Nenormalen

Anyone noticed a strange bug with the graphic of the hitbox of players/NPCs by the way? I've asked several people and no one since to have seen it. Here's what happens when I target my pet:


or some NPCs:


Instead of the regular circular hitbox, there's this weird line.

 

trithion

I didn't really try to test out the proc rate on it, but i picked it up out of curiosity and came to find out it procs on Fireball DoT ticks. Also from a brief test, the shortest amount of time between procs was roughly 25s. I'll try to get around to testing the internal cooldown later today.

 

Valerian

If the proc chance on that trinket is 10% wouldn't that mean it adds an average of 38 damage to each of your dot ticks? That would be 228 damage to corruption, 304 damage to SW:P and a whopping 456 damage to CoA, not including the static 44 damage on it. I suspect there'd be an internal cooldown on this OR the proc rate is much lower than 10%.

 

sociopathic

I suspect that this is either a relic of some previous ptr or a typo. If it is a typo, it's probably safe to assume that November 2007 is the cutoff date. My account didn't exist until early 2007 and I still have access to the ptr.

 

Leviathon

I like the new way Blizz is doing the loot with that turn in option as finally it will be possible to actually get feral loot :p



I just figured that was a bug and reported it with the tool as I cannot see that being intended by Blizzard.

 

koaschten

I'd rather assume the cutoff date is accounts that were not active when the PTR account Database was built at the beginning of february. (ffs can't find the blue post about password problems mentioning the date.)

 

royaljester

Good to know. I was worried for a sec. Hoping the copies come back up here soon so I can get on and rock faces of gay-elves

 

Lookit

If you're running the Mac client, head to the PTR forums. They're aware of issues with certain Radeon GPU's and the Mac client.

The PTR FAQ says that the current cutoff date is 2/1/08. As long as you had an active account on that date, you should be able to try out the PTR.

 

◊ Rob

Yes, I thought that perhaps it was an addon I had messing things up.
I've seen the same display bug on my PC with an nVidia card.

 

Lavode

So.. since my main still hasnt transferred.. I leveled a Blood elf paladin to level 12 to see how the ressurection quest works now.
The quest text refers to kaelthas's betrayal, and says that the high lady is even now seeking a new source of energy. Then they ask you to drain the magisters who were formerly imprisoning mu'ru of residual light energy (the mages look like they are just this side of the grave, btw) and go resurrect your victim.
All in all, pretty good quest line, and it retains the flavor of the bloodnights very well. I am, however, not going to level to 60 to check out the mount quest >.)

 

Krellian

Really a quite simple reason. Of course, it is only speculation. Money. A very small percentage of the population experiences t6 content. The elite guilds have been farming t6 for some time now, then you have up and coming raid guilds in t5 or pushing t6, and then you have casual and 'educated' pugs doing t4 maybe..maybe t5.

By adding in t5+ lvl badge gear and removing attunements (but keeping the req for rings) you get A. a way to identify who did the attunements, and B. allows a larger percentage of their subscriber base to experience content that will be old and no longer run once WoTLK comes out.

It's really quite as easy as that. More people, doing more raids = more money..period.

 

Nenormalen

I am running WoW on a regular PC with Nvidia graphic card.

Edit: On PTR I am using only the original Blizzard interface btw, so it cannot be AddOn issue.

 

Jitka

One of our shadow priests got this last night and reported it procing off his SW:P ticks. He also mentioned that the damage effect critically hit at least once.

 

Krellian

I was mulling this over as well (lack of +hit). Best as I can figure is a couple of scenarios. First off, I am NOT a theorcrafter, so what I am saying might be totally off base, but hey.

1. stacking tons of +haste results in a net increase in DPS vs. +hit with no or little haste. Basically, they could be changing the damage mechanic from +hit to haste.

2. the new +haste gear is meant for faster DPS on trash and NON lvl 73 or ?? lvl bosses (where the +hit really comes in).

Feel free to comment or expand on these ideas.

 

sagen

You can add this line to your WTF/Config.wtf file:
SET M2UseShaders "0"

That should fix the problem for now at the expense of performance.

 

• Astrylian

Regarding the concerns of all the clothies sharing one loot token... What gear we see so far looks pretty nice for spriests, and it trades with holypriest gear. We haven't seen any hunter or enhsham tier pieces at all.

I'm guessing there are 4 more sets we haven't seen: Mage/Warlock and EnhSham/Hunter.

 

Leviathon

Like how it seems Blizzard is progressing the storyline and would imagine the mount quest changed also. Did the other low level quests about going to Outland and Kael get changed also?

