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Patch 7.0.3 Hotfixes - August 8
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Classes

Death Knight (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  • Sudden Doom’s chance to activate is now increased by melee attack speed (was Haste).

Hunter (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  • Hunter pets now retain their selected specialization when dismissed and summoned.

Mage (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  • Brain Freeze now gives your Frostbolt a 15% chance to empower your next Flurry (was 10%).

Priest (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  • When Guardian Spirit expires without saving the target from death, Guardian Angel now reduces its remaining cooldown to 90 seconds (was 120 seconds).
  • The amount of healing absorbed by the shield that Shadow Covenant leaves allies has been slightly increased.

Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  • Exsanguinate now causes bleeds to tick 100% faster, down from 400% faster.
  • Run Through’s damage has been increased by 25%.
  • Between the Eyes damage has been increased by 18%.
  • Jolly Roger causes Saber Slash to have an additional 25% chance of striking an additional time (was 40%).
  • Buried Treasure increases your base Energy regeneration by 25% (was 40%).
  • Shark Infested Waters increases Critical Strike Chance by 25% (was 40%).
  • Grand Melee increases your attack speed by 50% and your Leech by 25% (was 40% and 20%).
  • Slice and Dice now increases attack speed by 100% (was 90%).

Shaman (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  • Unleash Life now heals a friendly target for 325% of Spell Power (was 250%).

Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  • Phantom Singularity now only hits enemies within line of sight of it.

Warrior (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  • Increased Slam’s damage by up to 12%.

Dungeons and Raids
  • Dragon Soul
    • Players who die and release in the Spine of Deathwing encounter should again be able to rejoin the encounter.

Items
  • The on-equip spell for the trinket Discordant Chorus should only be activated by melee attacks, as intended.

NPCs
  • Fixed a bug that was causing some NPCs to disappear on transports.

Quests
  • The Antechamber Guardian will now spawn correctly during the quest "What Lies Within".
  • “Moat Monster!” can again be completed properly.

Transportation
  • Fixed a bug that was causing some transports to get stuck mid-route.

World Bosses
  • Tarlna the Ageless and Drov the Ruiner should again spawn as expected.

Getting a Boost to Level 100
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
With the advent of Legion, players who purchase the expansion are able to boost one character instantly to level 100. To help enhance the experience, we’ve introduced a new way to become familiar with your newly boosted character.

Players who boost a character to level 100 will now be placed into a brief tutorial experience which will help teach some of the core abilities of the class. This experience will start with a pre-selected specialization which can be easily changed at the completion of the tutorial.


Gunships of the Broken Shore
Whether you’re Horde or Alliance, you’ll begin your new adventure on a gunship that’s patrolling the Broken Shore. Your new trainer will guide you along the way as you become familiar with your new class providing you with opportunities to practice against several enemies.

Tip for Veterans: If you’re sure of your abilities with your newly boosted class, you can skip the experience (Are you sure?) by simply getting a flight from a Gryphon on the gunship. (Really sure?) This will move you on to the next part of your adventure.

Once you’ve completed the brief experience on the gunship, it’s time to move on to the Broken Shore to truly begin testing your mettle against the Burning Legion.

*Additional character boosts can also be purchased within the Shop.

Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Legion Collector's Edition
I felt this is very unfair as the hard copy of the collector's edition would be more expensive and require much earlier reservation compare to the digital copy.

I hope this issue can be address since it is a big set back for all of the dedicated player who waits for the hard copy. I don't mind paying full upfront as well, as long as we can get the same perk as other people.
Understandable, Tumontis, unfortunately those pre-orders could not be set up to allow it to be tied to your Battle.net account until you actually receive the copy of the game. As others mentioned you can purchase the digital version now and get a replacement key when you add your Collector's Edition. Obviously that is not an ideal solution but it is the one that we currently have available.

Any feedback you may have on Legion pre-order/pre-purchase options and the early access to Demon Hunters should be posted in the General Discussion forum or through the in-game interface option. I'm afraid CS has no involvement there but I can assure you that our Developers are very much aware of the limitations to this and hope to have better solutions going forward. (Official Forums)

Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
Outlaw Rogue -- Legion Beta Feedback
In addition to the Roll the Bones changes, the damage of Run Through and Between the Eyes was increased (these will all be in upcoming hotfix notes).

