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    Patch 5.2 introduces a new raid tier and PvP season, and so the higher tier currencies will be down-converted during maintenance. This time around there won’t be a soft cap, old Valor items aren’t changing to cost Justice, and we’re adding a new rank of PvP gear. Let’s break down exactly how it’s all going to harmoniously work together.

    PvE

    Valor -> Justice

    All Valor is converted to Justice

    Justice -> Gold

    Justice above the 4000 cap is converted to gold at a rate of 47 silver per point

    So let’s say the realms go down for the 5.2 patch and you have 450 Valor and 3800 Justice. Because of the 4000 Justice cap, you’d log back in after the patch is released with 0 Valor, 4000 Justice, and be 117 gold and 50 silver richer after the conversion.

    With 5.2 we won’t be changing current Valor items to cost Justice, but they will be much cheaper (discounts from 50-75% off their current costs). You’ll need to acquire Valor after the patch is released to buy pieces for their discounted rate, or to buy the new 5.2 Valor items, but we’re also introducing new items to spend your Justice on, including heirlooms and Pet Battle stones.

    Charms
    While Charms won’t be converted, Lesser Charms of Good Fortune will no longer be used to purchase Elder Charms in patch 5.2. Instead Lesser Charms will purchase Mogu Runes of Fate. They’ll be purchasable in the same way; once a week, 90 Lesser Charms can be converted to 3 Mogu Runes of Fate via a quest in your faction’s Shrine. Mogu Runes of Fate will be usable for bonus rolls on 5.2 raid and world bosses only. Elder Charms will continue to be used for bonus rolls on 5.0 raids and world bosses, and will now be acquired as item drops by killing enemies in the new 5.2 Thundering Isle outdoor zone.



    PvP

    Conquest -> Honor

    All Conquest is converted to Honor

    Honor -> Gold

    Honor above the 4000 cap is converted to gold at a rate of 35 silver per point

    For example, if I log out before the 5.2 maintenance period with 450 Conquest and 3800 Honor, my excess of 250 Honor would be converted, and so when I log in after 5.2 is released I would have 0 Conquest, 4000 Honor, and be 87 gold and 50 silver richer.

    In 5.2 we’re introducing an entirely new tier of PvP gear that will be purchasable with Honor to help smooth out the gearing progression for new and returning players, alts, etc. so they can catch up and be a bit more successful coming in mid-season or even mid-expansion. You can read more about all the changes being made surrounding that in the PvP Gear blog we posted a few weeks back.
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      Patch 5.2 PTR - Build 16539
      A new PTR build will be deployed soon. We will be updating these notes frequently, so keep checking back!

      Patch Highlights
      • Throne of Thunder is now somewhat itemized, with lots of temporary art, names, stats, and drop rates.
      • New rep gear for the Kirin Tor Offensive, Sunreaver Onslaught, and Shado-Pan Assault has been added.
      • The Tier 15 set tokens have been added.
      • Flaskataur is selling normal Tier 15 armor for gold on the PTR.
      • The Normal and Heroic Patch 5.0 raids now have a buff (that can be disabled) that reduces enemy health and damage by 10%.
      • When Patch 5.2 goes live, all players who have defeated Will of the Emperor, Grand Empress Shek’zeer, and/or Sha of Fear prior to the release of Patch 5.2 will receive a Feat of Strength to mark their accomplishments.
      • Siege of Niuzao Temple awards 5 bonus Valor Points, Scholomance awards 10 bonus Valor Points, and Shado-Pan Monastery awards 15 bonus Valor Points.
      • Completing the Scenarios: Brewmoon Festival, Greenstone Village, A Little Patience, and Theramore’s Fall will award 5 additional Valor Points.


