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In Preach's interview with Ion Hazzikostas, Ion Hazzikostas mentions that Conduit Destruction will not go live as it is now. Blizzard doesn't currently have a solution to Conduits that is a semi-permanent choice that has flexibility but you can't change it from boss to boss or dungeon to dungeon.

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Dispelling enemy players is a common tactic in World PvP, but when does it cross the line between PvP and griefing? In Classic WoW, buffs are everything - particularly those hard to replace world buffs such as Rallying Cry of the Dragonslayer. In today's story, we've got a curious case of a player being banned after dispelling a streamer who just so happened to have a Blizzard Game Master watching.

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Streamer, speed leveler, and mental health advocate DesMephisto is doing weekly Ahead of the Curve: N'Zoth giveaways, from now until Shadowlands releases! This month, he's supporting the Joyful Heart Foundation, which is a charity focused on creating a world free of sexual assault, domestic abuse, and child abuse, while following months will focus on different charitable organizations focused on autism awareness and other mental health advocates.

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In our previous World of ArtCraft Community Creations roundup, we highlighted a gorgeous piece of Elwynn Forest by imaDreamwalker, a prolific artist whose work includes locations from around the World of Warcraft in the style of Dungeons & Dragons book covers. Their latest piece, Razor Hill, recently made its rounds on Reddit, and this is a great time to showcase the rest of their outstanding work.

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A brand new Warcraft book has been released, Shadows Rising, written by Madeleine Roux. In this month's lore collaboration with Nobbel87, we'll go over the major points of the story. As with every book, a recap doesn't do the details justice, so if you want all of that, dive into the story yourself!

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Conduits each have 15 "ranks" which have been found in the data for the Shadowlands Beta build. These "ranks" are speculated to improve the bolded effect of the conduit. At max Conduit rank, Mages would be able to reduce the cooldown of Counterspell by 8 seconds, Warriors could increase the duration of Recklessness by 60%, Death Knights could increase the duration of AMZ by 8 seconds and much more! We've listed all the Rank values for the current conduits.

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Blizzard has updated the Hotfix blog with a fix for accessing out of bounds areas in Warsong Gulch in Classic WoW, as well as fixing a minor issue in which some players are unable to accept Legion quests on retail.

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This week in the Horrific Vision of Stormwind, you get to experience the nerfed Split Personality madness for the first time. This is combined with Leaden Foot in the Lost Areas and there's no Scorched Feet this week!

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Redditor FrigginFargo of the Incendius (US-PvP) server has posted a spreadsheet on Reddit showing the servers progress in collecting materials in preparation for the upcoming Ahn'Qiraj War Effort. While news to no one that many servers have been stockpiling for this event, it's proof of how even a relatively small server without many notable large raiding guilds have been able to complete this goal ahead of Phase 5.

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Youtuber Hidden Azeroth has made a new video titled The (almost) Complete History of World of Warcraft. While a few of the plot points are truncated or lacking nuance, it does quite a good job of condensing 25 years of story into 23 minutes, with several clever turns of phrase and captions throughout.

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In Shadowlands Beta Build 35256, many new weapon models labeled "Newplayer" were datamined. These weapon models have HD models but picture many more simplistic weapon models.

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In today's Shadowlands Beta build, over 700 more entries were added to the Soulbind Conduit Rank database for the newly revealed Conduit powers. This may indicate that Soulbind Ranks are still an active system as it's still being worked on. Highlights of the new max Rank Conduits include 10% less damage from your Hunter's Mark target, 100% longer Divine Steed, 10 minutes off Reincarnation and many more!

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Today marks the beginning of Shadowlands raid testing with the first two heroic bosses being available. To celebrate, we will preview the environment of the new raid, Castle Nathria!

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One of the many characters announced to make a return in Shadowlands, Kael'thas Sunstrider is a key part of the Venthyr Covenant storyline. With more chapters now available for testing on the Shadowlands Beta, we went played through his questline! Story spoilers.

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One of the most important things coming with Classic Phase 5 and the Ahn'Qiraj raids is the emphasis on Nature Resistance, where it comes from, and what bosses it's useful for. Vanilla veterans will remember stacking it throughout their raids, but similar to Fire Resistance, the changes in Classic WoW mean that exactly how important it will be can vary greatly depending on the guild in question.

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One of the more popular World Quests in Legion were PvP World Quests, where you could focus on doing PvP objectives in free-for-all PvP areas. Although these quests were not available in Battle for Azeroth, they are making a return in Shadowlands with the Trials of Zo'Sorg!

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SAGamer did a deep dive on Revendreth and the Venthyr covenant, showcasing a lot of great concept art and insights from the design process. The timing pairs nicely with with the recent focus on the zone and Castle Nathria raid testing on the Shadowlands Beta, but also fills in a missing clue regarding one of the incomplete Covenant armor sets.

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Phase 5 and the release of Ahn'Qiraj is adding a whole lot to World of Warcraft Classic, including new tier, gear changes, spell ranks, crafted items, and not the least of which finally stepping away from the fire-resistant raids of Molten Core and Blackwing Lair. With those changes in mind, we're highlighting some of the interesting class changes to expect with the release of Phase 5.

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With all the recent developments surrounding Soulbinds on the [i]Shadowlands[/i] beta, we've significantly revamped the Wowhead Soulbind Calculator with a new UI, working conduits, selectable traits, and even conduit ranks. Now you can create and share your personalized Soulbind and Conduit setups.

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Blizzard has taken another look at Nightfall and other proc-based weapon effects and responded on the forums with some of their findings about proc effects and the GCD.

