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Warlords of Draenor Region Launch Times

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Wondering when Warlords will go live in your region? Look no further! Blizzard has updated a WoD signing post with the release times for all regions!

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When will the launch of the game happen for my time zone/region?

Warlords of Draenor will launch in:

  • North America (US) at 12:00 a.m. PST (1:00 a.m. Mountain, 2:00 a.m. CST, 3:00 a.m. EST) on Thursday, November 13
    • Oceanic will launch at the same time as the US.
  • Europe at 12:00 a.m. CET on Thursday, November 13
  • Korea at 12:00 a.m. KST on Tuesday, November 18
  • Taiwan at 12:00 a.m. CST on Tuesday, November 18
  • China at 12:00 a.m. CST on Tuesday, November 18

Don’t see the exact time listed for your area? Check out this handy Time Zone Converter.

Warlords Launch Q&A, Live Wednesday Nov 12th!

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Did you not get a chance to go to Blizzcon but still have a question for the developers? They’re going to do another livestream on wednesday and you’ll be able to submit questions!

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This Wednesday, I’ll be joining World of Warcraft Lead Game Designer Ion Hazzikostas and Lead Class Designer Kris Zierhut to answer your questions live on Twitch.TV! With Warlords of Draenor’s launch only a couple of days away, we’re sure there’s plenty of questions we weren’t able to answer at BlizzCon, and now is your chance to ask them!

When: Wednesday, November 12th, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Pacific Standard Time (see this handy tool to find when that is in your local time!)
Where: The World of Warcraft channel on Twitch.TV/WoW

There are two ways to submit questions. If you’re using Twitter, simply tweet your question using the hashtag #WarlordsQA. You can also ask it as a reply to this forum thread; however, as we’d like to get to as many questions as possible, we will only consider questions using 40 words or less. Make them count! In order to be considered, your question must be submitted before 12:01 AM PST on Wednesday, November 12th.

See you there!

Blizzcon Day 2 Q&A – Liveblog

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We’ll we liveblogging the WoW Q&A here which starts at roughly 00:30 CEST!

  • Faction restrictions on toys you already have will possibly be removed.
  • A tri-spec (having 3 different spec tabs) is not currently on the table
  • Sargeras is still the big bad in the end lorewise and not the old gods
  • A guild garrison or housing type is something the dev team will continue to talk about in the future, as well as more future garrison features
  • Guild achievements are something the devs will want to continue with, but they do need to be something worth making. It has to be a fun achievement.
  • Collision detection will continue to improve in the future. If players encounter something their mounts collide with and shouldn’t then the player should give that feedback.
  • The fire kitty feral look will not become a glyph.
  • When evolving the talent tree they look at the data they have on the usage of talents and multiple factors such as which ones are used and which ones are not. If a certain talent is the only one used in a talent tier it might need changing, just like if one isn’t being used at all.
  • Doing /roar while in druid shapeshift form might use the actual animal roars in the future.
  • For battle pets they view it as a expanding the content and not the levels, new things to collect.
  • Race and gender changes will not be added to the barbershop like the face changes were because they have much more meaning.
  • If there’s a legendary weapon in WoD it might get restricted in arena play.
  • They might consider a pvp legendary if there’s a pve one to counterbalance it.
  • World of Warcraft is the simulationtool the dev team uses with bots. They get their data from the bots literally playing the game. (Other than data from the players playing the game)
  • Portal roulette isn’t fun for not-mages. Which is why it was removed.
  • Beards disappear when wearing open helmets because of a bug with the big visual changes. They’re working on it. If you come across a helmet that does that, report it.
  • New armor archetypes and silhouettes are something they’re talking about.
  • Trade Prince Gallywax could eventually be brought back.
  • They could make it happen to be able to cook your own bacon ingame.
  • Events like the opening of the Gates of Ahn’Qiraj are great but they crashed servers. Such social events are still things they want to do.
  • The home of the zandalari trolls might be visited some day.
  • The zone Farahlon in Draenor might not be visited.
  • The worgen were removed from Shadowmoon Valley in early beta because they felt out of place and they wanted to focus on the Draenei.
  • The smelting interface will be brought over to milling and prospecting.
  • To be able to get a shot at mythic rewards from garrison missions you as a character already need to be an active player, you’ll need to have heroic gear to have a chance at mythic gear from a rare garrison raid mission.
  • For world pvp you should mainly go to Ashran.
  • Tom Chilton would love to be able to store addons in a could storage so you could log in anywhere and have your same idea. Whether or not that is possible for one day is up in the air.
  • Whether Khadgar is the new guardian (as he has the staff of Atiesh) remains to be seen.
  • The summon random favorite mount button might be split into 2 buttons: ground and flying.
  • The dragon aspects will be used in the future again.
  • There will be characters brought back to life that died in our original timeline, who are alive in the alternate timeline.

