Season 2 qualification, Focused Will, BG daily quests

[Boubouille]

Update : Added a small recap of the less important blue post at the end of the post.

Anticipated news post because we just had 3 very interesting blue posts, will update in a few hours with the "minor" blue posts.

Season 2 Team Qualification
A few days ago, Blizzard announced that they will "filter" inactive arena teams before giving out arena season 2 rewards, Drysc posted an explanation about this.
[blizzquote author=Drysc Source=http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=2649798359&postId=26810876006&sid=1#0]While the date for the end of Season 2 has not yet been announced, we wanted to let everyone know beforehand about a change to the requirements for a team to be counted towards the total teams considered for the end of season rewards.

Our goal with this change is to remove teams from being counted that could not already be eligible for the end of season rewards. By not counting them we’re effectively limiting the pool of teams that are added up before calculating the final 0.5% for the end of season rewards.

The requirements for a team to be counted (both requirements must be met):

• The team must have played at least 20 games during the season.
• The team must have at least one player that has played in 20% or more of the total games for that team.
  

As the requirement to be eligible for the end of season rewards is also 20% participation for the entire season, this overlap merely ensures that teams that have active and eligible members will be counted.[/blizzquote]

Focused Will changes
Focused Will is being changed.

We wanted you to know that we're going to be redesigning the new discipline talent, focused will, so please hold off on providing further feedback on the ability until the new version is announced and/or it's pushed to the public test realms. The goal of the talent will still focus on survivability.

The intention of this talent is provide an alternative to the holy talent, blessed resilience, so the priest who desires a talent of this nature has more than one option, adding more flexibility to the talent choices they make leading up to either. (Source)

BG Daily quests will reward 400 honor, not 4000
This will probably make a lot of people sad, but it seems that the BG Daily quests rewards are totally wrong, they're supposed to reward 400 honor points, not 2000 or 4000 like what we saw in previous builds.

It's off by a factor of 10. Battleground Daily quest bonus honor is supposed to be equivalent to 20 player kills at your level, ie 400 honor at level 70.

It's more or less a free battleground worth of honor, and that's what we've intended it to be. A bonus for hopping in that day's battleground.

There's a lot of concern that AV isn't providing as much honor as it is on live due to the changes on the PTR. Some changes have already gone in but we're still keeping track of and willing to make additional changes. We want the time/honor ratio of AV to be as close to what it is now as possible, and if it looks like that's not the case even after bumping the honor and decreasing the amount of resources then we'll make additional changes.

Other Blueposts

Guild Banks

• If leadership of a guild is transfered the new leader now has full access to the guild bank. If the guild is disbanded the current guild leader gets all the items in the bank via his mailbox. If the guild leader was banned, you would most likely need to contact a GM to get leadership transfered. (Source)
  

2.3 Public Test Realms

• The 4000 honor points awarded by the battleground daily quest is definitely a bug. (Source)
  

Factions
The reputation awarded by the quests in Azuremyst (Draenei starting zone) will be normalized in a future patch. (Source)

New Arrows and Shells in 2.3
Good news for hunters, new ammunitions are available from the Violet Eye in 2.3 !

Keep in mind that engineers are also getting this in 2.3

[blukkie]

400 honor? God, they can just leave it out, it won't matter shit.

[chaud]

400 honor? God, they can just leave it out, it won't matter shit.

Pretty much.

[Wildhorn]

We wanted you to know that we're going to be redesigning the new discipline talent, focused will, so please hold off on providing further feedback on the ability until the new version is announced and/or it's pushed to the public test realms. The goal of the talent will still focus on survivability.

The intention of this talent is provide an alternative to the holy talent, blessed resilience, so the priest who desires a talent of this nature has more than one option, adding more flexibility to the talent choices they make leading up to either. (Source)

LMAO, they finaly gonna change it. Players proved that Blizzard are very busy and can't think about everything who doesnt even know their own game mechanic. It was reducing critical damage by 30% while the ingame cap is 25%.

[Boubouille]

Blablabla be nice blablablabla otherwise baby panda will cry :'(

[Drelik]

LMAO, they finaly gonna change it. Players proved that Blizzard are very busy and can't think about everything who doesnt even know their own game mechanic. It was reducing critical damage by 30% while the ingame cap is 25%.

God forbid Blizzard isn't perfect... SHAME ON THEM for not getting something on the Public TEST realm correctly!

[vilderen]

Blablabla be nice blablablabla otherwise baby panda will cry :'(

Your edits needs more daffodils IMO :P

[Lagwagon]

Epic arrows, great. Now the engineering bullets/arrow-machines are useless once again

[archanfel]

4k is a bit much
2k is fine
1k at least
400 is joke

GG Blizz

[rowkia]

Epic arrows, great. Now the engineering bullets/arrow-machines are useless once again

yea this is so true what is the point of having the eng. ones in the game at this rate, just to be used as a small stepping stone lol, just dumb

[joyu]

4k is a bit much
2k is fine
1k at least
400 is joke

GG Blizz

400 for doing nothing, everyday i think is a present more than a joke

[salty]

VE arrows are 46.5 DPS and 90 SILVER for a stack of 200.
CE arrows are 37 DPS and 40 SILVER for a stack of 200.
Engineering arrows are 43 DPS and and virtually free if you're a miner.

15 minutes of mining for a full 24-slot quiver. I'm not complaining.

[pasco]

400 is nice, but 2000 or 4000 would be much nicer And it would make the possibility to gear up a pvp twink much easier

[Deleted]

*Sigh*
I see, those 4000 honor were too good to be true.
What a pity.

[Wildhorn]

Blablabla be nice blablablabla otherwise baby panda will cry :'(

how dare you to edit my post!

God forbid Blizzard isn't perfect... SHAME ON THEM for not getting something on the Public TEST realm correctly!

This is not about they got something wrong on PTR, this is about they add something that doesnt even work with their own rules.

Here is an example to make it easier to figure out


- You are able to eat 25 burgers per day before you get stuffed (crit dmg reduction cap)
- You are sponsorized by BigBurger. They give you 25 burgers per day (you reached the cap via resilience)
- Now BiggerBigBurger offer you to sell you 30 burgers per day. (This talent)

Not only they want to sell you more burger than what you can eat per day, but you really dont need it due to your sponsor.

[Googolplex]

Here is an example to make it easier to figure out

- You are able to eat 25 burgers per day before you get stuffed (crit dmg reduction cap)
- You are sponsorized by BigBurger. They give you 25 burgers per day (you reached the cap via resilience)
- Now BiggerBigBurger offer you to sell you 30 burgers per day. (This talent)

Not only they want to sell you more burger than what you can eat per day, but you really dont need it due to your sponsor.

Finally an example I can relate to, it all becomes clear now

[Mordax]

ugh, I hate the change of the honor bonus from the daily's, god forbid we would have an easy way to gear up an alt..

[Wildhorn]

Finally an example I can relate to, it all becomes clear now

[locomoco]

But what if I want a filet-o-fish?

[Sulika]

So about 4 hours a week for 4 weeks running battlegrounds to get season 1 leggings.

Or about 1 hour a week for 4 weeks just throwing 5v5 games for season 3 leggings.

Way to go balancing rewards against effort Blizz!!! The ridiculous ease with which you can get arena gear is starting to make every other endeavor in this game look like a complete waste of time.

Edit: Oops, obviously wont work for the shoulders, try any other season 3 armor part though