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By Staff
It seems new Hunters are going to be a little lonely for a while in Season of Discovery and Classic Era. The quest that unlocks beast taming is currently bugged, but Blizzard are working on it.
Tame (Source)
We’re aware of this issue and working on a fix for it.
We expect the fix to require realm restarts, so please keep an eye out for that.
Thank you for your reports!
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Update: Blizzard have added the twice weekly reset for Sunken Temple PvP Rank 10 to the notes.
Blizzard just shared the notes for this week's Season of Discovery Phase 4 launch! We have the launch time, raids and dungeons, new rune slots, runes from previous phases changed to baseline abilities, new world events, reputations and more.
SoD Phase 4 Notes (Source)
Phase 4
Season of Discovery Phase 4 officially begins on Thursday, July 11 at 1:00 p.m. PDT (22:00 CEST). Players will be able to level up to level 60 for the first time, and will gain access to new dungeons, quest and zone content, and a variety of other fun features.
July 11 at 1:00 p.m. PDT (22:00 CEST) – Phase 4 begins and the level cap is raised to 60. July 18 at 1:00 p.m. PDT (22:00 CEST) – The Tainted Scar and Storm Cliffs raid instances become available. July 25 at 1:00 p.m. PDT (22:00 CEST) – Onyxia’s Lair and the Molten Core raid instances become available. General
All cosmetic trinkets such as the Atal’alarion’s Enchanted Boulder and the Bargain Bush are no longer trinkets and may now be placed in the Keyring for storage. Now, when you obtain one of these items, it will go directly to the keyring automatically. Please be sure to check there first if you feel you misplaced or lost the item. Developers’ notes: Inventory space in Season of Discovery is at a premium, but due to the fact the Classic Era client does not yet have the full collections interface that Cataclysm Classic has, we’ve enabled these items to function as toys and be stored in the Keyring as a stopgap solution so that players don’t feel like they have to choose between a fun toy item and bag space. This is not a permanent solution. Ziri Littlesprocket in Gnomeregan now has an option to allow players who own the 60% version of the Florescent Green Mechanostrider to obtain for a 100% speed version of the mount in exchange for 800g plus the original mount item. Mai’zin in Stranglethorn Vale ha had a few updates to his wares. He will offer players the option to upgrade their Golden Sabercat or Mottled Blood Raptor to a 100% version of the mount for 800g plus the original mount item. Bloodstained Commendation honor tokens are now purchasable for 25 Copper Slaughter Coins. Slaughter Coins are the new Blood Moon Currency earnable from player kills above level 58. The Alliance have gained access to a version of the Warchief’s Blessing world buff effect: The Might of Stormwind. This new buff is gained for turning in a new quest “End of the Dark Horde” in Stormwind and is mutually exclusive with Warchief’s Blessing. The maximum of Rank 10 is now available in PvP. Rune Engraving and Discoveries
Players may now earn additional runes for the cloak slot as well as special weapon skill and spell school specialization runes for the ring slots. These runes are hidden in various places all across Azeroth, waiting to be discovered. Good luck and happy hunting! A number of former rune abilities have been converted to baseline abilities and are now learned via spell books. These and other special Season of Discovery spell books are available to purchase from Milton Sheaf in the Stormwind Keep library in Stormwind for alliance players, and from Zor Lonetree at Grommash Hold in the Valley of Wisdom in Orgrimmar for horde players. Priests can now discover a method to unlock the ability for utilize a second Priest-specific racial ability such as Fear Ward, Devouring Plague, and Starshards. Developers’ notes: We’re going to be keeping the nature of this discovery secret, but there are elements of this process that involve a one-time server-wide unlock. May the power of the light (or shadow) guide your way! Raids and Dungeons
