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Children's Week Guide! (May 2 - 9)
Children's Week
is coming up tomorrow, which means it's time for another
guide
! Time to become parents for all those orphans throughout Azeroth!
http://www.wowhead.com/guide=childrens-week
The guide has been added to the
Tools > Guides
menu on the top, and you can navigate directly there by clicking the link above, or the adorable image of
Miyari
on the right. :)
If you have comments, questions, or suggestions about the guide, you can post them here!
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Screenshot of the Day Now Featuring Cataclysm
Blizzard have just posted via their Twitter feed at
#Warcraft
to let everyone know that they will now be posting Cataclysm screenshots to the
Screenshot of the Day
feature on the
official World of Warcraft website
!
There's no word on how long they'll be teasing us with these great screenshots of what's in store, but I hope it's at least until the Cataclysm Beta begins and we can start taking some awesome screenshots of our own!
Starting today, our Screenshot of the Day section at worldofwarcraft.com will feature unique #WoW #Cataclysm images!
http://cot.ag/aEtAFZ
Today's screenshot features a Gilgoblin, perhaps found in the upcoming
Abyssal Maw
dungeon of the
Sunken City of Vashj'ir
?
We'll make sure to include screenshots in our
Cataclysm Guide
as appropriate!
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Cataclysm Preview: The Echo Isles
Blizzard has released a pretty awesome of preview of the
new
Echo Isles
(my favorite part of
Cataclysm
).
The new Troll starting area will be for levels 1-5, and you will initially tasked with protecting the local raptors and their hatchlings from the sorcery of a nearby sea witch, slaying beasts that prey on our fellow tribe members and assaulting the naga who have overrun part of the isle.
Also, it is during the
pre-launch
event for Cataclysm that we will have a first hand chance to help in the reclaiming of the area for the trolls new starting zone!
You can check out the official post after the break, and more screenshots on the
official website
!
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Icecrown Citadel Raid Buff Increased to 15%
It's been a busy week in the World of Warcraft! With this latest raid reset, the
Цитадель Ледяной Короны
-specific raid-wide buff has had its effect increased again!
Песнь войны Адского Крика
and
Сила Ринна
will now increase damage, healing, absorption effects and health by
15%
.
You may remember that the buff was last increased to 10% at the end of last month, up from the 5% it provided when first launched at the beginning of March. Seems our
speculation
was correct, and this latest increase to the buff's effects was applied exactly four weeks later. I guess we can now assume we'll see the buff reach a staggering
20%
on May 25th,
25%
on June 22nd, and
30%
on July 20th.
This buff should definitely help out players trying to down some of the more demanding hard modes in Icecrown Citadel. Personally, I don't think that a lot of Icecrown Citadel's encounters were scaled properly for their intended difficulty level to begin with (ie. 10-man modes being downed without 25-man gear), so hopefully this helps even out the playing ground a bit more. Remember, you still have
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X-53 Touring Rocket Available Today
You may recall that Blizzard announced some changes to the Recruit-a-Friend
Стремительная жевра
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
Прогулочная ракета X-53
!
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
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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
Эмблема триумфа
) and
Valor Points
will be from high-tier raids (like
Эмблема льда
).
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.
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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
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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!)
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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
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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!
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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
Эфириальный продавец душ
Loot Card
World of Warcraft TCG
Призрачный тигр
Loot Card
World of Warcraft TCG
Призрачный тигренок
Loot Card
World of Warcraft 1 year Subscription Card
World of Warcraft
Птенец грифона
Plushie with In-game Companion
World of Warcraft
Детеныш ветрокрыла
Plushie with In-game Companion
You can check this basket out
here
.
The auctions run until April 26th, and while this i
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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!
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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!
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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.
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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
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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!
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