Beta Launcher Update, Daily Quest Previews, Blue Posts, Curse Weekly Roundup

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Diablo 3 - Patch 1.03, Monk Inferno Guide, Legendary Drop Rates, Blue Posts, and Curse Weekly Roundup

Beta Launcher Update
A new launcher version was released tonight that did away with the Mists of Pandaria logo and put the classic logo in its place.

Daily Quest Previews
Today we take a look at some of the daily quests available to you at level 90. Not all quests are included in this preview, as some are still in the earlier stages of testing or are not in game yet. This includes any of the cooking daily quests and the Cloud Serpent quest line.

You can expect roughly 50 daily quests available per day, with many of them rewarding 5 x Valor Points and roughly 20. This means that you can earn at least 150 Valor points and 500 per day, with more being possible as additional quests are implemented.

Daily quests are included as one of the new ways to earn valor in MoP. We don't expect many people will choose to cap their valor just by doing daily quests, but that is an option if you really like them. We expect to have around 50 dailys available from all the factions every day.

Like I mentioned before, those 50 would be randomly chosen from a much larger total pool of quests. This helps keep things feeling fresh for a long time.

Shado-Pan
The shadowy protectors of Pandaria's temples, the Shado-Pan are wrought with mystery. You can find daily quests for them in Townlong Steppes at the Shado-Pan Garrison. Currently they offer 4 quests and one followup quest each day.

Golden Lotus
The Golden Lotus is a mysterious society of Pandaren that intend to solve the Mogu problem once and for all. All of their quests are found in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms at the Golden Pagoda, Mistfall Village, Ruins of Guo-Lai, and Setting Sun Garrison.

At a Friendly level of reputation, you can access the Gold Pagoda quests and one additional area. At Honored you can access three areas and Revered grants access to all four areas. Each area has 4 quests and one followup quest.

The Anglers
The Anglers are a group of Pandaren fisherman that hope to feed their people and grow their knowledge of fishing. The Anglers have a small village off the coast of Krasarang Wilds with three daily quests and the possibility of one more followup quest. These quests do not reward Valor Points, only reputation and gold. As a bonus, you can find certain unique fish to become Nat Pagle's friend, allowing you to purchase Nat's Hat!

August Celestials
The August Celestials are brave Pandaren that defend the temples of Pandaria from the evils of the Sha. These daily quests can be found at the Temple of the Red Crane and Cradle of Chi-Ji in Krasarang Wilds, as well as at the Temple of the White Tiger in Kun-Lai Summit. Currently they offer three or four daily quests which involve fighting single or groups of NPCs.

The Klaxxi
The Klaxxi are Mantid Elders that are untouched by the corruption and insanity that has overtaken the remainder of the Mantid Swarm. They seek to work with the races of Pandaria to restore their Queen to glory. These daily quests can be found at Klaxxi’vess in Dread Wastes.

These quests are currently bugged, but should offer at least two or three per day. Some of the NPCs that you have to kill are more challenging than most mobs, so there are a few buffs that can help.

The Tillers
The Tillers are peaceful and productive pandaren, working with the land to feed the massive appetites of their people. These daily quests are found in the Valley of the Four Winds, in Halfhill. None of these quests are currently implemented in game, so there is no way to tell how the progression will work.

Finding Daily Quests
After reaching level 90, you can visit the many NPCs in the lower outdoor tier of Shrine of Two Moons to be directed to the various daily quest areas and scenarios.

• Shado-Pan
• Golden Lotus
• The Anglers
• August Celestials
• The Klaxxi
• The Tillers

