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Wowhead Weekly #78, Legion Dalaran Fishing Vendor, Darkmoon Faire in Town, Blue Posts

posted 2016/05/01 at 12:13 PM by perculia

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Blizzard

A new set of days means May is underway! There’s much to see and do, and we have our eye on what the community's up to, too. In this May edition of This Month in WoW, we look forward to some of the more remarkable things going on in the World of Warcraft community.

Holidays

Children's WeekTaking place once a year in Orgrimmar, Stormwind, Dalaran, and Shattrath City, this week-long celebration is a time to give back to the innocents orphaned by war.Show an orphan what the hero’s life is like! Visit Orphan Matron Nightingale in Stormwind, Orphan Matron Battlewail in Orgrimmar, Orphan Matron Mercy in Shattrath, or Orphan Matron Aria in Dalaran to get started making a child’s dream come true.This is the only week of the year when you can obtain pets such as Mr. Wiggles, Egbert, Peanut, Sleepy Willy, Curious Oracle Hatchling, and Curious Wolvar Pup. Did You Know? Nine years ago, on May 22, 2007, The Black Temple was added to World of Warcraft.Long ago on Draenor, the Temple of Karabor was the center of draenei worship. But the devout priests who prayed there are long dead, slaughtered by marauding, demonically corrupted orcs. In the massacre's aftermath the warlocks of the Shadow Council seized the structure and bestowed upon it a new name: the Black Temple.When Illidan the Betrayer fled to Draenor (now called Outland), he ousted the Temple's ruler - the pit lord Magtheridon - and claimed his throne as the lord of the blasted world. Despite the bitter retribution of his enemies, Illidan has begun to tighten his grip on Outland from within the profaned sanctum, where he awaits any and all who would challenge his rule. . Podcasts Stay up-to-date on all of the latest World of Warcraft news and goings-on with some of our favorite podcasts:Wowhead Weekly and Downtime TuesdayWhen: Saturdays and Tuesdays
About: Wowhead’s Perculia and Panser discuss most everything going on in the World of Warcraft.
Follow @Wowhead on Twitter for every episode.The Instance
When: Fridays at 9:00 a.m. PDT
About: We highlighted Scott Johnson right here on March 25. Check it out!
Visit The Instance site to learn more about the show and follow them on Twitter at @InstanceShow.Geeks of Azeroth
About: “Three wacky and wild gamers get together each week to talk about all the latest news and events going on in World of Warcraft.”
Visit the Geeks of Azeroth site to learn more about the show and follow them on Twitter at @Epic_Geeks. Esports Live Events GCD Americas Spring Cup

Friday, April 29 8:00 p.m. EDT / 5:00 p.m. PDT
Saturday, April 30 5:00 p.m. EDT / 2:00 p.m. PDT
Sunday, May 1 5:00 p.m. EDT / 2:00 p.m. PDT

Stay on top of all the latest from GCD.tv by following them on Twitter and on Twitch.tv. Want to catch up on any tournament action you may have missed? Visit the GCDTV YouTube page .
In Game Events You can keep up-to-date on all of the in-game events through the calendar on the World of Warcraft website here (log in and select Events from the drop-down menu under your character name), or simply view the in-game calendar for exact event start times for your realm.
Bonus Events: Arena Skirmish Bonus Event — April 27-May 2
While this event is active, Arena Skirmishes will award Honor at triple the usual rate. Will you answer the call to battle?Outland Timewalking Dungeon Event — May 4-9
While this event is active, players level 71 or higher may access a special Timewalking Dungeon Finder queue, which scales players and their items down to revisit past dungeons from The Burning Crusade expansion. While Timewalking, bosses will yield loot appropriate for a player's natural level.Battleground Bonus Event — May 11-16
During this event, random Battlegrounds award Honor at triple the usual rate. Additionally, you can complete the quest A Call to Battle to earn 500 Conquest points that don’t count towards your weekly Conquest cap.Draenor Dungeon Event — May 18-23
While this event is active, defeating enemies in any level 100 Heroic or Mythic dungeon will award reputation with an appropriate Draenor faction.Pet Battle Bonus Event — May 25-30
While this event is active, your pets will earn experience at triple the usual rate. Get out there and battle with your mighty minions! Legion Alpha Test For the latest on our Legion Alpha, check out Legion Alpha General Discussion forum.

