Category: World of Warcraft News

On Friday, September 14th at 2:00 pm Pacific / 5:00 pm Eastern, World of Warcraft Game Director Ion Hazzikostas will be heading over to /r/WoW to take part in an “ask me anything” session with fans of the game. The topic is general, but more tailored to the Live Game (“current ideas, problems, etc.”). There is no specific end to the AMA, though Hazzikostas noted that he’s “planning on spending at least a couple hours responding” in an attempt “for much more robust communication on our end”.

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth now has the mythic version of its first raid, Uldir. That means that the race for a “World First” clear, unofficial as it is, is now underway. For those who would like to keep track of things, Method is streaming all of their progress through Uldir for the first time in its history. The first 100 guilds each on the Alliance and Horde side to clear Uldir will be awarded with a special title thanks to the new leaderboards.

From today through Friday, various World of Warcraft art teams will be showcasing their work, each day focused on a different team. The new day’s contents will be shown at 10:00 am Pacific / 1:00 pm Eastern each day.

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth players have a lot more to do this week thanks to the arrival of Warfronts and the expansion’s first raid. The Arathi Highlands Warfront is currently active with the Alliance in control with the Horde making “contributions” that will switch the Warfront’s focus in a week or two. Alliance players able to play in the PvE Warfront have access to a world boss that drops 370+ gear.

The World of Warcraft Diary project by former Blizzard developer John Staats has turned to KickStarter. Staats is WoW’s first 3D level designer and his book will touch on the design of the game from the ground up. The project sought $10,000 but is already nearing $30,000 with about four weeks to go.

The World of Warcraft site has been updated with a pair of newsy news items. In the first, devs detail a number of changes coming to the item listing process on the WoW Auction House. In the second, an exploit that allowed players to “farm” quests repeatedly to gain Exalted reputations has been identified and hotfixed. Players who took advantage of the exploit will be punished, though no word has come down yet on what that punishment will be.

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that the Battle for Azeroth expansion to World of Warcraft has scored a new Day-One sales record by moving 3.4M copies on August 14th. Seemingly, this does not include units pre-ordered prior to launch day. This makes BfA the “fastest-selling WoW expansion ever” and makes it “one of the fastest-selling PC games of all time”.

The World of Warcraft community site has been updated with a new post to help you decide which character to use the Battle for Azeroth boost that came as part of your expansion purchase. The new Class Trial allows you to select a specific class and specialization that will then provide you a chance to play as a 110 through a tutorial, the Battle for Lordaeron and on to obtain the Heart of Azeroth. If it’s “the one”, you can use your boost or leave it in your alt list for a time while you decide.

If you’ve been on the fence about purchasing World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, you’re in luck! We’re giving away a copy of the latest expansion through Gleam. We’ll be choosing the winner tomorrow afternoon, so time is short. Don’t delay!

The first-ever simultaneous worldwide release of a World of Warcraft expansion has not gone easy, to say the least. Blizzard flipped the switch on all servers at 3:00 pm Pacific yesterday and that’s where the trouble began. Multiple Reddit threads and Twitter posts and official forum posts have been complaining of disconnects, log-in issues and horrendous lag in the game if they managed to actually play. While hellish for some, the “world first” level 120 happened mere hours after BfA began.