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We've updated our Soulbind Calculator to include the additional conduit slots and abilities being added on the patch 9.1 PTR! Each of the 12 Soulbinds now has three additional tiers of progression, including another potency slot available to all paths, a choice between supplementary abilities leading to Endurance or Finesse conduit slots, and a brand new capstone ability for each tree.
With Patch 9.1, players will be able to earn flying in Shadowlands. However, this time around, you will not need to complete a Pathfinder achievement to earn Shadowlands flying - Instead, Shadowlands flying is shortly after unlocking Korthia's Hub. Edit: Blizzard clarified when Flying will be learned.
With the first 9.1 PTR build 38312 that arrived on April 13th, we asked our class writers to provide additional context on how these changes are likely to affect their specializations in Patch 9.1 Chains of Domination. For Balance Druids, Tettles gives his opinion on the adjustments to 3 talents and retuning to one of their best legendaries, Balance of All Things.
With the first 9.1 PTR build 38312 that arrived on April 13th, we asked our class writers to provide additional context on how these changes are likely to affect their specializations in Patch 9.1 Chains of Domination. Jak gives his opinion on the adjustments to Spirit Shell and Symbol of Hope for Holy and Discipline, Ellipsis provides insight into the nerf to Void Bolt via the tuning to Dissonant Echoes, and Loozy describes the impact of the buff to Chaos Bolt.
Today we're previewing four new Baubleworms, coming with the Patch 9.1 PTR! One of these pets costs 10,000 Polished Pet Charms!
With the first 9.1 PTR build 38312 that arrived on April 13th, we asked our class writers to provide additional context on how these changes are likely to affect their specializations in Patch 9.1 Chains of Domination. For Affliction Warlocks, Xyronic gives his opinion on the adjustments to several baseline abilities, the legendary Sacrolash's Dark Strike, and one of their best conduits Focused Malignancy.
More information has been datamined about the Shard of Domination gems, which confirms them as special raid gems. You'll need to kill raid bosses to earn them and they can only be socketed in specific raid drops, similar to the Sha-Touched gems from Mists of Pandaria, and are likely part of the effort to make raid loot best for raid.
Below we have an early look at Tazavesh: the Veiled Market, the Broker mega-dungeon coming in Patch 9.1.
With the first 9.1 PTR build 38312 that arrived on April 13th, we asked our class writers to provide additional context on how these changes are likely to affect their specializations in Patch 9.1 Chains of Domination. For Fire Mages, Preheat gives his opinion on the adjustments changes to Flamestrike, two talents, and one of their best conduits Infernal Cascade.
Rextroy uses General Draven's ability to one-shot players.
For Wowhead Weekly #266, Annie and Perc recap all of the big announcements from the Patch 9.1 PTR.
New Warrior Covenant Legendaries in Patch 9.1 PTR Build 38312 - Warrior Guide Writers Review Effects
New Covenant-Specific Class Legendaries were discovered for Warriors in the first 9.1 PTR build 38312 that arrived on April 13th. Our Warrior writers will examine their four new legendaries to see how they compare.
Last week, Blizzard increased the number of anima rewards given to players, based on how many buildings characters have unlocked. In this post, we will explore what situations players can expect benefits from the Anima changes and what situations you shouldn't upgrade your buildings and just farm the anima normally.
Welcome to Wowhead's Patch 9.0.5 Shadowlands DPS Tier List for raids. With the help of our class writers, we've compiled an up to date Tier List for raiding in Patch 9.0.5, taking into account the bosses in Mythic Castle Nathria and ranking all the DPS specs on how they are performing in the current raid tier.
The first Patch 9.1 PTR Build was released last week and it contained class changes, new Covenant Legendaries and new Soulbind Traits and we're recapping all the class changes! For all these changes, we also asked our Class Writers to give their opinions on the tuning changes, which we're highlighting in this post!
Welcome to Wowhead's Patch 9.0.5 Shadowlands Healer Tier List for raids. With the help of our class writers, we've compiled an up to date Tier List for raiding in Patch 9.0.5, taking into account the bosses in Mythic Castle Nathria and ranking all the Healer specs on how they are performing in the current raid tier.
