Azerite Knowledge To Resume Next Week
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
With scheduled weekly maintenance in each region, we will resume the Azerite Knowledge effect next week.

Azerite Knowledge will then continue for four more weeks, with its final increment for Season 2 beginning the week of April 23 and ending with weekly maintenance the week of April 30.

We feel like this is the right way to make sure that Azerite powers on current gear are more broadly attainable for as many players as possible.

In this region, weekly maintenance should begin at 7:00 a.m. PDT on Tuesday, April 2.

Jaina Statue Preorder
The 18" Jaina Proudmoore statue seen at Blizzcon is now available for preorder on the official Blizzard Gear Store. It is scheduled to be delivered by the end of Q3 2019 and costs $350. Click the banner below for more info from the official site.





Viewer’s Guide: Mythic Dungeon International Spring Season
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
The Mythic Dungeon International (MDI) is a global tournament where the top dungeon-running teams in the world use their skill, intelligence, and creativity to secure the best times possible in some of the most difficult Mythic Dungeons on offer. We are entering the first tournament of the year, the MDI Spring Season, so here’s a breakdown of what you need to know!

Many Turtles Made It To the Water
We opened the Proving Grounds and thousands of players around the world answered the call, completing five different level 14 Mythic Keystone Dungeons to earn their spot on the Tournament Realm. These players will have the chance every second week to compete in the Time Trials for their region, West (North America, Latin America, and Europe) and East (China, Korea, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand). The dungeons and affixes are different for each Time Trial, offering new challenges and fresh chances to make the week’s Top 8, which will be broadcast live in the following languages:

Language Streams

Broadcast Schedule
All MDI Cups will broadcast on Saturdays and Sundays local region time. See below for the broadcast dates and start times by region.


Each Cup will give players a chance to get their share of USD $12,000 prize money and MDI points. The top point-earning teams from the East and West will combine in a live, cross-regional, in-person Spring Season LAN final in June. This LAN offers a share of USD $100,000 in prize money, as well as a coveted place at the MDI Global Finals. We’ll share more details about the MDI Spring Season’s finals soon!

Casters


The bald and beautiful Ted “Sloot” Bacinschi has been playing World of Warcraft since the early days. He’s been raiding just as long, if you count stepping foot in Zul’Gurub, getting to the first boss and wiping over and over again. Sloot isn’t just a tank on the desk, he’s also a tank extraordinaire in game as a master of many tank specializations. An iconic figure in the North American and European PvE scenes, you can often find him streaming.

Hailing from Italy, Caroline “Naguura” Forer has come a long way from waiting for her brothers to get off the computer so she could log in and play her Paladin back in Classic. “When I couldn't play, I would just sit for hours and watch my brothers play, then jump straight on as soon as they left the chair,” she said. From Paladin to Druid and from healing to damage, Caroline grew up with the game and went on to establish herself at the core of the EU PvE scene. Now with years of experience, a multitude of World Firsts under her belt and her own forays into WoW esports (both competing and casting), she returns to the MDI casting team.

Daniel "AutomaticJak" Azenberger has been raiding in World of Warcraft for many years and is perhaps most well-known for his healing guides on YouTube and Wowhead, where he specializes in Holy/Discipline Priest and Mistweaver Monk play. He has been creating guides for over five years and enjoys sharing his knowledge and love of healing, so if you’re a healer looking to step up your game, or a tank/DPS looking to understand your healers more, AutomaticJak’s is the voice that will help you do that during MDI.

Aaron "Sours" Shaffer is a former competitor who played Hunter in the second Tespa Great Collegiate Dungeon Race in 2016 and MDI 2017. He then transitioned into casting, helping to bring North American and Chinese MDI to your screens, as well as taking on a role as an analyst at the first ever MDI LAN. He hopes to help highlight the skill and talent of the world’s best dungeon runners. His advice to the competitors is to "focus on your own game—it's not about who makes the first mistake in a race, it's about who makes the last". His goal with the MDI program is for viewers to appreciate the time and effort that competitors put into optimizing their play when they stand at the top of the world.

