Patch 7.1.5 - Mage Barriers, Glowcap Festival, Tweets, Build of the Month, DLC #564

[chaud]

Season 8 Ends Dec 30th, S9 Starts Jan 6th

Popular Decks of the Week for December 18

Patch 7.1.5 - Mage Barriers
Mages get two new barrier spells in Patch 7.1.5, complete with new spell animations: Blazing Barrier and Prismatic Barrier.

Glowcap Festival
Glowcap Festival allows players to help keep Fshoo alive in Sporeggar to earn reputation.

• Head to Sporeggar in Zangarmarsh to take part in this holiday.
• Mushrooms will spawn around the town, giving you Glowcap and other helpful items:
  
  • Sack of Healing Spores - Channeled heal for Fshoo.
  • Sporeggium - 2% healing buff per stack. Stacks to 100 times.
  • Rimecap - Stop all damage and growth for 3 seconds, allowing healers to catch up.
  • Fungal Lifestalk - Instant 5% heal for Fshoo.
• You can purchase all four of the items above from Mycah, the Sporeggar Quartermaster.
• You can also loot a Pungent Truffle, allowing you to transform into a sporeling for 24 hours.
• Fshoo spawns periodically, gaining stacks of Fshoo Grow. Each stack increases his size by 1% and health by 100%.
• Fshoo also loses health at a constant rate, making him harder and harder to heal as the grow stacks appear.
• Using the items and healing him to keep him alive as long as possible is the objective.
• When Fshoo dies he will give everyone 50 Sporeggar reputation for every stack of the buff he had.

Blue Tweets

Classes
Survival Hunters have a DPS increase for Scorpids,Riverbeasts,Carrion Birds. Be nicer to use whatever pet we want without DPSloss.
.I believe this *should* no longer be the case (Muffinus)

Lore
Did the Legion always have spaceships?It'd be weird if they were a new thing since they had millions of years to craft some.
for quite a long time, though Argus may shed some light on this. (Alex_Afrasiabi)

Build of the Month - December 2016
Each month or so we will post a couple of hardware setups for those of you who are thinking of upgrading their computer!

All of the parts on this page are Amazon affiliate links. When you purchase your parts through them it helps support the site!

This month
The current SSD prices are fairly flat right now, with most SSDs under $0.50 per gigabyte when on sale.

Depending on how much you want to overclock, you may need to spend a bit more for a better CPU cooler like the NH-D15.

Unless you are doing a lot of video rendering or streaming, you do not need the 6700K and would get more performance from spending that money elsewhere.

Make sure to keep your AMD and Nvidia drivers up to date.

Don't forget to visit the Computer Forum for any extra questions!

Peripherals

Puppy

Monitor	ASUS VS228H-P 22-Inch Monitor	$100
Keyboard	Microsoft Wired Keyboard 600	$13
Mouse	Logitech G402	$36
Speakers	Creative A250 2.1	$30

Dolphin

Monitor	ASUS VS248H-P 24-Inch Monitor	$140
Keyboard	Logitech G105	$35
Mouse	Razer DeathAdder Chroma	$40
Speakers	Logitech Z313	$34

Narwhal

Monitor	Dell U2414H Monitor	$200
Keyboard	Logitech G710+	$80
Mouse	Logitech G502	$52
Speakers	Logitech Z323 2.1	$50

Unicorn

Monitor	Dell U2715H Monitor	$420
Keyboard	Corsair K70	$80
Mouse	Razer Naga 2014	$64
Speakers	Logitech Z523	$60

Puppy and Dolphin
All of these parts can be mixed and matched to create a build between Puppy and Dolphin.

Puppy

Updated December 18, 2016

$609

Case	NZXT Source 210	$40
Power Supply	EVGA 600B	$50
CPU	Intel i3-6100	$110
Heatsink	Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO	$35
Motherboard	ASUS Z170-P	$110
Memory	8GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4	$70
Graphics Card	ASUS RX 460	$105
Hard Drive	Western Digital Black 1TB	$69
DVD	Asus 24X SATA DVD+/-RW	$20

Dolphin

Updated December 18, 2016

$849

Case	NZXT Source 210	$40
Power Supply	EVGA 600B	$50
CPU	Intel 6600K	$230
Heatsink	Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO	$35
Motherboard	ASUS Z170-A	$150
Memory	8GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4	$70
Graphics Card	RX 480 OR GTX 1060 3GB	$185 / $205
Hard Drive	Western Digital Black 1TB	$69
DVD	Asus 24X SATA DVD+/-RW	$20

Narwhal and Unicorn
All of these parts can be mixed and matched to create a build between Narwhal and Unicorn.