Blizzard will close the character transfer service in WoW Classic on April 30th to prepare the systems which will handle snapshotting WoW Classic player-characters for Burning Crusade and WoW Classic Era realms.
All of the armor tints for the Sanctum of Domination Raid and Season 2 PvP Armor are now in the PTR Dressing Room. These sets share appearances with the 9.0 legendary sets, but come in a greater variety of tints.
Welcome to Wowhead's Patch 9.0.5 Shadowlands Tank Tier List for raids. With the help of our class writers, we've compiled an up to date Tier List for raiding in Patch 9.0.5, taking into account the bosses in Mythic Castle Nathria and ranking all the Tank specs on how they are performing in the current raid tier.
Special Rainbow Effects Added to Flawless Amethyst Baubleworm - 10,000 Polished Pet Charm Battle Pet
The new Flawless Amethyst Baubleworm battle pet now gives you a rainbow trail buff occasionally, after feedback given that the pet is not unique for the cost.
Raider.io interviews the renowned player who makes his own game out of World of Warcraft, Rextroy.
With the second 9.1 PTR build 38394 that arrived on April 21st, we asked our class writers to provide additional context on how these new class changes are likely to affect their specializations in Patch 9.1 Chains of Domination. For Havoc Demon Hunters, Kib0 gives his opinion on the adjustments changes to Chaos Strike, Demon's Bite, and Unbound Chaos.
Raider.io Chinese Community Liaison and Douyu streamer Neo interviewed World of Warcraft Shadowlands Game Director Ion Hazzikostas, covering topics including class balance, refunding legendaries, and the upcoming Mythic+ rating system.
LingHunFuSu (aka Neo), a Douyo streamer and Community figure recently interviewed Game Director Ion Hazzikostas. One question touched on a subject related to Burning Crusade Classic Beta and Shadowlands 9.1 Public Test Realm doing testing simultaneously, and what the release of these two content patches would look like.
Blizzard will be added a Mythic+ Rating to Shadowlands in Patch 9.1, which is very similar to Raider.IO score. Ion Hazzikostas has revealed more information about the Mythic+ rating system in an interview detailing score bonuses for doing keys on both Tyrannical and Fortified and the ability to see other player's score when they apply for your dungeon groups.
Rextroy in known for setting up fun challenges to see how they play out. His latest challenge is the The Stone Legion DPS Challenge.
With the second 9.1 PTR build 38394 that arrived on April 21st, we asked our class writers to provide additional context on how these new class changes are likely to affect their specializations in Patch 9.1 Chains of Domination. For Subtlety Rogues, Mystler gives his opinion on the adjustments to Backstab, Black Powder, Shadow Techniques, Shuriken Storm, Gloomblade, and Feint.
The final day of the Mythic Dungeon International Global Finals is now live! Tune in to watch Championship Sunday of the MDI, as the remaining teams try to prove they're the fastest at completing Shadowlands dungeons.
Blizzard is implementing a core Raider.IO feature: Mythic+ Scores to Patch 9.1! This is massive news for the Mythic+ and dungeon community as Raider.io is very popular and the core feature of Raider.io is their scoring system to assist in forming groups. In this article, we give our thoughts on the upcoming system.
New Paladin Covenant Legendaries in Patch 9.1 PTR Build 38394 - Paladin Guide Writers Review Effects
New Covenant-Specific Class Legendaries were discovered for Paladins in build 38394 of the 9.1 PTR that arrived on April 21st. Our Paladin Guide Writers will examine their three new legendaries to provide an early look at how they compare.
For Patch 9.1 PTR Build 38394, the second 9.1 PTR Build, we've now datamined over 750 additional uncategorized spells that have been added to the database for you to look through. We've compiled them all into one post and you can try to find any secrets, upcoming systems, interesting lore tidbits and more!
For Wowhead Weekly #267, Annie and Perc recap the latest 9.1 PTR developments including new covenant chapters featuring Thrall, Vashj, and the Dreadlords, as well as recap the latest Ion interview.
Patch 9.1 Chains of Domination is doing a PvP Talent refresh, adding many new PvP talents and reworking old ones. There are some amazing PvP Talents that have been added to the PTR so far, and in this article, we're highlighting some of the best new PvP Talent animations including Ice Wall, Bonds of Fel and more!
