ToT Progression, Blizzard at PAX East, March 12 Hotfixes, TwizzCast, Blue Posts

Patch 1.0.7a Now Live

Update: Blood Legion has reclaimed the top spot with 6/13 and Exodus is right behind them, also at 6/13.

Throne of Thunder Heroic Progression - Day 1
The first day of Heroic difficulty raids in the US is over and Exodus is on top with 4 bosses down. Blood Legion is next with 3, followed by Midwinter and Supermassive with 2. In the 10 player raid size, Rehabilitation Clinic has two bosses down, followed by almost 50 guilds with 1 boss down.

You can keep up with the kills on Manaflask, our forum thread, and WowProgress.



Blizzard at PAX East
Blizzard sent out an email to the press a few weeks ago about something new being at PAX East, and Rob Pardo dropped some more hints on Twitter today. You can see the last update he gave us on Titan here.



Patch 5.2 Hotfixes: March 12
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)
Classes

Quests

Pet Battles

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
  • Our lead encounter designer offers their thoughts on feedback regarding raid boss hotfixes.
  • Throne of Thunder
    • Horridon
      • Reduced the health of adds in the Horridon encounter by 15% for 10-player normal mode and 10% for 25-player normal mode.
    • Lei Shen
      • Fixed an issue where images of Past Self created by Alter Time could be killed during the encounter.
    • Megaera
      • Reduced the health of Megaera's heads in 10-player normal and heroic modes.
    • Zandalari Council
      • Kazra'jin's Reckless Charge should no longer hit players twice at the point of impact.
  • Scholomance
    • Fixed an issue in Challenge Mode where players may not receive credit for killing Lilian Voss.

PvP

Battlegrounds
  • Secondary stats on heirloom items should now scale correctly while inside a Battleground.

Items
  • Protections for unlucky streaks have been added for trinkets that use the RPPM (real procs per minute) system. (You can find a translated version of the Chinese post on this subject here.)
    • Activation chance for trinket effects on a pull has been increased.
    • Every time the trinket fails to activate, there's an increasing chance that it will activate.
    • Increased the activation chance for agility and strength trinkets from Throne of Thunder by 10%.
    • Increased the activation chance for intellect and spirit trinkets from Throne of Thunder by 5%.

Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where players may be unable to obtain Isle of Thunder daily quests for Stage 2.
  • Fixed an issue where some players may be unable to loot Isle of Thunder rare spawns.
  • Players will no longer get dismounted when flying over the Shrine of Goldrinn.

TwizzCast Live with Greg Street Wed, 6:30 PM PST
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Tomorrow night we'll be putting the good folks over at TwizzCast on the phone with lead systems designer Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street. Following up on the developer interviews conducted just prior to patch 5.2's release, Greg will be talking a little about his initial impressions of the patch after its first week on live realms, in addition to fielding questions submitted to the TwizzCast team by players.

Suggesting Questions
If you have any questions you'd like to see the TwizzCast crew ask Greg in the interview, you can submit them the following ways:

Tuning in Live
You can catch this special episode of TwizzCast live on http://twitch.tv/TwizzCast 6:30-7:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time Wednesday, March 13. While the interview will be made available shortly after the broadcast concludes, we'd love to have you tune in live and join the twitch chat room! While sitting in on the call next to Greg, I'll also be in the chat room with one or two of my community manager cohorts to talk to viewers during the interview.

Knowing the Format
Please keep in mind that this is a live podcast interview and not a community Q&A. While TwizzCast staff is collecting questions from the community, all questions will be determined and prepared in advance, and they will not be able to cover everything in 30 minutes. What questions are chosen is at the sole discretion of Twizz, Reb and Martiean, and the three of them are hard at work ensuring this interview will be well worth everyone's attention.

I hope to see you in the chat tomorrow evening!

Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Class Hotfixes – 3/12
Any word on when Chi Wave is going to be fixed? As it stands we are lucky to get full duration in a raid setting.
Our developers are aware of an issue with Chi Wave’s heals not bouncing correctly and are working on a hotfix to correct this.

PVE-wise it's understandable, but when frost bomb had to be nerfed to do 20% less dmg in pvp environment, and now you are buffing it by 40%? Is there really no other way to balance out pve damage, because it really is not fun having something over powered as frost bomb for pvp...
Providing a clarification over PvP damage concerns.

  • Frost Bomb now deals 60% of its damage when used against other players, down from 80%.

Effectively a 4% buff in PvP then?
That would be correct. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Throne of Thunder Hotfix Reasoning
Hey all,

Lead encounter designer Ion Hazzikostas (Watcher) has been reading through a lot of your feedback regarding the raid boss hotfixes, and he passed along the following response to this thread:

I just wanted to offer some context for the recent tuning hotfixes to the Horridon and Council of Elders encounters in the Throne of Thunder raid.

