Update: Adding images for banner and "Demon Wings"
Update: Blizzard has posted a transcript of the AMAA on reddit. However you can find our version (with a quick bullet point section here)
Patch 1.0.3 Soon
Though it's already confirmed that patch 1.0.3 is this month, it looks like we might see it as early as next week. As always below you can see all the unofficial changes for patch 1.0.3. Also keep in mind there will be a lot of other changes that will be covered in the official patch notes! Look back on the 1.0.3 preview for more information
Inventory Item - "Demon Wings"
A new icon has appeared in the files: Item_DemonWings_Black
New Banner Items
With the MoP Collectors Edition feat of strength seen below, you will be unlocking these new items for your banner
New Buff Icons
Three new buff icons were added: Magic Find, XP Boost, and PVP Balance!
Strings
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Blacksmith
- Had both crafting and training costs reduced.
- Frenzied shrine no longer gives crit (tooltip change)
Some strings have been added dealing with party members
- Remove from party
- Remove from game
- You have been removed form the game.
- You have been removed from the party.
- {s1} has been removed from the party.
- {s1} has been removed from the game.
- Vote Kick requires 3 players and is only available in public games. Abuse of Vote Kick also disables this option for a period of time.
- Siegebreaker - (Pulsing damage) Combat against the Siegebreaker Assault Beast has grown more difficult. You are taking damage over time.
- Zoltune Kulle - (Teleport to Player) and (Collapse Ceiling)
- Belial - (Belial Lightning Strike Enrage)
The following achievements have been removed (removed from client itself)
- Five Fingers of Death - Make 10 enemies Bleed from one Exploding Palm
- Bystander - Kill 10 enemies in 3 seconds without attacking or casting any spells.
- Smash and Grab - Loot 5 chests in the Crumbling Vault.
- Minions of the Dark Templar - Kill 15 skeletons while fighting Jondar.
- King of the Hill - Complete the Last Stand of the Ancients event without leaving the top of the hill.
- Elementarachnophobia - Get attacked by all 4 types of elemental spiderlings within 5 seconds.
- Zeal for Heals - Heal a nearby player by picking up a health globe in a cooperative game.
- [FoS] Panda-Monium - Register a copy of the World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Collector's Edition.
- Unlocks three different banner options.
- Cursed Captives - Now only works in single player has been added to its information
- Some skills require specific weapon types.
- OSShortcutsTooltip - Disable the operating system keyboard shortcuts. This option is always enabled in Fullscreen mode. For all other modes this option requires that "Enable access for assistive devices" is checked in the Universal Access preference pane in the System Preferences.
- OSCommandControlTitle - Use Command key as Control key
- OSCommandControlTooltip - Use Command key and Control key interchangeably.
- OSCommandLeftRightTitle - Command left click as right click
- OSCommandLeftRightTooltip - Hold down Command key and left click to simulate a right click.
- RegionSelectionWarning - You will need to log out and log back in for your new region selection to take effect.
- SpecialGiftWingsBuff_name - Collectors Edition Buff
- SpecialGiftWingsBuff_desc - QUAD DAMAGE
- SpecialGiftWingsBuff_var_stats - (Is Blank)
- JoinErrorFull - You may only be in {s1} chat channels at one time.
- LeaveErrorNoChannels - You are not in any chat channels.
- LeaveUsage - Type /leave, /leave , or /leave to leave a chat channel.
- ListErrorNoChannels- There are no chat channels to join.
Class Changes
Please keep in mind, as said in the 1.0.3 preview, patch 1.0.3 will not be focused on class balancing.
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Barbarian
- Relentless While below 20% Life, all skills cost 75% less Fury (instead of no Fury) and all damage taken is reduced by 50%.
- Weapon Throw
- Throwing Hammer : Now stuns the target for 1.5 seconds (down from 2 seconds).
- Overpower
- Crushing Advance : Now also redirects ranged damage.
- Grenades
- Stun Grenades : Now stuns the targets for for 1.5 seconds (down from 2 seconds)..
- Cluster Arrow
- Dazzling Arrow : Now also changes the damage to Physical.
- Seven-Sided Strike
- Sustained Attack : Now worded to reduce the cooldown of Seven-Sided Strike to 23 seconds instead of reducing the cooldown by 7 seconds.
- Summon Zombie Dogs
- Leeching Beasts : Had tooltip reworded: Your Zombie Dogs heal 50% of the damage they deal as Life divided evenly between themselves and you.
- Paralysis Now stuns the targets for for 1.5 seconds (down from 2 seconds)
- Meteor
- Star Pact : Now also changes the damage type to Arcane
Follower Changes
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Enchantress
- Mass Control The Enchantress lobs a bulb of magical energy at the player that will hex all enemies within
158 yards into chickens for 5 seconds. Hexed enemies are unable to perform offensive actions. / Cooldown: 60 seconds
Looking back on my characters the RNG definitely makes things tricky. If I relied on just my own drops on my single character, I would be suffering through nightmare as well for at least the first 2 characters I made. Now if I used the shared stash, I don't think I would suffer that much because I just play the character that works with the gear I find. I started doing that in softcore and I felt overpowered with most characters.
The exception to this is my HC DH: for some reason she gets amazing drops for herself, and from my friend I play with. She has been using nothing but dropped gear from me or the partner I play with (mostly me) and has phenomenal gear up through mid-NM so far. For example, we killed Diablo on normal and she literally had 6 new items to put on, the 2H bow being the best I'd seen at level 30.
Anyway, I would say if you're playing a single character, especially a melee character where you need defense too, and solely use the gear you find: yes nightmare is very difficult, so stop picking on the guy that doesn't have supreme luck (and is showing such dedication to not using AH)! As for the AH, you should not have a problem until Inferno.
The ultimate solution, in my opinion, is to go back and relaunch the game with no AH and no checkpoints. Then maybe we would stop people's constant bitching about "ease". For now, play HC I guess, at least the AH & economy is far better there.
What class are you? I was through Hell in the blink of an eye on a monk and a witch doctor. The game only requires any real gearing once inferno hits. Its very simple before then.
Thats my opinion.
And I believe they will be part of the stupid MOP CE, something I won't be buying. I own the last 4 CE's to WoW, and I backed out at the last minute for the D3 one (something told me I would regret the purchase later) and I can see them throwing this bonus into the game. It wouldn't surprise me if the MOP CE also has in-game wings for within WoW, just to enrage everyone that sees them. Remember, this is not the old Blizzard, it's now a part of a host company that has always specialized in very advanced marketing techniques... or exploitation... take your pick of words. Regardless they make money and get shoutouts on FBN and CNBC all the time.
Now something they SHOULD be selling in the Pay to Win column - tabs 4 and 5 of the stupid bank. "Get 30 days access to the 4th tab for only 14.99! Big Boy Shuggo approved!" Or the everneeded - "For 15 days you can cancel your auctions before they expire for only 29.99! Be an AH pro!"