Blizzard has announced that the Karazhan raid testing planned for April 27th has been cancelled.
Raider.IO is holding a special event called Break The Meta all this week, in which they're giving away prizes to groups which complete high level Mythic+ keystone dungeons with non-meta specializations.
We've gotten a first look at the revamped Torghast feature in Patch 9.1! With up to 6 new negative torments to hinder your run and a score streak bar that rewards chain killing, you'll try to complete the run as fast as possible, killing lots of mobs and avoiding dying to achieve a 4+ star run to unlock the next layer. The length of Torghast may be shorter next patch with the boss spawning on Floor 5.
The Burning Crusade Classic is on the horizon and you can help speed things along by participating in beta! Report those bugs, give that feedback, have fun while doing so with a beta key, courtesy of Blizzard! We have 200 keys to give away and we're offering four different ways to win across our social media accounts, including another Rocket Coloring opportunity! Each entry method will have its own prize pool of 50 keys. You can participate in each method once, earning yourself four chances at a key, but no one may win more than one key.
Torghast is undergoing a revamp in Patch 9.1 and one of the new features is Torghast Perks, a talent tree system that grants players permanent buffs in Torghast similar to Horrific Visions' talent tree. You can talent into rerolls on Anima Powers, receive Blessings at the beginning of your run, make bosses much easier and more!
Epic Sax Guy from Eurovision has been recreated in our model viewer with Prince Renethal.
We have 200 keys to give away and we're offering four different ways to win across our social media accounts, including another Rocket Coloring opportunity! Each entry method will have its own prize pool of 50 keys. You can participate in each method once, earning yourself four chances at a key, but no one may win more than one key.
The new Legendary upgrade currency, Soul Cinders, now drops from Torghast and the Maw allowing us to see how much we get per week. We've also datamined the amount of Soul Cinders that are required to upgrade your Legendary to Rank 5 and 6, meaning we can now calculate how many weeks, it'll take to upgrade your Legendary in Patch 9.1!
The new Legendary upgrade currency, Soul Cinders, now drops from Torghast and the Maw allowing us to see how much we get per week. We've also datamined the amount of Soul Cinders that are required to upgrade your Legendary to Rank 5 and 6, meaning we can now calculate how many weeks, it'll take to upgrade your Legendary in Patch 9.1!
With the third 9.1 PTR build 38511 that arrived on April 29th, we asked our class writers to provide additional context on how these new class changes are likely to affect their specializations in Patch 9.1 Chains of Domination. For Blood Death Knight, Mandl gives their opinion on the 6% damage/healing core passive buff. For Arms Warrior, Archimtiros gives their opinion on the buffs to Mastery: Deep Wounds, Overpower, and Mortal Strike.
In one of the chapters of the Chains of Domination storyline, Vashj and Kael team up to hunt the unseen guests of the Shadowlands. When the quest was originally added last week, there were few pieces of interactions between Vashj and Kael, but as of the latest PTR build, more interactions have been added between both former allies. Story spoilers.
With the third 9.1 PTR build 38511 that arrived on April 29th, we asked our class writers to provide additional context on how these new class changes are likely to affect their specializations in Patch 9.1 Chains of Domination. For Affliction Warlock, Xyronic gives their opinion on the adjustments to Seed of Corruption, Corruption, Withering Bolt, Dark Caller, and Shadow Embrace.
With the third 9.1 PTR build 38511 that arrived on April 29th, we asked our class writers to provide additional context on how these new class changes are likely to affect their specializations in Patch 9.1 Chains of Domination. For Survival Hunters, Grayhound gives his opinion on the adjustments to Flanking Strike, Mongoose Bite, and Raptor Strike.
For Wowhead Weekly #268, Annie and Perc are joined by Nobbel87 to discuss the interesting lore developments from the 9.1 Covenant Campaign.
With the third 9.1 PTR build 38511 that arrived on April 29th, we asked our class writers to provide additional context on how these new class changes are likely to affect their specializations in Patch 9.1 Chains of Domination. For Shadow Priest, Ellipsis provides their opinion and feedback on the adjustments to Shadowflame Prism, Talbadar's Stratagem, Devouring Plague, Shadow Word: Pain, and Vampiric Touch.
