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GCD Pro League #1 - Sign ups now Open!
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19 November 2015 - 11:53 PM Posted by Dmachine 4 comments

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Season 3 of WoD is here and with it the start of our first ever Pro League!
We have had a very busy year teaming up with Blizzard to host the NA online qualifiers, NA Regionals, and World Championship at BlizzCon, but we are back and more motivated than ever to bring you some awesome arena tournaments!

GCD Pro League is a series of double elimination tournaments that lead to a big tournament at the end of the season. The teams with the best performances in the biweekly tournaments ($500 prize pools) will be invited to the Finals! ($2000 Prize pool) which will be a single elimination tournament seeded by past tournament placing.

Double Elimination
ALL games will be Best of 5!
Each Team is allowed up to 4 players.
Players who break TOS or endorse a service that breaks TOS will not be eligible to compete.
8 Teams max, teams with the highest active* current rating will be prioritized.
*Active Current Rating - At least 10 3v3 Ladder games for one character listed for every player, must be played within 7 days from the sign up deadline. Characters without Active rating will be calculated into the Average Current rating of their team as 0 rating.
Sign ups close WED, NOV 25

GCD Pro League #1 is scheduled to take place

Saturday Nov 28 at 5PM EST

and Sunday Nov 29 at 5PM EST

at Twitch.tv/GCDTV

Commentary will be provided by Dmachine and Supatease!

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Pro League Season Schedule

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Patch 6.2.3 Hotfixes: November 17 - 18
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19 November 2015 - 10:29 AM Posted by Vanguards 6 comments

Patch 6.2.3 Hotfixes: November 17 - 18

Official Blizzard Quote:

November 18
Racials
Undead
Touch of the Grave damage has been increased by 100%.

Class
Paladin
Talents
Final Verdict (Retribution) damage has been increased by 8% to match a class tuning change to Templar's Verdict in Patch 6.2.3.

Items
[Hotfix in testing] Warlords Season 3 Combatant’s equipment now has the same item level as Warlords Season 2 Gladiator’s equipment in both PvE and PvP.
Some Season 3 Warmongering Insignia trinkets should no longer incorrectly trigger its effect immediately when equipped.
Infallible Tracking Charm now has a massively increased damage and chance to trigger, but now only increases damage against demons for 5 seconds (down from 10 seconds.)
Purified Shard of the Third Moon now creates a damage shield that absorbs 100% more damage on use.

November 17
PvP

Players are now automatically dismounted around the new Warlords Season 3 vendors.
Warlords Season 3 vendors in Warspear and Stormshield should now correctly offer a full selection of Conquest quality PvP gear.
Items
Corrected passive stat values on Warlords Season 3 Medallion trinkets, which were lower than intended.

Warlords Season 2 version of Champion's Honor now binds when picked up.

6.2.3 Patch Notes
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14 November 2015 - 01:23 AM Posted by Vanguards 41 comments

6.2.3 Patch Notes

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Official Blizzard Quote:

Warlords Season 3
Around the release of Patch 6.2.3, a transition to Warlords Season 3 will take place. More information and details on the close of Warlords Season 2 and transition to the new season will be available in the future.
With the new season comes new gear. New Warmongering Aspirant gear scales up to PvP item level 715, Warmongering Combatant gear scales to 730, and Warmongering Gladiator gear scales to 740.

Class Tuning Changes
Death Knight
General
Blood Boil, Blood Plague, Death Coil, Death and Decay, Frost Fever, and Soul Reaper damage has been increased by 10%.
Frost
Frost Strike, Howling Blast, and Obliterate damage has been increased by 10%.
Unholy
Festering Strike, Necrosis, and Scourge Strike damage has been increased by 10%.
Talents
Defile and Necrotic Plague damage has been increased by 10%.

Druid
General
Moonfire and Wrath damage has been increased by 6%.
Balance
Starfall, Starfire, Starsurge, and Sunfire damage has been increased by 6%.

Paladin
General
Crusader Strike, Hammer of Wrath, and Judgment damage has been increased by 8%.
Retribution
Divine Storm, Seal of Truth, and Templar's Verdict damage has been increased by 8%.

Shaman
General
Chain Lightning, Flame Shock, Lava Burst, Lightning Bolt, and Lightning Shield damage has been increased by 4%.
Elemental
Mastery: Molten Earth, Earth Shock, and Earthquake damage has been increased by 4%.
Enhancement
Lava Lash, Stormstrike, and Windfury damage has been increased by 4%.

Warriors
General
Enrage now increases all damage dealt by 15% (up from 10%).
Arms
Seasoned Soldier now increases all damage dealt by 15% (up from 10%).