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Warlords of Draenor Beta: Screenshots and Video of New Spell Effects for All Classes
Many Level 100 talents and revised abilities have cool spell effects in Warlords of Draenor, so we've put together a series of screenshots and videos! In addition, we've updated our
Warlords of Draenor Class Changes Guides
with new sections highlighting the spell effects for each class.
We're also giving away some Warlords of Draenor beta keys if you
sub to our YouTube channel and leave a comment on the latest Wowhead Weekly with your favorite topic
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Updated WoD Class Previews: Tier 17 Set Bonuses and 3D Models
Our
Warlords of Draenor Class Previews
have been updated with the 3D models and Tier 17 set bonuses from the latest build!
Olivia also put together a video of the new Tier 17 and Mythic models we've added to our guides. If you like our Warlords video coverage, consider giving our
Youtube channel a subscribe
.
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Introducing Wowhead Class Guides
Class information is a crucial resource for boosted 90 players and alts. Here at Wowhead we try to build tools and present data in the best possible way to help players, and since class gameplay lends itself well to guides, we've launched a new Class Guide section!
Click here to check out our new class guides!
These guides are in the style of our popular guides written by Wowhead staff, such as our holiday and patch guides. We've asked a number of raiders and bloggers, many of which were familiar faces at WoW Insider, to write guides aimed towards beginners. We've aimed for brevity, to give you just the core facts you need to get started, without bogging you down with hugely detailed strategies.
The guides include everything you need to get started:
Spells: core abilities, rotations and priority systems, self buffs, utility, CC and more
Talents: basic builds and optimal choices for different situations
Glyphs: the most popular choices and options for different contexts
Stats/Reforging: you
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Blizzard Dev Notes, Patch 5.0.5 Hotfixes
Earlier this week, the Blizzard Community Team shared notes from weekly developer meetings to fansites! While this is a partial transcript as not all questions and answers can be shared with the public, there's a ton of useful information covering a wide breadth of topics and it's a neat to see what's discussed at dev meetings.
We've summarized the highlights below, and be sure to check out (removed) the complete Q&A over at Wowjuju, as well as their extremely-useful (removed).
Classes
Several class issues and abilities were brought up:
Zen Pilgrimage
,
Hunter
pet storage, PvP Balance for
Rogue
and
Shaman
.
Challenge Modes
The instance creation cap can be dodged by resetting while inside the instance.
Challenge Mode mounts are intended to be account-wide.
Leaderboards are planned to not be reset this expansion.
PvP
Blizzard is happy with PvP vendors on the wall: map icons and in-game mail clarify their locations.
The rewards from random Battlegrounds and dungeon bonuses were changed to fit the new reward structure in MoP.
Discip
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Mists of Pandaria Launch Guide
Mists of Pandaria, the fourth World of Warcraft expansion,
went live on September 25th
. We've rounded up our daily beta previews and created a guide to
everything
that's new--from Tier Armor to neon Pandaren hair streaks.
Our database is completely updated for Mists of Pandaria as well and we added several features earlier today, most notably an
interactive world map
and a
visual database for battle pets
.
Read more about all the new features
here
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General Changes
Some quality-of-life changes and clarifications relevant to Mists' launch:
You will
not need to log out at midnight PST
to play Mists. You will get a quest at midnight directing you to quest in the new zones, and will be able to create Pandaren on the character selection screen.
Quest rewards in Mists are
dynamic
. This means th
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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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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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News Round Up: Patch 4.3.4 Live, Hotfixes and Customer Support Changes
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm patch 4.3.4 is now available on all realms. Below you'll find the official patch notes.
Notes for all World of Warcraft patches can be found
here
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Ticket Submission UI Improvements
A new Submit Bug button has been added. Clicking this option will open a report dialog box, along with basic instructions on what to include in your bug report.
A new Submit Suggestion button has been added. Clicking this option will open a text dialog box, along with a description of what to include in your suggestion.
The Report Lag button has been removed.
The Report Abuse button is now called Report Player.
The Report Player function offers four categories: Spamming, Language, Name, and Cheating.
Reporting a player for Cheating now opens a text window in which a description of the occurrence can be written.
Reporting a Name opens a window with three categories: Player Name, Guild Name, a
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Symbiosis Breakdown: What Abilities it Brings to Each Class
This covers an outdated beta version of Symbiosis. For the current version, please check our
Mists of Pandaria Druid Preview
.
Since
was announced, it's been talked about
a lot
. New to Mists of Pandaria, Symbiosis will create symbiotic link which grants the Druid one ability belonging to the target's class while giving a druid ability to the target in exchange.
A few days ago, a patch allowed players in the Mists of Pandaria beta are able to get their druids up to 87 and see the ability first hand. We decided to give you guys a sneak peek at what the druid class will be casting on themselves and fellow players using our database! Special thanks to our own
Asakawa
, user
Nikeyeia
, and blogger
Matticus
for helping us with information--we also had our own two staff member druids verify this information! (A few select abilities aren't filled in--some class swaps currently don't work, or crash the beta.)
