Interview, Darkmoon Faire, Class Mounts, Power Ascended, Raid Testing, Armory Update

See the Pet, Wings, Portrait Frame, and More Included in the Rise of the Necromancer Pack

The Initial Design of the Curse of Naxxramas Adventure Rewards

Breaching the Tomb - Strike Them Down!
The final step of Breaching the Tomb is available now. Head to the Broken Shore to pick up Strike Them Down from Maiev. This will grant 5000 x Nethershard and another 1500 Armies of Legionfall reputation, as well as unlock the class mount quest line.



Thousand Boat Bash
Thousand Boat Bash takes place in Thousand Needles. This micro-holiday rewards you with a little 330% speed boat that can be used on the surface of water for the next 7 days. Head down to Thousand Needles and collect these items to create your faction themed boat:

  • Mainsail - Bounce a Beach Ball 10 times on the Elf ships.
  • Rigging Rope - Collect various drinks from the ships on the east side of the lake.
  • Ship Mast - Collect explosives from the Gnomes / Goblins.
  • Waxy Reeds - Fish 10 pieces of garbage from the nearby garage pools.
  • Submarine Tar - Follow the submarine circling the lake to pick up fish and fish in the pools behind to collect 20 x Tar.




Patch 7.2.5 - Developer Interview
Bellular had the chance to talk to Lead Encounter Designer Morgan Day.


  • Nighthold was tuned three times. Tomb was only tuned once because the team waited until towards the end of development.
  • The pacing of Legion raids has worked out well. Legion was supposed to release content at a steady pace and the team has delivered on that.
  • Trial of Valor did a great job of tying up the story.
  • Helya was a good encounter, the team took a dungeon boss and turned it into a raid boss.
  • In a Normal raid if an individual makes a mistake, that player could die. In a Mythic raid if an individual makes a mistake, especially towards the end, the team is more willing to wipe the entire raid.
  • The person who created the NPC abilities for Timeless Isle was an encounter designer. The team tries to add more avoidable mechanics when they expect a high degree of difficulty. On Timeless Isle, the creatures were supposed to be difficult and require you to learn the mechanic to defeat them.
  • The team tries to keep the Keystone Affixes in mind when designing dungeon trash.
  • Tyrannical is cool, but sometimes there are debuffs that stack too high and make things too challenging. Targeted nerfs have been done to address this.
  • Court of Stars added class specific mechanics in a way that wasn't very organic. Making a Rogue have an advantage due to Stealth letting you skip something, or a Hunter ability giving you an advantage would be a more organic way to do this.
  • The team has a raid design kickoff meeting, comes up with a list of bosses, then sits down with the encounter designers to talk about high level design. From there an encounter designer will take it to completion.


Darkmoon Faire
The Darkmoon Faire is in town once again! This is your chance to stock up on those Inky Black Potions.

Keep in mind the Darkmoon Top Hat buff and the WHEE! buff as you work on earning reputation with the Legion factions for Paragon reputation rewards.



Class Mounts
You will be able to earn your class mount this week with the completion of the Breaching the Tomb achievement. Each class has a class specific quest line to complete to obtain the mount. You can see an example with the Mage class mount quests in this video.

World of Warcraft Class Mounts


Power Ascended Rewards
You will also be able to purchase some of the rewards from Power Ascended this week if you have the achievement completed.



World Boss - Calamir
Calamir is up this week, rewarding players with Artifact Power and a chance at item level 860 loot.



World Quest Bonus Event
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
An extra weekly quest and rewards are here.

Get out your best map and plan your route across every part of the Broken Isles, as this is a great time to immerse yourself in World Quests.

This Week
All week, open your map (default hotkey: m) and then select any of the five main Broken Isles zones to consider the World Quests available to you. Hover your mouse over a World Quest on the map to see what tasks are needed complete it, the rewards you’ll receive, and the time remaining that the quest is available to you.

Look for the following all week long:


If you’ve been looking to impress some emissaries, this is the week to do it!

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.

Raid Testing Schedule - June 8-9
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
On Thursday and Friday, June 8-9 we will be conducting testing of Mythic Tomb of Sargeras bosses.