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        Feats of Strength
        Pandaria
        Quests
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          I'm Rebur, Tadia, or Judianna most games.
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            I'm Rebur, Tadia, or Judianna most games.
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              • DWY_DB_WORK_BUG_COPY - The pet card displays information about a pet's abilities and stats.\n\n\nHover over the pet's icon to see how to obtain a pet.
              • ERR_DIFFICULTY_CHANGE_COMBAT_COOLDOWN_S - Raid was in combat recently and may not change difficulty again for %s.
              • EXCLUDE_BATTLEGROUNDS_LINE_1 - You can exclude up to
              • EXCLUDE_BATTLEGROUNDS_LINE_2 - %d battlegrounds
              • EXCLUDED_BATTLEGROUNDS_SEPARATOR - &
              • INCLUDED_BATTLEGROUNDS - Included Battlegrounds
              • SPELL_FAILED_CUSTOM_ERROR_191 - There is nothing to be fetched.
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                General
                The Legendary Quest Continues:
                Players seeking to re-acquire previous Legendary quest rewards (Such as gems for Sha-touched weapons) can now speak with the Blacktalon Quartermaster, the surly-looking Pandaren standing in the first floor of the Tavern in the Mists.

                Classes
                Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
                Feral Druid PvP 2-piece bonus to 15% movement speed while outdoors for Druids in Bear Form, Cat Form, or Travel Form no longer stacks with the Druid talent Feline Swiftness. in addition to the Savage Roar effect, Thick Hide reduces the wearer's chance to receive critical strikes by 20%.

                Hunter (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
                The Fetch ability from Glyph of Fetch no longer requires a target. When activated, the pet will automatically choose a nearby corpse to loot.

                Mage (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
                Glyph of Blink will now increase the movement speed bonus provided by Blazing Speed by an additional 50%.
                Blazing Speed is now a level 15 talent, replacing Scorch. can be triggered at will, provides root/stun immunity, and has a 10-second cooldown (was 25 seconds). This ability replaces Blink.
                Flameglow, a new talent is available at level 30 and replaces Blazing Speed. The passive ability encases the Mage in fiery energy, absorbing damage from each attack made against the Mage equal to 20% of their spellpower, up to a maximum of 30% of the attack.
                Cold Snap now heals the Mage for 15% of maximum health when used, down from 30%.
                Ring of Frost cast instantly through Presence of Mind now has a 2 second arming period before the Freeze effect is activated against targets in the area of effect. The 2 second arming period can be reduced by Haste.
                Deep Freeze now stuns the target for 5 seconds (was 4 seconds).
                Glyph of Deep Freeze now removes it from global cooldown but also reduces its duration by 1 second.
                Mage PvP 2-piece bonus now requires Counterspell to successfully interrupt a spell before applying the 4 second cooldown reduction to Counterspell.
                Fire
                Scorch is no longer a talent and is now available to all Fire Mages.

                Monk (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
                New Level 60 Talent: Ring of Peace
                Ring of Peace has a 45 second cooldown.
                Paralysis is now a physical, non-magical effect, can no longer be dispelled, grounded or reflected, and its base range has been increased to 20 yards. The Paralysis effect lasts 40 seconds (was 30 seconds) for non-player targets, 4 seconds when used against other players, and lasts 50% (was 200%) longer when used from behind a target.
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                  Paladin (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
                  Light's Hammer now also applies a 50% snare for 2 seconds to targets that take damage from the area of effect.
                  Glyph of Blessed Life no longer requires Seal of Insight to be active.
                  Glyph of Templar's Verdict can also activate from Exorcism.
                  Retribution
                  When Hand of Sacrifice is cast by a Retribution Paladin, all harmful magic effects are removed from the party or raid member.

                  Priest (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
                  Several of these may be tooltip updates, see Ghostcrawler's tweets. [1, 2]
                  Spiritual Healing is a new passive ability obtained by Discipline and Holy Priests at level 10. This ability increases the amount of healing done by Flash Heal, Binding Heal, Renew, and Prayer of Mending by 25%. The amount of healing done by those four spells have been reduced by 20%. For Holy and Discipline Priests, there is no change to the amount of healing done by those four spells.
                  Evangelism stacking effect now also increases the healing of Penance.
                  Devouring Plague now deals its damage evenly through its duration.
                  Phantasm no longer makes the Priest untargetable by ranged attacks, and the movement impairing immunity effect is now 5 seconds (was 3 seconds).
                  Discipline
                  Spirit Shell can no longer be dispelled.

