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Patch 6.2 - Corrupted Dreadwing
If you have 150,000 Apexis Crystal to spare, you can buy the Corrupted Dreadwing mount being added in Patch 6.2.






Patch 6.2 - Frostwolf Set Helm
Many people asked about the lack of a helm on the Frostwolf set from the latest PTR build.



Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Art
If all feedback is considered does that mean my spam of troll male tweets & threads like this is read? http://t.co/0NdansqPkD
Yep, everything is read even if it's not possible to respond to it all. (WatcherDev)

PvE
What about legendary weapons in timewalking dungeons? May i use Shadowmourne in a LK timewalking dungeon?
Yes, you can. (WarcraftDevs)

Are tier tokens going to drop from bosses the way they been for past few tiers, or vanila class based tiers?
Yes. Tokens are an uninteresting dungeon journal entry and do not drop in Personal loot, so we show the set items. (WarcraftDevs)

How good is the chance of seeing our attuned stats guaranteed on tier gear similar to how primary stats change based on spec?
No plans for that at this time. (WarcraftDevs)

if we use a Seal on the final dungeon boss would that give us an extra chance at 700 ilvl drop?
You have this chance on any boss and any bonus roll in Mythic dungeons. (WarcraftDevs)

Any plans on making BRF/HM bosses do less damage and have less health, in patch 6.2, like we had in Mists of Pandaria Raids?
Yes, there will be a zone-wide debuff on Foundry/Highmaul enemies, like we did to Throne of Thunder in 5.4. (WarcraftDevs)

Are Highmaul+BRF Mythic going Cross-Realm with 6.2 as well?
Yes. (WarcraftDevs)

PvP
Not sure if you've noticed it, but CRZ turned Halaa into a 24/7 faction-based Gurubashi. Captures the spontaneity of world PvP.
Yep, noticed it the moment I got the Halaa currency garrison mission and went out there to (try to) finally buy my mount.... (WatcherDev)

Are there going to be WoD s2 equivalents to Ashran gear?
The items that are comparable to ones that previously required Ashran rep are earned in a different way in season 17. (WarcraftDevs)

Ghostcrawler Tweets
While the developers have been pretty quiet since @WarcraftDevs appeared, Ghostcrawler still occasionally talks about WoW. Remember that he no longer works for or speaks for Blizzard.
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Classes
What was your take on Wotlk Ret? personally I enjoyed it alot even if it was simple. Right now Ret feels torn in directions
I understand not everyone liked it, but our goal was to improve the class. Long term, rotations with mastery are more satisfying. (OccupyGStreet)
MoP and WoD not so much. I feel like the fillers in cata (judge, CS and exo) had something uniqe to eachother.
Ideally a rotation should deliver both mastery and satisfaction. Not sure we ever matched the satisfaction of the Wrath design. (OccupyGStreet)

Like it or not, you contributed to that with your glib attitude towards some classes, most notably Paladins.
I invested a great deal of energy in making paladins fun. I am quite sarcastic and that was often misinterpreted. (OccupyGStreet)
The TO THR GROUND meme happened when I had to make a post on vacation to explain a nerf players weren't expecting. (OccupyGStreet)
All the other teasing I did because players thought it was funny and memorable. (OccupyGStreet)
Let's recall what paladins did in BC - they healed and maybe they tanked a boss or two, usually in dungeons. (OccupyGStreet)
Paladins, druid and hunters swapped spots for most played, and paladins were definitely the most vocal, magnifying the issue. (OccupyGStreet)
Maybe you weren't satisfied with our results, and I'm fine with that, but we were never glib about anyone's class. (OccupyGStreet)

wow question, forgive me 8). You once said Pandas reduced faction diversity, What did you think of high elf for alliance?
What is more important: faction identity or more options for Alliance? (OccupyGStreet)

When rotations are easy to execute it's unfair to make them competitive in performance with those that require more mastery. (OccupyGStreet)
Holy Power was an attempt to have paladins manage a resource, not cooldowns, and mana felt like the wrong resource. (OccupyGStreet)
I think it's also possible we went so far under my watch in preventing niche DPS that nobody felt special. (OccupyGStreet)

Hybrid specs can have niches, but pure DPS should be more more than a niche.
Nobody notices if 2nd dude is only slightly above 3rd dude. Nobody talks about which phase if the hard one. (OccupyGStreet)

Yeah the interplay between single-spec-per-role and multi-spec-per-role dps complicates things immensely.
Yeah, and I've said before that easy spec swapping helps the guys who can fill two roles a lot. (OccupyGStreet)
This makes sense but then a rogue with more defined niches has to play multiple specs to be as effective.
The dream is that everyone has a chance to shine, but that leads to some constrained encounter design. (OccupyGStreet)
"Hey guys, where is the Frost DK encounter in this 6 boss raid?" (OccupyGStreet)

Right. There is a difference between wanting BF rogues for a fight, and wanting BF rogues only for that fight. (OccupyGStreet)
And it sounds like the current design is that it's okay for stacking in mythic raiding, which makes sense to me. (OccupyGStreet)
What we wanted to avoid was the guild of friends where you tell a weekend WoW player that he needs to reroll DK etc. (OccupyGStreet)



Wildstar - Free to Play in Fall 2015
After failing to grow or sustain subscribers, Wildstar is moving to a free to play model this fall.

