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Mists of Pandaria: Tier 14 Preview
With
Heart of Fear
open soon, we wanted to do a preview of all the tier gear players can now acquire outside of
Sha of Anger
, including the LFR and Heroic versions.
LFR: ilvl 483
Normal: ilvl 496
Heroic: ilvl 509
Bosses in
Heart of Fear
drop the following tier tokens:
Wind Lord Mel'jarak
: Gloves
Amber-Shaper Un'sok
: Legs
Grand Empress Shek'zeer
: Chest
Click on the images to view them in our 3D Modelviewer!
Cloth Armor
LFR
Normal
Heroic
Mantle of the Burning Scroll
Robes of the Burning Scroll
Leggings of the Burning Scroll
Hood of the Burning Scroll
Gloves of the Burning Scroll
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5.1 PTR - Build 16173 - New Items, Spell Changes, and More
Click here to see the latest additions
.
New Music
Patch Highlights
Tons of new pets added:
Anubisath Idol
,
Ashstone Core
,
Chrominius
,
Corefire Imp
,
Death Talon Whelpguard
,
Fungal Abomination
,
Giant Bone Spider
,
Harbinger of Flame
,
Mini Mindslayer
,
Mr. Bigglesworth
,
Stitched Pup
,
Untamed Hatchling
,
Viscidus Globule
. They are likely tied to dungeons and are probably tied to
Raiding with Leashes
Many
ilvl 463 weapons
were added, like
Scavenged Pandaren Axe
. These have random stats, just like the 463 armor from scenarios, so maybe these are additional scenario rewards in 5.1.
Two new mounts, showing off your faction pride:
Grand Armored Gryphon
,
Grand Armored Wyvern
.
Several glyphs were added:
Charred Glyph
,
Charred Glyph
,
Charred Glyph
.
Several rotten vegetables and leftovers were added:
Expired Blackout Brew
,
Rotten Watermelon
,
Rotten Banana
,
Rotten Apple
.
Tome of the Crane
,
Tome of the Tiger
,
Tome of the Serpent
each contain 10 Scrolls of Wisdom.
Warlock Tier 14 2 piece bonus now increases the damage of Touch of Chaos.
Many a
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News Round Up: 5.1 PTR Patch Notes, Blizzard Celebrates MoP's Launch
5.1 PTR Patch Notes Updated
The 5.1 PTR Patch Notes were updated to include information about Class and Raid and Dungeon changes, most notably that tank swaps for Symbiosis have gotten their original cooldowns back, except with some nerfs. Here's the new parts:
General
All mineral nodes will now despawn one minute after they are mined, even if items remain in them.
Classes
Druid
:
The cast time of
has been reduced to 2 seconds.
is once again granted to Brewmaster Monks and now costs 2 Chi to use.
is once again granted to Blood Death Knights, and now costs 30 Runic Power.
is once again granted to Protection Warriors, but now only provides a 30% increase to dodge.
is once again granted to Protection Paladins, and now costs 1 Holy Power.
The cooldown of
provided by Symbiosis has been reduced to 5 minutes.
The duration of
provided by Symbiosis n
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5.1 PTR - Build 16155 - New Items, Spell Changes, and More
The PTR's been up for a bit so it's time for some odd patches at the weirdest hours! You know the drill! We've got the latest spell changes, items, and so on for you guys to look at. This patch was mostly about the Darkmoon Faire and adding those awesome carousels we saw the models for last update:
Darkmoon "Murloc"
and so on.
Latest Additions
Click here to see the latest additions!
Patch Highlights
The Brawler's Guild looks like it will have special consumables (
Potion of Brawler's Cunning
,
Brawler's Healing Potion
,
Potion of Brawler's Deftness
,
Helix's Acceleration Chemical Kafa Solution
,
Mega-Potent Healing Potion
,
Potion of Brawler's Might
), as well as ways in which spectators can contribute to the fight (
Rotten Fruit
,
Friendly Favor
). One prize will be an heirloom fist weapon:
Brawler's Razor Claws
.
A few more vanity pets were added too:
Clock'em
,
Pandaren Air Spirit
,
Pandaren Earth Spirit
,
Pandaren Fire Spirit
.
Several abilities were added:
Water Jet
,
.
New achievements were added for the 5.1 PvP Hubs:
Dominance Offensive Campaign
,
I'm In Your Base, Killing Your Dudes
,
Operation: Shieldwall Campaign
.
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Pet Battles: Leveling by Zone, October 12th Hotfixes
Continuing with our pet battle coverage, we'll be focusing on the leveling flow today, sorting each zone by their wild battle pet levels. Pet battle progression through zones roughly follows the same path you'd take questing, with a few minor deviations. Each zone in the tables below takes you to that zone's battle pet map, with a list of all the pets found in the zone and the pet locations marked on the map.
