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Legion Alpha Build 21134: Goodbye to the gold in the citadel and the mosquitoes
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Hey all,
Today's alpha build is another smaller update, having been a mere 5 days since the last build, but still contains a few noteworthy things:
Class Status We're continuing to iterate on our class abilities and talents, based on testing and feedback. This build has many revisions scattered around the classes, but here are some highlights:
Guardian Druid - Swipe has replaced Lacerate, and several talents have been revised.
Arcane Mages - Mana costs have had a pass of tuning, to get Mana consumption rates into the right ballpark. Additionally, Arcane Explosion has been changed to add the ability for Arcane to have a burn rotation in AoE as well.
Retribution Paladins - Several talents have been rearranged and revised.
Brewmaster Monks - Several changes have been made to Stagger, passive defenses, and Brew abilities.
The Arcway - A new dungeon will open soon. Give it a try, and let us know what you think!
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Good afternoon,
Much like last week's build, today's build update mainly contains iteration on existing feature content (Zones, Artifact Powers / Traits, Class Talents and spells). I know most of you are eager to hop in and starting testing new features and we want to get in there as soon as possible, but in the meantime it's really important for us to get you the latest code and data changes to make your feedback and testing as relevant as possible. We'll try to get some updated Class Design notes out for everybody as well.
As always, we'll keep you updated on any new additions as they come. Thanks for testing!
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Class changes
Guardian Druids
Flagellum has replaced Lacerate and various talents have been reviewed.
Arcane Mages
Mana costs have been adjusted to maintain correct mana consumption ratios. What's more Arcane Explosion It has been modified to add the ability to Arcane to have a rotation to burn more in area.
Retribution Paladins
Various talents have been reorganized and revised.
Brewmaster Monks
Various changes have been made to Postpone, passive defenses and Brew abilities.
Frame changes
water strider: Will become a restricted mount on all maps except Pandaria.
crimson stilt: Will become a restricted mount on all maps except Draenor.
Racial changes
arcade torrent: Silences all enemies within an 8 meter radius for 2 seconds and restores 1 Chi. NPC spellcasting is interrupted for 3 seconds.
arcade torrent: Silences all enemies within 8 yards for 2 seconds and restores 3% of your mana. NPC spellcasting is interrupted for 3 seconds.
Changes to the Citadel
in years: The gold bonus has been removed, now it allows naval equipment to be recovered in successful missions.
goblin: The gold bonus has been removed, now it allows naval equipment to be recovered in successful missions.
scavenger: The gold bonus has been removed, it now increases the resources obtained in a successful mission by 200%.
All quests that used to award gold will now award another type of reward in Legion.