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Warlords of Draenor - Ko'ragh
Today we are getting back to Warlords of Draenor news with a preview of Ko'ragh.


Name Points Category
Mythic: Ko'ragh Defeat the Ko'ragh in Highmaul on Mythic difficulty.
10Draenor Raid
Pair Annihilation Defeat Ko'ragh in Highmaul with fewer than 15 Overflowing Energy orbs touching the ground or players without Nullification Barrier, on Normal diffi...
10Draenor Raid

Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Ko'ragh was the only ogre to survive direct exposure to a mysterious relic unearthed by the Highmaul excavations of Nagrand, and was left with a near-complete immunity to all magic. Rumors abound regarding his connection to the Imperator, with some wondering why Ko'ragh would remain subservient to a sorcerer despite his unique gifts.

  • Overview - Ko'ragh is protected by a Nullification Barrier that absorbs all magic damage taken. When the barrier is removed, he activates a rune that recharges it. While recharging, one player may also absorb some of the rune's energy and receive a Nullification Barrier. As the fight progresses, an increasing amount of Overflowing Energy orbs spill from the rune and float to the ground, exploding when they land. Players who have a Nullification Barrier can catch and absorb Overflowing Energy to mitigate the amount of raid wide damage and prevent a lethal amount of damage from occurring. In Mythic difficulty, two players may enter the rune per phase of Charging.
  • Nullification Barrier - Ko'ragh is protected from all magic, absorbing up to 4,020,890 Magic damage.
    • Breaker's Strength - While Ko'ragh maintains a Nullification Barrier, his damage done is increased by 8% every 10 seconds. This effect stacks. When the barrier expires, Breaker's Strength is removed.
    • Charging - When the Ko'ragh's Nullification Barrier is removed, he begins to recharge. After 20 sec, the barrier is restored.
      • Caustic Energy - One player may enter the rune with Ko'ragh, absorbing a portion of its energy. The energy inflicts 32,152 Arcane damage every second and reduces all healing received by 5% for as long as the player remains inside of the rune. This effect pierces all immunities and damage reductions. When the rune powers down, the player receives their own Nullification Barrier, proportional to the amount of time spent inside the rune. The Nullification Barrier received by players can absorb up to 15,000,000 Magic damage. In Mythic difficulty, two players may enter the rune per phase of Charging. In Raid Finder difficulty, five players may enter the rune per phase of Charging.
  • Suppression Field - Ko'ragh strikes the ground at a player's location, inflicting 57,200 Arcane damage in an 8 yard area. In addition, a field of suppressing energy is created that silences all players and inflicts 34,280 Arcane damage every second.

    This effect will also silence Volatile Anomalies.
  • Volatile Anomalies - While the Rune of Nullification is active, 3 Volatile Anomalies spawn every 8 sec.
    • Destabilize - Volatile Anomalies explode upon death, inflicting 28,575 Arcane damage to all players.
  • Expel Magic -
    • Expel Magic: Fire - Ko'ragh expels Fire magic inflicting 10,725 Fire damage every second for 10 sec. to all players. When Expel Magic: Fire expires, it inflicts 57,200 Fire damage to all allies within 5 yards.
    • Expel Magic: Fel - Ko'ragh expels fel magic into 3 random players, marking them for 12 sec. When Expel Magic: Fel expires, it creates a line of fel energy between where the wearer gained this effect and where the effect expired. The fel energy persists for 1.5 min, and inflicts 95,000 Fire damage to all players within it.
    • Expel Magic: Arcane - Ko'ragh blasts a player with corrupted Arcane energy that marks their current location every 0.5 sec. for 10 sec. After 1.5 sec., the marked location explodes, inflicting 143,000 Arcane damage to all players within 5 yards. In addition, this effect increases Physical damage taken by 100%.
    • Expel Magic: Frost - Ko'ragh expels an orb of Frost that inflicts 64,350 Frost damage to all players. The orb persists for 20 sec and slows movement speed of all players within 30 yards by up to 85%. The snare effect of Expel Magic: Frost decreases as a player stands farther away from the expelled orb.
    • Expel Magic: Shadow - Ko'ragh expels Shadow magic, inflicting all players with a heal absorption effect that prevents up to 50,000 healing received.
  • Overflowing Energy - Arcane energy bleeds from the rune stone, inflicting 150,000 Arcane damage to enemies it comes into contact with. If the energy reaches the ground, it explodes, inflicting 49,500 Arcane damage to all enemies.

