New Year's Eve in Azeroth and Wowhead's 2014 Year in Review

Опубликовано 31.12.2014 в 12:55 perculia

Наполненная праздничная кружкаtryСчастливого празднования!Наполненная праздничная кружкаЛегкомыслиеWowhead's 2014 Year in ReviewWhat's NewJanuary 2014

Zones have been revamped to cluster zones by level in addition to continent. Cities now have their own page and Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios can now be found under the new /Instances page as well.

Transmog sets and battle pet image galleries can now be sorted with filters.

Subzone maps have been added to the database. They have a new menu in /maps and can be accessed from a special Subzone tab on their parent zone page.

February 2014

We launched our new Item Finder tool for new players or those unfamiliar with databases. Just click on a few buttons to get filters for your gear, consumables, profession items, mounts and more!

The search results page has received a number of improvements. At the top of the page, you'll find the most popular results as well as top guides for that topic. Underneath, the tabs and data lists have been organized by popularity, and you can now filter your results further.

Fishing pools have been added to the database with map locations and basic catch information.

March 2014Olivia

Talents and Glyphs are now imported onto Battle.net Profiles and can be customized on Custom Profiles.

We launched the Blue Tweet Tracker to highlight all the important tweets from Blizzard employees, as well as @WowheadTweets that retweets all the highlighted tweets.

We launched a series of level 90 class guides written by prominent raiders and bloggers, including WoW Insider class columnists.

April 2014

We launched the first Warlords of Draenor database and Warlords of Draenor Talent Calculator with Draenor Perks, spec-specific talents, and exclusive/spec glyph behavior.

We added database sections for Garrison Buildings and Followers as well as a Garrison Calculator.

The modelviewer was updated for Warlords of Draenor and players can view updated versions of their character models.

May 2014

Wowhead's front page received a design revamp to better highlight database updates and other content like guides and previews.

Tooltip improvements: automatically-learnt glyphs and spec-specific talents now display that information on tooltips.

Our Garrisons database expanded with a new section for Garrison Abiliites.

WoD items now have a spec-specific tooltip option that greys out stats not counted for your spec.

We published a series of Guides to Warlords of Draenor Class Changes covering new, changed, and removed talents, class abilities, specializations, glyphs, and perks, as well as the patch notes and blue tweets for each class.

June 2014beta key giveaways

We launched the Wowhead Subscription Program, a revamp of Wowhead Premium that offers even more new features to our Patrons like the Bag Scanner tool and images in search results.

We launched the Character Planner which suggests achievements and guides you'd be interested in, as well as gear upgrades and zones that have the most upgrades.

Toybox items now have their own Warlords filter and display information on tooltips and Quick Facts.

We've aded more site achievements for our users!

The Profiler now displays two additional columns for your character's stats--one column counts stats affected by self buffs, and another column shows what your stats are like fully raid-buffed.

We revamped our transmog guides and published a series of guides organized by class.

July 2014Wowhead Weekly

Warlords of Draenor and 6.0 items now display item bonuses. Item bonuses are part of Blizzard's efforts to refactor item data in Warlords of Draenor. Siege of Orgrimmar items display raid difficulty and Warforged bonuses, WoD quest items now display uncommon, rare, and epic versions, and WoD dungeon items now display a Heroic option as well as bonuses that modify the required level and item level. When an item bonus is selected, the URL is modified as well so you can link the specific version of an item that you want.

Olivia and Perc started a new video podcast, the Wowhead Weekly. Catch up on the latest news, beta developments, and site improvements on Wowhead every week.

Warlords of Draenor items can now have multiple models attached to them, as opposed to one model for one page, so our modelviewer now automatically updates based on what item bonus you have selected.

Item Tooltips for Warlords of Draenor have also been updated with bonus modifiers for new raid difficulties, augmentations, and random stats.

August 2014

Wowhead now supports Battle.net Oauth Login. Logging in with your Battle.net account is as simple as clicking a button, instead of entering a User Name and Password. All of your Battle.net characters show up under "My Profiles" automatically in the "Import" submenu as well.

Our Garrison calculator now shows any building requirements like achievements or blueprints, the cost for a specific building level, and the total cost for building and upgrading a building! The Garrison Calculator now supports buildings with faction-specific names and displays building bonuses for lower-level buildings when selecting a higher-level building.

Warlords of Draenor boss pages now support loot tabs for all raid difficulties--LFR, Normal, Heroic, and Mythic. Due to the item changes mentioned above, these pages have been refactored to have the boss loot automatically update their stats based on the difficulty you have selected. Legacy raid difficulties are also currently supported.

We launched a new series of WoD guides, this time on professions in the expansion.

September 2014

Spell scaling is enabled on boss ability pages, as raids scale in size from 10-30 players in Warlords of Draenor. You can also change the tooltip to display a particular difficulty.

Garrison Building pages now display how many followers can be assigned and their maximum amount of work orders. The main Garrison building pages also lets you browse by image view!

Garrison Followers now have 3D models, separate pages for Alliance and Horde, source information, and in-game portraits.

Follower Abilities now have additional filters and categories, resembling the in-game options at your Inn.

Garrison Missions now have tooltips, display Exhausting info, show base success chance, include in-game portraits, Mechanics info, and Mission Type.

Garrison Resource costs have been added to building tooltips.

We've added a new column on item search results called Bonuses. These show all the other versions of an item, for example, a Mythic item would display the Heroic variant in this column.

October 2014

Garrison Followers now have tooltips showing their abilities, level, quality, name, and source.

The Garrison Calculator now shows level requirements to purchase blueprints.

Garrison building pages now show level and achievement requirements.

Items now show more stat variations, including tertiary stats, warforged options, extra sockets, random stats, and crafting stages. Items on pages can be modified to show extra stats and they are supported with our tooltips.

We built a Garrison Mission calculator, visible on all mission pages, for you to plan out what followers to use on missions to counter threats. Mission pages have also received styling updates to better resemble what you see in-game.

November 2014

Building upon the success of our Garrison beta coverage, we launched a series of in-depth Garrison Guides covering everything you'd want to know about Garrisons!

BlizzCon 2014 featured several huge giveaways, coverage on all the Warcraft panels, a jam-packed party, and the launch of our Overwatch Site.

We created a Garrison Timer Mobile App notifying you when your Work Orders and Missions are complete.

The character planner has a new section recommending Warlords-only achievements based on your in-game activity.

December 2014

We launched a series of in-depth Highmaul guides, and then partnered with top raiding guild Method for Mythic video and written strategy guides.

The Character Planner has a new section giving Garrison building and content recommendations based on your achievements. There's also a new section making Warlords-only achievement recommendations based on your recent activity.

The Followers database now lets you browse by images of followers, and we've refactored the database to have unique pages for Alliance and Horde followers that share a data ID.

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