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by Published on 2023-04-10 04:25 PM

Noblegarden 2023
Noblegarden has returned to Azeroth from today until April 17th, bringing all of the old goodies from previous years, as well as the Cursed Rabbit's Foot from opening eggs.








Added in 2018 - Cursed Rabbit's Foot
Cursed Rabbit's Foot was added in 2018 that can be looted from eggs. It causes your character to periodically spawn eggs on the ground that are smaller and slightly different than the normal Noble Garden eggs.




Hunt for Brightly Colored Eggs
Collect eggs to gather Noblegarden Chocolate and other Noblegarden items.




Spend Your Noblegarden Chocolate
Noblegarden Chocolate can be used to purchase:

Level Type Name Cost Model Viewer
1Companion Pets Spring Rabbit's Foot100 × 
1Companion Pets Mystical Spring Bouquet100 × 
1Companion Pets Noblegarden Bunny200 × 
20Mount Swift Springstrider500 × 
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1Head Black Spring Circlet50 × 
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1Head Pink Spring Circlet50 × 
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1Head Spring Circlet50 × 
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1Shirt White Tuxedo Shirt25 × 
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1Chest Elegant Dress50 × 
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1Chest Spring Robes50 × 
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23Legs Black Tuxedo Pants25 × 
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1Miscellaneous Spring Flowers50 × 
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1Other Blossoming Branch10 × 
1Other Noblegarden Egg5 × 
60Book Tome of Polymorph: Rabbit100 × 



Host Your Own Egg Hunt or Transfer Gold
Noblegarden vendors also sell Poorly Painted Egg, Intricately-Painted Egg, and Magnificently-Painted Egg for gold.

  • Place these eggs on the ground and they will all look exactly the same.
  • Each egg type is unique, so you can only have one in your inventory at a time.
  • Each egg can be looted by only one player and will contain a gray-quality item that can be sold to a vendor for 90% of the original egg purchase price.
  • The eggs can be seen by anyone around you, so they are a useful way to transfer gold between realms or factions (with a 10% loss).

Level Type Name Cost Model Viewer
1Other Poorly-Painted Egg10
1Other Intricately-Painted Egg10
1Other Magnificently-Painted Egg1,000



Complete Quests
There is a one time quest and daily quest that you can complete:



Unlock Achievements
In order to earn the achievement Noble Gardener (part of What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been) and unlock the Noble title, you must complete these nine achievements:




Most of the items required to earn Achievements can be found in Brightly Colored Eggs, so your luck may significantly lower the amount of Noblegarden Chocolate required.


There are two additional achievements which are not required for Noble Gardener:




Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Noblegarden springs to life April 10 through April 17. Don your bunny ears and hunt for eggs, eat delectable chocolate, collect toys, pets, and more.

The great feast of Noblegarden has long been celebrated by the races of the Alliance and recently adopted by those of the Horde. During this joyous event, it is customary for the nobles and lords from each race to hide coins, candy, and the occasional treasures within special eggs painted to look like wildflowers. These eggs are then scattered around major cities for the citizenry to find.

When: April 10-17
Where: Visit Azure Watch, Dolanaar, Goldshire, Kharanos, Brill, Razor Hill, Bloodhoof Village, Falconwing Square, or Shattrath City to join in the festivities.
Currency: Noblegarden Chocolates are used as currency during this holiday to purchase garments, mounts, pets, and other special rewards. These can be collected by completing quests and opening the eggs found in the event areas.



Holiday Activities
Daily Quests
The Great Egg Hunt rewards you with money, a small amount of experience, and a Blossoming Branch in exchange for Brightly Colored Shell Fragments gathered during your travels.

Egg Hunting
Search around Azure Watch, Dolanaar, Goldshire, Kharanos, Brill, Razor Hill, Bloodhoof Village, Falconwing Square, or Shattrath City for these (mostly) well-hidden Brightly Colored Eggs. To help you get to them more quickly, you’ll want to purchase an Egg Basket from the Noblegarden merchants and vendors to increase your speed and beat the competition.

Brightly Colored Eggs will often contain delicious chocolate you can eat or use to purchase items from the Noblegarden merchants and vendors including, toys, costumes, and mounts. These eggs can also contain a variety of special items.

