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Hello everyone, this is World of Warcraft Weekly.

[World of Warcraft Weekly Report] is mainly composed of three parts: "Major World of Warcraft Events", "World of Warcraft Competitive Dynamics" and "World of Warcraft Game Updates".

Let’s take a look at what Warcraft news there is that is worth sharing recently!

【World of Warcraft Event】

Blizzard re-hires film team after poor response to new animation

Recently, Blizzard released the "War to the Core" animated short "Alleria - A Meeting of Lights", which tells the story of Alleria's mental journey since she guarded Quel'Thalas, including the invasion of the Armani trolls and the Horde, Alleria leaving her family to join the Alliance front, expedition to Draenor with Turalyon, and resisting the Burning Legion for the Holy Light.

Although the overall narrative rhythm of the short film is good, there are still many flaws in the painting details of certain shots, which has also attracted criticism from many netizens. They believe that Blizzard's current artistic strength has regressed by more than one level compared to before, which was caused by the large-scale layoffs of employees some time ago.

What is more difficult to accept is that, perhaps because it was criticized so badly, Blizzard has launched a new round of large-scale recruitment of film team employees, including animators, directors and other positions.

Is this for real? Blizzard's current president praises itWorld of Warcraft, but netizens found out that they didn’t buy the pre-order package

Perhaps it is because the return of World of Warcraft to the Chinese server has brought Blizzard a huge profit. Recently, Blizzard President Johanna Faries publicly praised the achievements of the project team and praised the development team for their concerted efforts for the official server, nostalgic server, the restart of the Chinese server and more projects.

In addition, she said that she and her son can't wait to play War to the Core and want to enter Azeroth on time on August 26 (Pacific Time).

What's funny is that if you buy the "World of Warcraft" early access package, you can play the game on August 23, so this current president obviously doesn't understand games very well. In response to this, players also complained:

—On the 26th, the president didn’t buy the gift package!

—It’s really a joke. The former CEO is actually a real rice farmer. One week, I was so disgusted by the blood pool and gangrene that I posted a blue post the next day.

—If you don’t even buy the Early Access package, what kind of CEO are you?

World of Warcraft mobile game coming? Microsoft sets up a new team

According to foreign media Windows Central, Microsoft forcibly assigned key members of the Activision and King teams to form a new team within Blizzard Entertainment, aiming to develop small, high-quality games based on Blizzard's classic series such as "Warcraft", "Starcraft" and "Overwatch".

Considering that an insider had previously revealed that King's R&D team was working on the "Overwatch" mobile game, the credibility of this revelation is quite high. The "World of Warcraft" mobile game and "StarCraft" mobile game projects may also be advancing at an astonishing speed.

Especially for the "World of Warcraft" mobile game, it was revealed in the past two years that NetEase and World of Warcraft had teamed up to produce a large number of art materials. From an optimistic point of view, it may only require changes to the underlying gameplay structure to be able to go online within one or two years.

【World of Warcraft Competitive Dynamics】

《Moonlight Blade》The fourteenth sect of the PC game is confirmed, and players will create it together and launch it next year

Maybe you sawAgainst the Cold》Based on the good feedback from the new sect "Canglan" co-created by players, "Tian Ya Ming Yue Dao" has created a new sect, Wanxiang, which will be designed by players' voting. This sect has a close relationship with Bai Xiaosheng, the first wise man in the martial arts world. It will be officially launched next year with the pen of dreams, depicting the colorful world.

Bai Xiaosheng, the wisest man in the martial arts world, can play the music of the ages with the universe as his harp; he can decide the game of the rivers and lakes with the heaven and earth as chess; he can write the world-shaking poems with his flesh and blood as his books; he can prove his destiny with the wind and rain as his paintings. The Wanxiang Sect he inherited was originally a sea clan; there is also a mountain clan, hidden in Kongsang City.

Kongsang City Lord Kong Qingse is a Confucian sage; Xihe, the sky watcher, is in charge of the Golden Crow sacrifice; Pei Yu, the zither player, can command the Kongsang tree. The disciples of Wanxiangmenshanjuan, due to the connection with the Kongsang sacred tree, use the Yinmeng Pen and Qianzhangjuan as weapons, and can use the Wanzhang brush to outline all things in the world; and use the power of the red tube to follow the meridians.

