Hallow's End 2014, Oct 17 Class Balance Hotfixes, Blue Posts and Tweets, Comic

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Update: The Arthas costume costs 1000 x Tricky Treats, which makes it unobtainable. This may be unintended.

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Hallow's End 2014
Hallow's End begins tomorrow morning and this year there are finally some updates! Our friends over at Icy Veins have the full guide.

This year includes Headless Horseman loot that has been upgraded to item level 540, new pets that cost 150 x Tricky Treats, costumes for you and your pug, new wands, and more! The Lich King costume will cost Tricky Treats from a vendor.

Level	Type	Spec	Slot	Name
540	Finger	Melee	Finger	Band of the Petrified Pumpkin
540	Finger	Spell Spirit	Finger	Wicked Witch's Signet
540	Finger	Physical DPS	Finger	Seal of Ghoulish Glee
540	Finger	Spell DPS	Finger	The Horseman's Ring
540	Plate	Melee	Head	The Horseman's Horrific Hood
540	One-handed Sword	Physical DPS	One Hand	The Horseman's Sinister Slicer
1	Companion Pets			Cursed Birman
1	Companion Pets			Widget the Departed
1	Holiday			Exquisite Costume Set: "The Lich King"
1	Holiday			"Mad Alchemist" Costume
1	Holiday			"Lil' Starlet" Costume
1	Holiday			"Yipp-Saron" Costume
1	Consumable			Hallowed Wand - Slime
1	Consumable			Hallowed Wand - Ghoul
1	Consumable			Hallowed Wand - Abomination
1	Consumable			Hallowed Wand - Geist
1	Consumable			Hallowed Wand - Spider

Patch 6.0.2 Hotfixes - October 17

Character Undelete

• Players are now able to undelete their characters.
• Details on eligibility and limitations of the undeletion system can be found in the blog titled: New Feature Incoming: Undelete Character.

Class Balancing
Note: All class balancing changes below will require a realm restart to take effect.

• Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • General
    
    • Ferocious Bite, (Feral) Moonfire, Shred, and (Feral, Cat Form) damage has been increased by 12%.
  • Feral
    
    • Rake and Rip damage has been increased by 12%.
    • Swipe's damage has been increased by 25%.
• Hunter (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • General
    
    • Arcane Shot, Cobra Shot, Explosive Trap, Kill Shot, and Steady Shot damage has been increased by 15%.
    • Multi-Shot damage has been increased by 30%.
  • Marksmanship
    
    • Aimed Shot and Chimaera Shot damage has been increased by 15%.
  • Survival
    
    • Black Arrow, Explosive Shot, and Serpent Sting damage has been increased by 15%.
  • Hunter Pets
    
    • Hunter Pets now inherit 60% of the Hunter's Attack Power (up from 33%).
  • Talents
    
    • A Murder of Crows' damage has been increased by 80%.
    • Barrage, Dire Beast, Exotic Munitions, Focusing Shot, Glaive Toss, and Powershot damage has been increased by 15%.
• Mage (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • General
    
    • Frostfire Bolt damage has been reduced by 20%.
  • Fire
    
    • Fireball, Inferno Blast, and Pyroblast damage has been reduced by 20%.
  • Frost
    
    • Brain Freeze now increases the damage of Frostfire Bolt by 85% (up from 25%).
    • Frostbolt, Frozen Orb, and Ice Lance damage has been increased by 20%.
    • Water Elemental
      
      • Water Jet and Waterbolt's damage has been increased by 20%.
  • Talents
    
    • (Frost) Frost Bomb damage has been increased by 25%.
    • (Frost) Ice Nova's damage has been increased by 25%.
• Monk (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • General
    
    • Blackout Kick, Jab, Rising Sun Kick, Spinning Crane Kick, and Tiger Palm damage has been increased by 20%.
  • Windwalker
    
    • Fists of Fury damage has been increased by 20%.
  • Talents
    
    • Chi Explosion's damage has been increased by 20%.
    • Rushing Jade Wind damage has been increased by 20%.
    • Xuen, summoned by Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger now inherits 60% of the Monk's Attack Power (up from 33%).
• Paladin (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • General
    
    • Crusader Strike, Hammer of Wrath, and Judgment damage has been increased by 20%.
  • Retribution
    
    • Divine Storm, Exorcism, and Templar's Verdict damage has been increased by 20%.
  • Talents
    
    • (Retribution) Final Verdict's damage has been increased by 20%.
• Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • General
    
    • Corruption and Shadow Bolt damage has been reduced by 10%.
  • Demonology
    
    • Chaos Wave, Doom, Hand of Gul'dan, Soul Fire, and Touch of Chaos damage has been reduced by 20%.
  • Talents
    
    • (Demonology) Demonbolt's damage has been reduced by 30%.
• Warrior (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • Fury
    
    • Bloodthirst, Raging Blow, and Wild Strike damage has been reduced by 17%.

