
496	Cloth	Spell Spirit	Feet	Scent-Soaked Sandals
496	Cloth	Spell Spirit	Hands	Gloves of Grasping Claws
496	Cloth	Spell DPS	Wrists	Attenuating Bracers
496	Leather	Spell Spirit	Hands	Gauntlets of Undesired Gifts
496	Leather	Physical DPS	Feet	Boots of the Still Breath
496	Mail	Spell Spirit	Chest	Mail of Screaming Secrets
496	Mail	Physical DPS	Chest	Zor'lok's Fizzing Chestguard
496	Plate	Tank	Legs	Articulated Legplates
496	Plate	Melee	Waist	Warbelt of Sealed Pods
496	Plate	Spell Spirit	Chest	Chestplate of the Forbidden Tower

Level	Type	Spec	Slot	Name
496	Finger	Tank	Finger	Ring of the Shattered Shell
496	Neck	Melee	Neck	Necklace of Congealed Weaknesses
496	Cloth	Spell Spirit	Shoulders	Shoulders of Foaming Fluids
496	Back	Physical DPS	Back	Legbreaker Greatcloak
496	Cloth	Spell DPS	Head	Xaril's Hood of Intoxicating Vapors
496	Cloth	Spell DPS	Feet	Sandals of the Unbidden
496	Back	Spell DPS	Back	Stormwake Mistcloak
496	Leather	Spell Spirit	Chest	Robes of Eighty Lights
496	Leather	Physical DPS	Hands	Bonebreaker Gauntlets
496	Mail	Spell Spirit	Chest	Vestments of Steaming Ichor
496	Mail	Physical DPS	Hands	Grips of the Leviathan
496	Plate	Tank	Head	Garalon's Hollow Skull
496	Plate	Melee	Chest	Garalon's Graven Carapace
496	Plate	Spell Spirit	Hands	Grasps of Panic

Level	Type	Spec	Slot	Name
496	Junk			Gauntlets of the Shadowy Conqueror
496	Junk			Gauntlets of the Shadowy Protector
496	Junk			Gauntlets of the Shadowy Vanquisher
496	Neck	Spell Spirit	Neck	Korven's Amber-Sealed Beetle
496	Finger	Physical DPS	Finger	Painful Thorned Ring
496	Back	Tank	Back	Cloak of Raining Blades
496	Cloth	Spell Spirit	Chest	Robes of Torn Nightmares
496	Leather	Spell DPS	Hands	Clutches of Dying Hope
496	Mail	Physical DPS	Shoulders	Wingslasher Pauldrons
496	Plate	Melee	Feet	Impaling Treads

Level	Type	Spec	Slot	Name
496	Junk			Leggings of the Shadowy Conqueror
496	Junk			Leggings of the Shadowy Protector
496	Junk			Leggings of the Shadowy Vanquisher
496	Finger	Spell Spirit	Finger	Seal of the Profane
496	Cloth	Spell DPS	Waist	Belt of Malleable Amber
496	Leather	Physical DPS	Feet	Treads of Deadly Secretions
496	Mail	Physical DPS	Feet	Monstrous Stompers
496	Plate	Melee	Shoulders	Shoulderpads of Misshapen Life
496	One-handed Sword	Melee	One Hand	Scimitar of Seven Stars
496	Dagger	Spell Spirit	Main Hand	Un'sok's Amber Scalpel

Level	Type	Spec	Slot	Name
496	Junk			Chest of the Shadowy Conqueror
496	Junk			Chest of the Shadowy Protector
496	Junk			Chest of the Shadowy Vanquisher
496	Cloth	Spell DPS	Legs	Leggings of Shadow Infestation
496	Leather	Physical DPS	Shoulders	Shadow Heart Spaulders
496	Mail	Physical DPS	Head	Crown of the Doomed Empress
496	One-handed Mace	Spell Spirit	Main Hand	Kri'tak, Imperial Scepter of the Swarm
496	Fist Weapon	Physical DPS	One Hand	Claws of Shek'zeer

Patch 5.1: Lor'themar Audio
Lor'themar got a few more lines in the most recent PTR patch.

