After careful consideration over the last year, we at Blizzard have made the decision not to hold BlizzCon in 2024. This decision was not made lightly as BlizzCon remains a very special event for all of us, and we know many of you look forward to it. While we’re approaching this year differently and as we have explored different event formats in the past, rest assured that we are just as excited as ever to bring BlizzCon back in future years.
Over the next few months, we’ll be sharing more details about our launches coming later this year, including World of Warcraft: The War Within and Diablo IV’s first expansion, Vessel of Hatred. To celebrate these upcoming releases and to bring our communities together in new and special ways, we will soon share some exciting plans for other industry trade shows and conventions like Gamescom. We can’t wait to tell you more about those plans soon. We’re also looking forward to the Overwatch Champions Series’ stops at both Dreamhack Dallas and Dreamhack Stockholm. And we’re thrilled to be planning multiple, global, in-person events to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Warcraft, which will be held in addition to the in-game celebrations across our Warcraft games throughout 2024. While these events are distinct from BlizzCon, we’re harnessing all of our creativity and imagination to ensure that they carry the same spirit of celebration and togetherness.
Our hope is that these experiences – alongside several live-streamed industry events where we’ll keep you up to date with what’s happening in our game universes – will capture the essence of what makes the Blizzard community so special.
No matter how you choose to connect with us at these events this year – whether it be in person or virtually – we can’t wait to see you there!
BlizzCon 2023 is almost here and we’ll be updating right here throughout the show with the latest World of Warcraft news and coverage from the event.
Schedule
Friday, November 3
1:30 p.m. PDT (20:30 GMT)—World of Warcraft: What’s Next
Members of the World of Warcraft development team discuss the latest content coming to Azeroth.
3:30 p.m. PDT (22:30 GMT)—WoW Classic: What’s Next
Members of the WoW Classic development team discuss the latest content coming to Azeroth.
Saturday, November 4
12:00 p.m. PDT (19:00 GMT)—World of Warcraft: Deep Dive
Delve Deeper into World of Warcraft with the development team.
Watch the opening ceremony live for free online, beginning at 11:00 a.m. PDT (18:00 GMT) on November 3. Keep an eye out for the complete schedule on BlizzCon.com and set your reminders to watch your favorite panels and content.
Ways to Watch
Catch BlizzCon 2023 live, Nov 3 and 4, on Blizzard’s YouTube channels, or on Twitch for free. If you miss the live show, you’ll be able to watch video-on-demand (VOD) replays on your own schedule.
Please note: to watch the show, you’ll need to be logged into your YouTube account (or your Google account if using a Chrome browser), due to the inclusion of some age-restricted content.
World of Warcraft Post BlizzCon Q&A
Submit your questions during BlizzCon beginning Friday, November 3 after the opening ceremony in-person at the Darkmoon Faire and on the official forums for a special post-BlizzCon Q&A. You’ll be able to ask your World of Warcraft and Classic World of Warcraft questions and we’ll answer as many as we can in the special BlizzCon edition WoWcast the following week.
Streamer Schedule
Watch your favorite streamers live from the show floor during BlizzCon 2023 or live from the streamer’s channels. We’ll also have WoW Classic development team members joining streamers to talk about all things WoW Classic. Check out our schedule below.
We’ll be updating this schedule with any new additions.
World of Warcraft Guild Clash
Get ready to mark your calendars and clear your schedules for the newest event at this year’s BlizzCon – the World of Warcraft Guild Clash! Guild Clash is an all-day, three-event tournament featuring four of the most formidable guilds from World of Warcraft. Prepare for an action-packed, adrenaline-fueled day filled with epic battles, camaraderie, and unforgettable moments. Guild Clash starts Saturday, November 4, 2023 starting when BlizzCon doors open at the Anaheim Convention Center.
Guild Clash will be available live from BlizzCon on the Warcraft Twitch & YouTube Channels, with the players also live streaming their own perspectives from Streaming Stations in the WoW hall at BlizzCon. Learn more about the event on our previously published article.
BlizzCon® 2023 returns November 3 and 4 and additional tickets are still available. Can’t attend? Don’t worry. You’ll be able to watch all the content from the Anaheim Arena free. To commemorate the return of BlizzCon, you can also purchase the BlizzCon Collection with a new set of digital goodies for World of Warcraft and other Blizzard games.
After four years of gathering online–adventuring through Azeroth, teaming up in Overwatch, traversing the fields of Sanctuary, or warming yourself by the fire in the Tavern–it’s finally time to gather in person once more. We are happy to announce that BlizzCon will be returning to the Anaheim Convention Center on November 3-4!
