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As we've covered throughout the testing, many legendary effects from Legion were turned into talents in Battle for Azeroth. However, with the pre-patch, we have a special moment in that balance, being able to use both the legendary and the new talent it inspired. We've put together a list of all effects that fit that criterion, with some really strong and other more curious options.
Blizzard has announced an update to the MDI All-Stars team selection. Gulch Trotters will be replaced by Free Marsy due to two members of Gulch Trotters violating the Terms of Use.
Blizzard has posted the latest hotfixes for July 23rd, including nerfs to various Antorus boss abilities.
Hotfixes for July 24th include a fix to Ravencrest's Legacy and nerfs to Argus.
Throughout the pre-patch, we'll be launching a community opinions article for every class and spec. We're continuing our Battle for Azeroth Class Reviews and in this post, we'll be taking a look at the state of Marksmanship Hunter. See if this spec appeals to you in Battle for Azeroth!
Today's hotfixes for Patch 8.0 include a global damage nerf to Antorus, the Burning Throne bosses and trash.
For Wowhead Weekly 168, Annie and Perc discuss Warbringers, War of the Thorns, and the Battle for Azeroth TV ads.
Blizzard has announced a nerf to creature damage and health to improve the leveling experience from 1 to 100.
Full hotfixes for July 27th include details on the nerf to creatures to assist with leveling, a fix for Command Pet issues, and changes to AV and IOC.
Blizzard has just released the official calendar with the release dates for all gated content with Battle for Azeroth launch. It confirms the dates for Uldir and Mythic Keystone and PvP Seasons. The post also reveals that Dark Iron Dwarf and Mag'har Orc Allied Races, which will require you to complete the War Campaign and reach exalted with 7th Legion and The Honorbound.
July 31st hotfixes include a nerf to Gul'dan's Soul Siphon.
Blizzard has posted upcoming hotfixes related to over-performing specs in PvP. A fix is also being rolled out for an urgent bug that wipes your quest log when entering a new zone.
Geek & Sundry has released an episode of CelebriD&D where the Alliance and Horde take up arms in a special World of Warcraft themed episode based on the Islands Expedition feature in Battle for Azeroth. The Alliance and Horde teams start off on different sides of the Island, before they both find Azerite and clash to see who takes it home.
For Wowhead Weekly 169, Annie and Perc discuss the War of the Thorns and Burning of Teldrassil, including the additional details from the novellas Elegy and A Good War. We'll also be unboxing and sharing the contents of the Battle for Azeroth Collector's Edition.
The Science News website ScienceAlert has published an interview with Alex Afrasiabi, WoW's Lead World Designer and Creative Director. In this interview, Afrasiabi talks about how storytelling in WoW helps drive great gameplay, and how the game's technology has evolved to serve the storytelling of the game.
Blizzard has pushed to beta a new wave of Azerite Power hotfixes and some minor spec adjustments. This time around, there are plenty of changes to many tank and damaging specs, focusing on traits usually present in the first rings of the Azerite Armor. Overall the changes increase the damage done by those traits.
Classes Death Knight Unholy The snare effect from Grip of the Dead will now correctly be reapplied to a target standing in your Death and Decay or Defile area if the snare is removed.
Blizzard's Battle.net client has received a new update on its Beta version overnight, featuring some common Discord features like Giphy support and previews, previews of YouTube videos and Imgur links, and mentions!
Horde players have been in search of a new hero to consider their own since the climax of the War of the Thorns, which resulted in the Burning of Teldrassil. After Saurfang's cinematic, Old Soldier, was released, Horde players were again bolstered with Horde pride, but that is not entirely because of his presence. The troll shaman that interacts with Saurfang through the cinematic called everyone's attention.
Learn all about the Heart of Azeroth and how it empowers special pieces of Azerite Armor with Azerite Traits with our Guides! These three guides cover everything from how to level up your Heart of Azeroth to how Azerite Armor works and drops, and a list of all the Azerite Traits available for your class from leveling gear, PvP, crafting and Uldir!
We wanted to give a shoutout to our friends at Warcraft Secrets on the launch of their community website. This website is dedicated to the secrets and mysteries of Warcraft and allows you to set up a collection to see which secrets you have yet to complete. They're running several giveaways, so be sure to check them out!
In order to help you find which spec appeals the most for you, our class writers have updated our WoW Role overview guides for Battle for Azeroth. The role guides are bite-sized guides that give you an overview of all classes of the game based on their main role: tanking, healing, and DPSing is split into Ranged and Melee DPS.
The Elegy and A Good War novellas, which detail the War of the Thorns event from both faction's perspective, are now available for Digital Download on Blizzard's website. These novellas are available in hard copies with original and exclusive artwork not available in the Digital version in the Collector's Editions of Battle for Azeroth.
Last Monday, Blizzard reduced the amount of experience needed to level up between the levels of 40 and 100 in a hotfix. We now have the new values to see exactly how big the reduction was at each level. Levels 55-60 actually received a buff to experience, while level 64 got the largest nerf to experience.
Last week, Geek & Sundry released an episode of CelebriD&D where the Alliance and Horde took up arms in a special World of Warcraft themed episode based on the Islands Expedition feature in Battle for Azeroth. Dungeon Master Matthew Mercer has released character sheets for all the WoW classes in the episode.
In this cinematic, you will see how the Battle for Lordaeron concludes.
In this cinematic, you will see an important role Jaina plays in the Battle for Lordaeron. Spoilers.
Looking for the quickest way to level in Battle for Azeroth? We just finished revamping our leveling guides for Battle for Azeroth! These guides cover everything to how to level with each class, tips, legendaries, and consumables you might want to use while leveling, and Allied Race unlock requirements.
lvanas' motivations and character development in the Battle for Azeroth pre-patch have been a source of controversy. In this article, we're highlighting her motivation for the attack on Teldrassil, hints at another motive, and analyze all the strong parallels to Arthas. Disclaimer: there are spoilers for pre-patch and upcoming content.
