Patch 4.1 Dungeon Call To Arms Interface/Mechanics
A lot of people still wonder how the dungeon Call to Arms works and I hopped on PTRs to check it out.








Rated Battlegrounds VS. The Blues
It looks like the lack of blue posts lately is because the blues have been spending most of their time training in PvP!
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)
Greetings Once Again!

I know a lot of you had fun a couple weeks back when we logged on to the PTRs and ran ZA & ZG with you. Well, we're coming back! This time however rather than fighting alongside you we're going to be duking it out on the fields of honor, better known as Rated Battlegrounds!

We're going to be online tomorrow, 4/12/2011, at 4:30pm PST.

To participate you'll need to roll Horde characters (we flipped a coin) and form teams on the Broxigar PTR realm. The reason we're specifying a faction is because this is actually a big test of our experimental same-faction rated battlegrounds.

Hope to see you online, I'm sure this'll be a blast!

Patch 4.1 - New Game Master/Support Interface
The support interface gets a redesign in the next patch, you should be able to find what you're looking for easily now!



Comics
Dark Legacy Comics #283 and Teh Gladiators #226 + #227 are out!

This article was originally published in forum thread: Dungeon Call To Arms Interface, New Support UI, Rated BG PTRs, Comics started by Boubouille View original post
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  1. mmocea0b4c5a98's Avatar
    Same faction BG <3 no mroe Bg Ques
  1. furydeath's Avatar
    There should be 2 bags for if the DPS is ever picked you know cause it's only gonna happen once every 3 months when the planets aline.
  1. bass44x's Avatar
    yaaay the Satchel of Exotic Mysteries look cool *Droool*
    oh wait .... tank and healer only ? ... but am warlock
  1. mmoc1c8e21a025's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by zzyzx View Post
    I don't know about your server, we are always waiting for DPS to join the queue... I mean.. waiting for DPS to click the "ready" button.
    When you've been in the queue for 30+ minutes many things can happen and prevent you from clicking the "ready" button in time. Fall asleep, "call to arms: toilet", you name it...
  1. Tizdale's Avatar
    Is it me, or does it actually say Random Dungeon, and not random heroic dungeon?
  1. Bahska's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Raistlin Majere View Post
    Question is for the CTA's, can you only get the satchel 7 times in a week? "You may recieve this award 7 more times this week"

    I think players will hold off doing the Random if they cant get a chance at satchel.
    That has to do with valor points, there a weekly instead of a daily now an can be done up to 7 times per week. The satchels are unlimited if you meet the requirement.
  1. Kashim's Avatar
    Hmmm. I understand large patches are logistically much better to deploy, but I'm starting to get disappointed with the whole 'more, faster but smaller' content patch thing. They keep adding gunk in to 4.1
    As Daily Blink pointed out, the reality of the new system will probably lead on more terribad tanks in. And for those who will pug ZA and ZG that's pretty horrible; though again I understand their perspective of everything. It's definitely starting to become frustrating.
  1. Bahska's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Tizdale View Post
    Is it me, or does it actually say Random Dungeon, and not random heroic dungeon?
    That's cause there queued for the new ZA and ZG dungeons and there are only heroic versions of them
  1. Uselessrouge's Avatar
    Finaly ! i so hoped that same factions where going to be real.. the waiting times just suck atm ^^ But it was released close to first april .. ^^
  1. VitesseEOD's Avatar
    so what happens if CTA pops for healer and I, as a priest, queue DPS and Heals and (OK, it rarely happens!) get picked as a DPS, do I get the bonus bag or not?
  1. Kibrisli's Avatar
    Totaly bullsh|t.. What blizzard is expecting ? i cant Heal or Tank as a Hunter so i never gona HAVE that Bags ? Less que timer huh ? i dont need to Que for Valor since i have everything that i can take with Valor.

    i cant find words to say.. anyway...
  1. Vynidual's Avatar
    With any luck, my dr00d will be 85 by the time this drops.
  1. Peacemoon's Avatar
    I really hope this means we can report abusive players and behavior without opening a ticket. I just want to flag it up and move on, with the assurance that GM's will investigate it as and when.
  1. VitesseEOD's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kibrisli View Post
    Totaly bullsh|t.. What blizzard is expecting ? i cant Heal or Tank as a Hunter so i never gona HAVE that Bags ? Less que timer huh ? i dont need to Que for Valor since i have everything that i can take with Valor.

    i cant find words to say.. anyway...
    next tier you will need valor again so the shorter queues WILL help you, stop moaning or roll a class with some hybrid capacity
  1. Afakaz's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kibrisli View Post
    i cant Heal or Tank as a Hunter so i never gona HAVE that Bags ? Less que timer huh ?
    Could always roll a healer/tank, no one's making you stick with a pure DPS class.

    Quote Originally Posted by Lynix View Post
    Nobody else noticed that blizzard are horde?
    Why do you say that? I don't see anything in the screenshots to indicate that
  1. Roguez101's Avatar
    This is just completely unfair to classes that can only dps such as rogue or locks or mages every other class can get this satchel but those 3's
  1. Vongimi's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Holywood View Post
    At least Blizzard were honest, and in none of the example screenshots did they show DPS as getting the satchel (Hey, I'm Prot/Holy, I feel for you guys, doesn't mean its not funny as hell though)
    Not blizzard screenshots :P
  1. Nekovivie's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kibrisli View Post
    Totaly bullsh|t.. What blizzard is expecting ? i cant Heal or Tank as a Hunter so i never gona HAVE that Bags ? Less que timer huh ? i dont need to Que for Valor since i have everything that i can take with Valor.

    i cant find words to say.. anyway...
    If you dont need the valor why do you queue for heroics?

    People like you are what inflate the queue times in the first place.
  1. Nexsa's Avatar
    Says the pet/mount will be "Bind to Account", so for any people saying they can't take atvantage of these rewards, just tank on an alt and if you get the reward mail it to your main.
  1. tusker's Avatar
    Just curious since I haven't read the past threads on the related CTA topic... have people been QQ'ing that bag you get from CTA contains "recycled" content and doesn't actually contain anything new? Or are people just complaining because tanks/healers get a bag and it's "not fair" that DPS don't get one? I mean, it almost seems like the bag could contain all grey items worth 1 copper and the DPS would still complain because "omg they're getting a bag it's not fair give me a bag too!".

    Just wondering.

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