Here's some basics about capturing wild pets:
You can capture a wild battle pet when it is below 35%.
At 35%, you can use the
Trap
ability to attempt to capture the pet.
This takes up a turn and there is a chance it can miss--which diminishes with each failed capture.
You can only capture one companion pet when fighting a team of three wild pets. You must also win the battle to retain your captured pet!
Captured wild pets may have their level decay when captured (still much better than leveling one from scratch):
Level 16-20 pets lose one level.
Level 21-25 pets lose 2 levels.
Click the cut to see our charts showing what level wild pets are in each zone!
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Build 16139: Patch 5.1 PTR New Items, Spell Changes, and Icons
The
5.1 Official Patch Notes
went up earlier today and we're starting to datamine new additions!
Our PTR site is live and we have the
latest additions
up!
Many of the spell changes below are not actually new--they're hotfixes we'e covered over the past month that are just getting officially changed now. There are a few neat things we want to highlight though!
Patch Highlights
Several new scenarios were added, including one for
Pursuing the Black Harvest
! Others include
A Little Patience
with Varian, helping Vol'jin in
Dagger in the Dark
, a naval battle in
Battle on the High Seas
, and
Lion's Landing
.
Many Season 13 items were datamined:
Tyrannical Gladiator's Barrier
.
An achievement for 150 mounts has been added,
We're Going to Need More Saddles
, and the reward will be
Jade Pandaren Kite
.
The Patch Notes talked about new faction--two tied to new Alliance/Horde daily quest hubs, and others related to the Brawler's Guild, a test of solo dps:
Operation: Shieldwall
,
Dominance Offensive
,
Brawl'gar Arena (Season 1)
,
Bizmo's Brawlpub (Season 1)
.
Part of the reward for WoW's 9th Anniversary is in:
WoW's 9th Anniversary
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Patch 5.1 PTR: Official Patch Notes
General
The Pandaren Campaign begins!
The conflict between the Horde and the Alliance has ignited a new series of daily quests along the shore of the
Krasarang Wilds
.
Players can visit their faction strongholds in the
Vale of Eternal Blossoms
to begin the quest to summon their war fleets to the continent of Pandaria. (Please note: The Alliance version of this quest is not yet complete, but will still unlock the new missions and features).
Players will both valiantly defend their faction’s outpost and assault the opposing faction's headquarters.
Two new Reputations have been added: Alliance players can earn reputation with
Operation: Shieldwall
, while Horde players will curry favor with the
Dominance Offensive Campaign
.
Players can slay rival NPCs and opposing faction players along the shore to earn commissions that can be spent to upgrade their faction's base.
Look for strategic objectives to capture, including graveyards and towers. Commissions can be spent to recruit guards that will help protect this captured territory!
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Method Rebroadcasting Heroic Mogu'shan Vaults, World Bosses Preview
Method Stream: Heroic Mogu'shan Vaults
<Method>
is re-broadcasting their heroic Mogu'shan Vaults progression (4/6 Heroic) over at
Twitch
! The re-broadcast will be uncut, uncensored footage of the raid including Teamspeak and kills of the Stone Guard, Feng the Accursed, Gara'jal the Spiritbinder and maybe the most recent Spirit Kings 25m HC kill!
Watch live video from sco on www.twitch.tv
World Boss Preview
If your guild isn't attempt
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Patch 5.0.5b Live Today, Valor Point Acquisition, Heroic Method Kills
The first three bosses in Mogu'shan Vaults open on LFR difficulty today on EU servers.
Check out our
exclusive Method kill videos
to learn the fights!
In addition, Method is currently working on heroic progression this week, and will be rebroadcasting their heroic kills over at Twitch! You'll be able to watch them here starting at 17:00 CET / 07:00 (AM) PDT:
http://www.twitch.tv/sco
http://www.twitch.tv/rogerbrown
http://www.twitch.tv/leeds
There's also a small but much-needed patch today that will allow players to interact with in-game objects again such as healthstones, archaeology digsites, and lootable mobs.
We will be releasing a patch on Wednesday October, 10 beginning at 8:30 a.m. PDT to resolve an issue that could sometimes prevent players from interacting correctly with in-game objects.
