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Patch 4.1.0A Fast Patch Notes

May 10, 2011 / WoW Cataclysm News

Patch 4.1 is now Patch 4.1.0A. There were a few issues that needed correcting that couldn’t be solved with a simple hotfix. Here are the notes for WoW Patch 4.1.0A: -Fixed an issue that sometimes caused player to disconnect when zoning into another location. -The title Blackwing’s Bane awarded for defeating Nefarian on Heroic difficulty is now selectable again by characters who have earned it. -The targeting reticule should no longer disappear when players cast spells. -Resolved some issues that [...]

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Blizzard Insider: Interview with Scott Mercer

April 29, 2011 / WoW Cataclysm News

Blizzard has posted an official interview with their Lead Encounter Designer, Scott Mercer. He’s here to talk about the new dungeons in Patch 4.1: Rise of the Zandalari. Many questions were answered, such as changes to boss fights, changes to trash mobs and the new loot. Scott has also mentioned that there are plans to revamp other old world dungeons like fan-favorites Scarlet Monastery, Blackrock Depths, and Blackrock Spire. Read the official interview here.

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Guild Finder

April 24, 2011 / WoW Cataclysm News

Patch 4.1 will be introducing the Guild Finder tool. The Guild Finder will act as a sort of in-game bulletin board for players looking for a guild. Players will be able to set a number of criteria, like what kind of content they are interested in (PvP, Questing, Raids, etc.), what their class role is, and when they are available. Guilds looking for members can set similar criteria for players to browse. Requests can then be sent to players and [...]

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WoW Patch 4.1 Goes Live on 4/26 ? What to look forward to: Guilds

April 22, 2011 / WoW Cataclysm News

• The criteria on many of the profession-related guild achievements has been significantly reduced. • Guild Challenges are now available. •Guild Challenges fall into three categories: Guild Dungeon Run, Guild Raid, and Guild Rated Battleground. Each challenge can be completed a set number of times per week. Guild groups participating in level-appropriate Heroic or normal difficulty dungeons and raids, or Rated Battlegrounds, will automatically qualify for challenge credit. • Each time a Guild Challenge is completed, the guild will be [...]

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When Does Patch 4.1 Come Out? On 4/26 ? What to look forward to: PvP

April 22, 2011 / WoW Cataclysm News

The rate at which Honor Points are earned has been doubled. The Ring of Valor has now returned. It should be playable in the Arena map rotation. Arathi Basin is now available as a 10v10 rated Battleground Graveyards have been reworked for the “Battle for Gilneas” and Twin Peaks” Battlegrounds.

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4.1 Release Date WoW on 4/26 ? What to look forward to: Classes

April 22, 2011 / WoW Cataclysm News

Here’s what to look forward to concerning classes. All non-damaging interrupts off the global cooldown will now always hit the target. Death Knight’s “Raise Ally” now is a battle resurrection spell. Druid’s “Enrage” no longer increases physical damage taken. Hunter’s pet happiness mechanic has been removed. Mage’s “Frost Armor” now reduces 15% of physical damage taken, instead of providing 20% armor. Paladin’s “Word of Glory” now has a 20 second cooldown. Priest’s “Inner Will” and “Inner Fire” now last until [...]

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WoW 4.1 Release Date on 4/26 ? What to look forward to: Dungeons

April 22, 2011 / WoW Cataclysm News

There’s a strong feeling that WoW Patch 4.1 will be released on 4/26. Here’s what to look forward to concerning dungeons. Zul’Gurub, an old 20 man raid from the original World of Warcraft is being re-released as a level 85 five-player heroic dungeon. Zul’Aman, an old 10 man raid from The Burning Crusade is being re-released as a level 85 five-player heroic dungeon. The Dungeon Finder now attempts to avoid putting damage-dealing classes with the same armor type in a [...]

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Ask the Devs #5: Achievements

April 16, 2011 / WoW Cataclysm News

The 5th installment of “As the Devs” has been released and is on Achievements in World of Warcraft. The big question is “When will achievements finally be account-wide?” The short answer is that it’s something they are looking in to but are having trouble integrating with their current systems. More questions like “Can we spend our achievement points?” and “Can you please fix achievement X?” are among those answered by our beloved developers. Read all about it here.

