Stormwind Repairs, Stables, Blazing Wings, Updated Garrison Guides, Live Raid, DLC

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BlizzCon begins this Friday, Blizzcon Merch Sale, Loh and LaK clarification

Warlords Cardback Changes Incoming, Mekkatorque's Workshop #1

BlizzCon Heroes Exhibition Teams, Auth Maintenance: Nov 5th

The End Game Tournament - Round 2: Day 1

Warlords of Draenor - Stormwind Repairs
It looks like the previously mentioned Stormwind Repairs won't make it in this expansion after all.

Warlords of Draenor - Garrisons: Stables
The Stables takes up a Large plot which can also be used for a Mage Tower / Spirit Lodge, Gnomish Gearworks / Goblin Workshop, Dwarven Bunker / War Mill, or Barracks. Once upgraded to Tier 3, your garrison will have two Large plots available.

Abilities
This building is good for collecting additional mounts, moving faster in Draenor, and gathering faster in Draenor. Some of the mounts that you have marked as favorites will walk around your Stables, allowing you to show them off.

• Level 1 - Enables the capture and training of special mounts on Draenor. Also allows you remain mounted while interacting with objects in outdoor Draenor zones.
• Level 2 - You will no longer get dazed by enemies while riding mounts in outdoor Draenor zones.
• Level 3 - Increases mount speed in Draenor by 20%.

Level 3 Unlock
The Level 3 version of this building is unlocked by completing the Master of Mounts achievement, which requires you to unlock all six mounts that the Stables provides.


Trained Mounts
The Stables allow you to complete a series of quests to collect six different mounts. Initially you must capture a mount, which will open access to other quests that require you to train with it. After a sufficient amount of training has been done, you are ready to learn the mount. These mounts will remain yours to use even if you replace the building with another.

Name	Description
Trained Icehoof	Summons and dismisses your Trained Icehoof.
Trained Meadowstomper	Summons and dismisses your Trained Meadowstomper.
Trained Rocktusk	Summons and dismisses your Trained Rocktusk.
Trained Riverwallow	Summons and dismisses your Trained Riverwallow.
Trained Silverpelt	Summons and dismisses your Trained Silverpelt.
Trained Snarler	Summons and dismisses your Trained Snarler.

Achievement Mounts
These mounts are rewarded from the Advanced Husbandry and Stable Master achievements (according to the Mount Journal). The achievements do not list them as a reward currently.

Name	Description
Armored Frostboar	Summons and dismisses your Armored Frostboar.
Armored Frostwolf	Summons and dismisses your Armored Frostwolf.

Achievements

Name	Side	Points	Reward
Intro to Husbandry Complete all of the capture quests at the Stables.		5
Master of Mounts Fully train all six mounts at your Stables.		5	Reward: Unlocks Garrison Blueprint: Stables, Level 3
The Stable Master Defeat all mount-in-training targets in Nagrand while carrying the Garn-Tooth Necklace.	Alliance	10	Title Reward: Stable Master <Name>
The Stable Master Defeat all mount-in-training targets in Nagrand while carrying the Garn-Tooth Necklace.	Horde	10	Title Reward: Stable Master

Interface Art

Level 1 Alliance Screenshots

Level 1 Horde Screenshots

Level 2 Alliance Screenshots

Level 2 Horde Screenshots

Blazing Wings and Shapeshift Forms

There were some issues with certain cosmetic effects, such as Blazing Wings, attaching to shapeshift forms incorrectly (e.g. backwards, upside-down, etc). We had to disable them temporarily, but we've isolated the issues causing the bug, and should have it fixed for the next major patch. We think a feral Druid with fiery wings is going to look pretty sweet too.

Longer-term, we're working on a way to allow cosmetic toys that completely take over your character (such as Smite's Brass Compass or Krastinov's Bag of Horrors) to work with shapeshift forms as well. I don't have details to share on exactly how that's going to work yet, but we're working on a solution that will allow everyone to enjoy their toys, without hurting gameplay for other players (such as being able to recognize when a Druid is in Cat form and thus unable to be Polymorphed).

Blizzard Activision Q3 2014 Earnings Call
There wasn't much of note in this call, as the subscriber increase was announced before the call.

