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New Site Features: Battle Pets Map and Visual Pet Database
The entire Wowhead team has been hard at work updating our database to the MoP version of data so be sure to check it out! We have
scenarios
,
a battle pet database
,
a new world map
, and every section of the database updated to Mists of Pandaria's latest. We'll continue to be updating the site throughout the week as well.
The addition of pet battles is one of the biggest features Blizzard's bringing with Mists of Pandaria and it's the one we worked especially hard on. Here are the two features we've added to make your pet collecting a lot smoother:
A visual pet battle database for every pet out there
Search for detailed pets with a variety of filters: source, location, and more
See every pet's detailed stats and information
Search by images or plain text to find the perfect pet
A complete world map showing every pet location
Find pets by zone to add to y
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Pirates' Day (Sept. 19th) Guide
Avast, ye landlubbers--it's that time of year again! Put on your
Bloodsail Admiral's Hat
and get ready to celebrate pirates because September 19th is
Pirates' Day
in World of Warcraft--an in-game version of the international holiday
Talk Like A Pirate Day
. While not a full-blown holiday, Pirates' Day still brings the grog and its very own achievement for the one day it comes to Azeroth.
While you can get the buff from pirates throughout the faction cities, the main festivities take place in Booty Bay; here players will find pirates celebrating on top the roof of the Booty Bay bank. Once you've arrived, speak to the
Dread Captain DeMeza
and share a festive drink. She will grant you the
Dread Corsair
buff, giving you a sweet pirate costume of whatever race your character is which lasts 12 hours! This buff will stay on while mounted, in combat, and even persists through death--unless, of course, you're a druid and you like to shapeshift.
Obtaining this buff will also earn you one achievement:
The Captain's Booty
. Since it can only be obtained in this 24 hour window, it's one of the rarer achieveme
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Mists of Pandaria Launch Times
The official Mists of Pandaria launch times are as follows:
North and Latin American realms - 12:00 a.m. PDT, September 25
European realms - 12:00 a.m. CEST, September 25
Korean/Taiwan realms - 12:00 a.m. KST, September 27
With this expansion, we’re using a new bit of tech that will unlock the expansion content, make the intro quest magically pop up in your quest log, and allow you to begin playing the expansion immediately without the need to log out and back in. If everything goes as planned this will be a smooth transition to the adventures that await you in the new continent.
See you in-game!
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Play Games? Answer This Survey and Win!
We've got the maximum amount of responses we can handle so we taking the survey down! Thanks guys!
We've been making it a habit to do research surveys for advertising to help make Wowhead and the ZAM Network more relevant for our users. They've been pretty successful thanks to you guys--so successful, in fact, that we've doing yet another!
Just answer this online survey about your gaming preferences regarding the RPG genre and we'll pick eight 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.
Two people 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
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Introducing Our Borderlands 2 Database
Borderlands 2 is coming out in five days and a lot of us are really excited about it! That's why some of the ZAM and Wowhead team has been working overtime to make a skill calculator for its four classes: the
Siren
,
Commando
,
Gunzerker
, and
Assassin
. Once we get in and see what the data is like, we're hoping to provide you with other awesome features and resources.
Check out BL2DB right now
.
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Ask Blizzard Anything: Blizzard's Reddit Q&A
Blizzard is following the trend of many gaming companies tonight by taking to Reddit to do their interaction with the community! Tonight Blizzard developers and community team members are going to be hosting a Q&A session through the popular website.
The Q&A is now done and we feel like this was a tremendous one. Blizzard really outdid themselves with transparency, talking extensively about issues they'd previously avoided. The PvE section is especially illuminating. Thanks Blizzard!
Lore
Given what Sylvanas and the Forsaken have been up to regarding the Plague, isn't it inevitable that her desire to "procreate" the undead will bring the Forsaken into direct conflict with all the living factions?
