World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Changes Refrence

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Legendary Quest Line Updated
Patch 5.2 adds some more story and some new legendary meta gems!

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Achievements

Chapter III: Two PrincesDiscover the secrets of the mogu with Wrathion, and deliver to him the heart of the Thunder King.		25		Pandaria
Chapter IV: Judgement of the Black Prince[Coming Soon...]		25		Pandaria

Quests

90	Meet Me Upstairs	Meet Wrathion upstairs on the second floor of the Tavern in the Mists in the Veiled Stair.
90	Secrets of the First Empire	Collect 20 Secrets of the Empire and 40 Trillium Bars.
90	I Need a Champion	Earn Exalted Reputation with the Black Prince by defeating mogu, Zandalari, and saurok enemies on the Isle of the Thunder King.
90	The Thunder Forge	Progress through the Isle of Thunder until you unlock the Thunder Forge. Meet Wrathion outside the Thunder Forge and complete his task.
90	Spirit of the Storm Lord	Progress through the Isle of the Thunder King until you unlock the final courtyard. Obtain a Tempered Lightning Lance by thrusting the lance into Storm Lord Nalak and killing it.
90	Echoes of the Titans	Collect 12 x Titan Runestone from raid bosses in the Chambers of Flesh-Shaping and the Halls of Thunder.
90	Heart of the Thunder King	Slay the Thunder King in the Halls of Thunder and collect the Heart of the Thunder King.
90	The Crown of Heaven	Meet Wrathion atop Mason's Folly in the Veiled Stair and collect your reward.
90	A Reckoning	Contact Wrathion once your faction is ready to make its move. [To Be Continued in Patch 5.3...]

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Rewards

• Capacitive Primal Diamond - +324 Crit Rating and chance on melee or ranged hit to gain Capacitance. (Deals damage after accumulating 5 charges)
• Courageous Primal Diamond - +324 Intellect and chance on beneficial spell to make your next spell cost no mana for 4 sec
• Indomitable Primal Diamond - +324 Stamina and chance on being hit to gain 20% reduction to physical damage taken
• Sinister Primal Diamond - +324 Crit Rating and chance on spell damage to gain 30% spell haste

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The story goes on in Patch 5.2: Rise of the Thunder King and so too does the journey with the Black Prince, Wrathion, guiding the way. With the threat of the Thunder King and the mogu, Prince Wrathion seeks to delve even deeper into the source of mogu power. He'll enlist Azeroth’s mightiest heroes once more to aid him in finding out what it is. The search for information will take these heroes into the depths of the Thunder King’s Palace, and pit them against trials of perseverance and skill. Along the way, they’ll unlock the secrets to a new Legendary metagem, Crown of Heaven.

The game is afoot, but who will win in the end?

5.2 Changes and Things to Look Forward to
As with many patches, there will be new additions and changes to the Legendary quest line. Here’s a look at what’s in store (Spoiler Free Zone):

• Additions:
  
  • New solo Scenario available to all class types. You’ll be able to aid Wrathion in constructing a weapon at the Thunder Forge
    
  • Reputation gains increased to Exalted
    
  • Special World Boss Challenge, Nalak the Storm Lord
    
  • New metagem – Crown of Heaven
    
• Changes/Notes:
  
  • Sha-Touched Weapons will not be available in the new Raid tier but will still be available from previous Raids.
    
  • The gem received for completing Breath of the Black Prince can be used on Sha-Touched weapons, but will not be useable on new weapons from the Throne of Thunder Raid. (Don’t throw them out though. You never know if a gem may come back in style.)
    
  • Eye of the Black Prince will be able to be used on new Epic Weapons

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Warlock - Green Fire Quest Line
Patch 5.2 finally adds the Green Fire quest line for Warlocks. After finding the Sealed Tome of the Lost Legion as a somewhat rare drop, you combine the tome with a Healthstone to bind it to you. If you want to test the quest line on the PTR, you can get it as a guaranteed drop from an NPC near the Shado-Pan Garrison.

Once bound, you begin with a quest to find the origins of the tome by speaking with your demons. Each demon will tell you something different about it. You then take the tome to a Warlock Trainer to find out more.

Your Warlock trainer will recognize that the tome is important to the Council of the Black Harvest, and ask you to read through Part One of Legacy of the Masters.

You will then need to look through Jubeka's Journal and find fragments in Hellfire, Blade's Edge, Netherstorm, and Shadowmoon Valley. At three of the fragments, you will witness a memory, of which you can find the text below.

