Monthly Archives: March 2023

Dragonflight: The 10.0.7 Content Update is Now Live!

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Journey Back to the Forbidden Reach for New Adventures!

Prepare to journey back to the Forbidden Reach for new adventures, collect two new Heritage Armor sets for the orcs and humans, embrace a new journey as a new goblin, Lightforged draenei, or worgen Monk, and more.

Return to the Forbidden Reach

With the defeat of Raszageth secured, a new opportunity to seek out and find answers about the dracthyr Evokers arises within the Forbidden Reach. This max-level experience introduces new bosses and objectives, additional storms, new loot, and more. Find out more about what is in store in our news article.

Embrace Your Orc or Human Legacy with New Heritage Armor Sets

Embrace your legacy with two new Heritage Armor sets—one for orcs and one for humans—with the release of the 10.0.7 content update. Read more on acquiring these new sets in our news article.

New Winterpelt Furbolg Faction

The Winterpelt furbolg speak a language no one seems to understand. Learn to understand and eventually speak their language as you help Sonova Snowden crack their peculiar dialect and earn their trust.

Start the “Academic Assistance” quest by accepting it in the Adventure Guide (Shift-J). This quest will become available after completing the “Winterpelt Hollow” and “Rustpine Den” quest chains in the Azure Span.

Players can access their language progress in the Spellbook (P).

The Monk Class Expands to New Races

In the 10.0.7 content update, the Monk class will be available to the goblin, Lightforged draenei, and worgen races.

New Quests: Baine’s Search

Mayla Highmountain is worried—Baine Bloodhoof has traveled to the Ohn’ahran Plains in search of an old friend who has gone missing but insisted on making the journey alone. Help Baine solve the mystery of the missing tauren — and come to terms with old hatreds — with the help of an unlikely ally. Speak to Mayla Highmountain in Valdrakken to begin your journey.

Recruit A Friend Refresh

All new rewards are arriving to the Recruit A Friend (RAF) program, letting you bring in new (and returning) friends to World of Warcraft. Stay tuned to the official site for more details when we get closer to launching the update. Learn more about the updated RAF program in our article here on the official site.

10.0.7 Development Notes

Learn more about class changes and updates, bug fixes, and more in our Development Notes.

Keep an eye on the official World of Warcraft news site for the official release date.

Visit the Official Site

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Diablo Immortal – Join the Sea Reavers

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Check Out the Latest Missive from Blizzard!

  • Feature Updates
  • Adventurer’s Path Limited-Time Event
  • Fractured Plane
  • Season 11 Battle Pass: Sea Reavers
  • Accursed Secrets Limited-Time Event
  • Hungering Moon
  • Contest of Knaves Cosmetic
  • Bug Fixes
  • Diablo Immortal Developer Q&A Series

Feature Updates

Armory Optimization

  • The Armory will now allow players to choose whether to save specific items to Loadouts in addition to other properties (Legendary Essence, Legendary Gems, Bonus Attributes, Paragon Tree, and Skills). This change is being made to amend a bug that occurred when players would attempt to sell or disenchant an item that was saved within a Loadout.
  • A new Checkbox feature has been added to the Armory UI, allowing players to toggle whether specific equipment is saved to a Loadout. Players can check the box to save only properties or leave the box unchecked to maintain current Armory functionality.

Developer’s Note: Prior to this change, the process to alter saved loadouts was convoluted. We wanted to not only optimize this feature but make it operate in a fashion that best supported how players play. Now, it will be much more convenient for players to retain their builds as they incorporate new, more powerful items into them.

Telluric Pearls Crafting Streamlining

If you have previously visited the Gem-Binder in an Elder Rift, you can now craft Legendary Gems with Telluric Pearls directly at the Apprentice Jeweler via the Telluric Craft tab. Players will still need 40 Telluric Pearls to craft a Legendary Gem.

