Posts with tag last-week-in-wow

With patch 6.0.2 releasing today, maintenance is bound to be on the long side -- and we're all bursting with anticipation for the patch. Like ancient beasts of unholy terror, we hunger. Let us sate ourselves, at least for awhile, with a look back on WoW Insider content of days past.

Garrisons

• What are work orders?
• Blizzard talks garrison followers
• Choosing the right garrison buildings for you
• Know Your Lore: Garrisons and the story of Warlords

More Warlords of Draenor

• Guide to new mounts in Warlords of Draenor
• Guide to hunter pets in Warlords of Draenor
• Official site releases new Blackhand comic

Other features

• The WoW Insider Show episode 363
• BlizzCon 2014 map and schedule revealed
• WoW Archivist: Class protests and the million gnome march
• Returning to a paladin's vault
• Join WoW Insider at Wowhead's annual BlizzCon party

A queue of Queues

• The Queue: Podcast, Azeroth, The Matt Rossi, PTR
• The Queue: Blood moon
• The Queue: Garrisons, content models, and excitement
• The Queue: Tachiraptor admirablis, proving grounds, and consumables
• The Queue: Fine Draenor cuisine
• The Queue: Rexxar is the best
• The Queue: Hype hype hype!

Machinima

• Top 5 villains in World of Warcraft
• The lost opera
• Vigil
• Top 10 pointless top 10s
• The Black Prince of Veiled Stair

Brace yourselves, friends. The orcs are coming.

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Last week, we continued our glacial slide toward Warlords of Draenor, punctuated by the first real preview of the upcoming garrison system. The Azeroth Choppers webseries came to its conclusion, as did the latest season of Hearthstone.

Most popular posts of the week

• Know Your Lore: Azeroth before the First War
• Ben Foster playing Medivh in Warcraft movie
• Warlords of Draenor: New achievement for Warlocks
• Official garrison preview lays down the foundation
• Life after the tutorial in Hearthstone

Follow along for more of the best from the last week in Warcraft.

Servers saw only rolling restarts today, which meant you didn't have much time to cry into your neglected laundry. Maybe next week. We all love a good cry, right? Or was it clean laundry that we loved? I'm not sure anymore. Anyway, let's catch up on last week's news.

Most popular posts of the week

• Know Your Lore: Kairoz and his plans
• WoW Archivist: Tier 0.5 and the birth of modern dungeons
• Death's Bite weapon added to Hearthstone's Curse of Naxxramas
• Legendary quest boosts on the way?
• Is Hearthstone pay-to-win?

Follow along for more World of Warcraft news and features!

Two relatively minor pieces of Hearthstone news made it into our top 5 posts of the last week. Whether you love or hate the game, its current popularity is impressive.

Most popular posts of the week

• Another new Hearthstone card revealed
• Blizzard should rethink their content release model
• LFR, Warlords of Draenor, and you
• Earn your Black Temple card back in Hearthstone
• Raid design evolution and Warlords of Draenor

Follow along for more World of Warcraft news and features!

Most popular posts of the week

• Get a first look at the Warcraft movie in Empire Magazine
• Russian player unlocks every WoW achievement
• WoW Archivist: The Martin Fury incident
• Bashiok on the lack of flight in Warlords of Draenor
• Garrisons and their role in Warlords

Follow along for more World of Warcraft news and features!

World of Warcraft realms will be down for maintenance today beginning at 5 a.m. PDT. The current estimate for the end of maintenance is 11 a.m. PDT. In the meantime, let's look back a week, as we always do on Tuesday mornings.

Last week had its ups and downs. Which were the ups and which were the downs are entirely dependent on personal opinion. We did not yet see the Warlords of Draenor alpha open up, but we did get a new round of patch notes. Hearthstone launched for the iPad in the US and the first episode of Azeroth Choppers went live. Exciting? Yes/no?

Most popular posts of the week

• Combat resurrection system overhauled in Warlords
• I haven't touched my boosted character
• Developer serves up garrison details
• Warlords itemization changes
• Four ideas Hearthstone should borrow from Magic

Follow along for more of the hottest news of the last week!

After a ten thousand year drought, Warlords of Draenor rains down upon us. While the alpha is not yet accessible for anyone besides those within Blizzard itself, copious Warlords news has surfaced. We've seen patch notes, interviews, and the myriad of things datamined from the client. This has been a wild week.