Class Bug Fixes

• Druid
  
  • Feral
    
    • Rake Bleed effect should now always be applied to the target if the initial hit lands.
  • Talents
    
    • Incarnation should no longer cause Druids to drop out of Travel Form (like flying) when the effect wears off.
• Mage
  
  • Frost
    
    • Resolved an issue where the Brain Freeze effect would sometimes not be used up when casting Frostfire Bolt.
• Paladin
  
  • Holy
    
    • Holy Radiance should now be correctly healing 6 allies that are within range.
• Rogue
  
  • Talents
    
    • Cloak and Dagger should no longer incorrectly increase the range of Ambush, Garrote, and Cheap Shot while Shadow Dance is active.

World Environment

• Creatures
  
  • High Marshal Twinbraid should now be able to hit Horde players with explosions again.
  • Ishi's Corrupted Slash debuff should now be working correctly again.
  • Krakkanon's knockback abilities should be working correctly again.
  • Sra'thik Drone and Sik'thik Venomspitter should now be able to use their Caustic Spray ability again.

Quests

• Infiltrating the Black Temple: Resolved an issue where Ashtongue Primalist can cause Warlocks to become permanently stunned.
• Noodle Time and Noodle Time: Bonus: Resolved an issue where customers were not sitting correctly and not getting up from their seats.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
Raids

• Siege of Orgrimmar
  
  • Thok the Bloodthirsty should now be dropping Tier armor tokens for the correct difficulty level.
• Throne of Thunder
  
  • Damage of Vampiric Cave Bat's Drain the Weak ability now triggers at a lower health threshold.
  • Nest Guardians' Screen ability should correctly apply a stacking debuff on players once more on Heroic difficulty.
  • Durumu the Forgotten should no longer be targeting the same player repeatedly with Lingering Gaze.
  • Quet'zal, the Stormcaller's Frost Spike knockback should now be working correctly on Heroic difficulty.
  • Resolved a number of issues with boss abilities that were not working correctly on the Twin Consorts encounter.
• Heart of Fear
  
  • Amber-Shaper Un'sok: Amber Monstrosity's health has been reduced to a more reasonable amount.
  • Grand Empress Shek'zeer: Corrupted Dissonance Field's damage has been toned down.
• Dragon Soul
  
  • [Requires a realm restart.] Searing Plasma's heal absorption effect has been reduced to a more reasonable amount.
• Firelands
  
  • [Requires a realm restart.] Magma Flow's damage from Volcanos during the Lord Rhyolith encounter has been toned down to a more reasonable amount.
• Icecrown Citadel
  
  • [Requires a realm restart.] Damage dealt by the cannons in the Gunship Battle now scales with the player’s item level.
  • [Requires a realm restart.] Sindragosa's Chilled to the Bone damage has been reduced to a more reasonable amount.
  • [Requires a realm restart.] The Lich King: Harvest Souls' damage has been toned down to a more reasonable amount.
• Trial of the Crusader
  
  • [Requires a realm restart.] Snobolds' Fire Bomb damage has been toned down to a more reasonable amount.
  • [Requires a realm restart.] Damage of Gormok the Impaler's Impale ability has been toned down to a more reasonable amount.
  • [Requires a realm restart.] Damage of Dreadscale's Burning Bile ability has been toned down to a more reasonable amount.
• Ulduar
  
  • Flame Leviathan: Damage dealt by the vehicles now scales with the player’s item level.
  • Constrictor Tentacle's damage has been reduced to a more reasonable amount.

