This site makes extensive use of JavaScript.
Please enable JavaScript in your browser.
Live
PTR
10.2.7
PTR
10.2.6
Beta
News
Live
X-53 Touring Rocket Available Today
You may recall that Blizzard announced some changes to the Recruit-a-Friend
Swift Zhevra
mount reward a little while ago. If you had an unclaimed Zhevra, the announcement said, or if you decided to recruit a friend in the near future, you would have the normal Zhevra reward changed to a spectacular
X-53 Touring Rocket
!
Well, the big day is today. As of today, April 27, 2010 (possibly after the maintenance), if you recruit a friend or if you have Zhevras waiting to be assigned to one of you characters, you will start getting the X-53's!
Here is the short post by Zarhym:
Time is running out for those who wish to claim their Zhevra, as the launch of the X-53 Touring Rocket is now scheduled for tomorrow, Tuesday, April 27! If you’ve fulfilled all of the Recruit-A-Friend requirements necessary to claim a mount now but choose not to claim the Zhevra, you will be able to claim the X-53 Touring Rocket instead once it launches. Sounds like they’re firing it up for a final test run now....
You can find the original announcement here:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft
Live
Cataclysm PvE Badge and PvP Point Changes
Blizzard just posted changes to the badge system in
Cataclysm
... they are going to become Hero and Valor points! Basically the PvP point system being applied to PvE raiding.
Hero Points
will be earned from most dungeons (much like
Emblem of Triumph
) and
Valor Points
will be from high-tier raids (like
Emblem of Frost
).
While there will be a maximum cap of Valor Points you can earn each week I personally think this could be one of the better changes to come to the badge/emblem/point system since the introduction of them in The Burning Crusade. So what does everyone think of the changes?
On the PvP side,
Conquest Points
will replace Arena Points as the complement to Honor Points. Personal rating requirements will also be removed from almost all items, including weapons.
You can read all the details in the original blue post, available after the break.
Live
Cataclysm Raid Progression Refinements
Update:
Some clarifications have been added to the bottom of the post.
Another blue post from the blue world of blue Blizzardness descends from the skies - this time it's about how raid progression is going to work in
Cataclysm
.
10- and 25-man raids will share the same lockout.
10- and 25-man raids will share the same loot.
Heroic loot will be, like in Icecrown, just a buffed up version of the Normal loot.
The raid leader will be able to decide between 10-man and 25-man (possibly on a boss-to-boss basis), much like you can now choose between Normal and Heroic mode for a raid.
Since 25-man raids will drop the exact same items as 10-man, to promote people actually going to 25-man raiding, Blizzard is making 10-man encounters drop less loot per player (actual items, badges, gold...). In short, if you can get 25 people, you will get more out of the raid than if you were to go with 10.
Heroic mode for the bosses will be unlocked simply defeating a specific boss as few as (probably) 1-2 times. Limited attempts will likely go away completely, except for rare bosses (e.g. Algal
Live
A Tour of the REAL World of Warcraft - Blizzard's Headquarters
It's midnight here, and I'm still awake, pretending I don't have to be up for gym (and work!) in a matter of hours. Thankfully, tonight my persistence in staying up late breeding Pokémon and browsing the Internet has paid off! I stumbled upon a post on one of my favorite sites of all-time,
Ars Technica
, who were recently invited to tour Blizzard's Irvine campus (again).
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/04/earning-your-sword-a-picture-tour-of-blizzards-offices.ars/
I don't know about you guys, but I
love
these sort of things because I'm just like every other geeky kid out there who wants to grow up and design video games for a living. Being able to see where the magic happens AND being able to go, "Holy crap, they have a SLIDE in their food court!" just blows my mind.
(Please note, I don't think Blizzard actually has a slide in their food court, but I remember reading ages ago that
Berkeley Systems
did!)
Live
Some New Features!
So those who are paying close attention will have noticed some ninja fixes around the site recently!
I thought I'd take a moment to point some of the cooler ones out:
We now have
class
and
race
pages in the database menu! These give you a simple, straightforward place to look when you're trying to find abilities, talents, quests, trainers, item sets, or anything else related to a specific class or race.
We've added a "Disenchants into" filter to item searches! Now you can do searches like, "
all tailoring-crafted items that d/e into Nexus Crystals
".
Character tooltips like
this one
now include titles!
We've added a "Deprecated" filter to items so you can look for
items that aren't in the game anymore
.
You can now see the
latest blog comments
under the "Tools > Utilities" menu.
We've tweaked the
Profiler
menus! You can now see the Profiler dropdown under your username in the t
Live
ZAM Interview with Richard Knaak
Cody Bye, the Director of Content of ZAM, has just interviewed
Richard Knaak
, one of the most famous writers of novels and short stories for not only World of Warcraft, but a number of other fictional worlds. Knaak's "Blizzard" bibliography includes novels like
Stormrage
(the latest official Warcraft novel on the market), 3 standalone Diablo novels,
The Sin War
series, Warcraft's
War of the Ancients
trilogy, as well as 2 standalone novels other than
Stormrage
. In addition to those, he has an impressive number of Dragonlance, Dragonrealm, Conan, individual novels... not to mention his short fiction pieces and the manga.
