Rage of the Firelands PTR Opening 6 September

WoW Classic Cataclysm Classic Discussion
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On Friday, September 6, we’ll open the Cataclysm Classic PTR for testing of patch 4.4.1 – Rage of the Firelands.

This patch includes the Elemental Bonds questline, the legendary staff Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa’s Rest, and a few minor guild updates.

We’re also planning some increased challenge difficulty options and rewards for dungeons, and we look forward to sharing more about that soon.

When the PTR first opens, the focus of our testing will be on the new daily quest hubs.

  • Players will help Malfurion and the Guardians of Hyjal secure The Regrowth in Mount Hyjal, then create a portal to Molten Front to attack Ragnaros’ forces in their home realm.
    • This questline requires gathering Marks of the World Tree to unlock new quest hubs. To streamline testing, we’re including a new PTR-specific vendor, Molten Frontaur, who will sell Commendations of the World Tree to help you get stocked up on Marks and progress through the content at a much quicker pace than will be possible in the final release.

Similar to previous patch PTRs, we’re planning on two raid test weekends. We’ll let you know when we’re ready to schedule the first of those.

We’ll see you there. Thank you very much!

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ok

MoP when?

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i hope you guys fixing issues with the pets when firelands coming out
unless it’s part of the classic experience

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Currently, we’re running the same bugs that existed during tier 11 back in the day. If any of these bugs got fixed with the Firelands patch back in the day, they will be fixed this time around as well.

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Please fix the healer balance:

  1. Holy Paladins have too high HPS output.
  2. Disc Priests can stack DA too high and spam PoH.
  3. Holy Priests should get MoP lightwell because it is still useless now. Chakra CD should be reduced.
  4. Restoshamans should see a slight buff to their chain heals. Either more hps or reduced mana cost.
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This! Hurry up already with this bad expansion and bring up MoP … then WOD and finally, the almighty Legion!

…then you can stop! Seriously! Stop at Legion with permanent Legion servers and we good …

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Does it come with GDKP/Gbid skip option ?

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Why do people want MoP? It’s a daily quest fest.

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Players: we want classic.
Blizzard: BUT WAIT we just adding more and more retail options.

Whats the point of classic when you just turning it into retail lite?

Before blizzard added classic private servers been run for years and they simply restarted servers and keept a massive majority of their players with old graphics and all, most who wanted classic just want to play the old game and thats it, instead of turning classic into retail, just restart vanilla, tbc and wotlk now and then every 2nd year and people will play.

Waste your time on retail instead, if people want to compete in mytics and so on retail is better for it anyway, its no point to add that crap to classic wich wasnt made for it.

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The catch up system of Cataclysm is already fine. Once Fireland is out all the VP 359 items will become available with justice and new 378 VP Items will be added.
You did an amazing change with the VP catch up system you added for cataclysm.

I really think that adding any raid loot to an alpha version of heroic dungeon is a terrible idea.
Dungeon at wotlk were stressful specially some affixes such as mirror image.
Further more it’s gonna kill the phase 1 raid content. in the like 3 first weeks alpha dungeons will get spammed by mains and good geared alts so it’s gonna be ok~ish. But 1 month after the release you will play alpha dungeon with ungeared people abusing the ilvl system by putting high ilvl item in their bag such as a war with 330 ilvl but 359 equipped ilvl because he has clothes / leather / mails items for ah in the bag.

Not convinced ? Take a look at how heroic dungeon work since ZG/ZA was released :

  • People ding lvl 85 gg wp. They rush AH to buy pvp items / bad stat item that they keep in bad just to have the ilvl to tag HC

  • HC dungeons (ZG/ZA excluded) is a big clown fiesta atm. I’ve never met someone with more than 7K GS, everyone coming here with 6-7k gs and a average disgusting dps of 5-8k that is totally underperforming for the content.
    At this point they just need on anything that they can equip it doesn’t matter, the next goal is reaching 346 ilvl asap.

  • Once 346 ilvl, gg wp they can tag ZG/ZA with their 7k dps hoping to find a premade or a correct group carrying them. They will need on item designed for their spec in order to next find a spot in raid.

By adding Lapha dungeon with ilvl restriction all you gonna do is add a step. People will come to ZG/ZA pushing their ilvl dumbly needing on everything they can equip in order to tag alpha and get carried by a premade / correct group.

It’s disappointing that wotlk wasn’t a correct lesson about this.

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So we can finally play the better expansion : Legion

Stressful ? I mean, to some degree, but the mecanics made Dungeons in Wotlk to be a pleasant experience vs the original Wotlk were it was literally, pull all dungeon = win…more or less.

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Blizzard devs for Retail said that they will be repeating MoP Remix in 2025. So they will end up with MoP Classic and MoP remix going at the same time. I think that’s unlikely. I hope Classic ends with Cata and we are allowed to transfer to retail.

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