Level	Name	Objective	Valor	Money	+Rep
90	In Sprite Of Everything	Kill the Darkwoods Faerie.	5 x	1984	250
90	Riding the Storm	Use the Bronze Claws to mount 8 Shan'ze Cloudrunners. Attack them to free them of their corruption.	5 x	1984	250
90	When The Dead Speak	Kill the Shan'ze Deathspeaker.	5 x	1984	250
90	Assault Fire Camp Gai-Cho	Kill 16 Gai-Cho Yaungol, Earthtalkers or Pitchthrowers.	5 x	1984	250
90	Assault Deadtalker's Plateau	Kill 8 Deadtalker Corpsedefilers and 1 Deadtalker Crusher.	5 x	1984	250
90	Spirit Dust	Return 8 spirits to their remains at the Deadtalker Plateau in Townlong Steppes.	5 x	1984	250
90	Uruk!	Kill Uruk at Deadtalker's Plateau in Townlong Steppes.	5 x	1984	250
90	The Deadtalker Cipher	Collect a Scroll of Spiritbinding Rites from the yaungol at Deadtalker's Plateau.	5 x	1984	250
90	The Enemy of My Enemy... Is Still My Enemy!	Use Highly Explosive Yauingol Oil Barrels to kill 100 mantid or yaungol on the Gai-Cho Battlefield.	5 x	1984	250
90	Cheng Bo!	Kill Cheng-Bo at Fire Camp Gai-Cho in Townlong Steppes	5 x	1984	250
90	The Bigger They Come...	Kill any 4 elite mantid at Sra'vess.	5 x	1984	250
90	A Morale Victory	Destroy the Southern, Central, Eastern and Western Idols at Sra'vess.	5 x	1984	250
90	Destroy the Siege Weapons!	Destroy the four mantid siege weapons at Sra'vess in Townlong Steppes.	5 x	1984	250
90	Fumigation	Plant Shado-Pan Gas Bombs within the 9 structures on Sara'vess.	5 x	1984	250
90	Friends, Not Food!	Rescue a Shado-Pan Trainee in each of the north, central and south Kunchong feeding pits.	5 x	1984	250
90	Target of Opportunity: Sra'thik Swarmlord	Kill the Sra'thik Swarmlord at Sra'vess in Townlong Steppes.	5 x	1984	250
90	Target of Opportunity: Sra'thik Hivelord	Defeat the Sra'thik Hivelord.	5 x	1984	250
90	Sra'vess Wetwork	Kill any 15 non-elite mantid near Sra'vess.	5 x	1984	250
90	The Mogu Menace	Kill 12 Shan'ze Serpentbinders or Shan'ze Beastmasters.	5 x	1984	250
90	The Mogu Menace	Kill 12 Shan'ze Serpentbinders or Shan'ze Beastmasters.	5 x	1984	250
90	Spiteful Sprites	Kill 30 Darkwoods Pixies or Darkwoods Charmers.	5 x	1984	250
90	Egg Rescue!	Collect 8 Cloudrunner Eggs.	5 x	1984	250
90	Dark Arts	Collect 8 Shan'ze Tablets.	5 x	1984	250
90	Born Free	Free 6 Wild Cloudrunners from their chains.	5 x	1984	250
90	Bronze Claws	Collect 20 Bronze Claws.	5 x	1984	250
90	Illusions Of The Past	Kill 3 Shan'ze Illusionists.	5 x	1984	250
90	Grave Consequences	Kill 24 Shan'ze Ancestors. Shan'ze Ancestors may be found inside Mogu Burial Urns.	5 x	1984	250
90	The Mogu Menace	Kill 12 Shan'ze Serpentbinders or Shan'ze Beastmasters.	5 x	1984	250
90	Little Hatchlings	Free 20 Cloudrunner Hatchlings.	5 x	1984	250
90	Onyx Hearts	Collect 4 Onyx Hearts.	5 x	1984	250

