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Warcraft Movie Cast Announcement
Legendary announced that Ben Foster, Toby Kebbell and Rob Kazinsky will have lead roles in "Warcraft", with Dominic Cooper in negotiations for a part as well. Filming will take place in Vancouver, starting in January 2014. It looks like Kazinsky is a fairly active player, with five level 90 characters!



Patch 5.4.2 PTR - Build 17645
Another tiny PTR patch tonight, with another Karazhan name change, courtesy of Dave Maldonado.
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
  • Phase #2801 - Karazhan 2: Eclectic Boogaloo has been renamed to Medivh Presents Chessmaster: Illustrious Edition.



Patch 5.4.2 PTR Patch Notes - December 2
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Patch 5.4.2 is now available for testing on the Public Test Realms (PTR)! Participating on the Public Test Realms lets you test patches before it has been released.

If you'd like to help test and provide feedback, you can start by copying your character and downloading the PTR client. Once you've had a chance to try things out, be sure to visit our PTR Discussion forum to discuss the patch, and the PTR Bug Report forum to report any issues or errors.

Classes
  • Warrior (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
    • General
      • Intervene no longer removes movement-impairing effects on use. The talent Safeguard will continue to remove movement-impairing effects.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
  • Cross-Realm raid browser now has new categories for Mists of Pandaria World Bosses (Celestials and Ordos) and Flexible raid difficulty for Siege of Orgrimmar.
    • The cross-realm raid browser is accessed through the 'Social Pane' (bound to the O key by default) and look for the 'Raid' tab on the bottom right.
    • From there you can set the character as looking to join a raid or browse players that are forming up for a raid.
    • For more information on this change, please see the thread titled Cross-Realm Raid Browser on the PTR Discussion forum.
  • Players are now able to place raid markers in the world even while dead.

Items
  • Players are now able to mail account-bound items to other characters that reside on a different realm on the same account. To send cross-realm mail: enter the character's name, followed by a hyphen "-", followed by the realm name. Note that cross-realm mail can only send account-bound items, not other items or gold.
    • Additional information and testing discussion for this cross-realm mail can be found in this thread on the PTR Discussion forum.

UI
  • The Customer Support button has moved. Customer support can now be reached in-game by selecting Help option through the Game Menu (Game Menu is bound to the Escape key by default).

Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Developer Communication
We try to communicate as much as we can. I can't speak for every CM (as we all have different duties around the office which can often take us away from the forums a bit), but conversing on the forums has been a personal priority of mine since I started here. I spend a large chunk of my day reading and replying when I feel I have something meaningful to add. I also collect a ton of feedback to bring directly to the developers for discussion.

I totally get the concerns about losing Ghostcrawler from Twitter. He's been one of the most candid and open developers in the gaming industry as a whole for a long time. Fortunately, he's not only developer responding regularly on Twitter! We actually have a list in one of the stickies on this forum with Twitter handles of several top developers. Generally speaking, any question you would previously have sent to Ghostcrawler, someone else on that list will be able to answer. The Community team's Twitter handles are listed in there as well.

Greg will no longer be working with us here at Blizzard, but we're not going to let that be a stopping point to our interaction with the community. We're here for you guys.

Are you serious? You actually think what you say and them saying "oh we'll look into it" matters at all? Here's a quote from Holinka an hour ago
While I acknowledge that tweet could have been phrased better, that was an out of context response to a conversation. I won't presume to speak for Brian, but according to my interpretation and within the context of that conversation, I think what he's trying to get across (within the limitations of Twitter) is that we make changes based on a perceived need, not merely because a volume of ideas for changes exist.

We say 'we'll look into it' all the time. I've said it many times myself, on a variety of topics, and it does alert us to situations where a change or adjustment is merited. If you don't believe that what the community has to say has an impact? Well, evidence of the opposite is all around you.