Starting on July 18, Azuregos and Doom Lord Kazzak will become available as instanced single-boss raid encounters. You may find portals to the Tainted Scar in the Blasted Lands and to the Storm Cliffs in Azshara. These encounters are designed to be completed with 20 players but the instances themselves allow up to 40 players to be present. The difficulty and number of loot drops does not scale according to the number of players in the instance, however. These two raids reset twice per week. Starting on July 25, Onyxia’s Lair becomes available. Like Azuregos and Kazzak, this encounter is tuned for 20 players, but the instance allows up to 40 players to be present. The difficulty and number of rewards does not change based on the number of players present, however. This raid resets twice per week. Starting on July 25, The Molten Core becomes available. In Season of Discovery Molten Core is a 20-player raid featuring 11 bosses. Players will find a new variable difficulty system in place to allow for additional challenges and in some cases, additional rewards. Players may speak with the Hydraxian Waterlords agent inside the raid instance to change the difficulty. This raid resets once per week. Bosses in the Sunken Temple raid now provide a sizable amount of experience points when killed. The Sunken Temple raid now resets twice per week. Many classic Molten Core raid drops and endgame dungeon drops have been revamped for Season of Discovery. Additionally, many brand-new item rewards have been added to various different types of endgame content for players to discover. A new max-level dungeon has been added to the game. Players will need to explore Azeroth to discover how to attune to and access this new dungeon. Most dungeon boss creatures over level 55 will now drop a currency called Tarnished Undermine Real which may be exchanged to a certain vendor in Booty Bay for exciting rewards. This currency drops from each boss once per day for each player in the group. The Dungeon Upgrade set item quests will be available in the game starting on July 11 along with the launch of Phase 4. Players can discover new and improved versions of the classic 8-piece dungeon sets in various classic dungeons and upgrade these items into powerful new versions with several role-specific variants via the Dungeon Upgrade quest chain. World Events
A new timed event has been added to the Searing Gorge, Blackrock Mountain, and Burning Steppes: Blackrock Eruption. Every 2 hours, Blackrock Mountain will become unstable, causing additional spawns to appear and adding additional environmental hazards to certain areas. While the event is active, players will gain access to a number of daily quests that will award reputation with The Thorium Brotherhood and Hydraxian Waterlords. Participating in daily quests and killing certain event-specific creatures in these zones will award players with Firelands Embers which can be exchanged along with Thorium Brotherhood crafted items to upgrade said crafted items into stronger variants. These items may be exchanged at Lohktos Darkbargainer in Blackrock Depths. While the event is active, player kills award zero Honor in Searing Gorge or Burning Steppes, however, player kills award triple Honor inside Blackrock Mountain itself. Nightmare Incursions event and quests have been adjusted. The repeatable mission quests have been converted to daily quests and may no longer be repeated multiple times on the same day. Daily quests now have a maximum level and can no longer be obtained. For Feralas and Hinterlands this is level 53. For players at max level wishing to finish off their Emerald Wardens reputation, special repeatable versions of the Moonstones, Moon Dragon Scales, and Moonroot gathering quests are available. These quests award no gold or experience but continue to award reputation through exalted with the Emerald Wardens. The power level of certain creatures within Nightmare Incursions has been reduced to make these quests more manageable in smaller groups or solo. Reputations
The Argent Dawn and Timbermaw Hold factions’ quartermaster vendors now allow players to exchange the base version of the crafted reputation items that they previously offered along with some other thematically appropriate materials for high quality epic versions of those same items. These new upgrade items may be purchased at Honored with Argent Dawn and Friendly with Timbermaw Hold respectively. These items are Bind on Pickup and require skill in the profession correlating with the item themselves to be worn. Developers’ notes: These new epic upgrade items are in many cases pre-raid best-in-slot or outright best-in-slot, for Phase 4, for one or more classes or roles. Our intent here is to take crafted recipes that were lackluster before and give players a reason to craft and trade them so that they may be upgraded. We also want to give players with Blacksmithing, Tailoring, or Leatherworking a selection of very good items to work towards that are likely to maintain their value for a decent timeframe. Additional rewards have been added for earning different levels of Hydraxian Waterlords reputation. Duke Hydraxis in Azshara will make his selection of goods available when players reach Honored or better with the Hydraxian Waterlords. -
By Staff
You must earn at least 15 Honorable Kills in PvP to rank up starting July 15 in Season of Discovery, as Bloodstained Commendations alone will no longer suffice for progression beyond Rank 7!
