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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.
Tettles has written a Raider.IO score guide which will give you some tips and advice when trying to raise your IO score.
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.
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.
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!
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.
For Wowhead Weekly #237, Annie and Perc chat about the Shadowlands beta with special guest Preach, who recently conducted a livestream conversation with Ion Hazzikostas on Covenants.
The CC break trinket will be returning in Shadowlands as a powerful PvP trinket that comes exclusively from PvP.
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.
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.
This build also contains a couple changes to Demon Hunter, Paladin, Priest and Warlock Legendary Powers.
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!
Blizzard has published a list of things to do before Shadowlands, including things going away at launch vs the pre-patch. The Brutosaur will not be available to purchase for gold in the pre-patch.
One of the new raids released in Classic WoW Phase 5 is Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj, a new 20-man raid instance. In AQ20, some of the most sought-after loot drops are books that teach you new max ranks for several spells! In this post, we will go through all of the new book drops and what spell ranks do they teach.
While most Soulbinds and Conduits are generally understood from a fairly straightforward tooltip, for Necrolords the Volatile Solvents and Ultimate Form Soulbind abilities for Plague Deviser Marileth are a source of hidden power that can be confusing as to how these augments for Fleshcraft exactly work.
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.
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.
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.
Battle for Azeroth introduced the seasonal affix to Mythic Plus. Beginning at Keystone Level 10, dungeons would be modified by a high-impact affix themed around the current raid. In this article, we'll analyze the four seasonal affixes of BFA and discuss the future of the seasonal affix going into Shadowlands.
With Phase 5 coming to Classic WoW this week, there's a step before players can venture inside Ahn'Qiraj and face the Old God C'Thun and its minions: The War Effort and the 10 Hour War. To help players navigate these events, we've prepared guides to explain everything that is happening before the Gates of Ahn'Qiraj open.
Blizzard has shared some assorted minor changes coming to Druids in an upcoming Shadowlands beta build.
For Wowhead Weekly #238, Annie and Perc discuss the latest Shadowlands beta updates and new SDCC merch.
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!
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.
Blizzard has unveiled new details for the Shadowlands conduit system.
Blizzard has unveiled new details for the Shadowlands conduit system.
Earlier today, it was confirmed that Conduit power will scale with Item Level. Each of the new Conduits added in today's build once again have 15 ranks. At max rank, this includes 60% increased duration on Blessing of Autumn, 50% extra duration on Trueshot, Avenger's Shield causing the target to take 45% more Holy damage and much more!
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.
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.
In the latest Shadowlands Beta build, an early implementation of the option leave and rejoin a Covenant has been added.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
Since the Great Vault UI and Objectives were found on the Shadowlands Beta with the datamined strings, many players have speculated how the Item Levels will be awarded for the Mythic+ objectives. We've now found additional details directly from the Great Vault UI which indicates how the Mythic+ Item Level will be determined.
For Wowhead Weekly #239, Annie and Perc discuss the latest Shadowlands beta updates like Great Vault Loot and Conduit changes.
Sercan รzyurt, 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.
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.
Blizzard will continue with Castle Nathria Raid Testing on August 6th and 7th. As this will occur after the beta character wipe, to facilitate testing, players who have not committed themselves to a Covenant can speak with Acquirer Taโest inside Castle Nathria to temporarily bind themselves to one of the four factions.
The latest Classic hotfixes have changed the Scepter quest items to epic quality.
The Pagle realm had an extended version of the 10 Hour War - theirs lasted for 13 hours, due to a bug which has now been fixed by Blizzard.
The Pagle realm had an extended version of the 10 Hour War - theirs lasted for 13 hours, due to a bug which has now been fixed by Blizzard.
Blizzard has detailed the overhaul to Heirloom Bonuses in Shadowlands--they will not grant experience buffs.
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.
Following the Bloomberg report that Blizzard employees created a spreadsheet to share salaries and document being underpaid in the video games industry, we now have a follow-up report from Bloomberg that Blizzard workers are creating a list of workplace demands to present to management, ranging from fair pay to increased sick time.
More Legendary Runecarving powers have been added for Rogues this week!
We've found a handful of updates for Hunter pets, with additional Hunter pet families and new abilities for the now tameable Courser, Camel, and Mammoth families. We've also found two spell books which seem to allow Hunters to tame Pandaren Cloud Serpents and Undead beasts, although they don't seem to have any new abilities just yet.
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!
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.
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.
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.
In the latest Shadowlands Beta build, the Night Fae Covenant bonuses have been added to the Mists of Tirna Scithe Dungeon, allowing Night Fae players to give unique benefits to their party. With at least one Night Fae member in your group, you'll be able to open a new route, activate checkpoints, and get a 10% stat buff for your party.
