5.4.2 Dampening change - Blue Tracker

#1 - Dec. 11, 2013, 2:39 a.m.

http://www.arenajunkies.com/topic/244363-542-dampening-change/#entry4010035

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really dampening at 5 min

well, time to go play L.S.D

Lore

Community Manager

#12 - Dec. 11, 2013, 3 a.m.

No need for alarm – we’ll be hotfixing Dampening back to a 10-minute start time (with Arena matches ending at 20 minutes).

As you might be aware, the WoW Arena Invitational at BlizzCon was configured to have Dampening begin at 5 minutes, with a 15-minute round timer. Those changes were intended solely for BlizzCon, but made it over to live servers as part of the 5.4.2 patch. Again, this was unintentional, and we’ll be hotfixing things back to normal ASAP.

Lore

Community Manager

#28 - Dec. 11, 2013, 3:18 a.m.

12/10/2013 07:15 PMPosted by Kircheis
no, but saying "it will be reverted" (Lore) isn't the same as PLAINLY NOT SAYING it will be reverted when asked (Holinka) but rather saying "it's out there now, so gauging reaction".

I spoke with Brian immediately before posting. Since his tweet, we had continued to discuss internally, looked at the initial feedback, and decided the right thing to do was to put things back how they were. There is no contradiction here, only the passage of time.