Former captain of the 4-man MDI team Sinking Ship, and self-proclaimed #2 Balance Druid, Peyton “Tettles” Tettleton’s appearance on the MDI desk will be one for the ages. Overall, his goal for the broadcast is to help viewers understand what makes the runs successful. “There is a lot of nuance in Mythic Plus and being able to teach the path to victory for each team is important,” he said. You can catch him on his stream or on YouTube where he primarily focuses on PVE content. He also authors the Wowhead Balance Druid Guide. He loves a good-natured meme and ridiculous photos of himself photoshopped.

Rounding out the MDI desk team, Alex "Xyronic" Tatge is an Affliction Warlock extraordinaire. You can find his guides on Wowhead, where he breaks down everything a master of shadow magic would need to know, from talent builds, Azerite gear, spell rotations, macros and addons, Mythic+ guides, and more!

After existing for years as an invitational tournament, the Mythic Dungeon International is not just an expanded, worldwide, merit-based tournament—it’s a thank you to all the fans of dungeon running around the globe. We can’t wait to get started. To stay on top of Time Trial results each week and the MDI Cups, check out Raider.IO, and be sure to follow us on Twitter and Twitch. We’ll see you in chat!

Asia-Pacific Enters the Arena
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
While the Arena World Championships (AWC) are taking a break in North America and Europe before their LAN finals, it’s time for Asia-Pacific to get in on the action.

AWC Korea, AWC Australia/New Zealand, and AWC Taiwan are kicking off soon, all adjusted from last year to fall in line with the points-based online cups of North America and Europe. These three tournaments will culminate in a live, cross-regional LAN finals in South Korea, which will take place September 28-29. There, the top three point-earning teams from ANZ, the top three point-earning teams from South Korea, and the top two point-earning teams from Taiwan will battle it out for a $36,000 prize pool, the title of APAC champions, and a spot at the AWC Global Finals.

Signups for ANZ are open now, while signups for Korea and Taiwan open soon. We can’t wait for our Asia-Pacific friends to join the fray! Follow us on Twitter to stay up to date with all things World of Warcraft.

AWC Australia/New Zealand
Cup dates (in Australian Eastern time):

  • ANZ Cup 1: April 5
  • ANZ Cup 2: April 19
  • ANZ Cup 3: May 17
  • ANZ Cup 4: June 14

Tournament format: Double-elimination, best of 5. Finals are best-of-7.

Prize pool: AUD $2,000 per Cup

Signups: Open now.

AWC Korea

Cup dates (in Korean Standard time):

  • KR Cup 1: May 11
  • KR Cup 2: June 1
  • KR Cup 3: June 22
  • KR Cup 4: July 13

Tournament format: Double-elimination, best of 5. Finals are best-of-7.

Prize pool: USD $2,500 per Cup

Signups: Open soon – keep this page bookmarked!

AWC Taiwan
Information, broadcast times and registration will be available in a TW-specific blog post in mid-April.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Azerite Knowledge Resuming, Jaina Statue Preorder, MDI Spring Season, AWC Asia started by chaud View original post
Comments 101 Comments
  1. Averrix's Avatar
    I was so looking forward to this Jaina statue, then it turned out looking like this.
  1. Doffen's Avatar
    The bald and beautiful Ted "Sloot" Bacinschi. Love it.
  1. mojusk's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by guardian_titan View Post
    Always easy to be the critic and say that sucks but not so easy to be the artist. To the people who are saying the statue looks like crap, can you honestly do better? Why not show your statues if you think you can do better?
    if it was amateur fanart, id say it was pretty good. but this is in the official blizzard store and cost 350 bucks, it should be perfect and look exactly like jaina for that kinda money.
  1. Alex86el's Avatar
    Throughout the history of Warcraft, every time they depict Jaina they give her a completely different face. Like WTF?
    She has 5 now.
  1. grexly75's Avatar
    What they should of done is use the 3D model data from the game and from various cutscenes to get a better likeness of Jaina..
  1. snackfeat's Avatar
    That Jaina face lol.