Thursday, June 8

Harjatan - Mythic Tomb of Sargeras
13:00 PDT (16:00 EDT, 22:00 CEST)

Demonic Inquisition - Mythic Tomb of Sargeras
14:00 PDT (17:00 EDT, 23:00 CEST)

Friday, June 9

Maiden of Vigilance - Mythic Tomb of Sargeras
13:00 PDT (16:00 EDT, 22:00 CEST)

The Desolate Host - Mythic Tomb of Sargeras
14:00 PDT (17:00 EDT, 23:00 CEST)

As always, this testing schedule is very fluid and subject to the realities of a PTR environment. We might have to change the time of a testing session, change the bosses being tested, or cancel a test entirely, due to bugs, server hardware issues, etc. Keep an eye on this forum for the latest information, and thank you in advance for testing and providing feedback.

Player Profile/Armory Update 05/06/2017
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Baardoch, from our Web & Mobile team, wanted to take a moment to update you all on the progress of the Profile/Armory feature of the official website. The team has been actively reviewing and compiling community feedback from the official site, forums, fansites and forums, and committing code against it. Below you will find a quick bullet-point list of some of the items that we have updated since our May 9th launch.

  • Added support for Hunter stable pets
  • Added basic filters for Collections (Pets & Mounts)
  • Added support for multiple talent specifications and tooltip support
  • Fixed a bug preventing regular raids from showing as incomplete due to a Heroic-only boss not being killed
  • Fixed a bug preventing character title from displaying properly

Additionally, we've made some minor tweaks and quality of life improvements to address some bug fixes on different devices and browsers. The team continues to work on new features and improving the existing ones. As more features and changes are released, we will be posting additional updates as appropriate. We appreciate your feedback as we work to support this important feature.

Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
If we haven't transfered, do we also need 150 wins for a title?
Yes. 150 wins for Gladiator and Cruel Gladiator titles. (holinka)
Ah ok, so it won't apply for me hoping for Duelist?
Duelist, Rival, Challenger, etc are still 50 wins (holinka)

Method EU Major Arena Tournament
Method is holding a 3v3 Arena tournament with a prize pool of $8000 and 80 Arena World Championship qualification points! For registration, rules and more details about the tournament head over to the official Battlefy page.



FinalBossTV #141 - Arms/Fury Warriors
FinalBossTV focused on Arms and Fury Warriors in this episode!

This article was originally published in forum thread: Interview, Darkmoon Faire, Class Mounts, Power Ascended, Raid Testing, Armory Update started by chaud View original post
Published on 2017-06-06 02:43 PM
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  1. Easo's Avatar
    So, kill 100 demons again. Awesome...
    At least the class mounts are here.
  1. Khuzog's Avatar
    That kid looks exactly like what I picture on the other side of every female blood elf.
  1. Delaios's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Easo View Post
    So, kill 100 demons again. Awesome...
    At least the class mounts are here.
    Yeah, but this time it's on the Broken Shore. Overall a very epic campaign that can go toe-to-toe with some of the best questing content in the game. Suramar pales in comparison.
  1. mmoc59b5827c7e's Avatar
    Broken Shore and 7.2 is a major let down content and creaitivity wise. Of course there was something to do because they warmed up the AP and legendary grinds with the 7.0 content, but this patch added nothing. Sentinax is a major disappointment for anyone who isnt a fresh 110 char, Invasions are so uncreative designed (lol at the Hightmountain one repeating the same quest steps pre and inside the scenario) - how this could even go live? Not to mention that Legion has the worst class balance since they started carring about class balance.
  1. Zilveari's Avatar
    Stop trying to make WoWDB happen.
  1. Pacster's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Khuzog View Post
    That kid looks exactly like what I picture on the other side of every female blood elf.
    That kid is 19. Sounds like 29...and looks like 14. He'll not get alcohol without showing his card for quite a while...
  1. zeddy303's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Delaios View Post
    Yeah, but this time it's on the Broken Shore. Overall a very epic campaign that can go toe-to-toe with some of the best questing content in the game. Suramar pales in comparison.
    I actually loved the Suramar quests...so amazing and beautiful. Really felt the plight and challenge of the withered. Broken Shore was awesome getting my newly minted level 110 geared up fast. But after the nethershard nerf, it wasn't worth getting the epic tokens.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zilveari View Post
    Stop trying to make WoWDB happen.
    What do you mean, it's an opportunity to click on wowhead link through wowdb site?! /sarcasm

