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Pre-Purchase the World of Warcraft®: The War Within™ 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition

Quote from: Blizzard

The Worldsoul Saga Begins Here!

World of Warcraft®: The War Within™ arrives this year1, and the wings of a grand new adventure will spread widely across the next three expansions.2 Be a part of the epic story that commemorates the first 20 years of World of Warcraft and sets new foundations for Azeroth’s future!2

The World of Warcraft: The War Within 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition is now available for pre-purchase and comes with an array of rare and commemorative items to aid in your journey into the depths of Azeroth.

  • The Art of The War Within—Leaf through the visual evolution of The War Within expansion with this beautifully bound lexicon filled with exclusive art.
  • Collectible Pin—Featuring Thrall, Anduin, and Alleria primed for battle.
  • World of Warcraft 20th Anniversary Gryphon Rider Statue—Perched and ready to defend from above.

Pre-Purchase today!

The collector’s edition is available for pre-purchase exclusively on the Blizzard Gear Store. It includes everything in The War Within Epic Edition—an Enhanced Level 70 Character Boost, 1,000 Trader’s Tender4, 30 Days of Game Time, plus more!

Already pre-purchased an edition of The War Within? No problem! These three new commemorative collectibles can still be added to your trove. When you purchase the World of Warcraft: The War Within 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition, you’ll receive a Battle.net® balance reimbursement for your previous purchase to use in-game or on Battle.net.

1Available on or before December 31, 2024. Requires World of Warcraft Subscription or Game Time.
2Future expansions not included in WoW®: The War Within™ purchase.
3Requires World of Warcraft Subscription or Game Time. If you already have Dragonflight on your account, it will not be re-granted.
4An active World of Warcraft Subscription or Game Time is required to acquire and use Trader’s Tender. Trader’s Tender does not expire regardless of Subscription or Game Time status.

Hotfixes: April 16 2024, Season 4 Healer Adjustments

Quote from: Blizzard

April 16, 2024

Items

  • Grotto Netherwing Drake’s Black Scales should be properly awarded to players who have completed the Now THIS is Dragon Racing!

Season 4 Healer Adjustments

Quote from: Blizzard

In Season 4, we’re reducing the overall throughput of some healers to better align with our tuning goals. At the same time, we’re increasing the comparative power of Holy Paladin, Preservation Evoker, and Holy Priest without needing to further escalate the capabilities of healers.

The following adjustments are now deployed to the 10.2.6 PTR, and will go live with the beginning of Season 4 next week.

Monk

  • Mistweaver
    • All healing done reduced by 13%. Does not apply in PvP combat.

Druid

  • Restoration
    • All healing done reduced by 5%. Does not apply in PvP combat.

Shaman

  • Restoration
    • All healing done reduced by 5%. Does not apply in PvP combat.

Priest

  • Discipline
  • Developers’ notes: As part of our goal for balancing healers in raids, we would like to reduce raid healing output for Discipline Priest without affecting them in other content.
    • Atonement transfers 35% of damage to healing (was 40%).
    • Atonement healing increased by 70% outside of raids (was 50%).
    • Atonement healing increased by 35% in PvP (was 15%).

Player vs. Player

Monk

  • Mistweaver
    • Ancient Teachings healing transfer amount reduced to 375% in PvP combat (was 412%).

Sign Up To Test The War Within

Quote from: Blizzard

Make an early descent into World of Warcraft®: The War Within™. You’ll journey through never-before-seen subterranean worlds filled with hidden wonders, earn the trust of the new Earthen allied race, and face an ancient evil lurking in the darkness when you sign up for the beta!

Sign Up!

Getting Started

Join us in testing The War Within. Players who have opted in can be selected to be testers, and invitations will go out regularly throughout the test. If selected to participate in the beta test, your Battle.net account will already be flagged for access.

  • Make sure your graphics drivers are up to date.
  • Run the Battle.net® desktop app—it may need to update itself if you haven’t run it recently. If you don’t have the app installed, get started here.
  • Once Battle.net is installed and updated, select World of Warcraft from the list of games.
  • In the Game Version drop-down menu above the Play button, choose The War Within (listed under In Development) option, then click Install.
  • Allow installation to complete, click Play, and select any available Test Servers.
  • Create a new test character or use the character copy to import your existing Dragonflight character.
  • Enter the game and test the available content.

