Legendary Staff Questline, Tier 12 Clarification, Blue Posts, MMO Report, Comics

Legendary Quest - Video Preview
Method released a small video preview of the legendary staff questline, this isn't a complete preview yet but it should give you a pretty good idea of what happens in early stages of the story.



Tier 12 Set Bonuses - Additional Information & Clarification
Originally Posted by Zarhym (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Additional Information & Clarification


  • The Fire damage-over-time effects from some set bonuses work like Ignite, and will accumulate and refresh damage just as it does.

  • The Mirror Image summoned by the Mage set (2-piece bonus) does not cause him/her to drop threat. It summons a guardian who appears like the mage and casts Fireballs by his/her side.

  • Mage 4-piece bonus stats: +15% proc chance to Brain Freeze, +30% chance on single critical effect to Hot Streak, and Arcane Missiles will always proc by the 4th cast.

  • The Rogue 4-piece bonus never picks hit or expertise, and never picks the same rating twice in a row.

  • The Warrior 2-piece bonus gets its duration reduced based on the number of talent points the warrior has in Booming Voice. It lasts 12/9/6 seconds at 0/1/2 points spent in Booming Voice.

  • The Hunter 4-piece bonus does not get consumed by shots that do not cost focus.

  • For an image preview of the tier 12 armor sets which have been completed, head to the front page of the community site: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2705803

Tier 12 Set Bonuses - Feedback
Originally Posted by Zarhym (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Below you'll find the latest tier 12 set bonuses for all classes. Nearly all of these should be live on the PTR, if not implemented very soon. We thank you all for the feedback you've provided us thus far, as it's allowed us to make a few necessary tweaks. Feel free to let us know how the current bonuses are looking. Also, be sure to read the additional information in the section below all of the class listings, as it contains a few clarifications based on commonly asked questions about these sets.

Death Knight (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
  • Blood 2-Piece Bonus: Your melee attacks cause Burning Blood on your target, which deals 800 Fire damage every 2 seconds for 6 seconds, and causes your abilities to behave as if you had 2 diseases present on the target.
  • Blood 4-Piece Bonus: Increases parry chance by 15% for 12 seconds after Dancing Rune Weapon expires.
  • Frost/Unholy 2-Piece Bonus: Your Horn of Winter ability also grants you 3 runic power every 5 seconds for 2 minutes.
  • Frost/Unholy 4-Piece Bonus: Your Obliterate and Scourge Strike abilities deal 6% additional damage as Fire damage over 4 seconds.

Druid (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
  • Balance 2-Piece Bonus: You have a chance to summon a Burning Treant to assist you in battle for 15 seconds when you cast Wrath or Starfire.
  • Balance 4-Piece Bonus: While not in an Eclipse state, your Wrath generates 3 additional Lunar Energy and your Starfire generates 5 additional Solar Energy.
  • Feral 2-Piece Bonus: Your attacks with Mangle, Maul, and Shred deal 10% additional damage as Fire damage over 4 seconds.
  • Feral 4-Piece Bonus: Your finishing moves have a 20% chance per combo point to extend the duration of Berserk by 2 seconds, and when your Barkskin ability expires you gain an additional 10% chance to dodge for 12 seconds.
  • Restoration 2-Piece Bonus: Your periodic healing from Lifebloom has a 40% chance to restore 1% of your base mana each time it heals a target.
  • Restoration 4-Piece Bonus: Your Swiftmend also heals an injured target within 8 yards for the same amount.

Hunter (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
  • 2-Piece Bonus: Your Steady Shot and Cobra Shot have a 10% chance to trigger a Flaming Arrow, dealing 80% instant weapon damage as Fire.
  • 4-Piece Bonus: You have a 10% chance from your Auto Shots to make your next shot cost no focus.

Mage (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
  • 2-Piece Bonus: You have a chance to summon a Mirror Image to assist you in battle for 15 seconds when you cast Frostbolt, Fireball, or Arcane Blast.
  • 4-Piece Bonus: Your spells have an increased chance to trigger Brain Freeze, Hot Streak, or Arcane Missiles. In addition, Arcane Missiles can now be cast while moving.

