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The additional second-week content of the Shadowlands Pre-patch, Death Rising, is now available in this region. New quests are now available in Icecrown and capital cities, and you are advised to take extra precautions. Zombies are invading! |
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Over the course of the Shadowlands Beta, there were changes made to Gladiator titles and mounts, and we’d like to clarify our intentions. Each season, the “Adjective Gladiator” title (e.g. Sinister Gladiator or Corrupted Gladiator) is awarded to characters that end the season in the top 0.1% of the 3v3 Arena ladder. This title is permanent and character specific, and includes legacy “Rank 1” titles which were earned under the old Battlegroup system. The “Gladiator” title is awarded to characters that win 50 3v3 games while at the Elite Rank. This title is seasonal – it is available for the duration of the season in which it is earned, and it is character specific. The Gladiator mount (e.g. the Corrupted Gladiator’s Proto-Drake) is awarded under the same circumstances as the “Gladiator” title and is available to all characters on that account permanently. Going into Shadowlands, the availability of the mount is the only change here. Any other change related to the above rewards is a bug that will be quickly fixed. We apologize for the confusion. |
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For the last few expansions, World of Warcraft minimum specs have required a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) that is shader-model-5 compatible (DirectX 11.0 or higher). With the newer graphical features included in the Shadowlands Pre-patch, the game has ceased supporting all GPUs that are not compatible with shader-model-5. We’ve discovered that a very small number of players are attempting to run World of Warcraft on older hardware that cannot play the game after patching. At this time, we’re working on a solution that could allow the game to operate on some older hardware, at the lowest graphical settings, with some graphic features unavailable. We expect this solution to take at least a couple of weeks to develop and test. We will let you know when this workaround is available. Thank you. |
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Realm Connection – 17 September During a scheduled maintenance period planned for 9:00 p.m. CEST on 17 September, ending at approximately 5:00 a.m. on 18 September, the following realm connection will be made:
We are planning more realm connections for low-population realms, and we will post a new notification like this one next week. Thank you! |
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[09/09/2020] During a scheduled maintenance period planned for 9:00 p.m. CEST on 9 September, ending at approximately 5:00 a.m. on 10 September, the following realm connection will be made: • The Darkspear, Saurfang, and Terokkar realms will join the Bloodfeather, Burning Steppes, Executus, Kor’gall, and Shattered Hand realms. We are planning more realm connections for low-population realms, and we will post a new notification like this one next week. Thank you! |
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The text of the Systems Specifications for Shadowlands was updated a few minutes ago on our Support Site: https://eu.battle.net/support/en/article/256565 The minimum requirements section for Storage now reads: Please note: the System Requirements for this game may change over time. |
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We’ve encountered some issues with the connections of the following realms:
We are actively looking into solving these issues and hope to have more information to share in the coming days. |
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There will be a special maintenance for the realms below on 13 August, from 9:00 p.m. CEST to 5:00 a.m.
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While we work on issues with it, we’ve removed Comp Stomp from the Brawl rotation until Shadowlands. We apologize for the late notice. This week’s brawl will be Temple of Kotmogu. Thank you for your understanding |
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During a scheduled maintenance period (currently planned for 12:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. CEST on Wednesday, 5 August), the following realm connections will be made:
We are planning more realm connections for low-population realms, and we will post further notifications like this one in the coming weeks. Thank you! |
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Update 24/7: We are encountering some issues that are preventing us from performing the realm connections mentioned above for the time being. We will let you know when we have more information to share regarding their implementation. Thank you for your patience and understanding. |
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In the coming days, the following realm connection will be made:
We are planning more realm connections for low-population realms, and we will post further notifications like this one in the coming weeks. Thank you! |
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A new build will be coming to the Public Test Realm (PTR) this week and will only contain non-player facing changes that are required for Shadowlands. We wanted to provide an advance notice that there won’t be any new features to be tested in this build. |
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In related news, we currently have a bug that is causing Gladiator’s Spite to stack faster than intended. We’re working on a fix for it right now. |
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We’re working on a set of PvP tuning changes that should go live this week. This is what we’re currently testing: Items
Corruption Effects
Azerite Essences
Monk
As always, we’ll let you know if there are any further changes to be made, or adjustments to those above, and we’ll report the final live changes in our Hotfixes Update. Thanks! |
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We’ve reviewed the various interactions at play in this situation and decided against making a change at this time. Thank you for your feedback. |
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In an upcoming Shadowlands Alpha build, Blood Elves and Void Elves will be receiving some new customization options that some of you may be interested in Void Elf blue eyes on top, Blood Elf blue eyes on bottom Additionally, Blood Elves will have the option to choose from a variety of new skin colors and Void Elves will inherit the skin color options that are available to Blood Elves. Here’s a glimpse of the potential characters that you can create with some of the new options. New Blood Elf Customization Options New Void Elf Customization Options This is just a sneak peek some of the many customization options coming to your characters in Shadowlands! We look forward to seeing all the creations that you come up with in the future. |
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While we work through the final steps of bringing Corruption Effects to MOTHER’s vendor list, we decided to leave the Impressive Influence reputation buff active in all regions. The buff will now expire on the evening of Thursday May 21. Enjoy! |
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In Shadowlands, players will ally with one of four Covenants, each granting unique powers, abilities, and other benefits to aid them on their dangerous journey through the realms of death. |
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With the major changes coming to leveling characters from 10-50 in Shadowlands, we want to make sure that there is a navigational parity among all of the different expansions you can choose while questing. In the next version of the Shadowlands Alpha that will appear this week, testers are going to see an intentional change coming to Shadowlands for a couple of older Pathfinder achievements. Specifically, the flight training rewards from Draenor Pathfinder and Broken Isles Pathfinder, Part Two will no longer be required for flying in Draenor or Broken Isles content. These will now be granted at level 30 with expert flying. The achievements will remain in place as before, and Draenor Pathfinder will still be the way to earn the Soaring Skyterror mount, while Broken Isles Pathfinder, Part One will continue to reward increased mount speed in the Broken Isles. Thank you very much! |
. We wanted to give you an early look at a few of these new options available to the two races, with the first being several shades of blue eyes to choose from.
