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WoW Cataclysm Quest Design
I'm reading that as you want quests to be interesting but easy and fast to get people to endgame. Yes and no. When designing quests, it's important for us to keep in mind all the different kinds of players that'll play through them and what their interests might be. For example, some World of Warcraft players just want to get to ...more»
WoW Cataclysm: Death Knight Tanking and Survavibility
DKs have a lot of control over their survivability. While the other tank classes spend a lot of button clicks on generating threat, DKs can regularly hit Death Strike, which heals them. This puts a very powerful tool in the hands of the player. Played well, you can mitigate a lot of incoming damage and even choose when it is ...more»
WoW Cataclysm Patch 4.2 PTR Notes – 06/14 Update
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Official Forums) General Steadfast raiders have an opportunity to embark on a series of quests to create an all-new legendary caster staff. In order to begin the process of assembling the staff, players must first kill a Molten Lord in the Firelands. Once a Molten Lord is killed, players can accept the quest A Legendary Engagement from Ziradormi in ...more»
WoW Cataclysm: Valor Point Conversion in 4.2
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Official Forums) World of Warcraft update 4.2, Rage of the Firelands, will introduce the first new raid tier in Cataclysm, and with that it will also introduce the first conversion from Valor Points to Justice Points. For anyone running Heroics and raids, this is important information to ensure you spend your points wisely before release of the patch. With ...more»
WoW Cataclysm: Clarification: Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa’s Rest
Dragonwrath is designed to be DOT-friendly. Simply put, it has a chance to copy each tick of a DOT spell. There is no internal cooldown, since we want it to be good for warlocks and Shadow priests. Furthermore, the proc chance is adjusted favorably for pet specs that derive a significant portion of their DPS from pets. Our goal is to tune ...more»
WoW Cataclysm: Making Rogue poison buffs permanent
I remember when I had to mix poisons using reagents, buy different reagents depending on which level of poison I wanted to create, they had charges as well as duration, and they were wiped every time I zoned into or out of an instance... Uphill, in the snow, beset by amorous troggs, both ways. I think that when we apply poisons ...more»
WoW Cataclysm: Itemization in raids and in the Firelands
Upon re-reading, I should have been more clear, no question. What I was getting at is that that there's enough room to itemize for everyone, even if we’re designing items that aren’t 100% efficient. I'll clarify further, though. Generally speaking, we don't set out to provide perfect itemization for every spec in the game for every tier of content (though we ...more»
WoW Cataclysm: Ragnaros 25-Man PTR Kill by Synced
Ragnaros was available for testing on PTRs tonight and Synced (EU-Kil'jaeden) managed to take him down, and they even have a video of the kill. Looking to make more WoW gold? Check out the secret tactics you can use to legally and easily generate up to 427 gold per hour or more in World of Warcraft without using hacks or cheats. Get ...more»
WoW Cataclysm: Goblin Racial Nerf
It wasn't a stealth nerf. It was a bug fix to make the goblin racial function as stated. This is the racial description: "Always receive the best possible gold discount, regardless of faction." What this means is you will get the exalted discount from faction vendors regardless of your standing with that faction. There was a bug, however, which allowed the discount ...more»
WoW Cataclysm: Dev Watercooler – Cataclysm Talent Tree Post-Mortem
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Official Forums) You may have noticed we changed class talent trees for Cataclysm. We changed not just the trees themselves, as you might expect for an expansion, but the entire structure of the trees and the way you choose talents. Now that the Cataclysm model has been in play for several months, the team has been discussing what ...more»
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