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Cathedral of Eternal Night Dungeon Preview
We've got some early screenshots of the new Broken Shore dungeon, the Cathedral of Eternal Night. This is quite a striking dungeon with different atmospheres for the boss areas: a garden for the Fel Tree Agronox, a library/archive area for Thrashbite the Scornful, replete with Ancient Library Books with special effects, as well as a more fel-infected upper spire area for Domatrax and Mephistroth.
News Roundup: February 6th Hotfixes, Blue Tweets, Mythic Race Tidbits and Video, Exorsus Interview
Today's news includes information about the Mythic Nighthold Race, videos from the instance, highlights from an interview with World First Gul'dan guild Exorsus, and a roundup of Blizzard tweets.
Edit: added February 6th hotfixes.
Also check out the news from earlier today:
Trade WoW Tokens for Battle.net Balance
and
Primal Flamesaber Mount from Heroes of the Storm Promotion
.
Upgrade Legendaries to 940 When Nighthold Opens and New Duskwood Spirit Beast
Blizzard has clarified when players will be able to upgrade legendaries to ilvl 940; it will be when Nighthold opens. Players with at least one legendary will be able to pick up the quest
Touch of a Titan
and collect 50
Essence of Aman'Thul
from
Nighthold Raid Bosses
, Mythic Keystone caches, Emissary bags, and PvP Weekly Quests. This quest is repeatable and rewards
Distilled Titan Essence
.
When Nighthold opens, any new legendaries acquired will automatically be ilvl 940. Learn more in the
Legion Legendary Guide
.
Patch 7.1.5 Hotfixes for January 10th and Trial of Valor Changes
The first round of Patch 7.1.5 hotfixes have been posted! It includes some Brawler's Guild tweaks, and a fix for Unholy Death Knight Ghoul abilities which were not affected by Mastery. Other Blizzard posts from today include
removing the change to have 34-54 Artifact Traits active in PvP
and a fix on the way for an unintentional Travel Form nerf. The
7.1.5 Patch Notes
also received updates throughout the day.
Edit: Added undocumented Trial of Valor, Karazhan, and Storm, Earth, and Fire changes.
Patch 7.1.5 is also now live on EU realms, check out our
patch survival guide
for details!
Nighthold Raid Official Preview and Schedule
Blizzard has published an official preview of the Nighthold Raid, including overviews of all bosses and the raid schedule dates for all difficulties! Check out our
Nighthold Loot Preview
for more details on this raid and stay tuned for our Nighthold raid strategy guides.
Nighthold Normal and Heroic will open the week of January 17th, with LFR wings staggered through March 7th.
Nighthold loot has a progressively higher base-ilvl as you progress through the instance.
Skorpyron
,
Chronomatic Anomaly
and
Trilliax
are ilvl 855 LFR, ilvl 870 Normal, ilvl 885 Heroic, and ilvl 900 Mythic.
Spellblade Aluriel
,
Tichondrius
,
Krosus
,
High Botanist Tel'arn
,
Star Augur Etraeus
,
Elisande
are ilvl 860 LFR, ilvl 875 Normal, ilvl 890 Heroic, and ilvl 905 Mythic.
Gul'dan
is ilvl 865 LFR, ilvl 880 Normal, ilvl 895 Heroic, and ilvl 910 Mythic.
World First Mythic+ 20 DHT/VotW Clears, Volunteer Guard Day, Wowhead Weekly #103, Blizzard Gift Guide
For weekend news, we have the latest Wowhead Weekly, the Volunteer Guard Day to preview on the PTR, and some Blizzard Holiday deals.
Edit: members of Serenity have also achieved the World First Mythic+ 20 clear!
Patch 7.1.5 Legion Developer Classes Q&A
Game Director Ion Hazzikostas addressed many 7.1.5 class topics in the latest Q&A, and we've summarized his answers below in this liveblog. The next Q&A should be scheduled for January 2017, around the release of Patch 7.1.5.
Watch live video from on www.twitch.tv
Liveblog: Post-BlizzCon Q&A with Game Director Ion Hazzikostas
Game Director Ion Hazzikostas answered questions about Patch 7.1.5 and 7.2 on today's Q&A. Some hotfixes are also on the way - legendary items will be upgraded to ilvl 910 on Tuesday, and all Trial of Valor items will get a +5 ilvl boost. Check out our full recap for details!
Watch live video from on www.twitch.tv
BlizzCon 2016: Warcraft Interviews and Streams Roundup
During BlizzCon there were many panels and events going on at once, including some of our favorite community figures streaming at the convention itself! It was hard to watch everything going on at once, so we are trying to help the community out by compiling interviews and streams that occurred at BlizzCon in one location; if you find additional streams or interviews let us know and we will add them! Make sure to check out
Wowhead's BlizzCon Interview
as well.
BlizzCon 2016 Contest
Every comment you leave on any BlizzCon 2016 post is entering you to win prizes like a
Murloc Costume
. As long as you don't spam, each comment only increases your chances to win by giving you another entry.
Read more here
--we have several awesome prizes to give out all weekend.
BlizzCon Roundup: Badge Pickup Info, Illidan Statue Preview, Virtual Ticket Pets In-Game
One of the new items coming to the Blizzard Gear Shop is an epic Illidan statue. Introduced as part of the
BlizzCon Blink Shopping Sale
yesterday, this statue has received an in-depth preview today with high-resolution close-up photos and a "making of" video.
