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@Celestalon @WarcraftDevs " Chi Burst damage has been increased by 51%." Not seeing that or the Breath of the Serpent change in datamining
1 day ago by @Hinalover
@Hinalover @WarcraftDevs Ah, just didn't get its tooltip updated. Just fixed that for next next build. The functionality change is in.
1 day ago by Celestalon, Technical Game Designer
A note on recent Ashran hotfixes: us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/t… @WarcraftDevs @holinka
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PTR realms are coming offline in order to deploy a new 6.1 PTR build. us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/t…
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@mbdtfvow @Celestalon @holinka It's a known bug and not an intended change. We plan to address this in 6.1.
2 days ago by WarcraftDevs, Official
@mbdtfvow @Celestalon @holinka To clarify, it's currently a bug on the PTR which will be fixed in the next build.
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6.1 PTR: Build 19533

News Round Up: Darkmoon Faire Hats, Horridon and Iron Qon 5.2 Videos, Blue Posts

posted 2013/01/18 at 12:03 PM by perculia

World of Warcraft Wireless MouseDev Watercooler: Encounter TuningPvP Gear in 5.2 and Beyond5.2 PTR: Darkmoon FaireDarkmoon Top Hat

Small chance to be found in Darkmoon Game Prize, the new reward for completing Darkmoon Faire dailies.

0 Darkmoon Prize Ticket from Gelvas Grimegate.

Darkmoon Fishing CapDarkmoon Fishing Cap5.2 Raid Videos

Triple Puncture: A brutal tri-horned strike that inflicts 462500 to 537500 Physical damage and increases the damage taken from Triple Puncture by 10% for 1 min. This effect stacks.

Double Swipe: Horridon swings his massive head and tail to and fro, inflicting 277500 to 322500 Physical damage to players in a 35-yard cone in front of and behind himself. This effect happens twice.

Charge: Horridon charges at a random player, performing a Double Swipe once he reaches their location.

Disorienting Roar: Horridon emits a powerful roar, inflicting 300000 Physical damage and disorienting all players for 6 sec.

The Farraki:
War-God Jalak will first call upon the aid of the Farraki tribe.

Sul'lithuz Stonegazer: Once called to action, Farraki Skirmishers pour from the Farraki tribal door until it is destroyed.

Stone Gaze: The Stonegazer gazes at the target, stunning them for 2 sec.

Farraki Skirmisher: Once called to action, Farraki Skirmishers pour from the Farraki tribal door until it is destroyed.
Farraki Wastewalker: A total of three Farraki Wastewalkers will jump down from the arena stands once the Farraki are called to action.

Blazing Sunlight: The Wastewalker calls upon the scorching sunlight of Tanaris to inflict 75000 Fire damage instantly and 15000 Fire damage every 1 sec for 30 sec.
Sand Trap: Summons a Sand Trap, which inflicts 185000 to 215000 Nature damage to nearby enemies every 0.5 sec and grows in size over time.

The Gurubashi:
War-God Jalak will call upon the Gurubashi tribe to enter the arena second.

Gurubashi Bloodlord: Once called to action, Gurubashi Bloodlords pour from the Gurubashi tribal door until it is destroyed.

Rending Charge: The Bloodlord charges at an opponent and strikes them, causing them to bleed for 45000 Physical damage every 1 sec for 6 sec.

Gurubashi Venom Priest: A total of three Gurubashi Venom Priests will jump down from the arena stands once the Gurubashi are called to action.

Venom Bolt Volley: The Gurubashi Venom Priest unleashes a spray of vile toxins that inflicts 27750 to 32250 Nature damage to all enemies instantly, and 13875 to 16125 Nature damage every 3 sec for 1 min. This effect stacks.
Venomous Effusion: The Gurubashi Venom Priest can summon a Venomous Effusion.

The Drakkari:
War-God Jalak will call upon the Drakkari tribe to enter the arena third.

Risen Drakkari Warrior: Once called to action, Risen Drakkari Warriors pour from the Drakkari tribal door until it is destroyed.

