Good Morning and Welcome to Patch Day! Servers are currently down for maintenance and are expected to be up around 9 AM PST. It wouldn’t be unheard of for maintenance to be extended however, so while waiting remember to update your add-ons and read the highlights of Patch 5.2 here:
- A new raid is being released, Throne of Thunder
- LFR gear is ilevel 502 and ilevel 522 on Normal
- Heroic gear is ilevel 535
- Thunderforged items are included
- these items are six levels above regular level for the raid tier
- low drop rate for these items
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- LFR bags have been fixed, and should no longer be known as Fail bags
- LFR requires a ilevel 480 to queue
- Raid schedule can be found here
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- Two new world bosses
- Isle of Giants is now open for business
- new quests allowing players to discover new mounts and vanity pets
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- PvP Season 13 begins
- 4 tiers of PvP gear
- Crafters can learn new recipes via daily transmutes for ilevel 458 PvP armor sets
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- Isle of Thunder
- Gated daily questing content, much like the Isle of Quel’Danas during the Burning Crusade expansion
- Kirin Tor Offensive and Sunreaver Onslaught are the main factions: both battle one another and the Zandalari
- Activities on the island are server wide efforts, so pacing on individual servers will be determined based on the server population and balance
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- Island unlocks in stages
- The War Effort is being extended to the new island, the Isle of Thunder
- Single player scenario coming, Troves of the Thunder King, if a player has the appropriate key to unlock the scenario
- Portals to the Isle are located in Townlong Steppes near the Shado-Pan Garrison
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- New Factions:
- Shado-Pan Assault
- has the best gear of the three factions
- ilevel 522 Epic gear for valor points
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- Kirin Tor Offensive and Sunreaver Onslaught
- Alliance and Horde factions respectively
- Both factions will offer gear that will assist players in the Troves of the Thunder King scenario to maximize a players effectiveness in the the scenario
- will also offer two dinosaur mounts
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- Changes are coming for Pet Battles
- Elite Battle Pets are located on Pandaria and are indicated with a yellow paw on your map
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- Legendary chain continues, with the reward being a metagem
- There are class specific changes comings, but here are a couple of highlights:
- Hunters have the opportunity to tame three new spirit beasts and a new family: Direhorns
- Check out the new models over at Petopia
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- Warlocks will finally have the opportunity to quest for green fire
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- Reputation changes coming:
- Sunsong Ranch will now have Work Order quests allowing reputation boosts for two factions per day
- Random instances and scenarios will offer a bonus reputation line allowing additional reputation to be earned for the first instance and scenario of the day
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- Transmogrification has some changes coming
- Highlight is that many weapons that were once main-hand restricted are now available as one-handed weapons
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- Profession changes:
- Archaeology: Mantid race is now included
- Blacksmithing: if you have the Ghost Iron ingots, it is now possible to level from 1-525 solely utilizing Ghost Iron
- New weapon are also available, resembling weapons from the Burning Crusade
- New recipes are also learned from discovery by making Lighting Steel Ingots
- ilevel 458 PvP gear and ilevel 522 epics
- However, in order to learn these items your SERVER must first unlock the Thunder Forges on the Isle of the Thunder King
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- Tailors and Leatherworkers will also be able to craft ilevel 458 PvP gear and ilevel 522 epic gear via recipes learned via discovery
- Tailors have a chance when crating Imperial Silk
- Leatherworks have a chance once they have obtained one of two new world drop patterns (patterns are green so the drop rate shouldn’t be abysmally low)
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Blizzard sent the development team out on a blitz of media events and interviews for this patch. For a full listing, head here and pick the one that interests you the most.
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