You then follow the soulstone that was created by the fragments to the gates of the Black Temple, find the mark on the door, and enter the scenario. After defeating Kanrethad, you are granted Green Fire!

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Isle of Thunder
Upon logging in to Patch 5.2, you will be sent to the Horde camp near Shadopan Garrison, in Townlong Steppes. Scout Captain Elsia will escort you to the Isle of Thunder and then you have a brief conversation with Lor'themar Theron. After speaking with him, he will ask for your help in establishing a base on the island.

Upon completing the The Assault on Zeb'tula (Video) or The Assault on Shaol'mara, you have established a small base on the island. The isle contains the new daily quests, raid, and rare spawns, as well as quartermasters for all of the new factions.

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Before tackling any daily quests, you need to select your quest set for the day. You can choose between the PvE quests with PvE rewards (slightly slower to complete) or the PvP quests with PvP rewards (slightly faster to complete). The rewards from the final stage of the Isle of Thunder quests are below, but they start out slightly lower.

PvE Daily Quests

• ~13 quests
• 60 x Valor Points
• 30 x Lesser Charm of Good Fortune
• 2150 reputation

PvP Daily Quests

• ~7 quests
• 525 x Honor Points
• 50 x Conquest Points
• 19 x Lesser Charm of Good Fortune
• 1250 reputation

The PvE quests involve doing a set of four quests in three areas, and then a final quest to kill an elite. While questing in the Ihgaluk Crag, you are transformed into a Saurok, allowing you to run quickly, jump higher, travel without being attacked, and take almost no fall damage. This disguise is dropped whenever you are in combat.

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The PvP quests can be done without engaging in combat with any other players, killing guards at the other faction's base instead. If you are on a PvE realm, be aware that taking any of the PvP quests will flag you for PvP while they remain in your logs.

Assuming it is part of the PvP quest set every day, it is a good idea to complete Charged Moganite first, as it gives you a 5% move speed buff for 15 minutes. Keep in mind that you have to carry the object back from the center of the island without mounting or dying. The remaining quests are fairly simple, kill NPCs/players, rescue scouts, plant bombs, and infiltrate the other faction's base to retrieve an object.

The final quest will reward you with a Sunreaver Bounty or Arcane Trove. This can contain a Great Pandaren Banquet, Shan'ze Ritual Stone, Shado-Pan Assault Insignia, Sunreaver Onslaught Insignia, Mote of Harmony, and Elder Charm. Keep in mind that Elder Charms are only used for the Patch 5.0 raids and items used in the Troves of the Thunder King scenario, not the new Patch 5.2 raids.

The new factions don't sell any gear for Valor Points, only gold. You can earn more reputation from them by using Sunreaver Onslaught Insignia / Greater Sunreaver Onslaught Insignia. The 25 Rep insignia can be found in the Sunreaver Bounty or purchased for 1 x Tattered Historical Parchments. The 250 Rep insignia can be purchased for 10 x Tattered Historical Parchments. The Parchments are looted from chests in the Troves of the Thunder King scenario.

If you really need more rep from them, you are able to apply your bonus reputation from the first Scenario and Heroic Dungeon of the day towards the faction as well, earning an extra 750 reputation from the dungeon and 325 from the scenario.


Thunder Forge
Unlocking the Thunder Forge is part of the 5.2 legendary quest line and will allow you to begin crafting Lightning Steel Ingots for the new replica Blacksmith weapons.

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Troves of the Thunder King Scenario
Patch 5.2 makes use of solo scenarios for several storytelling purposes, but one of the scenarios is purely to give you loot! To enter the scenario, you need to acquire a Key to the Palace of Lei Shen. This key drops very rarely from mobs on the Isle of Thunder, more often from rare spawns on the Isle of Thunder, and in the rare spawn chests that appear on the isle. You can read more about this scenario in this post.

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Solo Storytelling Scenarios
Each stage of the Isle of Thunder unlocks another storytelling scenario, which can be played through once. These must all be done, even if the Isle is already unlocked on your realm, allowing everyone to experience the story, even if they got started late. Each faction has a separate but very similar version of the scenario.

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New Pandaria Rare Spawns
Patch 5.2 brings us some new rare spawn mobs along the coast of the zones in Pandaria. They drop a Big Bag of Zandalari Supplies that contains Sha Crystal, Ethereal Shard, Mysterious Essence, and Spirit Dust. They also drop a Small Bag of Zandalari Supplies that contains gold, ores, and motes.