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Phase 5 launches tomorrow, and with it new dungeon tier sets for every class! Nicknamed Tier 0.5, as they don't require stepping into raid, the sets are much more competitive than the name might imply. While the quest chains involved in getting them can be fairly lengthy, difficult, or even expensive, many of the set pieces are surprisingly competitive and much more reliable for players who aren't raiding, or necessarily getting as much raid gear as they might like!

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NargoEUW from Reddit posted a screenshot of a suspension notice, citing use of the Group Finder for in-game services such as boosts or carries, purportedly resulting in a one day ban for the player.

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In more news of feats of extreme time and dedication, Freehold +17 has been soloed by (surprise!) a Demon Hunter in 6 hours and 47 minutes. Facing the Fortified, Sanguine, Quaking, and Awakened affixes, a 34 minute video of the condensed run shows the lengths Iway had to go to in order to accomplish this feat.

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Patch 1.11 in WoW introduced some relics which are reported to drop in Phase 5. As 1.11 also introduced Naxxramas and more Nature Resistance recipes, content confirmed for Phase 6, it was widely assumed these relics would also come later--which is not the case.

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We came across an interesting item in today's Shadowlands build strongly suggestive of a raid skip quest such as the one found in Ny'alotha and previous raids. Sludgefist's Head is an epic quality quest item with three versions citing Normal, Heroic, and Mythic difficulties, which stacks to 4.

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A new debuff called The Jailer's Chains has appeared within Torghast, preventing players from changing Equipment, Talents, or their Specialization within the activity. It's currently unknown if this is intended to take place everywhere throughout the Tower of the Damned, though it currently appears throughout the zone.

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A new debuff called The Jailer's Chains has appeared within Torghast, preventing players from changing Equipment, Talents, or their Specialization. This debuff is inactive in the Central Chamber, the start of the first floor, and when nearby helpful Brokers on non-boss floors, allowing players ample opportunity to make changes during their run.

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The latest Shadowlands build has added an early UI for the Great Vault, a system that allows you to choose your weekly cache reward. By completing certain objectives in Raids, Dungeons and PvP, you will unlock more options for your Weekly reward, and the gear's Item Level is determined by certain factors found in today's datamining.

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The first Ahn'Qiraj war effort has been completed on the Sulfuras (US-PvP) server in just 14 hours, showcasing the servers dedication to stockpiling material turn ins well ahead of Phase 5. The only thing left for them to do now is to ring the gong, which will require one more Blackwing Lair run this coming reset.

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Phase 5 is currently underway in Classic WoW, and with it, a new raid set will become available with the release of AQ40! This tier set is nicknamed Tier 2.5 due to the fact that these sets have 5-pieces in total instead of the standard 8-piece sets you see through Classic.

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The Classic Warrior and Druid discord servers have made a huge discovery regarding the Ectoplasmic Distiller quest item used in the Tier 0.5 quest chain. As relayed on Reddit, the item generates a huge amount of passive threat, which can be increased and even stacked with itself when multiple are placed.

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Several guilds have now completed their Scarab Lord reputation grinds, waiting only to clear Blackwing Lair a second time this coming reset before they ring the gong. The most arduous task, collecting nearly 42,000 Silithid Carapace Fragments, normally takes weeks, but a few guilds have managed within mere days!

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Blizzard has made a bluepost confirmeing that the threat generated from the Ectoplasmic Distiller quest item has been fixed. As discovered by the Classic Druid and Warrior discords, the item generated a huge amount of passive threat, which can be increased and even stacked with itself when multiple are placed.

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Arms Warriors have had a tumultuous time, struggling to find an identity or forge a clear class fantasy, the spec has been subject to numerous sweeping design changes over the last several expansions. Below is our collected feedback and opinions on the current state of Arms Warriors on the Shadowlands Beta, mainly focusing on PvE viability, identity, and design intent.

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A Horde player working on the Scarab Lord quest chain has seemingly received an automatic suspension after being mass reported by a coalition of Alliance competitors, prompting the question of whether automated moderation tools are simply too powerful and easily exploitable for their own good.

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Soul Ash, the currency to craft Shadowlands Legendaries, was added to Torghast in this Beta build and we've learned how the Currency drops in Torghast. We go over the Torghast core gameplay loop that you'll be looking to complete every week, detailing how much Soul Ash currently drops, allowing us to speculate how often you'll get a Legendary in Shadowlands!

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With the next weekly reset, we should have the first Classic realms opening the gates of Ahn'Qiraj. In order to help you with this new raid, our guide writers have worked to update our guides to support the new raid.

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The ringing of gongs will soon herald the opening of Ahn'Qiraj, and with the new raid instance comes the availability of several new items which aren't just Best in Slot for various classes, but offer advantages beyond Phase 5. While there are many highly sought after items in the new raid, in addition to new spell books and relics, and everyone has updated BiS lists, some of the gear drops stand out more than others, capable of lasting well into Naxxramas or even the rest of Classic WoW.

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Following up their previous discussion, Blizzard added a new post to discuss about how the GCD affects proc effects in Classic WoW. In the post, Blizzard clarifies that while the result they shared was correct previously, the reasoning was wrong, being way simpler than previously thought.

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Sercan ร–zyurt, aka Lordozy, is an Amateur Concept Artist who specializes in World of Warcraft themed concept art and armor sets, such as this Ny'alotha themed 8.3 Hunter set which takes inspiration from the monstrous minions and cultists of the Old Gods, as well as previous Hunter tier sets decorated with pieces of their prey.

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Frustrated by wage disparities and poor compensation, Blizzard employees have started a spreadsheet documenting their underwhelming salaries and pay increases, as reported by Jason Schreier for Bloomberg News. Edit: Added an alleged spreadsheet with values.

