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5.4.2 Hotfixes for December 17th, Hearthstone Patch 1.0.0.4243 Notes, Warcraft Film Update
Blizzard
just announced some more casting choices
for the upcoming film! Clancy Brown and Daniel Wu are joining the cast! WARCRAFT is scheduled to release March 11, 2016.
Players may find Brown's voice familiar as he was the voice of
Scourgelord Tyrannus
. You may also remember him as Kurgan in
Highlander
and Captain Byron Hadley in
The Shawshank Redemption
.
There were some short but useful changes today for both WoW and Hearthstone!
Terrace of Endless Spring
is now easier to queue for on LFR. You do not need to complete Heart of Fear before starting Terrace on LFR--all you need is ilvl 470. Previously, you could skip Heart of Fear on Normal mode.
Paragons of the Klaxxi have gotten several changes--notably melee damage is less spiky.
For Hearthstone, several cards were changed that utilize the
Freeze Mechanic
.
An Arena bug was fixed that prevented players from re-entering if they closed the client before obtaining their rewards.
Click the cut to read the
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5.4.2 Patch Notes and Hotfixes
Patch 5.4.2 Hotfixes
Classes
Hunter
General
Deterrence
modified by the talent
should now correctly provide immunity to physical interrupt effects.
Revive Pet
now has a casting time of 2 seconds (down from 4 seconds).
Talents
Resolved an issue where Battle Pets were incorrectly receiving the
talent.
Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
Siege of Orgrimmar
Paragons of the Klaxxi
Hisek the Swarmkeeper
will no longer hit players with Fire if the channel effect of
Aim
is broken.
Korven the Prime
will now always apply
Vicious Assault
's bleed effect to the target of his
Shield Bash
, and will pull the tank towards them during
Vicious Assault
if they're over 12 yards away.
Skeer the Bloodseeker
will now only pull the tank towards them if they're over 13 yards away (up from 12 yards away).
Throne of Thunder
[li
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5.4.2 PTR Patch Notes - December 5, WoD Group Finder Clarifications
Blizzard updated the 5.4.2 PTR Patch Notes with some fixes to
Siege of Orgrimmar
encounters.
is also now affected by healing debuffs, and Winter Veil toys that can attack each other like the
MiniZep Controller
and upcoming
Crashin' Thrashin' Flyer Controller
can now fight it out in Sanctuary areas, like Shattrath.
CM Lore also posted a lengthy clarification on the difference between the cross-realm functionality coming to the existing Raid Browser tool in 5.4.2 and the completely new Group Finder feature coming in 6.0.
The cross-realm raid finder coming in 5.4.2 allows players to queue Siege of Orgrimmar flex raids and world bosses cross-realm.
The Group Finder coming in 6.0 will let players create cross-realm groups for pretty much anything, not just raids. It will also not be buried in the UI, like the Raid Finder tool.
You can read more about the cross-realm raid browser, which is testable on the PTR,
here
.
Click the cut to read the new patch notes and group finder clarifications!
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5.4.2 PTR Patch Notes
We've gotten a few small PTR builds this past month, and finally got official patch notes for 5.4.2 today. It's good to have a refresher on the cool cross-realm raid browser and improved mailing system coming soon, and there's the new tidbit that you can place raid markers while dead now.
As expected,
Karazhan 2: Eclectic Boogaloo
datamined earlier today did not appear in the official notes.
Classes
Warrior
General
Intervene
no longer removes movement-impairing effects on use. The talent
will continue to remove movement-impairing effects.
Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
Cross-Realm raid browser now has new categories for Mists of Pandaria World Bosses (Celestials and Ordos) and Flexible raid difficulty for
Siege of Orgrimmar
.
The cross-realm raid browser is accessed through the 'Social Pane' (bound to the O key by default) and look for the 'Raid' tab on the bottom right.
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New Hearthhead Site Achievements and Arena Log, Beta Patch Notes
Since Hearthhead's launch last week, we've added a bunch of new features we're excited to share with you! A small beta patch is also going live today, which includes a change to and a bugfix where renaming a deck prevented players from editing the deck.