Blue Posts

Auction House in Shrine of 7 Stars/2Moons
It might be true that it was the same in Wotlk but doesn't mean it was a good idea. Also, The portal to Pandaria is only in SW meaning that other cities aren't much of an option. If you really want to spread the population out then make a portal to Pandaria in all major cities.
For the most part, we actually feel the method used in previous expansions and again here in Mists of Pandaria works well. We also don't believe it's very demanding asking most players to take just an extra few minutes to access an auction house. Obviously some players will want the most accessibility as quickly as possible, but to avoid overcrowding and to disperse the population, this is the best method of meeting those goals. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Blue Tweets

PvE
Don't want to double dip w/ rep and dungs,so what incentive to run dungs is there at all? Dailies = faster vp AND rep.Not fun.
ilevel 463 gear. The valor from them isn't bad either. (Source)

When will you decide it's not fair that bad players are being excluded from mounts and transmog gear from challenge modes?
Hopefully never. We used to only make content for hardcore. No longer. So it's fine that Challenge Modes *are* for them.
Cool, but why "hopefully"? you also said you will fight hard not to nerf them. Fight against? Someone else make those calls?
No, it's not an internal struggle or anything. I just hate to make promises when the game may feel different years from now. (Source)

Are there any changes planned to make Razorgore soloable in 5.1? He drops a pet after all
Perhaps. (Source)

Hit the "entered too many instances" cap while doing challenge modes, is this intended?
No. I've seen players think that was supposed to be part of the challenge. Heh, but no. (Source)

Why isn't the +300 Spirit food +450 like the Stamina food? Oversight or intended?
We treat Spirit sometimes as a primary sometimes as a secondary. We agree we need to be more consistent. (Source)

Why did valor for LFD go back to 1/day instead of 7/wk? It's a regressive change for no reason as far as I can tell.
We wanted a better catch up mechanism. More folks did them when we had 1/day than 7/week. Latter felt too much like a job.
You are simply loosing out on the bonus. Many of us can't log in every day and capping valor is hard.
Many folks can't log in every day. But some want to. Some want to play a lot on weekends. Cata didn't offer enough for them. (Source)

So from my understanding LFR makes it's decision loot depending on your spec, why am I as a holy priest getting shadow gear?
That sounds like a bug. What specific item did you get?
While you'll want mostly Spirit gear you will see gear as a healing priest without Spirit or Hit on them.
We view +int -hit gear as healer gear. Spirit is good, but the kind of thing you need in every slot, especially in later tiers.
Spirit is a must in the first tier. Any non spirit item IS NOT a healer item in this tier.
Depends on your healing style. I tend to use a lot of the cheap heals so I get away with less Spirit. Not saying ignore it.
Wrists from valor without spirit (no drop from Mogu Shan), Chest from valor withuot spirit. See the problem?
I'd be surprised if you had every piece from Mogu'shan before Heart of Fear opens up. There's a Spirit chest there. (Source)

LFD: Why can Shaman Need on Strength Shields or Warriors Need on Agility gear? Is that considered good game design?
The dungeon loot system isn't smart enough to detect differences in shields. The raid one is. (Source)

Any chance of increasing the time you have to do a bonus roll. it's too short atm.
Possibly, but we want the roll to be personal and immediate, not something you decide on after you see who wins what.
I mean seeing others items they won..doesnt effect anything for anyone else
In a non-LFR raid, legs drop and you wait to see who wins before using bonus roll to try for them. Slows everything down.

A patchnote early october said, that lvl90 could queue normal mop dungeons. Now its crossed over. What changed your mind?
It was a technical problem. Still wouldn't mind 90s runnin Mogu'shan, but we aren't going to make normals of everything.

If I queue for LFR with a wait of ~30 min, and do a scenario for ~10 min, should the time to LFR pop afterwards be ~20 or ~30?
The way it *should* work is that your other queue ticks in the background and is hopefully ready after the scenario.

Lost roll on Hunter DPS trinket 11 times now. Going on 15th hour of non stop holiday boss kills. Losing to Tanks and healers
We could use Raid Finder system for dungeons, but it doesn't support off spec like the dungeon one does.

Why do they keep failing to realize players will do fights with the least possible number of healers
If we try to make the fight about DPS and not healing, it ends up making the fight about healing because healers get sat. (Source)

Heroic dungeons are much easier in MoP compared to Cata, are you planning on increasing difficulty as MoP goes on?
Nope. That's what Challenge Modes are for. (Source)

Can we see Heroic Stormwind Stockades and Ragefire Chasm anypoint in the future?
We'd love to get more feedback about which dungeons players would love to see us revisit (and which ones need Challenge Modes) (Source)

TCG Art Update
Blizzard has updated the Trading Card Game art gallery to feature ten new pieces.

[moveth]

This animation is the last thing that Xelnath contributed. You will be missed. Good luck in your future endeavours!

[Banzubie]

Woah, Lorethemar is actually going to do stuff?

[lanerios]

Lorethemar is not doing anything >_> it's just the "click on him for sounds" quotes. Stop dreaming.

Razorgore maybe solo possible? Can't wait!

[taximals]

Oh good they updated his horrible voice.

[furydeath]

Can we just call patch 5.1 patch Warlock?