Uncontrolled Abomination: The foul necromantic magics that animated the last remnants of the Drakkari tribe left them bereft of intelligence and purpose, causing the Risen Drakkari to attack random targets.
Deadly Plague: Risen Drakkari spread a Deadly Plague when they strike players, inflicting 22500 Shadow damage every 3 sec for 5 min.

Risen Drakkari Champion: Once called to action, Risen Drakkari Champions pour from the Drakkari tribal door until it is destroyed.

Drakkari Frozen Warlord: A total of three Drakkari Frozen Warlords will jump down from the arena stands once the Drakkari are called to action.

Mortal Strike: A powerful blow inflicts 300% weapon damage and leaves the player wounded, reducing the effectiveness of any healing received by 50% for 8 sec.
Frozen Orb: Summons an orb of frozen power that shoots a bolt of frost at a nearby enemy target every 0.5 sec, inflicting 185000 to 215000 Frost damage and slowing movement speed by 20% for 2 sec.

The Amani:
War-God Jalak will call upon the Amani tribe to enter the arena last.

Amani'shi Protector: Once called to action, Amani'shi Protectors pour from the Amani tribal door until it is destroyed.
Amani'shi Flame Caster: Once called to action, Amani'shi Flame Casters pour from the Amani tribal door until it is destroyed.

Fireball: Hurls a ball of fire at a random player, inflicting 69375 to 80625 Fire damage.

Amani Warbear: A total of three Amani Warbears will jump down from the arena stands once the Amani are called to action.

Swipe: The warbear swipes with its claws, inflicting 83250 to 96750 Physical damage to players in a 0-yard cone.

Amani'shi Beast Shaman: Amani'shi Beast Shaman ride atop the powerful Amani Warbears and can be attacked once the Warbear has fallen.

Chain Lightning: The Beast Shaman calls upon the spirits of the storms to inflict 83250 to 96750 Nature damage to a player. Chain Lightning can jump to another player within 5 yards, affecting 3 total targets and increasing damage by 50% per jump.
Hex of Confusion: Hexes a player for 30 sec, giving them a 50% chance to injure themselves for 55500 to 64500 Physical damage when casting a spell or using an ability.
Lightning Nova Totem: Places a Lightning Nova totem that emits a pulse of lightning every 3 sec, inflicting 462500 to 537500 Nature damage to enemies within 8 yards.

The Zandalari:
War-God Jalak and his faithful Zandalari Dinomancers will come to the aid of Horridon during the battle.

Zandalari Dinomancer: Zandalari Dinomancers will jump down into the arena periodically.

Dino-Mending: The dinomancer channels a beam of healing energy at Horridon, healing 1% of Horridon's maximum health every 3 sec.
Dino Form: At 50% health, the dinomancer transforms into a powerful Devilsaur, increasing Physical damage dealt by 50% but preventing the dinomancer from casting Dino-Mending.
Orb of Control: When the Zandalari Dinomancer transforms, it drops its Orb of Control. A player can interact with the orb to temporarily dominate Horridon's mind, forcing the beast to charge into a tribal door. Destroying a tribal door prevents additional members of that tribe from entering the arena.

Headache: Charging into a tribal door gives Horridon a terrible headache, stunning him for 10 sec.
Cracked Shell: Horridon's shell cracks after ramming into a door, increasing damage taken by 50%. This effect stacks up to 4 times.

War-God Jalak: After all four tribes have been called, or when Horridon has been damaged below 30% health, War-God Jalak himself will enter the arena.

Bestial Cry: War-God Jalak unleashes a savage cry, inflicting 100000 Physical damage to all players and increasing damage dealt by War-God Jalak by 25%. This effect stacks.
Rampage: War-God Jalak's death causes Horridon to go on a rampage, increasing damage dealt by 100% and attack speed by 100%.

The Quilen Champions:
Iron Qon battles atop his finest Quilen champions.

