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Cataclysm Beta (Build 12984) New Map, Icons, Achievements & More!
Blizzard surprised us with a new beta build over the weekend and we now have site
Cataclysm
site and
talent calculator
updated to
Build 12984
.
Included in this update were several new achievements including the amusing
which requires you to do a mini-game much like Popcap's
Plants vs. Zombies
. You can check out all the new achievements along with some more goodies over on our
Latest Additions
page!
Only one map was added in the new build - this time it's a new one of
that shows the locations of several nearby areas around The Maelstrom itself. You can see
The Lost Isles
,
Kezan
and even
Deepholm
!
A whole slew
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Scheduled Maintenance: Sept 20th, 10pm-1am PST
Last week, I wrote
a blog post
about a number of things we're doing to make things a little faster on this part of
The Internets
. The installation of the new database server I mentioned will be happening tonight from 10pm-1am PST.
Oh, wait... that's when when Malgayne plays WoW, you say? Wow, what a coincidence. That sucks.
That'll teach him to break the servers.
We're hoping the maintenance will only take 2 hours, but we're building in an extra hour for all that fun stuff that happens when people mess with servers that no one ever quite anticipates will occur. We're hoping we caught everything, though. We even did an extensive burn-in test of the new server and it out-performs the existing one by a good margin. After the results of that test, I'm quite eager to get that server running!
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Brewfest 2010 Has Begun! Get Your Brewmaster Title With Our Guide!
Brewfest has begun yet again, running this year from
September 20
through
October 5
!
We've got our thorough event guide for you guys which will help you earn achievements, get a fancy new outfit and maybe even a mount! Remember that this year, you will be able to queue up for
Coren Direbrew
using the Dungeon Finder - so no more summon drama, LFG woes or any of that foolishness!
Coren still drops the same item level 200 trinkets, but all of his non-trinket drops have been instead moved to the Dungeon Finder reward chest. You will be awarded a Keg-Shaped Treasure Chest for your first kill of Coren Direbrew each day, which contains 2
Emblem of Frost
and has a chance to drop the epic Brewfest mounts and all of the previous year's non-trinket loot.
You can see the full loot lists and information on quests, achievements and more in our full guide! Happy Brewfest!
http://www.wowhead.com/guide=brewfest
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It's Talk Like A Pirate Day in World of Warcraft, Too!
September 19th (today) is
Pirates' Day
in World of Warcraft, an in-game version of the international holiday
Talk Like A Pirate Day
! There's nothing new this year, so I'm just going to repost last year's guide for you guys, in case there's some new players out there who haven't had to opportunity to participate! While Pirates' Day not a full-blown holiday (such as
Winter's Veil
or the
Midsummer Fire Festival
), it still provides an amusing distraction from the everyday grind - complete with pirate costumes and flagons of grog!
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PowerPC Macs No Longer Supported With Cataclysm
Hello, I'm Karadactyl! I've been doing some work on the Cataclysm guide, and now I'm posting blogs! Now, on to the meat and potatoes.
According to Blizzard, soon before the release of Cataclysm, PowerPC Macs will no longer be supported. Attempting to run the patched client via a Mac PPC will cause an error stating that the game cannot run on that architecture. This, obviously, applies to the Cataclysm Beta as well.
The full blue post with all the details is after the break!
Thanks to
bluspacecow
for the tip!
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The Harvest Festival is here! (Sept 16 - Sept 22)
Yep, the
Harvest Festival
is here! Nothing new this year, but I've taken the liberty of reposting last year's guide on a new guide page for anyone who may not have participated. It's a pretty cool little event, lore-wise, but there's nothing remarkably amazing - they're basically just asking you guys to take a few minutes out of your day to show your respects to your faction's fallen hero. It would be really cool if Blizzard ever decided to elaborate on this event some, maybe by spotlighting other famous heroes (not just Grom and Uther) - maybe even tie it in with Archaeology somehow - yeah, yeah? Ah, wishful thinking... maybe next year.
http://www.wowhead.com/guide=harvest-festival
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The Weekly Marmot - Patch 4.0 Speculation
So this week, thanks to Blizzard's timely release of the Patch 4.0 PTR, I get to talk a bunch about how this whole process is going to work based on our experiences from previous expansions. What's the difference between Patch 4.0 and Cataclysm? What kind of release timeframes can we expect? And what's the deal with "Patch 4.0.3"? These exciting questions and more will be answered (or at least have decent guesses aimed towards them) in this week's Weekly Marmot.
