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Anniversary Player Interview: Luek
In the spirit of Blizzard's Anniversary celebration, they have released another player interview.
Luek
is from the US realm The Underbog and sports titles such as
Tenente Generale
and
the Kingslayer
.
In this interview, they talk about how he was brought into World of Warcraft and some of his most memorable events in the game. They also talk about his early PvP experiences and many other subjects. You can read the whole interview on the official
Anniversary Mini Site
.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wowanniversary/interview/luek.xml
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GDC: Rob Pardo Speaks About Blizzard Game Design
At tenth annual Games Developer Conference
Rob Pardo
, Executive Vice President of Game Design at Blizzard, hosted a panel where he spoke about design philosophy at Blizzard. The fine folks over at
WoW.com
were able to get some nice info on some of their key successes and failures.
He spoke about how they succeeded in creating a good economy in World of Warcraft through the "taxing" for deaths, the auction house, and making money-sinks (such as mounts, titles and pets). This made the concept of gold
matter
, while on the flip side in Diablo II death, took away half your gold - but people just ended up keeping it in town unless they needed to buy something, therefore making gold pretty useless.
He also spoke about key design concepts like making everything overpowered, the default UI being a failure and several other subjects that are well worth the read.
If you weren't able to get into GDC, see it for yourself below!
http://www.wow.com/2010/03/12/rob-pardo-speaks-about-blizzard-game-design/
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Cataclysm Mastery System Preview
Last week
Blizzard went into detail about the changes into the stats system for Cataclysm and now they have finally revealed their plans for the
Mastery
system.
In a nut shell the mastery system will basically give you bonuses that increase damage, healing or survivability according to the amount of points spent in the tree. Along with it you will get a secondary bonus to a stat that is most desirable to you, like haste or crit. There is even a third bonus which will be completely unique to the tree and will benefit from the mastery rating on high-level gear.
Eyonix then goes into detail about how talents such as
will stay and
will go away in favor of more fun and interesting talents while being merged into the new mastery system.
After the break you can find the entire post along with examples for the mastery bonuses for Holy and Discipline Priests and Frost Death Knights!
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Pawn, Now with Added Wowhead Awesome
Some of you may know about this little addon from the last time we
mentioned
it, but for those who don't here's a little explanation:
Pawn
is an addon that takes the stats from an item you are looking at and gives it a score based on a weight scale, very similar to our own stat weighting system. The higher the score the "better" the item is according to the weight scales you design.
And now, Pawn users will be happy to know that the team over there has added a little extra awesome into the addon by using our
stat-weights
by default!
To get Pawn you can find it on our sister site
WoWInterface
.
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7296-Pawn.html
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3.3.3 PTR Patch Notes Updated
The PTR is currently down and is being updated to a new build, but in the mean time Blizzard has updated the PTR Patch Notes!
http://www.wowhead.com/?patchnotes=3.3.3-ptr
Included in this new build are several changes to some classes, such as
Dilaniamento
's debuff duration increased from 12 seconds to 60 seconds. There are also other class changes for Mages, Rogues and Warriors.
Another little gem was added in this build was the ability to your frame rate to an eye blistering
200 frames per second
.
Read on after the break for all of the changes!
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Icecrown Citadel Raid Buff Now Live
The buff promised by Blizzard to make
Rocca della Corona di Ghiaccio
easier has finally been enabled on live realms as of this morning's rolling restarts!
Forza di Wrynn
for the Alliance and
Canto di Guerra di Malogrido
for the Horde
increase damage, healing and health by 5%
. From looking at related spells it will slowly increase over time to finally reaching its top out point of
30%
.
These buffs will hopefully help out those raid groups that are having issues progressing through the raid encounter. But those who wish to do this without help still have the option to turn it off by speaking with your respective faction leader to disable the buff.
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Stat Changes in Cataclysm Announced
Quite a few of you have heard about the changes coming to stats in
Cataclysm
, and out of that few many have wondered what exactly is changing.
Eyonix has gone into detail about each and every change you will be seeing in the upcoming expansion, including spell power coming from intellect, and haste rating doing "more stuff" for melee users than just increasing attack speed.
