World of Warcraft News and Raiding Strategies

Battle for Azeroth Season 2 - Live This Week
Battle for Azeroth Season 2 launches this week, bringing a new raid, PvP Season, Mythic+ season, increased caps, and more! Click the banner for our full coverage of what content has launched today.



Mists of Pandaria Timewalking
Mists of Pandaria timewalking is back! It offers rewards such as Yu'lei, Daughter of Jade. Your Adventure Guide offers A Shrouded Path Through Time which rewards a Cache of Dazar'alor Treasures.

• Visit Mistweaver Xia to purchase timewalking rewards while the event is live
• Yu'lei, Daughter of Jade costs 5000 x Timewarped Badge
• Paradox Spirit and Infinite Hatchling cost 2200 x Timewarped Badge
• Reputation tokens (50 x Timewarped Badge) for the Mists of Pandaria factions are also for sale, including friendship items for the Valley of the Four Winds.
• Portable Yak Wash costs 500 x Timewarped Badge
• Adopted Puppy Crate (1000 x Timewarped Badge) and Chilled Satchel of Vegetables (25 x Timewarped Badge) are also for sale

Azurethos, The Winged Typhoon - Tiragarde Sound World Boss
Azurethos is this week's BfA world boss!

Level	Type	Slot	Name	Model Viewer
355	Trinket	Trinket	Plume of the Seaborne Avian
355	Trinket	Trinket	Galecaller's Beak
355	Trinket	Trinket	Azurethos' Singed Plumage
355	Cloth	Feet	Sandals of Rustling Rage	Modelviewer
355	Cloth	Hands	Windcaller's Down Handwraps	Modelviewer
355	Leather	Chest	Chestguard of Dire Winds	Modelviewer
355	Leather	Feet	Footpads of the Encircling Storm	Modelviewer
355	Mail	Head	Feathered Galeforce Crest	Modelviewer
355	Mail	Wrists	Bindings of the Winged Typhoon	Modelviewer
355	Plate	Legs	Roost-Defender's Legguards	Modelviewer
355	Plate	Feet	Galebreaker's Sabatons	Modelviewer

Call to Arms: Drustvar
This week's Call to Arms is Call to Arms: Drustvar or Call to Arms: Drustvar. Head to Drustvar with warmode enabled to kill 10 players of the opposing faction. This will reward you with conquest and 75 reputation for either 7th Legion or The Honorbound.

You can start earning conquest for a item level 375 weapon.


PvP Brawl: Cooking Impossible

Island Expeditions for the Week of January 22, 2019
The Island Expeditions for the week are:

• Jorundall with Taunka
• Skittering Hollows with Nerubians
• Verdant Wilds with Druids

Tides of Vengeance Season 2 - Live Developer Q&A Thursday, January 24th

Call of the Scarab Micro-Holiday Live Jan 21-23
The Call of the Scarab holiday event remembers the Gates of Ahn'Qiraj world event from Vanilla. This event is an Alliance vs Horde showdown, with the victorious faction flying their faction banner for the next year.

The Call of the Scarab quest will send you to Silithus so that you know where the vendor and world quests are. From there you can complete quests and defeat bosses to earn Commendations for your faction. Whichever faction has the most Commendations at the end of the event wins.

Cultist Camps

• There are Twilight Cultist camps scattered around the zone.
• You will need to kill NPCs in the camp to acquire all three Cultist pieces: Twilight Cultist Cowl, Twilight Cultist Mantle, Twilight Cultist Robe
• Once you have applied all three pieces of the disguise, you can use a Lesser Wind stone to summon a NPC that you can solo.
• These drop Abyssal Crest and remove one of your armor buffs when summoned.
• Abyssal Crest are dropped by the Lesser Wind Stone bosses at the Cultist Camps.
• The Twilight Cultist Medallion of Station can be used at a Wind Stone to summon a boss that might need a group.
• The Twilight Cultist Ring of Lordship can be used at a Greater Wind Stone to summon a stronger boss that will need a group.

World Quests
There are several world quests associated with this event, all rewarding Commendations that contribute to your faction's total.

• Lesser Wind Stones - 150 x Commendations
• The Colossus of Zora - 100 x Commendations
• Silithyst - 100 Commendations
• Ahn'Qiraj: C'thun - 100 x Commendations
• The Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj: Ossirian - 100 x Commendations
• Colossus Group Quests - 100 x Commendations
• These World Quests reward reputation with Cenarion Circle, up to 1000 for completing a quest.

Material Turn-In Quests
These materials can be turned in to the NPCs near the banners to earn Commendations (Field Marshal Snowfall / Senior Sergeant Kai'jin).