Making 90s out of those of my numerous alts who aren't there yet. 11th one last Saturday; 12th one "soon"
I plan to use my boost to play with opposite faction pals on a realm where my leveled characters are all one faction. Lookin' forward to it! (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Warlords of Draenor Items
The new item system (stats prop. for your spec) will affect all items (neck, ring...) or just the set (chest, helm..)?
Only the main armor pieces (head etc.) will swap primary stats. That is true of tier sets and off-piece items. (Source)
Jewelry etc. likely won't ever have primary stats. They may have attack power, but mostly secondary stats. (Source)

This isnt going to help as much as you think, just make things more annoying for players.
We feel acquiring BiS quickly only feels good for the short term. Long term it has little staying power. (Source)
Imagine killing Immerseus 16 times and sharding everything while you're still farming Garrosh. (Source)
Then imagine every Immerseus kill you still pay attention to loot because something cool or amazing could drop. (Source)

Not sure how this erases the issues spec-based primary stats were supposed to fix. Why not spirit/armor on primary?
Because then you can't choose how much you want. You just get what we give you. (Source)
That's the design for primaries to keep them growing with ilevel. Secondaries are about what stats you like. (Source)
If you heal, you may want Spirit on every non-armor spot or not. You may find those pieces or not. (Source)

RE: removing hit/exp - does that mean all attacks 100% hit? Or is there a baseline miss chance we can no longer negate?
Imagine you capped yellow attacks, which is typical today. Melee might miss from the front or with an OH attack. (Source)
I don't like removing them for two reasons. 1) historical. Craps on combat table. 2) I have 3 stats left. Yawn?
Hopefully not 3 stats... (Source)

with reforge gone how are we going to deal with haste break points? Just curious
Our dot/hot changes mean fewer haste break points. Usually more haste is still valuable after break, just less valuable than before (Source)

Addon Update - WeakAuras 2
There is an exploit that causes players to give away their gold via a malicious WeakAuras script being imported. To protect yourself, please update your copy of WeakAuras to the latest version, which protects against some attacks. Also avoid importing any scripts from untrustworthy sources, as attacks are still possible.



Blizzcon Survey
Blizzard sent out a survey for Blizzcon attendees today with an interesting question:

This article was originally published in forum thread: Warcraft Movie Cast, Patch 5.4.2 PTR - Build and Notes, Blue Posts, Blizzcon Survey started by chaud View original post
Comments 119 Comments
  1. vlad's Avatar
    Ouch! I hope none of these B list actors are lead playing roles. Is this being targeted as a theatrical release or a straight to DVD kinda thing? They better get some big names on board if they want mass appeal outside of the player fanbase.
  1. Ickabob's Avatar
    Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
    • Phase #2801 - Karazhan 2: Eclectic Boogaloo has been renamed to Medivh Presents Chessmaster: Illustrious Edition.


    Blizzard is having way too much fun with whatever they're doing in Karazhan.
  1. xact4's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by vlad View Post
    Ouch! I hope none of these B list actors are lead playing roles. Is this being targeted as a theatrical release or a straight to DVD kinda thing? They better get some big names on board if they want mass appeal outside of the player fanbase.
    Considering how enormous and well known the source material is (find anyone under 25 who knows what a computer is that doesn't have some kind of experience with warcraft in some form. You can't.), and Legendarys reputation, and Blizzards reputation for that matter... I think it's safe to assume that they know what they're doing and they're being very careful about doing it. This isn't some small studio doing another awful game-movie adaptation. However you feel about Blizzard as a company, they are one of the, if not THE, finest gamesmiths in the industry and they DEMAND quality, working with one of the finest film companies in the industry. Have a little faith that they won't release something that sucks.
  1. potatoe's Avatar
    http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/2...-with-us-more/

    is missing reply #20
    http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/10786718633#20

    Also, would be great if you linked (or quoted) the twitter sticky in this post.
    http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/6933956493#2

    Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

    North American WoW Community Manager Twitter Feeds

    @Bashiok
    @CM_Crithto
    @Daxxarri
    @Devolore
    @Nethaera
    @Rygarius
    @CM_Zarhym

    WoW Developer Twitter Feeds

    @Anim8rJB (John Butkus, Senior Animator)
    @BlizzardKismet (Helen Cheng, Senior Quest Designer)
    @Holinka (Brian Holinka, Senior PvP Designer)
    @DaveKosak (Dave Kosak, Lead Narrative Designer)
    @olandgren (Owen Landgren, Item Designer)
    @TheCrafticus (Jonathan LeCraft, Senior Game Designer)
    @Dave_Maldo (Dave Maldonado, Senior Game Designer)
    @Celestalon (Chadd Nervig, Technical Game Designer)
    @Mumper (Cory Stockton, Lead Content Designer)
    @Ghostcrawler (Greg Street, Lead Systems Designer)

    Other Personal Twitter Feeds

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    Cinematics
    @FubarNick (Nick Carpenter, VP, Art & Cinematic Development)
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  1. Luminvent's Avatar
    Another bottom-line Canada-made movie. Great. </sarcasm>
  1. lacorpse's Avatar
    Rob Kazinsky is a dream boat.
    I loved him in True Blood.

