Midsummer Fire Festival, Dev AMA Friday, Blue Posts, Twitch Prime Overwatch Loot

First Look at New Diablo 3 Zones in Patch 2.6

Card Pack Changes Coming - No More Duplicate Legendaries

Patch 7.2.5 Hotfixes - June 22
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Classes

Dungeons and Raids
  • Tomb of Sargeras
    • Sisters of the Moon
      • Sisters of the Moon can now be hit by melee attacks from farther away.

Holiday
  • Fixed a bug that prevented players from receiving credit for the quests "Torch Tossing" and "More Torch Tossing".

Player versus Player
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the "3v3 Weekly Quest" from properly awarding an elite gladiator item when the player had a previous week's PVP rating of 1900+.
  • Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
    • Demonic Gateway's debuff will now show the correct duration remaining when the Warlock has the Gateway Mastery honor talent.

Quests
  • For “Unsettled Power”, Writhing Essences now drop as a currency, instead of a quest item. Entering your Class Hall or Dalaran will convert your existing progress to the new currency.

Midsummer Fire Festival Live
Midsummer Fire Festival is live once again and runs through July 5th. Check out Icy Veins for a full guide. This year there have been some changes:



Level Type Name Model Viewer
850Back Icebound Cloak
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850Back Shroud of Winter's Chill
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850Back The Frost Lord's Battle Shroud
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850Back The Frost Lord's War Cloak
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850Back Cloak of the Frigid Winds
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Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
The Midsummer Fire Festival is back, bringing new bonfires and achievements, a downright irresponsible toy, and an elemental pet that will keep you warm on those long, dark nights of your campaign against the Burning Legion.

What’s New?
Wrath of the Frost Lord—If you’re over level 60 and have battled Frost Lord Ahune in recent years, you may have noticed he’s been feeling a little weak and sorry for himself. To make things interesting, this year we prescribed bed rest until the festival and helped him out with a power boost. He’s feeling much, much better. Unfortunately for you.

Feel the Burn—This year, there’s a new toy for you to misbehave with: a Set of Matches. The toy is available from your familiar, fair-of-face, friendly, flirty, Fire Festival vendors for 50 Burning Blossoms. (Try saying that after too much Fiery Festival Brew.) When you purchase the toy, we highly recommend you find a Kevlar jacket and an isolated spot for your first go. For reasons.

An Elemental Friend—You can also get your (hopefully gloved) hands on a new pet: the Igneous Flameling. This cute elemental has a set of skills that will light up your pet battles. It boasts Burn, Conflagrate, Flame Breath, and…actually, we couldn’t get close enough to complete our research. All we know is you’re gonna need a bigger pet cage. And we need new eyebrows.

Praise the Fire!—Last but not least, the Flame Wardens have constructed additional bonfires! New bonfires have been lit across Draenor and the Broken Isles. Search them out to honor or desecrate, and get the new achievement attached to both. The PvP in you will need to be strong, as capital city bonfires become battlefields for faction pride. Who said you can’t fight fire with fire?

Man your bonfires, champions! The heat is on!

Join Us for a Developer AMA on Friday, June 23
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Join us on Friday, June 23 starting at 1:00 pm PDT (4:00 pm EDT) on the World of Warcraft subreddit where members of the World of Warcraft development team will be answering your questions on class design, item design, Artifacts, and PvP balance.

To participate, just head over to https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/. We’ll be answering as many of your questions as we can, including the ongoing goals for class design and balance in the Legion expansion, the approach to classes and honor talents in PvP, and how it all ties in with Artifacts, Legendaries, and other items.

We’ll be digging in to your questions until approximately 3:00 pm PDT, so don’t miss out!

Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Mythic+ not awarding Writing Essence, bug?
This is not a bug. (Source)

Is it intended that Writhing Essences don't roll over when handing in the quest? I just handed it in at 55 and now have 0.
Yes, this is intended. This is due to a limitation of how quests function. We agree it isn’t an ideal design, and are investigating possible improvements. (Source)

Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Inky Black Potion Visual Change
The change you're seeing was not intended and it's being looked into.

I'll provide an update when I have one! (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
Feral Druid Feedback/Suggestions - 7.2.5
Something that's on our radar is how constrained the rotation is with both Jagged Wounds and Savage Roar. The lowest-priority finisher (Ferocious Bite) gets pushed out too much with the combination of those two talents, which also currently happen to be too favored for DPS purposes. Both of those talents likely have too much of an impact on the pacing of the spec's rotation (for what a talent should do). In both cases we should probably reduce the talent's impact on pacing (that is, on GCD/resource usage) and either A) increase its DPS in some pacing-neutral fashion, or B) let the talent value sink if it's currently dominating its row, and counterbuff the spec some other way.

