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The Shattering (Patch 4.0.3a) Hits Azeroth: It's The End of the World as We Know It
The day has finally come: Azeroth has been torn asunder, and now it's time to pick up the pieces!
Blizzard has been hinting at it by preparing patches on the PTR for release, and Bashiok was even
toying with forum posters last night
, but we have official confirmation this morning:
It is time, friends, for the world to shatter.
For the rest of the day this post will act as your homepage and guided tour to all the content in patch 4.0.3a. Any time new content is posted or added, you'll be able to find it on this page—so if you run into anyone who's wandering around Azeroth after the servers come up going "OMG WHAT HAPPENED," just link them here!
Remember, with the addition of new content like this, it's more important than ever to
download and run the
Wowhead Client
.
With these major changes in "The Shattering", we want to get new info into the database as fast as possible!
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Elemental Boss Portals Open Until Further Notice
Bashiok just announced an "Elemental Portal Fire Sale" on the official forums:
All four elemental portals are open until further notice.
Elemental Invasion Guide
If you're looking to grab some last minute gear from
Kai'ju Gahz'rilla
,
Kronprinzessin Theradras
,
Höchster Botschafter Flammenschlag
or
Prinz Sarsarun
, now's the time to do it!
Due to your valiant efforts in protecting the key invasion cities, the four boss portals are now 'permanently' open. If you need anything from inside the portals, or maybe you dropped your keys in there, now is the time to go through and get them.
Initial reports from shaman in the area that were available at time of publishing suggest that this is hinting at something far more sinister. One such shaman, a one 'Krunkmaster' from Proudmoore was quoted as saying "This is hinting at something far more sinister."
Chilling!
You'll want to stay tuned to the World of Warcraft community site for the latest developments on this and other events.
Here's the
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New features: glyphs in completion tracker, multi-skillup support, map phasing
We've added a few cool new features around the site for you to play with!
Glyphs in the Completion Tracker
You can now view what glyphs you know in the Completion Tracker! They're listed directly underneath your talents on the
talents pane of the Profiler
.
Give it a try! Upload your data using the
Client
, and then check your characters!
http://www.wowhead.com/profile=us.velen.innervata#talents
Multiple Skill-Up Filters
You can now filter for items that reward more than one skill point when crafted! Try this link to see a list of glyphs that reward three skill points instead of one:
http://www.wowhead.com/spells=11?filter=cr=25;crs=1;crv=1
Phasing Support for Zone Pages
Our zone pages now support separate phases for quests! You can now click through different phases of a map just like you would the floors of a dungeon. Some of the zones are tiny c
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Cataclysm Beta Servers Shutting Down Momentarily
Just a quick one—Zarhym has just posted that the Cataclysm Beta servers will be shutting down "momentarily"!
We’re just about two weeks out from the official global launch of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm! And with that, the time has come to conclude the beta test. We will be shutting down our beta realms momentarily. We want to sincerely thank all of you for your dedication to testing, providing feedback, reporting bugs, and everything else you’ve done to help us make this expansion the best World of Warcraft title to date.
Stay tuned to our new community site (
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/
) for the latest news and updates as we get closer to release. We’ll see you in Cataclysm!
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Darkmoon Faire: Horde unlocks interview with level designer Jesse McCree
Didn't take long for the Horde to catch up! Here's the interview with
Lead Level Designer Jesse McCree.
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First Darkmoon Faire unlockable: interview with environment artist Gary Platner
Looks like the Alliance has won the first round of competition!
The
Darkmoon Faire
website has unlocked the first round of content on the Alliance side, an interview with
Lead Environment Artist Gary Platner!
If you want to see more, head to
http://fortune.worldofwarcraft.com
and rep your faction!
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Blizzard developer blog: "Why Does Blizzard Hate Healers?"
Ghostcrawler has just posted the first "Developer Blog" on the new battle.net WoW site, and it deals with a topic close to my heart: healing.
There's been a lot of concern lately about the effect Cataclysm is going to have on healing performance, and the changes Blizzard is making. When you're just looking at spell changes (like
ours
) it's easy to get the impression that everything else is staying the same, and healing is getting worse. This doesn't take into account the whole picture, though—and it's important to read blogs like these to get the full concept of what the changes are going to
feel
like in Cataclysm.