 

andastra

They probably expect T6 farming guilds (the target audience of Sunwell) to have lots of spellhit items they can mix and match.

 

epiphenom

It happened to us, as well. We only bought one tab, but it filled with exactly what we have in our first tab right now. Hopefully they'll check again in a few days and fill out the other tabs (which we're buying as soon as our GM gets off work).

 

Tojara

Just my experiences with the normal Magisters Terrace and curious if other geared players such as myself have similiar experiences.

The instance itself is a breath of fresh air really and feels really different from the other instances. It's comparable to OHB and BM in how these instances seperate themselves from the normal instances that we have grown accustom to. So kudos to Blizzard on that. The only thing thats missing is obvious sounds/music that would defintely make the instance feel more alive. That of course is ignoring the cinematic portion that I really hope they make more use of in the future.

Difficulty wise (haven't tried the heroic yet) its defintely is a lot harder then any instance out there in my opinion. If I were to actually go in there with blues like its designed then I would imagine it would be quite the challenge. You need to crowd control and you need to do it well. It's like Shattered Halls in quantity of 'big' mob pulls but also different because you can't have your tank trying to tank everything. There is a lot of magic damage and even a T5/T6 geared tank will find himself taking a lot of damage.

So you do need CC and you do need to make intelligent use of it. The instance is a mage paradise in more ways then one (sheep and massive amounts of spell steal) and a Warlocks curse of tongues defintely helps.

That said the trash is pretty fun, but still challenging and the pacing in the instance seems perfect. While you do fight a lot of trash from the second to third boss, you only have one pack to Kael.

Boss encounter wise they seem really enjoyable, although the second boss I won't claim to know much about because we burned him rather quickily. He seems to do an immense amount of damage and spawns 3 curator orbs from time to time which upon death give you a buff/debuff. The buff portion gives you 50% more damage while the debuff portion makes you take ~300 damage a second. The 'Arena' team is well designed encounter and very fun. The adds will act almost exactly like they would in an arena match. Example being if you get in melee range of the Mage he will frost nova/blink and if he gets close to death he will even Ice Block.

Kael'Thas is almost exactly like the phase 4 and 5 Kael'Thas. This is of course without Pyroblast, Mind Control and a gravity lapse the acts completely different (for the better in terms of enjoyment/fun). The gravity lapse phase also made me look back at the Kael'Thas encounter and wonder if they intended the gravity lapse (which is generally the you win phase) to be much more difficult then what it currently is. Had this version of the gravity lapse been the phase 5 of the encounter in the 25 man version I could only imagine how much more difficult he would've been (and possibly intended considering the relative ease of this phase).

Fun instance will be trying the heroic version soon.

 

JamesVZ

It's definitely a notch up in difficulty, but I think that was the intended design for it given that Kael'Thas drops epics on normal. Compared to any other heroic, the normal version of Magister's Terrace feels slightly easier than most (say, on par with Heroic Shattered Halls). I got attuned to Heroic last night and I'm looking forward to running it as soon as I get a chance. I can only imagine the amount of balls the Priestess encounter is going to crush on Heroic. Poor, poor clothies.

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Fendryl

Are you both the GMs of your live side guilds? Wondering if we should /gleader prior to buying tabs, or if that'll even matter.

 

◊ Kyth

That all may be options for the other casters, but not for warlocks (who also don't have any +hit talents) since soulshatter depends on +hit. A mage can go for higher dps gear that nets them only 14% hit including talents, but to a warlock that's two more chances out of a hundred when their soulshatter will resist (and at that point, unless you're going to soulstone and kill yourself and rez, you might as well afk for the next few minutes.)

I'm not sure what the logic is really, unless they're planning on giving hit talents to locks or making soulshatter not resistable. Or they're just not aware of the issue (probably more likely.)

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Copernicus

From one of the earlier interviews, the intended level of difficulty was around Shadow Lab/Shattered Halls.

It could be a matter of familiarity making an instance easier. I know my first few times through an instance it's always a guess as to which mobs should be CCed, Mind Controlled, and the first target.

Also, I need to get [Phoenix Hatchling] pet off of Kael.

 

Copernicus

For mages, hit rating is better than any other stat until the cap is reached. Due to the two-roll system, it's very important to cap a caster's hit rating. I assume it's the same for any DPS class. However, due to hit rating's cap, it's very easy to hit the cap for certain specs. Shadow priests are the extreme examples of this one one end, while warlocks are the oppisite extreme on the other.

This is one area where sockets are very useful - they allow a caster to cap their hit rating precisely if needed. However, the math in general is not going to be fun. Rebalancing hit rating every time I get an upgrade is going to be tedious, especially if epic gems are being used.