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Posts Tagged ‘battleground’

Some highlights:

Dungeons & Raids

• Culling of Stratholme
  • Players may now skip the initial introduction dialog to this dungeon once they have completed it at least once.

<Does Happy Dance!!!>

Quests

• Many quests which require vehicles have had their vehicle mechanics updated and improved in the interest of fun.

Does this mean Oculus might actually be fun?  HAHA!!

The Deserter debuff given to players who leave a dungeon prematurely when queuing via the Random Dungeon option has been increased to 30 minutes, up from 15 minutes. The cooldown for using the Random Dungeon option remains 15 minutes.

Looks like there’s some big changes coming in Battlegrounds and Wintergrasp:

From Zarhym:

We have several changes planned for Battlegrounds in the next minor content patch and would like to share them with you now. This patch will be available for public testing and we encourage you to participate, queue up and provide some feedback on these changes.

• Firstly, say goodbye to Battleground Marks of Honor. We feel this currency system is a bit outdated and are getting rid of it. Any items which require these marks as currency will have their costs adjusted appropriately to remove this requirement. The quest NPCs will still be available to award players Honor for turning in leftover marks, but this is only to help players clear this expired currency.

As was hinted at when the changes to resilience were announced, we’re now seeing changes to PvP healing.

Here’s the post from Zarhym:

Patch 3.3.2 is bringing about a change to the way healing functions in Arenas, Battlegrounds, and Wintergrasp. We have applied a debuff to all players in these zones which will decrease the effectiveness of all forms of healing by 10%. This includes heals from items such as Healthstones and potions, however, it will not affect defensive shields or auras. This change is being made to balance the effectiveness of healing against the recent buff we made to the damage reduction component provided by resilience. Rest assured that we will be closely monitoring the effects both the healing and resilience changes have on Battleground, Wintergrasp, and Arena PvP game play to ensure that fights last a reasonable amount of time without overtly skewing the effectiveness of any class, role, or team combination.