Hidden Artifact Appearances Update, Illidan Statue, Pet Battles Bonus Event

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Hidden Artifact Appearances Update

We’d like to take a moment to dispel some rumors and give some insight into certain “hidden” Artifact Appearances, as well as some general notes on how this system (and similar systems) has worked out so far in Legion.

For starters, we’ve seen some rumblings around the community that the appearance for Arms Warriors was “hotfixed in.” This is not the case. The quest for that particular appearance has a daily chance to be offered in the Warrior Order Hall, and when it's active, it will be active throughout an entire region for that day. Our initial setting for that chance ended up being too conservative (and was increased in Patch 7.1), but the chance has been there every day since the expansion launched.

Many of you have also been asking about the hidden appearance for Frost Death Knights. We’ve been trying to avoid giving out too much in the way of spoilers for these, but as it’s now the last one to be discovered, we figured we might as well give you guys a hint. This appearance is tied to a particular world boss, which hasn’t spawned yet. Once that boss is available, we expect the appearance to be found pretty quickly.

We’ve learned a lot of important lessons about hidden content and these sorts of varied and discoverable unlocks over the course of Legion development. Some of our efforts were clearly far more successful than others. We’re going to take these lessons to heart and apply them going forward. Additionally, we’re working on a few tweaks to how the hidden artifact appearances are acquired, which will be released in a future patch, with the goal of reducing the frustration that can come from trying to chase down some of the more elusive ones.

Prepare to Bring Illidan Home!

Standing 24 inches tall and made of polyresin, this colorful sculpture of Illidan will make the perfect addition to your collection. The piece is sculpted by Blizzard Senior Sculptor Brian Fay and features original paint by Senior Illustrator Laurel D. Austin

Supplies of this highly detailed sculpture are limited — so head over to the Blizzard Gear Store beginning November 3 to get yours before it’s too late!

Weekly Bonus Event: Pet Battles

An extra weekly quest and rewards are here— the Pet Battles bonus event is underway!

This Week
All week, get out there and fight with your mighty minions. When the time comes to take on other players, open your Pet Journal and hit the “Find Battle” button to be matched up with an opponent whose team is competitive with yours.

Look for the following all week long:

• Archmage Timear near Violet Hold in Dalaran has a quest for you.
  
  • Quest requirement: Win 5 pet battles versus other players with a team of three level-25 pets.
    
  • Reward: One Ultimate Battle-Training Stone.
    
• Passive bonus: All Pet Battle experience gains are increased by +200%.

Every Week
The Bonus Events system consists of a rotating schedule of different activities, currently scheduled to run each week beginning on Tuesdays. Each Bonus Event grants a passive bonus to a particular game activity and offers a once-per-event quest with a noteworthy reward for accomplishing a related goal. The in-game calendar can serve as your one-stop reference for the event schedule. The Adventure Guide also offers a direct link to active Bonus Events, allowing you to easily accept any associated quests.

[xskarma]

Glad they finally cleared that up about the Artifact appearances. The RNG on some of them is....testing.

[FelPlague]

i knew it would be the soul takers world boss for the frost artifact, now my dk friend can stop bugging me about finding it for him

[A dot Ham]

I'm always amazed by sculptors.

I can draw decently... better than average if I spend some time on it.

But 3D work... forget it.

[Roulette Kneebasha]

How bad do you think Xe'ra wants that statue?

[Valkors]

Except 0 people in the entire game got the hidden arms appearance, until it was hotfixed in, including PTR.

[lichbane]

Unless I'm mistaken, isn't this the 3rd week in a row where the world boss's reward is gold? Geez .... throw us a bone Blizz.

[Decisive The Hallowed]

After all the work people have put into trying to find the start of the Frost DK Hidden Artifact from hundreds of NPCs, Locations, Items...turns out it just starts from a world boss that hasn't been up yet...

[Deleted]

I call bullshit on the arms thing

[Murderdoll]

Hidden appearances tied to world bosses is so incredibly frustrating. Enhances is also on a world boss. So your timer is once every 10 weeks and then you have a chance to get it. IF you don't. Oh well another 10 weeks.

[Dynamik]

What a load of shit. Just man up and say you fucked up by not activating the Arms Hidden Appearance. Literally no one in the game was able to obtain it until the hotfix so it wasn't just an "RNG daily trigger".

Your players aren't all completely stupid. Blizz would get less flack by simply saying it was their error, apologizing for misleading people, and moving on from there.

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Unless I'm mistaken, isn't this the 3rd week in a row where the world boss's reward is gold? Geez .... throw us a bone Blizz.

RNG is RNG. I got double loot last week and Loot/Gold the week before.

[bassfu]

Except 0 people in the entire game got the hidden arms appearance, until it was hotfixed in, including PTR.

Blizzard are worse liars than the Clintons.

[Svad]

I hope they will up the spawn rate on the damn Vile Slime for the ret Paladin artifact skin...

[Gnosk]

Is the D3 blizzcon pet in-game yet?

[Yag]

Pet week, also known as break week

[Azahel]

How bad do you think Xe'ra wants that statue?

"Mortal, you must buy me that statue, the legion's destruction depends on it"

[kaintk]

oh look, they also 'hotfixed' the dk frost one ;p if its not a 100% drop because ony one wb give it, you'll see a raging post on their forum, you can be sure of that;p

[Yipiyuk]

RNG is RNG. I got double loot last week and Loot/Gold the week before.

I think he meant the WQ for killing it

[Awsyme]

The hidden artifact stuff seems... too varied. The great ones usually involved travel, some secrets and (occasionally) grinding. There was a sense of hunting something rare down and glee when you got it. The bad ones were either so easy they were effectively worthless (the hunter purchasable bow) or far too reliant on random once a week drops (e.g. from raid bosses or the withered training cache - which meant a lot of repeated running of something you'd quickly be tired of).

Hopefully they find a balance and can fix a few of them.

[Rotted]

So is that it on the hidden artifacts now? Each class got a set of 4 which was hidden?