Poster: Schwick at 6/4/2006 6:43:10 PM PDT
Subject: Warcraft Weekly - Episode Forty Four |
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You want phat posts? YOU CAN'T HANDLE PHAT POSTS!
Schwick's Weekly Rambling
News is slow this week. That's why I'm resurrecting "The You Ess Eh".
If you got ideas, complains, remarks, useful links etc.. send them towards schwickster@gmail.com or I'm sometimes online on the following IRC channel "uk.quakenet.org #wow" (registered is required).
Greetings,
Schwick (Shadowsong)
What -- Why -- When
HELP! HELP! The Scurge is invading! In 1.11 the Scurge will invade all major cities. They will also invade some placed like:
Azshara
Blasted Lands
Burning Steppes
Eastern Plaguelands
Tanaris
Winterspring
The invasion consists of Undead (L59/60/60E) waves entering the cities and also on some places where you got to destroy invading spots. While the invasion is going on, the invasion also goes on in dungeons. Rare mobs have spawned within dungeons like Stratholme, the Scholomance, Dire Maul, the Scarlet Monastery, Shadowfang Keep and the Razorfen Downs. Ofcourse the invasion brings phat loot with it. Ones you slain some mobs or done some quests, you will get necrotic runes. These can be turned in for phat loot or potions.
Source: http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/underdev/1p11/scourgeinvasion/
The invasion will last with a maximum of 2 weeks, depending on how active your realm is killing the Scurge. It can also turn into a annual thing, but that isn't certain yet.
Source: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=8577746
For a complete (fanmade) FAQ regarding the invasion go to: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=8553194
Don't be alert when you see a background downloader appear when playing WOW. Bits and pieces of 1.11 are already been transported to your hard drive so that you can play faster when 1.11 hits final. It can also be disabled, but if you got a decent connection I recommend to let it do it's work.
Source: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=8539027
In recent news, they finally fixed the lag and/or disconnects for some realms. It seemed some traffic was constantly being shifted. They fixed it now and are still monitoring it.
Source: http://forums-en.wow-europe.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general-en&t=1038932
My what is Burning? Burning Crusade you say?
Can't get enough of those Burning Crusade information? Well neither can't Blizzard in a way. That's why they released 2 new "bestiary" containing art work of 2 upcoming mobs. This time it's:
Spore Bats
Spore Walkers
You can find them here: http://www.wow-europe.com/en/burningcrusade/townhall/bestiary.html
Still looking for some E3 interview material? Well luckily Xfire released a new interview with a few Blizzard USA CM's and ofcourse one of the big men himself "Tigole". The interview doesn't contain that many new information but it's worth a watch. You can find it here: http://www.xfire.com/files/1815/ (Xfire is required to download it)
1.11 PTR special (Woops, I forgot some notes)
General
* A permanant version of Aqual Quintessence (called Eternal Quintessence) is provided after completing the Hydraxian Waterlords quest chain. This is avaliable to players who have a reputation level of Revered. See Duke Hydraxis for more information.
* When dueling, all other duelers have unique icons over there heads (skulls, diamonds, shields, etc). (Confirm?)
* When standing there is a global cooldown of 1.5 seconds.
* Temporary weapon buffs (such as poisons, enchanting oils, sharpening stones and shaman weapon buffs) will no longer be removed when zoning. These buffs will also persist when logged out.
* The LookingForGroup channel is now worldwide. Players in Eastern Plaguelands can look for groups in Ironforge or Stormwind.
* Escape Artist - Now has a chance to fail.
* Damage numbers from wands now appears as white instead of yellow.
PvP
* New item rewards have been added for those who have achieved Rank 14 in the PvP Honor System. These items are currently only avaliable to those who are currently Rank 14.
* Players can no longer queue up other players with the deserter debuff for a battleground by forming a raid and having the leader in a different subgroup, and joining as a group.
* Names of some of the Battlegrounds quests were changed.
* Changes were made to the Silverwing side of Warsong Gulch to prevent certain exploits.
* The release timer will be removed in instances. This includes dungeons, battlegrounds and raid instances. (see Raids and Dungeons)
Hunter
Auto Shot - Damage as displayed on the UI will now be white instead of yellow.
Mage
* Evocation - Cooldown reduced to 8 minutes.
* Cooldown on the use of a Mana Gem has been decreased to two minutes and now shares a cooldown with tuber/night dragon/healthstone.
* Pyroblast - Cooldown removed.
* Arcane Missiles - Cancels channeling immediately if its target moves out of line of sight.
Priests
* Focused Casting - Now has an animation. (Confirm?)
Rogue
* Poisons will now persist through zoning (see General).
Shaman
* Frostbrand and Flametongue weapon buffs are benefited by +spell damage. Also Elemental Fury increases the critical strike damage bonus of Frostbrand and Flametongue by 100%. This is not indicated on the Elemental Fury tooltip.
* Frostbrand Weapon used to read "Slows to 75%" on it's tooltip. Now reads "Slows by 25%".
* Frost Shock used to read "Slows to 50%" on it's tooltip. Now reads "Slows by 50%".
* Chain Lightning - Spell damage was decreased.
Warrior
* Talent Improved Bloodrage has been redesigned. It now increases the base rage you get from Bloodrage by 3/5 rage.
