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@WarcraftDevs
WarcraftDevs
5 years
With hotfixes that we are currently deploying to all WoW Classic realms, we are substantially increasing the number of players that can be simultaneously logged in and playing. We expect this to result in smaller queues for popular realms.
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@WarcraftDevs
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2 years
Yes, this is a permanent change for Dragonflight.
@resoSM
Resonance
2 years
@WarcraftDevs "The Barbershop services are now free of cost." Is this just for the alpha, or planned for live?
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@WarcraftDevs
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4 years
Several class abilities are coming off the global cooldown in Shadowlands. Here's why:
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@WarcraftDevs
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6 years
When you unlock Battle for Azeroth world quests, your Flight Master's Whistle gains the ability to work in the new lands. if you didn’t play Legion or destroyed your whistle, you will receive a Flight Master’s Whistle that works in Legion and Battle for Azeroth zones.
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We hear you and agree. This was an oversight where we hadn't yet fully reviewed this set from every angle before putting it into the initial test build. We've already begun work to adjust the set, and you'll see changes to it in a forthcoming build of the Eternity's End PTR.
@TaliesinEvitel
Xaliesin & Evitel
3 years
The new warlock tier set helm is... very unfortunate
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@WarcraftDevs
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5 years
We are aware of, and as our top priority, we are working through issues that some players are having logging into WoW Classic, including the 'World Server Down' error. Thank you for your patience.
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@WarcraftDevs
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6 years
The playtime limits on the WoW Classic demo have now been removed. Enjoy!
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@WarcraftDevs
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4 years
We’re working on an update to the game. With the next scheduled weekly maintenance in each region, players who have earned a given Rank 3 Essence on one character will be able to directly obtain that Essence from MOTHER on subsequent characters.
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@WarcraftDevs
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6 years
We’ve fully identified and eradicated a bug that caused some players to receive an unintended Mythic Cache reward earlier today. We’re working to remove all such unintended rewards from any characters who received them.
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@WarcraftDevs
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10 years
The wait is over, we'll be giving you a sneak peek at the new blood elf models tomorrow!
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@WarcraftDevs
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4 years
We’ve noticed a rising interest from WoW players about a mystery that was introduced to the game 11 months ago — Jenafur. We appreciate the power of this community and wish you luck solving the secret!
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@WarcraftDevs
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4 years
We now have account-wide Torghast layer access:
@irishred8211
Shannel Flameshot (Omni90/Dawntrail Waiting Room)
4 years
Hey @WarcraftDevs and @WatcherDev a nice QoL idea. Whatever the highest layer of torghast (not twisting corridors) you have unlocked on one toon maybe have it an account wide option? lets say you have a layer 5 unlocked on your main, all alts have access to layer 5. #Warcraft
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@WarcraftDevs
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6 years
We've pushed a hotfix that reduces the amount of XP needed for most levels between 40 and 100. Note that the new required amounts may not always display properly for the time being. We'll have details in the next hotfixes update.
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@WarcraftDevs
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6 years
Moments ago, we made the following hotfix live in all regions-- Emissary rewards of gold now provide 2000 gold (was 700). Emissary rewards of Azerite now provide 1600 total AP (was 1000).
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@WarcraftDevs
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7 years
FYI: There are currently no "keys" for the Battle for Azeroth Alpha. All invites are done by granting access directly to a account. Any offers for an "Alpha key" at this stage are likely to be a scam.
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@WarcraftDevs
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We’re aware that with 7.3.5, we inadvertently made several older raids harder to run for mounts/transmog. That wasn’t our intention. We’re working on further adjustments to health pools for enemies in Mists of Pandaria and Warlords of Draenor content.
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@WarcraftDevs
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4 years
World of Warcraft Game Director Ion Hazzikostas has just posted a Shadowlands development update:
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@WarcraftDevs
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3 years
The Shadowlands Season 3 Gladiator mount will be the red-tinted one. That’s the plan.
