Legion - Gnome Hunters, Patch 6.2.3 Overview and Official Notes

Legion - Gnome Hunters
Gnomes rejoice! You can finally be a Hunter in Legion.



Patch 6.2.3 Overview
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
During scheduled maintenance on Tuesday, November 17, we’ll release Patch 6.2.3, bringing cross-realm Mythic raiding, new Timewalking dungeons, the return of the Valor currency, the Grove Warden mount, and more to the game.

Tuesday’s maintenance period will also mark the end of the current PvP season and the beginning of Warlords Season 3. In the new season, you’ll have a chance to earn new PvP gear, including the Warmongering Aspirant (PvP item level 715), Warmongering Combatant (ilvl 730), and Warmongering Gladiator (ilvl 740) sets.

For those interested in diving into dungeons, the very first Cataclysm Timewalking Bonus Event begins Wednesday, November 18, featuring Grim Batol, Stonecore, Lost City of Tol’vir, Vortex Pinnacle, Throne of Tides, and End Time. We’re also expanding the Northrend Timewalking Bonus Event to include Pit of Saron and The Burning Crusade Timewalking Bonus Event to include Magister’s Terrace.

Patch 6.2.3 Official Notes
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
New Timewalking Dungeons
  • A new Cataclysm Timewalking Bonus Event has been added to the holiday rotation, featuring the following dungeons:
    • End Time
    • Grim Batol
    • Lost City of Tol’vir
    • Stonecore
    • The Vortex Pinnacle
    • Throne of Tides
  • The existing Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King Timewalking events have been expanded to include an additional dungeon each:
    • Magister’s Terrace (Burning Crusade)
    • Pit of Saron (Wrath of the Lich King)
  • New rare mount: Infinite Timereaver, has been added as a random drop from any Timewalking boss.
  • Added a vendor near the Cataclysm portals in Stormwind and Orgrimmar during the Cataclysm Timewalking Bonus Event that sells modernized Cataclysm gear and cool new toys.

Cross-Realm Mythic Raiding
  • Cross-Realm raiding has been enabled for Hellfire Citadel on Mythic difficulty. You’ll now be able to join with friends or fill that last raid spot to take on the most difficult encounters in Warlords of Draenor.

Item Upgrades and Valor are back!
  • Item upgrades are back! Players will be able to earn and spend Valor to upgrade items from Hellfire Citadel, crafted profession items, items created from Baleful tokens in Tanaan Jungle, and all Draenor dungeon drops. All the items you’ve already earned are eligible for upgrades retroactively.
  • Characters can earn Valor in a number of ways.
    • Completing the first random Heroic Dungeon of the day
    • Completing Mythic Dungeons
    • Completing weekly Bonus Event quests (except for the Pet Battle Bonus Event)
    • Completing a Raid Finder wing for Highmaul, Blackrock Foundry, or Hellfire Citadel for the first time each week.
  • To upgrade, visit your friendly neighborhood ethereal in Orgrimmar and Stormwind, or Stormshield and Warspear to upgrade your gear by 5 item levels at a time for 250 Valor, up to twice per item, for a total potential boost of 10 item levels.

Improved Item Rewards
Mythic Dungeon Loot Improvements
  • Mythic Dungeons now have a chance to award items ranging from item level 685 to 725 in 5-item-level increments, with a progressively lower chance as item level increases.
  • Mythic Dungeon bosses now also have a chance to drop a new Heirloom Trinket that will scale up to level 110.
Baleful Item Level Boost
  • Baleful items now have a chance to create items ranging in quality from item level 655 to 695 in 5-item-level increments, with a progressively lower chance as item level increases.

Warlords Season 3
  • Around the release of Patch 6.2.3, a transition to Warlords Season 3 will take place. More information and details on the close of Warlords Season 2 and transition to the new season will be available in the future.
  • With the new season comes new gear. New Warmongering Aspirant gear scales up to PvP item level 715, Warmongering Combatant gear scales to 730, and Warmongering Gladiator gear scales to 740.

Class Tuning Changes
Death Knight (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • General
    • Blood Boil, Blood Plague, Death Coil, Death and Decay, Frost Fever, and Soul Reaper damage has been increased by 10%.
  • Frost
    • Frost Strike, Howling Blast, and Obliterate damage has been increased by 10%.
  • Unholy
    • Festering Strike, Necrosis, and Scourge Strike damage has been increased by 10%.
  • Talents
    • Defile and Necrotic Plague damage has been increased by 10%.

Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • General
    • Moonfire and Wrath damage has been increased by 6%.
  • Balance
    • Starfall, Starfire, Starsurge, and Sunfire damage has been increased by 6%.

Paladin (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • General
    • Crusader Strike, Hammer of Wrath, and Judgment damage has been increased by 8%.
  • Retribution
    • Divine Storm, Seal of Truth, and Templar's Verdict damage has been increased by 8%.

Shaman (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • General
    • Chain Lightning, Flame Shock, Lava Burst, Lightning Bolt, and Lightning Shield damage has been increased by 4%.
  • Elemental
    • Mastery: Molten Earth, Earth Shock, and Earthquake damage has been increased by 4%.
  • Enhancement
    • Lava Lash, Stormstrike, and Windfury damage has been increased by 4%.

Warrior (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • General
    • Enrage now increases all damage dealt by 15% (up from 10%).
  • Arms
    • Seasoned Soldier now increases all damage dealt by 15% (up from 10%).

Raids and Dungeons
Hellfire Citadel

Timewalking
  • Pepe should now remain with players that enter into a Timewalking dungeon.

Items
  • Increased the drop rates of Felblight from Skinning, Mining, Herbalism, and Fishing by about 20%.
  • Mirror of the Blademaster now summon magical blades as guardians, instead of mirror images of the caster.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Legion - Gnome Hunters, Patch 6.2.3 Overview and Official Notes started by chaud View original post
Published on 2015-11-14 01:38 AM
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  1. Feanoro's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by grexly75 View Post
    So when do you want them to release content?
    On a timetable that doesn't completely invalidate some content and then endlessly prolong the rest. By the way, forcing (yes, if you want to be competitive, you're forced) raiders to go run outdated dungeons isn't content. It's an obnoxious grind, and contributes to the future Squish 2.0.

    Be lucky they are releasing anything at all
    Fanboy detected. No, I don't think I'll grovel my thanks for a shitty patch that effectively nerfs current content, forces running otherwise irrelevant content, and adds an obnoxious grind. Valor returning is a huge step backward.

    and I find it funny how people go how dare they release content during a holiday period.
    Yes, considering the backlash they got for doing the same thing with the WoD launch...

    Seems some people need to be reminded that not all of the playerbase celebrate what is essentially a US only holiday
    Made by an American company, that should be fully aware of the holiday and the shitty choice they're presenting that playerbase, especially since it's the second time in the same expansion.

    so those that don't need to have something to do.
    I wasn't aware the servers would shut down if 6.2.3 wasn't released.
  1. Eleccybubb's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Feanoro View Post
    On a timetable that doesn't completely invalidate some content and then endlessly prolong the rest. By the way, forcing (yes, if you want to be competitive, you're forced) raiders to go run outdated dungeons isn't content. It's an obnoxious grind, and contributes to the future Squish 2.0.

    Fanboy detected. No, I don't think I'll grovel my thanks for a shitty patch that effectively nerfs current content, forces running otherwise irrelevant content, and adds an obnoxious grind. Valor returning is a huge step backward.

    Yes, considering the backlash they got for doing the same thing with the WoD launch...

    Made by an American company, that should be fully aware of the holiday and the shitty choice they're presenting that playerbase, especially since it's the second time in the same expansion.

    I wasn't aware the servers would shut down if 6.2.3 wasn't released.
    How are you forced to run timewalking? (if thats the outdated dungeons thing you mean) There are other alternatives. As for the nerf it happens every xpac since Wrath as far as I know. Ilvl upgrades are just another way of not doing a full on 10-15% dmg and health nerf and allowing players to ease themselves through the content.
  1. mmoc7a529a6d58's Avatar
    "and Lightning Shield damage has been increased by 4%"

    So that means +4% dmg per Lightning Shield chrage consumed with Fulmination?
  1. Rayaleith's Avatar
    Gnome hunters... Abomination but did you notice the pet? Is it a chicken?
  1. Uncle's Avatar
    What a STUPID idea ! Gnome is the dumbest race EVER. Remove that useless race instead of giving again and again new classes at every race witch is NOT LEGIT.
  1. Eleccybubb's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Uncle View Post
    What a STUPID idea ! Gnome is the dumbest race EVER. Remove that useless race instead of giving again and again new classes at every race witch is NOT LEGIT.
    How is a Gnome Hunter "NOT LEGIT"?. Elaborate.
  1. Rósa's Avatar
    Well I will be race changing my NE hunter to Gnome
  1. Higgit's Avatar
    Oh my word, Fat Owls with the AA in Trashcan are gonna be even more cataclysmic....
  1. Anonymous1987's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by otterfluff View Post
    So where are the belf druids to mirror the addition of hunter gnomes...?
    The LAST thing we need are more Blood Elves in this game. They're already the most played Horde race and that's only going to spike even higher with them being the only playable Demon Hunters along with Night Elves. We don't need the Horde to be 99% barbie doll female blood elves.