• Chilled Meat - 20 x Commendations
• Crocolisk Tails - 20 x Commendations
• Crunchy Spider Legs - 20 x Commendations
• Lean Shanks - 20 x Commendations
• Raw Clefthoof Meat - 20 x Commendations
• Raw Tiger Steaks - 20 x Commendations
• Sandworm Meat - 20 x Commendations

Mini-Boss Quests
These quests are started by items dropped from the Wind Stone and Greater Wind Stone bosses at the Cultist Camps.

• Cinder of Cynders - 200 x Commendations
• Pearl of Fathoms - 200 x Commendations
• Salt of Shards - 200 x Commendations
• Song of Zephyrs - 200 x Commendations
• Coreforged Sigil of Skaldrenox - 500 x Commendations
• Diamondine Sigil of Kazum - 500 x Commendations
• Glimmering Sigil of Whirlaxis - 500 x Commendations
• Tidal Sigil of Skwol - 500 x Commendations

Level	Type	Name	Cost
1	Quest	Twilight Cultist Ring of Lordship	1000 x Abyssal Crest
1	Quest	Twilight Cultist Medallion of Station	250 x Abyssal Crest
1	Mount	Ruby Qiraji Resonating Crystal	1 x Abyssal Crest
1	Mount	Sapphire Qiraji Resonating Crystal	1 x Abyssal Crest

Forbes Interview with Lead Game Designer Morgan Day
Forbes interviewed lead game designer Morgan Day about Mythic Plus.

• General Mythic Plus
  
  • When originally designing Mythic dungeons for Bfa, the team added additional mechanics to trash on Mythic difficulty, but toned it down a bit further into the design process.
  • The team strives to to make sure they're not doing anything that's going to play really poorly with Mythic Plus.
  • The team learned from Legion that any mechanic involving damage ramping up over time has to have a soft cap for Mythic Plus or the fight becomes nearly impossible on Tyrannical.
  • The team likes having rotating affixes each week to try and push people into different areas and different parts of content in a way that keeps it hopefully feeling a lot more fresh and interesting.
  • The team likes variance, but if an affix or dungeon has too many outlying difficulty problems then they want to address those and bring them in line with the difficulty of other dungeons/affixes.
  • It's actually a fixed list of hand-picked or hand-crafted affix combinations that come up every week.
  • Fortified and Tyrannical are not being looked at for changes. Part of the problem these two affixes had was the seasonal affix Infested, which is going away. These issues will likely take care of themselves with its retirement.
  • Reaping creatures don't gain Fortified themselves, but the way everything works is that the creature will spawn with half the health of the creature that dies, so in that regard it gets a small percentage of Fortified.
  • Reaping enemies are only indirectly affected by affixes that alter the enemy trash's health amount. They do not gain damage bonuses or other effects.
  • There are no immediate plans to allow people to delete their keys or swap for a new one, but the issue has been discussed among the team.
  • Instead of giving players the option to delete keys, the team would rather bring the unpopular dungeons in line with the difficulty of the more popular ones.
  • If your group doesn't have a key that you want to run, the ability to look for other keys in dungeon finder is an option.
• Mythic Dungeon International
  
  • If you can do a certain number of Mythic Plus keys in time, that actually gets you invited into the Time Trial stage, and from there everyone's on the Tournament Realm.
  • The Tournament Realm will give everyone an equal playing field with the same gear.

Tides of Vengeance Season 2 - Live Developer Q&A Thursday, January 24th
Blizzard will be having another live Q&A on Thursday, January 24th to discuss the content coming tomorrow. Ask your questions on their forum post.

Uldir Boss Guides » Glory of the Uldir Raider Achievement Guide
Battle for Dazar'alor is almost here, but you can pass the time until then by completing the Glory of the Uldir Raider achievement and earning the Bloodgorged Crawg.


Glory of the Uldir Raider is the meta achievement for the Uldir raid in Battle for Azeroth. This achievement rewards the Bloodgorged Crawg mount, one of the only two Crawg mounts released at launch.

This guide will assume that players attempting the achievements have extensive knowledge of the fights, if not then please check the Uldir Boss Guides.

