TCG Pets Giveaway - Day 2, Blue Tweets, Fan Art

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TCG Pets Giveaway - Day #2
WoWTCGLoot was nice enough to send us some things to give away again this year, so a big thanks to them! After yesterday's post on pet collection stats, let's give away some more pets and one month Curse Premium codes.

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  • You have until Monday December 30th @ 11:59 PM EST to enter the contest. After that time this thread will be closed and winners will be selected randomly.


Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Warlords of Draenor Stats
Minor example is ratio of ambush bonus dmg to backstab bonus dmg is constant at all levels, but backstab scales better with gear
You'd find that all of the base damage on spells/abilities stays in constant ratios at all levels, for a given class, BTW. (Source)
And that's the problem. For a lvl 30 with 150 SP, this increases Wrath by 138% but Healing Touch by just 28%
Heals had higher base healing to make up for players having base health. However, that didn't line up and scale perfectly. (Source)
In WoD, there will be no more base health, or base damage/healing on spells, so it's all just scaling; can line up. (Source)
So whats this going to do to dmg and healing at low lvls if you don't have heirlooms you won't have much stats.
There are still base stats. (Source)
Is there going to be a base amount of the new secondaries? like even with 0 crit rating u still crit
No. You still crit with 0 crit rating because you have 5% base crit, and crit from agi/int. (Source)
More similar to haste, where there is no base amount of haste. (Source)

Does no Dodge/Parry on gear mean Strength -> Parry and Agility -> Dodge are being removed as well?
Nope, those remain. (Source)

Now that we have 3 new secondary stats (Amplify, etc.). How many of these stats will we see on a single piece of gear? Still 2?
Still typically 2 secondary stats on most gear. May be exceptions, as always, but vast majority of the time, 2. (Source)

Will melee abilities still be affected by Weapon damage. Or are those abilities now only scaled by AP?
Yes, weapon damage will still be a thing. (Source)

If this means all dmg spells and heals will scale with primary stat, this is a good thing although simplifies gear
Typically Attack Power or Spell Power, which mostly come from your primary stat. (Source)

would be nice for weapons to means as much to casters a physical.
Somewhat ironically, weapons are actually *more* important for some casters, than some melees. SP bonus is huge. (Source)

sorry if this is a repeat question but if I gem say spirit then trade to dps or tank does that gem change too eg haste for dps ?
No, only primaries on armor slots switch. (Source)
sorry im more asking for the gem side the fact that say pally chest has a gem socket do I have to swap it everytime swap spec ?
Sorry, not sure I understand the question. If you put a Spirit gem in a socket, it provides no value if you respec to Feral. (Source)
ok thank you that means if I have a gem socket armor piece when swap to my off spec I either need new gear or a different gem
To min-max, yes. However, remember that a different item of the same ilvl likely won't have the gem socket; sockets are free. (Source)

Will Cleave on gear mean CC'd mobs have to be moved to Uzbekistan to avoid sheep-busting?
No. Cleave won't hit CC'd or mobs, or mobs you aren't in combat with. (Source)

Does it mean won't be useful or won't be optimal? Is this applying to PVP too?
Spirit will have zero value for non-healers, including in PvP. (Source)

In WoD, does the baseline yellow attack hit cap include attacks against targets that are higher than 3 levels above you?
Yes. (Source)
Does that also mean a lvl 1 character will have 100% hit chance against a level 100 character or mobs? aoe questing inc
No. Just up to +3 levels, then you start missing again. Similar to how Crushing Blows still exist now. (Source)

PvP
I've had a question about PvP. Why is there a gear req? Why isn't it stats-agnostic, to make the game 100% skill-dependent? Thanks!
WoW is a character driven game where you participate in different activities for rewards. PvP is one of those activities. (Source)
I know that very well I would just love an option at some point in time for pure stat-agnostic, skill-based pvp.
http://wowpedia.org/Trial_of_the_Gladiator (Source)

Also, kudos for taking out expertise and hit. Step in the right direction! Still, I wish all radials were disabled in PvP though!
While there may be a place for a game with WoW gameplay and no stats/gear, WoW is not that game. WoW is an RPG. (Source)
Why not poll the PvP population and see what they’d think of a permanent Trial-of-the-Champions play style?
Polling the population is not how we design games. Personally, I'd find it pretty unrewarding. I like getting gear. (Source)