Well, first she'd have to run out of corpses, so from that perspective, the war is REALLY helping the Forsaken out... ;)
This is a good question, because the nature of the Forsaken makes them a really unstable ally. That leads to some great stories. At the moment, Sylvanas is fort
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Battle of Theramore Arrives Three Weeks From Today
Just an important reminder as today's huge patch day descends upon us that the Battle of Theramore will not be in this patch--Blizzard instead has confirmed it will be available on the 18th of September which is three weeks from today.
While the
Theramore's Fall
scenario will be available to level 90 players in Mists of Pandaria, it will only be open to level 85s for this one week.
There will be faction-specific Feats of Strength for participating in this event at level 85:
Theramore's Fall
and
Theramore's Fall
.
Event rewards have been added:
Theramore Tabard
for Alliance and
Mini Mana Bomb
for Horde.
The Battle of Theramore, the first of many Scenarios coming to World of Warcraft, is a story-changing event that will be available to level-85 characters for one week only -- the week leading up to the launch of Mists of Pandaria on September 25.
For the duration of the week of September 18-24, level-85 characters will be able to queue up for and participate in the Alliance and Horde versions of this new Scenario with two friends. (Please note: if friends are not available to you at the time, two will be
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Introducing Guildhead for Guild Wars 2
This post is obsolete.
A lot of the ZAM staff has been spending their time in the world of Tyria and we've decided to extend the Wowhead family to include another website. Welcome our brand new Guild Wars 2 database:
Guildhead
.
Guildhead
is currently in beta as we're trying to get it out the door to accompany people on this early launch weekend. For its early release, it has tons of great features such as
a robust skill calculator
to help you navigate Guild Wars 2's in-depth skill system;
a huge world map
; and the usual
database features
that we've been offering World of Warcraft for years.
With all that said, please join me in welcoming
Guildhead
to the Wowhead family in its beta form. This is the second website we've released that shares the Wowhead name and we hope it will eventually live up to the quality you expect from Wowhead and other ZAM websites such as
LolKing
.
And if you're not into Guild Wars 2, don't worry.
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5.0.4 Survival Guide
With the release of Patch 5.0.4, a number of features and changes that aren’t strictly in the continent of Pandaria will be added to the game. I’ve drummed up this guide (with the help of a lot of other people) to ensure you’re prepared for the patch, aware of how it will impact your characters and experience, and ultimately get you into and enjoying the improvements the patch brings as quickly as possible.
You Are Prepared!
With any large patch, you’ll want to ensure you have it pre-downloaded, and ready to start up the game for the first time when it goes live. The 5.0.4 patch has been available on our
background downloader
for a couple weeks now, and if you haven’t yet, you’ll want to ensure you have the majority of the patch data downloaded before its release on August 28. The
Background Downloader FAQ
can help answer just about any question for how to get this done. To verify you have the patch fully downloaded already, just run the BackgroundDownloa
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Wowhead's Exclusive Interview with John Lagrave and Ion Hazzikostas
Today we have a special interview from Gamescom to share with everyone! Gazimoff from
ZAM
was kind enough to conduct an interview in our stead. He spoke with both John Lagrave (lead game producer) and Ion Hazzikostas (lead encounter designer) about Mists of Pandaria, World of Warcraft's future, and more.
Read on to find out what feature has been the most challenging for these developers, where they're drawing their inspiration from, and other exciting tidbits to tide you over until Mists of Pandaria's launch!
In your opinion, what was the hardest part of developing Mists of Pandaria as an expansion?
Ion Hazzikostas
: I think overall, just meeting the challenge that we set for ourselves when we set out to create this, we set out to offer more content than ever before, in terms of breadth and depth. We have eighteen raid bosses this patch. We have well over a thousand new qu
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Currency Conversion Timeline for Mists of Pandaria
<p>The currency conversion coming with Mists of Pandaria is going to happen in three stages, and this is how we plan for it to progress:</p><br>
<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><b>With Patch 5.0.4 on August 28</b></span></p>
<ul>
<li>Valor points will be converted to Justice points, and Conquest points will be converted to Honor points.