Also a quick reminder that we've got two contests going on this week for Hearthstone beta keys--we're giving
1500 keys away here on Wowhead and Hearthhead
and another
100 keys on Hearthhead's Facebook
.
Introducing Hearthhead Achievements
We've added numerous site achievements for using popular Hearthhead tools, just like we have for Wowhead tools! Now you can earn copper, silver, and gold achievements on Hearthhead whether you're writing guides or using the Arena Practice tool. Site achievements increase your user reputation and can unlock more
site privileges
.
Check out the full list here
!
New Site Features
Since Hearthhead's launch last week, we've adde
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Hearthstone Closed Beta Patch Notes
Today is the day for our Hearthstone Closed Beta patch! This patch also includes the account wipe, so when the servers are available for play once more, you’ll be starting again as if you were a new player. For more information on the wipe itself, please revisit our Account Wipe Incoming blog post,
found here
. Now, onto the patch notes!
General
The maximum level is now 60, and you can earn XP in
any
game mode up to max level.
Chat has been rejiggered.
Gold gained in Play mode has changed from 5 gold per 5 wins to 10 gold per 3 wins.
You can now acquire Golden Basic minions at higher experience levels.
Arena rewards now give less dust and more cards.
More gold is guaranteed at 5 & 6 Arena wins.
At 9 Arena wins, you are now guaranteed an extra pack or a Golden card.
The animations for Secrets and Fatigue have been sped up dramatically.
All cards now have flavor text when you view them in your collection.
“Spell Power +1” has been re
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5.4 PTR Patch Notes -- Updated September 4th
The 5.4 PTR Patch Notes were updated recently--we don't have much time left before 5.4 hits, so these are pretty close to final. To learn what you can do this week to prep for the patch, check out our
Patch 5.4 Prep Guide
.
Here's what's new to the notes:
A section about the
Siege of Orgrimmar
has been added, with details on the raid difficulties and raid schedule.
Several heals now function like smart heals, in which the 6 most injured friendly targets within range are healed, and minor guardians are no longer targeted. Affected heals are
Healing Rain
,
,
,
Light's Hammer
, and
Spinning Crane Kick
.
Click the cut to read the patch notes!
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5.4 PTR Patch Notes: Updated August 27th, Build 17337 Spell Changes
The 5.4 PTR Patch Notes were updated tonight with class changes and some details about new noodle cooking carts!
The
noodle carts
will turn players into a vendor who can distribute powerful food to allies.
The recipes for noodle carts can be learnt from questing, such as
The Secret Ingredient Is...
. Players can pick up these quests when they have one of the initial "Ways" recipes already learnt, on the
Timeless Isle
.
Class changes include:
(Holy) now has a cooldown of 3 minutes (down from 5 minutes), and summons a guardian that heals the ally that the Paladin healed for 100% (up from 10%) of the amount healed, but no longer heals nearby friendly targets.
Rogue Tier-15 4-piece set bonus now causes
Shadow Blades
to reduce the cost of all abilities by 15% (down from 40%).
Healing Rain
's healing has been reduced by 30%, and the area-of-effect has been increased to 12 yards (up from 10 yards).
Nature's Vigil
when activated now increases all damage and healing done by 12% (up from 10%), and causes single-target healing spells to trigger an additional heal on a nearby ally for 25% of the amount healed.
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5.4 PTR Patch Notes: Updated August 20th
The 5.4 PTR Patch Notes were updated today with a variety of spell tweaks and details on Battlefield Barrens being drastically changed:
The weekly quests for
Battlefield Barrens
, as well as most special vanity items, are being removed in 5.4. You will not be able to get Latent Kor'kron transmog armor or any Darkspear Rebellion vanity gear after the patch, or complete
Hordebreaker
/
Darkspear Revolutionary
and get the resulting title.
You will still be able to get
Raptorhide Boxing Gloves
and
Gahz'rooki's Summoning Stone
by killing Kor'kron mobs in the Barrens. While it's too late to start collecting
Radical Mojo
for a full set of Latent Kor'kron Armor, you can probably farm up items like
Griftah's Authentic Troll Shoes
with some friends quickly before 5.4.