Helliquary Raid Notification Settings

Through community feedback, it was brought to our attention that receiving multiple Helliquary Raid invites at once hides pertinent gameplay information from the player. Now, when a player receives multiple notifications at once, an indicator will point to an option in the Settings menu that allows players to opt out of Helliquary Raid invitations until the next reset.

Hilts Trader Refresh Indicator

A timer has been added to the Hilts Trader’s shop menu to indicate when their stock will refresh.

Developer’s Note: We realized it was difficult to predict when the Hilts Trader’s inventory would refresh. We wanted to make this information more apparent to save players’ time.

Defend the Vault Queue

The queuing system for the Immortal team in Defend the Vault will now prioritize alerting a team near the front of the queue who has similar strength to a corresponding Shadow Raid. If no proper match is available, then the queue will continue as it previously did and alert the Immortal team closest to the front of the queue.

Adventurer’s Path Limited-Time Event

In Sanctuary few are capable enough to stand against the darkness and wager their life for the defenseless. But you, adventurer, have consigned your days to thinning out the ranks of the Burning Hells, ushering in safety where all hope was once lost. The downtrodden look up to you, and to continue serving them, you must walk the Adventurer’s Path.

From March 8, 3:00 a.m.–March 16, 2:59 a.m. server time, as you complete Adventurer’s Path tasks, you’ll earn gold, enchanted dust, and scrap materials for your heroics. Racking up enough completed tasks will also unlock these milestone rewards for you:

  • Upon completion of 3 tasks: 1 Random Legendary Item
  • Upon completion of 5 tasks: 3 Rare Crests
  • Upon completion of 16 tasks: 1 Telluric Pearl
  • Upon completion of 20 tasks: 1 Legendary Crest

Fractured Plane

In a place like Sanctuary, even those with the utmost mental fortitude can find themselves lost to the unrelenting darkness spread by the Burning Hells. Broken. Shattered. Trapped in the deepest recesses of their mind. Entering the Fractured Plane is the only way forward.

The Fractured Plane is a limited-time event where players enter an unexplored realm of their existence. A 15-floor gauntlet awaits, inhabited by the fiercest minions the Hells can throw your way. Your journey in the Fractured Plane begins without your usual gear, gems, and skills. Instead, you will be provided with a set of pre-selected skills for your class. To advance, you must rely solely on your wits, unstable gear you find, and the Chaos Coins you receive from progressing through hordes of demons. Best of all, only unstable gear of Legendary rarity will drop in the Fractured Plane, and items you receive will complement the skills you begin with, equipping you with the ability to make, and tweak, your build on the fly. When your journey in the Fractured Plane is over, all the unstable gear you’ve collected will vanish.

The Chaos Coins you earn will also come to your aid—at the Chaos Broker, you can exchange Chaos Coins for new items or Shards of Fortune. These shards will increase your Fortune Rating, providing a greater chance of receiving higher-quality Legendary items from chests on each floor. If you’re resourceful enough to make it to the fifteenth floor without dying more than five times, you’ll receive a reward. Out of all the Legendary items you’ve encountered during your run, select six, and out of those six, you will be rewarded one at random for you to carry out of the Fractured Plane.

Begin your journey towards mental appeasement—the Fractured Plane is available from March 16, 3:00 a.m.–April 6, 2:59 a.m. server time.

Season 11 Battle Pass: Sea Reavers

“Those who sail Sanctuary’s harsh oceans are mad through and through, yet no sanitarium can ever hold them.”
-Westmarch Nautical Scholar

Embrace the salt-scrubbed life of Sea Reavers, a new Battle Pass devoted to exploring Sanctuary’s high seas. The Season 11 Battle Pass emerges on March 16, at 3:00 a.m. server time. This Battle Pass hosts 40 ranks worth of challenges and rewards, such as Legendary Gems, Crests, Hilts, and more.

This Battle Pass will sink back to the seafloor on April 13, at 2:59 a.m. server time—begin slaying demons and climbing your way through the ranks today!

