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Preview 6.2 – Pets Galore

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Preview 6.2 – Pets Galore

As we continue to explore new territory in Draenor, it should come as no surprise that new battle pets and new battle pet rewards will be found. Thus far, Draenor has contained a great deal of diversity for pet battlers, and Patch 6.2 will be no different. Let’s take a look at some of what’s in store for your collection.

Please note: Spoilers are ahead! If you want to discover the new battle pets and rewards for yourself, don’t read any further!

Tanaan Stop Action

First and foremost, Tanaan Jungle is where the action can be found on all fronts. You will find battle pets of all types dotting the landscape, four of which are new and just waiting to be caught for the first time:

  • Bloodbeak
  • Cerulean Moth
  • Violet Firefly
  • Fen Crab

Keep an eye out for the new quest “A Fel Puppy of My Own”, through which you can acquire the delightful new Fel Pup.

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Just delightful.

But the jungle doesn’t only provide garden-variety battle pets. If you look carefully, you’ll find that there are 15 fel-corrupted legendary pets scattered throughout Tanaan. Your Pet Battle Master in your garrison will have some new information for you to get started. You can only defeat any of these legendaries once per day, and when you do, you’ll receive a container of Fel-Touched Pet Supplies, which will include:

  • Gold
  • Pet Charms
  • Pet Bandages

And has a small chance to include:

  • A Fel-Touched Battle-Training Stone (single use, grants +5 pet levels)
  • One of these rare pets:
    • Periwinkle Calf
    • Zangar Spore
    • Seaborne Spore
    • Nightmare Bell

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You can ring my Nightmare Bell. Ring my Bell.

We’ve also got a new achievement for you when you defeat all 15 legendary opponents in Tanaan Jungle.

You’re Too Charming

Patch 6.2 is going to introduce a new vendor to your level 3 Garrison Menagerie. Tiffy Trapspring and Giada Goldleash have been attracted to your impressive stash of Pet Charms, and want to take them off your hands in exchange for the following pets:

  • Dusty Sporewing
  • Bloodthorn Hatchling
  • Glowing Sporebat
  • Lost Netherpup

And the following toys:

  • Magic Pet Mirror
  • Indestructible Bone
  • Spirit Wand

And the Hunt Continues

A number of new battle pets coming to World of Warcraft with patch 6.2 can be found all over the worlds. Back home in Azeroth, adventurers will cheer when they find the non-combative Nethaera’s Light glowing in Dalaran. Meanwhile, two new fishing pets are turning up at the Darkmoon Faire. One is called Blorp (also a non-combat pet), and the other is the wondrous Ghostshell Crab.

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Their shells are made of ghosts.

Even more pets have found their way to the fields of battle on Draenor. Look carefully, and you may find:

  • Crimsonwing Moth — A rare spawn in Talador with many spawn points, and only one ever appearing in the zone at a time.
  • Sapphire Firefly – A rare spawn in Spires of Arak who also has many spawn points and appears only once at a time.
  • Cinder Pup – Available from a new Garrison mission in patch 6.2.
  • Corrupted Nest Guardian – Dropped by Shadow Lord Iskar in the new Hellfire Citadel raid.

Get a first look at all of the above by testing Patch 6.2 with us on the PTR. Please note that availability to test some PTR content may be limited to certain time frames. Learn more about the upcoming Patch 6.2 and how to participate on the PTR in our 6.2 PTR Patch Notes.

Patch 6.2 PTR Screenshot Gallery

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A while ago we first posted our Tanaan Jungle Screenshot Gallery from our facebook page. Since then we’ve updated it with a bunch of new screenshots of the zone, check them out below:

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Selfie Scavenger Hunt Sweepstakes

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Selfie Scavenger Hunt Sweepstakes

Hunt down the weekly location, take a screenshot of yourself there, submit it on our sweepstakes site, and you could win big prizes!

