Posts with tag patch-5.4

I wrote recently about how to get started with PvP gearing, focusing on the most efficient ways to gain honor points for your initial PvP gearing, when to replace PvE gear and so on. I was pleased to get many messages saying that it was helpful, and a fair few more asking what they should do next. People wondered what gear they should buy first for Conquest, how they should find arena teams and RBG teams and so on. So I thought I'd help you out with some of that information too.

Updated for Season 15

Gear Purchase Order

This was the topic of much discussion, as all I did was give a few suggestions for priority pieces, rather than a hard-and-fast gearing order. A big part of the reason I did that was that it's very personal, it's up to you, and some people will prefer one approach over another. There are various things to consider, so let me spell them out:

It's that time in the expansion again, the time I love, when people have killed Garrosh enough times that they're tired of it, and are looking for something else to entertain themselves. They're leveling alts, and farming or doing pet battles, but the rep grinds and scenario runs seem futile, given how the resultant loot will be replaced by greens come Warlords.

So what do they turn to? PvP! I can see this starting to happen already, with the influx of tweets and emails asking me about the best way to gear up for PvP. And it's a good question, because with the current standing of PvE gear in PvP, you might need a little guidance on where to start.

Item Levels

In instanced PvP right now, item level scaling is in place. Your PvE gear is downscaled to a shifting item level between 496 and 512. The current ilvl is 508, and it's increasing by 1 per week. The best your PvE gear will ever be in instanced PvP is 512. PvP gear purchased for honor is ilvl 496. PvP gear purchased for conquest is ilvl 522, and is not downscaled.

Just one hotfix was released last night, but it was a doozy for those looking to complete their legendary cloaks. All four Celestials on the Timeless Isle have had their health reduced to 25% of their original giant-raid-worthy health pool. If more than 10 players from the same faction engage with a Celestial, its health will scale up to compensate. The scaling will stop at 100% of their original health once 40 players are engaged in the encounter.

The last step of Wrathion's expansion-long chain to obtain legendary cloaks was easy enough when patch 5.4 went live, but these days fewer players are killing the Celestials each week. I know my server usually sees a lot of Celestial kills on Tuesday, but that number drops rapidly as the week wanes on, making it far more difficult for players that are trying to catch up and get their cloak. This change should hopefully make it a little more feasible for players to complete the quest.

While it's nice to see this change applied to the Celestials, I wish we'd see the same technology applied to the rest of Pandaria's world raid bosses as well. The Sha of Fear, Galleon, Oondasta, and Nalak all drop mounts, but it's difficult to find a raid group to take these bosses on so late in the expansion. As the expansion's end draws near, it would be nice to see that technology put in place for older content as well as the new. What do you guys think?

A new batch of patch 5.4 hotfixes have been released and posted the official blog. While the list is pretty short, there are a couple of class tweaks for both death knights and druids in there. In addition, Siegecrafter Blackfuse has been given several adjustments in the Siege of Orgrimmar.

Read on for the full, if brief, list of hotfixes.

A small round of hotfixes for patch 5.4 have been released and posted to the official blog. Before you get too excited, several of these hotfixes require realm restarts to properly complete. However, today's list includes a few tweaks for shaman, one fix for Paragons of the Klaxxi, and a ... unique problem with a Battle Pet that has now been addressed.

Read on for the full list of hotfixes.

Just because Blizzcon happened, doesn't mean the Blizzard hotfix gnomes weren't working busily on doing what they do best, fixing up those little bugs in the game that get in the way of everyone's fun.

Of course, you can hit the break for the full hotfix list, but most notable is the return of Armsmaster Holinka and Roo Desvin, the Quartermasters that sell Conquest gear for Honor, as long as you have the 27,000 conquest earned per season achievement. These guys were pulled due to some early calculation errors, but are well and truly back in business.

What's more, it now seems that, if you're afflicted by Garrosh Hellscream's Malice, even death won't save you! And, most importantly of all, Elder Lin and Sage Whiteheart have learned not to be all up in each other's business in the Shrine!

Hit the break for the full list.

A new round of hotfixes for patch 5.4 have been released and posted on the official blog. Today's list includes a ton of tweaks, changes and nerfs to the Siege of Orgrimmar raid on Raid Finder difficulty. All adjustments involving the Siege of Orgrimmar will take a realm restart to take effect.

Read on for the full list of hotfixes.

A new, very short set of hotfixes for patch 5.4 were released and posted on the official blog. Four small hotfixes were made this time around, two for the Siege of Orgrimmar, and two welcome changes to Arenas for PvP enthusiasts. Check out the full, if brief, list below.

