Patch 4.3 - PTR Build 14911
A very minor PTR build is being deployed on test realms tonight.

Achievements Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Feats of Strength
  • Murkablo Proud owner of Murkablo from the 2011 BlizzCon.

Guild - Raids & Dungeons


Client Strings
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
  • ERR_PARTY_LFG_BOOT_VOTE_REGISTERED = "Your request to kick %s has been successfully received. %d |4more request is:more requests are; needed to initiate a vote.";
  • INELIGIBLE_FOR_LOOT = "You are not eligible for these items because you recently defeated this encounter.";
  • LOOT_ITEM_WHILE_PLAYER_INELIGIBLE = "%s receives loot: |TInterface\\Common\\Icon-NoLoot:13:13:0:0|t%s";



Spell Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Tailoring

Paladin (Forums / Talent Calculator / Skills/Talents)
Holy



Patch 4.3 Dragon Soul Raid Mounts
One of the latest PTR builds added 2 mounts to the Dragon Soul loot tables, the Life-Binder's Handmaiden drops from Madness of Deathwing (last encounter of the Dragon Soul raid) in Heroic Mode. People defeating Madness of Deathwing in normal mode will be rewarded with Reins of the Blazing Drake.


Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
New Guild Services Now Available - Updated
And one last update for you folks today: Guild services are now open on all North American realms. :)

[...] Yup! "North American realms" refers to any realm that appears in the realm list when launching the NA game client. This includes realms that fall under both the Oceanic and Latin America tabs, as well. :) (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Test Realms - Play AGAINST The Blues! BGs - 11/01/11
Greetings All!

Tomorrow 11/01/11 the mightiest combatants of Blizzard will once again gallantly stride across the blood-soaked soil of Azeroth. That's right, we're doing a Play-with-the-Blues Battlegrounds event on the PTRs!

From 3:00pm-6:00pm PST we'll be queuing for specific battlegrounds, be online and watch for the server alerts to know where to find us.

Hope to see you online! (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Test Realms - Play ALONGSIDE The Blues! - LFR 11/04/11
After you've tested your mettle against us during the "Play AGAINST The Blues" event on Tuesday you can follow it up by joining us on the PTR in the fight against Deathwing and his minions!

On Friday 11/04/11 we'll be online from 3:00pm-6:00pm PST and will be queuing up for Dragon's Soul raids using the Looking For Raid tool. Queue up using the LFR tool to join us. You will know us by our guilds [Blizzard Horde] & [Blizzard Alliance]. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

2011 Halloween Pumpkin Contest Winners
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
The winners of this year's pumpkin-carving contest have been chosen -- and they're monstrously spectacular. We'd like to thank everyone who participated this year, and we can't wait to see your mad scientist skills in action again next time around. Check out all of the creepy, incredible, and creative winning pumpkins here.




Blizzard Art Gallery Update
The World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Art gallery has been updated with five pieces representing the Warcraft universe.


This article was originally published in forum thread: Patch 4.3 PTR Build 14911, Dragon Soul Raid Mounts, Blue Posts, Artwork started by Boubouille View original post
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  1. Berri's Avatar
    Hm the mounts look weird - I assume it will be 100% drop from heroic Deathwing and lower chance of drop from normal... interesting that they went with different mounts this time, though... in Firelands normal and heroic Raggy dropped the same one. Really not a big fan of them horns, though =/

    Also, whoever made that Yoggy pumpkin, really really owns!

    Also, the blazing drake isn't the Meta Achievement Reward... could it be that, maybe, the Chromatic drake will be? Maybe? :3
  1. mmoc99336a0c8b's Avatar
    Hopefully 25man will drop the appropriate amount of mounts compared to 10man. 4.2 wasnt fair about that.
  1. mmoc40fcf82155's Avatar
    What a fail mount coming from the expansion villain...
    Considering how few ppl will actualy obtain it .. a more Deathwing look-alike mount would have been the normal way to go.
  1. Brakthir's Avatar
    It's retarded that they have two seperate mounts. For collectors that want both mounts, they either have to grab the first few normal ones or have an alt tank heroic DW.
  1. mmoc49efe580e8's Avatar
    that mount is a bit of a slap in the face for those who worked for the epic staff
  1. VanishO2's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by ssviolett View Post
    I was a holypaladin at start and I agree. But so many nerfs - is it not enough ?

