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Mists of Pandaria - Build 15983: Spell Changes and More
On top of the big announcements earlier today--the
Mists of Pandaria Opening Cinematic
and
all races available across expansions in 5.0.4
--Blizzard pushed a new beta build. There's been a lot recently, but the blues have stated to expect a bunch of patches in quick succession before 5.0.4.
Click here to see the latest additions!
Patch Highlights
A few items were added to fix itemization holes:
Band of Bursting Novas
,
Galaxyfire Girdle
,
Crown of Keening Stars
Several Tier 14 set bonuses were changed:
Item - Druid T14 Balance 4P Bonus
: Increases the duration of your Moonfire and Sunfire spells by 2 sec.
Item - Monk T14 Mistweaver 4P Bonus
: Increases the healing done by Enveloping Mist by 5%.
Rogues have spell modifications for a change--pretty rare!
The guild achievement
Scenario Roundup
now unlocks Guild Shirts, like
Artisan Member's Shirt
.
Click the cut to see all of the spell changes!
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All Races Available in 5.0.4
Blizzard
With the release of patch 5.0.4, we’re making all the races of Azeroth playable by anyone, no matter which version or expansion of World of Warcraft they own. This includes the enigmatic pandaren, who will become available for play when Mists of Pandaria is released on Tuesday, September 25. We want the entire World of Warcraft community to be able to embrace their inner goblin, blood elf, worgen, draenei, or pandaren from the moment they step foot into the world of Azeroth.
Now, the only hard part will be choosing a name. Who will you be next?
I've seen some confusion about when pandaren character creation will be accessible.
Just to be clear on the announcement, we're making it possible for people to create a character of any race, regardless of what expansions you've purchased. So if you only have the original game (which now has The Burning Crusade included), when patch 5.0.4 hits you'll be able to create goblin and worgen characters as well. And, once Mists of Pandaria is released, you'll be able to create pandaren characters, regardless of wh
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Mists of Pandaria Opening Cinematic
You've ended Deathwing's destructive rampage and saved the dragonflights from extinction. Now you must unlock the mysteries of the lost continent and discover the dark secrets of Pandaria's past. Explore ancient kingdoms hidden since before the Sundering, plunder vast treasures from the depths of the forgotten vaults, and rise to defend Pandaria from the shadow of a long buried evil - before it's too late.
We are pleased to present the opening cinematic for Mists of Pandaria as presented at gamescom 2012. Whether you’re Horde or Alliance, there is one question we all must consider: “Why do we fight?”
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Mists of Pandaria: Legendary Weapons Preview
The updated version of the guide for 5.1 can be found
here
Mists of Pandaria introduced a legendary that all classes can complete, a drastic change from the rogue-only weapon of Tier 13. Players acquire one of nine "Sha-Touched" weapons from Tier 14 raids, completing a series of quests with
Wrathion
to acquire special +500 stat gems. We don't know the whole quest chain yet, but the first part will let you put a legendary gem in an epic weapon, which isn't a bad start. Datamined icons with legendary names and
Breath of the Black Prince
imply that the final result will be a legendary weapon.
Right now, all of these base weapons have versions and unique colors from LFR, Normal, and Heroic difficulty. You can complete this
initial quest series on any difficulty including LFR
and put the legendary gem (can be purchased from Wrathion multiple times) into Sha-Touched weapons on any tier.
The goal is for players to be rewarded with something really special that stick with the legendary questline through multiple content patches.
Video Preview
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Professions: Living in Perfect Harmony
As with any new expansion, we often find that we have an opportunity to take a closer look at a variety of game systems within World of Warcraft and explore new ideas or improvements to the game. One system in particular is held near and dear to the hearts of the community: professions. With Mists of Pandaria, the designers were able to seize upon an opportunity to look at the role of materials and refine their purpose and their usefulness. In the end, they came up with Spirit of Harmony as the new resource du jour.
