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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 Mesmerizing Fruit 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.

The World map automatically turns transparent when it's open if you move.

New Questsquests to the database

Blingtron 5000: Blingtron 5000 has a present for you too!

A Song of Frost and Fire: The very first quest is a well-known pop-culture reference. It's also first in a series of quests to unlock your Garrison, rescue Winds of Change your Garrison Follower, and send him on a mission (Mission Probable).

The Darkmoon Faire is back with new quests like Darkmoon Iron Deck as well as new trinkets: Knight's Badge, Sandman's Pouch, Winged Hourglass, Skull of War

Some quests tied to the Warlords pre-release event: 6.0 Invasion Opt-Out,
There are quests marked as "Bonus Objective" like The Forgotten Caves, which are quests that automatically appear in your log when you travel to certain areas in a zone.

Many quests are marked as "Vignettes" like Vignette: Gruuk. These are tied to killing rare spawns, similar to tracking quests used for rares on the Timeless Isle.

Elwynn Long Distance Trial: 25: This appears to be some sort of racing/challenge quest in Elwynn Forest that rewards swim speed and Superleap gloves (Water Wings) if you beat it.

Fire Ammonite: New Fishing Quest

Things Are Not Goren Our Way: Completing this quest and finding a Follower with the Mining trait lets you get Lunarfall Excavation, Level 2

Several quests so far reward Garrison materials like The Fall of the Warlord. You can see a full list on our Garrison Resources page.

GarrisonsStaying RegularBuildingsGarrison CalculatorBuildings DatabaseFollowers and Missions

Players can recruit followers through a variety of methods.

Followers have various skill sets and abilities, so some missions may be tailored better to certain followers. Other followers may do better being assigned to a specific building.

Your garrison followers have a very responsive AI, they are fun to interact with.

Followers can level up on missions, and once they are 100, they can keep working on their item levels, abilities, and traits.

Missions have different difficulties, durations, and group size requirements.

Followers DatabaseCold-BloodedZone ScreenshotsBattle Petsdatamined Warlords battle pets here

Albino Chimaeraling - Shadowmoon Valley

Leftovers - Cooking

Iron Starlette, Lifelike Mechanical Frostboar, Mechanical Axebeak - Engineering

Royal Peacock - New Achievement, Draenor Pet Master

Weebomination - Weebomination is in the journal, but marked as unknown

Crazy Carrot - Valley of the Four Winds

Alpha Accesshttp://t.co/xDkt27ZHYc">pic.twitter.com/xDkt27ZHYc</a></p>—https://twitter.com/akamikeb/statuses/474318278731382784">June

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Comment by Kharnamatic hOW DO YOU get access? Comment by uselessx Another coincidence that alpha goes live when wildstar is released.
joke ofc. hyped to see new stuff.
brb, gotta go ticket blizz, my lack of invite was obviously an oversight. Comment by Darktwin https://img.4plebs.org/boards/pol/image/1385/75/1385753810661.gif Comment by Rankkor Wait, I'm confused.

I thought the alpha had already started. Isn't that what we'd been datamining so far?

Either way, I'm saddened that at this point the alpha has just barely started, because it means the beta is still far away, which means the launch is even more far away.

Looks like december is gonna be after all.

=/ Comment by AmiYuy hOW DO YOU get access?Sign Up for Future Beta Tests with Beta Opt-InComment by Rankkor hOW DO YOU get access?Sign Up for Future Beta Tests with Beta Opt-InComment by uselessx Alpha files and client have been available for a while but the invites and servers going up are only beginning now. We can't predict when beta will begin solely on this late alpha phase. You can't really judge it on previous expansion testing.
It was pretty much a given that we won't see WoD until December anyways, at least not before Blizzcon.

From invite note, initial testing is for Horde, frostfire ridge. Comment by foot1647 I take it there isn't any NDA for this Alpha like the ones in the past? Nice! Comment by sickhammer i'm freakin out.... in a good way lol Comment by Sas148 Wait, I'm confused.

I thought the alpha had already started. Isn't that what we'd been datamining so far?

Comment by Furydeath CAn I trade my hero of the storms for WoD? lol Comment by Xiraiya Damn I was just thinking about how badly I wanted to play WoW again and this happens. Do I need to have game time to get an invitation or will it just appear on my Bnet screen when the beta comes out Comment by bladept Thanks for the live stream throw the new world of Warlords! And for the organized new database. Comment by mazzic518 An autoplay twitch stream on the homepage ? WTF? Comment by Shoadowolf Wait, I'm confused.

I thought the alpha had already started. Isn't that what we'd been datamining so far?

Either way, I'm saddened that at this point the alpha has just barely started, because it means the beta is still far away, which means the launch is even more far away.

Looks like december is gonna be after all.

=/Comment by LoKHor Wow, the new damage numbers look really great. So much more manageable! The way targets glow (like in D3) is very cool too. I didn't know they were adding that visual and it appears to work well. It's very cool to be able to see streaming footage of gameplay in Frostfire Ridge! I don't play Horde, so this spoils nothing for me. :)

Looking forward to all the awesome stuff that you guys are going to make available to us due to being able to play in the alpha now. Keep up the great work, Wowhead team! Comment by rappydoo21 The in-game shop option now has Warforged Nightmare and Grinning Reaver for sale.

It's too bad these are also going to be shop mounts :( Although I'm definitely buying the horse mount. Looks too good to pass up. Comment by Power200 so two more mounts in the store...and Auto play vid on the frontpage? wtb the old site Comment by CaptNice You provide Blizzard with loads of free publicity and they let you in. Simple. Comment by Rankkor

Blizzard said it would be released this fall, not winter.

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