World of Warcraft News and Raiding Strategies

Hello.

The performance reported above is expected and intended, following a hotfix that went into effect a few hours ago. The hotfix is intended to both address service issues, as well as address an imbalance between the vast majority of players and a very small minority.

Through our continuing work to address service issues as they crop up, as well as our constant efforts to find gameplay issues and fix them, we’ve observed that a small minority of all players generate the majority of Auction House traffic.

The players who generate all of the AH traffic are using addon-driven automation to gain a competitive economic advantage over other players, in addition to the increasing strain on the game service. Neither of these things is good for the game as a whole.

With this hotfix, we’ve implemented a new system that effectively gives each player a “budget” of AH actions per minute, and only kicks in once that budget has been exceeded. The system is tuned so that is should never affect players using the AH typically: buying consumables, listing gathered or crafted goods for sale, searching for specific items you want to purchase, etc. It should be essentially impossible to encounter the new limits for most players.

The new system will, however, throttle players who are using addons to run rapid queries to scan the AH for specific goods, or buy and relist huge quantities of items.

The current tuning values are a starting point for this. We very much welcome feedback on AH activities are hitting the throttle. If the current settings are too strict, we’ll want to relax these measures.

The World of Warcraft Classic Summer Bowl is about to get underway! Are you ready to get HYPE as teams battle in Warsong Gulch, putting their combat skills and flag capturing abilities to the test? The time for waiting is over, the WoW Classic Summer Bowl starts this weekend. Watch live on YouTube.com/Warcraft and Twitch.tv/Warcraft beginning Saturday, June 20 at 10:00 am PDT.

Sign up now

Sign-ups are still open for EU competitors until Thursday, June 18 at 10:00 am PDT and NA competitors until Thursday, June 25 at 10:00 am PDT. Eligible players with a level 60 character in WoW Classic can still sign-up for a chance to compete for a separate $4,000 (USD) prize pool for North America and Europe — distributed amongst the best two teams in the region’s finals. Check eligibility and rules, then register your team for NA here and EU here!

Schedule of Events


The WoW Classic Summer Bowl will be simulcasted live on YouTube.com/Warcraft and Twitch.tv/Warcraft Saturdays and Sundays. Each broadcast day will begin at 10:00 a.m. PDT / 19:00 CEST, live on YouTube and Twitch.

Meet the Casters


Elliot “Venruki” Venczel: Twitter | Twitch | YouTube

Mohamed “Ziqo” Beshir: Twitter | Twitch | YouTube

Stay Connected

Be sure to sign up now and join our Discord server to keep up with the competitors!

Stay connected and on top of the latest news by following us on YouTube and on the brand-new WoW Esports Twitter channel. Good luck and have fun!

Choosing Your Corruption

In addition to any unlocked Essences, MOTHER will now also offer several new Preserved Contaminants, which allow for a specific Corruption effect (and the associated Corruption penalty) to be applied to a selected item. The inventory of available Preserved Contaminants will change twice each week, mirroring the Assault cadence, and will cycle through all available Corruption effects at various levels of potency.

You can use a Preserved Contaminant to apply the Corruption you purchased to any uncorrupted item that can be Corrupted, much like an enchant.