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In Shadowlands, players will be able to quest through four new zones ruled by ancient and powerful Covenants. Upon reaching the max level of 60, players will be able to join one of these Covenants as they continue to explore the Warcraft universe’s afterlife and the many mysteries and adventures that it holds.

While Covenants have many facets that make them unique, they all share a few key systems.

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Choosing a Covenant

As you progress through Shadowlands, you’ll play through each of the four new zones where the Covenants hold dominion, learning about what each Covenant stands for and experiencing some the powers that they offer. Once you’ve completed the narrative campaign and have reached max level, you’ll receive a quest in Oribos allowing you to choose which Covenant you’d like to belong to and begin your new journey as a member.

• Kyrian: The kyrian are steadfast guardians ...

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During your travels in the Shadowlands, you’ll meet key members from each Covenant—Kyrian, Necrolord, Night Fae, and Venthyr—and, if you choose to walk in their path, you’ll be able to Soulbind with them. Soulbinding allows you to gain access to traits that provide bonuses or enhance your skills so you can effectively combat all who stand in your way.

After hitting max level, you’ll be able to choose to pledge yourself to a Covenant and forge a deep bond with some of their key members, who’ll lend their powers to use as your own. In practice, each Covenant will allow you to form this link with one of three Soulbinds. The first two Soulbinds are available as soon as you join a Covenant and do a little bit of questing—no other activity or currency required. The third Soulbind is unlocked when you complete the Covenant Campaign quest line.

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Introducing the new Steamscale Incinerator* mount—now available to add to your collection! This new steam-powered flying behemoth can be purchased in-game or from the Blizzard Shop; you can also get it free for a limited time**, when you purchase a 6-month subscription to World of Warcraft.

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Full Steam Ahead!

The fearsome Steamscale Incinerator is a spark-breathing robo-terror that rules the skies wherever it flies. Legends say a mad gnomish inventor had a deranged dream to ride a dragon, so he built this metal monstrosity powered with a trapped demon in order to create "an authentic dragon soul."

Once you’ve purchased the 6 Month subscription from the Blizzard Shop, the Steamscale Incinerator mount will automatically be added to your in-game collection. Welc...

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If you missed the Shadowlands Update live stream, don’t worry—we have you covered. Watch the VoD below to catch up on the latest news for the upcoming expansion.

The Mythic Dungeon International (MDI) is back on YouTube starting July 10^th with the MDI Battle for Azeroth Global Finals! Here’s everything you need to know to watch as the best dungeon racing teams in the world compete for their share of the $300,000 prize pool and title of World Champions!

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Format

Following the culmination of six incredible weeks of MDI Cup competition the top four teams from Americas and top four from Europe & Asia will be facing off at the Global Finals, July 10-12. Teams will compete in a series of Best of 3, double-elim...

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As a part of our ongoing series of articles featuring many of the collectibles in World of Warcraft, we've set our sights on Mists of Pandaria. The many riches of this expansion are just waiting for you to claim them. There are a variety of ways to lay claim to these mounts, pets, and toys, whether it's from defeating a rare boss, collecting specific currencies, or becoming friends with the natives, you're sure to expand your stash of treasures.

Currencies

There are a variety of currencies used in Mists of Pandaria. Here are some of the primary types that you'll want to make sure you have at hand.

• Gold
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As we mentioned in the War Chest 6 announcement, we’re teaming up with Wardi (@Wardixo) and committing $150,000 of War Chest proceeds to a community-run t...

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With the launch of Season 23, Overwatch players will be able to enjoy a new option in Competitive mode with the addition of Open Queue, available starting today. Open Queue, which will live in the Competitive Play menu, will allow players to team up using different compositions from the 2 Tank/2 Damage/2 Support makeups in Role Queue. Furthermore, the Skill Rating (SR) earned in Open Queue will be separate from the SRs earned in Role Queue.

Michael Heiberg, principal game designer on Overwatch, says the decision to add Open Queue to Competitive Play came off the heels of its success in the Arcade, where players can face off in rotating non-standard game modes.

It all started with a simple experiment.

“We were looking at how popular Quick Play Classic has been,” says Heiberg, “and we wondered how successful an open queue alternative for Competitive would be.”

In keeping with some of the team’s main goals for Overwatch this year—fast balancing, lots o...

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If you’re looking for a hot summer deal, then we’ve got you covered. You can save 50% on select pets, mounts, and more now through July 19.

Give the Gift of World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth This Summer

Bring your friends along for an adventure in Azeroth with the gift of ...

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Multiple Great Evils (not just one). Hardcore mode. Gem socketing. Fighting demons outside for the first time. Diablo II has a legacy, and it’s in the bloodstream of every game we’ve worked on at Blizzard since the year 2000.   It taught our artists, engineers and designers about mood and atmosphere, about randomness, and about what makes plate mail dress-up so persistently delightful. For DII’s 20th anniversary, we’re stoking the campfire and reflecting on a game that shaped how we make games.   In the process, we’ve dreamed up some cool stuff, and we hope you’ll check it out and celebrate with us.

• To start, watch Baa...

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"Oh, I'd fought sleep for days at a time... For when I dreamt, the memories would return. Memories of the Monastery, and the Evil which had claimed it! Dreams, memories... I couldn't tell the difference anymore." - Marius

Crafting a classic

When we set out to create Diablo® II over twenty years ago, the goals were seemingly simple: fix the biggest issues in Diablo® and expand upon the original game’s formula. And while its developers didn’t set out specifically to turn the action RPG genre on its head or influence game design for an entire generation after it, Diablo II ended up doing just that anyway.

