Category: World of Warcraft News

Blizzard has announced that the World of Warcraft charity pet, Mischief the Fel Kitten, is now on sale in the Blizzard Store. Both a virtual battle pet and a real-world plushie featuring Mischief are available. 100% of the $10 purchase price of the virtual pet through the end of December will go to the Make-A-Wish foundation while the plushie is $25.00 with $14.00 going to Make-A-Wish.

World of Warcraft: Legion is considered by many as one of the best expansions in the game’s history. It is not, however, without criticism from several corners, most particularly from players who believe that Blizzard is ignoring class and spec feedback. Warlock YouTuber Pyromancer has taken to the airwaves in what he says is the “Final Stand of Warlocks” to attempt to compile feedback in the hopes that Blizzard developers will lend an ear to make changes.

World of Warcraft Lead Quest Designer David Kosak has announced via his personal Twitter account that he has moved from WoW to Hearthstone. What his duties there will be remains to be seen but Kosak marks another long-time WoW team member to depart over the past year.

Over the long Thanksgiving weekend, one of the World of Warcraft daily reputation or “emissary” quests popped up for the Kirin Tor. This group is a faction that has come up rarely since Legion’s launch but is one of the required exalted faction prerequisites for flying set to be introduced in a later update. While four quests are required to complete an emissary quest, only two Kirin Tor quests came up throughout the weekend (one a brand new quest and came up twice), one of which was broken.

World of Warcraft players have been speculating for quite a while that there was an unseen cap on the number of Legendaries each character guaranteed to obtain with the help of bad luck protection. It was thought that this cap was 4. In a post late last week, Game Director Ion “Watcher” Hazzikostas admitted that there was indeed a legendary “softcap” and explained why it was in place and why it was since removed without patch notes notification.

Three of the first five guilds to take out Helya in the World of Warcraft: Legion raid, Trial of Valor, have been stripped of the achievement for doing so and all participants have been banned from the game for eight days. The three guilds (Exorsus, From Scratch and Limit) used a known exploit to take out Helya, the raid’s final boss. Method and Serenity, the other two guilds in the top 5, did not use the exploit and their achievements stand, including Method’s world first Helya kill.

Controversy has been swirling around World of Warcraft official forums about the random drop chance of legendaries in Legion. On the EU forum Community Manager Aerythlea took some time to clarify the “bad luck protection” that the development team has embedded into the game.

The World of Warcraft PTR for Legion was recently updated with the v7.1.5 patch that is a work in progress. This particular patch is specifically designed around tuning classes and specs, with regards to mechanics, rotations, abilities, talent options, etc. The WoW forums have been alight with heated discussions about the sometimes massive changes perceived coming to many classes.

In this video we showcase the final Rogue Campaign mission from World of Warcraft: Legion. As always, SPOILERS AHEAD!

The Nostalrius team has made good on its threat to release the server code for the “private” server Nostalrius, a Vanilla version of World of Warcraft. Prior to Blizzcon Blizzard announced that Vanilla servers would not be a topic of discussion during the event but that the issue was still not taken off the table for consideration.