Patch 6.2.2 PTR Notes Update, August 26 Hotfixes, Tweets, Virtual Ticket Giveaway

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Patch 2.3 Roundup - 2.3 Releasing Tomorrow

Tavern Brawl No Spells Bug Fixed, TGT Arena Tier List, TAC #99, Awaiting for Authorization Issue

New Battleground Rotation, Top 5 Fails #14, Hottest Plays of the Week #43, Goblin Quests

Patch 6.2.2 PTR - Build 20444
A small build went on the PTR this afternoon.

Spell Changes

Item Set Bonuses

• Item - LFR T18 Mail Agility 4P Bonus Your special attacks have a 10% chance to cause a Fel Explosion, dealing 0 7,387 Damage to all nearby enemies within 0 yards.

Patch 6.2.2 PTR Notes Update - August 25

Events and World Environment (New Section)
Bonus Events

• Bonus Events now begin earlier in the week on Wednesday. End date remains the same so there's now more time to complete the bonus event! Check the in-game calendar for new start times of each bonus event.

In-Game World Events

• A number of improvements and new additions have been made to the Hallow's End and Feast of Winter Veil world events.

Zones, Creatures, and NPCs
Tanaan Jungle

• Go beyond the dark portal on a flying mount to find three new rare elite Bleeding Hollow orcs that have a chance of dropping one of three new Crashin’ Thrashin’ toys.
• Behind the doors of the outdoors version of Hellfire Citadel awaits a new rare elite with a special drop for world PvP enthusiasts, the Spike-Toed Booterang.
• Steelsnout should now be correctly immune to being trapped by Deadly Iron Trap.

Nagrand

• Soar above the skies of Nagrand and explore the outdoors version of Highmaul and battle with three new rare elite ogres for a chance at one of three arcane-infused Manafiend battle pets.

Collections
Toy Box (New Section)

• Darkmoon Seesaw is now available from the Darkmoon Faire.
• Cursed Feather of Ikzan has been added to the Toy Box.
• Safari Hat has been added to the Toy Box.
• Shard of Archstone has been added to the Toy Box.
• Throbbing Blood Orb has been added to the Toy Box.

Garrisons
General

• A new events coordinator can now be found in level 3 garrisons. Visit the coordinator during Hallow’s End or Feast of Winter Veil to obtain garrison decorations that are usable all year round!

UI (New Section)

• Target marker icons have been disabled in public chat channels.
• There is now an option to disable Adventure Guide alerts in the Interface options menu, under display settings.

Achievements

• A new achievement has been added for collecting 300 mounts, Lord of the Reins. Completing the achievement awards a mount, the Reins of the Heavenly Azure Cloud Serpent.
• A new achievement has been added for collecting 200 toys, Crashin' Thrashin' Commander. Completing the achievement awards the title, “Crashin’ Thrashin’".

Racial Abilities
Tauren

• War Stomp now stuns enemies for 3 seconds (up from 2 seconds), and now has a reduced cooldown of 1.5 minutes (down from 2 minutes), and cast time is no longer increased by damage (via spell pushback).

Undead

• Touch of the Grave now scales its damage based on 50% of the character's Attack Power or Spell Power, whichever is greater.

Class

Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

• General
  
  • Corruption now deals 10% less damage in PvP combat.
• Affliction
  
  • Agony now deals 10% less damage in PvP combat.
  • Unstable Affliction now deals 10% less damage in PvP combat.

Patch 6.2 Hotfixes - August 26

Raids and Dungeons
Hellfire Citadel

• Gorefiend
  
  • Gorefiend's Touch of Doom will now spawn a Doom Well only if the debuff expires naturally. Doom Well will not spawn if the afflicted player dies or gets sent into the stomach.

Blue Tweets

ITT: Things you want to see in New Dalaran. Example: Manabonk And Son Polymorphic Arcanatorium. (Muffinus)
.Baby crocodiles in the sewer #Dalaran2 (Muffinus)
.Algalon, retired and opening a restaurant. (Muffinus)
.The ghost of Wilfred Fizzlebang, with an epic hunter quest to tame Jaraxxus. (Muffinus)
.A quest that lets you turn in both heroic and non-heroic Solace for the next OP trinket. (Muffinus)
.Horde + Alliance Friendship Jacuzzi. (Muffinus)
.Huggalon the Heart Watcher's massage parlor. (Muffinus)

Ghostcrawler Tweets
Ghostcrawler still occasionally talks about WoW. Remember that he no longer works for or speaks for Blizzard.

Saw your recent discussion about developer communication. Was interesting. Sucks how awful people can be. Stay strong.
Players don't hurt my feelings. I am old and crusty. But other devs may be too scared or scarred to participate. (OccupyGStreet)

Shame that people fire back and say "Well, the devs need thicker skin!".... -.-
Would be nice if they did, but they don't, so it comes down to: do you want to talk to them or not? (OccupyGStreet)

But if there's a policy against talking to players, they clearly don't think it's worthwhile.
Developers might value it while the institution does not. (OccupyGStreet)

I'm just not fond of every company lately treating every single little thing like they're the nuclear launch codes
You mean keeping things too close to the chest? I agree. (OccupyGStreet)
If you promise and have to pivot, people are going to be disappointed. Just deal with it. Still better than never talking. (OccupyGStreet)

What do you think has prompted WoW players to come to you seeking answers about Blizzard as of recent?
I have a big mouth and poor impulse control. (OccupyGStreet)

Blizzcon Virtual Ticket Giveaway
Blizzard is giving away BlizzCon Virtual Tickets and Goody Bags.

[Leyre]

Cursed Feather of Ikzan has been added to the Toy Box.
Safari Hat has been added to the Toy Box.
Shard of Archstone has been added to the Toy Box.
Throbbing Blood Orb has been added to the Toy Box.