Sadly, this interview didn't quench my thirst for lore (could anything?), but it was an interesting read nonetheless. The interview is after the break!
Live
Bidding for Good: World of Warcraft Basket
The website Bidding for Good is running a charity auction to support the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District. You may be wondering why you are seeing this mentioned on a World of Warcraft site? Well, there seems to be a rather nice basket of items that everyone might be interested in...
World of Warcraft Collector's Edition (Signed by the Development Team)
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Collector's Editions (Signed by the Development Team)
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Collector's Edition (Signed by the Development Team)
World of Warcraft TCG
Ethereal Soul-Trader
Loot Card
World of Warcraft TCG
Spectral Tiger
Loot Card
World of Warcraft TCG
Spectral Tiger Cub
Loot Card
World of Warcraft 1 year Subscription Card
World of Warcraft
Gryphon Hatchling
Plushie with In-game Companion
World of Warcraft
Wind Rider Cub
Plushie with In-game Companion
You can check this basket out
here
.
The auctions run until April 26th, and while this i
Live
Powered by Wowhead Page Updated
We've made some updates to our
Powered by Wowhead
page!
Some developers and bloggers have known for some time, but the script that powers Wowhead tooltips can be used for a lot of things beyond just creating popups for your Wowhead links—we support items with enchants or gems on them, set bonuses, random enchants, and more. And now we've added a handy guide to help you implement them on your own site!
Head on over to the page to see:
http://www.wowhead.com/powered
Remember, if you're looking to have your blog or guild site featured on that page, just contact us at feedback@wowhead.com!
Live
Wowhead Client & AVG LinkScanner: Together at Last!
Users of
AVG
who have been trying to use the
Wowhead Client
will be happy to know that
the fix
we had under development has been tested and released to the public. Simply open up your client and it will update to the newest version, thus allowing you to upload tasty dataz while also using AVG's LinkScanner capability.
A special thanks goes out to the folks at AVG who were very helpful in determining the cause (even going so far as to reproduce the problem at home since they didn't have WoW installed at work). <3
Live
Apr 16 #BlizzChat Developer Chat Transcript
The
#BlizzChat
has just ended. Here are some of the most interesting posts:
Q:
Can we have all mounts scale to 310?
A:
New rank of flying that will make all mounts go 310%.
Q:
Will we be able to fly from the get-go in Azeroth?
A:
We might make you get "Old Weather Flying"... Kidding! Right from the start most likely.
Q:
Changes to relics or wands?
A:
Relics are planned to be more generalized, such as a relic that gives Strength for paladins and death knights.
Q:
Changes to racials?
A:
Dwarves may get a bonus to Archeology and Undead may get a more useful cooldown for PvE.
Q:
PvP utility for Ret?
A:
Ret will be gaining an interrupt.
Q:
Planned UI updates?
A:
Complete changes to the spellbook, talents pane, professions pane and even nameplates.
Q:
Most excited for?
A:
Some of the new Balance Druid talents like Solar Beam, similiar to Freya's spell where it instantly silences a target a
Live
Wowhead Comic #22
Wow, its been a while, hm?
With all this commotion about possibly the most wonderful thing to ever happen to this game (in my opinion), I thought its a good time as any to make a comic about how ridiculous I find all the flame and troll wars.
I have been waiting for a
flying pony mount
for such a long time, and now not only does my main character get to have one, but ALL OF MY TOONS! And all levels of riding skill! Happiest day of my life. Kinda. ... I really like ponies. And sparkly things.
Mmmm. Sparklies.
Edit:
I threw together some wallpaper versions of the comic for you guys. :3
1920 x 1200
1920 x 1080
1280 x 1024
Note: The lyrics are from an
all-time favourite song
of mine, that most of you will probably recognise
Live
Next Time, on WCI: Wowhead Code Investigators
Deep within The Datamines, the WCI team will be up against one of their most difficult challenges yet:
The Case of the Client and the AVG LinkScanner
:
<
mystadio
> TheOnyx, Skosiris
http://forums.avg.com/ww-en/avg-free-forum?sec=thread&act=show&id=82299#post_82299
<
Skosiris
> wow
<
Skosiris
> they were able to tell the exact problem
<
Skosiris
> using the same constants/functions the client actually uses
<
Skosiris
> the cool part is they spent their time doing that
<
Skosiris
> and all we have to do is fix
*
TheOnyx
nods
<
TheOnyx
> mystadio: i'll kick to you and thank them
<
alayton
> i like how they say we need to fix our code
<
Miyari
> lol wow
<
Miyari
> Developers of Wowhead client, please check and fix your source code.
<
Miyari
> YEAAAAAAAAAAAAH
*
Skosiris
chuckles
<
TheOnyx
> It looks like we have to go back
Live
BFF Report Episode 24: Farmville?
