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New Hippogryph Mount Reward
Blizzard showed off an upcoming hippogryph mount reward that is coming soon!



Battle.Net Launcher Update
It looks like testing is going well, as the Battle.Net launcher is now being advertised on the site, and a new page has been added on Battle.Net with information about it. Unfortunately, chat is still not enabled in the client yet.



Patch 5.4 Hotfixes: October 3
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Timeless Isle
  • Resolved an issue that could cause some weekly treasure chests on the Timeless Isle to be uninteractible.

Classes

Quests
  • The Celestial Tournament: Players can now get credit for winning the tournament while in a raid group.

Creatures
  • Players should no longer be incorrectly flagged as having defeated Ordos for the week if the player tapped him and went offline or entered an instance.
  • Yu'lon now launches 5 Jadefire Bolts (down from 10).
  • Gulp Frogs are now immune to mind control abilities.
  • Magnataurs can no longer be pickpocketed.
  • Dame Evniki Kapsalis is now offering her wares to players that meet the proper criteria once again.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
  • Siege of Orgrimmar
    • Sha of Pride
      • Resolved an issue that could cause Corrupted Prisons to stop functioning.
      • Resolved an issue that could cause Unstable Corruption rifts to stop forming on 25-player Heroic difficulty.
    • Kor'kron Dark Shaman
      • Wavebinder Kardris should no longer target non-players with Toxic Storm.
      • Darkfang and Bloodclaw should now move around significantly less while being tanked alongside their masters.
      • Resolved an issue that could cause Blind Blademasters in the Drag to enter combat with players during the Dark Shaman encounter.
    • Spoils of Pandaria
      • Modified Anima Golem's Matter Scramble should now always spawn on the floor.
      • Resolved an issue that would sometimes cause a Burial Urn's Spark of Life to path to the wrong area.
      • Resolved a situation that could cause the encounter to not reset correctly if the player starting the encounter dies immediately.
    • Siegecrafter Blackfuse
      • Demonic Circles are now cleared when the encounter starts.
    • Paragons of the Klaxxi
      • Resolved certain situations that could cause players to retain the Paragons' abilities after resetting the encounter.
      • Resolved an issue where the last surviving raid member using a threat drop may cause the encounter to not reset correctly.
    • Garrosh Hellscream
      • Garrosh Hellscream now drops two Kor'kron Juggernaut on 25-player Heroic difficulty. (Requires realm restarts to take effect.)
  • Dungeons
    • Shado-Pan Monastery: Defeating Gu Cloudstrike immediately after Azure Serpent has been killed should no longer prevent players from continuing through the Shado-Pan Monastery.

Battlegrounds and Arenas
  • Grievous Gladiator weapons have a level requirement of 90 once more.
  • PvP on-use trinket effects should no longer incorrectly scale down while in a Battleground, Rated Battleground, or Arena.

Items
  • Trinkets with cleave and multistrike effects no longer require players to be facing the target to successfully deal damage.

Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Elite PvP Gear
.Is it permanently or temporary because of the conquest cap bug at the start of this season.
The elite set only providing armor is permanent, although there is nothing to say this won't change in future seasons. The Elite Grievous gear is only giving armor because it's designed as a transmog set, rather than gear you would need to spend gold to enchant and gem again. It's also not intended to provide better stats than the normal set, it's meant to make your gear different and more identifiable to signify the prestige of your accomplishment. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Burden of Eternity Rarity
We like the extra rarity that comes from requiring multiple Burdens to get perfectly-itemized 535 gear. The gear is very good, so we don't want it to be too easy to get a hold of the best possible pieces. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Cross-Realm Looking For Group
Why can't you guys at blizzard just implement a dedicated LFG crossrealm browsing/listing system?
That is definitely a good idea but like always, it’s mostly a matter of time and resources vs current needs.

Many of the ideas from some of the top addons have in the past been integrated into the default game UI.
I agree that this would be a great tool to have but I also believe that this is nothing new to the devs. I’m pretty sure they are quite aware about the current needs for such a tool, especially now that we have such flexibility with all the cross-realm functionalities.

The raid browser, for example, was an early attempt at tackling this. It worked out somewhat ok initially but subsequent iterations weren’t as successful. I suspect the reasons for this were the introduction of LFR and not having a dedicated button on the main interface (a lot of players still don’t know about its existence). (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Legendary Quest Items
It's only 1 attempt per boss per week across all difficulties.

If you already completed Siege of Orgrimmar wings 1 and 2 for Secrets of the Empire they won't drop a Titan Runestone. If you haven't completed Throne of Thunder wings 3 and 4 though, you can run that with Lei Shen being a 100% guaranteed drop..

As a side note, only the first 8 bosses in SoO have a chance (Sha of Pride is 100% guaranteed just like Lei Shen) to drop items for Wrathion's legendary quest line. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Flex Raiding
How is personal loot and loot being distributed between 10/25 players even close to being the same thing?
The point is that neither system is intended to have no waste, which is what seemingly was being requested. (Source)

Now I'm confused. I thought flex was targeted at a different demography from LFR, normal and heroic? Running both = burnout.
My point was it gives you something to graduate to. Normal guilds graduating to heroic has been a thing since we launched heroic. (Source)

Reputation / Questing
Really think questing/endgame/rep need to go backward a bit. Wrath is by far the fav WoW Expac in all polls. Maybe look why?
We find it's hard to extricate the story and world from the gameplay even in people's minds. (Source)
For example, I love Northrend as a place and all of the various story arcs. I've always been a nerubian fan. (Source)
But would the LK rep grind or dungeon grind transposed to Pandaria turn it into another Wrath of the LK? Not convinced of that. (Source)

Heroic Garrosh 25 (Asia) Defeated
Blood Legion wasn't the only guild to kill Heroic Garrosh 25 recently. Stars is still around in Asia and killing bosses, this time with a 576 item level group. You can see the final moments of the kill below.

