World of Warcraft News and Raiding Strategies

With the refreshed Recruit A Friend program, it’s a great time to bring your friends and play in the Forbidden Reach when you save on Faction Change bundles, Character Transfer bundles, Name Change, and Race Change services*.

Faction Change Bundles

Walk a dungeon or two in the other faction’s shoes with 30% off one or three Faction Changes, and until April 3, get two additional Faction Changes for the price of six. The Faction Change item will now allow the purchase of multiple Faction Changes at one time or save some for future use.

Changing your faction also includes a free race change for your class, so you’ll fit in with your new friends when you join them on their adventures all over Azeroth.

Available Faction Change pack options:

• 1 for $21.00 (Regularly $30.00)
  
• 3 for $42.00 (Regularly $65.00)
  
• 6 8 for $95.00

To learn more about the Faction Change service and any restrictions, visit our support page.

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Limited Time Character Transfer Sale

For a limited time** save an additional 30% when you purchase 1–Character Transfer or 3-Character Transfers. During this sale, the regular 6–Character Transfer bundle will be replaced with an 8-character transfer bundle option at the same price as the regular 6-character transfer of $80.00. That’s two extra Paid Character Transfers for the regular price of a 6-Character Transfer bundle. Once the sale is over, this bundle will revert to the regular 6-character transfer bundle.

• 1 for $17.50 (Regularly $25.00)
  
• 3 for $35.00 (Regularly $50.00)
  
• 68 for $80.00

Visit our support page to learn more about the Paid Character Transfer service and any restrictions.

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Name and Race Change Sale

Reinvent yourself with a Name or Race Change during our sale. Whether your name has lost its luster or you want to bring your inner orc out, we’ve got you covered during our limited-time offer.

Get your Name Change or Race Change now and embrace a whole new you!

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Ready to make your move? Purchase Faction Change Packs, Paid Character Transfers, Name Changes, or Race Changes from the Battle.net shop or launch World of Warcraft and click on the Shop button on the character select screen.

Once you’ve purchased your Faction Changes, Character Transfers, Name Change, or Race Change within the Battle.net shop or the in-game shop, a new icon will appear on your character selection screen. To activate a game service, click on the token, then select the character you wish to move. Any unused Faction Change tokens or Character Transfers will remain on your account for use at a future time.

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* Only available for modern World of Warcraft. Characters cannot be transferred between World of Warcraft® and WoW® Classic games.
**Sale ends April 3, 2023

Fierce fashionistas and dashing defenders of the Horde and Alliance, synchronize your wardrobes and prepare to do battle. The Trial of Style has arrived, and it’s time to put your transmogrification skills to the test.

Also, earn extra for being extra. While the Trial of Style is active, completing certain activities while trotting around in your best transmogs will earn you some Trader's Tender to spend at the Trading Post.

You’re Invited!

When: March 20–24
Where: Queue for the 6-player scenario at your friendly neighborhood transmog NPC.
What: Contestants will have two minutes to create transmog sets from items in their collection based on themes presented in the scenario. Two players at a time will be pulled up on stage to strike a pose and show off their creation—leaving the remaining four to vote on just who of the two has managed to capture the theme best.

Collect New Rewards

Cloth Belts

• Arcanofire Wrap
  
• Embrace of the Great Dark Beyond

Cloth Boots

• Lost Acolyte's Boots

Leather Belt

• Clasp of Ursine Rage

Leather Boots

• Mad Thief's Boots
  
• Scoundrel's Missing Boots

Mail Belt

• Ultramafic Girdle

Mail Boots

• Boots of a Broken World
  
• Vault Stalker's Greaves

Plate Belts

• Girdle of Chilled Embers
  
• Waistguard of the Infernal Eye
  
• Ymirjar Berserker's Girdle

Hats

• Alley Skulker's Bandana
  
• Crimson Beanie
  
• Green Beanie
  
• Stevedore's Skullcap
  
• Dread Captain's Chapeau
  
• Trader's Bicorne
  
• Well-Worn Tricorne

One-Hand Weapons

• Anetheron's Edge
  
• Deathmantle Ripper

Two-Hand Weapons

• Anointed Crusader's Claymore
  
• Jade Arcus
  
• Zealot's Prayer Staff

Ranged Weapons

• Focalized Mana Accelerator

You can also use your Trial of Style Tokens on props to supplement your chosen Trial of Style ensemble. These props are consumable and will only appear when you’re on stage but will last through the entirety of the competition.

Vendor extraordinaire Nellie Voguesong sells shirts and tabards in the Trial of Style, just in case you forgot to bring one with you.

