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Arena Season 4 Items Activated on PTR

by Gamer at May 12th, 2008 in Arena, PTR | No Comments »

Blizzard has not announced the starting date for Season 4 yet, however, all of the Season 5 items have been activated on the 2.4.2 PTR. This must mean that the start of Season 4 will likely be announced very soon. You’ll then have 2 weeks to gather up all the points you need (unless you’re already maxed out) before it starts.


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Season 4 is on the PTR

by Gamer at May 1st, 2008 in Arena, PTR | No Comments »

The Season 4 vendors are not on the Public Test Realms (PTRs). Keep in mind that the stats are PTR stats and could be adjusted any time between now and when they are released on the live realms. Some things to note: the Season 4 prices are the same as the current Season 3 prices and personal rating requirements are not on the items as of now, but they will be there between now and when they go live.


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2.4.2 New Arena Rule

by Gamer at April 25th, 2008 in Arena, PTR | No Comments »

Here’s the new rule for 2.4.2:

Quote from: Blizzard (Source)

  • If a team does not enter an arena match that is starting they will lose points equal to the amount that would have been deducted if they had played and lost.
This change makes it less viable to participate in illegitimate team match-ups by requiring every game be played; not just those that are against a team’s desired opponent.


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New PvP 45 Resilience Trinket in PTR 2.4.2

by Gamer at April 24th, 2008 in General, PTR | No Comments »

A new PvP epic trinket has been added to the new 2.4.2 PTR patch. It costs 40k honor and has the following characteristics:

  • Improves your resilience rating by 45.
  • Removes all movement impairing effects and all effects which cause loss of control of your character. (2 Mins Cooldown)


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2.4 New PTR Build

by Gamer at February 22nd, 2008 in PTR | No Comments »

Class Changes

A new 2.4 PTR build includes new changes to Druids, Mages, Shamans, and Warlocks.

Quote from: Blizzard (Source)

Druid
  • Nurturing Instinct now increases your healing spells by 50%/100% (Rank 1/2) of your agility instead of your strength.
Mage
  • Blink: For 2/4 (Rank 1/2) seconds after casting Blink, your chance to be hit by all attacks and spells is reduced by 25%. Blink costs 224 mana.
  • Icy Veins: Hastens your spellcasting, increasing spell casting speed by 20% and gives you 100% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while casting. Lasts 20 seconds.
Warlock

Lifetap now converts a % of your base health and mana.

Emberstorm changes:
  • Emberstorm (Rank 1) Increases the damage done by your Fire spells by 2%, and reduces the cast time of your Incinerate spell by 2%.
  • Emberstorm (Rank 2) Increases the damage done by your Fire spells by 4%, and reduces the cast time of your Incinerate spell by 4%.
  • Emberstorm (Rank 3) Increases the damage done by your Fire spells by 6%, and reduces the cast time of your Incinerate spell by 6%.
  • Emberstorm (Rank 4) Increases the damage done by your Fire spells by 8%, and reduces the cast time of your Incinerate spell by 8%.
  • Emberstorm (Rank 5) Increases the damage done by your Fire spells by 10%, and reduces the cast time of your Incinerate spell by 10%.
Shaman
  • Shamanistic Rage is no longer a magic ability and cannot be purged or mass dispelled in any way.


Sunwell T6 Gains Back Some Stamina

We previously reported that Sunwell T6 belts, bracers, and boots had their stamina removed in most cases, but Blizzard has reverted these changes. Blizzard hasn’t given back as much stamina as the Sunwell T6 items had in the first PTR build, but after lots of complaints from the PvE community, these items now have between 15-25 stamina per item.


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2.4 Star’s Tears Change

by Gamer at February 21st, 2008 in PTR | No Comments »

I mentioned this briefly in the last post I made, but I forgot to highlight the specific change with Star’s Tears. The change is that you gain more mana back the longer you sit down to drink. What this means is that during the first second of drinking you’re receiving less mana than during the sixth second of drinking. This is to prevent players from going out of combat for only a few seconds at a time. Below is further information from Drysc:

Quote from: Drysc (Source)

There is indeed a change in 2.4 intended to offset some of the mana regen from drinking away from the very beginning of the duration.

However, we specifically made sure the water would not change the amount of mana regenerated by players who drink between pulls or during gauntlet runs. You should see little to no difference in the amount of mana yielded if you sit to drink for at least 6 seconds, which most players do.

[edit] Time changed from 4 to 6 seconds, original information was incorrect.

This only affects drinking in arena.

Quote from: Kalgan (Source)

You haven’t read it wrong, but we’ve decided to have that rule only apply inside arenas. It’s an inconsistency, but one we’re ok with to prevent water from feeling unnecessarily weird everywhere else.


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