    This effect pierces all immunities and damage reductions.
  • Dominating Power - Imperator Mar'gok uses the power of the rune stone to mind control all players that come into contact with Overflowing Energy. This effect grants immunity to all Magic and is removed when the player is brought below 20% health.
    • Forfeit Power - Players mind controlled by Dominating Power attempt to forfeit 5% of their shield and give Ko'ragh 5% of his shield.



Arthas Costume Hotfix
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
So after looking into it there are a few hotfixes that will be going out early next week to address the Lich King costume. We won't be testing these fixes until Monday, so until they're applied and listed in the Hotfixes blog these are just current intentions. Assuming it all goes to the current plan: the cost is being adjusted down by half, we're ensuring it is indeed 50 charges (20min per charge), and that it's usable outside of the Hallow's End event period. Keep in mind that when the hotfixes go out the cost shown on the vendor won't change, but the item will indeed be purchasable for the hotfixed amount.

Seems rather silly to price it in such a way you have to choose to either purchase that, or the pets and other things because of there only being about 650 candy thats physically possible to get.
It's intentionally priced as being sort of the 1 item someone would want to go after if they really want to turn into the Lich King every once in a while. It won't be what everyone wants to chase after, and that's ok. However, pets are account-wide of course, and so you can get multiple items if you're participating in the event on multiple characters.

Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Premade Groups Finder
Subregions (like Oceanic) are separated within the Premade Groups tool. It's not a setting on your end, but one we define for the tool as a whole. If that's not working correctly we'd like to look into it.

What category were you searching within and what groups were you joining? (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Classes
Druid (Forums / Skills / WoD Talent Calculator)
When Rejuv is applied it lasts for 12 seconds, if you refresh it lasts for 16, is this intended?
Yes this is intended. All player cast HoTs and DoTs work this way in warlords. It allows you to refresh in last 1/3 without a loss (holinka)

Hunter (Forums / Skills / WoD Talent Calculator)
Traps arm instantly now, but the travel time makes chaining CC mandatory again. Is this against your design?
It isn't against our design. We still like that it's possible to avoid if you see it coming. (holinka)
would rather see a cast time added to trap launcher instead of travel time. This promotes chaining cc, which is against design goal
Chaining CC is a part of WoW PvP. It's definitely part of the design. (holinka)

Character / Items
Any chance of getting old Wrath pvp weapons on vendors? Currently only s8 is available
we didn't get it done. Still want to. (holinka)

PvP
alternatively, was it due to poor player interest in them? would you say the attempt to relaunch them at 90 didn't work out?
Both good questions. Wintergrasp and Tol Barad were great when they were current content. But interest in them is low. (holinka)
In order for them to be a good experience, we feel like a lot of work would need to go into them (server tech, design rework etc) (holinka)
We feel that effort is better spent elsewhere, creating great new content for everyone. (holinka)
This conflicts with the revamped 1-60 experience back in cata. Maybe stick to a design philosophy instead of swaying?
Disagree. I think reworking the level up experience almost everyone experiences is different from preserving events. (holinka)

Lore
In the Gul'dan and Stranger comic, why is Gul'dan chained?
He didn't know what was going to happen to him when he drank the blood. (Did you like the comic?) (DaveKosak)

worgen fan here. Any news on the quest line in WoD where Tess looks into a disease the worgen are suffering from? Still in game?
It was removed during a zone re-vamp. The story may come back later in some form. Tess is a cool character. (DaveKosak)

In the beta, Frostwall defenders are ugh... High elves ! Is it intended ? Otherwise, will it ever be corrected ?
Not intentional. Let me get a bug in and try to fix for release. (DaveKosak)

Khadgar has always been my favorite character however now ye turned him into a traitor to the Alliance. Are you proud?
Khadgar is one of my favorites, too! It's nice to bring him back to the spotlight, doing what it takes to save Azeroth (DaveKosak)

Are Cloud Serpents Beasts or Dragonkin? Adult mobs are labeled beasts but some of the young are labeled dragonkin.
We're inconsistent in-game, but they're not really related to the classic Azeroth dragonflights. (DaveKosak)

Computers - Setup of the Month
Each month or every 2 months, depending on the hardware evolution, we will post a couple of hardware setups for those of you who are thinking of upgrading their computer!

This month
The current SSD prices are trending slightly downward over the past few months, with most SSDs under $0.50 per gigabyte when on sale.

The GTX 980 and 970 have been released! The 970 is a good value, but it is almost always out of stock.

Depending on how much you want to overclock, you may need to spend a bit more for a better CPU cooler like the NH-D14.

Unless you are doing a lot of video rendering or streaming, you do not need the 4790K and should spend that money elsewhere.

Make sure to keep your AMD and Nvidia drivers up to date.

