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Published on 2022-05-03 12:13 AM
Children's Week 2022
Children's Week is back again from May 2nd to May 9th.
New in Shadowlands
New in Battle for Azeroth
For Children's Week content from older expansion click the banner below.
Children's Week Has Arrived!
Children's Week is back again from May 2nd to May 9th.
New in Shadowlands
- Ember Court Event Buff: Theotar's Inspirational Tea
- Drink Theaotar's new tea, reducing the power cost of most abilities by 100% and increasing cooldown recovery rate by 300%.
New in Battle for Azeroth
- Four New Battle Pets
- New Quests
- Alliance - Orphan Matron Westerson in Kul Tiras
- The Mountain Folk: Take Liam to meet the Roughnecks at the Roughneck Camp in Tiragarde Sound.
- Yo Ho, Yo Ho!: Take Liam to meet a pirate outside of Freehold in Tiragarde Sound.
- The Squid Shrine: Take Liam to see Shrine of the Storms from the beach near Mariner's Strand in Stormsong Valley.
- Bird Friends: Take Liam to see the statue of Arom Waycrest at Arom's Stand in Drustvar.
- Shapeshifters!: Take Liam to meet a druid at Ulfar's Den in Drustvar.
- Horde - Caretaker Padae in Dazar'alor
- Loa of Winds: Take Azala to Pterror Rise in Zuldazar.
- The Shifting Pack: Take Azala to the Lair of Gonk at the Garden of the Loa in Zuldazar.
- The Frogmarsh: Take Azala to Krag'wa's Burrow in the Frogmarsh in Nazmir.
- The Sethrak Queen: Take Azala to the Terrace of the Devoted in Vol'dun.
- Hunting for Gold: Take Azala to The Golden Isle in Vol'dun.
- Alliance - Orphan Matron Westerson in Kul Tiras
For Children's Week content from older expansion click the banner below.
Children's Week Has Arrived!
It’s time to give back to the children of Azeroth during Children’s Week! Take an orphan under your wing and show them the wonders of the world.
Throughout the year, the orphans of Azeroth spend much of their time wandering their home cities, dreaming of the day they’ll be old enough (and big enough) to go out into the world to experience the adventures and marvels they’ve missed as children. During Children’s Week, the giving souls of the Horde and the Alliance can help make those dreams come true.
Traveling with orphans is now easier than ever! All orphans (except Wolvar and Oracle) now have their own mounts, making it all that much easier to show them the wonders of Azeroth.
Overview
When: May 2 - May 9
Levels: Available to characters level 10 or above
Where:
Pets
Showing your orphaned child around can be beneficial to you and the child. Once you’ve completed the various quests associated with this event, you’ll have a choice of several pets to add to your Battle Pet collection:
Boralus and Zuldazar: Mr. Crabs, Beakbert, Froglet, and Scaley
Orgrimmar and Stormwind: Whiskers the Rat, Speedy, Scooter the Snail, Mr. Wiggles
Shattrath: Egbert, Peanut, Willy, Legs
Dalaran (Northrend): Curious Oracle Hatchling, Curious Wolvar Pup
If you’ve collected all these pets through the years—including the four new ones from this year—you’ll be rewarded with the Pet Care Package which provides a variety of items, including pug costumes, Magical Pet Biscuit, and a Flawless Battle-Stone.
Achievements
Meta-Achievement: For the Children
Complete the following Children’s Week achievements listed below, and you’ll earn the title reward of Matron or Patron: Home Alone; Daily Chores; School of Hard Knocks; Bad Example; Aw, Isn’t It Cute?; and Hail to the King, Baby.
Home Alone (Part of the Meta-Achievement)
Use your Hearthstone while your orphan is with you.
Daily Chores (Part of the Meta-Achievement)
Complete five daily quests with your orphan out.
School of Hard Knocks (Part of the Meta-Achievement)
Take your orphan into the Battlegrounds and complete the feats listed below:
Bad Example (Part of the Meta-Achievement)
Eat the sweets listed below while your orphan is watching.
Aw, Isn’t It Cute? (Part of the Meta-Achievement)
Obtain one of the Children’s Week reward pets through questing.
Hail to the King, Baby (Part of the Meta-Achievement)
Defeat King Ymiron in Utgarde Pinnacle with your orphan out.
Veteran Nanny
Acquire Egbert’s Egg, Sleepy Willy, and Elekk Training Collar on one character.
