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Gaze of the Black Prince: Legendary Questline Limited-Duration Buff Going Live 6/17
Gaze of the Black Prince
is going live for a limited period of time--between Tuesday, June 17 at 9:00 a.m. PDT, and Monday, June 30 at 9:00 a.m. PDT. This buff greatly aids players looking to finish the legendary questline with increased droprates on quest items and a 100% reputation boost to
The Black Prince
.
We've put together a quick guide below on how to maximize
Gaze of the Black Prince
--for a more detailed look at the legendary questline, check out
Wowhead's Guide to the Mists of Pandaria Legendary Questline
or stria's
Legendary Cloak Questline Overview
.
Increased Droprate on Legendary Quest Items
These are the items that have increased droprates with
Gaze of the Black Prince
:
Sigil of Power
, 10 total
: Drops from 36 bosses--all Tier 14 bosses (4 in
Terrace of Endless Spring
, 6 in
Heart of Fear
, 6 in
Mogu'shan Vaults
), all Tier 15 bosses (12 in
Throne of Thunder
), and first two wings of
Siege of Orgrimmar
(8 total in Vale of Eternal Sorrows, Gates of Retribution). Objective of
The Strength of One's Foes
. Must be completed before you get your legendary gem.
Sigil of Wisdom
, 10 total
: Drops from 36 bosses--all Tier 14 bosses (4 in
Terrace of Endless Spring
, 6 in
Heart of Fear
, 6 in
Mogu'shan Vaults
), all Tier 15 bosses (12 in
Throne of Thunder
), and first two wings of
Siege of Orgrimmar
(8 total in Vale of Eternal Sorrows, Gates of Retribution). Objective of
The Strength of One's Foes
. Must be completed before you get your legendary gem.
Secrets of the Empire
, 20 total
: Drops from 20 bosses--all wings of
Throne of Thunder
(12 bosses) and first two wings of
Siege of Orgrimmar
(8 total in Vale of Eternal Sorrows, Gates of Retribution). Objective of
Secrets of the First Empire
. Must be completed before you get your legendary meta-gem.
Titan Runestone
, 12 total
: Drops from 14 bosses--the last two wings of
Throne of Thunder
(6 total in Halls of Flesh-Shaping, Pinnacle of Storms) and first two wings of
Siege of Orgrimmar
(8 total in Vale of Eternal Sorrows, Gates of Retribution). Objective of
Echoes of the Titans
. Must be completed before you get
Chapter III: Two Princes
.
Ra-den
also drops these items, but as he's a heroic-only boss requiring everything else cleared in
Throne of Thunder
, we've left him out of totals as he's relatively inaccessible.
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Timeless Isle Guide: Coins, Achievements, Maps, Rares, and More
Our
Timeless Isle
guide covers all the BoA gear, achievements, rare spawns, and vanity items in this innovative new zone designed to keep players busy when they're not raiding. In a radical departure from previous content, this zone isn't tied to daily quests or grinding out
Valor Points
. Instead, players can kill numerous rare spawns for vanity items, collect
Timeless Coin
for unique items, stumble across secret events, and loot BoA epics for their alts.
This zone is a bit more free-form than past zones we've covered like our
Isle of Thunder Content Guide
, but we've broken down the available content into the following components for our guide:
BoA Epics:
Players can loot BoA armor tokens, which can be mailed to alts and turned into ilvl 496 gear based on their loot specialization. These can be turned into ilvl 535 epics in rare circumstances, and some gear has unique transmog looks.
Rare Spawns and Events:
The Timeless Isle is teeming with rare spawns of all difficulties, as well as daily and weekly events that are fun minigames.
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Wowhead's Patch 5.4 Interview with Lead Game Designer Tom Chilton
Patch 5.4 is coming very soon
, bringing with it a variety of innovative content from Flex Raiding to the daily-free Timeless Isle. This past week, we got to sit down with Lead Game Designer Tom Chilton and ask him about popular upcoming content--the unique nature of the Timeless Isle, legendary questline development, Proving Grounds, and more.
