Patch 3.1.3

     Antes das mudanças do patch 3.2 a Blizz aparentemente pretende corrigir algumas coisas. Tudo indica que esse patch não aparecerá no PTR indo direto para os reinos.
     Algumas coisas são bem-vindas, como o up do Hunter's Mark. Finalmente algo para eles que não sejam nerfs. E, quem diria, um nerf para Death Knights.

Death Knights

• Frost Presence: Armor bonus is now 60% down from 80%.

Druids

• Improved Barkskin: This talent now also grants 80/160% additional armor while in Travel Form or not shapeshifted.
• Improved Tree of Life: The armor bonus to Tree of Life Form from this talent has been reduced to 67/133/200% bonus armor.

Hunters

• Hunter's Mark: The ranged attack power bonus from this ability has been increased from 300 to 500.
• Master Marksman: This talent now also decreases the cost of Aimed Shot and Chimera Shot by 5/10/15/20/25%.

Paladins

• Eye For An Eye: This talent now deals 5/10% of the critical strike damage taken by the paladin back at the attacker.
• Hand of Freedom: The base duration of this buff has been reduced from 10 seconds to 6 seconds.

Rogues

• Overkill: Talent redesigned. Now increases energy regeneration by 30% while stealthed, and for 20 seconds after breaking stealth.

Warlocks

• Chaos Bolt: This spell no longer ignores damage reduction effects of the target.

Warriors

• Blood Frenzy: This talent now provides 5/10% haste instead of 3/6%.
• Bloodthirst: Cooldown reduced from 5 seconds to 4 seconds, and rage cost reduced from 30 rage to 20 rage.
• Juggernaut: This talent now also increases the cooldown on Charge by 5 seconds.

Items

• Death Knight PvP Gauntlets: The chance to refresh a Frost Rune when casting Chains of Ice has been removed. When equipped, these gloves now generate 5 additional runic power whenever Chains of Ice is used.

Dungeons

Ulduar

• Mimiron: The flight time of Rocket Strikes has been increased, and Rocket Strikes will try to prefer players at range. .
• Mimiron: The Leviathan Mk II component of the V-07-TR-0N will become stunned
  during Phase 4 when the VX-001 component begins to cast the P3Wx2 Laser
  Barrage ability.
• Mimiron: Proximity mines now deal less damage and have a lower duration. A small
  arming time has also been added so proximity mines will not immediately
  detonate on creation..

Bug Fixes

• Druid Tier 8 Balance Set: The 4-piece bonus no longer has its effect
  consumed by Starfire casts in progress when it triggers. The chance for
  the effect to be triggered has been reduced down to 8%, as it was
  originally inflated to compensate.
• Ice Layered Barrier: Upgraded to item level 232. In addition, the stats
  in the tooltip have been correctly adjusted to 78 spell power, 48 haste
  rating, 16 mana per 5 seconds, 52 Intellect, and 50 Stamina.
• Pulsing Spellshield: The stats listed in the tooltip for this item were
  incorrect and have been adjusted. This item provides 69 spell power, 34
  haste rating, 42 critical strike rating, 45 intellect, and 45 stamina.

Novas skins para formas Druídas

     Eu sei que eu ia dar uma pausa, mas minha veia bloguera falou maia alto com esse blue post. Bom, não havia postado a primeira prévia do patch 3.2 mas você pode ler no blog da irmã WoWGirl. Essa é a segunda notícia circulando na net.

     Novas skins estão disponíveis para Druídas e podem ser acessadas através das Barbearias. Lá você escolhe um novo visual para a forma Cat ou Bear. Bacana!!!

Pausa para decisão

     Ao pessoal que freqüenta esse blog! Não tenho postado pois ainda estou pensando nos caminhos que esse blog trilhará. Como tenho outros projetos em andamento, é bem provável que eu direcione para posts relacionados a curiosidades e novidades de Wow, deixando de lado o lado informativo e os guias (esse nunca foi o forte mesmo). Mas até o final da enquete eu decido. Até breve!!

Enquete

     Bom pessoal, não confio muito nesses contadores de visita e como raramente tem comentários nesse blog (sei como é chato comentar, eu mesmo visito diversos blogs com freqüência e raramente comento), criei um pequena enquete para me dar a noção da validade desse site.

