The World of Warcraft Community Team sent us their Community Update today. Including recent news and forum posts that serves as a great recap of what's been going on the last couple of days.
EU Forums:
Here are some of the most recent blue-posts made on the forums:
EU main
EU Beta
- Update on Warrior development
- Clarification about the spell pushback change
- Bloodworms overhealing
- Camoflage removed, but might return
- Feral Concerns in WotLK
- Protection Warrior Gear
- Retroactive dungeon and raid achievements
- More on retroactive dungeon and raid achievements
- Account-wide achievements
- Changing genders
- Movement in cities
- The Dalaran Feeling
- The "new" hairstyles
- Healers and raid design
- Achievements & old keys/pets/tabards
- New exotic pets and the chimera
- Hunter shot rotations
- Role of the Death Knight
- Mana costs of new ranks and spells
- Tanking in Wrath of the Lich King
- Death Knights and auras
Other noteworthy threads:
US Forums (main and beta):
- On tank classes
- Chains of Ice change
- Attack power scaling
- Outbreak DK talent
- On raids and specs
- On DK tanking
- Another thread
- On pets and resistances
- On the number of debuff slots
- On the lifebloom change
- On inner fire
- Icy-Touch stats
- The death knight diseases
- Death Knights & the gifted levels
- Naxxramas in WotLK
- Taiwan Regional Final Winners
- Talent Coherency and Death Knight tanking
- Death Knight talent changes
- Difference between Plague Strike and Scourge Strike
- On the fire tree
- Death Knight Viability
- Resilience on pets
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New PvP Realm: Soulflayer!
13/08/08
Today at 14:00 Moscow time we are planning to open a new Russian speaking PvP realm: Soulflayer. This realm will be destination for migrations from all European realms, and will have character creation disabled for now.
Free Character migration will be available from Gordunni to Soulflayer to allow those friends and guilds who may no longer join up on Gordunni to do so on Soulflayer instead if they wish.
Note: Any migration may be closed at any point without previous notice due to population concerns.
New Fan Art: Galana and Torke!
13/08/08
This week's addition to the Blizzard Europe Fan Art Gallery is a very cute piece of work! This week's submission comes from our talented artist Galana. This submission features Galana, a draenei hunter, and her best friend Torke, enjoying a nice picnic lunch.
We're always interested in new fan art and if you're an artist, you can submit your work to us here. We update the Gallery regularly and encourage you to check regularly to see what new and talented submissions are on display.
Russian Payment FAQ Added!
12/08/08
We have just added a new FAQ for our Russian-speaking players. Please take a moment to check out the Russian Payment Methods FAQ for more detailed information on the various Russian-specific payment methods available for World of Warcraft, as well as information on the new WebMoney Transfer.
BlizzCon Tickets Now On Sale!
13/08/08
Tickets for BlizzCon 2008 are now available for USD $100 each. BlizzCon will take place ctober 10-11 in Anaheim, California -- head over to the official site for more information or to place your BlizzCon icket order. We look forward to meeting some of you at the show!
Update: We have appreciated veryone’s patience as we've worked to address issues with the BlizzCon ticket sales today. To avoid having people stay up into the early hours ttempting to make ticket purchases, we will take ticket sales down and ontinue implementing optimizations throughout the day.
There are sill plenty of tickets available, so if you weren't able to purchase tickets today, please check back later today. We'll continue to provide updates on the North American World of Warcraft forums here.
BlizzCast #4 Live!
11/08/08
BlizzCast episode 4 brings us several new perspectives on World of Warcraft. Starting us off is an interview with Russell Brower, director of audio and video, about the process of creating music for World of Warcraft to be a part of an evolving, epic experience in the world of Azeroth. Next we interview World of Warcraft game designer Jonathan LeCraft about professions, covering both what we have learned from them in the past and where they are going in Wrath of the Lich King. We finish up the episode with our Q&A segment, which features developers answering a variety of questions from our communities. Listen to the show now, or check out the transcript to see all the featured artwork.
BlizzCon 2008 Website Launched
08/08/08
We just released the official BlizzCon 2008 website. You can now find new information about this year's panels, contests, and tournaments. Make sure to check back regularly as the site will be updated with new event information such as event schedules, floor plans, store info, and much, much more.
If you’d like to see a sample of what it is like to participate in a live Blizzard event, check out our Blizzard Worldwide Invitational Videos page to see developer panels, contests, and tournaments from our event in Paris, France, in June 2008!
New Russian Realm and Migration
08/08/08
The free migration to Russian realms thus far has been a great success. To cope with the influx of players, we have opened a new PvP realm for migration, Gordunni. As for the other migration realms, character creation on Gordunni will be temporally disabled.
From today, Gordunni will be open for migrations from European realms and also, exclusively, for free character transfers from Ashenvale, to allow those friends and guilds who are no longer able to join up on Ashenvale to do so on Gordunni instead if they wish.
For the moment, the only realms opened for character creation are Thermaplugg and Eversong.
We continue to monitor your feedback and the migration and population numbers closely and will keep you updated on any further actions to make sure everybody has a great playing experience on the Russian-language realms.
WoW Comic - Preview in Italian
08/08/08
As a special treat for our Italian readers we are able to present a preview of Panini’s new comics based on World of Warcraft. Fully translated into Italian, these comics capture the action and excitement of Azeroth. You can read the preview in Italian in our comics section.
New Event: The Spirit of Competition
08/08/08
Every two years, the Spirits of Competition grow especially fervent and draw close to the mortal realm. During such times, members of both the Alliance and Horde can honor the spirits and earn Competitor's Tabards by seeking to defeat one another in the battlegrounds. This new event runs from August 8 to August 24. Refer to our Spirit of Competition page for more details, including the event's in-game rewards.
Blizzard Authenticators – Available Soon
07/08/08
Due to the high demand for the Blizzard Authenticators, they are currently sold out in the Online Store. We expect to get new stock in mid August, and will restock regularly as demand for the Authenticators continues. Thank you for your patience.
New Fan Art: Arzon!
07/08/08
This week's addition to the Blizzard Europe Fan Art Gallery is a dark and mysterious piece of work! This week's submission comes from our talented artist Jove. This submission features Arzon, a Forsaken mage gazing down from a high tower, the ashes of battle wafting in the air.
We're always interested in new fan art and if you're an artist, you can submit your work to us here. We update the Gallery regularly and encourage you to check regularly to see what new and talented submissions are on display.
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