If th
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Mists of Pandaria Spell Animations and Changes for Warlocks and More
There have been so many spell animation changes in Mists of Pandaria so far. We already touched on
the monk class
and also
the druid class
changes, but in our latest videos, Krelumian covers other classes. This includes the warlocks who have some pretty huge changes--so many that we've broken it down in its own separate video!
Hit the break to see the details of every change broken down with images.
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Brewmaster Monk Ability Animations, Pandaren Racials, Character Customization, and More
Mists of Pandaria Talent Changes
Pandaren Racials
We saw some of the awesome Pandaren racials and default abilities at BlizzCon--and now there's even more, thanks to the addition of auto-attack.
Bouncy
: You take half falling damage.
Epicurean
: Your love of food allows you to receive double the stats from Well Fed effects.
: The Monk's Jab ability will change depending on what weapon is equipped, altering the Monks fighting style appearance. Damage and resource cost remain the same.
Gourmand
: Your Cooking skill is increased by X.
Inner Peace
: Your rested experience bonus lasts twice as long as normal.
: You have a 10% chance to gain Tiger Strikes when you auto-attack, increasing your attack speed by X% and causing your next 4 auto-attacks to cause an extra attack.
: Dual-wield one-handed weapons: Auto-attack damage increased by 40%. Two-handed weapons: Melee attack speed increased by 40%.
Pandaren Character Selection Screen
We took a video of the character creati
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News Round Up: Dragon Soul Nerfs Continue and so do MoP Talent Explanations
Dragon Soul is receiving what will be the second of its zone wide nerfs, decreasing the damage dealt and health of its enemies by 10% from 5%.
There has been some retaliation from players, but it's always good to remember that the last thing Blizzard wants is another situation like the original Naxxaramas--it is their company goal now to have the majority of its playerbase experience the encounters and this is their method of doing it. Besides, it's not like it's a surprise now, is it?
In other news, we have our recent giveaway winners to announce. We have a bunch because I went on a giveaway spree last week. I'm sorry, I won't do it again!
However, our friends at WoWInterface are holding a
raffle this week
--check it out if you like
Party G.R.E.N.A.D.E.
and
Papa Hummel's Old-Fashioned Pet Biscuit
!
Giveaway Winners
Mount Giveaway Winners
Heart of the Aspects
Mount and 4 AMPM Cups
Heart of the Aspects
Mount
soleless
Umbra000
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Mists of Pandaria Talent Trees and New Spells Introduced
Several talents have been changed since they were shown at BlizzCon 2011 and new spells have been added. Naturally, this means we went digging for the ones that you wanted to see, breaking them down by class for a single page reference of everything new and exciting about this talent calculator. Special thanks to Neutronimity who always helps so much on posts like these for his screenshots! Perculia also added some information this evening--a comparison between the featured MoP talents and current options, as well as a transcription of the talent tooltips from the screenshots.
Blizzard also gave their logic for these changes as well as a warning that these are always subject to change throughout the Mists of Pandaria alpha and beta experience. So don't get
too
attached--though who are we kidding? I'm already in love with blinding light.
As
previously announced
at BlizzCon 2011, class talents are undergoing some significant changes in the next World of Warcraft expansion. Learn more about these changes and test out different builds for all your favorite classes with our new Mists of Panda
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Explanation of 4.3 Balance Changes, Part Two
It's a holiday for some, but Blizzard was at work releasing a new blog this morning--Ghostcrawler shared more of his thoughts on the class and balance changes in 4.3. Many classes received detailed explanations about upcoming changes--such as Holy Radiance, Mortal Strike, Fire Mage buffs, and bear form Stamina. However, rogues weren't mentioned at all--and it would have been interesting to hear more thoughts on Blizzard's concerns from the live Q&A how rogues were underrepresented in raiding and their perceived lack of utility.
<div xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
class="detail"><p>Don’t take this as an announcement that the release of patch 4.3 is imminent. While <a href="
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/3608419/">we
have completed a lot of work</a>, it’s just hard to know at this stage when the patch will be ready. Nothing is set in stone until the actual patch, and even then we still have the ability to hotfix any major problems that we missed or caused.<br />
<br />
First, here is <a href="
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/3615095">the
link to Part One</a> of our balance explanations. W
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4.3 Preliminary Guide: 3d Models, Items, Holiday Changes, and More
4.3 news is finally here and it's a dataminer's paradise. Perculia and myself have spent the past six and a half hours going through the
1600+ items
on Wowhead's PTR site and summed up our first impressions: what's new, what's cool, and what's useful. Below you'll find everything in this build; from epic gem stats, new vanity pets, and an explanation of preliminary item levels, this mini-guide should prove helpful if you hate database hunting. We've also highlighted some of the radical class changes, putting them next to Ghostcrawler's commentary from earlier today.
