Each week we’ll look ahead to what’s in store for World of Warcraft, share the latest news, and keep you in the know byte by byte. Take to the skies once more during the Eastern Kingdoms Cup!
News and Events This Week
Don’t miss out on your last chance to attend BlizzCon® 2023 November 3-4 in person with our final ticket sale to this year’s event. You’ll have the opportunity to purchase a ticket during a third wave of ticket sales on Friday, September 29 at 12pm PDT (19:00 GMT). Here’s a first glimpse into some of the events and programming you can expect in person.
Read moreStay up to date with World of Warcraft when you join us each week as we round up some of the latest top blue posts and discussions.
Get a little spooky and maybe a little ooky with this month’s Trading Post offerings. Take a magical ride with this month’s signature item—Eve’s Ghastly Rider mount—and show off your class pride with new Death Knight, Demon Hunter, and Druid sets.
Visit T&W** (Tawney and Wilder) just outside the Mage District in Stormwind or the Zen’shiri Trading Post next to Grommash Hold in Orgrimmar to check out all the latest items*** they have available.
This month, new activities are available to help players catch up on their activity bar. These events will begin one week before the end of the month.
En Taro Adun
With the new Patch 5.0.12 released today, we've tried to the accomplish the following goals,
Cyclo...
Read moreIllari has taken Overwatch 2 by storm—or rather, by the power of one thousand burning suns. We’re incredibly happy to see that players are enjoying her gameplay, personality, and story. To provide a little more depth and insight into how Illari came to be who she is today, we on the Overwatch 2 hero design team thought we’d share some of how her abilities were created through early prototypes.
Heroes can be inspired by many things! Sometimes, heroes are made from whatever prototypes of abilities we think are cool or have a positive impact on gameplay. Ana is a great example of this—parts of her kit were made before her character and story ever existed.
In Illari’s case, we had a strong starting point because we knew we wanted to theme the hero around the sun. These themes inspired her early abilities as well as her internal codename, Solar.
Prototyping is a journey through different questions, scenarios, and ideas. The goal is to test out and experiment wit...
Read morePatch 27.4.2 is a data-only balance patch, launching today, with the updates across modes.
Dev Comment: We have a lot of card changes in this patch, and a lot to share about why these changes are being made.
For the Standard-focused changes, we’re addressing both power outliers and play experience outliers in this patch. When we buffed Warrior in our last balance patch, we did so knowing that they’d get more powerful tools in the Mini-Set, but we wanted to make sure that the deck hit, so we erred on the side of over-buffing it, knowing that we’d have the option to make a small correction back down if we needed. Now that the Mini-Set has landed, Warrior is looking like one of the most standout classes, so we’re making those adjustments. Hunter also has one of the strongest decks in the format, and we’d expect it to get even stronger after the other changes we’re making in this p...
Read moreOur next Developer Updates livestream arrives on October 4 at 11 a.m. PDT. It dives into the looming Season of Blood, and many details on the quality-of-life updates first announced at Gamescom: Opening Night Live 2023.
Join members of the development team along with associate director of community Adam Fletcher, who will unveil the vampiric scourge that has descended on Sanctuary and the sinister power they possess. Learn what it will take to fight against this rising tide of evil and harness the power of their potent blood for your own means.
The Developer Update livestream also details many quality-of-life updates arriving throughout Season 2. The team will talk about community requested features such as additional Stash space and functionality, improvements to Dungeons, Mounts, and much more. We’ll also hold a segment at the end of the stream for players to field their questions directly to the team.
Plus, on October 10, we’re having a Campfire Chat tha...
Read moreHere you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Wrath of the Lich King Classic, Burning Crusade Classic and WoW Classic. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.
September 26, 2023
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We’re teaming up with Amazon Prime Gaming* for a special offer. From September 26, 2023, at 9:30 a.m. PDT (16:30 GMT) until October 24, 2023, at 9:29 PDT (16:29 GMT) Prime Gaming subscribers can claim the Zipao Tiger pet.
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Read moreOnce more, the Bronze Dragonflight has discovered growing disturbances in the timeways, with several rapidly intersecting our own!
Beginning the week of September 26, Timewalk through a previous expansion each week for five consecutive weeks. This grand tour through World of Warcraft’s past will start with Cataclysm and end with Wrath of the Lich King.
