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Arcane Mage Hidden Artifact Appearance
The
Order of the Shepherd discord found
The Woolomancer's Charge that unlocks a sheep appearance for the Arcane Mage artifact.
- There are different mobs in the Broken Isle zones you need to do a one time polymorph on:
- Reach Artifact Knowledge level 6.
- Every day you have a chance to unlock the next part of the chain via the Sheep Summon Daily Roll by entering your Order Hall
- When the roll is successful, a Volatile Sheep will appear next to you in the Order Hall. Click it until it explodes.
- Head to Runewood in Stormheim and find the Extremely Volatile Stormheim Sheep. Click it until it explodes.
- Head to the Tower of Azora in Elwynn Forest and meet Cote "Shepherd" Metcalf.
- Help him defeat the Enraged Elwynn Sheep, witness another part of the event, and then kill him.
- Loot the The Woolomancer's Charge!
- Occasionally when polymorphing things, the staff will change from the regular model to the model below and scream.
Rated PvP Gearing Changes
Originally Posted by
Blizzard
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As we’d previously announced, our intention with gear rewarded from rated PvP in Patch 7.0.3 is for the chance to receive a Warforged/Titanforged piece of gear to increase as your rating increases. We’ve recently discovered a bug that is causing that system not to function. Currently, rated PvP is always rewarding item level 840 gear, regardless of rating. That is not our intent.
We’re currently working on a fix for this issue, and once it’s ready, we’ll apply it during weekly restarts. We want to correct it as quickly as possible, but don’t want to inadvertently punish players who have already collected their weekly bonus chests. We’re also implementing more rigorous testing procedures for future PvP seasons to ensure that this doesn’t happen again.
Realistically, we should have caught this bug during testing, but didn’t. That’s completely our fault, and we apologize. That said, we’re not really happy with the current model for PvP gearing anyway (even ignoring this issue), and we’re planning to make a couple of key changes for Patch 7.1.
For starters, instead of having rating increase the chance for a piece to roll Warforged or Titanforged, it will increase the minimum item level that a piece can be. So, as your rating increases, you will be guaranteed to earn higher item level gear, regardless of whether it Warforges or not. We’re also going to clearly tell you what the minimum item level you can receive is, to remove the guesswork.
Secondly, instead of basing gear off of your current rating, it will be based on the highest rating you earned in the previous week. This means you’ll always be rewarded for your best performance of the week, no matter when exactly that was.
Again, we apologize that we didn’t recognize and correct the issue with the current gearing system sooner, but are hopeful that the changes in Patch 7.1 will result in a better overall experience for everyone.
Patch 7.0.3 Hotfixes - September 30
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Legion Companion App
- Fixed a bug in iOS 10 that caused notification badge numbers to not clear.
- The Login button now goes to your character list when possible.
- The Account Selection button starts a new login with Battle.net.
- The World Quest icon now shows additional info when using a filter.
- Fixed a bug that sometimes made it appear that a 100%+ mission failed.
Classes
- Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
- Unstable Affliction's dispel kickback damage is now capped at 50% of the Warlock's maximum health, but can still critically strike.
- Destruction Warlocks that are stuck on the final Artifact acquisition quest "Ritual Ruination" should now find it easier to get through all obstacles. Any Warlock that has the Artifact, but is stuck on a quest objective, can return to Dalaran to get full credit for the quest.
Class Halls
- New work orders for Seals of Broken Fate will now have a shipment duration of 5 seconds.
Dungeons and Raids
- Assault on Violet Hold
- The final encounters in Heroic and Mythic Violet Hold should now be properly reflected in your Statistics page upon completion.
- Darkheart Thicket
- (Mythic difficulty) Oakheart should no longer reset once awoken.
- Emerald Nightmare
- Xavius
- Dead players should no longer become stuck if they release their spirit during the teleport to The Emerald Dream after defeating Xavius.
Items
- Augment Runes will now function in Mythic Keystone dungeons.
Professions
- Cooking
- Black Barracuda Angling (Rank 3) should now correctly grant a chance to provide an instant pool catch.
- Fish that are instantly caught from the Black Barracuda Angling trait are now selected from fishing pools, rather than open water fishing.
- Herbalism
- The droprate for seeds has been reduced to 2.5% for all herbs, except Felwort, which remains at a 25% chance to loot a seed.
PvP
- Ashran
- All methods of turning in Artifact Fragments should now correctly reward honor at a rate of 1 honor for every 2 Artifact Fragments.
- The Rated PvP gear weekly bonus rewards are now based on the player's PvP Rating for 2v2, 3v3, and Rated Battlegrounds.
- Developers’ Notes: Currently, rated PvP is always rewarding item level 840 gear, regardless of rating. That is not our intent. We want to correct this as quickly as possible, but don’t want to inadvertently punish players who have already collected their weekly bonus chests. This fix will be implemented with the next weekly realm maintenance (A.M. PDT on Tuesday, October 4 for North American realms).
Quests
- These Suramar World Quests now correctly award Nightfallen reputation beyond Honored: “Studying the Reaction”, “Clear the Skies”, “Left for Dead”, and “Fiends of Tel'anor”.
- (Work in progress) Addressed multiple issues with the World Quest "Electrosnack" regarding tapping and some cosmetic elements.
- Players who would have otherwise died to falling damage in the Withered Army Training scenario should now be reduced to 1 hp. First Arcanist Thalyssra will now port you back to the front of the ruins.
- World Quests completed with a Combat Ally will once more correctly award experience to the Follower.
FEEDBACK: Karazhan!
Originally Posted by
Blizzard
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Blue Tracker /
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The new Karazhan dungeon is now open for testing on the PTR! It will remain open over the weekend. This is a Mythic-only dungeon, so form a group of 5 players and venture to Deadwind Pass. The entrance to the new dungeon is on the side of the tower, accessed via an elevated bridge (the front door will still take you into the Burning Crusade raid). Player item level will be normalized inside the dungeon for testing purposes.
Please use this thread for your feedback; thanks for testing!
Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Warlord's Deathwheel: Horde Availability
I'm still confused as to how the Horde "won", when the bike is no longer available, whereas the Alliance one is. What's the problem with making the Horde one avaliable again for 100k?
There are a few unfortunate legal obligations that have halted a release of the Horde's Deathwheel, from what I understand. Something about "insert legal jargon about prizing".
Again, an unfortunate circumstance, but I'm not sure that anything can be done.
I'll bring this up again next week and see if anything has changed since I last asked about this a few months back. (
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Warrior (
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Yet they will drop everything to tell a death knight that warriors will be nerfed. Maybe think a little before you post.
To be fair, Ignore Pain was a bit* ridiculous before the nerf.
*See: absolutely, incredibly, extraordinarily
Yes, however it is all we have. We can hardly use shield block because we need to get to that IP. If IP was the problem tune that, not our rage.
Edit: If you're still reading please have someone put a patchnote out for the prot warrior hidden appearance hotfix. People have been logging in and out for hours with no indication it doesn't work.
Indeed!
The flip of that: we are discussing a potential hotfix to increase rage generation from Shield Slam and reduce Ignore Pain's maximum absorption, so hopefully that will help with any 'clunky' feeling that Warriors have been noting. (
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Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Hearthstone - Tyrande Whisperwind Available Now for Twitch Prime Members
Twitch Prime members are able to obtain the Tyrande Whisperwind hero in Hearthstone!
Published on 2016-10-01 10:59 PM
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