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Blizzard has announced that all beta characters will be deleted tomorrow. With this change, all testers will need to begin anew and level up copied characters. All ways of skipping content (Flaskataurs) will also be removed.

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With this week's WoW Classic reset, guilds can now finish the Scepter questline, unlocking the Ten Hour War and Ahn'Qiraj on realms that have also completed the War Effort. Skeram will be the first NA realm to open the gates, later today at 10:25 PM EST, thanks to ONSLAUGHT guild ringing the gong.

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Activision Blizzard just finished their second-quarter financial results conference call, with Activision Blizzard surpassing expectations and second quarter revenue growing 38% to $1.9 billion. Blizzard in particular noted enthusiastic response to Shadowlands, with pre-expansion engagement at its highest point point in a decade.

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Blizzard announced realm connections for a new set of US realms. These connections are currently scheduled to happen during the weekly maintenance on August 4. Edit: These realms have now been successfully connected.

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Blizzard announced tentative plans for changing heirlooms today, after last month's controversial announcement that heirlooms would no longer provide bonus experience. We asked speed leveling expert DesMephisto his thoughts on the changes, broken down into sections below covering each of the new bonuses.

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Progress on Firemaw, the first realm to bang the gong on EU realms, has achieved the EU First kill of Classic C'Thun in AQ40! Blizzard has also released a bluepost congratulating the first guilds to have defeated C'Thun in the EU.

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Today's build adds new weapon enchant visuals that can be used as weapon transmog illusions by players. These appearances seem to be Covenant-themed, with two new visuals per Covenant.

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In the last few days, Guilds from China, North America, and Europe have cleared Temple of Ahn'Qiraj. In that time, the conversation around Nature Resist gear has gone from "it's not that big of a deal" to "Oh no, we should have prepared Nature Resist gear". We'll take a look at what went right and what went very wrong for some guilds during the first week of AQ40!

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Fury Warriors have enjoyed a the limelight for the past couple expansions, with near universal praise since the Legion reworks forged a new identity for the spec. Below is our collected feedback and opinions on the current state of Fury Warriors on the Shadowlands Beta, mainly focusing on PvE viability, identity, and future design intent.

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Even after Blizzard added new Corruption counter-measures with Inescapable Consequences, Rextroy finds a way. Today's clever use of game mechanics revolves around a lot of Void Ritual, some Bane of Havoc, and a single Chaos Bolt.

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Streamer, speed leveler, and mental health advocate DesMephisto is doing weekly Ahead of the Curve: N'Zoth giveaways, from now until Shadowlands releases! This month, he's supporting the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, which provides community organization and education for autistic youth and adults, while working to improve the general public's understanding of autism and related conditions.

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Amazon posted several preview pages for World of Warcraft: Exploring Azeroth: The Eastern Kingdoms, an upcoming book by Christie Golden featuring Flynn Fairwind and Mathias Shaw. In these pages, one of the characters takes notes on a zone in Azeroth, while the other provides feedback in the margins.

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An incredibly detailed piece of art shared on reddit with the title A Peaceful Day in Shattrath has grabbed our attention due to its incredible detail in bringing the World of Warcraft to life. The original artist, operating under the name Dahuang, aka oOๅคง้ป„Oo, also has several other pieces of beautiful art definitely worth checking out.

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After being given the Head of the Broodlord on a whim, DwPoker, better known as the professional poker player David Williams, brought the Horde players of Faerlina together to become a Scarab Lord - completely guildless!

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A Venthyr Covenant Bonus has been found in the Sanguine Depths dungeon, allowing Venthyr players to provide their entire party with a damage and healing buff! A Venthyr player can activate an Anima Cage for a short time and any enemies that die within the Anima Cage's range will grant a stack of the buff, which is a very interesting risk-reward tradeoff.

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A Venthyr Covenant Bonus has been found in the Sanguine Depths dungeon, allowing Venthyr players to provide their entire party with a damage and healing buff! A Venthyr player can activate an Anima Cage for a short time and any enemies that die within the Anima Cage's range will grant a stack of the buff, which is a very interesting risk-reward tradeoff.

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The Night Fae covenant ability for Priests, Fae Blessings, has been reworked. The spell is now called Fae Guardians and the text is now more specific, summoning three guardians for 20 seconds rather than 10 spell casts, each of which follows specific spells - Shadow Word: Pain, Power Word: Shield, and Flash Heal (Holy) or Shadow Mend (Disc / Shadow) depending on spec.

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The Night Fae covenant ability for Priests, Fae Blessings, has been reworked. The spell is now called Fae Guardians and the text is now more specific, summoning three guardians for 20 seconds rather than 10 spell casts, each of which follows specific spells - Shadow Word: Pain, Power Word: Shield, and Flash Heal (Holy) or Shadow Mend (Disc / Shadow) depending on spec. Edit: Blizzard now has a blue post on the rework.

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We previously highlighted that one of the Night Fae Soulbind Traits would give you the power to drop combat, just like the Night Elf racial Shadowmeld. However, in the latest Shadowlands Build, this trait has been removed from the Soulbind tree and replaced.

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Rextroy is back with another clever video--this time, he's found a way for all classes to one-shot players without using any abilities. This tactic involves a full set of Surging Vitality Corruptions and a set of Versatility gear.

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In Shadowlands Build 35522, the PvP vendors have been updated to include some Legendary Power Recipes. This is our first look at one of the sources of Legendary recipes and we've documented the Legendary Powers that are currently available from the PvP vendor.

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Another PvP vendor has been updated to sell Soulbind Conduits! Unlike Legendary Recipes, Blizzard has mentioned that most Conduits will have more than one source so if PvP is not your thing, there will hopefully be another way to obtain these Conduits.