Activities
Many orphans wish they had someone special to show them the wonders of the world. Throughout the year, they often spend their time wandering around their home cities of Stormwind or Orgrimmar, dreaming of the day they’ll be old enough (and big enough) to go out into the world to seek the adventures and sights they’ve missed as a child. During Children’s Week, the giving souls of the Horde and the Alliance can help make those dreams true.
Visit Famous Landmarks: Talk to either Orphan Matron Nightingale in Stormwind (Alliance) or Orphan Matron Battlewail in Orgrimmar (Horde) to pick up a new little buddy you can guide around Azeroth and Outland.
Achievements! Earn many fun achievements while traveling around the world with your orphan by your side.
Throughout the year, the orphans of Azeroth spend much of their time wandering their home cities, dreaming of the day they’ll be old enough (and big enough) to go out into the world to experience the adventures and marvels they’ve missed as children. During Children’s Week, the giving souls of the Horde and the Alliance can help make those dreams come true.
Traveling with orphans is now easier than ever! All orphans (except Wolvar and Oracle) now have their own mounts, making it all that much easier to show them the wonders of Azeroth.
Overview
When: May 2 - May 9
Levels: Available to characters level 10 or above
Where:
- Kul Tiran and Zandalari: Orphan Matron Westerson in Boralus to start the new Kul Tiran orphan quest line; Padae in Zuldazar to start the new Zandalari orphan quest line
- Human and Orc: Orphan Matron Nightingale in Stormwind; Orphan Matron Battlewail in Orgrimmar
- Draenei and Blood Elf: Orphan Matron Mercy in Shattrath
- Wolvar and Oracle: Orphan Matron Aria in Dalaran.
Pets
Showing your orphaned child around can be beneficial to you and the child. Once you’ve completed the various quests associated with this event, you’ll have a choice of several pets to add to your Battle Pet collection:
Boralus and Zuldazar: Mr. Crabs, Beakbert, Froglet, and Scaley
Orgrimmar and Stormwind: Whiskers the Rat, Speedy, Scooter the Snail, Mr. Wiggles
Shattrath: Egbert, Peanut, Willy, Legs
Dalaran (Northrend): Curious Oracle Hatchling, Curious Wolvar Pup
If you’ve collected all these pets through the years—including the four new ones from this year—you’ll be rewarded with the Pet Care Package which provides a variety of items, including pug costumes, Magical Pet Biscuit, and a Flawless Battle-Stone.
Achievements
Meta-Achievement: For the Children
Complete the following Children’s Week achievements listed below, and you’ll earn the title reward of Matron or Patron: Home Alone; Daily Chores; School of Hard Knocks; Bad Example; Aw, Isn’t It Cute?; and Hail to the King, Baby.
Home Alone (Part of the Meta-Achievement)
Use your Hearthstone while your orphan is with you.
Daily Chores (Part of the Meta-Achievement)
Complete five daily quests with your orphan out.
School of Hard Knocks (Part of the Meta-Achievement)
Take your orphan into the Battlegrounds and complete the feats listed below:
- Capture the flag in Eye of the Storm, assault a tower in Alterac Valley, assault a flag in Arathi Basin, return a fallen flag in Warsong Gulch
Bad Example (Part of the Meta-Achievement)
Eat the sweets listed below while your orphan is watching.
- Tigule and Foror’s Strawberry Ice Cream, Tasty Cupcake, Red Velvet Cupcake, Delicious Chocolate Cake, Lovely Cake Slice, Dalaran Brownie, Dalaran Doughnut
Aw, Isn’t It Cute? (Part of the Meta-Achievement)
Obtain one of the Children’s Week reward pets through questing.
Hail to the King, Baby (Part of the Meta-Achievement)
Defeat King Ymiron in Utgarde Pinnacle with your orphan out.
Veteran Nanny
Acquire Egbert’s Egg, Sleepy Willy, and Elekk Training Collar on one character.
- These are the items that unlock the battle pets Egbert, Willy, and Peanut.
Activities
Many orphans wish they had someone special to show them the wonders of the world. Throughout the year, they often spend their time wandering around their home cities of Stormwind or Orgrimmar, dreaming of the day they’ll be old enough (and big enough) to go out into the world to seek the adventures and sights they’ve missed as a child. During Children’s Week, the giving souls of the Horde and the Alliance can help make those dreams true.
Visit Famous Landmarks: Talk to either Orphan Matron Nightingale in Stormwind (Alliance) or Orphan Matron Battlewail in Orgrimmar (Horde) to pick up a new little buddy you can guide around Azeroth and Outland.
