Hey guys, Jess here WoW Update!
This episode has been sponsored by Blizzard.
Patch 5.4 has just dropped, so we wanted to bundle up all the info we have into one nice
and tidy bundle, just for you.
First up, just wanted to mention that the WoWDB Modelviewer is about to get reworked!
So if you're sick of seeing armor set previews on the human male, you'll seen be able to
preview them on different races as well - the new version is in beta, but you can click
the link to MMO-Champ in the description below to try it out for yourself.
Now onto the 5.4 info - starting with some info about how Valor and Justice points will
work in the new patch.
Both Valor Points and Justice points will be kept when patch 5.4 goes live - Valor points
will not be reset or rolled down to Justice points.
However, Accumulated Conquest Points will be converted to Honor Points.
Also, Justice points will now be used to purchase items that formerly cost Valor, excluding
the Shado-Pan Assault items.
There will be no new Valor gear added but you can use Valor to upgrade your gear or
to purchase Timeless Coins.
The heirlooms that drop from Garrosh will function between levels 90 and 100.
The first heirloom weapon that drops for you will be for your current loot spec, but afterwards
it will be random.
These weapons are not available in LFR difficulty level.
In order to queue for Siege of Orgrimmar LFR, players must have an item level of 496 or
better.
the drop rate of loot from kills and bonus rolls has been increased for Mogu'shan Vaults,
Heart of Fear, Terrace of Endless Spring, and Throne of Thunder on Raid Finder difficulty.
The chance for awarding loot from using a bonus roll has been increased for Throne of
Thunder on Normal difficulty.
Epic quality gems will NOT be available in 5.4
Base Resilience was increased to 72% from 65% and Battle Fatigue was increased to 55%,
up from 45%.
PvE gear will be scaled down to 496 in Battlegrounds, Rated Battlegrounds, and Arenas with the cap
increasing by 1 every week.
Conquest point amounts from winning random battleground have been increased by 50%.
Arena teams no longer exist, so you can play with any of your friends.
Each player will have a personal rating that increase or decrease based on victories and
defeats against other rated opponents.
Opponents will be selected based on the average Match Making Rating of the party.
This means that the Arena ladder is now region wide.
You can queue for multiple LFR wings at once, and LFR now has the Call to Arms feature that
gives a reward to a badly needed role
Ordos is the new "hard" world boss, and you need the new legendary cloak to access him
Celestials are the easy world boss, there are 4, you can kill all 4 every week, but
you only get loot from the first kill.
Patch 5.4 will connect low population realms into groups to form a single Connected Realm.
Players from the other realms will be treated as if they were on your realm, so you can
trade, raid, and join guilds with the other players.
This gives all the benefits of server merges without having to give up your character or
guild names, and faction balance will be taken into account as much as possible.
The patch will also add a new Flexible Raid Diffuclty.
- Bring anywhere from 10 to 25 people to your raid and the difficulty will automatically
scale, and it works with battletags, so you can bring friends from other realms.
It has a separate lockout from Raid Finder and Normal, allowing you to do all three difficulties.
Another new feature is proving grounds, a way for players to practice new specs and
get better at their current spec in an environment that doesn't inconvenience other players.
There are four difficulties: Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Endless.
Endless just keeps getting harder every wave and your highest Endless score is stored as
a statistic.
DPS must kill of the enemy mobs in the time allotted while dealing with different PvE
mechanics such as kiting and stuns.
Tanks must protect a single healer NPC while dealing with different PvE mechanics like
knockbacks and fire, and healers must keep a party of NPCs alive while dealing with different
PvE mechanics like dispelling.
Some of the NPCs even like to stand in the fire!
Moving on to armor - MMO-Champ posted previews of the Tier 16 and Season 14 armor sets, so
we'll link those in the description - also we got a look at the Dark Shaman cosmetic
armor set - it drops off mobs in Flex, Normal, and Heroic difficulty settings of Siege of
Orgrimmar.
Garrosh has a new model - it has a lot of bones and facial animation tha tcould be similar
to what we see in new character models,a nd provides a nice test case to see if players
would want their Orc character to look lik ethat.
MMO-Champion put together a handly little Legendary Cloak Guide - if you're already
caught up on the quest line, you can get your cloak in an hour or so your first raid night
by using this guide!
There are also tons of Timeless Isle guides posted on MMO-Champ - there are guides for
chests, events and rare spawns, vanity items, and more!
Additionally, 5.4 adds Speaker Gulan - he sells you a Censer of Eteranl Agony, which
allows you to become hostile to all players including your faction, and kill them for
Bloody Coins, which are used to purchase several items, including a mount.
As for World Changes, the Vale of Eternal Blossoms has been drained dry of any water,
and corruption has spread across most of the Vale.
This damage included the destruction of the Golden Pagoda, so you won't be able to do
the Golden Lotus daily quests anymore.
Moonfang is a new boss added to teh Darkmoon Faire in patch 5.4 - he drops a new mount,
pet, transmog weapon, and a few novelty items.
The latest dev interviews posted on MMO-Champ had some interesting information, for instance
the new character models are apparentlya bout 20 or 25% done.
And finally, we just wanted to show off for you guys a couple of the awesome new mounts,
battle pets, and cosmetic glyphs in 5.4.
You can check the posts on MMO-Champion for the full list of videos and images of the
new content, but here are some of the coolest looking ones, such as the Sky Golem Mount
and the Kor'Kron Juggernaut
That's all we have for you this time, but as always be sure to subscribe to Curse and
MMO-Champion on YouTube!
Thanks for watching!
Enjoy the game.