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No Heroes Esports in 2019 J. Allen Brack and Ray Gresko announced there will be no HGC or Heroes of the Dorm in 2019.

We're back to daily hotfixes, as expected of the immediate post-patch period, with today's batch focusing on PvP, with Alterac Valley GY spawn fixes as well as DK, Priest and Warlock tweaks. In the quests department we're seeing a fan favorite bug go that's generated many a post on reddit, namely there won't be any more clone Anduins, Velens and Genns in the War room. It's a shame, but at least the Alliance doesn't have that clone leader advantage anymore so it was clearly a much needed faction balance change. There was also a fix for repeatable quests, some of which weren't resetting properly, as well as the now standard World Quest fix section. Today at 03:48 by Starym 1 comment

Heroes of the Storm Hotfixes: December 13

A new hotfix patch went live with fixes for talents and abilities that failed to restore Mana and a Volskaya Foundry Support camp bug. Today at 00:50 by Stan

Heroes Global Championship and Heroes of the Dorm will not return in 2019. Today at 00:32 by Stan 24 comments

Weekly Brawl - Snow Brawl: December 14th

Throw snowballs at your opponents on Cursed Hollow and destroy the enemy Core in this week's Snow Brawl. Complete three matches to earn a Loot Chest. Yesterday at 23:20 by Stan

It's fluffy, foxy and white, with some wings to boot. The latest 25$ store mount is the Vulpine Familiar and they're apparently "fiercely intelligent and insatiably curious", whatever that means for a WoW mount. It has a blue saddle and is vaguely horse-shaped, so it should be on the side of the Alliance, but they don't like the Vulpera much, so it's a conflicted mount to say the least. Yesterday at 18:26 by Starym 8 comments

The single-player adventure, introduced along with the Rastakhan's Rumble expansion, is now available in all regions. Yesterday at 18:10 by Zadina

This new Tavern Brawl features the deck recipes from Rastakhan's Rumble. Yesterday at 14:02 by Zadina 2 comments

Blizzard World Disabled Everywhere Except Arcade

It seems we're not getting the holiday spirit over at Blizzard World after all, as some issues had come up that have forced Blizz to disable the map. It seems players weren't able to leave the spawn area of the map, which is somewhat problematic in pretty much all game modes, especially since there's no basketball hoop or ball to pass the time in there. Yesterday at 06:14 by Starym

Here comes the big one, as yesterday's hotfixes were just a warmup and today we have the main event. We have the profession high item level requirements change from yesterday reverted, Expulsom tweaks for recipes, returning Scouting Maps, another big wave of Azerite Trait changes this time in PvE, while PvP gets a whole lot of class changes and fixes. Yesterday at 03:38 by Starym 1 comment

It's podcast time and in the latest episode, we discuss the community dissatisfaction with Battle for Azeroth, compare Legion's Artifacts to the new Azerite system, and more. Tune in to Winter Patches Galore for your daily dose of Blizzard news! Dec 12, 2018 at 20:58 by Stan

An overview of new food added in Tides of Vengeance. Dec 12, 2018 at 20:35 by Stan 2 comments

Artifact Power Catchup Disabled Until January 22nd

At Battle of Azeroth launch, Blizzard introduced an Artifact Power catchup mechanism that reduced the amount of Artifact Power required to level up the Heart of Azeroth. The catchup mechanism has been disabled on 8.1 launch and will be re-enabled when the new raid opens on January 22. Dec 12, 2018 at 18:13 by Stan 8 comments

Item Level 385 Crafted Gear Now Requires the Profession to Equip in Patch 8.1

Redditor Makesmashgreatagain noticed after 8.1 went live that ilvl 385 crafted items no longer work if you abandoned the profession used to craft them. Dec 12, 2018 at 16:04 by Stan 5 comments

Events for this week include Tides of Vengeance launch, Battleground Bonus Event, new affixes, new War Campaign chapters, and more. Dec 12, 2018 at 13:23 by Stan

Blizzard posted a a list of known Patch 8.1 issues that will be fixed in future hotfixes. Dec 12, 2018 at 12:34 by Stan 4 comments

Blizzard updated the folder strucure in Tides of Vengeance and it seems that retail is going to share assets with PTR versions of the game resulting in less download for future updates. Dec 12, 2018 at 11:57 by Stan 3 comments

Class Guides for World of Warcraft Patch 8.1

Tides of Vengeance is now live worldwide and all our guides have been updated for the first major Battle for Azeroth content patch. Dec 12, 2018 at 11:19 by Stan