Level	Name	Objective	Valor	Money	+Rep
90	Whitepetal Lake	Speak to He Softfoot at Whitepetal Lake.	5 x	992	25
90	Behind Our Lines	Kill General Temuja.	5 x	2472	350
90	Clearing in the Forest	Kill10 Shao-Tien mogu in Winterbough Glade.		1984	250
90	Mogu Make Poor House Guests	Kill 12 Shado-Tien attackers in Mistfall Village.	5 x	1984	250
90	The Ruins of Guo-Lai	Speak to Angi Autumnlight at the Ruins of Guo-Lai.		992	25
90	Mogu within the Ruins of Guo-Lai	Speak to Leven Dawnblade at the Ruins of Guo-Lai.		992	25
90	The Ruins of Guo-Lai	Speak to Anji Autumnlight at the Ruins of Guo-Lai.		992	25
90	Setting Sun Garrison	Speak to Angi Autumnlight at the Setting Sun Training Camp.		992	25
90	No Reprieve	Kill 8 Shao-Tien mogu near the Five Sisters.	5 x	1984	250
90	Fiery Tongue, Fragile Feet	Kill 8 Stillwater Crocodiles.	5 x	1984	250
90	Stick in the Mud	Gather 12 Whitepetal Reeds.	5 x	1984	250
90	Under Watchful Eyes	Kill 6 Shao-Tien Surveyors.	5 x	1984	250
90	A Weighty Task	Recover 8 Mogu Artifacts.	5 x	1984	250
90	Getting your Hands Dirty	Gather 12 Fresh Whitepetal Worms.	5 x	1984	250
90	Carved in Stone	Collect 12 Guo-Lai Runestones.	5 x	1984	250
90	The Soul-Gatherer	Kill Shadowmaster Sydow and recover the beads from his corpse.	5 x	2472	350
90	Sprite Plight	Kill 12 Slateskin Troublemakers.	5 x	1984	250
90	Steer Clear of the Beer Here	Recover 10 Stolen Mistfall Kegs.	5 x	1984	250
90	My Town, It's on Fire	Put out 30 Brazier Fires.	5 x	1984	250
90	Meating Expectations	Retrieve 10 slabs of Fairlands Gazelle Meat.	5 x	1984	250
90	In Ashen Webs	Kill 10 Ashweb Spiders.	5 x	1984	250
90	That's Not a Rock!	Kill 50 Ashweb Spiderlings. Use Kun's torch to burn them inside their pods.	5 x	1984	250
90	Runelocked	Retrieve the Ancient Mogu Artifact.	5 x	1984	250
90	Runes in the Ruins	Collect 12 Guo-Lai Runestones.	5 x	1984	250
90	Ferocious Feralmaw	Kill 8 Feralmaw Wolves.	5 x	1984	250
90	Blooming Blossoms	Collect 10 Eternal Blossoms.	5 x	1984	250
90	Lushroom Rush	Collect 12 Lushrooms.	5 x	1984	250
90	Cart Ride	Ride a delivery cart to XXX Village.		992	75
90	Return to Rest	Honor 6 Pandaren Gravestones.	5 x	1984	250
90	Lao-Fe the Slavebinder	Kill the Spirit of Lao-Fe, the Slavebinder.	5 x	2472	250
90	Survival Ring: Flame	Enter the Survival Ring and survive for 90 seconds without leaving.	5 x	1984	250
90	Enemy at the Gates	Use a Shado-Pan Sky Serpent to kill 60 Krik'thik attackers, 3 Krik'thik War Wagons, and 3 Krik'thik Catapults.	5 x	2472	350
90	Sparkle in the Eye	Recover 8 Shining Rubies.	5 x	1984	250
90	Bloodied Skies	Kill 30 Krik'thik Swarmers using a Setting Sun Turret.	5 x	1984	250
90	Survival Ring: Blades	Enter the Survival Ring and survive for 90 seconds without leaving.	5 x	1984	250
90	Mantid Under Fire	Use a Shado-Pan Hot Oil Bucket to kill 80 mantid near the Gate of the Setting Sun.	5 x	1984	250
90	The Ashweb Matriarch	Kill Bloodtip, the Ashweb Matriarch.	5 x	2472	350
90	Blood on the Rise	Kill 8 Shao-Tien mogu on Ruin's Rise.		1984	250
90	Wulon, the Granite Sentinel	Kill Wulon, the Granite Sentinel.	5 x	2472	350
90	Burning Away the Filth	Burn 6 Shao-Tien Banners.	5 x	1984	250
90	A Smashing Impression	Destroy the Shao-Tien Ritual Statues.	5 x	1984	250
90	Troubling the Troublemakers	Kill 8 Stonebark sprites.	5 x	1984	250
90	Pomfruit Pickup	Gather 12 Pomfruit.	5 x	1984	250
90	My Town, It's On Fire Again	Use Mistfall Water Buckets to douse 60 fires.	5 x	1984	250
90	Freeing Mind and Body	Free 6 Dominated Guards by killing their controllers.	5 x	1984	250
90	Stonebound Killers	Kill 8 Stonebound Quilen.	5 x	1984	250
90	Ruffling Some Feathers	Gather 120 Silken Feathers.	5 x	1984	250
90	Gorejowl	Kill Gorejowl.	5 x	2472	350
90	Vicejaw	Kill Vicejaw and return Ren's Longstaff.	5 x	2472	350
90	Quid Pro Quo	Defeat Quid, the Spirit of the Misty Falls.	5 x	2472	350
90	Aetha	Defeat Aetha, the Spirit of the Golden Winds.	5 x	2472	350
90	Gaohun the Soul-Severer	Kill Gaohun the Soul-Severer.	5 x	2472	350
90	No Stone Unturned	Destroy 10 Mogu Statues.	5 x	1984	250
90	Offering a Warm Welcome	Burn 6 Mogu Tents in the Ruins of Guo-Lai.	5 x	1984	250
90	The Imperion Threat	Kill the Shao-Tien Imperion.	5 x	2472	350
90	Hard as a Rock	Destroy 6 Mogu Statues.	5 x	1984	250
90	Roll Club: Serpent's Spine	Complete the Serpent's Spine roll course.	5 x	2472	350
90	Upon the Ramparts	Kill 10 Krik'thik mantid on top of the Gate of the Setting Sun.	5 x	1984	250
90	High Standards	Erect 6 Golden Lotus Standards.	5 x	860 (or 1984	250
90	A Thousand Pointy Teeth	Kill 15 Knifetooth Swarmers.	5 x	1984	250
90	Wu Kao Scouting Reports	Recover 3 Wu Kao Scouting Reports.	5 x	1984	250
90	Backed Into a Corner	Rescue 6 Cornered Mistfall Villagers.	5 x	1984	250
90	Mogu Make Poor House Guests	Kill 6 Shado-Tien attackers in Mistfall Village.	5 x	1984	250
90	Stunning Display	Collect 12 Stunned Whitepetal Carp.	5 x	1984	250
90	Rude Awakenings	Kill 8 Dominated Paleblade Flesheaters.	5 x	1984	250
90	In Enemy Hands	Beat 6 Possessed Whitepetal Defenders until they're freed of mogu possession.	5 x	1984	250
90	Small Comforts	Read the Rite of Release at the bodies of 6 Fallen Golden Lotus Defenders.	5 x	1984	250
90	Roll Club: Vale of Eternal Blossoms	Complete the Vale of Eternal Blossoms roll course.	5 x	2472	350
90	The Butcher	Kill Bai-Jin the Butcher.	5 x	2472	350
90	Under the Setting Sun	Kill Kri'chon, the Corpse-Reaver.	5 x	2472	350
90	Survival Ring: Thunder	Enter the Survival Ring and survive for 90 seconds without leaving.	5 x	1984	250
90	Vyraxxis, the Krik'thik Swarm-Lord	Kill Vyraxxis, the Krik'thik Swarm-Lord.	5 x	2472	350
90	Painting the Ruins Red	Kill 12 mogu in the Ruins of Guo-Lai.	5 x	1984	250
90	He Knows What He's Doing	Lure 8 Guo-Lai mogu into He's Poison Traps.	5 x	1984	250
90	The Battle Ring	Defeated 20 Shadowpan Trainees in the Battle Ring.	5 x	1984	250
90	The Eternal Vigil	Kill 10 Granite Quilen.	5 x	1984	250
90	Shao-Tien Death March	Kill 8 mogu attackers near the Golden Pagoda.	5 x	1984	250
90	Set in Stone	Destroy 6 Mogu Effigies near the Golden Pagoda.	5 x	1984	250
90	Thundering Skies	Kill 3 Subjugated Serpents.	5 x	1984	250
90	Given a Second Chance	Heal 6 Wounded Defenders.	5 x	1984	250
90	The Displaced Paleblade	Kill 8 Paleblade Saurok.	5 x	1984	250
90	Longshot	Recover 12 Spent Shado-Pan Arrows.	5 x	1984	250
90	Free Spirits	Enter Soul Vortexes and free 30 pandaren souls inside.	5 x	1984	250
90	Baolai the Immolator	Kill Baolai the Immolator.	5 x	2472	350
90	Setting Sun Garrison	Speak to Angi Autumnlight at the Setting Sun Garrison.		992	25
90	Guo-Lai Encampment	Speak to Leven Dawnblade at the Ruins of Guo-Lai.	5 x	992	25
90	Setting Sun Garrison	Speak to Anji Autumnlight at the Setting Sun Garrison.	5 x	992	25
90	Mistfall Village	Speak to Che Wildwalker at Mistfall Village.	5 x	992	25
90	Attack on Mistfall Village	Speak to Rook Stonetoe at Mistfall Village.	5 x	992	25
90	Setting Sun Garrison	Speak to Anji Autumnlight at the Setting Sun Garrison.	5 x	992	25
90	The Ruins of Guo-Lai	Speak to Anji Autumnlight at the Ruins of Guo-Lai.	5 x	992	25
90	Mistfall Village	Speak to Che Wildwalker at Mistfall Village.	5 x	992	25
90	Guo-Lai Infestation	Speak to Anji Autumnlight at the Ruins of Guo-Lai.	5 x	992	25
90	Mistfall Village	Speak to Che Wildwalker at Mistfall Village.	5 x	992	25
90	Attack on Mistfall Village	Speak to Sun Tenderheart at Mistfall Village.	5 x	992	25
90	Lost Scouts	Recover 3 Shadowpan Scout reports.	5 x	1984	250
90	Along the Serpent's Spine	Kill 10 Krik'thik mantid on the Gate of the Setting Sun.	5 x	1984	250
90	The Silent Approach	Kill 10 Shao-Tien mogu at Whitepetal Lake.	5 x	1984	250
90	The Pandaren Uprising Relived	Kill 8 Ancient Mogu Spirits.	5 x	1984	250

