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A Visual Tour of Pandaria
For this Sunday, we have a fly through of all the zones in Mists of Pandaria. Since the level cap was recently increased to ninety, we figured now was a good time to show you the perks of flying. Blizzard has certainly spared no expenses in beautiful scenery.
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News Round Up: Jade Forest Disabled, Head Enchant Removal Explained Further, and More
We have some news to share right before the weekend begins. In particular, a couple of minutes ago the Jade Forest was disabled suddenly. Apparently, Blizzard wants to make improvements to the zone--we'll have to wait to see what they are!
Other news posts include:
Ghostcrawler explains a little more about why head enchants are gone
Orgrimmar's Organization in MoP
Spellbook Organization
Ghostcrawler discusses
Stampede
Feature post on AQ40, covering vanity items and achievements
Before the news round up, we also have a bit of beta news: dragon turtle mounts are now available. Pandaren can now purchase them for . Currently, they are only sold Alliance-side by
Old Whitenose
, but they are Bind-on-Account.
Here's a list of all the mounts:
Level 20
Level 40
Reins of the Green Dragon Turtle
Reins of the Great Black Dragon Turtle
Reins of the Black Dragon Turtle
Reins of the Great Purple Dragon Turtle
Reins of the Blue Dragon Turtle
Reins of the Great Green Dragon Turtle
Reins of the Brown Dragon Turtle
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Scenario Previews: A Brewing Storm and Brewmoon Festival
Lore and Perculia have teamed up to give an in-depth preview of the scenarios available for testing. This first batch of scenarios centers around the Brewmasters--a group of Pandaren who take their craft very seriously and end up in the strangest predicaments on their quests for the perfect ingredients.
Currently, you must be level 90 with a minimum ilvl of 425 to queue for scenarios. You can queue up for them using the dungeon finder, either for random or specific ones.
Summary of A Brewing Storm
Up on Thunderpaw Peak, you have to help Blanche Boomer finish making her famous brew. It can only be completed in the rain, which unfortunately is the perfect weather for enraged Saurok, a race of ancient lizards created by the Mogu solely for the purpose of fighting. This scenario is very fast, with three short phases and a NPC that helps tank and heal.
Summary
Stage 1
You'll start the encounter by extinguishing kegs on fire and killing waves of Saurok as Blanche completes the brewing process over the course of several minutes. Blanche helps
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Introducing Wowhead News 2.0
Almost exactly a year ago we launched Wowhead News. Its intention was to make the blogging our content team did more visible and it certainly did exactly that.
However, a lot of people had problems with the layout. It wasn't styled like Wowhead, it wasn't practical in design, and its separate domain gave everyone a headache--especially the part where it would log people out frequently and make commenting difficult.
So a while ago, when we were talking about what features we'd like to do for our community, I threw out the idea that I'd eventually like to see Wowhead News redone in a style more becoming of Wowhead. As it turns out, so did the rest of the Wowhead team!
Today I'm proud to reveal the fruit of our labor:
Wowhead News 2.0
, a version that truly returns to its roots. We hope you like it--be sure to check out the sidebar as well for some awesome new features, including a featured guide box as well as the most popular addons from
WoW Interface
!
Please report any issues or suggestions right here in the comments and we'll stay on it for the remainder of this week and next.
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Mists of Pandaria - Build 15752 - Spell Changes, Items, Icons, and More
A new beta patch just hit with some interesting abilities and new items. We've got Rogue tier 14 under the cut as well as spell changes, icons, and some new loading screens.
Click here to see the latest additions!
Patch Highlights
Hunter pets (Hyena and Wind Serpent) get a haste buff:
,
BoA fishing journal and quest reward from Nat Pagle:
Nat's Fishing Journal
Stuffed Pet trophies:
Trophy Fox
,
Trophy Wolf
Raid-wide picnic basket that restores health and mana:
Covered Basket
,
Pandaren Picnic
Trinkets with fun-sounding procs:
Explosive Barrel
,
Ban's Bag of Bombs
,
Nurong's Gun
New level of lockbox:
Ghost Iron Lockbox
New vanity disguise:
Ken-Ken's Mask
New weapon chain:
Living Steel Weapon Chain
New achievements:
Newbie
,
New Food and Drink:
Chao Cookies
,
Lotus Water
,
Lao Chin's Last Mug
,
Jin Warmkeg's Brew
,
Iron Belly Spirits
,
Cup of Kafa
Brews for Stormstout Brewery:
Bubbling Beverage
,
Wicked Wikket
,
Triple-Distilled Brew
,
Sparkling Water
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New TCG Expansion: Comment to Win Loot From the Tomb of the Forgotten
UPDATE: Contest is closed. The post is locked to prevent further entry.
