Burning Crusade Timewalking Event, Hearthstone Patch 3.1, Artanis Abilities, Tweets

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Burning Crusade Timewalking Event
The Burning Crusade Timewalking event starts today! You can purchase rewards from Cupri in the center of Shattrath.

• Mounts - The Reins of the Eclipse Dragonhawk and Bridle of the Ironbound Wraithcharger cost 5,000 Timewarped Badge.
• Heirloom Upgrades - You can purchase the heirloom upgrade items for 750 / 1000 badges (Armor) and 900 / 1200 badges (Weapon)
• Armor and Weapons - Timewarped Badge gear is item level 675 and uses the same models as some Burning Crusade gear.
• Reputation Commendations - These BoA items grant 500 Reputation with some of the Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King factions.
• Pets - The Bag of Fishing Treasures can contain several different crocodile pets. You can also obtain this bag by completing the Crocolisks in the City daily quest.
• Cooking - The Barrel of Fish and Crate of Meat can contain some older Cooking recipes.

• Mounts
• Heirloom Upgrades
• Reputation
• Armor / Weapons
• Misc

Level	Type	Slot	Spec	Name	Cost
80	Mount			Bridle of the Ironbound Wraithcharger	5000 ×
70	Mount			Reins of the Eclipse Dragonhawk	5000 ×

Level	Type	Slot	Spec	Name	Cost
90	Consumable			Ancient Heirloom Armor Casing	750 ×
90	Consumable			Ancient Heirloom Scabbard	900 ×
100	Consumable			Timeworn Heirloom Armor Casing	1000 ×
100	Consumable			Timeworn Heirloom Scabbard	1200 ×

Level	Type	Slot	Spec	Name	Cost
1	Quest			Commendation of the Kirin Tor	50 ×
1	Quest			Commendation of the Ebon Blade	50 ×
1	Quest			Commendation of the Argent Crusade	50 ×
1	Quest			Commendation of the Sons of Hodir	50 ×
1	Quest			Commendation of the Wyrmrest Accord	50 ×
1	Quest			Commendation of The Consortium	50 ×
1	Quest			Commendation of The Sha'tar	50 ×
1	Quest			Commendation of Thrallmar	50 ×
1	Quest			Commendation of Honor Hold	50 ×
1	Quest			Commendation of the Cenarion Expedition	50 ×
1	Quest			Commendation of the Keepers of Time	50 ×
1	Quest			Commendation of Lower City	50 ×
1	Quest			Commendation of the Horde Expedition	50 ×
1	Quest			Commendation of the Alliance Vanguard	50 ×

