RSS Val'anyr, Blue posts, Ulduar Videos, Comics [Archive]

Azel

02/03/2009, 10:00

Val'anyr, Gavel of Ancient Kings If you've been reading this site for more than 3 days, you probably know that a new Legendary Mace will be added to the game with Patch 3.1. Just like with Atiesh in Naxxramas, you will have to drop multiple <a href="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/february/fragmentsvalanyr.jpg" target="_blank">Fragments of Val'anyr</a> to be able to start the quest chain to rebuild the mace. The item is currently Unique (30) on PTRs while the spells says that you need 40 shards to combine the <a href="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/february/fragmentsvalanyr.jpg" target="_blank">Shattered Fragments of Val'anyr</a> but it should be one of these two values, fragments will most likely drop from bosses in Ulduar. <a href="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/february/fragmentsvalanyr.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/february/fragmentsvalanyr_small.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> When all fragments are in your possession, you will be able to start the following quest : Ancient History The pieces fit together to form an elegant hammer. Its construction appears to be at least partially Titan in nature. The console inside the Archivum might have some information regarding this artifact. <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Bring the Shattered Fragments of Val'anyr to the Archivum Console in the Archivum in Ulduar. </li></ul> The <a href="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/february/ulduarsandbox/ulduar_13.jpg" target="_blank">Archivum</a> is the small room behind The Assembly of Iron (where the Iron Council is). After a small event the follow-up will require you to kill ... The old god <a href="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/february/yoggsaron.jpg" target="_blank">Yogg-Saron</a> in his <a href="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/february/ulduarsandbox/ulduar_76.jpg" target="_blank">prison</a>! Val'anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings The Archivum console has hinted at a possible way to rebind the fragments of Val'anyr: you must get the fragments inside the physical form of the being known as Yogg-Saron. It sounds like a long shot, but for an artifact of such power you think the risk might just be worth it. <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Throw the Shattered Pieces of Val'anyr inside Yogg-Saron's exposed brain and defeat Yogg-Saron to recover the Reforged Hammer of Ancient Kings.</li></ul> I couldn't find anything in the game files below this point, but I'll assume it doesn't take much after that to end up with the mace in your hands ... below is the (still unconfirmed) model. <div align="center"><object width="560" height="370"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DdY8RXIKOAY">Blue posts <div class="blizzquotewrap"><div class="blizzquoteinner"><div class="blizzquoteheader">Quote from Blizzard staff</div><div class="blizzquote">More changes to ammos and shards later This upcoming patch will be the largest one we've ever done with tons of new content and a lot of class changes. However, we still have to pick our battles. We can't get pursue every idea we have and still complete the patch in a reasonable amount of time, and I know I'm getting pretty impatient myself for Ulduar. These are small steps. If we like the way they turn out, there will be larger steps in time to arrows and shards. I'd love to share our ideas, but they need to bake a little longer and we need to make sure we can actually deliver so players don't feel like we broke any promises. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/28/15443406200-32-shards-max-might-be-huge-buff.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) "Bring the player, not the class" in PvP We definitely want to get more specs into PvP. However, one of the coolest parts of Arena is building comps with certain synergies. I'm not sure it would be a good design goal to say almost any 2, 3 or 5 classes can form a good team together. And yet the roles in PvP are quite different than in PvE. There are some Arena teams with no healers and some with several. We can't just tell players to pick up a healer and you're good to do, because the healer you get can change things dramatically. Let's get a little more parity in Arenas first and get in those classes and specs that have historically been underepresented, and then we can start thinking about how much sense it makes to give players more flexibility on how they form their team. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/28/15443405721-bring-the-player-not-the-class-in-pvp-also.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/idruids.gif" alt="" border="0" /> Druid (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=700" target="_blank">Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?druid" target="_blank">Talent + Glyph Calc.</a>) Heart of the Wild nerf in 3.1 In order to keep our goal of having all 4 tank classes capable of handling Ulduar, we need to get tank health pools a little closer together. While I won't hide that this is a nerf for bears, we also don't want to get to the point of having a "mana sponge" tank, now that we are making mana more of an issue for healers. If druids slip behind as a result of lack of mitigation, avoidance or cooldowns, we will buff them. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/26/15443285411-heart-of-the-wild-nerfed-to-10.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) Lifebloom changes in 3.1 Rolling Lifeblooms on 2-3 tanks is just hands down one of the most -- probably the most -- efficient heals in the game. We didn't want to nerf the amount Lifebloom heals, but we were concerned druids would jump to the top of the healer stack pretty quickly with the recent mana changes. We added the bonus to the bloom to improve its use in PvP, where you can't always keep 3 stacks rolling, and for say throwing a single spell on a rogue where you don't plan on keeping it rolling. Keep in mind that yanking the hot removal of DKs is also a druid buff for PvP. Edit: I meant to add that we discussed getting the same effect by having the 2nd or 3rd application of the spell on the same target increase in mana cost. But that becomes pretty complex to explain in a tooltip and might be too mathy for quick calculations when deciding whether you want to roll blooms or not. [...] We think rolling is a fun part of the spell. It's just too efficient and makes Lifebloom the best heal per second and heal per mana. We don't want you to change the way you use the spell, at least in terms of single tank healing. The bonus on a bloom or dispel is just supposed to be a bonus. If the numbers aren't right, we'll continue to tweak them. It may be that the cost needed to go up by 75% instead of 100% for example. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/27/15443525520-major-change-to-lifebloom-please-explain.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) Resto druid role Someone asked whether we were intending to change the Resto druid's role. We aren't. All of these changes fall, in our minds at least, into the realms of balance or polish. Fixing mana regeneration and Lifebloom efficiency are balance problems. Both were too good. Separating the roles of Nourish and Regrowth a little is a polish issue. They were too close together. One of the things I still feel works the best about the Resto druid is in how different players can heal using different strategies and still be succesful. We have a long way to go with some classes and specs to give them that level of variety. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/27/15443305431-ok-lets-discuss-the-issueresto-druids.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/ihunters.gif" alt="" border="0" /> Hunter (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=620" target="_blank">Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?hunter" target="_blank">Talent + Glyph Calc.</a>) Explosive Shot Yes, we did nerf the damage of Explosive Shot a little more. After many of the changes to locks, DKs, warriors and the rest, we felt SV hunters were too high. MM may still be a little too low. BM seems on target at the moment, but we had a few bugs in new pet abilities especially that was making it hard to get accurate numbers. I'm not sure what you mean about Survival compexity. Are you talking about the shots themselves or the organization of the tree? I think some players are still thinking they are supposed to trap dance in PvE. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/28/15443525832-31-hunter-patch-notes-confusion.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) Quiver removal in 3.1 and effects on Steady Shot We just wanted to remove the quiver without losing its haste bonus. Except for inventory changes, you should not notice a difference. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/28/15443525832-31-hunter-patch-notes-confusion.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/ipriests.gif" alt="" border="0" /> Priest (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=640" target="_blank">Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?priest" target="_blank">Talent + Glyph Calc.</a>) Viper Sting Yes, that is pretty close to how we feel. Poisons are a weakness of the priest class. We don't want to remove that weakness. However Viper Sting exploited that weakness to a very ...</div></div></div>

Fonte (http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?topic=41936.0)