Achievements! Earn many fun achievements while traveling around the world with your orphan by your side.
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Published on 2022-05-02 10:24 PM
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Published on 2022-05-02 08:50 PM
Upcoming Tuning Changes to Classes and Items - May 3, 2022
With our next scheduled weekly maintenance (May 3 in this region), we intend to make some tuning adjustments to several classes and one item.
Classes
Death Knight
Hunter
Monk
Rogue
Warrior
Warlock
Items
We’ll include the final adjustments in our hotfixes update next week after the tuning goes live.
Classes
Death Knight- Blood
- The First Eidolon’s Soulsteel (2-piece) set bonus: maximum Strength stack cap is now 40 (was 75).
Hunter- Beast Mastery
- All damage abilities increased by 4%.
- This change does not apply to PvP combat.
- All damage abilities increased by 4%.
Monk- Windwalker
- All damage abilities increased by 4%.
- This change does not apply to PvP combat.
- All damage abilities increased by 4%.
Rogue- Outlaw
- All damage abilities increased by 4%.
Warrior- Arms
- All damage abilities increased by 4%.
Warlock- Affliction
- All damage abilities increased by 4%.
Items
- Gladiator's Echoing Resolve now increases the duration of crowd control by 25% (was 20%), now lasts 12 seconds (was 15 seconds), no longer increases the duration of root effects, and no longer causes the target to become immune to root effects.
We’ll include the final adjustments in our hotfixes update next week after the tuning goes live.
We’ve worked through a couple of modifications to our plans.
Classes
Death Knight
We will modify the planned adjustment to the Dancing Rune Weapon extension from the 2-piece bonus, reducing the maximum stack cap of the Strength bonus down to 40 from 75. Our initial goal was to rein in the power from the overall set bonus as it far exceeded our expected value for a tier bonus when played well. However, this nerf also hit the lower end harder than intended while also making Blood feel worse playing around optimal gearing and mechanical play to maximize the potential of the bonus. We will instead shift to reducing the maximum Strength cap so that the playstyle of the set bonus remains relatively unchanged but the damage capabilities (and to a lesser extent some of the defensive power) are pulled back some to a more appropriate value.
Rogue
We’d like to extend our thanks to the community for all of your discussion on the proposed adjustments. We really appreciate being able to harness the power of your feedback before making changes to the live game.
Classes
Death Knight- Blood
- The First Eidolon’s Soulsteel (2-piece) set bonus: Heart Strike now increases the duration of Dancing Rune Weapon by 0.33 seconds (was 0.5 seconds).
- The First Eidolon’s Soulsteel (2-piece) set bonus: maximum Strength stack cap is now 40 (was 75).
We will modify the planned adjustment to the Dancing Rune Weapon extension from the 2-piece bonus, reducing the maximum stack cap of the Strength bonus down to 40 from 75. Our initial goal was to rein in the power from the overall set bonus as it far exceeded our expected value for a tier bonus when played well. However, this nerf also hit the lower end harder than intended while also making Blood feel worse playing around optimal gearing and mechanical play to maximize the potential of the bonus. We will instead shift to reducing the maximum Strength cap so that the playstyle of the set bonus remains relatively unchanged but the damage capabilities (and to a lesser extent some of the defensive power) are pulled back some to a more appropriate value.
Rogue- Outlaw
- All damage abilities increased by 4%.
We’d like to extend our thanks to the community for all of your discussion on the proposed adjustments. We really appreciate being able to harness the power of your feedback before making changes to the live game.
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Published on 2022-04-30 05:20 PM
Mythic Dungeon International Shadowlands Season 3 - Group B
Mythic Dungeon International 2022 is here! Watch teams race through Shadowlands Dungeons for a chance to qualify to the MDI Global Finals!
Mythic Dungeon International 2022 is here! Watch teams race through Shadowlands Dungeons for a chance to qualify to the MDI Global Finals!
- MDI Season 3 - Viewer's Guide
- MDI Season 3 - Group B Day 1
- MDI Season 3 - Group B Day 2
- MDI Season 3 - Group B Finals
Mythic Dungeon International Season 3 Format
The Mythic Dungeon International is back! Some might say it never left because it’s been living in our hearts and memories since last season. The fun begins April 22 with the same format as last season: 24 of the top teams from the Time Trials are sorted into three illustrious groups of eight, with a different group competing for $30,000 in prizing each weekend. The top two teams from each group will advance to the MDI GLOBAL FINALS!