Read on to find out more about the most-anticipated features coming in Patch 5.4!
I've had a lot of fun with the
Timeless Isle
on the PTR--finding all the hidden events, getting the vanity loot, participating in the Pet Tournament, etc. What were the inspirations in designing a hub that's so radically different from past ones, where the emphasis is on participating in fun vanity content instead of daily hubs for reputation epics?
One of the resounding things that we
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Mists of Pandaria Legendary Cape Guide: Updated for 5.4
We've updated our guide to Mists of Pandaria's legendary questline with details on the cape rewards coming in Patch 5.4 and catch-up mechanisms!
Overview
All level 90 players in a raid can work on the legendary questline at the same time. it's been purposely designed to cut down on loot drama and the feeling that one person in your raid ends up overpowered.
This legendary series spans the expansion, with more elaborate rewards each tier.
The reward for
Chapter I: Trial of the Black Prince
, added in 5.0, is a
+500 stat gem
that can be placed into a special
Sha-Touched weapon
, of which there are versions on LFR, Normal, and Heroic difficulty. These gems only work in Sha-Touched weapons.
The reward for
Chapter II: Wrathion's War
, added in 5.1, is an additional prismatic socket,
Eye of the Black Prince
. This socket works on both
Sha-Touched
and 5.2 raid/crafted weapons, but not [url=
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Siege of Orgrimmar Loot Tables, Clarifications on Off-Spec and Upgradable Legendary Capes
The 5.4 Dungeon Journal has been updated to include loot drops from all Siege of Orgrimmar bosses--check out the loot drops and dungeon strategies below.
We also have some clarifications on the
legendary capes coming in Patch 5.4 as well
. There's plans to include options to get legendary capes for your off-spec, and there's also some discussion on whether or not capes can be upgraded. It looks like the legendary capes will end up at ilvl 608 regardless of the item tech behind it.
Lore
I'm not completely sure how things are set up in the build that's going up today, but our intent is actually that you'll be able to acquire multiple Legendary cloaks, if you like. So, if you wanted, you could actually get one for both your Protection and Retribution spec :)
As an update, there's been a very slight change of plans. Our current thinking is to either start the Legendary cloak off at 2/2 upgraded (regardless of whether you upgraded the Epic cloak or not), or just have it set t
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5.4 PTR: Celestial Tournament Updates and Legendary Questline Clarifications
Celestial Tournament Updates
The
Celestial Tournament
, a place where players can battle celestial battle pets and famous pet battle tamers for cool prizes, is a bit more festive on the PTR now. There are tons of spectators and banners, as well as new vendors who sell noodle bowls and the new alcoholic drink
Dragon P.I.E.
!
The available teams were tweaked since last week as well--
Nairn
, a tribute to
Kristian Nairn
who plays Hodor on
Game of Thrones
, now has a battle pet ability tribute as well--
Nairn!
, which is strong against undead. He's also joined by a new direwolf pet,
Summer
.
There were also some new teams after Tuesday's reset--including Sully who has an Undead Socks pet, and Lorewalker Cho. Players can also now heal battle pets inside the tournament from
Cowardly Zue
, but y
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5.3 PTR: Legendary Questline and Celestial Capes Preview
As we
covered last week
, parts of the 5.3 legendary questline have been datamined, with ilvl 600 capes as rewards for defeating one of the four celestials. Today we're taking a closer look at
Chapter IV: Celestial Blessings
, including datamined quests, transcripts of audio between Wrathion and the Celestials, and the distinctive 3D Models for the capes.
5.3 Legendary Quests
A Reckoning
sends you to talk to Wrathion after the defeat of the Thunder King.
The Thunder King is dead, and his instruments of oppression are being picked over by the Alliance and Horde for their own ends.
