Another hotfix has been applied to the game, this time to the paladin spell Holy Wrath which does AoE holy damage and provides a stun if the targets are Undead or Demon. The hotfix will apply diminishing returns to the stun effect so that Undead or Demon targets cannot be permanently stunned. It’s a pretty curious change on its own since it doesn’t really provide a drastic effect on first glance.
Lead Encounter Designer Daelo’s words pretty much provides the context of this change. He mentioned that this change will affect the difficulty of the Anub’arak encounter in the Trial of …read more

The release of the last two class Q&A’s at pretty much the same time should have been a hint that it was coming but somehow Patch 3.2 Call of the Crusade came unexpectedly and surprised a lot of us. I was expecting it to take at least a few more weeks but it’s here!
It’s quite messy right now as usual. It always is on patch day. Everyone checking out new stuff, dealing with lag especially in Dalaran. In fact I just got booted and got stuck on the loading screen. I’m now just waiting for everything to stabilize just like …read more

We’ve seen Q&A’s for both the Crusader’s Coliseum and the Isle of Conquest battleground but here’s a joint one that answer some new questions. Instead of Ghostcrawler, the following people will be answering the questions this time: Game Director Tom Chilton, Lead Encounter Designer Scott Mercer, and Lead World Designer Alex Afrasiabi.
Crusader’s Coliseum
To be clear, the 5 man encounter is called Trial of the Champion. The raid encounter (both 10 and 25 man) is called Trial of the Crusader while the heroic mode of this encounter is called Trial of the Grand Crusader.
Trial of the Champion should roughly on par …read more