On June 12th,
Cryptozoic
is launching their latest WoW TCG expansion:
Tomb of the Forgotten
. Like the name implies, it's based off the sandy deserts of Uldum and is teeming with new dangerous foes and powerful allies. Most notably for those of us really into vanity items, it has three new in-game rewards:
Spurious Sarcophagus
,
White Riding Camel
, and
Sand Scarab
.
Since we're huge fans of the WoW TCG and so are our users,
Cryptozoic
reached out and offered us
five
Sand Scarab
loot codes
and
one
White Riding Camel
loot code
to give out to our community!
To be entered to win one of these six loot codes, just leave a comment on this post
. We'll close this giveaway Tuesday at 12:01PM PDT, so be quick or else you'll miss out!
Discover the secrets of Uldum, unlock the power of the mysterious Tol'vir, and conq
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Jaina and Theramore Scenario Spoilers, New Warlock Pet Sounds and Emotes
Today's
beta patch
included a lot of sound files for the Theramore scenario that's been talked about since BlizzCon. So if you want to hear Jaina in all her fury, look no further! Naturally,
this post contains a lot of spoilers
, so tread lightly and don't watch them if you don't want to be spoiled.
The patch also included completely new voice overs for all of the Warlock's pets. They're really ridiculous--including tons of jokes and overacting--and worth listening to. These pets and their emotes will all come from
talent that Warlock's will get in Mists of Pandaria.
Theramore Scenario Spoilers
New Warlock Pet Emotes
Theramore Scenario Quotes
Captain Drok:
My marines are already on shore holding the harbor entrance. You have your orders. Do your jobs and return safely. The eyes of Hellscream are upon you!
Baldruc:
The ships are aflame! Troops, to the harbor!
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Mists of Pandaria - Build 15739 - Tier 14, Tons of Items, Loading Screens, and More
We just datamined the latest beta patch, which has tons of item sets and vanity items, as well as a new Undead Racial:
Touch of the Grave
. Also,
be sure to check out the new Jaina and Theramore spoilers in our other post
!
Click here to see the latest additions!
Latest Additions
Undead have a new racial, no more underwater breathing!
Touch of the Grave
: Your attacks and damaging spells have a chance to drain the target, dealing 12654 to 14706 Shadow damage and healing you for the same amount.
In what continues to be a fine tradition, two new BoEs added that you may recognize from past expansions:
The Gloaming Blade
and
Krol Scimitar
Slews of vanity items were added:
Watermelon Bomb
,
Turnip Paint "Gun"
,
Puntable Marmot
,
Kickable Keg
, and
Orange Painted Turnip
.
New vanity pets:
Jade Crane Chick
,
Thundering Serpent Hatchling
,
Singing Cricket Cage
Two PvP sets added for Monks:
Gladiator's Copperskin
,
Gladiator's Ironskin
New Spirit Beast ability:
There's new Renaming spells for all the Warlock pets: [sp
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Head Enchants Removed in Mists of Pandaria According to Ghostcrawler
We've been wondering where the head enchants were in Mists of Pandaria and it looks like they're gone! Ghostcrawler gave some insight today about how he disliked the head enchant system as he felt it caused players to pick their reputation based on their class rather than personal preference. He's also removed reputation based shoulder enchants, in favor of having scribes make shoulder enchants for all players.
What do you think? Are you ready to pick the faction with the cutest vanity rewards instead of the perfectly itemized enchant for your helmet?
Head enchants are gone.
We decided that putting head enchants on the various faction vendors wasn't working well with our design intent for the factions. There is a lot of max-level quest content in MoP, much of it focused around the reputation with the new factions. I think it's really cool stuff -- worlds away from the old Argent Crusade scourge stone days. :)
In previous expansions, the head enchants on the faction vendors served to force players into that content. You couldn't even choose which reputation to pursue -- you had to pursue the one with your specific head enchant. Our desi
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Mists of Pandaria Login Screen Revealed
A lot of you have been wondering what the Mists of Pandaria login screen will look like. Luckily, in addition to having Hunter and Druid tier 14,
the latest patch
also had the login screen for Mists of Pandaria!
We've included both the version we here at Wowhead datamined and the version people have been linking around so you can see how it will likely look!
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Wowhead's Family Guy Giveaway: Win Turtle Beach Headsets!
FOX recently launched their
Family Guy MMO
into open beta. And since Wowhead users are both MMO and
Family Guy
fans, we decided to team up with FOX to celebrate!