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If you liked the Drust culture in Battle for Azeroth--good news, there are several Drust helms for transmog, including the cosmetic Drust Mask of Dominance.

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The Mirror of Envious Dreams is an item from Revendreth that transforms your character's armor into full Tier 3 from Naxxramas, or HD Tier 6 from Tomb of Sargeras. This item is notable for several reasons: it has no cooldown so you can keep your appearance indefinitely, plus Tier 3 is extremely rare, unobtainable save for the Black Market Auction House.

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A Night Fae Covenant Bonus has been found in De Other Side dungeon, allowing Night Fae players to activate a long AoE stun in certain locations! A Night Fae player can click on Haunted Urns inside the instance to activate a long AoE stun to all enemies in the area.

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Colibri Workshop is making fantastic sculptures of popular Warcraft characters and creatures. Each beautiful piece of art is 100% handmade by commission over the course of a several weeks, well represented in the fine detail within the figurines.

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On the Shadowlands Beta, you can now craft Legendaries at multiple item levels. Base item from crafters have 4 Ranks that will determine the item level of the Legendary you craft and you'll need more Legendary Currency, Soul Ash, to craft higher level versions. This means that you can decide if you want a lower item level Legendary earlier, or wait a longer time to get a max item level Legendary!

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For Wowhead Weekly #241, Annie and Perc discuss the latest Shadowlands updates like the pre-patch Scourge event, different legendary ranks, and all the unique covenant dungeon perks.

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Castle Nathria will be the first raid in Shadowlands and FatbossTV has started releasing their raid boss previews of the dungeons after testing! The Council of Blood is a council style encounter where the bosses will heal and gain a new ability after one boss dies. However, every time a boss reaches 50% health, a dance intermission will take forcing the raid to dance... or die!

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Soft Reserve is a new tool which allows group leaders to setup loot allocations across their raid, with both preset options and manual item reservations in order to easily inform potential group members that those items are reserved.

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In this Shadowlands Beta build, players are finally able to open their weekly Great Vault and see their weekly rewards (or disappointments). Despite BFA not having a Weekly Raid chest, we've found out that the Raid objectives award you with Raid loot options in Shadowlands, giving you extra shots at that elusive trinket or weapon from the raid!

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Legendary Recipes, called Memories of the Runecarver, will need to be collected in order to craft your Legendary and they have started to drop on the Shadowlands Beta. There are 200 Memories of the Runecarver being added, split among all the classes, and the community has been hard at work looking for the sources of these Legendaries! This post contains everything that is known about the Memory of the Runecarver drops so far.

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Blizzard has posted a preview of the Shadowlands update for the WoW Companion app which will release when Shadowlands goes live. You'll be able to manage your Shadowlands adventures (missions table), view your Callings quests (emissaries), as well leave some support for Legion and Battle for Azeroth's systems.

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In today's build, Blizzard has changed the Experience table, the table that determines the experience required to reach each level. Overall the biggest change was an increase in the experience required to level from level 50 (current 120) and the new level cap of 60. The experience required was increased by over 30% compared to the previous Shadowlands build.

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The previous controversial toy Mirror of Envious Dreams, which allowed you to change your appearance to your class' Tier 3 look, received a 2-hour cooldown with today's build. This no longer allows players to just keep the tier 3 appearance indefinitely.

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Today's Shadowlands Beta build revealed all the Legendary Power Recipes drops from Castle Nathria. This includes many Legendary Power recipes off the final two bosses, Stone Legion Generals and Sire Denathrius, so if you want these recipes in Shadowlands, you'll need to kill these bosses at least once!

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In this latest Shadowlands Beta build, The Battle for Azeroth legendary cloak proc, Draconic Empowerment, now requires the Heart of Azeroth in the same manner that Essences and Azerite bonuses do. Because the Heart's effects are disabled in Shadowlands zones, that means the proc should no longer activate in Shadowlands content.

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Blizzard is opening a special level 60 endgame content realm on the Shadowlands beta! This realm will allow you to test fully unlocked soulbinds, all legendaries, Mythic Keystone dungeons, changing covenants, and more.

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Now that Mythic+ Dungeons are active on the Shadowlands Beta, we can confirm that the Covenant Dungeon Bonuses are active in Mythic+. With at least one member of your party of the required Covenant, you'll be able to activate a bonus to help your party complete the Mythic+ dungeon!

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Season 1 of Shadowlands should have the Prideful Seasonal Affix for all keystones above Level 10 and we're going over how the Prideful affix works on the Shadowlands Beta. Currently, it's very similar to a single target Reaping affix, but when the mob is defeated, you get a damage, mana regen and movement speed buff for a full minute, making it a fantastic risk/reward affix that's a ton of fun!

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Onyxia has been defeated by a trio of players in WoW Classic--the world first group to complete this achievement! While Onyxia was also defeated by three players in vanilla WoW, this was done after the release of Naxxramas.

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Following their extended Realm Connection maintenance, Blizzard has announced the results of today's connections. Besides canceling the connection between Hyjal and Proudmoore, two groups of realms weren't connected due to technical complications, while the other four were connected without any issues.

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In recent builds, there have been changes to how secondary stats scale in Shadowlands. Likely in an effort to fight against end-of-expansion scaling for some stats, these changes will make it harder for players to reach incredibly high secondary stats in Shadowlands in beyond.

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Horde on the Gandling-EU server took over Ironforge yesterday, locking down the capital city to prevent Alliance players from turning in the material needed for the Ahn'Qiraj war effort. Like some of the other faction infighting we've covered, this battle is in response to one guild trying to work against the rest of the server, with their opposition banding together to ensure it doesn't happen.