Overview

It is highly recommended that you plan your raid setup ahead of time, since there are a few factors that will make the achievements slightly easier. A small raid size works best, with enough different classes to cover all buffs and debuffs, as well as some CC. There are also a few key classes which you should bring:

• 1 Demon Hunter to collect the Orbs of Harmony during the Taloc achievement
• 1 Priest to shield players during the Fetid Devourer achievement
• 1 Death Knight to death grip players out of the orbs during the Mythrax fight

Elevator Music

To complete this achievement, you need to collect all 4 Orbs of Harmony during the Taloc boss fight. The orbs are found in the elevator shaft, and you can pick them up as the boss goes down during phase 2. The orbs are in random positions, and the ones you collect won’t reset if you wipe, unless you reset the instance.

An easier way to do it is to bring a Havoc Demon Hunter and get them to jump down while gliding and Fel Rushing to pick up all the orbs, and wait for you at the bottom. You can see an example of that in the following clip.

Parental Controls

To complete this achievement you have to enter the correct passcode during the MOTHER boss fight. The passcode is introduced by clicking a sequence of 3 buttons that you can find in either side of each of the 3 rooms (both buttons in each room are essentially the same one). The passcode is randomized every time, leaving 6 different possible combinations (123, 132, 213, 231, 312, 321). To figure out the passcode, you need to do the following:

• Click one of the buttons, and check if it becomes unclickable. Repeat for each room until one becomes unclickable, which means that you have found the correct start of the sequence.
• Click one of the two remaining buttons, check if it becomes unclickable. If it doesn’t then you’ll have to click the other one.
• Once you’ve found the correct first 2 buttons, click the remaining button and then check that all the buttons are unclickable.

The best way to do this is to send a few DPS and a healer to the second or the third room to check the buttons.
Do all the steps, defeat the boss and the achievement is yours.

Thrash Mouth - All Stars

To complete this achievement you need to make every player in the raid get hit by Terrible Thrash during the Fetid Devourer boss fight. Terrible Thrash is one of the tank mechanics of the boss. Every 4th melee attack, it hits the target closest to the main tank for 300% of the normal melee damage. You need to rotate every player to get hit at least once every time the boss casts Terrible Thrash.

The boss will enrage at 50% so it’s recommended that all players get hit before you DPS the boss below that threshold. Use any talent or ability that prevents you from dying such as Rogue’s Cheat Death, or Blood Death Knights’ Purgatory, as well as defensive cooldowns before you get hit.

Despite this being a group achievement and not a personal one, any party members that are dead when the boss is killed won’t receive the achievement.

What’s in the Box?

To complete this achievement, a player in your raid group will have to use the Nerubian Archaeology toy Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron during the Zek’voz boss fight.

The box will open when the Projection of Yogg-Saron is summoned, and then will pour Void Barrages every few seconds, dealing damage to all players who stand in the swirlies.

Now We Got Bad Blood

To complete this achievement you need to infect Warmother Rakkali with a Plague Bomb during the Vectis boss fight.

Warmother Rakkali is located right before the entrance to Vectis, on the stairs that would lead to Zul. Plague Bomb is an ability the boss casts during Phase 2 (after it liquefies). The boss will spawn circles on the floor that usually need to be soaked by players so an add doesn’t spawn. For the achievement, you just need to position Warmother Rakkali on top of one of those, wait for it to explode and infect her, and then kill her.

Edgelords

To complete this achievement you will need to kill Zul without any player stepping in the center part of the boss room (the whole square that’s colored differently). This means you will have to deal with the mechanics a little bit differently:

• Melee DPS won’t be able to hit Zul on Phase 1, so all ranged DPS should focus solely on killing Zul and let the melee deal with the adds.
• Dispelling the Minions of Zul is a priority since you won’t have as much space to kite. Priests are highly recommended.
• At 40%, Zul will push back everyone, so you’ll have to face your back to a wall in order not to get knocked off the platform
• On Phase 2, you have to be very careful not to step in the square since the Rupturing Blood will cover the floor visuals and it will be hard to see. You’ll also have to kite the boss around the edge.

Existential Crisis

Mythrax achievement is fairly straight forward, you must not pick up any Existence Fragments spawned by other players.

This means that once you get hit by a boss ability you'll spawn orbs around, and you'll just have to pick them up.

Spread out decently, avoid getting hit as much as possible, and this achievement is yours!

You can track this achievement and see the players who fail it with the Instance Achievement Tracker Addon.

Double Dribble

To complete this achievement players must not move while holding the Power Matrix during the G’huun boss fight. This means that two or more players will need to throw it to one another, moving only when they are not holding it.

Do this for the 6 Power Matrices you need throughout the fight, kill the boss and the achievement will be done!

Looking for Group

Looking for a group? Then join the Achievements Discord!

Here you can opt into roles to be notified of events that you might be interested in, such as Glory of the Wartorn Hero and Glory of the Uldir Raider achievement runs.