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Warlock Demon Changes

April 16, 2011 / WoW Cataclysm News

World of Warcraft forum Community Manager Zarhym has stated in a forum post that Warlocks will be getting more options to customize their pets in the future. For a long time players have found it unfair that Hunters (the only other fully pet based class) could choose any pet skin they wish, while Warlocks were forced into one. Read the official post here.

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Garrosh: Then and Now

April 16, 2011 / WoW Cataclysm News

Blizzard has posted another entry to their “Then and Now” series which focuses on the leaders and heroes of the game. They cover where they our heroes came from, where they’re going, and what role they play in Cataclysm. Check out Garrosh Hellscream’s new entry here: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2629898

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WoW Patch 4.1 PTR Rated Battlegrounds, Video Contest, and Ask the Devs.

April 12, 2011 / WoW Cataclysm News

Have you ever wanted to Pyroblast a World of Warcraft Community Manager or Developer? Well now’s your chance. April 12th you will be able to fight World of Warcraft employees in rated battlegrounds. From the forum post, Blue Poster Sapperwix says: “We’re going to be online tomorrow, 4/12/2011, at 4:30pm PST. To participate you’ll need to roll Horde characters (we flipped a coin) and form teams on the “Broxigar” PTR realm. The reason we’re specifying a faction is because this [...]

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Remote Guild Chat, and Blizzard goes Orchestral

April 9, 2011 / WoW Cataclysm News

World of Warcraft Remote was released a while ago. For an additional $2.99 to their subscription players could use the Auction House from their mobile smart phones. Blizzard has recently announced that they will be adding a remote guild chat to this additional subscription. Now players can get in touch with guild mates from anywhere. Going to be late for the raid? Let the guild know you’ve been kept late at work with the new remote guild chat function for [...]

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Patch 4.1 Dungeon Finder and Wailing Caverns

April 8, 2011 / WoW Cataclysm News

Patch 4.1 is introducing a much needed addition to the dungeon finder tool in World of Warcraft. There has always been one glaring issue for this tool: the queue times. With DPS queues rarely falling under 20 minutes, and sometimes being as long as an hour something needed to be done. Blizzard plans on adding what they call a ”Call to Arms” to the system. When a certain class role is being underrepresented there will be a special icon on [...]

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Blizzard April Fools

April 2, 2011 / WoW Cataclysm News

Each year on April 1st, Blizzard releases April fools joke functions to each of their games. They are always hilarious. This year we got an Xbox Kinect function for Starcraft 2, A Horadric Cube app for iPhone, and two World of Warcraft gags: The Tomb of Immortal Darkness, and a dungeon helper named “Crabby.” If you missed them, check the links here to Blizzard April fools pranks for 2011. Starcraft 2 Motion Overdrive Diablo 3 Horadric Cube App World of [...]

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Curse of the Worgen, and more patch 4.1

April 1, 2011 / WoW Cataclysm News

There’s some more public test realm notes for 4.1 here. There are some class changes, some 5-man changes and some glitch fixes. When does 4.1 come out? We’re all waiting! Meanwhile, check out World of Warcraft 4.1 Tol Barad updates in the link. DC Comics and Blizzard’s World of Warcraft based comic series, “Curse of the Worgen” is ending. To celebrate they have released hi-res versions of each cover of this 5 issue series. These are very cool, as is [...]

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More on WoW Patch 4.1, WoW Patch 4.2, and Ghostcrawler

March 30, 2011 / WoW Cataclysm News

Everyone’s favorite World of Warcraft game developer, Ghostcrawler, has added a new post to his dev blog regarding issues of balance. WoW patch 4.1 isn’t far away, and with every patch comes cries of imbalance. In a nutshell, Ghostcrawler reminds us that even minor changes to gameplay can be time bombs ready to go off when another issue is addressed. Read the whole post here. Currently on the Public Test Realm, patch 4.1 has included some new items to group [...]

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Cataclysm: The WoW 4.1 Patch Notes

March 16, 2011 / WoW Official Trailers

The Public Test Realm notes for patch 4.1 have been released on Blizzard’s World of Warcraft blog. The WoW 4.1 patch notes include information about the remakes of Zul’Gurub and Zul’Aman, everyone’s favorite troll-based dungeons. It seems that a good chunk of players are excited to see these two fan favorites from vanilla WoW and TBC return, but there are still a few who resent this. Some players think that Blizzard is being lazy and getting into a habit of [...]

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