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Patch 5.4 - Season 14 Hunter and Monk Armor Sets
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Arena Pass 2013 - Registration Now Open
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Registration for the 2013 World of Warcraft Arena Pass is now open!

Now is the time to get your teammates together and get registered for the biggest online Arena competition World of Warcraft has to offer.

Participants will be battling up the ladder to test their mettle against the best arena players World of Warcraft has to offer. Players that register for the Arena Pass will also be eligible to earn "Murkimus", the Armored Murloc in-game pet simply by playing! Also, the top 1000 teams will be given an exclusive title for their live characters as well.

If you have any questions or would like more details, please read the FAQ, and remember to check back here for more updates.

Patch 5.4 Warlock Changes Update
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
We're going to try keeping Fel Flame as an instant, slightly buffed, with no DoT refeshing. Intent wasn't to nerf Fel Flame on top of nerfing Kil'Jaeden's Cunning. As long as locks don't become backpedaling Fel Flame spamming machines, we think this change should work.

Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Classes
From strictly a design perspective, why does every class need a viable dps spec?
It doesn't. You could design the game without. Overall we reacted to feedback from the community that they want viable DPS specs. (Source)
But you could say e.g. priests are just healers or you could have buffer or support classes with low DPS. Just a different design. (Source)
Interesting, thanks! Followup: could you see WoW as ever having a class with a role other than tank/heal/dps in the future?
Yes, but it would be a big change. Another challenge for the blogs and forums out there to discuss. (Source)

I think GC has hinted previously that he thinks hunter specs should be more different
Yup. Hunter and rogue specs play too similarly in our opinions. (Don't expect massive overhauls.) (Source)

what would make a raid leader chose a rogue over all those classes? not mentioning they are the only melee single role
I don't know that you *need* a rogue or any class. We don't see rogues being sat though. Plenty of every class raiding. (Source)

WW monks need healing to be less of a dps loss?!? How about spriests? (just read icy veins interview)
Our thought was that Shadow has a lot of other utility for a group. Healing is one of Windwalker's main contributions. (Source)
Healing WAS shadow's main contribution. Nerfed to the ground for the sake of PvP.
It's not fair for them to have healing, mana, dispels and things like life grip on top of great damage and survivability. (Source)

I think Homogenization is good for core things like interrupts, but is bad for more iconic abilities.
That's actually what we aim for. We don't always nail it 100%. (Source)

(I will mail you one of my summer reading recommendations if you address that one and clarify the Icy Veins response.)Neina was right. It was energy capping during AR. Low GCD helps burn energy, but not a solution we will use often. (Source)
We are a bit defensive about GCD. Players always want less, because fast, responsive combat is fun. (Source)
And while WoW combat is responsive (hint one of the secrets of our success) we are a server game and can't do Street Fighter. (Source)

How do you balance CC that breaks on DMG when moves such as Howling Blast AE's everything and is apart of main rotation
Don't use HB if you absolutely can't afford to break the CC? (Source)

Reputation / Questing
Questing is designed for dps specs?
That was more true in Vanilla or BC. You can quest with just about any spec these days. (Source)
Even if you can't kill things as fast as DPS, you don't spend 100% of your time in combat and Ts and Hs have other perks. (Source)

I guess the officers in your guild don't mind if someone doesn't gem, enchant and reforge their gear as well?
That is expected because it is much less work and meaningfully impacts performance. Getting a belt slower does not. (Source)

Problem with caps: They make it feel like you need to meet them. If I get 500 VP one week, that's 500 VP gone forever.
Totally. And they aren't there as a target. They are there to discourage dude with too much time from grinding 10k a week. (Source)
Because the next thing we'd hear is: How am *I* supposed to grind 10K a week?! (Source)
do you find lesser->elder charm system worked well? And have you thought making Valor similar? (i.e limit SPENT, not GAIN)
Yes and yes. (Source)

Really enjoying the 5.3 Barrens questing. Weekly VP quest, random escorts, commanders, epic item drops are all fun!
Cool! If feedback is good, we'll certainly do more of it. Not all outdoor adventuring needs to be blue bangs. (Source)

Many players hate dailies - are you absolutely sure, game needs them?
No, but the game does need something to get players out of queuing for instances from Org /SW. (Source)

I'm tired of doing dailies?We are all tired of doing this.we play game to have fun,not tired.
So don't do them? What is the specific reward that you feel requires you to run so many dailies? (Source)
Honestly dailies are the quickest way to get lesser charms, I know there are other ways, but rng on those, dailies are boring
I'm not sure that's true. Last week I got my charms by making a group and farming Barrens bosses. (Source)
GC seems to be missing the point, what is the difference between farming barrens and dailies? Same thing.
If you never want to leave instances, just understand you're going to have a lot less content than other players. (Source)