A little while ago,
The Escapist
held a showdown for game developers called
March Mayhem
. Those of you who participated may have noticed that our beloved
Blizzard
made it precisely as far in the standings as...
Zynga
?
This week,
Mike B aka Fony
takes us into the deep, dark depths of Facebook gaming to teach us what this whole
Farmville
thing is all about!
Live
Some Celestial Steed Numbers
So I was speaking with
Draknorr
, who has been doing some math about the release of the
Celestial Steed
mount pictured to the right.
His friend entered the queue for a mount, and at the time the queue was at almost exactly 100k, and the stock ticked from 91% to 90% as he watched. When it ticked down to 89%, there were 46k in the queue. That's around 54,000 mounts for every 1% of the total stock—or, I would guess, about 5 million total mounts.
So this means that every 1% of the stock, they've sold 50k mounts at $25 a piece. That's $1,250,000. At the time of this writing the queue was at 88%—making that $15,000,000 so far—
and that's just in the United States.
Holy cow.
Live
Cataclysm: Vashj'ir Preview
The Cataclysm updates are coming fast and furious now, with Blizzard releasing a preview of the
Sunken City of Vashj'ir!
Vashj'ir is a level 78-82 zone in Cataclysm, which will bring us to the very depths of the sea—and face to face with Queen Azshara herself! Prepare to fight on board ships and submarines (anyone else hoping to see giant turtles again?), and do battle with both the naga and...the vrykul?
You can find out more about the Sunken City of Vashj'ir on the official
Cataclysm preview website
!
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/cataclysm/features/vashjir.html
Live
Celestial Steed and Lil' XT Now Available in Blizzard Store!
The wait is over! Blizzard have just updated their own
store
with two amazing new items - the
Celestial Steed
flying mount and
Lil' XT
companion pet! Players have been speculating for quite some time where these new items would be released after they were discovered in a previous patch. The new items have been added to
Blizzard's European store
as well! See prices and more information (including 3D models!) after the break!
Live
Treadmill Mode
Personally, I prefer
Advance Wars: Dual Strike
over both
Advance Wars 2
and
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
(Never really played the first
Advance Wars
), and I'll tell you why.
In Advance Wars: Dual Strike (AWDS), as you play, you unlock skills (+8% attack, faster movement through woods and grass, etc.) that you can equip on your commanding officers before a match. If you get all the highest level skills, and equip them on your two commanding officers, much of the normal campaign becomes incredibly easy. I'm capable of playing through it without paying too much attention, and using it to unwind when I don't want to have to think about anything too hard.
On the flip side, it also has the hard campaign, which assumes you have the best possible COs and the best possible skills, and is still designed to give you a challenge. None of the other Advance Wars games had this ability t
Live
Class-Themed Twitter BlizzChat on Friday, Apr 16
Just in time for the storm of changes announced in the
Class Change
posts this week, Blizzard will be holding another
Developer Chat on Twitter
this Friday!
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23BlizzChat
Just like before, to submit a question you will need to tweet using the
#BlizzChat
hashtag between
5:00 PM
and
6:00 PM
(Pacific time) on Friday, April 16, 2010. During the chat all questions will be posted on the forums due to the character limitations of Twitter.
Read on after the break for the original post! The full BlizzChat history is available
here
, and remember—if you want a specific question asked, feel free to let us know and we'll ask the best ones.
Live
Paladin Class Changes in Cataclysm
Edit:
The inevitable clarifications have been added!
And, fellow paladins, our preview has finally arrived! We are getting 3 new very juicy abilities, one of which (Guardian of Ancient Kings) varies in effect depending on your spec! New healing spell, with a possibility for another one, AoE Blind, Blessing of Might and Blessing of Wisdom becoming a single Blessing (as I suggested some time ago, I dare point out)... but other than those big things, Blizzard doesn't feel ready to provide us with more information.
There is a lot of "we'd like to...", but I'll leave those to you :)
Live
Magazine Update: Issue #2 Coming Soon
For those of you that have subscribed to
World of Warcraft: The Magazine
and haven't checked your email recently, good news! The
next issue
should be out soon!
Our gnomes, trolls, and elves are hard at work wrapping up Issue 2, which features a behind-the scenes interview with the team that creates the quests in World of Warcraft, exclusive screenshots of the world after Cataclysm, and an exhaustive guide to Icecrown Citadel. In the meantime, here's a sneak preview of the cover for you to download as a subscriber-exclusive desktop wallpaper. Just click the link below.
Obviously, I'm not going to post the wallpaper for you or else it wouldn't be exclusive.
;)
However, Blizzard did the same thing in the last email, and later (a month or so after the magazine was mailed) released the wallpaper to the general public. So if you're wanting it for your background, just sit tight! I will tell you this, it appears to be Deathwing and Alexstraza duking it out. Or if you just can't wait for the wallpaper and you want to learn all the secret stuff in the magazine, head on over and [url=
https://www.worldofwarcraftthemagazine
1
1318
1319
1320
1321
1322
1354
