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One of the key additions coming to World of Warcraft when The War Within expansion arrives later this year is the new hero talent system. Blizzard describes it as an “evergreen form of character progression” that will offer new unlockable spells and abilities for each of the game’s classes and their respective specializations. It’s still a work-in-progress but Blizzard is [...]
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Throughout the studio’s long history, Blizzard Entertainment hasn’t exactly been known for keeping secrets, particularly when it comes to major releases. The running joke is that the studio is leakier than a sieve, not that anyone’s complaining. The team, however, is shaking things up by keeping the next World of Warcraft update tightly under wraps. Executive producer Holly Longdale says [...]
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World of Warcraft is celebrating both the Lunar New Year and Valentine’s Day with the return of two annual events this week: Lunar Festival and Love is in the Air. First on the docket is the Lunar Festival event which kicked off this weekend in celebration of the Lunar New Year and the Year of the Dragon. As with previous [...]
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World of Warcraft’s cosmetic-laden Trading Post is now awash in bright pink tones, splashes of red, and hearts aplenty as we usher in the month of love and the cosmetic shop’s first anniversary. February’s pinnacle Trading Post item is the adorable powder pink Fur-endship Fox flying mount (say that five times fast), which will set you back 750 Trader’s Tender. [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment was one of the companies that were hit hard by the mass layoffs at Microsoft’s gaming divisions last week. While Microsoft promised severance packages for all affected employees, former product lead Adam Holisky decided to sweeten the deal by cashing in his World of Warcraft subscription codes for 10 years’ worth of free game time. “Once I realized [...]
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World of Warcraft has rolled out a series of new weekly Dragonflight activities in the form of world quest bonus events and a new PvP brawl rotation. The events kick off with “The World Awaits” which challenges players to complete 10 world quests in the Dragon Isles in exchange for a 50% boost to reputation gains from subsequent world quests. [...]
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Since World of Warcraft opened the gates to the Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope raid in November, it’s penultimate boss, Tindral Sageswift, has effectively stopped the game’s most powerful guilds from progressing to the raid’s final fight, particularly on Mythic difficulty. For context, it took Vindicatum, who at one point was the second-best WoW guild in North America, a whopping 475 [...]
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World of Warcraft: Dragonflight’s final content update, Seeds of Renewal, has officially arrived and not only wraps up the main questline in the Dragon Isles but ties up a few loose ends in the main continents as well. Seeds of Renewal also serves as an epilogue for several old story arcs and includes the founding of the Night Elves’ new [...]
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Despite the World of Warcraft community’s poor reception of the Archaeology system, Blizzard is taking another stab at relic hunting mini-games with the Azerothian Archives public event. The new gameplay system will arrive as part of next week’s Seeds of Renewal update and will task players with scouring the Dragon Isles every hour to excavate archaeological finds and complete research [...]
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The war between bots and developers has been raging since the dawn of MMORPGs, as botters continue to create a sweatshop of characters to farm gold, resources, and sometimes even quests while developers try to stop them. Back in the day, all that was needed to get rid of bots was to block their path with an object since bots [...]
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