Burning Crusade Classic will release on June 1st, according to Battle.net launcher screenshots shared on reddit. Users reported the images quickly disappeared, suggesting Blizzard may have accidentally pushed the advertisement early and removed it upon realizing their mistake, though so far no official confirmation has been made.
Patch 9.1 build 38511 includes a number of new changes to the Chains of Domination PTR, so we are recapping everything that was added or updated in the third Chains of Domination update. This past week's build includes buffs to Arms and Survival, Paladin covenant legendaries, and several new lore reveals!
The Chorus of Dead Souls special event is now live in Torghast! This event is super fun with friends and allows you transform into the deadly Deadsoul Chorus to overpower your enemies. Other party members can ride the Deadsoul Chorus, which allows them to benefit from other powerful Anima Powers and cast while moving!
Later today, players can test Rated Arenas and World Bosses on the Burning Crusade beta.
Players who do not correctly receive a Mythic Keystone from the Great Vault may now request one from Ta'hsup in the Hall of Holding in Oribos.
Sire Denathrius - Fixed an issue that caused Painful Memories to damage pets and guardians.
For EU servers, the Instructor's Divine Bell Mastery Trinket is now finally available from a World Quest! This is the first time in a while that this trinket has shown up on a World Quest, so if you are interested in playing a Balance Druid, it's time to head out and grab this trinket before the World Quest expires!
In an interview hosted by Screenrant, Holly Longdale and Brian Birmingham answer some burning questions the community has about the upcoming Burning Crusade Classic Launch. In the very first question in the interview, Holly Longdale shares that Arena Season 1 is coming a few weeks after the Dark Portal opens.
The Battle.net app has received an update adding more player avatars. These mostly depict Shadowlands characters, but also include Yrel from Warlords of Draenor.
Blizzard has clarified that the Chronoboon Displacer will be usable in the Burning Crusade Pre-Patch.
The latest economy wrap-up discusses the recent multi-boxing restrictions, and how much the Burning Crusade Classic services would cost in gold via WoW Token and Battle.net transfers.
With this week's 9.1 PTR build 38549 that arrived on May 4th, we asked our class writers to provide additional context on how these new class changes are likely to affect their specializations in Patch 9.1 Chains of Domination. For Balance Druids, Tettles gives his opinion on the adjustments to New Moon, Solstice, and Stellar Drift in addition to providing an update on covenant and legendary choices for Balance in 9.1.
Blizzard has announced that the PvP week in WoW Classic will end a day early due to character snapshotting.
It's time for a new PTR build! We've starting off with new global strings.
This weekend is the first ever Mythic+ Charity Pro-Am Tournament! On May 15th at 9am PST, Raider.IO will be hosting a one-day esports competition featuring 8 teams in a best of three single elimination matchup fighting over a $10,000 charity prize pool split between five worthwhile organizations.
Raider.IO's one-day Mythic+ Charity Pro-Am Tournament is underway! Come watch eight teams compete against each other to raise money for five worthwhile organizations and a charity prize pool of $10,000!
New Warlock Covenant Legendaries in Patch 9.1 PTR Build 38627 - Warlock Guide Writers Review Effects
New Covenant-Specific Class Legendaries were discovered for Warlocks in build 38627 of the 9.1 PTR that arrived on May 11th. Our Warlock Guide Writers will examine their new legendaries to provide an early look at how they compare.
With this week's 9.1 PTR build 38627 that arrived on May 11th, we asked our class writers to provide additional context on how these changes are likely to affect their specializations in Patch 9.1 Chains of Domination. For Holy Paladin, Pelinal gives his opinion on the adjustments to damage, Crusader's Might, Infusion of Light, Crusader Strike, and Flash of Light.
In an upcoming build of the Burning Crusade Classic Beta, you can set the nameplate distance between 0 and 41 yards (inclusive) by setting a certain command in the chat box.
With the Burning Crusade Classic Pre-Patch coming on May 18, 2021, we've prepared a helpful Guide to walk players through all the upcoming changes in the Pre-Patch. This Guide covers all the major changes coming in the Pre-Patch, the new Draenei and Blood Elf races, the new profession, Stat changes, Class changes, Boosted Characters, PvP Changes, and much more.