You can read on after the break for the original post and the full changes.
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Feb 26 #BlizzChat Developer Chat Transcript
The
#BlizzChat
developer chat on Twitter just ended, and we have a recap on some of the best questions that were answered below.
Q:
Moonkin/tree form graphical updates?
A:
Tree is maybe, no promises.
Q:
Revamp old races to be more like new races starting zones?
A:
Not on same level but a little.
Q:
Removing cap on honor like emblems?
A:
More likely to cap emblems.
Q:
Will we see pre-launch events in 3.3.3?
A:
We don't have an exact time yet but a few months before release.
Q:
Multiple raid released at the same time, will we see that?
A:
Multiple raids will ship with
Cataclysm
initially.
Q:
Dance studio?
A:
Still on the list!
Q:
Where's my moose?!
A:
We might have to do a moose now...
Q:
More resilience enchants?
A:
Enchanting seems lik
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Let's Fight! Players vs. Blizzard in PTR Battlegrounds
Have you ever wanted to stomp on some
Blizzard employees in PvP
? Well now is your chance!
Today between 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM (Pacific time) members of the Blizzard Community Team and QA staff will be queuing up with the Random Battleground Finder on the US PTR realms of Broxigar and Anasterian. So bring your main or alt or even one of the premade characters, and show them what you got!
Hey all,
Ever wanted to Pwn a Blizzard employee in WoW PvP? Now's your chance because tomorrow from 4:30PM to 6:30PM (PST) a few of us will be queuing up for BGs via the new Random Battleground Finder on the US realms! Bring your main/alt/premade and show us what you got!
What: Random Battleground Finder
Who: Blizzard Community Team and Blizzard QA
Place: US Servers Broxigar and Anasterian
Time: 4:30 - 6:30 PST
Date: 2-26-2010
(Note: Time/Event is subject to change.)
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BlizzCast Episode 13 Now Available
BlizzCast Episode 13
was just released on the official Blizzard
website
. This episode features a large chunk of discussion about the StarCraft II beta and a little more on World of Warcraft and Diablo 3.
In regards to World of Warcraft we have Bashiok, who you may remember as Drysc, and Zarhym talking back and forth about their opinions on the final chapter of Wrath of the Lich King and what lays in store for us as we approach the upcoming
Cataclysm
.
You can listen to the entire episode and read the transcript on Blizzard's
website
http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/community/blizzcast/archive/episode13.html
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Twitter BlizzChat on Friday, Feb 26
Blizzard will be holding another
Developer Chat on Twitter
this Friday!
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23BlizzChat
To submit a question you will need to tweet using the
#BlizzChat
hashtag between
5:00 PM
and
6:00 PM
(Pacific time) on Friday, Feburary 26, 2010. During the chat all questions will be posted on the forums due to the character limitations of Twitter.
Read on after the break for the original post! The full BlizzChat history is available
here
.
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19th Battlecry Mosaic Tile Unlocked: New Music
The Warcraft Battlecry Mosaic has unlocked its
second-to-last tile
! They've collected
19,212
pictures, which not only unlocks a new tile in the mosaic, it also unlocks a brand new piece of content! This time it's a piece of music called
Tournament Battle One
, a battle song designed to to strike fear into the hearts of the Scourge!
There is only
788
pictures left to be collected, so if you haven't, you still have a chance to get your picture on the official
Battlecry Mosaic website
!
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Gryphon and Wind Rider Plushies Now On Sale!
A
few weeks
ago Blizzard announced that in the near future they where going to release plushies of two very cute pets.
Well they'veve finally gone on sale, and you can now purchase a
Gryphon Hatchling
and a
Wind Rider Cub
from the
Blizzard Store
Each plushie comes with a code which you can activate on the Battle.net account page that will give one account the same pet in-game!
http://us.blizzard.com/store/browse.xml?f=c:5
And for any of you who may have missed it, here are the 3D models of the in-game pets:
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Frozo the Renowned: Upcoming Frozen Orb Trader
As some of you may have a very large collection of
Globo Congelato
hiding in your bank (I personally have about 100 of them), you will be glad to know Blizzard will be adding a new vendor in
patch 3.3.3
in
Dalaran
where you can trade in your Frozen Orbs for trade goods.
