Tag: World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft: Midnight player proves that you only need a single button and a clever build to heal your dungeon party

One Button Holy Paladin Guide | SBA Healer Build for WoW Midnight – YouTube Watch On A feature that a lot of players might overlook in World of Warcraft: Midnight is Blizzard’s new single-button assistant. It’s basically a way to play any class in the game by pressing one button as it cycles through various […]

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A 9,999,999 gold painting in World of Warcraft: Midnight sent secret finders on a hunt for the ultimate discount and one thrifty player finally figured it out

How to get the “Shu’halo Perspective” Painting without paying 9,999,999 gold! #wowhousing #wow – YouTube Watch On When World of Warcraft: Midnight players saw an NPC with an expensive painting for sale, they took it as a challenge. Blizzard developers love to sneak in secrets for people to try to solve and a 9,999,999 gold […]

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WoW dev was surprised that players ‘like being jumped’ by the upcoming Prey system—even on its hardest difficulty, where ‘going AFK might get you killed’

One of the features of World of Warcraft: Midnight I’m the most excited for is Prey. In case you’re unfamiliar, Prey is a system (that you have to sign up for) which will ambush you with a specific boss enemy you’re hunting while you’re out in the open world, eventually leading to a 1v1 when […]

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World of Warcraft: Midnight’s lack of combat addons lets the devs make raids harder without resorting to ‘shoot more bullets at you’ design, says encounter lead

World of Warcraft: Midnight is a singular expansion in the game’s 20+ year lifespan, in that it’ll be the first of its kind to not feature combat addons after Blizzard took an axe to them in its pre-patch. To compensate, a lot of the game’s classes were redesigned, since they’d been built under the assumption […]

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WoW’s revisiting old zones for Midnight and The Last Titan because not every story ‘has to be told within the context of a new continent’

World of Warcraft: Midnight‘s doing some interesting stuff—reimagining zones from The Burning Crusade which (sorry) came out in 2007 (so sorry) which was almost 20 whole years ago (I really am sorry). That’s only a couple years shy of being able to drink in the US. But that’s not where Blizzard’s stopping. It’s tackling Northrend […]

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Ah yikes, World of Warcraft: Midnight’s otherwise solid housing system is soured by its premium currency, which makes you ‘minimize leftovers’ even though Blizzard said it wouldn’t

I want to say something at the top of this—I still think World of Warcraft: Midnight’s player housing system is very, very good. That’s not just to soften the blow of the microtransaction analysis I’m about to hammer Blizzard with, if player housing sucked I’d say that. But the bones are really solid. You’ve got […]

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WoW’s recent revamp of Silvermoon for Midnight is so good, I’m starting to wonder if the MMO’s model of a ‘new exciting continent every 2-3 years’ was ever the right way

Terminally Online (Image credit: Future) This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMO column. Every other week, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we’ve all taken for granted, and, occasionally, bringing in guest writers to talk about their MMO of choice. World […]

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Here’s when World of Warcraft: Midnight launches in your time zone

World of Warcraft’s newest expansion, Midnight, is almost upon us, and it is a big one. Huge overhauls including the culling of most combat addons, your expansion-standard class changes (and a bunch of not-expansion-standard specialisation redesign), the introduction of player housing (I can’t believe this game didn’t have it for over 20 years!), and the […]

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WoW: Midnight’s new Prey mechanic is the coolest system the MMO’s added in a while, but it needs to be meaner—even on lower difficulties

One of World of Warcraft: Midnight’s biggest flagship features, Prey, is now fully in the game alongside the release of the expansion—it’s one I’ve been looking forward to for a while, since the prospect of getting ambushed in the open world while trying to get my dailies ticked off seemed just the ticket to keep […]

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‘The Light really did call EVERYBODY’: players find Leeory Jenkins, complete with his cloth shoulderpads, defending the Sunwell in World of Warcraft: Midnight

World of Warcraft: Midnight’s opening minutes throw you right in at the deep end, seeing you defending the Sunwell in a direct continuation of the expansion’s trailer—alongside a host of paladin and priest cameos. It’s a really neat moment, honestly—Blizzard’s seriously tapped into the well of named NPCs here. It’s a veritable feast if you’re […]

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An inaccessible zone in World of Warcraft: Midnight has players convinced it’s a clue for the next update

Blizzard is always fighting a quiet war with World of Warcraft dataminers who scoop info out of the game files that they aren’t always supposed to see yet. These days, the discoveries are relatively minor, but they can still hint at future updates that haven’t been announced yet. During the alpha and beta testing period […]

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World of Warcraft players are once again slaying hundreds of frogs, this time to skin their hides before Blizzard catches them

Here we go again: World of Warcraft has yet another frog problem. This time, players have found a spot in the new Midnight expansion where the frogs won’t stop spawning. Unlike the previous frog exploit in Mists of Pandaria: Remix, these amphibians don’t drop any valuable loot. They do, however, have hides worth skinning at […]

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World of Warcraft: Midnight’s lead composer feels ‘very lucky and happy that we’re not using generative AI’

Generative AI has been showing up in games so often these days that I don’t know who to trust anymore. It seems like every day there’s another game studio or publisher plaguing their games with more gen AI voice acting, gen AI chat bots, or gen AI art. Blizzard developers, however, have come out against […]

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‘Sorry I can’t hear you over the roar of the Sunwell’: World of Warcraft players beg Blizzard to turn the volume down on the giant crackling beam in the sky

World of Warcraft: Midnight is the first time players have had a real reason to return to the elven city of Silvermoon since it was released in 2007. Many players, including me, find the expanded version to be a beautiful update to an iconic location in Azeroth. We also all agree that Blizzard needs to […]

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World of Warcraft: Midnight’s ‘stay a while and listen’ monologues might’ve just heavily hinted at a future big bad

I’m still plugging through World of Warcraft: Midnight‘s story campaign, and I can say for a fact that Blizzard’s continued to improve its storytelling—in particular, I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the “stay a while and listen” conversations. Optional snippets which I’d absolutely encourage you to absorb whenever they come up. Carving my way through the […]

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WoW’s new allied race in Midnight, the Haranir, has a model clipping issue with dozens of gear items—a problem that’s been on the PTR for months

World of Warcraft‘s latest allied race, the Haranir, have hit the live servers—arriving in the game with Midnight, you can grab them as long as you’ve finished the main questline for Harandar. They’re essentially a blend between trolls and elves, and from a first glance, they look great—plenty of customisation options, lovely design, bang-up job […]

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World of Warcraft: Midnight players found an empty campsite that references 2019’s planet-hopping puzzler Outer Wilds

At the edge of the world in a World of Warcraft: Midnight zone consumed by overwhelming darkness is an abandoned campsite. That campsite, as Reddit user Ban_Annerz realized, isn’t just any campsite; it’s a reference to the 2019 space exploration puzzle game Outer Wilds. For anyone just jumping into Midnight or taking their time leveling […]

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