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Imperius Spotlight, PTR Patch Notes - January 2, 2019

Frightened Kodo Mount Guide
Most of the 8.1 Darkshore rare mounts drop from specific rare mobs around the map much like the Arathi rare mounts. However, the Frightened Kodo is acquired a little differently. Here is what we have learned about obtaining this mount:




  • Frightened Kodo is a rare spawn on a timer (reportedly anywhere from 2-6 hours)
  • It is a friendly NPC that must be clicked. You will receive the message "Frightened Kodo nuzzles your hand. He wants to come with you!" and the mount will be placed into your bags several seconds later.
  • Only the first person who clicks the spawned mob will receive the mount. It despawns shortly after being clicked or if no one clicks it within about 2 minutes.
  • It has 6 known spawn locations, all of which are marked on the map above. (You can find a waypoint macro on the Warcraft Secrets website.)
    • 41.3 65.5
    • 44.0 67.5
    • 41.3 54.0
    • 38.0 66.0
    • 39.2 56.5
    • 44.0 65.0
  • Server resets seem to be a good time to check for a spawn.
  • It is lootable by class trials and level 110's on both factions.
  • It does not matter which faction controls Darkshore for it to spawn or be obtainable.


Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Feedback: Island Expeditions
There were a number of changes to Island Expeditions in the Tides of Vengeance content update. Now that they have been live for several weeks, we wanted to take a moment and get your thoughts on them. It can be about anything you have experienced but here are some questions to open things up: How have the changes felt? Have things improved? Has anything gotten worse? What rewards have you been getting?
If you haven’t tried Islands out at all since the latest content update, before commenting please go ahead and try out a few and let us know what you experienced. Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts and Happy New Year! (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Holy Paladin Gameplay
Cleave healing. A lot of people still think we’re “tank healers” but we actually aren’t. At least not directly. If you directly heal the tanks you’re going to lose a lot of healing. This is due to how beacons work. Our niche is cleave healing and triage healing. We always heal 3 targets for the price of 1 with beacons and even up to 7 targets with LoD if you don’t directly hit your beacons. This helps smooth out tank damage quite a bit while allowing you to heal other people rather than focus solely on the tanks. The only time you’d directly heal tanks is if they’re getting destroyed and they really need extra focus but tank healing is better done from a mistweaver now. Our cleave healing is fairly good
A huge misconception is that pallies are "just" tank healers. I was still going of this old mentality for awhile as well but now more than ever our niche is pretty well defined in a raid. If you’re doing it right we’re keeping tanks stable and spot healing the rest of the raid allowing us to pick up spots where AoE healing isn’t cutting it from the rest of the classes. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Heart of Azeroth necklace not account wide?
What weekly reduction? Oh that thing you paused a while back to increase time played metrics so people have to regrind stuff they already had when the raid launches.
Ion already spoke at length about this in the last Q&A but we admit it doesn’t feel good. The lack of reduction really only negatively affects very high end players pushing for absurdly high Azerite levels, we’re talking 40-44 (looking at you Myppoo you insane person you). For anything under that the levels are still within reasonable amounts to gain another level, plus 37-38 is all that you need to get ring 3 on even Mythic Dazar’alor gear.

We know it doesn’t feel good to put in more work to unlock the exact same traits you just had, and we said in the last Q&A that we’re working on that. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Activision Blizzard CFO Hired by Netflix
Activision Blizzard's CFO, Spencer Neumann, was placed on paid leave on December 31 with the company intending to fire him. It has been confirmed that he has been hired by Netflix today. You can read more about it by clicking the banner below, and for the press release on their new acting CFO, click here.



Dark Legacy Comics #661
DLC #661 has been released.

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  1. Mic_128's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kazlehoff View Post

    Wow. any word on what he supposedly did? i feel a diablo Immortal joke would make sense here.

    Quote Originally Posted by Yunaqt View Post
    It'll be with him moving to a new company, this is quite normal at this level that when someone is moving on they're removed from their position immediately for security reasons.
    It would have been so they wouldn't need to give him a 'golden parachute' payout when he quit, as being fired would have meant he couldn't receive one.
  1. craigw's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by bullseyed View Post
    Post link to which NPCs in Darkshore drop mounts without a weekly+ reset.

    We'll wait.
    they drop like the vast majority of mounts in the game, on a weekly reset. are you farming mimrons head on the same toon 20 times a week? and my comment was referring to another individual who was bitching about problems that virtually don't exist.
  1. Khaza-R's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Dystemper View Post
    Why the fuck would i waste valuable time looking for that ugly ass mount when there is a better looking Kodo mount. Talk about fucking lazy devs
    For Alliance its one of the only ways to get a kodo mount. The other is the Brewsfest Kodo but that's obviously only obtainable for a limited time each year.
  1. Blackfoot's Avatar
    You know Blizzard has become a sinking ship when the CEO bails out. Most of the people who made Blizzard what it is have already dipped out. And now the guy cooking their books was already shopping for another job and Netflix was more than happy to hire him. BTW this guy was a CFO for Disney for many years before leaving to join Blizzard. So when you see someone with many years in that position looking for a way out before the ship hits the reef. Yeah there is allot of messed up crap going on behind the scenes at Blizzard and its all got Activisions money grubbing hands written all over it. I understand that people want to white knight Blizzard and champion them. But you need to realize that the people who created those wonderful memories and games that you so love. Those people are gone. You are now championing a company that still says Blizzard on the front end. But is now fully Activision on the back end. Keep that in mind before you jump up and try to defend the things that are going to come out very soon in the form of more monetary moves and less content and even less quality we are going to see going into 2019. RIP Blizzard. ALL HAIL ACTILIZZARD MONEYGRUBMENT!
  1. mmoc12fd9168be's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Blackfoot View Post
    You know Blizzard has become a sinking ship when the CEO bails out. Most of the people who made Blizzard what it is have already dipped out. And now the guy cooking their books was already shopping for another job and Netflix was more than happy to hire him. BTW this guy was a CFO for Disney for many years before leaving to join Blizzard. So when you see someone with many years in that position looking for a way out before the ship hits the reef. Yeah there is allot of messed up crap going on behind the scenes at Blizzard and its all got Activisions money grubbing hands written all over it. I understand that people want to white knight Blizzard and champion them. But you need to realize that the people who created those wonderful memories and games that you so love. Those people are gone. You are now championing a company that still says Blizzard on the front end. But is now fully Activision on the back end. Keep that in mind before you jump up and try to defend the things that are going to come out very soon in the form of more monetary moves and less content and even less quality we are going to see going into 2019. RIP Blizzard. ALL HAIL ACTILIZZARD MONEYGRUBMENT!



    Take a look at the (((Board of Direction))) of Activision Blizzard, money grabbers alright.

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