We've been monitoring the issue of rerolling Roll the Bones throughout beta. While we're okay with some possibility to gain damage from rerolling as an advanced tactic, we didn't want the reroll frequency or the potential DPS benefit to be as high as it was. The main way to make rerolling less of a potential benefit is to shift damage from Roll the Bones into the other combo point spenders that it competes with. We did that in today's hotfix. In the process, we also narrowed the variance between the six Roll the Bones buffs.

Our expectation is that simulations or other idealized steady-DPS scenarios may still show a small gain from rerolling in some cases, but that in practical scenarios for the majority of players, it will not be an expected or required part of gameplay. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
This article was originally published in forum thread: Pre-Expansion Patch Cinematics, August 8 Hotfixes, Level 100 Boost, Blue Posts started by chaud View original post
Published on 2016-08-09 05:02 PM
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  1. mmoccefed1f20e's Avatar
    Well, if I weren't motivated the fight the Legion before, I certainly am now.
  1. mmoc4b31ff8e00's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by LittleJin View Post
    oh, more cinematics. hahah H-h-h-elp'Jin died like a dog he was and some despoiled bitch became a new Warchief. This new Horde is quite a joke.
    Garrosh would wipe the floor with the Legion and wear Gul'dan spikes on his shoulders.
    The same Garrosh who got his ass whooped by green jesus, which seems to have been easily beaten by the Legion? Yeah, right
  1. mmoccefed1f20e's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Chib View Post
    What a shit show for the Horde, the Alliance also. Still I cant blame Sylvanas for following her Warchiefs orders at the end, but they could have at least said to the Alliance that they can not hold the line any longer before retreating. But fook me what was that think at the end, that was some monster of a mech?
    My guess? A new kind of Fel Reaver capable of deploying like an Infernal.
  1. mmoca07ba3dd81's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Oschpister View Post
    The same Garrosh who got his ass whooped by green jesus, which seems to have been easily beaten by the Legion? Yeah, right
    I'm not talking about him himself, he is a warrior after all with no magic behind him. His commanding skills and the way he operated the Horde would turn Legion into pile of ash!
  1. mmoce12764185d's Avatar
    Your death will be avenged, Rest in peace King Varian Wrynn
  1. mmoca07ba3dd81's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Bamboozler View Post
    Garrosh fanboy. Hey bro, we killed Garrosh last expansion. He won't be wiping the floor with anything. And excuse me, but you're gonna have Anduin as the King. So yeah, rein in that Alliance bravado has you have a literal p***y as your King. I'd take Sylvanas over Anduin ANY DAY. ANY.
    No, we did not, Thrall did when he cheated during Mak'gora. While I agree that Anduin is a pussy, ther is still chance for him if he turns out to be Arthas's son. Sylvanas is just an unliving nothing, Arthas wiped the floor with her corpse. She is like an old rag from the redt district. Soaking all sort of fluids. Horde needs a male leader, strong one, like, Garrosh! Revive Garrosh!
  1. Sin Cara's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Bamboozler View Post
    Garrosh fanboy. Hey bro, we killed Garrosh last expansion. He won't be wiping the floor with anything. And excuse me, but you're gonna have Anduin as the King. So yeah, rein in that Alliance bravado has you have a literal p***y as your King. I'd take Sylvanas over Anduin ANY DAY. ANY.
    Meanwhile in the real world.
  1. Noxulos's Avatar
    Blizzard pruned too many of Varian's abilities, there's no way he could stand up to a warlock. Rotation is just too clunky.
  1. grondik's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by LittleJin View Post
    Revive Garrosh!
    I would do that the exact same day Garrosh revives Cairne! Oh, wait...
  1. Jotunhammer's Avatar
    I have never been as ashamed of being Horde as I am after seeing this, the betrayal can not be forgiven, and I always thought that Horde stood for honor above all, Durotan, Thrall, all stood for honor, but this, THIS, this betrayal, I am ashamed to be horde and I hope that shriveled up corpse of sylvana gets sucked into the fel and used as slave for eternity
  1. Eleccybubb's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Jotunhammer View Post
    I have never been as ashamed of being Horde as I am after seeing this, the betrayal can not be forgiven, and I always thought that Horde stood for honor above all, Durotan, Thrall, all stood for honor, but this, THIS, this betrayal, I am ashamed to be horde and I hope that shriveled up corpse of sylvana gets sucked into the fel and used as slave for eternity
    Then you clearly didn't watch the Horde one because that shows they were retreating as they were getting overrun.
  1. Tankorr's Avatar
    Is there a cinematic for the Alliance that covers the aftermath of the Broken Shore regarding Varian's funeral or the Alliance characters mulling over his death?

