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Legion - Dalaran Portals
In Legion, Dalaran has a large assortment of portals. The old portals from Wrath of the Lich King are back, along with some new ones!

Horde have portals to Orgrimmar, Undercity, Thunder Bluff, Silvermoon, and Vale of Eternal Blossoms. Alliance have portals to Stormwind, Ironforge, Darnassus, Exodar, and Vale of the Eternal Blossoms.

Both factions have access to portals in the new structure in the center of Dalaran. These are currently used for Artifact intro quest teleports, leading to Caverns of Time, Shattrath, Wyrmrest Temple, Dalaran Crater, and Karazhan.




Legion - Neltharion's Lair
Neltharion's Lair is one of the new dungeons being added in Legion.





Patch 6.2.3 Hotfixes - January 29
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Dungeons and Raids
End Time
  • Fixed an issue during the Murozond encounter that could affect Death Knights and cause their Anti-Magic Shell ability to go on a slightly longer than intended 12-day cooldown.
The Vortex Pinnacle
  • [Requires a realm restart] Asaad's Static Cling ability now only targets 2 players (down from 5), and has a preference to for characters in a ranged Specialization.

Ghostcrawler Tweets
Ghostcrawler still occasionally talks about WoW. Remember that he no longer works for or speaks for Blizzard.
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
In your opinion, is a huge beta like the one in MoP better than the a relatively smaller one like in Cata?(number of testers)
Depends on the goal: quality of feedback? Relationship with the testers? Stress testing? Build I got media hype? (OccupyGStreet)



Warcraft Movie - Robert Kazinsky
Robert Kazinsky was on Conan Thursday night and talked about Warcraft.



Final Boss - Marksmanship Hunter Spec Preview
Final Boss is back with another spec preview! You can watch the Marksmanship Artifact intro here and see all of their weapon models here.

This article was originally published in forum thread: Dalaran Portals, Neltharion's Lair, Jan 29 Hotfixes, Tweets, Marks Spec Preview started by chaud View original post
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  1. Shudder's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by pixelated senpai View Post
    Why do all these class videos say beta? its not beta..
    Words are hard for mmochamp.
  1. Alayea's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by schwarzkopf View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by TheRevenantHero View Post
    I bet they're gonna pull a wod and remove the portals
    That doesn't make any sense, WoD didn't remove anything - all the portals are there.
    He's probably confusing it for Cataclysm, when Blizzard removed every last portal from Northrend Dalaran. (They later re-added a portal to Stormwind / Orgrimmar for returning players.)
  1. hiragi's Avatar
    im sorry but if youre wiping on timewalker dungeons, you're a special kind of downie, i didnt even bother jumping out of static cling and i still lived without being dispelled, its called not sucking at the game, not hard
  1. Spotnick's Avatar
    Apparently people don't remember they hinted very strongly 5 man dungeons in Karazhan for first content patch at Blizzcon.

    But for now the portal is there because one of the class has their artefact quest there.
  1. mmoc65c405abf8's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Averrix View Post
    Well, it could be easily remedied if you had people that would use their dispels and abilities to get them out of the static cling, but you know, lazies.
    Or people could learn to jump. Jumping at the end of the Static Cling cast will make it not effect you at all.
    There's even a whole achievement around it: No Static At All.
    But it's easy to blame it on the healer, whom -in most cases- can only dispel once every 8 seconds.
  1. Amerissis's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by hiragi View Post
    im sorry but if youre wiping on timewalker dungeons, you're a special kind of downie, i didnt even bother jumping out of static cling and i still lived without being dispelled, its called not sucking at the game, not hard
    No, that's called a good healer. Not sucking would mean you can actually jump at the right time, not hard.
  1. SkyTides's Avatar
    wow, I had no idea Rob's role in eastenders as 'nasty Sean' caused people to attack him and made him afraid to go out. Great to see he's bounced back, and a big wow fan of course
  1. Suggs's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by schwarzkopf View Post
    I directly relate - WoW saved my life. I just never moved on to the hot GF, movie role part

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    That doesn't make any sense, WoD didn't remove anything - all the portals are there.
    I think its more reference to pulling fahralon or whatever it was called that happened in wod, otherwise you could say 'They pulled a wotlk' (or maybe it was just before or during cata cant remember) if you all remember they took out the portals in dalaran and everyone cried.
  1. Nexsa's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Shudder View Post
    Words are hard for mmochamp.
    Actually, in the alpha if you talk to the temp NPC found in cities, he even says Legion Beta right now.
  1. Tatakau's Avatar
    That's because it is in beta.
  1. stgeorge78's Avatar
    Ringing endorsement of fat lazy Warcraft players by Robert Kazinsky... Warcraft movie PR is facepalming right now...
  1. Ielenia's Avatar
    Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
    The Vortex Pinnacle
    • [Requires a realm restart] Asaad's Static Cling ability now only targets 2 players (down from 5), and has a preference to for characters in a ranged Specialization.
    I hate this. I really hate stuff like this. Here we have a very easily avoidable mechanic (just press the SPACEBAR key to jump!) and instead of letting players learn how to do this, no, let's make a very-easy-to-handle mechanic, and make it into a super-pathetically-easy-to-handle-and-maybe-even-completely-forgettable mechanic.
  1. Shudder's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by hiragi View Post
    im sorry but if youre wiping on timewalker dungeons, you're a special kind of downie, i didnt even bother jumping out of static cling and i still lived without being dispelled, its called not sucking at the game, not hard
    My favorite part was when you said you don't suck at the game and then proceeded to tell everyone that you don't do a mechanic properly. You're totally not a scrub.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nexsa View Post
    Actually, in the alpha if you talk to the temp NPC found in cities, he even says Legion Beta right now.
    So the NPC's are wrong, too.
  1. Ielenia's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by hiragi View Post
    im sorry but if youre wiping on timewalker dungeons, you're a special kind of downie, i didnt even bother jumping out of static cling and i still lived without being dispelled, its called not sucking at the game, not hard
    You are the prime example of the kind of player that is causing the 'dumbing down' of the game, by not doing fight mechanics properly, forcing others to save you lest you complain that it's their fault when they don't save you, and demanding Blizzard nerf those mechanics, and now you boast that you 'don't suck' at the game because you can ignore a mechanic and still live.

