Trinket and Crafting Changes, Hotfixes, WoD PvP Season 1

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Trinket Hotfixes
It looks like Blizzard has reversed a previous hotfix on trinkets. We have the full list of changes!

Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker
/ Official Forums
)
Hello everyone- There have been several recent hotfixes to the stats on trinkets in Draenor, and we wanted to take some time to provide an update on these.

At launch, we found some issues that led to many Draenor trinkets being incorrectly budgeted (predominantly overbudget, though some were underbudget as well). We quickly applied one hotfix to attempt to resolve this issue, but there are still some issues remaining. That said, despite the overbudget, we won't be nerfing any existing trinkets. So, have no fear of purchasing any of these trinkets and only to have them end up nerfed.

Last night, we applied another hotfix which increased the stats on many epic trinkets in order to reach a balanced budget on these trinkets and ensure a proper trinket progression path through the Raid tier. This change affects world-drop BoE epic trinkets, Inscription-crafted epic trinkets, Highmaul trinkets, and Blackrock Foundry trinkets.

With the opening of Highmaul today we also wanted to wish you good luck!

Update: Scabbard of Kyanos was unintentionally buffed in yesterday's hotfix and we've reverted it to the stats it had yesterday. If you've earned one, fear not! It is still an excellent item and will be useful for quite a while.

Item LevelNameOldNew
640 Knight's Badge117 Bonus Armor229 Bonus Armor
640 Sandman's Pouch117 Intellect175 Intellect
640 Skull of War117 Strength/Agility171 Strength/Agility
655 Bottle of Infesting Spores201 Strength228 Strength
655 Captive Micro-Aberration201 Agility228 Agility
655 Emblem of Caustic Healing134 Spirit301 Spirit
655 Evergaze Arcane Eidolon111 Mastery285 Mastery
655 Mark of Rapid Replication201 Spirit301 Spirit
655 Petrified Flesh-Eating Spore166 Stamina432 Stamina
655 Pillar of the Earth301 Stamina579 Stamina
655 Pol's Blinded Eye134 Bonus Armor301 Bonus Armor
655 Quiescent Runestone201 Intellect228 Intellect
655 Scales of Doom111 Agility216 Agility
655 Shards of Nothing134 Intellect229 Intellect
655 Tectus' Beating Heart111 Strength216 Strength
665 Auto-Repairing Autoclave295 Spirit427 Spirit
665 Battering Talisman333 Stamina620 Stamina
665 Beating Heart of the Mountain147 Agility282 Agility
665 Blackiron Micro Crucible222 Intellect320 Intellect
665 Blast Furnace Door121 Bonus Armor259 Bonus Armor
665 Copeland's Clarity220 Crit290 Crit
665 Darmac's Unstable Talisman121 Intellect270 Intellect
665 Elementalist's Shielding Talisman228 Spirit359 Spirit
665 Forgemaster's Insignia222 Strength320 Strength
665 Goren Soul Repository121 Intellect270 Intellect
665 Horn of Screaming Spirits121 Strength270 Strength
665 Humming Blackiron Trigger222 Agility320 Agility
665 Ironspike Chew Toy121 Intellect190 Intellect
665 Kyb's Foolish Perseverance330 Stamina690 Stamina
665 Meaty Dragonspine Trophy121 Agility270 Agility
665 Tablet of Turnbuckle Teamwork147 Mastery418 Mastery
665 Vial of Convulsive Shadows147 Strength319 Strength​

Crafted Item Hotfix - Crafting Cost Changes
Blizzard also pushed a hotfix changing the crafting cost of a few select items.