Beast Master para Survival

     Deu 5 minutos e cansei da minha build BM. Estava com a sensação constante de que eu fazia muito menos dano doque eu poderia fazer. Além do mais, vivo na dependência do pet. Quando ele morre, morre boa parte do meu potencial de dano.
     Abençoado seja o Dual Spec, resolvi montar um build de Survival e ver no que dava. Como estava farmando carne de mamute pro rango do lobo, não tinha muito onde testar. Mas para minha surpresa, mesmo sem rotação survival, tive a impressão de fazer mais estrago doque antes. Agora é testar em raid e pvp e ver como se comporta.
     Alias, se alguem puder me mandar rotações de survival, eu agradeço.

Blizzard TV

     Para quem não conhece, a Blizzard tem seu próprio canal de TV On-Line, onde ela mostra programas baseados em suas franquias. Os videos são longos, quase todos com mais de 1 hora. Aqui.

Patch 3.1.2 atualizado

     Essa é a última versão do patch 3.1.2 disponível. Sem tradução, afinal é quase obrigatório entender inglês se você quer jogar na Blizz.

• Patch Note: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/
• Test Realm: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html

General

Equipment Manager

• When enabled from the Interface Options menu, this feature will allow players to store sets of equipment, easily swap between saved sets using hotkeys, and pull items directly from backpacks or bank slots (must be at the bank to equip inventory from the bank).
• New art textures have been added for Argent Tournament mounts. Any mounts already purchased from the Argent Tournament vendors will be updated automatically. Argent Tournament mounts with the old textures will still be available for purchase from the Argent Tournament vendors for a small Champion’s Seal and gold cost (standard faction requirements apply).
• Copied Test Realm characters will no longer be copied with their achievement history in order to better facilitate the character copy process.

PVP

• Vehicle health and damage output in Strand of the Ancients and Lake Wintergrasp now scale with the item level of the operator’s gear. Power scaling is now 1% damage and 1% health per average item level.
• All Lake Wintergrasp daily quests have been changed to a weekly format. The honor and Stone Keeper’s Shards rewarded for completing these quests have been increased to compensate.

Death Knights

• Improved Death Strike: This talent now also increases the healing from Death Strike by 25/50% and the tooltip has been adjusted to reflect the actual functionality after the hotfix in 3.1.0.
• Ghoul Frenzy: Now has a 10-second cooldown.

Druids

• Innervate: This ability has been redesigned to grant 450% of the casting Druid’s base mana pool to the target over 20 seconds.
• Improved Moonkin Form: Now grants 10/20/30% of spirit as spell power.

Mages

• Mirror Images: The images summoned by this spell will now target the creature that most hates the Mage, and should no longer cast Fire Blast or Frostbolt on targets that are affected by crowd control debuffs that break immediately on damage unless they are already casting these spells when crowd control is applied.

Paladins

• Blessing of Wisdom and Greater Blessing of Wisdom: Now grant 92 mana per 5 seconds to prevent being overwritten by Mana Spring Totem.
• Exorcism: Can no longer be used on player-controlled creatures.

Priests

• Divine Hymn: Healing and healing scaling reduced by 30%. Buff on affected players changed from 15% to 10%.
• Renewed Hope: Effect can no longer be dispelled.
• Soul Warding: Mana cost reduction is now 15% down from 30%.

Warlocks

• Conflagrate updated: Consumes an Immolate or Shadowflame effect on the enemy target to instantly deal damage equal to 12 seconds of your Immolate, or 8 seconds of your Shadowflame.
• Fire and Brimstone: Now increases the damage done by your Incinerate and Chaos Bolt by 3/6/9/12/15% on targets afflicted by Immolate, and increases the critical strike chance of your Conflagrate by 5/10/15/20/25%.
• Nether Protection reduced to 30% damage reduction, down from 60%.
• Sacrifice (Voidwalker) redesigned: Sacrifices a portion of the Voidwalker's health, giving its master a shield that will absorb X damage for 30 seconds. While the shield holds, spell casting will not be interrupted by damage. 1-minute cooldown.
• Shadow and Flame: Now also includes Shadowburn.

Warriors

• Juggernaut: Critical strike chance bonus reduced to 25%, down from 100%.

Items

• Arena weapons with an item level of 239 have had their rating requirements increased to 2350.
• Darkruned Battlegear 2-Piece Set Bonus: The bonus critical strike chance for Frost Strike and Death Coil has been increased from 5% to 8%.
• Furious Gladiator’s Staff and Furious Gladiator’s Greatstaff: The agility values on these two items were too high. They have been reduced by 50%.