Dungeons

• Mogu'shan Palace
  
  • Kargesh Highguard's Hurl Shield ability should now work properly.
• The Stonecore: High Priestess Azil's Force Grip ability has been temporarily disabled.
• [Requires a realm restart.] Utgarde Pinnacle: Skadi the Ruthless should require 3 harpoons to knock them off their mount once more.

Scenarios

• [Requires a realm restart.] Arena of Annihilation: Reduce the damage of Little Liuyang's Fireball to a more reasonable amount.
• Brewmoon Festival: Resolved an issue where Li Te's Water Shell was not popping when they are brought to a Waterspout.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

• Warsong Gulch: Capturing a flag should award reputation once more.
• Resolved an issue that could cause Mages and Hunters in an Arena match to incorrectly drop out of Invisibility or Camouflage.

Items

• Bloodsoaked Chitin Fragment's Bloodseeker's Fury effect has been toned down to a more reasonable amount.
• Dripping Willow's damage-over-time effect should no longer remove Frost Fever from the target.
• Soothing Talisman of the Shado-Pan Assault now restores a more reasonable amount of Mana.
• [Requires a realm restart.] The The Twin Blades of Azzinoth's set bonus now gives a more reasonable bonus to Haste.
• [Requires a realm restart.] Variable Pulse Lightning Capacitor's Electrical Charge effect should no longer be dealing an excessive amount of damage.
• Resolved an issue that could cause Raid Finder, Heroic, and Mythic items from Siege of Orgrimmar to become Normal quality items.

Bug Fixes

• Resolved an issue where players were taking more damage than intended while under a mind control effect.
• Resolved an issue where Boosted Characters were unable to learn some Talents.
• Resolved an issue where favorited mounts in the Mount Journal may not display the favorite status properly.

Blue Posts

Raid Loot Downgrading
1. This shouldn't happen any longer, so going forward, the items downgrading themselves should be fixed. If you see it happen in a fresh circumstance, please let us know immediately.

2. For those that have had mythic items downgrade themselves, please open a petition with the exact item name.

Our ticket volume is a bit larger than normal, so it may take a little while to get to all requests, but we will work through these as quickly as possible. (Official Forums)

Thok Dropping Higher Quality Gear Than Intended
Thok is also bugged with this gear issue. Last night in normal, he dropped all mythic gear. The night before in normal, he dropped all heroic.
We're aware of that issue with Thok. Enjoy the upgrades in the meanwhile. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Iron Starlette Noise
The cute little guy sure can project! We're aware and tracking a couple different bugs with the Iron Starlette's audio. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Blue Tweets

Classes
Secondary Stat Attunements as a "Guideline not a rule" is not what I expected. Is the goal for the design not to make this work
For some specs, especially tanks and healers, different stats are situationally more or less valuable. (Celestalon)
Attunements being a guideline, not a rule, is the intended design. (Celestalon)
what about specs where the attuned stat is your worst in 90% of situations?
That's not ideal, and we hope to improve upon them in the future. (Celestalon)

Is there any way we can get DoT tooltips on targets to update dynamically to reflect the changes to snapshotting?
It's an issue that we're aware of, but is quite a big undertaking. Working on it for the future. (Celestalon)

Character / Items
If I pug Sha of Pride on personal loot, would all 30 people have to wait for their turn to open the box to see if they got loot?
Thankfully, no. It may have taken 10 years, but we solved the "chest already being used" issue, at least for personal loot. (WatcherDev)

will the Dark Shaman set be able to drop still once warlords hits
Yes. (WatcherDev)

Proving Grounds
The "You're really doing it wrong" was NOT retroactive like you said it would be. Any incoming fix?
Unfortunately, we were not able to make it retroactive. Only the level 100 Feat of Strength will be available. Apologies. (Celestalon)

PvE
why did the ordos cloak change get reverted? kinda disappointed
I believe it was a technical issue. We are sad about it, too. (_DonAdams)

PvP
for below max-level characters, will skirmishes scale player numbers up to bracket maximum like bgs do?
yes it will (holinka)

Free Character Migrations (FCM) 17/10

The following Free Character Migrations are scheduled to be available until 23 October, 2014. They are all open for both factions:

PvE Realms
Draenor -> Emerald Dream, Shadowsong
Silvermoon -> Azjol-Nerub, Khadgar

PvP Realms
Kazzak / Stormscale / Ragnaros / Twisting Nether -> Darksorrow, Auchindoun

RP Realms
Argent Dawn -> Moonglade, Darkmoon Faire

If you wish to discuss an FCM for a specific realm, the dedicated discussion threads are linked above.