We're happy to announce that our Class Guides have been updated to include pages about the Heart of Azeroth and Azerite systems! In the pages, you can check all information you need about the new progression system for Battle for Azeroth, including a complete list of all available traits, important pieces of Azerite Armor to pursue and how to unlock the full potential of the system!
For Wowhead Weekly #170, the final show before Battle for Azeroth, Annie and Perc highlight the Battle for Lordaeron, surprise "Old Soldier" cinematic, and preparing for BFA.
Those of you who play Heroes of the Storm are probably well aware, but our High Inquisitor of the Scarlet Crusade Sally Whitemane joined the Nexus yesterday and we're happy to let you know that Blizzard was kind enough to give us 100 codes to unlock the hero and her base skin! We also shine the light on some info about her including her kit, abilities, and lore!
Following yesterday's launch of the Azerite guides, today we are happy to inform that all our class guides have all been updated to support the most updated information for level 120 content! That means you can research as much as you want about what to do when you finish leveling up next week! On top of the updates to all Battle for Azeroth guide pages, our incredible Class Writers went further beyond and added four new pages to each of the spec guides!
The class tuning hotfixes announced yesterday are part of today's hotfixes, as well as a nerf to the Blight Boar encounter.
With Battle for Azeroth launching in less than 24 hours, we've put together this quick checklist of what you should aim to complete every day and every week before the Uldir raid (and a lot of other systems) releases on September 4th.
The tides of war are ashore and Battle for Azeroth is almost upon us! As of a last minute tip, today we'd like to highlight a list of the best tools online to assist you in the journey to 120 and beyond. All these suggestions are widely used and approved by our staff and guide writers and we thought it would be helpful to share them to help both veteran players and newcomers alike.
The Warcraft Companion App, which allows you to see which world quests are up and complete missions, is now upgraded for Battle for Azeroth.
We've datamined several more cinematics for Battle for Azeroth, covering important story moments at max level questing related to Bwonsamdi, Zandalar Forever, and Jaina. Spoilers.
We're happy to announce a new tool on Wowhead, the Azerite Power Finder. Find which World of Warcraft items offer the Azerite Powers you're looking for, and filter by results to narrow down slots and sources. Edit: on 8/13, we've added a number of improvements to this tool based on feedback, including the option to filter traits by spec and role.
Blizzard has announced they are working on a fix for Area 52, Illidan, Tichondrius, and Stormrage. These realms will be temporarily taken offline.
The first round of Battle for Aeroth hotfixes inculde a fix for the Temple of Sethraliss.
Diablo III is coming to Switch.
Battle for Azeroth is finally live, and if you're like us, you're also racing to level 120. We put together some great leveling tips and tricks to help with that, but if you're already looking toward the end game, you want every advantage you can get. We've partnered up with Razer to show you how to maximize that advantage using a MMO gaming mouse.
Earlier today, the first confirmed drop of the Pterrordax Egg was found on live servers, on the corpse of a Bloodraged Pterrordax in Zuldazar. This drop starts the month-long quest chain for the "How to Ptrain Your Pterrordax" achievement and the Kua'fon mount and players have found the first quest to be shareable, without having to farm the egg yourself.
The Game Theorists, a [url=https://www.youtube.com/user/MatthewPatrick13]popular YouTube channel[/url] has released a video about the Science of World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth. This video dissects the physics of the game to determine how badly Azeroth would have been impacted by Sargeras' sword being plunged into Silithus.
In Battle for Azeroth, players will not be able to initially acquire all the Flight Points on the opposing faction's continent. Players will need to progress through the Account-Wide Outposts feature by completing Mission Table quests, acquiring reputation and collecting War Resources to unlock these Flight Points for quicker travel.
In Battle for Azeroth, players will not be able to initially acquire all the Flight Points on the opposing faction's continent. Players will need to progress through the Account-Wide Outposts feature by completing Mission Table quests, acquiring reputation and collecting War Resources to unlock these Flight Points for quicker travel.
A new expansion means new content to complete, so the Wowhead team has updated the Attunements tool for BFA content that has various unlock requirements such as the War Campaign and Allied Races. Edit - We've now added tracking for the hotfixed-in attunements for Alliance Siege and Horde's King's Rest!
Hotfixes for August 21st include a fix for the World Boss Quest "A Chilling Encounter" showing up incorrectly, as well as a fix to the Incessantly Ticking Clock scaling.
Blizzard has released a new Overwatch animated short called Shooting Star, featuring D.Va. They have also announced a new control map that takes place in Busan, Korea -- which will be going live on the PTR today!
Blizzard has implemented a fix to increase the power gap in PvP for players in the 110 to 120 range. This should ensure that players at higher levels are stronger against lower level players.
August 22nd Hotfixes include the Feral Druid buffs, loosening of spec restrictions on some Azerite traits, and a fix for the Heart of Azeroth missing item level upgrades.
Streamer Tonton is interviewing Senior Game Producer Michael Bybee on World of Warcraft!
Battle for Azeroth Hotfixes for August 23rd include a fix for Bumbles, who was missing from the Mildenhall Meadery for โLetโs Bee Friendsโ
After Muffinus confirmed on Twitter that the Baa'l secret was far from over, the [url=https://discord.gg/wowsecrets]Secrets Community Discord[/url] has been hard at work to try and get to the end of this. Many objects with ominous quotes have been found all over Azeroth, as well as Draenor and Outland. It is still unknown what is the final reward of this secret, but at this point over 20 different objects and quotes were discovered.
