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Warlords of Draenor: Wowhead interviews Blizzard developers
Wowhead's
Perculia
interviewed Lead Class Designer Kris Zierhut and Game Designer Steve Burke on Warlords of Draenor.
Topics discussed include:
Void Storage
Bad Luck Protection and the prevention of looting duplicate items
Engineering tinkers as sellable items and the impact on raidint
Garrisons and how they're tied to overall gameplay - your Garrison can be attacked by NPCs, and you get rewards for defending it
Followers—interesting ways to recruit them, specialize in different types of rewards.
Raid cooldowns
Incentivizing Proving Grounds
Challenge Modes Strengths and weaknesses of Timeless Isle
You can listen to the audio below. Obviously, as it's a convention, there is some background noise for which we apologise.
Edit: transcript is now up too! We have tried to be as exact as possible, but due to the poor audio quality at points, there are a few summarized bits.
Hit the break for the Transcript!
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PAX East Roundup: Warlords Beta Keys, New Heroes, Hearthstone Adventure Mode
Four new Heroes announced
Heroes of the Storm has got well and truly into the PAX spirit with an early announcement of four new heroes.
Brightwing, Zagara, Li li and Murky, from left to right across the picture to the side, are the newest heroes. All these are playable at PAX and we're starting to see some
bios emerge
, as well as a
trailer for Brightwing
which was already posted on the Heroes of the Storm YouTube. From their general PAX Trailer, it also looks like Pajamathur is being added to the game as a skin!
Apart from that, there appears to have been a rework of the talents system, as well as some heroic abilities. There's also a
lengthy blog
over at the Heroes site that provides more information - expand the box below to learn more!
On Friday morning, Game Director Dustin Browder, Senior Producer Kaeo Milker, and Senior Artist Phill G
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News Roundup: Heartbleed Account Security, Azeroth Choppers, Significant Tweets
Heartbleed Account Security
Blizzard has released an official statement on the Heartbleed bug. The long and short of it is that Battle.net was not compromised, but if you use the same password for Battle.net as you do for other sites, you should change it. As a rule, it's best to use unique passwords for your different accounts.
Many news sites are reporting a vulnerability (dubbed the Heartbleed bug) discovered in OpenSSL, an encryption technology used by a majority of websites and online services—including banks, email providers, and social media sites—to protect sensitive data as it’s transmitted from users to web services.
We want to emphasize that Battle.net’s encryption was not affected by this vulnerability. However, if you use the same password on Battle.net that you use elsewhere, your Battle.net account could be at risk if those sites were affected by this bug.
If the above situation applies to you, we recommend changing your Battle.net password to a new, unique password. As always, we recommend that you maintain separate login credentials for each online service you use. Using the same email or password across multiple ser
Blizzard Launches Azeroth Choppers
Azeroth Choppers
This video was just uploaded to the World of Warcraft YouTube account, and appears to relate to the popular American Choppers TV series.
Players will vote to see which bike gets made into a World of Warcraft mount, meaning, presumably, that only one faction gets a new mount as a result of the show. There is also an official
Azeroth Choppers site
.
Hit the break for the full information on the show from the site.
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How to get the most out of Wowhead's Warlords of Draenor Talent Calculator
Wowhead has updated the
Warlords of Draenor Talent Calculator
, to include glyphs as well as all the updated spec-specifc abilities and Draenor Perks. But maybe you're wondering how to use it? How do you see all these new features?
Upgraded Tooltips
The main body of the calculator, which we can see to the right, should be pretty familiar. It works exactly like the in-game one does, only it's been updated for Warlords. You'll notice some differences among the lower level talents as well as the new level 100 talents. What's more, the tooltips have been updated to only reflect your selected spec's version of the talent.
A great example is
Chi Explosion
, a new level 90 Monk talent. If you mouse over it with any of the three specs selected, the tooltip will update to show the appropriate version of the talent. You can select your spec at the bottom of the talent calculator on the left-hand side.