<ul>
<li>Neither of the resultant currencies (Justice and Honor) will have an enforced hard-cap at this time.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>The current Arena season will end.</li>
<li>Players will no longer be able to earn Valor or Conquest points (bosses will drop Justice, Arenas will be closed).</li>
<li>Items formerly purchasable for Valor/Conquest will be available for Justice/Honor.</li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><b>With Mists of Pandaria on September 25</b></span></p>
<ul>
<li>Valor can be earned again.
<ul>
<li>Characters can earn up to 1000 Valor per week, and carry a maximum of 3000 Valor.</li>
<li>Daily quests, random Scenarios, random Heroic dungeons, and all levels of raiding will reward Valor.</li>
<li>Valor will be used
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Mists of Pandaria - Build 16004 - Spell Changes
Click here to see the latest additions!
Patch Highlights
Many Dragon Turtle mounts were added, the racial mount for the Pandaren. Ex:
Reins of the Great Green Dragon Turtle
Mage Tier 14 set bonus was changed:
Item - Mage T14 4P Bonus
: Increases the damage bonus of Arcane Power by an additional 10%, reduces the cooldown of Icy Veins by 50%, and reduces the cooldown of Combustion by 20%.
Click the cut to see all the spell changes.
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MMOUI and WoWInterface Celebrate Ten Great Years
So
WoW Interface
and
MMOUI
are celebrating their 10th birthday--and we here at Wowhead want to help them celebrate by spreading awareness!
To thank the community for ten great years, the folks at
WoW Interface
giving away a lot of free stuff. From
80 gaming headsets
to
10 autographed copies of the collector's edition of Cataclysm
, there's a lot of prizes to win. All you have to do is
participate in their trivia contest over here
to be entered to win and you can use your Wowhead account to log in. Each MMOUI subsite has even more prizes, like Riftui is giving away
special in-game items
exclusive to RIFT.
Good luck and make sure to wish our sister site another great ten years of bringing add-ons to the people!
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Mists of Pandaria Opening Cinematic
You've ended Deathwing's destructive rampage and saved the dragonflights from extinction. Now you must unlock the mysteries of the lost continent and discover the dark secrets of Pandaria's past. Explore ancient kingdoms hidden since before the Sundering, plunder vast treasures from the depths of the forgotten vaults, and rise to defend Pandaria from the shadow of a long buried evil - before it's too late.
We are pleased to present the opening cinematic for Mists of Pandaria as presented at gamescom 2012. Whether you’re Horde or Alliance, there is one question we all must consider: “Why do we fight?”
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Professions: Living in Perfect Harmony
As with any new expansion, we often find that we have an opportunity to take a closer look at a variety of game systems within World of Warcraft and explore new ideas or improvements to the game. One system in particular is held near and dear to the hearts of the community: professions. With Mists of Pandaria, the designers were able to seize upon an opportunity to look at the role of materials and refine their purpose and their usefulness. In the end, they came up with Spirit of Harmony as the new resource du jour.
Harmonious Prospects
In Mists of Pandaria, we’re introducing a new material known as the Spirit of Harmony. It slices— it dices— well, ok, it doesn’t, but crafters of any stripe will find it has many uses. By now, any experienced crafter is used to filling bags with a variety of materials such as Primal Life, Primal Fire, Primal Earth, etc. but in Mists of Pandaria, it’s all about Spirit of Harmony (in combination with the usual materials, like ore, leather, and gems). Spirit of Harmony is the result of the designers simplifying an already complex system while still keeping a wide variety of possibilities open to players.
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Dev Watercooler: Scenarios
We recently began revealing the Scenarios you’ll experience at level 90 in World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria on our preview site. As the final tweaks are being made, we thought it would be a good time to sit down with Senior Game Designer Dave Maldonado and Game Designer Jonathan LeCraft for a little behind-the-scenes perspective on this unique new system.
What do Scenarios bring to World of Warcraft that we haven't seen before?
