Upcoming Shards of Domination Set Bonus Buffs
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Hotfixes - July 30, 2021

Items and Rewards

  • Shards of Domination
    • [With weekly maintenance in each region] Blood Link – The damage and healing amount has been increased at all ranks by 20%.
    • [With weekly maintenance in each region] Winds of Winter – The amount of damage and healing stored by the Winds has been increased at all ranks by ~45%.
      • Developers’ note: The difference between the three Rune Words for the Shards of Domination system is bigger than we want it to be. We have identified and fixed a bug in Winds of Winter which was preventing some damaging and healing abilities from counting towards its total, and we have retuned Winds of Winter and Blood Link so that the relative power between Rune Word bonuses is more balanced.
  • Jotungeirr, Destiny’s Call will now reset its cooldown at the end of boss encounters.
  • Fixed an issue where Ticking Sack of Terror could trigger more than intended in the presence of multiple trinkets.

Spit Emote Removed on TBC Classic PTR
The /spit emote has been removed on the Burning Crusade Classic PTR. Players can no longer target others with the emote, however they can still spit on the ground.

It is speculated that this change is a result of people spamming /spit on players riding the Reawakened Phase-Hunter mount, the reward for purchasing the Burning Crusade Deluxe Edition.



Lead Game Designer Jeremy Feasel tweeted that he's having a look at cleaning up toxicity in the game, so this could be one of many changes to come.

This article was originally published in forum thread: Upcoming Shards of Domination Set Bonus Buffs, Spit Emote Removed on TBC Classic PTR started by Lumy View original post
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  1. Castia's Avatar
    Hol up they do realise Asmon us taking the piss right?
  1. mbit's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by rrayy View Post
    Not nearly as hilarious as people trying to dictate what is bad behavior to justify harassment.

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    The freedom to choose themselves what the players deem bad is not anyone dictating. Basic logic failure.
  1. rrayy's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by mbit View Post
    The freedom to choose themselves what the players deem bad is not anyone dictating. Basic logic failure.
    Not what you are doing at all. You are declaring what is bad for the game and them sasy ahnyine who doesn't agree with you is wrong. That is dictating. Harassing players because they don't do what you want is toxic and should be banned. You are showing an example of the toxicity that needs to be removed from the game.
  1. BrintoSFJ's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by bledgor View Post
    I like how people are complaining about spit being gone, but not the toxic/bullying behavior that people were using it towards. You ever wonder were the negative behavior of blizzard came from? It didn't manifest out of the blue, its endemic of the video game community at large. How many games have "cancerous" communities? A lot, think a lot of us need to look in the mirror and realize there's a lot of work that needs to be done on the home front before we start throwing rocks.
    Yes, look in the mirror and acknowledge the fact that YOU are the problem why the game industry is total shit. Why game companies and developers think that they can shit on paid customers. Because YOU and people like YOU exist. Continue to endorse billion $$ corporations and their employees, see how fun it gets.
  1. mbit's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by rrayy View Post
    Not what you are doing at all. You are declaring what is bad for the game and them sasy ahnyine who doesn't agree with you is wrong. That is dictating. Harassing players because they don't do what you want is toxic and should be banned. You are showing an example of the toxicity that needs to be removed from the game.
    Im not deciding for the player who they wish to shame. You should be removed for trying to make the game sterilized boring.
  1. Azerate's Avatar
    If the actual person who started the specific type of harassment that was just curbed complains about it, you know they did well

    I hope Blizz starts really cracking on toxicity in the game and it doesnt even just with the removal of one emote.
  1. rrayy's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by mbit View Post
    Im not deciding for the player who they wish to shame. You should be removed for trying to make the game sterilized boring.
    No youa re trying to dictate what is bad for the game and trying to justify harassment. I am advocating for removal of player harassment. The fact that you need to harass other players to not be bored means you have serious issues. Exactly what needs to be removed from the game.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Azerate View Post
    If the actual person who started the specific type of harassment that was just curbed complains about it, you know they did well

    I hope Blizz starts really cracking on toxicity in the game and it doesnt even just with the removal of one emote.
    If it finally gets him to quit, the game improves by 1000%
  1. mbit's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by rrayy View Post
    No youa re trying to dictate what is bad for the game and trying to justify harassment. I am advocating for removal of player harassment. The fact that you need to harass other players to not be bored means you have serious issues. Exactly what needs to be removed from the game.
    You do it yourself when you define this is bad and i need to control them. Im just advocating for letting players choose themself. Its embarrassing you cant tell the difference.
  1. crusadernero's Avatar
    Now people just gotta find a new emote for shaming people who buy mounts in wow. Soon enough Blizzard gotta remove every emote in the game.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BrintoSFJ View Post
    Yes, look in the mirror and acknowledge the fact that YOU are the problem why the game industry is total shit. Why game companies and developers think that they can shit on paid customers. Because YOU and people like YOU exist. Continue to endorse billion $$ corporations and their employees, see how fun it gets.
    So players that buy and play games from Blizzard are responsible for the inside culture of said company? By buying wow and subbing, these players are saying its cool whats going on a blizzard? Gimme a break. No one else besides Blizzard can fix the horrendous and total shite company culture they have. No one else but them can fix it. If suddenly everyone stopped using money on Blizzard games, these very same people would just move on to other projects and be complete dickwads. In general, this is not only a Blizzard product. This is something that the gaming world struggle with everywhere.