@MrGMYT
MrGM
3 years
Personally, I think it would’ve been more fitting to use the red colour variant for the 9.2 Gladiator mount to match the new red Keystone Master mount. @WarcraftDevs
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@WarcraftDevs
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Our plan is to remove the one-Demon-Hunter-per-realm restriction with the Shadowlands Pre-patch, since that is the point at which Demon Hunters will no longer start at a very high level.
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@WarcraftDevs
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3 years
A message from the World of Warcraft Team:
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@WarcraftDevs
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2 years
Wrath Classic raiding starts today. Since we last tested Naxxramas in the Wrath Classic Beta, we've made a number of fixes to the raid. Don't be surprised if attempts to skip bosses lead to disappointing results!
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@WarcraftDevs
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3 years
We're currently experiencing a DDOS attack, which may result in high latency and disconnections for some players. We're actively working to mitigate the issue.
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8 years
Coming in Patch 7.1: an old friend gets a new look. Introducing the new and improved Nagrand Arena!
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@WarcraftDevs
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Hey, Gladiators! Here's an early preview of another new map coming to the Arena in #Legion : Ashamane's Fall.
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6 years
We're working on a more reliable way to earn Azerite Armor through Mythic+ with Tides of Vengeance. Details:
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4 years
We're working on an update, coming soon, to make improvements to the process of obtaining Corrupted items on max-level characters and also streamline upgrading the legendary cloak Ashjra’kamas. Details here:
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@WarcraftDevs
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4 years
We've posted an October Development Update from the Shadowlands development team:
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WarcraftDevs
2 years
Following the weekly reset tomorrow, players who finish ZM Chapter 7 ("The Purpose") will receive an achievement for completing the Secrets of the First Ones campaign. We want to clarify that a final epilogue chapter, titled "Judgment", will become available the following week.
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@WarcraftDevs
WarcraftDevs
8 years
We'll be removing the AP earned from those who excessively abused this exploit.
@RessyM
Stressy Ressy 💙
8 years
. @WarcraftDevs When players see a 1-2 day ban for exploiting a bug, and the gains from it aren't removed, good players will do it in future.
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@WarcraftDevs
WarcraftDevs
5 years
With realm restarts in each region, we've made this hotfix: Bonus rolls that reward AP now instead grant 2,000 gold to players who have maximized their Heart of Azeroth.
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WarcraftDevs
6 years
Yes. In Tides of Vengeance, fist weapons can appear to be maces, one-hand axes, or one-hand swords, and maces, one-hand axes, or one-hand swords can be made to look like fist weapons.
@CrazedBerserker
Crazed Berserker
6 years
@WarcraftDevs Regarding being able to transmog fist weapons to one -handed weapons, will we be able to transmog one-handed weapons to fist weapons also?
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@WarcraftDevs
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5 years
Today, Saturday, September 7, the World of Warcraft service has been negatively impacted by an ongoing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. It is our top priority to resolve these issues.
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WarcraftDevs
2 years
With a hotfix that is going live to all realms imminently: All Cosmic Flux rewards from PvP, Mythic+, and Raid sources have been increased by 100%.
@Lontar_wow
Lontar
2 years
Any chance we can get more cosmic flux per rated arena win? Im trying to gear NA character but i need 10k for conduicts + 8k for tier sets and without flying mount takes a lot of time @WarcraftDevs
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@WarcraftDevs
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3 years
We have a known bug where all Bonus XP that's shown as a quest reward is being miscalculated. This is causing Torghast XP to be lower than intended. We're working on a fix for it.
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6 years
In Battle for Azeroth, all of your Prestige levels are going to merge. So if you have three characters who reached Prestige 4 in Legion, your account will be set to Prestige 12 in Battle for Azeroth.
@Boforg_
David
6 years
When prestige goes account wide is all of our characters prestige levels going to merge? Or just taking the highest prestige we have earned on 1 char? @WarcraftDevs
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4 years
While we work through the final steps of bringing Corruption Effects to MOTHER's vendor list, we decided to leave the Impressive Influence reputation buff active in all regions. The buff will now expire on May 21 -- Thursday morning PDT.