Glyphs

• Glyph of Conflagrate redesigned: When you use Conflagrate, the damage done by your next 3 Destruction spells is increased by 10% for 15 seconds if the Immolate on the target has 5 or fewer seconds remaining.
• Glyph of Innervate: Has been adjusted to grant the Druid 90% of his or her base mana pool over 20 seconds.
• Glyph of Mass Dispel: Now only decreases Mass Dispel cost by 35%.
• Glyph of Rapid Charge: Reduced to 7%, down from 20% cooldown reduction to Charge.
• Guise of the Midgard Serpent: The base attack power on this item has been lowered to balance it against items of a similar quality.
• Increased the health and mana restored from Northrend food and drinks.
• Most scopes now have a level requirement and will bind the item to which they are applied.
• Nightsong Garb 4-Piece Set Bonus: Chance for Insect Swarm to trigger an instant Starfire changed to 15%.
• Scourgeborne Battlegear 4-Piece Set Bonus: The runic power gain has been reduced to 5 runic power from 10 runic power.
• Ulduar 10-player hard mode weapons have been updated to item level 232.

Professions

Fishing

• Jewel of the Sewers: You can now fish in all parts of the Dalaran sewers for this quest.
• Phantom Ghostfish: Can now be caught from Nettlefish schools in Sholazar Basin.

User Interface

• For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the UI & Macros Forum.

Bug Fixes

Death Knights

• Anti-magic Shell: Tooltip error corrected.
• Blood Boil: If no target is available for Blood Boil to hit, the spell will now cast and consume a blood rune but generate no runic power.

Druids

• Maim: Rank 2 of this ability is properly considered a stun and can be escaped by Blink.

Hunters

• Go For The Throat: Explosive Shot critical strikes now trigger this talent.
• Lock and Load: The tooltip has been corrected to display its actual chance to occur.
• Rabid: This Hunter pet talent no longer lists a percentage chance to be triggered, as that chance varies by the attack speed of the pet.

Paladins

• Divine Sacrifice: Damage done to the Paladin while this is active will no longer cause the effect to break early, and if it is dispelled or cancelled early, the damage counter will reset correctly the next time the spell is cast.

Rogues

• Shadow Dance: Issues with action bars and ability use arising from using Stealth while Shadow Dance is active have been fixed.
• Tricks of the Trade: To prevent exploits, this ability can no longer be cast on non-player targets.

Warlocks

• Demonic Sacrifice: This spell will no longer appear in any Warlock’s spellbook.

Professions

Tailoring

• Swordguard Embroidery: Now correctly increases ranged attack power.

Dungeons and Raids

Ulduar

• Hodir should now reset in a timely manner if a group fails to kill him.
• 10-player bosses that drop Runed Orbs will also sometimes drop the recipes that use those orbs.
• The Spark of Imagination: Characters that release in part of the boss room will no longer be ported to Westfall or The Barrens.

Tutorial em vídeo do Equipament Manager

Mudanças nas quests de Wintergrasp

     O seguinte post foi publicado pelo Crygil. As quests devem ser completadas em uma semana sendo zeradas nas terças as 3 horas da matina.

In an effort to better balance the amount of players that are in Wintergrasp at any given time, we are changing the daily quests in Wintergrasp to a weekly format. This has led to an increase in the honor reward given by these quests as well as additional Stone Keeper's Shards. These quests will reset every Tuesday morning at 3:00 AM.

There are two known issues that may occur once these changes are pushed to live realms:

The quest mark will now show as gold, even though the quests are repeatable.
After the quests reset, players near the NPC quest givers may need to move out of line of sight in order for the quests to properly appear.

The Hunter's Mark

     Esse site é para a comunidade Hunter. Os autores, por coincidência três Night Elfs, mantém um fórum e um blog bem ativo, onde dão dicas e tiram as dúvidas da comunidade. Pensando em como é difícel manter um blog atualizado, manter um tão específico não é para qualquer um. Confira!

Mangá - Legends Volume 4

    
     Para quem leu "Warcraft: The Sunwell Trilogy", "Legends" é a continuação da história e narra a aventura de Trag Highmountain, um Tauren Undead da trilogia, em busca de vingança contra Arthas numa jornada através de Icecrown Cidatel.
     Nos dois sites a seguir existe uma prévia das 10 primeiras páginas.

