Tier 13 Armor Sets - Model Preview

[Boubouille]

Tier 13 Models Preview
The Death Knight Tier 13 is finally here and we can now compare armor sets to see who got the prettiest one!

• All the armor sets screenshots should be fairly representative to what you will see in-game now, the color of visual effects on shoulders have been fixed, geosets should now be properly set, etc ...
• A couple of sets got minor upgrades since the first previews, Druid and Warriors got a little more light effects on their shoulders for example.
• Yes, individual classes/multi-races previews are coming, probably on very nice dedicated pages.

Death Knight	Druid
Hunter	Mage
Paladin	Priest
Rogue	Shaman
Warlock	Warrior

Dragon Soul LFR Testing Now Open (10/26)

The first half of Dragon Soul is now testable through LFR. If you're level 85 and have an average item level above 365, you will be able to queue for the Siege of Wyrmrest Temple. The second LFR entry for the later half of the raid is not yet available.

This is VERY much a work in progress, the UI is in an unpolished state right now. Give it a try though!

PTR Raid Testing Schedule - Oct 26/27

The following four bosses are available for testing in 10 and 25 player Normal Difficulties:

• Morchok
• Warlord Zon'ozz
• Yor'sahj the Unsleeping
• Hagara

Note that Jacob McWeaksauce is at this instant turned off, so you will have to progress through the raid normally to test each boss.

HEROIC testing begins this afternoon, and will continue on throughout tomorrow.

10/26 14:30 PDT - Morchok 10 Player Heroic
10/26 16:30 PDT - Yor'sahj the Unsleeping 10 Player Heroic

10/27 10:30 PDT - Hagara 10 Player Heroic
10/27 14:30 PDT - Ultraxion 10 Player Heroic
10/27 16:30 PDT - Spine of Deathwing 10 Player Heroic

As usual, this schedule is highly fluid and might change at a moment's notice due to build status, bugs, or other factors. I'll try to keep everyone up to speed as much as possible, but check back to this thread often.

New Guild Services Now Available - Updated

Update! We've opened up guild services to two additional battlegroups, Whirlwind and Emberstorm, which include the following realms:

Antonidas, Anub'arak, Blackwater Raiders, Bladefist, Borean Tundra, Cairne, Cenarion Circle, Cenarius, Darrowmere, Drak'Tharon, Drenden, Echo Isles, Farstriders, Fenris, Garrosh, Hydraxis, Hyjal, Korialstrasz, Lightbringer, Maiev, Misha, Mok'Nathal, Moon Guard, Nazgrel, Nesingwary, Nordrassil, Quel'dorei, Ravenholdt, Rivendare, Shandris, Shu'halo, Sisters of Elune, The Forgotten Coast, Tortheldrin, Uther, Vashj, Winterhoof, Wyrmrest Accord

Blue Posts

Pandas? Why??
Blizzard has given the Panderan a rich culture and a specific way of thinking. A history that goes back beyond the sundering with their own struggles and accomplishments. They have an identity beyond "Look, its Pandas."
This is something I want to touch on a bit more. People seem to think that Pandaren were a joke, a throw away easter egg that we never fully intended as a playable race.

I will direct you to recall the Warcraft RPG (pen and paper) manuals released in 2003. While much of it hasn't been canon for quite some time, the Pandaren occupy a greater amount of pages and space within the manuals to establish their lore and story than pretty much every other creature on Azeroth. To give it some context, they occupy the same number of pages as Trolls in the Monster Manual, and share the same amount space in the Alliance and Horde Compendium with Orcs or Humans, and just like them ... you guessed it... Pandaren were a playable race.

(there's also an awesome sketch Metzen did of a Pandaren, Dwarf, Furbolg, and Gnome hanging out all friendly-like)

As I said a lot of this was pre-World of Warcraft, and by whatever stroke of fate, Trolls and Forsaken became playable races and Pandaren, Naga, and Furbolgs did not. Some other mix could have just as easily been true, and no one would have questioned it. Worgen didn't even exist back then, of course, they were a new creation for World of Warcraft.

It would simply be inaccurate to state that Pandaren were a throw away. Our intent, going back to Warcraft III, when the vast majority of the world lore and story was established for the franchise, was always to have a deep and rich history for a race known as the Pandaren.

http://www.wowpedia.org/File:Heroraces.jpg?c=1 There's the pic.
Haha, yup, that's the one. Thank you. And this is actually a great resource covering the contents of the manuals, just please keep in mind that much of it is now highly inaccurate and the visual style of the Pandaren have changed quite a bit since then.

http://www.wowpedia.org/Pandaren (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

[Remnas]

Nice compilation.

I'm really wondering what the DK set is going to look like, and if we'll see a "tier 10 shamman" thing happen.

[Deleted]

Looks good, i really like the druid set, but i think the paladin and mage helm look weird.

[Phokas]

blizz y u hate dk?

[The Glitch]

Love the colouring on the Pink Druid version, very pretty

[deathonabun]

Ah, so that's why I got such a quick reply on twitter! Iseewutudidthere.

[Rairu]

Hunter set is definitely the coolest one None of them are bad.

[Melilithia]

Eh, some of the sets kind of grew on me... I like all of them, now

Though I like the purple Mage set better than the gold one.

C'mon Blizz, give us the Death Knight one. Please?

[Hokuto]

Man, the pally one is really nice. It's like they were pissed at all the "they can't beat Judgement".

[LCDArcade]

Saving the best tier for last

[aggression]

At least now you can just watch at someone and know what class they are again.

[Findme]

lol the mage tier set looks soooo dumb, the gogles on the head and the cog wheels on the shoulder have absolutely nothing to do with a mage.

The paladin helm is very distracting, it looks like a peacock landed on your head.
The remaining sets look good, but these two are really weird.

[Gouky]

can't they play with textures a bit? all of these sets overall look the same.

[Deleted]

Need more horde compilations, pleeeeeease. Most sets look awful on those humans...

[AutomaticBadger]

The Lock set gets better but Warrior gets worse. WTF

[Lizl]

AWWWWWW Female Priests don't get a full face mask

[Menolikeu]

Horrible design for Druids, wtf were they thinking honestly. Give the kindergartners back their crayons you meanies. And learn to design something a little less shitty.

[Eazy]

My notesruid: 6/10Hunter: 7,5/10Mage: 5/10Paladin: 7/10Priest: 8,5/10Rogue: 0/10Shaman: 6/10Warlock: 7/10Warrior: 9/10Death Knight: they are removing them from the game, that's the reason why they won't show us their tier. (joking! )

[Deleted]

lol the mage tier set looks soooo dumb, the gogles on the head and the cog wheels on the shoulder have absolutely nothing to do with a mage.

The set bonus is Stolen Time, so I guess the cog wheels represent a clock mechanism.

[Vallius]

So glad I play a warrior, but, damn. Not looking forward to getting the non-heroic versions, lol. Those blue and yellow colors do that set zero justice.