Paladin (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
  • Holy 2-Piece Bonus: Healing with Holy Shock has a 40% chance to grant you 6% of your base mana.
  • Holy 4-Piece Bonus: Your Divine Light, Flash of Light, and Holy Light spells also heal an injured target within 8 yards for 10% of the amount healed.
  • Protection 2-Piece Bonus: Your Shield of the Righteous deals 20% additional damage as Fire damage.
  • Protection 4-Piece Bonus: When your Divine Protection expires, you gain an additional 12% parry chance for 10 seconds.
  • Retribution 2-Piece Bonus: Your Crusader Strike deals 15% additional damage as Fire damage over 4 seconds.
  • Retribution 4-Piece Bonus: Increases the duration of your Zealotry ability by 15 seconds. [/li]

Priest (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
  • Discipline/Holy 2-Piece Bonus: Your Flash Heal, Heal, Greater Heal, and Prayer of Mending spells cause you to regenerate 2% of your base mana every 5 seconds for 15 seconds.
  • Discipline/Holy 4-Piece Bonus: You have a chance when you cast a helpful spell to summon a Cauterizing Flame at the target’s location. Each second the Cauterizing Flame will heal an injured party member within 20 yards for 9250 to 10750. Lasts 5 seconds.
  • Shadow 2-Piece Bonus: While you are in Shadowform, your Shadowfiend deals 20% additional damage as Fire damage and its cooldown is reduced by 75 seconds.
  • Shadow 4-Piece Bonus: While you have Shadow Word: Pain, Devouring Plague, and Vampiric Touch active on the same target you gain Dark Flames, which reduces the cooldown of Mind Blast by 3 seconds.

Rogue (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
  • 2-Piece Bonus: Your melee critical strikes deal 6% additional damage as Fire over 4 seconds.
  • 4-Piece Bonus: Your Tricks of the Trade ability also causes you to gain a 25% increase to one of your combat ratings at random for 30 seconds.

Shaman (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
  • Elemental 2-Piece Bonus: Your offensive spells have a chance to reset the remaining cooldown on your Fire Elemental Totem.
  • Elemental 4-Piece Bonus: Your Lava Surge talent also makes Lava Burst instant when it triggers.
  • Enhancement 2-Piece Bonus: Your Lava Lash gains an additional 5% damage increase per application of Searing Flames on the target.
  • Enhancement 4-Piece Bonus: Your Stormstrike ability also increases Fire damage you deal to that target by 6%.
  • Restoration 2-Piece Bonus: Your periodic healing from Riptide has a 40% chance to restore 1% of your base mana each time it heals a target.
  • Restoration 4-Piece Bonus: Your Chain Heal spell no longer consumes your Riptide effect on the primary target.

Warlock (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
  • 2-Piece Bonus: Your periodic damage has a chance to summon a Fiery Imp to assist you in battle for 15 seconds.
  • 4-Piece Bonus: Your Shadow Bolt, Incinerate, Soul Fire, and Drain Soul spells have a 5% chance to increase all Shadow and Fire damage you deal by 20% for 8 seconds.

Warrior (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
  • Arms/Fury 2-Piece Bonus: Your Battle Shout and Commanding Shout abilities also cause you to deal 10% increased physical damage for 6 to 12 seconds.
  • Arms/Fury 4-Piece Bonus: Your Mortal Strike and Raging Blow abilities have a 30% chance to trigger a Fiery Attack, dealing 100% instant weapon damage as Fire.
  • Protection 2-Piece Bonus: Your Shield Slam deals 20% additional damage as Fire damage over 4 seconds.
  • Protection 4-Piece Bonus: When your Shield Block expires, your parry chance is increased by 6% for 10 seconds.

PTR Raid Testing Schedule 5/16-5/17
Originally Posted by Ghostcrawler (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
The next phase of raid testing is as follows:

Monday, May 16
EU 10:30 AM PDT - Alysrazor, 10 player
US 4:30 PM PDT - Alysrazor, 10 player

Tuesday, May 17
EU 10:30 AM PDT - Baleroc, 10 player
US 4:30 PM PDT - Majordomo Staghelm, 10 player

We will be testing on both EU and US PTR realms initially, with other regions to come later. 25 Player and Heroic testing will happen later in the PTR testing cycle.

