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Warlords of Draenor Beta - Darker Nights
It looks like the Darker Nights we looked at previously may not be coming to every zone, just some that were too bright at night.



Warlords of Draenor Beta - Build 18996
This smallest beta build we have seen so far is here!

Spell Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Item Set Bonuses

Paladin (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Major Glyphs
  • Glyph of Immediate Truth Increases the instant damage done by Seal of Truth by 40% 30%, but decreases the damage done by Censure by 50%. Major Glyph.

Raid & Dungeon Abilities
  • Burning Breath Breaths a wide line of fire, inflicting 23,750 to 26,250 19,000 to 21,000 Fire Damage. 40 yd range. Instant.
  • Deafening Screech Inflicts 250,000 Inflicts 200,000 Physical damage to all enemies and interrupts spellcasting for 2 sec. 100 Mana. 0.7 sec cast. 1.5 sec cooldown.
  • Imbued Iron Axe Throws a whirling axe, inflicting 38,000 to 42,000 28,500 to 31,500 Fire damage to nearby enemies. Unlimited range. Instant.



Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Classes
There will always be a 'best'. it can be close though.
This. If the difference between 2H and DW is a dozen stat points, that's fine. (Celestalon)

what's the deal with glyphs? Mages have 24 while others have 30+ / 40+! That's sad to know. =/ #warcraft
Mage: 21M/9m, Hunt: 25/11, Rog: 24/13, a lot of mage glyphs were baked into class recently though, suggests? (Muffinus)

Warlock (Forums / Skills / WoD Talent Calculator)
regarding Warlocks: Sims are showing Shadowburn as a DPS loss due to the removal of the mana return. Does this concern you?
Of course, but that doesn't match what we're seeing. (Celestalon)

PvE
Will Herald of the Titans be removed in 6.0?
Nope, should still be available and in the same general tuning ballpark. (WatcherDev)

PvP
some confusion about if there can be multiple Ashran instances available to a single server
Each realm only points to one Ashran but multiple realms may point to the same Ashran. (holinka)
will the 100 per faction cap potentially be raised if servers like Illidan/Sargeras end up with long Ashran queue times?
We'll raise it as high as the game can handle (holinka)

Will there be a base honor prize per win or just all strong box? currently on beta I've won 20+ skirms and earned 349 honor
There will be small honor prize per win. But you can expect skirmishes to be fairly inefficient at first. (holinka)

Is there an honor wipe at launch?
Yes (holinka)

Will the 2.2k enchants (Bloody Dancing Steel, Spirit of Conquest... etc.) still be available for purchase in WoD?
The visual will be a part of the Enchanter's Study in the Garrisons. It will still have a rating requirement. I believe it's 2400 (holinka)

Lore
Horde do get off easy. Wage war and suffer no lasting damage. weird dichotomy compared how it played out Ally
Disagree. Lots of Horde casualties; Darkspear rebels, Org civilians, vendors and trainers on spikes in SoO. (_DonAdams)

But again, the Horde only started losing because Garrosh turned on itself, not because of Alliance action.
How so? Alliance players raid Orgrimmar just the same. Fictionally, any raid who defeats SoO is responsible. (_DonAdams)

I think it's more monotony: Horde acts, Alliance reacts, Horde implodes due to plot device, Alliance wins by passivity
Operation Shieldwall not passive. Anduin chasing the Divine Bell not passive. SoO not passive. (_DonAdams)
Wrathion himself concludes as much at the end.
I don't think musing over Garrosh unraveling the Horde is meant to diminish the Alliance's impact on fighting him (_DonAdams)

Garrisons
I believe it is, just the Bunker will not increase the chance of upgraded follower chance from quests rewards.
They still have the chance to be upgraded, it's just not increased by the building. (Muffinus)

Kinda wish this wasn't the case so it didn't force those buildings on us. Choice with Garrisons seems nonexistent.
At a point, you will have made all of the things you want, and you can't sell the soulbound reagents, so swap! (Muffinus)

Heroes of the Storm Alpha Returns
The Heroes of the Storm Alpha is finally back with a new patch. Custom Games, Observer Mode, and Replays are also on the way!