Accursed Secrets Limited-Time Event

Sturdy adventurers, capable and strong, have begun to recently visit the gulf’s shoreline in a mysterious ritual. Their exact destination is unknown but the direction they’re travelling in suggests somewhere to the northwest. While many souls have departed from the shore. . .few have returned, and of those few, it was too late to mend what remained of them. Oh, the accursed secrets we find ourselves bound to.

Beginning at Level 20, adventurers can uncover the Accursed Secrets buried deep beneath the shifting sands and receive rewards by logging in on specific days:

  • March 24: 3 Rare Crests
  • March 26: 1 Telluric Pearl
  • March 30: 1 Legendary Crest

Emissaries dispatched by the Burning Hells desire the secret knowledge you will soon possess. During the Accursed Secrets event, dispatch Cursed Elite monsters daily to receive additional rewards for keeping your knowledge safe. Plus, adventurers Level 30 and higher will receive 100% additional Battle Pass experience while the Accursed Secrets event is running.

Hungering Moon Limited-Time Event

Feeling underfed, the moon demands sustenance, providing you with an upcoming opportunity to sate its seemingly endless appetite for blood in this new version of Hungering Moon!

The moonlit path you’ll take to heed your lunar overlord’s howl for sustenance is ready to be travelled. Players can complete up to three tasks a day four times starting March 30, 3 a.m.–April 6, 2:59 a.m. server time. Through completing tasks, you’ll gain Astrolabe Power—the power can be used to draw one of two types of blessings with unique benefits from the Astrolabe.

Drawing a  Blessing of More will give you a 50% bonus to gold drops from dungeons or a 10% damage increase while in dungeons for a limited-time, handy for combating the monsters lurking about and adding extra heft to your coin purse. Each Blessing of More will supply you with 5 Moonslivers after using it.

Drawing a Blessing of Might invites you to complete any dungeon in exchange for Moonslivers, and if you complete the dungeon with a party, twice the amount of Moonslivers shall be bestowed upon you. The moon is a generous entity, so you may have one of each Blessing active at a time.

Once you’ve racked up a handful of Moonslivers by purging demonic hordes from dungeons, visit the Hermit’s Collection located within the Hungering Moon event page to trade your Moonslivers for lunar-laced rewards of your choice. Be sure to collect and use 12 blessings in total to earn The Moon’s Regard—a bounty of 90 bonus Moonslivers meant for the most exemplary devotees.

Brimming with generosity, the moon will also reward you with the below materials if you collect the listed amount of Moonslivers during the event’s duration. No Moonslivers need to be spent to acquire the materials.

  • 10 Moonslivers: 3 Rare Crests
  • 50 Moonslivers: 1 random Set Item
  • 130 Moonslivers: 1 Telluric Pearl
  • 230 Moonslivers: 1 Legendary Crest

Can you satisfy the moon’s hunger before the long night wanes?

Contest of Knaves Cosmetic

Sanctuary’s martial tournaments are a revered bloodsport. Fighting with honor in a match elicits silence, even booing from the crowd, for they revel in fatal, head-rattling blows. Victory at all costs is the only rule of this barbaric contest.

Uphold the gentry’s traditions—the Contest of Knaves Standard Cosmetic Set is available in the in-game shop for 1,000 Eternal Orbs.

Bug Fixes

Looking for the newest round of hotfixes and bug fixes implemented for Diablo Immortal? Check here for all-platform fixes and our known issues blog for PC-specific fixes.

Diablo Immortal Developer Q&A Series

Have questions about Diablo Immortal? We have answers. Check out our Diablo Immortal Developer Q&A series for answers to some of the community’s burning questions about the game. We will post a new set of questions and answers periodically.

We’ll see you in Sanctuary!
-The Diablo Immortal Team

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MineCraft – Java Edition 1.19.4 Released

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What’s New This Time?

MineCraft developers have now released 1.19.4 for Minecraft: Java Edition. This release came with improvements to horse breeding and jukeboxes, new visuals for potions, new accessibility features and many new technical capabilities like the damage and ride commands and display and interaction entities.