    Seriously though, no one comments on wowdb and it gives less info than wowhead.
  1. fizyx's Avatar
    The rogue mounts are NOT all available for purchase after getting the class hall mount and earning Power Ascended. Each variation only appears to unlock after you unlock every trait for its associated spec. Not sure if it's intended that you get the equivalent of 'Power Ascended' for every spec or not, although it does seem a little unfair considering most of the other ones appear to only need to get it once. Ah well, there's another 4.5 billion AP I need to farm...


  1. Zabatakis's Avatar
    A damn shame they ignored my plea to get rid of the aura that's only around the ravens ass. I would have been happy without it, or if it were bigger to cover more than the birds ass so it doesn't look like it is powered by magic farts.... alas.
  1. TickTickTick's Avatar
    Slay 100 demons on the Broken Shore. Uh oh, I suppose Maiev thinks we didn't kill any so far? What a sad trash this questline was. A pity considering it all takes place at the doorstep of such an epic place like Tomb of Sargeras.
  1. grexly75's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by fizyx View Post
    The rogue mounts are NOT all available for purchase after getting the class hall mount and earning Power Ascended. Each variation only appears to unlock after you unlock every trait for its associated spec. Not sure if it's intended that you get the equivalent of 'Power Ascended' for every spec or not, although it does seem a little unfair considering most of the other ones appear to only need to get it once. Ah well, there's another 4.5 billion AP I need to farm...


    Well could be worse I suppose since Warlocks have to wait for and complete a Legion Invasion event before they can get their mount.. The Shaman one changes on spec change, Wind for Enhancement, Fire for Elemental and so on..

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    Quote Originally Posted by keymil View Post
    Slay 100 demons on the Broken Shore. Uh oh, I suppose Maiev thinks we didn't kill any so far? What a sad trash this questline was. A pity considering it all takes place at the doorstep of such an epic place like Tomb of Sargeras.
    Well at least it is the last one and not as bad as running around like a headless chicken looking for those stupid Wyrmtongue caches..
  1. Baelic's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Zilveari View Post
    Stop trying to make WoWDB happen.
    I'll probably be using it more since it doesn't constantly devour bandwidth like WoWHead does.
  1. Moridius's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Baelic View Post
    I'll probably be using it more since it doesn't constantly devour bandwidth like WoWHead does.
    #thirdworldproblems?

    In all seriousness, I feel bad for countries that have companies who charge based on usage.
  1. Zequill's Avatar
    So the BOA AK item now cap you instead of putting you 5 point away. What will happen to the 2 recherche I have on my alt if I use it, do the 1000 ressource from those research are refunded or wasted?
  1. Baelic's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Moridius View Post
    #thirdworldproblems?

    In all seriousness, I feel bad for countries that have companies who charge based on usage.
    Not really third world, I live in Canada. The bigger issue for me is what is going on during that constant usage, cause even with AdBlock on it's occurring.
  1. rambopfc's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Zequill View Post
    So the BOA AK item now cap you instead of putting you 5 point away. What will happen to the 2 recherche I have on my alt if I use it, do the 1000 ressource from those research are refunded or wasted?
    They get instantly completed, and your AK is set to 38.

    Source: I just did it on all my alts.
  1. krishnak's Avatar
    i just have one question, is the breaching the tomb achievement account wide? or do i have to do it on ALL my alts?...i know i have to do the class hall campaign for each alt, but the achievement for breaching the tomb is confusing me.
  1. lichbane's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Delaios View Post
    Yeah, but this time it's on the Broken Shore. Overall a very epic campaign that can go toe-to-toe with some of the best questing content in the game. Suramar pales in comparison.
    Blizzard really pull out all stops, didn't they. It’s right up there with "Kill 10 rats".
  1. Daan's Avatar
    Dear Blizzard, why have some classes no Power Ascended Rewards?

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