World Of Warcraft

Multistrike was basically a differently named Critical Hit that didn't activate Crit procs, and had a cool visual effect to show when it happened. Makes sense they'd cut it, though if they can make the visual part of Crit that'd be cool.

An update to the Moonkin is cool, I wonder if it'll affect the Incarnation forms?

As someone who has the same classes on both factions I'd really welcome a account wide transmogg

Would love if my Horde DK could simply copy the mog from my Ally DK and the like

I look forward to the new mog system.

Particularly since I have both void storage tabs full of WOTLK stuff. Let alone any other expansion of gear.

Yeah. Even if they let us pack up only official tier sets (anything that has a set bonus, so easiest to identify and code into a system) it'd already help a lot.

edited 5th Sep '15 9:50:31 AM by Adannor

Yes! I did it! I got my first Level 100 character!

Well done.

Thank you. :) Now I can go on my vacation without any regrets. ;P

Now you need to get the legendary quest done.

And then get it done on all your alts.

Once was plenty, even if it is faster on alts.

I'm ready for it.

Apparently, if you get the follower and naval missions to pop up, and do a full clear of Highmaul once right before the weekly reset and once after the new week has started, it's possible to finish the Abrogator Stone quest in three days instead of weeks.

That's a fair bit faster than I was expecting, actually.

Well counting it down to three days is a lil misleading due to the week cycle, but yeah getting it done in jut two resets is nice.

My body is ready.

Legendary ring and Draenor flying get! Woot.

The mobile authenticator app has been updated on iOS and Android. Though apparently it has new permissions (location and files), and the widget for Android is gone. If that worries you, you should be okay holding off on the update, at least for now. Windows Phone and Blackberry versions have not received an update.

EDIT:Apparently the app shouldn't ask for those permissions, and will be fixed in the next update.

edited 9th Sep '15 2:05:14 PM by stingerbrg

They don't have an iPad version yet, and my iPhone 4 is too old to run the version of iOS required for iCloud sync. So I'm not risking using the mobile authenticator on a phone that is owned by my company. I will need to buy a new physical one at some point, though, because the battery in my old one is running out.

edited 9th Sep '15 11:20:05 AM by Fighteer

So it seems they'll be removing multistrike. It has only been a tweaked duplicate of critical, it took the former masteries of of shadow, elemental, arms and marksmanship and made them a stat, but they couldn't give it the full effect of the shadow mastery, that the additional ticks also procced everything the normal ones did. It had no visual effect other than for shamans.

Looking at current masteries, they could make a new stat based off that of fire mages and holy priests: direct damage/healing does an added portion over time, over-time attacks have a burst of damage when they expire.

Edit: Thinking on it, it would make more sense to have the burst at the start. Another possibility would be to replace procs on gear with a stat that determines the relative strength of the uptime.

edited 10th Sep '15 4:37:25 PM by Reymma

Attempting Archimonde for the first time tonight. Fight looks hectic as heck. Gonna be awesome. My bags are ready for the repair bill.

Has anything interesting happened in the game while I was on vacation?

I wanna ask about one certain detail.

Why is it that Grom is green-skinned in the prime timeline, while in WoD timeline he has red-brown skin like Garrosh? Heck, a lot of orcs in the WoD timeline has varying skin colors... except Gul'dan who still has green skin. If I have to guess, does green skin happens when you drink demon blood? I thought it becomes dark red like in WC3...

edited 14th Sep '15 3:21:40 PM by ChrisX

It does have to do with Demon blood. Not sure why green or red though, but I suspect it has to do with the Demon providing the blood.

Grom in the original timeline was amongst the many many orcs that drank the demon blood. After they drank the blood is when they started to turn green and become bloodthirsty. Although eventually many generations after drinking the demon blood most of the original timeline's orcs broke away from the bloodthirst. There was still was orcs with brown skin (you can see them in Outland, aka prime time's left over pieces of Draenor after Ner'zhul caused the planet to break) but they became a small part of the population. Some orcs drank to much blood and became fel orcs which you also see in Outland.

In Wo D's alternate timeline Garrosh stopped the orcs from drinking the blood on Gul'dan's insistence. Thus preventing those orcs from getting green skin and blood lust. He of course influenced them to build up an army though....

Something worth pointing out is orcs are actually a peaceful race. The demons in the original timeline turned them away from there roots for many many years....

edited 14th Sep '15 4:17:24 PM by Bleddyn

So I presume that Garrosh is not green-skinned even in the prime timeline because of being part of that aforementioned 'small population'?

No, Garrosh stopped most the alternate orcs from drinking the demon blood. You see this in the trailer.

edited 14th Sep '15 4:19:25 PM by Bleddyn