Level	Type	Slot	Spec	Name	Cost
226	Neck	Neck		Shard of the Crystal Forest	25 ×
213	Finger	Finger		Signet of the Impregnable Fortress	25 ×
200	Trinket	Trinket		Sundial of the Exiled	35 ×
200	Trinket	Trinket		Valor Medal of the First War	35 ×
200	Trinket	Trinket		Mirror of Truth	35 ×
245	Trinket	Trinket		Mark of Supremacy	35 ×
110	Trinket	Trinket		Emblem of Fury	35 ×
110	Trinket	Trinket		Icon of the Silver Crescent	35 ×
110	Trinket	Trinket		Bloodlust Brooch	35 ×
226	Neck	Neck	All Strength	Spiked Battleguard Choker	25 ×
245	Finger	Finger	All Strength	Bloodshed Band	25 ×
110	Trinket	Trinket	All Strength	Gnomeregan Auto-Blocker 601	35 ×
226	Neck	Neck	Healer	Frozen Tear of Elune	25 ×
213	Finger	Finger	Healer	Renewal of Life	25 ×
226	Neck	Neck	All Agility	Broach of the Wailing Night	25 ×
213	Finger	Finger	All Agility	Ring of Invincibility	25 ×
226	Neck	Neck	All Intellect	Evoker's Charm	25 ×
213	Finger	Finger	All Intellect	Band of Channeled Magic	25 ×
200	Trinket	Trinket	All Intellect	The Egg of Mortal Essence	35 ×
110	Trinket	Trinket	All Intellect	Essence of the Martyr	35 ×
110	Off Hand	Off Hand	All Intellect	Talisman of Kalecgos	25 ×
110	Back	Back		Farstrider Defender's Cloak	50 ×
136	Back	Back	All Strength	Dory's Embrace	50 ×
110	Back	Back	Healer	Bishop's Cloak	50 ×
110	Back	Back	All Agility	Blood Knight War Cloak	50 ×
110	Cloth	Head	All Intellect	Cowl of Naaru Blessings	35 ×
264	Cloth	Chest	All Intellect	Meteor Chaser's Raiment	25 ×
128	Cloth	Waist	All Intellect	Voodoo-Woven Belt	35 ×
141	Cloth	Legs	All Intellect	Corrupted Soulcloth Pantaloons	25 ×
213	Cloth	Feet	All Intellect	Xintor's Expeditionary Boots	25 ×
264	Cloth	Hands	All Intellect	Gloves of False Gestures	25 ×
110	Back	Back	All Intellect	Shawl of Shifting Probabilities	50 ×
110	Leather	Head		Mask of the Deceiver	35 ×
264	Leather	Chest		Shadow Seeker's Tunic	25 ×
141	Leather	Waist		Belt of the Silent Path	35 ×
141	Leather	Legs		Trousers of the Scryers' Retainer	25 ×
213	Leather	Feet		Boots of Captain Ellis	25 ×
264	Leather	Hands		Cat Burglar's Grips	25 ×
110	Mail	Head		Storm Master's Helmet	35 ×
264	Mail	Chest		Longstrider's Vest	25 ×
141	Mail	Waist		Aftershock Waistguard	35 ×
141	Mail	Legs		Rushing Storm Kilt	25 ×
213	Mail	Feet		Pack-Ice Striders	25 ×
264	Mail	Hands		Logsplitters	25 ×
110	Plate	Head		Faceguard of Determination	35 ×
264	Plate	Chest		Castle Breaker's Battleplate	25 ×
141	Plate	Waist		Girdle of Seething Rage	35 ×
141	Plate	Legs		Legplates of Unending Fury	25 ×
213	Plate	Feet		Kyzoc's Ground Stompers	25 ×
264	Plate	Hands		Gauntlets of the Kraken	25 ×
110	Shield	Off Hand	All Strength	Azure-Shield of Coldarra	25 ×
110	Shield	Off Hand	All Intellect	Mazthoril Honor Shield	25 ×
146	Two-handed Axe	Two Hand	All Strength	The Blade of Harbingers	100 ×
146	One-handed Mace	One Hand	All Intellect	Gavel of Naaru Blessings	35 ×
115	One-handed Sword	One Hand	All Strength	Sword of Unyielding Force	35 ×
146	Staff	Two Hand	All Agility	Staff of the Forest Lord	100 ×
141	Staff	Two Hand	All Intellect	Staff of the Soul-Eater	100 ×
146	Fist Weapon	One Hand	All Agility	Vanir's Fist of Brutality	35 ×
146	Dagger	One Hand	All Agility	The Mutilator	35 ×
146	Dagger	One Hand	All Intellect	Scryer's Blade of Focus	35 ×
146	Crossbow	Ranged	All Agility	Crossbow of Relentless Strikes	100 ×

Level	Type	Slot	Spec	Name	Cost
65	Junk			Barrel of Fish	25 ×
1	Junk			Crate of Meat	25 ×
70	Junk			Bag of Fishing Treasures	150 ×
70	Junk			Mark of the Ashtongue	1250 ×
1	Holiday			Timeless Mirror	500 ×

Hearthstone - Patch 3.1.0
A new Hearthstone patch appeared today, with a new tavern brawl, new card animations, and new animated card backs.

Heroes of the Storm - Artanis Abilities Preview
Heroes Nexus has a nice overview of the new abilities!

Blue Tweets

so, that shipyard: does running more missions cycle through to "better" missions faster, or is it all random?
They are random for each general location, and running missions clears up space for additional missions to appear. (WarcraftDevs)

Ghostcrawler Tweets
Ghostcrawler still occasionally talks about WoW. Remember that he no longer works for or speaks for Blizzard.

Do you get invited to Blizzcon? Also, it would be epic if you walked on stage, said "Hello" & walked off. Worst Question ever
I'm going to pass. I don't think there is a way I can go and not appear to be grandstanding. (OccupyGStreet)

You can't just offer easy vs hard with the same rewards. Nobody will opt into hard "just because." (OccupyGStreet)
absolutely disagree. no reward for speedrunners. also see Demon Souls. some ppl just like hard
The issue isn't Souls (which I adore). It's whether a raid group will opt into a harder difficulty for the same reward. (OccupyGStreet)
that's why I mentioned speedrunning. There is a social motivation to it that shouldn't be ignored.
I suspect that population is small, but it might not be small if there was a way to recognize your accomplishments. (OccupyGStreet)

How did you draw the line for clever use of game mechanics vs exploit?
If the thing harms others, makes a challenge much too easy, or stomps on more fun ways to solve the problem, it's an exploit. (OccupyGStreet)
Obviously there are no hard and fast rules for this sort of thing. It often depends on the context and situation. (OccupyGStreet)

Greg, what was the most memorable moment in World of Warcraft for you NOT in-game?
Being on stage in Shanghai for the first time. (The panda dancers in Taipei was also um memorable.) (OccupyGStreet)

[Spirthealer]

Should rename MMO Champ to, Ghostcrawlers life...

