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Blackrock Foundry Raid Finder Wing 2 Opens this Week

Blackrock Foundry's second wing of Raid Finder difficulty opens this week and last wing opens in four weeks.

Originally Posted by Blizzard
(Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

It won’t be long before you’ll be able to take the assault against the Iron Horde to the next level in new Raid content. To help you plan your attack, we’ve broken down the unlock schedule for Blackrock Foundry and the third Draenor world boss – Rukhmar. Will you be ready?

Those who plan to jump into the action in the Raid Finder will need a minimum item level of 635. Here's the rundown:



February 24, 2015:

• Raid Finder Wing 2: The Black Forge (Hans’gar and Franzok, Flamebender Ka’graz, and Kromog ) unlocks.

March 10, 2015:

• Raid Finder Wing 3: Iron Assembly (Beastlord Darmac, Operator Thogar, and The Iron Maidens) unlocks.

March 24, 2015:

• Raid Finder Wing 4: Blackhand’s Crucible (Blackhand) unlocks.

Icy Veins - Blackrock Foundry Guides

Our friends over at Icy Veins have their Blackrock Foundry guides up to date, with Mythic versions of guides in progress. Thanks to AskMrRobot, the easiest progression order is listed as well.

AskMrRobot - Combat Infographics

AskMrRobot launched a new feature for the release of Blackrock Foundry, Combat Infographics. These give you an at a glance idea of how well you and your raid are doing at things like avoiding damage, dealing damage, healing, killing adds, and more.

Patch 6.1 Official Notes

The official notes went live today with a few changes from the PTR notes.

Originally Posted by Blizzard
(Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

New Heirloom Collections Tab

• The Collections system now supports Heirloom items.
• Heirlooms can be upgraded to increase the maximum level that the item scales up to.
  
  
  • Heirlooms with no upgrades can scale up to level 60.
  • Heirlooms with 1 upgrade level can scale up to level 90.
  • Heirlooms with 2 upgrade levels can scale up to level 100.
  • Old heirlooms that have been upgraded to scale to level 85 are grandfathered in with 1 upgrade level.
• New Heirlooms for the neck slot are now available and allows the character to cast a heal once a minute. This heal shares a cooldown with potions and Healthstones.
• Alternate methods for obtaining Heirlooms and Heirloom upgrade tokens are also available.
  
  
  • Argent Tournament sells Heirloom upgrade tokens for Champion's Seals.
  • Some world events now sell Heirloom upgrade tokens for currency obtained through the event.
• Collecting 35 heirloom items awards a special mount that's usable by level 1 characters.

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

• New Garrison Visitors
  
  
  • One of five new visitors may visit each day offering a quest to anyone that visits players with a Tier 3 Garrison.
    
    
    • Defeat a dungeon boss: Awards a bag with a chance to contain a level 630, 645, or 655 item token.
    • Defeat a raid boss (weekly quest): Awards a bag with a chance to contain a level 645, or 655 item token.
    • Bounty (intended for 3 or more players): Defeat a named elite NPC for gold with a chance (once a day) to obtain Bloody Stack of Invitations.
    • Relic: Complete a series of quests for gold or Garrison Resources. Completing a relic quest unlocks it as a potential mission for your followers. Complete all 6 relic missions to unlock Harrison Jones as a follower!
    • Profession: Turn-in tradeskill reagents for Primal Spirits and work order tradeskill reagents.
• Summon a Raid or World Boss
  
  
  • Players may find an item while completing a Garrison Invasion, Dungeon, or Raid daily quest from the Garrison visitor that that allows them to summon one of six new raid or world boss in the Garrison.
• New Garrison Vendor
  
  
  • There’s a new vendor coming to your Garrison who allows you to spend Garrison Resources on Follower Trait Retraining Guides or Follower Ability Retraining Manuals.

General

• Removed the requirement to have a character that's level 55 or higher to unlock the Death Knight as a playable class.

Pet Battle

• Level 100 characters with a Tier-3 Garrison will now receive an item in the mail that increases a single Battle Pet's level to 25.

