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12 Jul

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


The War Within™ Pre-Expansion Content Update Goes Live July 23

Big changes arrive with the introduction of Warbands, Skyriding, class and system updates, and more with the pre-expansion content update.

Take part in a new event, Radiant Echoes, and begin your first steps into the continuing story that will take you into the unexplored depths of Azeroth. The War Within g...

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With the launch of The War Within™ pre-expansion content update arriving on July 23, we will be disabling the Paid Character Transfer (PCT) service for transfers between Battle.net® accounts.

This service will still be available to use between realms and between World of Warcraft® accounts within a single Battle.net account. Please be aware that transfers between Battle.net accounts will not be available after the pre-expansion update has gone live. Any transfer tokens that you have saved to use on a transfer between Battle.net...

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11 Jul

Expand the potential of all your World of Warcraft® characters with account-wide progression across your Battle.net® account, regardless of faction—including shared Renown, a Warband bank, Achievements, Collections, and more!


Getting The Band Together

Upon first logging into World of Warcraft, the Warband conversion process automatically enables many of the game's progression systems to be account-wide. Players will not need to log into each character individually for all progression, items, etc., to convert; however, there may be a short wait for the system to completely process your Warband the first time you log in. The Warband conversion process can take up to 20 minutes or longer, and depending on the amount of data being processed, there could be a login queue.

The new Warbands system is effective for all characters on a player's Battle.net account and the items, Collections, an...

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    Linxy on Forums - Thread - Direct

Hello everyone! We’ve got some more delve news.

We’ve activated Season 1 of Delves on our Alleria and Khadgar realms. This means players can begin to access tiers 4 and up naturally to experience our seasonal progression. It also means the Great Vault is activated for players to see our new World slot! Xekvir’s lair is still planned to only be accessible when the season goes live after the expansion launches.

Please hop on in and try out our sneak peak of Delves Season 1!

Known Issues:

  • Delver’s Journey may not properly fill up your seasonal progression bar. We’re investigating a fix for this.
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    Kaivax on Forums - Thread - Direct

For your realm, yes.

It’s every two hours – even-numbered hours – realm time.

Level to 60, discover new class runes, enter the Molten Core raid dungeon to face Ragnaros, and more in the latest phase. 

Join Associate Production Director Clayton Stone, Lead Software Engineer Nora Valletta,  and Senior Producer Josh Greenfield as they take you through more details of Season of Discovery Phase 4.


What’s in Store

We’re leveling up Season of Discovery Phase 4 with a variety of leveling changes, new rune discoveries, class adjustments, professions and reputations updates, dungeon updates, PvP Class Sets, updated events, raid content, world bosses, and more.

  • Level from 50 to 60
  • Access to all Classic Zones
  • Collect Epic Mounts
  • New World Buff for...
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    Kaivax on Forums - Thread - Direct

The first one should be exactly one hour after launch, and then every two hours thereafter.

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    Kaivax on Forums - Thread - Direct

We believe that there may be a caching issue. We’re working on it.

While we do, you should be able to get around it by doing this:

  • Log out
  • Wait at least 30 seconds
  • Log back in
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    Kaivax on Forums - Thread - Direct

We believe that there may be a caching issue. We’re working on it.

While we do, you should be able to get around it by doing this:

  • Log out
  • Wait at least 30 seconds
  • Log back in
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    Kaivax on Forums - Thread - Direct

Season of Discovery Phase 4 gets underway today at 1:00 p.m. PDT. That’s:

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Time Date Timezone
10:00 a.m. July 11 Hawaii
12:00 Noon July 11 Alaska
1:00 p.m. July 11 Pacific
2:00 p.m. July 11 Mountain
3:00 p.m. July 11 Central
4:00 p.m. July 11 Eastern, Puerto Rico
5:00 p.m. July 11 Nova Scotia
5:00 p.m. July 11 Brazil, Argentina
5:30 p.m. July 11 Newfoundland
4:00 a.m. July 12 Perth
5:30 a.m. July 12 Darwin, Adelaide
6:00 a.m. July 12 Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne
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July 10, 2024

Cataclysm Classic

  • Tabard of Flame item will no longer destroy itself on login. The transmog is available via the appearances tab in collections, and the item itself is available via purchase from Landro Longshot in Booty Bay.
  • Fixed multiple spells so that they now log properly and can be detected by addon authors and third-party web sites.
  • Titan Rune Dungeons have been updated to allow for a single player to activate any of the three difficulties.
  • The Lil’ Deathwing pet now appears as expected in the Collections UI for players who previously added the Cataclysm Collector’s Edition to their account.
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July 10, 2024

