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The latest patch 5.3 news
All of the latest Mists of Pandaria newsPatch 4.2 PTR updates for June 7
by Mathew McCurley 
Jun 7th 2011 at 10:50PM
Another interesting point of fact is that during the valor point conversion for the new tier of raiding, all existing justice points above the 4,000 point cap will be turned into 47 silver per point. Any valor points you had will be reset to zero and will either be added to your justice point totals or turned into silver, depending on how much overage you have. All in all, it will be nice to see how the first point reset works. I am a big fan of point resets and am glad Blizzard went this route with the new point system
Hit the jump for all of the changes.
General
Professions
Death Knight
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New Daily Quests Available
- A large assortment of all-new daily quests and rewards are now available in Hyjal, where players can help the Guardians of Hyjal push back the allies of Ragnaros and establish a forward operating base in the Firelands. In order to partake in the Regrowth and Molten Front daily quests, players must have at least completed up to and including the quest Aessina's Miracle. Once this quest has been completed, players should speak with Matoclaw in the Sanctuary of Malorne to take part in the Regrowth efforts.
- All existing Valor Points in the Currency tab have been converted to Justice Points. Any points above the Justice Point cap will be converted into gold at a rate of 47 silver per point and mailed to characters.
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Zul'Gurub
- All cauldron buffs are now usable while mounted.
- High Priest Kilnara's death now turns off the flaming tiki mask gauntlet.
- High Priest Venoxis's death now removes the poison from the plants at the start of the dungeon.
Professions
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Engineering
- D.E.H.T.A. has recently placed a great number of critters under their protection, especially rabbits and squirrels. Because of this, Flintlocke's Woodchucker has been re-fitted to use wild chickens until an "agreement" can be reached.
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Battlegrounds
- Warsong Gulch has been added back into the Rated Battleground rotation.
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Gladiator Weapons
- Season 10 Conquest Point weapons will only be purchasable once a required minimum sum of Conquest Points has been reached during the current season. For example, Ruthless Gladiator's Pike costs 3400 Conquest Points to purchase. However, players must first earn a total of 11650 Conquest Points during Season 10 before they are able to purchase it.
- Season 9 Honor Point weapons will only be purchasable once a required minimum sum of Honor Points has been reached during the current season. For example, Vicious Gladiator's Pike costs 3400 Honor Points to purchase. However, players must first earn a total of 18500 Honor Points during Season 10 before they are able to purchase it.
- Once the minimum sum of points required to purchase weapons is reached, all available weapons can be purchased for their listed costs. The point requirement is not reset once a purchase is made.
- Weapon tooltips from the vendor will let players know how many more Conquest or Honor Points must be earned in the current season before the item can be purchased.
Death Knight
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Frost
- Might of the Frozen Wastes now increases two-handed weapon damage by 3/7/10%, down from 4/8/12%.
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Druid Bug Fixes
- It is no longer possible in some encounters to use Feral Charge when closer than its minimum range.
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Survival
- Black Arrow damage done has been increased by roughly 40%.
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Pets
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810 new rare tamable beasts have been added, each of which provides a unique taming challenge.
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Glyphs
- Glyph of Soul Swap now applies a 30-second cooldown to Soul Swap, up from 15 seconds.
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Warrior Bug Fixes
- It is no longer possible in some encounters to use Charge when closer than its minimum range.
The news is already rolling out for the upcoming WoW Patch 4.2! Preview the new Firelands raid, marvel at the new legendary staff, and get the inside scoop on new quest hubs -- plus new Tier 12 armor!
Reader Comments (Page 2 of 3)
Abbadon Jun 8th 2011 1:09AM
Soul Swap... nerfed AGAIN?! Why Blizz, WHY?!?!
This makes me want to play my afflock (main) even less...
Morgatho Jun 8th 2011 1:12AM
"Engineering
D.E.H.T.A. has recently placed a great number of critters under their protection, especially rabbits and squirrels. Because of this, Flintlocke's Woodchucker has been re-fitted to use wild chickens until an "agreement" can be reached."