Welcome to Wowhead's Burning Crusade Classic DPS Tier List for Phase 1. Our TBCC Class Writers have come together and compiled a tier list for DPS Classes in Karazhan, Magtheridon's Lair, and Gruul's Lair, all Phase 1 Raid content in Burning Crusade Classic. If you are the type of person who likes to choose your class based on its power in the current raid, this goes over the best DPS specs in the current raid tier and an explanation on why from our Class Writers.
World Ranking Russian raid guild Exorsus has announced their retirement from competitive raiding, switch to an evening two day a week raid format. Best known for achieving top 10 world rankings in nearly every tier since Cataclysm, and the extensively used Exorsus Raid Tools addon, the Russian guild has been at the forefront of competitive raiding for almost a decade.
Blizzard has updated the Battle.net launcher to include icons and color schemes for Burning Crusade Classic.
Hello! The daily limit was a setting that we chose with great care last year, as we measured that it would impact an extremely low number of legitimate accounts, while giving us a helpful means to limit the impact of exploitative accounts before we could detect them and close them.
Blizzard has posted the initial round of expected Burning Crusade behavior that are not bugs.
Blizzard has posted a list of known issues for Burning Crusade Classic on May 18th, including the issue where Microsoft Security Essentials may detect WoWClassic.exe as a trojan.
Maintenance has been extended to 6pm PDT.
Blizzard has discovered that too much damage was required to break a root effect, and it will be adjusted before the first Arena season.
There is currently an issue that we are aware of that causes hitboxes, particularly Tauren hitboxes, to change size after being affected by polymorph effects until the affected character logs out of the game.
The Covenant Legendaries for Monk in Patch 9.1 have been revealed!
Players can now purchase the Burning Crusade Classic Deluxe Edition and the Dark Portal Pass through the Battle.net launcher and out of game shop.
Blizzard will be hotfixing the amount of Bonus Honor awarded from Burning Crusade Classic battlegrounds by a factor of 10.
Blizzard mentioned an updated LFG Tool for Burning Crusade Classic during Blizzconline, but we haven't seen any iteration of it during the Beta or Public Test Realm testing. Since the Pre-Patch release, players have discovered that cross realm whispers, grouping, shared battleground queue, and shared Instances. Could this be a feature of the upcoming LFG Tool?
Blizzard has announced this morning that they have enabled Paid Character Transfers for Burning Crusade Classic once again, following difficulties these past few days.
There was a bug in Burning Crusade Classic that made it possible to invite player-characters from other realms. The bug was fixed it several hours ago
Diablo 4 has been discovered on the Playstation Store under the codename Obleron and code-id WELOOOOVEDOGS for both Playstation 4 and Playstation 5, in what is probably an internal test build.
UBRS should not be 5 players in Burning Crusade Classic.
Blizzard has released Burning Crusade Classic hotfixes for May 21st. Notably, boosted hunters now learn Dual Wield.
We asked our Mistweaver Monk guide writer, Anomoly, to provide additional context on how the recent 9.1 PTR changes are likely to affect Mistweaver Monks in Patch 9.1 Chains of Domination. For Mistweaver Monk, Anomoly gives his opinion on the adjustments to Enveloping Mist, Mastery: Gust of Mists, and Revival as well as multiple damage buffs.
Welcome to Skip of the Week! This week, we'll be taking an in-depth look at how to skip the Amarth RP in Necrotic Wake and skip most of the trash around Amarth. This skip allows you to activate the RP for Amarth before you actually go to fight him, allowing your group to save time by being able to pull him as soon as you arrive at his platform.
For Wowhead Weekly #268, Annie and Perc recap the Burning Crusade pre-patch launch, recent TBC announcements, and Blizzard industry news like the IGN report.
Blizzard has announced a new Custom Throwback PC Sweepstakes to celebrate Burning Crusade Classic Launch, where one lucky winner will win the "Fel PC Build". To enter, contestants will need to call the phone number 1-888-284-3200 and the Official Rules can be found at https://blizzardsweeps.com.