The WoW Selfie Scavenger Hunt sweepstakes has begun, and every week you have a chance to win Blizzard gear, Battle.net Balance codes, or an iPhone 6—and every week you enter it increases your chances to win the Grand Prize: a trip for two to BlizzCon 2015!

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Visit the WoW Selfie Scavenger Hunt site now to enter, and come back each week for a new challenge.

Patch 6.2 Tanaan Jungle Daily Objectives and Gearing Alts Preview

As everyone knows Tanaan Jungle will be released in patch 6.2. We went onto the PTR to take a look at what Tanaan will offer. Tanaan Jungle will be a combination of the Draenor exploration experience and the Timeless Isle from Mists of Pandaria. There are a few introductory quests but it’s mostly up to the player to go into Tanaan and discover it’s secrets.

Everything below is from PTR testing, because of the nature of the PTR anything can change before the release of patch 6.2! (Latest changes on June 22nd – apexis crystal rewards have increased)

Every day there will be an apexis daily that you can pick up for one of the areas in Tanaan, much like the original apexis dailies with the release of Draenor. This will guide you to one of 7 areas and will be worth doing if you are interested in getting a mount or even upgrading your gear to item level 695 gear! Before we get into the rewards however, let’s talk bonus objectives.

Daily Objectives

Every day in every single apexis area, except for your apexis daily, there will be an apexis daily bonus objective for you to do. These bonus objectives will become active once you finish your daily apexis crystal quest. (You will also get 2 new quests to do when you go to turn it in these will give you a total of 1500 extra crystals). You will have to travel to each of the areas. This will grant you 800 apexis crystals per area (1200 for the Throne of Kil’jaeden), giving you a possible total of 4800 apexis crystals per day. (You’ll still be able to do the old apexis daily in old draenor as well for an additional 800 to 1000 crystals!) As you can see in the map below, the areas are right next to each other so you’ll be able to cruise through each of them if you group up with some friends or use the group finder.

The apexis daily will earn you 600 oil and 2000 apexis crystals. Oil is a valuable resource, as it is the resource you will need to send your ships from the shipyard out on missions, increasing the value of doing the new daily apexis crystal quest.

There is also a second daily quest, which you can also pick up in your Tanaan Jungle base. This quest requires you to kill 10 rare elites in Tanaan and loot an item from them. In exchange for these 10 kills you will be rewarded with 1500 additional crystals. Instead of killing rares, you can also loot the items from treasures in Tanaan.

It now requires 10 Fragments.

 

As mentioned above, after you turn in your apexis crystal daily 2 more quests will become available to you. The first requires you to go do 2 of the bonus objectives in the other Tanaan areas. This will give you 1000 apexis crystals. The second one will be a random quest that requires you to kill or collect some items in one of the Tanaan areas. This one will reward you with 500 crystals.

Finally, there are also bonus events in Tanaan Jungle. You’ll be able to find them on the map by the crossed swords with brown background icon. You’ll find a rare elite here, which is harder to kill than your average rare elite. These will reward you with 100 oil upon death and possible other items such as the medal of the legion. Which will give you 1000 reputation with every faction on Draenor when you use it.

All in all this means you will be able to earn a possible of 10200 apexis crystals per day, or 10300 if you chose the Throne of Kil’jaeden as your daily apexis quest. This does not include the 800 to 1000 from the old apexis crystal daily. Which you can use to earn some tasty rewards..

Gearing up with Apexis Crystals

In your faction’s base in Tanaan Jungle there is a new apexis vendor. He sells tokens for each of your gear slots that you can turn into 650 item level items for your character. These cost 5000 apexis crystals per item, except for the weapon token which costs 10000 crystals. You will also be able to buy an upgrade item for these 650 items for 20000 apexis crystals which will upgrade it to a 695 item! This means that Tanaan Jungle, through the apexis crystals will award gear over a period of time that is higher than Heroic Blackrock Foundry gear!

The mobs and rares of Tanaan also have gear waiting for you! You will be able to loot the Baleful tokens off of random mobs within Tanaan, and the rares (not from events) also drop 650 and 655 item level gear.

