Sign in to follow this
Followers
0
-
Recently Browsing 0 members
No registered users viewing this page.
-
Similar Content
-
By Stan
The second week of Season 4 is under way and we've updated our weekly to-do list. Check it out to find what's new!
New Content Available This Week
Get your piece of loot from the Great Vault. Pick up the weekly quest in central Valdrakken from Therazal to get your weekly spark fragment and Cache of Awakened Embers. This week, yu must complete Researchers Under Fire in Zaralek Cavern, loot a Secured Shipment from a Suffusion Camp and complete a Time Rift.
This week's Awakened Raid is Aberrus. Proiritize clearing Aberrus for loot and your second Antique Bronze Bullion. This week, you'll end up with 2 Antique Bronze Bullions, allowing you to buy your first piece of gear from bullion vendors at the Parting Glass in Valdrakken. There should be a catch-up in place allowing you to get 2 bullions this week if you've missed the first one last week. The second Catalyst charge is this week, allowing you to convert a Season 4 eligible item to a class set piece. Click here to learn more about Awakened Class Set acquisition methods! If you own Fyr'alath or Nasz'uro, you can upgrade the legendaries to their S4 base Item Level (502) using Scale of Awakening that costs 2 Antique Bronze Bullion, but the upgrade is currently not possible due to a bug Blizzard is actively investigating. During this week's bonus event, Honor gains from battleground wins and objectives are increased by 50%. Complete the weekly quest from Kazra by winning 4 Battlegrounds to earn 5 Marks of Honor and 175 Conquest. Children's Week is ongoing, but there are no changes this year. However, you can complete activities tied to the event for Trader's Tender. The Trading Post has been updated with new items. Check out the current rotation for more details! Northrend Cup is available for the next two weeks. If you're working on Taivan, the Grimtusk Fishing Hole is available this week. Darkmoon Faire starts on Sunday. -
By Staff
The Earthen Allied Race can roll Paladins and Blizzard added a new class mount for them in War Within.
Earthen Judicator's Ramolith
Beneath the stones surface beats a heart emboldened by the Light to set this world free from darkness.
-
By Starym
We have more Mythic+ dungeon changes coming in 10.2.6, as well as a Feral fix, item improvements including Billion rings and amulets being able to get sockets and upgrades, and more. There's also Cata Classic improvements, with Mages and Paladins getting some attention, as well as Worgen and more!
May 2 (Source)
Classes
Druid Feral Fixed an issue preventing Smoldering Frenzy (Season 4 (2) Set Bonus) from triggering effects like Seal of Diurna's Chosen. Dungeons and Raids
Algeth’ar Academy Echo of Doragosa Arcane Rift now spawns Uncontrolled Energy 20% less frequently. Overwhelming Power now spawns Arcane Rift at 4 stacks (was 3). The Nokhud Offensive Addressed an issue where the rim visual on Static Spear and Crackling Upheaval can disappear under certain situations. Items
Fixed an issue that prevented Eye of Awakening from functioning on rings purchased from Antique Bronze Bullion vendors. Fixed an issue that prevented Tiered Medallion Setting from functioning on necklaces purchased from Antique Bronze Bullion vendors. Rings and necklaces purchased from Bullion vendors should now be eligible for socket upgrades. This fix is retroactive. Non-player Characters
Vaskarn in the Emerald Dream no longer erroneously mentions that they can upgrade your gear with the use of Flightstones. Vaskarn in Valdrakken is unchanged. Quests
While Time Rifts are empowered, Cache of Embers will now be awarded once per character per week from the quest for defeating a Time Rift Boss. Prince Farondis drank his Conjured Protein Shakes and bulked up, allowing players to complete “Save Yourself”.
Cataclysm Classic
If a Paladin misplaces the Symbol of Faith during the quest “Materials of Significance”, they may now buy a replacement from the Lost and Found vendor in Booty Bay. Fixed the Children’s Week quest “Cruisin’ the Chasm” so that it can now be completed. Boosted Paladins should now have Collective Book of Healing or Secondhand Book of Healing as expected. Fixed an issue that prevented Worgen from being eligible for some daily quests. Mage Ignite damage will no longer be counted double toward Combustion. Refreshed Ignite that now has 3 ticks over 6 seconds will do the same amount of damage on each tick. Ignite spread by Impact and Fire Blast will no longer have a missing 2nd or 3rd tick that adds damage to future Ignites. -
By Staff
Blizzard have also detailed and explained changes coming to all three Warrior specs in this week's build, with Arms' AoE rotation getting some attention.
May 2 (Source)
There are a few Warrior updates in today’s Alpha build.
After giving Arms and Fury access to both Bladestorm and Ravager, it was clear that Ravager had strong advantages in all situations. We’d like Bladestorm to be a strong pick for burst AOE, so we’re buffing its damage significantly, and reducing Ravager’s damage slightly. This should help make the choice between these abilities more meaningful and let each ability shine in different situations.
