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Sandstorm should be working again (pet battles).
23 hr 23 min ago by Jonathan LeCraft, Senior Game Designer
The highest level alchemist-crafted trinket can be sold to other players (it's bind on equip) wowhead.com/item=122604/st…
2 days ago by Jonathan LeCraft, Senior Game Designer
So.. the Draenic Intellect Potions from the follower's daily are Soulbound and they don't stack with my the other ones.. @WarcraftDevs
4 days ago by @salty_tamaki
@salty_tamaki Intended. They give players w/ an Alchemy building useful potions w/o flooding the AH...
2 days ago by WarcraftDevs, Official
@holinka Seems like the DRs for CC are now always 15 seconds rather than 15-20, feels like a huge buff for comps like RMD. intended change?
3 days ago by @w_Scoot
@w_Scoot @holinka It is intended that it always resets after a fixed amount of time, but it should be 18 seconds; we'll get this fixed.
3 days ago by WarcraftDevs, Official

Herb Trader's First Visit to Town Hall

WoW Token: Exchange Gold and Game Time

Darkmoon Faire Race

Voidtalon Mount Found

Raids and Dungeons Q&A Liveblog

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posted 2014/12/04 at 6:33 PM by perculia

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Kalgan - Tom Chilton - Game Director

WatcherDev - Ion Hazzikostas - Lead Game Designer

Mumper_Blizz - Cory Stockton - Lead Game Designer

Desvin - Brian Holinka - Senior Game Designer

zarhym - Jonathan Brown - Community Manager

bashiok_foreal - Micah Whipple - Community Manager

devolore - Josh Allen - Community Manager

Also don't forget to check out our Highmaul Giveaway--comment on the giveaway post with your favorite Warlords Dungeon or Raid guide on Wowhead to win a Magic Rooster Egg!

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Garrison Invasions, Free Game Time for Launch, Draenor's Secret Power, Nov 18th Hotfixes

posted 2014/11/18 at 1:05 PM by perculia

Nethaera

We’ve been seeing a lot of confusion in regard to the way Garrison Invasions work and we wanted to take some time to clear up this confusion for you.

Most players will get their first taste of what Invasions will be like when they get into Tier 2 of their Garrison. Approximately midway through Frostfire Ridge or Shadowmoon Valley, a player’s Garrison will be attacked either by a Thunderlord or Shadowmoon force. The quest is just a taste of what this type of gameplay offers but it’s not a full blown invasion just yet. It’s a way to get your feet wet and experience just a bit of what it will be like when you reach max level. For those who move quickly into their 3rd tier before getting this event, don’t worry. You haven’t missed out on any special rewards. It’s just a precursor to what you’re going to get to experience at maximum level.

Once you reach max level, these events are triggered organically. What this means is, as you fight powerful foes among the enemy factions of Draenor (generally in and around the areas for Apexis Crystal Missions) you’ll draw their attention and an enemy force will eventually prepare to attack your Garrison. When that happens, the commander outside your Town Hall will have a quest for you, allowing you to trigger the invasion.

The Nuts and Bolts:

Your effectiveness in defending your Garrison is measured by how many enemies you’re able to defeat and how many of your guards and buildings survive the assault. (Don’t worry, there’s no permanent damage- they will rebuild it!)
You can bring up to 2 friends into your Garrison to assist in the defense. (It’s like a party, but with heavily armored invaders.)
Based on your final score you and your allies present will earn a Bronze, Silver, and/or Gold award for your efforts – each award may only be earned once per week.

How Character Models Are MadeFree Game Time

Blizzard

WoW Community:

I know how much everyone was looking forward to this expansion, and once you were able to get in and start having fun, all the comments I've seen indicate that this is one of our best yet. But the quality of the content does not excuse the subpar launch experience we delivered, and I apologize for that.

The first two days of the expansion were not a great experience, with many of you facing high queues or significant gameplay problems. We worked around the clock to tackle the demand issues and technical challenges, and fortunately things started looking better on Saturday. While millions of you were able to get in and play over the weekend, with many already reaching level 100, others still ran into very lengthy queues, particularly on the highest-population realms.

