In addition to a patch release for Diablo II Blizzard has also today announced the release of a new update for massively popular MMORPG World of Warcraft – Patch 3.3.3.
The patch brings a number of updates as well as changes to Battlegrounds.
A portion of the patch notes can be found below:
PvP
– The amount of Honor awarded for an Honorable Kill has been increased by 100% for characters of all levels. This change will effectively double the amount of Honor received from Honorable Kills, or for completing Battleground and Wintergrasp objectives; however, the amount of experience gained from completing Battleground objectives and the amount of Honor rewarded for completing each Wintergrasp quest remain unchanged.
– Battlegrounds
– The Random Battleground system has been added! Similar to the Random Dungeon system in the Dungeon Finder, players can now queue for a random Battleground.
– The Random Battleground option can be found in the Battleground tab of the PvP frame and is only available for level 80 characters at this time.
– If this option is selected, players may not queue for specific Battlegrounds and a random Battleground simultaneously.
– Similar to the Random Dungeon system, players will not know for which Battleground they are chosen when selected from the queue until they zone into the Battleground.
– The Random Battleground option will only allow a group size of 5 players to queue together.
– Bonus rewards will be offered for choosing the Random Battleground option.
– Winning a Battleground using the Random Battleground option for the first time in a day will award players with 30 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency and 25 Arena points.
– Winning additional Battlegrounds using the Random Battleground option after the first random win will award players with 15 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.
– Losing a Battleground using the Random Battleground option will award players with 5 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.
– Daily Battleground quests have been removed in place of the Random Battleground option.
– Battlegrounds will no longer award Marks of Honor.
– Players with existing Marks of Honor can still turn them in to their respective faction’s quest givers, including individual marks for those who may have more marks for one Battleground than another.
– Items which previously required Marks of Honor will have their costs adjusted to remove these requirements.
– Whenever a Battleground has the holiday bonus active, it will now be referred to as “Call to Arms” in the Battleground tab and Calendar. In addition, Call to Arms Battleground Honor rewards have been changed.
– Choosing a specific Battleground with the Call to Arms bonus active will yield the exact same rewards as when choosing the Random Battleground option.
– Winning a Call to Arms Battleground for the first time in a day will award players with 30 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency and 25 Arena points.
– Additional Call to Arms Battleground victories after the first win for a player that day will award them with 15 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.
– Losing a Call to Arms Battleground will award players with 5 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.
– When using the Random Battleground option, players will not receive additional rewards if the Battleground chosen is under the Call to Arms bonuses. In addition, the rewards for the first victory of the day cannot be earned more than once, regardless of whether or not it is obtained from the Random Battleground system or the Call to Arms Battleground.
– Wintergrasp
– The internal balance system now only changes when a faction achieves 2 consecutive defenses after an initial capture of Wintergrasp, up from 1.
Dungeons & Raids
– Culling of Stratholme
– Players may now skip the initial introduction dialog to this dungeon once they have completed it at least once.
– Icecrown Citadel
– Blood-Queen Lana’thel: Pact of the Darkfallen now applies damage twice as often, but for half the damage. This change will make the removal of the spell a bit more responsive.
– Hellscream’s Warsong and Strength of Wrynn now provide their bonuses to player pet health and damage, as well as the absorption amounts of Power Word: Shield and Sacred Shield.
– World Event Bosses
– Holiday bosses (such as Ahune for the Fire Festival) will now be accessible through the Dungeon Finder.
– Players must use the Dungeon Finder or speak to special holiday NPCs in the world to queue up and access these bosses.
– Upon accepting a queue for any holiday boss, the party will be ported directly to the necessary area for confronting that boss.
– The previous summoning criteria for these bosses have been removed. Players can queue up for and fight each World Event boss as many times as they want for any standard loot that they may drop.
– All rare holiday items (such as [The Horseman’s Reins]) will have a chance of being found in holiday-themed loot troves which will drop once for each player in the party no more than once per day, in the same manner that doing the Random Dungeon daily quest will provide a specific reward the first time it is completed in a day.
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