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Wowhead Scheduled Maintenance (7/7, 2am EST)
On Tuesday, July 7th, Wowhead's database will be undergoing maintenance from 2am-5am Eastern time. During that time, the site will not be accessible. Users are advised to begin panicking... now.
In all seriousness, we're upgrading the firmware for our database server's RAID array. If you don't know what that means, then just know that we are making the site dataz safer.
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Faction-Change Service Q&A Released!
On Monday, we brought you the
news
that Netherea announced a Faction-Change Service was in the works. Well today, we have another update to bring you—Blizzard's decided to make a Q&A to answer any questions they're currently able to provide an answer to. We'll definitely know more information in the near future!
You can read the Q&A in its full entirety after the break.
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More Goodies from the PTR (Build 10048)
Wowhead has been hard at work in our continuing effort to update the site with new PTR information and data as we receive it. There are a few updates that I would like to bring to your attention:
We have added
4
new zone pages to cover new areas in 3.2, and
Vault of Archavon
was updated with a new map which shows you the placement of the upcoming 3rd boss.
15
new icons that were in the latest PTR build (10048).
80
new items have been discovered in the latest PTR build (10048). This brings the total of
items discovered in 3.2
to
903
.
For a collection of the icons discovered in this build as well as a list of zones with updated information, please continue below.
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Moar Contests
I NO RITE?
The Summer of Prizes on Wowhead continues with a 3rd birthday Fiesta! Come and check out our latest contest page
here
, and enter for a chance to win
Loot Cards
(including the fabled El Pollo Grande mount!), and
WoW Miniatures
!
The contest page is linked below. Enjoy!
http://www.wowhead.com/?contest=fiesta
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Upcoming Engineer Changes
Hey, everyone—MasterOfDisguise here with some big news! The Engineering profession will be undergoing some MAJOR changes and, for once, it's actually mostly awesome! Before I get to the break and share the good news, I just have one thing to say: Engineers rejoice!
You can read the full details after the break!
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More Huge News: Faction Change Service Coming
Nethaera has just announced on the official forums that we will soon be receiving the ability to change our faction.
Holy crap.
This may be the most radical, fundamental change to the game dynamic that I've seen since the game came out. I admit i've always wanted this for my own characters, but really...I guess it was one of those things I never thought would change. Now that it's changing, it's kind of...scary.
The full quote from Nethaera is after the break.
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Wowhead Weekly Review (June 21 - June 27)
Hey there, this is our sixteenth Wowhead Weekly Review! We're still continuing our coverage of the upcoming changes in Call of the Crusade (Patch 3.2), but we're focusing on it a little less and paying more attention to other aspects of the game.
DISCLAIMER:
Opinions presented in the Wowhead Weekly Review are not necessarily those of Wowhead.com or its staff members.
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Killer Summer Fun Contest Winner!
Ladies and gentlemen, we have chosen a winner for our
Killer Summer Fun
contest...and that winner is
Skatzx
!
Congratulations, you are the proud owner of a brand new Dell XPS 625 PC!
Thanks to all who participated in the contest, and hold on to your horses, because we've got more on the way...
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Strategist: Flame Leviathan
Welcome to my new series in the Wowhead Blog - the
Strategist
!
Malgayne
has heard me, on many occasions, complain how the Overview section on all of the Ulduar bosses is just...not enough. They are all too complex to be explained by a single paragraph or by a list of their spells. This worked well with Naxxramas, because many people were familiar with the fights, and the actual fights were not overly complicated. Unfortunately, Ulduar is far from simple...
And this is how the Strategist was born! Partly inspired by
Discover
's
The Eye of Eternity: A Raid Overview
blog entry, party my own musing, the Strategist will present you with a strategy (or multiple strategies when applicable) for each of the bosses in the titanic complex... and other raids as well, if things go well. Hard Modes will be covered as well, but knowing that my own guild is still struggling with about half of them, those sections may be a little vague, or even missing.
But enough with the introductions! Read on, and learn about the first boss
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New Items in 3.2 (Build 10026)
I know you guys are eager to see the new items in the Public Test Realm build. Well, you better set aside a good bit of time, because you have
823 new items
to review, including the new
Heirloom Chest Pieces
!
We've also updated our filters to include the 'Added in Patch 3.2' filter so you can filter for
quests
,
NPCs
,
objects
, and of course
items
in the PTR - although you'll probably want additional filters for that last search. ;)
Enjoy!
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Wowhead Profiler Released!
Update
(Dec 22, 2009): You can now use theProfiler to track your completed quests, mounts,pets, and recipes!
View announcement
I know, I know—caps lock. But every now and then, an announcement is a big enough deal to be worth it. It's been over 2 years of work. It's been created, scrapped, and re-created six times, by 2 different developers. And now, just when it looked set to become the
Duke Nukem Forever
of Wowhead, the time has finally come.