PvP

• Ashran
  
  
  • Grand Marshal Tremblade and High Warlord Volrath no longer award Conquest Points when defeated.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

• A new queuing system is in place to help improve matchmaking for Oceanic arena teams hosted on Australian game servers. This new system will wait for a predetermined amount of time to match an Oceanic arena team against another Oceanic team before looking for opponents from the broader North American player pool. There's an expectation that queue times may be a slightly longer as a result but the increase should not be significant.
• Bonus Honor received from winning a Battleground should now correctly convert into XP for characters that are below level 100.
• Eye of the Storm: Icon for the flag should no longer be incorrectly displaying in the center of the map even though it's been picked up by another player.

Professions

• Cooking
  
  
  • New self-only cooking recipes have been added for food that gives 125 bonus to a stat.

UI

• Players now receive a banner notification after defeating a dungeon, raid, or world boss in Warlords of Draenor or Mists of Pandria.

Patch 6.1 Hotfixes

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

Lumbering Ancients Spawn Rate

Lumbering Ancients have always been rare and there was no change to the spawn rate. Having said that, there's a hotfix underway to make Lumbering Ancients multi-tap to help with this potential bottleneck.



The hotfix to make Lumbering Ancient should now be live. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)



Heirloom Vendor Crowding

The hotfix to add collision around the Heirloom NPCs should now be live. Additionally, a dismount aura has been applied to Estelle Gendry (Horde Heirloom Vendor) via hotfix. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)



Monk (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

Tiger Strikes Hotfix

We recently found a significant bug with Tiger Strikes for all Monks, and wanted to explain the incoming fixes that will resolve it.



The bug itself was twofold. First off, Tiger Strikes was incorrectly able to trigger from unsuccessful autoattacks (such as those that miss, or have been dodged or parried). However, it was NOT able to trigger from Multistrikes. We’ll be fixing Tiger Strikes to its intended behavior: it will no longer activate on unsuccessful autoattacks, but will be able to activate from successful Multistrikes.



Fixing those bugs will result in an overall damage gain for all Monks, so we’ll be making a couple other adjustments:

• For Brewmasters, we’re going to reduce the damage done by Keg Smash by 20%. We felt that Brewmaster DPS was too strong already, and the Tiger Strikes fix only pushes them further.
• Windwalkers and Mistweavers were a little weak, which is why we’re increasing Rising Sun Kick’s damage amplification debuff from 10% to 20% in 6.1. The Tiger Strikes fix will be a small damage increase on top of that, but we’re going to keep an eye on where Windwalkers and Mistweavers end up as a result of it before making any further adjustments if necessary.

These changes were not able to make it into the final 6.1 build, but will be hotfixed in shortly after 6.1 goes live.



Can we get an eta on the zen sphere detonate fix?

That's fixed in patch 6.1.



We did also find that Tiger Strikes was incorrectly using the lower dual-wield proc chance when Mistweavers were equipping one-handed items in conjunction with off-hand items. We’ll be fixing that to give the full 10% chance while in Crane Stance when these hotfixes go live.



We’ve also discovered that the tooltip for Tiger Strikes is incorrectly stating that the chance for it to activate is 6.25% while dual-wielding. The actual chance is 5% (and has been since Warlords of Draenor released). The tooltip will be updated in a future patch.



If you don't mind me asking, is there anything you're going to do to address the Roll Perk bug? It increases the speed you roll by 25%, but also unintentionally reduces the distance traveled by 25% as well.

That should also be fixed in this round of hotfixes. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)



Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

Combat Rogue's PvP 4-piece Set Bonus

The hotfix for Combat Rogue's PvP 4-piece set bonus was implemented and will now provide the Cold Blood effect after using Vanish. Note that the tooltip will incorrectly display text for the old set bonus. This will be fixed in a future client-side patch.



Cold Blood - Combat Rogue PvP 4-piece set bonus

• When you use Vanish, you gain 5 Combo Points and the critical strike chance of your next Sinister Strike, Eviscerate, Revealing Strike, or Ambush is increased by 100%.

(Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Blue Posts

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

Follower Work Order Bonus

Is your Follower assigned to the building for each work order as it's completed? We closed a loophole that would allow you to assign a Follower to a building right before collecting the work orders, and gain all the bonus even though they weren't assigned to the building the whole time. The intended functionality (and the one active in 6.1) is that the Follower needs to be assigned to the building as each work order completion ticks for their bonus to be applied. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)



Blackrock Foundry Missions

This is stupid, if you really need normal kills to get your mythic box.

You do not need to go back to a lower difficulty to be eligible for higher difficulty Raid Missions for followers.



