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Blizzcon Hearthstone Fireside Chat – Liveblog

This is the blog where we will be updating for the HS Fireside Chat once it starts at 00:30!

  • Statistics about hearthstone today, to be taken with a grain (or more) of salt:
    • The worst card: Magma Rager, Chance to win if drawn: 29%
    • Angry chicken: if drawn 47% chance to win
    • Defender of Argus 49.8% chance to win when drawn, but if played 52.6%chance to win
    • The best “warrior” card during a period in october: Baron geddon. When drawn 56% chance to win. If played 60% chance.  During this time it was mostly used in control warrior.
  • Curse of naxxramas stats:
    • It took an average of 2 attempts per boss to win on normal.
    • It took an average of 9 attempts per boss to win on heroic. Up to 45 on heroic Kel’thuzad
    • RNG is the least enjoyed part by players of Hearthstone
  • Eric Dodds comes to the stage to talk about Goblins vs GnomesGoblins_vs_Gnomes_Gameboard - smaller
    • It will be about the giant ridiculous inventions of destruction of these two races
    • They wanted to do something different to the naxxrammas theme
    • Goblins are focused on making an invention and then blowing the enemy up
    • Gnomes are about accidentally turning things into other things and other accidents
    • New minion type: Mech
    • Harvest Golem will now be considered a Mech type card, along with other old cards that would make sense to be a mech  type card
    • Another concept: Piloted Mechs
    • When the mechanical minion dies the pilot should come out
    • Example: Deathrattle: Summon a random 2-cost minion.
    • Another concept: Spare parts
    • Deathrattle: add a spare card to your hand
    • Such as  whirling blades, give a minion +1 attack
    • There are 7 spare parts in total
  • Yong Woo takes the stage
    • Spectator mode comes with the expansion!
    • Players can choose to make their games invite only for spectator mode
    • You can spectate both players at the same time!

Blizzcon Warcraft Movie Presentation – Liveblog

We’ll be liveblogging the Warcraft Movie Presentation panel once it starts at 23:15 CEST!

  • Coming to theaters March 2016
  • Duncan Jones, Bill Westenhofer and Chris Metzen enter the stage
  • Duncan Jones talks about how he got involved with blizzard and his gaming experiences
  • The movie will show both the sides of the alliance and the horde
  • It was hard to choose the story from the massive Warcraft universe to bring to the big screen
  • One of the challenges is making the movie feel like the same story as the gamers have experienced, to do the games justice
  • Chris talks about a scene he saw of the movie with Durotan and how he felt connected to it right away
  • Characters:
    • Lothar played by Travis Fimmel, alliance lead character
    • Durotan played by Toby Kebbell, horde lead character
    • Medivh played by Ben Foster
    • Orgrim Doomhammer played by Rob Kazinsky
    • Gul’dan played by Daniel Wu
    • King Llane played by Dominic Cooper
    • Blackhand played by Clancy Brown
    • Khadgar played by  Ben Schnetzer
    • Garona played by Paula Patton
  • Rob Kazinsky (doomhammer) joins the stage
  • Kazinsky talks about all his time playing WoW, started in TBC and has been a DK since patch 3.1
  • He gives a demonstration on how they had to learn to move like orcs
  • There are 2 fansites launched
    • fightforthealliance.com
    • fightforthehorde.com
  • It ends with recording “For the Alliance!”, “For the Horde!” and “For Azeroth” recordings with the crowd for the warcraft movie

Coming Soon: Adopt a Pet for Charity

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Coming Soon: Adopt a Pet for Charity

Introducing the next World of Warcraft companion up soon for adoption in the Battle.net Shop: Argi! This impossibly cute little creature will jump into your heart and nibble at your Blue Woolen Socks. She’s ready to help guide you through the savage lands of Draenor, climbing, swimming, and running wherever you go. Argi will be ready for a home this December, right in time for Winter Veil—just don’t get too upset if she chomps through the wrapping paper.

For every Argi pet purchased between December 3 and December 31, 100% of the adoption fee ($10 in the U.S.; pricing varies by region) will be donated in support of the American Red Cross to assist in Ebola relief efforts, helping enable the Red Cross to provide assistance to those in need.
The American Red Cross name and emblem are used with its permission, which in no way constitutes an endorsement, express or implied, of any product, service, company, opinion, or political position. For more information about the American Red Cross, visit www.redcross.org.