Rygarius

October 31

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

• Siege of Orgrimmar
  • Iron Juggernaut
    • Resolved an issue where the Iron Juggernaut had more health than intended on Heroic difficulty.
  • Siegecrafter Blackfuse
    • Resolved an issue where the deactivated weapons on the conveyor belt had more health than intended on Normal and Heroic difficulties.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

• Arenas
  • For Arena matches that lasts for 20 minutes, the team with the most players left standing will now be awarded a victory. If both teams have an equal number of players alive, the match will still end in a draw.
  • Resolved an issue that caused the Dampening debuff icon to appear early, before the debuff is active.

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A new list of hotfixes for patch 5.4 have just been released and posted to the official blog. The list is fairly lengthy this time around, and largely involves changes and tweaks to the Siege of Orgrimmar on Raid Finder difficulty, as well as some corrections. In addition, both druids and monks have some small fixes -- and one small fix has been put in for a much older raid.

Read on for the full list of hotfixes.

By now, several US realms have been successfully connected with Blizzard's new Connected Realms feature. In case you've been out of the loop, Blizzard released an update in regards to the new feature, which seamlessly connects two realms so that they'll behave as one. That means players on realms that are connected can join the same guilds, use one Auction House, and run raids and dungeons with each other -- a pretty big bonus for realms that have been suffering from lower populations. The list of successfully connected realms is as follows:

• Auchindoun and Laughing Skull
• Black Dragonflight and Skullcrusher
• Aegwynn and Gurubashi
• Balnazzar and Warsong
• Burning Blade and Onyxia
• Chromaggus and Garithos
• Dalvengyr and Dark Iron
• Dethecus and Detheroc
• Dunemaul, Maiev, Boulderfist and Bloodscalp
• Hakkar and Aegwynn
• Rivendare and Firetree

Originally I was not very happy about this change. I felt that maintaining a relatively shorter duration buff was part of what distinguished a "good" ret paladin from a "bad" one, as if squeezing out a tiny amount of extra DPS would make a dramatic difference in performance, and that making it easier to maintain would make the spec utterly boring and unchallenging.

Boy, was I wrong. It took some getting used to at first, for as Inquisition's duration doubled the WeakAura bar that I used to track it remained the same, resulting in far too many early refreshes than I care to admit. But after the honeymoon I had settled into our new relationship pretty well. It may only be an additional 30 seconds, but it did wonders for setting my mind at ease when I went to refresh it.

I still wonder if this is where the devs will stop with it, or if they'll eventually make it passive or allow other abilities to extend its duration (essentially making it passive anyway). I would like to think that Blizzard has learned a great deal from how much tanks are enjoying active mitigation and realize that, on the whole, "active" is fun whereas "passive" is not.

A very short list of hotfixes for patch 5.4 was released and announced yesterday on the official blog. The changes this time around are very minor, and largely involve some nerfs to the Siege of Orgrimmar raid on Raid Finder difficulty, the last wing of which was opened this week. The changes should make it a little easier for players hitting up Raid Finder this week.

Read on for the full list of changes.

A new round of hotfixes for patch 5.4 have been released and posted to the official blog. While the list is very short, there are some notable changes this time around -- players attempting Garrosh Hellscream in Raid Finder difficulty will find him slightly less difficult to handle. In addition, Flexible raid groups should now find it slightly easier to be considered a guild group.

Read on for the full list of hotfixes.

Following Monday's successful connections, the next wave of realms to be added to the Connected Realms feature have just been announced. While Community Manager Nethaera had the names of the realms available for players, as of yet there still isn't a fixed date for the realm connections to take place. However, given the faster turnaround that we've been experiencing, players may see these connections happen sooner than one would think.

Nethaera

As a part of our ongoing Connected Realms implementation, we will be connecting additional realms as listed below. We don't have a specific date yet on when these connections will occur, but we'll provide another update once we do. Please be aware that as a part of the connection process realm times may change to match each other.

Next Realm Connections:

Dethecus and Detheroc
Auchindoun and Laughing Skull
Hakkar and Aegwynn
Rivendare and Firetree
Dunemaul and Bloodscalp/ Maiev/Boulderfist

We're currently evaluating further realm connections and will provide updates as they're available. For more information on Connected Realms, please read the preview blog post here.

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It looks like the Maiev/Bloodscalp/Boulderfist triad can expect another addition to their happy little family with Dunemaul. In addition, Hakkar will join Aegwynn, which was connected to Gurubashi last week. If you're a player on one of the realms slated for connection, you might want to keep an eye on the official thread for future updates.