Don't hesitate to post any feedback in the comments of that news post, and don't forget to visit the Computer Forum for any extra questions! If you are interested in Folding@home, take a look in our team's thread.


Peripherals/Monitors
ComponentPuppy Dolphin
MonitorASUS VS228H-P 22-Inch Monitor - $125ASUS VS248H-P 24-Inch Monitor - $150
KeyboardKensington Pro Fit Media Keyboard - $21Cyborg V.5 - $48
MouseLogitech G400s - $51Razer DeathAdder 2013 - $52
SpeakersCreative A250 2.1 Speaker System - $26Logitech Z313 Speaker System - $35
ComponentNarwhal Unicorn
MonitorDell P2414H Monitor - $210Dell U2412M - $269
KeyboardLogitech G510s - $89CM Storm QuickFire XT - $105
MouseLogitech G500s - $78Razer Naga 2014 - $64
SpeakersLogitech Z323 2.1 Speaker System - $45Logitech Speaker System Z523 - $87


Puppy and Dolphin
All of these parts can be mixed and matched to create a build between Puppy and Dolphin.
ComponentPuppy Dolphin
CaseNZXT Source 210 - $40NZXT Source 210 - $40
Power SupplyEVGA 600B - $60EVGA 600B - $60
CPUAMD FX-6300 - $98AMD FX-8320 - $143
HeatsinkCooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - $33Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - $33
MotherboardASUS M5A97 R2.0 - $89ASUS M5A99FX PRO - $110
MemoryKingston HyperX Blue 4GB 1600 - $428GB G.Skill DDR3 1600 - $82
Graphics CardGigabyte R7 260X - $100XFX R9 270X - $160
Hard DriveWestern Digital Caviar Blue 500GB - $42Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB - $75
DVDAsus 24X SATA DVD+/-RW - $21Asus 24X SATA DVD+/-RW - $21
Total$525$724


Narwhal and Unicorn
All of these parts can be mixed and matched to create a build between Narwhal and Unicorn.
ComponentNarwhal Unicorn
CaseCooler Master HAF 912 - $64Corsair Air 540 (Special Layout) - $125
Power SupplyRosewill Capstone 650W - $104Rosewill Fortress 750W - $130
CPUIntel 4690K - $230Intel 4690K - $230
HeatsinkThermaltake Frio - $61Noctua 6 NH-D14 - $71
MotherboardASUS Z97-A - $140ASUS Z97-A - $140
Memory8GB G.Skill DDR3 1600 - $8216GB G.Skill DDR3 1600 - $168
Graphics CardXFX R9 270X - $160XFX R9 290X OR Gigabyte GTX 970 - $330 / $370
Hard DriveWestern Digital 1TB Caviar Black - $75Western Digital 2TB Caviar Black - $135
SSDCrucial MX100 128GB (Review) - $73
OR
SanDisk Extreme II 120GB (Review) - $82 		SAMSUNG 840 EVO 120GB (Review) - $80
OR
SAMSUNG 850 Pro 128GB (Review) - $119
DVDAsus 24X SATA DVD+/-RW - $21Asus 24X SATA DVD+/-RW - $21
Total$937 - 1056$1423 - $1503


Dark Legacy Comics #461 and #462
Now that the patch news has calmed down, it is time to catch up on DLC!

This article was originally published in forum thread: Ko'ragh Preview, Arthas Costume Hotfix, Blue Tweets, Setup of the Month, DLC started by chaud View original post
Published on 2014-10-20 04:59 AM
25 Comments
Comments 25 Comments
  1. Affenkatzen18's Avatar
    First :O

    Love the comics
  1. Raynos's Avatar
    On the Setup of the Month part, how good are the "Puppy" and "Dolphin" setups, in regards to running WoW? Will they at least run WoD on good? Or is it just better bang for the buck, to go for at least "Narwhal"?
  1. mavcurse's Avatar
    Hey Chaud, what's the deal with this puppy/dolphin/narwhal/unicorn business?
    What do the terms mean? Please explain!
  1. Aenwyrm's Avatar
    @mavcurse that's a tier system on what to get, puppy being the minimal and gradually increasing in quality to unicorn, which is the best you can get.
  1. chaud's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by mavcurse View Post
    Hey Chaud, what's the deal with this puppy/dolphin/narwhal/unicorn business?
    What do the terms mean? Please explain!
    Originally we named them something like Low End, Mid, High, Ultra and people complained, so we went with more fun names that people don't complain about.

