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Pets of Warcraft Video 25 – Unborn Val’kyr
Written by Arashi
Narration by Tarashi
Hayate, himself
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May21
Hello,
Today, if all goes right we should see Patch 5.3 on the live servers. Many changes are coming to the core game-play of World of Warcraft. For Pet Battles we are going to see changes to hit chances. Some attacks will have a higher chance to
hit, and some hard hitting attacks will have less chances to hit. The “hit chance” is shown in the attack information. (see Pets of Warcraft video 23)
Pet Battle PVP has achievements now.
- Merciless Pet Brawler (Win 10 PVP fights)
- Vengeful Pet Brawler (Win 50 PVP fights)
- Brutal Pet Brawler (Win 250 PVP fights)
- Deadly Pet Brawler (Win 1000 PVP fights)
Getting the Brutal Pet Brawler will give you the Stunted Direhorn Battle Pet as a reward, and the Deadly Pet Brawler achievement will give you the Trainer title. What We’ve Been Training For is a weekly quest for players to do a little PVP.
What We’ve Been Training For will give you Brawler’s Pet Supplies, 20x Valor Points and 8x Lesser Charm of Good Fortune.
Pet Battle Spectating has also been added to the game. You will be able to see the Pet Battle other players are doing in the wild or in duals. I’m sure this is going to be a fun feature for Pet Battle Tournaments.
Have fun in 5.3. You might be fighting team Hayate in your random PVP fights!
-Arashi
May14
Hello fellow Pet Hunters,
Here are the updated PTR patch notes for 5.3. I’ve been keeping close attention on these note over the past month, but I thought I would post the latest updates here for you to be able to read them. Video 24 is in production. It should be up later this week.
Thank you for watching and reading Pets of Warcraft.
General
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Bonus damage has been added to many basic abilities, at the cost of slightly reduced accuracy.
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Check out our blog: Pet Battle Accuracy Changes in Patch 5.3 for additional information.
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Pet Battle Duels are now available in all dungeons and raids. Enjoy!
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Pet Battles in the wild and duels are now viewable by other players in the world.
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Hit Chance is now displayed for all abilities.
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Abilities no longer have a base chance to miss or be dodged by opposing pets of the same level.
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Reduced the chance to miss when fighting higher-level opponents from 5% per level to 2% per level.
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A series of new achievements and rewards have been added for max-level matchmaking PvP pet battles
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Wins for max-level, matchmaking PvP pet battles can now be tracked in statistics.
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Battle pets’ recent ability loadouts will now be saved when pets are swapped in and out of battle slots.
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Pandaren Spirit Pet Supplies now has a chance to drop a family specific rare Battle-Stone.
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Species specific Flawless Battle-Stones are now Bind to Battle.net account.
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Black Claw now deals 20% less damage. -
Blistering Cold had now deals 100% more damage. -
Corrosion now deals 5 damage-per-round, up from 2, and increases damage taken by 2, down from 5. -
Counterspell now deals 10 damage in addition to the ability’s previous effects. -
Deep Freeze now has a 10% reduced chance to hit. -
Fury of 1,000 Fists now has a 4-round cooldown,up from 3 rounds.
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Haymaker now has a 3-round cooldown. -
Headbutt now has a 4-round cooldown,up from 3 rounds. -
Hunting Party now has an increased cooldown of 4 rounds, up from 3 rounds. -
Impale now has a cooldown of 3 rounds, down from 5 rounds, deals 17% less damage, and no longer deals damage as a percentage of the target’s health. The ability now deals a flat amount of bonus damage instead. -
Interrupting Gaze now deals 50% more damage. -
Interrupting Jolt now has a 4-round cooldown, down from 5 rounds. -
Kick now deals 50% more damage. -
Minefield now has a 5-round cooldown, and lasts for 9 rounds, down from 10 rounds. -
Mudslide now has a 4-round cooldown,up from 3 rounds. -
Predatory Strike no longer deal damage as a percentage of the target’s health. The ability now deals a flat amount of bonus damage instead. -
Quicksand now has a 4-round cooldown,up from 3 rounds. -
Reckless Strike now has a 1-round cooldown. -
Rupture now has a 4-round cooldown,up from 3 rounds. -
Shock and Awe now has a 4-round cooldown,up from 3 rounds. -
Soulrush now has a 4-round cooldown,up from 3 rounds. -
Fixed an issue where pet abilities that had a chance to stun were not working correctly.
Battle Pets
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A number of new battle pets have been added to the Throne of Thunder and Isle of Thunder. Happy hunting!
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Whispers from pet tamers in the north have spread word of an elusive new battle pet that can be found in the frozen tundras of Northrend. The Unborn Val’kyr awaits.
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Battle Pet drops have been added to Burning Crusade raids. These new pets can be obtained from raid bosses in Karazhan, The Eye and Serpentshrine Cavern. Obtaining all of these new pets will reward players with a new battle pet, Tito!
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Tiny Blue Carp, Tiny Blue Carp, Tiny Red Carp, and Tiny White Carp are now tradable, and can be caught more than once.
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Electrified Razortooth: swapped positions of
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Ethereal Soul-Trader has been returned to his original, larger size.
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Teldrassil Sproutling, Withers, and Ruby Sapling’s Shell Shield has been replaced with a new ability: Ironbark.