This is a broader issue that we've started looking at more often since 7.0, when the number and complexity of spec-specific rotation-modifying talents/bonuses increased dramatically. Problems like having too many or too few open GCDs, or resource starvation/flooding, spring up a lot more often when 5 rows of talents + legendaries/traits can be potentially moved in and out of the same rotation. And because talents already have a tuning constraint (they need to be DPS-balanced within their row), the pacing effect can't always be easily tuned on its own. I'd expect a more common trend of talents having a simple added effect that boosts DPS so the talent can be tuned without introducing an overly large pacing swing (seen already with many recent redesigns: Soul of the Forest, Legacy of the Void, Boulderfist, Reverse Entropy, and so forth). (Official Forums)

Overwatch Patch in a Minute
Another Overwatch patch has been released! This patch includes the Horizon Lunar Colony map, McCree, Reaper, Roadhog, and other changes.



Twitch Prime - Blizzard Loot
Twitch Prime members are getting an Overwatch Golden Loot Box containing a guaranteed legendary item. Over the coming months, Twitch Prime members will receive 10 additional loot boxes containing more in-game goodies. Similar promotions will begin in August for Heroes of the Storm and in September for Hearthstone.

This article was originally published in forum thread: Midsummer Fire Festival, Dev AMA Friday, Blue Posts, Twitch Prime Overwatch Loot started by chaud View original post
Published on 2017-06-22 06:11 PM
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  1. Daefish's Avatar
    Is it intended that Writhing Essences don't roll over when handing in the quest? I just handed it in at 55 and now have 0.
    Yes, this is intended. This is due to a limitation of how quests function. We agree it isn’t an ideal design, and are investigating possible improvements. (Source)
    This is going to piss off a LOT of people come Tuesday after they get their second M+ chest containing 20 shards...
  1. Teri's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Daefish View Post
    This is going to piss off a LOT of people come Tuesday after they get their second M+ chest containing 20 shards...
    They just hotfixed it to make it currency.
  1. JohnRoads's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Daefish View Post
    This is going to piss off a LOT of people come Tuesday after they get their second M+ chest containing 20 shards...
    Guess you did not read it all.

    "For “Unsettled Power”, Writhing Essences now drop as a currency, instead of a quest item. Entering your Class Hall or Dalaran will convert your existing progress to the new currency."
  1. Daefish's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by JohnRoads View Post
    Guess you did not read it all.

    "For “Unsettled Power”, Writhing Essences now drop as a currency, instead of a quest item. Entering your Class Hall or Dalaran will convert your existing progress to the new currency."

    Posted before the hotfix notes were up is all.
  1. Moonone's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Daefish View Post
    Posted before the hotfix notes were up is all.
    I thought the issue you were making was that the 20 essences from class chest could put you over 50. Wasting a bunch of them possibly. The notes made it sound like the hotfix Just converted the essences to the currency tab (what getting the quest does) to save bag space. Nowhere does it say the quest function of going over 50 was "fixed". Like most quests - anything over the amount needed for quest is deleted upon completion. I haven't logged on yet to see if you can go over 50 but I suspect you still can't.
    Hopefully I am wrong though - it's stupid to have to hold up a raid to port back to Dalaran to turn in the quest so you don't start wasting essences upon killing the next boss when you hit 50. Was like this last time - Blizzard not thinking once again :|
  1. Nevcairiel's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Moonone View Post
    I thought the issue you were making was that the 20 essences from class chest could put you over 50. Wasting a bunch of them possibly. The notes made it sound like the hotfix Just converted the essences to the currency tab (what getting the quest does) to save bag space.|
    Quest Items havent used bag space for years.

    Converting them into a currency and not being a quest item definitely sounds like it should fix the rollover issue though.
  1. Silent One's Avatar
    So does this mean the Frostscythe of Lord Ahune Is no longer attainable at all? Glad I got it during Wrath.
  1. arcaneshot's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Silent One View Post
    So does this mean the Frostscythe of Lord Ahune Is no longer attainable at all? Glad I got it during Wrath.
    Frostscythe still drops in the daily bag, just like the Enchant Illusion does.

    The cloaks and the actual Deathfrost Enchant recipe drop from Ahune's box.
  1. Buiak101's Avatar
    Hmm... Set of Matches - "Toy"....Use: SET YOURSELF ON FIRE! FOR REASONS!" .... I don't know....with a lot of children playing this game atm, one question comes to mind: Blizzard, are you stupid?
  1. Grasswhistle's Avatar
    So happy to see some feedback on feral. I doubt they'll make any significant changes for the rest of this expansion, but there's hope that some the major issues with rotation/talents will be fixed for the next one.
  1. Phagelives's Avatar
    after Years an years of playing feral im so happy i did not level up as one , i leveled the lazer chicken way that was a blast to do.
  1. Hach's Avatar
    I'd actually resubscribe if they fixed Feral's pacing and rotation issues, 'though I doubt it'll happen in Legion, anyway.

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