After three weekends of INCREDIBLE DUNGEON RUNNING ACTION, we get even more MDI goodness with The Last Stand Tournament beginning May 20. Following a final open Time Trial, six teams will have 15 hours spread over three days to make a mad dash through dungeon after dungeon to achieve victory, with only one team securing the final spot in the Global Finals! Sign-ups for the Last Stand Tournament are still open, along with the opportunity to earn the Encrypted Banner of the Opportune! If you think you have what it takes, click here.
All seven teams will join the top team out of China at the Global Finals, where they’ll run for their lives to achieve immortality as the MDI Shadowlands Season 3 champions while taking home a share of the final $300,000 prize pool!
Competing Teams and Groups
Casters
At the desk for all weekends: Dratnos Naguura Tettles Xyronic
Joining the desk as a special guest for Group A: DoA Mr.X
Joining the desk as special guests for Group B: DoA Meeix
The Mythic Dungeon International is back! Some might say it never left because it’s been living in our hearts and memories since last season. The fun begins April 22 with the same format as last season: 24 of the top teams from the Time Trials are sorted into three illustrious groups of eight, with a different group competing for $30,000 in prizing each weekend. The top two teams from each group will advance to the MDI GLOBAL FINALS!
After three weekends of INCREDIBLE DUNGEON RUNNING ACTION, we get even more MDI goodness with The Last Stand Tournament beginning May 20. Following a final open Time Trial, six teams will have 15 hours spread over three days to make a mad dash through dungeon after dungeon to achieve victory, with only one team securing the final spot in the Global Finals! Sign-ups for the Last Stand Tournament are still open, along with the opportunity to earn the Encrypted Banner of the Opportune! If you think you have what it takes, click here.
All seven teams will join the top team out of China at the Global Finals, where they’ll run for their lives to achieve immortality as the MDI Shadowlands Season 3 champions while taking home a share of the final $300,000 prize pool!
Competing Teams and Groups
Casters
At the desk for all weekends: Dratnos Naguura Tettles Xyronic
Joining the desk as a special guest for Group A: DoA Mr.X
Joining the desk as special guests for Group B: DoA Meeix
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Published on 2022-04-29 08:58 PM
DesMephisto Interview - The Cinematics of World of Warcraft
DesMephisto is interviewing Terran Gregory and Marc Messenger about the cinematics of World of Warcraft.
DesMephisto is interviewing Terran Gregory and Marc Messenger about the cinematics of World of Warcraft.
- The team did not anticipate the popularity of Zappy Boi. They were already working on the Old Soldier cinematic when his popularity took off.
- Cinematics have the power to help more obscure characters enter the limelight, such as Mathias Shaw in Battle for Azeroth.
- Dragonflight is meant to be a homecoming. It is meant to be a breath of fresh air after the tension of Shadowlands. It will definitely have threats, however.
- The goal was to make Watcher Koranos an "every-man" that we could relate to.
- When the cinematic for Dragonflight was being created, the community was not discussing the idea of dragons being the theme of the next expansion.
- The cutscenes involving us defeating N'Zoth largely came about from player feedback of wanting to be more included in the defeat. A lot of people don't like when you defeat a boss only to see things like "Thrall getting the credit."
- An 18 year old game presents unique challenges to adapting cinematics.
- The team refined the cinematics during Shadowlands to allow the player to be utilized more in cutscenes. The cutscenes for the judgement of Sylvanas were the fruits of that labor. They were all done in real-time while allowing the player to be featured.
- The team will continue to iterate on cutscene technology.
- Dragonflight will also have a prelaunch cinematic series similar to Warbringers and Afterlives.
- The ocean in the cinematic is not glowing from Azerite, but simply bioluminescence from the world waking up.
- The Watcher on the throne in the cutscene is NOT Tyr. Tyr died at Tirisfal.
- The camera angle dictated how they went about showing that the throne watcher was destroyed, and losing an arm was a good way to show how much of a bad shape he was in.
- The Saurfang cinematics fit the narrative at the time, but it was also a big gamble. Utilizing these type of cinematics again could happen in the future, but no plans to do so in the immediate future.
- Cinematics have gotten longer simply because they have become narrative scenes instead of just trailers.
- Cinematics will be longer when it's needed for the cinematic development.
- Behind the scenes of cinematics that include your character, you are actually seeing a clone of your character. Shadowform not being shown in these scenes might be a bug.
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