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A hero, that's what you once were. You stood boldly against the shadow and purchased another dawn for the world... with your life. But the evil you fought is not so easily banished; the victory you claimed, not so easily held. For now, the specter of death looms over the world yet again and it has found new champions to bring about its final reign. Knights of darkness, wielding runes of death and destruction, bound by the will of the Lich King. This is the hour of their ascension. This is the hour of your dark rebirth…

The Lich King’s armies present an ever-present threat to all life on Azeroth. Some of his most terrifying servants are known as Death Knights—unliving instruments of the Lich King’s will.

Unlike mindless Scourge puppets such as ghouls and skeletons, a Death Knight is a former hero of Azeroth that’s been risen into undeath to serve the Lich King for all eternity. As Worl...

Chart a course across the Shadowlands for this week’s Bonus Event – World Quests.

This Week

All week, open your map (default hotkey-"m") and select any of the regions in Shadowlands to view the World Quests available to you. To find out more about each World quest, simply hover your mouse over a World Quest on the map to see what tasks are needed to complete it, the rewards you’ll receive, and the time remaining that the quest is available to you.

Look for the following all week long:

• Caretaker Kah-Toll in Oribos has a quest for you—The World Awaits. You can also start the quest from within the Adventure Guide (Shift-J).
  • Quest requirement: Complete 20 World Quests in the Shadowlands
  • Reward: Choice of one of four Covenant Commendations worth 500 Reputation and 3 Multi-Modal Anima Containers each worth 250 stored Anima for your Covenant Reservoir.
• Passive buff: +50% to Reputation gains f...

If you’re just returning after a hiatus from World of Warcraft, leveling another character (or two), or preparing to get a head start on Shadowlands Season 4 then this is the perfect time to jump into the game. Beginning this week with each region’s local weekly reset,  World of Warcraft* players level 10-59 will gain an experience buff called “Winds of Wisdom,” which will increase experience gains by 50%!

Don’t delay. The winds will shift once more with the start of Shadowlands Season 4, and the experience buff will no longer be available.

* Experience buff not available in World of Warcraft® Classic titles.

This week in World of Warcraft, players are making their way to Azure Span as the Dragonflight alpha begins. Check out some of the articles that will give you a closer look at Dragonflight—including a look at dracthyr customizations, a zone preview of Azure Span, a new professions system, and more.

In case you missed it, we're also excited to (officially) welcome Proletariat to Blizzard. You can find the full press release on the announcement ...

In this preview, the World of Warcraft development team shares more on the new profession updates and shows off some of the new crafting stations and equipment becoming available in Dragonflight.

Crafting Stations in Dragonflight

Upon entering the Dragon Isles, you will find new crafting stations for crafting professions that don't currently have them, which includes all crafting professions with the exception of Cooking and Blacksmithing. The goal for these stations is to help increase the immersion and fantasy of your chosen professions and enhance the social experience.

Engineering Station

Enchanting Station

Jewelcrafting Station

With those goals in mind, much like for Blacksmithing, most new Dragon Isles crafting recipes will require you to be at these new crafting stations. You will find many of them scattered througho...

Journey into the Azure Span, an ancient frost-touched land, where you'll aid Kalecgos as he ventures into the Azure Archives on a mission to reclaim the Azure Oathstone.

Cold Comfort

When you first arrive in the Azure Span, you'll be greeted with snowy peaks, mist-covered forests, and icy tundra. The Azure Span stretches from coastal tuskarr villages through sprawling forest tundra to looming spires of ice and snow. Regal blue dragons once roamed these lands, but with the passage of time, several tribes of tuskarr, gnolls, and furbolg now call these ancient lands their home.

The Azure Span is one of the largest zones created in World of Warcraft to date and offers the greatest visual elevation c...

Bristling with arcane energy, the serpentine Nether-Gorged Greatwyrm* is now available to add to your mount collection. Glide through the nether on this gluttonous mount when you purchase directly from in-game or the Blizzard Shop, or receive it at no additional charge with a 6-Month Subscription, along with the Tabard of Flame** for Burning Crusade Classic.

A Netherworldly Appetite for Adventure!

The Nether-Gorged Greatwyrm will carry you to the far-off horizons of whatever plane of existence your adventures take you. Embark on an electrifying journey and discover new sources of delicious arcane power along the way.

This arcane power-hungry mount will automatically be added to your Collection when you purchase the ...

Shadowlands introduced a series of three new bonus events within Torghast, Tower of the Damned, offering unique new event Anima Powers. These new powers will provide a variety of wild new abilities to utilize during your adventure through the halls. If you choose the event-themed Anima Power at the start of your dungeon run, the remaining choices for that run will change to include additional event-themed powers to choose from along the way.

For example, choosing the maw pet power during the Beasts of Prodigum event will alter any remaining Anima Power discoveries in Torghast to include powers that buff your maw pet. Should you not choose to take this new power and choose a normally available power, you will not get any abilities associated with the event within Torghast to use for your run.

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Shadowlands Season 4 marks a new approach to a World of Warcraft® Season, and with the return of some of WoW’s favorite dungeons, we’re excited to mark a new era for The Great Push (TGP) with an expanded event format while pushing the frontiers of what’s possible in Mythic Dungeons, on YouTube and Twitch. Read on for all the details and head over to GameBatt...

The new Dracthyr race provides a variety of features to customize your character including bold horn options, a diverse palette of colors to choose from, and more. In this preview, we show off more of the choices available for you to fully express your Dracthyr form.