To help address this, we’ve expanded the new instancing tech we used to improve queues on Saturday and we’re continuing the process of applying that to raise the capacity of all realms again. This will result in approximately double the prelaunch capacity on each realm, which should greatly reduce queue times for most realms if not eliminate queues altogether.

In recognition of the difficulties so many of you ran into when trying to play over the first few days, we're adding five days’ worth of extra time to every subscription in the Americas, Oceania, and Europe that was active as of Friday, November 14. Things are already in a much better place than they were going into the weekend, so I hope you’ll now be able to focus on having a ton of fun with this expansion.

I also hope you'll accept my apology and keep your faith in us. The support voiced by many of you as we worked through the challenges was immensely appreciated. We're extremely grateful to be part of such a passionate community. We love World of Warcraft, and we're very proud of this expansion, so stumbling out of the gates like this was very disappointing for all of us.

On behalf of the World of Warcraft development team, as well as everyone at Blizzard, thank you all again for your patience and understanding.

See you in Draenor.

Sincerely,
J. Allen Brack
Executive Producer, World of Warcraft

November 18th Hotfixes

Rygarius

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Fishing Shack Level 1: The building should now correctly still provide a bonus while it's under construction.
Lunarfall Excavation / Frostwall Mines Level 1: Fixed a number of True Iron Deposits that were spawning inside of pillars and terrain.
Mage Tower / Spirit Lodge Level 1: Characters under a shapeshifting effect should now be able to use an Ogre Waygate to return to their Garrisons.
Outpost, Nagrand: The building bonus for having a Corral should no longer incorrectly dismount Herbalists while harvesting resource nodes.
Outpost, Spires of Arak: Bonus for the building should now switch correctly when changing buildings for the outpost.
Salvage Yard Level 1: The building should now correctly still provide a bonus while it's under construction.
Followers

Followers that are 3 or more levels below the mission level now receive 10% of the mission XP and bonus XP (up from 0%). Additional information on how Followers and mission level affects their XP gain can be found in a forum thread titled Followers and Garrison Missions XP.

Classes

Druid

Balance

Empowered Moonkin's clearcasting effect should no longer be incorrectly consumed if it's triggered while the Moonkin is in the middle of casting a spell.

Mage

Talents

Comet Storm should now correctly belong to the Frost school and is no longer usable if that school is locked.

Paladin

Talents

Holy Shield should now correctly deal damage when blocking normal attacks as well.

Quests

Bonus Objective: The Forgotten Caves: Gorg the Host should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.
Bonus Objective: The Howling Crag: Further increased the spawn rates of Pale Orcs and Rylak Eggs.
For The Children!: Manastorm's Duplicator should now be correctly awarded to characters that complete the quest.
Moving In: Characters that abandon the quest should now have an easier time reacquiring the quest and resume their progress on the main quest line.
Ogre Diplomacy: Players that have completed Into the Heart of Madness should no longer sometimes be placed into an incorrect phase and be unable to complete the quest.
Safety Measures: Increased the spawn rate of bog denizens.
Shadowmoon Invasion! is now automatically removed from the character's quest log if they upgrade to a Tier 3 Garrison as this quest is only available for Tier 2 Garrisons.
Skimming Off the Top: Increased the drop rates for Volatile Oil.
Strike While the Iron is Hot: Blocked off the entrance to the Iron Docks so players won't accidentally wander out of the quest area and wind up getting lost.
The Defense of Karabor: Players resurrecting at a graveyard during this quest should no longer be immediately attacked by Iron Horde NPCs.
The Iron Wolf: Players should now be able to receive completion credit if they've died and released during the quest.
Thunderlord Invasion!: The quest is now automatically removed from the character's quest log if they upgrade to a Tier 3 Garrison as this quest is only available for Tier 2 Garrisons.

