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Stukov Patch Meta Tier List (July 2017) Our eighth Heroes of the Storm Meta Tier List for the month of July 2017 is here!

Knights of the Frozen Throne Card Reveal: Mountainfire Armor and Nerubian Unraveler

Mountainfire Armor and Nerubian Unraveler have been revealed by Tesdey, Reynad, and Eloise. Today at 01:13 by Oxygen

Patch 7.3: Build 24651 Overview

The latest 7.3 PTR build 24651 brings the usual Tier 21 changes, class changes, many new items and mounts. Today at 00:14 by Stan

Antorus Raid Testing: July 28th-31st

Well, Mythic Tomb has been clear for a little over a week, so it's obviously time for the next raid to start testing! We're getting three Heroic bosses on Friday and then "if testing goes well" the zone will remain up over the weekend on Normal mode. Yesterday at 23:46 by Starym

Patch 7.3: World Boss Rotation Update

The weekly world boss rotation is currently random. We saw Withered J'm up for two weeks several times, but things will change in Patch 7.3. Yesterday at 21:08 by Stan 4 comments

This Week in WoW: June 25

After the maintenance's over in your region, there are several hotfixes that will come into effect. The third LFR Wing of the Tomb is now available with Maiden of Vigilance and Fallen Avatar. There's a new PvP Brawl and you can get up to 50% more reputation from World Quests. Yesterday at 19:17 by Stan 14 comments

Knights of the Frozen Throne Card Reveal: Blood Razor & Prince Taldaram

Card reveal for Knights of the Frozen Throne continues with Blood Razor, a neutral Legendary and Prince Taldaram. Yesterday at 18:11 by Stan 11 comments

Knights of the Frozen Throne Card Reveal: Blood-Queen Lanathel

Blood-Queen Lanathel is a new legendary Warlock card that was just revealed via PCGamesN. Yesterday at 13:57 by Stan 7 comments

Upcoming Samuro Changes

Senior Game Designer on Heroes of the Storm said Samuro's talents have a lot of issues right now and his AA build is outperforming other builds. A talent overhaul is coming, but not in the immediate future. Yesterday at 11:40 by Stan 14 comments

Knights of the Frozen Throne Card Reveal: Ice Breaker & Plague Scientist

Two more cards from Knights of the Frozen expansion were revealed and Blizzard communicated why there was just a single card reveal before that. The cards are Ice Breaker and Plague Scientist. Yesterday at 09:50 by Stan 13 comments

Exorsus (Harsh) Reaction to Recent KJ Nerfs

With the most recent hotfixes bringing in significant nerfs to Mythic Kil'jaeden, only a day after Exorsus' World 2nd kill, the guild's twitter had some words to share with the WoW devs, and the encounter designers in particular: Yesterday at 02:02 by Starym 41 comments

Mione Vs. Mythic +19 Court of Stars

When +17 just isn't enough, it's time to move on to +19. Mione is just shy of that +20 barrier with this most recent solo endeavor in the Court of Stars, but at least it took half the time of the Vault of the Wardens clear, somewhere in the vicinity of 6 hours. Shave just 5+ hours off of that and the solo artist would be able to qualify for the Mythic Dungeon Invitational! Yesterday at 01:37 by Starym 4 comments

Patch 7.2.5 Hotfixes: July 24th

Along with the previously announced class tuning and additional PvP class tweaks, today we're getting some significant nerfs to Mythic Fallen Avatar and Kil'jaeden! So we should be seeing another kill on big red quite soon. We also got some new additions to the overall class tuning that were not previously announced, specifically for Vengeance DHs, and all 3 Paladin specs. Yesterday at 00:34 by Starym

7.2.5 PvP Class Tuning Hotfixes for July 25th

We have some more tuning coming this week, along with the announced PvE/general side, we're also getting some PvP changes: Yesterday at 00:06 by Starym

Patch 7.3: How to Get to Argus

In this mini guide, we're looking at how to answer the call to battle and reach Argus. The quest will be active once Patch 7.3 goes live. Jul 24, 2017 at 19:35 by Stan 2 comments

Patch 7.3: Upcoming Changes to Monk & Hunter T21 Bonuses

This week's 7.3 PTR patch will have some Elemental Shaman Changes and adjustments to Tier 21 bonuses for Hunters & Monks. What will be different? Jul 24, 2017 at 19:02 by Stan 7 comments

Methods World First Kiljaeden Mythic Kill Video

And here it finally is, the video showing how Method managed to get the World First, a kill that took 654 wipes and over 7 and a half days for anyone else to repeat! It gets really crazy at the end there, so pay close attention! Jul 24, 2017 at 18:02 by Starym

Mythic Dungeon Invitational Proving Grounds Start Tomorrow

It has begun. The first round of the Mythic Dungeon Invitational is here and everyone can compete! Blizzard has just posted the extended rules and a FAQ for the Proving Grounds, where any team can submit their best 5 Mythic+ runs and have a chance at moving to the next stage in their region. This stage lasts two weeks, from July 25 to August 8 so get your team and get going! Jul 24, 2017 at 17:10 by Starym 7 comments

