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OMG yes. I’ve been in two losing Warfronts.

A confluence of people who do non-objective things (exploring the zone to see what it looks like and where the boundaries are, spending a lot of time reading the detailed offerings at the various buildings, going deep into the mine and then getting carried away fighting mobs in there, etc.) can easily get overrun by the defending faction.

But that’s hopefully a learning experience for those participants.

I’d personally like a Fire Mage at level 110, to level to 120 and go DPS my face off.

Super fun IMO.

It also depends a lot, in my opinion, on what you like to do. I find that leveling my Shaman is best in dungeons, and I flip over to my leveling Hunter when I want to do solo stuff.

We’re coming together to test the new Wintergrasp epic battleground experience in the 8.1.5 PTR, and would love for you to join us!

On Tuesday, February 19, beginning at 2:00 p.m. Pacific time (5:00 p.m. Eastern), we’ll be queueing up for Wintergrasp. Get your PTR character(s) ready at level 120 on the Broxigar server, and then at 2:00 p.m.:

• Open Group Finder (default hotkey: i)
• Select the Player vs. Player tab
• Select Quick Match
• In the dropdown, choose “Specific Battlegrounds”
• Select “Wintergrasp” and then hit the Join Battle button

Thank you very much, and we look forward to bombarding some frozen walls with you!

Sorry, friend.

… I didn’t know.

Hello. Just wanted to put this here for reference:

Cantaloupe forever.

Following up on some items that stemmed from this:

• We’re fixing the 8.1.5 PTR so that Fury of Xuen stacks are now cleared when you start a boss encounter.

• In 8.1.5, the Glory of the Dawn artifact trait will now deal 35% increased damage while Storm, Earth, and Fire is active.

Your two clones will still not deal damage or generate any Chi for you, but the trait’s damage will increase in value as it would with any other % damage increasing ability, such as Serenity.

I’ve got two words for you:

Mimiron’s. Head.

Seriously. I’m kind of amazed at how many people I’ve known (including me) who got that amazing mount in the first few … dozen tries.

On the other hand, I’ve still never gotten Poundfist. Which seems like a cinch. I just never find him spawned when I go looking.

This is my favorite bonus event week.

While my favorite pet is still Lil Rag, I use a couple of addons that bust out a pet regularly in various situations. For example, I really like automatically summoning Muckbreath/Snarly/Toothy/Chuck when I start fishing.

My favorite renamed pet is my Dragon Kite, which has gone through many names, and is currently known as Shockolate. You know … because it occasionally shocks you.

My question for this week is always: what’s the PBPvP team du jour? And what will you be using to counter it? And then what will you switch to to counter that counter?

Okay that was three questions...

Hello! There are four things to report so far–

• The Storm, Earth, and Fire + Mark of the Crane interactions should be fixed in 8.1.5
• Pressure Point should work with Storm, Earth, and Fire in 8.1.5
• Dance of Chi-Ji should work with Storm, Earth, and Fire in 8.1.5
• We’re still investigating the Glory of the Dawn trait.

Thank you for the bug reports.

Hello.

After investigating this, we think there is some discrepancy between the cooldown shown on the action bar and the cooldown shown on the tooltip.

We believe that we’ve got this fixed in 8.1.5, and so far we haven’t been able to reproduce it in the 8.1.5 PTR.

We’ll keep an eye on it, and thank you for the heads-up.

All of the changes listed above are now live.

[Updated 19:30 PST – all changes below are now live]

Good evening!

We’ve taken a careful look at healer mana during longer PvP engagements in both Arenas and battlegrounds, and we’re deploying some changes to address several concerns.

In PvP, we want mana to feel like a more critical resource, and we want mana efficiency to be an important part of PvP healing. At the beginning of Battle for Azeroth, mana regeneration from all healer specs was reduced by 15-30% (depending on the class), and after reviewing the current state of the game, we feel like further reductions are necessary to both healer specs and a few hybrid specs.

With a hotfix that is coming very soon:

Player versus Player

• Restoration Druid mana regeneration is now reduced by 55% in PvP.
• Holy Priest, Holy Paladin, Restoration Shaman, and Mistweaver Monk mana regeneration is now reduced by 50% in PvP.
• Discipline Priest mana...

In the most-recent new build on the PTR (that was deployed yesterday), the prices of the upgrade tokens were adjusted. They should now be:

|Tier|Armor|Weapon|
| 90 | 500g | 750g |
|100| 1000g| 1500g |
|110| 2000g| 3000g |
|120| 5000g| 7500g |

I’ve updated the OP! Sorry…

Yes, Everbloom is featured in WoD Timewalking. The list above is now correct.

Thanks!

This week’s update to the PTR includes some new content that we haven’t publicly tested before. Please join us in:

Warlords of Draenor Timewalking

Check out six memorable dungeons:

• Auchindoun
• Bloodmaul Slag Mines
• Everbloom
• Iron Docks
• Shadowmoon Burial Grounds
• Skyreach

New Micro Holiday – Vashjir Diving Day

Look out for the whale shark!

New Professions Questlines – Tools of the Trade

All 8 of the crafting secondary professions now have new questlines to acquire a tool of the trade that is unique for that profession. Note: Your test character will have to be at max level in the Kul Tiras or Zandalari segment of the profession to get started. Each questline begins at the profession’s main trainer in Boralus or Dazar’alor.

As always, thank you for your feedback. Feel free to post about bugs encountered while testing in ...

Thanks for the feedback!

We’re continuing to work on this ability. However, there don’t appear to be any changes to it in the immediate next new PTR build (coming very soon this week).

I’ve updated the OP again - with the 3% damage increase to Marksmanship.