News Round Up: Pet Battle Experience Updates, 12/13 Hotfixes

Live Опубликовано 14.12.2012 в 17:08 perculia

Зимний ПокровВеликая императрица Шек'зир

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We’ve been receiving a few inquiries over Twitter and through email regarding Фермер Ниши, so we thought we’d share our thoughts on Pet Battle experience gains with you.

We will soon be applying a hotfix that causes level-25 pets to no longer “steal” experience from your lower-level pets. Previously, if you had a level-3 and level-25 pet grouped together for a battle, the XP earned would be shared between the two at the end. This resulted in some players doing what they could to kill off their level-25 pet so the level-3 pet would get all of the experience. You no longer need to worry about this as the level-3 pet will now receive 100% of the XP that’s earned, so long as it has participated in at least one round of combat.

With max-level master trainer dailies available for Northrend, Cataclysm, Pandaria, and the new line of Spirit Trainers, you have quite a few endgame battles in Pandaria which you can use to level up new pets. Be sure to wear your Шляпа для сафари to get the most out of your battles! The over-arching goal is to provide a variety of content with which you can level up your pets each day.

Click the cut to read the December 13th Hotfixes!December 13th Hotfixes

Daxxarri

Classes

Маг

will now detonate after 4 seconds (was 6 seconds), and the damage it deals to other players has been reduced by 20%.

Quests

Players that leave the area during the ending sequence of Сердце Альянса will no longer be placed into the wrong phase.

Pet Battles

Players that have earned the Achievement Завоевание мира should now receive a Шляпа для сафари in the mail.
Lower level pets involved in Pet Battles with higher level team mates will now receive full experience from victorious battles.
Птенец Новолунияs, Красный сверчокs, and Поющий сверчокs that were previously of lower quality should now be Rare quality.

Items

The Солнечная лютня короля-феникса can now be upgraded using the Item Upgrade system.

Dungeons, Raids & Scenarios
Сердце Страха

Великая императрица Шек'зир

The Empress now always drops three tier-set tokens and three non-set items in the 25 player Heroic mode version of this encounter.

Bug Fixes
The Guild Perk, Лети как ветер, should now properly increase flight path speeds by 25% in Pandaria.
Classes

Разбойник

Various weapon procs will no longer sometimes prematurely break the Незаметность provided by the Увертка talent.

Low-Level Dungeons

Taepsilum

The problem with lower level dungeons is that they are used by many players as an alternative to questing for levelling up.
So they need to be somewhat similar in terms of xp/time, otherwise players would probably skip dungeons altogether and simply quest, only a very small minority would probably be joining dungeons for the sake of curiosity, and some loot.

There’s also the trick about making dungeons easy enough for the less experienced players (new players levelling up for the first time). This becomes particularly important and we need to pay more attention to it whenever we release a new expansion since we usually tend to reduce the amount of xp needed to level up on lower levels or we usually adapt it in a way so that levelling becomes faster on previous expansions’ content.
This has the inconvenient of making players less prepared since they have less time to get to know their characters and their new abilities that constantly unlock while levelling up.

Still, I agree, some do seem a bit too easy, but I don’t know if I would feel exactly the same way if I had just started playing WoW and ran dungeons while levelling up my very first character.

Maybe its a possibility to make heroic versions of those instances for lower lvl's who want a challenge, and get better gear from them. I understand that blizzard's mainly focus is at the lvl 90's but they could atleast do something to make it more challeging.
That’s one possible solution; it’s all a matter of priorities and the amount of resources that we have at our disposal.

Still, while we always strive to make the game appealing and have something for every kind of player to do and enjoy in-game, it seems to me that the amount of players that would actually be running such dungeons would be very small, I suspect most players, even those that would enjoy a more challenging version of the dungeons, would probably still take the easy route simply because it’s there, it’s available and it will make them level up faster. Also, the queues would probably be long and players would tend to cancel them and re-queue for the normal version.

Actually even right now, depending on the level of your character, you should be able to queue for the heroic versions of certain instances, for example, if you’re level 80 you should be able to queue for Cataclysm heroic and normal dungeons, it’s up to you if you want to queue for the heroic version, but I suspect the system only allows you to queue them at very specific levels. Some improvements have also been made regarding allowing more players into older heroics. BC heroics for example, used to require specific reputation levels to queue for the heroic versions, those restrictions have all been removed. (there are no more keys) This change actually happened during Cataclysm.

Changes Since Cataclysm

Taepsilum

There are quite a few MoP guides out there where you can find compiled and easy to read information, you can also check our own official guide here.

But if you’re looking for a faster and easier way to learn about the most important things that changed and are anxious to start playing without spending too much time reading these guides, you can simply log into the game and click the “Spellbook & Abilities” button.

Inside it you will find a new tab conveniently called “What has changed?” and another tab called “Core Abilities”.

This will show you the main changes that happened to your class and provide a very efficient way for you to start using all the new/changed core abilities and be able to start playing in less than 2 minutes.

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