To learn more about Battlefield Barrens, check out our
detailed event guide
.
There are also some details on PvP scaling: Grievous Gladiator gear will not be scaled down to ilvl 496 for arenas and RBGs, and the PvP ilvl cap will
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5.4 PTR Patch Notes: Updated August 14th
Blizzard updated their 5.4 PTR Patch Notes tonight with many numbers/tuning changes for class abilities. If you're curious about changes to your class, check out Ghostcrawler's excellent
dev blog
posted earlier this week for some insights into the process.
In addition to number changes, there are also several quality of life changes in the notes:
Drinking a duplicate flask with less than 15 minutes remaining will now extend the duration of the new flask by that amount.
Tank-spec classes now have a 40% reduced chance to activate procs from
Gong-Lu, Strength of Xuen
,
Fen-Yu, Fury of Xuen
, and
Capacitive Primal Diamond
. You can check out the exact proc changes by going to the proc pages
Flurry of Xuen
and
Lightning Strike Charges Trigger
and selecting one of the tank spec radio buttons.
Indomitable Primal Diamond
's effect now grants a 20% damage reduction to all damage taken (up from only physical damage), and its activation rate has been doubled.
Only players with legendary capes can fight
Ordos
, but this privilege is account-wide.
Click the cut for the complete patch notes!
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5.4 PTR Patch Notes: Updated August 7th
The 5.4 PTR Patch Notes were updated with lots of profession details tonight:
Archaeology
Mantid Artifact Sonic Locator
no longer randomizes digsites when acquired, and is more difficult to obtain. They can now only be purchased as part of a
Mantid Artifact Hunter's Kit
, which includes a
Lorewalker's Map
.
Blacksmithing
New
Raid and PvP blacksmithing plans
have been added. These new plans can be researched by crafting
Balanced Trillium Ingot
s, allowing the blacksmith to learn a random new plan.
Plans for
Balanced Trillium Ingot
could be found as a drop from creatures in Pandaria.
Cooking
A number of
new cooking recipes
have been added, including new foods that give +300 to a primary stat and
noodle carts
. Some of these new recipes can be learned from drops in the
Vale of Eternal Blossoms
, others from quests.
Enchanting
Items formerly obtained with
Valor Points
that now cost
Justice Points
as well as gear crafted from new PvP recipes or plans will now disenchant into
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5.4 PTR Patch Notes: Updated August 2nd
The 5.4 PTR Patch Notes were updated late last night with some class and ability changes. Here's the highlights:
Trinket, enchant, set bonus, and legendary meta-gem effects whose triggered effect benefits from haste no longer also have their chance to trigger the benefit from haste. Activation chances for those effects have been adjusted to compensate. You can check out the updated proc per minute details on our PTR tooltips, like
Cha-Ye's Essence of Brilliance
.
Heroic Scenarios no longer have a minimum item level requirement to enter. This will make putting groups together easier on alts.
All enemies in Throne of Thunder now have a debuff called Shado-Pan Onslaught, which reduces their health and damage by 20%. Since 5.4 introduces a new raid tier, making the older tiers easier makes sense.
Class changes include
Shadow Word: Death
increased by 80% when used on enemies that have less than 20% health, but the cooldown is no longer reset if the target does not die, and Dash, Dive, and Charge no longer costing Focus to use.
There were also some significant changes to Vengeance:
Vengeance now grants Attack Power equal to 1.5% of the damage taken, down from 1.8% (The tooltip said 2% but it was actu
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5.4 PTR Patch Notes: Updated July 29th
The 5.4 PTR Patch Notes were recently updated by Blizzard with class and item changes. For the most recent datamined changes, check out our coverage of
Build 17247
.
PTR Patch Note Changes
Death Knight
:
Death's Advance
now grants a flat 10% Haste to all things, up from Haste for melee (attack speed and Rune regeneration) only. The movement speed buff remains unchanged.
Fixed a bug that caused
and
Runic Corruption
to incorrectly increase activation rates of some trinkets and effects.