Throw Spear: Iron Qon hurls his mighty spear over a random player, inflicting 97500 to 102500 Physical damage on impact.
Flurry: Iron Qon slices rapidly at his quilen champion's current target for 5 sec.
Ro'shak, the Molten Flare:

Molten Inferno: Ro'shak emits molten flame, inflicting 55500 to 64500 Fire damage to all players. This will relieve Ro'shak of 100 Molten Energy.
Molten Overload: When he reaches maximum molten energy, Ro'shak will overload and combust, casting Molten Inferno every 1 sec until he is degraded of molten energy.
Unleashed Flame: Ro'shak incinerates the largest cluster of enemies he can find, inflicting 600000 Fire damage split evenly among targets within 8 yards. Discharging this flame will relieve Ro'shak of 300 Molten Energy.There must be at least 3 targets clustered in order to get Ro'shak's attention.

Scorched: Ro'shak's burning talons leave players Scorched, increasing Fire damage taken by 25% for 2 min.

Unleashed Flame: Ro'shak incinerates the largest cluster of enemies he can find, inflicting 600000 Fire damage split evenly among targets within 8 yards. Discharging this flame will relieve Ro'shak of 300 Molten Energy.There must be at least 5 targets clustered in order to get Ro'shak's attention.

Scorched: Ro'shak's burning talons leave players scorched, increasing Fire damage taken by 25%.

Ignite Spear: Burning Cinders: Ro'shak spits molten lava at Iron Qon's spear, causing it to rupture the ground with magma which inflicts 97500 to 102500 Fire damage initially and then 50000 Fire damage every 1 sec.

Quet'zal, the Stormcaller:

Arcing Lightning: Quet'zal zaps a random player with Lightning, stunning them and causing them to shock nearby allies for 39000 to 41000 Nature damage. This effect jumps to nearby allies, causing them to also pulse with electricity.They are stunned until another player pulls them out of the storm.
Windstorm: Quet'zal pulls all players into the eye of a rushing windstorm. Players suffer 19500 to 20500 Nature damage every 1 second until they are able to exit the storm.Once the storm is over, some rushing winds will linger.

Rushing Winds: Rushing winds attract players into the storm, inflicting 137654 Nature damage every 5 sec to those who stand within.

Strike Spear: Storm Cloud: Quet'zal calls lightning down on Iron Qon's spear, causing a rolling storm cloud that electrifies players for 195000 to 205000 Nature damage. Players become fully electrified and will be stunned at 3 stacks for 20 sec.

Dam'ren, the Frozen Sage:

Dead Zone: Dam'ren will directionally shield himself. Standing in the dead zone will cause all incoming and outgoing attacks to miss.
Freeze Mana: Dam'ren freezes a random mana user's mana. After 1-5 sec, Dam'ren will then Shatter their mana, inflicting 195000 to 205000 Frost damage to all enemies.
Freeze Spear: Frozen Blood: Dam'ren strikes Iron Qon's spear with ice, freezing the ground around it. Coming into contact with the frozen ground will inflict 195000 to 205000 Frost damage instantly and slow the player's movement, melee, ranged, and casting speeds by 25%.

Iron Qon's Last Stand:
Having lost his prime quilen mounts, Iron Qon faces you himself. In addition to his previous attacks, he gains new abilities.

Fist Smash: Having no spear in hand, Iron Qon smashes the ground violently, inflicting 48750 to 51250 Physical damage to all players every 0.75 sec for 7 sec.
Rising Anger: Iron Qon becomes increasingly angry, increasing damage done and attack speed by 10%.
Ignite Cyclone: Iron Qon ignites a random cyclone, causing it to burn all players for 9250 to 10750 Fire damage every 2 sec.
Freeze Cyclone: Iron Qon freezes a random cyclone, causing it to entomb players in ice on contact. The player will take damage equal to 5% of their maximum health every 2 sec.