The development team wanted Diablo II to be bigger, better, faster, and stronger than its predecessor. A story divided in distinct acts with massive, explorable outdoor zones replaced the claustrophobic Tristram cathedral. Five new character classes like the whir...

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Blizzard Entertainment is pleased to announce their first collaboration with Days of Wonder by introducing Small World® of Warcraft®, a new board game combining the Small World® game mechanics with Blizzard’s celebrated Warcraft® universe.

Small World of Warcraft is set on the fantasy world of Azeroth, where the races of the Alliance and the Horde—including Orcs, Dwarves, Trolls, and Worgen— clash in a world-consuming conflict.

In Small World of Warcraft, players choose combinations of special powers and races from the Warcraft universe, such as Portal Mage Pandarens or Herbalist Goblins, and vie for control of Azeroth. To help them achieve dominance, players will occupy legendary terrains and seek control of powerful artifacts. However, all empires must eventually fall, so players will need to be ready to put an overextended race into a state of “decline” and lead a new one to rule Azeroth.

Blizzard and Days of Wonder worked closely to create a ga...

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We welcome you to join us on Wednesday, July 8 at 9:00 a.m. PDT for our newly rescheduled Shadowlands live stream with World of Warcraft Executive Producer John Hight and Game Director Ion Hazzikostas. They’ll share more about the upcoming expansion and give you a look at some of the latest content now in development.

When: July 8 at 9 a.m. PDT Where: World of Warcraft Twitch and ...

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When a swaggering wrestler in a tight pink singlet grabs a hot dog out of your hand en route to deliver a folding chair to the face of an unsuspecting sucker down in the ring—That’s Nexxxx-oooo-mania!

For our latest wrestling-themed event, we’re taking Heroes of the Storm to the Intermultiversal Nexoweight Championship, where there are no rules and no mercy, just nonstop bicep-busting carnage. Gird your girdles for new Skins, Mounts, the bellowing Announcer MC Tombstone, special Quests, and more. All Loot Chests you obtain during Nexomania II have a higher chance to contain event-themed loot (except for Hero-specific chests). The action starts this week and won’t let up until our next major update!

New Skins: Meet your contenders

We have three new contenders entering the Intermultiversal Nexoweight Championship! These masters of mayhem have trained for years and their skills in the ring are only matched by the style they bring.

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“Our world is worth fighting for.” – Dr. Mei-Ling Zhou 

Despite her sunny demeanor, Dr. Mei-Ling Zhou has always had a knack for manipulating the colder elements to aid in her fight against the enemies of Overwatch. Now, utilizing the latest in temperature-dropping technologies, Mei has stepped out of the lab and into the Nexus to give her opponents a thorough thermal thrashing. 

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Ability Breakdown: 

Thanks to the disruptive, protective, and surprisingly restorative properties of Mei’s icy engineering, this bone-chilling bruiser can get in the opponent’s face with her Endothermic Blaster, disrupt and devastate teamfights, then slide out of the skirmish unscathed. 

Basic Abilities

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Our next Heroes of the Storm patch is live and brings a new Hero - Mei, the Nexomania II event, a new Nexus Anomaly - Climate Phenomena, along with a Mal'Ganis rework and more! Read on for more information.

NOTE: Orange text indicates a change between PTR and Live notes.

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Quick Navigation:

• New Hero: Mei
• Nexus Anomaly
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As a part of our ongoing series of articles featuring many of the collectible's in World of Warcraft, we've set our sights on Warlords of Draenor. The many riches of this expansion are just waiting for you to claim them. There are a variety of ways to lay claim to these mounts, pets, and toys, whether it's from defeating a rare boss, collecting specific currencies, or becoming friends with the natives, you're sure to expand your stash of treasures.

Currencies

There are a variety of currencies used in Warlords of Draenor. Here are some of the primary types that you'll want to make sure you have at hand.

• Gold
• ...

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Gather your party and prepare for five consecutive weeks of Timewalking adventure. Beginning Tuesday, June 23, players will be able to step into the first week of Timewalking with the Burning Crusade. While Timewalking is active, you will gain a 50% bonus to reputations earned from quests and creature kills for all reputations associated with the corresponding expansion.

Weekly Schedule of Timewalking Events

• June 23-30: Burning Crusade Timewalking
• June 30-July 7: ...

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The free five-chapter Trial by Felfire Story Adventure is NOW LIVE! Follow the story of Aranna Starseeker (Elise Starseeker’s crafty younger sister) as she embarks on a thrilling journey of self-discovery, assembling a motley crew of outcasts and teaming up with Illidan to take on the mad architect of the Rusted Legion itself: MECHA-JARAXXUS! Complete the Trial by Felfire and you’ll earn the Rusted Legion Card Back!

We’re also excited to share that we’ll be rolling out a Battlegrounds balance patch tomorrow (June 18), along with a few bug fixes and a change to [[Tw...

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VERSUS

• Maps
  • Golden Wall LE
    • Expanded the Reaper path near the natural base locations to require more than one structure for a wall off.
  • Heavy Artillery LE
    • Updated the terrain in the middle of the map to allow for increased maneuverability.

BUG FIXES

• Collection
  • Fixed an issue where the default skin for the Armory had altered textures.
• War Chest 6
  • Fixed an issue where several Ihan-rii structure models would appear to warp-in/out during their warp-in animation.
  • RCZ Spine Crawlers will now correctly have range indicators displayed with their pre-placement models.
  • Tyrador Missile Turrets will now correctly have range indicators displayed with their pre-placement models.
  • Th...

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