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Blizzard has posted a new blog about ray tracing in Shadowlands, and all the graphical improvements which come with it - from additional light sources, shadow-casting lights, and more realistic shadows to help bring the World of Warcraft to life.

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In this ultimate episode of the state of healers series, we'll explore Shadowlands Holy Paladin, the most changed healer to date. These devout and stalwart followers of the Light, wield their faith as a weapon to revitalize their comrades and wage a righteous war against all forms of evil. If called upon, these dogmatic lightbound soldiers will make the ultimate sacrifice laying down their own lives in service of the greater good.

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Keystone Masters is back! This tournament will have a similar MDI-style format with a few modifications to spice things up a bit. Similar to MDI, there will be a period of sign-ups and time trials, followed by a live two-day tournament.

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Going into [b]Shadowlands[/b], many new spells are receiving a hard-target cap, limiting the AoE damage capability of certain classes. We've released a guide that goes through all the known information about AoE damage and healing spells, noting how many targets each of these abilities can hit in the [b]Shadowlands[/b] expansion. We also explain the different types of target caps in Shadowlands including Soft-Caps, Hard-Caps and Square Root scaling and go over how the hidden 20/6 rule works.

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Going into Shadowlands, many new spells are receiving a hard-target cap, limiting the AoE damage capability of certain classes. We've released a guide that goes through all the known information about AoE damage and healing spells, noting how many targets each of these abilities can hit in the [b]Shadowlands[/b] expansion. We also explain the different types of target caps in Shadowlands including Soft-Caps, Hard-Caps and Square Root scaling and go over how the 20/6 rule works.

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Earlier this month we highlighted the extraordinary Ny'alotha themed Hunter tier set concept art made by amateur concept artist Sercan ร–zyurt, aka Lordozy. Over the last few weeks, World of Warcraft specialized artist has released several more class-themed tier sets, themed after the Old Gods of patch 8.3 and Ny'alotha, the Waking City.

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The Shadowlands pre-patch is a time when players can experience class changes and system revamps from the upcoming expansion before new quests and end-game content are available. We've put together a guide detailing what's available with the pre-patch.

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Game Director Ion Hazzikostas has responded to players concerned about Legion content overtuned on the Shadowlands PTR. While players may feel slightly weaker without corruptions, tuning and scaling on the PTR is not yet final. It's intended that level 50 players in the pre-patch can basically solo the same things they could at 120 in BFA.

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Blizzard released an Engineer's Workshop talking about the inner workings of the Adventures feature, the spiritual successor to the mission tables of the past few expansions. This feature is being simultaneously developed for mobile and PC!

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Blizzard has made an update regarding Health Potions in Shadowlands - they will now have a 5 minute cooldown, but can be used multiple times per encounter. Healthstones will continue to be on a separate cooldown and once again restore 20% health, now on a 3 minute cooldown. Additionally, the Phial of Serenity is also on a separate cooldown, meaning Kyrian players can have three different healing consumables per encounter!

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Since Phase 5 released, players have been banned for trolling, griefing, and even mass reporting other players, but now we have players banned for farming too much linen cloth! The players, determined to prove their innocence even went so far as to visit the Blizzard offices in Versailles, France, though they were closed at the time due to the current work from home environment.

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The Afterlives: Bastion animated short premiered earlier today at gamescom, and now that we've had time to rewatch the cinematic a few times and ponder it, we wanted to highlight some notable moments. Was Uther's actions driven by justice or vengeance? Did Devos do the right thing in helping Uther? Would Arthas' destruction have been avoided if the Kyrian had listened to Devos? And will we see Arthas return in a future patch?

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Although they fell a bit behind other servers in the War Effort, the gates of Ahn'Qiraj have finally been opened on Fairbanks-US/PvP. Going a bit slower isn't necessary a bad thing though, as it's given the server time to amass an astounding 47 Scarab Lords across the server!

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Shadowlands may be about new content, but changes to some older quests have appeared on the Shadowlands beta as well, including an interesting change to the dialogue between Garrosh and Sylvanas during their encounter in Silverpine Forest. Their conversation takes a sharp turn with Garrosh's response to a snarky comment from Sylvanas, and although it's been nearly 10 years since Cataclysm released, that dialogue has now been changed.

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Shadowlands may be about new content, but changes to some older quests have appeared on the Shadowlands beta as well, including an interesting change to the dialogue between Garrosh and Sylvanas during their encounter in Silverpine Forest. Edit: Lead Narrative Designer Steve Danuser has explained the situation further on twitter.

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Blizzard has updated the hotfix blog to fix a bug with the interactive wine making quest Meeting their Quota in Suramar, which could not be completed since Battle for Azeroth launched.

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Following the ReadyRaider 2v2 Tournament, in which Venruki and Ziqo took first place, ReadyRaider is looking to put on an epic 3v3 tournament, with line of sight! Going live right now, the tournament will take place in pivotal locations in Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin, where players will battle it out in a 3v3 arena scenario, where the last player standing wins!

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As Shadowlands looms closer, Blizzard has released their recommendations for "minimum" and "recommended" computer specs to play in the new expansion. Overall there isn't anything new besides Processor and Graphics Cards in each category increasing by 1 or 2 generations. The one remark is Shadowlands now having SSDs as part of the "Minimum Requirements" section.

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Last week, Shadowlands Beta Build 35679 contained many class changes in addition to Covenant, Legendaries, Soulbind and Conduits updates. This build contained the return of Magic Stagger and Speed taunt for Brewmaster, a nerf to Malefic Rapture for Affliction Warlocks and there was also many blue posts about classes.

