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Arena Skirmishes Bonus Event July 10 – 13

Originally Posted by Blizzard
(Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Service Update July 10, 12:05 p.m. PDT - We are aware of an issue preventing the quest The Arena Calls from properly displaying your number of wins. Arena Skirmish wins are being correctly counted, and you will be able to complete the quest after your tenth win.



Through the end of the day on Monday, Arena Skirmishes award triple bonus honor. There’s never been a better time to queue up for the Arena and crack some skulls. Keep an eye out for the event-only quest The Arena Calls. When you win 10 Arena matches, the quest awards 500 Conquest Points which do not count against your weekly Conquest Point maximum.



In case you’ve never participated in an Arena Skirmish, here’s an easy how-to guide:

• From anywhere in-game, open the Group Finder (default hotkey: i)
• Select the Player vs. Player tab on the bottom of the window.
• Under Arena Battles, choose either 2v2 or 3v3.
• Click the Join Battle button to be matched up with teammates.

It’s Arena PvP! Rush in and bash your opponents.



Will you answer the call to battle?

Patch 6.2 Hotfixes - July 10

Originally Posted by Blizzard
(Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Creatures and NPCs

Tanaan Jungle

• Savage Whale Shark should now drop 2 Fel-Corrupted Apexis Fragments once a day for players on the eligible quest.
• Varyx the Damned no longer requires the beams to be blocked to start the encounter.

Quests

Darkmoon Faire

• Silas' Secret Stash: Fixed an issue where Silas' Secret Stash could not be interacted with.

Raids and Dungeons

Hellfire Citadel

General

• [Requires a realm restart] Sargerei Adjutant's Consuming Pain ability now deals 30% less damage.
• [Requires a realm restart] Construct Peacekeeper's Protocol: Crowd Control ability now deals 30% less damage.
• [Requires a realm restart] Sargerei Soul Cleaver's Devouring Spirit now scales with raid size.

Archimonde

• Archimonde's Doomfire now deals 40% less damage on Mythic difficulty.
• Hand of Purity now reduces the damage of Doomfire by 40% (down from 80%). Damage reduction against other abilities remain unchanged.
• Shadowfel Burst should no longer sometimes cause the player to be ineligible for Shadowfel Burst.
• Fixed an issue where players that were in the Twisting Nether when Archimonde is defeated would not see the cinematic.
• Fixed an issue where players that leave the Twisting Nether could be unable to target players that didn't enter into the Twisting Nether with them.

Timewalking

• Completing a Timewalking bonus event quest (A Frozen Path through Time and A Burning Path through Time) will now award a normal Iron Fleet Treasure Chest in addition to a Seal of Inevitable Fate.

Items

• Insignias of Dominance should now only trigger its effect while the character is in combat.
• Champion's Honor should no longer allow players to use it if it'll put them over the Honor or weekly Conquest cap.
• Cursed Feather of Ikzan is no longer Unique.
• Fel-Corrupted Apexis Fragments should now be slightly easier to obtain.

Classes

Death Knight (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

Frost

• Fixed an issue with Blood of the North that could cause Death Runes to incorrectly revert back into Blood Runes.

Paladin (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

General

• Seal of Righteousness should no longer sometimes deal more damage than intended.

Holy

• [Hotfix in testing] Denounce now causes 20% less damage.

Blue Tweets

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

PvP

Thanks for making Ashran impossible for people who play at night.

Definitely concerned about the off peak experience. (holinka)



Lore

And if Warlocks can control/manipulate souls, which are undead, to haunt people, then they are technically practicing necromancy..

I suppose that depends on your definition of necromancy, and it's ok to have your own. Control of souls vs. raising soulless UD. (Muffinus)

Not really...necromancy extends to controlling souls/ghosts/banshees and Gul'dan used a variation of the Soulstone ability to

I don't think I'm going to convince you, nor should I Cool to see someone so passionate about their toon! (Muffinus)



abilities are non-canon?

Of course you use souls, you have soul shards. You dont use them to raise the dead though. (Muffinus)



Reputation / Questing

You guys really need to change how you get credit for events. Dying when it was 5sec away from being completed and missing out suck

Totally agree. Will work on fixing. (holinka)

Mythic Tyrant Velhari Kill Video

Method has released their Mythic Tyrant Velhari kill video.

http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/501 ... hari-Video