Please note that FCMs are opened based on realm population tracking and analysis, not by request. If you’re looking for a specific migration (from realm A to realm B), you should in most cases use the Character Transfer service. Although we will try to avoid doing so without giving notice in advance, these FCMs may be closed before the scheduled date.

Character Transfers (CT)
All realms follow the regular CT rules, found here.

Guild Transfers
Although Free Guild Master Realm Transfers are not possible at this time, the Free Character Migration will allow you to retain your guild membership and reputation, provided that the guild master completes a Guild Master Realm Transfer first and the faction remains the same as that of the source realm.

Nerf Now - Model Rework
It looks like not everyone is happy about the demise of the smiling female gnomes!

[Irezumi]

Well as a hunter I'm intrigued, now if I could just .. log.. in...

[Leyre]

Flame Leviathan: Damage dealt by the vehicles now scales with the player’s item level.
[Requires a realm restart.] Damage dealt by the cannons in the Gunship Battle now scales with the player’s item level.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Delete Me]

They really know how to give that pendulum a really strong push. Like with all their combined weight.

[Tibbles]

Ret is steamrolling over players in PvP right now and yet they buff them by 20%? Am I missing something here?

[Mortaeron]

Are these coming now after the restarts in EU?

[grexly75]

Let's just hope the changes to hunters will now make them viable (will see) after the crap they have had to put up with over the last few days..

[Pacster]

Ret is steamrolling over players in PvP right now and yet they buff them by 20%? Am I missing something here?

Nope. I can't find the changes to shadow either(you know, these where shadows should be able to do MORE while moving...and not less like it is now).

Pretty much looks like some really big buffs and nerfs there(and at least shadow is not on the nerf list yet)....I think tomorrow there will be a lot of tears in the forum.

[Deleted]

WTF are they doing?!When WoD hits the damage reduction will be removed but these changes will remain.WTF are they doing on mage,it's blast wave that's giving the burst,not these...And why the hell are they buffing frostfire bolt instead of frostbolt.Jesus Christ these guys never learn,this is going to be MoP all over again.Then we have ret...Oh my God.

[ApeDosMil]

I am not really sure if my feral needed a buff, but thanks all the same!

[apeiron1234]

sick shadow changes

also sick changes because of pve babies squabling over dps meters

rofl sick game guis

[Christhammer]

No buff to Kill Command?? What?? It hits like a paper towel. It's worthless!

[BraiNSlobbeR]

Damnit I was having fun on my warrior being at/near the top of the charts again.

[Mekael]

and still they havent fixed the rolling in the spine of deathwing thats been bugged since last year

[Xentropy]

So, fire was definitely OP right now compared to frost, but at level 100 frost was already ahead. Fire has always had late-expansion super-scaling. Does it really matter that we're a little OP for 4 weeks of no new content? Blizz will take over a month at level 100 "for everyone to level" in order to "gather more needed data" to finally revisit fire/frost, and meanwhile frost will be *another* 50% more powerful than fire than they already were. Thanks, Blizz. May as well respec ahead of time, I guess.

[Spoonman]

I am not really sure if my feral needed a buff, but thanks all the same!

Lol my tought aswell

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and still they havent fixed the rolling in the spine of deathwing thats been bugged since last year

Its soloable if ure pro, i did it yesterday

[Repose]

No buff to Kill Command?? What?? It hits like a paper towel. It's worthless!

The buff to pet damage (through increased inherited AP) should help with that. Whether it's enough will have to be seen. But, it's worth it to keep in mind that balance at 90 is less important than balance at 100. Quite a few "draenor perks" are incoming as you level up that will help hunter damage as well.

Speaking as someone who mains a BM hunter... believe me, I'm very invested...

[Pasture]

How do they get it so wrong that they need to tweak by 20%.....

[Sithalos]

Cool. Lets buff feral and ret, and leave their disgusting healing alone.

8/8

[Snuzzfizzle]

How do they get it so wrong that they need to tweak by 20%.....

I would like to respond to that question with a quote by Bashiok (http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/3...0-and-wod-t17/)

XD