    HINT: ignoring a mechanic and still living is not called 'not sucking', it's called 'being lucky'. 'Not sucking' would mean doing the mechanics properly.
  1. hiragi's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ielenia View Post
    You are the prime example of the kind of player that is causing the 'dumbing down' of the game, by not doing fight mechanics properly, forcing others to save you lest you complain that it's their fault when they don't save you, and demanding Blizzard nerf those mechanics, and now you boast that you 'don't suck' at the game because you can ignore a mechanic and still live.

    HINT: ignoring a mechanic and still living is not called 'not sucking', it's called 'being lucky'. 'Not sucking' would mean doing the mechanics properly.
    first off i was the tank dillhole and ive solo'd every timewalker bossfight while my group got itself killed, theres no luck involved when the ability he does after the cling does jack shit to you and it wears off way before the triangle thing finishes. its called knowing how to work around it, any class can do that. im not the reason they dumb things down, they dumb things down cause everyone complains where as i dont, i always figure out a work around and overcome the barrier not cry about it. i loved cata when it first started out, everything hit hard, punished you for being stupid, and rewarded you when you weren't, cata was at its prime when it was first around, then blizzard gave in to the constant crybabies and thats when WoW went downhill sadly. i still play and love the game but i do miss that feeling i had when cata first launch, actually needing to care about certain trash mobs, making sure you didnt overpull. you just dont get the feeling of "oh shit i should pan my camera out and look around before i pull" or look at cast bars or any of that anymore when you play currently, its just pewpew and win in dungeons, yes challenge modes are supposed to be a remedy to that but the challenge was better when it was in the basic content and not volunteer content, but yeah if the useless cling couldve got me killed obviously i wouldve jumped so i didnt get it, but the cling doesnt do crap, the boss does crap all damage so there wasnt a need to thus my statement, if youre wiping on timewalker dungeons youre just sad period and either need to practice your class more or just stop playing with random people cause you're just going to cause a lot of frustration for others when they don't need it.
  1. Mazzic518's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by hiragi View Post
    first off i was the tank dillhole and ive solo'd every timewalker bossfight while my group got itself killed, theres no luck involved when the ability he does after the cling does jack shit to you and it wears off way before the triangle thing finishes. its called knowing how to work around it, any class can do that. im not the reason they dumb things down, they dumb things down cause everyone complains where as i dont, i always figure out a work around and overcome the barrier not cry about it. i loved cata when it first started out, everything hit hard, punished you for being stupid, and rewarded you when you weren't, cata was at its prime when it was first around, then blizzard gave in to the constant crybabies and thats when WoW went downhill sadly. i still play and love the game but i do miss that feeling i had when cata first launch, actually needing to care about certain trash mobs, making sure you didnt overpull. you just dont get the feeling of "oh shit i should pan my camera out and look around before i pull" or look at cast bars or any of that anymore when you play currently, its just pewpew and win in dungeons, yes challenge modes are supposed to be a remedy to that but the challenge was better when it was in the basic content and not volunteer content, but yeah if the useless cling couldve got me killed obviously i wouldve jumped so i didnt get it, but the cling doesnt do crap, the boss does crap all damage so there wasnt a need to thus my statement, if youre wiping on timewalker dungeons youre just sad period and either need to practice your class more or just stop playing with random people cause you're just going to cause a lot of frustration for others when they don't need it.
    What is a "tank dillhole"?
  1. Gadzooks's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Mazzic518 View Post
    What is a "tank dillhole"?
    You don't speak 13 year old?
  1. Turin777's Avatar
    *snip* "first off i was the tank dillhole and ive solo'd every timewalker bossfight while my group got itself killed"

    If you've solo'd EVERY boss fight while your group died, there's a problem... See, the tank is supposed to AGGRO everything and take all the damage so everyone else can STAY ALIVE and heal you or dps the mobs. Clearly you must suck at tanking. You keep telling us how much you don't suck, then giving us examples of what not to do. I'm not sure that word means what you think it does.
  1. Fritters154's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by hiragi View Post
    im sorry but if youre wiping on timewalker dungeons, you're a special kind of downie, i didnt even bother jumping out of static cling and i still lived without being dispelled, its called not sucking at the game, not hard
    So standing in the completely avoidable damage just because you know you can survive it is considered not sucking at the game? Apparently we need more in game reminders that standing in bad is bad.
  1. Tjur's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Pannekaker View Post
    That doesn't make any sense, WoD didn't remove anything - all the portals are there.
    I suspect they meant Blizzard would remove the portals just before launch as they did with other elements of WoD. WoD was fraught with overhyped elements to entice expansion and sub purchases and then those elements were taken out for endlessly vague reasons.

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