If you have issues installing and operating The War Within Beta, please check our Common Technical Issues and Solutions to begin troubleshooting.

The Worldsoul Saga™ Begins

Pre-Purchase World of Warcraft: The War Within

The wings of a grand new adventure spread widely across the next three expansions!* Be a part of the epic story that celebrates the first 20 years of World of Warcraft and sets new foundations for Azeroth’s future. Pre-purchase the Epic Edition of The War Within to dive into the expansion early with guaranteed beta and early (3 days) access†.

Choose Your Edition

Base Edition Includes the World of Warcraft: The War Within pre-purchase, World of Warcraft: Dragonflight***, an Enhanced Level 70 Character Boost with upgraded gear, reputation progress, and more, to prepare you for your adventures in the depths of the world. Also includes 500 Trader’s Tender to use in the Trading Post ††

Heroic EditionIncludes everything in the Base Edition. Plus, you’ll receive the Algarian Stormrider mount with Dynamic Flying and access to special racecourses, and the Stormrider’s Attire Transmog set. The mount has four color variants, with a slew of additional customization options available. The Transmog set can be upgraded to the Thundering Stormrider’s Attire upon completing the special racecourses available with the Algarian Stormrider. Also includes an additional 250 Trader’s Tender (750 in total) to use in the Trading Post††.

Epic Edition

Includes everything in the Heroic Edition. Plus, you’ll have guaranteed beta access and early access (3 days) to The War Within†. You’ll also receive 30 days of game time, Squally, the Storm Hatchling pet, Sandbox Storm Gryphon toy, and Deepdweller’s Earthen Hearthstone effect. Also includes an additional 250 Trader’s Tender (1000 in total) to use in the Trading Post††.

  Base Edition

 

 Heroic Edition Epic Edition
World of Warcraft: The War Within available at launch** X X X
World of Warcraft: Dragonflight*** X X X
Enhanced Level 70 Character Boost X X X
Trader’s Tender 500 750 1000
Algarian Stormrider mount with dynamic flying, dozens of customization options, and access to special racecourses   X X
Upgradable Stormrider’s Attire Transmog set   X X
Beta Access to The War Within†     X
3 Days Early Access to The War Within†     X
30 Days of Game Time     X

 
Squally, the Storm Hatchling pet     X

 
Sandbox Storm Gryphon toy     X
Deepdweller’s Earthen Hearthstone effect     X

Pre-Purchase today!

As with previous development cycles, players will also have the opportunity to sign up to participate in The War Within beta test at a future point in time. Stay tuned to the official World of Warcraft site to learn when beta sign-ups begin.

Become a part of a thrilling new story 20 years in the making.

*Future expansions not included in World of Warcraft: The War Within purchase.
**Available on or before December 31, 2024.
***If you already have Dragonflight on your account, it will not be re-granted.
†Beta Access and Early Access dates subject to change.  Early Access duration is 3 days. Limited time only. Play time subject to possible outages and time zone differences. Certain endgame features, including Mythic dungeons and weekly quests, not available during Early Access. Click for more details.
††In-game items not available in WoW Classic games. Boost only usable on the WoW game account on which it was purchased or redeemed.

  • Upgrading to the Heroic or Epic Edition will not re-grant in-game items previously unlocked on your account.
  • Requires World of Warcraft, Internet connection, and Battle.net® Account and desktop app.
  • Requires World of Warcraft Subscription or Game Time.

Take a Dive into Plunderstorm’s Plundersurge!

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Hoist the sails and batten the hatches; a Plundersurge begins this week with weekly maintenance!

Dive into the battle-royale-inspired Plunderstorm event this week to double the reputation earned (including the winner’s bonus) from all sources of Plunder during the incoming Plundersurge! This bootyful opportunity lasts until Plunderstorm ends the week of April 30, helping scallywags catch up on rewards.

WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria Clarifications 11 April 2024

Quote from: Blizzard

You will create new Remix characters (Timerunners) for this event on whichever realms you choose. So that can be the realm on which you mainly play, and it can be realms where you have some alts, and it can be a realm that’s completely new to you.

When you select a Timerunner and hit ‘Enter World’, you’ll enter the Remix world and play there starting at level 10. After the event ends, your Timerunners will be converted into standard characters and you’ll have them available to you in the character selection screen alongside your other characters.