After Muffinus confirmed on Twitter that the Baa'l secret was far from over, the [url=https://discord.gg/wowsecrets]Secrets Community Discord[/url] has been hard at work to try and get to the end of this. Many objects with ominous quotes have been found all over Azeroth, as well as Draenor and Outland. It is still unknown what is the final reward of this secret, but at this point over 20 different objects and quotes were discovered.
The Lightforged Augment Rune has been hotfixed today. It does not work for level 120 players.
Battle for Azeroth hotfixes are up for August 24th, including Azerite Power tuning and a fix to Darkmoon Deck Squalls.
We at Wowhead are excited to announce a partnership with Method in Battle for Azeroth! Over the past few years, Method and Wowhead have worked together to bring you content like weekly Mythic+ Q&As, detailed guides, and videos. Now, with this new expanded partnership, Method and Wowhead's parent company, ZAM, have teamed up to take things to the next level and provide you with even more content.
Players who have earned that Sweete booty by completing the Harlan Sweete encounter should now be awarded That Sweete Booty.
John Staats, WoW's first 3D level designer, has started a kickstarter for The World of Warcraft Diary, a book covering WoW from early development to Vanilla's launch. This Kickstarter went live at 2pm EDT on August 28th and the launch goal is $10,000, with $5 as the lowest pledge and $30 for a digital copy of the book.
Blizzard has announced Feral Druid changes, both for this week and in future patches.
For Wowhead Weekly #171, the first show of Battle for Azeroth, Annie and Perc highlight all the major cinematics, things to do in WoW, and new Blizzard merchandise!
August 30th hotfixes include Feral Druid changes, and lowered costs for higher ranks of Enchanting weapon recipes.
Game Director Ion Hazzikostas is the opening keynote speaker for PAX West 2018, hosting PAX Storytime Session.
Class Utility plays an increasingly-important role with the first Mythic+ Season and raid of Battle for Azeroth opening on September 4th, so the Wowhead team wrote a series of utility guides to help you in Battle for Azeroth. Learn about utility available for every class, as well as what abilities are important to dispel and purge in BFA dungeons.
Catch up on the latest Blizzard news from the past week, including the D.Va Nano Cola Challenge.
With Artifact Knowledge schedule to increase again tomorrow, we're going over exactly how it works and how to optimize your Artifact Power gains. We also dispel some rumours about the system such as the common "level up your Heart of Azeroth directly before the Weekly Reset to not lose AP".
Season 1 of Mythic+ starts tomorrow with the Infested Affix and we've detailed everything you need to know for the start of the season tomorrow! We've updated our [url=https://www.wowhead.com/mythic-keystones-and-dungeons-guide]Mythic+ Guide[/url] for Battle for Azeroth to include updated loot tables, details on the Infested Affix, dungeon timers and more!
Warfronts has launched today and you can turn in up contribution quests for 150 Honorbound Reputation and 500 Artifact Power EACH. Turning in all 11 of these will earn you a total of 5,500 Artifact Power and 1,650 Honorbound reputation.
A glitch that happened early on the weekly reset in the US region awarded a couple players with Mythic Keystone cache rewards, as if they had ran a Mythic dungeon on a previous week. This glitch has been fixed, and any unintended gear rewarded from said glitch is being removed from the player's inventory.
Blizzard has fixed the bug preventing players from completing the Arathi Highlands quests, including ones to earn gear.
Battle for Azeroth Season 1 of Content begins today with many new content systems opening -- Uldir, Mythic+, World Bosses, Warfronts and PvP! The Titanforge Cap has also increased and Bonus Rolls are now available! Read our post and participate in the newly added giveaway! Edit: this is now all live on EU realms!
Warfronts has launched today and you can turn in up contribution quests for 150 Honorbound Reputation and 500 Artifact Power EACH. Turning in all 11 of these will earn you a total of 5,500 Artifact Power and 1,650 Honorbound reputation. Edit: now updated with the different quests available on EU realms.
Season 1 of Battle for Azeroth is finally upon us! With Mythic+, Raids, PvP, and all competitive parts of Battle for Azeroth now officially live, we'd like to highlight a list of the best tools online to assist you in the journey to the top. All these suggestions are widely used and approved by our staff and guide writers, and we thought it would be helpful to share them to help both veteran players and newcomers alike.
With the start of Battle for Azeroth Season 1, there are new ways to acquire PvP gear. Blizzard has explained what item levels are awarded for each PvP rank.
September 5th hotfixes include an ilvl change to Khor, Hammer of the Guardian to indicate it is a cosmetic weapon, as well as a nerf to Stealth missions.
Following our previous announcement for class guides, the How to Improve Pages, it is time to highlight another brand new page that came out with our latest updates: the Mythic+ pages! Our Class Writers worked hard during beta to test dungeons, pushing many different high keys to figure out the best way to play each specialization in Mythic+ Dungeons.
For Wowhead Weekly #172, the second show of Battle for Azeroth, Annie and Perc discuss everything there is to do in Battle for Azeroth Season 1! Now live on Twitch.
AllCraft, the popular Warcraft-themed talk show is going live to talk about the Battle for Azeroth with special guests from Method!
Blizzard has published PvP hotfixes for Arms Warriors and Beast Mastery Hunters.
Horde EU players have finally finished collecting enough materials to launch an assault to Stromgarde Keep. This marks the first rotation for Warfronts since the start of Battle for Azeroth. For a limited time, Horde EU players will now be able to queue for Warfronts from their Warfront table in Dazar'alor.
Horde players from both regions have finally finished collecting enough materials to launch an assault to Stromgarde Keep. This marks the first rotation for Warfronts since the start of Battle for Azeroth. For a limited time, Horde players will now be able to queue for Warfronts from their Warfront table in Dazar'alor. Edit: US Warfronts are also available!
