World of Warcraft News and Raiding Strategies

BlizzCon adventurers, it’s time to plan your convention-crawling strategy—the BlizzCon 2017 schedule is here! Take a look at all the developer sessions, community activities, esports tournaments, and other events at this year’s show, taking place Friday, November 3 and Saturday, November 4.

With the BlizzCon 2017 Virtual Ticket, you’ll unlock access to live coverage of all four stages of developer events and community content, including the Legendary, Mythic, Epic, and Heroic stages. You’ll also be able to watch this year’s BlizzCon All Access Channel, which will act as your tour guide through all the big moments taking place at the show.

The Virtual Ticket also unlocks access to VODs from the All Access Channel and the four content stages, so viewers can go back and revisit events they might have missed. And for the first time, we’re excited to be able to provide localized versions of these VODs, along with our weekly pre-show videos, subtitled in French, German, Russian, and Korean!

As always, you can catch Friday’s opening ceremony and all the tournament action on this year’s five esports stages FREE here on www.blizzcon.com.

Attention attendees! If you’re joining us in person in Anaheim, this year’s opening ceremony will be spread across more than one stage throughout the show. The live presentation will be jumping between stages as our developers show you what we’ve been working—stay tuned for more information on where you’ll want to seek out a seat. And of course, everything will be broadcast on screens and stages throughout the convention hall.

Head to www.blizzcon.com/schedule to start exploring!

Join us live on Twitch Thursday, October 5, as we sit down with Game Director Ion Hazzikostas for our next live developer Q&A. He’ll be answering many of your questions on the ongoing development of World of Warcraft: Legion.

Feel free to submit questions by posting in this forum thread or via Twitter using the hashtag #LegionQA.

We’re really looking forward to getting the chance to dive in and answer as much as we can, so we hope to see you Thursday at 11:00 a.m. PDT!

All week, open Group Finder (default hotkey: i) and then select Dungeon Finder to queue for any Legion dungeon on Normal or Heroic difficulty. Alternately, get a group of veteran dungeoneers together and travel to one of the Legion dungeons on Mythic difficulty.

Look for the following all week long:

• Archmage Timear near Violet Hold in Dalaran has a quest for you. Or, if you forget to pick it up there, you can start it from within the Adventure Journal.
  
  • Quest requirement: Complete 4 Legion dungeons on Mythic difficulty.
  • Rewards: One loot box containing a piece of gear from Heroic difficulty Tomb of Sargeras.
• Passive bonus: The final boss in each dungeon drop additional loot on all difficulties (except Mythic Keystone difficulties).

Originally introduced as a part of the World of Warcraft 10-Year Anniversary event, this Brawl harkens back to the early days of WoW PvP, with an epic battle between the two towns of Tarren Mill and Southshore.


In this game of war, you’ll need to work as a team and deplete your foes’ resources to claim victory.

Hi, Dave, can you explan how a Shaman work, use every Shaman Decay? Or only Dark-shamans? What is with the Taunka? Thank you!
Shaman use the four elements and "spirit" to bring them to life. Only dark shaman forego spirit and use the elements with decay. (DaveKosak)
...and that Taunka are Taunka. (DaveKosak)

Argus

• Characters who were unable to access the Netherlight Crucible after performing an account transfer can once again access it.
  
• Shadowcaster Voruun on Mac'Aree should now respawn more often when he is up.

Classes

• Paladin (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
  
  • Protection
    
    • Steed of Glory will now correctly function with Highlord's Chargers.
      

Argus World Quests on Alts
We've been seeing the feedback on it for the other zones and I'll see if I can get some additional clarification on why just one zone's World Quests are unlocked. The current expectation is to unlock them all so you can complete the Emissary quests, but I get that's frustrating to go through the campaign multiple times.

We had previously talked about it before and it was due to a lot of the World Quests being locked behind the story quests that unlock each area and characters in that area.

And , to be blunt. what we are asking for is what was stated in the Q and A. Blizzard set the expectation, has not delivered on that expectation and as yet, we are still to receive any communication as to what the hell is going on.
I understand your frustration here. I get it from the having alts perspective, however spreading misinformation is not helpful. It was never actually said all of the world quests would be account wide. In the Q&A Ion elaborated on what would and what wouldn't and stated the intentions behind it. He specifically noted that World Quests may be account wide, however the vast majority would not be as it didn't make sense to have something account wide for a character that couldn't access the area or quests yet. He called out that characters still needed to go through the story to unlock those.

Luckily this doesn't take too much effort in Argus and its quite quick to unlock all of the World Quests. Compared to previous patches and expansions this is actually very doable on alts, much easier than previous campaigns.

That being said, I understand that doing it multiple times is still an issue. We'll see if we can get some more insight to this and pass along some more of the feedback we're seeing here. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Sim Accuracy
Sims are super useful to give you an idea of a perfect world scenario based on the proc percentages. However that perfect world just simply never happens no matter the class/spec.

What Midguard said is pretty true regarding how a player thinks versus a sim. Sims can only think in logical If-Or scenarios but players can be predictive and respond to scenarios more efficiently and know how to set themselves up more effectively. You see this especially with how sims use cooldowns. Most simply just use them on a time interval that is it's cooldown because it can't actively predict fight mechanics.

Fire is kind of the same way. I've simmed Fire I can't tell you how many times and it almost never lines up with what I actually do. Occasionally I fall slightly under (~1-2% ish) but the majority I blow it out of the water because I have more Hot Streaks than the sim predicted and a more efficient Combustion usage than just "everytime its up".

Sims aren't perfect, and they're certainly not meant to perfectly reflect raid encounters, but they're very useful for figuring out what you should be doing under static conditions, and applying those findings to dynamic encounters.
That's the point I was roughly making as well. Thanks for the informative clarification on simulation vs formulation.

*When games become more about math than having fun*
Figuring out the math and optimizations can be pretty fun if you're into the methodology. I totally recognize its not for everyone. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)