Blizzard Entertainment

Shadowlands is live!

Sylvanas Windrunner, fallen leader of the Horde, has pierced the veil between Azeroth and the realm of the dead, setting in motion a series of events that threaten to upset the cosmic balance between life and death. Azeroth’s heroes will confront the wonders and horrors of the afterlife as they deal with the consequences of Sylvanas’ actions.

 Table of Contents

Our next Heroes of the Storm patch has just hit the Public Test Realm and will be available for playtesting until November 30, PST. As always, if you encounter any bugs during your PTR play sessions, please stop by the PTR Bug Report forum to let us know about your experiences.

Quick Navigation:

• New Hero: Hogger
• ...

Following two Grandmasters seasons and six Masters Tours, we are gearing up to conclude the year with the Hearthstone 2020 World Championship! With $500,000 (USD) on the line, the top eight players in the world are set to meet on December 12-13 to see who will join the Hall of Champions and finish off 2020 as the next Hearthstone World Champion.

We recently asked each of the competitors a series of quick-fire questions to learn more about them ahead of the 2020 World Championship. Let’s get to know Kenta “glory” Sato.

The Noble

A veteran of the Japanese competitive scene, glory quickly made his mark on professional Hearthstone with a top showing in the 2018 HCT Asia-Pacific Season 1. His consistent results, calm demeanor during stressful ...

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Battle For Azeroth 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.

Hotfixes

November 20, 2020

Classes

• Hunter
  • Marksmanship
    • The cooldown of Survival of the Fittest (Lone Wolf Ability) will now reset when a raid boss encounter ends.
• Monk
  • Brewmaster
    • The cooldown of Fortifying Brew is now correctly 6 minutes.
• Rogue...

Welcome, Maw Walker…

The path through the shattered veil and into the Shadowlands is opening on November 23. To make sure you’re prepared, we’ve put together a helpful support guide for your journeys ahead.

Returning to Azeroth with Account Recovery

As heroes across the world return to answer the call, you may need assistance logging into your account.  Our Can’t Log In? service can help you recover access to your account in multiple ways. You’ll be able to choose to ...

Following two Grandmasters seasons and six Masters Tours, we are gearing up to conclude the year with the Hearthstone 2020 World Championship! With $500,000 (USD) on the line, the top eight players in the world are set to meet on December 12-13 to see who will join the Hall of Champions and finish off 2020 as the next Hearthstone World Champion.

We recently asked each of the competitors a series of quick-fire questions to learn more about them ahead of the 2020 World Championship. Let’s get to know Jerome “Monsanto” Faucher.

The Comedian

With a quick wit and dry sense of humor, Monsanto quickly endeared himself to the Hearthstone Esports team when he first landed on the scene in 2016. His good-natured spirit and lightheartedne...

“The most important thing we’re looking out for is: at the end of the day, how can we make Overwatch more fun for our players?” principal game designer Scott Mercer says. He’s discussing the team’s latest idea, as introduced by Jeff Kaplan in the most recent Developer Update video, to do just that. It’s a feature now being tested on the PTR called the Priority Pass that, Mercer hopes, will help equalize the disparate player populations between all three of the game’s roles: tank, support, and damage.

With the Priority Pass, the team seeks to address long Damage ...

We’re excited to announce our first ever Duels tournament, Darkmoon Duel-Fest! 24 of your favorite Hearthstone creators will compete for a piece of a $200,000 prize pool on November 24, from 10:00 a.m. PT to 4:00 p.m. PT on Twitch.tv/PlayHearthstone, YouTube.com/Hearthstone, and their own respective channels!

...

Following two Grandmasters seasons and six Masters Tours, we are gearing up to conclude the year with the Hearthstone 2020 World Championship! With $500,000 (USD) on the line, the top eight players in the world are set to meet on December 12-13 to see who will join the Hall of Champions and finish off 2020 as the next Hearthstone World Champion.

We recently asked each of the competitors a series of quick-fire questions to learn more about them ahead of the 2020 World Championship. Let’s get to know Brian “bloodyface” Eason.

With Shadowlands on the horizon, you’ll soon enter a world with new resources to gather which can be turned into new items to make yourself even more powerful.

Further your current professions or pick up new trades from the Profession Trainers in the Hall of Shapes in Oribos. These specialized Brokers will also sell you profession reagents to create goods and will help you level up your trade. Characters with gathering professions in Battle for Azeroth will notice that Star Ranks have been removed, but don’t fret—you’ll obtain greater quantities of harvested material as you go up in skill. Engineers will also notice that, as they become more adept at working on devices, they will experience less backfires on their inventions.

Blast from the Past

Consumables from expansions past make a return in Shadowlands to give you an edge in combat. Leatherworkers can make Armor Kits which will increase the stamina ...

New adventures await within the 8 new dungeons in Shadowlands—4 leveling dungeons and 4 max-level dungeons. Adventurers will gain access to each of the leveling dungeons as they progress through the zones of Bastion, Maldraxxus, Ardenweald, and Revendreth.

Dungeons of Bastion

The Necrotic Wake

In an unthinkable act of treachery, forces from Maldraxxus, the realm charged with defending the Shadowlands, have invaded the Temple of Courage. They have pillaged anima and taken slaughtered kyrian to fuel their dark practices. If left unchecked, the necrotic forces of the necropolis Zolramas will pillage Bastion leaving destruction in their wake.