As always, the schedule can change at a moment’s notice due to issues with the build, server, encounter, or the fickle, fickle nature of designers. The encounters are all a work in progress; there will be bugs and tuning is not final.

Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Fire Damage in Firelands
Creatures in the Firelands will not be immune to Fire damage. Giving raid mobs and bosses immunity to a school of magic just doesn't work well, given that some classes/specs are dependent upon the damage output from that school.

Instead, we've themed many of the set bonuses around the Firelands. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

DPS classes never benefit from the Dungeon Finder CTA
We recognize it's not the most elegant solution. Ideally we wouldn't offer greater incentives to one player over another based purely on the class role they each fulfill. That said, the disparity in queue times was unacceptable in our eyes, and we saw that sentiment shared throughout the community.

Perhaps there are better ways for us to lower queue times without having to offer additional rewards to the class role in highest demand in the Dungeon Finder, but Call to Arms is a feature we were able to develop in a much more reasonable time frame.

Do we like that your only reward from the Call to Arms feature is a shorter queue time? No. But then, if the queue times were more equal for each class role, we wouldn't have added Call to Arms in the first place.(Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

The MMO Report
It's monday, and time for a delicious MMO Report with the delicious Casey.



Comics
Dark Legacy Comics #288 is out.

This article was originally published in forum thread: Legendary Staff Questline, Tier 12 Clarification, Blue Posts, MMO Report, Comics started by Boubouille View original post
Published on 2011-05-16 06:31 AM
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  1. mmocf06effc4be's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Shambulanced View Post
    You know, at first I kinda raised my eyebrow at people complaining about the Legendary Staff.

    But, having watched this now, I have to change my stance. That's a lot of development time, and unique experience, devoted to what will be a very small percentage of the WoW playerbase. If they could put this in, why couldn't they add more class quests in? Class quests wouldn't have to be this long, or involved.

    And while I admit that this is an improvement, lorewise, over the crafting of Shadowmourne, I also have to say that owners of other legendaries must feel kinda cheated, watching this video--it's just much more elaborate.

    It's cool content. Shame that most people won't experience it firsthand. Seems like the left and right hands of the devteam don't talk very often.
    Blizzard keeps improving their games alot. Same goes for WoW. Questing has changed alot since Cataclysm, and this questchain proves Blizzards finesse once more.
    Just because you and i cannot wield and therefor experience this questchain doesn't mean that the people who do shouldnt experience it. To be honest, thats just being a whiny little selfish brat who cant have all the cool stuff other kids have.

    PS: Would like to add aswell, that a legendary weapon without a proper backstory just isn't a legendary. It would just be another piece of loot, just having orange text for teh lulz (Looking at you here, Thori'dal). This questchain and the things you have to do for obtaining your legendary should trully give you the feeling of having worked for your legendary.
    I admit that im jealous i will not be able to see this myself (not much of an alt-gearing guy either), but i do take off my hat for Blizzards work into this quest, and wish all them staff wielders the best of zeh luck getting their legendaries.
  1. Kinder's Avatar
    Protection 2-Piece Bonus: Your Shield of the Righteous deals 20% additional damage as Fire damage.
    Fire damage ? o_O
  1. Kryos's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ionite View Post
    Epic boomkin of death riding a dragon in the cutscene ruined the atmosphere a bit for me there.
    you mean improved! Boomkin FTW!
  1. Shampox's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Many View Post
    Super original. Tanking 4p bonuses...
    You mean the ones where they tried to keep it balance to avoid people like you bitching? Or those other ones?
  1. Srg56's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kryos View Post
    you mean improved! Boomkin FTW!
    No. But to remain objective, only the player who has the quest will see it, so if he/she likes extremely goofy stuff, like an undead riding a lasebeam weapon riding a T-Rex riding a giant whale shark "goofy snooky stupid" stuff, that's ok. For the rest of us, it would be appreciated if you would implement a fix that shows the player in caster form in that part, because it's immersion breaking.
  1. schippie's Avatar
    Blizzard has outdone themselfes with that quest chain freaking amazing.
  1. Rigrot's Avatar
    The fact that this legendary is so crazy in terms of quests and story just means that all legendaries should likely see this much attention.