First off, the Council change, reducing their health in 10-player modes, was honestly just a bug fix. Yes, it made the encounter easier, which also makes it a nerf, but we simply goofed on the numbers. We generally aim for a 3:1 ratio of health for enemies in 25-player raids as compared to 10-player mode, since 25-player raids typically have ~17 DPS and 10-player raids have 5 or 6. Instead, the ratio on the bosses themselves (but not the Loa spirits or Sand Elementals) was mistakenly 2.5:1, and we didn’t notice until we started taking a closer look at why 10-player groups seemed to be having a harder time with the encounter. I apologize for the error on our part.

Second, regarding Horridon, that change was an intentional difficulty adjustment, with the aim of smoothing out the difficulty curve of the first section of the raid. By reducing the health of the trolls pouring out of each gate, we reduced the DPS requirement (and thus the gear requirement) of the encounter, but generally kept the mechanics checks intact. The trolls having 10-15% less health doesn’t mean that raids can suddenly fail to interrupt Venom Priests, ignore Effusions, stand in Sand Traps, or cuddle up with Frozen Orbs. It just means that there’s a lower DPS requirement to keep up with the waves while doing so. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Round 2 Voting: 2013 Alienware March Gaming Bracket Challenge
Curse is holding a contest that puts characters from various video games against each other in a vote off to see who will win. Hoptallus is the only WoW character left, so be sure to vote for him if you find him more deserving than Commander Shepard! You can also enter to win an Alienware x51 computer.

This article was originally published in forum thread: ToT Progression, Blizzard at PAX East, March 12 Hotfixes, TwizzCast, Blue Posts started by chaud View original post
Published on 2013-03-13 05:59 AM
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  1. dokilar's Avatar
    hmm new game at pax east? cmon warcraft rts or an announcement that we wont have to wait 3 years for the final starcraft 2 expansion!
  1. Dustdevil's Avatar
    SC2 for Xbox 720
  1. Raptor With a Saber's Avatar
    Probably just another lack luster game that will be released incomplete and have you pay monthly fees plus a fee to play online and then release the rest of the game in an "expac"

    Yes i am bitter towards majority of the current gaming industry.
  1. Butler to Baby Sloths's Avatar


    Lovely. You stay up till 2:30 am to watch it, and a stream with 400 viewers is blocked because too many people are watching from your country. How many people out of those 400 do you think are watching it from Germany?

    It won't be a massive game release announcement at PAX, they save those for BlizzCon.
  1. F-Minus's Avatar
    I wish someone would challenge the developers on some discussion and not just give them a out-of-jail free card with everything they say. Especially on the question about dead realms, there would be so many sub questions to ask, and to challange Street on what he said, like lower/remove the transfer pricing, or how not everyone is so connected to his character name and server that he wants to stay even if he's the last, but what is keeping him there is the 100EUR+ transfer bill for all of his characters.

    I would like to hear more of that, but so far no site/show/interview whatever you call it had the guts to go into that kind of discussions/questions - and Blizzard don't seem to answer those if they are asked from a regular customer.

    I give you a solution blizzard!

    Lock the almost dead realms so no new character can be created, give everyone on the realm a free transfer for all of his character to any realm he desires (including free guild transfers) sans the locked ones. You fixed your major problem in one week. The AFK/frozen accounts can stay on the dead realms forever if they want to, or you can put out a notice to everyones email that you will be shutting the dead realms in one year or so, and they have enough time to move (it's free remember) - or you know store their characters in a database and when they return they get redirected to their account management to move from there.
  1. JhanZ's Avatar
    Diablo 3 for XBOX Durango LOL
  1. Lil's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Butler Log View Post
    http://i.imgur.com/4i0a2g2.png

    Lovely. You stay up till 2:30 am to watch it, and a stream with 400 viewers is blocked because too many people are watching from your country. How many people out of those 400 do you think are watching it from Germany?

    It won't be a massive game release announcement at PAX, they save those for BlizzCon.
    Wow, I've never seen that before. Twitch.tv (afaik) belongs to justin.tv, and they often stream LoL events with 150,000 viewers and more. I can't believe that 400 viewers should be such a problem.
  1. Daralii's Avatar
    I'd guess a playable demo of console!D3. The melted wax is from Diablo, and there's no way in hell they'd announce a new game at anything but Blizzcon.
  1. Maskinen's Avatar
    It's the Dota thing for starcraft
  1. Snuffe's Avatar
    For the love of god may it be a warcraft rts..it doesnt need to be warcraft 4. Since i heard about the domain warcraft battles i think it was called, i had my hopes up for a freaking warcraft rts.
  1. Msshammy's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Shockymonkey View Post
    Mobile device game
    This was my first thought as well... I really hope we're both wrong
  1. kendro1200's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Daralii View Post
    I'd guess a playable demo of console!D3. The melted wax is from Diablo, and there's no way in hell they'd announce a new game at anything but Blizzcon.
    Yeah that makes sense, but I really wanted it to be Ghost coming back into production D: Even though the original story they had for it is kinda moot now, and so they'd have to make a whole new one.
  1. FoxStar85's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by F-Minus View Post
    I wish someone would challenge the developers on some discussion and not just give them a out-of-jail free card with everything they say. Especially on the question about dead realms, there would be so many sub questions to ask, and to challange Street on what he said, like lower/remove the transfer pricing, or how not everyone is so connected to his character name and server that he wants to stay even if he's the last, but what is keeping him there is the 100EUR+ transfer bill for all of his characters.

