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Diablo 3 Season 29 Recommended Builds

Raekor Boulder Toss Rend Wrath of the Wastes Fist of Heaven AoVNEW Akkhan Condemn Natalya Spike Trap Hungering Arrow GoD Wave of Light LoD Mystic Ally Inna Trag'Oul Death Nova Masquerade Bone Spear Angry Chicken ArachyrNEW Mundunugu Spirit Barrage Tal Rasha Meteor Typhon Hydra

Diablo 3 Season 29 Content

Season 29 Compendium Visions of Enmity Season 29 Leveling Solo Push Rankings Solo Speed GR Rankings Solo Speed T16 Rankings Group Meta Group RGK Rankings Group TK Rankings Group XP Meta

Diablo 3 Season 29 Leveling/Fresh 70 Builds

Barbarian Crusader Demon Hunter Monk Necromancer Witch Doctor Wizard

Wrath Classic PTR Changes: September 28th

We have two changes arriving to the Wrath Classic PTR today. First off there's the Omen of Clarity glyph nerf from earlier this week being reverted. Secondly, the Lich King Heroic encounter in Icecrown Citadel has been modified in both 10 and 25 man modes to address a common tactic and make the fight more difficult. Today at 01:03 by Staff

Classic Hardcore Official First Month Death Stats by Class

The official Warcraft twitter shared some stats for Classic Hardcore, showing us just how many characters of each class have died since launch! The below stats are probably more about how popular each class is than how good they are at surviving, but it's a fun stats block nonetheless!

Shamans win the survival stat - or lose the popularity stat, depending on how you look at it! 2 comments Yesterday at 22:36 by Staff

Full October Trading Post Rewards and Activities (Official)

We've seen the preview, now let's see the rest! Here comes the full October Trading Post roster, including all the Tander-giving activities. We have the new class set rotation which includes DKs, DHs and Druids, in addition to 2 mounts, 1 pet and toy, a whole lot of weapon transmogs and more! 2 comments Yesterday at 22:03 by Staff

Diablo 2: Resurrected Ladder Season 5 Is Live Now!

A new season of D2:R has started! You can see the official post below and you can also check out all our guides for it here or head to one of the guides below. Yesterday at 21:41 by Staff

Update: the full Trading Post roster for October has been posted and you can check it out here!

We have a preview of everything coming to the Trading Post in October, with the full article coming a little later today! Yesterday at 20:08 by Staff

Are We Getting Classic+? The Awakening Leak

A direct continuation of Classic/Vanilla WoW has been talked about pretty much since Classic launched back in 2019. There's two general directions that this could take: the smaller one where there's just mechanical additions, class tuning and maybe some new items and the like, and the bigger one where we actually get a new expansion specifically for Classic. 23 comments Yesterday at 18:05 by Starym

New WoW Mount Revealed in BlizzCon 2023 Sneak Peek

Blizzard today showed us the BlizzCon 2023 program which contains a brand new World of Warcraft mount! 2 comments Yesterday at 17:28 by Staff

BlizzCon 2023 Sneak Peek and Last Chance to Buy Tickets!

Blizzard has just posted a sneak peek at some of the events we can expect at BlizzCon 2023! The last wave of tickets will be on sale Friday, September 29 at 12 pm PDT. 2 comments Yesterday at 17:18 by Staff

Send Honor to Alts in Dragonflight Season 3

Patch 10.2 adds an item that lets you send Honor to alts at a certain price... 4 comments Yesterday at 16:19 by Stan

World Boss Timers Coming in Diablo 4 Season 2 Patch?

World boss timers are most likely coming with the Diablo 4 Season 2 patch! 1 comment Yesterday at 15:39 by Staff

Great Vault Requirement Changes in Patch 10.2

Blizzard changed some of the Great Vault requirements in the latest Patch 10.2 PTR build. 1 comment Yesterday at 12:57 by Stan

Renown Catch-Up for Alts Available in Patch 10.2

In Guardians of the Dream, you can buy account-wide reputation tokens for alts! 2 comments Yesterday at 11:09 by Stan

Elon Musk to Stream Diablo 4 for X Livestream “Stress Test”

Elon Musk will be streaming a Diablo 4 tier 99 Nightmare Dungeon in a scaling test for X’s livestram feature soon! Yesterday at 04:59 by Staff

Diablo 4 Season 2 Will Have Quality of Life Updates Both at the Start and During Its Run

