Group Finder Addon Changes, Zappi Boi, August 8 Hotfixes, Warcraft Secrets

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Patch 8.0.1 - Build 27291: Group Finder Addon Changes
The latest live build made a few more changes to the Group Finder. This was likely to combat group finding addons, such as the LookingForGroup addon.

  • Searching for groups now must be done manually.
  • Entering text into the search box now must be done manually, you can't paste in text anymore.
  • Accepting group members now must be done manually, as the Auto-Accept functionality has been disabled.


Stromgarde Warfront Unlock Timing
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
We’ve seen some confusion about when Battle for Azeroth’s first Warfront, Battle for Stromgarde, will open and would like to give some clarifications.

Similar to other types of endgame content such as raids and rated PvP, the Battle for Stromgarde will not be immediately available at launch. Instead, it’ll open a few weeks later. Initially, the Alliance will control Stromgarde Keep (which allows access to certain outdoor content in the Arathi Highlands), while the Horde begins preparations to assault. Once those preparations are finished, Horde players will be able to queue for the Battle for Stromgarde Warfront.

A few days afterward, the roles will reverse: the Horde will control Stromgarde (thus gaining access to the outdoor content), and the Alliance will begin their own preparations to retaliate. This process will continue to alternate between Horde and Alliance on a regular cadence.

Zappi Boi Stats
Blizzard shared a chart that demonstrates how character names with Zap at the beginning spiked after the release of the cinematic.



Patch 8.0.1 Hotfixes - August 8, 2018
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Classes
  • Death Knight (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
    • Gorefiend's Grasp correctly functions on transports such as elevators.
    • Unholy
      • Risen Skulker from All Will Serve will now properly change targets to assist while in combat.
      • Summon Gargoyle and the Dark Arbiter variant will now properly assist in combat and change targets.
  • Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
    • Succubus will no longer automatically cast Seduction when the Warlock is affected by crowd control effects.

Dungeons and Raids
  • Tomb of Sargeras

    • Dresanoth’s Icy Talons ability no longer deals excessive damage.
    • Lylth the Silent no longer deals excessive damage with Lunar Blast, Shadow Blast, and Star Barrage abilities.
    • Lieutenant Silvermight no longer deals excessive damage.

Player versus Player
  • Arathi Blizzard
    • The number of bases controlled by each faction is now displayed correctly.

Professions
  • Herbalism
    • Fixed a bug that made Frost Lotus require a Herbalism skill of 400 to be successfully harvested.

Warcraft Secrets Website Launch
The Warcraft Secrets website launched recently, with the goal of documenting the hidden secrets in WoW.

  • The Secrets Database documents all the secrets that have been completed by the community, as well as hidden collectibles and other interesting vanity items.
  • Guides are articles on elaborate secrets such as Uuna, Lucid Nightmare and Sun Darter Hatchling
  • Hunter Pets section includes guides to secret-related or hard-to-find and challenging hunter pets such as Lightning Paw and Fenryr.
  • Mysteries documents uncovered hidden secrets, as well as Battle for Azeroth secrets in the process of uncovering.

If you decide to register an account, you will also be able to sort your collection based on obtained secret mounts, hidden collectibles and vanity items.


They are currently hosting a giveaway for 5x Blizzard Shop Mounts on their front page, as well as several others on their Website Discord for MMO-Champion Premium and other websites.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Group Finder Addon Changes, Zappi Boi, August 8 Hotfixes, Warcraft Secrets started by chaud View original post
Published on 2018-08-09 03:49 AM
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  1. MysticBard's Avatar
    What an idiotic decision ...
  1. Fillerbunny's Avatar
    god damn, there goes my mount farming endeavours.
  1. dopefishz's Avatar
    Bfa seems to become the expansion with the most 'features' nobody ever asked for. Fuck this WoW team and especially Ion.
  1. Darkguyver2020's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Darkguyver2020 View Post
    Discussion? Where's the discussion? All I see are a bunch of whiny menchildren throwing tiny twos tantrums. I've been to nurseries with less crying and screaming.
    Quote Originally Posted by dopefishz View Post
    Bfa seems to become the expansion with the most 'features' nobody ever asked for. Fuck this WoW team and especially Ion.
    Thank you so much for proving my point.
  1. monteiro's Avatar
    <Ion Robot> Fun detected. Eliminated.
  1. dopefishz's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Darkguyver2020 View Post
    Thank you so much for proving my point.
    I knew you were going to quote me. Know what? Fuck you too
  1. Sting's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Darkguyver2020 View Post
    Thank you so much for proving my point.
    Go suck your own dick somewhere else.
  1. dewd's Avatar
    good that world quests in bfa provide useless 'rewards' so that this group finder change doesnt even matter since nobody will do world quests.
  1. Khallid's Avatar
    Why is it such a big deal that World Quest addons get disabled? It seems like everyone agrees it's a bad move, but I never used any of them so I don't really know much about it.
  1. Darkguyver2020's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by dopefishz View Post
    I knew you were going to quote me. Know what? Fuck you too
    You're not old enough, kid.
    /drops mic

