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XP From Dungeons Hotfix
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Hi all,

From WoW’s earliest days, we’ve always had to take steps to limit experience gains for characters when grouped with someone of a drastically higher level. We recently became aware of a bug introduced in 7.3.5: a side-effect of the vastly expanded creature scaling was causing the logic to break when awarding XP in some situations. Earlier today, we applied a hotfix to creature experience that corrects this issue.

At the same time, we have significantly increased the experience awarded through queuing for random Normal dungeons from Classic through Draenor content. Running dungeons at the appropriate should feel rewarding, whether as a complement to or even an complete alternative to questing.

As always, we appreciate your feedback and will continue to keep a close eye on the pacing of the leveling experience in 7.3.5 and beyond.

Patch 7.3.5 Hotfixes - February 14
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Achievements

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Player versus Player

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User Interface
  • Access to the mobile Auction House has been restored.

Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Buried within the data mines, a dark shadow stirs, its breath a bitter chill that brings with it promises of riches... and promises of destruction. A cry rings out, distant but clear. A signal of shock and fear, met with lost hope, and somehow... relief? We must dig deeper. (WarcraftDevs)

We apologize for the typo in the previous tweet. It was meant to say: the Alpha is currently very early in development and much of what you're seeing is purely experimental. Feedback is valuable, but keep in mind that things will be changing rapidly. (WarcraftDevs)

This Week in WoW History
We're taking a look back at old MMO-Champion posts and World of Warcraft news that occurred during this time in previous years.

Break The Trees
Singer/songwriter Sharm was featured in a blue post after the release of her latest song “Break The Trees”. The verses of this song were comprised of talent names from Warcraft. Sharm has been creating WoW Parody videos for the past 10 years and is still active on YouTube.


Iron Man Challenge
2012 marked the beginning of the Iron Man Challenge. This became one of the most popular challenges to date after a few players gave it a shot. The objective is simple - reach level cap. However, doing it within the confines of the rules is the difficult part. Players are not allowed to use and talents, class specializations, professions, enchants, stat-improved gear or the assistance of other players. The most important rule is that if your character dies at all the challenge is over.


Patch 5.4.7
This late Mists of Pandaria patch began the preparation for the new expansion Warlords of Draenor. The patch marked the beginning of the last PvP season of the expansion, added the Level 90 character boost, updated the launcher and added the Collector’s Edition mount/pet to the files.


Graphical Features
Patch 6.1 introduced a handful of new graphical settings to improve the quality of the game. Official colorblind support for Protanopia, Deuteranopia and Tritanopia were added along with a strength adjuster. The graphics tab also got a few new options including the addition of HBAO+ for screen space ambient occlusion (SSAO), a variety of settings for Anti-Aliasing and improved point light settings.


Death Knight Animations
Patch 7.2 added new animations to Howling Blast, Death Grip and Death and Decay. A few undocumented changes were also made to the casting animations of abilities such as Remorseless Winter, Blood Boil and Apocalypse. The initial Death and Decay particles were also changed shortly after the update due to players having issues seeing the affected area when cast on certain terrain.


Going Casual
Top end mythic raiding in Legion, especially in the Nighthold, started to cause issues in certain guilds. The required time investment to stay at the top was too much, causing guilds to either go casual or stop raiding altogether. Most notably From Scratch and SNF announced that they would stop, while Midwinter also called it quits after defeating Grand Magistrix Elisande, with the intention of going casual.


World of Warcraft: Chronicle Volume 2
The second Chronicle book was previewed on IGN, giving us a few teasers about what we should anticipate from the graphic novel. This book series was written to tell the story of Warcraft and everything it entails. Volume 1 covered everything from creation until the rise of humanity, while Volume 2 tells us the story of Ancient Draenor. Currently the Chronicle series is set to release Volume 3 on March 27, 2018.



Allcraft #30 - Battle for Azeroth Alpha
This week Allcraft talked with Tradechat, Asmongold, and Rich about the Battle for Azeroth Alpha.