Catch up on the latest Blizzard news from the past week, including the D.Va Nano Cola Challenge.
In celebration of the Mythic Raiding race starting tomorrow, Method has released an interview about BFA, Uldir and the race with three of their raiders: Cayna, Naowh, and Philwestside. As announced last week, Method will stream their Uldir progression, supported by Wowhead, Discord and many others! it is an unprecedented feat for WoW's current best raiding guild, so make sure to join their Discord server to follow the race closely.
The first PvP season in Battle for Azeroth has started, and you can earn an epic weapon on this first week! Don't forget to cap your Conquest Points, as this guaranteed weapon will go away by next week's reset. Edit: Blizzard has clarified the conquest weapon will be available in future weeks, and conquest will not reset.
Blizzard has posted hotfixes including class tuning changes on the eve of the opening of Mythic Uldir.
Blizzard has released a couple more clarifications about PvP gearing in Battle for Azeroth. More specifically, about the weekly PvP chest - In addition to reaching certain Rated PvP ratings to gain access to the chest, you also need to cap your Conquest Points for the week to receive the weekly loot.
With Mythic Uldir on the horizon, we've prepared a guide for all the consumables and enhancements to your gear that you can -- this includes Augments Runes, Enchants, Crafted Gear and more!
With Blizzard's most recent tweet about the Virtual Ticket, it is almost confirmed that the art used both there and in the goody bag book is the BlizzCon 2018 Key Art.
Below you can check previews of the art both from the goody bag book and the Virtual Pass tweet. The Key Art historically features essential characters to the future of their games, like Jaina for WoW last year.
In the latest round of Battle for Azeroth hotfixes, you must now be ilvl 320 or higher to queue for Warfronts.
Blizzard is about to start their BlizzCon 2018 All-Access Kickoff, check out the highlights!
For September 12th Hotfixes, Scrollsage Nola cannot be killed and Defensive Beams on Mythic MOTHER were fixed.
For Wowhead Weekly #173, the third show of Battle for Azeroth, Annie and Perc show off the BlizzCon Goody Bag, and discuss the latest content like the Mythic Race and Warfronts. Now live on Twitch!
At this point, most WoW players already know the popular meme "A turtle made it to the water" from the Beachhead World Quest. While these little turtles have generated a plethora of content around the internet, we've decided to look deeper into the quest itself. What is the ecological impact on Azeroth from saving thousands of baby turtles every day?
At the conclusion of the Reddit AMA, Ion Hazzikostas revealed the 8.1 PTR would be up very soon and he'll continue the discussion about upcoming 8.1 content in a livestream on Tuesday, September 18th, 11am Pacific.
Welcome to the Hunter Pet Series! One of the many cool benefits of being a Hunter is our pets, so weโve decided to start a new series specifically dedicated to Hunters and their pets. Each week we will highlight a particular pet family and give you a short summary of the pet along with how and where to find them. First up is the Spirit Beast family.
Many new Battle Pets were added in Battle for Azeroth, as well as many new Pet Battle World Quests. However, some of the new Battle Pets have hidden requirements to even unlock the vendor that offers you these new pets. In this guide, we go over each new Battle Pet that has a hidden requirement to unlock them, as well as where the vendor is located.
In this week's edition of "The Weekly Reset," [url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiHdR2hAyFEXWCbNQgbu_Dg]Taliesin and Evitel[/url] cover Mythic+ loot confusion, Warfronts, and Ion's AMA.
For the latest hotfixes, Vantus Runes will be reduced to their Legion potency, Hydrocores will drop from Heroic Dungeons, and Hook Point arena will reopen.
We have another article on Classic WoW for you by John Staats, the creator of the WoW Diary Kickstarter. In this article, John describes the creation of all vanilla dungeons he worked on--an exclusive article for Wowhead which won't be found in the WoW Diary book. There's also less than a week left on the Kickstarter, so now is the time to pledge!
Blizzard has released a summary of current plans for Elemental Shaman in Patch 8.1.
The first Battle for Azeroth major patch, Tides of Vengeance, has been announced today. With many new exciting announcements, one of the biggest ones was a quality of life improvement for reputations.
They've announced that starting in Tides of Vengeance, reputation achievements like 100 Exalted Reputations will have their progress account-wide, meaning you will no longer lose progress if you reach exalted with a particular faction on a different character. The announcement caused some confusion among players, making Blizzard head to the forums to clarify the upcoming changes.
September 18th hotfixes include nerfs to Underrot Ticks and Corruption Corpuscle from the Mythic Fetid Devourer encounter in Uldir.
Mythic G'huun was finally killed today by Method! The best part about that is how the community could follow Method directly in these past 8 days, cheering them directly on social media. Many of Method's raiders on the World First kill were live streaming the moment and, in order to celebrate that, we've compiled all their kill reaction, directly from their Twitch clips!
Mythic G'huun was finally killed today by Method! The best part about that is how the community could follow Method directly in these past 8 days, cheering them directly on social media. Many of Method's raiders on the World First kill were live streaming the moment and, in order to celebrate that, we've compiled all their kill reaction, directly from their Twitch clips! Edit: Added the nerd screams clip from their voice comms!
Method secured the World First for Gโhuun in unprecedented style, streaming the kill to over 260,000 Twitch viewers with Sco as the #1 highest individual streamer on Twitch this past week. In this article, we'll highlight the streaming stats of the World First race and how it compares to other popular streamers this past week.
For Wowhead Weekly #174, the fourth show of Battle for Azeroth, Annie and Perc talk about the next WoW content patch, Tides of Vengeance, discuss Method's World First Mythic G'huun, and show off the new mount and pet promotions from the Blizzard shop. Now live on Twitch!