Level	Name	Objective	Money	+Rep
-1	Armored Carp	Use the Fishing Spear to catch 3 Armored Carp in the waters south of Anglers Wharf.	940	250
-1	Snapclaw	Kill Snapclaw in a cave at the bottom of Narsong Trench and return with his claw as proof.	940	250
-1	Viseclaw Soup	Kill Viseclaw Fishers on the beach and return with 16 eyes to make some yummy soup.	940	250
-1	Huff & Puff	Use the Fishing Spear to kill 3 Prickly Puffer fish in Sarjun Depths and return with their spines.	1140	250
-1	Like Bombing Fish In A Barrel	Use the Goblin Fishing Bombs to kill 3 Sting Rays and bring back their stingers to Fiznix. The Rays can be found in the shallows west of Anglers Wharf.	940	250
-1	Scavenger Hunt	Use the Goblin Fishing Raft to fish up 15 Rusty Shipwreck Parts out of the floating debris near the shipwrecks.	940	250
-1	Who Knew Fish Liked Eggs?	Collect a Pristine Egg from the Narsong Spires and use it to catch a Silver Goby.	940	250
-1	Shocking!	Fish up 7 Dojani Eels from the Dojani River in Krasarang Wilds.	1984	250
-1	What Lurks Below	Find an Ancient Fishing Pool at Krasari Falls to the northwest and fish in it to lure the beast out of hiding.	940	250
-1	Jagged Abalone	Harvest 9 Jagged Abalone Meat from the Jagged Abalone in Narsong Trench to the west.	1984	250
-1	Fishing for a Bruising	Kill 8 Riverblade Beach Raiders at Anglers Expedition, just west of Anglers Wharf.	940	250
-1	Jumping the Shark	Kill a frenzied reef shark with your bare hands.	940	250
-1	Bright Bait	Collect 7 Suncrawlers in the forest north of Anglers Wharf.	1140	250
-1	Piranha!	Fish up 5 Wolf Piranha from the Krasarang River in Krasarang Wilds.	940	250
-1	Flying Tiger Gourami	Bring the Flying Tiger Gourami to Nat Pagle at Anglers Wharf.	940	350
-1	Spinefish Alpha	Bring the Spinefish Alpha to Nat Pagle at Anglers Wharf.	940	350
-1	Mimic Octopus	Bring the Mimic Ocotpus to Nat Pagle at Anglers Wharf.	940	350

