Molten Giants, Black Temple Map, May 11 Hotfixes, Firelands Preview, Blue Posts

Monster Model - Molten Giants
The model for the updated molten giants are now in the game files! They look like super awesome version of the old Molten Core giants and you might recognize the face from the Warrior Tier 12 Model Preview.



Black Temple Raid Instance Map
Better late than never, the map for the Black Temple raid is finally being added to the game in Patch 4.2!




Patch 4.1 Hotfixes - May 11
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)
May 5-11

General
  • There were several situations on transports or moving objects where players were receiving Movement Enforcement Error messaging, which should now be corrected.
  • Players using Mobile Guild Chat should no longer sometimes receive error messages incorrectly stating they are not in a guild.
  • Mail sent from the Auction House should no longer sometimes display incorrect information about the transaction. This also applies to those using the Mobile Auction House.
  • Parties will no longer disband immediately after all members log out. There is now a 5-minute grace period before the group is disbanded.

Classes
  • Characters who are resurrected by a player on a moving platform should now be transferred to the caster’s world position, rather than the location they were in when the spell was first cast.
  • Select classes are no longer able to aggro and pull a single enemy NPC from a linked group through various measures of sneakiness.

Druid (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
  • Stampeding Roar (Cat) should always properly cost 30 energy when used.

Hunter (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
  • Hunter pets no longer lose talent points when a Beast Mastery hunter gains a level.
  • The Disorient effect from Scatter Shot should no longer immediately break if Scatter Shot hits the target immediately after a buff on the target fades.

Warlock (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
  • Molten Core now correctly enhances all three Incinerate spells cast while the buff is active.

Dungeons & Raids
The Bastion of Twilight
  • The Blood of the Old God aggro radius during the Cho’gall encounter has been dramatically increased.

Blackwing Descent
  • Fiends should no longer cause any quirky despawning issues during the Atramedes encounter, particularly after Atramedes is defeated.

Zul’Gurub
  • Kill credit for Kilnara for the Here, Kitty Kitty... achievement can no longer be carried over to the next kill.

Items
  • The Miniature Voodoo Mask dropped in Zul’Aman is now a Greed-only item. No class can roll Need on this item.
  • The Voodoo Hexblade and Amani Scepter of Rites are now properly labeled as Main Hand and can only be equipped as such.

PvP
  • Players should no longer sometimes become stuck or crash while in a Battleground or Arena queue.

Quests & Creatures
  • Players should again be able to successfully complete the quest The Firelord in Mount Hyjal. NPC heroes should be functioning correctly.
  • The Horde NPC Kadrak is visible for players to turn in the quest Mor'shan Caravan Delivery after completing the quest To the Rescue! in Northern Barrens.

Remote Guild Chat and Auction House Free Preview Ends
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)
The Remote Guild Chat and Remote Auction House free-preview period has come to a close. Access to both of these features is now only available with a subscription to World of Warcraft Remote. Thanks to everyone who participated in the free preview -- we appreciate your feedback on the new Remote Guild Chat feature, and we hope you’ve enjoyed the chance to play the Auction House from the web or your mobile phone. To learn more about either of these features, visit the World of Warcraft Remote page, or go here to subscribe.

To download the free World of Warcraft Remote app for Android, click here. The World of Warcraft Mobile Armory app is also available as a free download from the App Store℠ for iPhone® and iPod touch®.

The Firelands: Lord Rhyolith & Baleroc
Blizzard updated their preview of the Firelands and added 2 bosses screenshots. Interestingly enough, Lord Anthrycist lost his controversial-weird name and is now named Ryolith.
Originally Posted by Zarhym (Blue Tracker)
Hey all,

We've added new images for Lord Rhyolith and Baleroc [The Gatekeeper] to our patch 4.2 preview of the Firelands.

You can check them out here: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2682944


Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Raid Mechanics and making them more transparent
Even so, it's not unreasonable for a player to feel that some of the game mechanics in World of Warcraft could be made more transparent, be that through additional interface options, better encounter alerts, or a type of in-game guide. That may not be the exact complaint here, but it's still valid and worthy of consideration.