                  Shadow
                  Dispersion now belongs to the Shadow spell school.
                  Flash Heal and Binding Heal will heal for 30% less when cast by Shadow Priests.

                  Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
                  Preparation is now a baseline ability learned at level 68 and no longer resets the cooldown on Cloak of Shadows.
                  Blind now has a cooldown of 2 minutes (was 1.5 minutes).
                  Cloak of Shadows now has a cooldown of 1 minute (was 2 minutes).
                  Smoke Bomb now reduces damage taken by allies in the area of effect by 20%, in addition to current effects.

                  Shaman (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
                  The talent Totemic Restoration now has an additional effect. Any totems that have been destroyed or replaced behave as if the totem had been active for at least 1 second.
                  When summoned, the Stone Bulwark Totem has health equal to 10% of the casting Shaman's health.
                  The talent Nature's Guardian now preserves the player's health percentage when its maximum health boosting effect expires.

                  Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
                  Blood Fear has been redesigned. This ability is now cast on the Warlock, and causes melee attacks that strike within the next 60 seconds to fear the attacker. When cast, the ability has 1 charge, costs 5% health to activate, and has a 30-second cooldown.
                  Blood Fear has a new visual and sound effect, and has a visual and sound effect when the fear effect is activated.
                  Blood Fear has been replaced by Blood Horror. Blood Horror costs 5% health, has 1 charge, and lasts 60 seconds with a 30 second cooldown. While Blood Horror is active, melee attacks that strike the Warlock will cause the attacker to be horrified for 4 seconds.
                  Destruction
                  Fire and Brimstone now has a radius of 10 yards (was 15 yards).

                  Warrior (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
                  Second Wind now generates 15 rage (was 20 rage) over 10 seconds. and the health regeneration effect will pause while the Warrior is stunned.
                  Glyph of Overpower is now Glyph of Die by the Sword. It increases the duration of Die by the Sword whenever Overpower or Wild Strike are used.
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                    Pet Battles
                    Many new Battle Pets and Battle Pet abilities have been added.
                    Volcano's damage has been reduced by 15%.
                    Ice Tomb, Elementium Bolt, and Stun Seed's damage has been reduced by 25%.
                    Geyser's damage has been reduced by 12.5%.
                    Conflagrate's base damage has been increased by 20% and its bonus damage has been reduced by 60%.
                    Siphon Life now heals for a flat amount instead of a percentage of the damage that had been dealt.
                    Ghostly Bite now has a cooldown of 7 rounds (was 3 rounds).
                    Spectral Strike now has a cooldown of 4 rounds (was 3 rounds).
                    Light now has a cooldown of 4 rounds (was 3 rounds).
                    Call Darkness now lasts for 5 rounds (was 9 rounds).

                    Raids, Dungeons and Scenarios
                    Throne of Thunder loot drops are now available for testing in Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic difficulty. Please note that at this stage of testing, bonus rolls are not yet available, art for weapons, armor pieces, and the drop rates themselves are not yet final.
                    Ao Pye at Niuzao Temple in Towlong Steppes is offering to sell Shadow-Pan Assault faction gear to adventurers for Valor points. Another NPC will also be selling those items in or near the entrance to the Throne of Thunder on Isle of the Thunder King.
                    For testing purposes, Flaskataur is selling normal Tier 15 armor for gold on the PTR.
                    On Normal and Heroic mode, zone-wide auras have been activated in Mogu’shan Vaults, Heart of Fear, and Terrace of Endless Spring, reducing the health and damage of all enemies therein by 10%. A NPC near the entrance within each zone explains this, and offers to deactivate the buff for the benefit of brave/foolhardy adventurers.
                    When Patch 5.2 goes live, all players who have defeated Will of the Emperor, Grand Empress Shek’zeer, and/or Sha of Fear prior to the release of Patch 5.2 will receive a Feat of Strength to mark their accomplishments. The Feats of Strength will be: “Ahead of the Curve: (Will of the Emperor, Grand Empress Shek’zeer, Sha of Fear)” for players that have defeated them on Normal difficulty and “Cutting Edge: (Will of the Emperor, Grand Empress Shek’zeer, Sha of Fear)” for players that have defeated them on Heroic difficulty. Once 5.2 is released, these Feats of Strength will no longer be obtainable.
                    Level 90 players that use Dungeon Finder to look for a random Dungeon or Scenario will receive additional bonus Valor Points upon completing specific Dungeons or Scenarios.
                    Dungeons
                    Siege of Niuzao Temple: 5 bonus Valor Points
                    Scholomance: 10 bonus Valor Points
                    Shadow-Pan Monastery: 15 bonus Valor Points
                    Completing the Scenarios: Brewmoon Festival, Greenstone Village, A Little Patience, and Theramore’s Fall will award 5 additional Valor Points.

