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Reputation Rewards in Battle for Azeroth A breakdown of all reputation rewards that await in Battle for Azeroth including gear, toys, profession items, cosmetics, and more!

Prot Paladin and Disc Priest Chanes on BfA Beta

There are more changes coming to classes on the beta, and although none are as big and impactful as the Balance Druid rework, both Protection Paladins and Discipline Priests are getting quite a few changes soon.

With Paladins it's all about the core rotation and mitigation, with Consecration being at the heart of the changes, while Priests get a brand new talent, increasing their damage by a flat amount reduced by the number of Atonemets up at the time, as well as more talent reworks. Today at 05:22 by Starym

Heroic Uldir Boss Preview: Mythrax the Unraveler

Mythrax the Unraveler is the penultimate boss of Uldir and here's a video preview of the encounter by FatbossTV. Yesterday at 23:59 by Stan

An overview of all reputation rewards in Battle for Azeroth. Yesterday at 22:54 by Stan 1 comment

Alliance Warfronts Testing on Battle for Azeroth Beta: May 24

Play with the Blues returns Thursday, May 24 at 3:00 p.m. PDT on Battle for Azeroth Beta with Alliance Warfronts available for playtesting for the first time! Yesterday at 20:02 by Stan 1 comment

Overwatch Anniversary Event Buyers Guide

With hundreds of skins, emotes, and highlight intros available for purchase during Overwatch's anniversary event, your hard-earned credits will thank you for reading this buyers guide before spending 3000 credits on the first skin which catches your eye. Yesterday at 19:53 by Aleco 3 comments

If you're not a fan of playing huge Legendary minions every turn, then you may need to rethink your approach to Hearthstone. Yesterday at 16:32 by Aleco 3 comments

Artifact Appearance Availability in Battle for Azeroth

Blizzard decided not to remove the Keystone Master Artifact appearance in Battle for Azeroth. Yesterday at 14:17 by Stan 2 comments

New Earth Elemental Models in Battle for Azeroth

Blizzard has updated the game with new models of Elementals including Shaman's Earth Elemental. May 22, 2018 at 22:02 by Stan 10 comments

Reunion Digital Comic Focusing on Jaina out Now!

The start of Battle of Azeroth will be crucial to the story of the expansion itself, as many players seem uneasy about the story development that's been found out so far, with many "morally grey" memes and complaints of the Horde being the villains etc. floating around. So this new series of comics that will be arriving soon will be very important and need to set up the events leading to the war well.

Today we have the first one, focusing on Jaina and you can read the whole thing right now! May 22, 2018 at 19:12 by Starym 26 comments

The latest Heroes of the Storm patch includes Diablo/Lunara Hero reworks and Nexomania. Check out the full patch notes! May 22, 2018 at 17:22 by Stan 10 comments

The new event brings new patch notes and in addition to the new and old skins, old brawls etc., the patch brings the new Petra DM map, FFA Deathmatch, the Ana buffs and Brigitte and Hanzo nerfs from PTR, Rialto coming to competitive play, and a lot more! May 22, 2018 at 16:20 by Starym

The 2018 Overwatch Anniversay Event is Here!

Update: the patch notes have also arrived! Ana buffs, Brigitte and Hanzo nerfs and more.
Overwatch turns 2 today and there's a big three week long party here to celebrate it! We're getting a bunch of new and awesome skins (11 of them instead of the expected 10, including Sherlock McCree, Cybjorn, Magician Symmetra and more), a free legendary loot box, old skins and brawls available throughout the event and much more! May 22, 2018 at 15:42 by Starym 5 comments

New events for this week include Wrath Timewalking and the Glowcap Festival micro-holiday. May 22, 2018 at 11:51 by Stan

Official Battle for Azeroth Drustvar Zone Preview

And here we have the official preview for the Drustvar zone in Kul Tiras, with the focus being on the lore aspects and geography of the zone itself. A misty land of witchcraft and rituals, let's take a look at what looms ahead. May 21, 2018 at 18:35 by Starym 2 comments

The free Hero rotation has been updated for the week of May 22. May 21, 2018 at 12:22 by Stan 4 comments

New DM Map Preview, Stop Motion Short, New Skins

The reveal on yesterday's Overwatch league was a video of the new Petra Deathmatch map, but while everyone was expecting another skin preview from the anniversary event, we got something much better and most importantly, it was cake related: May 20, 2018 at 10:40 by Starym 2 comments

Blue Posts: Hanzos Storm Arrows to be Nerfed & More

We've rounded up some blue posts from the past couple of days on issues like Hanzo's Storm Arrows, changes to Horizon Lunar Colony, Symmetra's rework and the possibility of Winston buffs. May 19, 2018 at 15:46 by Zadina 2 comments

18 Character Slots Per Server in Battle for Azeroth

There's more alt space coming with Battle for Azeroth, as the character limit per server will go up by two, leaving the paltry 16 slots in the dust. May 18, 2018 at 23:36 by Starym 6 comments