We come now to the climax of the pandaren campaign. Hellscream's machinations have brought the Alliance down on his head - but even more importantly, he's fractured the unity of the Horde. As the Pandaren say: "The Wok is Hot." Something is about to give, and all of our work comes down to this.
I need time to plan. See me as soon as your faction is ready to make its move!
Celestial Blessings
: You must defeat one of the four celestials--each Celestial's challenge is designed
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News Round Up: Legendary Guide Updated, Battle Chest Sale
Today's news roundup features a lengthy discussion on WoW's RNG loot system. While
5.3 will reduce the amount of bad bonus roll streaks
, some players are frustrated by feeling unrewarded for killing a boss.
There's also a Warcraft Battle Chest Sale until the 23rd, and the 2013 Student Art Contest Winners have been selected--as prizes, they'll get a mentorship with a member of the World of Warcraft art team!
Legendary Guide Updated
With
Pinnacle of Storms open on LFR
, more players may find themselves completing their legendary metagems. We've updated our
Legendary Quest Guide
with some user comments and videos on the challenging single-player scenario, The Thunder Forge, you'll need to complete after getting 20
Secrets of the Empire
.
There's also been a confirmed issue with ilvl 502 gems not working on upgraded ilvl 504 helms:
Yes, it is intend
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MoP Legendary Quest Guide: Updated for 5.2
For the most updated guide, check out our
legendary guide updated for Patch 5.4.
We've updated our guide to Mists of Pandaria's unique legendary questline with a summary of all the new quests and rewards found in Patch 5.2. Completing all the new steps will reward you with a legendary metagem and
Chapter III: Two Princes
. The new gems are as follows:
Capacitive Primal Diamond
: +324 Crit Rating and chance on melee or ranged attack to gain Capacitance. At 5 stacks, fires a Lightning Strike, which deals Nature damage (
Lightning Strike Charges Trigger
).
Courageous Primal Diamond
: +324 Intellect and chance on beneficial spell to make your spells cost no mana for 4 sec. (
Clearcasting Trigger
).
Indomitable Primal Diamond
: +324 Stamina and chance on being hit to gain a 20% reduction to physical damage taken for 15 sec (
Fortitude Trigger
).
Sinister Primal Diamond
: +324 Crit Rating and chance on spell damage to gain 30% spell haste for 10 sec (
Haste Trigger
).
For the math inclined, Ghostcrawler
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Legendary Questline: No New Sha-Touched Weapon, 5.2 Changes
Community Manager Nethaera just posted a blog previewing the legendary questline and clarifying some questions users had on the fate of Sha-Touched weapons. Of particular note:
Crown of Heaven
is the reward for completing the 5.2 part of the chain. Datamined legendary metagems are:
Capacitive Primal Diamond
: +324 Crit & Chance on striking with a melee attack to gain Capacitance. When Capacitance reaches X charges, you will deal a Lightning Strike to your current target for 100 Nature damage. (
Lightning Strike Charges Trigger
)
Courageous Primal Diamond
: +324 Int & Chance on casting a helpful spell to make your next spell cost no mana (
Clearcasting Trigger
).
Indomitable Primal Diamond
: +324 Stamina & Chance on being hit by a melee attack to gain a 20% reduction to physical damage taken for 15 sec (
Fortitude Trigger
).
Sinister Primal Diamond
: +324 Crit & Chance on dealing spell damage to gain 30% spell haste for 10 sec (
Haste Trigger
).
Sha-Touched Weapons will not be available in the new Raid tier but will still be available from previous Raids.
The gem received for completing
Breath of the Black Prince
can be used on Sha-Touched w
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News Round Up: Eye of the Black Prince Available from Vendors, Ghostcrawler Career Advice
Legendary Socket and Gems Purchasable from
Commander Oxheart
Eye of the Black Prince
, the reward for completing
Chapter II: Wrathion's War
/
Chapter II: Wrathion's War
, is now available for from
Commander Oxheart
. Previously, players were hesitant to use their
Eye of the Black Prince
if they couldn't get another in the future. Ghostcrawler confirmed earlier on Twitter that this was unintended:
Ghostcrawler
@Ghostcrawler Can you comment on whether or not the inability to reobtain the Eye of the Black Prince is intentional.
