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New Patch 9.2 Trailer + Character Transfer Bundles

As patch 9.2 officially releases in the US (in EU tomorrow), Blizzard has released a new trailer for the patch! Check it out below:

Additionally, new bundles for character transfers have been made available for those looking to transfer to a different realm:

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Join new friends or old on their latest adventures in Azeroth when you transfer your character or characters with the Paid Character Transfer Service. You’ll now be able to purchase multiple character transfers* at a discount to use all at once or as you need them.

Available Paid Character Transfer Options:

  • 1 for $25.00
  • 3 for $50.00
  • 6 for $80.00

Limited Time Sale

For a limited time** save an additional 30% when you purchase 1 character transfer or 3-character transfers. During this sale, the regular 6 Character Transfer bundle will be replaced with an 8-character transfer bundle option at the same price as the normal 6-character transfer of $80.00. That’s two extra Paid Character Transfers for the regular price of a 6-character bundle. Once the sale is over, this bundle will revert to the regular 6-character transfer bundle.

  • 6 8 for $80.00

How it Works:

Once you’ve purchased your Character Transfers within the Battle.net shop or the in-game shop, a new icon will appear on your character selection screen showing how many available Character Transfers are available to use. You’ll then be able to activate a transfer by clicking on the token then selecting the character you wish to move and the destination you wish to move them to. Any unused transfers will remain on your account for when you choose to use them at a future time.

To learn more about the Paid Character Transfer service and its restrictions, visit our support page.

Ready to make your move? Purchase Paid Character Transfers from the Battle.net shop or by launching World of Warcraft and clicking on the Shop button on the character select screen.

 

 

*Only available for modern World of Warcraft. Characters cannot be transferred between World of Warcraft® and WoW® Classic games.
** Sale ends, March 8, 2022

Shadowlands: Eternity’s End Content Update Arrives 23 February

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The fight against the Jailer and his forces continues in this last chapter of the ongoing saga. Prepare to face Zovaal before he rewrites the very rules of reality. Step into a strange new land—Zereth Mortis—an otherworldly location that defies all concepts of reality or physics. Meet new allies, delve into a new and lyrical language, and engage in the campaign to push back against the Jailer and his malevolent will before he reaches his end goal.

Check out the latest Survival Guide for a peek at some of the new content, features, and changes coming with Eternity’s End—the final act in the Shadowlands saga. We’ll offer a deeper look into a whole new zone, an exciting new raid, the return of Class sets, and much more!

The Enlightened

Journey Through the Gates of Zereth Mortis

With the aid of the Primus, you and your allies will establish a path to Zereth Mortis. The fate of the Shadowlands and all the realms beyond is at stake. [LEARN MORE]

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Eternity’s End Raid Preview

Pursue Zovaal’s forces into the Sepulcher of the First Ones as he prepares to dominate reality for this epic Shadowlands raid. [LEARN MORE]

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Defy the Odds in Torghast

The ever-changing halls of Torghast, Tower of the Damned reveal new Layers and challenges. Overcome increasingly complex challenges in Eternity’s End. [LEARN MORE]

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Synthesize A Menagerie of Battle Pets and Mounts

Protoform Synthesis is a new crafting feature that allows you to create Zereth Mortis-themed mounts and pets to expand your collection. [LEARN MORE]

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Eternity’s End Content Update Notes

Read about the changes and new additions for the Content Update in our notes. [LEARN MORE]

New PvP Brawl: Solo Shuffle

The Solo Shuffle brawl pits six players (two healers, four damage dealers) against each other in exciting 3v3 Arena matches. As the name implies, you can only queue for this brawl solo. Play a series of short matches as teams are shuffled and earn rewards based on your performance. Queue for Solo Shuffle beginning 2 March, and unlike other Brawls, Solo Shuffle will be permanently available and not on a rotating schedule.

Shadowlands Season 3

Lots of updates are coming to Mythic+ in Shadowlands when Season 3 arrives on March 1, including a brand-new Affix called Encrypted, and the Wastewarped Deathwalker mount for those able to earn the Season 3 Keystone Master achievement. And in PvP, you’ll be able to earn the Vicious Warstalker, Vicious War Croaker, and Cosmic Gladiator’s Soul Eater.

A new arena beckons would-be champions to test their mettle! For eons, the Necrolords of Maldraxxus honed their craft at the Maldraxxus Coliseum. Now the Arena is open to any challengers.