Our players are at the heart of what makes BlizzCon great–a place where games are the common ground for connection and friendship. Whether you’re coming to hang out with friends you only ever get to see online, celebrating epic moments in the games we love, exploring what’s on offer in the convention center halls, or eager to learn what’s next for our universes, BlizzCon is being created for you. It’s the community that has always made this event so special, and we can’t wait to see you all again.
We’ll be back with more details about the show next month including ticketing information, cosplay and other competition details, and more.
For those of you who want to book accommodation now, our hotel blocks are now available. Whether you’ll be joining us in person or online, we can’t wait to share what we’ve been working on and celebrate together. We are counting down the days alongside you.
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The Blizzcon Opening Ceremony just concluded! Here’s what Blizzard revealed (All cinematics are at the bottom of this post):
Destiny 2 will be free for all battle.net players, this offer is available to be claimed until November 18th
Starcraft 2 gets a new Co-op commander: Zeratul.
Heroes of the Storm gets its first new original hero character, originating from HotS itself: Orphea, daughter of the Raven Lord
Orphia is free for all blizzcon attendees and virtual ticket holders.
Heroes of the Storm will finally see the Janitor Leoric skin making its appearance!
The current World of Warcraft segment was a repeat of the patch 8.1 Tides of Vengeance announcement. What lays beyond patch 8.1 will be discussed in the What’s Next panel for WoW.
In addition to that WoW Classic will fully release in the summer of 2019.
Anyone with a WoW subscription will have access to WoW Classic!
This year’s WoW charity pet will be Whomper, a little yeti and the money goes to the organisation code.org.
A new cinematic for BfA “Lost Honor” was shown.
A new Overwatch animated short was shown: Reunion
The 29th Overwatch hero to join the roster will be Ashe, the leader of the Deadlock gang
Warcraft 3 is being remastered! It will be released in 2019.
You can order a spoils of war edition of warcraft 3, pre-ordering it will unlock bonuses for the other Blizzard games. This includes a meatwagon mount in WoW with a functioning catapult!
You can find more information here for warcraft 3 reforged: https://playwarcraft3.com/en-us/
The next Hearthstone expansion is the troll themed Rastakhan’s Rumble, with a snazzy new cinematic trailer!
Hearthstone will get a new keyword “Overkill”, this will activate if you deal more damage than the target has in health.
(Hearthstone) Each class gets a troll champion, a loa (troll god) and a spirit.
Rastakhan’s Rumble releases December 4th.
The next Diablo game will be a mobile action RPG called “Diablo Immortal”.
Diablo Immortal will take place in between Diablo 2 and Diablo 3.
Last night plenty of new information was released. The blues explained how the Reorigination Array buff works in Uldir, a buff that will act as an increasing buff over time as long as you’re actively playing Uldir content every week. We also had a new round of hotfixes and the Blizzcon virtual ticket and goody bag are now available for purchase!
It is a clever system but I do have some insight to share on how it works. Apologies for the lengthy description but I wanted to explain it given what you pointed out now that I have some information to share on it.
So Reorigination Array is a secondary bonus to traits from Archive of the Titans or Laser Matrix. When those are selected on a piece of Azerite gear that is equipped it provides Reorigination Array. This is a passive buff that is always up while you’re inside the instance.
There is a Reorigination Array hidden quest associated to your character that tracks and gradually improves this buff over time as you progress week over week within Uldir. Every week there is essentially a weekly quest that tracks your kills, and once you kill 3 bosses in Uldir you gain a stack added to Reorigination Array. You do not need a piece for this to track your kills. So if you killed 3 bosses last week and got your piece this week with Archive of the Titans, don’t worry as you’d correctly be at 2 stacks if you killed 3 bosses this week as well. This stacks up to 10 and each stack provides 75 of your highest secondary stat. This also tracks regardless of difficulty so you can even track and obtain the items with these traits on Raid Finder.
Once you obtain a piece you’ll notice the Reorigination Array tooltip changes depending on some certain conditional statuses. If you haven’t killed any bosses this week in Uldir it will read additionally “Defeat 3 more powerful foes in Uldir to increase the effectiveness of Reorigination Array.”. This will be under the current bonus it provides if you have earned any stacks already. As you kill bosses for your weekly count you’ll see this counter go down until it disappears as you’ve earned your 3 needed kills for the week and you’ll instantly get that next stack.
Last Surprise no longer gains the benefit of Mastery: Dreadblade twice.
Warlock
Affliction
Deathbolt’s damage now only counts up to the maximum base duration of your DoTs.
Creatures and NPCs
Scrollsage Nola should no longer be killable, and should safely make it to the water whenever she chooses.