Crafted pvp gear feels a bit gated. Not many want to use daily cd on making 476/458 gear. Maybe lower mats over time?
We don't like the starter gear coming from crafting. Exploring the idea of BoE starter gear coming from battleground wins. (Source)
OMFG BoE PvP starter gear?! If it's BoA I will make you a(nother) million cookies (BoE is still awesome though!)
I can see your point but I think BoA might be worse in this case. (Source)

What other steps would be in there to keep those first few BG experiences from being even more brutal to new folk?
I think a lot of the UI changes we're making are in support that goal (Source)

Misc
And you are the next Ghostcrawler ?
Nah, I just work on flavor/feels things like Headless Horsemen & Darkmoon Faires & zombie plagues & pets & toys & so on. (Source)
You're my friggin hero for trolling people about Kara so damn hard.
Just wait until Heroic Zul'Farrak gets data mined. (Source)

Fan Art
Some more nice fan art today!

This article was originally published in forum thread: TCG Pets Giveaway - Day 2, Blue Tweets, Fan Art started by chaud View original post
Published on 2013-12-28 07:45 AM
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Comments 4418 Comments
  1. Myteacher's Avatar
    Mounts with weapons.
    Gruul like mount ( with the big rocket launcher ).
  1. mmoc1b24265f91's Avatar
    I would like to see class quests.
  1. angelofblood's Avatar
    more solo content like the brawler's guild
  1. Daswolfen's Avatar
    Some things I would like to see for WoD:

    Better Auction House interface including a proper pet search (so you can search for pets you don't have) and single line entry on auction browse listing sortable by bid and buyout

    Queue for LFR then swap to alt to level/craft/petbattle/etc while waiting.

    Vendor to sell quest rewards back to us from completed quests. There are many peices I would love to have for transmog but can't because I did the quest long before transmogrification was feature.

    Armor and weapon dyes, glow color change, etc.
  1. Blazeflack's Avatar
    I'm going to hop on the "Account wide reputation" band wagon. That would be awesome.
  1. Finifi's Avatar
    Feature or not, I'd like to see a rework for the DK dps speccs.
  1. darthdrizzt's Avatar
    Hunters have to be able to dual wield pistols! nuff said!
  1. Jmq1389's Avatar
    A achievements point vendor you could buy thing for gold based on how many point u have like mounts, garrison upgrade or ppl, pets, xmog items.
    The achievements points u have the more u unlock/can buy from the vendor.
  1. Taller Ghost Walt's Avatar
    I would love to see story-driven factions that offer dailies make a return - Pandaria's factions had their flaws, but the general direction was great. Blizzard should definitely add alternative methods for gaining reputation, though.
  1. Thereaperszone's Avatar
    Old raids scaling and updated druid forms.
  1. mmoc18c6ab442b's Avatar
    I'd like to be able to tame dragonkin!
  1. mmocf6271c3eec's Avatar
    I'd like to see huge, rare monsters which occasionally raid villages (just like dragons in skyrim), killing everything in their way. Also I really wish to see a new BG where are 2 teams of 40 ppl killing each other on open field. No tasks, towers, flags or other crap, just 10 minutes of pure savagery, massacre and death (also some last man standing BG would be nice )
  1. Alirana's Avatar
    I wouldn't mind Pet Battle (at least pet PvP) for mobile devices
  1. mmoca916830a37's Avatar
    Some kind of shared stash, to make it easier to trade items between chars.
  1. klymus's Avatar
    A way to get LFR battle pets once no one is running them anymore.
  1. Minesweeperchampion's Avatar
    I want to raise a dragon. I raised the cloud serpents and venomhide raptors but did not feel attached enough to them. They were stuck in their single zones, they didn't pose any troubles like a real pet. The hatching animations were not an exciting event and no interaction was involved when it was newborn. They should be harder to take care of and more diverse to choose from so the one you spend time on has a little more meaning. Perhaps a chance that they might permanently die during the process so the emotion of loss is included.
  1. Obelisk Kai's Avatar
    I would like for Blizzard to juice up random heroics by introducing their scaling system onto previous 5 mans now lying dormant. I mean, we have upwards of eighty plus five mans in the game of which, at the end of any given expansion, we run eight or nine endlessly for valor. Wouldn't it be fun if you queued for a random heroic and got one of those eighty+ five mans?
  1. Flamez2's Avatar
    I would love my gold to be account wide, i play on a few servers.
  1. llewllew's Avatar
    Structured PvP for pet battling, like the Celestial Tournament or another "battleground" type competition for PvP pets.
  1. michu85's Avatar
    scaling for every instance in game. char lvl reduction or monster lvl increase in old raids + black/plagued proto coming back for completing naxx in this scaled mode.

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