The update_1_20 experiment has also been updated with a first look at the Sniffer, Archaeology, Armor Trims and Cherry Grove features.

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Changes

  • Updated Horse Breeding
  • Jukeboxes have changed to be at parity with Bedrock
  • Interacting with armor or elytra items in-hand will now swap them with equipped gear
  • The camera tilt when hurt is now based on the direction of incoming damage
  • Potions colors have been adjusted to make different types of potions more distinguishable
  • Potions no longer have an enchantment glint due to it obscuring the color of the potion contents
  • Enchantment glint on items and armor is now more subtle
  • Armor Stands now preserve custom names when placed and broken
  • Vexes now use a separate charging animation when empty-handed
  • Tweaks to recipe unlocking to make discovering vital crafting recipes easier for new players
  • Updated the Create New World screen
  • New accessibility options and improvements
  • Updated the Realms screen to be more in line with the Singleplayer and Multiplayer screens
  • Added a notification system for Realms to tell you about important information about your Realm
  • Added “Credits & Attribution” button in the Options menu

Horses, Donkeys and Llamas

The speed, jump height and health of a baby is now a variation of the average of the parents’ attributes, rather than being biased towards the average possible value.

This change makes horse breeding a viable way of getting great horses, if a player starts with good parents and puts in enough time and Golden Carrots.

Jukebox

  • Emits a note particle above it while playing a music disc
  • While playing a music disc, it will emit a redstone signal of 15
  • Droppers and hoppers can now interact with it

Creative menu

  • Added painting variants to the creative menu
  • Paintings with a pre-defined variant will now display the author and title in the item description when hovered over

Recipe unlocking

  • The Crafting Table recipe is unlocked immediately on creating a new world
  • The Crossbow recipe is no longer unlocked by sticks
  • The Soul Campfire recipe is no longer unlocked by sticks

Updated Create New World Screen

  • The screen is now organized into three tabs
    • The Game-Tab allows to set the world name, Gamemode, Difficulty and whether to allow cheats
    • The World-Tab allows to set the World-Type and Seed, and to toggle the generation of structures and the bonus chest
    • The More-Tab provides access to the Game Rules and DataPack Selection Screen
  • Tabs can be switched with the keyboard by pressing Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab
  • Specific tabs can also be navigated to by pressing Ctrl+Tab Number
    • For example, Ctrl+2 navigates to the second tab
  • Removed the Import Settings button and the corresponding Export Settings button in the Edit World Screen
  • Added a screen to easily enable/disable experimental features
    • The screen can always be found under the More-tab
    • In snapshots, a shortcut button can be found under the Game-tab

Accessibility

  • Added an accessibility onboarding screen for players launching the game for the first time
  • Auto-Jump is now off by default
  • Added arrow key navigation
  • Added high contrast resource pack
  • The resource pack screen is now keyboard-navigatable
  • Changed how tooltips in the menu UI are positioned so buttons are still readable
  • Added a tooltip in the key binds screen that specifies which key binds are conflicting
  • Added a “Damage Tilt” accessibility option that controls the amount the camera shakes when being hurt
  • Added two new options in the accessibility menu for adjusting the speed and transparency of enchantment glints
  • Added a “Notification Time” accessibility option that changes how long notifications such as unlocked recipes, advancements, subtitles and selected item names are visible for

Arrow key navigation

  • Menu screens can now be navigated by using the arrow keys
  • When navigating with arrow keys, sliders need to be activated by pressing Enter or Space to start changing the value

High contrast resource pack

  • Added a built-in resource pack that enhances the contrast of UI elements
  • Added a new option in the Accessibility menu that enables the high contrast resource pack
  • This only affects the menu UIs for now, but we’ll be looking to bring this to gameplay UIs in the future as well

