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by Published on 2023-02-03 07:34 PM

X-45 Heartbreaker Mount Drop Rate Increase
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
The Love is in the Air world event is right around the corner, and we’re sharing the love this holiday season.

We’ve heard your feedback on the frustrations with X-45 Heartbreaker’s low drop rate and feeling the pressure of having to farm the mount by cycling through as many alts as possible every day. From now on, the first Heart-Shaped Box you receive each day across your Battle.net account will have a greatly increased chance to contain the X-45 Heartbreaker mount.

Any subsequent Heart-Shaped Boxes you earn on your characters after the first each day will drop the mount at the previous, original rate.

Love is in the Air begins on February 6 at 10:00 a.m. PST in all regions. So spritz on your favorite perfume and head to the Shadowfang Keep event dungeon to defeat Apothecary Hummel for your chance at the fantastic flying fuschia fuselage you’ve fancied far too fervently for what seems like forever.

Good luck adventurers!
by Published on 2023-02-03 05:36 PM

Upcoming Bugfix for Battle for Azeroth Level-up Dungeons
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Along with the players who reported this, we found a bug causing enemies in Battle for Azeroth dungeons to scale well beyond their intended difficulty.

With scheduled realm maintenance on Tuesday, we will deploy a fix for the bug and the difficulty of the affected dungeons should become very similar to that of Chromie Time leveling dungeons.

To everyone who reported the state of BFA dungeons: thank you very much.
by Published on 2023-02-03 11:13 AM

Reddit AMA with John Staats - WoW's First Level Designer

World of Warcraft Diary Book 2nd Printing Campaign
John Staats published The WoW Diary, a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of vanilla World of Warcraft back in 2018. He's now running a crowdfunding campaign for a 2nd printing. You can check out the campaign here.

We were able to share a chapter during the Kickstarter for the first printing, and now we're able to share an excerpt from the new Post-Mortem article, Blizzard's Secret Sauce:


Originally Posted by John Staats
"Innovation makes for memorable talking points and feeds into the public’s perception of a visionary genius. People want to believe there are Promethean geniuses like Thomas Edison or Steve Jobs lighting the way. It’s a simple and romantic view. Why gum up the narrative with the minutiae? Who wants to hear about long work hours, internal failures, collaboration, and incremental progress? That stuff doesn’t sell magazines.

A disciplined developer targets a broad audience. Instead of creating features that demand expensive video cards, Blizzard always aims at low-end computers, making games everyone can play. This strategy isn’t exciting or “innovative,” nor does it energize the press, but it results in better sales—yet few studios embrace this attitude. Making games is unpredictable, complicated, and expensive. If executives want to avoid laying off hardworking devs, it’s incumbent on them to ensure their project will make enough money.

The words “proof of concept” means that a pilot feature is popular enough to be feasible. Investing in a better version of it seems prudent. If it’s fun gameplay to kill and loot monsters in an open world, making a game using this mechanic makes sense. If fantasy games outsell science fiction games, it’s logical to make fantasy games. These were the decisions that drove Blizzard toward WoW."

If you enjoyed this excerpt, there are many more like it in my book, The World of Warcraft Diary, written from the lessons learned while making WoW. I am crowdfunding the second printing.
by Published on 2023-02-03 03:18 AM

Patch 10.0.5 Hotfixes - February 2
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Classes
  • Druid
    • Skull Bash will no longer trigger Precognition when successfully interrupting a Holy Paladin with Concentration Aura.
    • Guardian
      • Fixed an issue where Tooth and Claw did not correctly grant 15% magic damage mitigation.
  • Evoker
    • Temporal Anomaly can now be cast while moving when releasing it through Stasis.
  • Monk
    • Mistweaver
      • Fixed an issue that caused Lesson of Anger to not duplicate some damage or healing sources.

Items and Rewards
  • Fixed an issue that prevented Blueprint: Utility Mechaclaw from dropping from the Caustic Mechaslime in Mechagon.

Player versus Player
  • Classes
    • Evoker
      • Quell will no longer trigger Precognition when successfully interrupting another player who is affected by Concentration Aura.
  • Solo Shuffle
    • Fixed an issue where summoned pets’ cooldowns were not correctly being reset between rounds.

Professions
  • Rabul of the Artisan’s Consortium now sells a Satchel of Coalescing Chaos that binds to your Blizzard Account. This item costs 80 Primal Chaos and provides 60 Primal Chaos to the character who uses it.
    • Developers’ notes: We’ve heard and agree with feedback that players have amassed surplus Primal Chaos on their mains while their alts need all the Primal Chaos they can get. Some Primal Chaos will be lost in the transaction. This is because we want to make sure that while this is a great way for a main to help an alt, the best way to gear up a character should generally be via actually playing that character. Nonetheless, this should provide an additional use for your Primal Chaos, as well as a good way to get some powerful gear to your alts quickly.
  • Inscription
    • Fixed an issue with Darkmoon Decks where the Sagescale Sigil’s shuffle-when-jumping mechanic was being extended to all Darkmoon Decks.

Wrath of the Lich King Classic Hotfixes - February 2
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Classes
  • Death Knight
    • Fixed an issue where creating your first Death Knight would fail on the first attempt.
  • Druid
    • Nightsong Regalia (Tier 8) 4-set bonus heal now correctly triggers on each Rejuvenation.
      • Developers’ note: The once-on-every-other-Rejuvenation cast is true to the behavior in patch 3.3.5. However, the wording of the Tier 8 set bonus does not reflect this, and instead indicates that Rejuvenation should provide an instant-heal on cast. It seemed like the fair thing to do would be to reimplement the once-on-every-Rejuvenation-cast trigger rate.
by Published on 2023-02-02 01:02 PM

Transfering Primal Chaos to Alts in Patch 10.0.5
Blizzard has hotfixed an item into the game to transfer Primal Chaos between characters on your account for a price.

  • Satchel of Coalescing Chaos is sold by Rabul, the Artisan's Consortium vendor, in Valdrakken found at the coordinates 35.6, 58.8.
  • Costs 80 Primal Chaos to purchase.
  • Provides 60 Primal Chaos to the alt that uses it, making this item a loss of 20 Primal Chaos to send to an alt.
  • There is no reputation requirement for the Artisan's Consortium to purchase it.



Primal Chaos can now be Sent to Alts
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
We’ve heard and agree with feedback that players have amassed surplus Primal Chaos on their mains while their alts need all the Primal Chaos they can get. With a hotfix that went live about 12 hours ago, we’ve added a method for transferring Primal Chaos to other characters on your account.

  • Rabul of the Artisan’s Consortium now sells a Satchel of Coalescing Chaos that binds to your Blizzard Account. This item costs 80 Primal Chaos and provides 60 Primal Chaos to the character who uses it.

As you can see, some Primal Chaos will be lost in the transaction. This is because we want to make sure that while this is a great way for a main to help an alt, the best way to gear up a character should generally be via actually playing that character.

Nonetheless, this should provide an additional use for your Primal Chaos, as well as a good way to get some powerful gear to your alts quickly.

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