Lore Spotlight: "I am Arthas" - Uther's Tragically Prophetic Story in Folks & Fairy Tales of Azeroth
Blizzard's latest book, Folk & Fairy Tales of Azeroth, is filled with interesting tidbits about the lore, and possible hints about what's to come. While at first glance Uther's story, The Paladin's Beast, reads very much like a King Arthur-like tale, there's a lot more to it than immediately meets the eye.
Dungeon grinding is an effective way to level from 60 to 70 quickly in Burning Crusade Classic. There are two primary leveling strategies for TBC Classic--solo questing with a few group dungeons and leveling through exclusively clearing dungeons--and in this article we're highlighting our guide that talk more in depth about the dungeon leveling strategy, providing the best dungeon leveling routes and strong classes to include in either a Physical Damage or Spell Damage group.
On the latest PTR patch, a subtle change has been added to the WoW client: Now, when you get disconnected from the server, you no longer need to close your client and reopen it from your Battle.net client - You can now reconnect via the Reconnect button!
The Season 2 Tormented Affix is now available for testing on the PTR and we've breaking down how it works! Players will get powerful Anima Powers from killing 4 new lieutenants in Mythic+ dungeons, similar to the Awakened Affix.
Like all good folk tales, some of the stories in Folk & Fairy Tales of Azeroth use beautiful stories to explain mundane things like the world's planetary motions. One thing that sets Azeroth apart from our own world is that it has two moons - "The White Lady", the larger, silver moon that resembles our own and is associated with Elune, and a smaller, blue-green moon known as "The Blue Child". This mysterious, traveling moon has an interesting history.
While World of Warcraft players have made their way through the Dark Portal yet again with the release of The Burning Crusade Classic, Hearthstone keeps it the “real Classic way” and further explores the wilderness of the Barrens. With the year’s first mini-set called Wailing Caverns, the Forged in the Barrens expansion introduces Hearthstone players to WoW’s original dungeon experience located in the heart of the Horde leveling zone.
For Wowhead Weekly #270, Annie and Perc recap the Burning Crusade launch and notable 9.1 updates like previewing the Sylvanas encounter.
Blizzard has announced that Global Friends Lists are coming to Battle.net in a June 8th update.
Sinrunner Blanchy was one of the small additions that players liked at Shadowlands launch, but she could not fly. This has been fixed in Chains of Domination!
New Burning Crusade Merchandise for Sale - Dark Portal Art Print, Collector's Edition Pin, and More!
Blizzard has released a new set of merchandise themed around The Burning Crusade, including a Dark Portal Concept Art Print and Collector's Edition Pin.
Today, Wordup goes over the major bugs for Enhancement Shaman, while also providing a list of some of the lower impact bugs, and finishing with a little section at the end for extreme bugs that have been fixed but existed at launch (in some cases for a while) and warped parts of the opening patch of Shadowlands.
Blizzard is working on a fix for an issue affecting Protection Paladin Threat.
For Wowhead Weekly #271, Annie and Perc recap recent Blizzard news, including the global cross-region friends list and Diablo II Resurrected release date.
Welcome to Wowhead's Burning Crusade Classic PvP DPS Arena Tier List. This Tier list is to compare each Class's strengths and weaknesses in the Arena setting. If you are the type of person who likes to choose your class based on its power in the Arena, this goes over the best classes and specs for the upcoming Arena Season 1 in Burning Crusade Classic.
In the latest edition of "The Weekly Reset," Taliesin and Evitel discuss a somewhat dubious report from Finalweapon.net and MMO-Populations.com, which claim that active players of Final Fantasy 14 have overtaken WoW for the first time.
This Patch 9.1 PTR build contains some Mythic+ boss tuning! With the removal of Prideful, some of the most powerful bosses have gotten nerfed including Hakkar and Dealer Xy'exa.
Blizzard has posted Official Patch Notes for the June 15th Chains of Domination PTR build, highlighting the Guardian Druid Ursine Adept change and new Shadow Priest PvP talent Void Volley.
Blizzard has announced the dates, qualifiers, and prize pool for the upcoming Burning Crusade Classic Arena Tournament. The event will be a 3v3 Arena Tournament with qualifiers on July 17-18 and the main event taking place July 23-25 with the top 8 qualifying teams. All teams competing in the qualifiers have the chance to earn the "Vanquisher" Title, by finishing in the top 10% of all teams.