Creatures and NPCs

Apexis Traders Dawn-Seeker Krek (Alliance) and Dawn-Seeker Alkset (Horde) are now offering Exceptional gear (item level 645) for sale.

Developer Commentary: The vendors' offerings were previously tied to the Highmaul raid unlock, but we wanted to make sure that players have useful items to spend their Apexis Crystals on, rather than positioning them exclusively as a catch-up item vendor. The final tier of Flawless gear (item level 655) will now unlock when the Highmaul raid becomes available, rather than when Blackrock Foundry becomes available.

Increased the spawn rates for creatures and NPCs in the Skettis Ruins area in Spires of Arak. Additionally, resolved an issue where some creatures were incorrectly sharing loot with other players.
Grizzled Frostwolf Veteran's icon should no longer persist on the mini map after being defeated.
Rangari Jonaa now has a cooldown on their Scatter Shot ability.
Rotcap's icon should no longer persist on the mini map after being defeated.
Typhon's icon should no longer persist on the mini map after being defeated.
Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Characters with Warlords PvP gear that had its secondary item level activated due to being in PvP combat temporarily disqualifies them from queuing for Dungeons and Raid Finder. It can take up to 20 seconds after ending PvP combat before the character will be eligible to queue up normally.
Upper Blackrock Spire

During the Commander Tharbek encounter, players should no longer be kept in a constant state of combat between waves.

PvP

Reverted a hotfix from October 15 that reduced all PvP damage by 25%.
Gnomes are now able to increase their reputation with Wrynn's Vanguard.

Items

Coil of Sturdy Rope, a Horde quest item should no longer be incorrectly dropping for Alliance characters.
Miner's Coffee movement speed buff should now stack correctly with other movement speed buffs.
Solium Band rings can now be equipped at level 98 (down from level 100).

Legendary Questline Hotfix

Rygarius

Here to provide additional clarification on the hotfix note that went out yesterday, November 17

Quests

Draenor's Secret Power: Completion of this quest is now required before being able to move onto the next step of the Legendary quest chain. For characters that skipped this quest, completion of this quest has also been made into a requirement before being eligible for the next upgrade.

Draenor's Secret PowerProfession ChangesJewelcraftingBlacksmithingEngineeringBlacksmithingTruesteel GrinderTruesteel IngotTrue Iron OreTruesteel IngotJewelcrafting

Haste Taladite

6x Blackrock Ore, 5x Frostweed

Mastery Taladite

6x True Iron Ore, 5x Starflower

Multistrike Taladite

6x Blackrock Ore, 5x Nagrand Arrowbloom

Versatility Taladite

6x Blackrock Ore, 5x Gorgrond Flytrap

Stamina Taladite

6x True Iron Ore, 5x Talador Orchid

Engineering

Goblin Glider Kit

8 True Iron Ore, 5 Sumptuous Fur

2 Blackrock Ore, 2 True Iron Ore, 2 Nagrand Arrowbloom

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Warlords Midnight Signing Event, New Wowhead Guides for Proving Grounds, Garrisons, and Quests

posted 2014/11/11 at 2:39 PM by perculia

New Expansion Guides on WowheadGuides For our complete set of Garrison resources and guides; from basics to buildings, followers to missions, and much more, check out our Garrison Hub!

Warlords of Draenor Legendary Ring Guide: Learn how to get your epic ilvl 640 ring and upgrade it to ilvl 680.

Guide to Proving Grounds Silver: Completing Proving Grounds Silver is a requirement for solo-queueing for dungeons, so we put together guides for Tank, Healing, and DPS waves.

Starting a Garrison: This guide walks you through the initial quests you will have to do in Shadowmoon Valley and Frostfire Ridge to get set up with a basic Garrison.