As the patch is relatively small, patching time should be minimal. See you in Pandari
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Hotfixes: October 9th
<p> </p>
<ul>
<li>General
<ul>
<li>Vengeance should now ramp up more quickly. Avoidance will now grant Vengeance based on the average damage of the avoided NPC auto-attack, instead of just refreshing existing Vengeance. This does not apply to enemy special attacks.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<ul>
<li>Classes
<ul>
<li><strong>Monk</strong>
<ul>
<li>Detonating Zen Sphere now does progressively less damage when more than 10 targets are affected.</li>
<li>Zen Pilgrimage: Return now ensures that the journey is round trip.</li>
<li>Rising Sun Kick now always properly applies the Mortal Wounds effect to targets it damages.</li>
<li>The healing generated by Spinning Crane Kick has been reduced by 30%.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Paladin</strong>
<ul>
<li>Execution Sentence can no longer be cast while Hexed.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Priest</strong>
<ul>
<li>Spirit of Redemption will no longer sometimes prevent players from rolling on items.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Warlock</strong>
<ul>
<li>The Warlock Season 12 4-piece PvP set bonus will no longer cause Warlocks that have assum
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Mogu'shan Vaults: Exclusive Method Videos, LFR Unlocks Today
Mogu'shan Vaults
on LFR difficulty unlocks today on US servers. It is split up into two sections, each consisting of three bosses. You will need an
460 ilvl
to queue up.
Normal mode was open last week, and if you cleared all the bosses on that difficulty level, you can begin heroics this week.
Heart of Fear
and
Terrace of Endless Spring
will not be available until October 30th on Normal Difficulty.
Check out our
Mogu'shan Vaults Raid Preview
for a look at the Dungeon Journal, loot lists, and armor models of all the encounters.
Our friends at
Noxxic
have also just released a cool tool that we wanted to share with you:
DPS Rankings
. This is a quick way for players to see what each spec is capable of doing in end-game raiding and how they rank up, including DW/2H comparisons for Frost Death Knights, Fury Warriors and Windwalker Monks. If you're not sure how to spec for your first raid, this tool may help you out!
Exclusive Method Videos
<Method> cleared
Mogu'shan Vaults
this past week: they were kind enough
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Vengeance Hotfix and Starlight Ink Trades
Vengeance Hotfix
Daxxarri
A hotfix will be applied to adjust how Vengeance stacks for tanks of all classes:
Vengeance should now ramp up more quickly. Avoidance will now grant Vengeance based on the average damage of the avoided NPC auto-attack, instead of just refreshing existing Vengeance. This does not apply to enemy special attacks.
This will be noted in the next hotfix update, but we wanted to let you know immediately, as this change will be applied sometime today.
Ink Trading
Nethaera
Beginning after the maintenance on Tuesday, October 9, ink traders will be converting from accepting Blackfallow Ink to accepting Ink of Dreams and Starlight Ink will become available for purchase. If you’re still holding on to your Blackfallow Ink, your time to trade it in is running short.
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Battlegrounds Preview: Temple of Kotmogu and Silvershard Mines
With the new PvP season underway this week, we thought it would be a good time to highlight the two new battlegrounds:
Temple of Kotmogu
and
Silvershard Mines
. They're both level 90 battlegrounds for 10 players, with interesting twists on familiar battlegrounds like Arathi Basin and Warsong Gulch.
Check out our list of PvP gear you can purchase
here
.
Temple of Kotmogu
During the lost days of ancient Pandaria, the ruling mogu built temples not unlike themselves – immense in size, vast in scope, and steeped in forces as old as the ground beneath their feet. Stony statues of the mogu still glare down from their long-vacant temples, and echoes of their supremacy persist to the present day. Inside the autumnal Temple of Kotmogu, a vicious melee has erupted over artifacts the mogu left behind: treasures older than the bloodlines of human kings and the clans of orcs, orbs of power that have bathed in the energies of Pandaria for ages. Will they bring the might of the mogu to the Horde or Alliance?
Overview
:
A team wins when 1600 points are reached. Points are gained when players co
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City Exploit Hotfixed
Nethaera
Earlier today, certain realms were affected by an in-game exploit, resulting in the deaths of player characters and non-player characters in some of the major cities. This exploit has already been hotfixed, so it should not be repeatable. It's safe to continue playing and adventuring in major cities and elsewhere in Azeroth.
As with any exploit, we are taking this disruptive action very seriously and conducting a thorough investigation. If you have information relating to this incident, please email hacks@blizzard.com. We apologize for the inconvenience some of you experienced as a result of this and appreciate your understanding.
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Pet Battles: Wild Battle Pets by Zone
Capturing wild battle pets is a new way to obtain companion pets in Mists of Pandaria, and it is one of the primary ways of acquiring pets for your pet battle team.
Wild battle pets can be tracked on your minimap: you can have your team fight them for experience, or capture one at low health to add it to your collection. Pet families have strengths and weaknesses against other types, so choose your opponents wisely. There are different versions of each pet--some with more stats than others--so you could get lucky and end up capturing a really strong version! There's also many
achievements for capturing wild battle pets
.
