WoW Up to 10 Million Subscribers, Garrison Campaign Quests Active, Nov 19 Hotfixes

WoW Up to 10 Million Subscribers
This afternoon Blizzard released the subscribers count as of November 13, 2014. This is up 2.6 million from the Q3 2014 call that listed WoW at 7.4 million subscribers.

Warlords of Draenor has sold over 3.3 million copies so far, up from 1.5 million pre-ordered in August.

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Garrison Campaign Quests Active
Garrison Campaign quests are now active and the one you get each week appears to be random.

One option you may get is from Khadgar's Servant in your garrison, which sends you to Shadowmoon Valley for a short quest chain that rewards Sargerei Disguise (which is not a Toy).



Patch 6.0.3 Hotfixes - November 19
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts
  • Stables Level 2: Characters should now be immune to being dazed while riding their mounts.
  • The Forge Level 2: Solace of the Forge should now correctly only be usable while outdoors in Draenor.
  • Trading Post Level 2: Players should now be able to gain reputation with the Sha'tari Defense or Laughing Skull Orcs.
  • Outposts
    • Nagrand Tankworks: Wor'var Demolisher and Telaari Siege Engine now deals less damage against other players.

Classes
  • Hunter (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
    • General
      • Camouflage's stealth effect should now be reapplying correctly when the Hunter and their pet are stationary.
  • Mage (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
    • Talents
      • Prismatic Crystal when conjured, should now correctly last for its full duration.
  • Shaman (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
    • General
      • Totemic Recall should now correctly refund the mana cost back when used.
    • Elemental
      • Earthquake can now only Stun a target once per cast.
  • Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
    • General
      • Resolved an issue where Glyph of Eye of Kilrogg was incorrectly allowing Eye of Kilrogg to fly while on Draenor.

Quests
  • Frostfire Ridge
    • [Requires a realm restart.] Tricks of the Trade: Characters that have undergone a faction change can now complete this quest if they had already completed it on the opposite faction.
  • Spires of Arak
    • Assault on Skettis: Increased the drop rates for Talon Key. Additionally, Apexis Sol-Mender, Glowing Energizer and, Stalwart Warden should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.
    • [Requires a realm restart.] Bonus Objective: Bladefist Hold: Increased the spawn rates for Brood Mother Xylax, Bagdoth Goredrinker, and Val'dune Fleshcrafter.
    • Sol Sisters: Sol-Shaper Veoryx should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.
  • Garrisons
    • Characters visiting someone else's Garrison should no longer be incorrectly seeing another player's daily quests.
    • Gladiator's Sanctum: Nemesis quests should no longer be incorrectly removed from the player's quest log if they log out while the building is under construction.
    • Goren Invasion!: Adjusted a number of spawn points so the invaders should no longer get stuck in Garrison buildings.
    • Scraps of Iron (Dwarven Bunker/War Mill): Completing the quest should no longer remove more Iron Horde Scraps than needed.

World Environment
  • Increased the number of situations where items and abilities slowing the player's falling speed could be used while in outdoor environments.

Creatures and NPCs
  • Graveltooth should now be using their inside voice to shout at players in the area instead of shouting at the entirety of Nagrand.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios
  • Reduced the item level requirement to queue for Normal difficulty Grimrail Depot, Shadowmoon Burial Grounds, The Everbloom, and Upper Blackrock Spire to 595 (down from 600).
  • Upper Blackrock Spire
    • Orebender Gor'ashan: Mobs from other parts of the Dungeon should no longer be joining the fight during the encounter.
  • Challenge Mode
    • Aviana's Feather should no longer be usable while in a Challenge Mode dungeon.
  • Proving Grounds
    • Statistics for Basic Healer (Endless) should no longer be incorrectly displaying under Basic Tank (Endless).

PvP
  • Increased the amount of players that can be in Ashran to 150.
  • [Requires a realm restart.] Primal Combatant PvP trinkets awarded from Gold Strongboxes should now contain stats that are more appropriate for the character's specialization.
  • Primal PvP trinkets should now be eligible to grant players the Gladiator's Distinction set bonus.
  • Primal Honor PvP gear should now correctly have a set bonus.

Items
  • Gnomish Net Launcher now has a level 91 requirement to equip and provides a more appropriate bonus to Versatility.
  • Invisibility Field's effect is now on a shared cooldown with other invisibility effects.

Bug Fixes
  • Resolved an issue where Draenor Perks for characters may sometimes not be saving correctly.