Blue Posts

Lore

Following our recent blog (link) detailing some updates to the rules for the 2016 World of Warcraft Road to BlizzCon, we’ve seen some questions about the rationale behind some of those changes. We’d like to go into more detail on our thinking to help you better understand why we made these changes and why we think they’re the right decisions for the 2016 Arena Championship—and once you’ve had a chance to hear our thoughts, we’d love for you to share any further feedback or concerns you might have.

Every rule change we’re making this year is fully intended to support the Arena community. We made some great strides forward in that regard with the 2015 Road to BlizzCon, and we want to continue that trend in 2016.

Regarding the roster swap rules, there are several contributing factors to our decision to allow one roster swap between qualifiers and regionals. For example, Legion will be rolling out during this time frame, which brings some sweeping changes to classes and other gameplay elements critical to the Arena. Because it will be very difficult (if not impossible) to predict exactly how that will affect everything, we want teams to have a bit of extra flexibility to adjust. We also felt that last year’s roster rules were stricter than they needed to be and wanted to relax them just slightly. We feel that this is the right choice for World of Warcraft competition in 2016.

Next, we wanted to talk about why we’re allowing teams who have already qualified to compete in further events. One of our main goals here is to increase exposure—as well as income opportunities—for top WoW Arena teams. It’s similar to the approach we take with our other games, and even outside of Blizzard, it’s fairly common practice to allow—even encourage—players or teams who’ve qualified for a regional (or equivalent) to continue playing in events leading up to that regional.

This approach provides a number of advantages that can help an esport grow: Viewers are able to see their favorite players and teams competing in more events, which helps those players and teams form a stronger fanbase. Teams have the potential to earn more prize money and get more sponsorship opportunities earlier on, supporting their ability to participate in esports as a career. It’s also worth mentioning that we plan for the qualifier cups to use a double-elimination system this year.

Overall, we feel that allowing teams to compete in multiple events is a good move forward for the growth of WoW esports, but like I said, it’s a change we made to help our top WoW teams. We’ve already been speaking directly with several top-level players and competitors—including previous BlizzCon champions—about these changes, but we’re definitely interested in additional feedback from everyone in the community now that you have a bit more context. If you disagree with this change, what exactly concerns you about it?

We all want to make WoW esports the best it can be, and your constructive feedback is greatly appreciated to help us achieve that. Thanks for all the great discussion so far.

First I would like to see what other examples you guys are looking at where this happens. Perhaps it works well and we just are not aware.

Watcher

On Monday, May 2 and Tuesday, May 3, we will continue our Legion Alpha raid testing. (I'd initially suggested testing would be Fri/Mon, but we're moving the dates so people don't have to choose between their Diablo Season 6 ladder aspirations and raid testing.)

Remember that Heroic difficulty scales for any group size between 10 and 30 players, so feel free to assemble and bring a group of any size within that range. Mythic, of course, requires 20 and does not scale.

Monday, May 2

Il'gynoth - Mythic Emerald Nightmare
13:30 PDT (16:30 EDT, 22:30 CEST)

Cenarius - Mythic Emerald Nightmare
15:00 PDT (18:00 EDT, 00:00 CEST)

Tuesday, May 3

Chronomatic Anomaly - Heroic Nighthold
13:30 PDT (16:30 EDT, 22:30 CEST)

Elisande - Heroic Nighthold
15:00 PDT (18:00 EDT, 00:00 CEST)

As always, this testing schedule is very fluid and subject to the realities of an alpha environment. We might have to change the time of a testing session, change the boss being tested, or cancel a test entirely, due to bugs, server hardware issues, etc. Keep an eye on this forum for the latest information, and thank you in advance for testing and providing feedback.

Q: How do I get into the raid zone?

