Category: World of Warcraft News

The preorder page for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is now live. Players can purchase one of two available editions, Standard for $50 or the Digital Deluxe for $70. Each of the two contain a level 110 boost and the Digital Deluxe edition contains a pair of mounts and a pet.

The preorder page for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is now live. Players can purchase one of two available editions, Standard for $50 or the Digital Deluxe for $70. Each of the two contain a level 110 boost and the Digital Deluxe edition contains a pair of mounts and a pet.

It appears that the Collector’s Items for preordering Battle for Azeroth are now visible in World of Warcraft. Two mounts (one each Alliance and Horde) and a pet are visible by looking at the Pets and Mount tabs in the interface. Though preorders haven’t yet been announced, there is a Q&A today at 12:00 pm Pacific / 3:00 pm Eastern with Ion Hazzikostas. Many are hopeful that the event will lead to the commencement of preorders. We’ll have a live blog of the event in about 2 hours.

If you’ve been looking forward to the next World of Warcraft expansion, Battle for Azeroth, it appears that the countdown has begun. According to WoWhead, the alpha version of BfA has landed on Blizzard servers and the datamining teams have been hard at work pulling out tons of new information about what you can expect.

Blizzard announced the next World of Warcraft expansion, Battle for Azeroth, during November’s Blizzcon 2017. In an unusual turn of events, however, preorders for BfA has yet to open up. However, intrepid dataminers over at WoWhead have found a few tidbits in the form of preorder rewards players will earn.

The World of Warcraft site has been updated with a post to reveal some of the upcoming class design changes coming in the Battle for Azeroth expansion. Most notably, the goals for BfA are to “promote what makes each class unique, focus on making group gameplay the best that it can be and continue our efforts to improve combat visuals and effects”. Some specs need “substantial iteration” while others do not as devs work to achieve the stated goals.

For years, World of Warcraft players have been able to give a “leg up” to friends brought to the game through the Recruit-a-Friend program. Previous to today, recruited friends could gain 200% XP when playing with the recruiter. Due to changes in the leveling experience in 7.3.5, however, that XP boon is being reduced to 50%. “We are making these changes to ensure the XP boost doesn’t upset game balance and undermine the experience, while still giving a significant XP boost”.

The World of Warcraft site has been updated with a brief post to give 3v3 arena players a bit of a leg up on strategic game play. In this edition, a few tips on what to do before the match even begins are provided. Teams will have up to a minute to see their opponents’ classes and specializations as well as how to formulate a plan ahead of the start of the match.

North American and European World of Warcraft will be going down this weekend for extended maintenance. While no official word on the update has been announced, it is assumed this will be to deploy a hotfix reducing raid boss health in Warlords of Draenor and Mists of Pandaria. A PTR update went live earlier today reflecting that change. NA realms will go down tomorrow at 7:00 am Pacific / 10:00 am Eastern and are expected to be back up at 3:00 pm Pacific / 6:00 pm Eastern.

A brief blue post has cropped up on the US World of Warcraft forums that addresses the furor that has erupted since the launch of patch 7.3.5. After the update, players heading in to Warlords of Draenor and Pandaria raids noticed a 300% increase to boss health that prevented many of them from being soloed for the purpose of collecting transmog items and mounts. Blizzard has responded to the outcry that it was never “our intention…to greatly increase the difficulty”.