Oh, and we have some cool models to share--if you're into that sort of stuff.
One quick thing: take all of this with a grain of salt. This is the first build of this patch's PTR. It's messy, it's unforgiving, and it's definitely a few cards short of an entire Darkmoon Faire deck.
Datamined Items
Gear
PvE
All of the ilevels are confusing, so let's break it down how this new gear is laid out.
5-mans will likely be giving 378 gear and it looks like they'll
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News Round Up: Class Feedback and Blizzard Music
In short, Blizzard wants to know how you're feeling about your class(es). They've posted a feedback thread on both the EU and US forums, hoping to gather your insight into how your role is functioning and how you'd like it to function in both PvP and PvE environments.
US
Death Knight
Druid
Hunter
Mage
Paladin
Priest
Rogue
Shaman
Warlock
[td a
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News Round Up: Latest Hotfixes (August 10), Blizz on Character Limits
Latest hotfixes have been posted, including a previously undocumented change to the dailies for the
Molten Front
, which were hotfixed with the patch earlier this week. Instead of one elemental spawning, three now spawn; this should make getting the achievement way easier as many people still didn't have it (despite doing the dailies every day). It was completely RNG and some servers didn't even have an elemental switch yet.
Latest Hotfixes (8/10)
August 10
Classes
Death Knight
Applicable death knight abilities are now using the correct amount of resources (and putting them on cooldown) when there are 4 Death Runes available and the Unholy Runes are depleted.
Druid
Druids that shapeshift will now clear the
Potion of Illusion
buff.
Mage
damage from
Mastery: Ignite
is no longer penalized by Resilience more than once, nor can it gain double benefit from
(mastery).
Dungeons & Raids
Dungeon Finder
If a player is kicked by vote
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News Round Up: Blizzard at SDCC, More Twilight of the Aspects, and Feral Druids
Quick announcement: We are looking for Brazilian localizers who speak both Portuguese and English fluently so if you are one, send an email to
ashelia@wowhead.com
. If you applied in the past, feel free to reach out again and start up our email chain again.
In other more pertinent news, San Diego Comic Con was this weekend and there was a big Blizzard presence. Chris Metzen showed up with a panel of Blizzard writers and partners; there was a general presentation on the future of Blizzard's licensed products including comics and merchandise then there was an open question session where fans were able to ask Metzen about anything and everything from World of Warcraft.
His answers hinted towards Thrall's saga not being done yet--a possible return as warchief may be in the cards--and also a new focus on alliance in future novels. To help balance out the recent focus on horde, the next novel will be about Jaina Proudmoore. Check out
the transcript and video up at BlizzPlanet
as well as a more in-depth summary.
Second Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects Exc
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Leveling 201: A Guide to More Enjoyable Leveling
Leveling in Cataclysm is easy; but with all the additions, there's bound to be something surprising, whether you're a veteran or on your first alt. For better or for worse, Cataclysm has streamlined questing--but has also featured alternative ways to gain experience if questing becomes tedious on your 5th alt. Personally, I've leveled toons numerous ways: a rogue to 85 through questing on the first day of the xpac, a warlock in legacy epics through mining, a priest in full BoAs primarily through instances, a rogue strictly through herbalism, and a DK questing in half-BoAs. I've got a mage at 62 that's currently done a lot of LFD, but outpacing the quests for particular zones drives her crazy with the lore and consistent plot lines. I have friends that wait for Alterac Valley weekend for leveling, another that leveled a toon through LFD with 0 quests completed on purpose, and some insane guildmates that have leveled multiple toons through Archaeology in the hopes of getting an elusive epic (cough,
Zin'rokh, Destroyer of Worlds
) for their mains. Big thanks to Psynister for his expert leveling advice!
Once you hit 85, all the new Justice Point gear, Molten Front dailies, and Firelands rep farming await, so let's highlight all the ways you can get th
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Ask the Devs #11: Healing
Ask the Devs #11 was posted and this time it's all about healing. As someone who has played a healer since vanilla, I probably have too many opinions here so I'll let you guys do most of the reading--overall, there are some good questions, especially the one about Holy priest viability in top PvE content, but the answers aren't necessarily the best. And while Mana Tide is brought up, they don't talk much about how currently many guilds bring a Resto shaman in over another class solely for that buff.
I spend a lot of my time in raids keeping Water Shield up, which I rely on to maintain enough mana. There have been times I've neglected to heal someone because I had to refresh Water Shield. Why are shaman healers less effective compared to other healing classes? – Epistemology (NA), Ерз (EU-RU)
We’d like to be more consistent about what does and doesn’t trigger Water Shield. Having the shield trigger when taking direct damage, and consume an orb, is consistent with how all shaman shields work. On some encounters though, constant pulsing damage probably burns through those charges too quickly and doesn’t need
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