5.1 News: New Scenario Rewards, Old-World Boss Nerfs

Live Geposted 30.11.2012 um 12:57 von perculia

Updated Scenario Lootreported yesterday

Pre 5.1, Schatzkiste was rewarded for completing scenarios: it had a small chance to contain ilvl 463 armor with random stats.

In 5.1, players get Große Schatzkiste from completing any random scenario. This still can contain Schatzkiste, as well as wider variety of loot. Lucky players can find an ilvl 476 epic item or an ilvl 463 weapon, while less-lucky players get an ilvl 450 armor item.

While the 476 items have the same color scheme as the old 463 items for that role, the 450 items have a different color scheme. So if you were say a Schurke that never had a shot at colors used only for healing leather before, now you can collect that look!

Cloth: Brewfather (476 DPS), Yak Wool (476 Healer), Bubblebrew (450 DPS), Cordwoven (450 Healer).

Leather: Mogubreaker (476 Agi), Hozen-Stitched (476 Int), Hozen-Speed (450 Int), Jinyu-Polished (450 Agi).

Mail: Stormshaper (476 Agi), Swashbuckling (476 Int), Earthstriker (450 Agi), Danio-Scale (450 Int).

Plate: Lightning Rod (476 Int), Yaungolian (476 Str), Jinyu-Forged (450 Str), Bladesnap (450 Int).

Accessories: Cloak, Neck, Rings.

Weapons: Scavenged Pandaren Weapons.

Game Guide Updates: Pets and Mounts, Scenarios

Blizzard

Starting today, World of Warcraft’s game guide is home to a new two new sections: An interactive Pets and Mounts gallery, and a new section for the scenarios of World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria.

Pets and Mounts

This section includes information to help you find your ideal mount or staff your perfect pet battle team, including mount speed and all battle pet statistics (family, starting attributes and abilities). It lists the zones that they can be purchased, found or (in the case of pets) tamed in. If you need to buy a particular pet or mount from a vendor, you’ll see its gold cost (unaffected by reputation discounts) and be able to preview its look. Everything included on this page is pulled dynamically from World of Warcraft, so any future changes to abilities or costs will be reflected here when they’re made in-game.

We’ll continue updating this page in the future as new pets, new pet skills and more exotic mounts find their way into Azeroth. Take a look and start your wild hunt now!

Scenarios

We created our new scenario guide pages to make it easier for you to get into the new scenarios and to provide you with all the information necessary to get the most out of this new content. Each page features a bit of backstory for each scenario as well as screenshots, maps, and an overview of each scenario’s objectives and rewards.
Check out the new scenario pages now!

Scenarios

Click the cut for blue posts on boss nerfs and LFR changes!Old-World Boss Nerfs

Daxxarri

Viscidus, Twin Emperors, C'Thun, Al'ar and Reliquary of Souls should be easier to kill now. The developers applied a hotfix during the night. So, if you haven't gone to C'Thun yet today, you should!
Al'ar is no longer immune to fire damage.

Regarding Kalecgos, at this point we don't know if the developers have any plans to change him or any other bosses, but we'll ask them and share with you any news if that's the case :-)
Yes, as paladin, I am interested in Viscidus changes as well.

Geistschock

What about Feuerkralle der Ungezähmte?

Feuerkralle der UngezähmteFeuerkralle der UngezähmteNode Respawn Nerf

Daxxarri

Community Manager
Edited by Daxxarri on 11/29/12 5:40 PM (PST)
Mining and Herb spawn rates in Pandaria have been reduced by approximately 50% in patch 5.1, and this is indeed an intended change. These are in addition to the hotfix that was applied in 5.0.5 to lower the spawn rate of Ghost Iron.

In all of these cases, the reduction was prompted because the resources were too abundant, resulting in ore and herbs being undervalued, and also therefore the effort that our herbalists and miners put in to collect each node. We’ll be monitoring the situation, though, and should the current rates prove to be too low then we’ll make further adjustments as necessary.

LFR No Longer Displays Boss Status

Bashiok

Right, so with 5.1 the game no longer tells you how many bosses are left for the group you’re being matched with for Raid Finder (LFR).

To explain why we made the change, let’s go back to the problem everyone was experiencing before. Let’s say a fresh LFR group is put together, they get two bosses down, and then wipe a few times on the third and lose 10 people who think they’re too cool for wiping. Now the group is down to 15, waiting for 10 new people, the queue eventually pops for those 10, and most of them see 2/6 and hit cancel. The raid still isn't full, the matchmaker has to go looking again for more people, and meanwhile as time ticks on people from the original run are getting more frustrated. Maybe a few of them leave, and then there’s even more spots to fill. Plenty of times everyone just gives up and the entire run falls apart, all those people are back in the queue, and they’ll be-damned if they join an in-progress run to fall apart again!

These kinds of things happen all of the time, and in the vast majority of situations it’s simply because people don’t like the idea of joining an in-progress run, even if it would have succeeded.

You may think we’re trying to be underhanded, but the reality is we’re trying to help people be more efficient with their play time. What most people don’t realize is that if they get and complete an in-progress run, the next time they queue they will preferentially be placed into a fresh instance. What everyone should be doing, to be the most efficient, is joining and sticking with their runs to completion. If they join an in-progress group they can catch up on those other couple bosses they missed immediately after, and if they have the time, they’d be wise to down the ones they've already killed again for extra Valor.

The patch has only been out a couple days of course, but personally I think there are some people who don’t realize yet how an in-progress run, and that extra Valor, can directly translate to improved items through the new upgrade system. An in-progress run is very likely better bang for the buck to your character power due to item level upgrades than hitting cancel over and over to get a fresh run and then hoping for a boss drop.

There are of course other issues that cause LFR groups to fall apart, like boss difficulty, and those are the kinds of things we’re looking at bigger solutions for. Losing a couple people doesn’t need to mean the whole run is doomed.
Matching random people together with differing interests, preferences, and goals is always going to mean people will be leaving when they feel they want to for... whatever reasons they deem necessary. If you want to have a group that's organized and sticks together, queuing to be matched with strangers has a higher chance of not offering that experience. What we can do, and will continue to strive for, is lessening the social burdens of being matched with strangers in an unknown situation and reducing some of the behaviors that may cause more degenerative uses of the tool - ideally through positive reinforcement, but that's not always possible.

In any case, I don't think anyone thinks any part of the game is perfect, and so much like everything we do it's going to be an ongoing iterative process. Feedback on what you think we can do to make things smoother for you is always helpful.

Battleground Queuing and Addons

Daxxarri

In patch 5.1, we resolved some issues regarding how Addons interact with the Battleground queue system. It is no longer possible to automate queuing for standard or random Battlegrounds in groups larger than 5. We decided to make this change in order to improve the experience for all players who are queueing into random groups normally and expecting to face similarly random groups, only to find themselves crushed by a full team of coordinated opponents.

We understand that players want to enjoy coordinated team play, and we invite those players to queue into Rated Battlegrounds or play Wargames to have that experience. Players can continue to use Addons to queue for Rated Battlegrounds as well.

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