Quote:We have another change to the Arena that could alter things some as well. I thought it would be worth noting that we've made a change to Shadow Sight in patch 2.4. It is now going to increase damage taken by 5% rather than dealing damage over time. The duration has also been reduced from 21 seconds to 15 seconds.

Quote: Although not terribly relevant to your discussion I thought I'd jump in and let you know about some Spell Haste changes in the upcoming patch.

In 2.4, Spell Haste will reduce the global cool down on spells, down to a minimum of 1 second. It won't apply to melee and ranged abilities though however.

Quote:We are tossing a little more into the mix with a change that is being implemented in patch 2.4. Players will be able to purchase level 70 Superior quality PvP gear off of reputation vendors.

We want both PvE and PvP to work together and this is just one way we think will help do that for those looking to better combine the two.

Quote: The fix in 2.4 should have Endless Rage provide significantly more rage.
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We don't have any exactly numbers to share, but it should be a notable improvement from what it was providing to get it on par with what we wanted.

Quote: While I agree there is no exact number to shoot for in crit, in 2.4 we plan to make the off-hand weapon critical hits from Whirlwind trigger Flurry and Rampage which should improve damage a bit.

Quote: The Feral bears will be seeing an improvement with Lacerate dealing additional damage based on your attack power.

Quote: One thing that will help is that in patch 2.4, healing grace will reduce the chance that all of your spells will be dispelled by 10/20/30%

Quote: I do know that in patch 2.4 players can only carry 80 of your delicious conjured manna biscuits at one time. As a result, you should experience less banquet-creating frustration. Sorry, the spell icon will remain the same and not look any more new or unique.

Quote: Patch 2.4 will remove the restriction for Ritual of Summoning that prevents you from summoning players into instances. Provided the player meets the instance requirements, you'll be able to summon them in from anywhere in the world.

Quote: Well aren't you the little Nostradamus for the day.

You're pretty close, but it's actually going to be a part of Enchanting. Once every 24 hours, through Enchanting (not Alchemy) you'll be able to split a Void Crystal into two Large Prismatic Shards. This is through a new recipe that's being added in 2.4.

This helps reduce the exorbitant prices currently being seen for Large Prismatics, and helps raise the value of the Void Crystals. While this is the only change planned in 2.4 to help the Void Crystal prices, we're still looking at the possibility of additional 'help' for Void Crystal value in the future.

Quote: We have a few changes planned for patch 2.4 that we'd like to share a little bit with you. First, all 25-player raid bosses will drop more gold and those who dropped set tokens will drop one additional token. Additionally, the the loot dropped by Doomlord Kazzak and Doomwalker has been changed to bind-on-equip. These two outdoor raid bosses will also drop much more gold than before as well.

Lastly, Scale of the Sands reputation will now be awarded in Hyjal at a much higher.

Quote: Items intended for Retribution Paladins have had their stats adjusted. Retribution Paladins should see an increase in dps as a result.

Quote: Since I've decided there's absolutely no relevant thread I could ever find to throw out this info...

We're making some improvements to the way the looting UI and related functions work in 2.4. These are just a couple of the changes planned.

First when you loot a Bind on Pickup item that only you can pick up (such as Heroic Badges) you'll no longer see the confirmation dialog. One less pop-up to deal with, obviously you want your badges, AMIRITE?

Also when you loot a Bind of Pickup item the confirmation window is going to list the name of the item in the window. You'll be able to identify that you're getting the right items much easier now.

There are a few more but I won't ruin all the surprises.

Quote:Holy crap that is HUGE. I wonder if it will work in TK instances, which seemed to have a pretty adamant restriction of requiring a flying mount, which essentially made a flying mount a requirement for Karazhan.

Quote:I would imagine that the anti-warlock summon zone ban for Netherstorm would apply to the TK instances, keeping the Kara / Instance requirements in place. But it's Blizzard, who knows. :)

~Frag

Quote:Characters will now retain talented spell ranks so when they retalent they do not have to relearn the spells from trainers.

Quote:Well it was a tax on certain classes for PvP respecing more then others. Sure its cheap to do one time, but if you do it a couple of times a week it adds up.

Quote:Another point of note:
Talent skills and spells were dirt cheap already, but this is still excellent news.

Quote:10 gold a respec for a fire mage.

Quote:Alterac Valley

* The Horde's starting tunnel has been moved back to a more equal distance from the first objectives, which will help evenly distance the starting points for each side across the terrain when the battle commences.

* The General and Warmasters for each faction will receive a stacking buff from each other that boosts their health and damage. The more of them that are still in the battleground, the more dangerous they will all be. This will put a greater focus on destroying (and defending!) the towers that remove the Warmasters as players work toward defeating the appropriate General and conquering the land.

* Balinda Stonehearth has been studying her spellbooks to become a more challenging opponent to the Horde and will do more damage with her spells. The additional health we recently added to Balinda and General Vanndar Stormpike will no longer be needed with these improvements and will be changed back to their previous amounts with the patch.

Quote:Because Alterac Valley wasn't nearly hard enough on the Horde. Still no mention if Dun Bottleneck has been changed so that the Horde doesn't have to kill eight archers, four GY defenders, and a half-dozen mixed mobs before they get a chance at whacking Vanndar, or if some of the Frostwolf NPCs decide to, y'know, stand up near Drek'thar's love shack for a bit.

Quote:Just wait until your battlegroup turns. Ruin-US had a long period of immunity to the plague, but it's struck with a vengeance, and right now Horde are basically winning at will.

Get ten people to defend at Iceblood, 600-0. Nothing to it.

Quote:Just wait until your battlegroup turns. Ruin-US had a long period of immunity to the plague, but it's struck with a vengeance, and right now Horde are basically winning at will.

Get ten people to defend at Iceblood, 600-0. Nothing to it.

Quote:I cannot count the number of times the horde has tried this in our battlegroup, only to see the Aid Station capped in minimum time and our whole game collapse within 10 minutes.

Quote:Then they're not defending IB right, because they're either letting people through or don't have *any* at the station to watch for stealth cappers.

Quote:Right. Pull off any strategy better than the other team, and you win. Don't, and you lose. IB is a perfectly good place to make a stand, but it's hardly "send 10 to IB and pick up your free win."

-Jester

Quote:Maybe if the allies made a coordinated push to take Iceblood, instead of half of them zerging galv, and the other half screwing around with the tower, they'd have a better chance.

Quote:So put 20 on the road between IB Tower and the hill, have the other 20 go kill Balinda, take SH GY and SH Bunker and win by attrition.

As it stands, unless they make Balinda's cast not interruptable, two rogues and a healer or two will still drop her while a concerted team of 10+ Alliance without any interferrence from the horde will be needed to take down Galv.