Click the cut to read Blizzard posts, including 5.2 reputation and class balance posts by Ghostcrawler!5.2 Reputation Changes

Completing work orders on Sunsong Ranch will grant reputation with a faction.

You can now earn bonus reputation for your first dungeon and scenario of the day. You can select which reputation you choose to champion by selecting it from the reputation panel on the character screen.

Zandalari Warbringer currently on the PTR can drop Stolen Celestial Insignia, Stolen Golden Lotus Insignia, Stolen Klaxxi Insignia, Stolen Shado-Pan Insignia.

Draztal

What I would love to see is more choices to farm the reputation for factions, deffo not a tabard again I agree on that! But mayby a choice between dailies and something else

So we can assume that only one dungeon or one scenario will earn you rep?The answer was/is so blooming obvious, you never had to re-invent the wheel, just put the old one back on - simply having both at release (instead of removing tabards) - Blizz could of scored a blinder by satisfying everyone - missed opportunity by not keeping tabards with the current daily system on release, missed it again in 5.1 and instead opt for a watered down fix in 5.2.Ghostcrawler: 5.2 Class BalanceDeath Knight

Ghostcrawler

- Clarification on the Item - Death Knight T15 DPS 4P Bonus: It means that if you have a Killing Machine proc up and hit Soul Reaper, that Soul Reaper will be a guaranteed crit, will consume the Killing Machine Proc, and the future Soul Reaper Shadow detonation will also be a guaranteed crit. Basically, Killing Machine will function for Soul Reaper, just like it already does for Frost Strike and Obliterate.
- Item - Death Knight T15 DPS 4P Bonus - Causes Soul Reaper to deal additional Shadow damage to targets below 40% health (instead of 35%). Additionally, Killing Machine increases the crit chance of Soul Reaper and its additional damage to low health targets.

Druid

Ghostcrawler

- Cyclone range reduced back to 25 yards. (It was 30 yards in an earlier PTR build.)
- Glyph of Cyclone - increases range by 5 yards (rather than 4 yards which was an odd number left over from when it was a % increase).
- Maim damage has been increased by 100%.
- Feral PvP 2pc - now also increases duration by 1 sec.
- Feral PvP glove - has changed. It now increases Maim damage by 100%.
- Balance / Restoration PvP glove - changes have been reverted and once again increases the range of Cyclone by 5 yards.
- Feral PvE 4 pc - now also affects and Swipe (in addition to Mangle, Shred and FB).
- To explain our Cyclone logic a bit more, we wanted to nerf the ability for PvP. The DR change is a big nerf, but we think it's important. We had previously experimented with increasing range or duration of Cyclone, but were concerned those offset the intended nerf too much.
Drop Skull Bash to 10 energy (currently 15), since we lost of the Glove bonus.

Hunter

Ghostcrawler

Could you please make the bonus work for Aimed Shot (or even Steady Shot) too?

Paladin

Ghostcrawler

- For Retribution, we were trying to emphasize what was once the most awesome spell in the Ret arsenal (Divine Storm) while reacting to some of the initial feedback that the first set bonus wasn't exciting. As often happens in cases like this, the players who liked the first set bonus and not the second have now offered their feedback. I want to stress that when this happens it's not a poll or a contest to see who can yell the loudest. We evaluate the feedback we get, weigh the strengths of the various arguments, and come to a decision. For 5.2 we're going to go back to the initial 4 pc set bonus of Templar's Verdict sometimes hitting for Holy damage. I also want to stress that anyone expecting said bonus to be a 20% DPS increase or something are going to be disappointed, so I hope that's not why you liked the bonus. :)

Incorporating Divine Storm into the single-target rotation, sometimes, is still a neat idea and the kind of thing we might do as a glyph or something in the future.

Myself and many many many rets would be happy to just have these gimmics gone. Please?

Priest

Ghostcrawler

I'll be really frank here. I don't think the group portion of the heal is long for this world. I personally dig it and I feel smart when I see 5 people in a group all at once who need healing. It makes the spell different from other AEs.