    I would like to hear more of that, but so far no site/show/interview whatever you call it had the guts to go into that kind of discussions/questions - and Blizzard don't seem to answer those if they are asked from a regular customer.

    I give you a solution blizzard!

    Lock the almost dead realms so no new character can be created, give everyone on the realm a free transfer for all of his character to any realm he desires (including free guild transfers) sans the locked ones. You fixed your major problem in one week. The AFK/frozen accounts can stay on the dead realms forever if they want to, or you can put out a notice to everyones email that you will be shutting the dead realms in one year or so, and they have enough time to move (it's free remember) - or you know store their characters in a database and when they return they get redirected to their account management to move from there.
    Good thing you don't work for Blizzard. They'd fire you if you did.
  1. Demoncrash's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by sinilaid View Post
    I don't think its Blizzard All Stars because we already know about that game. Its an announcement for a new game(next game). At least that's how I see things...
    When they spoke of All Stars before, it was as an addon to SC2 and not a stand alone title that it's gonna be now. So far, only the press have hinted that all stars will be a stand alone title. Blizz hasn't said anything of the sort.

    At PAX East they will.
  1. Theronus's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Butler Log View Post
    It won't be a massive game release announcement at PAX, they save those for BlizzCon.
    Not always, Diablo 3 was announced in June 2008 before BlizzCon.
  1. The Stormbringer's Avatar
    Why do people keep saying Blizzard Allstars? That's technically already been announced. I suppose the wording makes it seem like it could be a playable version of it, but I don't know. I have doubts.
  1. Moraven's Avatar
    Great mod to prospect and mill, disenchant:

    http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/panda

    Basically has buttons for the various possible items. You just click the herb, item, ore and poof! You mill/prospect/disenchant it.
  1. Moraven's Avatar
    Great mod to mill/prospect/DE quicker:

    http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/panda
  1. CastSeven's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Punks View Post
    I saw some files a while back...

    Fuck it Ill say it.


    It's Warcraft 4 (aka Warcraft)
    Apparently you and many others can't read that line in the press teaser that said it isn't a sequel or an expansion.

    "I saw some files"....lol.....you might as well have gone with "my friend's uncle is a <insert generic prominent sounding position> at Blizzard and..."

    ---------- Post added 2013-03-14 at 10:43 PM ----------

    Quote Originally Posted by Demoncrash View Post
    At PAX East they will.
    Every time something like this happens, and there's all this speculation, like there is now, there are always dudes like you who aren't like, "I think this is what they'll do", but have to act like you know something when in fact it's just your own speculation, like, "This is what they are doing. You'll see..." or some crap. There's a fair amount of it peppered throughout this thread.

    I'm genuinely curious why? Why the "insider info" act? Why not just state your opinion as such? Especially in a thread full of so many people already doing the same thing?

    (Believe it or not, I'm trying to be way less of a jerk than I'm being right now, sorry about that.)
  1. CastSeven's Avatar
    (Sorry if this is a duplicate post, my first attempt seems to have failed)

    Quote Originally Posted by Punks View Post
    I saw some files a while back...

    Fuck it Ill say it.

    It's Warcraft 4 (aka Warcraft)
    Apparently you and many others can't read that line in the press teaser that said it isn't a sequel or an expansion.

    "I saw some files"....lol.....you might as well have gone with "my friend's uncle is a <insert generic prominent sounding position> at Blizzard and..."

    Quote Originally Posted by Demoncrash View Post
    At PAX East they will.
    Every time something like this happens, and there's all this speculation, like there is now, there are always dudes like you who aren't like, "I think this is what they'll do", but have to act like you know something when in fact it's just your own speculation, like, "This is what they are doing. You'll see..." or some crap. There's a fair amount of it peppered throughout this thread.

    I'm genuinely curious why? Why the "insider info" act? Why not just state your opinion as such? Especially in a thread full of so many people already doing the same thing?

    (Believe it or not, I'm trying to be way less of a jerk than I'm being right now, sorry about that.)
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