                    PvP
                    Players can obtain a new title "Khan", by completing the following Battleground achievements: Master of the Battle for Gilneas, Master of Twin Peaks, Master of Temple of Kotmogu, Master of Isle of Conquest, and Master of Silvershard Mines.

                    Bug Fixes
                    Items
                    Teebu's Blazing Longsword once again appropriately illuminates its surroundings.
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                      WoW Down to 9.6 Million Subscribers
                      Activision Blizzard's press release states that World of Warcraft is down to 9.6 million subscribers as of December 31, 2012. This is lower than the amount of subscribers from the "over 10 million" announced for Q3 2012. A few other interesting points:

                      • Mists of Pandaria was the #3 best-selling PC game at retail.
                      • Diablo III was the #1 best-selling PC game at retail, breaking PC-game sales records with more than 12 million copies sold worldwide through December 31, 2012.
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                        Project Blackstone
                        We now finally know what the Project Blackstone domain was for! You can take a look around with the password, "Y7_$0>0k_3<$m" and see some more of the action on Twitter:






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                          Patch 5.2 - Green Fire Quest Preview
                          Patch 5.2 finally adds the Green Fire quest line for Warlocks. After finding a The Codex of Xerrath 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.

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                            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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                              As of now, it seems that the part of the quest line with The Eye of the Storm, Wrathion, and Warlock Island has been abandoned.

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                                Something that has continued to evolve over the life of the game has been end-game progression, and what’s required of your character to see what is at any one time considered the final raid. Originally it was a very linear path. You had to gear up through one raid before you could attempt the next, and the one after that, and so on. It meant that if you were even slightly behind the curve you could potentially never catch up. We began adding mechanics and options in Burning Crusade and beyond to ensure players could, with effort, have some ability to catch up. Fast forward to Cataclysm where we believe we went too far the other direction and a freshly minted 90 didn’t really have to do anything before jumping directly into Dragon Soul.

                                In Mists of Pandaria we want to get back to where we were in helping people catch up, but only through some effort in completing prior content. We don’t want it to be a linear A->B->C model again, because that causes a lot of undue burden on guilds attempting to catch up alts and replacements, but we also don’t want the Cataclysm model of being able to more or less skip straight to the end, invalidating everyone’s efforts who came before.

                                New characters coming into Mists of Pandaria will be going through Mogu’shan Vaults, Heart of Fear, and Terrace of Endless Spring, killing bosses, and gearing up before moving on. Due to that we’ll be adjusting the difficulty, as well as item drops, to make progression a bit quicker without shortcutting people directly to the Throne of Thunder raid. With the release of 5.2 enemy health and damage in the three prior raids will be reduced by 10%. We expect this to be a one-time reduction, and not a slowly increasing reduction as we’ve done previously. In addition, item drops are being greatly increased, including those from Elder Charm of Good Fortune bonus rolls. In addition, as stated in the patch notes, costs of 5.0 and 5.1 Valor items are being reduced by 50% and 25% respectively.

                                IN ADDITION! If you’re killing bosses in Normal and Heroic before 5.2 releases, and thus pre-nerf, you’ll actually get Feats of Strength honoring the accomplishments you made before the change – which is pretty cool. IMO.

                                With these changes we hope to see players able to catch when coming into the game mid-expansion, or leveling an alt, but still putting in the time and effort to get to the latest tier.
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