    Also - gaming culture is often, by large, a toxic shitfest. Especially when you have a broad view on it. Most people play and interact with friends, a guild/clan or the community they are active in. Everything outside of that is considered useless and people change behaviour when outside said friendcircle, guild, clan or close community. By large, gaming is often enough toxic as hell.
  1. justandulas's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by rrayy View Post
    Not nearly as hilarious as people trying to dictate what is bad behavior to justify harassment.

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    Mtx are not toxic. What is toxic is players who try to dictate what should or should not be in the game and then harass other players who don't follow in lock step with their dictations.That is what is shameful.
    Adding MTX into a 15 year old classic game is absolutely putrid and toxic. It is the very epitome of EVERYTHING wrong with gaming currently.

    So yeah, shame on them adding MTX into a classic game and shame on ANYONE who supported that financially. /spit isn't toxic, supporting MTX in a game WITHOUT mtx IS toxic af tho.
  1. Acidbaron's Avatar
    Whale lives matter i suppose? Do not worry poor Whales, soon the gold token will arrive in Classic.

    Of all the times they could have removed it.., also removal of an emote will hardly solve anything considering how they gut their moderation and other support teams. It is more pandering, performative caring Blizzard speciality and more specifically JAB's.
  1. Delever's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Lady Atia View Post
    We won't miss you at all
    Dont worry. We wont miss people who financially support sexual abuse either. Have fun shilling for however long this shitshow lasts.
  1. Beefhammer's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Nerovar View Post
    What exactly was the problem?
    You'd have to ask thise that have an issue. I just can understand that some might take issue with it.
  1. rhorle's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Flaadhun View Post
    Also the removal of /spit, holy shit, if you can't handle that, then you should not use the internet at all.
    So you want to censor people from the internet while complaining about censorship? I thought stopping different opinions was the actual toxic act? Using censorship is a scapegoat and you and others that bring it up know that. Toxicity doesn't have a place and there is nothing wrong with putting a stop to it. That isn't being woke it is simply being a decent person, thing, or whatever.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Delever View Post
    Guess which group of people blizzard prioritizes to protect first in the stupidest manner possible.
    The non-toxic players?
  1. Delever's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by rhorle View Post
    So you want to censor people from the internet while complaining about censorship? I thought stopping different opinions was the actual toxic act? Using censorship is a scapegoat and you and others that bring it up know that. Toxicity doesn't have a place and there is nothing wrong with putting a stop to it. That isn't being woke it is simply being a decent person, thing, or whatever.

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    The non-toxic players?
    How is this protecting them exactly? Like ok shilling has a limit at some point. What stops people from resorting to an emote like /lol now? Will they remove that one too?
  1. rhorle's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Delever View Post
    How is this protecting them exactly? Like ok shilling has a limit at some point. What stops people from resorting to an emote like /lol now? Will they remove that one too?
    Just because they will find a way to be toxic doesn't mean you do no thing to try and stop them. Lol. Blizzard still prioritizes the non-toxic players over the toxic ones. This has nothing to do with being a shill but just common sense.
  1. Delever's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by rhorle View Post
    Just because they will find a way to be toxic doesn't mean you do no thing to try and stop them. Lol. Blizzard still prioritizes the non-toxic players over the toxic ones. This has nothing to do with being a shill but just common sense.
    And I repeat because of course you avoided my last question. What would be the ideal situation for you after? Every emote that gets "abused" gets removed one by one?
    Or giving the agency to the players to mute emotes so that they dont run into situations like this?
    This was an intentional virtue signaling to divert the attention from the main issues as no one would have batted a fucking eye if they just added an option to selectively mute emotes if you chose to do that. Do you see how this accomplishes nothing?
  1. Verdugo's Avatar
    So Blizzard fights toxicity by removing emotes. Meanwhile, Activision executive positions are infested with literal war criminals.




    Priorities...
  1. rhorle's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Delever View Post
    And I repeat because of course you avoided my last question.
    I didn't avoid it. Lol. Stopping harassment is an answer to "how is this protecting them exactly?". It isn't virtue signaling to take action against harassment. Just because it wasn't done in the way that allows you to still be toxic while stopping the other person from seeing it doesn't mean it is virtue signaling.
  1. Delever's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by rhorle View Post
    I didn't avoid it. Lol. Stopping harassment is an answer to "how is this protecting them exactly?". It isn't virtue signaling to take action against harassment. Just because it wasn't done in the way that allows you to still be toxic while stopping the other person from seeing it doesn't mean it is virtue signaling.
    Ight lets go 3rd time: What would be the ideal situation for you? Every emote that gets "abused" gets removed one by one?

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