This article was originally published in forum thread: New Hippogryph Mount, BNet Launcher, Oct 3 Hotfixes, Blue Posts, Garrosh H25 Asia started by chaud View original post
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  1. drockrock's Avatar
    I'd love to raid in a guild with people I could go out and have a beer with afterwards.
  1. chaud's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Cogwhirl View Post
    Re: The Battle.net app not having chat features - they haven't specifically said they will. The closest is a feedback thread on the B.net App forums saying they might add it (or at least, "social features") in the future. To me, that says that when it comes out of beta it still won't have chat, and they might be looking at that for it's first major update afterward.
  1. Ealyssa's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Malackai View Post
    I am getting a Annual pass vibe here with that mount >_>
    Me too. Annual pass with free DIII RoS+wow mount(+heartstone card(s) ?)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shudder View Post
    You should be sad, since you're too ignorant to know what an internet cafe is.
    Because a whole guild from a single city is normal ? Get real plz
  1. Eazy's Avatar
    Gratz on Heroic Garrosh 25!

    Why did someone post their ilvl but not that hp and dmg of bosses are higher? That's stupid.
  1. drockrock's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ealyssa View Post

    Because a whole guild from a single city is normal ? Get real plz
    That's not inconceivable at all if you're from Taiwan and roughly 1/3 of your population lives in/around Taipei.

    Hell you can get from the north coast of Taiwan (Taipei) to the south coast (Kaohsiung) in about 90 minutes via the high speed rail.
  1. Woa's Avatar
    I dont care for hypogryph mounts. They look really corny.

    ....but those asian guys....theyre entertaining.
  1. mmoce1ee34efc0's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Eazy View Post
    Gratz on Heroic Garrosh 25!

    Why did someone post their ilvl but not that hp and dmg of bosses are higher? That's stupid.
    Yeah what's with this misinformation on the front page of a website like MMOChamp?

    It's like they're trying to discredit Stars of something?? They killed the boss with higher ilv yeah but the boss is harder than the Western server as well. Don't just give the information that will only discredit them like this... It's not very professional as a media website.
  1. Toiran's Avatar
    Man I would of loved to have raided with my guild mates all together like that back in the day, how awesome would that be?

    Nothing sad at all about it, people sitting in a room alone raiding all night = not sad, a group of friends all in the same room raiding all night = sad? Nice logic from some people.

    Mount looks nice, can't wait to see what it's from, hopefully not RaF/Store any way, don't mind SoR.
  1. Demona3's Avatar
    Here is to betting that new hippogryph mount is the reward you get for signing up to play the game for the next 2 years which will include a free copy of the next xpac and 3 months free game time lol
  1. SodiumChloride's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by AK_47 View Post
    Hippoghryph is cute.. but where are our Enchanted Fey Dragon and our Stormcrow mounts ?
    Probably on the conveyer belt leading to the Blizzard Store.
  1. Bettytwokills's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by lordreinhart View Post
    Yeah my guess is RAF if the jpg is called AmountforFriends.jpg..

    Except it's showcasing two friends on the mount, so my second guess is instead of a 2 seater mount, both accounts now get the mount with RAF instead of the main account, but who knows!
    So then it might make sense to be a scroll of resurrection reward? They haven't updated that in a while.
  1. Kazlehoff's Avatar
    Garrosh Hellscream now drops two Kor'kron Juggernaut on 25-player Heroic difficulty. (Requires realm restarts to take effect.)


    More pandering to 25m. imo if 25m was really worth it it wouldnt need special rewards.

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    Battle.Net Launcher Update!
    does it let you choose to launch the 32 bit wow yet?
    no?
    /pass
  1. Taiknee's Avatar
    Some form of recruit-a-friend (or bring back a friend) makes the most sense because the picture shows two players (friends?) meeting up on the same mount..
  1. Toiran's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kazlehoff View Post
    Garrosh Hellscream now drops two Kor'kron Juggernaut on 25-player Heroic difficulty. (Requires realm restarts to take effect.)


    More pandering to 25m. imo if 25m was really worth it it wouldnt need special rewards.

    /pass

    Or...logic?
  1. arcaneshot's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kazlehoff View Post
    More pandering to 25m. imo if 25m was really worth it it wouldnt need special rewards.
    It's not supposed to be dropping just one mount.
  1. Somarlane's Avatar
    Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
    • Gulp Frogs are now immune to mind control abilities.
    No more cheesing Celestials or Ordos.
  1. mmoc37672be2a3's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by chaud View Post
    Where did you get that client? Mine still looks like the one in the picture: http://media.mmo-champion.com/images...LauncherAd.jpg and did not update today..
  1. The Flavour Cat's Avatar
    Interesting to see where that mount will come from. The beak does look different from normal hippogryphs, but only slightly.
  1. Shudder's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ealyssa View Post
    Because a whole guild from a single city is normal ? Get real plz
    Yes, yes it is normal. Completely normal over there. They don't have computers and internet usually in their homes they all go to internet cafe's and tend not to use programs like vent or mumble so they all talk in person. So it seems I have gotten real.
  1. moody0428's Avatar
    wow they are all in the same room

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