Warlords of Draenor - Gearing Up for Heroic Dungeons
A few people have mentioned having trouble getting the item level required for heroic dungeons, so here are a few ways to grab some easy upgrades:
- There are several item level 610 quest rewards from Nagrand. These can randomly upgrade to epic item level 620 items. (Coif of Grasping Earth => Coif of Grasping Earth)
- Proving Grounds bronze will reward an item level 610 weapon, which can also randomly upgrade to epic item level 630 or rare item level 620.
- There are several rare spawns that drop item level 620 rare gear. (Not all of it is listed yet, install the WoWDB addon and help!)
- PvP Honor gear is item level 620: Cloth, Leather, Mail, Plate, other armor, and weapons.
- Normal dungeons offer item level 615 gear (Grimrail Depot, Shadowmoon Burial Grounds, The Everbloom, Upper Blackrock Spire)
- Apexis Crystal allow you to purchase rare item level 630 gear for 3,000 to 5,000 crystals each, which can be upgraded later for more crystals.
- The legendary quest line rewards an epic item level 640 ring from running Normal difficulty dungeons.
- There are some crafted items you can make with a Level 2 profession building. Keep in mind you can only equip three crafted items at a time.
- There are a few other options, but they are likely not accessible yet or easy for most people. These include BoE world drops, Level 100 garrison missions, and more.
Followers and Garrison Missions XP
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker
)
Got an update from one of our designers that wanted provide more information on how your Followers gain XP when you send them out on Garrison Missions.
When Followers are below a mission’s level, they get a reduced percentage of the mission XP as well as any bonus XP earned.
Followers that are 1-2 levels below the mission level:
- The Follower’s level number is displayed in orange, meaning they only receive 50% of the mission XP and bonus XP.
Followers that are 3 or more levels below the mission level: - The Follower’s level number is displayed in red, meaning they only receive 10% of the mission XP and bonus XP.
Before a hotfix that was implemented at 5:52pm PST, followers in red received 0% of the mission XP; and we felt that was not what we wanted since the UI didn’t indicate that was the case.
Note that while level 90 missions may only award ~100XP, level 100 missions award much more, closer to the range of ~1500XP. So 10% of that is still a good amount for a level 90 Follower, even if they won't be doing a great job at getting the bonus loot until they gain some combat experience.
We’d love to continue hearing feedback on how it feels to level Followers, what missions are available, and how these new numbers feel.
Patch 6.0.3 Hotfixes - November 17
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker
/ Official Forums
)
Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts
- Barracks: Training dummies have been temporarily removed from the Garrison.
- Barracks Level 2: Bodyguard followers accompanying the player are now more likely to assist with the player's current target.
- Mine Level 2: Preserved Mining Pick obtained from mining carts should now work correctly.
- Resolved an issue where players could get stuck on a flight path while attempting to fly into their Garrisons.
- Followers
- [Requires a realm restart.] Hulda Shadowblade should now be correctly awarded to players that have completed the quest, Standing United.
Classes
- Warlock
- Talents
- Grimoire of Supremacy's summoned Terrorguards and Abyssals should now correctly have the Avoidance ability.
- Talents
Quests
- Articles of the Fallen: Players that have already completed To the Garrison should now be able to see Kal'gor the Honorable to complete the quest.
- Battle in Ashran: The quest now requires players to obtain 100 Artifact Fragments and go to Shadow Hunter Ukambe (Horde) or Scout Valdez (Alliance) to complete the quest.
- Battle of Thunder Pass: Dying or leaving the area during the middle of the Battle of Thunder Pass event should no longer prevent players from completing the event.
- Bled Dry: Cages can now be opened by multiple players simultaneously.
- [Requires a realm restart.] Bushwacker: Resolved an issue where players that have already completed A Heavy Helping Hand would be unable to turn in the quest.
- Challenge of the Masters: Warlord Dharl of the Thrice-Bloodied Blade should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.
- Draenor's Secret Power: Completion of this quest is now required before being able to move onto the next step of the Legendary quest chain.
- Fate of Karabor: Players joining a version of this quest that's already in-progress should now be able to receive completion credit.
- Honor Has Its Rewards: Resolved an issue where Farseer Drek'Thar may sometimes not accept quest turn-ins.
- Last Steps: Players joining a version of this quest that's already in-progress should now be able to receive completion credit.
- Sol Sisters: Sol-Shaper Krashyx should no longer get stuck in evade mode.
- The Battle for Shattrath: Players joining a version of this quest that's already in-progress should now be able to receive completion credit.