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3 years
We're working on a hotfix that will make the Alloy-Warping Facetor and the Death-Bound Shard purchasable by alts from Archvist Roh-Suir once one character on your WoW account has reached Tier 6 Research.
@Wowhead
Wowhead💙
3 years
Unlike Ve'nari's rewards, the Archivist's Codex reputation rewards don't appear to be account wide. This means that if you want to buy Conduit or Socket upgrades, you'll need to grind the reputation on each character. #Warcraft
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8 years
PSA: If you start a run with a fresh Mythic Keystone, but don't beat the timer, keep going! You get loot at the end regardless of your time.
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@WarcraftDevs
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3 years
We've just deployed hotfixes in all regions that establish three new Achievements that increase your Anima earnings across Shadowlands:
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@WarcraftDevs
WarcraftDevs
6 years
We're working on a change to the Auction House, which is now testable on the PTR. Full details here:
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6 years
PSA: We're currently working on a hotfix that will increase the gold and Azerite rewards from Emissary quests. We hope to have this change live within the next 24 hours, so if you have an active Emissary that rewards gold or Azerite, you may want to wait to complete it!
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3 years
In 9.1.5, our current intention is for all spells that previously had an 8 target cap to only have their damage reduced when striking more than 8 targets. Today, that threshold is 5 in the 9.1.5 PTR, but we'll adjust it in a future PTR build.
@LimitXyronic
Xyronic
3 years
This should be clarified - could actually be a nerf to frozen orb damage on 6-8 targets since it used to hit 8 targets for full damage instead of the new 5 targets. @WarcraftDevs
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5 years
Following up on our announcement from last week, Dire Maul will be released today in WoW Classic. This will happen in all regions at 10:00am PDT.
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6 years
Earlier today, we applied a hotfix that unintentionally increased the difficulty of the Jaina encounter. That hotfix has since been reverted.
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6 years
Legion Assaults will be disabled later today, prior to the launch of Battle For Azeroth. They'll return in a few days.
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Tomorrow, September 14, starting at 2 PM Pacific, Game Director Ion Hazzikostas will be on Reddit answering your questions in a World of Warcraft AMA! Details here:
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7 years
You didn't really think Nomi was going to go down without a fight, did you? Still plenty of time to join us on the PTR!
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6 years
In an upcoming Beta build, racial abilities and on-use trinkets will once again be off of the GCD:
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3 years
We're working on a fix for this unintended interaction. Thanks!
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2 years
Dragon Glyphs, which give you the ability to increase your Dragonriding skills, are waiting to be found all over the Dragon Isles. They're account-wide and they can be obtained while you're leveling up in each of the zones.
@MrGMYT
MrGM
2 years
“once you reach max level you’re going to find Dragon Glyphs” Does this mean we can’t collect our Dragonriding upgrades until max level or can we pick them up while levelling? @WarcraftDevs
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6 years
The change to Emissary rewards mentioned in this tweet is now live. Azerite Armor caches can scale up to item level 370, based on your overall average item level.
@WarcraftDevs
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6 years
We're working on several improvements to Azerite Armor. Details were just posted here: EU thread:
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We’re investigating this, and we will take appropriate steps to address it as soon as possible.
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@WarcraftDevs
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6 years
The WoW Classic Demo is now playable! If the play button is inactive for you, restart the launcher to activate it.
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@WarcraftDevs
WarcraftDevs
7 years
Confirmed.
@hekili808
Hekili
7 years
@WarcraftDevs Can you confirm that I am handsome and special person? My mom said yes but other people say no.
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6 years
The WoW Classic demo will remain available to play through 10:00 a.m. PST Monday, November 12:
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@WarcraftDevs
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8 years
Note: tuning hotfixes aren't final. We're still discussing the changes, especially to Havoc/Shadow, and following constructive discussions.
