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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
Comments 291 Comments
  1. Thelyron's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ragashii View Post
    All the changes they've made this past year have been to pad their metrics. TIME PLAYED is all that matters to them now.

    No more powerleveling.
    Old raids take longer.
    Leveling slowed down.
    Group finder destroyed.
    Taking away loot choices.
    Legacy loot making raids require 2 expansions later to be worth soloing.
    Bear tartar nerf.
    Dungeon XP nerfed.

    Keep them investors happy.
    I agree with most of your points, but legacy loot states that you must be "10 levels or more above the content". Right now, we are 10 levels above WoD content, and in BfA we will be 10 levels above Legion content. So if legacy loot is not active in WoD content right now, it definitely unintended.
  1. Rike's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Dhru View Post
    I did more than 17.000 WQs and the leechers don't matter.
    I don't think they matter either, i just try to state possible reasons for the lockdown and then disagree.
  1. Haniel's Avatar
    Wait what? auto accept disabled why? How's that making your own group finder system able to combat the group finder addons? That's the opposite blizz, you're weakening your own groupfinder system.... Please undo this ASAP, I have a great deal of friends, and myself, who use this feature quite often.
  1. Rike's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Haniel View Post
    Wait what? auto accept disabled why? How's that making your own group finder system able to combat the group finder addons? That's the opposite blizz, you're weakening your own groupfinder system.... Please undo this ASAP, I have a great deal of friends, and myself, who use this feature quite often.
    As far as i see it is done because the addon cause too much load on the server, in any case it is a bad PR job.
    They should have explained it in more details and talk to the players about what could be done to improve their situation after the changes.
  1. Aeula's Avatar
    They disabled auto accept? For fuck sake, they might as well delete the LFG tool if they hate grouping so much.
  1. Lilija's Avatar
    So why Blizzard is removing quality of life features again? I would understand if they implemented those into their own UI which when it comes to group finding is rather poor but then you first implement that and then block addons... maybe... I don't know...
  1. Phoenix34's Avatar
    You can fully thank the author of LookingForGroup for these changes, and yourself if you were one of the people using it. Whatever reason Blizzard has to change their policy on grouping automation, if they implement API changes to specifically break your type of addon and you try to circumvent their restrictions you can be sure that they will just break it again. Removing even more functionality in the process, even for what Blizzard would consider legit use cases.
  1. grexly75's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Phoenix34 View Post
    You can fully thank the author of LookingForGroup for these changes, and yourself if you were one of the people using it. Whatever reason Blizzard has to change their policy on grouping automation, if they implement API changes to specifically break your addon and you try to circumvent their restrictions you can be sure that they will just break it again. Removing even more functionality in the process, even for what Blizzard would consider legit use cases.
    Yeah unfortunately with having these addons to speed up grouping shows that the actions of a few has killed it for all it seems..
  1. Wries's Avatar
    Stop ruining the group finder?

    This community has rioted for less..

    Also, "Zappiboi" is the most cringeworthy name I've ever heard. Can't get behind the meme. Just yuck.
  1. grexly75's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Aeula View Post
    They disabled auto accept? For fuck sake, they might as well delete the LFG tool if they hate grouping so much.
    Even though the secretive way they went about it is a bit suspect, they must of had a reason for nuking the auto join feature.. And if it was due to those addons that automated the auto join feature then it is to those addon authors that the blame should be aimed at..
  1. HumbleDuck's Avatar
    Ok, but why?
  1. Cavox's Avatar
    Timegating is one of the worst ideas Blizzard ever had.
    They want to punish people who have more time to play, by making them wait, so when the new content hits the casual players who play an hour a day are at the same starting point than people who invested more time.
    That's another bad design punishing good players for the sake of "equality".

    "N-no, they just want content to last longer and not be consumed at once" I hear you say.
    Well 1 hour + 1 hour + 1 hour still equals 3 hours of content even if you split it over 3 weeks.
    Also how about you design the content to last longer than 3 hours in the first place? As much as I hate rep grinds they were still better than goddamn TIMEGATING.
  1. Rike's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Haniel View Post
    Wait what? auto accept disabled why? How's that making your own group finder system able to combat the group finder addons? That's the opposite blizz, you're weakening your own groupfinder system.... Please undo this ASAP, I have a great deal of friends, and myself, who use this feature quite often.
    As far as i see it is done because the addon cause too much load on the server, in any case it is a bad PR job.
  1. Flarelaine's Avatar
    Saw the group finder changes and knew this was the place to find salt for my popcorn.
  1. Leenaleena's Avatar
    Honestly, the biggest issue I have with manually putting in the name for your group is one borne from the fact that I'm playing on EU servers. We have a bunch of different languages, so quest names and sometimes even mob names differ greatly, thus increasing the likelyhood of simply not finding as many (or any) groups for your planned activity. People who create groups put in typos or abbreviations and suddenly you cannot find them anymore. It reduces the potential group size drastically. Not cool.
  1. Enty's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Noxinator View Post
    People bitch and moan because that is what they have been taught to do. The world we live in teaches people instant gratification in all ways, and the group finder addons are no different. Now that you have to work just a tiny bit to your get group, suddenly they feel attacked on their "rights" and their easy way to satisfaction.
    Just ignore them, it makes your day that much better
    Would you enjoy if say your phone suddenly removed all the contacts and made you type all phone numbers manually?

    We live in a world where quality if life should go forward, not backwards.
  1. Flarelaine's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by sopeonaroap View Post
    I just requested a refund for BfA, i'll keep my $50, sell my account for $2500 and go play madden 19 PC.
    So can we say you got Maddened by the changes?
  1. mmocf80cf43b2a's Avatar
    Funny when i read the title i thougt blizzard would make positive changes so group finder addons arent that much required anymore. How about if you finally upgrade this ludicrous tool so you can properly filter groups or show which warmode youre in without limiting the title with even fewer characters because you have to type this in everytime?
    Ever filtered for +15 in the group finder? Well you most likely going to find much more than +15 in the title / description groups.
    Instead of improving BASIC features every tool like this should have they keep going gutting them because they dont like how certain things work. In the past i was actually a big supporters of blizzards decisions but recently its getting absolutely atrocious with WoW. So many bad decisions and no real quality of life improvements whatsoever.
  1. celinamuna's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by FBWA View Post
    If you can do better than someone who would get hired at Blizzard go get hired or STFU.
    That sounds like a pay cut.
  1. ZeroEdgeir's Avatar
    I legitimately do not understand why people need to use group finder for WQs...

    If I got specific quests to do, they are over in a few minutes, solo. What the hell is so important about doing them as a group? Are you that lazy you can't even do the whole of a quest on your own?

    I've NEVER used it, the whole of this expansion, for anything related to WQs. The only time I used it was for the World Bosses on occasion, getting my Field Medic title before 8.0 went live, and... I think that was it.

    If you find world quests so damn tedious: DO NOT DO THEM. If the rewards are meaningful, do the work. Deal with it. Nobody is MAKING you do the world quests, except for you. You just don't like the idea of doing all the work, and want others to make it faster.

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