Datamining continues with strings pointing to Darkshore, Blood Elves, and Bwonsamdi scenarios. (Spoilers)
The first round of Patch 8.1 PTR 27826 Broadcast Text covers Talanji trying to discover why Vol'jin appointed Sylvanas as the next Warchief. [b]Spoilers.[/b]
One of the biggest mysteries regarding BFA achievement was the Clever Use of Mechanical Explosives achievement, which requires the player to hit the rare mob The Lichen King with a Sporonite Bomb. With the September 21 hotfixes, you are now able to loot the Sporonite Bombs and hit the rare with them!
Welcome to the Hunter Pet Series! One of the many cool benefits of being a Hunter is our pets, so weโve decided to start a new series specifically dedicated to Hunters and their pets. Each week we will highlight a particular pet family and give you a short summary of the pet along with how and where to find them. This week is the wolves family.
The Kickstarter for the World of Warcraft Diary, by John Staats, WoW's first 3D level designer, is almost finished! With less than 40 hours left on the clock, make sure to pledge you would like to receive all the perks from the Kickstarter edition. We've received the news today that the World of Warcraft Diary became the #1 Non-fictional book ever funded on Kickstarter! John Staats has also published a blog explaining the process of pitching the book to Blizzard and the successful relaunch of the Kickstarter project and had two appearances in the ClassiCast podcast.
After a disappointing close of the Artifact stories in Legion, Patch 8.1 data show clues that one of their stories might be continuing in 8.1. A few days ago, at the start of the Patch 8.1 datamining, we've found a new item related to one of Legion's Artifacts: Xal'atath. After finding that item, we have been digging through the thousands of new effects in the new patch and we've found interesting spells likely related to that item.
Warning: Patch 8.1 Spoilers.
Blizzard has clarified the Taunt situation on the Patch 8.1 PTR. The threat bonus from using taunts is not removed - that's just a tooltip change - but Blizzard will experiment with reducing the threat bonus on the PTR.
Blizzard has added DPS Azerite Traits to the list of class tuning hotfixes for September 25th.
Hotfixes for September 24th, including Anchor Weed, Island Expedition Achievement progress, and the Azerite tuning from earlier.
With Battle for Azeroth, many abilities were added to the Global Cooldown (GCD), however, most of racial spells, like Shadowmeld and Berserking, were spared in the change. One racial spell, Arcane Torrent, didn't have that luck, having the GCD added to it on top of its effect change. With that in mind, Blizzard went to the forums to clarify the reasoning behind adding the GCD to the spell.
Recently, we've posted the open letter from Adam, Deadly Boss Mods author, to the community, where he reported his previous precarious situation. The message generated a massive wave of support from the community, increasing his Patreon supporters from around 500 to almost 3000! Players were not the only ones moved by the open letter. Adam posted on Reddit that Blizzard and MSI were as well!
September 25th hotfixes include fixing Timewalking Loot bugs. Warforged Timewalking and vendor items now scale to appropriate ilvls.
The BlizzCon WoW Classic Demo, War Mantle, and War Banner are the BlizzCon 2018 Warcraft Virtual Ticket Items! This item is available to all attendees as well as players that purchase the Virtual Ticket.
September 26th hotfixes include a nerf to Coagulated Bloods on LFR difficulty and the removal of AFK players from Warfronts.
For Wowhead Weekly #175, the fifth show of Battle for Azeroth, Annie and Perc talk about the BlizzCon WoW Virtual Ticket Rewards, Patch 8.1 Datamining, and Patch 8.1 Lore Speculation!
Another busy day on the official forums, with Blizzard giving official replies to many different topics, including many new posts on the debate over the Azerite system, including acknowledgment on how late it was tested, reminders about issues with the PTR, Timewalking nerfs and fixes, and talks about a much needed teeming nerf.
A new Patch 8.1 PTR build is here. In processing the scenario updates, there are a few minor updates to the Tyrande's Ascension scenario.
Spoilers for the Siege of Zuldazar raid in 8.1 broadcast text.
Saurfang's story continues in Patch 8.1 PTR broadcast text. Spoilers.
In Patch 8.1, Tyrande will become the Night Warrior as the Alliance seeks to reclaim Darkshore. Now we have learned more about the ritual and her clash with Nathanos in Darkshore (spoilers).
Xal'atath is back in Patch 8.1! (Broadcast text Spoilers)
We're working on some targeted spec tuning, which will go live with maintenance in each region starting on October 2.
Wowhead's database is now updated for Patch 8.1 PTR build 27934. Item highlights include the Interdimensional Pet Portal which increases the total pet maximum for your account to 2000.
Blizzard is making several changes to Alchemy items via hotfix.
Hotfixes for October 1st have been announced by Blizzard which includes the Alchemy Potion changes announced earlier, timewalking nerfs for End Time bosses, a change to a Warfront Research Option, a fix for the weekly quest for Island Expeditions and more! Edit: Added the notes for Hotfixes on Epic Battlegrounds.
Blizzard has posted the BlizzCon 2018 schedule!
Blizzard has posted October 2nd hotfixes.
New models are in build 27985 for Rastakhan and Saurfang. Their new models reflect their plots in Patch 8.1, so spoilers.
Achievements and class spell updates for Build 27985.
Profession updates and new recipes in Patch 8.1 PTR Build 27985.
New Icons and Interface updates for Build 27985.
Blizzard has posted a long thread on upcoming Azerite Armor Improvements coming soon in hotfixes and others changes coming in Tides of Vengeance.
Blizzard has posted a long thread on upcoming Azerite Armor Improvements. Overall availability of Azerite Armor will likely be hotfixed into the live game, possibly scaling emissary rewards up to a maximum of item level 370. In Tides of Vengeance, more changes are coming with new traits and a brand new outer ring!
