Patch 4.1 Odds and Ends

[Worldie]

Anyone noticed crafted shields have a socket now? Don't know about ones dropped by bosses.. at least the healing one has..

Was in the patch notes, also crafted chests and belts also got a socket added recently.

[djlar]

Not the agility belts, still missing out on those.. chest pieces also suck only one socket Vs. most of the rest have 2..

I guess 4.2?

(I'm almost there on VPs for T11 chest)

So another question, are the 140VPs unlimited until cap per ZA/ZG run? haven't done the 2 in one sitting, it seems every time you do a random one you'll get the 140, this could mean quicker caps, on my shaman I'm already weekly capped.. this blows..

[Flex]

Not the agility belts, still missing out on those.. chest pieces also suck only one socket Vs. most of the rest have 2..

Belts were fixed in 4.1.

Crafted epics only get one socket per chest, but have higher base stat with 321 agility vs 301 agility for 2 socket ones.

So another question, are the 140VPs unlimited until cap per ZA/ZG run? haven't done the 2 in one sitting, it seems every time you do a random one you'll get the 140, this could mean quicker caps, on my shaman I'm already weekly capped.. this blows..

You can gain, at most, 980 VP from heroics a week. The first 7 heroics done a week grant VP, so if the first 7 you do are just troll ones you'll get the 980, if you mix in tier 1 heroics you'll end up with a lower total.

[Worldie]

That is slightly incorrect, you can for example do 7 normal heroics and 4 zandalar heroic and get 980 VP as well.

[Fetzie]

you can get a maximum of 980 VP from any combination of random heroics per week.

[Zalaria]

Except only your first 7 normal heroics give VP, so you can only get to 490 if you don't run any Zandalars that week.

[KysenMurrin]

The goblins have built a holiday resort at the Feralas Steam Pools.

[Worldie]

They added a silence sound to avenger shield.

God it's terribly spammy in heroic.

[Fetzie]

It plays for every mob hit by the silence >.>

[Chicken]

The Stormwind/Orgrimmar and the Shattrath Children's Week quests each have a new pet available as choice at the end of them. The Stormwind/Orgrimmar one offers Scooter the Snail in addition to the old rewards, while the Shattrath one offers Legs the strider in addition to the old pets. Note that Legs doesn't count towards the Veteran Nanny achievement if you're still missing that.

[Worldie]

Cool, thanks for telling. Looks like I'll do the children's week questlines again this year (I already got the other 6 pets).

[Passionario]

On a holiday-related note, when did "Long, Strange Trip" cease to award Master Flying?

[Amirya]

Far as I'm aware, it hasn't.

If memory serves, you actually have to learn and mount the VPD in order to be awarded Master Flying.

[Fetzie]

You need to learn the violet proto to gain the skill. You may need to relog to see the updated tooltip.

[bldavis]

learn the mount and you have it
it just wont show up on the tooltip until you relog

for comparisn, time yourself flying across sw/ogr on your current mount, then learn the VPD, and time yourself on the same mount as before

i bet it will be faster!