Narwhal

Updated December 18, 2016

$1133

Case	Cooler Master HAF 912	$51
Power Supply	EVGA G2 650W	$90
CPU	Intel 6600K	$230
Heatsink	Scythe Mugen 4	$55
Motherboard	ASUS Z170-A	$149
Memory	16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4	$94
Graphics Card	GTX 1060	$255
Hard Drive	Western Digital Black 2TB	$119
SSD	Crucial MX300 275GB OR Samsung Evo 850 250GB	$70 $90
DVD	Asus 24X SATA DVD+/-RW	$20

Unicorn

Updated December 18, 2016

$1265

Case	Corsair Air 540	$100
Power Supply	EVGA G2 650W	$90
CPU	Intel 6600K	$230
Heatsink	Noctua 6 NH-D15	$88
Motherboard	ASUS Z170-A	$149
Memory	16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4	$94
Graphics Card	GTX 1060 OR GTX 1070	$255 $385
Hard Drive	Western Digital Black 2TB	$119
SSD	SanDisk Extreme PRO 240GB OR SAMSUNG 850 Pro 256GB	$120 $130
DVD	Asus 24X SATA DVD+/-RW	$20

Dark Legacy Comics #564
DLC #564 has been released.

[Tarx]

The new mage shield looks great!

[Kellorion]

Well fucking of course mages get new shit

[Vexione]

The video would have been better if they showed the new barriers from different angles, especially top - down where the current barrier looks flat.

[Insaniam]

Well fucking of course mages get new shit

Don't try to pull that crap again. Mages are getting nerfed and the new barriers are actually pretty bad (at least for PvE, not sure about PvP).

[chaud]

The video would have been better if they showed the new barriers from different angles, especially top - down where the current barrier looks flat.

All of the barriers, including the old Ice Barrier now always face the camera, so they no longer look flat.

[Zatachi]

Damn its about time.
Felt so weird to still have the ice barrier when the mages are so explicitly distinct now with their schools.
Wish all the spells would change the color appropiate, but its a start.

[procne]

Are the non-cancellable commercials at the beginning of mmo-c twitch videos a new thing now that will stay? Can Ad-blocker get rid of those?

[MrExcelion]

WTB a yellow or nithramus-like blue bubble so I can look like a DBZ character. Male humans already have the hairstyle. Orange will have to do for my dbz roleplay (kidding lol)

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Are the non-cancellable commercials at the beginning of mmo-c twitch videos a new thing now that will stay? Can Ad-blocker get rid of those?

Not seeing any with ublock, it's a constant arms race with adblockers and twitch

[Baza]

I think that the Unicorn SSD should change to Samsung 960 series - it's insanely fast.

[Rylalai]

Well fucking of course mages get new shit

No one asked for this crap.. The fire- and arcane barrier are both 30% weaker than the frost barrier. The arcane barrier reduces spell dmg by 15% and the duration of magic debuffs by 25%, that's great(-ish). The fire barrier.. is hot.. and if a mob hits it, it'll deal a small amount of damage. (just.. wow..!)

[Deleted]

So far most of these events seem boring and pointless.

[DustWolf]

wtb back destruction warlock flame embers animation ((

[Arvandor]

the mini holiday events are all shit and a waist of dev time!

put your energy in class design blizzard! thats THE important thing with the greatest fail in legion!

[Foxhoundn]

I wish you would stop putting Razer scam shitty products in the BOTMs. It's the worst hardware out there, why are we so obsessed with it? It lasts literally 6 months before it starts malfunctioning.

[Rylalai]

I wish you would stop putting Razer scam shitty products in the BOTMs. It's the worst hardware out there, why are we so obsessed with it? It lasts literally 6 months before it starts malfunctioning.

Mh.. My Naga works for almost 2 years now and I cannot play WoW without it anymore because I use all macro buttons. :-)

Edit. There's just one thing. The Razer software uses the same port as Nvidia's Game Streaming. So I need to close the Razer software if I want to stream games on my couch. :-)

[charizma]

New barriers look awesome, I wonder if the frost is gonna get an update as well

[Deleted]

That's what the game needs. More pointless shit for mages. How about some class balance...

[Deleted]

Oh look how cute. Blizzard favourite little baby got new spell animations.

[stomination]

These shields are kinda old in the ptr cycle. And not that popular either.