#357 - For Azeroth!: “Do Addons Think for You”
- E357
- 1:37:15
- November 6th 2025
News
BlizzCon 2026
Blizzard announced today that BlizzCon 2026 Passes will go on sale November 7th.
- Friday, November 7, 2025, at 9 a.m. PST through Sunday, November 9, 2025, 11:59 p.m. PST
- $249.99 USD each
- Maximum number of passes a single account can purchase raised from two to four
- Tuesday, November 18, 2025, at 9 a.m. PST at $289.99 USD
- BlizzCon Charity Night Addon for $499.99 USD
- Blizzard will donate 100% of the purchase price to Make-A-Wish
- Darkmoon Faire After Hours for $89.99 USD
- Three-hour event Saturday evening, September 12
- 20 Faire Tokens and a collectible credential
- Rough outline provided for the event
- Opening Ceremony
- Show floor playable gameplay for WoW, Diablo IV, Overwatch 2, Hearthstone, and Diablo Immortal.
- The Blizzard Arcade
- Dev Stages including a separate Classic Stage
- Esports return with the AWC, MDI, and competitions from other games (Overwatch World Cup)
Links
Unshackled Fury Ion Interview
- To celebrate their 10th anniversary the Unshackled Fury podcast with hosts Berzerker and Jez sat down with World of Warcraft Game Director, Ion Hazzikostas. During the interview they talk about Ion’s life outside of the game, his early years and how he ended up at Blizzard. It humanized him in a way most interviews never do.
Links
The Conversation Continues
Ion and Andy Churchill met with the BW/DBM authors to discuss the state of Combat Timeline and find solutions to their biggest pain points. There was a lot of good detail to come from this meeting and I suggest watching Adam’s video where he goes through it in detail.
- Player Spell Casts are no longer secret values (even in combat)
- Addons will be able to filter spells in the timeline
- No ability renaming
- No ability timers on nameplates
- Will not allow warnings when a debuff/target of a spell is applied
- Custom sounds for Cooldown Manager will be permitted
Links
Prey
Midnight unleashes the Prey system as a new endgame activity.
- Role agnostic
- Each difficulty presents 4 hunts per week.
- The same Target can be at a different difficulty and location when encountered in a new week.
- You can do any activity in the zone that will help your hunt progress
- 3 Difficulties
🚨 EPIC EDITION GIVEAWAY 🚨
Thanks to the team at Warcraft we have 3 Epic Edition codes to giveaway!
HOW TO ENTER
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All 3 winners will be drawn on November 10th 2025
Outro
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I grew up on a steady diet of Loreena McKennitt, ren faires, DnD, and Baldur’s Gate, and so I was initially attracted to WoW by the “RPG” side of MMORPG. I spent my childhood exploring Ironforge at a walk and strictly avoiding any quests that made me kill cute animals (y’all have no IDEA how excited I was when I set foot on Borean Tundra and discovered DEHTA.) While I have made my home in the world of raiding, I still try to make time to bask in the wonder and beauty of this giant pixelated world: so, you see, I didn’t wipe the raid because I forgot a cooldown, I wiped the raid because I wanted you all to have some downtime to really EXPERIENCE the BEAUTY
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