    I'm excited.
  1. Absintheminded's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by vlad View Post
    Ouch! I hope none of these B list actors are lead playing roles. Is this being targeted as a theatrical release or a straight to DVD kinda thing? They better get some big names on board if they want mass appeal outside of the player fanbase.
    A-List actors/actresses a good movie do not make.
  1. taylor20k's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Nudle View Post
    Hmm interesting...upgraded chess event maybe?
    Lol you actually fell for their trolling..they couldn't make it any more obvious if they tried (and they are trying). They're just messing with people. They've been changing the name every couple days for giggles. I bet they have a company wide email asking for funny ideas of what to change it to next.
  1. DeeTwelve's Avatar
    I've seen kindergarten Christmas pageants with more star power. Flop ahoy.
  1. RiftReaper's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Chloral View Post
    "Players are now able to mail account-bound items to other characters that reside on a different realm on the same account. To send cross-realm mail: enter the character's name, followed by a hyphen "-", followed by the realm name. Note that cross-realm mail can only send account-bound items, not other items or gold"
    OMG. OMG. OMG.
    I'm so excited!
    Woot! about time! Account wide will actually mean account wide now!
  1. stabetha's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by DeeTwelve View Post
    I've seen kindergarten Christmas pageants with more star power. Flop ahoy.
    lord of the rings actors had about the same "star power" when it was released, what a flop that turned out to be.
  1. Jijek's Avatar
    Toby Kebbell is legit in Rocknrolla. Ben Foster is legit in most things.
  1. mmocf83d81c154's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by LaCorpse View Post
    Rob Kazinsky is a dream boat.
    I loved him in True Blood.

    I'm excited.
    Of course you did... teen age girls..

    all i got to say about this cast... weak sauce actors.. all of them!
  1. Mazzic518's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by stabetha View Post
    lord of the rings actors had about the same "star power" when it was released, what a flop that turned out to be.
    ^^^ This.

    I am convinced 90% of the people commenting here are under 12 years old.
  1. mmocf83d81c154's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Mazzic518 View Post
    ^^^ This.

    I am convinced 90% of the people commenting here are under 12 years old.
    Doubt most kids of that age bother with wow forums. And tbh i don't care for true blood actors or anyone linked with it, shitty tv series through and through. Aimed for teenage girls with unrealistic views of the world, same as twilight. there ya go =)
  1. Mazzic518's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by melak View Post
    Doubt most kids of that age bother with wow forums. And tbh i don't care for true blood actors or anyone linked with it, shitty tv series through and through. Aimed for teenage girls with unrealistic views of the world, same as twilight. there ya go =)
    Take it you have not seen this movie?

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270262/

    The Devil's Double
  1. Anastasja's Avatar
    Looks like an awesome cast. I'm glad they don't have any huge stars like Clooney. I always like movies better when I can really get into the characters, and it's hard when you've seen someone 100000000 times in something.

    That being said... where are the women??? You can't tell me there's no Tyrande, or Sylvanas.... I really hope Blizz doesn't turn this movie into a sausage fest where the only female characters are just pretty to look at. Warcraft has some seriously badass women that would be fantastic lead characters. I'm interested to see how this develops.
  1. sajin0084's Avatar
    All they need is Sean bean to play king lane.
  1. stgeorge78's Avatar
    Blizzard always cooking up more ways to rip money out of your wallet... now you gotta buy 2 BLIZZCON TICKETS. Each of them $200!
  1. Carmelion's Avatar
    Hooray Ben Foster! I was afraid they were going to announce Collin Farrell as a cast member, yuck lol

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