A: In Dalaran, Orgrimmar, or Stormwind, you may speak to Nexus-Lord Donjon Rade Sr. in order to teleport into the raid zone while it is open for testing. (The option to teleport into a zone will not be available when the zone is not open for testing.)

Q: What character should I use to test the raid?

A: Whichever you prefer. We will be scaling players' effective level to 110 for raid testing, and their item level to an appropriate threshold for the encounter(s) being tested.

Q: How long does testing last?

A: The primary purpose of testing is to give us the information we need to balance the encounters, evaluate how mechanics are playing out in practice, and identify bugs. Once we're satisfied that we've received that information for a given boss, we'll be shutting down testing. Usually this takes anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours, but there are no guarantees.

Comments

Comment by QuartrDollarKingWouldn't it cause a lot of crowding if you needed to fish in a pool by the BMA to get to him and then you can only get the currency from a pool by him?Comment by perculiaI modified the phrasing a little. Hopefully it's more open-ended now.Comment by BeardbeckWouldn't it cause a lot of crowding if you needed to fish in a pool by the BMA to get to him and then you can only get the currency from a pool by him?Comment by KesBulLet's see, should I use a Tugboat bobber, or a Murloc Head bobber, or a Squeaky Duck bobber ? Decisions, Decisions.Comment by That1guyTMChasedon said:
Wouldn't it cause a lot of crowding if you needed to fish in a pool by the BMA to get to him and then you can only get the currency from a pool by him?Comment by sbensenWhy with the flying? It's one of the things that is breaking WoW... Take it out until like 6 months before the next expansion. -_-Comment by DG2020Any new developments on the Artifact fishing pole? I am genuinely curious about how you get it.Comment by darkelemental1Chasedon said:
Wouldn't it cause a lot of crowding if you needed to fish in a pool by the BMA to get to him and then you can only get the currency from a pool by him?Comment by darkelemental1Why with the flying? It's one of the things that is breaking WoW... Take it out until like 6 months before the next expansion. -_-Comment by ProjectSixamNYEH, FLYING! VANILLA DIDN'T HAVE FLYEEENGGGG IT R BREAK GAEM TAEK FLY OWT PLES SO I R CAN IMMURS MOARRRRComment by SielinthI haven't followed Dalaran 2.0 very closely

how does the PVP work on a PVE server? does the guard bribe forces <everyone> to be pvp flagged even if you didn't opt for it?Comment by GrabovskyWouldn't it cause a lot of crowding if you needed to fish in a pool by the BMA to get to him and then you can only get the currency from a pool by him?Comment by AeronPerytonI haven't followed Dalaran 2.0 very closely

how does the PVP work on a PVE server? does the guard bribe forces <everyone> to be pvp flagged even if you didn't opt for it?Comment by Random0223I hope BETA or prepatch is coming soon.. Seeing all the footage from Alpha is making my mouth water. I'd love to test the features and experience some of what's new. Anything has to be better than the craptastic, complete and utter, non-content failure that the WoD xpac is. So looking forward to news about actual gameplay, outside of what we've already seen.

Thank you Perc and Panser for all the work you ladies do :).Comment by RekkaOn Alpha the realms are PvE, but entering the sewers flag you for pvp. The hirable guards don't prevent you from being flagged as far as I can tell they merely soak up a few hits for you. For example, i hired a guard and was exploring and some rogues were fighting over the chests that spawn down there. I was able to loot two of the chests while they were distracted and when they switched to me my channeling wasn't interrupted till my guard died. He lasted probably 5 seconds vs undergeared alpha players.Comment by Tydfillets hope this movie promo is in the EU too. so many of these promos are US or china only, it sucksComment by SielinthOn Alpha the realms are PvE, but entering the sewers flag you for pvp. The hirable guards don't prevent you from being flagged as far as I can tell they merely soak up a few hits for you. For example, i hired a guard and was exploring and some rogues were fighting over the chests that spawn down there. I was able to loot two of the chests while they were distracted and when they switched to me my channeling wasn't interrupted till my guard died. He lasted probably 5 seconds vs undergeared alpha players.

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