Also, for a limited time, the Timewalking quest in Valdrakken from Kazra will offer an increased reward—a Heroic level Cache of Vault Treasures with items level 428-437. The reward upgrade is only available for this special Timewalking event. After Turbulent Timewalking has run its course, the reward returns to ilvl 415 Cache of Vault Treasures.
Here’s the expansion timeline for Turbulent Timeways:
... Read moreEach week we’ll look ahead to what’s in store for World of Warcraft, share the latest news, and keep you in the know byte by byte.
The Final Surge for the September Trading Post is now active. It’s a good time to make a final push, fill the bar in your Traveler’s Log, and collect the Crusty Crawler’s Mount—before things get ghastly for October’s Trading Post.
News and Events This Week
Embrace your piratical side or show off your class pride with this month’s Trading Post offerings. You’ll be able to sidle up to any adventure with this month’s signature item—the Crusty Crawler mount.
Visit T&W** (Tawney and Wilder) just outside the Mage District in Stormwind or the Zen’shiri Trading Post next to Grommash Hold in Orgrimmar to check out all the latest items*** they have available.
This month, new activities are available to help players catch up on their activity bar. These events will begin one week before the end of the month.
Hey y'all! This is Alec, Lead Hero Designer, stepping in for Aaron this week. We thought this Director’s Take would be a good time to chat about our heroes, recent balance changes, and what we’ve learned from them, and talk a bit about the philosophy behind our two upcoming reworks for Sombra and Roadhog.
Let’s start with Illari. Going into Illari’s launch, our slogan was “safe side of strong.” We want hero releases to be impactful. It’s best for the game for a number of reasons, but most importantly, it creates change throughout the meta. An impactful hero launch can shift other heroes’ viability and create new and unique team compositions - an unimpactful hero launch can feel as if the game didn’t enter a new season.
Making a new hero feel impactful on launch is challenging because we are asking you to choose between that hero and their overall potential versus picking the heroes that you may have hundreds or ...
Read moreStay up to date with World of Warcraft when you join us each week as we round up some of the latest top blue posts and discussions.
We are happy to announce our next Heroes of the Storm patch has been released which is mainly centered around multiple bug fixes that were reported by the community.
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“First celebrated by the dwarves, Brewfest now holds appeal among all the races of Azeroth!”
Do you love eating delicious food, drinking bountiful beverages, and riding rams around barrels of apples? Brewfest has arrived, and you can do all that and more from September 20–October 6.
September 20–October 6
Ironforge Entrance (Alliance), Orgrimmar Entrance (Horde), Valdrakken
Completing quests and activities on the Brewfest grounds will generally reward you with Brewfest Prize Tokens. These are used to purchase most of the items you will find on sale at Brewfest.
Brewfest com...
Read moreThe first anniversary of Overwatch 2 is here! Millions of players have already answered the call, and we’re celebrating with lots of fun rewards. For three weeks, you’ll be able to play returning modes from past events throughout the year in the Arcade, along with the chance to earn Overwatch Credits, which can be spent on fan-favorite skins in a limited-time Anniversary Shop. Keep reading to find out more about everything coming in the Overwatch 2 Anniversary event!
During the first week of the event, stay frosty with the return of ...
Read moreHoist sail and make way for Booty Bay because Pirate’s Day begins September 19! A WoW Classic version of Pirate's Day will also be available for hardy heroes wishing to embrace the pirate's life.
Pirates have taken over the goblin town of Booty Bay, and Captain DeMeza is recruiting any scurvy dog she can into her buccaneer ranks. Visit her or her henchmen in the capital cities if the pirate’s life is for you!
Feeling out of place in Booty Bay without a proper costume? Don’t worry. /Dance one little jig with the Dread Captain DeMeza, and she’ll be impressed enough to press you into her crew and outfit you properly. If you get attached to your new look, you can do the quest ...
Read moreStep into Tiger’s Peak Arena and get ready for the Shado-Pan Showdown.
We’ve put more PvP in your PvP! In Packed House, there’s nowhere to hide as you face not 2, not 3, not 5, but 15 adversaries in this 15 vs. 15 Arena battle.
Deep Six pits teams of six players against each other in three iconic B...
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