The full text is included after the break, but let me give you a quick summary:
Healers in Wrath had way too much mana.
This doesn't seem like a bad thing, but in practice it meant that most healers pretty much never had to worry about mana, ever—which makes healing boring and one-dimensional. It meant you never had to choose between your
fast, inefficient heal
and your
slower, efficient heal
. Healing became a game of "spam your biggest heal over and over", and th
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News Roundup: Best Buy dev chat, what to expect in 4.0.3a, old forums locked, "Darkmoon Faire" site
Since I was out for most of this afternoon, and poor
Miyari
was sick, we were away for a few interesting developments today! I've gathered them together into a post for you below.
"Darkmoon Faire" Cataclysm Contest Site
Blizzard has just rolled a brand new "Battlecry" style contest site, this one called
Darkmoon Faire!
There are several new contests, some fun toys, and a WoW-themed personality test, and you can unlock new artwork and videos (for your faction) by sharing the content on
Twitter
and
Facebook
.
http://fortune.worldofwarcraft.com
Best Buy Dev Chat
In honor of the upcoming Shattering, Production Director
J. Allen Brack
and Game Director
Tom Chilton
, as well as CMs
Zarhym
and
Lylirra
, spend some time over on the Best buy forums taking questions about Cataclysm.
The majority of the content has been covered already (it's all in our Catacl
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Around the Site: Guild Advancement/Perks, Reforging in Weight Scales
We've made a few little additions around the site in the last few days that we wanted to draw your attention to—but perhaps were not large enough to warrant their own posts. :)
Guild Advancement in Cataclysm
We've recently updated our
Cataclysm Guide
(you know, that thing you see when you click the little fiery maelstrom at the top of the page there) with a bunch of new info!
We've added
all
the
guild perks
you gain as your guild is leveling up through Cataclysm.
We've added a table of all the
guild rewards
available in Cataclysm, along with their achievement and reputation requirements.
Go check them on the Cataclysm Guide's
guild page
!
http://www.wowhead.com/guide=cataclysm&guilds
Reforging in Stat Weights
We actually implemented Reforging in our
stat weighting system
some time ago, but we were having (*ahem*) a little trouble with our stat weights, and we didn't want to announce
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ZAM opens GuildFans.com
Once again I am breaking the unspoken "Never post about any games that are not WoW" rule, but the guys over at ZAM asked me to mention this and they have some pretty impressive content going up over there.
ZAM has just rolled out
GuildFans.com
, a new website dedicated to Guild Wars 2. The crew maintaining the site is actually made up of some faces you may recognize—specifically
Jeahr, Inde and Kattar
, the old admins from Guild Wars Guru and GW2 Guru. ZAM's really lucky to get them, they run a tight ship.
There's also a bunch of really cool content up there, including a
"design-a-skill" contest
that's actually being judged by the GW2 design team, and and
exclusive interview
with one of the lead designers.
If GW2 isn't your thing, no harm done—but if it is, this is something I'd keep an eye on.
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This Week In Warcraft: Episode 13!
Aliena is back with
This Week in Warcraft
! This week we're going over the Elemental Invasion world event, as well as a bunch of other news items this week. Enjoy!
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Pardon Our Dust!
In case you haven't noticed, we're making some tweaks to the blog layout!
We haven't settled into a final design, but we're looking into ways to revise the way our content is presented, so we can take advantage of the full page width.
Please give us your feedback in this post!
We're still making changes and we welcome your opinions.
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New Forums Going Up This Wednesday
Bashiok has just posted on the official forums to let us know that they'll be transitioning to the new forums on Wednesday!
The old forums will be converted to "Read-Only" status, and all future posts will go onto the new community site we mentioned
a little while ago.
This Wednesday, November 17 these forums will be put into a read-only state. At that time we'll be inviting all posters to fully migrate to the new World of Warcraft community site and forums.
http://www.battle.net/wow
These forums will remain read-only until the end of the month, after which they and all of their posts will be removed ... forever! If you have any posts, information, stickies, etc. that you'd like to keep you'll want to have finished saving it before then.
We've all enjoyed the past few years on these forums, and look forward to creating many more with you on the new community site. See you there!
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Elemental Invasion: Final Phase!