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This article was originally published in forum thread: WoW Up to 10 Million Subscribers started by chaud View original post
Published on 2014-11-19 10:13 PM
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  1. Aqua's Avatar
    I...wh...WHAT?
  1. shanthi's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Salech View Post
    there is literally less than 10 people on my server in wod, no matter where i go

    ...

    man people must love paying for no content in this genre!
    You mean like yourself?
  1. Rorschachs's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by therayeffect View Post
    No. That includes Asia, lol. Calm down. Their numbers have always included Asia.
    The expansion didn't launch in asia yet though. So the 2.6 mil increase is most likely only from europe and na.
  1. ringpriest's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Dingolicious View Post
    So like.. thats a big number for a 10 year old game. I think we can safely say WoW is NOT dead.
    While I've been critical about Blizz and cynical about WoW, I will agree that this shows WoW is, indeed, not dead. There's obviously still a big pool of potential customers. Which, in turn, means that when subs do drop, it is not because of some "natural product cycle" or anything like that, but because Blizz has made choices with the game that people disliked.
  1. Beat5beat's Avatar
    I wonder if increasing WoW subs has anything to do with a struggling job market and depressed wages.
  1. Sills's Avatar
    We all expected a boost for an expansion but I don't think anyone could have predicted this. Wow!
  1. Gaebryel Quintyne's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by SteveRocks View Post
    If you're waiting for realm stability-wait no longer! lol I play on one of the most populated realms and the last couple nights I've only had to wait 10-15minutes to get in. There is no wait if I want to log in during non-peak hours.
    I can totally vouch for that. If anyone is on the fence of buying WoD, you should not be. Actually, just check the realm status on the official site for the region you play on. Majority of them are medium and when they are full or high, they don't have Qs anymore. If they do have Qs, it's small due to the new instancing technology they are using to make multiple copies of the server to increase server capacity.

    Here's link to the US WoW website realm status:
    http://us.battle.net/wow/en/status

    Here's link to the EU WoW website realm status:
    http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/status
  1. Kuja's Avatar
    Nice increase! I predicted it would be closer to 9 mil.
  1. mmocabce60bc47's Avatar
    Extremely surprising number. At least the number of utter morons posting the product lifecycle curve will go down.
  1. Rudypoo's Avatar
    That seems about right. Each new expansion brings back a substantial amount of people -- curious people that want to see how the change affects the overall game.

    The test is going to be the same as always, though: KEEPING those subs.

    My hope is, Blizzard is proactive this time. They dropped the ball with Pandaria, especially where content was concerned. That cannot happen this time if they want to keep these subs anywhere near the 10 million mark.
  1. Heaterz 88's Avatar
    Contrary to what some people are saying ,these numbers actually might keep growing as raid tiers start to hit and word gets out that the hype was real.
  1. Peso's Avatar
    Looks like MoP was a fail already compared to WoD.
  1. Explicit Teemo Nudes's Avatar
    So about 4 million players still don't have WoD? :P
  1. Lady Dragonheart's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by thevoicefromwithin View Post
    Extremely surprising number. At least the number of utter morons posting the product lifecycle curve will go down.
    There will still, unfortunately, forever be negative naysayers and loser people trying to bum others down with their bad attitudes...
  1. mmocee9d117667's Avatar
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsqJFIJ5lLs

    WoD has been the best expansion so far, for me, at least. And i played since Vanilla.
  1. Zoaric's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Exploitbat View Post
    So about 4 million players still don't have WoD? :P
    Asia doesn't buy expansions.
  1. Vishy's Avatar


    JUST SAYING.

    - - - Updated - - -

    Yo, someone shrink that down for me lmao
  1. Aerofluff's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Raysz View Post
    Well done Blizz. I haven't bought the expansion yet as I'm waiting for servers to stabilize.
    The servers are pretty much stable now, haven't had a queue or crash in days. I've also still got a few friends who hadn't re-subbed yet, but now that WoD's out and they can see more of it, I'm pretty sure they'll bite the bullet. Which means that number can still increase even more.

    Anyway... Good riddance to the pandas, and this graph pretty much proves that not many people liked MoP as much as its defenders claim. Sadly, I'll still have to see them, Monks and cloud serpents on occasion, but at least they're not very prevalent.

    I always hailed WotLK as the best expac ever... But honestly, WoD might actually surpass that. I'm very impressed.
  1. Dragonshardz's Avatar
    WOTLK had the largest player base what a shocker. Also, WoD doing kinda great. Man, am I tempted to return or what.
  1. kyidyl's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Henkdejager View Post
    This explains the crappy servers tho. Yet i do question, how did they manage to keep it up back in wrath ?
    Wrath was just good. Engaging storyline, good game improvements, and decent pacing with raids.

    Notice the sharp drop in Cata tho cause it sucked. :P~~ I was one of 'em, I leveled in cata and then quit.

    Should edit to add...if WoD end game is as good as Wrath, this xpac would definitely be up there with it in terms of quality.
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