Patch 4.3.2 Items, Blue Posts, Diablo Anniversary Page

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Patch 4.3.2 Items
The most significant item change was Gurthalak, Voice of the Deeps having the proc time increased to 12 seconds from 10 seconds. This change was made to all three versions of the item.

Many of the original level 60 ranked PvP gear items have had Replica added to the start of their name, making their name identical to the versions being sold in Area 52, for example the Replica High Warlord's Cleaver. However, they still retain their higher item level and stats.

Three new items were added in Patch 4.3.2, Feldrake, Eye of the Legion, and Demon Hunter's Aspect.



Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Darkmoon Faire Hotfix
A hotfix was deployed last night in order to solve the issue and the monthly quests should now be available again. However, if your character had already encountered a bug with some of the monthly quests, then you will need to wait until the next Darkmoon Faire starting on February 5 in order to complete those quests and the related achievements.

Once again we apologise for any inconvenience this issue may have caused. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Vial of Shadows Ranged Attack Power Bug
Just want to confirm: Vial of Shadows working only with melee attack power and not ranged attack power is indeed a bug. Barring unforeseen complications, this will be fixed in an upcoming hotfix.

Lock and Load not being caused by Arcane Shot is an intentional change. As many players have pointed out, there is just no need for it any longer. We also intend to make sure Black Arrow is used over Explosive Trap, probably by buffing Black Arrow slightly.

We are looking a lot at hunter DPS right now. We think it is in a good place when compared to other ranged DPS specs (in equivalent gear), but falls short when compared to ranged DPS with Dragonwrath. The guilds currently posting heroic combat logs have a lot of Dragonwraths, and unfortunately, hunters are the only ranged DPS who don’t have access to a legendary weapon. When more hunters have Deathwing weapons, their DPS will go up compared to the Dragonwrath users who won’t be upgrading their weapons, and we’ll see what hunter performance looks like.

It’s likely that future legendaries won’t be usable by so many classes and specs. For the present situation, one option is to just buff hunters to make up for their inability to have legendary weapons, but when you look at DPS casters who have no legendary, it's a tough option to take. We’re not sure yet of the future of the attack power buff in Mists of Pandaria, but in the short term we want to make sure that there are some situations where melee can do really high DPS rather than routinely coming in below ranged DPS (which is how we felt about the last two raid tiers).

If we buff hunters, it will more likely be through other avenues. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Gurthalak, Voice of the Deeps Balance Issues
Gurthalak should not proc off of Censure. The bug was with Seal of Truth, so Souldrinker will proc less for paladins as well.

The specific bug was that paladins running Seal of Truth had two chances with every swing to trigger the proc with Gurthalak or Souldrinker. They now have one chance.

For other classes, the sword overall does the damage we intend, but it's variable, so a few spectacular numbers are occasionally posted. Those shouldn’t be accepted as typical. Likewise, random burst can sometimes cause high damage in PvP, but we don’t think those situations with Gurthalak are reliable or severe enough to be a balance problem. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Mists of Pandaria Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Mists of Pandaria PvP
There will be PvP additions for Mists of Pandaria. We'll have more information/details at a future point in time.

Just as a quick FYI, here's a link to the BlizzCon article we posted outlining the panel contents that were covered.

We'll be sharing more details before much longer on many aspects of the expansion. Don't worry. Just to add on to this, the Developer Q&A in October also touched on PvP including world PvP.

We're quite aware of the desire for more world PvP. We're also aware that there are those who do not want to be "forced" into it either. We have plans that we think will help assuage that "dilemma". (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Watered Down Lore in Mists of Pandaria
We're always open to constructive feedback as long as it stays constructive. There are a few different types of thoughts from the community on these things that I've heard via podcasts or read on fansites and the forums here.

First, we've gotten lots of feedback through the years that it's difficult to learn the story of World of Warcraft. Many players have expressed that they have concerns over too much story having to be found outside the game and not enough in the game, or even not being led to the story in the game and thus missing it. Obviously, this is something we've been trying to correct where we can and trying to find a balance between the two. We're aware that Azeroth's history and story is pretty vast and with each new expansion, we're given the opportunity to expand on it even more.

Second, we've heard (as you've stated) that once through, it's not as fun the second time. We've obviously experienced this as well in the past via Culling of Stratholme. As you saw there, we did eventually make it possible to skip this portion of the event, but there are risks involved with that too. For newer players or those that aren't on the front edge of progression, this can cause them to miss out on being able to see this story unless they're with people who are willing to let it play out so they can experience it.

That said, I can't say that we'll do the same for the current dungeons (allowing the "skip"), but I can say that we'll continue to take constructive feedback on these aspects of the game as often as we can. We want to make sure we're giving the story that people want, while still making sure it's as fun as possible to be a part of it.

As for Mists of Pandaria and the storyline there, we definitely want to continue down the path of offering up story where we can. We feel that this can only enhance the experience of the game. We're not unaware though of the concerns on both sides of the fence. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Diablo Anniversary Page
The surprise that was hinted at was a nice Retrospective page with lots of screenshots, videos, and interviews involving the Diablo franchise.

The trailer that was on the page had a few parts that were unreleased so far and they were quickly removed. Luckily our friends over on Diablofans have the video of them for you!