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For Burning Crusade Classic, we’ve been internally testing Horde vs. Horde or Alliance vs. Alliance Battlegrounds from the regular queue, and we’re ready to test it in the live game. Here’s the plan:
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@WarcraftDevs
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8 years
We've just applied a hotfix that increases XP from killing creatures during Invasions.
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3 years
This is correct. The Vessel was moved to your Covenant vendor, because we wanted to ease the reputation requirement, and it no longer made sense for it to be offered by the Enlightened vendor.
@Hyphiectr
Hyphie
3 years
@Wowhead It just got moved it's available for purchase from the Covenant Quartermasters in Oribos
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@WarcraftDevs
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We are continuing to investigate issues with performance in raids and are working to isolate and address them as quickly as possible. This is a top priority for us.
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7 years
Yes, this is intended. After all, when is the last time you saw an assassin or a pirate that could run across water? Only ninjas are so swift.
@alfonsoab_
Alfonso
7 years
@WarcraftDevs is it intented that subtlety sprint is the only one that can run on water?
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@WarcraftDevs
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6 years
We're working on an increase to rewards from Island Expeditions:
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@WarcraftDevs
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3 years
PvP ratings will show in Group Finder when applying to join a group in 9.1.5. We'll be updating the patch notes with this information soon.
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WarcraftDevs
6 years
The Siege of Lordaeron is a permanent part of Battle for Azeroth and a pre-requisite for Kul'Tiras and Zandalar. It will remain playable like Broken Shore was for Legion.
@ProphetOfTruth_
Dan ✝️🇺🇸
6 years
@Warcraft @WarcraftDevs is the siege of Lordaeron still available for other characters to do after BFA launch or was it removed along with war of thorns?
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2 years
The ability to adjust your Field of View was added in 9.2.5 as an accessibility measure to help combat motion sickness. Increasing it past the max of 90, a maximum that has been in place since WoW launched, was not intended. We're working on a hotfix to cap it at 90.
@Wowhead
Wowhead💙
2 years
A new console command can be used to change your Field of View in WoW, allowing you to zoom your camera out much further! #Shadowlands #Warcraft
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6 years
The Alliance Hall of Fame is now full. Starting tomorrow in the Americas, and following with scheduled weekly maintenance in each region, Mythic Uldir will be opened to cross-realm raiding, and the Hall of Fame achievement will no longer be available to Alliance guilds.
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@WarcraftDevs
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8 years
We're making it easier to unlock World Quests and Suramar dungeons on alts in Patch 7.1. Details:
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2 years
With a hotfix to the live game, we’ve added a Conquest box that costs 375 Conquest and requires 1400 current rating to purchase, and a Valor box that costs 500 Valor and requires 1500 Mythic+ rating to purchase. Au'Dara, the Heirloom broker located in Oribos, has them.
@Supatease
Supatease 💪
2 years
I don't understand who didn't like conquest boxes last patch that lead to not implementing on them this patch?
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@WarcraftDevs
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6 years
Yes. Our original intention was to require defeating Heroic Zul with a raid of only Hunters. However, there was a bug that caused it to be granted to a few Hunters through unintentional means. In the spirit of fairness, we've made it drop from any Normal or higher Zul kill.
@secretfinding
WoW Secret Finding Discord
6 years
@WarcraftDevs Greetings! We here in the Secret Finding Discord have been diligently working towards finding out how to obtain the blood-soaked-tome. Today it seems there was a hotfix that went out that enables it to be dropped on normal and heroic Zul is this intended?
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There was a bug in 9.0.2 with some helms, and the bug caused them to hide character elements like Draenei horns. We're fixing the bug as quickly as we can.
@icyveins
Icy Veins
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To fix clipping issues, Blizzard made horns and earns no longer visible through helmets in Patch 9.0.2! #Warcraft #Shadowlands
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6 years
The Legion class mounts will continue to be attainable after Battle for Azeroth launches.
