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In the Rise of Azshara content update, we’ve developed several user interface changes that we’d like to call your attention to.

Accessibility Features
First, we’ve added several slash commands intended to provide more options for vision-impaired players. Some of these commands will allow the player to enter and leave voice channels without having to physically click the voice button in the channels list:

• Enter voice channel for your guild: /voice guild
• Enter voice channel for the officer channel for your guild: /voice officer
• Enter general channel for the given community: /voice
• Enter a particular channel for the given community: /voice
• Leave the current voice channel: /voice leave

We’ve also added some other new commands are intended to facilitate creating and joining communities and Battlenet clubs:

• Open the Add Community Dialog with the invitation link edit box selected. Jus...

Thanks to everyone who reported this bug. Because of your helpful reports, we were able to figure out what went wrong and fix it in time for Rise of Azshara.

The updated voice lines are now in the Rise of Azshara PTR and you’ll hear them when you go to Nazjatar next week.

Thanks again!

Our next WoW Classic stress test is getting underway tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. PDT. Here’s some additional information to help you make the most of it.

Launcher Update

Earlier today, we updated the Blizzard Battlenet Launcher on the World of Warcraft game screen. It’s now easier to select the version of the game you want to play. Now, when you look in the Live section of the Version dropdown, you should now see an additional option for World of...

Simply put – there will not be a way to redeem TCG codes in WoW Classic.

In the Launcher, the final state of game versions will be what you see under Live.

The stress test tomorrow is a test of our final, live setup, so you’re going to access the stress test via the Live / World of Warcraft Classic selection.

The WoW Classic Beta will remain for the time being in the same spot you’ve previously accessed it: the In Development section.

Thank you to everyone who logged in over the weekend and fought all up and down the Valley. Thanks to your efforts, we got a substantial amount of data and bug reports from the test.

The PvE and PvP Beta realms are back up and running for testers, and we’re working through everything we learned. If you haven’t yet, please leave your feedback in our dedicated AV feedback thread.

Thank you!

You do not have to have BFA to participate in this stress test. It’s available to everyone in the region with an active WoW subscription.

This won’t happen.

The change only affects groups that manually invite player characters who have XP off. There is no impact on players who find themselves automatically grouped by the matchmaker while doing PvP or Group Finder dungeons.

This change also doesn’t affect anyone who has turned off XP for their own benefit, such as plundering old raids while keeping their level low enough to use their Aggramar’s Stride boots.

We’ll have our next stress test for WoW Classic on 2019-06-19T21:00:00Z. This stress test will be accessible to anyone with an active World of Warcraft game account in the Americas & Oceania region. For players who have not yet tested World of Warcraft Classic, the game will become available for download late tomorrow, June 18. We’ve posted some additional info here.

For this stress test, all races and classes will be available for creation, and the maximum character level will be capped at 15. In addition to the open world, there will be instanced content available at that level. This will include Warsong Gulch for PvP as well as Ragefire Chasm, Wailing Caverns, and Deadmines. Of course, Deadmines will be a challenge for players to complete at this level.

Please focus as much play as possible during the first three hours of the stress test...

Earlier today, we made the stress test install appear on the game screen of the launcher for all players who have installed it. This is to make it possible to uninstall easily.

This is correct. We made the stress test install appear on the game screen of the launcher for all players who have installed it. This is to make it possible to uninstall easily.

Once you’ve played through Alterac Valley in the Classic Beta, please post your feedback here.

Please feel free to report bugs in this thread.

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Known Issues

• The Orgrimmar Priest trainer has gone missing. (FIXED)
• Horde Warlocks and Alliance Hunters don’t have mounts. (FIXED - players may need to make new characters)

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Not A Bug

• If you try to queue for AV as a group, you should get the “Incorrect party size for this battlefield” error.

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Thank you!

The Summer Season of the 2019 Arena World Championship (AWC) is here!

Following the end of an intense Spring Season, it’s time for the world’s best PvP-ers in World of Warcraft to compete for the Arena Cup, a challenging series of tournaments leading into the second LAN of the year: the AWC Summer Finals. At the Summer Finals, teams will compete for $100,000 and two qualification spots at BlizzCon. The first Cup has already begun, and the top 8 teams have already been decided in NA and EU after an explosive Open Bracket.

All Top 8 series will be broadcast on ...

The AV test realm this weekend will be on the Normal ruleset. You’ll be able to create characters of both factions, and we encourage you to do so!

2019-06-14T21:00:00Z, we’ll open a new realm in the WoW Classic Beta for dedicated testing of Alterac Valley.

When beta testers log into the WoW Classic Beta at that time, please look for the new Field of Strife realm. Alterac Valley will only be available for testing on this realm, and we will be turning off the other beta realms for the duration of the AV test. You’ll find that test characters on Field of Strife are confined to their capital cities. Don’t worry—even if you could leave the city, there will be no enemies, quest-givers, dungeons, or transports throughout the rest of the world.

On the Field of Strife realm, when you create a character, it will be locked at level 58 for AV testing. These test characters will have appropriate gear, some gold, a mount, and access to class trainers and reagent vendors, but they will not be able to level up past 58.

Please go t...

Heads up! The current season of activities in Mythic Keystone Dungeons and PvP is ending soon.

This will mean an end to all players’ opportunities to earn seasonal rewards and titles, as well as the end of seasonal rankings for BFA Season 2.

For two weeks following the end-of-season, we will have an off-season. During that two weeks period, Mythic Keystone dungeons will still be playable using Season 2 affixes and rewards, but their seasonal achievements will no longer be available. In PvP during that two week period, players still queue for rated PvP and earn appropriate rewards, but the PvP leaderboards will be locked.

Good luck fighting to a glorious finish of the season!

With the weekly reset tomorrow, June 11, the in-game function for creating Recruit-a-Friend invitations will be removed.