Level	Name	Objective	Valor	Money	+Rep
90	Round 4: Master Windfur	Defeat Master Windfur.	5 x	1984	250
90	Paying Tribute	Obtain 6 stores of Niuzao Food. Your Niuzao Strongarm will carry the food for you.	5 x	1984	250
90	The Siege Swells	Defeat 25 Sra'thik attackers at Niuzao Temple.	5 x	2472	350
90	The Overwhelming Swarm	Defeat 4 Sra'thik Kunchong.	5 x	1984	250
90	The Unending Siege	Defeat 12 Sra'thik attackers at Niuzao Temple.	5 x	2472	350
90	Fallen Sentinels	Heal 8 Wounded Niuzao Sentinels above 50% health. You may use the Yak's Milk Flasks or your own healing spells and abilities.	5 x	1984	250
90	A Blade is a Blade	Obtain 10 Sra'thik Weapons.	5 x	1984	250
90	In Battle's Shadow	Throw 10 Loose Stones up to Niuzao Stonemasons.	5 x	1984	250
90	The Big Guns	Destroy 3 Sra'thik War Wagons.	5 x	1984	250
90	Chasing Hope	Touch 3 Spirits of the Crane.	5 x	1984	250
90	Gifts of the Great Crane	Obtain 10 Gifts of the Great Crane.	5 x	1984	250
90	Students of Chi-Ji	Duel 10 Students of Chi-Ji.	5 x	1984	250
90	Huck Wheelbarrow	Defeat Huck Wheelbarrow.	5 x	2472	350
90	Ellia Ravenmane	Defeat Ellia Ravenmane at the Angkhal Pavilion.	5 x	2472	350
90	Minh Do-Tan	Defeat Minh Do-Tan.	5 x	2472	350
90	Ellia Ravenmane: Rematch	Defeat Ellia Ravenmane near the base of the Pedestal of Hope.	5 x	2472	350
90	Fat Long-Fat	Defeat Fat Long-Fat at the top of Angkhal Pavilion.	5 x	2472	350
90	Julia Bates	Defeat Julia Bates.	5 x	2472	350
90	Dextrous Izissha	Defeat Dextrous Izissha.	5 x	2472	350
90	Kuo-Na Quillpaw	Defeat Kuo-Na Quillpaw.	5 x	2472	350
90	Ellia Ravenmane: Revenge	Defeat Ellia Ravenmane at Dome Balrissa.	5 x	2472	350
90	Tukka-Tuk	Defeat Tukka-Tuk.	5 x	2472	350
90	Mindel Sunspeaker	Defeat Mindel Sunspeaker.	5 x	2472	350
90	Yan Quillpaw	Defeat Yan Quillpaw at the Pedestal of Hope.	5 x	2472	350
90	Fat Long-Fat: Rematch	Defeat Fat Long-Fat atop Dome Belrissa.	5 x	2472	350
90	Thelonius	Defeat Thelonius.	5 x	2472	350
90	Ellia Ravenmane: Redemption	Defeat Ellia Ravenmane atop the Pedestal of Hope.	5 x	2472	350
90	Champion of Chi-Ji	Defeat a Champion of Chi-Ji.	5 x	2472	350
90	The Torch of Strength	Carry the Torch of Strength to the gates of the Temple of the White Tiger without it extinguishing.	5 x	1984	250
90	Contending With Bullies	Defeat the Unwelcome Challenger.	5 x	1984	250
90	Round 1: Brewmaster Chani	Defeat Brewmaster Chani.	5 x	1984	250
90	Round 1: The Streetfighter	Defeat the Streetfighter.	5 x	1984	250
90	Round 2: Clever Ashyo & Ken-Ken	Defeat Clever Ashyo and Ken-Ken.	5 x	1984	250
90	Round 2: Kang Bramblestaff	Defeat Kang Bramblestaff.	5 x	1984	250
90	Round 3: Master Boom Boom	Defeat Master Boom Boom.	5 x	1984	250
90	Round 3: The Wrestler	Defeat The Wrestler.	5 x	1984	250

