Posts tagged World of Warcraft

Blizzard posted:

Players across Azeroth have recently embraced a new, very personal achievement: leveling a character “Iron Man” style. What started out as only a small movement, this bare bones, no-frills style of play has now transformed into a community-wide call-to-arms known as the Iron Man WoW Challenge, inviting World of Warcraft enthusiasts to see how close they can get to level cap with only the barest of necessities.

The goal of the Iron Man WoW challenge is simple: reach level 85. The catch, however, is that you must accomplish this task without the assistance of talents, class specialization, stat-improved gear, professions, buffs, item enhancements, or other players. And if you die? Well, then it’s back to square one.

Here are some of the latest rules, courtesy of Selenagnomez – Kil’jaeden:

THE BIG ONE: If you die, EVER, that character is removed from the challenge.

Gear Rules: 1) No heirlooms. 2) No items equipped other than White or Gray items (except bags) 3) No item enhancements — enchants/spellthread/weapon chains/etc.

Consumable Rules: 4) No food buffs. Only white vendor-quality food & drink may be used. 5) No item buffs. No scrolls, elixirs, flasks, etc. (except Quest items). 6) No potions (except Quest items).

Spells & Abilities Rules: More >

Kaivax posted:

February 7

Dungeons and Raids

• Dragon Soul
• After the instance is cleared, Crimson Lifebinder now resurrects the non-player characters at Wyrmrest Temple, and they are fully functional.
• Ultraxion
  • The event leading to Ultraxion now requires 15 Drakes killed, down from 24.

Events

• Love is in the Air
  • Players are now able to receive Lovely Charms while on the quest “Test Your Strength”, when the player’s inventory has both the Darkmoon Adventurer’s Guide and Lovely Charm Collector’s Kit.
  • Players now have the chance to receive both the Lovely Charm and Grisly Trophy from a single kill.
• Lunar Festival
  • Elder Dawnstrider now spawns farther away from nearby Flame Crest mobs.

Items

• Maw of the Dragonlord should now have its effect triggered by healing from Holy Word: Sanctuary.
• Windward Heart should now have its effect triggered properly by Healing Rain.

February 2

General

• Mass Dispel should once again dispel up to 10 friendly or enemy targets.
• Resilience should now properly reduce the damage over time effects for targets affected by Mind Control.

Dungeons and Raids

• Dragon Soul
  • Lord Afrasastrasz no longer offers the option to disable the Power of the Aspects buff in Raid Finder mode.
• The Spine of Deathwing
  • Corrupted Bloods should no longer maintain threat after reconstituting themselves from residue.

Events

• Darkmoon Faire More >

During yesterday's investor's call, Activision-Blizzard announced that World of Warcraft subscriber numbers are ~10.2 million. This number is down approximately 100,000 since November of last year. The company indicated, however, that profits for the quarter were up due to successful releases of Skylanders and Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 and to over a million folks taking advantage of the WoW Annual Pass.

Read the full investors' report and its news about World of Warcraft.

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It is a rare occurence in the World of Warcraft that a player-made addon attains such great heights in effectiveness and popularity that it is essentially quashed. One of the most recent examples of an addon overstepping its bounds was AVR, the augmented reality mod that allowed players to “draw” on the game world. While the main purpose of the addon was to show players physical areas and locations to move to or be safe in during Icecrown boss encounters, the real treasure was buried in AVR’s sharing feature.

What AVR did is not doable anymore, since Blizzard removed the ability for addons to do the type of “drawing” on the world that it showcased. Other addons like Antiarc’s Poison Swapper were just too powerful and forced Blizzard’s hand in changing the way rogue poisons work.

Addons have a rich history in World of Warcraft, with many of our favorites gone the way of the dinosaurs. Which addons, for better or worse, do you wish were still in game? Any addons that you miss from the early days like Cosmos and player-made minigames? Sound off in the comments.

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When details of Blizzard’s upcoming casual MMO, code-named Titan, are incredibly scarce due to the developer’s ironclad secrecy, it falls to enterprising fans to ferret out any scraps of information that may exist. One such player on the NeoGAF forums was combing through a Blizzard job posting for a Franchise Development Producer and noted an interesting line that indicated the studio could be mulling over the idea of in-game ads for its next MMO.

The line in question specifies that one of the duties of the position is to “work with major consumer brands to facilitate product placement and licensing within the world of Blizzard Entertainment’s next-gen MMO that enhances the gameplay experience.” Whether this is a sign that we’ll be seeing billboards for Skittles while we raid or that players will be able to get endorsements and decorate their outfits a la NASCAR cars is anyone’s guess.

It’s important to note that the rest of this position entails a number of efforts to promote Blizzard’s “next-gen MMO” outside of the tight-knit gaming sphere, including comics, action figures, and short movies.