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7 hr 35 min ago by Jonathan LeCraft, Senior Game Designer
The highest level alchemist-crafted trinket can be sold to other players (it's bind on equip) wowhead.com/item=122604/st…
1 day ago by Jonathan LeCraft, Senior Game Designer
So.. the Draenic Intellect Potions from the follower's daily are Soulbound and they don't stack with my the other ones.. @WarcraftDevs
3 days ago by @salty_tamaki
@salty_tamaki Intended. They give players w/ an Alchemy building useful potions w/o flooding the AH...
2 days ago by WarcraftDevs, Official
@holinka Seems like the DRs for CC are now always 15 seconds rather than 15-20, feels like a huge buff for comps like RMD. intended change?
2 days ago by @w_Scoot
@w_Scoot @holinka It is intended that it always resets after a fixed amount of time, but it should be 18 seconds; we'll get this fixed.
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News Round Up: New Limited-Attempts Boss, Class Balance, Isle of Thunder Blog

posted 2013/02/20 at 12:18 PM by perculia

BlizzCon 2013 announcementnew PTR buildEnd of the Season PvP blogRa-denilvl 541 gearAlgalon the ObserverThe Lich Kinghuge buff post yesterday

He hints that defeating rare spawns summoned by Shan'ze Ritual Stone can drop bags with enchanting mats and gems, but more importantly, a "three-horned dinosaur formed of the darkest crystal," which could very well be Reins of the Cobalt Primordial Direhorn.

Green drops from Isle of Thunder trolls were confirmed to use " Zul’Aman raid item appearances, perfect for transmogrification."

Rare spawns will periodically appear to wreck havoc while completing your dailies.

giving awayGusting GrimoireClick the cut to read all the blue posts!

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News Round Up: Elder Charms Rewarded from 5.2 Dailies

posted 2013/01/20 at 10:29 AM by perculia

5.2 PTR: Elder Charms from DailiesSquisheiElder Charm of Good FortuneSunreaver BountyArcane TroveAmong the BonesElder Charm of Good Fortune5.2 datamined daily questsPvP Cosmetic Enchant at 2200 Rating

Bashiok

Totally agree in principle,but I'm not sure we need to keep a hurdle in, and adversely affect the PvP game, just to give people something to shoot for. We'll have a cosmetically different enchant available at 2200 in 5.2, and going along those lines we're looking at what potential future cosmetic rewards we could add for various ratings in the future.

Click the cut to read Ghostcrawler's updates on 5.2 class changes and his explanation of gear scaling.

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News Round Up: Valor Point Cap, Ghostcrawler Twitter Highlights

posted 2013/01/02 at 12:34 PM by perculia

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Vaneras

The cap should not really be seen as punishment to people for being able to reach the maximum amount of Valor Pointss every week. The idea behind the cap is to give people a choice on how they reach the cap without having them feel obliged to do everything.

Valor Pointss should also not be considered the primary way of gearing your character. The idea behind Valor in MoP is for them to be a supplement to the gearing process. i.e. you gear up normally through dungeons and raids. As it is normal to have streaks of bad luck, and thus having weeks when you are obtaining no or only few upgrades, you can get a little gear on the side by using Valor Pointss and by doing a little crafting/trading.

Just as the method of acquiring Valor Pointss is a choice, so it is a choice how you decide to spend your Valor Pointss.

The cap means that you cannot have everything at once, or even very quickly(as that would render the normal gearing process irrelevant), and this means that you will have to prioritise and make a choice when spending your points... one that actually matters. You must choose what is most beneficial to your character - decide if it is better in the long run to upgrade a piece or replace that piece with something else. If you feel the best way to spend your Valor Pointss is to upgrade your armor, well then that is what you spend your Valor Pointss on when you are able to do so.

The primary means of acquiring new gear is through defeating content like for an example raids, whereas Valor Pointss is a supplemental means of getting new gear. For an example, if you have acquired the best possible gear you can get from one tier of content, then you should be well equipped to face the next tier of content above it, which will reward you with even better gear if you succeed. The Valor Pointss system serves as a supplement to that process, helping you with a new piece of gear or an upgrade here or there, but it is not meant as an alternate gearing process.

There are several reasons behind the Valor cap btw., none of which are to serve as a punishment for people with a lot of time on their hands. Just in case you would like to know the reasons behind the Valor cap, they are as follows:

To make sure that the normal gearing process through facing and defeating different tiers of content is not circumvented or rendered irrelevant.
To make your choices matter. We want there to be choice and decision-making involved when building and playing your character.
To ensure that as many people as possible can use their time in-game on something they think is fun and that they enjoy doing, and not make people feel like they have to spend massive amounts of time every day just to reach a theoretical maximum weekly limit of Valor Pointss.

Whether or not the cap is too low is of course a different matter, and this kind of thing is of course something the developers are keeping an eye on continuously as the game evolves and progresses :-)

Click the cut to read about the reasoning behind common-quality vendor gear, and a roundup of Ghostcrawler's most interesting tweets!

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News Round Up: Pet Battle Experience Updates, 12/13 Hotfixes

posted 2012/12/14 at 5:08 PM by perculia

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Crithto

We’ve been receiving a few inquiries over Twitter and through email regarding Farmer Nishi, so we thought we’d share our thoughts on Pet Battle experience gains with you.