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Cataclysm Preview: The Battle for Gilneas
Blizzard has released another preview, this time of the new battleground coming in Cataclysm -
The Battle for Gilneas
! This new 10 vs 10 battleground will take place in the actual city of Gilneas, and feature many familiar objectives. Much like
Arathi Basin
, you must control
one of three capture points
that accumulate points - first team to 2000 points is the victor! What's so great about this map that it's actually
in
the city so there are all kinds of choke points and places you can strategically block the opposite faction from progressing.
You can read the entire preview after the break or on Blizzard's official
website
!
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4.0.1 Now Available on the Background Downloader
It seems when users start up their launchers on the live client you will be greeted with a nice message that says --
Data for the next patch is available.
What does this mean everyone? It means we have finally begun the pre-loading of the 4.0.1 patch. Usually spread out over weeks prior to the release of a major content patch users can grab a huge chunk of the already completed items in the patch so not everything is downloaded on patch day.
To get the background downloader started all you should have to do is boot up the Launcher and make sure you have the options enabled to download in the background.
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Growing Pains: or, "Why The Site Is So Slow"
I'm sure that, by now, you've noticed that our site has been having some issues lately. In case you're wondering,
it's all Malgayne's fault.
:cough:
More accurately: We've been in the process of scaling our site to better handle increased traffic. This has included updates to our existing servers as well as getting a new and faster database server set up to add to the site. The new database server is expected to be live within the next few weeks. We've also been optimizing many of our older queries to be more efficient, thus putting less strain on the database servers.
On top of that, we've been migrating to a more efficient caching system for our pages. We actually moved our forums, blog, and select pieces of our database pages over to it a few days ago. The instability you've seen since then was tracked down to a misconfiguration on one of our web servers that limited the number of connections it could make to our caching cluster. Since it wasn't able to hit the caching cluster effectively, it was trying to connect to the database, which spawned another connection attempt, which failed, which made TheOnyx something something.
The misconfiguration has been res
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Old Currencies Conversion Rates
September 29, 2010 Update
: Emblems of Triumph & Frost conversion rate has been upped to 11.58 Justice Points per Emblem. The Above-the-cap money conversion has been reduced to 47s 50c, down from 2g.
Just yesterday Blizzard announced that the currency changes originally planned for
Cataclysm
are going to be included in the next - and last - major content patch for
Wrath of the Lich King
. If you missed the news, you can read the announcement and commentary in
our blog
.
Now, to add more juice to this change, Vaneras has posted the exact conversion rates on the
WoW Europe forums
. Check the link or follow us after the break for a full list of the conversion rates!
Bonus: MMO-Champion has posted a calculator to let you quickly whip up your own personal calculations! You can find it
here
.
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Wowhead's Latest Features for July/August 2010
We're only a tad behind this time in wanting to share with you guys a recap of Wowhead's latest added features! With the Cataclysm Beta in full force, we've been spending loads of time working on the
Cataclysm site
but we've still made time to make some exciting and fun new changes to improve the quality of the Wowhead experience for all of you!
Remember, you can always check up on what we've released recently by checking our What's New page:
http://www.wowhead.com/?whats-new
What's New?
We've added a
Most Comments
page, from which you can see the most commented on database entries from
yesterday
, the
last 7 days
, or
last 30 days
!
