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Thorium Brotherhood

2025-02-15T15:51:48Z

Orah: Added TB rep changes.

Thorium Brotherhood Reputation is now required for turning in Tier 1 armor sets. Reputation gains are the same as retail vanilla, with the exception of 3 new items:

* Livingstone - drops from Mara and early BRD bosses. Rewards ?? reputation when turned in at BRD bar.
* Dragonbreath - drops from most 50+ bosses, some drop more multiple. Rewards ?? rep at BRD bar. Also required for Token turn-in.
* Chromatic Topaz - drops from some BRS bosses. Rewards ?? rep at BRD bar. Also required for leg/chest T1 token turn-in.

General Server Information

2025-02-15T15:35:29Z

Orah:

=== Mechanical Changes ===
* Player Stat Changes
** 3 Intellect = +1 spell power/healing
*Mob Debuff Limit raised to 40.
* Player Defense Skill Tables Adjusted
** Mob Critical Chance - 15% baseline
** Mob Defense Table - Compared to standard Vanilla, mobs are '1 level higher' as in they have 5 higher defense skill for comparable level.
** Player Hit Chance - Due to defense table, player hit chance is lowered and higher %s are necessary for 100% hit.
*** Weapon Skill/Glancing calculations adjusted. [Need more data]
* Spirit Regen Significantly buffed outside of combat, hp regen values buffed massively for all classes.
** Warriors, Rogues and Troll races can utilize this to limited effect in combat for healing.
* Fire/Environmental/Fall Damage Massively Increased - Approximately 3x higher damage for fall; fire/lava is now percentage based (dangerous even for tanky characters now)
* Most buffs of similar types now stack instead of only taking highest value buff [Eg - Un'Goro Spirit Buff and Priest Divine Spirit now stack; Many elixirs now stack with similar buffs, etc]
* Creature Mobs that flee when low on health will now flee in a direction directly opposing the player [Allows limited control of where mobs will flee to by controlling placement of your character]
* Invisible walls added to many instance/world locations to prevent techniques enabling 'reset points' which were commonly utilized for AoE/boosting exploits such as Mara/ZF/Scholo.

=== World Changes ===

* Flight Master Changes
** '''[Removed]''' Ungoro Flightpath
** '''[Removed]''' Moonglade Flightpath
*** [One stop Darnassus/TB flight paths still available, druid only]
** '''[Removed]''' Western Plaguelands Alliance Flightpath
** '''[Removed]''' Searing Gorge Flightpath
** '''[Removed]''' Burning Steppes Flightpath
** '''[Removed]''' Kargath Flightpath
* Zeppelin & Boat Changes
** '''[New]''' Zeppelin from Thousand Needles -> Gromgol
** '''[Adjusted]''' Zeppelin from Orgrimmar -> STV, changed to Org -> Kargath
** '''[New]''' Boat for Feralas -> Darkshore/Auberdine
** '''[Adjusted]''' Boat Ratchet -> Booty Bay; changed to Ratchet -> Booty Bay -> Tanaris (Steamwheedle Port)
* Azshara Crater PvP Camps/Vendors added to Azshara
* EPL/Silithus/WPvP Changes
* Mob Updates
** Mobs around Scarlet Monastery are now ~60 Elites
** Mobs at Jaednar are now Elites
** Dustwallow Marsh Ony Mobs still elite?

=== Leveling Reworks ===
* Boosted Experience
** Kills: 2x
** Quests: 3x
** Elite & Dungeon Quests: 10x
** Rested Exp: Gained 5x Faster
* Cost Adjustments
** Skill costs before 40 halved (50%) gold/silver cost.
** Mount Costs Reworked.
*** Mounts
**** 60% - 10g
**** 100% - 100g
*** Riding Training
**** Apprentice [60%] - Free
**** Journeyman [100%] - 900g

=== Auction House Rework ===
* All Auction Houses are linked (Ally/Horde/Neutral = Shared)
* Deposit is 50% of listed cost, and auctions last twice as long, although UI does not show updated values when posting.

===Mob Ability Updates===

* Many mobs have buffed versions of their old abilities as well as new skills in their rosters such as stuns, snares, roots and silences/disarms, there is also scripting to utilize these unique effects and challenge players.
* [[Hunter Pets|Hunter Pet]] Skills Updated

=== [[Items|Loot Reworks]] ===
* Vanilla+ Specific [https://github.com/hawaiisa/Atlas AtlasLoot+] to see where new loot drops + new reputation rewards: <nowiki>https://github.com/hawaiisa/Atlas</nowiki>
* Profession Loot Massively Overhauled - Especially early game loot to provide effective weapons and gear in lieu of dungeons and elite rewards or AH gear.
* Low Level Dungeon and Class Quest loot buffed in many instances, many formerly useless items have been changed to be far more powerful or better itemized.
* Endgame Reputation Rewards buffed
* T1 sets operate on token system which requires reputation and crafting with materials within BRD as opposed to directly dropping from MC. Each class has multiple T1 sets, some have 4!