• Incgamers
• Tokyopop

World of Warcraft® Miniatures

     Para quem gosta de miniaturas, a Blizz está lançando o seu primeiro set de expansão "Spoils of War" contendo 51 figuras. Como tudo na Blizz é interligado, as miniaturas são interligadas ao World of Warcraft TCG que por sua vez fornece cartas especiais com códigos que, quando inseridos in-game, fornecem modificações ou itens especiais. Quem não se lembra da montaria especial fantasmagórica.

     O preço de um booster contendo 3 figuras custa $14.99. No Brasil, as "action figures" não são populares e por isso muito difíceis de encontrar. Isso me lembra os meus tempos de Magic onde eu passava as tardes de sábado na Livraria Devir negocinado cartas raras. Peguei a época também de Mage Knight que agora está tudo encaixatado esperando meu filho ter idade para brincar com eles.

     O jogo possui a mesma mecânica da maioria de sua espécie. Existem cards e miniaturas da aliança, da horda e de monstros. Para o sistema de combate existem as cartas de "Action Bar" que modificam ou geram ações no jogo. Essas, por sua vez, são divididas em Classes, Raças, Spec, Condition e também por Raridade. Existem também cartas de Loot que são utilizadas no jogo e possuem códigos in-game, como essa aqui.

     Existem também diversos acessórios de apoio como moedas, marcadores além de um dado de dez faces onde o 10 significa Crítico.  Esse jogos possuem um grande potência de expansão e a Blizz conseguiu ir além com essa mescla. Como já confessei em um post anterior.... "Ai se eu tivesse tempo e dinheiro..."


Sites relacionados:

• Warcraft Minis - possui checklist das action figures e seu valor de mercado.
• Warcraft Miniatures Games - novidades e muito mais
• TCG Official Site - site oficial do jogo
  

Arthas: Rise of the Lich King

     Em um post recente do WoW Inside surgiu a notícia de que o novelbook Arthas escrito por Christie Golden está em 16º no rank dos bestsellers de Nova York. Um feito considerável se pensarmos no estilo do livro.

     Fui me informar se era fácil de conseguir o livro por aqui e não é que ele tem na Livraria Cultura! O preço é de livro importado, no caso R$ 74,25, mas se pensarmos que ele custa $25,00 lá fora, não está caro. No Amazon está em promoção por $15,93, mas não acho que valha o stress.

• Livraria Cultura
• Amazon

     Para que tem interesse em conhecer um pouco da história, no site oficial possui um capítulo para degustação. Aqui.

Crie uma assinatura WoW

     O Sign Launch é um site dedicado para a criação de banners personalizados de seu char. Não somente para Warcraft, apesar do site possuir um opção própria para WoW, ele cria um banner customozado para qualquer game.

     Não sei por qual motivo obscuro, o site se recusa a criar o banner do Argalad. Testei todos os meus chars e mais alguns e não tive problema. Mas criei um no genérico.

3.1.2 PTR Patch Notes Update

Druid

• Improved Moonkin Form: Now grants 10/20/30% of spirit as spell power.

Paladin

• Blessing of Wisdom and Greater Blessing of Wisdom: Now grant 92 mana per 5 seconds to prevent being overwritten by Mana Spring Totem.

Warlock

• Fire and Brimstone: Now increases the damage done by your Incinerate and Chaos Bolt by 3/6/9/12/15% on targets afflicted by Immolate, and increases the critical strike chance of your Conflagrate by 5/10/15/20/25%.
• Sacrifice (Voidwalker) redesigned: Sacrifices a portion of the Voidwalker's health, giving its master a shield that will absorb X damage for 30 seconds. While the shield holds, spell casting will not be interrupted by damage. 1-minute cooldown.

Itens

• Furious Gladiator’s Staff and Furious Gladiator’s Greatstaff: The agility values on these two items were too high. They have been reduced by 50%.

Glyphs

• Glyph of Penance: Now increases critical strike chance by 5% instead of its old effect.
  

Bug Fixes

Rogue

• Tricks of the Trade: To prevent exploits, this ability can no longer be cast on non-player targets.

Val’anyr, Hammer of the Ancient Kings

     Em um "blue post",  Bornakk dá algumas dicas sobre a nova arma épica de Ulduar.

Val’anyr, Hammer of the Ancient Kings

     Val’anyr, Hammer of the Ancient Kings é uma maça main hand montada a partir de Fragment of Val'anyr em raid 25-main.