There was nothing wrong with the rep tabard system. You changed it to dailies and dont like the fallout. GG
I've explained before why we didn't like the tabard rep system, but once again: (Source)
1) It removed the world from WoW by letting instances provide all rewards in the most efficient way. (Source)
2) It made you manage a bunch of tabards in your UI. "Oops. Left the one I wanted in my bank." (Source)
The champion system lets you get some rep from dungeons without item management. We like it better. (Source)

Also making you get rep with GL before SP was silly. If you didnt want ppl to be overwhelmed. Make GL have 5 not 12 a day.
It hasn't been that way in some time though. If you're still worried about GL rep, you might be missing out on a lot of content. (Source)
We're gonna be in 7.0 and people will still be crying about GL/dailies being mandatory
Just remember this tweet in a couple of weeks. (Source)

I don't find dailies fun and don't find coming in lower on the DPS chart than I should because I didn't do them fun either.
How is your DPS lower because you didn't do dailies? (Source)

This Week Only - Epic Summer Sale
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)
Tensions between the Horde and Alliance are heating up just in time for the summer, and now’s the perfect time to get in the fight. This week only, the prices on select World of Warcraft products are getting slashed up to 75%. World of Warcraft®: Battle Chest® and Cataclysm® are just $5, and Mists of Pandaria™ is $19.99, meaning you and your friends can join the battle for Pandaria for half the regular price. Hurry, though—the sale ends June 24, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. PDT.

We Are The World Of Warcraft
Blizzard and WoW fans made an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight to sing "We Are The World Of Warcraft".

This article was originally published in forum thread: Hunter and Monk Season 14 Armor, Arena Pass 2013, Warlock Changes, Blue Tweets, Video started by chaud View original post
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  1. Lynneiah's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Statix View Post
    Speaking of bad luck, I also hate it that Assassination requires daggers. I really wanna play Assassination, but I can't, because I've only ever had Fist Weapons drop for me from dungeons and LFR. Rogues are boring. It just feels weird as Combat to spend 5 combo points on Slice and Dice, feels like a huge waste, or on Rupture for that matter, which is only does 3% of your damage at best. Maybe it's my gear (501 ilvl) or the fact that I only have the tier 14 (2) set bonus, but Rogue is the complete opposite of what I thought it would be.
    I'm Combat and only get daggers. I feel your pain.
  1. Teslac0il's Avatar
    About Jimmy Fallon's song... here's a cover you may like more, it's from long long time ago, on a server far far away...

    www . youtube.com /watch?v=x7A31bjvLgc

    And then (after a while) Blizz heard his prayer
  1. TCceen's Avatar
    Warlocks can't sign up for the Arena pass... we'll have to relearn our class mid expansion after we've just relearned it to become second nature for a full year.
  1. mmocb6bf711ede's Avatar
    That´s a catchy tune I really enjoyed it...... but where were the Gnomes?
  1. Harmzuay's Avatar
    I dusted off my mage and leveled it to 90 the same week the 5.3 Barrens patch was released. I was running ToT Normal 3 weeks after hitting 90. Number of factions grinded: 0. No, you don't need to do dailies anymore, not with perfectly fine Barrens weekly gear available. Are they perfect? Probably not, but it's all going to be replaced anyway. Between Barrens weekly, pre-ToT LFR, Heroic dungeons, world bosses, and the random scenario bags, the reps are no longer relevant.

    Edit: I forgot to mention the 502-ish item level boots you get from the Sha of Pride, help the old man up the mountain quest and the 522 item level neck you get for being neutral with Shado Pan Assault. They're basically giving you everything you need to walk into current content within 3 to 4 weeks of hitting level cap.

    Quote Originally Posted by Statix View Post
    Sometimes I wonder if the people answering the questions even know anything about WoW.

    Having experienced the pain and confusion of leveling a new character to 90 in 5.3 (after a dix month break), it's a huge pain in the ass to figure out where you have to go, what rep you have to farm, where you have to do dailies, what faction you should spend your VP on and much more.

    "How is your DPS lower because you didn't do dailies?"

    Dailies grant rep. Without that rep, you can't buy VP items. If you can't buy those VP items, your gear won't improve. If your gear doesn't improve, your DPS won't either. That's how dailies affect your DPS. Especcialy if you are unlucky in LFR, HC Dungeons and HC Scenario's, like I've been. I did 22 HC Dungeons in a few days and I got one item from it. ONE! Every boss dropped plate. I could have geared up a plate class to full 463 twice. Then there's LFR. Increased drop chance my ass. I've cleared all LFR's twice now and I got a total of 2 items from it and that includes bonus rolls on almost every boss.

    So, with that bad luck streak, all I have left are those damn dailies.

    Speaking of bad luck, I also hate it that Assassination requires daggers. I really wanna play Assassination, but I can't, because I've only ever had Fist Weapons drop for me from dungeons and LFR. Rogues are boring. It just feels weird as Combat to spend 5 combo points on Slice and Dice, feels like a huge waste, or on Rupture for that matter, which is only does 3% of your damage at best. Maybe it's my gear (501 ilvl) or the fact that I only have the tier 14 (2) set bonus, but Rogue is the complete opposite of what I thought it would be.
  1. F-Minus's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by TCceen View Post
    Warlocks can't sign up for the Arena pass... we'll have to relearn our class mid expansion after we've just relearned it to become second nature for a full year.
    Stop whining, healers had to re-learn their class every single expansion as it always changes tremendously. Warlocks just got hit by a big change when MoP was released, and now they're modifying it a bit.

