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50% Off Moonkin Hatchling Pet—This Week Only
The googly-eyed Moonkin Hatchling, which comes in unique Horde and Alliance versions, is on sale this week for just 5€.
12 years ago
Account Security Warning
There’s been a recent increase in unauthorized World of Warcraft account-logins via our website and the World of Warcraft mobile armory app.
We’re in the process of notifying any account holders who were not using an authenticator and whose account showed signs of unauthorized access (e.g., logging in from an unusual IP address). If you are among this group, you will receive an email describing how to reset your account.
Update – The auction house is now once again available for use on the World of Warcraft Mobile Armory app and our World of Warcraft community website. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
12 years ago
The Art of Blizzard Book: Now Available!
The Art of Blizzard is a superbly high-quality tome dedicated to presenting and preserving the visual history of Blizzard and our Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo franchises.
12 years ago
Dawn of the Aspects - Part V Now Available
Dawn of the Aspects is a new five-part eBook series written by New York Times bestselling author Richard A. Knaak. Download each installment for the low price of £1.99 through Amazon. It’s a must-read for dragon-thusiasts!
12 years ago
Arena Pass 2013 - Registration Now Open
Registration for the 2013 World of Warcraft Arena Pass is now open!
12 years ago
Watch Jimmy Fallon's "We Are the World of Warcraft"
"We Are the World of Warcraft" made its worldwide debut Tuesday night on NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon during the show’s annual post-E3 "Video Game Week." Enjoy!
12 years ago
This Week Only -- Epic Summer Sale
Tensions between the Horde and Alliance are heating up just in time for the summer, and now’s the perfect time to get in the fight.
12 years ago
Lore Updates: Characters Page, Warcraft Timeline
We just uploaded two updates containing delicious slices of fresh lore to the World of Warcraft game site for your reading pleasure. The Warcraft timeline now includes synopses for Patch 5.2: The Thunder King and Patch 5.3: Escalation, and we also deployed a brand-new lore web feature: character cards!
12 years ago
Blossoming Ancient—New Pet Store Exclusive Now Available
Azeroth’s keepers use seeds of the ancients to nourish and revitalize the flame-scarred slopes surrounding Mount Hyjal—but this isn’t the only region left scarred by the Cataclysm.
12 years ago
Launcher Update: Testers Wanted
We’re now inviting beta testers to help test and refine a new desktop app for Battle.net designed to improve the launcher experience for all Blizzard games and streamline the ability for players to get into their games.
12 years ago
A Raid for All Seasons: Flexible Raid Preview
Raids in World of Warcraft have a long history of not just challenging players, but changing and evolving as the years and expansions go by. As with everything in the game, we’re always thinking about what more we can bring to raiding to improve the experience for an even wider range of players
13 years ago
World of Warcraft: Vol’jin: Shadows of the Horde Preview
We're happy to share a first look at Shadows of the Horde.
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Now is the time to get your teammates together and get registered for the biggest online Arena competition World of Warcraft has to offer.
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Participants will be battling up the ladder to test their mettle against the best arena players World of Warcraft has to offer. Players that register for the Arena Pass will also be eligible to earn \"Murkimus\", the Armored Murloc in-game pet simply by playing! Also, the top 1000 teams will be given an exclusive title for their live characters as well.
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If you have any questions or would like more details, please read the FAQ, and remember to check back here for more updates.
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Through good times and bad, victories and cataclysms, Fortitude buffs and stun locks, we are a vibrant and time-tested community—we are the World of Warcraft. Late-night host Jimmy Fallon gets it . . . and even wrote a song about it! \"We Are the World of Warcraft\" made its worldwide debut Tuesday night on NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon during the show’s annual post-E3 \"Video Game Week.\" This musical nod to the WoW community includes cameos by Felicia Day, Chris Hardwick, and many other of your WoW-playing peers. Enjoy!