=== Limited Cross-Faction ===
* Enabled
** All chat functions and /world global server channel
** Trade functions (Proximity/Auction House) Have to be in a party to trade cross-faction.
** Party/Raid Invites [[Cross Faction Raiding|[See: Cross-Faction Raiding]]]
** Cross-faction mail enabled
* Disabled
** Guild Invite
** /who [Only displays players from your faction, use .server info to see server population and uptime.]
** Battlegrounds
=== Talent/Hybrid Spec Revamps ===
* New Roles and Tiersets for [[Classes]]
* Hybrid DPS/Tank Specs buffed to be inline with pure DPS/Tank Classes (Eg - Prot Paladin/Enh Shaman/Feral Druid are viable raid tanks)
* Talent Respec costs reworked
** 1g floor; 5g cap
** Much faster decay (1 week full decay from 5g to 1g)
=== Ironman System ===
* Ironman's Resolve
** Active from 2-59, cannot be clicked off or removed EXCEPT by death.
*** '''Note:''' There is a separate buff at level 1 that does not provide any game effects, this may be right-clicked off if you do not wish to attempt the challenge and risk humiliation.
** Removed on '''ANY''' PvE death
*** ''Exclusions''
**** Deaths before level 10
**** Death via PvP
***** [Beware gankers regardless! They can chainpull mobs or weaken/stun/disable you to grief, if a mob gets killing blow Ironman buff is lost.]
**** Deaths to environment [eg: Fall/Fire/Lava]
* Rewards:
** Ironman's Medallion (/flex for a cosmetic model size increase a la firewater elixir)
** Serverwide announcement of name/race/class
** 15 minute invulnerability buff upon hitting 60
* [[Hall of Fame|Confirmed Ironman Characters List]]

PvP

2025-02-15T12:07:06Z

Orah: /* Battleground Changes */

=== Ranking System Adjustment ===

* RP/Decay Overhaul
** No decay under R6, massively reduced under R10, capped at max of 50% rank ever.
** Standing 1 = higher ranking calcrelative to classic ranking points.
** Lower decay = higher RP rewards for higher standing relative to classic, however overall RP gain calculations are reduced slightly to compensate.
*** Very consistent [but can be done very quickly with high standing from low ranks] ranking system up to R12/13 even with limited time investment relative to classic.
*** R13 -> R14 will need high/top standing to actually progress past 10-20%/week.
* Standings pool sizes greatly increased to offset population numbers
* Epic PvP sets balanced to T1 levels, buffs will come with later phases to keep them relevant.
* Blue/Epic set bonuses reworked and adjusted in various ways. (See [[Addon UI|Atlasloot V+ in Addons]])
* Greatly increased honor bonus for killing players ranked higher than you.
* Currently due to population issues/bg imbalances, Alliance have a 50% RP gain increase. (09/08/2022; still in effect?)
* If players of opposing faction have the same IP, they will not receive credit for kills towards standing/rating calc. [Multibox abuse prevention]
* Can turn honor gain off using ".honorgain", useful for high rated players who want to be cooperative with standings/pool placement and/or pvping for fun without griefing rankers [See [[Server Chat Commands]]]

=== Battleground Changes ===

* Alterac Valley temporarily disabled
* Reputation gains greatly increased (approx 5x faster)
** Reputation Rewards rebalanced, made more useful for various specs. New items added (See [[Addon UI|Atlasloot V+ in Addons]])
* Objects in environment such as rocks/trees/bones now act as collision and can dodge/LoS spells.
* BG Mark awarded every 20-30 minutes in queue in addition to bonus honor.
** BG Marks can be used to purchase raid flasks. 30 marks of one type (AC/AB/WSG) per flask at BG entrances.
** Can also turned in for gold at BG entrances. Gold awarded scales with level.
** Can be turned in for rep and honor at faction warbringers in major cities. Three of each mark rewards the most honor and reputation.
* Deserter pops if you miss too many queues (to prevent cheesing mark queue system), exponentially scales to 48 hr+ if you routinely troll.
* Close games reward extra marks to losing team.
* Various anti-grief mechanics added
** Use ".report" command added to votekick AFK/griefing players. [See [[Server Chat Commands]]]

==== Warsong Gulch ====

* Capped at 40min game length
* Flag carrier takes increased damage after 15m
* Many collision points added to prevent cheese jumps
* Added LoS object in middle of map for skirmishing

==== Arathi Basin ====

* Water to BS is now shallow, allows mounts to run across instead of log jumping.
* Various GM/LM pathway adjustments and LoS objects added to allow better defense.
*Additional comeback mechanics added
**Dynamic Cap Timer
**'Others'? (Per changelog, need clarification)

==== Azshara Crater ====

=== World PvP Changes ===

* Faction Leader Kill System
** Killing city leaders rewards MASSIVE honor gains, be warned some are very difficult relative to raid bosses.
** Faction Leader Auras - Members of the same faction near their faction leaders will receive massively increased honor rewards for HKs (to encourage defense of leaders being worthwhile honor reward)
* Silithus Sands increased honor gain and a buff that persists through death when turning in sand.
* Eastern Plaguelands Towers
** Northpass and Eastwall tower have guardian NPCs (very difficult to solo without cheese if not impossible for most classes)
** Buffs now affect WPL and different towers have different affects in addition to their base benefits
*** Crown Guard Tower (south) - Creates area where opposing faction cannot mount or move over 100% speed
*** Northpass Tower - Creates clickable object that can dispell you can give shadow res and 5% stamina buff.
*** Plaguewood Tower (west) Has flightmaster that can fly you to other towers if your faction controls west tower.
*** Misc PvP Balance Changes

* PvP Trinket/Insignia for all classes lowered from 5 to 3 minute cooldowns.
* Druid PvP Movespeed Set Bonus nerfed