[WoW] 2.4 Full patch notes

[kudos]

Progression should mean gear checks not shitty attunements.

[Saban]

I'm all for changes that mean i never have to do lurker again.

[dak]

I'm all for changes that mean i never have to do lurker again.

What's wrong with lurker? It's probably the easiest and most mindless fight in SSC. Take three steps back into the water, get out of water, dps down squishy adds, rinse repeat...

In fact all of SSC/TK are a cake walk, I don't see what Blizzard hopes to accomplish with this beyond letting scrubs who now won't need to touch BT/Hyjal attunement see and get spanked by KT/Vashj when they get bored with getting plowed by najentus and winterchill due to shitty healing and one shots from insufficient gear.

I bet'cha in the near future Tears of the Goddess will last 15 seconds and doomfire will only tick while you stand in it...

Progression should mean gear checks not shitty attunements.

Fully agree, that's why I don't understand being able to port right to KT/Vashj. It's clear they are adding this function to let players who have not done tk/ssc "See the storyline" but unless you can get fully geared equal to repeatedly clearing ssc/tk from 5-man sunwell what hope do you have against even the super gimped kael and always gimped vashj?

[Sean]

This is shaping up to be a fantastic patch, imo.

[Maxxius]

* Increased the slots on Old Blanchy's Feed Pouch to 8. . .

Finally!!!!

[Saban]

Originally Posted by dak

What's wrong with lurker? It's probably the easiest and most mindless fight in SSC. Take three steps back into the water, get out of water, dps down squishy adds, rinse repeat...

Doesn't mean he's any fun.

He's actually extremely tedius.

[Taantric]

this has taken Blizzard 3 months to come up with? And will take another 2 months to implement? I'd post a screenshot of my "cancel subscription" but I can't be fucked.

ET quakewars & call of duty 4 here I come.

[brekk]

Originally Posted by dak

Fully agree, that's why I don't understand being able to port right to KT/Vashj. It's clear they are adding this function to let players who have not done tk/ssc "See the storyline" but unless you can get fully geared equal to repeatedly clearing ssc/tk from 5-man sunwell what hope do you have against even the super gimped kael and always gimped vashj?

Well with the earlier mention in this thread that Drysc said new Badge gear will be BT level I assume they're doing a gear reset for sunwell.

At this point were looking at 18 monthes minimum from TBC to WOTLK. If the only added content in this period is a single 5 man, and a single 25 man balanced for BT/Hyjal level guilds there will be massive bitching.

So they introduce new badge rewards to guilds so they will have the gear to do some SSC/TK to fill out there slots then step into BT/Hyjal/Sunwell.

Its very clear they dont want raiding to stay to a small portion of the population. At anytime they will likely attempt to keep the casuals 1-2 "tiers" of raiding behind the hardcores.

Was it made official that 2.4 would be the last major pre-expansion patch?

Im guessing 1-2 monthes on PTR (mainly 5man, and raid balancing) hits live late march, then 2 monthes of update patches/ fixes. Now late may early june. I'm gonna call WOTLK for like oct/nov at the earliest. Assuming its ready to go beta soon after 2.4 is all squared away.

they had a link to Drysc's statement on MMO Champion
BT quality loot badge vendor on sunwell isle

WoW Forums -> 2.4 LOL

[Saban]

Holy slow content development batman.

[Campa]

Originally Posted by brekk

Was it made official that 2.4 would be the last major pre-expansion patch?

It was for the longest time but in the last month & a half they've given themselves some wiggle room to do a 2.5. They say incase Wotlk gets delayed, I take that to mean WAR & AoC got delayed so need to bring it out :P

[brekk]

there was no mention of the competitive arena changes so far. Though another blue post mentioned these patch notes are not done many changes are not in them yet.

If they don't do the arena changes in this patch I could see that being done as a 2.5 patch just before summer starts. (distract all the kiddies off from school with a few monthes of PVP) I'm sure right now they want to get arenas OK'd for real video game competitive play as soon as possible.

[slitz]

What a sad excuse for class balance...
Wish the 80 Manna Biscuit change wasn't the best change for mages in the patch notes... eew 8/

[PannorramiX]

Well at least I won't have to buy WotlK. Everything I do will feel like a waste of time when the next patch notes hit. BT quality badge loot is just insane. It probably will be better itemized then current BT loot, and it will be easier to obtain (no random loot table) and it will require less effort (hello karahzan ezmode bosses). I don't mind the removing he attunements etc, but at least let people do the supposed content the for the loot. 1+ year into the expansion and in full tier6 and I have to go back with my main to do Karahzan is probably as anti climatic as it can get. Maybe a bit melodramatic, but this feels like the final nail in the coffin for raiding to me, to bad its the only thing I like doing in mmo's as I rather play cod4 for my pvp.

[Nadiar]

Originally Posted by slitz

What a sad excuse for class balance...
Wish the 80 Manna Biscuit change wasn't the best change for mages in the patch notes... eew 8/

This is just the first iteration of the patch. It allows people to test with the current rules so they can make sure things are working and balanced before they start adding even more changes.

[Itzena]

Edit: Whoops, tables. Here.