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Thanks to everyone who was willing to not only participate in this bit, but wear their inner geek on their sleeves. And special thanks to Jimmy Fallon, the Roots, John Wyatt Haskell, Gavin Purcell, Justin Ulbrich, and the rest of the staff at Late Night for approaching us with this crazy-fun idea and making it a reality!
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Tensions between the Horde and Alliance are heating up just in time for the summer, and now’s the perfect time to get in the fight. This week only, the prices on select World of Warcraft products are getting slashed up to 75%. World of Warcraft®: Battle Chest® and Cataclysm® are just €5 (£4), and Mists of Pandaria™ is €20 (£17), meaning you and your friends can join the battle for Pandaria for half the regular price. Hurry, though—the sale ends June 24, 2013.
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We just uploaded two updates containing delicious slices of fresh lore to the World of Warcraft game site for your reading pleasure. The Warcraft timeline now includes synopses for Patch 5.2: The Thunder King and Patch 5.3: Escalation, and we also deployed a brand-new lore web feature: character cards!
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Azeroth and the worlds beyond are full of peerless (player) heroes, but they are also home to a great number of important non-player characters who have each left an indelible mark on history.
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Get to know these movers and shakers on the new characters page. To start things off we’re focusing on some of the world’s most famous (or infamous, depending on who you ask) characters, but you can expect an even wider range of people (and things) to make an appearance in time.
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Check out the characters page now to learn more about the backstories and in-game locations of the characters of Warcraft.
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Azeroth’s keepers use seeds of the ancients to nourish and revitalize the flame-scarred slopes surrounding Mount Hyjal—but this isn’t the only region left scarred by the Cataclysm. The Cenarion Circle seeks worthy champions to spread regrowth across the land by tending to a Blossoming Ancient, a sign of seasonal rebirth.
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As each new season begins, this traveling tree changes, bringing new life to its surroundings. Go to the Blizzard Store now to adopt one of these spirited saplings.
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Once activated, this in-game pet key applies to all present and future World of Warcraft® characters on a single Battle.net® account.
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We’re continuing the Battle.net®-related testing we mentioned previously. As part of this, we’re now inviting beta testers to help test and refine a new desktop app for Battle.net designed to improve the launcher experience for all Blizzard games and streamline the ability for players to get into their games.
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If you’d like to help us with the testing, head to your Battle.net Beta Profile and opt in to at least one of the game universe beta tests (if you haven’t done so already). We’ll be inviting players to the beta test in waves — if you’re selected, your Battle.net account will be flagged automatically and you’ll receive an email with additional details.
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Raids in World of Warcraft have a long history of not just challenging players, but changing and evolving as the years and expansions go by. As with everything in the game, we’re always thinking about what more we can bring to raiding to improve the experience for an even wider range of players. While Normal and Heroic Raids are a great fit for many, we feel there’s another gap worth filling—and to that end, we’re currently working on the development of a new type of Raid for the next major content update: Flexible Raiding.
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One Size Does Not Fit All
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While it’s impossible to fit every player into a neat, tidy archetype, we recognize that we could be providing a better experience to one broad category of raider: social groups comprised predominantly of friends and family, and smaller guilds that do their best to include as many members in their Raid outings possible.
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During the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, the 10-player Normal difficulty served these groups of players pretty well, but the unification of 10-player and 25-player into a single difficulty effectively eliminated that niche. While Raid Finder mode is extremely accessible, it doesn’t provide smaller groups with a tight-knit social experience while progressing through the content. In Patch 5.4, we’re planning to introduce a new mode of raiding that allows us to deliver the sort of experience that we think these players are looking for.
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To fill this void, we’re in the process of developing a new Flexible Raid system, which includes a new difficulty that sits between Raid Finder and Normal difficulty, while still allowing friends, family, or pick-up groups to play together. This difficulty will be available for premade groups of 10–25 players, including any number in between. That means whether you have 11, 14, or 23 friends available for a Raid, they’ll all be able to participate.