Dave Maldonado
: From a technological standpoint, almost everything in the system is new. Players are obviously going to see the World of Warcraft they know and love when they're running Scenarios, but all of the technology driving what we can do with Scenarios is new, and we took that as an opportunity to really indulge in new ways of interacting with the players, the NPCs, and the environment. It was a lot of work to design the technology, with a whole new UI, and new tracking systems and so forth, and while that programming was going on, we got to dream up and implement a lot of randomization and many new things for monsters to do and for the environment to do.
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Mists of Pandaria - Build 15972 - Spell Changes, Items, Icons, and More
Another new patch is hitting the beta today.
Blizzard changed the file structure yet again, so some of these changes are probably from the last couple of patches--some of them appear to be new.
We'll keep you guys updated.
Latest Additions
Check out the latest additions here
.
A
Straw Hat
was added in every armor type as a Tiller reward that's transmoggable!
I Can't Hear You Over the Sound of How Awesome I Am
is now a Feat of Strength.
The
Fox Kit
is now tied to the Baradin Hold reputation rather than an extremely rare droprate from the zone's foxes. Yeah--it didn't really make sense you killed foxes to receive their offspring, anyway.
There may be a mage portal for some MoP areas:
Portal: Vale of Eternal Blossoms
There were a lot of new items added that are all ilevel 496.
Many Dragon Soul and Firelands boss abilities were nerfed--check it out under the NPC Abilities toggle. This is most likely compensating for mana and other talent changes in Mists.
Icons
[icon name=inv_pet_achievement_catchrarepet_50 s
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World Boss Preview: Salyis's Warband
The ruthless saurok roam Pandaria, stealing what they can and harassing the island's other inhabitants. The most infamous of these reptilian pillagers are Chief Salyis and his warband. For years, the saurok commander and his raiders have stormed through the Valley of the Four Winds atop Galleon, a colossal and well-armed mushan that is more a moving fortress than a simple mount.
Check out the Mists of Pandaria preview website and get a first glimpse at one of the two new roaming world bosses:
Salyis’s Warband
! These extremely powerful monsters will do everything in their power to make your life more... “interesting” as you explore the mysterious continent of Pandaria.
World bosses spawn in the open world and can be attacked by any player (un)fortunate enough to cross their paths. Salyis's Warband will be quite rare, while the expansion's other boss will appear with fairly regular frequency. But before you charge headfirst into battle, keep in mind that it will take the combined efforts of a full r
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World of Warcraft Loses Another 1.1 Million Subscribers
In today's
Activision Blizzard earnings call
it was revealed that World of Warcraft lost another 1.1 million subscribers last quarter, bringing the game to 9.1 million subscribers. This comes after the previous past quarters show losses as well:
600k
,
300k
,
800k
, and finally
100k subscribers last February
The general explanation offered was that this is the game's worst time in its expansion to expansion cycle: it's only mere months before a new expansion comes out which leaves a huge lull of content and bored players in its wake. Additionally, Diablo III--which sold over 10 million copies, including 1
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Mists of Pandaria - Build 15929 - Spell Changes, Items, Icons and More
A new patch is being deployed to the beta which is why the servers went down. It's a pretty small patch, mostly adding vendor quality trash and some spell tweaks to the beta.
Latest Additions
Check out our latest updates in our database
.
Patch Highlights
Last patch introduced
Ancestral Phoenix Egg
, an item that could be redeemed for one of four Challenge Mode reward mounts. Three of the mounts were added today:
Reins of the Ashen Pandaren Phoenix
,
Reins of the Emerald Pandaren Phoenix
,
Reins of the Violet Pandaren Phoenix
Goodies from Nomi
is most likely a reward tied to
Cooking School Bell
which summons
Nomi
.
Many grey-quality armor items were added, like
Moist Mail Armor
. It wouldn't be a farming experience without some vendor trash.
Several achievements were added, including
Learning from the Best
.
New Loading Screens
We have new loading screens for three of the scenarios up!
Icons
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