This article was originally published in forum thread: Patch 4.3.2 Items, Blue Posts, Diablo Anniversary Page started by chaud View original post
Published on 2012-01-05 05:56 AM
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  1. mmoc8c543d8fa8's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by buggerlugs View Post
    can someone tell me what the point of those replica items are?
    transmog? perhaps.
  1. otarma's Avatar
    The proc time of Gurthalak, Voice of the Deeps has already been changed. This patch is just to correct the tooltip. Also FYI，Chinese server has already changed the tooltip. http://i.imgur.com/Pm0lV.jpg
  1. The Last DJ's Avatar
    The roleplayer in me just broke their nose facepalming hard at the Demon Hunter's Aspect. Oh god why, Blizzard. The goddamn wolf transformation offhand frill was bad enough with people turning into "werewolves" for 5 minutes.
  1. mmoc49efe580e8's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Oak-qt View Post
    transmog? perhaps.
    AFAIK you can transmog the old pvp armor right? Then they added replicas of the armor in area 51 and you cant buy it unless you have the old titles - so totally poinless as you can buy those in SW/ORG anyway.


    "Many of the original level 60 ranked PvP gear items have had Replica added to the start of their name, making their name identical to the versions being sold in Area 52, for example the Replica High Warlord's Cleaver. However, they still retain their higher item level and stats."

    I think you can still buy the legacy weapons in cities too. So what are replicas for?
    I would have thought that logically the replica sets would be for people who didnt get rank back in vanilla, but that doesnt seem the case
  1. mmoc5ece682d0d's Avatar
    Old Level 60 PVP Armor/Weapon = Can NOT be transmoged by anybody!

    Replika of the 60 PVP Armor/Weapon = Can theoretically be transmoged by everybody! But can only be bought with the old Feat of Strength.
  1. mmocc3e324ee93's Avatar
    I'm getting tired of this TCG crap taking up all the good stuff, they seriously need to get rid of TCG and make all those items available ingame instead.
    And while we are at reskinning, why is there still no Green Drake Mount and Bronze Whelpling Pet?
  1. Kalx's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Aettis View Post
    Judging by that new item, maybe we are looking at a new archeology dig site, The Legion. :O!
    I don't think so... I mean, how can you assemble a whole, living drake, from fragments? because that's what the mount is

    and pay attention: the mount doesn't bound. what it means? definitelly TCG.
  1. Huntaer's Avatar
    looks like TCG items :P
  1. Ironchef's Avatar
    A buff to the tentacle rape sword REALLY?? did not see that one coming no sir...
  1. aggression's Avatar
    I still find it pathetic that tanks get to role on Gurthalak. And it's probably only because DK's can use it for tanking, but they have no way at all to say "no" to a pally when the roll is about to be done. Seen a pally tank win it two weeks in row. Failblizz....
  1. lolipopp's Avatar
    THIS IS WHERE I SPOT FAIL on blizz devs site : "For other classes, the sword overall does the damage we intend, but it's variable, so a few spectacular numbers are occasionally posted. Those shouldn’t be accepted as typical. Likewise, random burst can sometimes cause high damage in PvP, but we don’t think those situations with Gurthalak are reliable or severe enough to be a balance problem."
    NO suckers its NO ok a sword doing 7-10% overall dmg for mele classes and my stupid bow procs count for 1% of mY DMG ....so fuck you...your intentions they sux !
  1. risingforce's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kalx View Post
    I don't think so... I mean, how can you assemble a whole, living drake, from fragments? because that's what the mount is

    and pay attention: the mount doesn't bound. what it means? definitelly TCG.
    Maybe the mount is contained on the Satchel from the LFD call to arms? Those mounts are sometimes BOE.
  1. mmoc49efe580e8's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Lubber View Post
    Old Level 60 PVP Armor/Weapon = Can NOT be transmoged by anybody!

    Replika of the 60 PVP Armor/Weapon = Can theoretically be transmoged by everybody! But can only be bought with the old Feat of Strength.
    what a stupid system - why not just make the original sets transmog then you dont need two sets
  1. Eazy's Avatar
    Maybe Blizzard was joking with Mists of Pandaria and they're going to make a new expansion about Burning Legion. Ha... Ha... Nice joke.To be honest I like this Drake, I like this Demon Hunter thing, I don't even know what it is, but everything with "Demon Hunter" is nice, also the drake looksvery good.
  1. Schaden's Avatar
    • Blame Legendaries for sub-par Hunter dps
    • See non-legendary Fire Mages, Afflic Locks, Shadow Priests, as well as Warriors and pre-legendary Rogues still vastly out dpsing hunters
    • Another refusal to acknowledge poor scaling that has affected the class for several expansions

    Is there any way we can make Ghostcrawler stop playing his mage and play a hunter?
  1. Myzrael's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Schaden View Post
    • Blame Legendaries for sub-par Hunter dps
    • See non-legendary Fire Mages, Afflic Locks, Shadow Priests, as well as Warriors and pre-legendary Rogues still vastly out dpsing hunters
    • Another refusal to acknowledge poor scaling that has affected the class for several expansions
    Yet caster dagger never exceeds 1.5% of total damage done, maybe 2.5% in heavy aoe fight with well timed proc. Our fury warrior does 15-20% of his total damage from proc while dual wielding swords. Not everyone has access to legendary, you know.
  1. DechCJC's Avatar
    They buffed the tentacle weapons? High rated arena teams actually make macros to target the tentacles and kill them, sigh.
  1. Runeweaver's Avatar
    Those are definetly TCG items now, 2 rares and 1 epic (Mount), due to each TCG having 2 rares and 1 epic (3 loot cards).
  1. Radefa's Avatar
    Since when does MoP have a story? Horde and Alliance at war a new mysterious island appears "magically" and everyone says I always wondered where those damn pandas came from let's go conquer the area for the (insert faction). = worst and weakest expansion story ever!
  1. mmoce29f517ad0's Avatar
    Not sure it will be TCG reward. cause for next few TCG there are already giving cards (mounts,pets,random item) i think still it has something to do with an event, but ye what it could be is not sure, stil thinkin about lunar festival reward from that demon dogg
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