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The Flexible Raid system is designed so that the challenge level will scale depending on how many players you have in the Raid. So if you switch between 14 players one week and 22 the next, the difficulty will adjust automatically. Keep in mind that unlike Raid Finder, no matchmaking is available, so you’ll need to make sure you invite people to attend—but if some can’t make it, it’s not the end of the world (or the Raid). You’ll also still be able to invite Real ID or Battle.net friends cross-realm. Who you choose to bring and what Item Level gear they’ll need to join your merry band is up to you, too—there’s no Item Level requirement for this Raid difficulty.
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Dressed to Kill
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A new Raid difficulty also means a new Item Level. Flexible mode will award loot with an Item Level that falls between Raid Finder and Normal quality, and will use the Raid Finder’s “per person” loot system, specialization choices, and bonus rolls, so you won’t need to worry about bringing the “wrong” person and having them win that piece of gear you’ve long been waiting for.
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We plan to unlock the Flexible Raid difficulty in wings, similar to Raid Finder, but on an accelerated timetable. This new difficulty also has a separate Raid lockout from Raid Finder and Normal difficulty, allowing you to take part in all three if you so desire. You’ll also be able to complete portions of your “Glory of the Orgrimmar Raider” raid meta- achievement in Flexible mode as well as in Normal or Heroic to earn cosmetic rewards such as an epic mount. This will allow Raid groups the opportunity to switch off nights between raids to complete achievements. Finally, taking part in Flexible, Normal, or Heroic difficulty will provide access to additional rewards that won’t be available in Raid Finder.
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Getting Down to Brass Tacks
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As with any in-development feature, we’re continuing to refine how the Flexible Raid system will work, and we look forward to hearing your constructive feedback from your experiences on the Public Test Realm when the new system goes live.
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We're happy to share a first look at Shadows of the Horde.
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Warchief Garrosh's assassins strike at Vol'jin, leaving him at death's door. But fate smiles on the wounded Darkspear leader when renowned brewmaster Chen Stormstout transports him to the safety of an isolated mountain monastery. There, Vol'jin wrestles with old hatreds smoldering between the Alliance and the Horde as he struggles to recover alongside a mysterious human soldier.
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Yet this is only the beginning of Vol'jin's worries. Soon, he becomes embroiled in an invasion of Pandaria launched by the Zandalari, revered trolls driven by dreams of conquest and power. This ancient tribe offers Vol'jin a chance to seize the glory that is the birthright of all trolls... an offer made even more tempting after Garrosh's brazen treachery.
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Amid these troubling events, Vol'jin is rocked by intense visions depicting his race's grand history. As he questions where his loyalties lie, he knows he must make a choice about his own destiny that could save his people or damn them to languish under Garrosh's heel.
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Written by: Michael Stackpole \r\nRelease date: July 2, 2013 \r\nPreorder your copy now at amazon. \r\n
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Check out the first excerpt from the book below.
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When awareness came to him again, Vol'jin found himself whole and hale, strong of limb and standing tall. A fierce sun beat down on him as he stood in a courtyard with thousands of other trolls. They had nearly a head's height on him, yet none of them made an issue of it. In fact, none of them seemed to notice him at all.
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Another dream. A vision.
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He did not immediately recognize the place, though he had a sense that he'd been there before. Or, rather, later, for this city had not surrendered to the surrounding jungle's invasion. The stone carvings on walls remained crisp and clear. Arches had not been shattered. Cobbles had not been broken or scavenged. And the stepped pyramid, before which they all stood, had not been humbled by time's ravages.
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He stood amid a crowd of Zandalari, members of the troll tribe from which all other tribes had descended. They had become, over the years, taller than most and exalted. In the vision they seemed less a tribe than a caste of priests, powerful and educated, quite apt for leading.
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But in Vol'jin's time, their ability to lead had degraded. It is becausetheir dreams all be trapped here.