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Mists of Pandaria Timewalking is active for the week, plus you can get 50% bonus reputation gains from creatures and quests associated with the Pandaria expansion. You can also get ilvl 410 loot from Timewarped vendor loot and ilvl 425 loot from dungeons. This is a great time to grind rep for the Cloud Serpent tame book available in the Shadowlands pre-patch!

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Gathering professions appear to reward around 60% less experience in Shadowlands, which is a severe blow to the neutral and pacifist levelers which depend on that experience in lieu of completing quests or killing mobs. With two players currently racing to be the first neutral EU player to reach level 120, these changes mean they have very little time left to finish before the pre-patch makes it that much harder!

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The Engineering Battle Rez Item (Unstable Temporal Time Shifter) was used by many groups in Battle for Azeroth when they didn't have a class that could Battle Rez. However, it looks like the Engineering Battle Rez will be removed in Shadowlands, meaning you'll need to have a Death Knight, Druid or Warlock if you want to have access to a Brez.

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Today's Shadowlands Beta build contains several class and spell changes, but also a number of Covenant ability adjustments. For convenience we've highlighted them below!

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We previously covered the new weapon tokens which will drop from Castle Nathria raid content in Shadowlands, and we've now found the vendors who sell those weapons, located inside each Covenant Sanctum.

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Shadowlands is less than two months away! It's coming up fast and courtesy of Blizzard and Samsung we have a giveaway to occupy you in the meantime.

This giveaway will require you to color an outline of our rocket logo! We'd encourage you to print it out, if you can, and color it using whatever you have lying around the house (crayons, markers, paint, highlighters, beet juice, etc.). If you don't have a printer, don't fret, we'll also accept digital submissions using whatever photo editing software you'd like (Microsoft Paint?). If you print it out, once finished, scan or take a photo of it for upload to our gallery.

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The Shadowlands PvP forums are finally up and focused testing is underway. Players can test out PvP trinkets, get Honor Currency, and try out instanced PvP maps with a scaling aura to replicate end-game item level.

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We're excited to announce we have five beta accesses specifically for you lore buffs out there. All you have to do is leave a comment on this post telling us what excites you most about Afterlives: Bastion, or about Shadowlands lore at all. The five most perceptive and interesting answers, as chosen by our panel of loremasters: Perculia and DiscordianKitty, will be selected as the winners.

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The Russian sever Flamegor has amassed a record breaking 90 Scarab Lords! As far as we know, this is the largest amount of Scarab Lords on a live server, making it quite an impressive achievement!

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Before the launch of Ahn'Qiraj, Blizzard told players that War Effort materials would start automatically turning in after 30 days, in order to make sure smaller servers keep up with the pace of content. Now 38 days past, that has yet to happen and GMs have been unable to help, leaving players wondering if they'll be given any assistance at all.

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For all of Battle for Azeroth, Freehold has been one of the most popular dungeons, and with it came a whole host of strategy changes. In this article, we'll cover the hilarious cheese, the big brain clever use of game mechanics, and pivotal strategy changes throughout the history of Freehold starting in Season 1 and moving onwards into Season 4.

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Today we're highlighting another Classic feat: a 3-player kill of Onyxia, featuring a Shaman, Hunter, and Warrior. While an Alliance trio took Onyxia down in vanilla and Classic, this is the first time a Horde trio has succeeded. Congratulations!

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After a small group of guilds unexpectedly attempted to complete the War Effort at a time more convenient for themselves, the Classic Russian server Wyrmthalak engaged ten hour civil war in Ironforge before the ten hour war in Silithus.

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In this article, we will highlight Blizzard decisions about Covenants on their latest Shadowlands update. Among those decisions, Blizzard highlighted that they won't be pulling the ripcord, but adding systems and solutions to make the Covenant decision less burdensome.

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Class and spell changes for Shadowlands Beta build 35854 which includes tuning for Soulbinds, Covenants and Classes. All tank specs had some tuning changes which includes Brewmaster Monks receiveinga large nerf to Celestial Brew, Protection Paladins with a buff to Shield of the Righteous, Guardian Druid with a buff to Ironfur and Protection Warriors with a buff to their Stamina and Armor passive.

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Today's Class and Spell Changes contained several tuning adjustments and updates for various abilities, but also a handful of Soulbind changes and some Covenant Ability tuning. Notable changes include Bron's Call to Action, Demon Hunter covenant ability buffs to compensate for the reduction of their class scaling aura, and adding a duration to Summon Steward.

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Death is part of the Shadowlands, and whenever you "Release Spirit" in the Shadowlands, a short animation will play. This animation will have a different pattern and set of colours depending on your Covenant, reminding you of your Covenant choice whenever you release spirit.

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This Shadowlands Beta build has updated the Kyrian Covenant Bonus in the Necrotic Wake dungeon. Anima Orbs will now cause players to erupt AoE damage and healing every 4 seconds for a minute. In addition, the effect no longer stacks, so you'll no longer have to share Anima Orbs -- each player will get one, meaning no awkward stealing or splitting with your group!

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Today, as part of a serie of spotlight articles centered on players and guilds managing to overcome disabilities and excel at what they do, we have had the privilege of spending some time with Undaunted, from Area 52 (formerly Ner'zhul). They have been hard at work providing an environment where deaf and hard-of-hearing players can flourish and experience some of the most cutting-edge content present in the game!

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In Shadowlands, the last two bosses of the Castle Nathria raid will drop higher item level loot than the rest of the instance. On Mythic difficulty, these two raid bosses currently drop item level 233 loot, which is 7 item levels higher than loot from any other drop in Shadowlands Season 1.

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The Great Vault in Shadowlands offers many weekly objectives to complete, in order to increase your options at the piece of loot that you want. However, as Twitch streamer Tettles has found out, the Great Vault can offer duplicate items along the same row if you're unlucky.