Also, Tazavesh, The Veiled Market Heroic Difficulty will be available in Season 3. Gather your party and discover exotic wares and strange creatures as you face off against dastardly assassins, four-armed broker guards, an infinite pirate dragon, and other enemies.

Progenitor Tier Set

Earn the new Progenitor Tier Set with two set bonuses to grant your character new abilities based on your specialization. This set includes five pieces—a helm, shoulders, chest piece, gauntlets, and leggings. The first set bonus is unlocked when two set pieces are equipped, and the second bonus is unlocked when four set pieces are equipped. Build your set by defeating bosses in the Sepulcher of the First Ones raid, through all Great Vault activities, or other methods.

24th January 2019 Developer Q&A Summary

The dev Q&A just concluded, here’s our summary of all new information that was given during the session:

Allied Races

  • Kul Tiran and Zandalari allied races are coming out with 8.1.5 because of story reasons but also because of practical reasons. Originally Kul Tirans weren’t planned as an allied race because they weren’t sure if they would be able to do so. Kul Tirans have been built from the ground up. Creating the Kul Tiran race took just as much effort as all the other allied races combined.

PvP

  • The Alliance currently get the ilvl 400 item from the weekly pvp quest for war mode promotion. They do not believe it will stay Alliance only as more and more Alliance players are also opting in to War Mode.  The quest helps as an incentive to get people into war mode. However, they do think ilvl 400 might be too high. Next week they might be changing it to ilvl 385 and instead add another reward such as conquest points.
  • Regarding PvP vendors – The new system is an attempt to improve on what vendors gave in PvP. In season 2 players have the choice to pick which armor with stats they want. An example was given of azerite gear. When you earn a pvp chest in season 2 you get to choose the chest out of multiple options. They would like to hear: What choices do you feel you are missing in PvP?

Technical Concerns

  • Server stability is top priority for the team. Unfortunately for an issue like this the solution isn’t just 1 fix, it requires multiple fixes. In the future they’d like to bring out a devcooler explaining some of the things they have already encountered and fixed and what they are still working on.
  • They’re going to see if they can raise the character cap on a realm to the account cap of 50 characters.

Quality of Life Improvements

  • In 8.1.5 we’ll be able to transfer war resources from our main characters to alts.

Gear

  • The 30 item levels increase is the smallest number of increase they’ve used for a long time. They have this number so it still feels like you’re becoming more powerful from new content loot while minimizing the inflation it brings to character stats.
  • The changes to the Azerite system are still fully being discussed, so things can change. However for patch 8.2… The bigger picture thinking that they’re looking at is as follows: They want to move away from unlocking the same traits every time you get a new piece. Instead you’ll earn more powers like legion artifacts had as your Heart of Azeroth levels up.
  • Regarding the funneling of Titan Residuum, they’re not likely to add more restrictions if it would hurt the majority of players. Nothing is further planned beyond the hotfix that was released recently.

Mythic+

  • They’re going to talk with the team about the rewards that come from mythic+.
  • Instead of removing the uniqueness that a class adds to mythic+, such as shroud from rogues, they would rather have other classes add other benefits you would want in your group.
  • It’s not likely they’ll add a punishment for leaving a mythic+ run halfway through the dungeon, the punishment is a social one. They won’t be invited back. A system they’d create would likely create more problems.

Game Design

  • What are the biggest design challenges the dev team has? Resolving short term vs long term, resolving casual vs hardcore, there are many different types of players that enjoy different aspects of it and have different concerns. The challenge is to offer fun gameplay to all those types of players.
  • The team is not done with looking at the GCD (Global Cooldown) changes. A lot of the cooldowns are unsatisfying to press. They’re looking at adding an active component to some cooldowns. Such as Ascendance for resto shamans, when you press it you might emit a burst of healing to make it feel more satisfying.
  • There are no major class changes coming in 8.1.5. Complete class overhauls that include rotation changes are more likely to happen in a new expansion. People also have different definitions for “major changes” and miscommunication on that has occurred in the past for classes such as shamans.