Profession Name Old Reagents New Reagents
Blacksmithing Smoldering Breastplate Truesteel Ingot x 5
True Iron Ore x 20
Blackrock Ore x 20 Blackrock Ore x 30
True Iron Ore x 30
Blacksmithing Smoldering Greaves Truesteel Ingot x 5
True Iron Ore x 25
Blackrock Ore x 25 True Iron Ore x 60
Blacksmithing Smoldering Helm Truesteel Ingot x 5
True Iron Ore x 10
Blackrock Ore x 10 Blackrock Ore x 60
Inscription Laughing Tarot Light Parchment x 1
War Paints x 5 Light Parchment x 1
Cerulean Pigment x 20
Inscription Ocean Tarot Light Parchment x 1
War Paints x 5 Light Parchment x 1
Cerulean Pigment x 20
Inscription Savage Tarot Light Parchment x 1
War Paints x 5 Light Parchment x 1
Cerulean Pigment x 20
Jewelcrafting Glowing Blackrock Band Taladite Crystal x 5
Blackrock Ore x 5 True Iron Ore x 60
Jewelcrafting Glowing Iron Band Taladite Crystal x 5
True Iron Ore x 5 True Iron Ore x 60
Jewelcrafting Glowing Iron Choker Taladite Crystal x 5
True Iron Ore x 10 True Iron Ore x 60
Jewelcrafting Shifting Blackrock Band Taladite Crystal x 5
Blackrock Ore x 5 Blackrock Ore x 30
True Iron Ore x 30
Jewelcrafting Shifting Iron Band Taladite Crystal x 5
True Iron Ore x 5 Blackrock Ore x 30
True Iron Ore x 30
Jewelcrafting Shifting Iron Choker Taladite Crystal x 5
True Iron Ore x 10 Blackrock Ore x 30
True Iron Ore x 30
Jewelcrafting Whispering Blackrock Band Taladite Crystal x 5
Blackrock Ore x 5 Blackrock Ore x 60
Jewelcrafting Whispering Iron Band Taladite Crystal x 5
True Iron Ore x 5 Blackrock Ore x 60
Jewelcrafting Whispering Iron Choker Taladite Crystal x 5
True Iron Ore x 10 Blackrock Ore x 60
Leatherworking Archmage's Tent Raw Beast Hide x 25 Raw Beast Hide x 5
Leatherworking Blood Elven Tent Raw Beast Hide x 25 Raw Beast Hide x 5
Leatherworking Brute's Tent Raw Beast Hide x 25 Raw Beast Hide x 5
Leatherworking Crusader's Tent Raw Beast Hide x 25 Raw Beast Hide x 5
Leatherworking Deathweaver's Hovel Raw Beast Hide x 25 Raw Beast Hide x 5
Leatherworking Distressingly Furry Tent Raw Beast Hide x 25 Raw Beast Hide x 5
Leatherworking Elune's Retreat Raw Beast Hide x 25 Raw Beast Hide x 5
Leatherworking Enchanter's Tent Raw Beast Hide x 25 Raw Beast Hide x 5
Leatherworking Fine Blue and Gold Tent Raw Beast Hide x 25 Raw Beast Hide x 5
Leatherworking Fine Blue and Green Tent Raw Beast Hide x 25 Raw Beast Hide x 5
Leatherworking Fine Blue and Purple Tent Raw Beast Hide x 25 Raw Beast Hide x 5
Leatherworking High Elven Tent Raw Beast Hide x 25 Raw Beast Hide x 5
Leatherworking Ironskin Tent Raw Beast Hide x 25 Raw Beast Hide x 5
Leatherworking Journeying Helm Burnished Leather x 5
Raw Beast Hide x 10 Raw Beast Hide x 50
Leatherworking Journeying Robes Burnished Leather x 5
Raw Beast Hide x 20 Raw Beast Hide x 50
Leatherworking Journeying Slacks Burnished Leather x 5
Raw Beast Hide x 25 Raw Beast Hide x 50
Leatherworking Nomad's Spiked Tent Raw Beast Hide x 25 Raw Beast Hide x 5
Leatherworking Orgrimmar's Reach Raw Beast Hide x 25 Raw Beast Hide x 5
Leatherworking Ornate Alliance Tent Raw Beast Hide x 25 Raw Beast Hide x 5
Leatherworking Ornate Horde Tent Raw Beast Hide x 25 Raw Beast Hide x 5
Leatherworking Outcast's Tent Raw Beast Hide x 25 Raw Beast Hide x 5
Leatherworking Patchwork Hut Raw Beast Hide x 25 Raw Beast Hide x 5
Leatherworking Savage Leather Tent Raw Beast Hide x 25 Raw Beast Hide x 5
Leatherworking Simple Tent Raw Beast Hide x 25 Raw Beast Hide x 5
Leatherworking Sturdy Tent Raw Beast Hide x 25 Raw Beast Hide x 5
Leatherworking Traveling Helm Burnished Leather x 5
Raw Beast Hide x 10 Raw Beast Hide x 50
Leatherworking Traveling Leggings Burnished Leather x 5
Raw Beast Hide x 25 Raw Beast Hide x 50
Leatherworking Traveling Tunic Burnished Leather x 5
Raw Beast Hide x 20 Raw Beast Hide x 50
Leatherworking Voodoo Doctor's Hovel Raw Beast Hide x 25 Raw Beast Hide x 5
Tailoring Sumptuous Cowl Hexweave Cloth x 5
Sumptuous Fur x 10 Sumptuous Fur x 50
Tailoring Sumptuous Leggings Hexweave Cloth x 5
Sumptuous Fur x 25 Sumptuous Fur x 50
Tailoring Sumptuous Robes Hexweave Cloth x 5
Sumptuous Fur x 20 Sumptuous Fur x 50​

Warlords Season 1 has Begun! New Vendors in Stormshield and Warspear
Warlords Season 1 officially starts today! Read below to find out where to go to pick up your gear. Also make sure to take a look at the full Warlords Season 1 Armor preview!

Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker
/ Official Forums
)
With Warlords Season 1 beginning today, we're spawning in some new vendors for Honor and Conquest gear in a more permanent location inside Stormshield and Warspear, and wanted to be sure everyone is aware of their locations.

In Stormshield, Alliance players can find Bregg Coppercast (Honor) and Ingrid Blackingot (Conquest) standing in front of the Siege Tank near the exit to Ashran, across from the training dummies.

In Warspear, Horde players can find Lieutenant Brokefist (Honor) and Lieutenant Axelash (Conquest) on the hill next to the exit to Ashran, just down the path from the inn.

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Hotfixes for December 2nd
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker
/ Official Forums
)
Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

• Garrison Invasions
  • Players should now be eligible to receive an Invader's Forgotten Treasure once a week if they complete the invasion with a Gold Victory.
  • Corrected an issue that was causing progress towards a Garrison invasion to reset each week.
• Disturbed Podlings and Goren Protectors that spawns inside of the Garrison should now be lootable if they're killed by an NPC (like a Bodyguard). An additional hotfix is being worked on that will also apply this while encountering Disturbed Podlings and Goren Protectors outside of the Garrison as well.
• Barn: Iron Trap, Improved Iron Trap, and Deadly Iron Trap should no longer be incorrectly triggering when other players run over it.
• Dwarven Bunker / War Mill Level 2: Added a 2 hour grace period for cosmetic gear purchases from this building, allowing characters to sell the item back for a full refund. Note that utilizing the item for transmogrification will remove this grace period.
• Gladiator's Sanctum Level 3: Fight, Kill, Salute! now awards 500 Conquest Points (down from 1500).
• Menagerie Level 3: Reduced the number of pet battle wins needed for the Draenic Pet Battler achievement from 500 to 150.
• Stables Level 3: Completely The Stable Master achievement should now correctly award the Stable Master title.
• Garrison Missions
  • Conquest Garrison Missions have been disabled temporarily from the pool of available missions for players that are eligible to receive them.

Classes

• Death Knight
  • Armor Sets
    • Death Knight PvP 2-piece set bonus from previous PvP Seasons should now grant 1 Runic Power when Chains of Ice is used (down from 10 Runic Power).
• Mage
  • Armor Sets
    • Mage Tier-12 2-piece set bonus' summoned Mirror Images should no longer be dealing an excessive amount of damage.
• Monk
  • Mistweaver
    • Enveloping Mist's healing has been increased by 50%.
• Paladin
  • General
    • Seal of Insight's healing effect should now be able to Multistrike or Critically Strike.
• Priest
  • Holy
    • Lightwell's heal over time effect should now be able to Multistrike or Critically Strike.
    • Binding Heal should now correctly heal both the Priest and friendly target.

World Environment, Creatures, and NPCs

• Rare creatures and NPCs are now immune to the Dominate Mind ability.
• Frostfire Ridge
  • Time-Warped Tower can now be looted by Alliance characters.
• Shadowmoon Valley
  • Darktide Rylakinator-3000's attacks now deal more damage.
• Talador
  • NPCs in the Aruuna area should no longer cause Horde characters to become stuck in combat.
  • Burning Eye's Eye of the Legion ability now has a reduced range of 30 yards (down from 100).

Quests

• Shadowmoon Valley
  • Downsizing the Darktide: Ra'ka Bloodspear should now correctly allow multiple players to receive tap credit.
  • Shattering the Enemy: Increased the spawn rates for Felstorm Crystal.
• Gorgrond
  • A Centurion Without a Cause: Defeating Woodfist far away from High Centurion Tormmok should no longer cause him to remain hostile to the character and allow players to complete the quest.
  • Assault on the Pit: Increased the spawn rate of creatures and NPCs for this quest.
  • Bonus Objective: The Forgotten Caves: Gorg the Host should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.
  • [Requires a realm restart.] Strike While the Iron is Hot: Players joining a version of this quest that's already in-progress should now be able to receive completion credit.
• Talador
  • Daggerjaw Pridelord, Daggerjaw Raider, and Daggerjaw Hoarder now deal less damage.
• Nagrand
  • My Precious!: Resolved an issue where players may sometimes not receive completion credit for the quest. Additionally, players that have adandoned the quest should now be able to see Bazwix to reobtain the quest.
  • Ring of Trials quests can no longer be completed while in a Siege Tank or Demolisher. Seriously, that's not even a fair fight.
  • Goldmane the Skinner: Taking the cage key without opening the cage to let Goldmane out no longer prevents Bolkar the Cruel from respawning.
• Legendary Ring Quest Line
  • Upgrading the ring should now correctly remove the old ring from the player's inventory.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

