Premades on PTR, Warlocks summon, blue posts

[Boubouille]

Blue posts ! News everywhere ! And in case you didn't notice the website downtime has been postponed because of a small issue, but now you're warned that the website might be down for an hour at some point.

Update : Due to some techical issues, the new PTR build won't be tonight.

Premades on 2.3.2 PTR
It looks like more people are needed on PTRs, premade characters are now active !

We are activating pre-made characters for the PTR starting today December 12th. Once the servers are up you will be able to copy pre-made characters via the PTR character copy page (4 per account). I suggest waiting before initiating character copies until the servers are up as there is no guarantee that they will go through and there are no refunds for lost pre-mades.

We expect demand for pre-mades and the Test Realms to be very high, I would highly suggest transferring your characters to both PTRs as the PVP realm typically has a high queue time. There is no plan to add a second PVP realm.

All characters are equipped with Season 2 Arena gear and Heroic Badge loot. Every character also has extra heroic badges to purchase additional gear. Beyond that no gear changes will be made so don’t even ask.

Posts about premades, for or against will be deleted. Premades are activated based on QA testing needs not by request of players.

Other announcements
The PTR authentication servers were not updated between 2.3 and 2.3.2, meaning that if your password changed or if your account was otherwise invalid prior to October 8th you will not be eligible for the 2.3.2 PTR.

Summoning disabled in ZA, might be activated in all dungeons from outside later
Warlocks will probably be very happy with this one, raids too I guess.

We had to disable summoning (Note: In ZA) yesterday via emergency hotfix due to some exploits. We're hoping to re-enable summoning as soon as possible. We know it's a big inconvenience and we apologize.

On a related note, we're looking into fixing some issues with summoning that would once again enable us to allow warlocks to summon people into an instance from anywhere in the world. This could happen as soon as the next big content patch (2.4.0) if all of the technical issues can be resolved by then.

Eyonix posts on rogues
Eyonix made a few posts about the changes to hemorrhage and the future of the Subtetly talent tree.
[blizzquote author=Eyonix]Hemorrhage was intended to give heavy subtlety rogues some added damage, and to give the overall tree some additional appeal. Instead, many rogues just went down to the new hemo and ignored the rest. Our goal now is to make further improvements to the tree as a whole, so it has enough appeal and viability to compete with combat and assassination. Major changes will likely not come before the expansion, but we are looking in to more immediate tweaks as well. (Source)

We want there to be more subtlety rogues, and we’re working to improve the tree. One way was to give the tree more damage, through hemorrhage. Unfortunately, that didn’t really improve the tree because everyone just stopped with the AR/Prep spec. What resulted was an increased power of the rogue class as a whole (not just the subtlety spec), which was unintended. (Source)[/blizzquote]


European Realms : Free character migration

From: Al'Akir, Burning Legion, Magtheridon, Shadowmoon, Stormscale
To: Burning Blade, Jaedenar, Mazrigos, Spinebreaker

Additionally, to alleviate queues on Stonemaul and Warsong we have opened a new realm and free character migration from (currently only) those two realms to this new one. This migration is planned for the same dates as above.
The name of the new realm is Molten Core, and it’s in the Nightfall Battlegroup. Character creation on the realm will be disabled during the migration, except for those having a character there.

From: Stonemaul, Warsong
To: Molten Core (new realm)

Please note that the migration may be closed at any time should a destination realm's population rise too high.

FAQ: http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/faq/charactermove.html

Other blue posts

King of Stormwind
If there are any stories or secrets in Northrend relating to The Missing Diplomat questline,they will need to be discovered at a later time by some brave adventurers who traverse these dangerous lands.

Wrath of the Lich King
There are no current plans to add the Tomb of Sargeras in the expansion. (Source)

Zeppelin/Boat vendors
The removal of the vendors is still temporary, but the issue isn't fixed yet. (Source)

Troll boots
There is always a possibility of having these armor pieces cover the feet, but there is no guarantee it will happen one way or the other for every piece. (Source)

Tales of the Past III
Well ... What can I say except download it now ? That's probably the biggest video work ever done on WoW, and it looks damn nice, and if you want three reasons to download it : Ashbringer, Northrend, Female Night Elves in tight armors.

