Battle of Razor Hill, Final ToT LFR Wing, 5.3 PTR Notes Update, Blue Tweets, Art

PTR: Patch 1.0.8 Notes Updates

Patch 5.3 - Battle of Razor Hill
Today we are taking a look at the Battle of Razor Hill and quests leading up to it from the Horde perspective. You begin by traveling to Sen'jin village after completing two of the new scenarios, and speaking with Vol'jin. He sends you in to the Barrens to collect 15 Lumber, Stone, Oil, and Meat, which requires killing one mob per item, looting crates with the items, or escorting the caravans that travel through the Barrens. While doing so, you will also earn some Lesser Charms from NPC drops.

After gathering those supplies, you return to Vol'jin in time for the Battle of Sen'jin Village, in which you join Thrall and Chen Stormstout in defending the village from the Kor'kron attackers.

After a solid victory in Sen'jin Village, you march onward to Razor Hill with Vol'jin and Chen Stormstout. Upon arriving at Razor Hill, the battle is already underway in the air and on the ground. You defeat some guards, named NPCs, and release captive Razor Hill NPCs from cages before heading to see Vol'jin once again. Once at the small new Sanctuary area outside of Razor Hill, Baine Bloodhoof shows up to speak with Vol'jin about helping the revolution.

Be sure to watch the video to get the full story!





Throne of Thunder LFR Final Wing Opens Today
Don't forget that the final section of the Throne of Thunder LFR will open today!

You can find the encounter journal and loot tables for the final 3 bosses on the pages linked below, and boss guides over at Icy Veins.




Patch 5.3 PTR Notes Update - April 11
Another large PTR notes update tonight, with the interesting non class specific changes below!

  • Shado-Pan and The August Celestials daily quests no longer have a faction prerequisite to be Revered with the Golden Lotus.
  • A Test of Valor: Reduced the amount of Valor needed for this achievement to 3000 Valor Points, down from 6000.
  • Picking up the Alliance or Horde flag while in a Rated Battleground now increases damage taken by 50% for characters in a tanking specialization, and increases damage taken by 20% for characters in a non-tanking specialization.
  • Tyrannical weapons no longer have a conquest-earned prerequisite to purchase them.

Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Classes
  • Players with full health no longer count towards the cap for area-of-effect healing abilities and spells.

  • Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
    • Feral
      • Savage Roar now increases physical damage done by 40%, up from 30%.

  • Hunter (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
    • General
    • Talents
      • Aspect of the Iron Hawk now increases ranged attack power by 25%, up from 15%.
      • Binding Shot is no longer a talent and learned by Marksmanship Hunters at level 30.
      • Blink Strike has been renamed Blink Strike and turned into a passive ability. The pet's Basic Attacks deal 50% increased damage, can now be used from 30 yards away, and will instantly cause the pet to teleport behind their target.
      • Intimidation is now a level-30 talent available to all Hunter specializations and no longer learned by Beast Mastery Hunters at level 20.
    • Beast Mastery
      • Beast Cleave now deals 75% of the original damage, up from 50%.
    • Marksmanship

  • Mage (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
    • General
    • Talents
      • Living Bomb periodic damage has been increased by 121%. Its explosion damage has been reduced by 78%, but now scales with additional periodic ticks added by haste, and hits all nearby targets (up from 3).

  • Monk (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
    • Windwalker
      • Rising Sun Kick now causes all targets within 8 yards to take an increased 20% damage from the Monk's abilities, up from 10%.

  • Paladin (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
    • Holy
      • Mastery: Illuminated Healing now places an absorb shield for 10% of the amount healed, down from 12%.
      • Daybreak is now a stackable effect with a duration of 10 seconds, stacks up to 2 times, and causes the next Holy Shock to also heal other allies within 10 yards of the target for an amount equal to 75%/150% of the original healing done.
    • Retribution
      • Sword of Light now increases damage with two-handed melee weapons by 30%, up from 15%.
    • Item Sets
      • Tier-14 Holy Paladin 4-piece set bonus now reduces the cooldown of Holy Shock by 1 second, down from 2 seconds.

  • Priest (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

  • Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
    • Talents
      • Shuriken Toss now deals 100% more damage in the initial ranged attack, damage is no longer doubled when used on targets farther than 10 yards away, and energy cost has been increased to 40 energy, up from 20.
      Glyphs

  • Shaman (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
    • Enhancement
      • Feral Spirit summoned Spirit Wolves are now immune to root and snare effects.
      • Lava Lash now deals 300% weapons damage, up from 250%.
      • Mental Quickness now converts 65% of the Shaman's attack power to spell power, up from 55%.
      • Stormstrike now deals 450% weapon damage, up from 375%.

  • Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
    • General
      • Demonic Gateway cast time has been reduced to 4 seconds, down from 5 seconds, and can now be attacked and killed by enemy players. Each gateway has 100% of the summoning Warlock's health, and 100% of their resilience.
      • Health Funnel now causes the Soulburn portion of the spell to increase healing generated from Health Funnel by 140% instead of instantly restoring 36% health.
    • Affliction
      • Haunt now refunds a Soul Shard when it is dispelled.
    • Destruction
      • Fire and Brimstone no longer requires a Burning Ember to cast. Instead, the spell causes Immolate, Incinerate, Conflagrate, and Curse spells to consume a Burning Ember when cast, and the effect remains active as long as the Warlock has at least 1 Burning Ember remaining.

  • Warrior (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
    • Talents
      • Enraged Regeneration no longer costs rage to use, instantly heals the Warrior for 5% of their total health, and healing an additional 5% over 5 seconds. Using the ability while Enraged doubles the healing effects to 10% of the Warrior's total health and an additional 10% over 5 seconds.
      • Second Wind no longer generates rage when the Warrior is struck by a Stun or Immobilize effect.
        • Arms and Fury Warriors receive a passive ability that enables them to generate rage when struck by a Stun or Immobilize effect at level 56.
      • Shield Wall cooldown has been reduced to 3 minutes, down from 5 minutes.
      • Spell Reflection is no longer consumed by spells from player pets and guardians.
      Protection
      • Bastion of Defense now reduces the cooldown of Shield Wall by 1 minute, down from a 3-minute reduction. For Protection Warriors, this results in no net change to Shield Wall cooldown.
      • Shield Slam now receives a 50% bonus to attack damage from attack power (down from 100%) for Warriors below level 85.

Quests
  • Shado-Pan and The August Celestials daily quests no longer have a faction prerequisite to be Revered with the Golden Lotus.
  • A Test of Valor: Reduced the amount of Valor needed for this achievement to 3000 Valor Points, down from 6000.

Pet Battles
  • General
    • Corrosion now deals 5 damage-per-round, up from 2, and increases damage taken by 2, down from 5.
    • Counterspell now deals 10 damage in addition to the ability's previous effects.
    • Deep Freeze now has a 10% reduced chance to hit.
    • Fury of 1,000 Fists now has a 4-round cooldown, up from 3 rounds.
    • Haymaker now has a 3-round cooldown.
    • Headbutt now has a 4-round cooldown, up from 3 rounds.
    • Impale now has a cooldown of 3 rounds, down from 5 rounds, deals 17% less damage, and no longer deals damage as a percentage of the target’s health. The ability now deals a flat amount of bonus damage instead.
    • Interrupting Gaze now deals 50% more damage.
    • Interrupting Jolt now has a 4-round cooldown, down from 5 rounds.
    • Kick now deals 50% more damage.
    • Minefield now has a 5-round cooldown, and lasts for 9 rounds, down from 10 rounds.
    • Mudslide now has a 4-round cooldown, up from 3 rounds.
    • Predatory Strike no longer deal damage as a percentage of the target’s health. The ability now deals a flat amount of bonus damage instead.
    • Quicksand now has a 4-round cooldown, up from 3 rounds.
    • Reckless Strike now has a 1-round cooldown.
    • Rupture now has a 4-round cooldown, up from 3 rounds.
    • Shock and Awe now has a 4-round cooldown, up from 3 rounds.
    • Soulrush now has a 4-round cooldown, up from 3 rounds.
  • Battle Pets

PvP
  • Tyrannical weapons no longer have a conquest-earned prerequisite to purchase them.

Battlegrounds and Arenas
  • Picking up the Alliance or Horde flag while in a Rated Battleground now increases damage taken by 50% for characters in a tanking specialization, and increases damage taken by 20% for characters in a non-tanking specialization.

Items

UI
  • In-game support system is now a direct portal to the Battle.net Support site, allowing players to access the knowledge base and support contact system.

Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Character
Will we ever need our Prismatic Eye or Legendary Gem in 5.4?
Our current thought is the meta gem continues to work in 5.4 helmets. The weapon gem unlikely. (Source)

Will there ever be a day where you drop the legendary no transmog thing? Such a dated concept. Let people show off.
Potentially someday. Our goal all along was to start transmog off conservatively. It's very hard to do so later. (Source)

When is Blizz going to wake up that bloated loot tables make this worse! more smaller chances has high variance
Keep in mind, our goal is not to gear up players as fast as possible. That may be the players' goal.... (Source)
I think people tend to forget when people in their raid group get loot, but they always remember when *their* loot didn't drop
Especially in Raid Finder, where you don't know or don't care if Stabby the rogue got his bracers. (Source)

How about a 5 or 10% xp buff for your account each time you reach max level per character?
Above and beyond heirlooms and guild bonuses? At some point you're going to get a level every quest. Would that make sense? (Source)

You've said numerous times in the past you wished to get rid of racials. Are we ever going to see this happen?
I doubt it. It's part of the fantasy of rolling a character. Not sure the non-twitter, non-forum players would understand. (Source)

so GC, tell me, how many dailies are planned for 5.3? Any plans in the next xpack to make reps account wide?
I'm not a fan of account-wide rep. Seems one step removed from account-wide gear. (Source)
Except that it in no way is close to account wide gear. Still need to grind Valor, etc. Nice deflection though!
Our philosophy has been to ask players to do almost everything on an alt that they do on a main, just faster. (Source)
It's all part of the same discussion though. What belongs to the character vs. the account? (Source)

If you don't want alts to catch up so easily, why is leveling so fast/easy/boring?
It's a matter of degree. We don't want an alt to take as long as a main, but we do want actual gameplay there. (Source)

Student Art Contest Winners
Blizzard has finally selected the winners of the Student Art Contest!


This article was originally published in forum thread: Battle of Razor Hill, Final ToT LFR Wing, April 11 PTR Notes Update, Blue Tweets, Art started by chaud View original post
Published on 2013-04-16 08:13 AM
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  1. Bhanshee's Avatar
    And as per usual Thrall uses the usual excuse of "I am needed elsewhere." and then disappears into the horizon. Gawd I am so sick of hearing that phrase from him. At least Garrosh is an Orc of action. I mean really, Thrall, Vol'Jin and Lor'Themar are all practically the same character; very boring apologists. There seem to be only two true HORDE characters in the game at the moment, Garrosh and Lady Sylvanas. And I would suspect due to her considerable absence during this expac that Lady Sylvanas won't be featured much in this expac's finale. Hopefully she will reveal just what she is up to in the next expac.

    For The Horde!
    =)
  1. Polygons's Avatar
    Wait, what? Why is Enhancement getting so buffed? Elemental is worse.
  1. VanishO2's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Simca View Post
    Well it kind of makes sense when you look at it from a long-term perspective - if you just start in 5.3 for example, you have to do a LOT of work to catch up, and the 6k valor is the one you have the least influence on (6 weeks is 6 weeks).
    Yes, it does, but it is really sad when the rules keep changing like that. Can't say exactly how I feel since I had to do it for the sake of keep going with the chain *almost* "on time" capping that valor while I could just sit back and relax somehow instead since I'm stuck with the low drop rate of the Secrets of the Empire anyways (yes, I know that having the valor thing done instead gives me the oportunity to drop some right now, but RNG is RNG and we're not talking about Raid Tiers and PvP Seasons catch up).

    I think that this step should be somehow be the 1st one or going together with the sigils part. Anyone starting right now (or an alt) will be earning most of their valor points right after dinging 90 because they're trying to get the ilvl to join ToT from heroics, the entire LFR system (msv/hof/tes wings) and Sunreaver dailies, but since they're stuck with the Sigil part... well... "wasted" valor points.

    I'm on that point. I have 2 "mains" (2 servers, 1 ally, 1 horde) and now I finally finished leveling 1 monk (horde). My horde "main" is on track collecting the Secrets, but my Ally "main" is stuck with the 6000 valor step (got tired eventualy and my old guild there disbanded, plus the server itself is kinda collapsing with lower and lower pop, so I basically gave up on it) and my monk still collecting sigils while not needing anymore that many valor points.

    Not to mention the fact that looks like we can't track the quest progression on alts, lol. The achievement used to track the 6000 points, but if I'm not mistaken, after you do it for the 1st time, you won't see it on your alts, or there is a way to do it?