• Raids
  • Molten Core
    • Trash mobs like Ancient Core Hounds and Lava Surgers no longer respawn.
• Dungeons
  • Cloth chest pieces should now correctly have a chance of dropping on Personal loot mode.
  • Bloodmaul Slagmines
    • Slave Watcher Crushto's Ferocious Yell now deals 10% less damage.
    • Slave Watcher Crushto: Captured Miner's Traumatic Strike now has a recast time of 6 seconds.
    • Achievement Come With Me If You Want to Live: Croman should now be more forviging with how far apart he can remain from the player he's following before despawning.
  • Iron Docks
    • Grimrail Enforcers: Makogg Emberblade's Lava Sweep should now always deal damage to players.
  • Skyreach
    • Credit for completing the achievement I Saw Solis should now be correctly awarded.
  • Upper Blackrock Spire
    • Kyrak's Rejuvenating Serum now has a duration of 9 seconds (down from 12 seconds). On Heroic difficulty and Challenge Mode, the ability now heals for the 8% (down from 10%).
    • Ragewing the Untamed's Engulfing Fire ability can now hit players that are not in line-of-sight.

PvP

• Conquest Points have been converted into Honor Points before the start of the season.
• [Requires a realm restart.] Conquest Quartermasters Marshal Gabriel (Alliance) and General Aevd (Horde) have reinstated to sell Conquest gear. This reverts the hotfix from November 17.
• Cross-realm groups are now able to enter Ashran together.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

• Strand of the Ancients should now correctly award players with a Gold Strongbox for winning.

Professions

• Level-up items created by professions no longer use reagents that required a daily cooldown to create and are no longer soulbound. To compensate for this change, basic reagent requirements have been increased and vendor buyback price for those items have been reduced now that they're less rare.
• Enchanting
  • Mark of Blackrock now requires 3 Temporal Crystals (down from 15) and 5 Scorcerous Earth (down from 10).
  • Mark of Shadowmoon now requires 3 Temporal Crystals (down from 15) and 5 Scorcerous Fire (down from 10).
• Engineering
  • Blingtron 5000 should now correctly resume offering their daily quest after defeating another Blingtron.
• Inscription
  • Ink Traders should now accept Warbinder's Ink in exchange for other inks.

Items

• Many epic trinkets in Draenor received a buff to ensure a proper progression path through the Raid tier. This change affects world-drop BoE epic trinkets, Inscription-crafted epic trinkets, and trinkets that drop from Highmaul and Blackrock Foundry. Further information on this change could be found in the forum thread titled:*Trinket Hotfixes.
  • Note that Scabbard of Kyanos was unintentionally buffed much more than intended and its stats will be reverted to a more reasonable level.
• Missing Class Glyphs
  • The following Glyphs were not available to be crafted through Inscription and have been added to vendors in Stormshield and Warspear. Alliance players can purchase them from Joao Calhandro, and Horde players can purchase them from Maru'sa. The glyphs are unique and bind on acquire.
    • Glyph of the Solstice (Druid)
    • Glyph of Flying Fists (Monk)
    • Glyph of Cleanse (Paladin)
    • Glyph of Purification (Priest)
    • Glyph of Purify Spirit (Shaman)
    • Glyph of Frostbrand Weapon (Shaman) will be automatically learned at level 75.
• A number of items with no function are now listed as gray/junk quality item.
• Alchemical Catalyst is now an Uncommon quality item.
• Aviana's Feather now only works in outdoor Draenor areas, and other outdoor areas that allow flight.
• Metamorphic Crystal has no function is now listed as gray/junk quality item.
• N.U.K.U.L.A.R. Target Painter no longer works during a Brawler's Guild match.
• Oralius' Whispering Crystal no longer provides a buff to Spirit.
• Ultimate Gnomish Army Knife can no longer be used while in an Arena or Battleground.

UI

• Tooltips for players in Premade Groups should no longer incorrectly display their level 90 Proving Grounds achievements.

BMAH Conquest Gear Refunds
If you purchased any Conquest gear on the Black Market Auction House which was converted into an Honor item, you can get a refund by submitting a support ticket.
Originally Posted by Lore (Blue Tracker
/ Official Forums
)
If you purchased a piece of Primal Gladiator’s gear from the Black Market Auction House which was then downgraded to a Primal Combatant’s piece prior to the beginning of Warlords Season 1, please contact our Customer Service department by submitting a ticket through our Support Center for a refund of the gold spent on the item.

Goblins vs Gnomes Releases December 8th - All cards Released
Blizzard announced a release date for Hearthstone's first expansion, Goblins vs Gnomes! Goblins vs Gnomes will release on Monday, December 8, 2014 in North America, and December 9th in Europe. The card expansion includes over 120 new cards which can be found in a new type of card pack.

Our friends at HearthPwn have a list of all the 61 new cards announced today, animated golden cards for the new set, and datamined information on an expansion launch event and plenty of other client changes.

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