    Quote Originally Posted by Raynos View Post
    On the Setup of the Month part, how good are the "Puppy" and "Dolphin" setups, in regards to running WoW? Will they at least run WoD on good? Or is it just better bang for the buck, to go for at least "Narwhal"?
    I wouldn't go below Narwhal. The 4690K is a significant improvement over the lower end CPUs. You can skimp and skip the SSD (don't do it!) and get the 600B PSU, as well as buy parts that are on sale to get closer to ~$800. For example, there is a R9 270X on sale right now for $142 after rebates, some ~$10-15 off $100 or so at various online retailers, the ASRock Z97 + 4690K are on sale for $280 if you wanted to skimp on the motherboard a bit.
  1. Demontjuh's Avatar
    can someone tell me what the group frames are at start of vid? (0:10 for example)

    thnx
  1. Raynos's Avatar
    Ok, that explains it. Thanks for the help.
  1. grexly75's Avatar
    That DLC is funny the one after it is even more funny..
  1. KevyB's Avatar
    lol @ the idiot being unable to read the news regarding snapshotting and making himself look retarded for everyone to see.

    How nice.
  1. Slyre's Avatar
    Why does only Unicorn have Nvidia as a choice? Couldnt you just put a choice between nvidia and amd on all the setups?
  1. Draenox's Avatar
    The poem DLCs are the best thing ever.
  1. Immitis's Avatar
    inb4 a certain poster continues to use the bugged npcs as "evidence" that high elves should be a blood elf subrace despite being bugs
  1. Residentevil1103's Avatar
    About this whole not needing a 4790k.........I have one and I like it, Its future proof , And i play more then just wow.

    - - - Updated - - -

    Quote Originally Posted by Slyre View Post
    Why does only Unicorn have Nvidia as a choice? Couldnt you just put a choice between nvidia and amd on all the setups?
    With all of these other builds I would Choose a Gigabyte GTX 750ti instead of the amd choice.
  1. Vermicious's Avatar
    Why do they keep recommending 120GB SSDs? Managing the available space on small drives like that is a total pain. I see lots of 240GB for sale ~$100-120, need to start showing those.
  1. chaud's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Slyre View Post
    Why does only Unicorn have Nvidia as a choice? Couldnt you just put a choice between nvidia and amd on all the setups?
    At the other price points Nvidia doesn't have any good choices.

    Quote Originally Posted by g01851 View Post
    Why do they keep recommending 120GB SSDs? Managing the available space on small drives like that is a total pain. I see lots of 240GB for sale ~$100-120, need to start showing those.
    You can buy any size, we just list some decent models.
  1. TheCrazyCatLady's Avatar
    Awesome DLC as always.
  1. Wolfie of Medivh's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by chaud View Post
    Originally we named them something like Low End, Mid, High, Ultra and people complained, so we went with more fun names that people don't complain about.



    I wouldn't go below Narwhal. The 4690K is a significant improvement over the lower end CPUs. You can skimp and skip the SSD (don't do it!) and get the 600B PSU, as well as buy parts that are on sale to get closer to ~$800. For example, there is a R9 270X on sale right now for $142 after rebates, some ~$10-15 off $100 or so at various online retailers, the ASRock Z97 + 4690K are on sale for $280 if you wanted to skimp on the motherboard a bit.
    I'll throw a plug - if you need help, hit reddit's Build-a-PC forum for more ideas, and if you want direct help, try Reddit's BuldaPCforMe section, where you can get direct help with chosing parts.
  1. ihyln's Avatar
    It baffles me why the top system spec every month includes some pathetic small sized SSD and a unnecessarily large spindle drive. If it's supposed to the "best" then a minimum of 256 or 512GB is required. In addition, why continue to use Rosewill PSUs? Are you getting paid to post them? Corsair and Antec have much better and higher quality PSUs.

    Does anyone actually even research which parts are good before posting them? Because it doesn't seem so.
  1. sgt's Avatar
    "All of these parts can be mixed and matched to create a build between Narwhal and Unicorn."

    Does it mean 8gb (1866 mhz) is enough for gtx 970 on ultra @ 1080p resolution? (I run 2 wows often)

    Can I change case and psu 750W for:
    Case: Raidmax Vortex V4, 12cm Fan/ToolFree/USB 3.0/Anti Dust
    PSU: 700W Raidmax Cobra RX-700AC-B, 80PLUS Bronze/PFC/12cmFan/Andyson or even 600W Raidmax Cobra RX-600AF-B, 80PLUS Bronze/PFC/12cmFan/Andyson (gtx 970 doesnt require much power and I will use Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO instead of Noctua heatsink and probably I will add +8gb memory in future)
  1. Punks's Avatar
    Never understood why you have speakers there and not headsets. So many headsets out there....and I am quite sure Gamers care more about both.
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