We've made some changes to the
Profiler
landing page! You can now easily query directly for an Armory character by entering all character details (region, realm and character name) or complete a generalized search filling in only cer
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One Rick to Roll Them All (aka BFF Report - LotRO)
I know what you're thinking, "Where the #@$% is my Final Fantasy XIV BFF Report?!" Unfortunately, there has been another delay in our age
NDA
and it will come out SOON. That's not to take away from Lord of the Rings Online, though. It recently went F2P and I wanted to get in there and see just how much crap I could find under it's protective Cloak of Tolkiencibility. I'm also dropping it early because next Tuesday is going to be FFXIV BFFR DDAY.
Mark your calendars. >:D
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This Week In Warcraft: Episode 6!
Aliena returns with another episode of
This Week In Warcraft!
This episode covers the release of the 4.0 PTR, an Archaeology preview, the pre-Cataclysm launch events, and more!
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New on Wowhead: Forum Games!
The staff here at Wowhead have unveiled a brand new forum --
Forum Games
! We've created it especially for all you fans of
^ > v
and
Rate the poster above you
. :P
You can check out the new forum
here
or on our forum
landing page
.
We plan on moving all of the forum games out of
Off-Topic
and into the new forum, so don't fret if you see your thread is no longer where it once was!
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Cataclysm Changes to Badge/Emblem System
Bashiok just posted a very interesting announcement!
It seems in the upcoming 4.0.1 patch (which is currently on the PTR), all old PvE and PvP tokens will be converted to a new currency system. Badges like
Emblem of Frost
and
Emblem of Triumph
will be converted into
Justice Points
, and all PvE gear that had badge costs will be converted to the new Justice Points system.
On the PvP side, Arena Season 8 will end with 4.0—all Arena, Honor, any leftover Battleground marks,
Stone Keeper's Shard
and any other PvP tokens will be converted into the new version of
Honor Points
. Any items that were sold for any of the old PvP points/tokens will also be converted to the Honor Points system.
Both
Justice Points
and
Honor Points
will have a soft cap—you can go over the cap on the original conversion, but at a later point in time a hard cap will be introduced in a content patch. Any excess points after the hard cap is introduced will be converted to gold, which will be received via the mail system.
You can read the original post by Bashiok after the break!
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4.0.1 Public Test Realm Now Active!
Blizzard has just launched the
4.0.1 Public Test Realms
! This patch will introduce the new
streaming client
, class &
talent
changes,
stat changes
and much more. What this patch doesn't contain is all the Cataclysm zone changes and
Archaeology
.
You can read the patch notes after the break!
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Archaeology on Beta Servers (12942)
Hey there, it's your local silverly reporter with another batch of
very
interesting stuff -
Archaeology
! The brand new shiny secondary profession was added to beta build 12942 (the latest one, if you are reading this fairly recently after it is posted), and I've had the chance to go test it out. Let me tell you, it's absolutely amazing! I may be a little biased, because it's new and different from all the other professions, but I honestly thing it's a very interesting thing in and of itself.
But I do tend to ramble - let me show you a few things about it!
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Official Cataclysm Ashenvale Preview
Blizzard has once again graced us with another zone preview - this time with quest designers
Eric Maloof
and
Steve Burke
, who talk about the changes coming to
Ashenvale
in Cataclysm. Eric and Steve go on to talk about the new volcano that has erupted in northern Ashenvale, and how the Horde are taking over key points that were once held by the Alliance. They wrap up the preview by discussing what changed most in Ashenvale, and according to Eric and Steve the terrain is less frustrating than before but the story hasn't changed much—other than being much more intense!
You can check out the entire preview after the break and while you're at it you can check out all of our screenshots of Ashenvale in our
Cataclysm guide!
!
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Cataclysm Update: Getting Licensed to Fly in Azeroth!
Zarhym
has just posted a rather big announcement on the Cataclysm Beta forums - a new flight skill will be added for all players once they reach level 60. This new skill is called
Flight Master's License
and this skill will be required to fly in both Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor which includes all the new zones.
Update:
Zarhym has updated the original post stating that the new flight skill will cost
.
We’ve added a new flying skill called Flight Master's License. When World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is released, players who purchase the expansion will see this skill available from flight trainers for 250 gold once they reach level 60. This new skill is required for flying around all Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms zones, including the new level 80-85 zones.
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