On the other hand, it's pretty gamey. (I can only heal these five arbitrary people, why?) Priests feel like they have to ask raid leaders to set up groups with their weird AE spell in mind, which is really unlikely to happen in Raid Finder. It doesn't work at all on encounters like the shrines in Sha of Fear.

We're not going to change it for 5.2. We're probably not going to change it for 5.3. But I sense the writing on the wall here that it won't last much longer. I can imagine a future iteration where Prayer of Healing is the AE equivalent of Gheal and Circle of Healing is the AE equivalent of Flash Heal. (Yes, I know Disc doesn't have Circle of Healing - I'm in a really theoretical space here.)

Sorry. I broke my own rule about simple questions and answers. Sometimes I can't help it.
At the moment (which could still change) Rapture provides a 25% cheaper Power Word: Shield and a 150% mana return on a Power Word: Shield. When we tried PW:S at 50%, it became too efficient to use nothing but Power Word: Shield. We aren't trying to kill Prayer of Healing use completely, just shift to a balance where Power Word: Shield and SS are used for absorbs, and Prayer of Healing is used for healing. Yes, Disc Prayer of Healing will be weaker than Holy Prayer of Healing, but that is offset by the incredible benefit brought by absorbs. Please don't interpret this as "Because absorbs are so good and because absorbs are my thing, it is a design failure if I ever cast an actual heal."

Ghostcrawler

- PvP gloves - changed to increase healing by Recuperate by 1% of health.

Ghostcrawler

4 pc - now increases Demonic Fury from all spells by 10% (up from 5% on certain spells).

Ghostcrawler

In PvE particularly, we think it's better when players use their utility to help the group at large rather than balking because it's a personal DPS loss to do so. In PvP, you can make more of an argument that choosing to spend resources on an interrupt or on an attack is an interesting trade-off, but the fact is that many interrupts were already free (or so cheap as to be effectively free). There are exceptions to utility being free. Hamstring for example is not, but it also has no cooldown so were it also free it might as well be passive (or macro'd) because you wouldn't be making a decision about when to use it.
Um, the revert on the mastery changes, haste back down to 50% (though haste isn't very good for us anyway and is more a fury buff), and the rage cost on OP are all going backwards for arms DPS. I hope there's more changes coming? As it stands we would do far less in 5.2 compared to what we do on live now.

Taste for BloodTaste for BloodMortal StrikeMortal StrikeMortal StrikeLFR Loot System

Bashiok

The LFR loot system works as intended, but I think the rub is the expectations it sets. For traditional raiding you get together with your guildies and friends, you struggle on bosses, wipe after wipe, and finally through teamwork and perseverance you overcome the obstacle, loot drops, and even if you don't win a roll you feel like you've made a meaningful contribution to your team and your chances at success later through the overall gearing up of your raid group. In LFR the entire dynamic has to change because you're being matched up with a bunch of strangers. Because of that there is no feeling of helping your team get better, you enter the queue alone and it's mainly about personal goals to gear up, to then maybe help you in coordinated raids later. You're in there for loot for yourself, not to help the 24 other strangers gear up, and because of that there's less tolerance for overcoming obstacles, so encounters are much easier, and the loot system is per-person and not a communal distribution.

As others have noted the chance to get items in LFR versus a traditional raid scenario are actually higher, but that doesn't change the expectations of people jumping into LFR that this should be a system that provides more consistency. Whatever the underlying reason is for that, I'm not totally sure it matters beyond there is an expectation difference between traditional raiding and LFR. It's something we're keeping an eye on for potential tweaks in the future. We have tech for quests that increases your chance for a quest item to drop if you haven't gotten one recently, and so that's something we're at least beginning to think about and how that kind of consistency system could translate into things like the LFR. If nothing else tweaking drop rates on prior tiers when a new tier hits is pretty low hanging fruit on at least ensuring people can more easily get those last few ilvls so they can queue for the new tier.