Harmonious Prospects
In Mists of Pandaria, we’re introducing a new material known as the Spirit of Harmony. It slices— it dices— well, ok, it doesn’t, but crafters of any stripe will find it has many uses. By now, any experienced crafter is used to filling bags with a variety of materials such as Primal Life, Primal Fire, Primal Earth, etc. but in Mists of Pandaria, it’s all about Spirit of Harmony (in combination with the usual materials, like ore, leather, and gems). Spirit of Harmony is the result of the designers simplifying an already complex system while still keeping a wide variety of possibilities open to players.
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Dev Watercooler: Scenarios
We recently began revealing the Scenarios you’ll experience at level 90 in World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria on our preview site. As the final tweaks are being made, we thought it would be a good time to sit down with Senior Game Designer Dave Maldonado and Game Designer Jonathan LeCraft for a little behind-the-scenes perspective on this unique new system.
What do Scenarios bring to World of Warcraft that we haven't seen before?
Dave Maldonado
: From a technological standpoint, almost everything in the system is new. Players are obviously going to see the World of Warcraft they know and love when they're running Scenarios, but all of the technology driving what we can do with Scenarios is new, and we took that as an opportunity to really indulge in new ways of interacting with the players, the NPCs, and the environment. It was a lot of work to design the technology, with a whole new UI, and new tracking systems and so forth, and while that programming was going on, we got to dream up and implement a lot of randomization and many new things for monsters to do and for the environment to do.
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Mists of Pandaria - Build 15972 - Spell Changes, Items, Icons, and More
Another new patch is hitting the beta today.
Blizzard changed the file structure yet again, so some of these changes are probably from the last couple of patches--some of them appear to be new.
We'll keep you guys updated.
Latest Additions
Check out the latest additions here
.
A
Straw Hat
was added in every armor type as a Tiller reward that's transmoggable!
I Can't Hear You Over the Sound of How Awesome I Am
is now a Feat of Strength.
The
Fox Kit
is now tied to the Baradin Hold reputation rather than an extremely rare droprate from the zone's foxes. Yeah--it didn't really make sense you killed foxes to receive their offspring, anyway.
There may be a mage portal for some MoP areas:
Portal: Vale of Eternal Blossoms
There were a lot of new items added that are all ilevel 496.
Many Dragon Soul and Firelands boss abilities were nerfed--check it out under the NPC Abilities toggle. This is most likely compensating for mana and other talent changes in Mists.
Icons
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Patch 5.0.4 on August 28th, PvP Season 11 Ending
Community manager Kaivax just confirmed that Patch 5.0.4 will hit on August 28th for US servers. This patch brings about many class changes as well as the pre-expansion Theramore event.
Blizzard also announced today that Season 11 is ending the week of Tuesday, August 28th, with end-of-season rewards following one week later. In the interim period until Mists of Pandaria, there will be no
cap, and old
will be converted to
.
Arena and Rated Battleground Season 11 is scheduled to end on Wednesday, August 29. At that point, we will determine who is eligible for the end-of-season rewards, a process that should take approximately one week. It's very important for players who feel that they may be eligible for Arena titles and/or the
Cataclysmic Gladiator's Twilight Drake
to refrain from transferring their characters to another realm or faction until after Season 11 ends. The awarding of Season 11 titles and mounts will occur approximately 1 week after the season ends.
At the end of the season,
will be converted to
, possibly exceeding the 4,000 point
cap. There will be no cap on [cur
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Pandaren Character Customization and Mogu'shan Vaults Preview
Blizzard released several Mists of Pandaria previews this evening: check out the overview of
Mogu'shan Vaults
, the first raid open to players in Mists, as well as the Pandaren character customization page that has dozens of possible combinations.
Neon hair streaks
for all!
We’ve just released not one, but two new previews for Mists of Pandaria!
The new
pandaren customization page
allows you to explore the vast number of unique looks for your pandaren characters. Check out all the hairstyles, fur colors, faces, beards, and earrings at your disposal either at character creation or in the barber shop to set your own character apart. Pick from any of more than 200,000* possible combinations!
