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Join Lead UX Designer Laura Sardinha, Associate Game Director Morgan Day, Lead Gameplay Engineer John-Mark Hemphill, and host Community Manager Bethany Stout as they cast the spotlight on features and activities coming with The War Within and what players can look forward to on their adventures throughout Azeroth— including a peek at Warbands, Delves, Mythic+ Dungeons and Affixes, PvP and rated Battleground Blitz, the upcoming Nerub’ar Palace raid, and more!

Prepare to discover The War Within when it launches globally on August 26 at 3:00 pm PDT. Players who have purchased the Epic Edition of The War Within can participate in Early Access beginning August 22.

Our next Heroes of the Storm patch is live! Read on for more information.

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It won’t be long before the infinite dragonflight closes the way to Pandaria and the Remix experience. There’s still time to make one last foray, spend your hard-earned Bronze, and get ready for your character to convert to a standard World of Warcraft character at the end of the event.

World of Warcraft Remix: Mists of Pandaria is available to play through August 19 and will shut down on August 20 at 7:00 am PDT (21:00 UTC in all other regions).

Here’s what you can expect when your character converts to a standard World of Warcraft character:

• All items, currencies (except gold), and quests will be removed from Timerunners and their banks during the conversion process, so make sure to spend your Bronze!
• The character conversion process may take several minutes to complete after you login to your character.
• You will need to log into each Timerunner for the conversion process ...

The last Masters Tour of the year is this weekend, and Hearthstone's best have come to play! Sixteen of the top players from the June and July ladder rankings will compete for their share of the $50,000 (USD) prize pool and two invites to the 2024 World Champion across three days of streaming action! Read on for everything you need to know to enjoy the show, only on Twitch and YouTu...

This Week in WoW, catch up on the latest World of Warcraft news from the last week!

Watch The War Within™: Threads of Destiny

As the might of the Nerubian kingdom of Azj-Kahet falters, their queen must decide on the choices she’s willing to make to ensure her people’s survival. Watch it all unfold in our video.

The Story So Far: Prepare for The War Within

From the wounding of the planet to the shattering of the sky, the struggles of Azeroth all lead to this moment. Get back in the fight when the World of Warcraft:...

Patch 30.0.3, launching today, includes balance changes to Standard, Battlegrounds, and more!

Hearthstone Updates

Dev Comment: Since the launch of Perils in Paradise, we’ve been happy to see a lot of evolving strategies—but we think there’s still room for more new and interesting cards to get a chance to shine. Our main goal with this patch is to add more competitive options from Perils in Paradise. We’re doing that by curbing a few cards that are showing up too often and by buffing some new cards that have some room to improve. We’ll see how the meta reacts to these changes and make further adjustments, if needed, in about three weeks.

The following cards have been adjusted to be weaker:

Hydration Station

• Old: Resurrect your 3 highest Cost Taunt minions.
• New: Resurrect 3 of your different highest Cost Taunt minions.

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As the might of the Nerubian kingdom of Azj-Kahet falters, their queen must decide on the choices she’s willing to make to ensure her people’s survival. Watch it all unfold in our video.

Save up to 50% for a limited time* when you shop the colorful collection of World of Warcraft pets in the Battle.net shop or the in-game shop. Throw an adorable pet party by inviting one or all of 17 World of Warcraft pets in the Battle.net® Shop or in-game shop to your collection.

• Alterac Brew-Pup
• Anima Wyrmling
• Argi
• Blinky
• Blossoming Ancient
• Brightpaw
• Cinder Kitten
• Daisy
• Dread Hatchling
• Lil'Ragnaros
• Lil' Ursoc
• Lucky Quilen Cub
• Shadow
• Soul of the Aspects
• Twilight
• Whomper
• Murkastrasza

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No vacation is complete without a stop at the souvenir shop. But this is a unique boutique: it sells magical Trinkets—the new Battlegrounds seasonal mechanic! Come see what’s in store for Battlegrounds Season 8, Trinkets & Travels, launching on August 20!

With Season 8, Battlegrounds Ratings will reset (for both regular Battlegrounds and Duos) and Buddies will rotate out of the Tavern to make room for new Trinkets.

New Mechanic: Trinkets

Trinkets are special passive power-ups that you buy with Gold and use for the rest of the game—kind of like Quest Rewards. Trinkets are offered twice per game: on turns 6 and 9. Each offering, you’ll get 4 Trinkets to choose from.

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It’s not too late to take your new dracthyr Evoker on tour through Pandaria in World of Warcraft Remix: Mists of Pandaria. As with the launch of The War Within pre-expansion content update, players are now able to create more than one Evoker per realm and begin their adventures at level 10!

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New! Get Wound Up in Spools of Eternal Threads

Players can now increase their thread count with four new items that grant escalating amounts of power for the Cloak of Infinite Potential.

• Minor Spool of Eternal Thread (Grants 20 Threads)
• Lesser Spool of Eternal Thread (Grants 50 Threads)
• Spool of Eternal Thread (Grants 100 Threads)
• Greater Spool of Eternal Thread (Grants 180 Threads (it’s percale!))

Please note that not all Spool of Eternal Thread sources change in quality based on the character’s level. Group finder bonu...

This Week in WoW—Catch up on the latest World of Warcraft news from the last week!

Get back in the Fight during Welcome Back Weekend

The War Within™ is nearly here—gather your friends and prepare to descend into the depths of Azeroth to face Xal'atath, Harbinger of the Void. From August 1 through August 4, we're giving all players with inactive World of Warcraft® accounts full access to the game and all your characters without a subscription or Game Time.