Example: You don't need any Normal difficulty raid kills for your followers to qualify for Mythic Raid Missions.



Don't be stupid. We're told the way the system is supposed to work, and it's not working as advertised.

Source? The system is working correctly.



All information I've read up until today has been that you clear LFR enough you get normal. You clear normal enough you get heroic. You clear heroic enough you get mythic. You clear mythic enough you get mythic and some coin.

Without the source of what led the quoted poster to believe the system was working incorrectly I'm unable to investigate if the info they got was correct or not.



For the sake of further clarification, Highmaul progression is not required to unlock Blackrock Foundry Raid Missions. Progressing in Highmaul provides an alternate way to unlock Blackrock Foundry Raid Missions, but it's not required.



people with 30 BRF heroic kills, including blackhand, ARE NOT GETTING THE MYTHIC CACHE. how many heroic kills do we need. can some of these kills be in the same lockout.



I've not seen a SINGLE report of ANYONE getting the mythic cache who also didn't have 8 highmaul mythic kills.

Were the kills loot eligible? Killing the same boss multiple times in the same week does not count as a loot eligible kill. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)



Fur Trader: No other Traders Available Today?

Intended?

Yes, and it's region-wide.



Of the new Garrison visitors who is at your Garrison is random, and what they offer is randomly selected each day, but that same selection applies to that NPC regardless of whose Garrison they're at for the day. So for example, you have the raid quest NPC, and it's for Brackenspore, and anyone else who has the raid NPC for the day also has that same quest. Tomorrow the raid NPC will have a new random quest, and anyone who has the raid NPC will all have the same quest.



The idea is that you're visiting your friends and guildies Garrisons to get access to each of the 5 types of NPC's each day, but that you're not needing to visit a hundred Garrisons to complete all of their potential quests. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)



Patch Note Changes

"A new vendor has been added allowing players to use Garrison Resource to purchase items to upgrade Followers"



They don't mean the guy that starts invasions, right?

He sells nothing that is a guaranteed upgrade for your follower whatsoever.



Maybe I'm missing something.

The note was updated to the following:



"There’s a new vendor coming to your Garrison who allows you to spend Garrison Resources on Follower Trait Retraining Guides or Follower Ability Retraining Manuals."



So, no. It wasn't a lie. Patch notes are an ongoing effort and we update them as quickly as possible when changes come in. This one was updated this morning to reflect the correct functionality.



Sorry for any confusion the note may have caused.



See, Blizzard never lies. They just tell you something then change the information when needed.

A lie would be with intent to deceive. There was no intent to deceive. I understand the frustration. As with any development cycle, things can change relatively fast and miscommunications can happen. We do our best to minimize those and when they do occur, we try to correct them right away. I also didn't try to deny that it had been different before. Yes, it was worded differently. Yes, the note had been incorrect. Yes, it's been since corrected. We'll keep working to make sure these errors don't happen in the future, but there's no guarantee they'll never happen again.



Proper etiquette when editing documents is to explain any revisions. Simply putting correction: or update: would have made all this a non-issue. Simply changing it smacks of deception and trying to fly under the radar. That's the problem I have, not that there was a mistake. Mistakes happen. Trying to hide them is another whole issue.

We document changes in the PTR notes this way as changes occur. These changes were made to the live notes which serve as a "new" document. It's a strange sort of beast in that, if we change things to show edits, it implies those edits came after publication vs. during which could confuse people who haven't been following along with the PTR notes. They just want to know how things work, not how they were documented before it went live. (If that makes sense.) There's no "hiding" anything, it's just a side effect of this sort of documentation and the anomalies that go with them. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Blue Tweets

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

Classes

In 6.0 you changed the cast animation of 'denounce' (pala) from directed to omni (heal).Intended?Looks strange as a dmg spell

In 6.0 we performed an audit of which animations each spell used. Some changed which can be jarring, but they were intended. (WarcraftDevs)

So the "buff" animation on Deep Freeze & Counterspell is intended? Looks awful..

What you're referring to as the "buff" animation is not for buffs, but for indirect spells, which includes buffs. (Celestalon)

Deep and CS seem pretty direct to me. /confused

Direct typically means something is coming out of your hands, like a Frostbolt. Comet Storm is very indirect. (Celestalon)



Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

Will Glyph of Guided Stars make Starfall now hit players capturing a flag if they're affected by moonfire/sunfire?