  • Existing players will get some nice cosmetic rewards and Loyalty Points.
  • Loyalty points will be used to gain Loyalty ranks to earn special items and perks.
  • All current content is open to free players, but there may be paid content in the future.
  • Free players will have less character slots, costumer slots, bank slots, and a lower decor items limit.
  • Free players also have other restrictions on their account, such as limited Auction House and Commodities Exchange access, no priority access to customer support, no crafting or currency bonuses, no gathering bonus, no PTR access, no queue priority, no reputation bonus, no experience bonuses, and other restrictions.
  • Signature players who pay for a subscription will not have any of those new restrictions.
  • Free to play players can remove some of the restrictions with the Loyalty system.
  • A currency for the store will drop from mobs in game, so even free players can eventually purchase things from the store.



This article was originally published in forum thread: Patch 6.2 - Corrupted Dreadwing, Frostwolf Helm, Blue Tweets, Wildstar Free to Play started by chaud View original post
Comments 121 Comments
  1. Brightbrown's Avatar
    So from what I see and read, Tanann is pretty much solid Apexis dailies... so we can grind our hearts away to get a flying mount... that doesn't. Riiiiiiiiiight.
  1. Hunterpower's Avatar
    the salt is real rofl
  1. Axaron's Avatar
    Obligatory I miss GC post.
  1. SinR's Avatar
    1) can we please stop talking about Ghostcrawler? He has NOTHING to do with Warcraft (or Blizzard for that matter). this isnt LOL-Champion.

    2) Wildstar Free to Play. Who didn't see that one coming?
  1. Kirsia's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by SinR View Post
    1) can we please stop talking about Ghostcrawler? He has NOTHING to do with Warcraft (or Blizzard for that matter). this isnt LOL-Champion.
    He's still a former WoW developer discussing WoW topics. Plus there was a poll on this site shortly after he left Blizzard that asked if we wanted to keep seeing his posts, which the majority answered in the affirmative.
  1. Ealyssa's Avatar
    Why the fuck do they keep giving us flying mount ???

    Take this slap in the face, pretty please, customers !
  1. mmocfd8d985519's Avatar
    Mark my words. Flying will happen. Won't be long until they compromise.
  1. Traveler Voltin's Avatar
    So a recolor of the collectors edition mount.
    Wtf i dont remember them doing that before
  1. Dontrike's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ealyssa View Post
    Why the fuck do they keep giving us flying mount ???

    Take this slap in the face, pretty please, customers !
    Because you can still use it in other places.

    I'm more surprised by them using a collectors edition model when in the past they have been quite adamant on not reusing store/CE models, although they should have done it more by allowing us to get another Rylak (even if it didn't have all that armor and the jets on it so it could have been just a plain rylak with a saddle) and maybe a non-flying yellow Ravager mount would have been cool from the Laughing Skull.

    The mount problem this time is that us getting so many of the boars. Now I know we got a fuck load of cloud serpents in MoP, but they looked cool and the boar's model is average and their run animation is awful. We should have been getting a bunch of cool wolves, between seeing fel, fire, and purple ones we should have been seeing those more than the boars.

    Just because there may or may not be flying doesn't mean they can't keep making them. It gives them more models and different creatures to use so collectors can keep collecting cool looking mounts.
  1. Rails Jones's Avatar
    Does anyone actually use the boar mounts? That run animation makes me want to stab my eyes out
  1. SinR's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Rails Jones View Post
    Does anyone actually use the boar mounts? That run animation makes me want to stab my eyes out
    I used a boar mount

    when I was grinding my Stables
  1. Dontrike's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Rails Jones View Post
    Does anyone actually use the boar mounts? That run animation makes me want to stab my eyes out
    I use one, only because I like to use one of every model in my favorites list. I am not a fan of it, but I think it is better than the camel if only barely.
  1. mileskg21's Avatar
    Only thing that can save blizzard now is overwatch™
  1. Triggered Fridgekin's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Brightbrown View Post
    So from what I see and read, Tanann is pretty much solid Apexis dailies... so we can grind our hearts away to get a flying mount... that doesn't. Riiiiiiiiiight.
    At least they are consistent with being mediocre.
  1. DrMcNinja's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by mileskg21 View Post
    Only thing that can save blizzard now is overwatch™
    Not sure what you're on about, Blizzard is probably making tons of cash from Hearthstone anyway, the company itself doesn't need to be saved.
  1. Fiannor's Avatar
    Oh yeah, that new Corrupted Dreadwing mount will look awesome waddling around on the ground!
  1. Super Kami Dende's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by mileskg21 View Post
    Only thing that can save blizzard now is overwatch™
    Right, and not the 20million they have with Hearthstone and several million Across D3/HotS/SC2
  1. bryroo's Avatar
    Why does Ghost Crawler communicate better about WoW than the devs actually working on the game?
  1. mmocaf071dd5f4's Avatar
    Came for the flying mount salt, was not disappointed.
  1. IIamaKing's Avatar
    Thing looks like shit while running...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darkvoltinx View Post
    So a recolor of the collectors edition mount.
    Wtf i dont remember them doing that before
    Wouldnt want to waste money making new models, hence 40 reskined boars who look like shit while running.

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