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The Great Vault in Shadowlands offers many weekly objectives to complete, in order to increase your options at the piece of loot that you want. However, as Twitch streamer Tettles has found out, the Great Vault can offer duplicate items along the same row if you're unlucky.

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The Great Vault in Shadowlands offers many weekly objectives to complete, in order to increase your options at the piece of loot that you want. However, as Twitch streamer Tettles has found out, the Great Vault can offer duplicate items along the same row if you're unlucky. Edit: Ion has confirmed on Twitter that receiving duplicates from the Great Vault isn't intended and they are looking into how this happened.

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Last week we hosted a giveaway requiring the community to submit a drawing/coloring of our rocket outline and you all really delivered! We received over 5,000 entries and so much talent and effort was seen in those submissions. It definitely brought a smile to many of us all throughout the week and we'll be considering future giveaways with the same theme someday in the future.

Check inside to see the winners, a list of some favorites, and to view the entire submission gallery!

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Blizzard has posted some additional information about hacks and cheats in WoW Classic. They've announced that they ban over a thousand bots a day with the anti-cheat team focusing on popular botting spots such as Dire Maul.

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Battle for Azeroth's Engineering Battle Rez item was level capped at level 50 previously, but there's a new Shadowlands version that was added in this build! The item is called the Disposable Spectrophasic Reanimator and seems to act exactly the same as BFA's version, complete with the low chance that you kill yourself when using it.

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Afterlives: Revendreth presented a twisted gothic fantasy, and now Redditor NostraDavid has created a series of 4k desktop wallpapers, just like he did for the other animated shorts.

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We have a special guest article by Hidden Azeroth on how to put together the perfect Pirate Transmog! You may remember Hidden Azeroth from The (almost) Complete History of World of Warcraft in 23 Minutes.

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It's time Mythic+ enthusiasts! The Keystone Masters: FX will be held later today, September 19th, and tomorrow, September 20th. Come celebrate the final tournament for BFA, held on Blizzard's tournament realms.

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With pre-patch coming soonโ„ข, today we'd like to highlight our guide to Chromie Time, a new feature coming with Patch 9.0 that allows players to level up to 50 (Current 120) in any expansion up to BFA.

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Blizzard has posted a blog that contains many of the updates coming in the Shadowlands Pre-Patch, to help remind you of all the things that are changing. This includes a level, itemm and stat squish, a new starting experience and leveling experience, and announcing the end of the Battle for Azeroth PvP Season 4 is "soon".

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Until Shadowlands launches on October 26th/27th, Azerite Armor will still be available for use, even in the Pre-Patch. With the lack of Corruption in the Shadowlands Pre-Patch, it's worth mentioning that you'll be unable to activate the Heart of Darkness Azerite Trait in its current state.

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The Horrific Vision of Orgrimmar is back this week. This week may be your last chance to complete the Horrific Vision of Orgrimmar objective for the Mad World achievement and the Faceless One title. Good news, no Scorched Feet madness this week!

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Following the discussion about item levels from Mythic+ and Raiding, Blizzard has made a blue post discussing the big picture of loot in World of Warcraft Shadowlands and what kind of item levels you can expect from each type of content. They also note that Bonus rolls will no longer exist in Shadowlands.

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A new build is currently being deployed on the 9.0.1 PTR servers. This is the first Release Candidate build, which means we are getting close to a 9.0.1 pre-patch release date! Patch 9.0.1 was also available for background download last week.

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Rumors about a possible Warcraft 2 movie have been flying around the WoW community for a few days now. The movie might actually be a reality, as Blizzard legend Chris Metzen has tweeted about it!

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Co-founder and former Blizzard Entertainment President Mike Morhaime announced the launch of Dreamhaven, a new games company overseeing two studios: Moonshot Games and Secret Door, staffed by Blizzard Entertainment veterans with a passion for gaming.

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Blizzard has posted upcoming changes for Monks to the Shadow which includes a rework for Weapons of Order, Rising Sun Kick Rank 2 for Windwalker being restored and more! In addition, Blizzard is aware of balance concerns regarding Windwalker Monks dual wield vs 2-handed weapons and many bugs related to Storm, Earth and Fire.

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Blizzard has posted upcoming changes for Windwalker Monks to the Shadowlands Beta which includes a rework for Weapons of Order, the return of Rising Sun Kick Rank 2 and more! In addition, Blizzard is aware of balance concerns regarding Windwalker Monks dual wield vs 2-handed weapons and many bugs related to Storm, Earth and Fire.

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Today's Shadowlands build includes a number of class and spell changes, but also a whole lot of covenant changes for Death Knights, Demon Hunters, Hunters, Mages, Monks, Priests, Rogues, Shaman, and Warlocks; many of which we heard about in Blizzard's upcoming class changes posts earlier today.

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Today build added new vendors to Ardenweald and Maldraxxus, allowing players of the Night Fae and Necrolord Covenant to purchase Castle Nathria weapons. These weapons, instead of using the same look like the previsouly found Venthyr Covenant ones, have Ardenweald and Maldraxxus themed looks, matching their Covenant transmog.

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What class are you interested in playing in Shadowlands? Choosing a class or spec can be a really difficult question, especially for returning players, as so much has changed for some classes during the Shadowlands testing cycle.

With that in mind, with the help of our Class Writers, we've prepared an initial set of class guides highlighting major gameplay changes for every specialization in the Shadowlands pre-patch.

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Blizzard has pushed a late-night update to PTR and Beta that didn't bring any noticeable changes to the game, however, this build removed PTR client's Release flag, which was added in this week's build.
There is no way to know if this change has any actual meaning, but it might indicate we will have the Pre-Patch launching later than expected.