For Wowhead Weekly #176, the sixth show of Battle for Azeroth, Annie and Perc talk about J. Allen Brack being nominated president of Blizzard Entertainment, the BlizzCon 2018 Schedule, and more 8.1 Spoilers!
October 4th hotfixes include fixes with The Faceroller and Expert Expeditioner achievements.
Blizzard has pushed a handful of hotfixes for October 5th--the FoK radius increase from Flying Daggers and Fan of Blades no longer stack.
Blizzard has started to add new optimizations to WoW, to make the game run smoother on more modern gaming rigs. These optimizations show drastic FPS improvements for medium to high-end computer setups.
Blizzard has started to add new optimizations to WoW, to make the game run smoother on more modern gaming rigs. These optimizations show drastic FPS improvements for medium to high-end computer setups.
Blizzard has posted updates on the Azerite Emissary system. The requirements for the ilvl 370 caches is too high, and Blizzard also found a bug where players saw rewards lower than expected.
Voice over audio for Patch 8.1 PTR Build 28048 includes Zekhan, Gallywix, and Tandred Proudmoore. Story spoilers.
October 9th Hotfixes include changes to Mutated Masses on Mythic Fetid Devourer and Power Matrix on Mythic G'huun.
The latest Patch 8.1 PTR build has added some new Azerite traits, including ones themed after the Night Elves and Forsaken.
Blizzard has announced a schedule for new Invasions on Island Expeditions. Invasions such as Black Dragons, Twilight Dragons and even Old Gods will be added to the Invasion pool over the next 6 weeks which means that previously unobtainable cosmetics rewards such as the Twilight Avenger mount will be able to be obtained in the near future!
Join us for the 8th Annual Wowhead Party, celebrating the release of Battle for Azeroth and all things Blizzard with food, drinks, dancing and much more. Reminder that if you want to RSVP for special reward tiers like extra drink tickets and Wowhead pins, you must do so by October 16th. Time is running out!
Our database has been updated with items, quests and spells from the latest PTR Build, 28048. This includes new PvP talents and a Blood Troll disguise toy.
Continuing our coverage of Patch 8.1 PTR Build 28048, today we are going to talk about the updated Encounter Journal for the upcoming patch. This updated version brings a couple of changes, like updated spells for the Jaina encounter and a second journal entry for Ivus the Forest Lord: Ivus the Decayed.
Blizzard has posted more PvP changes are on the way for Death Knights on the Patch 8.1 PTR.
The r/WoW subreddit has started a series of Community Class Feedback threads, featuring the opinions of theorycrafting representatives of all classes! Today, the threads for Death Knights, Demon Hunters and Druids were released. Other classes will be released through the week, as per their released schedule.
Patch 8.1 PTR Build 28151 coverage starts with achievement and class changes, including Blood DK Nerfs and new Azerite traits. The site was also temporarily offline and we are now back!
As announced during the latest Q&A, Blizzard has added new scouting maps to the game, with the objective to open all flight paths for alts or secondary characters that haven't leveled questing on the Battle for Azeroth zones. There are two separate items: 7th Legion Scouting Map and Honorbound Scouting Map.
Blizzard has provided more context on the Marksmanship Hunter changes added in the recent 8.1 PTR build.
The r/WoW subreddit has started a series of Community Class Feedback threads, featuring the opinions of theorycrafting representatives of all classes! Today, the threads for Monks, Paladins, Priests and Shaman were released. Other classes will be released through the week, as per their released schedule.
A new promotion for Battle for Azeroth seems to be rolling live starting today. Select inactive accounts without Battle for Azeroth have received a 3-day test period for the new expansion in their Battle.net launcher gift menu. The gift points to the promotion page that has more details about the offer.
Mythic Uldir has been out for over a month and we're taking a look and trying to dissect how the World First guilds stacked certain classes to help make the encounters easier and take the bosses down! We look at the number of melee spots in a raid, especially on Mythrax and G'huun, tank representation and fight specific mechanics in Uldir that encourage class stacking.
FinalBossTV is now live on Twitch with a special pre-BlizzCon 2018 episode with Jesse Cox and Crendor!
Blizzard has posted more details on the Classic WoW demo - the zones open will be Barrens and Westfall.
The Wowhead Party takes place next Thursday, November 1st, from 6pm-2am at the Hilton Anaheim. Today's blog highlights members of the community at our meet and greet as well as details on our brand-new streaming panels! This is a fun way for you to meet streamers, hosts, Esports figures, and more from the Blizzard and Warcraft community.
With BlizzCon 2018 on the horizon, we wanted to recap the plot of early BFA! The faction conflict, mostly dormant in Legion, is back in full force in BFA and escalating in the upcoming patch, Tides of Vengeance.
If you've just started playing WoW or have returned after a long break, you might be curious to learn about the history between the warring factions.
In this build, we have the new titles for guilds who achieve a spot in each faction's Hall of Fame, the description of the Season 2 Mythic+ affix Reaping and the name of the new Mythic+ Currency.
Patch 8.1 PTR Build 28202 - New Icons Achievements, Mystery Azerite, Paragon Caches, Moose and Toads
A new build means new icons. Today's build adds the base achievements of Battle of Dazar'alor, Mystery Azerite items and some new pets and mounts.
For Wowhead Weekly #177, the last show before BlizzCon, Annie and Perc talk about all the Patch 8.1 updates, Heritage Armor, WoW Classic, and BlizzCon 2018.
Blizzard has announced a special partnership with Facebook Gaming for BlizzCon! Watch the opening ceremonies on Facebook, or select Gaming Creator channels, to earn special rewards!