When you’re in Pandaria on a Timerunner, areas that changed during original Mists of Pandaria or later (such as the Vale of Eternal Blossoms) will look like they do in Chromie Time. So the Vale won’t have its original look, nor will it have its Visions of N’Zoth look/content.

The original legendary cloak questline will not be available. You’ll want to reach level 70 on a Timerunner and receive the legendary cloak appearances on your Cloak of Infinite Potential to enable access to Ordos for this event as well as the rest of your WoW account.

Items that were only available during the original release of Mists of Pandaria will not be available in this event. This includes the Kor’kron War Wolf, challenge mode sets, and heirlooms. On the other hand, Rare drops that are available in Dragonflight today, such as the Son of Galleon or the Astral Cloud Serpent, will drop in Remix and can be purchased by Remix characters using the Bronze currency.

This event includes all of the races and classes that are available in Dragonflight. Keep in mind that there is a one-Evoker-per-realm limit in Dragonflight that some players will want to plan around.

We aren’t planning to make changes to content that is available to Dragonflight characters today.

What will be completely different for Timerunners is Remix-specific loot. With some exceptions, every source of loot will drop everything that can be obtained in Remix, and the harder-to-kill enemies will have a higher chance to drop better loot. The exceptions will mostly be zone-based appearances. For example, Remix loot that drops in Throne of Thunder will have the look of ToT raid gear, and outdoor world loot will not.

Hotfixes: April 11, 2024

Quote from: Blizzard

April 11, 2024

Classes

  • Druid
    • Balance
      • Fixed a bug that could prevent a Druid with Radiant Moonlight who died and resurrected from getting more than one cast of Full Moon before it resets to New Moon.
      • Primordial Arcanic Pulsar progress now resets on raid encounter start.
    • Feral
      • Damage dealt from Berserk: Frenzy and Burning Frenzy (Seasons 3 and 4 set armor 4-piece bonus) will now log correctly when buffed by an Augmentation Evoker.

Items

  • The following cast time trinkets will now trigger a 1 second global cooldown and may not be used when the global cooldown is active:
    • Manic Grieftorch
    • Beacon to the Beyond
    • Belor’relos, the Suncaller
    • Algeth’ar Puzzle Box
  • Manic Grieftorch damage increased by 1.2%. Can now be channeled while moving.
  • Storm-Eater’s Boon damage reduced by 25%.
  • Dragonfire Bomb Dispenser damage reduced by 15%. Flash of Inspiration may now only occur every 2 seconds (was 0.74 seconds).
  • Neltharion’s Call to Chaos primary stat reduced by 6.4%.
  • Neltharion’s Call to Dominance primary stat reduced by 15%.
  • Nymue’s Unraveling Spindle now triggers a 1 second global cooldown (was 1.5 seconds).
  • All Fyrakk’s Tainted Rageheart’s damage reduced by 5%.
  • Fixed an issue causing Inexorable Resonator to grant more primary stat than intended.
  • Fixed an issue causing Whispering Incarnate Icon to grant significantly more passive secondary stat than intended.

Dark Heart PTR Development Notes 10 April 2024, WoW Remix Testing April 12-15

Quote from: Blizzard

This Public Test Realm (PTR) is a testing environment for the content coming with the Dragonflight: Dark Heart update.

Dragonflight: Dark Heart 10.2.7 Update Development Notes

WOW REMIX: MISTS OF PANDARIA EVENT

World of Warcraft Remix is a time-limited event which allows players to re-experience the entirety of the Mists of Pandaria expansion at an accelerated rate from level 10 through 70. All loot has been completely overhauled and has powerful new effects allowing players to shape their experience, power up, and power on. Features include:

  • Accelerated Leveling and Content allowing you to take on nearly every quest, scenario, dungeon and raid.
  • Create a new WoW Remix character starting at level 10 to adventure through the event up to level 70.
  • A mountain of loot: Get powerful items from everywhere— quests, chests, creatures, bosses.
  • Customizable items allowing you to power up as far as you can go to take on tougher content.
  • Convert unwanted items into Bronze which can be used to upgrade items or purchase cosmetics.
  • Keep what you collect: Take your collection of transmogs with you into The War Within.

Read more about the event in our development article.