We've made tables below of all the wild battle pets, organized by continent and color-coded by type. With this chart, you can see what pets are unique to various zones, and also which pet types are pretty scarce--Dragonkin and Mechanical especially. All the data was taken from our
interactive battle pet map
and our
visual battle pet database
, so be sure to check them out for more information!
Uniqu
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Mists of Pandaria Hotfixes: October 5th
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; ">October 4</span></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>General
<ul>
<li>The Sha of Anger now respawns more frequently, but less predictably.</li>
<li>Galleon can no longer be taunted, and both he and his companions are now more dangerous.</li>
<li>The cost to learn Battle Pet Training has been reduced from 100 gold to 10 gold.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<ul>
<li>Classes
<ul>
<li><strong>Druid</strong>
<ul>
<li>Fixed an issue where Stampeding Roar could sometimes be cast in any form.</li>
<li>Resolved several issues with the spell Nature's Vigil.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Death Knight</strong>
<ul>
<li>The Chillblains talent now works properly with Chains of ice. Casting Chains of Ice on a target will apply both the Chillblains snare and the Chains of Ice rooting effect.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Mage</strong>
<ul>
<li>Mages have learned to stop hitting themselves with Nether Tempest.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Monk</strong>
<ul>
<li>Resuscitate now casts correctly in Arenas.</li>
<li>Chi Torpedo is now a full body effect, targeting friends and foes
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Patch 5.1 PTR Coming Soon
While Mists of Pandaria already comes packed full of some of the most diverse and expansive World of Warcraft content to date, we’re staying true to our goal of delivering new content faster. With that in mind, we’re pleased to share that the first major Mists of Pandaria content update, Patch 5.1, is well underway.
In fact, our plan is to release a build of patch 5.1 on the Public Test Realms soon so you can experience it for yourself! Initially, the PTR build won’t include all of the 5.1 patch content, but here’s a glimpse of the major features that are already in the pipeline.
Patch 5.1 Features
Pandaria and the War of Conquest
While members of the Horde and the Alliance have been busy exploring the exotic continent of Pandaria, Garrosh and Varian have been gathering their forces in preparation for the struggle to exert the influence of the Horde and the Alliance over these long-lost lands. Players who have quested through Pandaria will see forces of both factions arrive in force on the shores of the unspoiled continent, bringing the tensions between the Horde and the Alliance in
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News Round Up: Mogu'shan Vaults Streaming, Reputation Changes
Following our recent announcement that we're partnering with
Method
, we're pleased to bring you more streams of them raiding
Mogu'shan Vaults
tonight--see what the fights are like before your guild starts raiding! You can check out more points of view on our updated
Streams page
.
Blizzard also announced some exciting reputation changes today
for a future patch
--it will be easier to acquire reputations on alts, plus the Revered to Exalted grind has been sped up.
Method: Mogu'shan Vaults
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New Site Feature: Method Livestreams
We're proud to announce a partnership with
<Method>
, one of the oldest standing hardcore raiding WoW guilds in the world.
We've embedded
Method's streams here on Wowhead
so you can watch them run challenge modes, do their dailies, PvP, and even tackle the newest raids! Check out the livestreams of Method's raiders, including
Method's GM Sco
.
With
Mogu'shan Vaults open this week
, now is a great time to check out the fights if your guild is still gearing up to raid.
Check out our livestream page (under the "Even More" section of the "More" menu) at:
http://www.cuckhead.com/streams
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Raid Preview: Mogu'shan Vaults
Mogu'shan Vaults
opened October 2nd on Normal difficulty, with LFR and Heroic difficulty unlocked next week. We've got the loot tables and dungeon journal below for each boss, as well as 3D models of all the armor and weapons.
Mogu'shan Vaults
is reached only by flying. It is located in northern
Kun-Lai Summit
, jutting out of a mountain overlooking Zouchin Village. It is marked on the map as "Mogu'shan Terrace"--not to be confused with
Mogu'shan Palace
in
Vale of Eternal Blossoms
.
There are six bosses in
Mogu'shan Vaults
:
The Stone Guard
Feng the Accursed
Gara'jal the Spiritbinder
The Spirit Kings
Elegon
Jan-xi
Gear from
Mogu'shan Vaults
is slightly lower than that of the other Tier 14 raids:
LFR
: 476
Normal
: 489
Heroic
: 502
In addition, Tier gear does not drop from
Mogu'shan Vaults
. The only way to obtain it this month is to kill the world bosses
Sha of Anger
and
Galleon
. Sha-Touched weapons for
legendaries
do not dr
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