Here are some of the items you could either find in Brightly Colored Eggs or purchase from vendors with Noblegarden Chocolates:

New! A Drake's Big Basket of Eggs: This toy equips your Dragonriding drake with a festive basket filled with eggs while they fly through the Dragon Isles skies.
Toy: Noble Gardener’s Hearthstone
New Appearances: Blue Spring Circlet, Brown Spring Circlet, Yellow Spring Circlet
Mounts: Swift Springstrider
Pets: Mystical Spring Bouquet, Spring Rabbit's Foot, Noblegarden Bunny
Costumes and Fun Items: Festival Garments, Blossoming Branch, Egg Basket, Spring Flowers, Noblegarden Egg.
Consumables: Mages can purchase the Tome of Polymorph: Rabbit in exchange for 100 Noblegarden Chocolate.

Noblegarden Finery
Show off your style by strutting your stuff through town while wearing some of the great Noblegarden fineries. These can either be found within Brightly Colored Eggs or purchased from the merchants and vendors.

Achievements
Completing 8 Noblegarden Achievements will reward the title “the Noble” and count toward the What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been meta-achievement.

Spring into action so you don’t miss any of the holiday fun!
by Published on 2023-04-08 06:29 PM

Arena World Championship Dragonflight Season 1 - Grand Finals
AWC Dragonflight Season 1 Grand Finals have started! Watch the top 4 teams in Europe and North America face off in arenas for their share of $300,000 USD, this weekend on Twitch and YouTube!


by Published on 2023-04-08 12:52 AM

Dragonflight Class Tuning Incoming - April 11
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
We continue to monitor the performance of classes across various content including Raids, Mythic+ dungeons and PvP. Below, you will find a number of changes meant to balance classes against each other in healing, tanking, and damage in various content.

Death Knight
  • Unholy
    • Developers’ notes: At high haste levels it was possible for Summon Gargoyle to lose casts of Gargoyle Strike. To help remedy that we are reducing the cast speed of Gargoyle Strike to 2.5 seconds (up from 2 seconds) while increasing the damage done to compensate for the slower cast time. We are also making some targeted tuning adjustments to Unholy to increase their damage outside of their 3-minute cooldowns.
    • Raise Dead damage increased by 10%.
    • Army of the Dead damage increased by 10%.
    • Scourge Strike damage increased by 20%.
    • Clawing Shadows damage increased by 20%.
    • Death Coil damage increased by 10%. This does not affect PvP combat.
    • Soul Reaper damage increased by 15% Unholy specialization only.
    • Gargoyle Strike cast speed increased to 2.5 seconds, up from 2.0 seconds and Gargoyle Strike damage increased by 25%.

Druid
  • Balance
    • Starsurge damage increased by 10%. This does not affect PvP combat.
    • Denizen of the Dream damage increased by 20%.
  • Guardian
    • Health and healing received gain from Mastery: Nature’s Guardian increased to 70% (was 50%).
    • Barkskin cooldown reduced to 45 seconds (was 1 minute).

Evoker
  • Preservation
    • Developers’ notes: Preservation’s overall throughput is lower than we’d like since the Lifebind and Temporal Anomaly reductions. We’re compensating for this adjustment in other areas, particularly Living Flame where its healing component can sometimes feel lackluster.
    • All healing increased by 3%.
    • Living Flame’s healing increased by 15%.
    • Resonating Sphere now applies Echo to the first 5 allies it passes through (was 4 allies).

Hunter
  • Beast Mastery
    • All damage dealt by you and your pet’s abilities reduced by 3%.
  • Survival
    • Developer’s notes: This change was intended to have gone live in prior tuning changes, but a data error was made and we are now correcting that. The damage dealt by Mongoose Bite in PvP will be unchanged by this adjustment.
    • Mongoose Bite damage reduced by 10%.

Paladin
  • Protection
    • Hand of the Protector now increases Word of Glory’s healing by up to 100% when cast on allies (was 250%).