This week and next, Wowhead will be giving away seven
Turtle Beach headsets
as well as a complete box set of Family Guy. All you have to do to be entered to win is leave a comment in this post telling us who your favorite Family Guy character is!
To be entered to win,
tell us in this post who is your favorite Family Guy character
.
Maybe it's Stewie with his dreams of matricide? Or perhaps you can't get enough Herbert because you really like popsicles? Whatever the case, let us know your favorite character to be entered to walk away with one of these awesome headsets!
As always, there are some rules so be sure to read them before entering:
Wowhead giveaways are open to anyone, anywhere. ID verification is required to receive prizing, however, so parental consent is needed for those under 18. You should also be aware that there may be taxes out of our control for acceptin
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Mists of Pandaria - Build 15699 - Spell Changes, Items, Icons, and More
There was a new patch today that will be hitting the beta soon with tons of new additions.
Check out our latest additions
.
Also check out the
new battle pet abilities
and
new battle pet species
!
Latest Additions
Engineers finally get some love
:
Blingtron 4000
,
Thermal Anvil
,
Wormhole Generator: Pandaria
,
Geosynchronous World Spinner
,
, and
Depleted-Kyparium Rocket
!
New vanity pets
:
Food
,
Food
, and
Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling
Archaeologists will get new items that make the digging process a bit more fun:
Lorewalker's Map
,
Lorewalker's Lodestone
. There will also be crates of archaeology fragments for every type of dig site--for example,
Crate of Vrykul Archaeology Fragments
.
Scribes will be able to craft vanity items like
Origami Frog
and
Origami Crane
.
Two new titles
: and .
Monks get a teleport
:
Zen Pilgrimage
.
Mages get a familiar
:
Conjure Familiar
.
These goggles are awesome:
Mist-Piercing Goggles
.
A lot of BoEs were added in this patch
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New Mists of Pandaria Quests Reveal A Legendary Questline
We just did a massive update for quests and NPCs from the Mists of Pandaria beta! There were
over two hundred new quests and thousands of NPCs added to the database
this afternoon.
Click here to check them out
.
Speaking of quests, remember
Breath of the Black Prince
which we datamined?
Well, we just found its quest source.
Apparently running the Black Market Auction House wasn't enough; it looks like Wrathion is tied to some legendary quests in Mists of Pandaria--possibly for a new weapon. We think these datamined quests and items are for a new type of legendary that any class can collect--similar to how the Quel'Delar questline from Wrath had an epic questline and weapon reward for all classes and specs.
It's possible that a new legendary will increase your ilvl of a current weapon (similar to the new
Valor Point
ilvl system) via
Breath of the Black Prince
and add a buff to make it unique. When we datamined legendary items a few days ago, we also found these three buffs:
Hammer of Ten Thunders
,
Jade Infused Blade
,
Yaungol Fire
. This system would allow for a lot more flexibility, where players cou
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Mists of Pandaria - Build 15689 - Spell Changes, Items, Maps, and More
A new beta patch is hitting Mists of Pandaria sometime this weekend it looks like! We have datamined the spell differences for you to look at and tons of new items, achievements, and more.
The biggest thing this patch seems to be
Breath of the Black Prince
which is likely a way of upgrading items tremendously without class restrictions normally known with legendaries. This system exists in other MMORPGs so it would make sense. This is only speculation, of course.
Horde Bear Models
Like the armored cats we covered earlier in the week, we now have armored bears. The Alliance ones weren't done--these are the Horde versions.
Latest Additions
Check out the latest items here
.
Several legendary quality Sha artifacts:
Breath of the Black Prince
,
Sigil of Power
,
Chimera of Fear
,
Sigil of Wisdom
Secondary professions will scale accountwide:
Grand Master Cookbook
and so on
New hunter pet types:
Rest
(Porcupines) and
Surface Trot
(Water Striders)
You will be able to blacklist maps in PvP, though we're unsure of what this means withou
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[Discontinued] Introducing Wowhead for Diablo: D3DB
Note: this project was discontinued and is no longer affiliated with Wowhead/ZAM/Fanbyte.
Diablo III is in less than a week and we're getting
really
excited here at Wowhead. It's been a long time coming. Of course, as release date nears, we've been getting a lot of questions about Wowhead's plans for D3 since it's so closely linked to World of Warcraft.
We figured it's a good time to remind everyone that there is a Wowhead for Diablo III: Removed. A site built by Wowhead fans, it was acquired a few months ago by the Wowhead team and we've been thrilled to have these guys join our team. As launch day inches closer, their site keeps growing and there's loads of stuff to show everyone.