Most popular posts of the week

• Technical game designer Chadd "Celestalon" Nervig talks Warlords
• Warlords of Draenor patch 6.0 patch notes
• Draenor perks added to 91-99 leveling
• April Fools Patch 6.0 patch notes
• Warlords of Draenor alpha testing begins

Follow along as we catch up on the last week in WoW!

Briefly, I considered using today's Last Week in WoW as the delivery mechanism for an April Fools' Joke. Rather than recapping the last week on the site, I was going to recap WoW Insider's entire existence, presenting links to everything we've ever posted in our history. This idea lasted no more than a few minutes, when the reality of the task settled in. Instead, I'll give you a few stats, which aren't jokes whatsoever. They're just interesting.

WoW Insider launched in November of 2005. Since then, we've published nearly 40,000 articles. Let's assume the average word count per article is 500 words -- it's likely more than that, given how many features we've run over the years and how much we like to talk, but let's say 500 anyway. That's 20,000,000 words. Twenty million. The average length of an adult fiction novel (not an erotic novel, but adult as opposed to young adult) is 100,000 words. Since November 2005, we've written 200 novels about World of Warcraft and Blizzard games in general.

So scrap the gag of linking you everything, because that's a Herculean task and I am no Hercules. Instead, let's stick with what happened this past week.

Most popular posts of the week

• Flying in Draenor must be destroyed
• WoW Archivist: Warlords of Draenor hates The Burning Crusade
• Dragon Soul LFR changes possible in patch 6.0
• Female draenei model reveal coming this week
• I'm so bored with the Horde

Much like last week, this week has been a long wait for any news of Warlords of Draenor. There has been plenty happening in the worlds of Diablo, Hearthstone, and Heroes of the Storm, but all's been quiet on the Warcraft front. Still, we've had some goodies in the past 7 days. The most exciting, perhaps, is the fact that the female dwarf model's skull is no longer attempting to escape through her mouth.

Most popular posts of the week

• The most obscure Alliance achievement in WoW
• Pre-emptive criticism and Warlords news
• Blizzard scores a victory against patent troll Worlds, Inc
• How to fix the Censer of Eternal Agony
• New female dwarf model images added

Follow along for all of the other news, features, machinima, and editorials here on WoW Insider.

This past week has been big on news, but maybe not the news you want. Hearthstone officially launched. Heroes of the Storm opened its technical alpha. Diablo III: Reaper of Souls is on the horizon. Warlords of Draenor is available for pre-order, the purchase of which includes an immediate level 90 character boost. However, there's no sign of a beta. Perhaps it's like a watched pot. If we keep waiting for it to boil over, it won't even simmer.

We have no server maintenance today, only rolling restarts, but let's get caught up on everything that happened last week anyway.

Most popular posts of the last week

• Heroes of the Storm alpha now active
• Boosting a level 90: Tips, tricks, and the PVP gearing method
• What needs to change in the 90 boost process?
• Get your Hearthsteed! Hearthstone has officially released
• Coping with the new raid realities of level 90 boosts

Most popular posts of the last week

• Celestalon and Holinka provide details on upcoming class and mechanical changes via Twitter
• WoW Archivist: WoW's 18 weirdest quest items
• 8 quests you might have skipped, but shouldn't
• How to solo dungeons for fun and profit (but mostly fun)
• The real reason Dawn Moore hates the Timeless Isle is a tale of love and yaks

Continue on for any features, editorials, or other juicy pieces of Warlords of Draenor news you may have missed!

Happy Tuesday morning, everyone. Life is full of endings and partings. For example, Love Is In the Air is over for another year, and the Mists of Pandaria expansion is pretty much over except for the Garrosh farming. Sometimes those partings are pretty sad. For example, I still don't have my Big Love Rocket. Sometimes, though, they can make way for something better. For example, Mists of Pandaria may be gone, but Warlords of Draenor is coming on fast, and we've got a lot of great news and insight about it this past week.

Downtime today is limited to a series of rolling restarts at 5 a.m. PST, but seriously, take some to read up on the Warlords of Draenor news, if nothing else. It's good stuff. We also have our usual roundup of other great news and features. Before I tell you to read on, though, let me say just one more thing, dear readers. You were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And you know what? So was I.