* Execute - Now has a blueish color on hit. (Confirm?)
Items
* Zandalarian Hero Charm - Initial effect has been reduced to 200 damage and 400 healing. The effect is now reduced 25 damage and 50 healing every spellcast.
* Deathdealer's Embrace - Several items have this set have had their stats changed.
* The Primal Hakkari tokens used to obtain items in the Zul'Gurub armor quests now contain a "Classes:" flag. This will make it easier to determine what classes use the item.
* Noggenfogger Elixer - Cooldown removed.
* Encrypted Twilight Texts - Now stacks in lots of 250.
* Dartol's Rod of Transformation - The transformation effect is removed when the player is brought into combat.
* Evil Bat Eye - Quality increased from junk to common.
* The Skeleton effect from the Noggenfogger Elixer and the Savory Deviate Delight's costume effect will no longer cause the player to change gendors temporaraly.
Quests
* New repeatable quests have been added to the goblin cities to help re-establish reputation with the Steamwheedle Cartel. These NPCs are representitives of the Steamwheedle Cartel so those with negative reputation can intereact with them.
* The Mark of Shame debuff has been removed from the game.
* A new quest for a nature resistance ring has been added to Cenarion Hold.
Raids and Dungeons
* The Ironbark Protectors in DM West now have an Entangle Root spell that lasts for ~12 seconds.
* Ouru of the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj has had his loot table extended.
* Added brand new loading screens for Scarlet Monastary and Blackrock Spire.
* A new boss, Scorn, has been added to the Graveyard in Scarlet Monastery with a new loot table. He spawns after you kill Bloodmage Thalnos, is a level 34 Elite, and looks like Ras Frostwhisper.
* Blackrock Depths - The Anvilrage Overseers' nets now does approx 300 damage alot with the rooting effect.
* The release timer will be removed in instances. This includes dungeons, battlegrounds and raid instances.
* There is an anti-exploit measure implimented on certain encounters in raid instances. Certain encounters (almost entirely raid bosses) will prevent people from zoning into the instance while that encounter is engaged. If you attempt to zone into the instance while that encounter is engaged, you will be resurrected at the entrance (outside).
* Adjustments to the entrances to Molten Core and Blackwing Lair.
Professions
* Schools of stonescale eels now appear along the coast of Tanaris.
User Interface
* Buffs that have 'charges' now display how many in the buff icon.
* Debuffs now show color-coded borders by type:
** Light blue = magic
** Green = poison
** Purple = curse
** Yellow = disease
** Red = fire
* A leader of a raid can put symbols on a target similar to Hunter's Mark. These are purely cosmetic and assist with the organization of a raid.
* Default UI now reports quantity of an item looted, on the loot output channel. For example, "Player received loot: [Dense Stone]x3"
* Bank bags now have a higher contrasted background than before (white stone rather than dark blue).
* Inventory/bank bags are now scaled down and take up less amount of space on the screen when opened.
* Extra game tips have been added to the loading screen.
* When right clicking a player's name in chat, the whisper option has been replaced with a target option. This option does not work if the player is not in your interest area.
* Extended action bars now show hotkey and range information just like the default action bar.
* When a GM ticket is open, an estimated wait time is now displayed.
* A new option has been added under Interface options - "Show Target of Target". This appears as a small unit frame underneath your target's unit frame.
* When inspecting a player who has equiped set items, the UI now highlights what parts of the set that person is wearing rather than what parts you are wearing.
* On the world map a small skull appears on the map corresponding with the alerts in the global defense channel.
* Abilities in the hotbars have a small range marker in the upper right hand corner now, if it's white the player is in range and if the marker is red then the player is out of range.
* When calling the OpenAllBags function (key bound to Ctrl+B by default), it will open/close all of your bank and inventory bags if the bank frame is opened. This previously only opened/closed your inventory bags.
* Several more technical changes: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-interface-customization&t=382181&tmp=1#post382181
** The interface event processing has been optimized while zoning.
** Your interface windows are no longer closed when you zone.
** You can now bind the mousewheel to button actions.
** You can now rebind the screenshot action.
** When you kill a creature, the combat log will report "You have slain X!"
** Reloading the UI requires user input.
** Mouselook now overrides normal UI input, and if the world area loses mouse focus, mouselook is turned off.
** Fixed cursor tooltip positioning in widescreen video modes.
* Many important UI code changes for addon developers - http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-interface-customization&t=343889
World Environment
* The hills south of where Lord Kazzak spawns have been leveled, making them climbable.
* Land that prevously was between Duskwood and Stranglethorn Vale has been raised to stop people from entering Kharazahn and old Zul'Gurub.
* The terrain was raised by Orgrimmar in order to prevent players from reaching the top of the Orgrimmar Gates.
* The tunnel bridging the north half of Western Plaguelands and Eastern Plaguelands, Terrorweb Tunnel, is now infested with some nasty spiders, ranging from level 53 to 60, as well as a small handful of level 60 elites.
Technical
* Native support for the Logitech G15 keyboard has been added. This requires no extra software, except the latest drivers from Logitech ( http://bitbasher.net/wow/g15wow.jpg )
Source and thanks to: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-realm-test&t=233992
Service with a smile :-)
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