Super Squirt is live for US realms this Sunday, May 3rd! Super Squirt is a rare occurrence where the Pet Battle Event lines up with Squirt being active in the Garrison Menagerie. This day is great for leveling battle pets.
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 oOๅคง้ปOo, also has several other pieces of beautiful art definitely worth checking out.
Blizzard has announced upcoming server connections for NA servers, currently scheduled for August 13th.
A Kyrian bonus has been found in the Necrotic Wake dungeon, allowing Kyrian players to provide their party with a buff. This expels 20 Anima orbs to split amongst the party and if your party allows a single player to have them all, that player will have an 80% haste, movement speed, healing done and damage reduction bonus for a period of time.
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.
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.
A new cosmic map was released on the new 9.0.1 PTR build, including Shadowlands!
Build 35522 is being deployed in the Shadowlands Beta and PTR servers.
Legendary Power Tuning for Shadowlands Build 35522 - Timeworn Dreamcatcher, Celestial Breath, Sephuz
Several legendary powers have received tuning updates in Shadowlands build 35522.
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.
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.
Shadowlands Pre-Patch Scourge Invasion: Undead Bosses from Northrend Return and Drop Their Epic Loot
We have datamined many epic items that are part of the Shadowlands pre-patch event. These drop from special Undead in Icecrown, such as Noth the Plaguebringer, who are returning in the pre-patch.
Blizzard has posted a lot of Arcane Mage changes for the latest Shadowlands build.
August 11th hotfixes include an adjustment for Cataclysm Timewalking starting a day early in Europe.
Blizzard has announced additional NA server realm connections which will require a special maintenance period on August 20th.
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.
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!
A Covenant Bonus has been found in Halls of Atonement dungeon, allowing Venthyr players to control Loyal Stoneborn creatures! Loyal Stoneborn Trash can be found throughout Halls of Atonement and a Venthyr player can turn these trash mobs friendly, and causing them to fight alongside the party! This also gives a 10% damage reduction buff.
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.
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!
A Covenant Bonus has been found in the Plaguefall dungeon, allowing Necrolord players to use their Fleshcraft ability on the corpses of slimes, granting powerful buffs for the party! Different slimes grant different buffs including a 25% Haste, a 25% Damage Reduction aura and a AoE damage proc. This may be the most powerful Covenant bonus in a dungeon so far!
A Covenant Bonus has been found in the Plaguefall dungeon, allowing Necrolord players to use their Fleshcraft ability on the corpses of slimes, granting powerful buffs for the party! Different slimes grant different buffs including a 25% Haste, a 25% Damage Reduction aura and a AoE damage proc. This may be the most powerful Covenant bonus in a dungeon so far!
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!
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.
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.
Blizzard has posted upcoming changes for Feral Druids in Shadowlands, including a new upgrade to Shred.
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.
Blizzard has posted more changes for Priests in Shadowlands including damage and insanity tuning, updates on Legacy of the Void, and removing the Insanity requirement for Void Eruption.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Earlier this month we highlighted the extraordinary Ny'alotha themed Hunter tier set concept art made by amateur concept artist Sercan รzyurt, 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.
Blizzard has announced Afterlives, an original Shadowlands animated series. It will premiere at gamescom 2020.
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.
Sloot is hosting a Shadowlands Rogue Roundtable on his Twitch channel with Mystler, UndadTV and Kojiyama.
Blizzard has posted some upcoming changes to Unholy Death Knights on the Shadowlands beta, including a new rank upgrade for Apocalypse.
Blizzard has posted a blue post detailing the return of Maelstrom for Elemental Shaman!
Blizzard has detailed upcoming changes to Warrior covenant abilities in the latest Shadowland beta build.
More Female Human customizations have been discovered in Shadowlands Build 35679, with many Eyebrow customizations added to Human Females.
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!
Previously split into Vanquisher, Conquerer and Protector, the class groupings for old Tier sets have been set aside for Castle Nathria as the raid's Weapon Tokens have been updated with new Class Groups. Find out if you're an Abominable, Mystic, Venerated or Zenith weapon class and what other classes you're paired with!
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.
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?
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.
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.
We previously speculated that Teeming and Skittish were being replaced by the 3 new affixes in Shadowlands. Blizzard has now confirmed that Spiteful, Inspiring and Storming are officially replacing Teeming and Skittish in Season 1 of Shadowlands Mythic+.
Sloot is hosting a Shadowlands Ret Paladin Roundtable on his Twitch channel with Mb, Bolas, and Rebdull.
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!
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.
Blizzard has announced additional realm connections coming on September 3rd for EU realms.
The Impressive Influence reputation buff returns for the month of September, including the Patch 8.3 factions!