The final phase of the
Elemental Invasion
has begun, and it's a doozy—the elementals have come to destroy
your
home town!
Elementals will be invading
Donnerfels
,
Orgrimmar
,
Eisenschmiede
, and
Sturmwind
. It's up to you to take them out, and to gather your forces for a strike at the Elemental Lords—which of course drop some nice little level 251 goodies!
Come check out the full guide after the break!
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Elemental Invasion Phase 3 Has Opened!
Reports are coming in that
Phase 3
of the pre-Cataclysm launch event has begun! Doomsday Cultists are roaming the city streets and its up to us to try and put a stop to their strange rituals!
This phase adds several new quests in the capital cities of each faction. The full listing is below.
Remember, for the full info, you can always check our completed
Elemental Invasion Guide!
Update:
Zarhym made an interesting post on the new community site regarding the invasion! Seems it will be even sooner before we see the next phase of the invasion!
The time between the start of stage 2 and stage 3 was shorter. I can tell you the current plan is to make the time between stage 3 and 4 even shorter. ;)
Phase 3: November 12 - November ???
Twilight's Cult (Part II)
Now, the second half of the story about the Twilight Hammer. After having prevented their assault on Orgrimmar and Stormwind, Garrosh and Varian have decided to take the
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New Data From User Uploads
We've added a new batch of data to our db, all of it from user uploads!
There are a bunch of new additions here, including several new jewelcrafting designs, a few hilariously named quests (
Goblinischer Magnetismus
, anyone?), and the deployment of the much-anticipated
Faktenüberprüfer der Wildhämmer
, pictured at right!
Remember, the more of you who are using the
Wowhead Client
to upload your data, the faster we can get this information in!
http://cata.wowhead.com/search?q=date:2010-11-08
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Level Selector In Talent Calc
Just another little awesome bonus feature—you can now
select your level
in the talent calculator!
Just click on the level listed at the top of the talent calculator, and a dialog box will pop up asking you what level you'd like. Once you select a level, the talent calculator will be constrained to only the number of talent points that level character has available.
Give it a try and see!
http://www.wowhead.com/talent
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Wowhead User Survey—Win an Xbox/PS3/Wii
So one of the most common complaints we get—or any website gets, for that matter—is about the ads. We don't like it when annoying, obnoxious, irrelevant ads are showing our pages. We don't like "Shoot the Duck" any more than you do.
We want you to be seeing ads for products you actually care about: awesome games, movies, computer equipment, and so on. We have a pretty good idea what sort of ads you want to see. But in order to get those ads up on the site, we need to prove it!
In light of this fact, we've put this little survey together! It asks a bunch of questions about what games you like to play, what movies you like to watch, what sort of gear you like to buy, and so on—so we can prove to our advertisers that our audience knows their gear. And as a thank you for filling it out, we're giving everybody who participates a chance to win
their choice of an Xbox 360, PS3, or a Wii.
So click on through! It takes about 5 minutes to fill out. Wowhead shows fewer annoying ads, and maybe you walk away with a new game console. What do you say?
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WOWHEAD
Remem
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Preview of New World of Warcraft Site
Blizzard has just launched a preview of the
new World of Warcraft Community Site
!
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/
As some of you may know, our own founder
Skosiris
is now a part of Blizzard's web development team, so we can't help but feel a little bit of pride in this new site.
The blue post describing the preview is up
here
. Check out the description:
Many exciting changes are coming to World of Warcraft with the upcoming Cataclysm expansion, both in-game and out. We're excited to offer you an early look at the new World of Warcraft community site, which will soon become the prime gathering spot and source of information for players on the web. You can read more about the transition from our existing website to the new one in our original announcement.
As you’re exploring your future home, keep in mind that this is a live preview, and not all of the new features are ready quite yet. We want your feedback about the look and feel of the new site, so while you're browsing, we enco
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Guest Post: Who Leads Your Raids?
I've been sending emails back and forth with
Djane
for a little while now, and he's expressed a desire to do a little WoW-related sociological research. Specifically, he's wondering whether there is a gender bias between raid leaders, as compared to the normal WoW-playing population.
So what do you think, readers? Take a moment to join us for a little highbrow discussion, and let's see if we can't do a little scientific inquiry!
Join us after the break!
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