We’ve also released a sneak peek at the
Mogu’shan Vaults
, one of the high-level raids that await you and your friends in Pandaria. Learn more about the history of this ancient site and dis
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Mists of Pandaria: Justice Point Rewards, News Round Up
In this latest beta patch, Justice Point gear was added to reputation vendors. These additional items are all ilvl 450 rare-quality armor pieces purchasable at
Honored
, and they have some sweet models we haven't seen before--click on the images to view them in our 3D Modelviewer. Unlike past expansions, gear from
Justice Points
will have a worse ilvl than gear from heroic dungeons. All vanity trinkets also appear to be 0
Justice Points
, which may be a bug, as they serve little PvE purpose.
You can also purchase these items from Justice Point Quartermasters by the Temple of the Black Ox.
Justice Point Reputation Gear
Chest:
Shado-Pan
, 0
Justice Points
Robe of Eternal Dynasty
Robe of Quiet Meditation
Pants:
The August Celestials
, 0
Justice Points
Leggings of Unfinished Conquest
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Mists of Pandaria: Vanity Items
After previewing all the
rare elites and their vanity drops
recently, we're taking a look at the rest of the fun items in Mists of Pandaria. There are disguises, pets, picnic baskets, and trinkets with fun visual procs. to name a few!
While quest rewards use a dynamic system in Mists of Pandaria, there's still some neat vanity items everyone gets, regardless of spec. And there's collectable items from dungeons, scenarios, and reputation vendors too.
Questing
Valley of the Four Winds
Valley of the Four Winds
has the most vanity rewards out of all the zones. Fortunately, many are available early on while questing.
Orange Painted Turnip
from
Crouching Carrot, Hidden Turnip
: Use: Throw an Orange Painted Turnip at the target location, causing any nearby vermin to run away in fear for 3 sec. (5 Min Cooldown)
Watermelon Bomb
from
A Poor Grasp of the Basics
: Use: Throw a watermelon at target location, covering nearby enemies in sticky watermelon which will prevent them from moving for 3 sec. Has no effect on players. (5 Min Cooldown)
Covered Basket
from
Weed War
: Use: Set out a Pandaren Picnic for you an
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Mists of Pandaria - Build 15961 - Spell Changes, Latest Additions and More
A new beta patch was datamined this morning--it's pretty small, but we have all the new items and spell changes up.
Check out the latest additions!
Patch Highlights
New rings, tied to the Golden Lotus faction:
Seal of the Bloodseeker
,
Seal of the Lucid
,
Seal of the Prime
,
Seal of the Unscathed
,
Seal of the Windreaver
New guild achievements:
Ambassadors
,
Diplomacy
Typhoon
is back as a talent.
Grimoire of Sacrifice
got a new tooltip, clarifying how each spec gets ability boosts:
Affliction: Damage dealt by Malefic Grasp, Drain Soul, Haunt and Fel Flame increased by 50%.
Damage dealt by Shadow Bolt, Soul Fire, Hand of Gul'dan, Metamorphosis Melee, Wild Imps and Fel Flame increased by 35%
Damage dealt by Incinerate, Conflagrate, Shadowburn, Chaos Bolt and Fel Flame increased by 30%.
Some Tier 14 set bonuses were tweaked:
Item - Priest T14 Healer 2P Bonus
changes discussed by blues
recently
are in.
Hit the break to see th
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Blizzard Entertainment: Important Security Update
Mike Morhaime just released an important security update: there was unauthorized illegal access into Blizzard Entertainment's internal network this past week. While the information retrieved is not enough for anyone to gain access to Battle.net accounts, as a precaution, they recommend players on North American servers change their passwords.
Update: Blizzard has also posted a detailed FAQ regarding the unauthorized access on August 4th.
Players and Friends,
Even when you are in the business of fun, not every week ends up being fun. This week, our security team found an unauthorized and illegal access into our internal network here at Blizzard. We quickly took steps to close off this access and began working with law enforcement and security experts to investigate what happened.