(Source)
Greetings,
As we prepare to release WoW Classic patch 1.15.3 tomorrow and open Phase 4 on Thursday, we want to remind you that any players who gained Honor via Bloodstained Commendations will need to make sure to gain at least 15 Honorable Kills against players of the opposing faction in normal PvP (i.e. Battlegrounds or World PvP, not in the Blood Moon event) during the week, in order to be eligible rank up the week that begins on July 15.
Gaining honor from Bloodstained Commendations alone is not sufficient to rank up, regardless of the amount of Honor gained in this way. To summarize, the requirements to progress past Rank 7 are:
Level 60 At least 15 HKs Sufficient Honor to increase in rank Reminder: in Phase 4, the maximum rank in PvP is Rank 10.
Please note that Bloodstained Commendations will not be purchasable with the old STV Blood Moon Coins after the patch on July 9. We recommend that you use Massacre Coins to buy any Bloodstained Commendations NOW. After the patch, they will no longer be available using that currency.
Thank you!
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By Staff
Blizzard has pushed what appears to be the final big round of class tuning ahead of the Phase 4 release next week!
(Source)
Greetings,
We’ve pushed another round of adjustments to PTR this afternoon with some additional
changes to Mage, Warlock, Paladin, Warrior, Shaman, and Rogue. At this point we are going to be slowing down major changes to stabilize the build in preparation for the patch launching next week. This PTR cycle has been incredibly useful and we really appreciate all of the feedback we’ve received. While not all individual suggestions have been directly implemented, we’ve spent a ton of time reading your thoughts and it’s been a very helpful tool to allow us to focus on addressing some of the root causes of the feedback you are providing. Thank you!
Mage
Pyroblast now has no mana cost if cast using a Hot Streak proc. Brain Freeze now also makes Balefire Bolt instant and have no mana cost. The base damage of Frostfire Bolt has been reduced by 16% Developer’s Notes: We’ve seen extremely high performance from mages on the PTR and while we are comfortable with mages doing lots of damage, we wanted to tone down Frostfire Bolt slightly while making Hot Streak procs even more satisfying and also giving Balefire Bolt a better interaction with Brain Freeze. Paladin
Malleable Protection now grants 4 Attack Power per excess point of defense when Holy
Shield is used instead of Spell Power. Developer’s Notes: Many paladins have pointed out that they would like to see the
additional benefit from defense when using Holy Shield to increase attack power rather than spell power and while we aren’t going in that direction for now, as a compromise, we are allowing Malleable Protection rune to essentially grant the same desired effect in addition to the baseline spell power benefit that Holy Shield grants from defense. This should make this rune more attractive to tanking paladins who it is designed for and still allow paladins using holy shield to gain a chunk of the Spellpower they would lose when not using Sheathe of Light. Rogue
Mutilate’s damage reduced from 100% to 80% weapon damage, and it’s bonus damage decreased by 20%. Envenom’ base damage reduced by 20% and Attack Power contribution to
damage reduced by 20%. Developer’s Notes: Similar to Mages we are becoming concerned about the overall damage output of rogues in relation to other classes going into Phase 4. Mutilate has dominated the last few phases and while its still likely to slightly edge out other choices such as Saber Slash, this should help tone Rogues ouput down slightly while also helping to bring mutilate more in line with other Rogue options.