Ladies and gentlemen, the
Wowhead Profiler
is here.
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Death Knight Q&A with Ghostcrawler
I don't know about the rest of you guys, but this is the Q&A I was waiting for.
Ghostcrawler has posted his Q&A about the Death Knight Class! You can read all about how they're not overpowered (we swear) after the break, or in its original form on the official site here:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/underdev/deathknight.html
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New Icons in 3.2 (Build 10026)
The PTR always brings us new goodies, and this one is no exception. A total of
98
icons were added in the current build (3.2.10026).
Of course, all of these icons are available by browsing the individual database pages for items, spells, etc. You guys seem to appreciate seeing them all in one place, though, so here they are. :)
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Wowhead: PTR 3.2 Site Up!
The
PTR Site
is up!
Sorry for the slow update rate on this one—it's been a busy week. :) The
talent calculator
is already prepared, and we'll be updating with item data as we collect it.
Make sure that those of you who are have characters on the PTR are running the
Wowhead Client
—or, if you're feeling like a hacker, you can directly send your itemcache.wdb file to feedback@wowhead.com!
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Dusting Off Those Retired Characters
Because of Blizzard's recent announcements that
mounts
and
other speed-boosting forms
will be attainable at lower levels, I have finally found the motivation to do something I probably haven't done in a very, very long time: Log onto World of Warcraft and level up some characters which I thought were going to be in permanent retirement.
That's right. Up until recently, I haven't been playing World of Warcraft mainly because of school, but also because I haven't found the motivation. With the exciting upcoming changes, however, it looks like that long-lost motivation has finally come.
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Wowhead Weekly Review (June 14 - June 20)
Hey there, this is our fifteenth Wowhead Weekly Review!
This week, we are continuing our coverage of the upcoming changes in Patch 3.2. Read on to see all the topics we have in store!
DISCLAIMER:
Opinions presented in the Wowhead Weekly Review are not necessarily those of Wowhead.com or its staff members.
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Midsummer Fire Festival 2009 (June 21 - July 5) - Quest Guide + Information!
Update: The latest version of this guide can be found here:
http://www.wowhead.com/guide=midsummer-fire-festival
Midsummer is here! World of Warcraft's
Midsummer Fire Festival
begins at 4:00am server time on
June 21
and runs til 4:00am server time on
July 5
, and this year's festivities are better than ever! Acquire
flaming
threads
, a
sweet
tabard
, a fiery
companion
and more! Complete achievements to earn a new player title - Horde players can obtain the title '
Flame Keeper
' and Alliance players can obtain the title '
Flame Warden
.'
There are bonfires located in each major capital city, which are surrounded by questgivers,
Midsummer Celebrants
, and a
Midsummer Supplier
or
Midsummer Merchant
who sells items in exchange for
Burning Blossom
. There are 'Commoner' NPCs of all races (including goblins!) that can be found lingerin
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Mage Q&A with Ghostcrawler
These things are coming faster than we have time to post them. :)
So this is the second entry in the class Q&A, series, this one about mages. Ghostcrawler answers some interesting questions, and some uninteresting ones, and gives us some clues about the future of the mage class.
For those of you who play mages—and maybe those of you who don't—read on! The text of the interview is after the break.
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More Summer Contests!
That's right, our
BlizzCon Contest
is over! The final entries have been filed, will be tallied and the winners will be announce on the contest page tomorrow at noon. That's
three
BlizzCon tickets: Two to go to the Grand Prize Winner (along with free airfare and hotel, as well as dinner with the Wowhead team—or at least all of us who could get tickets), and the third will be awarded at random to one of our Wowhead Prize Package winners!
But for those of you who aren't satisfied with just one contest, guess what...we've got
another
!
This time, we're giving away a kickass
Dell XPS 625
Desktop PC, another stack of
Killer Network Cards
, and (of course) another batch of Wowhead T-Shirts. Head on over to the
contest page
and take a look!
http://www.wowhead.com/
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The Crusader's Coliseum!
Well the updates are just coming fast and furious now. The latest update is about the newest tier in raid content—tier 9—to be released in Patch 3.2!
Apparently the next raid tier to come out will be the Crusaders' Coliseum. No info released yet on what the actual encounters will be like, but there have been a few interesting tidbits—apparently there will be four difficulty levels on this one: a normal and heroic 10-man, and a normal and heroic 25-man. They're unlocking one encounter at a time, one per week, Sunwell-style. They're ALSO creating a system (which has already generated some controversy) which limits the number of attempts you get on each boss per raid lockout, and increases the quality of rewards based on how many "tries" you have left when you down him.
Add in a new 5-man dungeon that rewards
Champion's Seal
s, and new Alliance-only and Horde-only skins for gear, and this one sounds ESPECIALLY interesting. The blue post is after the break!
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