At this time, we’ve found no evidence that financial information such as credit cards, billing addresses, or real names were compromised. Our investigation is ongoing, but so far nothing suggests that these pieces of information have been accessed.
Some data was illegally accessed, including a list of email addresses for global Battle.net users, outside of C
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News Round Up: Scroll of Resurrection Changes, RAF for Monks
The Scroll of Resurrection program received some updates today for Mists of Pandaria, in light of players leveling Monks. Low-level Pandaren cannot receive Scroll of Resurrection rewards, all Monks will be ineligible for rewards, and talents will no longer be preselected.
However, Zarhym clarified that Monks will still be able to take full advantages of RAF bonuses as well as remain eligible for realm firsts. In addition there's no news about the mount rewards being removed anytime soon:
Spectral Gryphon
and
Spectral Wind Rider
.
Pet lovers should also rejoice, as
Fox Kit
will be purchasable for 0
Tol Barad Commendation
on live servers soon. Blizzard Game Designer Jonathan LeCraft
tweeted
this image yesterday, along with the message "Just added the fox kit to some vendors... #wow." The grind was very punishing before, so this change is great news--plus, it will breathe some life back into
Tol Barad
.
There's also been an unusually large amount of class feedback on the beta forums. Of particular note:
has been significantly changed: "The net result will be that
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Mists of Pandaria: August Celestials Guide
The August Celestials defend Pandaria's temples from the Sha. Each day, they'll send you to one of four temples to complete a short series of daily quests. Rewards include epic bracers, gloves, and boots as well as Reins of the Thundering August Cloud Serpent.
Patch Changes
5.4 Changes
Justice Point and Valor Point gear no longer requires reputation and has undergone cost changes.
5.3 Changes
Players will not need Revered with
Golden Lotus
to unlock this faction.
5.2 Changes
Sunsong Ranch now has
Work Order quests
that can boost your reputation with two factions per day. You must have unlocked that faction's dailies in order to be eligible for Work Orders, which award +300 reputation. For the August Celestials, there are
Work Order: The August Celestials I
and
Work Order: The August Celestials II
.
Random dungeons and scenarios now have a "*Bonus Reputation:" line and a button that opens up your reputation panel. You'll get additional rep for completing your first scenario and dungeon of the day.
Zandalari Warbringer
, rare spawns in coastal areas around Pandaria,
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Mists of Pandaria - Build 15952
A small beta patch was datamined tonight--should be hitting servers pretty soon.
Check out all the latest additions!
Patch Highlights
Players complained that
Replica Shado-Pan Helmet
was limited to cloth users for transmog, so now there are leather, mail, and plate versions!
More Elite loot from Protectors of the Endless:
Legguards of Failing Purification
Additional LFR satchels were put in:
Cache of Sha-Touched Gold
StarCraft II FoS added:
Collector's Edition: Baneling
Several Tier 14 set bonuses were changed:
Item - Druid T14 Guardian 4P Bonus
: Increases the healing received from your Frenzied Regeneration by 10% and increases the dodge granted by your Savage Defense by an additional 5%.
Item - Paladin T14 Protection 4P Bonus
: Increases the healing done by your Word of Glory spell by 10% and increases the damage reduction of your Shield of the Righteous ability by 10%.
Item - Priest T14 Shadow 4P Bonus
: Increases the duration of your Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch spells by 3 sec, and increases the damage done by Shadow Word: Insanity by 15%.
Item - Warrior T14 Protection 4P Bonus
: Reduces the cost of your Shield Block ability by 5 Rage and increases the damage absorbe
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Mists of Pandaria: Valor Point and Gear Acquisition Preview
This latest beta patch added some major boosts to gearing up quickly in Mists:
Valor of the Ancients
and
Elder Charm of Good Fortune
. In light of these additions, we've broken down all the changes to
Valor Points
in Mists of Pandaria and all the new ways you can acquire them.
Valor of the Ancients
and
Elder Charm of Good Fortune
Two big ways to increase your loot acquisition per week were added in recent beta patches.