Arms
We’ve heard the feedback that the Arms AOE rotation lacks definition, so we’re making adjustments to Cleave to make it the centerpiece of Arms’ AOE rotation in The War Within. We think this will give a unique feel to Arms’ AOE rotation while bringing a classic iconic Warrior ability back to the limelight. We want Overpower to be an important part of Arms’ AOE rotation as well, but Dreadnaught was simply too strong in all situations. We’re reducing the damage from Dreadnaught and buffing Strength of Arms to put the choice between those talents on equal footing. This is not intended to be an overall reduction to Arms’ AOE damage, we simply feel that we’d rather Arms’ damage come from their direct damage abilities hitting harder and the subsequent bleeds and that will be reflected in the ongoing tuning of Arms overall.
Fury
We’ve also heard the feedback that Bloodthirst was not an exciting ability to use and that it felt disconnected from the rest of the Fury kit. To address this, we’re giving Bloodthirst a significant damage boost as well as adjusting several talents to affect Bloodthirst that did not previously, and adding new functionality with Deft Experience causing Bloodthirst to extend your current Enrage and changing Bloodcraze to introduce aa new interaction between Raging Blow and Bloodthirst. Our goal is to continue and extend Bloodthirst’s interaction with Enrage in new ways, as well as it contributing to Fury’s overall damage and survivability.
Protection
Protection Warrior has tools like Spell Reflect and Spell Block to protect it from magic, but its defensive toolkit is weak to ongoing or frequent magic damage. Fight Through the Flames is a new tool to help warriors survive that type of damage. We’ll keep an eye on its tuning. Additionally, we removed the damage penalty from Defensive Stance for Protection Warriors. Fighting defensively is what Protection specializes in, and we want to reduce the pressure on players to forego its defensive benefits for more damage.
And here are the actual changes from the development notes:
(Source)
WARRIOR Slam damage normalized across all specializations (Arms-only Slam damage bonus removed), and damage increased by 200%. Slam damage increased by 130%. Arms Slam damage bonus reduced to 50% (was 75%). Bladestorm damage increased by 70%. Ravager damage decreased by 10%. Arms Cleave cooldown reduced to 3 seconds (was 6 seconds). Battlelord no longer resets the cooldown of Cleave. Storm of Swords now triggers from Whirlwind or Cleave and reduces the Rage cost of your next Whirlwind or Cleave. Fervor of Battle now also triggers from Cleave. Dreadnaught damage reduced by 58%. Strength of Arms now also increases Overpower damage by 15%. Fury Bloodthirst damage increased by 43% Bloodcraze now triggers from Raging Blow instead of Bloodthirst. Deft Experience now causes Bloodthirst to extend your Enrage effect by 0.5/1.0 sec if you are Enraged. Swift Strikes now also increases Bloodthirst’s Rage generated by 1.0/2.0 Rage. Crushing Force now increases the damage of Bloodthirst by 10/20% and critical strike chance of Bloodthirst by 5/10%. Bladestorm now generates 10 Rage per damage event for Fury (20 with Storm of Steel). Slam Rage cost removed. -
By Staff
Here come the Paladin adjustments for this week's Alpha build, with Retribution getting all the attention.
May 2nd (Source)
Hello, Retribution Paladins.
This week’s update is about quality of life improvements.
Wake of Ashes
Retribution Paladin relies on Wake of Ashes for both of their Hero Talent trees, and it is core to Retribution’s rotation. With these in mind, we moved Wake of Ashes before the 2nd gate. Additionally, we’ve noticed that aiming Wake of Ashes caused frustrations when strafing and we’ve made changes to make it feel good while strafing as well.
Expurgation and Templar Slash
Blade of Justice and Templar Strikes are deeply connected to the Holy Power economy, and they both have talent and stat interactions that makes you press them more often. The damage over time effects from these abilities were losing value due to being reapplied in a short cadence. Which in return made pressing your core buttons feel worse. We’ve decided to make the damage over time effects roll over their remaining damage value into the next application.
Templar Strikes
We’re increasing the cooldown of Templar Strikes because it requires you to press more buttons than your usual rotation. We’re compensating by increasing its damage. We believe this change will be beneficial to the health of the rotation.
And here are the actual changes from the development notes:
(Source)
PALADIN Retribution New Talent: Radiant Glory – Replaces Avenging Wrath/Crusade. Wake of Ashes grants you Avenging Wrath/Crusade for 10/12 seconds. Your other damaging abilities have a chance to grant you Avenging Wrath/Crusade for 5/6 seconds. Wake of Ashes and Avenging Wrath/Crusade from this talent will function with Herald of the Sun hero talent tree’s keystone and capstone talents. Expurgation now rolls over the remaining damage value when reapplied. Templar Slash damage over time effect now rolls over the remaining damage value when reapplied. Boundless Judgment now additionally increases the chances of your Judgments chances to trigger Highlord’s Judgment by 50%. Templar Strikes damage increased by 25%. Templar Strikes cooldown increased by 2.25 seconds. Wake of Ashes now sends its cone attacks (including Seething Flames) towards where your camera is facing rather than where your character is facing. Shield of Vengeance is now a choice node with Aegis of Protection after the 2nd talent gate. Aegis of Protection now only increases the effectiveness of Divine Protection by 20% (was 10% and was also affecting Shield of Vengeance). Avenging Wrath/Crusade moved up to where Shield of Vengeance was in the talent tree. Wake of Ashes moved up to where Avenging Wrath/Crusade was in the talent tree, before the 2nd talent gate. Seething Flames moved up to where Wake of Ashes was in the talent tree.
-