This pleases me, blizzard

[Tesuque]

What if we deleted some of these items like the useless Blood Orb? Will it credit us?

[Jasper Kazai]

So Tuesday is now the only bonus event in that there is no bonus event going on. When everything is a bonus event, nothing is.

Good thing they're turning more items into toys, but they still need to be better about it. I think they should either drop their stance about not making things that give a useful buff a toy or make a new window called "useful items" or something for things like Aviana's Feather and the Skull of the Mad Chief. There's getting to be too many of these items now.

[Springrunner]

Seems the reversal on the BE buff was undocumented. It only shows the tauren one.

[Adjusting]

Good job Blizz <3

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Look foward to the new stuffs, thanks Blizz. <3

[Dan Delion]

Praise the lord and pass the ammunition! About time that Safari Hat went into the toybox.

[Findus707]

What if we deleted some of these items like the useless Blood Orb? Will it credit us?

Log an alt and pick it up again ?

[ttak82]

Bonus event change is the best! (Especially if you're in the Middle East.)

[DonSerrot]

So Tuesday is now the only bonus event in that there is no bonus event going on. When everything is a bonus event, nothing is.

Tuesday is the reset event. All the raids you go solo for mounts are now open again!

[ttak82]

It seems like Blizz was not happy at the participation rate in bonus events - and that gets me wondering - are people even playing the game often enough these days?

I admit, I am one of those who does not play much - but am subbed - I play WoW in small sessions - maybe 3-5 hours total in a week. And I struggled to get the quests done sometimes. For someone who would play 4-5 hours in a day or about 15 hours a week, the weekend bonus time was more than enough. So I can only conclude that players are devoting less and less time to WoW these days.

Thesy should just make it a weekly bonus instead of a weekend bonus and include tuesday as well..

Also Patch 2.3 in Diablo 3 coming in so there will be even lesser players in WoW.

[Deleted]

It seems like Blizz was not happy at the participation rate in bonus events - and that gets me wondering - are people even playing the game often enough these days?

Its oversaturation of events. Timed events are cool when they are rare, but when they become too often it stops being cool and rare and people stop participating. Then there is an issue of apexis event that is a joke event.

The ghost of Wilfred Fizzlebang, with an epic hunter quest to tame Jaraxxus.

Must have that quest!

[Deleted]

Praise the lord and pass the ammunition! About time that Safari Hat went into the toybox.

Yeah it only took them 1 year to add it back to toybox (it was a toy in beta)

[Philomene]

Instead of increasing the duration of events they should make more events. Apexis event is a joke since everybody and their mother swim in crystals while having bought the mount and toys. They could create "raid event" where you get more legendary items for the quest, "resource event" with increased GR/Oil earnings, "Exp/Rep event" to help leveling alts or farm reputations, "Overwork event" where orders take 2 hours instead of 4, etc.

Tuesday is the reset event. All the raids you go solo for mounts are now open again!

Not on EU !

[fatalicus]

Behind the doors of the outdoors version of Hellfire Citadel awaits a new rare elite with a special drop for world PvP enthusiasts, the Spike-Toed Booterang.

Oh my, if this requires flying to get too (and it looks like it does, unless they open a path somehow), then people might have a problem with this and the whole discussion Lore had about flying and PvP the other day...

[ttak82]

Its oversaturation of events. Timed events are cool when they are rare, but when they become too often it stops being cool and rare and people stop participating. Then there is an issue of apexis event that is a joke event.


Must have that quest!

Yeah Apexxis event is pointless if the quests dont give increased apexxis.. Players were farming apexxis areas only to grief opposing faction players..

As for the ghost of wilfred fizzlebang - is that a hint to the "Beast Master" Demonology locks where they have to go out and 'tame'/capture their demons?

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Instead of increasing the duration of events they should make more events. Apexis event is a joke since everybody and their mother swim in crystals while having bought the mount and toys. They could create "raid event" where you get more legendary items for the quest, "resource event" with increased GR/Oil earnings, "Exp/Rep event" to help leveling alts or farm reputations, "Overwork event" where orders take 2 hours instead of 4, etc.

Good suggestion.

[Deleted]

Yeah this "fun stuff you can only get through flying (unless you get summoned)" is kinda shady. Did they thought that there was not enough players unlocking flying after all? Like not enough players were doing their pve content? Just carrot on a stick to get players play longer.

[Cthulhu 2020]

Yeah this "fun stuff you can only get through flying (unless you get summoned)" is kinda shady. Did they thought that there was not enough players unlocking flying after all? Like not enough players were doing their pve content? Just carrot on a stick to get players play longer.

"Just carrot on a stick to get players play longer." What do you think the entirety of WoW and every other MMO is? You must be at that stage where you first start noticing the nature of MMOs and little things seem like time extenders. Don't worry, you'll eventually see that every task is a carrot on a stick and either go with it and have fun, or quit MMOs all together.

[Gaebryel Quintyne]

"Just carrot on a stick to get players play longer." What do you think the entirety of WoW and every other MMO is? You must be at that stage where you first start noticing the nature of MMOs and little things seem like time extenders. Don't worry, you'll eventually see that every task is a carrot on a stick and either go with it and have fun, or quit MMOs all together.

Yup. What he said. I play WoW only because I find something fun. And I play it at my own pace without anyone else dictating to me on how I should play. If I find some aspect of the game fun, I play that. Fortunately, I find SO many things fun in WoW that I feel like I will never run out of things to do since I kind of like everything WoW has to offer.

[sjaeger172004]

Yay thank you Blizzard for discrimination towards Australians as we are not allow to enter the competitin.