Glyphs
Clicking any of the Glyph slots you see to the right of the main calculator will open up a list of glyphs. Select from the list,
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Blizzard at PAX East
Blizzard is attending PAX East this weekend in a big way, at
Booth #848
, with almost every franchise having something to offer up. The
PAX East Guidebook App
includes a map of all the locations, so you can easily find your way to booth #848!
Several of us from ZAM will be attending as well, such as
Perculia
and
Mike B
!
World of Warcraft
Playable demo of Warlords of Draenor - likely similar to what was available at Blizzcon with updated models and the intro quest experience.
Several developers are attending, PvP Designer Brian Holinka being one, along with Community Manager Bashiok
Heroes of the Storm
Heroes of the Storm will be playable at PAX, featuring brand new heroes never played before outside Blizzard
Kaeo Milker , Dustin Browder , and Phill Gonzales will gather at 10.30am on Friday in the Albatross Theater for a showmatch, hero rev
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Female Draenei Model
Following in quick succession from the
Tauren Male Model
that we saw yesterday, Blizzard has posted an in-progress Artcraft of the Female Draenei. It's important to note that this particular model is not finished. Specifically, she hasn't been posed or animated, so her posture may look a little strange.
Hello again! I’m Senior Art Director Chris Robinson, and today we wanted to give y
Hearthstone
Deck Tech - Chicken Overwhelming, and Tournament News Roundup
Deck Tech
The latest Deck Tech with Spacewizard is here! On this week's Hearthstone Deck Tech, Spacewizard showcases the true power of poultry with his Angry Chicken themed aggro deck designed for casual play. Each card's purpose and combos are explained and detailed in this silly display of avian shenanigans. For those of you lacking legendaries, a budget version of the deck is also available.
Let us know what you think in the comments below!
Tournament News
There have been several updates regarding Hearthstone tournaments. Community Manager Aratil posted on the Official Hearthstone site about the North American Collegiate Open, interviewing the four players who will progress to the semi-finals at PAX East. You can expand the box below to see the full interviews.
<strong>Dueler #1</strong></u></p>
<p><strong>Name: </strong><span style="line-height: 2;">Johnny “RisingVirtue” On</span></p>
<p><strong>College: </strong><span style="line-height: 2;">University of California, Berkele
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News Roundup: Patch 5.4.7 Hotfixes, Blizzard Interviews, Significant Tweets
Patch 5.4.7 Hotfixes
Classes
Shaman
General
Resolved an issue where the visual effect for Healing Rain was able to persist indefinately.
Quests
Guerrillas in our Midst: Resolved an issue where General Nazgrim can lose his quest giver status, preventing players from being able to complete the quest.
The Lesson of the Burning Scroll: Players now receive the Master's Flame automatically upon accepting the quest.
Creatures
All world bosses in Mists of Pandaria are no longer tap-to-faction. Players from both factions that engage the world boss at the same time are now eligible for loot.
Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
Each World of Warcraft account can now create a maximum of 10 instances per hour (up from 5).
Siege of Orgrimmar
Amalgam of Corruption's Unleashed Anger can now reach players that are greater than 10 yards away.
Dungeons
Siege of Niuzao Temple: A Chall
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Artcraft: Tauren Male Model and Animation
While we have seen some snapshots of the Tauren Male from datamining over the weekend, Artcraft adds a great deal more with animation and in-depth views of the new model.
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Technical Game Designer Chadd "Celestalon" Nervig Talks Warlords of Draenor
Update! 3:30 EST, the
Warlords of Draenor talent calculator
is now updated with datamined talent changes.
I was fortunate enough to be invited to Blizzard Campus to interview Technical Game Designer Chadd "Celestalon" Nervig on Warlords of Draenor. You can
read the full interview over at WoW Insider
, but I've created a summary for Wowhead which you can read below. Please note that while the WoW Insider transcript is just that, I have used my own phrasing here.
Timeline and the "Alpha" term
Celestalon wanted to be very clear that this was not the final set of patch notes. There's already another 5,000+ word set being created by Rygarius, as well as blogs. It's definitely not the case that these are set in stone.