Valor of the Ancients
: All characters on that realm now earn 50% more Valor Points when one character is capped. However, the maximum cap is now 3,000
Valor Points
, down from 4,000. This is great for alts or players who aren't sure what character they want to commit to more in early Mists. With account-wide achievements, it's great to have multiple characters geared enough to swap into raids to fill a needed role.
Elder Charm of Good Fortune
: Whenever you kill a raid boss, a UI window will ask if you want to spend a
Elder Charm of Good Fortune
on an extra roll. You will get another shot at the boss' loot table and win something extra--gold, gems, flasks, and possibly epic loot for your spec. 3 can be acquired each week from
Elder Charms of Good Fortune
, and
Lesser Charm of Good Fortune
can be acquired from compl
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World Boss Preview: Salyis's Warband
The ruthless saurok roam Pandaria, stealing what they can and harassing the island's other inhabitants. The most infamous of these reptilian pillagers are Chief Salyis and his warband. For years, the saurok commander and his raiders have stormed through the Valley of the Four Winds atop Galleon, a colossal and well-armed mushan that is more a moving fortress than a simple mount.
Check out the Mists of Pandaria preview website and get a first glimpse at one of the two new roaming world bosses:
Salyis’s Warband
! These extremely powerful monsters will do everything in their power to make your life more... “interesting” as you explore the mysterious continent of Pandaria.
World bosses spawn in the open world and can be attacked by any player (un)fortunate enough to cross their paths. Salyis's Warband will be quite rare, while the expansion's other boss will appear with fairly regular frequency. But before you charge headfirst into battle, keep in mind that it will take the combined efforts of a full r
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News Round Up: Reduced Droprates for Heroic Mounts
Invincible's Reins
is hard to get and so is
Mimiron's Head
. Unsurprisingly, it looks like
Life-Binder's Handmaiden
and
Smoldering Egg of Millagazor
will be getting reduced drop rates too next expansion, as blue posts clarified today. It would be trivial to get guaranteed mounts from heroic encounters an expansion later.
Life-Binder's Handmaiden
and
Smoldering Egg of Millagazor
are easier to get than their Wrath counterparts were.
Smoldering Egg of Millagazor
drops on normal-mode, heroic mounts are available on 10s difficulty this expansion, and multiple
Life-Binder's Handmaiden
on 25s means everyone in the raid gets them faster.
Blizzard has already clarified upcoming achievements like
Cutting Edge: Grand Empress Shek'zeer
will only be available in their current tier, so it looks like they still want some heroic rewards to remain time-sensitive, not something to overgear and farm an expansion later.
If these mounts do become much harder to get, at least
Corrupted Egg of Millagazor
and
Reins of the Twilight Harbinger
from meta achievements have the same models.
Draztal
Will the mounts be an 1% drop ish in MoP? Or do they stay as current 100%?
I haven't seen any information on this as of yet :).
Thanks for reading.
The developers haven't decided yet how t
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Mists of Pandaria: 5.4 Vale of Eternal Blossoms and Golden Lotus Guide
In Patch 5.4, the
Vale of Eternal Blossoms
got some
major changes
. Parts of the Golden Lotus rep grind have changed and some quests and items have been removed.
We've broken down what's staying and going away, as well as provided a look at the Golden Lotus quests if your'e curious to read that for nostalgia's sake. In Patch 5.4, the Vale is corrupted into the Vale of Eternal Sorrows, and familiar figures from the Vale are
Siege of Orgrimmar bosses
.
Removed in 5.4
:
Eternally in the Vale
is removed, as well as the related quests and rewards. This is now a Feat of Strength.
The multi-tiered daily system is simplified. The only daily hub remaining is by Setting Sun Garrison.
The quests to kill elites are removed, and instead, the elites are rare spawns..
The
Jewel Danio
have been moved to
Timeless Isle
.
Many parts of the Vale are now Sha-infested and destroyed. Most NPCs are ting
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