@ChrisWWood77
Christopher Wood
6 years
@WarcraftDevs Will the Legion Class Mounts be obtainable in BFA and after? I have heard they won't be and I have heard they will be. I still want to get them all, but I still have classes to level up to get them? What will be the answer to this please.
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@WarcraftDevs
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7 years
The update that enables four additional character slots per server is now available! You'll need to restart WoW to allow the Blizzard App to pick up the update.
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6 years
After our earlier tweet, we are working on a hotfix so that the Coldlight Surfrunner can drop when ANY murloc type is present on an Island Expedition. Furthermore, we're simplifying this entire system in Tides of Vengeance. More details on that soon.
@WarcraftDevs
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6 years
There are different Murloc tribes in Azeroth, and so far, the kind of Murlocs that could drop Coldlight Surfrunner have not appeared on Island Expeditions.
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@WarcraftDevs
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We've removed the PvP flagging from PTR Dalaran, so everyone can focus on what's really important:
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Following the 9.2.5 update, there were a number of quests that became blocked due to an issue preventing NPCs from conversing with the player. About an hour ago, we deployed a fix for this issue. If you’ve had a problem interacting with a quest NPC in 9.2.5, please try again.
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We're aware of an issue causing boats and zeppelins to go missing on certain servers. We've developed a fix, but it requires realm restarts to take effect. We plan to do restarts early tomorrow:
@ConlonChronicle
No. 1 Cho'Gath Fan🌹
5 years
@WarcraftDevs hey guys I know you are probably busy as the servers are probably on fire but any chance you could fix the Auberdine boat to Menethil harbor? It’s not running on Kirtonos! Tryna play with my friend @SeanGingerMoore Thank you!
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@WarcraftDevs
WarcraftDevs
5 years
This change was not intended. We're investigating the issue and plan to fix it in the Rise of Azshara PTR as soon as possible.
@Wowhead
Wowhead💙
5 years
On the 8.2 PTR, absorbed damaged no longer prevents becoming dazed and being dismounted when being hit by melee attacks from behind.
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The Mount Equipment system will require that you have reached level 100 on one character. The equipment itself will require level 20 and will be account bound:
@WeakAuras
WeakAuras
5 years
The new Mount Items only work on lvl 100+ characters. Why make leveling new chars even more annoying? @WarcraftDevs @Muffinus Make that lvl 20 or so.
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Yep, in 7.3 the Blood Elves have finally learned a trick or two from Sylvannas, including how to properly hold a bow.
@Ghidorah93
Clay Jewell
7 years
AFTER SO LONG THE FEMALE BLOOD ELF BOW ANIMATION IS FINALLY FIXED AND IT'S BEAUTIFUL! @Muffinus @Celestalon @Wowhead @devolore
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These mounts are exclusively available during the Battle for Azeroth pre-launch events. Obtaining one will unlock both, so get 'em while they're here!
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To solve an issue with the new Shadowlands PvP vendors, we need to despawn them temporarily. The vendors will return with the next realm restarts.
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7 years
Just hotfixed: Completing your first Legion Heroic dungeon each day will now award you with 5 Writhing Essences, if you're eligible.
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6 years
Legion Assaults will return soon today.
@FishFPS
Fish
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@Warcraft When can we expect Legion Assaults to be back?
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With the Battle for Azeroth Pre-Patch, we're adding a new way to acquire Legion Legendary items. Details:
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6 years
Beta testers, please join us this week as we test the Battle for Azeroth initial scenarios and launch:
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We've just applied a hotfix that allows you to turn in the Kirin Tor Emissary Quest as long as you've completed 1 Kirin Tor World Quest.
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6 years
We're working on several improvements to Azerite Armor. Details were just posted here: EU thread:
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With a hotfix to the game that was applied a little while ago, we’ve removed a setting that was restricting players’ ability to consistently see and interact with others in their group in the four Shadowlands zones and the introductory Maw.
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In Mythic+, Explosives now have 50% less health, and will no longer spawn from crowd controlled enemies. We're also working on a number of nerfs to specific dungeon creatures and mechanics.
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