May 08

a.k.a “2.4: Sunwell Dailies – The Guide”
Rather than do a hodge-podge of posts about quests here and there, I thought I’d try and put together a bit of an index to the quests as a whole; this should be largely complete now.
The Sunwell Dailies – How They Work
Basically, the world event in 2.4 involves the [...]

May 08

I just noticed on the PTR that the new Holy Shock:
a) costs 650 mana (up from 435, a ~33% increase), so that’s a big cost increase and makes Holy Shock much more of an “emergency stopgap” heal than a viable part of a healing rotation. This is also going to make life more mana-intensive for [...]

May 08

Primal Nethers and Nether Vortexes are currently Bind on Equip on the PTR, instead of BoP (confirmation here), and this has sparked quite a lot of discussion; I just watched a debate scroll past in guildchat while in an instance.
To be honest, I like the change; it’s something I’ve been hoping for for a while. [...]

May 08

And another great healadin change from the 2.4 PTR! WoWInsider is reporting that Holy Shock has had a buff to its effects
Holy Shock
Old version: Blasts the target with Holy energy, causing 530 to 574 Holy damage to an enemy, or 530 to 574 healing to an ally.
New version: Blasts the target with Holy energy, causing [...]

May 08

With thanks to Big Bear Butt for pointing this out: WoWhead has a nice list of items that have been changed in patch 2.4. There’s been so much attention on all the new content in 2.4 that this hasn’t got much mention yet.
Well, check this out, happy healadins:
[Libram of Mending]
Old version: Your Holy Light spell [...]

May 08

For those of you that might like to see it in a bit more detail, here’s a vid I took a day or two ago, featuring the new bombing run in patch 2.4.

May 08

On the PTR right now, M’uru the Naaru is missing from Silvermoon City, and Lady Liadrin – the leader of the blood elf paladins – has gone on an important errand. And now I see where she went. This conversation is currently playing in Shattrath every now and then:
General Tiras’Alan: Why do you suffer the [...]

May 08

So, here’s something awesome that I’ve been hoping for in WoW.

That is, indeed, a chat channel link to a quest. Just shift-click a quest in your log and it’ll link it into any channel where you can share an item link – so, trade, whisper, /say, and probably guild/party/raidchat too (though I haven’t tried linking [...]

May 08

See my complete guide to the Sunwell dailies here.
So, once your realm has collectively done enough of the first Quel’Danas dailies to retake the Sun’s Reach Sanctum, it becomes a ‘friendly’ building with SSO NPCs inside, and you can go there to find two new daily quests. These are quests that contribute to opening up [...]

May 08

So, tonight I noticed one more good reason to go and collect at least some of these coins.
Festival Dumplings.
You can get 8 dumplings for one Coin of Ancestry from Valadar Starsong in Nighthaven (53,35 in Moonglade). They stack to 20, so 5 coins will get you 2 stacks.
Now, look at the effect. 4% of your [...]