@XextorXI Not intentional.
The legendary gems,
Crystallized Dread
,
Crystallized Horror
,
Crystallized Terror
, are also available from
Commander Oxheart
, for . Players are reporting that
works on all of these legendary items, saving a significant amount of gold.
To learn more about Mists of Pandaria's legendary questline, check out
Wowhead's guide
, updated for Patch 5.1 with information on how to both obtain Sha-Touched gems and
Eye of the Black Prince
.
LFR Droprates in 5.2
Ghostcrawler also confirmed that the droprate on Tier 14 LFR
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Mists of Pandaria Legendary Quest Guide: Updated for 5.1
Mists of Pandaria has a unique legendary questline: it spans content patches and any class and spec can work on it. Multiple people in your raid can work on it at the same time, and it can even be completed in LFR. We've updated our guide to reflect the new 5.1 questline and weapon models.
New Weapon Models
Jin'ya, Orb of the Waterspeaker
and
Spiritsever
have spookier models in 5.1 to live up to their 'Sha-Touched' category. Also in 5.1,
Jin'ya, Orb of the Waterspeaker
or
Kri'tak, Imperial Scepter of the Swarm
will transform your Shadowfiend into a Sha-fiend.
Click on the images to view them in our 3D Flash Modelviewer.
Jin'ya, Orb of the Waterspeaker
Spiritsever
Before
After
Before
After
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http://zamimg.cuckhead.com/uploads/blog/images/320
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5.1 PTR: Legendary and Faction Quests
Since we last covered new quests in 5.1, there's been some big updates we wanted to share about legendary and faction quests. We datamined some possible rewards for the legendary chain in 5.1, including new gems and sockets. We also pieced together more of the epic 5.1 faction questlines and now know that they reward players with a mount!
Legendary Quests
There are upgraded versions of legendary gems:
Refined Crystallized Dread
,
Refined Crystallized Horror
,
Refined Crystallized Terror
.
Eye of the Black Prince
allows you to add another gem socket to your Sha-Touched weapon, similar to
Living Steel Belt Buckle
. These are for regular gems, not additional legendary gems.
Since we last covered the datamined quests, Blizzard has trimmed down the PvP requirements. Instead of winning 10 Battlegrounds, you only have to win one in
Temple of Kotmogu
and
Silvershard Mines
.
Two achievements have been added:
A Test of Valor
/
A Test of Valor
requires you to obtain 6000 Valor Points, and
Chapter II: Wrathion's War
/
Chapter II: Wrathion's War
is for completing all of Wrathion's 5.1 quests.
The Measure of a Leader
: Speak with Wrathion at the Tavern in the Mists.
The Prince's Pursuit
: Kill Horde forces along the southern shores o
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Mists of Pandaria: Starting Your Legendary
To view an updated version of this guide for Patch 5.1, please click
here.
There's a new legendary quest series in Mists of Pandaria and anyone that's 90 can begin working on it. Multiple people in your raid can work on it at the same time, and it can even be completed in LFR. We'll show you what you need to get started this week.
A few things set this apart from past legendaries:
All players in a raid can work on the legendary questline at the same time.
Legendaries are for everyone. Players complete quests for legendary gems, which are then socketed into Sha-Touched weapons from raids. There are nine weapons classified as Sha-Touched, covering all possible specs.
With this system, guild are only limited by the number of Sha-Touched weapons they see each week.
Legendary gems can be placed into weapons from LFR. Quest items can also be looted in LFR.
This legendary series will span the expansion, with more elaborate rewards each tier.
The reward for this first tier is an epic weapon with a legendary gem, not an actual legendary weapon.