Confront the memories of Azeroth during the updated pre-expansion event and collect Residual Memories to purchase new items to add to your Warband collection. We've made changes to the event so that players have less down time between stages and more opportunities to gain rewards.

When: July 30 – August 26
Where: Dalaran (hub), Dragonblight, Dustwallow Marsh, and Searing Gorge
Currency: Residual Memories – Half forgotten memories can be glimpsed in the light playing across this iridescent powder.
Levels: 10-70

Players with and without The War Within™ will be able to take part in this event for its duration.

Confronting Memories

Catch up on our latest Developer Update livestream, where we revealed Season of the Infernal Hordes, Class balance updates, and more.

On August 1, we held a Developer Update stream that detailed all the hellish things coming in Season of the Infernal Hordes which begins on August 6 at 10 a.m. PT. Community manger Marcus Kretz, associate director of community Adam Fletcher, lead season designer Dan Tanguay, and lead live class designer Adam Jackson sat down to discuss Season of the Infernal Hordes. They dove into upcoming balance changes, quality-of-life updates, feedback learnings from our recent Public Test Realm, and more.

If you’d like to watch the full Developer Update stream to catch up on all the details, see the video below.

To read our 1.5.0. Patch Notes in full, you can read those ...

Build #56339 (PC) - August 6, 2024

Key Updates From PTR

Developer’s Note: Thank you to everyone who defended Sanctuary in our PTR and provided feedback. We have assembled a few key updates and bug fixes that were made as a direct result of the community’s feedback. Continue reading past this section to get a complete view of all the changes releasing with Season of the Infernal Hordes.

Note: Additional changes made since the PTR’s conclusion are highlighted in red.

Game Updates

Infernal Hordes

• Distinct audio queues have been added to signal the beginning and end of a wave.
• The number of waves has been tuned.
  • Tiers 1-3: 6 Waves
  • Tiers 4-5: 7 Waves
  • All other tiers remain unchanged.
• The wave timer has been reduced to 60 seconds.
• The number of Monsters...

The War Within™ is nearly here—gather your friends and prepare to descend into the depths of Azeroth to face Xal'atath, Harbinger of the Void. From August 1 through August 4, we're giving all players with inactive World of Warcraft® accounts full access to the game* and all your characters without a subscription or Game Time**.

Brave adventurers can access all expansions, including Dragonflight, to play the most recent content—including the Radiant Echoes pre-expansion event.

Rejoin your guild, rally your ...

Marin the Manager has unlocked his treasure vault as a part of our ongoing 10-Year Anniversary celebrations. Over the next four weeks, check in to the Hearthstone in-game shop for special gifts that can be claimed for free for a limited time only^*.

Here’s what you can look forward to:

Week 1 and 2: Golden Harth Stonebrew^**

• Start Time: August 1, 10:00 a.m. PDT
• End Time: August 14, 9:59 a.m. PDT 

Week 2: 1 Golden Perils in ...

Just when you thought you’d take the advice to “Stay away from da voodoo” a new temptation arises, beckoning you to take the risk, enter Zul’Gurub and Zul’Aman, thwart the machinations of the Zandalari and their brethren, and collect the rewards for your efforts. 

In years past, the Zandalar tribe, encompassing the wise and scholarly progenitors of the trolls, heroically assisted the Horde and the Alliance with thwarting the nefarious activities of their brethren in Zul'Gurub and Zul'Drak. Yet the chaos unleashed by the recent Cataclysm has reshaped the Zandalari's philosophy about the world and the dwindling remnants of their race. Led by a mysterious prophet known only as Zul, the Zandalari have issued a call to Azeroth's embattled troll populations: unite into a single mighty empire and save their race from extinction.

Thus far, the Gurubashi and Amani trolls have answered the summons and received aid from th...

Much has transpired as of late. Dark deeds through the night whisper of enemies turned allies, and demonic heathens seek to break open the very gates of the Burning Hells.

Season of the Infernal Hordes begins on August 6 at 10 a.m. PT.

Discover another chapter of what Lilith’s return to Sanctuary has wrought on the land. Create unlikely alliances and discover what imminent threat the Realm of Hatred poses to Sanctuary. On both Seasonal and Eternal Realms, beat back Hell’s legions in the Infernal Hordes, a wave-based feature that pits you against seemingly endless monsters. Read on for everything you need to know to descend into Hell and fight against the legions that await you.

Thank you to everyone that participated in our PC and Battle.net PTR (Public Test Realm) for Season of the Infernal Hordes. Throughout the blog, any text or section marked in red was a change made based off feedback from our latest PTR.

The spirit of competition is strong all during the month of August. Show you’re not afraid by wearing the Coward’s Violet Target on your back. You don’t need anyone else to put a target there!

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.

Here's What's in Stock for August

Pets, Mounts, and Toys

The Masters Tour World Championship of 2024 is expanding with the return of Hearthstone to China! We’re doubling the number of global qualifiers from 8 to 16 players and boosting the prize pool to a grand total of $500,000 USD provided by Blizzard Entertainment^® and NetEase ThunderFire! 

The top four players from the China qualifiers and eight players based on points from the Ladder rankings will join the champions and runner-up of the Spring and Summer Masters Tours in a showdown for their share of the prize pool.

Read the updated official rules for more details. Stay tuned here on the ...