- The Debt We Share: Players that are mounted should now be able to receive completion credit for this quest.
- [Requires a realm restart.] The Infested: Resolved an issue where players that have already completed A Heavy Helping Hand would be unable to turn in the quest.
- The Iron Wolf: Added another way for characters to obtain The Iron Wolf invasion quest for characters that upgraded to a Tier 3 Garrison before completing the main Frostfire questline.
- [Requires a realm restart.] The Razorbloom: Resolved an issue where players that have already completed A Heavy Helping Hand would be unable to turn in the quest.
- [Requires a realm restart.] The Voice of Iyi: Resolved an issue where players that have already completed A Heavy Helping Hand would be unable to turn in the quest.
Creatures and NPCs
- Grand Marshal Tremblade should now drop a Gleaming Ashamul Strongbox for Horde characters when they're defeated.
Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
- Dungeons
- Increased the amount of experience awarded for completing a Draenor level-up dungeon (Bloodmaul Slag Mines, Iron Docs, Auchindoun, and Skyreach) to be more rewarding.
- Items looted from normal Level-100 dungeons now have a level requirement of 100 instead of 97.
- Iron Docks
- Players should no longer be incorrectly receiving credit for completing the Take Cover! achievement without actually completing the achievement.
- Attempted to resolve an issue where Skulloc may sometimes not grant loot.
- Slag Mines
- Players that are dead should now correctly still receive credit for completing the achievement Come With Me If You Want to Live.
- The Everbloom
- Coagulated Genesaur Blood is now correctly flagged as a damage dealer trinket.
- Challenge Mode
- Salyin Battle Banner is no longer eligible to be used during Challenge Modes.
- Resolved an issue where a realm may sometimes not have a Challenge Mode daily quest available.
- Auchindoun: Reduced the amount of enemies to kill to 48 (down from 50).
- Skyreach: Time needed to achieve a gold rating has been increased to 17 minutes (up from 15 minutes). Times for silver and bronze rating have been adjusted accordingly.
- Upper Blackrock Spire: Players receiving credit for Challenge Master: Upper Blackrock Spire achievement should no longer be incorrectly receiving credit for Challenge Master: Shadowmoon Burial Grounds as well.
PvP
- Honor Quartermasters have been added to Ashran. Austin Feeney (Alliance) and Shadow Hunter Gar'ant (Horde) now sell Honor gear.
- Conquest Quartermasters Marshal Gabriel (Alliance) and General Aevd (Horde) have temporarily stopped selling Conquest gear.
Battlegrounds and Arenas
- An item now needs to be at least item level 560 or above before being eligible to be scaled up to 650 in level 100 Battlegrounds and Arenas.
Items
- The following items are now uncommon quality (green) so there's less award pop-ups when retrieving the them from Garrison work orders. There's been no change to the item's functionality or availability.
- Blackfire Scepter now grants a more modest increase to Intellect.
- Bloodwood Wand now grants a less astronomical bonus to Spell Power.
- Oralius' Whispering Crystal now increases all stats by 100 (down from 200).
- Shieldtronic Shield should now correctly create a damage absorption shield instead of reflecting the damage back at an attacker.
Bug Fix
- Resolved an issue where boosting characters that have XP disabled could wind up being unable to level.
Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Bug Fixs
Is the enchanters study suppose to not disenchant epics? Or is it bugged?
Intended (CM_Lore)
Is it intended to obtain ilvl 660 tournament gear for gold? Is it an exploit people make use of?
Obtaining it, yes, as it's only usable in War Games. Using it to bypass ilevel requirements is not. (CM_Lore)
just a thought: scale the 680 rings back to 640 for anyone without the quest completed
We're exploring options, too early to say at this point. (Rygarius)
Doesn't seem to mention the change made to the Smuggler's Run loot table - no resource boxes any more?
We generally do not note changes designed to fix an exploit. (Rygarius)
WoWDB Addon Data Collection
Quickly populating the database with Warlords of Draenor additions is done with the help of many players. The more people that contribute data, the more accurate and quickly we can update the database.
To help out, just click here if you have Curse Client already installed.
When you are playing the addon will gather data and save it. When you are done playing, Curse Client will see the game close and upload the collected data from the addon. You can see the last time data was uploaded by looking in the Plugins tab of the options, as well as making sure the addon is enabled there. Be sure you have Curse Client open before you close WoW so that the data will upload!
Blizzcon Costumes
Blizzard shared some images of costumes at Blizzcon this year. There are so many we just picked a few of our favorites, so be sure to check out the full gallery for even more!
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