Diablo 4’s Season 2 will have many Quality of Life improvements, and Blizzard clarified they will arrive both at season launch and after. Yesterday at 00:50 by Staff

Hunters Receive Raid Cooldown in Dragonflight Patch 10.2

Today's 10.2 PTR build brought some really good news for Hunters! Hunter's Mark has been turned into a raid cooldown, increasing the target's damage taken while it's over 80% health and it will also have a 20 second cooldown in combat. 3 comments Yesterday at 00:25 by Staff

Scarab and Demon Bike Mounts in Patch 10.2

The latest PTR build brought some goodies, as we not only got confirmation that the Demon Bikes are actual mounts, we also got an amazing Scarab mount as well! Sep 27, 2023 at 23:15 by Starym

Diablo 4 Patch 1.1.4 Hotfixes: September 27th

We have a new batch of hotfixes for the latest Diablo 4 patch, as a PvP shard exploit and the not completing whisper bounties are addressed. Sep 27, 2023 at 22:33 by Staff

Dragonflight Patch 10.2 PTR Dev Notes: September 27th

Update: there was an added note on Fire Mages crit damage modifiers being fixed.
Here come this week's 10.2 notes, with Everbloom joining M+ testing, more Battleground Blitz Brawl and, of course, a whole lot of class tuning! 1 comment Sep 27, 2023 at 22:27 by Staff

Many Updated Models in 10.2: Old World Revamp Coming?

Speculation of an old world revamp in one form or another has been around quite a while, as dataminers keep finding updated models all over the place. 10.2 is no different, as there are even more old models getting the shiny treatment. 2 comments Sep 27, 2023 at 19:42 by Staff

Dragonflight Patch 10.1.7 Mythic+ DPS Log Rankings, Week 3

While the top percentiles remain very stable, as the new patch meta has solidified (and is pretty similar to the old one), we do see some movement here in week 3 of 10.1.7, so let's dive in! Sep 27, 2023 at 18:23 by Starym

Diablo 4 Season 2 Developer Livestream: October 4th

The next Diablo 4 Livestream dedicated to Season of Blood is taking place on October 4 at 11 am PDT. Sep 27, 2023 at 17:33 by Staff

We're speculating about when Patch 10.2 will release and the most likely release date right now is November 7. 3 comments Sep 27, 2023 at 17:06 by Stan

Nightmarish Emerald Drake Briefly Appears on Wrath Classic 3.4.3 PTR

A new mount briefly appeared on the Wrath Classic 3.4.3 PTR called Nightmarish Emerald Drake. It was only visible for a short time and was removed from the collection soon after. 2 comments Sep 27, 2023 at 15:45 by Stan

Blizzard is restructuring the Hearthstone team and we've seen reports of multiple new layoffs at the company. 23 comments Sep 27, 2023 at 13:02 by Staff

Dragonflight Patch 10.1.7 and Classic Era Hotfixes, September 26th

The first hotfixes of the week bring some Resto Druid, Brewfest and Kalimdor Cup improvements, as well as a potentially life-saving fix to Classic Era Ouro! Sep 27, 2023 at 00:14 by Starym

Dragonflight Patch 10.1.7 Week 4: To-Do List

The fourth week of Patch 10.1.7 is here, check out our updated daily and weekly to-do list to find out what's new! 1 comment Sep 26, 2023 at 21:02 by Stan

Extremely Dramatic Mass-Death in Classic Hardcore ZulGurub

So we've seen quite a few deaths in Classic Hardcore so far, but this particular wipe may just beat them all. This Korean group had a really bad time in Zul'Gurub, and managed to execute the perfect formation... for death. 4 comments Sep 26, 2023 at 17:54 by Starym

Chris Metzen Now Full-Time Executive Creative Director of the Warcraft Universe

Update: Metzen has now commented on the news himself! 23 comments Sep 26, 2023 at 17:05 by Staff

The new Prime Gaming reward arrives in the form of a tiger pet. Zipao was originally part on an exclusive promotion in Taiwan and was then available from the Recruit a Friend program for a while as well. Now you can get the pet with a subscription to Amazon Prime Gaming. The reward is available from today until October 24th. Sep 26, 2023 at 16:42 by Staff

Here comes the official preview of Turbulent Timeways. The event starts today on NA realms. Find out more about the rewards you can get! Sep 26, 2023 at 15:51 by Staff

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