    Quote Originally Posted by Sting View Post
    Go suck your own dick somewhere else.
    And you can pull your fat head out of your ass.
  1. Queen of Hamsters's Avatar
    Can't expect the manchildren of MMO-C to NOT bitch and whine.

    Not sure why anyone bothers using automated grouping for WQ's anyway, every time I've done so there's been me doing the objectives, and shitheads leeching. Fuck that.
  1. MarkTheMadMad's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by fishoa View Post
    Remember when we said all changes in 7.3.5 to old raids and leveling were to make everything take more time because of investor's metrics? You guys didn't believe us.
    What is "investor's metrics?"
  1. Darkguyver2020's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by SensationalBanana View Post
    Can't expect the manchildren of MMO-C to NOT bitch and whine.

    Not sure why anyone bothers using automated grouping for WQ's anyway, every time I've done so there's been me doing the objectives, and shitheads leeching. Fuck that.
    You're lucky then. Most people that joined my group weren't even in the same zone and would drop about 5 seconds later.

    Quote Originally Posted by Scroolooseuk View Post
    What is "investor's metrics?"
    I think he means shareholders.
  1. MarkTheMadMad's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Darkguyver2020 View Post
    I think he means shareholders.

    - - - Updated - - -



    I think he means shareholders.
    Ah i see. But why would slowing down the rate at which people complete world quests and raids benefit share holders? longer Subs i guess?
  1. Eleccybubb's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Scroolooseuk View Post
    Ah i see. But why would slowing down the rate at which people complete world quests and raids benefit share holders? longer Subs i guess?
    Pretty much.

    Blizzard seem to have this insane focus with "MAUs" recently aka Monthly Active Users rather than actual subs for WoW as of late.

    Plus with how heavy they've been content gating does seem like they are focusing more on time played than people playing as of late.

    Just my 2 cents though. I mean look at Broken Shore and it's 14 week gated "story".
  1. monteiro's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Scroolooseuk View Post
    Ah i see. But why would slowing down the rate at which people complete world quests and raids benefit share holders? longer Subs i guess?
    Exactly. The main reason people take breaks is because they think they ran out of things to do/achiev.
  1. hyphnos's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by SensationalBanana View Post
    Can't expect the manchildren of MMO-C to NOT bitch and whine.

    Not sure why anyone bothers using automated grouping for WQ's anyway, every time I've done so there's been me doing the objectives, and shitheads leeching. Fuck that.
    Obviously it is because the behavior you describe was uncommon enough that joining groups wasn't a complete waste of time.

    The fact that these addons were used basically proves that you had the wrong impression about their usefulness and as such, it is perfectly reasonable to think it is stupid to disable them, regardless of your pseudo-moralistic, holier than thou name-calling.
  1. Ideon's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Darkguyver2020 View Post
    You're not old enough, kid.
    /drops mic


    And you can pull your fat head out of your ass.
    How is your post helpful in any way?
    At least provide constructive feedback instead of trolling.
  1. monteiro's Avatar
    Forget about Alliance x Horde. Reasonable Players X Blizzard Fan Boys is the real battle imo.
  1. Queen of Hamsters's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by hyphnos View Post
    Obviously it is because the behavior you describe was uncommon enough that joining groups wasn't a complete waste of time.

    The fact that these addons were used basically proves that you had the wrong impression about their usefulness and as such, it is perfectly reasonable to think it is stupid to disable them, regardless of your pseudo-moralistic, holier than thou name-calling.
    Cry me a river.

    The behaviour was common enough to make it perfectly reasonable to try and maintain it too, clearly. I'm sure Blizzard's got better access to stats on the matter in any case. Players have feels, they've got access to reals.

    The crybabies could clearly do with less hand holding, seeing their tantrums.
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