Ghostcrawler on Twitter

Ghostcrawler

What do you think about including some Lesser Charm of Good Fortune in the LFR consolation bag?
As we said in some of the 5.1 interviews, we plan on putting some better goodies in the consolation bag. (View Source)

Saw the rogue pvp glove change. It helps and I like it. Can we test the sets on PTR?
Being able to try out all the sets on the PTR is a goal. It won't be in the next build or so, but we'd like to get there. (View Source)

With the removal of blanket silences and abilities that were being used to quickly end games, what was the mindset with ROP?
We knew monks needed something serious to get a toehold in PvP. Doubt the current RoP will be the shipping one though. (View Source)

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Comment by BahamutBBob I wonder why they decided to add a new rep for VP gear. At least, it sounds to me like they added a new rep for VP gear. I hope we get exalted with it just from doing the 5.2 story, instead of having to grind it out from raiding or something just as inaccessible to non raiders.

For the record, I hated having to grind rep originally just to buy VP gear. I would have gotten around to all of them eventually anyway, and I have, but why lock VP gear away like that? You already have to invest a lot of time to earn the VP to buy the gear, why make us invest more just to get the rep up to buy the gear? It feels to me like MoP has been all about time. Making us invest more time for the same stuff, so that we give them more money in the end. Comment by gerakios I hope we get exalted with it just from doing the 5.2 story, instead of having to grind it out from raiding or something just as inaccessible to non raiders.http://www.wowhead.com/news=210039/5-2-ptr-patch-notes-updated-january-16Join the Shado-Pan Assault in their singular drive to see Lei Shen, The Thunder King defeated once and for all, and gain access to impressive Valor reward items. Reputation with this faction can be earned only within the Throne of Thunder raid dungeon.Comment by oxidiser Yup. All that did for me was to lock out all that gear. I don't have a lot of time to play most days so I ended up going the most efficient route of getting decent gear. So when I first entered LFR I had like 2 pieces of heroic gear, 1 or 2 pieces of crafted gear and everything else was pvp gear. Doesn't seem optimal but it worked and didn't require me to grind dailies (which I detest). Comment by Wirxaw Soul Reaper? Seriously? Warriors have one of the highest possible burst in game, and in the end about 20-30% of their damage comes from execute, which is a spammable ability that replaces normal rotation.

Soul Reaper is a delayed, missable, runecosting ability(that messes up rotation), which has a CD, and deals so subpar damage that it is more viable than Obliterate by a small margin of single rune requirement. Obliterate crit - 200k, Soul Reaper initial crit - 50k, final - 200-230k.
Since most fights have a short window of 35%> duration, normally you will be using not more than 10 Soul Reapers. Which is maybe 1-2mil more damage, that is if you have enough runes to properly use them without ruining rotation(unlikely), you don't miss any of them(by any chances) and you do not stop the application.
I surely am glad that now I will feel safe to see a KM proc in 35% window and know that if I use SR, I will not have KM overwritten during GCD. However, buffing something so miserable, while there are serious problems with TH rotation...
Does it really imply that all dks must again go DW and just spam whatever pops up? Or well, four with this tier bonus.
Spending whole bonus just to make an inferior ability somewhat noticeable, while other classes get things like 2p shaman bonus... How much more hate can dk dps get? Comment by Lolus My guess is VP rep is finally coming from raiding, since people who do LFR or dungeons don't need VP gear at all. Now people finally can't complaint about dailies since they won't give you access to new epics, they will be purely optional for some goods and mounts Comment by Fangnir damn it ghost crawler! ...... let us turn in more lesser charms per week for more greater charms ;/ .... and also fix blood dks for pvp again... they DO NOT need so many self heals. EVER.

would be gratefull if someone else would relay this to the proper section lol Comment by Dropz Oo.. I'm really looking forward to wearing that beast-DM hat :D
Furthermore the reputation changes will hopefully silence most of the "Have to finish dailyhub X in order to do Y,Z" Looking forward to this! :) Comment by Cynders Thank god, im so sick of dailies!

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