Season of Discovery

  • The 6-hour wait between applications of Rallying Cry of the Dragonslayer and Warchief's Blessing has been reduced to 1 minute.
  • Fixed an issue with the Rolling Thunder rune where it only worked if you also had the Shield Mastery rune equipped. That requirement was accidental and is now removed.
  • Alchemists specialized in Mixology and Transmutation will now always get at least 1 extra resource produced by their specialized recipes. The maximum received from a single recipe is still 4.
  • Main Gauche will now always apply its discount to Sinister Strike, even if the ability does not land. Both of Main Gauche's buffs will now be removed when the rune is removed.
  • All non-Elite, non-Boss enemies in Nightmare Incursions now have health and damage values the same as a standard creature of their level. Previously, most had 50% more damage and health. ...
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July 10, 2024

WoW Classic Era and Hardcore

  • Fixed multiple bugs causing quests and abilities from Season of Discovery to be unintentionally present in Classic Era.
  • The 6-hour wait between applications of Rallying Cry of the Dragonslayer and Warchief's Blessing has been reduced to 1 minute.

10 Jul

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WoW Classic Era and Hardcore
Version 1.15.3
July 9, 2024

Classic Era and Hardcore

  • The Guilds user interface has been updated to provide more ease of Guild management.
  • Alliance players now have access to the Might of Stormwind, to a version of the Warchief’s Blessing world buff effect. This new buff is gained for turning in a new quest “End of the Dark Horde” in Stormwind and is mutually exclusive with Warchief’s Blessing.
  • The Songflower Serenade and Dire Maul Tribute buffs can no longer be dispelled by enemy players.
  • Druids can now train and use polearms.
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    Linxy on Forums - Thread - Direct

Hello everyone! You can now obtain Restored Coffer Keys from Zandelvari for use in Bountiful Delves on the This Goes to Eleven realm.

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    Kaivax on Forums - Thread - Direct

Greetings, dungeoneers!

Thank you all for your feedback on our new Mythic+ affix system. As we continue to review community responses for future adjustments, we’ve made updates in this week’s Beta.

New Affix

Continuing with the theme of Xal’atath’s Bargain, where players can harness powerful boons granted to dungeon enemies by the Harbinger, we’re adding a new affix to our Beta testing this week.

Xal’atath’s Bargain: Voidbound

  • While in combat, Xal’atath summons Void Emissary to empower nearby enemies, gradually increasing their damage. Upon defeating the Void Emissary, players harness the void energy for themselves, increasing their critical chance by 20% for 20 seconds.

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    Kaivax on Forums - Thread - Direct

Hello, healers of Azeroth.

In today’s new Beta build, we’re making some significant changes to healing that we’ve outlined in the development notes. Health pools are increasing (relative to their Dragonflight values), which has changed how it feels to heal other players in a variety of content.

Most notably, we’re reducing the strength of percentage-based healing spells to keep them in-line with their intended power, and we’re increasing the effectiveness of hybrid healing and sing...

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    Linxy on Forums - Thread - Direct

Hello everyone! We’d like to share some updates for you on Delves.

Tuning and Experience

Across the board we’ve increased the XP rewards from delves during level up as they felt a bit too low.

We’ve also done a general tuning pass across all tiers and will continue to monitor difficulty for all specs and classes. From your feedback and from our testing we saw that delves became particularly punishing throughout level up, and that many specs felt like they had to be several item levels higher than the recommended item level to survive.

We’re continuing to review the tuning for classes that are struggling in delves. We’ve seen your feedback on which classes are having a hard time. We also have our own...

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    Linxy on Forums - Thread - Direct

Heya! Here are this week’s updates to the War Within Beta:

CLASSES

  • DEATH KNIGHT
    • Unholy Strength (Rune of the Fallen Crusader) now heals for 4% maximum health (was 6%).
    • An issue causing Raise Abomination to deal less damage than it should has been fixed.
    • Hero Talents
      • Deathbringer (Blood/Frost)
        • Frost
          • Exterminate first scythe damage increased by 25%.
          • Exterminate second scythe damage increased by 20%.
          • Soul Rupture now deals 30% of the damage dealt to nearby enemies.
          • Reaper’s Mark melee ability damage (not the stacked debuff) increased by 88%.
          • Wave of Souls damage increased by 15%.
      • Rider of the Apocalypse (Frost/Unholy)
        • Whitemane Death Coil cast frequency increased.
        • Whitemane Undeath cast frequency increased.
        • Trollb...
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