In fact, we agree that there's room for improvement. As already mentioned, we're introducing the Dungeon Journal in patch 4.2. While this new feature won’t completely eliminate the need for one to "study" certain encounters, it should make it easier for players to pick up new fights, and hopefully a lot more fun (the journal looks pretty darn sweet, if you ask me, and even includes a little lore, too).

Speaking to the future, we're also looking into ways that we can incorporate some "raid/dungeon"-style gameplay into solo environments. To a small degree, there's a bit of this in the new daily quest hubs coming up in in 4.2. While the goal isn't specifically to prepare players for dungeons and raids -- rather, just to make content that's fun and cool -- the quests themselves and some their related achievements encourage the use of tactics that you'd might see in dungeon and raid encounters.

For example:


  • "Burn Victims" is a "heal the wounded NPCs in the field" type of quest, which will give players a salve to use on burn victims in the Molten Front. Healers will be able to use their healing spells, however, and complete the quest much more easily (since most heals are ranged).
  • "Strike at the Heart" is a quest with randomized bosses, all of which have raid-style environmental damage. There's even an achievement (currently named "Ready for Raiding II") for killing all five of those random bosses without taking damage from their avoidable environmental effects.
  • Some other achievements in the areas promote more skilled, "raid-style" play, too. "Flawless Victory," for example, asks players to solo kill a Molten Behemoth (found in the Molten Front) without taking any damage from two its abilities: Molten Stop and Fiery Boulder. And "Master of the Molten Front" requires players to kill a variety of flamewakers in arguably non-standard ways (e.g. pwning a Flamewaker Shaman with his own Flamewave).

Although these quests won't magically turn an inexperienced raider into an experienced one, we think they have the chance to make the daily content more interesting, as well as provide more opportunities for players to familiarize themselves with the style of gameplay one can expect within a dungeon or raid. (Source)
This article was originally published in forum thread: Molten Giants, Black Temple Map, May 11 Hotfixes, Firelands Preview, Blue Posts started by Boubouille View original post
Published on 2011-05-12 07:26 AM
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  1. mmoc6af618f320's Avatar
    I don't think there is a bigger waste of time than making map for raids 99,9...% of community never enter.

    And those who enter go solo stuff and often know it from "back in the day". Seriously Blizzard.
  1. Katoamaton's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by reve View Post
    I don't think there is a bigger waste of time than making map for raids 99,9...% of community never enter.
    You don't know what you're talking about. I do get that the percentage you threw out there is obvious exaggeration, but there are PLENTY of people entering old raids. For achievements, RP gear, just so see the famous lore characters.. You name it. There are ALWAYS people going to the old raids.
  1. Flowermuffin's Avatar
    awesome skins for the molten giants me likey
  1. marrakoosh's Avatar
    Really like the achievements. This is how quest hubs attached to raids should be. Get even the casual non-raid players thinking a bit more in the raiding mindset.

    Nice.

    Definitely excited. Am a bit bored of T11 raiding now.
  1. Baygon's Avatar
    so who said that molten giant thing wasn't a reskin of a Doomguard?
  1. Dalehan's Avatar
    10 gold says either Baleroc's initial aggro speech or player kill speech will be "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!"? Even if that doesn't make sense since it was Gandalf's line in LOTR..
  1. Granyala's Avatar
    No more "Antichrist"? .. NOOO :/
  1. mmoce407249d3a's Avatar
    So so... a dungeon map for Black Temple. Will this raid be recycled too?
  1. VitesseEOD's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Punks View Post
    Lol.....yeah ok.... Someone didnt play MC
    "LOL" yeah, 3 characters exalted with Hydraxian Warlords DURING Vanilla, I mustve been posessed/hypnotised!