Technical Changes

  • The data pack version is now 12
  • The resource pack version is now 13
  • Added a group of entities to display items, blocks and text
  • Added entities to detect interactions and attacks
  • Added data-driven damage types
  • Added a damage command for applying damage to entities
  • Added ride command to mount and dismount entities
  • The clone command now supports cloning to and from different dimensions
  • A new string source is now available for the data modify command
  • New execute sub-commands: if dimension, if loaded, on, positioned over, summon
  • Added a new type of atlas configuration source: paletted_permutations
  • Pressing F3+S will now dump contents of dynamic textures (like atlases, maps, etc.) to screenshots/debug/
  • Added fallback fields to translate text components
  • Out-of-bound arguments in translate formats are no longer silently ignored
  • Added the following game events:
    • entity_dismount with a vibration frequency of 6
    • entity_mount with a vibration frequency of 7
  • Changed the following game events:
    • item_interact_finish now has a vibration frequency of 2 instead of 14
  • Removed heldItemTooltips option from options.txt
  • Added a network protocol feature for forcing bundle of packets to be processed within same client tick
  • Added –pidFile argument to dedicated server command line for printing process id to file
  • The vanilla resource pack en_us language file is now sorted alphanumerically by key
  • Added show_notification field to recipes
    • Accepts a boolean which determines if a notification is shown when unlocking this recipe
    • defaults to true if isn’t specified
  • A new recipe type smithing_transform has been added for the updated Netherite Upgrade recipe
  • A new recipe type smithing_trim has been added for the new Armor Trim recipe
  • A new recipe type crafting_decorated_pot has been added for the new Decorated Pot recipe
  • New registries trim_pattern and trim_material have been added for the armor trim system
  • Smithing table has temporarily two menu types
    • Old menu without Smithing Template slot has been renamed to legacy_smithing
      • Will be removed when Armor Trim feature stops being an experimental feature
    • New menu with Smithing Template slot was added called smithing
  • Added new flag (value 128) to HideFlags NBT field for hiding armor trim item tooltips

Resource Pack format

  • The enchantment glint now has two separate texture files: enchanted_glint_entity.png and enchanted_glint_item.png
  • The texture format used to dynamically scale buttons and sliders has been updated to always include fixed 20px borders on the left and right
  • Slider textures are now defined in a separate slider.png file
  • The Create New World screen now uses a separate light_dirt_background.png for its background, unlike other screens

Still Want More?

To see more information, mainly about the core coding and command options, and experimental content, please visit: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-java-edition-1-19-4

EVE Online – Become one with the fabric of New Eden!

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Become Imortalised in the 20th-anniversary Celebrations!

Capsuleers, the time has come to start celebrating! 

As part of EVE Online’s 20th-anniversary celebrations, we want to pay tribute to the EVE community and its capsuleers by composing an amazing mosaic! The characters you have created, the stories you have lived, and the communities you have built form the fabric of New Eden and the universe which players enjoy today. Starting today you all have the opportunity to add your character portrait to the mosaic, whether you are an Alpha or Omega capsuleer.

To immortalize your character on the mosaic, you will need to log into EVE Online and complete three daily challenges between 2 March and 22 March. These challenges will alternate between the Skilling Spree, Mining Blitz, and Skillers in the Abyss. The opportunity to add your avatar to this historic tapestry is not to be missed and will be a piece of cake for a capsuleer! Those of you that successfully complete the challenges and qualify for the mosaic will receive an email confirmation within a few days, but make sure you are subscribed to the email list to see it.

Inspired by the stellar works of Chribba and Razorien, the mosaic kicks off the 20th-anniversary celebrations. With the mosaic due to be revealed in May, you will be able to find your character portrait on the mosaic online, as well seeing it in its full glory at EVE Fanfest 2023.

This is just the beginning, with many more special moments yet to come such as celebrating capsuleers’ impact on New Eden, Capsuleer Day in May, Fanfest 2023 – which promises to be the birthday bash of the century – and even more throughout the year.

See you in space, on the mosaic, and at Fanfest 2023!

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