Thread: Season 4 preview, 2.4 Notes update

Arena Season 4 Preview !
It looks like a few Season 4 items are now available on PTRs, maybe we'll get the rest of them very soon.

As you can see, they use these sets are using the same models as the Sunwell Armor, that's a good news because it means I can use the screenshots I posted yesterday as a Season 4 armor sets preview without any additional work !

Sunwell Badge loot screenshots
You can buy them from Smith Hauthaa in the rebuilt town on the Sunwell Isle.

Prices for Sunwell badge items
Chest/Legs - 100 Badges
Gloves/Belt - 75 Badges
Rings - 60 Badges
Two-Hand/Caster Weapons (Including 1H Caster) - 150 Badges
One-hand Weapons - 105 Badges
Off-hands - 45 Badges

Weapons

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Cloth

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Leather

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Mail

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Plate

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Rings
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2.4 - Patch notes update
The patch notes on the 2.4 Changes compilation post have been updated with a few changes from the PTR (Items

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

General

• Resilience: Now reduces the magnitude of mana draining effects by the same amount that it reduces critical strike damage. The Tooltip has been revised to reflect this.
• The Daily Quest limit has been increased to 25.
• The benefits of drinking out of combat have been delayed. It will now take five seconds before the full benefit of the mana regeneration will come into effect.
  

Hunter

• Hunters will no longer spin around if they cast Aimed Shot or Steady Shot while facing away from their target.
  

Mage

• Arcane Explosion: The damage cap for area of effect damage on this spell has been increased by approximately 50%.
  

Paladin

• Holy Shock: The healing, damage, and mana cost of this spell have all been increased.
  

Warlock

• Drain Mana: This ability no longer increases in power from bonus spell damage effects. Base points of the effect increased by 50%.
  

PvP
Arenas

• Queue times for arena matches have been reduced. Players will now be able to enter matches faster than previously.
• Players feared outside of the Arena (through the world or outside the arena walls) will now be teleported back to the center of the arena map.
  

Dungeons and Raids

• Badges of Justice have been added to all raid bosses who did not previously have them!

Zul'aman

• Jan’alai will now only teleport players to him if they are too far away.

Sunwell Isle - Magister's Terrace

• There is now a teleport orb located behind Kael’thas that will become active when he dies and will allow players to teleport out of the Magisters’ Terrace.
  

Items

• Druid Balance PvP Sets: The bonus movement speed for Bear, Cat, and Travel Form has been removed and replaced with a new bonus to Wrath and Starfire.
• Druid Feral PvP Sets: The bonus movement speed for Bear, Cat, and Travel Form no longer applies to Travel Form.
• Druid Restoration PvP Sets: The bonus movement speed for Bear, Cat, and Travel Form has been removed and replaced with a new bonus to Healing Touch.
• The Gladiator’s Thunderfist 4 piece set bonus has been reduced from 70% to 50%.
• Nether Vortex are no longer Bind on Pickup and can no wbe purchased from G’eras for 15 Badges of Justice!
• Paladin Healer Gladiator Sets: The set bonus changing Hammer of Justice cooldown has been changed to a set bonus increasing the amount healed by Holy Shock.
• Primal Nether are no longer Bind on Pickup!
• Resilience has been added to all Retribution Paladin PvP gear.
• Added Shattrath Flask of Pure Death and Shattrath Flask of Blinding Light to the reputation flask vendors in Shattrath.
• Shattrath Flasks now work inside the Sunwell Plateau raid instance.
• Vengeful Gladiator’s Waraxe: The weapon delay has been reduced.
  

World Environment

• The Ratchet bank now has access to the Guild Vault.
• A mailbox has been added to the inn in Darnassus.
  

