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Yes! I’ve updated the OP here.

Updated 5:20 p.m. PDT August 26 – We’ve added Ashkandi, Kirtonos, and Rattlegore.

Due to very high demand, we’ve opened five new WoW Classic realms in this region:

We suggest that players choosing a realm consider one of these, as other realms currently marked as “Full” population will experience extended queues.

Thank you!

10:00 a.m. PDT on Monday:

2019-08-26T17:00:00Z, we removed the limitation on only creating a total of three WoW Classic characters per WoW account. Now, players will be able to create up to 10 characters per Classic realm, for a total of 50 characters across all Classic realms per WoW account.

Additionally, at 2019-08-26T17:00:00Z, we opened the following new realms in this region:

And at 3:30 p.m. PDT, we opened:

Yes. Updated!

Hello – The change being discussed here was the first of two changes in this patch that are together related to a cleanup of how stats are calculated for some gems. After the second fix is implemented in the next build of 8.2.5, there should be no overall changes to their stats.

Sorry for the confusion!

Please join us on the 8.2.5 PTR 2019-08-21T22:00:00Z

What was your favorite moment?

Mine was every time Papa Jeph was talking at the table and Tom Chilton said “yep” … “yep” … “yep”.

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2019-08-21T22:00:00Z, please join us on the 8.2.5 PTR for an old school Alterac Valley Play with the Blues.

Starting promptly at 3:00 p.m. PDT, Blizzard employees will be testing our 15th Anniversary rendition of AV on the PTR, and you can join us for some strife in the Field of Strife.

Please log into the PTR by that time and then open your Group Finder (default hotkey: i) and switch to the Player vs. Player tab. You’ll see Alterac Valley waiting for you to join.

Afterward, please return to this thread with your feedback.

Thank you!

Earlier today, the WoW Classic Development Team gathered to answer many highly-upvoted questions on /r/classicwow. Here is a compilation of the questions and answers, with links to each.

From AltruisWoW, Executive Producer:

Q: What exactly are t...

Fixed.

Thank you.

We’re working on the following hotfixes today. We intend to apply to these changes to the Queen Azshara encounter with weekly maintenance in each region:

• When either Aethenel or Cyranus is slain on Normal, Heroic, or Mythic difficulty, there is now a 3-second delay before the other one gains the Torment buff.
• Azshara’s Indomitable is now summoned 10 seconds later than previously observed on Mythic difficulty.
• Tidemistresses have 5% less health on Mythic difficulty.
• Ancient Wards now energize slightly slower for smaller raid sizes on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
• Fixed an issue that allowed Arcane Vulnerability to apply when the victim wasn’t in line of sight of Queen Azshara.

We’ll update this post if there are any further changes, and when the hotfixes go live.

Hello!

No to both questions.

As things currently stand, Artifact Knowledge will continue to increase each week until the week of October 1.

We are getting Worgen and Goblin Heritage armor questlines in a future content update.

We think it’s really cool to have these memorable questing experiences that go along with and encapsulate the moment when you inherit your Heritage armor. We’re working on bringing them to the game as soon as we can.

Based on name reservations so far, the Herod realm is looking to be massively overpopulated. If all existing players on this server remain there, login queues in excess of 10,000 players are a certainty, and possibly much higher than that.

We recently opened up the Stalagg realm, and we urge players on Herod to consider moving there. There are a lot of players currently on Herod and we want Stalagg to fill up before we open any new PvP realms. This is so that player population is spread as evenly as possible before launch, in order to provide the best play experience.

While we are able to fit several times more players on a single realm in 2019 than was the case in 2006, we are not going to raise that cap any further, even though we have the technical capacity to do so. Raising realm caps would simply forestall the problem, letting more players in at launch but creating an unsustainable situation down the line, with severe queues when ...

Hello.

I can confirm that 8.2.5 does not include any new Heritage Armor questlines.

Greetings and well met!

On Tuesday 2019-08-20T17:00:00Z, the WoW Classic development team will be on http://reddit.com/r/classicwow answering your questions.

Our thanks goes out to the r/classicwow admins, and to everyone who participates.

We’ll see you on 2019-08-20T17:00:00Z!