You could win a BlizzCon 2018 Virtual Ticket, $10 off a BlizzCon 2018 Goody Bag, or 20% off all BlizzCon 2018 merchandise.
Blizzard has increased the amount of gold and Azerite rewards from Emissary quests. This hotfix, announced a few days ago, is now live.
With BlizzCon 2018 a week away, we have a special merchandise unboxing to share with you today, as well as updates to all of our Blizzard Collectible guides.
Blizzard has increased the amount of gold and Azerite rewards from Emissary quests. This hotfix, announced a few days ago, is now live. Edit: Blizzard incorrectly shared the new AP value. It is 1400 not 1600.
In Battle for Dazar'alor, each faction has 3 bosses that are seen through a flashback event from the other faction. These Siege of Zuldazar flash bosses will actually change your race, complete with new racial abilities. Update: After more testing, it appears that these race changes follow the same conversion as Mercenary Mode PvP.
Tank Balance has been a hot topic among the community recently and this post takes a quick look at the changes to the Tank classes so far on the 8.1 PTR. There were some minor changes to Brewmaster Monks that weren't seen in our previous datamining and we look at the effects of the Armor changes to Blood DKs.
It's time to submit your questions for the ever-popular BlizzCon Q&A panel, where the developers answer questions in-person on the Main Hall stage.
The Blink Shopping Site is now live for BlizzCon 2018 attendees! You can place your orders now and pick them up in Hall E starting Thursday November 1st. As part of the Blink Shopping sale, Blizzard has introduced many more products including a Tortollan Plush, Warbringers Jaina Art Portfolio Set, and a Blue Murloc Kigurumi.
New World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth Events for the week of October 30th includes new Tolvir Invasions in Island Expeditions, BFA Dungeon Event, new Mythic+ affixes and more!
Blizzard has published a blog explaining that the focus of the WoW BFA panels will be about future content, not Patch 8.1 Tides of Vengeance. This blog also details new security measures at the convention.
Class changes for the latest 8.1 PTR Build 28294.
Our PTR database is now updated for the latest build, 28294, featuring new heirloom trinkets and cloaks.
Allcraft, the popular Warcraft-themed talk show is going live to talk about BlizzCon Predictions.
With the reveal that BlizzCon 2018 will focus on Battle for Azeroth patches beyond patch 8.1: Tides of Vengeance, we're reviewing some potential theories for the next WoW patch. Today, we're focusing on the faction conflict and how that storyline can evolve beyond what has seen from the Tides of Vengeance PTR.
Continuing our series of speculation posts for BlizzCon 2018, today we will talk about the main harbingers of the Void in Azeroth: N'zoth and Azshara. While it is known that we will face Azshara at some point of the expansion ever since last BlizzCon, we still haven't had many direct interactions with her in Battle for Azeroth. However that's likely to change soon as we dig deeper into the faction war and what it entails.
Blizzard has revealed details on how long you can play the WoW Classic Demo on the BLizzCon 2018 Virtual Ticket. At the start, if you play for 60 minutes, you'll be DCed and then have to wait another 30 minutes before logging on again.
Blizzard has posted some details about classes that received nerfs to their AoE burst in the last PTR build.
BlizzCon 2018 is upon us very soon! We're sharing our BlizzCon predictions for WoW and the other Blizzard games!
A new battle pet, Whomper, is available for sale on the shop! Through Dec 31, 2018, Blizzardยฎ Entertainment will donate 100% of the purchase price from the sale of each Whomper digital pet to Code.org.
At this year's BlizzCon, BlizzCon 2018 Contest Every comment you leave on any BlizzCon 2018 post is entering you to win prizes like a Big Blizzard Bear. As long as you don't spam, each comment only increases your chances to win by giving you another entry. Read more here--we have several awesome prizes to give out all week.
Before the BlizzCon Opening Ceremony, Steve Cotton announced that players will be able to acquire the base Destiny 2 game on Battle.net for free, as long as you claim the game before November 18th.
Blizzard has revealed the Kul Tiras Allied Race classes and racials on their Allied Race website!
The Allied Race website revealed the racial abilities for Zandalari Trolls, as well as class combinations. They can be Paladins!
During the Patch 8.2 panel, Blizzard revealed a slide of major characters that will be the focus of the story in upcoming patches. All of the characters featured are wearing their traditional armor and wielding iconic weapons....except for Sylvanas. She's exchanged her bow for Xal'atath! What could this mean?
The World of Warcraft: Immersive Sounds of Azeroth panel has begun. We'll highlighting notable details from this panel here.
Wowhead Weekly hosts Annie Fuchsia and Perculia interviewed Game Director Ion Hazzikostas and Art Director Chris Robinson on upcoming content in Battle for Azeroth. We learned that the Tauren Heritage Armor Cloak slot is a totem, "Rise of Azshara" is not just a turn of phrase, and more character slots will open up as more Allied Races are added.
The Darkmoon Faire is back in town for one week. This is a great time to get Darkmoon Top Hat and WHEE!, which provide 10% experience and reputation buffs, to help you grind out reputation for the Dark Iron Dwarves and Mag'har Orc Allied Race unlocks. The Darkmoon Rollercoaster is also coming in Patch 8.1.5.
Annie and Perc are live on Twitch recapping all the major announcements from BlizzCon 2018!
The Arena World Championship was held at BlizzCon once again this year. After months of proving themselves, the top 12 arena teams in the world competed for their share of $280,000 and the title of World Champion.
The Hall of Fame for Uldir will be closing soon for the Alliance faction with over 100 Alliance Guilds earning the title %s, Famed Slayer of G'huun. For the rest of this lockout, Alliance guilds will be able to obtain Hall of Fame: G'huun. After this lockout, the achievement will no longer be obtainable by any guilds. With this completion, cross-realm Uldir should be available starting the next lockout in each region.