Choose from a variety of options for your Dracthyr including horns, scales, snouts, eyes, and more.

Dragonflight contains major updates to World of Warcraft classes, centering on the re-introduction of talent trees. In this preview, we take a first look at the prototype trees for the Hunter and Rogue classes. These and all the other trees still have a lot of work to be done, but we want to share what we can to start collecting detailed feedback at this early stage.

Some of our biggest goals in a class and talent revamp are to increase player agency over your character’s progression and build, provide meaningful rewards while leveling, and reinforce your character’s connection to both their class and their spec. In addition, we felt we had to retain many features of modern World of Warcraft speciali...

With Dragonflight development in full swing, you will soon get a chance to try out the new and updated profession system in World of Warcraft. This system has been designed to provide greater depth and engagement, allowing you—the crafters of Azeroth—to differentiate yourselves and stand out from your peers.

Before diving into the details of crafting, it’s worth noting that there are three main pillars to revamped professions:

• Crafting Orders
• Profession Specializations
• Crafting and Gathering with quality

In this preview, we’re focusing on crafting with quality, but before diving into that topic, a quick summary of the other two for context.

Crafting Orders

Crafting orders are a new way for you to place an order for almost any Dragon Isles crafting recipe using an Auction House-like interface. This new service will be provided to you nearly free of charge by represen...

The 2022 Mythic Dungeon International (MDI) & Arena World Championship (AWC) Global Finals are here! Over 3 weekends, celebrate the top Dungeon runners and Arena Gladiators as they compete for their share of $600,000 (USD) and to reign as the ultimate champions of the Shadowlands. Tune in live between July 8-24 exclusively on YouTube to earn the ...

Players will be able to venture into six of Mists of Pandaria’s storied dungeons to reap new rewards all week during this Bonus Event. Simply open the Group Finder (default hotkey: “I”) and then select Dungeon Finder and Timewalking in the “Type” dropdown menu. Selecting “Find Group” will match you with other players and send you to one of the following Heroic Dungeons.

• Temple of the Jade Serpent
• Stormstout Brewery
• Shado-Pan Monastery
• Mogu’shan Palace
• Scholomance
• Gate of the Setting Sun

Your character and items will be scaled down to a power level fitting for the challenge at hand, but bosses will yield loot appropriate for your natural level. Timewalking dungeons also have a chance to drop items that usually drop when you run them on Heroic, and you’ll earn reputation with a faction that is interested in the dungeon.

You’ll also be able to visit a new Timewalking vendor locat...

The Midsummer Fire Festival is set to go out with a POP, WHIZ, BANG during the Fireworks Spectacular on July 4!

Make your way to any capital city (or venture out to Booty Bay) to take in the festively fiery finale with an hourly firework extravaganza.

We hope to see you there!

Dragonflight contains major updates to World of Warcraft classes, centering on the re-introduction of talent trees. In this preview, we take a first look at the prototype trees for the Priest class. These and all the other trees still have a lot of work to be done, but we want to share what we can to start collecting detailed feedback at this early stage.

Some of our biggest goals in a class and talent revamp are to increase player agency over your character’s progression and build, provide meaningful rewards while leveling, and reinforce your character’s connection to both their class and their spec. In addition, we felt we had to retain many features of modern World of Warcraft specializations. Spe...

Hello, World of Warcraft community!

We know that you are hungry for new content and I’m really proud of how our development teams are working to meet or exceed those expectations – there’s more happening in WoW than ever, and this is just the beginning.

To help support our increased content needs, since May, we’ve been working with a great development partner, Proletariat. Proletariat was founded in 2012 by industry veterans from Turbine, Harmonix, Zynga and Insomniac. Their strong leadership team has a long history of working together, deep MMO experience working on Asheron’s Call, Lord of the Rings Online and D&D Online, and a strong presence in Boston, where they’re based.

Our work with the Proletariat team has been going well. Today we are excited to announce that Blizzard has closed the acquisition of Proletariat—something we’ve been working on for a while.

Together, our teams will expand our development pipeline for WoW. Our plan is to continu...

Viewers will have the chance to earn the new Fearless Spectator title while watching the upcoming Global Finals for AWC and MDI!

Esports Shadowlands Global Finals are almost upon us! To celebrate the end of both Arena World Championship (AWC) and Mythic Dungeon International's (MDI) Shadowlands seasons, we are offering viewers the chance to earn the exclusive Fearless Spectator in-game title. All you need to do is create a Blizzard account and link it with your YouTube account, then sit back and earn the title as you watch the top dungeon-running and pvp teams battle for their respective championships across three amazing weekends!

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In this week's news roundup, take wing to a new beginning with the World of Warcraft®: Dragonflight pre-purchase, register for the Wrath of the Lich King Classic beta as invites start to roll out, dive into Wrath Classic with our Developer Update, and more.

Dragonflight News and Development

Pre-purchase Dragonflight Now

Take wing to a new beginning—World of Warcraft: Dragonflight is now available for pre-purchase in-game and through the Blizzard Shop! Head over ...

Grab your parka and gloves and prepare for an adventurous return to the frozen tundra of Northrend. Take a sentimental journey with art director Ely Cannon, Lead Level Designer Sarah Boulian-Verrall, and Overwatch game director Aaron Keller to the time when they all worked together as a part of the level design team on Wrath of the Lich King. You’ll learn more about how the team built Northrend and how this icebound world was brought to life.