    Also there was an imbalance with the race/class combinations before this so no, again.
  1. randomnamegenerator16's Avatar
    Does this item starting quest for Grove Warden drops for every player in the raid? Or how is it going to work?
  1. klepp0906's Avatar
    Warriors needed a buff? They must be doing it wrong. I consistently parse top 100 with a ring a few months behind. As for mythic dungeons dropping 725 loot? Awesome idea! Not even 100 guilds have finished hfc yet and your already making its gear irrelevant.

    Blizzard your lucky I enjoy my friends - otherwise you would likely lose me and thousands of other top tier players who feel the same.

    Unless your buffing mythic hfc loot too? Which is almost infinately harder to obtain than dungeon loot.

    Aaaand watch those subs drop more. Releasing the final patch almost a year before the next one. G G G

    - - - Updated - - -

    P.S and monks become less relevant than they already are. Having just killed mythic archimonde last week for a top 75 finish, I'm one of less than 200 monks to do so including all item levels. Of the classes you've buffed - most already are not only easier to play but parse higher on the vast majority of current content.

    Another fix for the bads while shatting on the not so bads. encouraging people to play better is Just running against wows design.

    Pss gear and levels become pointless with legions scaling! Game that I tell myself cannot be dumbed down further never ceases to prove me wrong! G g g
  1. Appelgren's Avatar
    So it looks like there will be no downtime att all to determine who cheated in arenas etc? Titles will just go out. Fuck this game.
  1. mmoc903ad35b4b's Avatar
    All hail Muffinus! Really great news.
  1. mmocf89c8b0f36's Avatar
    Took them 6 years only.
  1. mmoceb1073a651's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Bavarian Barbarian View Post
    First off, I'm a total paladin purist. I still hate the fact that Tauren and (to a slightly lesser extent) Blood Elves can be paladins.

    That having been said, I think undead paladins would be neat. Wielding the Light as an Undead is meant to be agony. Enduring constant pain so that one can continue serving as a weapon of righteousness even after death is right up the Paladin's alley.
    Well I was OK with BE paladins after the extensive lore explanation of how BE could become paladins. And if any Forsaken is crazy enough to endure constant torture from the Light and serve as paladin, why not. That's ultimate dedication to a cause.

    Besides that, I would love BE druids as well. At least, we have a BC boss who is one.
  1. Tomana's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by scubistacy View Post
    Besides that, I would love BE druids as well. At least, we have a BC boss who is one.
    BE droods would be beyond awesome.
  1. Zazelmaf's Avatar
    Everything about this awesome saucum game is getting BETTER AND BETTER! BRING IT ON BABY!!!
  1. shise's Avatar
    Pre order now and earn early access to a wide variety of new and rare pets for your new gnome hunter!

    Pink Rabbit! Destroy all the carrots in the battlefield with a single command!
    Rat! This vicious rat will slowly kill your opponents with it's relentless diseases!
    Last but not least, Mechanic Squirrel! because why not? exactly!
  1. gunchix's Avatar
    The most retarded thing... how the hell can a little fart tame a wild animal?
  1. Aelric70's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Feanoro View Post
    On a timetable that doesn't completely invalidate some content and then endlessly prolong the rest. By the way, forcing (yes, if you want to be competitive, you're forced) raiders to go run outdated dungeons isn't content. It's an obnoxious grind, and contributes to the future Squish 2.0.

    Fanboy detected. No, I don't think I'll grovel my thanks for a shitty patch that effectively nerfs current content, forces running otherwise irrelevant content, and adds an obnoxious grind. Valor returning is a huge step backward.

    Yes, considering the backlash they got for doing the same thing with the WoD launch...

    Made by an American company, that should be fully aware of the holiday and the shitty choice they're presenting that playerbase, especially since it's the second time in the same expansion.

    I wasn't aware the servers would shut down if 6.2.3 wasn't released.
    "Competitve" raiders are less than 3% of the player base. Less than half of those give a crap about Turkey day. I think Blizz doesnt give a crap about your issues, because they're really not relevant. Cry moar.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gunchix View Post
    The most retarded thing... how the hell can a little fart tame a wild animal?
    By offering really yummy food
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