This article was originally published in forum thread: Feb 14 Hotfixes, Blue Tweets, This Week in WoW, Allcraft 30 started by Stoy View original post
Comments 89 Comments
  1. Eazy's Avatar
    How high chance to drop?
  1. mmoc778a83792b's Avatar
    Might be just me, but I'm like "what's up with people always doing 'TODAY IN _____ HISTORY!' stuff?".
    I'm curious: who reads that, besides the titles?
  1. A-sayo's Avatar
    Looks like the Wow Secret Discord has another secret to reveal.
  1. elgarta's Avatar
    Why does Allcraft get mentioned on news posts? It's a pretty bad podcast.
  1. Kazuchika's Avatar
    lol @ citing SNF in that list considering that guild quit raiding every time Incendioo went crawling back to Midwinter
  1. Kanael's Avatar
    Articles like these are nice, keep it up MMOC!
  1. martinboy's Avatar
    So is Shu-Zen fixed once gain or what? My dog is still running like its on speed.
  1. Sastank's Avatar
    Krippppppp
  1. xcitng's Avatar
    Blizzard fixing the only way to power level past content people have done 20+ times, nickel & diming customers as a billion dollar company, great stuff!

    Can't tell me they aren't pushing boosts now when you introduce a system that is longer than before then removing every single way to power level through content, taking away all options but to level slower or buy a boost.

    Pathetic.
  1. Appelgren's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by xcitng View Post
    Blizzard fixing the only way to power level past content people have done 20+ times, nickel & diming customers as a billion dollar company, great stuff!

    Can't tell me they aren't pushing boosts now when you introduce a system that is longer than before then removing every single way to power level through content, taking away all options but to level slower or buy a boost.

    Pathetic.
    Preach! Its fkn ridicolous. The only thing more pathetic is the people that deny and defend it. Brainless sheeps.
  1. Kon01's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by elgarta View Post
    Why does Allcraft get mentioned on news posts? It's a pretty bad podcast.
    They are partnering with mmo champion so you will be seeing a lot of their stream on the main page from now on .
  1. Corroc's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by martinboy View Post
    So is Shu-Zen fixed once gain or what? My dog is still running like its on speed.
    That dog has to carry cows with all kinds of plate armor. Ofc its on speed.
  1. Soyukichan's Avatar
    Leveling is such a chore again, at least having a friend drag me through made it bearable. I am not at all excited about this change.
  1. grexly75's Avatar
    Rofl, and here I was thinking people were wanting classic/vanilla servers if you hate leveling currently in retail, you will really and truly hate it on vanilla/classic servers..

    You lot bitching about leveling now, how about try leveling when you had no heirlooms to speed up your leveling or anything like that, and one of the only ways to go faster back then was the rested XP bonus..

    No idea why you lot even play MMO's if you hate the leveling process so much, as it is part in parcel of any and all MMO's..
  1. Florida Man's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Appelgren View Post
    Preach! Its fkn ridicolous. The only thing more pathetic is the people that deny and defend it. Brainless sheeps.
    It's an RPG. Get over it.
  1. xcitng's Avatar
    So because its an RPG, its ok to be nickel & dimed by a billion dollar company? you really think they would "fix" the leveling experience (in turn making it take longer) then removing every way to level faster cept for heirlooms isn't a way to push people to pay for boosts?
  1. aeuhe4yxzhds's Avatar
    So am i right in that they fixed getting boosted from another high level character?
  1. ThatsOurEric's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by aeuhe4yxzhds View Post
    So am i right in that they fixed getting boosted from another high level character?
    Yep, no longer gives that crazy bonus exp anymore.
  1. Appelgren's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Frank the Tank View Post
    It's an RPG. Get over it.
    Case in point...
  1. Yuelle's Avatar
    Blizzard implements molasses speed leveling after several expansions of relatively quick leveling.
    People opt not to kill themselves and pay people to chain run them through dungeons/or run themselves
    Take a hint, blizzard. a Stockholm syndrome-suffering minority wants this to take forever. I'm on alt number 47. I'VE EXPERIENCED THIS CONTENT. This is quite telling about the mindset of the devs and pushing me towards leaving the game actually. The horrible decision to not give us Zandalari paladins was already pushing me away. Keep pushing, Blizzard.

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