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Mists of Pandaria: Legendary Weapons Preview
The updated version of the guide for 5.1 can be found
here
Mists of Pandaria introduced a legendary that all classes can complete, a drastic change from the rogue-only weapon of Tier 13. Players acquire one of nine "Sha-Touched" weapons from Tier 14 raids, completing a series of quests with
Wrathion
to acquire special +500 stat gems. We don't know the whole quest chain yet, but the first part will let you put a legendary gem in an epic weapon, which isn't a bad start. Datamined icons with legendary names and
Breath of the Black Prince
imply that the final result will be a legendary weapon.
Right now, all of these base weapons have versions and unique colors from LFR, Normal, and Heroic difficulty. You can complete this
initial quest series on any difficulty including LFR
and put the legendary gem (can be purchased from Wrathion multiple times) into Sha-Touched weapons on any tier.
The goal is for players to be rewarded with something really special that stick with the legendary questline through multiple content patches.
Video Preview
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Mists of Pandaria's First Legendary: Available for Every Class
Last month we were the first to break the news
that a legendary might be coming to Mists of Pandaria. We had a lot of speculation that legendary items would affix to equipment to enhance its stats due to
Breath of the Black Prince
, making this World of Warcraft's first legendary that every class can use!
However, nothing referenced an exact item back then. Thanks to today's datamining, though, we have a better sense of what it will be. (Keep in mind that this is still speculation, with no actual items datamined yet--just icons, quests, and items that augment ilvl.)
New icons for a legendary axe, fist, gun, dagger, mace, shield, staff and sword have been datamined in today's patch
.
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News Round Up: Tier 13, 4.3 Previews, and More
4.3 Dungeons Preview
Have a look at the five new screenshots we've added this morning to the End Time dungeon preview:
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/3502665/
'Nuff said. :D
Meanwhile, here are all the previews:
4.3 Preview: End Time 5-man
4.3 Preview: Well of Eternity 5-man
4.3 Preview: Hour of Twilight 5-man
4.3 Preview: The Dragon Soul Raid
Tier 13
Keep in mind we do intend to allow tier 13 set pieces to drop for those using the upcoming Raid Finder. Similar to the difference between normal and Heroic versions of tier sets, the Raid Finder set will have a lower item level than the normal and Heroic counterparts.
Set pieces from all three difficulty levels can still be mixed and matched for the 2- and 4-piece bonuses.
Ultimately, we reco
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BlizzCon 2011: Wowhead and WoW Insider Party
BlizzCon 2011 is going to be even
more
memorable this year--if you like to /dance, that is!
We're teaming up with our friends at
WoW Insider
to host the ultimate party Thursday night at the Anabella hotel. Along with Wowhead and WoW Insider crews, you can expect other ZAM Network familiar faces such as
TankSpot
and
WoW Interface
members to show up as well.
And hey, if you can't make it, don't worry! We're not leaving you out in the cold. You'll be able to watch the entire party from your computer--
Gamebreaker.tv
is stopping by to broadcast the whole shindig. Mike Sacco and Anne Stickney will be your epic hosts, along with the crew from Gamebreaker including Josh Allen (Lore), Gary Gannon, and Mike B (Fony). Meanwhile, Mat McCurley and Fox Van Allen will be serving as the MCs for the night while passing out awesome swag.
We have a long list of VIP guests, special giveaways, and a lot more we can't wait to tell you about. Those details will follow in the next few weeks. Come join us and kick off BlizzCon with your friends at Wowhead and WoW Insider. Don't forget to bring your D
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Legendary - The WoW Video Podcast - FBI Raiders
On today's LEGENDARY:
Achievements Q&A
PVE Balance vs PVP Balance
The FBI Raids Gold Farmers
And more!
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Legendary - The WoW Video Podcast - Blizzcon 2011
On today's LEGENDARY:
Mobile Guild Chat
Currency Changes
Price Hike for Blizzcon
And more!
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