I am a mad hunter right now, you cant do a Chuck Shot with a chicken
Ametrine Jun 8th 2011 1:28AM
Maybe they'll rename it Chick Shot?
...nah, probably not; that almost sounds like some kind of porno title.
MightyMuffin Jun 8th 2011 2:39AM
D.E.H.T.A. ... I knew there was a reason I did not like you, nor did I enjoy doing any of your quests.
You will not hear the end of this until the Chuck Shot is truly available. All the enthusiasm for playing my hunter again left when I saw chicken instead of squirrel. Blizz - fix plx.
Mike Jun 8th 2011 4:28AM
Flintlocke's Chicken Chucker?
Grak Jun 8th 2011 5:26AM
Pheasant Flinger?
Turkey Tosser?
..I'll get me coat.
Zenith Jun 8th 2011 8:20AM
Moonkin mortar!
Doug Jun 8th 2011 10:13AM
I don't really care, just as long as the animation has a small animal being flung at the target and then nibbling away madly.
Joe Jun 8th 2011 10:24AM
It's a pretty weird patch note. I mean it's all just flavor text; the effect of the scope isn't changing.
I think maybe the people who write the patch notes are getting jealous of the quest/lore teams and are starting to try to use the patch notes to tell in-game stories.
anybodykilla Jun 8th 2011 1:22AM
I'm so jacked for the firelands, can't wait to raid.
Dave Jun 8th 2011 1:37AM
Chicken shot! Chicken sh*t!
Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
Dalrint Jun 8th 2011 2:59AM
Doing the points reset that way seems dangerous.
There are many, many players who don't read the forums or blogs and just play. When they log in and half their points just turned into gold there's gonna be a little explosion.
Knob Jun 8th 2011 3:39AM
If they can come to the forums or blogs for a "little explosion", they can come there for some info as well.
Lemons Jun 8th 2011 4:37AM
I've been thinking the exact same thing. Blizzard is putting so much effort into making the game newb friendly and yet they haven't implemented a way of conveying important information to players in-game. They should get on that. In the past, people could read patch notes while the game data was being installed, but even that is gone with the new updater/installer.
It wouldn't be too difficult either. Just add a dialog box that pops up when we log in. Or even have a section called announcements, and every once in a while its button would light up and say something to the effect of "there is a new announcement!"
PeeWee Jun 8th 2011 12:41PM
A LOT of players are completely oblivious to patch changes anyway. Just take a look at /trade the first days after a new patch.
Let them eat their own ignorance.
thebitterfig Jun 8th 2011 12:43PM
The main reason the point-conversion seems somewhat dangerous this way is thus: Blizzard never tells anyone exactly when the patches will be out, at least not officially. There are leaks, yeah, and they'll mention unspecified "maintenance" but they tend not to spell out "tomorrow is the patch - get ready to convert." Granted, they could simply put this in their log in message, and maybe they will, but I'm not really expecting it...
On the other hand, there's probably only a pretty small number of people who have more than 4k JP/VP who don't follow forums and patch notes and so forth. To have that many stockpiled probably means you don't need any of the gear, which probably isn't the case with very casual, newbie sorts of players.
Bapo Jun 8th 2011 4:37AM
Interesting gating for the weapons, not sure how I feel about it yet.
Comito Jun 8th 2011 8:23AM
Yeah seems that people who will fork out getting Conquest points via Arena for the New Season 10 weaps won't get it within 2-3 weeks of doing it. This'll prob stop players going out there way to gain them, for raiding and stop the problem we had previously with raiders getting pvp gear for raiding instead!
Wrath Jun 8th 2011 6:46PM
the excessive Weapon gating seems very silly.
SamLowry Jun 9th 2011 1:12AM
Will there be any weapons in the JP vendor that are actually useful?
I remember we were promised weapons once upon a time, but the ones currently there are all off-hand, meaning that a retadin, for example, can't even use them.