    This is pretty much what I have come to expect from the "Blizzard quality".
  1. MakeMeLaugh's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by guardian_titan View Post
    Always easy to be the critic and say that sucks but not so easy to be the artist. To the people who are saying the statue looks like crap, can you honestly do better? Why not show your statues if you think you can do better?
    Lmao, now we can't criticize the statue because we are not artists! "bUt CaN yOU dO BEtTer?"

    Right, we cannot criticize movies, music, games, books, unless we can do better! Gtfo with that ridiculous logic.
  1. GreenJesus's Avatar
    lol is Jaina asian now?
  1. Marmot's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by MakeMeLaugh View Post
    Lmao, now we can't criticize the statue because we are not artists! "bUt CaN yOU dO BEtTer?"

    Right, we cannot criticize movies, music, games, books, unless we can do better! Gtfo with that ridiculous logic.
    I like how they talked down to people criticising the statue then went on to criticise it themself.
  1. dhru2's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by GreenJesus View Post
    lol is Jaina asian now?
    As far as I know Blizzard is a mobile game developer company for the chinese market... so it would make sense.
  1. DarkStag's Avatar
    I think this is much better https://www.ebay.com/itm/WOW-Jaina-P...frcectupt=true can even customize skirt or no skirt lol
  1. Cosmic Janitor's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by guardian_titan View Post
    Always easy to be the critic and say that sucks but not so easy to be the artist. To the people who are saying the statue looks like crap, can you honestly do better? Why not show your statues if you think you can do better?
    That is just an idiotic statement and a logical fallacy. You don't need to be able to do something else to find the fault with someone elses work. If that was a valid argument for anything in life every professional would be absolved of any kind of responsibility. "What the bridge you drove over that I constructed collapsed under your ass? Pff, can you do it better?".
  1. deviant010's Avatar
    Lol the Jaina face reflects "Blizzard quality" these days.
  1. dhru2's Avatar


    For the weird ones...
    45cm(17,71) 52cm(20,47) 24cm(9,45)
  1. Saphyron's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by coprax View Post
    A few days ago someone at blizzard said: "Today marks the last time that Azerite knowledge will lower the amount of Azerite power needed to level your Heart of Azeroth for the rest of season 2"

    Does anybody there have a clue what the others are doing?
    What most likely happened.

    That was what the planned. People complained. Someone most likely with a well-written review of why it should last longer. They changed their stance on it.
  1. meheez's Avatar
    So its popular buying cheap crap for hundreds now?
  1. Eleccybubb's Avatar
    https://store.eu.square-enix-games.c...ts-kai-vincent

    I just find it hilarious how a £105 figure can look better than a $350 statue. And that's not even the best looking Play Arts Kai figure there is on that store imo.
  1. Sencha's Avatar
    Please buy this Jaina-thing before end of Q1. Please!
  1. markos82's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by guardian_titan View Post
    Always easy to be the critic and say that sucks but not so easy to be the artist. To the people who are saying the statue looks like crap, can you honestly do better? Why not show your statues if you think you can do better?
    This is the most retarded I read here in months. I mean I am not a sculptor thus i can't say something looks bad when it clearly does. Are you really gonna tell me this costs 350$ to make?
  1. Alexeht's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Bamboozler View Post
    I never knew Jaina was a man.

    Hm, interesting.
    It is "ma'am"! xD

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    Quote Originally Posted by DarkStag View Post
    I think this is much better https://www.ebay.com/itm/WOW-Jaina-P...frcectupt=true can even customize skirt or no skirt lol
    Much better

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