Battle Pet Quests
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A new achievement and reward has been added for characters that complete every Pet Battle daily quest in a single day.
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Protection for bad luck streaks have been added to Battle-Stones from pet supplies bags and wild battles. Each bag or battle that does not provide a stone has a progressively better chance to award a stone to the player.
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Beasts of Fable daily quest has been broken into three separate chapters. Players can now choose to do any or all of the chapters each day. Rewards have been modified to include a new consumable that will boost battle pet XP for a limited time.
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All Pet Battle daily quests on Pandaria, Beasts of Fable and Spirit Tamer quests will now award experience, valor, and Lesser Charms of Good Fortune.
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All Pet Battle quests will now award experience.
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Increased the difficulty of elite pets on the Beasts of Fable quest.
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A new weekly quest for max-level, matchmaking PvP pet battles has been added.
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Apr19
Blizzard
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It’s with this motivation that we express our respect for JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions.
Coming in a future patch, characters with the Engineering profession will be able to produce this mechanical homage to the company that brought us award-winning television shows like Lost and Fringe, and are continuing the epic Star Trek and forthcoming Star Wars film sagas. Everyone has a chance to get their hands on this pet, allowing them to show off their mutual appreciation for Bad Robot, and the stories they’ve brought to our TVs and movie screens.
We hope everyone enjoys this new pet!
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I have Engineering on my main character. I can’t wait to see what abilities this little Robot will have. It’s pretty cute, and when I saw it, I thought it looked a lot like the Bad Robot logo.
-Arashi
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Apr05
[Link] Greetings, trainers!
We wanted to take a moment to discuss some of the broad accuracy changes we’re making to Pet Battles in patch 5.3. The overarching goal behind these changes is to provide transparency to reduce the amount of uncontrolled randomness, where one miss often makes or breaks a match. Once patch 5.3 is live, you’ll see “hit chance” listed for all abilities, and this value will update if the pet is affected by abilities that increase or reduce the chance to hit.
In addition, we’ve removed the base 5% chance to dodge, and reduced the chance to miss opponents of higher levels from 5% per level to 2% per level. The end result should be that your attacks that should hit, will hit, and there’s greater incentive to get out there and fight higher-level pets for greater experience rewards.
In a turn-based game, randomness can be a lot of fun if handled correctly. Without a little randomness, the outcome of a match could be predicted to a high degree of certainty before the first swing, and that’s no fun. Randomness often works best when it is opt-in, often in exchange for greater attack power, longer duration, etc. In fact, many higher-damage battle pet abilities already had a reduced chance to hit, which will now be visible.
With the removal of the base dodge chance, we were left with a large number of abilities that now had a 100% hit chance. We’ve made a handful of minor modifications to some of these abilities, giving them greater damage in exchange for a reduced chance to hit. It’s worth noting that every battle pet type (e.g. Dragonkin) have at least one ability that hits 100% of the time, allowing you to opt-out of the randomness if you prefer a less risky strategy. (Check out the full list of basic abilities that have gained additional damage in exchange for reduced accuracy below.)
Finally, we’ve left the base 5% chance to gain a critical strike (for 1.5x damage), and +/- 10% damage variance on all abilities, at least for the time being. We believe that getting a crit generally feels good, and the damage variance is often enough to make a match a bit less predetermined without swinging the match heavily in one player’s favor.
We also wanted to thank the community for the great feedback we’ve gotten so far about Pet Battles. Keep it coming!
As noted earlier, the following basic attacks have had their damage increased by 10-30% and accuracy reduced by 5-15%:
Beam
Bow Shot
Breath
Broom
Burn
Chomp
Claw
Creepy Chomp
Crush
Diseased Bite
Emerald Bite
Feedback
Frost Breath
Frost Spit
Gauss Rifle
Holy Sword
Hoof
Infected Claw
Jab
Jade Claw
Metal Fist
Missile
Onyx Bite
Railgun
Scratch
Shadow Shock
Shadow Slash
Shadowflame
Smash
Snap
Stone Shot
Strike
Sulfuras Smash
Water Jet
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Mar27
Hello,
I thought that I would list the new Pets the be found in older raids. This time there are 10 pets to be found. I do hope that the Lil’ Bad Wolf will drop from the other two Opera events in Kara, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. There are five more raids in the Burning Crusade without Pets. Maybe we will see more pets added at a later time in those raids too.
-Arashi
Raiding with Leashes II: Attunement Edition – 10 new pets from Karazhan, Serpentshrine Cavern and Tempest Keep. Rewards you with Tito (
Tito’s Basket).
Karazhan
- Lil’ Bad Wolf (
Spiky Collar) - Menagerie Custodian (
Instant Arcane Sanctum Security Kit) - Netherspace Abyssal (
Netherspace Portal-Stone) - Fiendish Imp (
Satyr Charm)
Serpentshrine Cavern
- Tainted Waveling (
Tainted Core) - Tideskipper (
Shell of Tide-Calling) - Coilfang Stalker (
Dripping Strider Egg)
Tempest Keep
- Pocket Reaver (
Tiny Fel Engine Key) - Lesser Voidcaller (
Crystal of the Void) - Phoenix Hawk Hatchling (
Brilliant Phoenix Hawk Feather)
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