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Blizzard has announced additional realm connections for Tuesday, September 29th to complete the connections between Exodar and Medivh, and Alleria and Khadgar that was previous planned.

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IKEdit, the creator of famous fan-made cinematics like Silithus: Extinction and the recreation of the Warcraft movie trailer using WoW assets, has created a new video for Blizzard to hype up the Arena World Championship finals this weekend.

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Today we'd like to highlight a new site that has caught the attention of many players recently, especially collectors, Data for Azeroth!

This website uses information from the Blizzard API to create leaderboards and rankings for many different activities in the game, including Collected Mounts, Collected Pets, Pet Score, Honor, Achievement Points, Titles, and much more.

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We have another Classic world first, as a group of 40 Paladins cleared Molten Core on the French realm Sulfuron-EU in another outstanding example of community achievement. While 40 Paladins previously cleared the raid on the Ahn'Qiraj PTR, this is the first time it has been accomplished on live servers by players all of the same realm.

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Completing all 8 layers of the Twisting Corridors in Torghast has a very unique reward: the Corridor Creeper mount. However, the Corridor Creeper mount is very special as it can currently be used to mount in the Maw while other mounts cannot!

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An ambitious group of fans are remaking Warcraft 2 with the Warcraft 3: Reforged engine, adding new gameplay features, custom models, voice overs, story elements, quests and more, with the first four missions of Chronicles of the Second War: Tides of Darkness already available for beta testing!

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The Horrific Vision of Stormwind is back this week. This week may be your last chance to complete the Horrific Vision of Stormwind objective for the Mad World achievement and the Faceless One title. There's no Split Personality this week!

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In today's installment of the Quarterly Diablo IV Developer Update, Blizzard previewed a major revamp to the Skills and Talent systems and the Sorceress' unique Enchantment system. They additionally touched on some feedback from both the community and their internal playtests about topics they covered in their previous development blogs including itemization, Ancestral/Angelic/Demonic Power, legendaries, and End-Game Progression systems.

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The armor that you acquire from completing a Covenant Campaign now has 3 piece, 5 piece, and 8 piece set bonuses. These bonuses focus on out-of-combat regenerations, buffing your Signature primary ability, and increasing stats.

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In this week's build, Blizzard has added the transmog ensembles forBattle for Azeroth's PvP Gladiator sets to beta. These items allow players to acquire the looks from previous PvP season sets and are always added in the expansion after the set was launched. The ensembles for BFA PvP Sets are sold by Marshal Gabriel and Xander Silberman in Boralus and Mugambala respectively.

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WowUp.io is an up and coming addon manager which allows you to manage and auto-update your World of Warcraft addons, with support for Curse, Github, and Tuk/ElvUI. It's very similar to the Twitch client many players are familiar with, and offers an alternative to Cursebreaker, Overwolf, or one of the many other options available, while still including support for Classic, Retail, PTR, and Beta clients.

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The World of Warcraft's largest deaf raiding guild Undaunted (Area 52-Horde) has defeated Mythic N'Zoth, earning Cutting Edge and finishing out the expansion strong! You can see the reactions of several guild members pushing for the kill, while the game chat explodes as the raiders celebrate their hard earned victory.

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With this week's character wipe in Beta, Blizzard has added a trinket vendor containing all new trinkets from Shadowlands. For this post, we tested every trinket with a proc or on-use effect to see their animation and catalogued them below.

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Last month, a faux Wrath of the Lich King movie poster [url=https://www.wowhead.com/news=317880/fan-art-of-henry-cavill-in-arthas-movie-should-the-warcraft-movie-have-covered-t]featuring Henry Cavill as Arthas Menethil[/url] took the internet by storm, inspiring the dreams of fans everywhere. Reactions have since been overwhelmingly positive, with former Senior Vice President of Story and Franchise Development Chris Metzen, Senior Writer Christie Golden, and Associate Narrative Designer Anne Stickney also voicing their support of the role.

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Last month, a faux Wrath of the Lich King movie poster featuring Henry Cavill as Arthas Menethil took the internet by storm, inspiring the dreams of fans everywhere. Reactions have since been overwhelmingly positive, even among Blizzard devs, with Chris Metzen, Christie Golden, and Anne Stickney also voicing their support of the role.

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In the latest Shadowlands Beta build, Blizzard has moved the location of some Potency Conduit slots in the Soulbind trees to prevent certain Covenants from unlocking triple Potency slots weeks earlier than others. However, even after these changes, Necrolords unlock a triple Potency option the fastest, likely weeks before the slowest Covenant, Venthyr.

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The Horrific Vision of Orgrimmar is back. This week is your very last chance to complete the Mad World achievement and the Faceless One title but you must have already completed the solo 5-mask Stormwind objective in the past. Good news, no Scorched Feet madness this week!

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A new PTR build for Classic WoW just appeared, titled 1.13.6.36149. Following previous naming conventions, with Classic WoW itself being patch 1.13, this would point toward the launch of Phase 6 and Naxxramas as the final raid tier of Classic WoW!

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The latest Shadowlands Beta build has added a skip to the Covenant Intro Questline for alts that are familiar with World Quests, the Covenant Sanctum, Adventures and the Maw. This new skip will likely save you at least 30 minutes on a fresh level 60 character!

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Shadowlands is undergoing a leveling squish, but thanks to the addition of Chromie Time it also introduces new approaches to leveling, allowing players to pick the expansion they want and play through a fully scaling story experience. So when presented with seven different expansion choices, which one is fastest, and which one is right for you? Whether you're looking for the fastest possible route or a relaxing stroll down nostalgia lane, there's an option for everyone coming in the upcoming expansion.

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