• Video on Warcraftmovies.com
• Talesofthepast.com - Official site
  

[Pyrostemplar]

Did you say Female night elves?

mmmh...

Ok, downloaded

(no Blood elfies? the would be interesting too.. only due to lore reasons.. honest!)

[archanfel]

zomg TOTP3 AND Premades, is it X'mas already? ;D

[SimTex]

Wonder if Stonemaul is also a russian server like warsong, else the new realm is gonna be hell on earth, if at least some people accept to migrate but why wouldnt you with more than an hour queue time in the evening.

[Boubouille]

As far as I know Stonemaul is also russian yes. ^^

[Morthyl]

Eyonix posts on rogues
Eyonix made a few posts about the changes to hemorrhage and the future of the Subtetly talent tree.
[blizzquote author=Eyonix]Hemorrhage was intended to give heavy subtlety rogues some added damage, and to give the overall tree some additional appeal. Instead, many rogues just went down to the new hemo and ignored the rest. Our goal now is to make further improvements to the tree as a whole, so it has enough appeal and viability to compete with combat and assassination. Major changes will likely not come before the expansion, but we are looking in to more immediate tweaks as well. (Source)

We want there to be more subtlety rogues, and we’re working to improve the tree. One way was to give the tree more damage, through hemorrhage. Unfortunately, that didn’t really improve the tree because everyone just stopped with the AR/Prep spec. What resulted was an increased power of the rogue class as a whole (not just the subtlety spec), which was unintended. (Source)[/blizzquote]

Wtf...Blizzard cant really say they didnt see it coming - I mean, come on, the rogue forums were FULL of posts from people who were going to spec AR/hemo ~~
I'm starting to believe, that Blizzard REALLY has no idea about whats going on in their own game -.-'

Besides... it cant be that hard to buff some subtlety talents in order to increase the damage of rogues who spec em - a 5 year old could do that if he was given a proper explanation of some basic game mechanics. Easiest way would be a 20% style dmg bonus passive just by speccing shadowstep, imo. I guess that would already be enough of a motivation to spec deep sub without making the whole tree overpowered in any way^^

[SimTex]

As far as I know Stonemaul is also russian yes. ^^

Seems like they are getting ready for the russian expansion then.

[Uzm]

Seems like they are getting ready for the russian expansion then.

YAY! WoW expansion for 2009 would be called "World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Russians". ;D

[kuett]

both warsong and stonemaul are russian servers
i for one, am playing ... or was playing on warsong and just transfered to molten core today

[Darkness]

Seems even blizzard cant figure out the difference between russian and bulgarian ;D

[Deke]

Tales from the past was pretty epic, but they mis-pronounced medivh >_< It's not like we've all heard it said 20 million times so far in the game.

[Mascotte]

If thats the only thing that bothered you in a 1.5 hour movie you really shouldnt complain imo :P
Brilliant movie, well worth the download and a worthy TotP.
And the wait for part 4 begins \o/

[Mmofun]

A lot of BT guilds transfered to Molten Core from Warsong and Stonemaul. Green-blue geared noobs from Nightfall battlegroup is now getting raped by T5/T6/A2/A3 ppl =) From Russia with love bwahaha

[Sulika]

I'm divided over the summon changes, on the one hand it will make people leaving groups/raids a little less of a pain in the ass, on the other it will lead to extreme raid stacking for some encounters and seems to some extent to be a cop out to facilitate it.

[Freeztah]

That movie.. Was the single best spent 90 minutes of my life for a very long time, it was brilliant!

[KaNNis]

Seems even blizzard cant figure out the difference between russian and bulgarian ;D

rofl they didnt say anything about bulgarian xD