    Btw, I really hope Blizzard will fix difficulty for DS raid. Seeing how easily hardmodes are being defeated makes me wonder how many hundreds of guild we will see at 7\8hm at 2nd week ? And if hardmodes are so easy what about LRF ? I always thought you need at least some skill and effort to beat content, is it fun to kill all bosses in the very first week watching TV and eating popcorn meanwhile ?
    Yes, because it's boring to watch the encounter while just waiting to roll on purples!

    ---------- Post added 2011-11-01 at 10:32 AM ----------

    Quote Originally Posted by BatteredSausage View Post
    How did i know the whole comments would be filled with mount rabble. Incoming elitist threads moaning that normal raiders get a mount too......
    Actually you've got a lot of "wanna look cool elitist bashers" moaning that the heroic one is of a diferent color and they won't get it at least on the 1st month (before the to the ground nerfs, and will get in MoP easily).

    Now ppl care even about the color of what others can get that they can't...

    ---------- Post added 2011-11-01 at 10:35 AM ----------

    Quote Originally Posted by Azivalla View Post
    You mean looting dragon mounts off a dragon in a raid about dragons is...WEIRD?!?
    They probably taking into account that LK didn't drop a "Reins of the LK: This is a very fast Scourge guy", neither Yogg dropped a "Reins of the Old God: This is a very fast Tentacle", so, no reason for a dragon to drop... a drake...

    Not that Malygos, Sartharion, Onyxia, etc. dropped drakes and... oh wait!!!
  1. Kalx's Avatar
    there's also this new mount here http://db.mmo-champion.com/i/77068/r...ght-harbinger/ any models or source for it yet?
  1. ssviolett's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by buggerlugs View Post
    that mount is a bit of a slap in the face for those who worked for the epic staff
    Dont see a problem. Work on getting heroic mount - that will be difficult. And after then you can easily from a pug group for yourself with "DW mount unroll, other stuff - roll".
  1. mmocbd02567a48's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kalx View Post
    there's also this new mount here http://db.mmo-champion.com/i/77068/r...ght-harbinger/ any models or source for it yet?
    I'm 100% certain that will be the Meta achievement reward.
  1. Pumps's Avatar
    You keep talking about this thing called PTR yet every time I have tried logging in I'm just told the login doesn't work ....
  1. Armath's Avatar
    Daamn those pumpkins are really awesome! The Zerg is just sick.
  1. Imbashiethz's Avatar
    Will I be able to gank gamemasters on the european servers aswell?
  1. Chronnos's Avatar
    More restyled drakes... I for one am quite fed up with them. And it's curious how the mounts that you can buy for real money look so much more polished and unique!
  1. Redcinder's Avatar
    Are these mounts dropping 100% of the time, chance on or do they come part of an achievement for killing deathwing ? They look AMAZIIING
  1. hellboyy's Avatar
    normal mode dropping a mount is a little incentive for non hard core players to go in and kill the final boss as a premade raid instead of only just playing with the raid finder i suppose.
  1. Jiggles's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Chronnos View Post
    More restyled drakes... I for one am quite fed up with them. And it's curious how the mounts that you can buy for real money look so much more polished and unique!
    Yeah. I'm actually not against more drake mounts, but Blizzard constantly re-purposing the old, low-res drake model is kinda sad. Pasting on a bunch of spikes, frills, and horns, then dipping it in a new coat of paint just doesn't cut it.

    Oh well, at least I don't care about inevitably losing the roll for one of these.
  1. Zadoc's Avatar
    If by AMAZIIIING you mean that they look exactly like half the drake mounts in the game, then yes, yes they do. Very disappointing for the end-of-expansion boss reward.
  1. Runeweaver's Avatar
    Yogg-Saron
  1. mmocced9c7d33d's Avatar
    I think teh dwagons look oki, I always wanted to "ride" the lifebinder!
  1. Joshythemage's Avatar
    Woot, BoE Chaos Orbs plus now only 4 to make to no CD Dreamcloth... non-tailors or tailors with no luck on pattern drops might actually be able to get pieces made without having to pay a fortune to use someone elses' mats.

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