[Amiright]

Does it not bother anyone else that there is one raid weapon that warlock and mages can use till nearly 2 months into xpac.

They even get screwed with preraid gear, If i want a 476 i have to farm scholo and pray to the rng gods that a super rare staff drops, or take 20 days to make a scribe staff.

[Zakvaile]

Woah, Lorethemar is actually going to do stuff?

Yeah, he's doing quite a bit this patch, actually. See the Dalaran scenario for more info.

[orangelemonrain]

Does it not bother anyone else that there is one raid weapon that warlock and mages can use till nearly 2 months into xpac.

They even get screwed with preraid gear, If i want a 476 i have to farm scholo and pray to the rng gods that a super rare staff drops, or take 20 days to make a scribe staff.

Theres only one healer off hand too, its pretty annoying and took a few days to get. No real issues with this though, i would rather more drops however but it doesnt phase me too much.

[Kipling]

i find the cataclysm animation lacks oomph, there is some cool flames and i realise the actual knockback is just a recoloured version of the shaman one, but its too hidden apart from the flame strike coming down from upon high, I'm not sure what kond of damage it does when, but at the moment i think the knockback needs to be more animated...

[Koji2k11]

yeah like warlocks needed this animation and spell they got a complete revamp -.-

[Strontaap]

Does it not bother anyone else that there is one raid weapon that warlock and mages can use till nearly 2 months into xpac.

They even get screwed with preraid gear, If i want a 476 i have to farm scholo and pray to the rng gods that a super rare staff drops, or take 20 days to make a scribe staff.

There is only one hunter weapon and the 476 one from heroic is a 'super rare' drop too. So what?

[Kuja]

No two-handed weapons from Heart of Fear?

[Sigma]

Does it not bother anyone else that there is one raid weapon that warlock and mages can use till nearly 2 months into xpac.

They even get screwed with preraid gear, If i want a 476 i have to farm scholo and pray to the rng gods that a super rare staff drops, or take 20 days to make a scribe staff.

479 no Scholo staff.

it is rather dumb though, this spell should have been in at the start of the expansion.

[Malackai]

Why did valor for LFD go back to 1/day instead of 7/wk? It's a regressive change for no reason as far as I can tell.
We wanted a better catch up mechanism. More folks did them when we had 1/day than 7/week. Latter felt too much like a job.

Dont know if i should laugh or cry.
pretty much forcefully logging once a day to get your valor form the HC= not a job
But somehow having the freedom to do 7 HC in your own time during the week = job
I dont have any words for this.

You are simply loosing out on the bonus. Many of us can't log in every day and capping valor is hard.
Many folks can't log in every day. But some want to. Some want to play a lot on weekends. Cata didn't offer enough for them. (Source)

Yet wanting to play a lot on the weekends it pretty much butchered with this new daily cap system on everything with MOP. tbh I did more during the weekends in cata then i do now most of the time after I do the dailies i pretty much log of again in cata at least people still had the choice to run some dungeons for the 7/w valor cap.
I am barely a month in to the exspac and I am already bored of being led around the daily mary go round.

I dont need dungeons (already can get better gear from raids and lfr) our guild pretty much clears the current raid that's available in one evening (granted non HC). So the only thing left for me was grinding reps which I basically cannot even do either now.
Right now the active playtime/online time is so low I am starting to wonder if its worth the 10-12 euros a month and that's ONE month in to the new Exspac!

[Kathranis]

Honestly, GC's response and the reversion on VP/Day doesn't make a heck of a lot of sense. If some players want to play a lot on their weekends, they could do all seven dungeon runs on Saturday and Sunday instead of having to try and fit in a dungeon run every day of the week.

I suppose it could be true that players who only get to play on the weekends felt like they had to do seven heroics every weekend instead of what they want to do, but it's still less freedom to forcibly limit them to one a day.

[Luminoth4]

Eugh, Lor'themar new voice reminds me of Sylvanas 2.0 :/ Seems rather dull to me. Also sounds different to the other 5.1 quotes, so are they getting redone? Also, chnage the VP/Conquest from Random Battlegrounds and Dungeon Finder to first Seven. Allows me to do it all at once and get my BGs in a Call to Arms I like

[thelesserevil]

Is that Gideon Emery doing Lor'themar's voice? It sounds very much like Fenris from DA II, and half the Sylvari NPCs from Guild Wars 2.

[Divineblast]

yeah like warlocks needed this animation and spell they got a complete revamp -.-

Totally agree..give mages some love christ...Locks already got more then ENOUGH

[andy_mitchelluk]

I can see Cataclysm confusing a LOT of people in LFR. Well, those that would actually move out of fire anyway...