Players shouldn't take the "Alpha" as meaning that Blizzard is not that far along in content, and not assume that there's a certain time period of Beta to follow.
"Alpha" more relates to how many people are being invited. Mists had a lot of people, thanks to the Annu
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Warlords of Draenor Alpha has begun!
Blizzard has announced the start of the Warlords of Draenor Alpha!
Of particular note:
There are some file formatting changes that are coming in WoW, which will affect how Wowhead gets data, so we look forward to handling all the changes!
Not all features will be available to test in the alpha--Garrisons are notably not available.
This marks the start of a very early Alpha stage for friends and family--it is quite limited and different from the start of MoP's beta.
<p>We’ve been hard at work on World of Warcraft®: Warlords of Draenor™, and today we’ve entered the Alpha phase of our expansion testing. As part of this, we’ll begin using public servers to host the data, which means you may begin seeing some datamined information show up in the usual places.</p>
<p>One of our goals for this very early stage of the Alpha is to test out some new technology in the wild with employees and friends and family, including a new file format called CASC (more on that below). As such, the expansion content available during this first phase will be quite limited—many of the expansion’s major features, su
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News Roundup: Challenge Mode reward updates, April Fools roundup
Challenge Mode Reward Updates
Blizzard has just posted a blog which details changes to the Challenge Mode rewards issued when the current "season" ends.
Some rewards are getting big changes, notably the Silver reward mounts from
Ei eines Ahnenphönix
are now account-wide plus you automatically know all four color variations instead of having to pick one color. In addition, the nine
titles for Realm Best times
are being completely removed.
Watcher later posted clarifications on why the Realm Best titles are being permanently removed, which we've added to our blog.
* Reward ClarificationsWith the upcoming end of the Challenge Mode Season, we wanted to provide some additional clarification on how we plan to handle rewards.
Achievements:
All Achievements associated with Mists of Pandaria Challenge Modes will become Feats of Strength.
Rewards
Bronze:
The “Undaunted” title for achieving a full set of Bronze medals will become account-wide.
Silver:
The Pandaren Phoenix mounts a
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News Roundup: PvP rating issue hotfix, Blizzard tweets on gearing
Today we've had some updates on the recent MMR issues, as well as some tweets from Blizzard on gearing.
Wowhead launches Class Guides!
On Friday Wowhead launched guides for every class and spec. Aimed at new level 90s, or players new to a given spec, these are all written by experts in each class. You can check them out at our
Class Guides page
.
MMR issues hotfix incoming
Blizzard Community Representative Daxxarri responded to player concerns about gaining 0 points of Current Rating following wins in arena:
Daxxarri
We recently implemented a hotfix to address a bug that allowed Personal Ratings to exceed Matchmaking Rating. As a result, some players may notice that they do not gain or lose Personal Rating in the wake of a match. As more matches are played, these ratings will normalize and converge to the correct rating, and Personal Rating will then rise or drop accordingly.
In the meantime, we will continue to monitor the situation and make further adjustments if necessary.
Following several responses expressing dissatisfaction, Senior Community Repres
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News Roundup: Patch 5.4.7 Hotfixes, Diablo Skins, Free Hero Rotation, Balance Changes
Patch 5.4.7 Hotfixes for March 25th
Blizzard
March 25
Character Boost
Resolved an issue where some boosted characters were unable to see the portal to Pandaria in capital cities.
Classes
Priest
General
Resolved an issue where the amount of healing received from Prayer of Mending was not benefitting from PvP Power.
Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
Throne of Thunder
Reduced the health and damage of Gurubashi, Amani, Drakkari, and Farraki adds during the Horridon encounter by 20% on Raid Finder difficulty.
