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Database Blue Tracker Wiki Talent Calc Videos Build of the Month Premium Recent Blue Posts 2 days ago Hotfixes: July 17, 2020 2 days ago Hotfixes: July 17, 2020 2 days ago GM banned a world buff dispeller for 6 months because of his streamer getting dispelled 2 days ago Is dispelling World Buffs now bannable? 2 days ago Addons Now Usable in Shadowlands Beta 2 days ago Beta Servers down? 2 days ago Realm Connections -- July 23 Go to Blue Tracker » Recent Forum Posts 08:40 PM A time skip in 10.0 would make Tinkers possible. 08:19 PM Min/Maxing and Exclusivity: Idealism vs Realism 07:59 PM Which expansion was the absolute worst? 07:38 PM How to sign up for Shadowlands Beta, No Beta Keys Reminder, DLC #733 07:26 PM Why do u play Horde 07:23 PM Preach Interview with Ion Hazzikostas 07:17 PM Realm Connections During Next Maintenance Go to Forums » Forum Filters World of Warcraft News and Raiding Strategies How to sign up for Shadowlands Beta, No Beta Keys Reminder, DLC #733 by Lumy View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message View Started Threads Published on 2020-07-18 04:57 AM Preach Interview with Ion Hazzikostas How to sign up for Shadowlands Beta With Shadowlands Beta going live this week, it's a good time to remind people how to sign up for the Shadowlands Beta. Simply go on the Shadowlands Website , log in into your account and click on the "Opt-In Now" button. Originally Posted by Blizzard ( Blue Tracker ) To put your name into the pool of candidates interested in beta testing for Shadowlands, sign up on the Shadowlands home page using the Beta Opt-In link at the top of the page. Signing up for beta does not guarantee you will be chosen to participate, but players who have not signed up to indicate interest cannot be chosen. Customer Support is not able to provide access to beta. No Beta Keys Reminder Originally Posted by Blizzard ( Blue Tracker / Official Forums ) As in previous expansion tests, Blizzard is not currently granting test access to the Shadowlands Beta via any sort of exchangeable key or code. At this time, do not trust any offer of Shadowlands Beta access that comes from any source other than Blizzard. If you’d like to join us in testing Shadowlands, all you need to do is opt in to become a tester . Players who have opted-in can be selected to be a tester, and invitations will go out regularly throughout the test. Addons Now Usable in Shadowlands Beta Originally Posted by Blizzard ( Blue Tracker / Official Forums ) With the latest build of the Shadowlands Beta, addons are now enabled for use. Beta testers who have been in-game will need to exit the game and update their client to the latest version (build 35213) in order to test addons. Dark Legacy Comics #733 DLC #733 has been released. Tweet 33 Comments WoW Patch Hotfixes - July 17, 2020 by Lumy View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message View Started Threads Published on 2020-07-18 01:32 AM WoW Patch Hotfixes - July 17, 2020 Originally Posted by Blizzard ( Blue Tracker / Official Forums ) WoW Classic Casting animations should no longer break when briefly pausing in between spell casts. Using Sap on Overlord Runthak, Major Mattingly, or Field Marshal Afrasiabi during their event dialogue no longer prevents the Rallying Cry of the Dragonslayer buff from being applied. [With regional restarts] Resolved some issues that could prevent Tyrion from offering quests. Tweet 0 Comments Preach Interview with Ion Hazzikostas by Stoy View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message View Started Threads Published on 2020-07-17 04:54 PM Preach Interview with Ion Hazzikostas Preach interviewed Ion Hazzikostas today! This interview was a good debate. Be sure to check out the full discussion for a lot of valid points about the Covenant system. The reason the team decided for a permanent Covenant choice that can't be easily changed is because they want to give players a more "identity" choice over just "loadout" choices. This is a core mechanic of RPGs. They want to make the Covenant choice a difficult, but informed, decision. The consequence of the choice is much more drastic for players whose play style emphasizes player power. Ion mentions being open to having a scenario to test out the other covenant abilities be available to players even after committing to a covenant. Ultimately the decision comes down to balance. Ion mentions committing to spec at the beginning of Legion was a more impactful decision than anything in Shadowlands as it determined your legendaries. There was problems with this, but it was way more weightier than the covenant decision. The team wants to make sure the gaps between the abilities are never too large and there are scenarios where each one is useful. They want to give players more to differentiate themselves in content other than pressing their buttons harder than someone else of the same class. Ion agrees that random procs are needed, but should not influence gameplay as much as they do now. They want you to feel like you influenced how well you did in an encounter. This is different from choices made before an encounter, however. The core of RPGs is about choices that make you unique from others of the same class. The team has stripped away a lot of unique choices to differentiate each other from members of the same class, and this is them trying to bring some of that choice back. Ion relates it to choices in previous expansions. A warrior that chose to make all of their choices around being a tank would probably take less damage, but they would be less versatile to the warrior who focused on also being able to fill an off-tank role. Blizzard is giving these systems to players much earlier than azerite so that they can iterate on it now. When a pug leaders asks if you are a certain spec over another, they can make associations about you as a player as that choice is easily changeable. Ion argues that when the choice is not easily changed, pug leaders can't necessarily judge your performance based on that choice. Ion argues that having different solutions to problems is impactful. Strength and weaknesses should take into account more than just pure output. It is the team's goal to make sure that your covenant choice isn't going to have a huge impact on interactions with other players and getting into groups. They want to get as much feedback during the beta as possible so they can iterate on the abilities and fix outliers and situations that could cause problems. The team thinks the player power portion of the covenant choice is a meaningful decision. There is a fallback option to remove these restrictions and allow free change, but this is a last recourse. Ion announced that destructible Conduits are a recipe for frustration. They are trying to think of some middle ground to make the decision of what ones to use semi-permanent and not have it be taxing to swap them out on each encounter. They will not be going live with the destructible conduits as they are now, but don't have a change to announce yet. It is still being discussed. Every week until beta ends there will be additional beta invites. Tweet 440 Comments Rea...