Garona Featurette, Vanilla Dungeon Objective XP, Blue Posts,

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Update (11 AM ET): Added Gul'dan Featurette



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Warcraft Movie - Gul'dan Featurette

A Gul'dan featurette has been released!

Warcraft Movie - Garona Featurette

A Garona featurette has been released! More movie reviews are out, with positive reviews from fans and mixed reviews from critics.

Vanilla Dungeon Objective XP Nerf

Originally Posted by Blizzard
(Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

What Id love to know is why this was done so stealthily.

I have no issues with 1-40 being harder, but why nerf BC and Wrath dungeon xp?

What's the basis for this claim? We didn't touch BC or Wrath dungeon experience.



One additional bullet point that should have been in yesterday's hotfix notes is that we did reduce the experience from the dungeon "scenario" objectives for Classic dungeons (levels 15-58). Those awards were new as of Warlords, but for low-level dungeons they were largely were redundant with the numerous quests available inside each dungeon. Dungeons are intended to be rewarding, and they still are, but zoning into Deadmines and completing ~5 quests, plus the kill experience for everything, plus a couple more quests' worth of experience from the dungeon objectives, was overkill. When we looked at low-level dungeons and tried to understand what had changed to make them so much more lucrative over time, that bonus objective experience immediately stood out.



There wasn't any intent to hide this change (it's not a subtle change, and obviously it was immediately noticed). There were a total of 8 different hotfixes rolled out over the past week or two as part of this entire plan, and that one just slipped through the cracks when we were writing up the documentation of the changes.

Blue Posts

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

PvP Gear Item Levels

Hey guys! Just want to correct the basis for this discussion.



Currently, what's going on with the ilvl for gear from rated PvP in Legion is: it's decided dynamically when it's rewarded to you, and that decision is based on your rating.



So while the lowest version of an item may be 870, it will have its ilvl increased to 880, 890, or 900 -- based on your rating. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)



Priest (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)

Discipline Priest -- Legion Beta Feedback

Thanks for all the feedback. To revisit something that we touched on back at Blizzcon, but perhaps haven't talked about since then: Discipline is the most complex healer to play in 7.0 by a wide margin, and is possibly the most advanced core rotation of any spec. We know this and are generally okay with it, even though we still want to manage it within reason. It is to some extent inevitable due to the mixture of DPS- and heal-type targeting that Disc has to frequently swap between, something that no other spec asks of you outside of specific talents. Also, Disc is intentionally positioned against Holy, which is one of the more accessible healers in 7.0.



Feedback from all players is still very useful for looking at potential skill-floor issues, but 7.0 Discipline is intended to be something you opt into if you are seeking out the mixed DPS/heal gameplay that it's built around. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Blue Tweets

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

What happened to the awesome class titles like Highlord that you got from completing the artifact quest in alpha?

Felt premature to award titles like those so quickly. They are now earned by completing your Class Order campaign. (WarcraftDevs)



The drop rate on the archi mount is being reduced on the pre xpac patch ?

No - Mythic Archimonde and Blackhand’s mounts will become rare drops when Legion launches. (WarcraftDevs)

Overwatch - Making of Giant Action Figures

As part of the release of Overwatch, three giant action figures were created. Mold3d has a nice writeup and pictures of what the process was like.

Read the Warcraft Movie Prequel—Durotan Available Now!

Originally Posted by Blizzard
(Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Prepare for the release of the Warcraft movie by reading the official prequel! Written by best-selling author Christie Golden, Durotan takes you into the heart of the Frostwolf Clan as they struggle to survive on a dying world.



In the world of Draenor, the strong and fiercely independent Frostwolf Clan are faced with increasingly harsh winters and thinning herds. When Gul’dan, a mysterious outsider, arrives in Frostfire Ridge offering word of new hunting lands, Durotan, the Clan’s chieftain, must make an impossible decision: abandon the territory, pride, and traditions of his people, or lead them into the unknown.

Pick up this tale of survival, conflict, and magic at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and many other fine booksellers.

Warcraft Movie Reviews

Collider and ETC News did a review of the Warcraft movie with some people who know about the game and those that don't.

MMO-Champion Forums Moderator Recruitment

Good news everyone! We're recruiting moderators for the forums again! The amount of users and posts keeps increasing and we reached the point where we need some help before the trolls take over and play Whack-a-Mod in the Darkmoon Faire. I know it sounds fun, but I'm going to assume we don't want that.



Please be sure to read the entire post before applying!

Warcraft Easter Eggs

There are lots of Easter eggs in WoW and this video covers just a few of them.

http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/572 ... aster-Eggs

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Oh my...

The acting and effects in this movie are terrible. What the hell.