Dungeons and Raids
Uldir
MOTHER
Adjusted Defensive Beams to address an issue that could cause them to sometimes instantly damage nearby players on Mythic difficulty.
Mythrax
Obliteration Beam no longer targets pets.
Vectis
Omega Vector periodic damage will now scale based on raid size in Normal/Heroic difficulties.
Items
Darkmoon Deck: Squalls will no longer trigger from spells that don’t deal damage, such as Polymorph.
Heart of Azeroth
Fixed a bug causing Spark Coil to linger on a player who changed zones.
Player versus Player
Hook Point Arena has been temporarily disabled. An issue was discovered causing some players to have an abnormally long load time while zoning into the arena.
Cheat death type abilities such as Cheat Death, Purgatory, and Last Resort are now cleared when entering Arenas.
Players who have earned Duelist: Battle for Azeroth Season 1 now have the weapon illusion ‘Dreadflame’ unlocked.
Player pets polymorphed by Polymorph: Direhorn will no longer be giant baby dinosaurs.
Death Knight
Blood
Death Chain’s visual no longer lasts longer than its effect.
Death Chain will now deal damage to other targets in the Death Chain when Bonestorm deals damage.
Hunter
Beast Mastery
Barbed Shot can now be removed by effects that remove bleeds, such as Stoneform.
Warrior
Execute modified by Death Sentence can no longer be cast out of melee range while rooted.
Death Sentence will now only charge to your target when they are under 20% health (35% when talented into Massacre).
Professions
Alchemy
Reflecting Prism can no longer be used on players under the effects of the Sea Mist Potion.
Quests
Grasping Thorns should now despawn when their shapers are killed during “Goldfield’s War”.
World Quests
Fixed an issue that caused a second set of creatures to spawn in front of Priestess Alun’za for “Atal’dazar: From the Shadows”.
Players should now meet with more Bonebeak Scavenger Meat and Brineclaw Meat on “Instant Meat, Ready to Eat”.
Blizzcon Virtual Ticket and Goody Bag
Blizzard released 2 blog posts giving the low down on the Virtual ticket and the goody bag. You can find all information about the virtual ticket here and the goody bag here.
With the Battle for Azeroth pre-patch the new Communities feature will be released to the live servers. Blizzard has released a preview regarding them!
With the Battle for Azeroth pre-patch, we’re introducing World of Warcraft Communities, a new feature that will let you create, manage, and join multiple groups of friends and family. Whether you have a dedicated group that just likes to role-play, a group that is all about pet battling, or another that is focused on Mythic dungeons, Communities will allow you to bring them all together—no matter what realms they’re on. Not only will you be able to participate in a variety of Community groups, but you’ll be able to maintain your membership in your guild at the same time.You can create and manage a World of Warcraft Community through the Guilds & Communities tab (J), where you’ll also have access to Blizzard Groups. Blizzard Groups allow you to connect with cross-game friends and other players even beyond World of Warcraft via the Blizzard Battle.net desktop app; Communities are specific to the character you’re creating the community with and are great for bringing together in-game friends.
Communities you create are open to same-faction characters from any realm within your region. You’ll be able to invite characters directly, provide a code, or send an invitation link to those you would like to invite to your newly-created community. You’ll also be able to create calendar events specific to your community and use Quick Join to hop into groups together.
As a part of this new feature, players will also be able to take part in Community-specific chat (text and voice), create and manage channels, and easily switch between them right within the Community interface. The new feature also provides a chat history, which we’re also bringing to guild chat.
World of Warcraft Communities will be available soon, with the Battle for Azeroth pre-patch—stay tuned for more information.
You can learn more about how to create and manage your Communities in our support article. For additional troubleshooting help with joining a World of Warcraft Community or Guild chat, visit our support site.
You will have to defeat challenges for every wing. Completing each wing will give you a legendary card.
A new mechanic will be introduced “Discover”. This will present you 3 random cards from which you get to choose 1. It will be appropriate for your deck.
It will release later this month! Infact, it starts on Thursday!
Overwatch gains 3 new heroes: D.VA, Mei and Genji
Overwatch gains 1 new map: Hollywood
Overwatch will need to be bought. You’ll get all heroes and maps with it.
There will be a special edition: Overwatch Origins
This will have 5 different hero skins.
This will lprovide ingame bonuses like other collector’s edition games. WoW ingame pet, HS cardback, etc. (Tracer hero for Heroes of the Storm)
Origins edition will also be brought to XBOX One and PS4.
You can buy at buyoverwatch.com it will give you a pre-purchase widowmaker skin.
Overwatch will launch in the spring of 2016.
WoW Legion:
Gul’dan’s mission was to tear a hole in reality
Illidan will help the Alliance and Horde to defeat The Burning Legion