Diablo III: Reaper of Souls skins
In celebration of Diablo III: Reaper of Souls
launch
, two new skins have been added to Heroes of the Storm - Demonic Tyrael and Angelic Valla. They cost $12.49 each and are available in-game now: They are also available in v
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News Roundup: Female Dwarf images, RoS Hearthstone packs, Health Scaling, Heroes Q&A,Talk Azeroth 31
New female Dwarf renders added
New female Dwarf renders were just added to the Warlords site, showing new hairstyles and some model changes
Reaper of Souls awards Hearthstone packs
Heads up! Players who pick up a copy of <a href="
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/reaper-of-souls/"
target="_blank">Diablo III: Reaper of Souls™</a> will soon discover bonus loot in the form of an Expert Card Pack (or Packs!) for <a href="
http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/"
target="_blank">Hearthstone™: Heroes of Warcraft™</a>.
Depending on the version of Reaper of Souls you have pre-purchased (or purchase in the future) you can expect the following:
<ul>
<li><strong>Reaper of Souls: Digital Standard Edition</strong> – One (1) Hearthstone Expert Card Pack, delivered to your Battle.ne
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News Roundup: Blizzard at PAX East, Top Tweets, Heroes Q&A, War Crimes excerpt
Blizzard has confirmed their attendance at PAX East, and let the world know what they'll be bringing to the Boston-based convention for their fans to try out. We've also got news on an upcoming Heroes of the Storm dev Q&A, an excerpt from the latest Warcraft novel, War Crimes, and some significant tweets from the Wowhead Blue Tweet Tracker.
We've also got a
contest open right now
to win a Diablo III computer!
Grab your gear and saddle up, because we’re headed to PAX East! PAX attendees should ready themselves for three days of demon slaying, sword swinging, hero playing, and card slinging awesomeness, as this year we’ll be featuring all-new builds for our most recent and upcoming games, hands-on time at demo stations, an epic developer panel, and awesome giveaways and prizes. Come by and check everything out at
BOOTH #848!
We’ll be there from
10AM
to
6PM,
Friday, April 11
through
Sunday, April 13.
Here’s what you can expect at this year’s Blizzard booth: [url=
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News Roundup: Flying in Draenor, Blue Posts, Talk Azeroth 30, Hearthstone Launch Comic
In today's roundup, we've got a
Noxychu
comic, co-written with
Khai'xur
, to celebrate the launch of Hearthstone, as well as all the information on flying in Draenor, some Throwback Thursday World of Warcraft history, and the latest Talk Azeroth.
Talk Azeroth Episode 30
This week we're taking a basic look at how to use resources like Skada and Recount, or World of Logs and Warcraft Logs to examine and improve your gameplay, as well as examining ways to record your gameplay, including a full setup tutorial on my preferred capture program, DXTory.
Flying in Draenor
Creative Director Alex Afrasiabi has caused quite a stir in a recent video interview where he talks, among other things, about flying in Draenor. While he's talking about the expansion having no flying at all "at ship", many have interpreted this as meaning that there will be no flying throughout the expansion. There have been a couple of blue posts
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Heroes of the Storm News Roundup
Update: The Tech Alpha is now live!
News has been flying in thick and fast for Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard's upcoming Hero Brawler. There have been several small bits of news appearing so we thought we'd combine them into one place. We've got Tech Alpha details, how to get into the Alpha, and information on new Hero Tychus Findlay
Tech Alpha
We saw
an announcement post
on March 3rd regarding the launch of Heroes Tech Alpha. Since then we've had a walkthrough video as well as a very in-depth blog.
Click the cut to read more!
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Patch 5.4.7 hotfixes for March 11
Patch 5.4.7 Hotfixes for March 11
Racial Abilities
Worgen
Finstere Pfade
's movement speed increase no longer stacks with
Brennender Ansturm
or
Geschwindigkeitsschub
.
Classes
Mönch
General
Successfully parrying an attack with
should no longer incorrectly cause NPC guards to attack the Monk for reflexively striking back at an attacker.
Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
Dungeons
Mogu'shanpalast
: Resolved an issue where
Die Prüfung des Königs
may not reset correctly if the party dies during the encounter.
Battlegrounds and Arenas
Zwillingsgipfel
and
Die Kriegshymnenschlucht
The winning team now receives an 18 Honor Point bonus for each capture the opposing team is prevented from completing. This means every capture below 3, up to a maximum of 54 bonus Honor if the losing team had 0 captures.
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