Category: World of Warcraft News

For those of you who have enjoyed running old raids for World of Warcraft transmog items, your time investment will be increasing greatly as all health pools have increased by about 300% in patch 7.3.5. While raids from Vanilla through Cataclysm are still easily soloed, Pandaria and Warlords raid content on some difficulty levels is not. The increased health pools have made fight mechanics kick in that most times render soloing impossible.

The cosplay artist behind Blizzcon 2015’s award-winning design of Grommash Hellscream, Mike Biasi, has passed away after suffering a stroke earlier this month. After an initial recovery prognosis, Biasi’s condition worsened until his death.

For those who have been looking forward to the next chapter in World of Warcraft: Legion, we have good news: Patch 7.3.5 arrives tomorrow complete with Ulduar Timewalking, new quests in Silithus, the new zone scaling feature, the Seething Short battleground (available after a short time) and several updated features. The Lunar Festival will have new hats and a “sturdier” Sturdy Love Fool will be part of the coming weeks.

In today’s WoW eSports live stream, Jeramy McIntyre and Josh Allen sat down to talk about how eSports will be presented during 2018. There are big changes in Arena Cup play, including an increase in the number of North American and European Cups that lead to qualification for the World Cup. In addition, prize pools will increase and the year will be divided into seasons.

The WoWhead team has taken a hard look at the latest World of Warcraft PTR patch notes and found an interesting increase in the minimum graphics API requirements that may impact older cards’ abilities to play the game. In the future, if these patch notes remain unchanged, players will need to have DirectX 11 or Metal installed, have a 64-bit OS and “a model shader 5 capable graphics card or better”.

The latest v7.2.5 PTR World of Warcraft build has some interesting news for players who have not had the best of luck when it comes to legendaries. A special vendor will sell legendaries according to class and spec in exchange for 175 Wakening Essences that are gathered through raids, dungeons and emissary chests. Purchasing a legendary will not affect chances of getting further legendaries. Currently, 50 Wakening Essences are collected to upgrade legendaries, currently to iLevel 1000.

The latest v7.3.5 PTR World of Warcraft build has some interesting news for players who have not had the best of luck when it comes to legendaries. A special vendor will sell legendaries according to class and spec in exchange for 175 Wakening Essences that are gathered through raids, dungeons and emissary chests. Purchasing a legendary will not affect chances of getting further legendaries. Currently, 50 Wakening Essences are collected to upgrade legendaries, currently iLevel 1000.

One of the big pieces of news about World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is the addition (FINALLY) of a new battleground called the Seething Shore. It is currently live on the PTR and WoWhead has posted a terrific new fly through video to show off the environments players will encounter. In addition, a second video shows off gameplay on the battleground that provides a first look at some of the mechanics involved.

The World of Warcraft site has been updated with a new blog that takes a look back at 2017. In it, a review is provided about the significant updates to WoW including 7.1.5, Tomb of Sargeras (7.2), the large 7.2.5 update and, rounding out the year, Antorus (7.3). This is a textual “victory lap” that fleshes out a bit more than an earlier video first posted in September.

For the first time, the Court of Stars dungeon has been defeated at Mythic +25. The team that accomplished the feat consisted of a Demon Hunter tank, Druid healer, and a Warlock, Druid and Monk in DPS roles. The interesting thing to note is that, with the exception of the Demon Hunter, all of the other characters came with a battle res, something that will be changing with v7.3.5. Battle res will share a cooldown across all characters. One res is available at the start, the next at 18 minutes.