    The golden lotus change is kinda like that, but not that much... it was something stupid to begin with. No reason to be need anything more than friendly, not to mention the excess of Golden Lotus dailies.
  1. Greyvax's Avatar
    Yeah, we arent going to pay 12 dollars just to see what best bosses to use our bonus rolls on lolololol. gotta love how they are pushing that crap.
  1. mmoce06ba74076's Avatar
    YES Finaly Tank Spec going to die in PVP!
  1. Nimitzles's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Polygons View Post
    Wait, what? Why is Enhancement getting so buffed? Elemental is worse.

    Overall elemental is doing much better this tier, enhancement is actually dead last on encounters like horridon and lei shen, even worse then non raid specs like arms or sublety rogues.

    I have no idea why blizzard has buffed enhance single target when its there aoe that is suffering, but perhaps they want elemental to be the aoe spec and enhance the burst spec.

    Burst has its advantages on fights that require it even though enhance dps overall is behind. Remember there isn't meant to be a hybrid penalty anymore with all the cross over buffs between classes yet shamans seem to be the only class still remaining under hyrbrid rules.
  1. Shadowroxxor's Avatar
    I think I'll come back towards the end of 5.3, been a few years already
  1. mcbubble's Avatar
    Any thoughts on when 5.3 will be released?
  1. Necrotica's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Validity View Post
    Oh, oh, now post a video showing the Alliance equivalent of the Razor Hill event.

    Bottom of the fucking barrel. Nobody should be able to argue for a second that the Alliance isn't discrimated against for dev time.
    As a Horde member, I wish I could choose to defend Garrosh.
  1. mmocf89c8b0f36's Avatar
    "Vol'Jin, you've always been my friend. My brother." Yeah, and you gave the leadership to Garrosh >.>
  1. jmdwolfy161's Avatar
    Why OH WHY, are they STILL nerfing the living FUCK out of Discipline.....? WHY! Do they really need to make people not want to play the fucking spec at all? Jesus.
  1. vlackrs's Avatar
    Destruction:
    Fire and Brimstone no longer requires a Burning Ember to cast. Instead, the spell causes Immolate, Incinerate, Conflagrate, and Curse spells to consume a Burning Ember when cast, and the effect remains active as long as the Warlock has at least 1 Burning Ember remaining.


    TY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  1. Notos's Avatar
    A quick perusal of loot tables on atlasloot and I can figure out where to spend my runes just fine, so I don't see any need for using their tool. Also, hot damn enhancement buffs. Switched from ele to enh in 5.2 on my shammy so this is great news.

    edit: Test of Valor requirements reduced by 3k, YES!!!!!
  1. artraz's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ryme View Post
    Not really sure why they're nerfing the Legendary quest line.
    for alts and such and so people can get caught up.
  1. Nerraw's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Bhanshee View Post
    And as per usual Thrall uses the usual excuse of "I am needed elsewhere." and then disappears into the horizon. Gawd I am so sick of hearing that phrase from him. At least Garrosh is an Orc of action. I mean really, Thrall, Vol'Jin and Lor'Themar are all practically the same character; very boring apologists. There seem to be only two true HORDE characters in the game at the moment, Garrosh and Lady Sylvanas. And I would suspect due to her considerable absence during this expac that Lady Sylvanas won't be featured much in this expac's finale. Hopefully she will reveal just what she is up to in the next expac.

    For The Horde!
    =)
    He's healing the tear Deathwing made at the Maelstrom along with the rest of the Earthen Ring.
  1. omgitsliz's Avatar
    its best to mention the "find upgrades" option on AMR is a paid feature
  1. Myzou's Avatar
    I really wish MMO-Champion would stop advertising Ask Mr. Robots PAID feature.

    Sure, you get a week free trial. But it's still a paid feature.
  1. mmoc5b53551f34's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Roudene View Post
    "Vol'Jin, you've always been my friend. My brother." Yeah, and you gave the leadership to Garrosh >.>
    Reed the books - Vol'Jin didn't wanted to be the Warchief.
  1. A dot Ham's Avatar
    OMG BLIZZARD... FIX BAINE! He looks so generic and bad.
  1. Asrialol's Avatar
    Chaud, seems as if you've done a little mistake. The LFR wing doesn't open for Europe before tomorrow, 17/04/2013. Honest mistake, I know. But it made me login, looking forward to do LFR, only to be let down.

    Perhaps put a reminder that EU is a day behind.
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