Ghoul's Leap and Gnaw abilities are no longer on a global cooldown, and no longer cost Energy.
Hunter
:
no longer initiates auto-attack.
Charred Glyph
: Camouflage also reduces spell damage taken by 10%.
Mage
:
Rune of Power
now has an increased effective range. The Mage can remain up to 8 yards away from their
Rune of Power
and still receive benefits to mana regeneration and spell damage (up from 3 yards).
Monk
:
Fixed a bug that caused the damage of some abilities for Brewmasters with
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5.4 PTR Patch Notes: Updated July 24th
Blizzard updated their 5.4 PTR Patch Notes with class and glyph changes-when looking at the
datamined information from earlier
, see if it's listed here officially! Here's the additions from today:
Druid
:
now defaults to generating Lunar energy towards a Lunar Eclipse when used after being resurrected or zoning into a new area (used to default to generating Solar energy).
Hunter
:
A Murder of Crows
now deals 40% more damage.
Charred Glyph
: Reduces the range of
by 7 yards.
Charred Glyph
:
also reduces spell damage taken by 10%
Mage
:
Mastery: Frostburn has been replaced by
Mastery: Icicles
. When the Mage damages an enemy with their
Frostbolt
, and
Flurry
, (14% + 1.75% per Mastery) of the damage done is stored as an Icicle for 15 seconds.
Mastery: Icicles
also increases the Water Elemental’s Water Bolt damage by (14% + 1.75% per Mastery). Up to 5 Icicles can be stored at once. Casting
Ice Lance
launches all stored Icicles at the target.
Frostbolt
no longer increases the d
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5.4 PTR Patch Notes: Updated July 18th
The 5.4 PTR Patch Notes were just updated by Blizzard. Here's the highlights:
The Timeless Isle is now open for testing, and we just
put up a preview
of everthing in the zone!
Highlights of Class Changes
Druid
:
Bear Form
now increases Stamina contribution from cloth and leather items by 40% (up from 20%).
Monk
: Rushing Jade Wind replaces
Spinning Crane Kick
. The Monk summons a whirling tornado around them, dealing damage to nearby enemies (heals nearby allies for Mistweavers). Rushing Jade Wind lasts twice as long as
Spinning Crane Kick
, is instant, and not channeled.
Mage
: Mastery: Frostburn has been replaced by
Mastery: Icicles
. When the Mage damages an enemy with their
Frostbolt
,
Flurry
, and the Water Elemental's
Waterbolt
, (12% + 1.5% per Mastery) of the damage done is stored as an Icicle for 15 seconds. Up to 5 Icicles can be stored at once. Casting
Ice Lance
launches all stored Icicles at the target.
Paladin
:
Sacred Shield
for Holy Paladins can now be active on more than one target at a time, but the talent now costs mana, and h
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5.4 PTR Patch Notes: Updated July 12th
The 5.4 PTR Patch Notes have been updated once again with class and battle pet ability changes. Here's the highlights:
All fear and horrify effects can no longer cause targets under the effects of a movement speed buff to move faster than normal run speed.
Druid
:
Charred Glyph
will now cause
to interrupt when used on targets that are immune to silence effects.
Hunter
:
Stampede
damage dealt by pets when the ability is used outside of an Arena or Battleground is no longer reduced by 75%
Hunter
:
has been removed.
Monk
:
Increases damage by 6% per stack, (up from 1% per stack) but is no longer increased by Mastery.
Paladin
:
no longer reduces the amount of healing done, and now restores mana based on the Paladin’s Spirit.
Paladin
:
(Holy version) now deals additional healing based on any heal cast by the Paladin for the 15 seconds for the duration of the spell. The Paladin also has 10% additional haste for the duration that the ability is active.
Paladin
:
now increases the effectiveness of Eternal Flame, Light of Dawn, and Word of Glory by 35%. Ef
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5.4 PTR Patch Notes: Updated July 8th
Blizzard updated the 5.4 PTR Patch Notes this evening, with numerous class changes as well as a few PvP tweaks. Here's the highlights:
Player spells with different target limits depending on raid size will gradually increase their limits based on the number of players in Flexible Raid difficulty.
