Mythic HFC, Movie Teaser, July 13 Hotfixes, Blue Posts, Step

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Reforging Items, Rift Monsters Focused Feedback, Hammerdin GR 57+



Live Hearthstone Event on July 22 - Streamed & In Person



In-Depth King Leoric Spotlight



Mythic Hellfire Citadel Progression

Five guilds are now at 12/13. You can keep up with the latest progress on WoWProgress, our forum thread, and Manaflask.

Warcraft Movie - Skies of Azeroth Teaser

Legendary finally uploaded the movie teaser to Youtube. You can drag the video around to look in all directions if your browser supports it!

Patch 6.2 Hotfixes - July 13

Originally Posted by Blizzard
(Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Raids and Dungeons

Hellfire Citadel

General

• Fixed an issue where using chaining abilities against very large targets could cause the ability to not chain correctly to smaller targets.

Hellfire High Council

• Fixed an issue that could cause Dia Darkwhisper to not cast Mark of the Necromancer a final time upon reaching 30% health.

Items

• Wrynn's Vanguard Battle Standard and Vol'jin's Spear Battle Standard can no longer be used while in a rated-PvP environment.

Classes

Tier Armor Set Bonuses

Fixed an issue affecting a number of tier armor set bonuses not granting a chance to trigger the set bonus effect if the attacking ability's damage had been fully absorbed by a damage shield.

• Tier-18 2-piece set bonus for Balance Druids
• Tier-18 2-piece set bonus for Discipline Priests
• Tier-17 4-piece set bonus for Combat Rogues
• Tier-18 2-piece set bonus for Assassination Rogues
• Tier-18 2-piece set bonus for Affliction Warlocks
• Tier-18 4-piece set bonus for Affliction Warlocks

Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

Restoration

• Lifebloom should now be correctly granting full effects of Mastery: Harmony's bonus to periodic healing during the bloom portion of the spell.

Hunter (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

General Abilities

• Fixed an issue where Kill Shot (Beast Mastery, Marksmanship) can occasionally fail to reset its cooldown if it fails to kill the target.

Talents

• Barrage should no longer incorrectly hit targets that are in stealth if the Hunter is unable to see them.

Mage (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

Frost

• Water Elemental's Water Jet and Freeze ability could no longer be incorrectly cast at the same time.

Monk (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

General

• Fixed an issue with Monk abilities that could incorrectly detect two-handed vs. dual-wielded weapons.

Blue Posts

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

Contest Winners

so, did anybody win?

Yeah! 110 people to be exact! As well as the person (and guest) that won the trip to BlizzCon.



We're still finalizing some of the winners. Per the rules they have 10 days to respond to our email before we pick a new winner. Of course some people don't check their email, we pick a new winner, and sometimes they also don't check their email, etc. etc. this could go on for a long time... Plus the legal process for some of the larger ticket prizes requires physical documents being mailed back and forth. Long story short, we don't have a full final list of winners yet--although it's only a few stragglers remaining.



Instead of posting all the winner's screenshots (111 of them)--not only because it's a lot of entries to post, but also because it was a sweepstakes, and not a judgment of the best screenshots--we're going to just be posting some of our favorites. We should have that up early next week if I were to guess. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Blue Tweets

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

Lore

Infernals are basically the same as the Molten giants that Dark Shaman enslave, the only difference is shape and one is fel-

Fel construct vs. living earth creature enslaved against its will. (Muffinus)



be considered demonic souls...

"Infernal soul" might also be a term used by the legion for a fabricated "soul," which may not be the same as a life soul. (Muffinus)



So locks are controlling the infernal soul that animates the infernals? Neato, I guess fel-corrupted elemental spirits could also

I would consider those more fel-corrupted living beings, not necessarily demonic, just corrupted. Aberrations. (Muffinus)



...aren't shaman heals just water spells?

They used to be life spells! Now they are water. I think their res is still nature? I don't recall. (Muffinus)



Pets and Pet Battles

About battle pets, ever considered that the system might be getting a bit bloated? There are 14 rats, for example.

Sounds like we need more cats (Muffinus)

Stephan Frost Joins Blizzard

Stephan Frost worked on Wildstar at Carbine for several years, as well as working on videos about the game. He joined Blizzard last week as a Design Producer.

Dark Legacy Comics #497

DLC #497 takes a look back at Vanilla.

http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/501 ... st-DLC-497