New World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth Events for the week of November 6th includes the Pet Battle Bonus Event, Cross Realm Mythic Uldir and more! This week also includes the new Twilight Dragon Invasions in Island Expeditions which means that the Twilight Avenger mount is now available from those invasions.
A new week dawns with the reset in Azeroth, and with the Pet Battle Event being active, players interested in Pet Battles are looking for new Battle Pet options to level. With that in mind, we have released two new guides, written by Buuloki, our Pet Battle writer: Overviews of the best PvP and PvE Pet Battle guides!
Blizzard has posted some upcoming changes to Demonology Warlocks regarding the Demonic Consumption level 100 talent.
BlizzCon is over and we're back with another Method Jdotb Q&A, as he goes over Mythic+ healer balance, regional preferences of classes, Weekly Affix advice and more!
As part of their month long coverage of Warcraft III: Reforged, Game Informer's Ben Hanson sat down with this time talked with Jeff Chamberlain, Blizzard's VP of story and franchise development, and talked about Warcraft III's cinematics and details about how the announcement cinematic was recreated.
Overview of Class Changes for 8.1 PTR build 28440.
This new build has two new spell animation changes for Paladins. The first one is a new libram animation that is used for Blessing of Freedom and Blessing of Protection. The second one is an update to Beacons, that replaces the previous new Beacon animation. This update gives the animation more light and the paladin now sees the animation for as long as the buff remains on the target for the paladin, while other players only see the effect briefly.
The datamined updated Holy Light animation from beta was also readded to the PTR, after being polished for all races.
Blizzard has clarified that the fifth ring of Azerite Traits is available in January, when Season 2 begins. The Battle of Dazar'alor raid will open on the first day of Season 2.
Blizzard is upgrading the World of Warcraft Forums, using a modern system visible on other games like Heroes of the Storm and Overwatch. The old forums will go into maintenance on Thursday, November 15 during the transition, and will be read-only afterwards.
Following the Eurogamer Interview which confirmed Sylvanas' involvement in the Wrathgate, there has been much controversy and speculation as to her exact role and if this changes her character. In this post, we'll take a look at Sylvanas' possible motivations, various interpretations of the Wrathgate quote, and why it was so shocking even though we've known for a while in Chronicle that she had some involvement.
For Wowhead Weekly #179, Annie and Perc talk about the big experience nerf, the Darkshore zone changes for Patch 8.1, the incoming dapper gilnean-themed transmogs, Thottbot comments added to Classic Wowhead, and much more! Some of the topics contain 8.1 story spoilers.
Blizzard has announced that some nerfs to the Explosive Affix, which made Keystones much more difficult this week. Explosive Orbs now have 50% less health and cannot spawn on crowd controlled enemies.
On the most recent PTR build, Darkshore has been revamped to accommodate its new status as a Warfront zone. One of the changes in Darkshore was the inclusion of many new rare NPCs. Some of those new rares are new versions of NPCs that players have either personally interacted with while questing in Darkshore, or a result of the many changes the zone went through over the years.
Yesterday, the Explosive affix, Tol Dagor and Underrot received Mythic+ nerfs and today, King's Rest, Temple of Sethraliss, Underrot and Shrine of the Storm abilities received some nerfs. Notable changes include nerfs to Galvazzt in Sethraliss, Deep Smash in Shrine, Ancestral Fury in King's Rest and more!
Blizzard has new changes for Uldir starting next week.
During BlizzCon, Blizzard confirmed the company was working on multiple mobile games across its franchises. Could that be leading to a possible Warcraft: GO?
In this post, we will explore this idea, sparked by an article published by Kotaku today, that possibly unveiled information about other mobile Blizzard games.
As it is every year during December, Hearthstone receives an expansion. That alone is nothing special, but the name of that particular expansion - announced at Blizzcon three weeks ago - made Warcraft fansโ hearts flutter: Rastakhanโs Rumble! What could Rastakhanโs Rumble mean to Battle for Azeroth and the upcoming 8.1 patch, how does it compare to the โoriginal storylineโ, and what does the future of these two Blizzard franchises look like?
For our November PvP Q&A with Method, Trill, Swapxy, Smexxin, and Samiyam tackle questions about upcoming GCD changes and the biggest surprise at the AWC!
AllCraft is now live on Twitch with their latest episode with hosts Hotted89, Asmongold and RichWCampbell and special guest Quin69.
Patch 8.1: Tides of Vengeance is adding a number of new ways to gear up and increasing the item level of rewards from existing activities. Although Tides of Vengeance launches on December 11th, the Mythic+ and PvP Season 2 will not start until the Battle of Dazar'alor opens in January, so we're doing a recap of when new features are being added and which others will change with the new season.
Check out the latest class changes for Patch 8.1 PTR BUild 28616.
Blizzard has just posted a blue post on their forums talking more about the rewards in Island Expeditions! This is the explanation that was promised after the Coldlight Surfrunner hotfix that happened a couple weeks ago.
The Battle of Dazar'alor raid opens on January 22nd.
For Wowhead Weekly #180, Annie and Perc talk about the upcoming Tides of Vengeance patch! Darkshore Warfront, Blood Elf/Dwarf Heritage Armor, Tyrande and Saurfang storylines, new Island Expeditions content and loot rules, and much more.
AllCraft is now live on Twitch with their latest episode with hosts Hotted89, Asmongold and RichWCampbell and special guest Bajheera.
Less than a week away from the launch of Patch 8.1, Blizzard pushed a new change to Warmode to the PTR realms. Players are now able to turn off Warmode while in resting areas, like inns or minor cities. This is the second change to the Warmode mechanic in Tides of Vengeance, the first one being the call to arms buff based on faction imbalance.