CHARACTERS

  • Added heritage armor for the Draenei and Troll races. The heritage armor questlines will not be available for testing on the PTR.
  • Added six new hair colors for Kul Tiran.

CLASSES

  • HUNTER
    • The hunter pet stable has been updated:
      • The pet preview window is now larger.
      • More information about the pet is displayed, including a list of abilities.
      • Pets can be favorited and added to a separate group at the top of the stable list.
      • The stable list is now searchable and sortable by name, specialization, abilities, and more.
      • Pets can now be renamed directly from the stable without certificate items.
      • Pets can now be released directly from the stable without needing to be summoned.
      • For the Beast Mastery specialization, the pet that is summoned by the Animal Companion talent now has a dedicated slot next to the Active pet list. The tooltip has been updated to reflect this change.

QUESTS

  • All Dragonflight quests that previously became available with Renown levels are now available to all max-level player-characters, regardless of Renown.
  • SINS OF THE SISTER
    • A night elf has arrived at Bel’ameth to bury the family she lost at Teldrassil. But when her deceased sister is revealed to be a traitor, will the night elves show her sister forgiveness or demand accountability for her sins? Level 70 players can speak with Malfurion Stormrage at the Terrace of the Moon in Bel’ameth to accept the quest “An Uncommon Request” and start this questline.

USER INTERFACE AND ACCESSIBILITY

  • Several changes have been made to improve the experience of finding Mythic+ groups in Premade Group Finder:
    • A filter button has been added that lets you filter results for:
      • Specific dungeons
      • Your role available
      • None of your class already in group
      • Tank and/or healer already in group
      • Minimum Mythic+ Rating of the leader
      • Difficulty
    • The role icons on each listing now show class colors, so you can see the current group makeup at a glance.
    • The listing tooltip now shows the leader’s info in a more readable format: their Mythic+ Rating, their highest key for the listed dungeon, and their highest key for all dungeons.
    • The listing tooltip now shows info for all members of the group, including their specialization and Mythic+ Rating (implementation pending).
    • The listing tooltip now shows the dungeon/raid name and difficulty.
    • A helptip tutorial has been added to teach players that they can search a key range for precise results (for example, 6-10 or 7-7).
    • Groups that no longer fit your filter criteria are marked with a red background (for example, if you selected “Damage role available” and a listed group filled up on damage dealers).
    • Groups you are hard declined from are automatically marked in red and sorted to the bottom.
    • In the leader applicants pane, the applicant tooltip now shows the applicant’s info in a more readable format: their Mythic+ Rating, their highest key for the listed dungeon, and their highest key for all dungeons.
  • Recipes can now be tracked from the Crafting Orders window.
  • An option has been added to the Auction House filters to show only current expansion items.
  • The location of Dragonriding Races can now be toggled in the Map filter.
  • You can now create or find a group participating in a Scenario by clicking the Group Finder icon on the Scenario objective.
  • The number of helptip tutorials that appear when logging in on a new character has been reduced.
  • Mount tooltips now show the category the mount belongs in: Ground, Aquatic, Flying, or Dragonriding.
  • TRADING POST
    • Mount categories (Ground, Aquatic, Flying, or Dragonriding) will now be shown in the Trading Post details panel.
    • Level requirements for using a mount will now be shown in the Trading Post details panel.

WoW Remix Testing April 12-15

Quote from: Blizzard

We’re planning to open WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria for testing on the Dark Heart (10.2.7) PTR starting on Friday, April 12 at 19:00 CEST. We expect to conclude this test on Monday, April 15 at 07:00 CEST.

During that time, all of Pandaria: Remix will be available to test:

  • Level 10 – 70
  • All Pandaria zones
  • Normal and Heroic Scenarios
  • Normal and Heroic Dungeons
  • LFR, 10-player Normal, and 10-player Heroic Mogu’shan Vaults, Heart of Fear, Terrace of Endless Spring, and Throne of Thunder
  • LFR, Normal, Heroic, and Mythic Siege of Orgrimmar
  • All of the progression including the Cloak of Infinite Potential, spell gems, and new itemization

Be sure to check out all of the cosmetics available at your local Infinite Bazaar (found in every zone).

There’s much more than can be completed in one weekend, but during this testing period, we’d love to hear how you feel about tuning, rewards, and of course, if you run into any bugs. We’ll open dedicated feedback threads for this event test here on Friday.

We look forward to seeing you here!