Bug Fixes

• Leaving a 2v2 arena team and creating a new 2v2 team while on a 3v3 arena team will no longer result in incorrect rosters listed for each team.
• Joining a second arena match before a previous arena has closed will no longer result in personal rating not updating correctly.
• Attempting to promote an arena team member to Team Captain while that member is offline will no longer result in a "Player not found" error.
• Disbanding an arena team while inside an arena battle will no longer cause the arena UI to become corrupted until logout.
• The Arena Team Petition Window will now automatically close when the Arena Captain is out of range or offline.
• Switching arena teams after playing a game will no longer cause the PvP tab to incorrectly display your old team's rating.
• There is now a chat message given when logging in after attaining a new title.
• Spells that require targeting circles will now be castable on textures that would previously disallow their use.
• Alterac Valley quests will now properly show a golden ! or blue ? for players above level 65.
• Archimonde's Grip of the Legion will no longer target pets.
• There is no longer an area in Serpentine Cavern where using Field Repair Bot 74A will cause it to fall through the ground.
• There is no longer an area in Coilfang Steamvaults where ground targeting AOE effects cannot be cast.
• The proc from Black Bow of the Betrayer will no longer break crowd control effects such as Scatter Shot.
• Vengeful Gladiator's Mooncloth Hood and Vengeful Gladiator's Satin Hood will now display Troll Tusks.
• Thori'dal, the Stars' Fury will now display its bow animations correctly.
• The Legion Ring boundary markers no longer occasionally disappear.
• Monthly quests will now properly reset at midnight server time.
• Fixed an area in Netherwing Fields in Shadowmoon Valley where players on flying mounts could be dismounted and were unable to mount.
• It is no longer possible for players to use guild banks in opposing faction cities.
• The Clockwork Rocket Bot can no longer be buffed.
• Players with moderator status in custom channels will now properly lose moderator status when kicked by the channel owner.
• Mobs no longer regenerate health during the stun effect from the Goblin Rocket Launcher.
• Sending mail to a non-existent character will now result in players getting the message, “Cannot find mail recipient”.

I am SO looking forward to Season 4... NOT!
The armor set-models simply fail. Ok cloth shoulders and some of the plate gear is a good idea but hell, they don't even compare to ANY of the previous sets like S3 or T6(i didn't love T6 but it's at least very detailed etc.).

Blizzard gave one T6 armor set more love than all of those new ones together. Just look at the textures etc. What the hell were they thinking? Did the designers take crack and use their eyeballs to color/create those textures?

My main is a rogue and seriously,... i almost got a heart attack after seeing the leather set that most likely will be ours (http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/...ruary/12_2.jpg) Geez! I didn't rly like our T5 Dr. Doom / Darth Vader set but somehow it's ok. And this? What the heck is that? Gasmask? Or what? Does this remind anybody of Sunwell/Bloodelf-styled-stuff?

It's a joke!

I welcome almost all changes that are coming with patch 2.4 but those sets deserve a NO THANK YOU!
And that's why i gonna keep my Season 3/continue collecting it even when S4 is released!

So S4 will be T6 recolored?

looks wierd...

Originally Posted by insidelane

So S4 will be T6 recolored?

It's not tier 6, it's the Sunwell set.

So we're getting another season before the expansion. Well that's good to know, Now I know to save 5k arena points.

So,, Season 4 this soon ?

Originally Posted by MrSimtang

It's not tier 6, it's the Sunwell set.

So we're getting another season before the expansion. Well that's good to know, Now I know to save 5k arena points.

Now even "loosers" can buy AS3 shoulders

Originally Posted by MrSimtang

It's not tier 6, it's the Sunwell set.

So we're getting another season before the expansion. Well that's good to know, Now I know to save 5k arena points.

Sure we do. You could have guessed that just by the fact that Blizzard already confirmed S2 buyable for honor next season. Would be kinda pointless if they made themselves reconfigure those npc's so they sell S2 etc. while everybody is lvling to 80 and would never even think about still getting that gear?

Another hint that proves that wotlk is not going to be released before July is that there will be a "hands-on-Wotlk" in Paris during their convention in June. Would be kinda pointless too make that their greatest attraction in-spite of the fact that everybody is already playing the game at home...

S3 was already released like 3 months ago, and if wotlk comes July+ thats exactly enought time for another season :-)


greetings
Eily

Originally Posted by Boubouille

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

Warlock

• Drain Mana: This ability no longer increases in power from bonus spell damage effects. Base points of the effect increased by 50%.
  

It has not scaled with spelldamage for several patches now.

is there a chance to see 'druid set' on Tauren instead of human?

Why are the stats on the armor in the wrong order?

That makes no sense to me... Look at the feral chestpiece for exemple...

Originally Posted by fr0hzn

You forget that it's not the final armor.
The data for the armors are just in the files of the ptr-client,
means, you can read out the stats and build them together to create a tooltip.

Usually Boubouille creates the tooltips himself =)

Items are serverside.

Hunter
* Hunters will no longer spin around if they cast Aimed Shot or Steady Shot while facing away from their target.

Hold on right there.

This means I can't rotate my character while I'm casting either a steady- or an aimed shot?