Submit Questions for the Developers
We are going to have the opportunity to speak with Cory Stockton, the Lead Content Designer for World of Warcraft soon. If you have something you really want to ask him, go ahead and add the question to the comments. We will pick the best questions and add them to our list!
Before posting take a look at the recent developer Q&As to ensure your question hasn't already been asked. (Best Buy / Reddit) Please avoid any very class specific questions about rotations or something similar, as there are other devs better suited to answer them.
Hunter and Mage Challenge Mode Gear Procs
Tonight we take a look at a little bit more flare for the Challenge Mode gear! Each set has a special proc that will go off during combat or other actions. Some of the sets even have multiple procs or slight variations depending on what you are casting.
You can find the Challenge Mode set previews on our Challenge Mode Gear page, found in the menu in the navbar. Each class has a proc for their set, so keep checking back to see your class's set!
Best Buy Developer Q&A
Several WoW developers answered questions on Best Buy's site tonight. You can find a list of the questions and answers here.
Free Wrath of the Lich King Upgrade
The World of Warcraft Battle Chest now includes Classic, Burning Crusade, and Wrath of the Lich King, all for $20. Existing Classic and Burning Crusade accounts seem to have been upgraded to Wrath of the Lich King for free! You can purchase all of World of Warcraft up to Mists of Pandaria for $60 now as well.
Patch 5.0.5 Hotfixes - September 18
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
General
- The health of all enemies in Theramore's Fall has been doubled.
- Theramore Footmen have stopped using Shield Bash.
Battlegrounds
Alterac Valley
- The number of reinforcements in Alterac Valley has been reduced to 500 (down from 600).
Classes
- A warrior's Bloodcurdling Shout should no longer affect bloodworms.
- Pounce should now correctly consume only one charge of Dream of Cenarius.
- Frost Armor now increases spell haste by 7% (up from 5%).
- Angelic Feather can now be used by all party members when the priest under the influence of crowd control spells, and no longer require line-of-sight to the priest to work
- Penance's base damage has been reduced so that it now deals significantly less damage at lower player levels, and slightly less damage at level-85.
- Shadow Word: Insanity should now deal 2667 to 2815 damage plus 290% of spellpower at level-85 (up from 2235 to 2359 plus 243% of spellpower).
- Mindbender damage has been increased by 20%. It now does 80% as much damage per hit as Shadowfiend (up from 66.7%).
- Shiv no longer generates charges of Anticipation.
- Capacitor Totem should benefit from the shaman's +hit bonuses, as expected.
- Shadow Bite damage has been reduced by 25%.
- Tongue Lash damage has been reduced by 25%.
Dungeons and Raids
Tempest Keep
- Solarian's Solarium Priests should again be hitting for expected amounts of damage.
Items
- Marksman's Blade should no longer have a larger hit range than expected.
- Oracle Talisman of Ablution now diminishes in efficiency as its owner levels up.
Quests
- Interacting with Zidormi in Dustwallow Bay no longer requires Mists of Pandaria.
Bug Fixes
- Players should no longer retain glyph effects obtained in arenas after exiting the arena.
- Players who resurrect at their corpse after being offered a resurrection by another player should no longer receive resurrection sickness.
- Worgen characters who are advanced via a Scroll of Resurrection before completing their introductory quest chain and should no longer be stuck in a phased state.
Mists of Pandaria Launch Times
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
The official Mists of Pandaria launch times are as follows:
- North and Latin American realms - 12:00 a.m. PDT, September 25
- European realms - 12:00 a.m. CEST, September 25
- Korean/Taiwan realms - 12:00 a.m. KST, September 27
With this expansion, we’re using a new bit of tech that will unlock the expansion content, make the intro quest magically pop up in your quest log, and allow you to begin playing the expansion immediately without the need to log out and back in. If everything goes as planned this will be a smooth transition to the adventures that await you in the new continent.
See you in-game!
Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
No Honor Reset for Mists of Pandaria
Your character's Honor points will not get reset on September 25th, 2012.
There is a full write up on how Valor/Justice and Conquest/Honor points will work in the weeks leading up to and after Mists of Pandaria's launch in the blog: Currency Conversion Before and After Mists of Pandaria (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Favorite In Game Events
I bet this thread will be entirely "OH AHN'QIRAJ WAS GREAT" or "WRATH OMG WE WERE ZOMBIES