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Garrison Resource Quest Rewards Hotfix
The Tanaan daily quests and first dungeon daily now reward more Garrison Resources than before! This should help players that are constantly swapping out equipment for Naval Missions. The new rewards are listed below.

Level Name Currency
100Bringing Down the Iron Horde
Daily
 Garrison Resources × 100
100Bringing Down the Iron Horde
Daily
 Garrison Resources × 100
100Demonslayer of Tanaan
Daily
 Garrison Resources × 100
100Demonslayer of Tanaan
Daily
 Garrison Resources × 100
100Pressing the Attack
Daily
 Apexis Crystal × 1000 Garrison Resources × 150
100Pressing the Attack
Daily
 Apexis Crystal × 1000 Garrison Resources × 150
100Daily Heroic Random (1st) (Draenor) Garrison Resources × 200


Character Name Release Requests
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)
We often receive requests from players to free up a character name. Customer Support will no longer assist with releasing names. Instead, names will automatically become available if the account that holds the name has remained inactive for the past two expansions.

For example, if an account has been inactive since before the Cataclysm expansion, all names on that account will be made available when the Warlords of Draenor expansion launches.

If you are an active player, there is no need to worry that your character names will be changed, even if you have been playing other characters for a while.

2015 European Road to BlizzCon: World of Warcraft Qualifiers
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
The 2015 Road to BlizzCon is about to open for European World of Warcraft teams!

Professional and amateur players alike will battle it out in online open qualifying tournaments hosted by ESL this August, and you can take part!

The best players in each of the tournaments will move on to the European Championship, where teams will vie for a share of $100,000 USD in prize money. The top three teams at the European Championship will then qualify for the World of Warcraft Arena World Championship at BlizzCon later this year!

  • First Online Qualifier - August 2
    • Register Here - Sign up ends: July 30 - 22:00 CEST
    • Top 2 teams will qualify
  • Second Online Qualifier - August 16
    • Register Here - Sign up ends: August 13 - 22:00 CEST
    • Top 3 teams will qualify
  • Third Online Qualifier - August 23
    • Register Here - Sign up ends: August 20 - 22:00 CEST
    • Top 3 teams will qualify

Whether you’re a professional team or a group of friends who enjoy gaming together, you’re invited to take part in the online qualifiers. In order to be eligible to register, you'll need to have each earned an arena rating of 2100 or above by 22:00 CEST on July 30. With several chances to make it to the European Championship, the 2015 European Road to BlizzCon is the perfect opportunity to make your mark in the World of Warcraft eSports scene!

For details on the online qualifiers, including how to sign up and participate, check out the ESL event pages linked below.

ESL World of Warcraft 2015 European Road to Blizzcon

ESL World of Warcraft 2015 European Road to Blizzcon - Frequently Asked Questions

You can learn more about the World of Warcraft European Championship here


Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Timewalking
I think the tuning for Timewalker this week was a little off. Any way the XP gains from it could be nudged up? Barely got any
We’ll be looking at the XP that leveling players receive from Timewalking; we agree it could be more rewarding. (WarcraftDevs)

Achievements
Tune-o-Tron micro in the toy box says it needs "More Hit Tunes" achieve but there is no achieve called that
The portable audiophone was accidentally added twice; there is a duplicate entry with an older name and it's fixed in 6.2.1. (WarcraftDevs)

PvP
Remove the Ancient Artifact. It ruins Ashran, especially when it's small scale.
We are going to prevent it from spawning when populations are low. (holinka)
You're completely missing the point. Populations are ALWAYS LOW, and AA is guaranteed "I win" now
What region are you in and what time do you play? We see low populations at off-peak times but not always. (holinka)

Warcraft Movie Teaser Images
More still shots someone took of the Warcraft Movie teaser showed up recently.



Wildstar - Combat Stat Revamp
Wildstar is getting their own stat revamp. Several stats are being removed and more are being added and revamped.



Dark Legacy Comics #498
DLC continues their series that looks at Vanilla again this week.