Here come the inaugural hotfixes of Tides of Vengeance! We have the Spirit Mend fix for BM Hunters that was previously tweeted, a big nerf for Synaptic Spark Capacitor Azerite Trait and a whole lot more trait nerfs in PvP. We also get some profession tweaks, with cooking being the focus, stamina food in particular. Dec 12, 2018 at 01:46 by Starym

8.1: Tides of Vengeance Is Now Live in the Americas

8.1 has arrived (in the Americas anyway) and Blizzard have a post with everything that's arrived and is yet to arrive in the latest Battle for Azeroth patch. We've seem a lot of this before, but there's a new trailer in there as well! If you want to know even more about the patch you can check out our own coverage: Dec 11, 2018 at 22:18 by Starym 3 comments

Live Patch Notes: Dec 11 - Brigitte, Doomfist, McCree and Torbjorn Changes, Winter Wonderland and More

While Winter Wonderland may be the big thing in this patch, some of the implemented Hero changes are almost as big - Brigitte gets a whole lot of changes, especially to Shield Bash, with its damage basically being removed and it no longer going through barriers; McCree gets a buff to his alt fire, which used to be very overpowered and problematic back at the start of Overwatch; Doomfist gets a whole bunch of changes as well; Ashe, Bastion and Torbjorn are also getting some tuning, but it's relatively minor compared to the three mentioned above. The rest of the patch holds just a very, very big amount of bug fixes so, enjoy: Dec 11, 2018 at 19:52 by Starym

Winter Wonderland Is Here! Skins, Maps and More

The seasonal event is here and we have snow and holiday decorations everywhere! In addition to the usual new holiday cosmetics added we have Blizzard World, Black Forest, King's Row and Hanamura all decked out with holiday cheer, as well as the two modes from last year making a comeback. There's also a new Hammond Highlight Intro and Torbjorn and Genji emotes, in addition to the new skins!

For the full patch notes, including major Brigitte and Doomfist changes, significant McCree and Torbjorn changes and a whole lot more, head on over here. Dec 11, 2018 at 19:37 by Starym

Blaze and Tracer will be on sale next week with Sapper Junkrat and the STORM Strider mount! Dec 11, 2018 at 19:11 by Stan 2 comments

Heroes of the Storm Patch Notes: December 11th

After a week of testing on Public Test Realms, the latest patch with Sylvanas and Stitches reworks is now live. Dec 11, 2018 at 19:04 by Stan 8 comments

Four More Winter Wonderland Skins Revealed

Winter is coming to Overwatch later today and we have 4 more skin reveals from the past few days, with some pretty amazing ones in there! The most recent (and probably best) addition is Junkrat Krampus, who just might set some (monogrammed) traps in a few chimneys, so Santa better look out: Dec 11, 2018 at 04:40 by Starym 2 comments

The official Tides of Vengeance patch notes have arrived and we've updated all our Class guides for Patch 8.1! Dec 10, 2018 at 22:42 by Stan 20 comments

Tides of Vengeance Live Developer Q&A: December 14th

Blizzard just announced a live developer Q&A taking place later this week. Game Director Ion Hazzikostas will answer your questions related to the latest content update - Patch 8.1. Dec 10, 2018 at 18:29 by Stan

A shroud of uncertainly looms over the future of HGC and Heroes Esports as a whole due to the lack of HGC updates for the upcoming year and many pro players as well as casters are either done with the game or transferring to other games. Dec 10, 2018 at 16:07 by Stan 17 comments

The article aims to explain content that will not be available immediately when Tides of Vengeance goes live this week. Dec 10, 2018 at 15:55 by Stan 13 comments

If you pre-order the Warcraft III: Spoils of War Edition, you will receive the Meat Wagon mount this week in World of Warcraft. Dec 10, 2018 at 13:36 by Stan 8 comments

Free-to-Play Hero Rotation: December 11th

Free Hero rotation has been updated for the week of December 11. Dec 10, 2018 at 12:24 by Stan

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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.;
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CHANGELOG

10 Dec. 2918: Balance Druid Boss by Boss Strategies
- Updated for Patch 8.1.
10 Dec. 2108: Blood Death Knight Mythic+ Tips
- Updated tips for Freehold.
13 Dec. 2018: Fire Mage Introduction
- Added Blaster Master nerfs to changes of 8.1 now that it is confirmed on live servers.
13 Dec. 2018: Holy Paladin Azerite Traits and Armor
- Moved Empyreal Ward to the correct ring of traits.
13 Dec. 2018: Marksmanship Hunter Builds and Talents
- Fixed the Tier 4 Talent Row Checkmarks.
12 Dec. 2018: Affliction Warlock
- Minor changes needed for patch 8.1.
12 Dec. 2018: Arcane Mage
- No major changes needed for Patch 8.1.
12 Dec. 2018: Arms Warrior
- Minor changes made for patch 8.1.

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