Edit: The Virtual Ticket Pets
Knight-Captain Murky
and
Legionnaire Murky
are now in game!
Acquire Moroes as Your Class Champion
User
@Ogedda12Oskar
has brought to our attention how to acquire
Moroes
as a Class Champion! Several Wowhead commenters have also been piecing the steps together in the past few days, check out the links in the post for their research, and our
Return to Karazhan Strategy Guide
on how to defeat the bosses!
BlizzCon Roundup: "Weird Al" for Closing Concert, Charity Auction Preview, Contest Night Host, World of Warcraft Traveler On Sale
With BlizzCon next week, more and more announcements are coming in! The Closing Concert artist was revealed to be "Weird Al" Yankovic, World of Warcraft Traveler was added to the sale, and more information was published about Contest Night and the Charity Auction.
Patch 7.1: October 25th Hotfixes
The first round of bugfixes and clarifications is up for Patch 7.1. Of Particular note:
Mythic Keystone dungeons now count towards the Legion Dungeon Event and Karazhan Attunement Quests.
Several specs have reduced stats for their PvP template, including Fire Mages, Frost Mage,s and Rogues.
The Sword of Light passive is now properly calculated into baseline damage for Retribution Paladins.
Sheathing weapons no longer causes the game to crash.
New Content Week of 10/25: Patch 7.1 Live, Legion Dungeon Event, Drugon the Frostblood World Boss, Quick Join System
In addition to Patch 7.1, the weekly content rotation continues with the
Legion Dungeon Event
, new World Boss
Drugon the Frostblood
, and archaeology quest
Fragments of the Fjords
. Details in the full post!
Classic Server Update
While many players are looking forward to
Patch 7.1
or speculating on
BlizzCon panel announcements
, other players are interested in followups on the Legacy Server situation from the spring. Community Manager Ornyx explains that there will not be any updates to share at BlizzCon, although the development team is still discussing it.
Ornyx
Hey everyone,
We’ve seen some talk among the community that you might be expecting to hear some news on legacy servers at BlizzCon, and we just wanted to take a moment to let you know that while we’re still discussing the possibility, we won’t have any updates to share on that until after the show.
These past few months we’ve been laser-focused on the launch of Legion and getting Patch 7.1: Return to Karazhan ready to go (it’s almost here!), as well as prepping for BlizzCon—which is always a huge undertaking itself. You’ve heard us say that the launch of Legion was just the beginning of the story we want to tell in this expansion. What we will focus on at BlizzCon is how the team is committed to making sure we bring you a steady stream of content going forward, and we can’t wait to share what’s next for Legion.
Thanks for your patience, and we’ll see you at BlizzCon.
-J. Allen Brack and the World of Warcraft development team
Patch Notes: World of Warcraft Patch 7.1 Return to Karazhan
The official notes are here for Patch 7.1, including a detailed look at class changes! For guides to all the new content in the patch, check out
Wowhead's Patch 7.1 Survival Guide
with everything you need on
Return to Karazhan
,
quests including Suramar
,
fun pets and mounts to collect
, and
Profession Updates
.
Tom Chilton Stepping Down As Game Director, BlizzCon 2016 Schedule and Floorplan, TESPA Great Collegiate Dungeon Race
Game Director Tom Chilton has announced that he will be leaving World of Warcraft to work on another Blizzard project; Ion Hazzikostas will be taking his place as Game Director for World of Warcraft.
Edit: The BlizzCon 2016 Schedule and Floor maps have been revealed, as well as the TESPA Mythic+ Dungeon Race!
October 3rd Hotfixes: Vantus Runes in Mythic Emerald Nightmare, Mythic Il'gynoth, Keystone Timers
The latest round of hotfixes features some changes to Emerald Nightmare and Mythic+ Dungeons:
The Keystone timers for several dungeons have been adjusted.
Vantus Runes
can now be used in Mythic Emerald Nightmare.
On Mythic difficulty,
Il'gynoth
's health has been increased by 200%, but loses one-third of that value each time the
Eye of Il'gynoth
is defeated.
Our
Il'gynoth
and Mythic+ guides have been updated with today's hotfixes.
A common strategy for Mythic Il'gynoth involved using raid compositions that focus on maximizing burst damage to complete the encounter in a single phase. This approach removes huge portions of the encounter and can overly favor a specific set of classes and specializations, causing negative social pressures in groups that have yet to reach this encounter. These changes ensure that raid groups must enter Il'gynoth's core twice in order to complete the encounter on Mythic difficulty, but offset that change by speeding up the process of destroying the Eye to shorten the overall length of the encounter.
Legion Developer Q&A Liveblog
The Legion Developer Q&A with Assistant Game Director Ion Hazzikostas took place earlier today; we've summarized the key points for each question. Check out the
Legion Survival Guide
for an overview of the expansion.
PAX West Legion Panel Liveblog: Mobile Mission and World Quest App, Trial of Valor Raid, Karazhan
Blizzard has a special Legion panel at PAX West today; they announced the mobile world quest app, Trial of Valor raid, and more details on Karazhan! Learn all about the latest expansion with our
Legion Survival Guide
.
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