No. If a player is currently capturing a point, Starfall will not be cast on them. (WarcraftDevs)



Chance of having Glyph of Treant hide weapons? I feel less awesome tree with a staff attached to me.

You make a solid case and we appreciate the feedback! We'll consider this. (WarcraftDevs)



Mage (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

Arcane PvP 4set buff can be purged. Intended? Why isn't Arcane Power immune to purge? Can't purge Dark Soul?

This is intended. Many PvP set bonuses that provide magical buffs can be purged. (WarcraftDevs)



Ice Floes(6.1) isn't working with Blizzard, Evo, Missles, & Frostfire Bolt(Probably more) Intentional?

No, these are just bugs, and will be resolved. Mounting with it was interesting, but it caused too many issues. (WarcraftDevs)



Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

Rogues ability Death from Above kicks players out of the pvp coliseum when used and treats it like we lost. Any word on a fix?

This will be addressed in 6.1. (WarcraftDevs)



Shaman (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

Are we ever going to get a fix for Liquid Magma attacking CC'd targets?

Liquid Magma is a spell that should be used at opportune moments, but it can intentionally hit CC’d targets. (WarcraftDevs)



Will instant EQ only trigger when Chain Lightning hits 3+ targets? In other words, will I benefit from this change in PvP?

Correct, as described in the Patch Notes, and we certainly hope you benefit from using it in PvP! (WarcraftDevs)

How can we benefit in PvP (arenas)? Useless in 2s, and good luck stacking a team in 3s. Sad face! Good for RBGs only...

Pets and such count. Many 3-target abilities get significant use, even in 2s. (Celestalon)



Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

learned greenfire, Dreadsteed with Glyph of Nightmares still leave red flames when cross water. it's a BUG?

This is a known bug that we hope to have addressed in the near future. (WarcraftDevs)



Art

any plans for fixing helm clipping issues with hoods for female humans in 6.1?

We constantly look to address clipping bugs, and we're always happy to get names of items that are acting up. (WarcraftDevs)



Will the guild cloak transmog to some cloaks now fully show instead of being transparent on the bottom 2/3?

We’ll look into it, thanks for the report! (WarcraftDevs)



Character / Items

Will [Automated Critter Defense Cannon] become a Toy in 6.1?

Consumables don’t go in the toybox, but we can consider creating a non-consumable version in the future. (WarcraftDevs)



Could we get the ability to downgrade token drops from older raids? Would be nice to have access to MoP LFR gear for transmog.

No, but you can queue into old LFR instances from Auridormi/Lorewalkers to get that gear. (WarcraftDevs)



Is the heirloom mount speed disabled in Battlegrounds without training? It would surely hurt the 19-10 twinks.

Yes, it is disabled in that bracket. (WarcraftDevs)



Stats

Are you planning to change the way versatility works atm? peeps say you dislike it and want to make it more viable.

(1) Versatility is working out well. It's a consistently good (albeit not the best) stat for everyone, which we're happy with. (WarcraftDevs)

(2) Based on what we've seen in the progression race, many guilds are sacrificing a tiny bit of DPS for damage reduction. (WarcraftDevs)



PvP

Would love to hear how people are making use of skirmishes. Mostly solo queue? 2s only? 3s only? Both? Low level? Max level? (holinka)



I pick up things in ashran I don't want because not picking them up puts them in my mailbox without being able to delete mail.

Thanks! We know this has been an issue for many and we’ve taken some steps to improve it in 6.1. (WarcraftDevs)



Specifically Cyclone being dispellable, because its basically uncounterable, or Cyclone sharing a DR with mage CC.

That DR change would just mean the complaints would shift from Mage Druid synergy to Lock Druid synergy. (holinka)

fear already drs with clone.

We're not going to put it on two DR categories. (holinka)

Diablo III - Patch 2.2 PTR

The Patch 2.2 PTR went on the launcher today, bringing updated set bonuses, new passives, class changes, and more!

GCDTV - 3v3 Arena Tournament

GCDTV is holding weekly 3v3 arena tournaments and tried changing up their rules to have Pick and Ban this week, but were unable to do so due to lack of signups. If you are 2200 or above and interested in participating, take a look at the rules and then sign up! If you are interested in watching, check back on Friday and Saturday at 9 PM EST.

http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/473 ... ch-2-2-PTR