Finduin and Gillvanas Blizzcon Pets, Patch 8.2.5 Hotfixes - October 1st

[Stoy]

Finduin and Gillvanas Blizzcon Pet Rewards
Earlier today Blizzard announced the in-game rewards for purchasing a Blizzcon Virtual Ticket. Below are the two Murloc pets for World of Warcraft, Finduin for the Alliance and Gillvanas for the Horde.

Patch 8.2.5 Hotfixes - October 1st, 2019

Classes

• Death Knight (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • Unholy
    
    • Resolved an issue that could cause Virulent Eruption to strike unintended targets when a target with Virulent Plague active on it dies.
      
    • Fixed a bug that prevented Outbreak from spreading Virulent Plague to nearby enemies when cast on a large target.
      
  • Mage (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
    
    • Arcane
      
      • Damage of all abilities increased by 8%.
        
        • Developers’ note: We feel Arcane needs a significant bump in their damage based on their performance in a variety of content.
          

Items

• Hyper-Compressed Ocean no longer displays overlapping fishing bobbers.

Epic Battleground Quests Achievement Nerf
With the release of 8.2.5, players have discovered that the following quests that award honor from epic battlegrounds no longer count toward the Battlefield Brawler, Battlefield Tactician, or Battlefield Master achievements.

• Ivus the Forest Lord / Lokholar the Ice Lord
• Uncovering the Artifact Fragments
• Victory in Wintergrasp

WoW Classic - Heartseeker Realm Transfers Close Tomorrow

Tomorrow, October 2, at approximately 11:00 a.m. PDT, we will close the free character move service for the two realms that have had free character moves to Heartseeker.

If you have been looking to move from Faerlina or Stalagg to Heartseeker, we suggest you use the free character move service as soon as possible.

Thank you!

[korijenkins]

I feel like they would sell more virtual tickets if the rewards were a little more serious.

[Eapoe]

I feel like they would sell more virtual tickets if the rewards were a little more serious.

As opposed to the Murloc pet they do every year?

[Queen of Hamsters]

As opposed to the Murloc pet they do every year?

Tbf, pretty sure Blizzard's got a better idea on what sells than his feels.

Thank the Light the Murloc pets are back again!

[cparle87]

I feel like they would sell more virtual tickets if the rewards were a little more serious.

An in-store pet would be $10, we're getting two so $20. Not sure how much value Overwatch skins, Heroes mounts, and Hearthstone cards have. Then on top of that all the Blizzcon stuff itself, which most people consider the meat of the ticket and the side goodies the gravy. I'd say it's a good deal. Unless you consider all the non-WoW stuff to be worth $0 and the Blizzcon stuff to be worth less than $30.

[Rozz]

...The Sylvanas murloc as a pursed cat mouth...

[Eapoe]

Tbf, pretty sure Blizzard's got a better idea on what sells than his feels.

Thank the Light the Murloc pets are back again!

Stated in another thread, I like these in game goodies this year. Only gripe, albeit a very tiny one, would be giving Finduin a ponytail like Anduin like they gave Gillvanis the hood and hair.

[Tiwack]

Those pets look nightmarish.

[Halyon]

Gillvanus looks like a skaven and a vaporeon had an ugly baby. Whatever that other murloc is supposed to be, it doesn't look like anduin at all, just a murloc in armor. And we already have the crusader one for that, and it looks much better.

[Mirishka]

Tbf, pretty sure Blizzard's got a better idea on what sells than his feels.

Thank the Light the Murloc pets are back again!

They look great too! Sadly the yeti suit isn't as cute in game as I had hoped.

[Eapoe]

Gillvanus looks like a skaven and a vaporeon had an ugly baby. Whatever that other murloc is supposed to be, it doesn't look like anduin at all, just a murloc in armor. And we already have the crusader one for that, and it looks much better.

Some people just can’t be happy. They just have to watch the world mrrgglmmrrr.

[Halyon]

Some people just can’t be happy. They just have to watch the world mrrgglmmrrr.

'Cus you see me comment negatively about everything, aye?

[Life-Binder]

Gillvanas body pillow when ?!

[GreenJesus]

An in-store pet would be $10, we're getting two so $20. Not sure how much value Overwatch skins, Heroes mounts, and Hearthstone cards have. Then on top of that all the Blizzcon stuff itself, which most people consider the meat of the ticket and the side goodies the gravy. I'd say it's a good deal. Unless you consider all the non-WoW stuff to be worth $0 and the Blizzcon stuff to be worth less than $30.

Most companies would treat blizzcon as a marketing expense. Blizzard was smart enough to charge people to allow themselves to be marketed to even though the videos will be on youtube anyway. It makes sense to charge people for going to the event but charging people for a virtual ticket is absurd (even though I bought them in the past anyway).

[korijenkins]

As opposed to the Murloc pet they do every year?

Yes as opposed to that. A stupid costume and some generic murloc pets.

[Kyphael]

I feel like they would sell more virtual tickets if the rewards were a little more serious.

Or not horrendous. The whole Murloc thing was clever, until they decided to fashion one in Sylvanas' likeness.

[cparle87]

Most companies would treat blizzcon as a marketing expense. Blizzard was smart enough to charge people to allow themselves to be marketed to even though the videos will be on youtube anyway. It makes sense to charge people for going to the event but charging people for a virtual ticket is absurd (even though I bought them in the past anyway).

My comment was in response to Korji who made the statement that people would take tickets more seriously if they got a mount. I was counting up the store value of the things you got as a bonus for buying the ticket plus the ability to watch Blizzcon and, to me, it looks totally worth it. Who apparently hates murlocs.

[kaintk]

They look great too! Sadly the yeti suit isn't as cute in game as I had hoped.

maybe on a draenei female, it will be sexy af ! :P

i mean, take an elf male for base screen..is...a no-no

[Eapoe]

Yes as opposed to that. A stupid costume and some generic murloc pets.

Except they seem to sell tickets just fine and aren’t too worried about it. Hasn’t it been sold out live every year, or extremely close to it, and virtual tickets are just icing on the cake?
I like how you stated generic Murloc pets, yet there isn’t really anything generic about them. At least use adjectives correctly. If you don’t like them or the design you could say ugly, for instance.

[Cavox]

These in-game WoW rewards feel so cheap compared to the airship mounts. Not that I complain - getting "freebies" for purchasing a virtual ticket is basically selling cash-shop mounts/pets. I wish it'd just GO AWAY.