Blizzcon Opening Ceremony Liveblog

We’ll be updating this liveblog with news from the blizzcon opening ceremony as things get announced!

  • The ceremony started with videos of warcraft 1, 2 and 3 and then transitioned into World of Warcraft with the developers talking about it.
  • Mike Morhaime comes on to the stage.
  • Mike mentions the 20th anniversary of warcraft and the 10th anniversary of WoW.
  • The documentary Looking For Group will premier tommorow at 5pm bizzcon time on the main stage.
  • Afterwards it’ll be available on the website and youtube.
  • In december a new charity pet will be released, proceeds will go to the red cross to battle the ebola virus.
  • A sneak peak of the World of Warcraft movie will be shown in the special theater at blizzcon.
  • fightforthehorde.com , fightforthealliance.com set up by Legendary pictures
  • Heroes of the Storm  new things:
    • Jaina, Thrall, Lost Vikings as new heroes
    • Sky Temple, tomb of the spider queen, new battleground
    • Ranked Play
    • Closed beta starts January 13th, 2015
  • Production Director Jason Chayes enters the stage to talk about Hearthstone
  • In December the android tablet version of HS will be released
  • The first HS expansion will feature goblins and gnomes. “Goblins vs Gnomes”
  • More than 120 new cards
    • Explosive Sheep
    • Annoy-o-tron
  • It will release next month!!
  • Game Director Dustin Browder takes the stage to talk about Starcraft 2 (The Legacy of the Void logo is showing in the background).
  • Awesome new trailer shown for LotV
  • It shows Xel’naga returning as a threat
  • You will reunite the scattered Protos tribes.
  • LotV is a standalone game and will not need the other two games to play
  • The lurker is back
  • New Archon mode, you and a teammate will work together to control a single base and a single army
  • Chris Metzen enters the stage
  • A new game/world is announced!
    • Overwatch
    • A new world that used to be in a warring state but now in peace due to overwatch
    • A futuristic new world
    • A cinematic showing peace at first and then showing new heroes/villains of the series that fight each other
    • Game Director Jeff Kaplan takes the stage to continue talking about overwatch
    • Overwatch is a team based multiplayer shooter
    • Another overwatch video is shown
    • It shows the different heroes in action
    • Beta in 2015
    • Sign up at playoverwatch.com

BlizzCon® 2014 Opening Ceremony and eSports – Free Live Streams

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BlizzCon® 2014 Opening Ceremony and eSports – Free Live Streams

BlizzCon 2014 kicks off tomorrow, and you can watch the opening ceremony and all of the eSports tournament action streamed free at www.blizzcon.com/live-stream/!

The opening ceremony is scheduled to begin on Friday, November 7 at 11 a.m. PT, and tournaments run throughout both days of the show across multiple channels—check out the BlizzCon schedule for details. You can also check out our BlizzCon Tournaments pages to find international partners covering the eSports action in your preferred language:

StarCraft II World Championship Series Global Finals
Hearthstone World Championship
World of Warcraft Arena World Championship
Heroes of the Storm Exhibition Tournament and BlizzCon Brawl

If you’re interested in even more BlizzCon coverage, including developer panels, exclusive interviews, the costume and talent contests with Chris Hardwick, the closing concert with Metallica, and more, you can still purchase a BlizzCon Virtual Ticket. The Virtual Ticket gives you complete access to content on the Main Stage and Panel Stage channels, and also includes this year’s in-game goodies for World of Warcraft, StarCraft II, Diablo III, Heroes of the Storm, and Hearthstone. The Virtual Ticket also lets you watch on-demand replays of any coverage you might have missed.

6.0.3 Hotfixes: November 5

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6.0.3 Hotfixes: November 5

Here you’ll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to the recently released World of Warcraft patch 6.0.3. Hotfixes are updates we make on our end without requiring you to download a new patch. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require your realm to be restarted to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client- side patch update. We will continue to update this list as additional hotfixes are applied.

Hotfixes have been listed by the date they’ve been implemented. The hotfixes have also been compiled by category for those wanting a quick summary of all hotfixes that have been applied since Patch 6.0.3.