Relics of the Past are a new profession system coming in the Shadowlands pre-patch, allowing players to scale old crafting gear up or down to various item levels. This has led players to look into how viable vendor-flipping upgraded crafted gear will be, which has revealed some broken scaling--a level 50 Tuxedo Jacket sells for 34,000 gold!
For Wowhead Weekly #241, Annie and Perc discuss the latest Shadowlands updates llike the release date, Afterlives: Bastion cinematic, and the Prince Arthas statue.
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.
Battle Shout, Intellect and Fortitude Scrolls are looking like they're not carrying over to Shadowlands. This means that if you want 5% Intellect, 5% Attack Power or 5% Stamina, you'll need to bring a Mage, Warrior or Priest respectively to your party or raid. No more scrolls to make up for a missing class!
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!
Top guild <Pieces> is hosting a special World First Raiding Episode on their show Piece of Mind, reviewing BFA, the growth of RWF, and Shadowlands expectations.
Blizzard has updated the text of the System Specifications for Shadowlands to clarify that minimum Storage requirements include 100GB available space on SSD or HDD.
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!
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.
This Shadowlands Build contains a level 50 cap to many old potions that players were still using which including the Skystep and Lightfoot Potions. A new Speed potion has been added to replace Skystep and Lightfoot potions in Shadowlands, but unfortunately the bonus movement speed granted is only 70% (down from 150%).
Blizzard has released a blue post on Shaman for the latest Shadowlands build, clarifying that the Maelstrom Weapon tooltip has errors. You should still have a 10 maximum stack of Maelstrom Weapon.
Blizzard has published a blue post on Protection Paladins in the latest Shadowlands build.
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.
We've datamined a list of class abilities that have received GCD changes in Shadowlands Beta Build 35755. We found Sweeping Strikes' GCD has been reduced to 750 milliseconds. Edit: Blizzard has announced that Storm, Earth, and Fire, Coordinated Assault and Trueshot have been removed from the GCD as well.
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.
Afterlives: Maldraxxus released today, showcasing Draka's experience in the Shadowlands, first as a champion of the House of Eyes before eventually rising to Baroness of the House of the Chosen. During the cinematic, playres may notice a familiar scene involving Felguards from Harbingers: Illidan, leading to speculation that the Necrolords may have fought against the Burning Legion.
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.
Patch 8.3 hotfixes for September 3rd include a fix for the bug that allowed Mechagnomesโ Emergency Failsafe cooldown to be removed by immunities.
Blizzard has announced they are creating a new mount for everyone who owns Shadowlands, and they are asking players to vote and choose the mount.
For Wowhead Weekly #243, Annie and Perc discuss the latest Shadowlands updates like the Afterlives: Maldraxxus cinematic and the upcoming free mount.
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.
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.
Blizzard has announced more NA realm connections for September 10th.
Blizzard has announced more EU realm connections for September 9th.
The Darkmoon Faire is back in town for September 2020, providing the experience and reputation buffs Darkmoon Top Hat and WHEE! which stack with the Winds of Wisdom and Impressive Influence buffs. This is the last time you can take advantage of the BFA buff stacking, as they are going away in the Shadowlands pre-patch.
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.
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.
This build has added a lot of Shadowlands music pieces including Sylvanas Free Will. Keep checking back as we add more!
Blizzard has announced they are testing special Torghast events: Beasts of Prodigum, Chorus of Dead Souls, Unbridled Darkness.
Early on in the Shadowlands datamining, many Covenant Armor tints were found. Now, the sources for most of them were added in the latest Shadowlands build!
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!
Following the premiere of Afterlives: Ardenweald, we're analyzing the finer points of the cinematic. This one is full of lore beats, starting with Ursoc's sacrifice paralleling Ysera's story, serving as a backdrop for the greater issues plaguing the Shadowlands as the anima drought has crippled Ardenweald.
Sloot is hosting a Shadowlands Balance Druid Roundtable on his Twitch Channel with Tettles, Sang, and Goop.
ver since the Council of Blood showed up in Castle Nathria's dungeon journal, players have been excited about the dance intermission. The dance mechanic has now been reworked, removing the Vehicle Bar and giving you full control of your character. You'll have to complete a synchronized dance with your raid!
The Jenafur Battle Pet has finally been found by the Secret Finding Discord Community, after almost an entire year of searching! Our guide is updated with the final solve.
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!
With the recent development update for Shadowlands, Ion Hazzikostas stated that the team agrees with the constructive feedback regarding PvP itemization. In this article, Mystzr analyzes the PvP gearing systems of the past and what could be done in the future as we await the details of the PvP vendor rework on the Shadowlands beta.
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.
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!
Blizzard has pushed the data for Shadowlands pre-patch to the background downloader of the Battle.net Application.