Warlords of Draenor - Garrisons: Dwarven Bunker / War Mill
Our Dwarven Bunker / War Mill guide has been updated.

Warlords of Draenor - Garrisons: Town Hall
Our Town Hall guide has been updated.

Blue Tweets

Classes
Shaman (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
Any chance we could make it so friendly Earthquake doesn't show up or looks different? It's annoying as a melee.
We'll likely hide Earthquake for allies of the caster (hotfix), and work on a chilled-out visual for a later patch. (WatcherDev)

PvP
Where Dota-like games an inspiration for some concepts of ashran? (like respawning at your base to balance the lane push)
It was more based on Alterac Valley (holinka)

World
you said you would maybe revisit it, would you consider moving the horde event to Orgrimmar since its the main capital like SW?
It's a Forsaken holiday, so no. (_DonAdams)

Misc
We added more hardware to the Australian instance server pools this morning. Players there should find themselves on US much less often. (Source)

BlizzCon 2014 Live Raid - Method vs. Midwinter

The ongoing battle between two raiding behemoths continues! This year’s BlizzCon World of Warcraft Live Raid will once again pit Horde guild Method (EU-Twisting Nether) against Alliance guild Midwinter (US-Sargeras) in a battle for PvE supremacy.

These two teams of exceptionally skilled raiders will be testing their mettle in the unreleased of Warlords of Draenor Raid dungeon Highmaul on Heroic difficulty. What could possibly go wrong?

Each Raid team will have a trio of representatives on stage—and when the battle begins, they’ll need every ounce of your support wherever you’re watching BlizzCon from.

Representing Midwinter on stage will be:

• Gondlem – Windwalker Monk
• Slootbag – Protection Paladin
• Kaowa – Assassination Rogue

Representing Method on stage will be:

• Blatty – Arcane Mage
• Rogerbrown – Marksmanship Hunter
• Treckie – Protection Paladin

World of Warcraft lead game designer Ion “Watcher” Hazzikostas will be joined on stage by community manager Josh “Lore” Allen to provide commentary on the Live Raid.

If you’re attending BlizzCon 2014 in person, join us Saturday morning at 10 a.m. PST in Hall D to witness the epic battle—otherwise, you can tune in to watch the race live from the comfort of your home with the Virtual Ticket.

Curse - The End Game Tournament and Giveaway
Curse is running a WoW Boss Battle Tournament with new lineups every day until Warlords of Draenor release. Along with the tournament they are giving away a SteelSeries mouse and mousepad every day. Be sure to vote every day from noon EST to 10 AM EST on the following day for your chance to win.

Dark Legacy Comics - #464
DLC #464 looks at new facial expressions.

[Buttonmasher]

I see. I'm awaiting the inevitable Blood Elf update soon to come... SOMETHING...

[JaceDraccus]

Well, Sentinel Hill's been waiting even longer...

[Tyrathius]

"We'll get to you eventually, alliance! But not right now. There's Orc stuff to make."

[schippie]

So are blood elf updates still going to happen this expansion?
Or are blood elf, worgen, goblin updates pushed to the next expansion all of a sudden?

[Highlord Hanibuhl]

Seriously... how hard is it to extrude those poly's, remove the items and fill it with existing models from Gilneas? That takes a few hours...
How can you take these people seriously>?

[Stormgnoef]

That stable lvl 3 no daze is such need.

[Wishblade]

Just wanna mention, the interface art in the Town Hall guide is that of the Inn/Tavern, not the Town Hall.

[MasterHamster]

"We'll get to you eventually, alliance! But not right now. There's Orc stuff to make."

"Why are they wasting time on something no one cares about? How many raid tiers did it cost to repair Stormwind huehuehuheuhueheuheuehuehuehheuuehueuheuhuehuehheueuuehuhuu hueishufheuhs."

They know the response, maybe that's why they don't care to "fix" it anytime soon.

So are blood elf updates still going to happen this expansion?
Or are blood elf, worgen, goblin updates pushed to the next expansion all of a sudden?

Worgen and goblins aren't getting updated.

