HELIOS

Dear players,

many of you have put in the hard work to test and improve Helios, and, as we promised, we want to show our appreciation to all of you!

If you participated in testing on the PTR in the old days before the Mists of Pandaria release (and sent us an e-mail per the previous announcement), you’ll receive, symbolically, 504 stars! And those of you who faced the challenges of Heart of Fear and Terrace of Endless Spring on the PTR recently, you will be awarded with 250 stars!
The rewards shall be sent within the next few days.

But that’s not all! We’ve got some exciting new features in store for you, which we’ll be adding throughout this day!

Multiqueue and Minimum LFR Player Requirement Adjustment

Let’s start with the first features we are going to shed some light on, that were highly requested. As a part of this update, the following things will be possible:

• Multiple queue will be deployed, allowing you to queue in any number of dungeons/scenarios/raids in parallel in the instance finder.
• 25-man LFR will no longer require all players to accept when the instance is created. Instead, up to 7 players may not accept the invite (as long as there is at least one tank, 4 healers and 13 damage), and the instance will still be created. Note however that it is still required to have at least 25 players in the queue to start the invitations. Additionally, people logging in to the queue later will be put instantly into an available raid if one has missing players.

It is almost impossible to test this fully on the PTR, so we plan to go live with this change at 12:15 server time today, out of peak hours. Once the feature goes live, we kindly ask you to try to test it fully in various combinations (such as logging solo or in a group, logging into multiple dungeons/raids at the same time, and so on), and report any issues you find via Discord. As this is a big change, it is possible there may be some instability in the beginning, but we will be ready to address any issues that arise.

Terrace of Endless Spring and Reduction Updates

Tomorrow at 6 PM server time, Terrace of Endless Spring will be opened, per our content schedule, waiting for you to dive into!
At the same time, we will also update the reduction values for all raids, with these values:

Mogu’shan Vaults
10-man normal: 10% damage/heal/absorb reduction
25-man normal: 10% damage/heal/absorb reduction
10-man heroic: 17.5% damage/heal/absorb reduction
25-man heroic: 17.5% damage/heal/absorb reduction

Heart of Fear
10-man normal: 10% damage/heal/absorb reduction
25-man normal: 10% damage/heal/absorb reduction
10-man heroic: 22.5% damage/heal/absorb reduction
25-man heroic: 22.5% damage/heal/absorb reduction

Terrace of Endless Spring
10-man normal: 10% damage/heal/absorb reduction
25-man normal: 10% damage/heal/absorb reduction
10-man heroic: 25% damage/heal/absorb reduction
25-man heroic: 25% damage/heal/absorb reduction

While this is all for today’s big new feature announcements, this is not yet the end for all exciting stuff that we wanted to share! Let’s wait until tomorrow for more things to come.

Helios Team