[Soikona]

Speed run raids? This bitch on crack or something? This ain't guild wars 2 with their speed dungeons.

[thilicen]

I do miss the good old Stratholme Speedrun back in the days, a real challenge that had a very nice reward at the end and was part of a massive quest chain.
I would much rather see one or two of those instead of today's Challenge modes.

[NMX-]

Should rename MMO Champ to, Ghostcrawlers life...

lol this made me laugh more than it should've. thank you.

[amythist]

Speed run raids? This bitch on crack or something? This ain't guild wars 2 with their speed dungeons.

pretty sure he was just using that for comparison, being there is no added reward for speed running through a game it's just an extra challenge

[Deleted]

I do miss the good old Stratholme Speedrun back in the days, a real challenge that had a very nice reward at the end and was part of a massive quest chain.
I would much rather see one or two of those instead of today's Challenge modes.

Oh yes, this was fun! I don't miss some of the reasons which have brought me to re-visiting this instance over and over, but I liked Stratholme (and old 5-Man-Scholomance as well). Sadly, we will probably get no new undead things in Legion, or will we? The Burning Legion is responsible for the creation of the Scourge... *crosses fingers* Some undead in addition to all the demons, please!

[Lindseysig]

Should rename MMO Champ to, Ghostcrawlers life...

sooo true..the guys been gone from blizz for how long................

[Mekh]

pretty sure he was just using that for comparison, being there is no added reward for speed running through a game it's just an extra challenge

Speedruns come in different flavors of self-imposed challenge. any%, 100% glitched, unglitched, stuff like the Super Mario World Lunar Dragon run... In that sense, they're like the iron man challenge, soloing or limiting yourself to a certain item level for a raid. And whenever such things are brought up, the difficulty hipsters go "why should I do that? Blizzard should just give me harder content!/There is not even a reward or archievement!", meaning at least in this MMO players aren't doing harder stuff just for the sake of the challenge.

[Rioo]

Should rename MMO Champ to, Ghostcrawlers life...

I lol'd.

Nice Hearthstone update. Looks like they've listened to the complaints from the community about the cosmetic stuff.

[Deleted]

"Today's data is from 2.1 million players (not characters) that were active after August 1st."
There are 7 million players in my arse...

This Ghost kid is really annoying me too. Somehow his stuff should be in spoiler brackets.

[Gilian]

pretty sure he was just using that for comparison, being there is no added reward for speed running through a game it's just an extra challenge

Yep and that's why no one does it in WoW. So his whole point is moot.

The only time I have seen raid speedruns was when top guilds did it on Blizzcon or for charity. And next to that you only have challenge modes, with rewards. There is some speed leveling going on but how many really attempt to break records?
When you talk about speedruns you are basically talking about 'nobody' and Ghostcrawlers point stands. Nobody opts for hard when there are no rewards. Anyone saying otherwise most likely just wants better rewards for doing the easy difficulty.

[Deleted]

Artanis = Sinatra - there must be a die hard Sinatra fan at blizz

[Deleted]

Should rename MMO Champ to, Ghostcrawlers life...

Sadly, we get more insight into what's behind design decisions from Ghostcrawler than from all the current Blizz Developers combined.
Also, it's the only topic there's regularly something to post about.

[Realsykes]

Who the hell uses dragonhawk mounts anyways?

[elvor0]

"Today's data is from 2.1 million players (not characters) that were active after August 1st."
There are 7 million players in my arse...

This Ghost kid is really annoying me too. Somehow his stuff should be in spoiler brackets.

Might that be why you're so antsy?

MMO-C survey size isn't indicative of anything other than there being at least 2.1m players. They are not privy to inside subscriber information any more than you are. They also most likely can't read anything to do with the chinese playerbase.

You could also /not/ read Ghostcrawlers tweets?

[DeadmanWalking]

Should rename MMO Champ to, Ghostcrawlers life...

Or 'people who spend all their time bitching about Ghostcrawler answering 4 questions.'

[Deleted]

Who the hell uses dragonhawk mounts anyways?

Well, I do - on my blood elves, at least.

[deathsreaper]

Trying to use speed runs as an example for making the reward for easy vs hard the same LMAO! Ok the only reason guilds do speed runs is because they are done with the hardest content have the shit on farm and just want to clear as fast as possible so that they can get on with doing other shit. They dont do it just because it makes the raid somehow harder!

[Kazuchika]

Should rename MMO Champ to, Ghostcrawlers life...

Seriously. Who could give half a shit about the opinion of someone who doesn't even work for Blizzard any longer?