Level	Name	Objective	Valor	Money	+Rep
90	The Warlord's Ashes	Bring the Ashes of Warlord Gurthan to Kil'ruk the Wind-Reaver at Klaxxi'vess.	5 x	2472	350
90	Kunchong Treats	Collect 4 Meaty Turtle Haunches.	5 x	1984	250
90	Culling the Swarm	Slay 40 Shek'zeer Swarmborn in the Clutches of Shek'zeer. Speak with Kil'ruk the Wind-Reaver for an air-drop.	5 x	1984	250
90	Eradicating the Zan'thik	Kill 6 Zan'thik Impalers and 6 Zan'thik Manipulators in Zan'vess.	5 x	2472	250
90	Dark Skies	Kill 500 Mantid and 5 Kunchong or Dread Behemoths while flying with Xaril the Poisoned Mind.	5 x	1984	250
90	An Ancient Empire	Collect 8 Gurthani Tablets.	5 x	1984	250
90	Sap Tapping	Collect 6 Amber Sap.	5 x	1984	250
90	Dreadspinner Extermination	Slay 12 Dreadspinners in Gurthani Terrace. Speak with Kil'ruk the Wind-Reaver for an air-drop.	5 x	1984	250
90	Mistblade Destruction	Kill 6 Mistblade Rippers.	5 x	1984	250
90	A Little Brain Work	Collect 3 Amber-Encrusted Brains from Ik'thik Amberstingers.	5 x	1984	250
90	The Scale-Lord	Kill the Mistblade Scale-Lord.	5 x	1984	250
90	The Fight Against Fear	Kill 15 Horrorscale Scorpid.	5 x	1984	250
90	Bad Genes	Kill 3 Ik'thik Genemancers and 6 Ik'thik Egg-Drones.	5 x	1984	250
90	Infection	Kill 6 infected wildlife. Infected wildlife may include Bonedust Moths, Bluehide Mushan, and Mutating Scorpions.	5 x	1984	250
90	Sampling the Empire's Finest	Use the Sap Jar at Imperial Feeders outside the Heart of Fear 4 times to fill it.	5 x	1984	250
90	Wing Clip	Collect 24 Needler Wings from Shek'zeer Needlers in the Clutches of Shek'zeer.	5 x	1984	250
90	Shortcut to Ruin	Kill Vess-Guard Na'kal outside the Heart of Fear.	5 x	1984	250
90	Ordnance Disposal	Disable 8 Pheromone Mines around the Clutches of Shek'zeer and the Heart of Fear.	5 x	1984	250
90	Vess-Guard Duty	Kill Vess-Guard Vik'az in Zan'vess.	5 x	2472	250
90	Sonic Disruption	Kill 4 Dread Kunchong and 6 Shek'zeer Manipulators in the Clutches of Shek'zeer. The Sonic Disruption Fork will weaken and confuse the kunchong.	5 x	1984	250
90	Free From Her Clutches	Break open Kunchong Cages to release 8 Kunchong Hatchlings in the Clutches of Shek'zeer.	5 x	1984	250
90	Shackles of Manipulation	Collect 6 Zan'thik Shackles from Thought-Bound Miners and Thought-Bound Brutes in Zan'vess.	5 x	1984	250
90	Meltdown	Slay 6 Zan'thik Venomstings in Zan'vess. Use Korven's Experimental Grenade to counter their armor plating.	5 x	1984	250
90	Specimen Request	Collect 6 Kyparite Shards from Muck Tunnelers in The Briny Muck.	5 x	1984	250
90	Fear Takes Root	Destroy 25 Dreadspore Bulbs in Zan'vess and The Briny Muck.	5 x	1984	250
90	Quiet Now	Interact with the Zan'thik Resonating Crystal at the Whispering Stones in Zan'vess to incite Adjunct Sek'ot, then slay him.	5 x	1984	250
90	Kypa'rak's Core	Bring the Massive Kyparite Core to Ambersmith Zikk at Klaxxi'vess.	5 x	2472	350
90	The Matriarch's Maw	Bring the Enormous Kunchong Mandibles to Ambersmith Zikk at Klaxxi'vess.	5 x	2472	350
90	Putting An Eye Out	Use the Klaxxi Amberknife on Mire Beast corpses to collect 8 Mire Beast Eyes.	5 x	1984	250
90	Nope Nope Nope	Use the Shado-Pan Dragon Gun to destroy 20 Dreadspinner Eggs in Gurthani Terrace.	5 x	1984	250
90	Debugging the Terrace	Stomp out 6 Eyes of the Empress around Gurthani Terrace. Killing anything will grant you Pheromone Tracking, helping you detect them.	5 x	1984	250
90	Brain Food	Bring 6 Mushan Tongues to Kaz'tik the Manipulator at Klaxxi'vess.	5 x	1984	250

Level	Name	Objective	Money	+Rep
90	The White Turnip Treatment	Plant a White Turnip in Sunsong Ranch. You can purchase seeds from Merchant Greenfield in the Halfhill Market.	992	350
90	The Pink Turnip Challenge	Plant a Pink Turnip in Sunsong Ranch. You can purchase seeds from Merchant Greenfield in the Halfhill Market.	992	350
90	Red Blossom Leeks, You Make the Croc-in' World Go Down	Plant a Red Blossom Leek in Sunsong Ranch. You can purchase seeds from Merchant Greenfield in the Halfhill Market.	992	350
90	A Pumpkin-y Perfume	Plant a Mogu Pumpkin in Sunsong Ranch. You can purchase seeds from Merchant Greenfield in the Halfhill Market.	992	350
90	Why Not Scallions?	Plant a Scallion in Sunsong Ranch. You can purchase seeds from Merchant Greenfield in the Halfhill Market.	992	350
90	That Dangling Carrot	Plant a Juicycrunch Carrot in Sunsong Ranch. You can purchase seeds from Merchant Greentill in the Halfhill Market.	992	350
90	The Cabbage Test	Plant a Green Cabbage in Sunsong Ranch. You can purchase seeds from Merchant Greenfield in the Halfhill Market.	992	350
90	The Kunzen Hunter-Chief	Slay the Kunzen Hunter-Chief.	1984	500
90	Simian Sabotage	Use the Barrel of Fireworks near the Pile of Stolen Weapons, the Pile of Stolen Tools, the Pile of Stolen Beer, and the Pile of Stolen Grain.	1984	500
90	Water, Water Everywhere	Speak with Wing Nga to borrow a kite, then throw water onto 35 Dusty Spots in the Heartland.	1984	250
90	Chasing the Chicken	Pick up Hillpaw's Chickens until you find his Prize-Winning Chicken.	1984	250
90	Pest Problems	Speak with Wika-Wika, then stomp on 25 Black-Nose Marmots.	1984	250
90	Not in Chee-Chee's Backyard	Kill 8 members of the Kunzen tribe in the Kunzen Village.	1984	250
90	Weed War II	Speak to Gai Lan, then pick 100 Weeds on his farm. You can pick Weeds while mounted.	1984	250
90	Money Matters	Obtain Spicemaster Jin Jao's Payment, Trader Jambeezi's Payment, Innkeeper Lei Lan's Payment, and Lolo Lio's payment.	1984	250
90	They Don't Even Wear Them	Obtain a Stolen Circlet, a Ransacked Ring, and a Burglarized Bracelet.	1984	250
90	Where It Counts	Throw 8 Kunzen Ritual Candles, kick 4 Blazing Embers, and slay 1 Kunzen Ritualist.	1984	250
90	The Kunzen Legend-Chief	Obtain a Kunzen Legend-Book from a Kunzen Legend-Chief.	1984	250
90	You Have to Burn the Ropes	Burn 6 Kunzen Ropes.	1984	250
90	The Lesser of Two Evils	Slay the Springtail Warren-Mother.	1984	500
90	Stealing is Bad... Re-Stealing is OK	Re-steal 16 Stolen Vegetables.	1984	500
90	Stalling the Ravage	Slay 12 Kunzen Hozen.	1984	500