Death Knight
:
now also has a chance to activate when the Death Knight dodges or parries a melee attack.
Druid
: Guardian Druids now gain Vengeance when their Treant takes damage with
.
Hunter
: Counter Shot is now a baseline interrupt ability learned by all Hunters.
Monk
: Numerous Windwalker changes, including redesigned Bottled Fury and Tigereye Brew.
Paladin
:
no longer has a chance to restore mana on attacks.
Grand Crusader
no longer has a chance to activate from Crusader Strike and Hammer of the Righteous, but now has a 30% chance to activate when dodging or parrying a melee attack (up from 12%).
Priest
:
are now treated as a missile, and is no longer an attackable creature.
Rogue
: Numerous Rogue changes, including an
Dispatch
nerf, talent cooldown changes, and buffed
Backstab
and
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5.4 PTR Patch Notes: Updated July 1st
Updated 5.4 PTR Patch Notes are now available! There's some details on the changed arena system, as well as changes to old reputation gear and
Justice Points
conversions.
Players no longer need to create or join an Arena team to compete. Similar to the Rated Battleground system, players in a party of the appropriate size (cross-realm groups are supported) may queue for an Arena bracket of the same size (2v2, 3v3, or 5v5).
Epic quality (purple) Valor items sold by the
Shado-Pan Assault
now have their reputation requirements reduced to Friendly or below, and have their
Valor Points
cost reduced by 34%.
Epic quality (purple) Valor items sold by all other Mists of Pandaria faction quartermasters no longer have reputation requirements, and will now cost
Justice Points
instead of Valor.
The conversion rate for
Justice Points
to
have changed. The conversion rate is now 0
Justice Points
per 0
(up from 5
Justice Points
per 0
).
Sacred Shield changes were reverted from the last build--it's remaining a talent for now.
Click the cut for the full notes!
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5.4 PTR Patch Notes - Updated June 20th
Following yesterday's
datamined 5.4 PTR build
, we have the official PTR notes from Blizzard today. Of particular note:
To speed up legendary quest progress,
The Strength of One's Foes
can be completed in
Throne of Thunder
in 5.4.
Any Battle Pet that could be awarded from a
Throne of Thunder
boss on Raid Finder difficulty, such as
Living Sandling
, can now be won from a bonus roll, in addition to the standard bonus roll reward.
Arena matches that go longer than 15 minutes will now reach a quick end with one team getting hugely buffed with
The Crowd Chose You!!!
. This is awarded to the team that has the most players alive and has gotten the most players closest to death.
Many classes got significant ability and glyph changes:
Death Knight
:
Anti-Magic Zone
now reduces magic damage taken in the area-of-effect by 40% for 3 seconds, and the ability no longer scales with strength.
Mage
:
Mastery: Icicles
has been redesigned. Fingers of Frost now increases the damage of Ice Lance by an additional 2%, Brain Freeze increases the damage of the instant cast Frostfire Bolt by 2%, and damage done by the Mage's Wa
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5.4 PTR Patch Notes
Earlier tonight, we datamined a
huge 5.4 PTR build
with thousands of items and Tier 16 bonuses. Blizzard followed up tonight's PTR build with their official patch notes!
Virtual Realms
are coming. They're sets of realms that are fused together, and will behave exactly as if they were one cohesive realm. Players on the same Virtual Realm will be able to join guilds, access a single Auction House, join arena teams and raids, as well run dungeons or group up to complete quests.
Proving Grounds
allow players to complete solo challenges designed for Damage, Tank, or Healer roles.
Resto Druids have many changes, including a new glyph, Glyph of Efflorescence, which increases the healing done by Swiftmend by 20%, causes the Efflorescence healing effect to be triggered by Wild Mushroom instead of Swiftmend, and lasts as long as the Wild Mushroom is active.
A Pet Battle tournament is coming to a new 5.4 zone, the Timeless Isle! In addition, many pet passives have been changed.
Players who get the realm-best time for a specific challenge mode will get a special title--until another group gets th
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