His name is
Frozo the Renowned
and he will trade your frozen orbs for select goods such as include
Globo del Crociato
, eternals of every element,
Fiore di Loto del Gelo
and even a tailor only Frosty Flying Carpet pattern!
Here's the full list of things you can get with orbs:
These each cost 1 Frozen Orb unless noted otherwise in parentheses:
Globo del Crociato
(6)
Globo Runico
(4)
Aria Eterna
Terra Eterna
Fuoco Eterno
Vita Eterna
Ombra Eterna
Acqua Eterna
Fiore di Loto del Gelo
Pattern: Frosty Flying Carpet (6)
Tailors rejoice -- you get another exclusive flying carpet.
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Patch 3.3.3: Upcoming Wintergrasp Balance Changes
Patch 3.3.3
is hitting the PTR soon and with it come some changes to
Lungoinverno
that will change how it works from then on. This also comes along with the other battleground and honor system changes discussed about
yesterday
.
Blizzard has never before revealed details of the inner workings of the Wintergrasp combat system, which favors certain sides based on how long you've controlled Wintergrasp recently. The entire explanation of the changes being made to the hidden system is posted below.
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Tom Chilton Interview: Possible Raid Boss Before Cataclysm
Game Informer
published yesterday an interview with Tom Chilton, game director for World of Warcraft, looking back on the Wrath of the Lich King expansion.
They talk about how what classes we might have seen instead of Death Knights, graphical improvements, PvP, why Ulduar was chosen and even a brief discussion of the content patch between now and and Cataclysm.
Hint: It just might be a
single-boss encounter in the Ruby Sanctum
, inside Wyrmrest Temple!
For the final question, there’s been some rumors going around and I wanted to clear them up. You guys have wrapped up the main Lich King storyline. Icecrown is out there, which you guys have said is the final major raid for this expansion. But there are some rumors that there might be another content patch of some
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Patch 3.3.3: Major Battleground and Honor System Changes
There are some major changes coming to battlegrounds and the honor system in the near future, and we should be seeing this hit on the PTR shortly.
Some highlights include the
removal of Marks of Honor
, changes to
battleground weekends
, a
random battleground system
and
increasing honorable kill rewards by 100%
.
Read on after the break for the full changes!
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Two More Battlecry Mosaic Tiles Unlocked
The
Warcraft Battlecry Mosaic
is finally nearing completion, with
18,038
pictures collected for the mosaic! Of course, two tiles have been unlocked along with some new art.
A
collage
of sketches and images from the original World of Warcraft cinematic.
A piece of
art
done by Wei Wang that depicts a Draenei Paladin.
There is only
1,962
pictures remaining to be collected, so head over to the official
Battlecry site
and claim your spot!
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wowanniversary/battlecry/
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StarCraft II Beta Has Begun!
The moment a lot of you have been waiting for has arrived, the
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Beta Test
has begun!
#StarCraft2
beta has arrived!
http://cot.ag/cQ81FV
#SCUpdate
You can find more about the beta test on the official
beta site
or the
beta forums
.
I know I am ready for StarCraft II, what about all of you?
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Blizzard and Upper Deck Parting Ways
As some of you may have heard on other sites, such as
WoW.com
,
Blizzard
and
Upper Deck
are not renewing the contract for Upper Deck to produce the trading card game cards. This is a big change as Upper Deck is one the biggest distributors of TCG that I can think of. Blizzard has said they will continue forward with the TCG and are continuing to look forward.
Now onto a little speculation! From what I noticed and have heard about around the water cooler (You didn't know we had a water cooler?) is that Blizzard likes to do things in-house. Compared to when Blizzard and Upper Deck first launched the WoW TCG, Blizzard has received a lot of experience in the TCG arena and they may have decided it's time to bring the project under their own umbrella. This would mean Blizzard would begin printing the cards and distributing it themselves and would have more freedom in how to handle things.
You can read the post by Blizzard regarding this after the break.
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