    Consider the actual bosses, several are humanoids without a bit of fire/lava attached to them and the environment was a blend of caves as well as lava rivers. It still conveyed the feeling of being, well a Molten Core for want of a better expression, without decorating every moving (or otherwise) object in fire or lava

    THAT was the point, not to incite all the "lol WOTLK generation" towards someone who has played and raided a lot since day one

    Yes, of course it has to be fire themed since its Firelands, step aside Captain Obvious, the HMS Apparent is leaving the docks, but "less is more" applies once you pass a certain point
  1. Andaja's Avatar
    They really have nothing better to do then to make icons noone cares about and maps for dungeons noone visits anymore, and those that do prolly knows their way blindfolded already ...
  1. Arean's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by VitesseEOD View Post
    "LOL" yeah, 3 characters exalted with Hydraxian Warlords DURING Vanilla, I mustve been posessed/hypnotised!

    Consider the actual bosses, several are humanoids without a bit of fire/lava attached to them and the environment was a blend of caves as well as lava rivers. It still conveyed the feeling of being, well a Molten Core for want of a better expression, without decorating every moving (or otherwise) object in fire or lava

    THAT was the point, not to incite all the "lol WOTLK generation" towards someone who has played and raided a lot since day one

    Yes, of course it has to be fire themed since its Firelands, step aside Captain Obvious, the HMS Apparent is leaving the docks, but "less is more" applies once you pass a certain point
    The difference is this: The Molten Core was a Lava filled cave, fair enough. A natural place for Fire Elementals to gather in Azeroth, but we're talking about The Elemental Plane of Fire here. If you read the original descriptions of the Elemental planes from the RPG, they have actually toned it down a bit for the game.
  1. Gweenz's Avatar
    Good one bout dailies! Great job blizz
  1. lilbuddhaman's Avatar
    The map of Black Temple just shows how much detail BC dungeons got, whereas LK and current dungeons are just meh. And the whole "more expansions, less time" sounds like "less content, more profit, more $40 injections of free money"
  1. Lafleur's Avatar
    Baleroc is badass.
  1. mmoc199812a038's Avatar
    awwww they renamed lord antichrist
  1. Frozen Death Knight's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by lilbuddhaman View Post
    The map of Black Temple just shows how much detail BC dungeons got, whereas LK and current dungeons are just meh. And the whole "more expansions, less time" sounds like "less content, more profit, more $40 injections of free money"
    "Black Temple" is not a dungeon. It's a raid instance.

    Also, I may not have been in every dungeon from that expansion, but the "TBC" dungeons I have visited were linear, a few examples are the ones you can find in the first zone Hellfire Peninsula. Don't fool yourself.
  1. Throrion's Avatar
    You forgot the MMO-champ watermarks on the Molten Giant picture! Howsoever shall you prevent people from stealing it now?!
  1. mmocb07dbbe172's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Throrion View Post
    You forgot the MMO-champ watermarks on the Molten Giant picture! Howsoever shall you prevent people from stealing it now?!
    So, is it too much to ask for some molten giant customers to see when Rag gets off work at Subway?
  1. Poppasan's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by VitesseEOD View Post
    anyone else think the lava/fire theming will get very dull, very quickly? Molten Core managed to be a fire themed raid without ramming "lol fire/lava!" down our throats with every mob/boss/mount/enviornmental object!
    Would you want a fire/lava instance with straight up line where the place is suddenly green and all nature'ish? Hmh that was bad, considering Blizz did this in Ulduar
  1. Jantasir's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by VitesseEOD View Post
    "LOL" yeah, 3 characters exalted with Hydraxian Warlords DURING Vanilla, I mustve been posessed/hypnotised!

    Consider the actual bosses, several are humanoids without a bit of fire/lava attached to them and the environment was a blend of caves as well as lava rivers. It still conveyed the feeling of being, well a Molten Core for want of a better expression, without decorating every moving (or otherwise) object in fire or lava

    THAT was the point, not to incite all the "lol WOTLK generation" towards someone who has played and raided a lot since day one

    Yes, of course it has to be fire themed since its Firelands, step aside Captain Obvious, the HMS Apparent is leaving the docks, but "less is more" applies once you pass a certain point
    yea, rock guys, fire lizards, fire elementals.. fire giants.. dogs who breathed fire.. fire imps.. and... Ragnaros.... You have failed me for the last time executus..
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