Questing in Tanaan Jungle: Learn how to get through the starting zone quickly with a summary of the quests and at what points you receive gear and unlocked abilities if you are a boosted character. (Spoiler alert)

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Beta Build Soon, Gorgrond Beasts of the Savage Lands, Character Transfer Sale, Hotfixes

posted 2014/10/22 at 2:12 PM by perculia

Character Transfer SaleCharacter TransfersFaction Transfers

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Wowhead Class and Boosted 90 Prepatch Guides, Blizzard Video Guides, October 20th Hotfixes

posted 2014/10/20 at 1:02 PM by perculia

Warlords of Draenor Class Guidesupdated role guides

As many classes will have a different playstyle at 100 due to additional perks and talents, we've released these guides with their level 100 information so you can see how everything fits together. If something feels off with your class in the prepatch, it may be solved at 100 with additional mechanics.

The guides contain valuable prepatch information, including a summary of what's changed in the prepatch and enchanting/gem info at level 90, since you can't access the Warlords versions just quite yet.

Guides

Death Knight: DPS (Frost/Unholy) and Blood

Druid: Feral, Balance, Guardian, and Restoration

Hunter: Hunter DPS Guide (Beast Mastery, Marksmanship, Survival)

Mage: Mage DPS (Arcane, Fire, Frost)

Monk: Brewmaster, Mistweaver, and Windwalker

Paladin: Holy, Protection, and Retribution

Priest: Healing Priest Guide (Disc/Holy) and Shadow Priest

Rogue: Rogue DPS (Assassination, Combat, Subtlety)

Shaman: Elemental, Enhancement, and Restoration

Warlock: Warlock DPS (Affliction, Demonology, Destruction)

Warrior: Warrior DPS Guide (Arms/Fury) and Protection Warrior

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Wowhead Interview with Lead Game Designers Cory Stockton and Ion Hazzikostas, Oct 17th Hotfixes

posted 2014/10/17 at 2:33 PM by perculia

We're giving away two BlizzCon ticket-holder exclusive Faerie Dragon Plushies and four BlizzCon Virtual Tickets! All you have to do to win is tell us what new thing you're enjoying most in patch 6.0.2 in the comments below!
More details after the Video!

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Guide to How Wowhead Can Help You in the Prepatch, Wowhead Interview with Lead Game Designers 10/17

posted 2014/10/16 at 12:16 PM by perculia

very hard updating the site for Warlords of DraenorSo. Many. Pets.MountacularWarcraftLogs

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Warlords of Draenor Alpha Now Playable: Frostfire Ridge, Garrisons, New NPCs and Quests

posted 2014/06/04 at 5:25 PM by perculia

7pm: Added more items to the Warlords database including Dance Hat and Magic Bunny Hat!12:30pm: Added a summary of quest highlights.11:30am: Added quests to the Warlords of Draenor database!12:05am EST: Added new NPCs and Battle Pets to the database.11:40pm EST: Added Garrison buildings and follower screenshots.11:00pm EST: Added Battle Pet sources.9:20pm EST: Added Frostfire Ridge screenshots.9:10pm EST: Added UI changes and screenshots.9pm EST: Added Blizzard blog describing F&F specifics.HogsWoW's 10th AnniversaryClick here to see the latest additions to our Warlords database!Watch live video from Wowhead on TwitchTVFrostfire Ridge and UI Changes

Keybindings are a lot nicer in alpha, there are different sections for each type so you don't have to scroll through a huge list.

Bags now have filters as well as a "Clean up Bags" option that resorts your bags. Junk items now have a gold coin image on their icon so you know to sell them.

The in-game shop option now has Warforged Nightmare and Grinning Reaver for sale.

The Dungeon Journal now has a new role description section for bosses.

The map and quest log interface have been merged together. Bonus objectives for specific areas show up as swords on the map.

Mounts now show mounts you can't use in a certain zone as red.

There is a new achievement category, Legacy, and MoP Challenge Mode achievements like Challenge Conqueror: Gold are there. According to Twitter, this is a new category for deprecated achievements.

The basics of the Toybox UI are in, under a new Collections button.

There are lots of jumping games in the style of the Timeless Isle--chests located on cliffs that require some planning to reach. These contain Garrison materials.