    That said, DPS classes in WoW = select target, roll your face over the glowing animated buttons.
  1. Pacster's Avatar
    *Healing WAS shadow's main contribution. Nerfed to the ground for the sake of PvP.

    It's not fair for them to have healing, mana, dispels and things like life grip on top of great damage and survivability.*

    Did I miss anything? Dispels? Got nerfed. Mana? Got nerfed(about the only class that can go oom at all). Healing? Got nerfed. Survivability? 15% less damage nerfed, dispersion nerfed. Life grip? Nerfed(was never used much in pve anyway...and for pvp it's dead).
    Why is a class that is so overpowered according to blizz...about the LAST to solo any type of hard content? I mean, that's not very logical, is it?
  1. ferosanvilmar's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Harmzuay View Post
    Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

    Honestly dailies are the quickest way to get lesser charms, I know there are other ways, but rng on those, dailies are boring
    I'm not sure that's true. Last week I got my charms by making a group and farming Barrens bosses. (Source)
    What the fuck are you people doing that you need all these Lesser Charms of Good Fortune? I get all that I require just by doing the Tillers dailies (5 QUESTS A DAY OMFG!!11oneone), killing the shit required to complete those dailies, and killing random shit and rares. If you can't get these charms over the course of an entire week by doing these 3 things, you're doing it wrong. It doesn't require any effort whatsoever and you certainly don't fucking need to do every daily in the game. Shut the hell up already with your constant whining.
    Amen, brother!
  1. Lykken's Avatar
    Jimmy Fallon FTW!
    And Wtf! Chris Hardwick has a set of pipes! Well done sir.
  1. Synbaby's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Strafer View Post
    Is Fallon even a gamer? Or is it just for show.
    I'm pretty sure he plays or used to play. A lot of celebrities play wow, some since vanilla. I just read that Henry Cavill(the new superman) used to play wow quite a bit.

    Love the song too btw! When I first saw the title I thought oh god not another video making fun of wow players, but it was actually not mocking us
  1. ProfessorTjc's Avatar
    The song was hilarious and pretty damn good.
  1. Silmol's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Strafer View Post
    Is Fallon even a gamer? Or is it just for show.
    Well, his major in college was Computer Science for a while, later changed to Communications. He's displayed familiarity with gamer culture and slang in the past. He's had guests on to pitch major consoles and video games, as he did last night. I think it's for real.
  1. mmoc9e94235ac9's Avatar
    is that actually Leeroy Jenkins at 1:57? lol

    ---------- Post added 2013-06-19 at 04:22 PM ----------

    Look at that guy's FPS at 1:32 lol
  1. Ceresc's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Fixup View Post
    is that actually Leeroy Jenkins at 1:57? lol

    ---------- Post added 2013-06-19 at 04:22 PM ----------

    Look at that guy's FPS at 1:32 lol
    Pretty sure that's because he is running it in the background.
  1. Noblia's Avatar
    There was nothing wrong with the rep tabard system. You changed it to dailies and dont like the fallout. GG
    I've explained before why we didn't like the tabard rep system, but once again: (Source)
    1) It removed the world from WoW by letting instances provide all rewards in the most efficient way. (Source)
    2) It made you manage a bunch of tabards in your UI. "Oops. Left the one I wanted in my bank." (Source)
    The champion system lets you get some rep from dungeons without item management. We like it better. (Source)


    Does anyone see the problem with the above statement? Hint:its at the end... Last four words.

    I could care less myself. I don't do dailies, way way way to fucking boring! Its like death by a thousand cuts. I log on do heroics pick herbs, fly around.. Look for treasures in ponds lol. Raid in LFR. If my guild can get 10 people(usually short on healers and tanks) the normal raid. NO DAILIES!
  1. jaymike's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Synbaby View Post
    I'm pretty sure he plays or used to play. A lot of celebrities play wow, some since vanilla. I just read that Henry Cavill(the new superman) used to play wow quite a bit.
    Yah he did a radio interview last week and was asked about mentioning that in a magazine and said that he was raiding when he took the call that told him he had won the part.
  1. pktdb1t's Avatar
    Still waiting on the tier 16 hunter shoulders so I can decide if my soul needs to continue dying or not.
  1. Buu's Avatar
    So, no one complaining that Jimmy Fallow is Horde-biased yet?
  1. Ceirus's Avatar
    Only in World of Warcraft do you find people complaining for having more options available and when they become BORED, they don't take a break from the game, they just complain and bitch on forums.
  1. MissKrispay's Avatar
    Soo has no one else noticed that in the music video at 2:14..that's totally the dude who plays Hodor bottom right of Jimmy's box? xD

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