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Subject: 4/8 PTR Updates
Zarhym posted:
General
  • Flying mounts can now be used in Ghostlands.
  • Honor is now purchasable from the Justice Commodities Vendor at 250 Honor per 375 Justice.
  • Justice is now purchasable from the Honor Commodities Vendor at 250 Justice per 375 Honor.
  • Conquest is now purchasable from the Valor vendor at 250 Conquest per 250 Valor.

Classes
  • Several persistent ground effects now display different visuals for hostile and friendly players. The following spells have the same visual effects for friendly players, but new alternate visuals for hostile players: Ring of Frost, Consecration, Desecration, Wild Mushroom, Flare, Ice Trap, Power Word: Barrier, Smoke Bomb, and Hand of Gul'dan. As a general rule, the alternate effects have a red tint or hue indicating they are created by an enemy player. There are currently some issues with this new change which are affecting several of these abilities and is not working as intended at this time.

Druid
  • Enrage no longer increases physical damage taken

Hunter
  • Deterrence: The area damage of the paladin ability Hammer of the Righteous will no longer hit Hunters with Deterrence active.

Mage
  • Frost Armor has been reworked:
    • It now reduces physical damage taken by 15%, instead of providing 20% additional armor.
    • The Chilled proc from Frost Armor can no longer proc Fingers of Frost.
    • The attack speed slow from the Chilled proc is now 20%, down from 25%, but it also affects ranged attack speed.
    • Frost Armor also no longer increases Frost resistance.

Paladin
  • Selfless Healer: The damage bonus from this talent now has a 30 sec duration instead of 10 sec.
  • Avenger's Shield can no longer be blocked.
  • Judgements of the Just debuff can no longer trigger talents and other effects.
  • Seal of Truth: Fixed a tooltip error that stated swings at targets with Censure fully stacked dealt 9% weapon damage. They actually dealt 15% damage and the tooltip has been updated accordingly.

Warlock
  • Dark Intent: The friendly target of this ability now receives 1% (stacking 3 times to 3%) periodic spell damage and healing bonus instead of 3% (stacking 3 times to 9%). The casting Warlock still receives 3% (stacking 3 times to 9%).

Dungeons & Raids
  • The Dungeon Finder: Call to Arms will now identify which class role is currently the least represented in the queue, and offer them additional rewards for entering the Dungeon Finder queue and completing a random level-85 Heroic dungeon.
    • The least represented class icon will show within the Dungeon Finder to indicate the role that is eligible to earn the bonus reward.
    • Players must queue solo with the currently indicated least represented class (by the system) and complete the dungeon up to and including the final boss in order to be eligible for the bonus reward.
    • The bonus reward will be displayed to eligible (system identified as least represented) classes within the UI.
    • Once the dungeon is completed the eligible player will receive a goodie bag with various potential rewards including: gold, rare gems, non-combat pets, and (very rare) mounts.
  • Bastion of Twilight
    • Sinestra
      • Twilight Slicer is now less likely to target two helers at once.
      • Wrack will avoid jumping to tanks.
  • Halls of Origination
    • Temple Gardian Anhuur should now properly go into his Shield Phase at 33% even if he was channeling his 66% shield phase.
  • Lost City of Tol'vir
    • Soul Fragments that spawn during the High Prophet Barim encounter should now perform an emote when they merge with the Harbinger of Darkness.

Guild Challenges
  • Gold rewards require the qualified guild members of the group to be honored with their guild, and the guild must be are now deposited into the guild bank once the guild reaches level 5. The text for the Cash Flow guild perk has been updated appropriately.

Quests & Creatures
  • New Cooking and Fishing Dailies have been added to Darnassus, Ironforge, Thunder Bluff, and Undercity.