We will soon be applying a hotfix that causes level-25 pets to no longer “steal” experience from your lower-level pets. Previously, if you had a level-3 and level-25 pet grouped together for a battle, the XP earned would be shared between the two at the end. This resulted in some players doing what they could to kill off their level-25 pet so the level-3 pet would get all of the experience. You no longer need to worry about this as the level-3 pet will now receive 100% of the XP that’s earned, so long as it has participated in at least one round of combat.

With max-level master trainer dailies available for Northrend, Cataclysm, Pandaria, and the new line of Spirit Trainers, you have quite a few endgame battles in Pandaria which you can use to level up new pets. Be sure to wear your Safari Hat to get the most out of your battles! The over-arching goal is to provide a variety of content with which you can level up your pets each day.

Click the cut to read the December 13th Hotfixes!

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New Vol'jin Scenario, 5.1 PTR Patch Notes Updated

posted 2012/11/14 at 1:50 PM by perculia

Dagger in the Darktwo new Alliance scenarios

Brawler's Guild invitations can now drop from select Horde and Alliance NPCs.

Spirit of Harmony can now be purchased for 600 Conquest Points at the Conquest Quartermaster.

Level 90 players can now queue for Wintergrasp and Tol Barad via the PvP tab to battle one another in these epic conflicts.

Dagger in the DarkScreenshotsSummaryStage 1 – The Mission...Stage 2 – We Ride!Stage 3 – Guards!Stage 4 – Into the CaveStage 5 – The SourceStage 6 – The BroodmasterStage 7 – InvestigationFinal Stage – Ambush!Achievements

You Mean That Wasn't a Void Zone?: Destroy all remaining eggs before Broodmaster Noshi reaches 20% health in the Dagger in the Dark Scenario.

Watery Grave: Kill 3 of the Darkhatched Lizard-Lord's reinforcements using his Water Jets ability in the Dagger in the Dark Scenario.

You Mean That Wasn't a Void Zone?: Defeat Rak'gor Bloodrazor without any member of your party standing in a Healing Ward in the Dagger in the Dark Scenario.

News Round Uplast night's hotfixesThe Light and How to Swing ItClick the cut for all the blue posts, including the 5.1 PTR Patch Note Updates!

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News Round Up: Garalon LFR Hotfixes, Battle.net World Championships

posted 2012/11/12 at 1:35 PM by perculia

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Garalon LFR Fixes

Crithto

We’ve recently hotfixed the Raid Finder version of Garalon, reducing both his health and Furious Swipe damage. In addition, and also exclusive to the Raid Finder version of this encounter, Garalon's Crush ability now has a cooldown, and we’ve corrected an issue with his aggro radius to prevent players from drawing aggro until a player has entered a ring.

With regard to all raid difficulties, after further testing the encounter, we realized that certain abilities were having unintended effects. Blade Flurry, Inferno Blast and Sweeping Strikes were doing double damage to Garalon's body while attacking his legs, which was not intended. We are currently implementing a hotfix, which should take effect after realms are restarted, that will cause these abilities to do normal damage to the body while continuing to do double damage to the legs.
The real question is, is this a change to underlying bf mechanics or just a special case change to garalon.

Halfus WyrmbreakerWind Lord Mel'jarakSinister StrikeBlade FlurryGaralonYou realize that without stacking, a 6min enrage was really tough to meet--for a normal mode, right?GaralonClick the cut to read about the Battle.net World Championships: Challenge Event Dungeons and World of Warcraft Monopoly!

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News Round Up: Challenge Mode Armor Procs, Blingtron 4000 Loot

posted 2012/10/29 at 1:03 PM by perculia

Friday's postspookiest places in AzerothChallenge Mode Armor ProcsChallenge Mode runWowhead's Guide

Death Knight: Lich Lord Plate

Druid: Cycle Armor

Hunter: Howling Beast Set

Mage: Elemental Triad

Monk: Regal Lord Armor

Paladin: Holy Warrior Plate

Priest: Light Regalia

Rogue: Silent Assassin Armor

Shaman: Windfury Set

Warlock: Betrayer Regalia

Warrior: Golden King Plate

Lots of videos below, so we've put them under the cut as well as the rest of the news!

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News Round Up: Mogu'shan Vaults Streaming, Reputation Changes

posted 2012/10/04 at 12:13 PM by perculia

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Leeds

Reputation Changes

Crithto

Earning reputation with various factions has long been an important part to World of Warcraft and as time has gone on, we've made tweaks and changes to the system to make it more interesting and to give players access to unique items. For example, we recently hotfixed the game to apply a change to some reputation items which you can read about in our recently updated blog that allows players to purchase certain items much sooner. And we're not done!

Coming in a future patch, earning reputation is going to become much more fluid. Basically, once one of your characters has reached at least Revered reputation with a faction, all other characters on the same Battle.net account will then earn reputation with the same faction at twice the rate. Going one step further, and as an added bonus, your main character who reached Revered will also begin to earn double the reputation as he or she climbs to Exalted.

Here's a simplified break down:

Any single character earns Revered reputation with a faction
All other characters on the Battle.net account begin to earn double reputation for that one same faction
The Revered character earns double reputation as he or she works toward Exalted
???
Profit

We’ll keep you posted as this change is closer to being implemented. In the meantime, we’d love to hear your feedback!

Click the cut to read the rest of the news posts.

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