Shaman
Way of Earth now reduces to the range of Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Lava Burst,
Healing Wave, and Chain Heal by 20 yards. Developer’s Notes: Shaman has become quite opporessive in PvP and the usage of
Way of Earth by Restoration and Elemental shamans contributes heavily to this. This
change should not lower the overall output potential of shamans in PvP who are using this rune, but it should make applying that damage significantly less flexible and more dangerous for the Shaman themselves. We will continue to monitor shaman performance in PvP and make additional adjustments as needed. Molten Blast now gains additional damage equal to 14.3% of Fire Spell
Power. Please note that this extra damage is not reflected in the tooltip at this time. Warlock
Shadowflame has seen several adjustments: Shadowflame is no longer mutually exclusive with Unstable Affliction. Shadowflame now triggers improved shadowbolt. Shadowflame also increases the number of Improved Shadowbolt charges to 10. The Demonic Pact effect now applies to the raid group rather than just the party. The amount of bonus spell damage provided by Demonic Knowledge is now 3% (down
from 10%) The damage and stamina of the Felguard have been increased by approximately 20% Grimoire of Synergy has been adjusted and now has a 10% chance to proc and grants a 10% damage bonus. The damage penalty of Shadow Bolt Volley has been reduced to 5% (was previously 20%) A New ability has been added to the game via a spell book: Fel Armor Surrounds the caster with fel energy, increasing spell damage and healing by 60 plus additional spell damage and healing equal to 50% of your Spirit. In addition, you regain 2% of your maximum health every 5 sec. Only one type of Armor spell can be active on the Warlock at any time. Lasts 30 minutes. The Mark of Chaos rune has been moved to the feet slot and now activates when any
Curse except Curse of the Elements or Curse of Shadow is used. The Soul Siphon rune has been moved to the back slot. Immolation Aura has been redesigned: Immolation Aura now triggers from being attacked rather than as a periodic effect. This cannot occur more than once per second, and does not require the attack to hit. Immolation Aura now also increases fire damage by 10%. The Incinerate Rune has been moved to the wrist slot. Developer’s Notes: After our previous round of adjustments to Warlock, many players correctly pointed out that Shadowflame was still mutually exclusive with Unstable Affliction which was an unintended oversight. We’ve fixed that and additionally added an interaction with Improved Shadow Bolt to allow Shadowflame crits to also proc the increased damage effect. Improved Shadow Bolt wasn’t utilized heavily prior to this change as the amount of free time for Shadow Bolt filler was relatively low. Lastly, the low number of charges on Improved Shadow Bolt didn’t make it very usable, so we are increasing the number of charges gained from 4 to 10 with Shadowflame which should increase the overall usefulness of the talent in group settings. We also hope to see this create some synergy that Shadow Priests in particular can see benefit from as well.
Warrior
Thunder Clap now gains additional damage equal to 5% of Attack Power. Please note that this extra damage is not reflected in the tooltip at this time. -
By Staff
Here's the final round of class changes in this week's SoD P4 build, as Druids and Shamans get some attention.
Druid, Shaman (Source)
We have one last round of changes before the weekend that will go out after the realms finish restarting this afternoon:
Druid
Survival Instincts: Now also increases healing done by your spells by 20% while active. Developer’s Notes: Pure healing druids have correctly pointed out that they are without a compelling rune option for the Boots slot. Allowing Survival Instincts to act as an on-demand healing cooldown helps fill this gap and provide Druids with another powerful healing tool. Shaman
Earth Shield is no longer exclusive with Lightning Shield. Developer’s Notes: Earth Shield has seen its value increase with Shamanistic Rage becoming a baseline ability. While this is a great improvement, tank shamans now often feel like they at a disadvantage when playing with a Restoration Shaman and vice versa, because of how a Tank wants their Lightning Shield active for their wrist rune, which makes them ineligible Earth Shield targets. We’re reducing the friction here by allowing Earth Shield to be active at the same time as Lightning Shield. Riptide healing can now trigger the Power Surge rune when used. Developer’s Notes: In the Waist slot, Restoration has typically been taking Power Surge, standing within 20 yards of the boss to Flame Shock, and then look for procs to cast an instant Chain Heal. We think reimagining power surge as a more generalist rune and enabling its usage for Restoration shamans to use using their normal toolkit while also playing at a standard healer range of 30+ yards away is a great way to increase quality of life for healing Shamans that select this rune. The chance for Static Shock to trigger when using a two-handed weapon is now 12% and the chance to trigger with one-handed weapons remains 6%. The Shield Mastery additional benefit from Defense now triggers off an any shock spell and not just Flame Shock. The Shield Mastery Defense benefit changed from Attack Power to Spell Power: Developer’s Note Even with Mental Dexterity in the mix, Spell Power over Attack Power feels like a more thematic conversion for Tank Shamans. Most of a Shaman’s threat is also not in things that benefit from Attack Power directly, so this change helps the shaman tanking kit operate more synergistically. The additional threat caused by Way of Earth has been increased to 65% (up from 50%).
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