User Interface
  • Targets and focus targets now display on the mini-map.
  • Moved Video and Sound to a new ?Options? screen.
  • Added a network category to the new Options screen and included the two network checkboxes.
    • The Network category contains the options "Optimize network for speed" and "Enable IPv6 when available".
  • Visual Settings Updates
    • Removed the red bar preventing the overall graphics slider from going to ultra based on computer specs.
    • When the user moves the overall slider to a setting that would have previously been prevented, any option that can't go as high as that setting will get the warning icon with a tooltip explaining why it can't go higher. For example: The user sets the overall slider to Ultra and the water setting can only go to Fair. The water setting would automatically switch to Fair.
    • Support for DirectX 11 can now be found in the Advanced tab of the Options screen.
  • At the login screen:
    • Moved the "Reset User Options" button from the popup window that appears when you click Options to the actual Options window.
    • Clicking Options now goes directly to the Video tab of the Options screen.
    • Removed the now-unneeded popup.
  • The New Features (!) Option Screen has been updated:
    • Cast action keybinds on key down (Combat)
    • Pick Up Action Key (ActionBars)
    • Nameplate Motion Type (Names)
    • Graphics API (Advanced)
    • Network category


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# Honor is now purchasable from the Justice Commodities Vendor at 250 Honor per 375 Justice.
# Justice is now purchasable from the Honor Commodities Vendor at 250 Justice per 375 Honor.

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# Honor is now purchasable from the Justice Commodities Vendor at 250 Honor per 375 Justice.
# Justice is now purchasable from the Honor Commodities Vendor at 250 Justice per 375 Honor.

/facepalm




well, if this is true, you can just PvP to get Heroic geared for most slots and not have to bother with craptastic Heroic queues!

 

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Zarhym posted [strike]Flying mounts can now be used in Ghostlands.[/strike]



WTF ...this has been whooping their arses for a few months now..

 

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Frost Armor changes...
Whoa.
Wait.
Does this mean they don't "snare-slow" anymore when struck by melee/ranged dmg?

 

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Subject: 4/8 PTR Updates
NukeMage posted:
-Peo- posted:
# Honor is now purchasable from the Justice Commodities Vendor at 250 Honor per 375 Justice.
# Justice is now purchasable from the Honor Commodities Vendor at 250 Justice per 375 Honor.

/facepalm




well, if this is true, you can just PvP to get Heroic geared for most slots and not have to bother with craptastic Heroic queues!


I had this discussion the other night after our raid time and said we'll all just be doing BG's and arena's now because with 250 conquest -> 250 valor it's easier to get maxed on conquest in a day. the way we figured it you could max it in one day of arena's, daily BG and versus 7 days of doing a heroic each day (which will change so you could do 7 in one day) and on top of that clearing all the raid content.


really blizzard... which is easier? 10 arena games and a daily BG or all the raids and 7 daily heroics? because a heroic takes 45 minutes if you have a GOOD group that is overgeared and can clear it wheras people can do arena games with no gear and still win and get the points.


my side of the arguement is that it is now easer to gear for PvE by doing PvP as opposed to PvE and after everyone had their say they all conceded that I was correct. even if you aren't good at pvp you can AFK in a BG and eventually get your 1 win. try that in a pug heroic and you'll get kicked. 10 arenas games is faster than 7 heroics in terms of time.

anyone cares to counter my opinion feel free, but you can now almost completely epic gear your character with PvE gear by solely doing PvP. add on top of that that for most characters the PvP weapon is by far the best option to get other than a raid drop and you're almost BiS for PvE purely doing PvP.

 

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That's the problem.

They screw up PvE so badly that people will just partake in the atrocity that is PvP to get their gear now. Do you realize how bad PvE has to be that people would rather do broken BGs and terrible arena rather than do a heroic?

Oh, but B team is happy with where the game is at.....

Patiently waiting for the name of the game ot be changed to Wheel of Facepalm. Spin the wheel see what the Devs will screw up next.

 

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Good changes, I may resub.

 

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<<<
Honor is now purchasable from the Justice Commodities Vendor at 250 Honor per 375 Justice.
Justice is now purchasable from the Honor Commodities Vendor at 250 Justice per 375 Honor.
Conquest is now purchasable from the Valor vendor at 250 Conquest per 250 Valor.
>>>

*checks date*

Nope, one week after.

They not only jumped the shark this time, they are f'n tapdancing in tophats on the poor guy's back.

 

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