    Also as a caster I'm quite excited.
  1. good diu bro's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Zarod View Post
    Must say those legendaries are alot of content for just 1 person
    If they open up the azure sanctum raid in some future patches, then its a different story. Sadly they didnt make Arygos a raid boss for everyone to participate.

    Speaking of that, what was Azuregos's plan to stop Kalec anyway?
  1. Weenietot's Avatar
    I have not seen an improvement in queue times since CTA came into being. It could be because the rewards kinda suck.
  1. Luminar's Avatar
    So... Holy Pally 2-piece averages out to about 93 mana per second and 4-piece is an expanded version of the old Holy Light glyph.

    Y'know, that Priest 4-piece seems a lot more interesting...
  1. Phaesimvrotos's Avatar
    I lol'd HARD at DL comic great job ;p

    (Pff don't want to see the video I wanna do the chain myself :/ )
  1. mmoc124c6a1c41's Avatar
    about the set bonuses:

    FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE!
  1. Typography's Avatar
    Is it just me, or are Dark Legacy comics not funny, like... at all?
  1. Joán's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Typography View Post
    Is it just me, or are Dark Legacy comics not funny, like... at all?
    Oh god, you're not alone. I shudder to think of what the author has done to warrant infinite front page attention from such a hugely visited site as this...
  1. Gregor Eisenhorn's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Joán View Post
    Oh god, you're not alone. I shudder to think of what the author has done to warrant infinite front page attention from such a hugely visited site as this...
    Created a successful webcomic?
  1. lb's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by steamrice View Post
    Meh i dont care about the rewards for CTA since lately dps queue times are 5-10 minutes from the old 40-50 minutes on rampage battlegroup. My alts are happy
    Yes for normal heroics that's the case. But if i queue for the new zul instances i still wait about 35-45 minutes on my realm.
  1. bondgirl's Avatar
    WOW, I so gonna hope its for healers aswell so it will be mine, since I passed shadowmourne to the GM in wotlk who is now playing a lock and I rerolled a hPriest. So hopefully my time for first legendary ingame has come now.
  1. Many's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Shampox View Post
    You mean the ones where they tried to keep it balance to avoid people like you bitching? Or those other ones?
    Yeah.. Its weird way too balance things. Everything same...
  1. snowcrash512's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Rocheku View Post
    Blizzard keeps improving their games alot. Same goes for WoW. Questing has changed alot since Cataclysm, and this questchain proves Blizzards finesse once more.
    Just because you and i cannot wield and therefor experience this questchain doesn't mean that the people who do shouldnt experience it. To be honest, thats just being a whiny little selfish brat who cant have all the cool stuff other kids have.

    PS: Would like to add aswell, that a legendary weapon without a proper backstory just isn't a legendary. It would just be another piece of loot, just having orange text for teh lulz (Looking at you here, Thori'dal). This questchain and the things you have to do for obtaining your legendary should trully give you the feeling of having worked for your legendary.
    I admit that im jealous i will not be able to see this myself (not much of an alt-gearing guy either), but i do take off my hat for Blizzards work into this quest, and wish all them staff wielders the best of zeh luck getting their legendaries.
    You completely missed the point, Blizz has said they dont want to do any involved class specific quests anymore because its so much work for something that only a percentage of people get to see, they would have to make an epic quest chain for each class and each would need to be different... and yet here we have an epic quest chain that will only ever be seen by maybe 5 percent of the playerbase.
  1. The Glitch's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by BondGirl View Post
    WOW, I so gonna hope its for healers aswell so it will be mine, since I passed shadowmourne to the GM in wotlk who is now playing a lock and I rerolled a hPriest. So hopefully my time for first legendary ingame has come now.
    It's been stated time and again that it is a dps caster staff, and will have a damage proc, thats not to say you couldn't get one, once the dps have got theres
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