If you’re fully decked out in Mythic Blackrock Foundry gear, these rewards probably won’t appeal to you. However there’s still the 150k apexis crystal mount to get as well as the oil from the daily (which you will need for your shipyard). For the rest, there’ll be plenty of time to spend in Tanaan to upgrade your gear. And if not, there’s always alts to gear up!

Patch 6.2 PTR Timewalker Dungeon Preview – Halls of Lightning

One of the features coming in patch 6.2 is the Timewalker event. It’s one of 7 possible weekend events. One is for The Burning Crusade, and one is for Wrath of the Lich King. For the next few days the Wrath of the Lich King event is active on the PTR for testing. During the event there is a quest you can do to get 1 extra raid loot bonus roll coin that does not count towards the 3 per week cap. To get this you will have to do 3 (edit: now 5) random Timewalker dungeons. You can pick up this quest in your garrison.

Other than the quest the bosses also drop timewalker items that look like their original WotLK counterparts. These have the “timewarped” tag. At level 100 these have an item level of 660. If you do the timewalker dungeons as a level 90, these will have a 463 item level. You’ll be able to do timewalker dungeons if your level is atleast as high as the original dungeon’s requirement. This means level 70 for TBC timewalking and level 80 for WotLK timewalking. The item level of the loot will adjust to your level when it drops.

 

The dungeons available in the WotLK event are

  • Ahn’kahet: The Old Kingdom
  • Gundrak
  • Halls of Lightning
  • The Nexus
  • Utgarde Pinnacle

GameBeat Dev Interview With Watcher, Mastering the Many Mounts

GameBeat Dev Interview With Watcher

WoW dev Watcher was interviewed by GameBeat about the subscriber drop among other things. You can find the full interview here. Here’s a summary:

  • The team was gratified for the increase in numbers when the expansion first launched.
  • Their goal is to make a fun and engaging experience. It’s not about the numbers, if the game is fun the numbers will follow.
  • More people than ever before are doing organized (large group dungeon) raiding.
  • They recognize 5man dungeons as a problem area. They didn’t incentivize running the dungeons after the initial gearing up. They felt it was silly to keep running the same content over and over to get stronger and still get the reward in the form of Valor points. But with the removal of Valor they went too far with not keeping an incentive in place to do the content.
  • Logging in just to do your garrison missions isn’t necessarily a bad thing. “I don’t know that those are coming at the direct expense of, I’m going to log on and go do my guild raid, or I’m going to log on and do battlegrounds, or do PvP or whatever else I might have been doing — core multiplayer social functions.”
  • They rise and drop of subscribers is cyclical. These days a lot of players join when new content comes out, and when they are finished with that they play other games until the next patch of content comes out.
  • Key highlights of 6.2 content are
    • Mythic dungeons
    • Timewalker dungeons (and hope to expand upon that in the future)
    • The Adventure Guide
    • Hellfire Citadel Raid
    • Tanaan Jungle
    • The shipyard (garrison)
  • Patch 6.2 represents iterations on existing systems, applying lessons learned from 6.0. Doing massive class overhauls during content patches is something they’ve stepped away from.
  • The WoW token has not had a major influence on subscriber numbers.
  • When it comes to mythic raiding they’re not sure they have the ability to tune mythic raids for the flex system. Right now they have the freedom to expect 3 tanks or a priest for mind control. The current system allows them to expect one of every class in your raid.

Mastering the Many Mounts

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Mastering the Many Mounts

In this series of blog posts, we’ll look at some of the content in World of Warcraft where you might need a helpful nudge in the right direction—maybe you’re stuck, maybe you got sidetracked, or maybe you don’t even know how to begin! Join us as we travel all over Azeroth and Draenor to uncover and thoroughly tackle the many different little adventures available to any player.

