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Mount Equipment Coming in Patch 8.2
Mount Equipment is a new feature coming in patch 8.2, allowing players to customize their mounts with one of four different special bonuses. While a commonly requested feature over the years, it comes along with the unfortunate side effect of removing of water walking from the frequently used Water Strider mounts, in order to reduce dependency on them.
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Unlock Essences in the Proving Grounds - Rise of Azshara Development Notes
Although vendors have not yet returned, the Proving Grounds now scales players up to level 120 and unlocks all Heart of Azeroth Essences for testing on the 8.2 Rise of Azshara PTR.
Classic
WoW Classic Interview with Shacknews and Omar Gonzalez
Shacknews interviewed World of Warcraft: Classic Senior Engineer Omar Gonzalez about the technical challenges in marrying 15 year old code to modern systems in order to recreate the original World of Warcraft experience.
PTR
Guide to Class Changes in Rise of Azshara Now Live
We’re pleased to announce that our
Rise of Azshara Class Changes Overview
is now live! With every PTR build we post a list of the datamined changes, but this guide will allow you to see a cumulative comparison of spell changes between the live version of patch 8.1.5 and the current 8.2 PTR build, to better keep up with how the classes are evolving.
Blizzard
BlizzCon 2019 Ticket Reselling through AXS
The second wave of BlizzCon 2019 ticket sales has ended, but fans quickly discovered that this year's distributor allows ticket holders to not only transfer, but resell their tickets at their own price... with a few extra fees!
Blizzard
Model Swapping Bans Reduced to Warnings
A large number of bans targeting users of model swapping injector programs went out yesterday, targeting both legitimate exploiters and innocuous users alike. Today many of those bans are being overturned.
PTR
New Battle Pets in Rise of Azshara - Datamined Models and Links
We've datamined 79 new battle pet companions from Nazjatar and Mechagon on the 8.2 PTR, including models for each! Come see the creepy, cute, and cuddly new buddies you can collect in Rise of Azshara.
Wowhead
Crucible of Storms Raid Strategy Guides and Top Builds
The Crucible of Storms mini-raid goes live today and we have detailed boss strategy guides written by FatbossTV, along with tips, tricks, and top builds for each specialization from our own class guide authors.
PTR
Mechagon in 8.2 Rise of Azshara - New Zone with Secrets and Exploration
Mechagon is a new zone coming in patch 8.2, Rise of Azshara, described as a sandbox playground of nonstop discovery. Driven by exploration and with more secrets than any other zone in World of Warcraft to date, it should prove to keep players busy for quite some time.
Blizzard
Activision-Blizzard SEC Financial Disclosure 2018
Blizzard Entertainment's parent company Activision-Blizzard released their annual SEC filings, which include a variety of company projections, interests, risk factors, financial data, and securities information. While complex, it provides insight into the greater company as a whole, beyond what any one particular studio is working on.
Wowhead
Top Builds in the Battle of Dazar'alor, courtesy of Warcraft Logs
Wowhead's Talent Calculator and Class Guides now show the top azerite powers, trinkets, and talents for all fights in the Battle of Dazar'alor.
Live
WeakAuras Companion Program Spotlight
The creators of WeakAuras have released a new companion program which keeps all of your auras up to date.
Blizzard
Vanion.eu Q&A with Ion Hazzikostas - Negativity, Itemization, Rise of Azshara Plans
Game Director Ion Hazzikostas held a Q&A interview with the German fansite Vanion.eu today, answering questions regarding negativity, itemization, crafting, comparisons with Legion, War Mode, and plans for Patch 8.2: Rise of Azshara.
Blizzard
This Year in World of Warcraft 2018
2018 has been a busy year, between the fall of the Burning Legion to the continual escalation of the Battle for Azeroth and hint of future threats yet unseen. There's been an enormous amount of events, celebrations, and even a few tragedies over the past year; today we remember them all as we look forward to the next.
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Feast of Winter Veil 2018 Now Live
Greatfather Winter is back in town, bringing the Feast of Winter Veil to the world of Azeroth. It's the season of giving and getting, with over a dozen different toys and even more cosmetics to collect, whether you've been naughty or nice!
Blizzard
Greek Community Q&A with Ion Hazzikostas
Game Director Ion Hazzikostas held a quick Q&A interview with the Greek World of Warcraft community today, answering questions regarding loot, stat squishes, professions, gear swapping, PvP, and a few personal points about his own Greek heritage.
Live
Rare Battle Pets: The Vengeful Chicken available for EU and US
The rare world quest Waycrest Manor: Witchy Kitchen is now available on EU and US servers, and holds the secret to the equally rare Vengeful Chicken battle pet. This is only the second time it's been available since the expansion launched in August, so don't miss out!
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Leveling and Alt Improvements in Patch 8.1
Although Season 2 doesn't start until after the holidays, Patch 8.1 launches next week and the Tides of Vengeance are bringing several improvements for alts and leveling new characters. Between dramatically reducing the experience needed to level, relaxing reputation requirements, adding new transmogs, rares to hunt, and cosmetic items to collect, there's something for everyone to look forward to in Patch 8.1.
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Increasing Item Level Rewards in Patch 8.1
Patch 8.1: Tides of Vengeance is adding a number of new ways to gear up and increasing the item level of rewards from existing activities. Although Tides of Vengeance launches on December 11th, the Mythic+ and PvP Season 2 will not start until the Battle of Dazar'alor opens in January, so we're doing a recap of when new features are being added and which others will change with the new season.
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War Mode Call to Arms increases world PvP bonus to 30%
Ion Hazzikostas recently spoke to Forbes about increasing the bonus from War Mode, Battle for Azeroth's new PvP system. The bonus is now live on the 8.1 PTR, and today we're looking at what exactly it does and whether or not it will actually fix the problems with faction imbalance in world PvP.
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