Burning Crusade Classic introduces an entirely new form of Player versus Player content, Arena. In the Arena, players can form teams of 2 players, 3 players, or 5 players, to face one another in three different locations for a last man standing style brawl. With the introduction of this new format for PvP content, Wowhead has prepared some guides to help lead players to victory.
In the latest 9.1 PTR Build, more Mythic+ Affixes have been nerfed -- this time nerfs to Bolstering and Raging!
With today's Patch 9.1 release candidate build, we have a handful of spell changes, including an update to Theotar's Party Favors soulbind trait. The buff granted by the Venthyr soulbind trait has had its duration extended to four hours and now persists through death, making it far more appropriate for competitive content.
In Burning Crusade Classic, many players are joining "pug" groups formed through Trade Chat and LookingForGroup Channels, for raids, heroics, or normal dungeons. If all players in the group have the "GearCheck" Weak Aura, they can share their equipped gear in party chat, as a clickable link, allowing the rest of the group to inspect that player's gear from anywhere.
On the 9.1 PTR, the Plaguefall dungeon has undergone another change which will greatly impact Mythic+ strategies. The number of Plagueborer bombs that you can use in the dungeon is now significantly limited, making this dungeon much more difficult to time next patch, especially for high push key groups.
The final two encounters in the Sanctum of Domination raid drop weapons with unique special effects, and today we're highlighting Jaithys, the Prison Blade, a curious two-handed sword which consumes other items to empower itself. While so far untested on the PTR, we've datamined several related spells which give us a good idea of how the cannibalistic weapon will function in patch 9.1.
With the Midsummer Fire Festival beginning today in Azeroth, it is time for another Ember Court feature. During Midsummer, Theotar puts a bonfire inside your Ember Court that you can lit to receive the Theotar's Flame Herald buff. This buff significantly increases the happiness from all guests, plus doubles all Friendship received during that session of the Ember Court!
Patch 9.1 is adding the Shards of Domination system, which involves certain slots of gear having Domination sockets. Due to this, you may want to recraft your Legendary if you've crafted a Legendary on one of these slots. We've asked our Class Writers to give their advice on which slot you should recraft your Legendaries on to prepare for Patch 9.1.
As more players hit level 70 and try out Burning Crusade raiding, we're highlighting the best consumables for each class in the expansion. Patch 2.1 contains several changes to the way consumables are handled compared to Classic, with players limited to one Battle (Offensive) and one Guardian (Defensive) Elixir at a time, requiring extra care in choosing which buffs to prioritize.
The Shadowlands Patch 9.1 Pre-Release download is available on the Battle.net launcher! If you want to start downloading a portion of the patch early, you can now do so to prepare for next week's patch!
Chains of Domination introduces many class changes, including new legendaries, new soulbind traits, and ability tuning. To help you understand the impact of these class changes, we've asked our Class Guide Writers to analyze Blizzard's updates and detail their predictions for best legendaries, best talents, and best covenant in the patch.
Blizzard has clarified when Season 1 PvP ends, when Castle Nathria Cutting Edge achievements are no longer available, and when the Season 1 Mythic+ achievements are no longer available.
Completed Tazavesh Lore Book - Is a Cosmic War Brewing? What Is the Seventh Power? Is This A Retcon?
We already shared the Forward and Parts 1, 2, and 3 of the intriguing notes found in Tazavesh, the Veiled Market, Patch 9.1's new mega-dungeon. At the time, we only had information on 4 out of the 6 sets of notes. PTR testers have since found and taken screenshots of the missing notes, which raise a whole new set of questions.
Blizzard is implementing their own Mythic+ rating in Patch 9.1, similar to Raider.IO score! In this article, we explain in detail how Blizzard's Mythic+ score works and what details are shown when applying / creating a group!
Blizzard has announced that the much-anticipated change to Feral Druid energy is coming with regional restarts this week.
For Wowhead Weekly #272, Annie and Perc recap Patch 9.1 launching today!
Five new Night Fae Soulshapes have been uncovered in Patch 9.1: the Cobra, Hippo, Hyena, Saurolisk, and Spider.