In this edition, we’re looking at some of the more fun and interesting ways to grow your collection of mounts. If you haven’t done much (or any) mount collecting since the launch of Warlords of Draenor, you’re in for a treat, as the latest expansion introduced more than 40 new mounts to the game. Some are exceptionally difficult to obtain, but this article focuses primarily on mounts that more easily attainable—but still require a bit of effort and know-how.

What follows is intended for players who haven’t already overcome the content, though keep it mind it will contain minor spoilers. If this particular information isn’t for you because you’re already a mounted master, then well done! In the comments below, let us know what you’d like to learn how to master in a future blog post.

There’s No Place Like Home

Your Garrison offers you the most direct way to get your reins on 10 new mounts, eight of which are available via the Stables. If you don’t have a Stables, it’s a building that requires a large-sized plot, so you’ll have to demolish your Barracks, Bunker/War Mill, Gearworks/Workshop, or Mage Tower/Spirit Lodge to make room for it. Don’t worry if you want to demolish the Stables later once you’re done with it—any mounts you earn from the Stables will remain in your collection permanently.

These six mounts are obtainable via quests that pop up in your Stables each day:

The quests will require you to track down wild beasts in various zones, lasso them, break them, and ultimately tame them and make them love you.

Once you have all six, you can take on the achievements Advanced Husbandry and The Stable Master. The first rewards an Armored Frostboar, and the second grants you the Armored Frostwolf. This is where things get tricky.

The achievements require you to go to Nagrand and kill each of six named enemies while mounted on each of your six trained mounts. Additionally, you have to have a debuff item in your possession. For Advanced Husbandry, you’ll need to have the Black Claw of Sethe, and for The Stable Master, you’ll need to complete all 36 kills while under the effects of the Garn-Tooth Necklace. Look around your Stables for those items, and be ready to move slower and take more damage on your trained mounts when you’ve got them.

For an in-depth walkthrough of the Stables, check out the Guide to the Garrison Stables on Wowhead.

It’s also possible to obtain two more mounts using your Trading Post:

In either case, you’ve got to build a Trading Post, advance it to at least level 2, and gain a lot of rep. Once again, Wowhead has the lowdown with their Laughing Skull Reputation Guide and this Sha’tari Defense Reputation Guide.

Let’s Go Camping

There’s nothing quite like the feeling you get when a rare NPC spawns after you’ve spent a long time waiting for it, and you capture the mount of your dreams. In Draenor, there are eight such mounts, and six of them are a guaranteed drop for any character who takes part in the kill:

The most basic way to acquire any of these mounts is to hunt down the rare creatures that drop them, usually by spending some time in each of the spots where they are known to spawn. Over on Wowhead, a community member named Obtain has published a handy map of their spawn points, and if you’re looking for more detail, check out his Warlords of Draenor Mount Collectors Guide.

The key to wrangling these rare mounts is patience. The enemies that drop them spawn very infrequently, and in only one of several possible places, so a fair amount of luck is required. Wherever you place yourself, you’ll likely be far away from most of the other spawn points, and these rare creatures are usually taken out quickly. However, once you’ve collected most of them, it will get easier to find the others, since you’ll have so much less territory to cover to do so.

You Can’t Take It With You

You may have overlooked or never known that there are seven mounts available to you to purchase in Warspear for gold and Apexis Crystals (and more are coming in Patch 6.2!).

If you’re interested in gathering Apexis Crystals to pick up these mounts, refer to Wowhead’s Farming and Spending Apexis Crystals in Warlords of Draenor guide.

Or We’ll Come To You

One very good reason to participate in a Garrison invasion every week and go for the gold rating is actually four very good reasons:

You can only find these four mounts in the Invader’s Forgotten Treasure left behind after you earn a Gold Rating in your defense. The chance of finding each in your cache is quite small, so you’ll want to keep defending your and your friends’ Garrisons each week. For some good advice on getting a gold rating, check out the Garrison Invasions guide on Wowhead.

Are you hitting any snags expanding your mount collection in Draenor? Tell us about it in this forum thread in our General discussion forum. Master mount collectors are standing by!