Thread: WotLK XP Changes, 2.4 Items, Telia issues, Comics

Update 13:00 CEST : Added a blue post about the Arena Tournament opening time.

Patch 2.4 XP Changes - WotLK preview ?
It looks like a change went unnoticed on the 2.4 PTRs, Blizzard changed the XP required to level up at ... 70 ! Before the patch players needed 814,700 XP to level to 71, but since tuesday you need about 50% more xp to reach this level, bringing the total to 1,256,500 XP. According to a few reports this change was made because of an interface bug but increasing the max xp by 50k or 100k would have been enough to fix it, this leaves us with another theory : leveling in WotLK will require 50% more xp than what you needed in BC, it wouldn't be surprising and would be equal to the same difference of XP between Burning Crusade and WoW classic.

Europe - Arena Tournament opening time

Originally Posted by Slorkuz (Blue Tracker)

As we’ve moved into Daylight Saving Time since the publication of the Arena Tournament Official Competition Rules, we’d like to clarify that the intended opening time for the Arena Tournament is 10:00 GMT, i.e. 12:00 (noon) CEST (Paris time) and thus 11:00 BST (London time).

Update 12:20 CEST: There has been a delay in opening the tournament realms. We will update you with new information as soon as possible.

2.4 - PvP Rewards and Tabards
The [iurl=http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?topic=5548.0]2.4 Changes compilation[/iurl] was big and as expected I forgot to mention a few things, and of course there are probably a lot of them but let's start with PvP rewards and tabards. (Note : This part of the news might be updated later today, because I feel like I forgot something important.)

PvP Rewards
Spell haste necklaces and rings have been added to the game.

• [item=35317]
• [item=35319]
• [item=35320]
  

Tabards
Three tabards have been added in patch 2.4, the first one is already available and is the [item=31777].

There are also two other tabards, the [item=35279] and [item=35280]. They are available during the Midsummer Fire Festival and will be rewarded after you complete the quest you get from [item=35723] dropping from Lord Ahune, the daily quest mini-boss introduced for the 2008 version of this event.

Telia resolves internet dispute with Cogent
The internet traffic dispute between Telia Sonera and US-based Cogent Communications has been resolved. A new contract has been signed between the two firms and affected customers have regained full access to the internet.

"We are happy to have signed a new contract with Cogent and regret that some of our customers have been affected by the dispute," said Malin Frenning CEO of Telia Sonera International Carrier, Dagens Nyheter (DN) writes.

The dispute began at around 11pm on March 13th when Cogent decided to cut off communications with Telia Sonera in protest at the "degraded" service it claimed was experienced by its customers. By 6.30pm on Friday the connection was re-established and Cogent customers in the USA could once again access sites hosted by Telia, such as World of Warcraft.

Source and full article


Comics
Dark Legacy Comic #136 is available, you can check it on Darklegacycomics.com or click the thumbnail below if you can't access their site.

Well the XP on monsters will probably be increased as well, it would just be another reason for people to buy the expansion ^^

I remember this being discussed before. Blizard stated that they would probably reset rested experience when the expansion came, so that no-one would have any. It seems obvious to me that they have decided to go down a different route and just increase the amount required for 70-71 instead of resetting the rested.

My question is why are there so many new spell haste items and gems out but there is nothing for melee?

One of the main reasons that spell haste is "the new stat" for everything, is that Spell Haste now causes your global cooldown to go down as well.

Melee haste doesn't do this, so it's not as "zomg awesome."

Originally Posted by druidiful

My question is why are there so many new spell haste items and gems out but there is nothing for melee?

we get armor penetration, which for the people who are going to bring it up is not even close to spell pen. also outside of tbc very few things existed that gave spell haste. melee haste has existed forever (flurry, slice n dice, counterweights).

what is sad is that some people have compared spell haste to being the new spell crit in arenas, much like stacking attack power + armor pen is a way around resilience for melee. would be sad if this change was propelled by resilience, but i think it will present a huge dps boost for casters in pve.