Patch 6.0.x Information

Racials

  • Dwarven Stoneform ability should no longer cause the character to break out of stealth.

Classes

  • Death Knight
    • General
      • Outbreak modified by Glyph of Outbreak should no longer incorrectly consume Runic Power if the attack misses.
  • Hunter
    • General
      • Explosive Trap modified by Glyph of Explosive Trap should now correctly knock enemies away from the trap instead of away from the Hunter.
      • Freezing Trap should now trigger correctly when a stealthed character walks over it.
    • Survival
      • Serpent Sting should now be correctly applied to targets even if they move more than 40 yards away when struck by Arcane Shot.
    • Hunter Pets
      • Tenacity Pet Specialization: Blood of the Rhino now reduces the pet’s physical damage taken by 15% instead of increasing armor by 20%.
      • Tenacity Pet Specialization: Great Stamina now increases the pet’s health by 60% (up from 12%).
      • Carrion Bird: Bloody Screech can now be set to autocast.
  • Priest
    • Discipline
      • Divine Aegis should now correctly factor in the increase from Might of the Mountain racial passive.
      • Holy Nova’s healing has been decreased by 15%.
    • Talents
      • Divine Star’s healing or damage (depending on Specialization) has been increased by 15%.
  • Warlock
    • General
      • Doomguards should no longer run out of energy from casting Doom Bolts.
  • Warrior
    • Talents
      • Sudden Death is now 2.5 RPPM (real procs per minute increased by Haste) instead of a 10% chance to activate from autoattacks.

Quests

  • Just Around the Corner: Characters should now be able to interact with Sparksocket’s Tools.
  • The Brothers Bronzebeard: Brann’s Flying Machine has been made to be more sturdy and should no longer be destroyed too quickly.
  • The Fall of Neferset City: Dark Pharaoh Tekahn should now spawn in correctly, allowing players to complete the quest.
  • The Strength of Tortolla: The quest can now be completed by characters with the PvP flag enabled.
  • Truce?: Characters should now be able to interact with Dull Carving Knife.

World Environment

  • Fixed an issue where Zidormi may send players to an incorrect phase in the Blasted Lands.
  • Timeless Isle
    • Resolved an issue where Mist-Covered Treasure Chest could sometimes be empty.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

  • Terrace of Endless Spring
    • Protectors of the Endless: Protector Kaolan’s Defiled Ground ability now deals less damage.
  • Heart of Fear
    • [Requires a realm restart.] Garalon: Destroying Garalon’s Legs should now correctly damage Garalon and resolved a situation where players facing one of the legs may incorrectly receive an error message that they’re not.
  • Dungeons
    • Siege of Niuzao Temple: Players should now be able to complete the achievement, Where’s My Air Support?
    • Well of Eternity: Players should now be able to complete the achievement, That’s Not Canon!
  • Challenge Mode
    • Once a Challenge Mode has started, characters can no longer change specializations, talents, or glyphs.

PvP

  • Resolved an issue where some eligible characters did not receive a Prideful Gladiator’s Cloud Serpent.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

  • Battlegrounds
    • [Requires a realm restart.] Characters should now receive a popup notifying them with the amount of bonus Honor that was awarded at the end of a Random Battleground match.
  • Arenas
    • Priests entering an Arena match while in Spirit of Redemption form should no longer die during the Arena Preparation phase.

Professions

  • Mixology should be working correctly doubles the duration of flasks and elixirs once more.

Items

  • [Requires a realm restart.] Adjusted a number of item enhancements from earlier expansions that were providing a larger than intended bonus.
  • Adjusted a number of potions from the Cataclysm expansion that were providing a larger than intended bonus.
  • Crocolisk Au Gratin should now correctly provide a buff to Haste and Stamina instead of Expertise and Stamina.
  • Fisherman’s Feast now provides a more reasonable buff to Stamina.
  • Formula: Enchant Ring – Striking no longer has a use effect as the formula it teaches no longer exists.
  • Haunted Memento’s Haunted effect is now a buff that can be removed by the character.

Bug Fixes

  • Resolved an issue where items transmogrified into The Horseman’s Horrific Hood or The Horseman’s Sinister Slicer could revert back to their original state.
  • Resolved an issue where boosting characters could cause them to forget spells that have been taught by items.