This Week in WoW - June 14, 2024

[Lumy]

This Week in WoW - June 14, 2024

Catch up on all the latest World of Warcraft news from the last week!

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World of Warcraft®: The War Within™ Goes Live August 26!

Help defend Azeroth from the shadows below when World of Warcraft: The War Within™ launches on August 26 at 3:00 p.m. PDT worldwide. Heed the call and take your place in the opening chapter of the Worldsoul Saga™, a thrilling trilogy that begins in the depths of Khaz Algar.

Rally together to battle against malevolent forces and lurking perils. Traverse through four expansive new zones, take on dangerous dungeons and raids, uncover the secrets within Delves alongside an NPC companion— either alone or with friends—, and unlock the Earthen, a new playable race, discover new Hero Talents, embrace the Warbands system, and more!

Pre-Purchase today!

Follow along on the official World of Warcraft news site for all the latest developments as we journey through the week together.

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Xbox Podcast: The War Within Deep Dive

To celebrate the August 26 release date of The War Within, official Xbox Podcast host Malik Prince teamed up with World of Warcraft community manager and WoWCast host Bethany Stout to interview World of Warcraft Executive Producer Holly Longdale and Game Director Ion Hazzikostas and learn more about the upcoming expansion, and why now is a perfect moment to jump into the game for the very first time.

Watch the full interview!

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Purchase the Welcome to Azeroth Bundle

Spread the word and bring old friends and new to Azeroth where they can embark on an epic journey into Azeroth and enjoy all the latest content with the Welcome to Azeroth Bundle available through June 23.

Purchasers get everything needed to start their adventure—including the critically acclaimed World of Warcraft: Dragonflight expansion.

• 60 Days of Game Time
• Dragonflight expansion
• Level 60 Character Boost

Unlock endless expeditions across a magical landscape and multiple games. Explore the Dragon Isles and unearth ancient mysteries to prepare for The War Within. Create a Timerunner character and earn mighty loot in World of Warcraft Remix: Mists of Pandaria®. Witness Deathwing’s destruction and rise against impossible odds in Cataclysm Classic™. Take on new challenges from old foes within WoW® Classic: Season of Discovery and Hardcore realms.

Coming back from a break or needing some information on getting started in World of Warcraft? Enjoy some tips and advice in a quick video guide from Taliesin and Evitel!

Buy Now

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In Development: Season of Discovery Phase 4

Season of Discovery Phase 4 is coming and with it, players will be able to level to 60, discover new class runes, enter the Molten Core raid dungeon to face Ragnaros, and more.

What’s in Store

We’re leveling up Season of Discovery Phase 4 with a variety of leveling changes, new rune discoveries, class adjustments, professions and reputations updates, dungeon updates, PvP Class Sets, updated events, raid content, world bosses, and more.

• Level from 50 to 60
• Updated Discoverer’s Delight buff
  
  • Level 1-50 150%
  • Level 50-60 50%
• New Runes for each class to discover.
  
  • New Cloak rune slot
• Utility Runes: These class agnostic utility runes will provide additional bonuses to a variety of skills such as additional bonuses to a variety of stats such as weapon skill, spell hit, and more.
  
  • New Ring rune slots
• Class Adjustments: Many classes will experience changes such as select runes becoming baseline abilities and new runes will become available.
• Profession and Reputation Updates: New and enhanced professions recipes for Argent Dawn, Thorium Brotherhood, Hydraxian Waterlords, and Timbermaw Hold.
• Nightmare Incursions updated to daily quest hubs.
• New Stranglethorn Vale and Blood Moon Rewards and Currency
• Dungeon Updates: updated rewards and new dungeons available at level 60:
  
  • Blackrock Depths (2^nd half)
  • Blackrock Spire
  • Dire Maul (3 wings)
  • Scholomance
  • Stratholme
• PvP Class Sets for Rank 10

Molten Core Raid Dungeon

Experience Molten core as a 20-player dungeon with 10 classic bosses, revamped loot, redesigned Tier 1 sets, and more. Players will also be able to turn up the heat with a new variable difficulty mechanic. Don’t forget your fire resist gear! You are going to need it. We’ll be adding one more surprise to this classic raid dungeon for intrepid adventurer’s to discover.

World Bosses Updates

Experience Lord Kazzak and Azuregos as brand-new instanced versions of these encounters. These encounters can be experienced with up to 40 players but will be tuned as 20-player content.

Onyxia will also be adjusted to accommodate 40 or fewer players along with some additional loot adjustments.

We’ll have more to share in the coming weeks beyond this brief overview and have more in development for this phase we can’t wait for you to discover. Stay tuned to the official site for more information got a full phase 4 preview. We look forward to bringing this endgame experience for Season of Discovery to life.

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Follow along on the official World of Warcraft news site for all the latest developments as we journey through the week together.

[meganite]

Can't help looking at Xal'atath and thinking Michael Jackson;

[SinR]

Can't help looking at Xal'atath and thinking Michael Jackson;

God DAMNIT now I can't unsee it

[stoffe]

Can't help looking at Xal'atath and thinking Michael Jackson;

spot on haha, cant unseen it now either.

[thunderdragon2]

was looking forward to playing sod p4 in the downtime we have be4 war within doesn't look like that's going to happen

[Eapoe]

Can't help looking at Xal'atath and thinking Michael Jackson;

Xala-tee-hee.

[schmonz]

Who would have imagined that a dagger becomes the worst baddie of all time

that is, if you forget about all those other word baddies of all time.

Guess of the baddies of the next expacs:

World of Warcraft: The-one-after-the-war-within: Onyxia
World of Warcraft: The-one-after-the-one-after-the-war-within: The Titans. Yep. They became evil. Because Azeroth is going to be the UBERTITAN! And noone wants to lose power.

[skakruk]

An option that replaces spiders with crabs? Kinda interesting. Would love to see one that replaces them with mean looking goats!

[Daedius]

An option that replaces spiders with crabs? Kinda interesting. Would love to see one that replaces them with mean looking goats!

Replace them with cute sheep!

The sheep;

[crusadernero]

So literally no new content in SoD? Glad I dropped playing it.

[czarek]

Deep dive on xbox channel? Isnt that odd? Sounds like a console realese hint.

[Shadowferal]

Replace them with cute sheep! The sheep;

Hail! The Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young!

[jdbond]

First expansion I won't be playing live since MoP.

[drezmelk]

As someone who has been a dedicated fan since the very launch of this game I find it hard to believe that this once great franchise has been brought so low by the people gleefully torching its legacy. Many of memories, challenges and friends i will cherish but this thing should go the way of star wars. make female, make it gay, make it lame.

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First expansion I won't be playing live since MoP.

couldnt agree more.