Garrosh Hits PTR on July 31

Are you ready to answer the call of the True Horde? Garrosh will be debuting on July 27 at ChinaJoy! Jul 24, 2017 at 16:05 by Stan 15 comments

Knights of the Frozen Throne Card Reveal - Ticking Abomination

The first card since the initial annoucement for Knights of the Frozen Throne has been revealed by C4mlann earlier this morning. Jul 24, 2017 at 13:36 by Oxygen 24 comments

Free-to-Play Hero Rotation: July 25

It's that time of the week again and the free Hero rotation has been updated with new Heroes available for gameplay during the week of July 25. Jul 24, 2017 at 11:40 by Stan 2 comments

Methods WF Kiljaeden M Video: Monday at 8

Update: the video will become available as a VoD immediately and won't actually be streamed live, so just check the videos tab on Method's twitch channel!
Well, it seems announcements for killvideos are a thing nowadays! After Exorsus' World 2nd, Method have let slip the date and time of the very first airing of their World First Mythic Kil'jaeden kill video. Now, we've all been able to see the fight up until around 40% courtesy of the Alpha stream, but that final 40ish percent seems brutal and will definitely be worth a watch (or several). Jul 24, 2017 at 00:13 by Starym 5 comments

Patch 7.3: Argussian Reach Faction

Patch 7.3 adds two new factions to the game. The first one's called Argussian Reach and you can add up to 7 mounts to your collection. Most of the reputation is gained from World Quests. Jul 23, 2017 at 20:57 by Stan 9 comments

Method WF ToS Interview

In Method's WF interview we find out there were 10+ undocumented nerfs on KJ, a few on Avatar, we hear about class balance and a lot more! Jul 23, 2017 at 19:01 by Starym 4 comments

Exorsus Get World 2nd on Kiljaeden Mythic

Update: Added nerdscreams video and killshot.
And the second kill is finally here! Exorsus have defeated Kil'jaeden 7 days, 5 and a half hours after Method's World First kill and fended off the Chinese guilds that were pressuring their silver medal spot. After 962 wipes this will come as a huge relief for the Russian guild, as they've also had wipes as low as 0.2% in the last couple of days and been pretty frustrated with some of the issues on the fight. Guild GM Alveona even promised a big post about the whole issue after the race is done, so we have that to look forward to! Jul 23, 2017 at 18:16 by Starym 2 comments

Christie Goldens Writing a New Warcraft Novel

After taking a three-year hiatus, Christie Golden is writing another Warcraft novel! Jul 23, 2017 at 17:55 by Stan 4 comments

Patch 7.3: Upcoming Elemental Shaman Changes & Monks

Elemental Shamans will receive changes in a future 7.3 PTR build next week and Windwalker Monk discussion about scaling continues. Jul 22, 2017 at 18:42 by Stan 8 comments

ToS Race Day 25: No W2nd Yet + Stats & History

Here we are in day 25 of the race, still with no World 2nd, 6 full days after Method's WF! There are technically 22 guilds fighting for that silver medal, but the most likely to take it are Exorsus, Alpha and Style War, who've had more time on Kil'jaeden. Jul 22, 2017 at 14:48 by Starym

Class Tuning for July 25th

It seems we're getting some more tuning next reset. A lot of it is actually tuning the class legendaries and it's not that many classes that will be affected: Frost DKs, Ret Palas, Rogues and Subtletly in particular, as well as Arms Warrs are getting some slight to not so slight changes! Jul 22, 2017 at 00:31 by Starym 6 comments

Upcoming Chen Changes

Blizzard brought up an upcoming change to Chen's trait. Fortifying Brew will grant 25 Brew immediately when Chen starts casting it and 30 Brew per second after that. Jul 21, 2017 at 21:12 by Stan 14 comments

Patch 7.3: Vicious War Fox PvP Mount

A new addition to the PvP mount family is the Vicious War Fox. The mount can be purchased for 1 Vicious Saddle in Orgrimmar or Stormwind. Jul 21, 2017 at 14:32 by Stan

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25 Jul. 2017: Knights of the Frozen Throne
- Added Plague Scientist and Ice Breaker.
25 Jul. 2017: Knights of the Frozen Throne
- Added Blood Queen Lana'thel.
25 Jul. 2017: Knights of the Frozen Throne
- Added Blood Razor and Prince Taldaram.
25 Jul. 2017: Marksmanship Hunter Easy Mode
- Noted that Volley should always be turned on.
25 Jul. 2017: Survival Hunter Introduction
- Added that Survival can battle-ress/Bloodlust/Heroism as well.
25 Jul. 2017: Tracer Talent Build
- Updated Bullet Spray's description.
25 Jul. 2017: Unholy Death Knight Builds and Talents
- Updated tier 3 and 7 talents to account for the increased popularity/efficiency of Dark Arbiter.
25 Jul. 2017: Unholy Death Knight Easy Mode
- Updated the talents and rotation to align with changes made to the rest of the guide.

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