[schippie]

"Why are they wasting time on something no one cares about? How many raid tiers did it cost to repair Stormwind huehuehuheuhueheuheuehuehuehheuuehueuheuhuehuehheueuuehuhuu hueishufheuhs."

They know the response, maybe that's why they don't care to "fix" it anytime soon.



Worgen and goblins aren't getting updated.

Oh thought they said they were looking into it after the blood elfs would be done have they changed their stance on it?

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Incoming "Stormwind park cost us a raid tier!!1"

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MFW the mods and mmo champion regulars complain about the "cost us a raid tier joke" while a blizzard high up rep actually said it now in a tweet.

[mammu2u]

Big surprise... Can we just make Iron Forge the new capital please?!

[tumppu]

That stable lvl 3 no daze is such need.

** lvl2. Though that +20% mount speed is not too shabby either.

[Eberon]

"Why are they wasting time on something no one cares about? How many raid tiers did it cost to repair Stormwind huehuehuheuhueheuheuehuehuehheuuehueuheuhuehuehheueuuehuhuu hueishufheuhs."

I doubt it actually. It's World of Warcraft and not Raids of Warcraft. Would be nice if they started to treat it again as such.

[Deleted]

To be honest, with the AMAZING visuals of the Alliance Garrisons.. Who the HECK cares anyways?

It'll get done at some point. Untill then, Alliance players can enjoy an amazing looking Garrison with incredible details, amazing atmosphere and beautiful buildings.

I said it before some time ago, the reason for this all is extremely simple;

It's all about work allocation!
The Alliance' park district is still in shambles because all availalbe laborforce was sent to create the new Garrisons. Meanwhile, the Horde gets to live in twig-town with mud-huts everywhere and spikes because every capable peon is assigned to polishing and dusting off Orgrimmar to make sure there's not a visible scrach after the siege happened.

[ttak82]

To be honest, with the AMAZING visuals of the Alliance Garrisons.. Who the HECK cares anyways?

It'll get done at some point. Untill then, Alliance players can enjoy an amazing looking Garrison with incredible details, amazing atmosphere and beautiful buildings.

I said it before some time ago, the reason for this all is extremely simple;

It's all about work allocation!
The Alliance' park district is still in shambles because all availalbe laborforce was sent to create the new Garrisons. Meanwhile, the Horde gets to live in twig-town with mud-huts everywhere and spikes because every capable peon is assigned to polishing and dusting off Orgrimmar to make sure there's not a visible scrach after the siege happened.

Hahaha loved this post

[MasterHamster]

Oh thought they said they were looking into it after the blood elfs would be done have they changed their stance on it?

Weeeeell, maybe there's been new info I haven't heard of but initial stances were that goblins and worgens were already "good enough" compared to the older races that truly needed the facelift.

But maybe they want to make worgen females less meh

[Lahis]

Honestly I would be extremely surprised if SW was ever repaired.

[Yig]

"Why are they wasting time on something no one cares about? How many raid tiers did it cost to repair Stormwind huehuehuheuhueheuheuehuehuehheuuehueuheuhuehuehheueuuehuhuu hueishufheuhs."

They know the response, maybe that's why they don't care to "fix" it anytime soon.



Worgen and goblins aren't getting updated.

Worgen and Goblins are getting updated, Robinson has said so. They have to as they use the old animation system and won't be able to use the many new animation FX future gear and armor will take advantage of. The question is really how much will be polished.

Blood Elves are coming EARLY in WOD, it's been said over and over again. Worgen and Gobs are not a priority.

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MFW the mods and mmo champion regulars complain about the "cost us a raid tier joke" while a blizzard high up rep actually said it now in a tweet.

I know context is hard for you, but there are actual times when resources for things like this are not infinite, hence the answer that was given. While it's fucking common sense, go roll around like a pig in the mud with the dirt you just found to smear on that lying slippery old Blizzard, i won't stop you.

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Weeeeell, maybe there's been new info I haven't heard of but initial stances were that goblins and worgens were already "good enough" compared to the older races that truly needed the facelift.

But maybe they want to make worgen females less meh

This has been addressed a lot in the last year and it was never directly said at any time they were good enough, merely that they were not as in need of updating. But this has also been the stance for a long time.
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