You can find these rare spawns in locations along the coast in each zone. The Zandalari Warbringers will require a tank or healer, or both, depending on your gear. So far, they are the only ones that actually drop the mount. The Zandalari Scouts can easily be killed with two players, or even soloed depending on your gear and class.

Isle of Thunder Rare Spawns
The Isle of Thunder has ten rare spawn NPCs that must be killed to earn the Champions of Lei Shen achievement.

• Haywire Sunreaver Construct - Stage 1
• Mumta - Stage 1
• Ku'lai the Skyclaw - Stage 1
• Progenitus - Stage 1
• Goda - Stage 1

• Al'tabim the All-Seeing - Stage 1
• God-Hulk Ramuk - Stage 3
• Backbreaker Uru - Stage 4
• Lu-Ban - Stage 4
• Molthor - Stage 5

Ra'sha is the eleventh rare spawn. He is somewhat weaker than the others, not an elite, and drops Ra'sha's Sacrificial Dagger.

The rest of the rare spawns have a chance to drop a Key to the Palace of Lei Shen and Shan'ze Ritual Stone. Every kill also will reward you with a Tome of Valor. You can find a description of the encounter on the NPC pages.

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Quest / Rare NPC Sharing
When you encounter another player killing a rare spawn or quest flagged NPC, you can just start to help them kill it. Doing so will increase the maximum health of the NPC by 50% and give you a chance to win loot, separate from the other player's chance. If someone else comes along to help out, this will increase the maximum health by another 50%, and give them a chance to win loot as well.

This system allows anyone from either faction, in your group, solo, or in another group to take part in killing these NPCs and get a chance at the loot, without affecting your loot chances. For now, it only works for the new rares and big quest mobs introduced in Patch 5.2. Please note that this does not work for normal quest mobs (Kill 20 of X...), only the bigger ones that are usually named and have an icon on their unit frame.

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Isle of Giants
The Isle of Giants is full of many colors and types of dinosaurs, as well as the new Heroic difficulty world boss, Oondasta. All of them have several million health and drop a few Giant Dinosaur Bones, which can be turned in for gold, Mote of Harmony, Spirit of Harmony, Spectral Porcupette, or a Reins of the Bone-White Primal Raptor.

Each dinosaur will drop 1 to 9 bones, depending on luck and how much health they have. See the quest tables below for the amounts required for the rewards.

The Zandalari Dinomancers found on the Isle of Giants also have a chance to drop some of the new pets and tome needed to tame the Direhorns found there.

90	Giant Dinosaur Bone		1 98
90	More Giant Dinosaur Bones		1 98
90	Many More Giant Dinosaur Bones		1 98
90	A Large Pile of Giant Dinosaur Bones		1 98
90	A Mountain of Giant Dinosaur Bones		1 98

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PvP Changes

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New Battle Pets
Patch 5.2 brings 23 new Battle Pets to World of Warcraft. They are obtained in many various ways, but they are almost all attached to the new 5.2 content in some way. Unfortunately, Pierre and the Pygmy Direhorn didn't make the cut and are now slated instead for Patch 5.3. In addition to the many balance/functionality changes announced for Battle Pets in the 5.2 Patch Notes, Simca has created an extensive list of Unannounced Battle Pet Changes.

Baby Pandas

Red Panda is the reward from completing the new quest Beasts of Fable, which requires you to defeat ten legendary 'elite' Battle Pets around Pandaria. Mountain Panda,Snowy Panda, and Sunfur Panda sometimes come from Fabled Pandaren Pet Supplies, which is the reward for completing the daily quest version of Beasts of Fable.

Baby Zandalari Raptors

From left to right, they are Zandalari Anklerender, Zandalari Toenibbler, Zandalari Kneebiter, and Zandalari Footslasher. These baby raptors drop from Zandalari Dinomancers on the Isle of Giants. On the PTR, the drop rate was extremely high (~25%), but it is unclear if it will remain that way on Live.

Tiny Carps

Tiny White Carp, Tiny Red Carp, Tiny Green Carp, and Tiny Blue Carp are the four new Fishing pets in Patch 5.2. The Tiny Blue Carp is found in Vale of Eternal Blossoms, the Tiny Green Carp is found in The Jade Forest, Valley of the Four Winds, and Krasarang Wilds, the Tiny Red Carp is found in Townlong Steppes and Dread Wastes, and the Tiny White Carp is found in Kun-Lai Summit and the coastal regions of Pandaria (saltwater catches in any zone).