    Or did they just give the Horde another cinematic to wash out the bad taste of us retreating in the other one? :P
  1. alabaster jones's Avatar
    I think it was Metzen himself who said long ago that 'for the alliance doesn't quite roll off the tongue the way for the horde does', to just give up and make those King Chin's last words made me sigh at the lack of effort. This was something I used to think a lot about, as I would PvP on both sides, and while horde were always roaring for the horde (even outside of pvp), the alliance never had anything remotely similar.
    It would have been so easy to just write up some backstory around Lothar years ago and turn him into the Alliance's warcry (we've had numerous characters built from nothing into something over the years, Lothar lived a hero, died a hero, and it just boggles my mind that despite his huge statue in front of BR Mountain, being universally liked/respected, being the saviour of the alliance, and a powerful warrior, he's a virtual unknown to many alliance players)... which it even used to be as far back as Warcraft2! For Lothar!
    For Lothar even rolls off the tongue like for the horde, because the word can fall off into a roar - FOR LOTHAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRR, FOR THE HOOOOOOOOOOOOOORDE, see? It isn't possible to Roar for the alliance, because of all the syllables - al - lie - en - seh - and the way the word ends with a -seh which makes it impossible to lengthen, if you tried it'd either just come out as a long hiss if you emphasised the S sound, or a long whine if you emphasised the EN sound.
    For the Alliansssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.
    For the Alliaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnce (EEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHH or AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH sound depending on your regional dialect).
  1. McNeil's Avatar
    As a Horde player, I'm quite jealous that the Alliance cinematic is so amazing. The Horde looked so weak.
  1. Tommy T's Avatar
    Well played Blizz.

    Top notch cinematics.
    The hype is real. Feels like a proper expansion.
  1. Sin Cara's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Jotunhammer View Post
    I have never been as ashamed of being Horde as I am after seeing this, the betrayal can not be forgiven, and I always thought that Horde stood for honor above all, Durotan, Thrall, all stood for honor, but this, THIS, this betrayal, I am ashamed to be horde and I hope that shriveled up corpse of sylvana gets sucked into the fel and used as slave for eternity
    Even Varian realized that the plateau was overrun with demons.
  1. mmocc85da91259's Avatar
    Why are people bashing the Horde cinematic? Lol. Anybody with eyes could see that they were about to be overrun with their leaders slowly turning to kebab. Anyone with a brain would retreat from that rofl
  1. mmoca07ba3dd81's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by grondik View Post
    I would do that the exact same day Garrosh revives Cairne! Oh, wait...
    Cairne was a fool in the end. Only if he knew his place, things would go differently.
  1. ELYPOP's Avatar
    Is there no second Alliance cinematic (with stuff like Varian's funeral, Anduin getting the letter and becoming the new King, etc)?
  1. mmocc7ec51ed1c's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Yuuna View Post
    Why are people bashing the Horde cinematic? Lol. Anybody with eyes could see that they were about to be overrun with their leaders slowly turning to kebab. Anyone with a brain would retreat from that rofl
    becouse when there are 2 units defending lets say two sides of the bulding and one decides to retreat for whatever reason without telling the other they might sentence them to death as they will be atacked from the other side. So either we die together or make our escape together. otherwise it feals like Horde in this situation. honor-less. they basicly sacrificed alliance to make their escape
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