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This was the Zandalar empire at the height of its power. It dominated Azeroth but would fall victim to its own might. Greed and avarice would spark intrigues. Factions would split. New empires would rise, like the Gurubashi empire, which would drive Vol'jin's Darkspear trolls into exile. Then it would fall too.
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The Zandalari hungered for a return to the time when they were ascendant. It was a time when trolls were a most noble race. The trolls, united, had risen to heights which someone like Garrosh Hellscream could not possibly dream existed.
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A sense of magic ancient and powerful flooded through Vol'jin, providing him the key to why he was seeing the Zandalari. Titan magic predated even the Zandalari. It was more powerful than they were. As high as the Zandalari had been above things that slithered and stung, so were the titans above them—likewise their magic.
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Vol'jin moved through the crowd as might a specter. The Zandalari faces glowed with fearsome smiles—the sort he'd seen on trolls when trumpets blared and drums pounded, inviting them to battle. Trolls were built to rend and slay—Azeroth was their world, and all in it were subject to their dominion. Though Vol'jin might differ with other trolls as to the identity of their enemies, he was no less fierce in battle, and vastly proud of how the Darkspears had conquered their foes and liberated the Echo Isles.
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So Bwonsamdi be mocking me with this vision. The Zandalari dreamed of empire, and Vol'jin wished the best for his people. Vol'jin knew the difference. It was simple enough to plan for slaughter and far more complex to create a future. For a loa who liked his sacrifices bloody and battle-torn, Vol'jin's vision held little appeal.
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Vol'jin ascended the pyramid. As he moved up, things became more substantial. Whereas before he had been in a silent world, he could now feel drums thrumming up through the stone. The breeze brushed over his light fur, tousled his hair. It brought with it the sweet scent of flowers—a scent just slightly sharper than that of spilled blood.
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The drumming pounded into him. His heart beat in time. Voices came to him. Shouts from below. Commands from above. He refused to retreat but stopped climbing higher. It seemed he might be rising through time as he would be rising through lake water. If he reached the top, he would be there with the Zandalari and feel what they felt. He would know their pride. He would breathe in their dreams.
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He would become one with them.
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He would not allow himself that luxury.
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His dream for the Darkspear tribe might not have excited Bwonsamdi, but it provided life for the Darkspears. The Azeroth the Zandalari had known had been utterly and irrevocably changed. Portals had been opened. New peoples had come through. Lands had been shattered, races warped, and more power released than the Zandalari knew existed. The disparate races—elves, humans, trolls, orcs, and even goblins, among others—had united to defeat Deathwing, creating a power structure that revolted and offended the Zandalari. The Zandalari hungered to reestablish rule over a world that had so changed that their dreams could never come true.
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Vol'jin caught himself. \"Never\" be a powerful word.
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In an eyeblink the vision shifted. He now stood at the pyramid's apex, looking down into the faces of the Darkspears. His Darkspears. They trusted his knowledge of the world. If he told them they could recapture the glory that was once theirs, they would follow him. If he commanded them to take Stranglethorn or Durotar, they would. The Darkspears would boil out of the islands, subjugating all in their path, simply because he wished it done.
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He could do it. He could see a way. He'd had Thrall's ear, and the orc had trusted him in military matters. He could spend the months of recuperation plotting out the campaigns and organizing strategies. Within a year or two of his return from Pandaria—if that was still where he was—the Darkspear banner would be anointed with blood and more feared than it already was.
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And what be that gaining me?
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I would be pleased.
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Vol'jin spun. Bwonsamdi stood above him, a titanic figure, ears forward and straining to gather the pulsed shouts from below. Itwould gain you peace, Vol'jin, for you be doing what your troll nature demands.
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Is that all we be meant for?
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The loa do not require you to be more. What purpose be there in your bein' more?
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Vol'jin looked for an answer to that question. His search left him staring at a void. Its darkness reached and engulfed him, leaving him with no answer and certainly no peace.
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