Shadowlands Pre-Patch Build 35944 is now available and we've datamined the class and spell changes. This is a 9.0.1 PTR build and there could be more updates to the Shadowlands Beta at a future point. This build includes a buff to Moonkin DoTs, and adds a hard-target cap to Demon Hunter's Death Sweep.
Shadowlands Pre-Patch Build 35944 is now available and we've datamined the class and spell changes. This is a 9.0.1 PTR build and there could be more updates to the Shadowlands Beta at a future point. This build includes a buff to Moonkin DoTs, and removes the dodge chance from Demon Hunter's Death Sweep.
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.
Blizzard has temporarily disabled the Torghast, Tower of the Damned feature on beta.
For the latest Economy round-up, we look at WoD crafted transmogs potentially going away in Shadowlands and why you should make DK/DHs before the pre-patch and level squish.
Today we are highlighting another topic from our [url=https://www.wowhead.com/what-to-do-before-shadowlands]What to do Before Shadowlands[/url] guide: Completing Hard Mode Operation: Mechagon and Hertz Locker.
Blizzconline is February 19th and 20th, 2021.
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".
For Wowhead Weekly #245, Annie and Perc discuss the latest news updates like virtual BlizzCon and the end-of-season warning, hinting at the Shadowlands pre-patch!
This week, we have a special bonus collab with Nobbel examining the datamined audio of The Primus, the master strategist and tactician in Maldraxxus.
We've learned how to upgrade the Item Level of Legendaries in Shadowlands! While you can craft a Legendary directly at the Item Level that you want, if you want the Legendary's effect earlier, you can initially craft it at a lower item level and then upgrade it with using additional base crafting items.
Blizzard has announced more NA realm connections for September 24 and 25.
In a post discussing Shadowlands PvE loot today, Blizzard confirmed that bonus rolls no longer exist in Shadowlands as their value is provided with the Great Vault.
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.
The Xorothian Cultists are channeling once again! Back in Legion, some of their channel durations lined up with patch updates, so players are wondering if this new cast predicts the Shadowland pre-patch on October 6th. While the speculation is fun, we have a detailed explanation on how the channeling works, which debunks prediction theories.
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.
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.
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.
Blizzard has announced they will fix the Improved Weapon Totems talent bug in a future Classic update.
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.
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.
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.
Having raised over $11,000 so far, streamer, speed leveler, and mental health advocate DesMephisto is continuing his weekly Ahead of the Curve giveaways, now in support of the California Fire Foundation, which provides emotional and financial assistance to firefighters, their families, and the communities they protect.
Lorekeeper.net, SA Gamer, and Cybersport conducted an interview with Lead Narrative Designer on Maldraxxus in Shadowlands, discussing what happens to alternate universe souls and possible reunions for Draka.
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.
For Wowhead Weekly #246, Annie and Perc discuss the latest news updates like Mike Morhaime forming a new game company and covenant-specific weapons from the Castle Nathria raid.
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.
Blizzard is conducting a stress test on the Shadowlands PTR tomorrow, September 30th.
After being reverted to a test candidate late last week, today's build re-added the Release flag to the PTR client.
Spell and class changes for Shadowlands Pre-Patch Build 36074 which includes a fix for the Heart of Darkness Azerite Trait to always grant extra stats after the removal of Corruption, a nerf to Brewmaster Monks' cooldown reduction granted by Keg Smash, and another buff to Vanguard granting Protection Warriors more armor.
With BFA drawing to a close soon, Raider.IO has launched a neat feature recapping your character's Raid and Mythic+ statistics over the expansion.
Blizzard has announced that they are actively in the process of rebalancing Covenant abilities.
Blizzard has made a bluepost buffing Outlaw Rogues' AoE capability to match that of Assassination and Subtlety by allowing Blade Flurry to apply poisons to every target hit. Between the Eyes also now grants increased critical strike chance rather than critical hit damage in order to better work with Blade Flurry.
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.
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.
Blizzard has clarified some mechanics for the Night Fae Covenant ability Soulshape.
Blizzard has announced that AQ turn-ins will autocomplete to 100% on October 6th, for realms that have still not finished supply turn-ins.
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.
Blizzard has announced that they will be changing the Weekly Cooldown on Conduits to a new system in the upcoming build.
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.
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.
The latest BFA hotfixes include a fix for turning in "A Cycle of Hatred " while also on the quest to unlock Vulpera.
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.
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.
Blizzard has announced a hotfix coming to WoW Classic honor calculations. Deleted player characters will no longer count towards the PvP pool.
Hopefully you haven't had enough of class changes for today, as the Shadowlands Pre-Patch on the PTR has received a fresh set of hotfixes. These changes include a buff to Balance Druids, a reduced cooldown of Monk's Fortifying Brew and Holy Paladin's Holy Shock, and a change to Disc Priest's Schism!
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.