Level: 51
Bosses: 4
Difficulty: Normal, Heroic, Mythic

You’ve likely done one of them before: slapping a Sorry. speech bubble down over a corpse after pulling off a Play of the Game-worthy team kill; spamming a pixelated version of your hero on the payload while you push it; angling that McCree Wanted poster just right so it’ll frame the face of your teammate’s spray. Sprays are an integral part of the Overwatch experience, whether you’re distorting Cute Moira’s face on that rock in Hanamura or taunting enemies in the kill cam. And, over the game’s lifetime, the Overwatch team has collaborated with a number of different community artists to bring eye-catching event sprays to life.

Overwatch community artist JaviDraws talks art, Symmetra, and what it was like to design sprays for ...

Nazgrim, Thoras Trollbane, Sally Whitemane, and Darion Mograine—the Lich King’s Four Horsemen—travel to Icecrown, hoping to ascertain their master’s inscrutable plans, and put an end to them if necessary.

“And we are certainly unprepared. What has changed? What force now compels you to keep us at bay?”

“Sylvanas Windrunner.”

Thoras Trollbane hesitated. Windrunner? The Lich King had kept an interest in her since the Fourth War started, telling his Four Horsemen to report any rumor of her whereabouts but absolutely forbidding them to hunt her down themselves. But Bolvar had also told the Horsemen she had never shown anything but contempt toward the Helm. “What of her?”

“Her war has upended the balance between life and death. Death feasts, and the power of the Helm boils,” Bolvar said. “The Legion turned our world into a charnel house, yet I felt nothing of the sort then.”

Troll...

Earn new rewards, including Marammat Symmetra, by winning games and watching Overwatch on Twitch. Plus, embark on a journey of understanding with Symmetra and Zenyatta in Christie Golden’s new Overwatch short story, “Stone by Stone.”

From now until November 30, players will be able to earn a player icon, seven unique sprays, and Marammat Symmetra (epic) for a total of nine new rewards.

• EVERYTHING BY DESIGN - Learn how to unlock brand-new Symmetra rewards
• WATCH TO EARN - Earn special Symmetra-themed cosmetics by watching Twitch streams
• NEW COMIC - Learn more about Christie Golden’s new short story, “Stone by Stone”

EVERYTHING BY DESIGN

Bend reality to your will to earn exceptional new content available to unlock in-game. Wins in Quick Play, Competitive Play, or ...

Duels: Season One has begun! Thank you to everyone who played through Duels: Early Access. Duels is now accessible in-game to all players from the Modes menu and comes in two flavors (with two separate matchmaking pools)—Casual and Heroic!

Casual runs are free and are a perfect starting point for exploring the mode and experimenting. Heroic runs feature success-based rewards identical to Arena rewards, including gold, arcane dust, cards, golden cards, and card packs from the latest expansion. Heroic Duels runs cost 150 gold or a Tavern Ticket (US $1.99), which have replaced Arena Tickets, and now grant entry to Arena or Heroic Duels. If you’ve been sitting on Arena Tickets, you can use them on a Heroic Duels run now!

Now that we’re in Season One, each class will have access to 2 Hero Powers and 3 Signature Treasures! These new Hero Powers and Treasures can be unlocked by meeting the below criteria associated with your Collection.

• Ne...

Now that we’re less than a week away from the release of Shadowlands, we hope you’ve had a chance to play around on the pre-patch and glow up your characters with the new character customization options! While you were fiddling with new hair styles and eye colors, you may have wondered what it takes to overhaul a major system that has been progressively expanded upon with every expansion; so stay a while, and read about how we helped bring these new options to life!

A Little History

When World of Warcraft originally shipped, it was our utmost priority to make the game playable for as many people as possible. To do this, the minimum specifications had to be optimized so a wide variety of hardware could run the game. As such, compromises had to be made. Should individual fingers be added to characters’ hands when it could impact frame rates, or should that processing power be directed at a gameplay feature instead? Since ...

In the Shadowlands, every soul has its place—from the path of ascension among the spires of Bastion to an eternity of torment in the depths of the Maw. Choose where your destiny lies.

Enter the Shadowlands beginning on November 23.

Below are the Arena leaderboards for September 1, 2020 – October 31, 2020. Arena rankings reflect players’ best 30 consecutive runs throughout a season. The players featured below have exhibited top-notch deckbuilding skills, in-the-moment decision making, and unyielding dedication to achieve a most noteworthy feat!

For an Arena run to be included in this season, its end time must have been between September 1 at 10:00 a.m. and October 31 at 9:59:59 a.m.

Dynamic ladder rankings are now also available for the Standard and Wild ladders.

• ...

Updated Nov. 10: Players now must be level 50 to be eligible for the pre-launch quest, “An Urgent Request.”

Azeroth’s darkest days are upon us.

After Sylvanas Windrunner shattered the Helm of Domination, the dead are no longer shackled and now freely rampage across Azeroth, spreading blight and turning the living into mindless corpses. As we fall, they rise in number, and threaten to snuff all life from Azeroth.

Heed the Call

For the next two weeks, you can heed the call to fight back against the fallen and protect Azeroth’s inhabitants. The call to arms quest “An Urgent Request” will be offered to level 50 players and begin a storyline in your faction’s capital city where several notable faction heroes will share their reports of the ramifications of Sylvanas’ actions.

The opening week of the ...

Tomorrow’s 19.0 patch includes an all-new progression system, several game improvements, and some updates to Battlegrounds. Its arrival means Hearthstone’s newest expansion, Madness at the Darkmoon Faire, is almost here! All Madness at the Darkmoon Faire cards have officially been revealed, and while you can’t use the new cards until they’ve unlocked on November 17, you can get a head start on building your launch day decks with our ...