Priest
  • Holy Nova damage increased by 30%.
  • Discipline
    • Developers’ notes: We are aiming to bring Discipline’s mana consumption in line with other healers, as we’ve observed the spec consistently running out of resources before other healers throughout Dragonflight. Separately, Power Word: Shield has been weaker than intended relative to other Atonement appliers, so we’re increasing its power.
    • Power Word: Shield now costs 2.4% of base mana for Discipline (was 3.1%).
    • Power Word: Shield now absorbs 25% more damage for Discipline.
    • Renew now costs 2.4% of base mana for Discipline (was 2.7%).
    • Fixed a bug causing Renew to not have its healing increased by 25% for Discipline as intended.
    • Power Word: Radiance now costs 4.5% of base mana (was 5.5%).
  • Holy
    • Developers’ notes: Holy’s damage profile is behind other healers in dungeon and raid content, so we are targeting buffs to their overall damage kit.
    • Holy Fire damage increased by 15%.
    • Smite damage increased by 30%.

Shaman
  • Restoration
    • Developers’ notes: We are happy with the reception of Restoration in 10.0.7. The specialization’s healing power is above our target in all content, so we’re adjusting it in line with our expectations.
    • All healing done reduced by 5.5%.

Player Versus Player

Druid
  • Developers’ note: This is primarily targeted at improving Cyclone’s usability for Druids in PvP, particularly for Restoration Druid as Cyclone’s short range requires them to get close to their enemies.
  • Cyclone’s mana cost has been decreased by 40%.

Monk
  • Mistweaver
    • Developers’ notes: We are specifically targeting Blackout Kick’s AoE damage potential as we feel Mistweaver’s healing becomes overwhelming when it can cleave its damage. We also feel Mistweaver’s mana regeneration has been too powerful, so we are adjusting Spirit of the Crane heavily.
    • Rising Sun Kick no longer deals increased damage in PvP (was 12.5%).
    • Blackout Kick copies from Teachings of the Monastery no longer deal increased damage in PvP (was 15%).
    • Spirit of the Crane now restores 0.18% mana in PvP Combat (was 0.45%).
  • Windwalker
    • Fixed an issue that caused the copied Blackout Kicks from Teachings of the Monastery to deal 15% increased damage in PvP combat instead of the intended 30%.

Paladin
  • Holy
    • Developers’ notes: We are targeting buffs to Holy Paladin’s Word of Glory and Holy Shock healing to increase their instant-cast healing.
    • Word of Glory healing increased by 15% in PvP Combat.
    • Holy Shock healing increased by 30% in PvP Combat (was 15%).
  • Retribution
    • Developers’ notes: Retribution Paladin has remained more powerful than we would like in PvP. With this pass we are targeting its burst damage, allied support, and personal survivability.
    • Avenging Wrath now increases damage and healing by 10% in PvP Combat (was 15%).
    • Avenging Wrath: Might now increases critical strike by 10% in PvP Combat (was 15%).
    • Divine Protection now reduces damage taken by 10% in PvP Combat (was 20%).
    • Light’s Celerity now increases the healing of Flash of Light by 20% in PvP Combat (was 50%).
    • Sanctified Plates now grants 50% less Stamina and Avoidance in PvP Combat.
    • Blessing of Sacrifice now transfers 20% of damage taken in PvP Combat (was 30%).

Warlock
  • Demonology
    • Developers’ notes: We’re toning down the value of Immutable Hatred as it’s providing a significant boost to single target damage in PvP while being difficult to avoid.
    • Immutable Hatred now increases your primary Felguard’s Legion Strike damage by 60% when it damages 1 target in PvP Combat (down from 120%).
by Published on 2023-04-07 12:29 PM

World of Warcraft Lore Trivia Game - Stump Sean Episode 2
The official WoW Youtube channel has started a game where three WoW superfans square off in a trivia showdown for a chance to challenge Blizzard's very own Loremaster, Sean Copeland! Check out new episodes every Thursday.

by Published on 2023-04-07 01:55 AM

WoW Hotfixes - April 6, 2023
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Classes

  • Warlock
    • Affliction
      • Resolved an issue causing Corruption with Absolute Corruption to not be properly to reflect back to the Warlock when using Soul Swap Exhale into a spell reflection effect.

Enemies and NPCs

  • Rare enemies in the Forbidden Reach now drop Storm Sigils.

Items and Rewards

  • Clockwork Azshara will no longer engage in combat.

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