The new sect Wanxiang will further develop this as a creative anchor, leaving it to players to vote on its sect positioning, skill characteristics, and mechanism interactions.

Logically speaking, as players' aesthetic tastes improve, releasing questionnaires to gather ideas during the design phase of new professions is undoubtedly more in line with the current MMO online game ecology. However, I wonder whether these professions will have any impact on old professions after they are launched?

The new character "Shania" of "Ragnarok Heroes" is online, and the number of players is rising sharply

On August 12, the 25th character "Shania" of "Ragnarok Online" was officially launched, and the official job positioning was "the elegant shadow blade thief". When she manipulates the shadow blade, she can quickly and accurately aim at the enemy's loopholes and attack, and can also combine it with her own unique fighting skills, using the combat resources that become more courageous with each battle, and gain more dynamic combat experience.

Shania is a special character who uses evasion skills to attack, so she has two evasion skills. She can use "Swift Shadow Evasion Step" and "Active: Absolute Shadow Flash Step" at critical moments to avoid damage caused by enemy attacks in emergency situations. "Active: Absolute Shadow Flash Step" can be used to evade again after a successful evasion, and then it can be connected with a heavy attack.

When the character was launched, Shiji Tiancheng unexpectedly bought a large amount of publicity resources, including hiring Cosplayers for promotion, so netizens jokingly called it "a wave of life and death". However, judging from the popularity of the game and the number of new players, the effect of this wave of publicity was still good, and many people downloaded the game for Shania.

I can only say that playing with people will always be the primary productive force in the gaming field, so "Ragnarok Online" should stop messing with those male characters.

Buy a legendary spear for free? The biggest welfare event in the history of Guild Wars 2 is coming!

As a new land weapon promoted by the new DLC of Guild Wars 2, the spear will change the skill set and positioning of many professions after the version update. Therefore, many players hope to have their own legendary spear before the version update.

In order to meet the demands of these players, "Guild Wars 2" has specially organized an event for purchasing a legendary spear for free. Players only need to invite new players or old players who have quit the game for more than 1 month to return and do some daily tasks, and they can get coupons ranging from 10 to 60 yuan. The lowest price for purchasing a legendary spear worth 180 yuan is 0 yuan.

You should know that the new DLC of "Guild Wars 2" is sold for 158 yuan. If you take advantage of this event to buy a spear, you will still "owe" the official 22 yuan!

【World of Warcraft Game Update】

Will it be easier to level up alts? World of Warcraft deputy game director revealed: Warband will have a catch-up mechanism

Recently, Maximum, the president of Liquid Guild, interviewed Morgan Day, the deputy game director of World of Warcraft, in a live broadcast, and asked a series of questions about the changes in the new version 11.0. Among them, one of the most critical questions was what changes would be made to Warband in the future, and Morgan Day gave an exciting answer - it will be easier to level up alts!

In future versions, Warband trumpets will have a catch-up mechanism. In addition to the improvement in buffs, Warband discounts such as repeatedly using badges to increase equipment levels will also be continued in subsequent versions and greatly upgraded.

In addition, the Dragonhill Invoker, which has been very popular for a while, should be "retired". Morgan Day will observe the balance between team benefits and individual operations in the first season, and strive to allow all professions to enter the Mythic+ dungeon, rather than a single profession dominating the game.

Super easy copy? NetEase made three changes to Ulduar

On August 15, NetEase weakened the difficulty of the Ulduar dungeon for the third time. The specific plan is to reduce the damage caused by non-boss enemies by 50%. The teleportation point in the Ulduar antechamber will always be available, and players can teleport directly from the expedition camp to the antechamber even if the Flame Behemoth and XT-002 Disassembler have not been defeated.

Similar to the last change, this nerf is mainly to make things easier for the raid team, quickly skipping the foreplay of the Ulduar raid, and does not reduce the difficulty of the dungeon. Therefore, the feedback from players is quite mixed:

—The groups that can win will pass faster, and the groups that can't win will start to go to jail early. What's the point of nerfing the monsters?

—The team has been disbanded. It’s too miserable for those who don’t have a fixed team and can only play in wild groups.

—Are you still not going to nerf the boss? My old friends all dislike me and won’t take me to Ulduar anymore.