PTR Development Notes: Protocol Twilight Dungeon Changes for Cataclysm Classic Phase 4

Today, we’ve updated the PTR to support final testing on Elemental Rune Dungeons.

Dungeons

The three new Dragon Soul Dungeons have been added to the Protocol Twilight rotation. These dungeons will not have the Protocol Twilight mechanics, but they will follow a similar reward pattern as the other Protocol Twilight dungeons:

• 2 Obsidian Fragments drop per boss and the final boss will drop an extra 3 Obsidian Fragments if players have defeated all of the other bosses in the dungeon.
• Each Final Boss will have two new drops:
  • First Drop: 1 random Raid Finder Weapon or 1 random Raid Finder Jewelry
    • Unlike the rest of the Protocol Twilight dungeons, these bosses can drop any of the weapons or jewelry that come from Protocol Twilight end bosses.
  • Second Drop: 1 Raid Finder Tier Token
    • Each final boss can drop one of the 15 random Raid Finder Tier Tokens.

Twilight Madness Mechanics: Call Blood of Shu’ma

• The globules’ health and movement speed have been reduced.
• There is a longer delay between when the globules spawn and when they path towards a boss.
• Some visual effects have been added to make the spawn locations of the globules more visible.

Gifts of the Dragonflights

• Gift of the Red Dragonflight
  • Removed the unintended Spell Power scaling of this buff.
  • Damage significantly increased.
  • Spell visuals and sounds have been toned down a bit.
• Gift of the Bronze Dragonflight
  • Updated the stacking haste buff to now give 20% melee attack speed and 10% ranged and spell casting speed per stack.
  • Updated the spell visuals of this buff.
• Gift of the Green Dragonflight
  • Fixed an issue that was causing some abilities to not properly proc the healing or damage buff.
  • Updated the spell visuals of this buff.
• Gift of the Blue Dragonflight
  • Added an internal cooldown to this buff to ensure players don’t immediately lose more than one stack of the buff when they move a short distance.
  • Updated the spell visuals of this buff.

Rewards

Currencies from Dungeons

• 2 Obsidian Fragments drop per boss in Protocol Twilight and the final boss of each dungeon will drop an extra 3 Obsidian Fragments if players have defeated all of the other bosses in the dungeon.

Loot from Dungeons

• Each final boss of a Protocol Twilight Dungeon will drop 2 items:
  • 1 x Raid Finder Weapon or 1 x Raid Finder Jewelry (cloak, neck, trinket, ring). Each final boss drops a specific weapon or jewelry piece.
  • 1 x Raid Finder Tier Token. Each final boss can drop one of fifteen random Raid Finder Tier Tokens.
• All of these items will also be available via the vendor.

Currency Rewards

• The vendor will also offer Crystallized Firestones.

PTR Updates

The Vendors, with their updated items and costs, are now available on the PTR.

Elemental Rune Dungeons now drop the appropriate loot.

The Gifts of the Dragonflight buffs have their correct names, icons, and spell visuals.