Warlords of Draenor news and features

• Check out our Warlords of Draenor guide for all the news you need in one place.
• The new orc female model has been revealed, and the dwarf female model can be seen in 3d on the official Warlords of Draenor site.
• Warlords of Draenor PvP will feature a spectator mode and the return of skirmishes.
• You will need a silver medal from the Proving Grounds if you want to randomly queue for heroic dungeons in Warlords. In addition, they've hinted that Proving Grounds may be able to scale up instead of down in the future.
• The Dread Hatchling is now appearing in the pet journal as of patch 5.4.7.
• A recent press event has resulted in a glut of new Warlords info. Check out video of the character boost process and Alliance Shadowmoon Valley questing.

Happy Tuesday Morning, everyone. Today marks the end of PvP Season 14, and with an extra-long maintenance, likely the start of patch 5.4.7. The new patch isn't a full content patch, but still packs a lot of interesting changes. Check out our patch roundup for a quick rundown.

As I mentioned above, downtime today is scheduled for 1 a.m. to 11 a.m. PST, so you definitely have time to read up. In addition to the patch 5.4.7 news, there's plenty of patch 6.0 and Warlords of Draenor tidbits as well. Read on for the usual roundup.

Hot news and features

• Check out the latest patch 5.4.2 hotfixes for February 10 and February 12,
• Garrosh will receive some targeted nerfs to his 10-man heroic encounter in patch 5.4.7.
• Mists of Pandaria challenge modes will go away with the Warlords of Draenor pre-patch.
• Proving Grounds, on the other hand, will simply be updated to the new mechanics.
• More Warlords of Draenor ads could be coming to the launcher.
• Raids in Warlords of Draenor will be non-linear whenever possible.
• Casting while moving may be a lot less common in Warlords of Draenor.
• Holinka clarifies the removal of dodge from gear in WoD.
• The latest Artcraft installment introduces artwork for WoD's Garrisons.
• The blues have been tweeting. Check out new screenshots of Talador and Gorgrond, two places in Warlords of Draenor. We also got screenshots of original design documents for the Benediction priest epic, the death knight class, and the Burning Crusade expansion.
• The Scroll of Resurrection is gone.

Happy Tuesday morning, everyone. This week was one of those ones in which you don't think much news happened, until you sit down and read. Seriously, we got a lot of excellent tidbits of Warlords of Draenor and patch 5.4.7, along with the usual assortment of handy guides, lore articles, and news.

Read on for the latest. Downtime is limited to rolling restarts at 5 a.m. PST, but trust me, you'll want to know what's cooking.

Hot news and guides

• Love is the Air is underway. Time to start queueing on all your level 90 alts for that rocket mount!
• Check out the latest patch 5.4.7 PTR note updates for February 3.
• Check out the latest patch 5.4.2 hotfixes for February 4 and February 5.
• Check out the latest connected realm and free realm move information for February 6 and February 7.
• World of Warcraft is up to 7.8 million subscribers, an increase from the last figure we heard.
• PvP season 14 has received a two-week warning, which suggests patch 5.4.7 will be here soon.
• Patch 5.4.7 features some Alterac Valley changes that may help the horde turn the tide in that battleground.
• With the devs already playing patch 6.0 arenas, could an internal alpha of Warlords of Draenor already be in play?

Happy Tuesday morning, everyone. I feel like we're officially in the part of the year where we're all desperate for the expansion beta, but have a sinking feeling it won't be out for at least another month or two. Soon just isn't soon enough. Luckily, we still have some choice WoD news tidbits coming out, as well as a flood of news from the patch 5.4.7 PTR.

With so much to read up on, you might want to get it to. Maintenance today is limited to rolling restarts at 5 a.m. pacific time, but you'll want to take your time absorbing this good stuff.

Hot news and features

• Check out the latest patch 5.4.7 PTR patch notes updates for January 28.
• Check out some of Wowhead's most recent datamined finds from the PTR.
• Read up on the latest hotfixes for patch 5.4.2 for January 28 and January 29th.
• The Charge and Warbringer nerfs on the patch 5.4.7 PTR have been reverted.
• Read up on the latest US connected realms updates for January 31.
• Over 100,000,000 WoW accounts have been made since its inception, and Blizzard's released a cool infographic to celebrate.
• Our friends at Wowhead may have datamined the level 90 boosted character gear from the patch 5.4.7 PTR.
• The patch 5.4.7 PTR currently has a purchasable level 90 option in the online store.