Some of Removed better known features are:
A really awesome character planner
A skill calculator
A database full of items, enemies, skills, and everything else you've come to expect from a site in the Wowhead family!
Brand new forums
A Diablo III bluetracker
Diablo III news coverage
And more!
We hope you join us in bookmarking Removed for your Diablo III needs and giving them a warm wel
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Mists of Pandaria - Build 15677 - New Druid Cat Forms, Monk and Priest PvP Sets, and More
A new patch hit around 1AM PDT tonight and should be up on the beta later today! There are tons of new achievements, a couple new items, and more which we have datamined. We also have spell changes under the break.
Notable things we've found
in this patch
:
Two new titles: and
Players will be able to upgrade items using valor points
. Instead of buying new items, you will be able to increase its ilevel through valor points:
ITEM_UPGRADE = "Item Upgrade";
ITEM_UPGRADE_DESCRIPTION = "Use your valor points to upgrade a weapon or piece of armor that is level 375 or higher.";
Cooking specializations are in:
Way of the Brew
,
Way of the Steamer
,
Way of the Oven
,
Way of the Pot
Possible indication that secondary skills will be cross account; if you have 400 cooking, your alts could too:
Journeyman Cookbook
Dustwallow Marsh has a revised zone:
Tons of
new tailoring items
, including embroderies.
New monk spell (
Zen Flight
) and new mage spell (
)
New glyphs:
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Pandaren Dances and News Round Up
The new beta build we
datamined yesterday
is now live: players can quest in Townlong Steppes. The Pandaren dances were also unveiled in yesterday's patch, so we made a video of them!
In the aftermath of
Ghostcrawler's latest blog on account-wide achievements
, there's been some blue posts clarifying this announcement. There's also been more posts on warrior and paladin abilities in Mists, and if you like to PvP, the time to participate in the Arena Pass is
now
: it's entered the exclusive rewards phase.
Achievements in Mists
Let’s consider
Loremaster of Kalimdor
.
Character A completes
Ashenvale Quests
for a toast and 10 points.
If Character B then completes
Ashenvale Quests
, they will get the toast, but not 10 more points. (It is NOT a new achievement for the account.)
If Character B then completes [achievem
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Play Games? Answer This Survey to Win!
This giveaway is now closed, thanks!
A few months ago we had a research survey we did for advertising to help make Wowhead and the ZAM Network more relevant for our users. It was really successful thanks to you guys--so successful, in fact, that we've decided to do another one!
Just answer this
online survey
about your gaming preferences regarding the FPS genre and we'll pick seven lucky participants to win Amazon gift cards. All information is confidential and we will only use your email to contact you about the prize should you win.
One person will win $100 USD Amazon gift card
Two people will win a $50 USD Amazon gift card
Four people will win a $25 USD Amazon gift card
Make sure you act fast--we'll be closing it May 11th at noon!
Click here to take the survey!
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New Ghostcrawler Blog: Achievements in Mists of Pandaria
Ghostcrawler decided to tackle achievements in Mists of Pandaria, with some new information on account-wide ones.
<div xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
class="detail"><p>We recently added account-level changes to achievements in World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, and there’s still a lot of work left before we’re done. The plan here is to illustrate the intent behind our design, which should in turn help you figure out the answers to many of your questions.</p></br>
<p>Overall, we never want you to play Character A instead of Character B because of achievement concerns. If Character A had the Violet Proto-Drake, then you might not play Character B. If Character A was only one holiday away from the Violet Proto-Drake, then you may not play Character B. If Character A had completed most of the raid achievements from Dragon Soul, you may not want to bring Character B for one fight and miss out on the achievement. Having alts is cool and working on achievements is cool, but we don’t want the two systems to work against each other.</p></br>
<p>This goal is paramount and drives everyth
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Mists of Pandaria - Build 15662 - 3D Models, Spell Changes, and More
Another small patch is coming to the beta shortly. It had a lot of the source recipes for profession recipes we'd already datamined, along with some other new stuff.
Plate Reputation Armor Set
Latest Additions
Click here to see the latest additions to the beta
!
Here's a breakdown of some of the cooler stuff we've found in this patch.
New Titles:
<The Beloved>. Reward from:
60 Exalted Reputations
Collector's Edition:
Collector's Edition: Imperial Quilen
Collector's Edition: Lucky Quilen Cub
Lucky Quilen Cub
Imperial Quilen
New Scenario:
Brewmoon Festival
New PvP Mounts:
Cataclysmic Gladiator's Twilight Drake
New Abilities:
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