Hotfixes: January 22-23, 2019

As season 2 is now in full swing in all regions hotfixes have started to make their way to the live servers:

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January 23, 2019

Dungeons and Raids

Battle of Dazar’alor

  • The achievement Can I Get a Hek Hek Hek Yeah? now requires all members of the raid click on the Mysterious Trashpile before the fight starts to receive Jani’s Favor, and then complete the existing criteria for the achievement.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented some players from receiving the achievement The Hidden Dragon on Normal difficulty.
  • Fixed an issue that sometimes caused Arcane Torrent to remain available when changing factions.

Items

  • Emissary armor, weapon caches, and rewards from faction assaults now reward the item by loot specialization. These were previously rewarded by class.

Player versus Player

  • Sinister Gladiator’s Safeguard’s shield now has a duration of 6 seconds (was 10 seconds), and can now be dispelled.
  • Dread/Sinister Gladiator’s Emblem now has a duration of 20 seconds (was 15 seconds).
  • Sinister Gladiator Maledict’s heal absorption can now be dispelled.
  • Xalziax’s Veiled Eye’s shield can now be dispelled.
    • Developers’ note: With the start of Battle for Azeroth Season 2, we introduced two new trinkets that are acquired via PvP, Sinister Gladiator’s Maledict and Sinister Gladiator’s Safeguard. In agreement with feedback we’ve been receiving, we’ve made a few changes to these items so that they provide more of an opportunity for counterplay when encountering enemy teams using these trinkets. We’ll continue to keep an eye on the strength of these trinkets as the season progresses.

Professions

  • Season 2 crafted Engineering goggles should now refund Tidalcores or Breath of Bwonsamdi and Expulsom when scrapped.

Quests

  • Fixed an issue where Alliance players who had faction transferred to Horde could not see Nathanos in Dalaran to accept “The Warchief Beckons”.
  • Nazgrim is once again available in Grommash Hold in Orgrimmar for Horde players on the questing experience to unlock Pandaria.

World Quests

  • Faction Assault World Quests now properly give credit for the Weekly Quest “The World Awaits”.
  • Pets should now summon and path correctly on Airships during Faction Assaults.

Hotfixes

January 22, 2019

Dungeons and Raids

  • Fortified and Bolster will no longer increase the health of the Reaping ghosts.

The MOTHERLODE!!

  • Fixed an issue causing Venture Co. Earthshapers to count double towards Enemy Forces criteria on Mythic Keystone difficulties. Slightly reduced the total Enemy Forces count.

Items

  • Potions that grant the player Invisibility (such as Demitri’s Draught of Deception) now place a 5-minute cooldown on all other potion types (was 10 minutes). The shared cooldown time for invisibility potions remains 10 minutes.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented Tome of Town Portal from being properly affected by Seafarer’s Hearth.

Player versus Player

  • Every portion of Azerite powers that scale with item level have been reduced by 50% in PvP.
    • Developers’ notes: With the advent of new five-ring Azerite armor in Season 2, we’re mindful of the increased potential for stacking and combining traits. Over the course of BfA we’ve also made adjustments to individual Azerite traits, but that creates uncertainty and unpredictability, where unless you’ve followed all our hotfixes you don’t know exactly how a given trait will change when you enter PvP. This aims to replace that uncertainty with a straightforward rule. This change also overwrites all previous reductions to Azerite Traits in PvP that occurred during Season 1, as they will all now have their reduction set to 50% effectiveness. Non-scaling and non-stacking effects are unaffected by this adjustment.
  • Resolved an issue that caused Sinister Gladiator’s Maledict to not strike enemy players who have moved out of line of sight after the initial activation of the trinket.

Quests

  • Players on “The Lord Admiral’s Lament” while on the Saurfang questline should now be able to see Isabella.
  • “Quartermaster’s Bounty”, in which you turn in 10 Quartermaster’s Coins to get a Battleborn Sigil, is now a weekly repeatable quest.

Live Developer Q&A Thursday, January 24 – Submit Your Questions

A new Dev Q&A is going to take place this thursday and you can submit questions about patch 8.1 Tides of Vengeance part 2!

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Join us live on Twitch.tv/Warcraft Thursday, January 24, at 20:00 CET (19:00 GMT), as we sit down with Game Director Ion Hazzikostas for our next live developer Q&A, where he’ll be answering your Tides of Vengeance part 2 questions.

You can submit your questions here in this thread or on Twitter by using the hashtag #WarcraftQA.

As a reminder, please keep your questions short (40 words or less) so that we can get to as many questions as possible. We look forward to you joining us live on Thursday!