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Live Developer Q&A Thursday, August 23

The first Q&A session since the Battle for Azeroth launch will occur on Thursday, for which you can submit questions! Get the full details below:

Quote from: Blizzard

The expansion is here! Join us live on Twitch, August 23, as we sit down with Game Director Ion Hazzikostas for our next live developer Q&A where he’ll be answering your World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth questions.

Feel free to submit questions by posting in this forum thread or via Twitter using the hashtag #WarcraftQA.

We’re really looking forward to getting the chance to dive in and answer as much as we can, so we hope to see you Thursday at 20h00 CEST!

Hotfixes: August 17, 2018

The likely final round of hotfixes for this week have made their way to the live servers, including nerfs to the amount of azerite levels you need for World Quest and Mythic+0 dungeon items as well as outpost flightpaths.

Quote from: Blizzard

Here you’ll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Battle For Azeroth. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.

Hotfixes

August 17, 2018

Azerite Gear

  • Substantially lowered the Heart of Azeroth level required to activate the outer ring of Azerite armor obtained from World Quests and Mythic dungeons.

Classes

  • Warlock
    • Affliction
      • Deathbolt will now correctly deal increased damage if cast immediately after casting Unstable Affliction.

Creatures and NPCs

  • Slickspill should be much easier to loot now.

Items

  • Fixed an issue where ‘Bygone Bee’ Almanac’s cooldown or duration would be affected too much when hitting multiple enemies.

Player versus Player

  • Sources of Conquest such as the World PvP Call to Arms quests, PvP Island Expeditions, Skirmish, and Battleground queues will award Honor until Battle for Azeroth: Arena Season 1 starts.
  • Players who currently have Conquest will have the currency converted to Honor once they log in.
  • Miniaturized Plasma Shield and Personal Space Amplifier engineering belt enchants can no longer be used in Arenas and Rated Battlegrounds.
  • Fierce Gladiator is once again available to players who have earned the Fierce Gladiator: Legion Season 5 achievement.
  • The War Mode Air Supply Drops in Tiragarde Sound should no longer fall in unreachable locations.
  • Monk
    • Brewmaster
      • Incendiary Brew now adheres to line of sight restrictions.
      • Double Barrel will no longer stun targets multiple times per Keg Smash cast.

Professions

  • Cooking
    • Fixed a bug that prevented Pandaria Banquets from granting the intended skill levels to Pandaria Cooking and Way of the Grill.

Quests

  • Fixed a bug that caused the miners to not respawn as intended for “A Shot at the Dark Iron”.
  • Fixed a bug where missions required to unlock hubs on the other continent were expiring quickly.
  • Riding Macaw is no longer unfriendly to Horde for the world quest “Swab This!”.
  • Hexlord Raal is now reliably present to offer “Pa’ku, Master of Winds”.
  • “The Lord Admiral’s Lament” and “Bloodied Sentinel’s Glaive” can now be turned in to Kayla Mills

World

  • Flight paths unlocked through missions should now reliably appear as valid destinations on the flight map.

Battle for Azeroth: The Music of Warbringers

The Warbringers shorts brought some great music with them and Blizzard has now released the songs on Youtube, Spotify and iTunes.

Quote from: Blizzard

The Warbringers animated shorts present the tales of iconic leaders Jaina Proudmoore and Sylvanas Windrunner during pivotal times in their lives. Now you can relive these moments with their haunting musical compositions.

Add it to your Battle for Azeroth playlist on Spotify or iTunes now.

Blizzard at Gamescom 2018

Next wednesday is the first day of Gamescom 2018 and Blizzard will be making an appearance as well! Judging by their tweet they’ll be releasing new information about Battle for Azeroth, and judging by the art they have released the warbringers short for Queen Azshara will be released as well! After the opening ceremony many livestream activities are planned with community streamers.

The opening begins at 10:30 CEST (EU server time) and the rest of the schedule can be found here. The livestream for the opening can be found here.