This article was originally published in forum thread: Quest Hotfixes, Character Name Releases, EU Arena Qualifiers, Blue Tweets, DLC #498 started by chaud View original post
Comments 35 Comments
  1. mmoc248e43d934's Avatar
    Yeah no nevermind I have nothing smart to say.
  1. Leyre's Avatar
    Hopefully one day Rift will also remove stats
  1. Hordok's Avatar
    I wish Blizzard would exit baby mode.. And actually do things how they use to, instead of one raid with four difficulties. It sucks bad. Dare I say open up legacy servers * gasp * nah nobody would play on those, right.
  1. Demoncrash's Avatar
    Gotta love that DLC comic.
  1. Bathory's Avatar
    Haaaaah corpse sliding bug. That was hilarious in PVP. Vanish bug was annoying, but nothing compared to loot lag.
  1. Shudder's Avatar
    Wildstar should be removing attunements not stats if they want anyone to play their game.
  1. Seranthor's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Hordok View Post
    I wish Blizzard would exit baby mode.. And actually do things how they use to, instead of one raid with four difficulties. It sucks bad. Dare I say open up legacy servers * gasp * nah nobody would play on those, right.
    I bet if you and all the others that wanted 'Legacy' servers would start a kickstarter campaign and came up with the money to PAY for it, I bet Blizzard would do it. Then we could see how many are serious about it.
  1. mmoc43a108a939's Avatar
    Maybe they should reduce the amount of resources required to build lvl 3 buildings and gold/resources to get lvl 3 garrison as its killer for newly dinged 100s at this time in the expansion.
    Last time I leveled I skipped all of Talador and got 100 half way through Spires of Arak which reduces the amount of resources that I can get unless i waste time and do every quest which is a little redundant if you are trying to get 100 fast.

    Add on top of that trying to lvl up followers while you are leveling.
  1. ttak82's Avatar
    I liked that post on Wildstar. I am all for xxxx types of stats. (It reminds me of Diablo II/III).
  1. Lochton's Avatar
    Right, so if I understand right with the name unlock. Blizzard wont support custom requests that normally could be done every 3rd month after an account has been inactive, instead players request is going to be denied and told to wait 2+ years? A little over the top, I think.
  1. caervek's Avatar
    Why not just make naval items cost oil like they should? I'm drowning in the stuff with nothing to use it on.
  1. Flomeni's Avatar
    IM IRON MAAAN puu.sh/jethT/59fa029a4c[point]jpg
  1. Tatakau's Avatar
    That last movie teaser screenshot looks like a crappy cosplay
  1. Xanwryn's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Hordok View Post
    I wish Blizzard would exit baby mode.. And actually do things how they use to, instead of one raid with four difficulties. It sucks bad. Dare I say open up legacy servers * gasp * nah nobody would play on those, right.
    Wildstar tried that and look how well that went so yes, you're right. Nobody would play on those.
  1. mmoc8ee790e781's Avatar
    The alliance costumes look absolutely aweful in the trailer pics, like some bad cosplay mixed with cheesy re colouring
  1. arcaneshot's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Gehco View Post
    Right, so if I understand right with the name unlock. Blizzard wont support custom requests that normally could be done every 3rd month after an account has been inactive, instead players request is going to be denied and told to wait 2+ years? A little over the top, I think.
    Thanks for abusing the GMs for releasing names.
  1. Lochton's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by arcaneshot View Post
    Thanks for abusing the GMs for releasing names.
    Not really abuse, it is a common task they have done for years. If a name has gone inactive (3 months after last pay), then you can without any complaint, request the name released. Not abuse, a service.

    Else, I guess you called the all restore request abuse as well? Or other such mundane tasks as back in the day of getting your character restored, etc?

    GM support beyond complaints are abuse to you?
  1. mmoc9cb242d19c's Avatar
    You know for having probably one of the best support systems in the gaming industry, they sure are removing a tonne of reasons to contact a GM. Bullshit really.
  1. MrExcelion's Avatar
    Blizzard continually looks for ways to streamline and reduce GM ticket load through automated means. Name changes were probably getting out of control lately, yeah. They're also pretty much hands off with loot matters, but that's not as big of an issue with more players using personal loot.
  1. VanishO2's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Gehco View Post
    Not really abuse, it is a common task they have done for years. If a name has gone inactive (3 months after last pay), then you can without any complaint, request the name released. Not abuse, a service.

    Else, I guess you called the all restore request abuse as well? Or other such mundane tasks as back in the day of getting your character restored, etc?

    GM support beyond complaints are abuse to you?
    3 months to release a name? Yeah, right, because we don't get 1 year + of the same content that makes people leave the game until next xpac...

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