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Tier 9 Preview
(Frost, 7/2/2009)
We've added a preview of the tier-9 class sets that will be offered in patch 3.2, Call of the Crusade, and we're doing things a little differently this time around.
Check it out.
Gadgetzan Times
(Frost, 7/2/2009)
Fresh off the presses is the latest edition of the Gadgetzan Times! Featuring unique stories for each language and all new content, the Gadgetzan Times brings together some of the best stories from the World of Warcraft community. Take a moment to check it out!
Warlock Q&A
(Eyonix, 7/2/2009)
Today we continue our class Q&A series with Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street and the development team, in which we're taking a look at each class and answering some of the top questions brought forward by their communities. Next up, we take a look at the most asked questions from the warlock class and find out more about the design philosophy behind this class, the expectations for the class, and what may lie in store for it in the future.
Be sure to read the new Q&A.
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Notification of Late Filing of Annual Report on Form 20-F and ...MarketWatchOn April 16, 2009, The9 announced that it had learned that Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft would be licensed to another China-based online game company following the expiration of the license agreement between Blizzard Entertainment and the ... |
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What's New
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22 June 2009 -
Happier Midsummer
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Posted in the forums this afternoon by Bornakk (Blizzard Poster):
6/22/09
- We are in the process of applying an in-game fix that will restart all of the quests associated with the Midsummer Fire Festival event and allow players to complete them once again. If you are in the process of completing an achievement such as Extinguishing Kalimdor, this fix will reset your progress and you will need start over. This fix will require realms to be restarted.
Update: As of this morning, it appears that you can revisit bonfires. If you had already completed the achievements for honoring/desecrating the bonfires, you should still have credit for the completion. L80 characters still do not appear to have a daily quest from the Earthen Ring. Some players have also reported that there are still problems getting the Thief’s Reward flame quests from the cities. A side effect of this reset is that around 200 holiday quests were reset, causing great irritation for those who were nearing the 3000 quest mark.
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22 June 2009 -
Happy(?) Midsummer
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The Midsummer Festival of Fire started yesterday morning. This year, a set of bonfires for both Horde and Alliance were added to Northrend. Other than that, the event was left unchanged. This has resulted in a number of problems:
- If you honored/desecrated all the bonfires last year, you can’t interact with them this year, so you can’t get the blossoms for those.
- If you’re a Level 80 toon (as well as some other random cases), there is no “Striking Back” daily quest available.
- If you abandoned the “Unusual Activity” questline last year before getting to the daily, you can’t restart it (no way to get a new totem).
Blizzard is aware of this and is hard at work to fix it. There’s a post in the customer service forum you can fine here. This also means that Ahune (and his loot) remain L70-based, which makes it pretty easy to try to farm for that Scorchling pet for a party of L80s. Our seasonal quest guide has already been updated. Happy Solstice!
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13 June 2009 -
Mount Changes in 3.2
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We found this thread on the forums from Blizzard Poster Zarhym detailing the reduction in requirements for mounts in the upcoming 3.2 patch. For those of us who still have lower-level alts in the pipeline - you might want to hold off on buying those skills for a few weeks! You can wade through the original post here.
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2 June 2009 -
Patch Day 3.1.3!
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Another bug fix and tuning release, Patch 3.1.3 focuses mainly on tweaks to Ulduar and a few reductions to armor bonus talents (Druids and Death Knights get tapped with the nerf stick). Currently, the Blizzard site hasn’t updated their patch notes as of this morning, so as a public service, they’re included here.
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23 May 2009 -
Post 3.1.2 Updates
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Happy Memorial Day Weekend!
A few of our watched AddOns have recent updates, including Fishing Buddy, Outfitter, Deadly Boss Mods, and the Auctioneer suite.
And remember that the second round of BlizzCon tix go on sale next Saturday, 5/30. Due to the queuing system, tickets were essentially sold out within the first five minutes, so interested parties are advised to make sure their Blizzard shopping accounts are set up prior to Saturday to avoid delays. Good luck!
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15 May 2009 -
BlizzCon tickets go on sale!
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BlizzCon 2009 is returning to Anaheim Convention Center 21-22 August 2009. Tickets will go on sale in two blocks - 16 May (beginning at 10 am Pacific time) and 30 May and only from the website (here. A new queueing system is in place to try to avoid some of the issues from last year. A Battle.Net account is required to purchase tickets - if you don’t have one, you should set one up here before sales start.
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5 May 2009 -
Weekly Updates
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Allegedly, several hotfixes will go out today during maintenance. No new patch upgrade is dropping, though. There has been an official post that the “Daily Chores” achievement for Children’s Week will only require completing five dailies, not necessarily over consecutive days. A few of our tracked AddOns have been updated this week, including Outfitter, Fishing Buddy, Advanced Trade Skill Window, Decursive, and Reputation. Enjoy!
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30 April 2009 -
Children’s Week Begins!
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Children’s Week begins tomorrow morning! Our Children’s Week page has been updated with the latest achievement info. No major changes in the rewards for this year, which marks the third anniversary of the the creation of the Outland Children’s Week observance (thus, the first year we can qualify for the Veteran Nanny achievement). No changes have been found for the Alliance quest lines. The Horde quest “Now When I Grow Up” (where Salandria wants to be a rock star) has been dropped with no replacement quest this year, so apparently she’s hit that difficult age where she doesn’t know what she wants to be.
If you complete the quests and turn in your whistle to get the pet, you can get another whistle by talking to the Orphan Matron and asking her what you can do to help. This should allow you to get immediate gratification of getting a new pet while still allowing you to complete the achievements. Also, the “Daily Chores” achievement is counting daily quest completes, not days, so just turning in five daily quests with your orphan out gets you the achievement (quests must be non-gray).
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Players who sign up for the Mountain Dew Game Fuel promotion can get a free in-game pet - a Game Fuel powered Battle Bot. You will need to sign up and link your World of Warcraft account to a Battle.Net account. After you complete that, your next login (using the Battle.Net account) will issue a Battle Bot to every character on the account. As a test, we also tried creating a new character and found that the new character also got the Battle Bot pet in the mail. Subsequent visits to the site will award you Game Fuel to power up your Bot. Bots with opposing colors (red vs. blue) will automatically fight each other when brought into proximity. Bots fueled the same way will not fight.