Blizzcon Heroes of the Storm Overview

Here’s a summary of the Heroes of the Storm panel!

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  • A lot of people are getting invites now
  • Closed beta starts on january 13th
  • Draft mode is coming soon
  • Works like standard MOBAs
    • No duplicate heroes
    • Battleground known before heroes are selected
    • All ranked modes will use draft
    • Coinflip to start picking
    • Picking order goes
      • team 1 picks 1 hero
      • team 2 picks 2 heroes
      • team 1 picks 2  heroes
      • team 2 picks 2 heroes
      • team 1 picks 2 heroes
      • team 2 picks 1 hero
    • No hero bans
      • To keep games shorter
      • To keep amount of heroes you need to own low
  • Ranked play
    • 5-man premades will be high-end ranked
    • Two ranked leagues, one for groups under 5 (Hero league) and the other for 5-man premades (Team League)
    • Ranking system based on Hearthstone
    • Win to get points, losing loses you points
    • 50 ranks, 50 to 1 (top)
    • MMR affects point gain, playing against better opponents gives more points
    • Season based
    • Like HS, you gain points for the next season based on rank
    • Personal skill rating used for MMR, carries over from season to season
    • Hero league fills team based on skill rating
    • Will try to match you based on premade size. A 3-man premade will be matched against another 3-man premade
    • Will only use person skill ranking
    • Player level 30 needed to queue in hero league
    • Team league requires you to make a team with a team name, akin to Arena
    • Up to 9 players on each team
    • Can join 3 teams per account
    • Uses team skill rating, not personal
    • Must be hero level 40 to queue for team league
    • Tons of stats available for teams
  • On the subject of leavers
    • Stripping people of game rewards didn’t motivate people to stay
    • Leavers will get flagged if they leave too often
    • Flagged leavers will be matched with other flagged leavers
    • Flag will be removed if you play enough games without leaving
    • Might not be final implementation
  • New heroes
    • Jaina
      • Ice mage, looks a lot like War3
      • Water Elemental – Ultimate
      • Frost ring
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    • Thrall
      • Bursty DPS
      • chain lightning
    • Sylvanas announced
      • Curses, can shut down enemy minions and towers
      • Ultimate, mind control
    • The Lost Vikings
      • Fans demanded them every time they talked to blizzard
      • 3 heroes at once
      • Can be controlled at the same time or seperately
      • Each hero can complete objectives by himself
      • Very difficult character
      • Ultimate is a ship
  • New Battlegrounds
    • Sky temple
      • Capture the 3 temples
      • Fight temple guardians to capture them
      • They shoot beams of death at your enemies
      • A desesrt in the sky, lots of water and trees as well
      • It’s all about the magic
      • Egyptian themed buildings, mercs and minions
    • Tomb of the spider queen
      • Collect gems to summon queen
      • Underworld
    • Diablo stage
    • Heaven, good vs evil
    • Half map angelic, half diabolic