This article was originally published in forum thread: Darker Nights, Warlords of Draenor Beta - Build 18996, Blue Tweets, Heroes Alpha started by chaud View original post
Comments 78 Comments
  1. moveth's Avatar
    If only my launcher would let me download anything.
  1. Kuthe's Avatar
    lazy mode blizz0 @ night time. Typical.
  1. lasheric's Avatar
    heroes of the storm is so boring
  1. Triggered Fridgekin's Avatar
    Good thing they have eight hours to patch in that huge new build.
  1. Meggle's Avatar
    Wish I could get at HOTS
  1. Rhodair's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Help ol Gil Out View Post
    Good thing they have eight hours to patch in that huge new build.
    What appears in patch notes is not everything that goes into a patch. It's likely changes on their server's end is where time went.
  1. Nerfarien's Avatar
    That warlock nerf was REALLY needed. Talking about beating the dead horse...
  1. Oneirophobia's Avatar
    Oh. So much for darker nights. Mildly adjusted nights in random vanilla zones. Sad panda.
  1. Conscious's Avatar
    Keep the bad news coming Blizzard, you're only making it worse on yourselves.

    Another broken promise.
  1. Spoonman's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Rhodair View Post
    What appears in patch notes is not everything that goes into a patch. It's likely changes on their server's end is where time went.
    Is this true?
  1. Arbs's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Conscious View Post
    Keep the bad news coming Blizzard, you're only making it worse on yourselves.

    Another broken promise.
    Wait what broken promise? They never promised Darker nights, it just happened & MMO-C posted about it.
  1. Lupen202's Avatar
    I really hope they do further work on nights in a future patch.. I understand if they don't have time for it to be done for launch but come on. I flew through Badlands just the other night and it's bright as ever... definitely one of the "worst offenders" in my book. Quite a few other zones come to mind as well.

    I'm happy that we got some zones done, don't get me wrong... but I was really looking forward to seeing all of the zones completed.
  1. GreenJesus's Avatar
    Paladin (Forums, Talent Calculator)
    Major Glyphs
    Glyph of Immediate Truth Increases the instant damage done by Seal of Truth by 40% 30%, but decreases the damage done by Censure by 50%. Major Glyph.

    HAHAHAHAHAA THE WORST GLYPH THAT NO ONE WOULD EVER USE HAS BEEN NERFED!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAA !! ooo blizzard.. the ret nerfs are getting pretty humorous. My sides... they're killing me.
  1. Ranger007's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Lupen202 View Post
    I really hope they do further work on nights in a future patch.. I understand if they don't have time for it to be done for launch but come on. I flew through Badlands just the other night and it's bright as ever... definitely one of the "worst offenders" in my book. Quite a few other zones come to mind as well.

    I'm happy that we got some zones done, don't get me wrong... but I was really looking forward to seeing all of the zones completed.
    ^^This. I'm disappointed to hear this, as well. I'm also hoping that they will continue to add night time lighting to more areas. All areas with night time lighting (day/night cycles) equals immersion at its best. We used to have day/night years ago until Cata expac... they removed night lighting

    I am delighted that night time is being brought back, but PLEASE add it to the entire WoW world, even if it's just a few areas at a time. It'd be much appreciated by a LOT of peeps
  1. tripl3x's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Arbs View Post
    Wait what broken promise? They never promised Darker nights, it just happened & MMO-C posted about it.

    All the way back around July, it was.

    http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/07/04/wa...ay-get-darker/

    Fanboy
  1. Bluesftw's Avatar
    heroes of the game that died before it went to beta returns to being irrelephant ^^
  1. Halefire94's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by tripl3x View Post
    All the way back around July, it was.

    http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/07/04/wa...ay-get-darker/

    Fanboy

    Where does he promise that they are updating all zone's nights for darker nights? No where. You are just a cynical kid who is jumping on the hate blizz bandwagon.
  1. mmoc5b249aa738's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Bluesftw View Post
    heroes of the game that died before it went to beta returns to being irrelephant ^^
    So did every MMO that came out in the last 10 years
  1. MyysticRet's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by mariovsgoku View Post
    Paladin (Forums, Talent Calculator)
    Major Glyphs
    Glyph of Immediate Truth Increases the instant damage done by Seal of Truth by 40% 30%, but decreases the damage done by Censure by 50%. Major Glyph.

    HAHAHAHAHAA THE WORST GLYPH THAT NO ONE WOULD EVER USE HAS BEEN NERFED!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAA !! ooo blizzard.. the ret nerfs are getting pretty humorous. My sides... they're killing me.
    That glyph has a possibility to be a very viable one. Depending on how high your multistrike would be. This nerf isnt a bad change on there part they mustve found that it was in fact doing more damage on some parts that SoT.
  1. mmoc3c32484403's Avatar
    Goddammit blizzard, stop giving us hopes about things and then just to crush them later on

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