Blue Posts

Rogue (Forums)
Assassination Idle Time
That seems like too much idle time for Assassination. We'll investigate. It could very well be a bug (in the game or the sim). (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Rogue Class Design
I disagree. Simulation and formulation need to be debugged, yes, but if you don't like looking at math, what would constitute as evidence? Math can, has been, and will be improperly constructed, but without some logical/rational evidence qualitative data means nothing. It's just hearsay.
We like looking at math. You wouldn't last very long in this gig if you didn't.

I know it seems like a Catch 22, but really I think it just illustrates that estimating DPS is not at all straightforward. If it was even moderately easy to do, everyone (including us) would know exactly what all of the targets were and how far everyone deviates from those targets.

There are two problems with simulations. One is that we just don't know if they are accurate. We could determine if they are accurate, but that takes a lot of our time (which is what I meant by debugging). In my experience, they tend to be as accurate as the dedication of the the group of players working on them. What this tends to mean is that certain specs are modeled very well and others... less so. That changes over time as the commitment of key players waxes and wanes. Several systems designers got their start in the theorycrafting community. It is one we are familiar with.

The second problem with simulations is they assume perfect gameplay on a static boss. Now on the one hand it makes more sense to do that than it does to compare DPS on every boss. It's often hard, even for the community, to decide when a fight has a gimmick versus being a legit comparison fight. On live, Ultraxion is the closest thing to a one-target fight with no movement, but even then it sprays the warriors with rage and the length of any fight has relevance because of how many times everyone's cooldowns are available. On the other hand, players tend to care more about how they can actually perform on a fight, not how they could theoretically perform on a boss that doesn't exist (unless you are in Naxxramas perhaps). As an aside, it's fun to go back and compare some of the predicted simulations for various tiers with actual parses.

I mentioned already the problem with comparing parses. They are reasonably good for comparing say rogues to mages, but terrible at comparing the various specs of rogues. The reason is because of the sampling bias, where all of the good rogues (and many of the not-so-good ones) swap specs to whatever spec the highest DPS parses use. There are some problems with this. Some of the highest DPS rotations are challenging to execute. Just because the best rogue in the world hit those numbers doesn't mean you ever can. It also doesn't mean that your DPS will go up by a certain percent just because you used his spec. Some fights just work out really well for some specs, because of adds or movement or burn phases or fight duration. Are these gimmicks that should be tossed out? At some point, you're tossing out every fight. Now to be fair, I'm not saying that Subtlety is secretly the highest DPS fight on Ultraxion and nobody knows about it. However, the delta between Sub and Combat is probably smaller than most people think. The sample size for Sub is much smaller and presumably its numbers are diluted by a lot of uninformed or lesser geared or skilled players or other people just messing around.

The best test I can come up with is to do a fight as one spec and then do the fight as another spec, trying to keep all other factors equal, and see how you do. That might be feasible in Dragon Soul today where you're likely looking for something to spice things up a bit. On the other hand, your guild leader might not want to hear on cutting-edge content "Hey, mind if I try an experiment?"

As I said, it's hard. I have used the thermometer analogy before. If you want to know the temperature outside, you can use a thermometer (or more realistically, a phone app) and be pretty confident that the number you see is reasonable (72 degrees F / 22 C in SoCal at the moment, as it very often is.) There isn't a thermometer for rogue DPS. There are a lot of stats and a lot of estimations that when taken collectively can give you some idea of where things lie.

Nevertheless, if you have any numbers from beta that suggest one spec is below the others, please share them with us. We are comfortable with our testing mechanics, but they have been wrong before, and reconciling them with the numbers from other people is never a bad idea. It's really not possible to have useless data, as long as you take everything relevant into consideration as part of the analysis.

Do you think you could answer whether combat rogues are intended to viably dual wield 2.6 weapons in MoP? I've heard it may be possible, but I've yet to see it conclusively proven that we can drop our daggers for a sword or axe without losing significant DPS.
We made some changes such that Combat with a pair of 2.6 weapons will be much closer to someone wielding a fast offhand than they are today. Last I looked, I believe wielding a fast offhand was still theoretically slightly better. Hopefully it is in the realm where you can use whatever drops.