Get A Little Help From your Fans

Need a little extra support while you’re on stage? Don’t worry—we’ve got you covered. Purchase a reward Letter From an Admirer, which you can use to recruit a fashion aficionado to cheer you on during the competition.

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Once the glitter settles, and the votes are tallied, First Place, Second Place, and Third Place winners will be awarded. Don’t worry—even if you don’t win; there’s always the Trial of Style Consolation Prize. These prizes contain Trial of Style Tokens, which can be redeemed for special transmog gear in Dalaran.

Fashion-conscious citizens of Azeroth can also take advantage of transmogrification and barbershop services for free during the Trial of Style. Even if you don’t participate, you can adjust your hairstyle and transmog for no gold cost while the event is active.

Share your best transmogs on Twitter with #MogMonday for a chance to be featured!

Along with the launch of patch 10.0.7 next week, we’ll make adjustments to some classes that are underperforming or overperforming in endgame content.

Because of the timing of these changes, we intend to add all of the following to the 10.0.7 patch notes. Please note that some changes below affect talents that are new or redesigned in 10.0.7, and all should be testable on the 10.0.7 PTR soon.

Classes
Priest

• Rhapsody now grants a stack every 2 seconds (down from every 5 seconds).
• Holy
  
  • Burning Vehemence now causes Holy Fire to deal 30%/60% of its initial damage to all nearby enemies (was 15%/30%) .

Shaman

• Elemental
  
  • Swirling Currents increases the healing done by Healing Stream Totem by 40%/80% for Elemental (was 20%/40%).
• Enhancement
  
  • Swirling Currents increases the healing done by Healing Stream Totem by 40%/80% for Enhancement (was 20%/40%).

Warlock

• Affliction
  
  • Dark Virtuosity now increases the damage of Shadow Bolt and Drain Soul by 5/10% (was 15/30%).
  • Kindled Malice now increases the damage of Malefic Rapture and Seed of Corruption by 4/8% (was 8/15%).
• Demonology
  
  • Felguard auto-attack damage increased by 20%.
  • Wild Imp damage increased by 20%.
  • Vilefiend damage increased by 30%.
• Destruction
  
  • All ability damage increased by 3%.

Player Versus Player
Mage

• Frost
  
  • Glacial Spike deals 15% less damage and its Mastery scaling is now 60% effective (was 75%) in PvP combat.
  • Frostbolt deals 100% increased damage in PvP combat (was 50%).

Paladin

• Retribution
  
  • Execution Sentence is now 65% effective in PvP combat.
  • Wake of Ashes now deals 20% less damage in PvP combat (was 32%).
• Protection
  
  • Uther’s Counsel effectiveness reduced by 33% in PvP combat.
  • Righteous Protector effectiveness reduced by 50% in PvP combat.

Priest

• Renew healing is now increased by 22% in PvP combat (was 15%).
• Prayer of Mending healing is now increased by 6% in PvP combat.
• Holy
  
  • Heal healing is now increased by 43% in PvP Combat (was 35%).
  • Flash Heal healing is now increased by an additional 6% in PvP combat for Holy only.
• Developer’s notes: These are targeted buffs to Holy Priests’ overall throughput, which has continued to fall behind other healers.

Rogue

• Subtlety
  
  • Dark Shadow effectiveness reduced by 20% in PvP combat.
  • Danse Macabre effectiveness reduced by 33% in PvP combat.
  • Perforated Veins effectiveness reduced by 25% in PvP combat.
  • Gloomblade damage increased by 20% in PvP combat.
  • Backstab damage increased by 20% in PvP combat.

Warlock

• Affliction
  
  • Darkglare from Summon Darkglare now has 80% more health.
  • Corruption damage increased by 10% in PvP combat.
  • Agony damage increased by 10% in PvP combat.
  • Siphon Life damage increased by 20% in PvP combat.
  • Focused Malignancy increases Malefic Rapture damage by 10%/20% in PvP combat (was 15%/30%).
• Developers’ notes: These changes are targeted at improving Affliction Warlocks’ instant cast damage, while offsetting the potential burst from Malefic Rapture with the 10.0.7 talent changes.
• Destruction
  
  • Bane of Havoc now has an 18 second internal cooldown with Mayhem talented.
  • Incinerate no longer deals increased damage in PvP combat (was increased by 13%).
  • Shadowburn damage is now increased by 25% in PvP combat (was increased by 30%).
• Developer’s notes: We’re targeting a decrease to Havoc uptime and offsetting the PvE tuning changes with some reductions to Shadowburn and Incinerate. We want builds with instant casts to be viable, while preferring that the spec relies on Chaos Bolts for most kills.

Warrior

• Arms
  
  • Fatality now stacks Fatal Mark up to a maximum of 8 times against enemy players (was 20).