Blizzard is testing out same-faction battlegrounds in Burning Crusade Classic.
Blizzard has recapped how the Great Vault loot will work at the start of Season 2, and has also posted some item level curve adjustments for Mythic+ rewards.
The Darkmoon Faire is now active for both NA and EU servers! Head to the Darkmoon Faire to pick up a buff that will increase reputation gains with the new Death's Advance reputation, but unfortunately it won't buff Archivist's Codex reputation gains. The Darkmoon Faire is now active for both NA and EU servers! Head to the Darkmoon Faire to pick up a buff that will increase reputation gains with the new Death's Advance reputation, but unfortunately it won't buff Archivist's Codex reputation gains.
Torghast's Layer 10 is now available for players, once they have completed a Layer 9 with a ranking of 4 stars or higher! Layer 10 awards more Soul Ash and more Soul Cinders.
For Wowhead Weekly #273, Annie and Perc recap the latest updates to Patch 9.1 and discuss the new cinematics.
More last-minute Patch 9.1 Sanctum of Domination raid hotfixes have been made to the Kel'Thuzad and Eye of the Jailer encounter, changing when these bosses change phases and tuning some abilities.
Two previously undiscovered Night Fae Soulshapes have been located in Hard Mode Tazavesh -- the Direhorn Soulshape and Yak Soulshape!
Yesterday, Blizzard hotfixed Torghast to allow Soul Cinders to start being obtainable at Layer 8. However, in doing so, players who completed Torghast Layer 10 earlier in the week are now missing 20 Soul Cinders compared to players who completed Torghast Layer 10 after the hotfix. Edit: Blizzard has reached out to us to clarify that this change should've been applied only after the reset and extra Soul Cinders should be reverted so nobody is missing any.
Blizzard has announced Sanctum of Domination trinket tuning to go live with next week’s scheduled maintenance.
The recently announced Covenant Legendary Tuning goes live with this week's reset on July 13th/14th. To help you determine if any of these changes warrant using your hard-earned Soul Ash and Soul Cinders on these new Covenant Legendaries, we've updated our Best Legendary Guide with the help of our Class Writers.
The Sanctum of Domination Race to World First starts today, as numerous guilds host events and live stream their progress to become their first to take down Sylvanas Windrunner! Who will become the next World Champions of Shadowlands?
With the first Great Vault of Shadowlands Season 2, it is a good time to highlight one of the best ways for DPS players to find their best item to pick from their vault, Raidbots' Droptimizer. Players can use Raidbots in conjunction with the SimulationCraft addon to sim all pieces available in their Great Vault to find what piece will provide the largest benefit to their DPS.
For Wowhead Weekly #274, Annie and Perc discuss the Sanctum of Domination cinematics.
Blizzard has tweeted out nerfs to Mythic Soulrender Dormazain.
Blizzard has posted July 13th hotfixes which include Sanctum of Domination boss and trinket tuning.
Painsmith Raznal has received an undocumented change which alters the spell order of his abilities on the Heroic encounter. Now, Traps will spawn at a different time and require a slightly different strategy!
In a recent blog post, Blizzard shared an update on the development of their upcoming remake, Diablo II: Resurrected. Based on feedback from the first Alpha phase, the development team introduces several new quality of life features as well as major updates to in-game assets and art.
Last week we learned that Sylvanas' legendary bow, Rae'shalare, Death's Whisper, drops at Normal 233 item level on all difficulties. Now in the second week of Sanctum of Domination, we've also confirmed that the special materials which upgrade it to Heroic (246) and Mythic (259) item level are not guaranteed drops.
Fixed an issue that could cause Sylvanas to cast a non-intermission Domination Chains prior to casting the intermission Domination Chains if pushed over the health threshold very close to the cooldown of Domination Chains.
Bloomberg Law has reported that Activision Blizzard has been sued by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing following a two-year investigation into claims the company discriminated against female employees. The full report details numerous allegations of discrimination and sexual harassment, including the alleged conduct of former Warcraft Senior Creative Director Alex Afrasiabi.
Players have been staging in-game protests in response to reports of female Activision Blizzard employees facing sexual harassment and discrimination.