So... you think there's a place for damage vs utility, you just don't think Blizzard can pull it off? It's an incredibly difficult design balance, exacerbated by any variables in which a player can interact with a target or variances that a target makes towards the player and the playable environment.

It is very difficult. I'm also not sure it would be very fun even if we did pull it off. In the theoretical example where you were choosing between a DPS cooldown and a healing cooldown, the pressure would often be to take the DPS cooldown and ask the healers to step it up a bit or just trust to random chance that you won't take that much damage. If the utility were group utility and not survival, then it gets even worse, because you'd always want the other guy to be the buff er... monkey so you can choose the DPS cooldown.
(Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Paladin (Forums)
Holy Paladin Issues and Concerns
A few things:

It's hard just to compare heal costs and numbers without looking at the whole package. Paladin heals tend to be expensive because so much of their healing costs no mana. Likewise, we don't balance around perfect Beacon transference, but you can't ignore it either.

If you look at how much paladins actually heal in a fight though, it should be pretty competitive with the other healers. I know that's not easy to look at right now on beta, but it will get easier once A) raids are open, B) we enable mods again, C) more theorycrafters conclude that we aren't fiddling with numbers so much so that their time isn't being wasted. (We aren't fiddling with numbers nearly so much, so maybe that will encourage some theorycrafters).

Remember though, that each healer is different. Example: Resto shaman look great on fights where everyone can cluster for Healing Rain and Chain Heal and any time everyone stays very wounded for very long.

Because paladins have so many mana-free heals, they actually can't subsist on fumes as long as other healers. If every healer decided just to cast their Holy Light equivalent and nothing else, paladins would go out of mana faster. Now there shouldn't be any situations where you really heal like that.

Two concerns that I think warrant us looking at further are the healing of Holy Radiance and the crit chance of Holy Shock. We nerfed Holy Radiance so that Light of Dawn can be stronger -- it feels weird when the "finisher" is puny compared to the "builder." On the other hand, healers don't always have the luxury to wait for the finisher before doing some heavy healing. We've heard a lot of feedback that Holy Radiance is a little weak, so we'll take a look at it.

As far as Holy Shock goes, it did suffer from the pruning of many of the passive talents and glyphs that gave it such a high crit rate. In a vacuum, it doesn't need a high crit chance. It is an instant, relatively cheap heal that delivers on Holy Power. You're going to want to push it. But we agree that Infusion of Light is intended to help mix up what heals you cast and that it needs to proc at a reasonable rate. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Curse Weekly Roundup
Pico is back with news on WoW Tournaments, Curse client updates for Minecraft, the new Secret World Beta Event, Terab Online Trial, and an Indie highlight on Krater.

[rektbrah]

First post lol

LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEW EXPANSION

Infracted. "First" spam isn't allowed.

[Somebody]

Old Beta launcher looks much nicer than the new one.

[VitesseEOD]

Is the Beta Launcher Update implying anything? Just looks like someone screwed up the artwork to me? not sure how "news worthy" that really is?

[Austilias]

Some of the new factions certainly look interesting, namely the Klaxxi. The only thing I wonder is what happens when they 'restore their Queen to glory'; wasn't their race walled-in even when sane due to their expansionism? Lore may certainly be interesting in this expansion, even if they have pulled certain amounts of it out of their ass to support this so-called race they're giving us.

[Rubs]

Cannot wait for MoP.

[Heck]

Gave the TERA trial a couple hours, but in the end I spent longer downloading it than I could actually force myself to play. I'm glad that there are all these MMOs available now for people to pick and choose from (some people seem to love TERA according to their general chat, I'm personally jones'ing for GW2 to finally put out a release date). With any luck, it'll cut back on some of the "this MMO is better than that MMO" chat that takes place in ALL these games, but probably not.

[Deleted]

Quickly counted and got 190 daily quests that reward Valor Points. Guess most of them change every reset to another one.

[Deleted]

Buut who wants to do 50 daily quests for such a measly reward?

[Nerph-]

Not sure why they changed the launcher logo and stuff... looked much better with the MoP logo.

[Kanariya]

The only thing I like about the new launcher is the classic logo.

[methus]

What is Terab onlie :P , just saying in case someone who can edit sees it.

[Deleted]

Does anyone know Open Beta date ?

[starckboy]

hey wouldn't 50 quests at 20g per be 1000 gold

[Austilias]

Buut who wants to do 50 daily quests for such a measly reward?

People who either don't like raiding or can't due to time constraints etc? Or people who just like dailies for that matter.

[Deleted]

Dread wastes is a cool looking zone. Prolly going to do there quests.!!

[Yunru]

5 valors=nothing for a time spend. In dungeon 30 min run you can make 150 while this quests will take 150:5=? time for a same reward (exept gold). 20g per quest is also nothing.

[Deleted]

Buut who wants to do 50 daily quests for such a measly reward?

People who play the game for fun and not for rewards? I like questing, the valor is a nice bonus, but not the reason I quest.

[Daffy101]

Looks interesting but i won't be resubscribing for this expansion. Kinda bored of the whole MMO genre at the moment waiting patiently for GTAV before i spend my money

[Hulari]

Yay dailies, they look so much fun..