It's that time again as there's a new season looming and the current one ends, with only 2 weeks left in Season 13! As usual there's a little break between them as everyone struggles to fit 2 entire stashes into one on the non-seasonal side of things and 14 starts on June 15th (which is just annoyingly confusing)! May 18, 2018 at 17:39 by Starym 9 comments

Heroes of the Storm Highlights are back with episode 109 of WTF Moments. May 18, 2018 at 14:14 by Stan 2 comments

The time has come for our beta key giveaway for the upcoming expansion, Battle for Azeroth! This post will have everything you need to not only enter the giveaway, but make sure that your entry has the best chance of winning one of the 75 keys we are giving out. May 18, 2018 at 12:07 by Blainie 48 comments

The Combat Medic and the Dark Prelate will be on sale next week for 375 Gems and Abyssal Deathbringer Sonya joins the fray for the first time! May 18, 2018 at 10:51 by Stan 2 comments

Balance Druids have been in a pretty bad place on the beta for a while now and were almost memed out of existence, but there's finally some good news as CM Seph responded to some detailed feedback on the class with a lengthy post explaining plans for the spec. New baseline passives, empowerments that are more significant to gameplay, new and changed talents and a lot of specific skill improvements all add up to make boomkins interesting to play again, so check out the detailed plans for the spec below and check out the recent talent changes. May 18, 2018 at 03:20 by Starym 11 comments

Get your games in with Cubelock and Even Paladin while you can! The upcoming balance patch will drop on the 22nd. May 18, 2018 at 01:23 by Aleco 4 comments

Mineral Madness returns as this week's brawl! The objective is to collect Minerals, gain access to special abilities and destroy the enemy Core on the single-lane Starcraft-themed battleground. Play three games to receive a Loot Chest. May 18, 2018 at 00:29 by Stan 1 comment

Environmental Changes in Battle for Azeroth Beta Build 26624

Battle for Azeroth Beta has been updated with phased versions of Tirisfal Glades and Darkshore, showing the aftermath of the Burning of Teldrassil and the Siege of Lordaeron. May 17, 2018 at 23:19 by Stan 2 comments

Before the Storm by Christie Golden is coming on June 12 and Amazon made a portion of the book available for preview. This article contains spoilers. May 17, 2018 at 21:22 by Stan 18 comments

A small patch has arrived featuring a few bug fixes for the UI and Versus, but we also got new maps for Season 2 that started recently and the new season also brought along a free name change! May 17, 2018 at 19:09 by Starym

In the latest episode of the Icy Veins Podcast, we discuss the recently announced Hearthstone nerfs, PvP ranks and talents in WoW, Nexomania, Hero reworks, the 2nd anniversary event in Overwatch, and more! May 17, 2018 at 18:34 by Stan

Heroes of the Storm Balance & Design AMA Roundup: May 16

The Heroes of the Storm development team answered your questions on reddit yesterday. May 17, 2018 at 14:12 by Stan 26 comments

Podcast #16

Dapper Gentlemen

Hearthstone

Nerfs for May, HCT decks
WoW

PvP ranking and talents, new Azerite traits
Heroes

Nexomania, Lunara and Diablo reworks, Sombra
Overwatch

Second anniversary event, Rialto map and Hanzo rework live, Pink Mercy
StarCraft 2

Balance changes for TvP

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WELCOME TO ICY VEINS!

On Icy Veins, you will find news and guides about your favorite Blizzard games:

class guides for World of Warcraft reviewed by top players and theorycrafters, as well as guides for transmogrification, events, quest lines, raids, etc.;
decks, arena spreadsheets for Hearthstone written by Pesty and L0rinda, as well as beginner guides and walkthroughs for new expansions;
barbarian builds, crusader builds, demon hunter builds, monk builds, witch doctor builds, wizard builds, and crafting/farming guides for Diablo 3 written by Deadset;
build guides for warrior, assassin, support, and specialist build guides for Heroes of the Storm written by KendricSwissh, Oxygen, Straften, and Micekrispies;
Overwatch guides for offense, heroes, support, and tank heroes, reviewed by top players.

CHANGELOG

23 May 2018: Elemental Shaman PvP
- Added an Arena Compositions section.
23 May 2018: Enhancement Shaman PvP
- Added an Arena Compositions section.
23 May 2018: Even Paladin Deck
- Guide updated following Call to Arms nerf in May balance patch.
23 May 2018: Lunara Abilities and Strategy
- Updated Lunara's abilities in accordance with her most recent rework.
23 May 2018: Lunara Talent Build
- Updated Lunara's talents in accordance with her most recent rework.
23 May 2018: Restoration Shaman PvP
- Added an Arena Compositions section.
23 May 2018: Survival Hunter Battle for Azeroth
- Added a full explanation of how Wildfire Bomb works.
22 May 2018: Beast Mastery Hunter Battle for Azeroth
- Aspect of the Beast only affects Basic Attacks, not auto attacks.

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