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			<title>Patch 5.3: Escalation</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 00:55:51 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>*Patch 5.3, Escalation* is currently slated to go live tomorrow, 21 May 2013.

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As always, we here at WoWInterface will have our AddOn Survival Guide...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><b>Patch 5.3, Escalation</b> is currently slated to go live tomorrow, 21 May 2013.<br />
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As always, we here at WoWInterface will have our <a href="http://www.wowinterface.com/survivalguide.php" target="_blank">AddOn Survival Guide</a> up and running to help you find when and where your favourite addons are updated for 5.3. Authors please note that we&#8217;ve got the 5.3 compatible tag enabled now.<br />
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From Blizzard&#8217;s patch notes for 5.3:<br />
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Of immediate interest for our community are the <b>UI</b> changes:<ul><li>In-game support system is now a direct portal to the Battle.net Support site, allowing players to access the knowledge base and support contact system.</li>
<li>Dungeon Journal has been reorganized. The model view has moved into a sub-tab and replaced with a listing of bosses for the dungeon or raid.</li>
<li>A new option to display pet tamers on the world map has been added. This should help players looking to find unlocked Pet Battle daily quests.</li>
<li>When using name plates, castbars will now display for all creatures and players in the area.</li>
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General changes include:<br />
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<b>Four new scenarios:</b><ul><li>Battle on the High Seas</li>
<li>Blood in the Snow</li>
<li>Dark Heart of Pandaria</li>
<li>The Secrets of Ragefire</li>
</ul>A <b>new battleground:</b><ul><li>Deepwind Gorge</li>
</ul>A new <b>arena:</b><ul><li>The Tiger's Peak</li>
</ul>They will also introduce <b>Heroic Scenarios:</b><ul><li>A Heroic difficulty for Scenarios have been added and are designed to provide challenging content for small groups of well-seasoned adventurers. Completing a Heroic Scenario awards Valor points, and a chance to obtain high level Epic quality items.</li>
<li>Heroic Scenarios require a pre-made group to join.</li>
<li>Heroic Scenarios offer bonus objectives that will reward additional valor if completed.</li>
<li>An option to run a random Heroic Scenario has been added as a drop-down in the Scenario tab in Dungeon Finder.</li>
<li>Players can complete a normal or Heroic Scenario for bonus valor each day, but not both.</li>
<li>Six Heroic Scenarios will be available in patch 5.3. Four are new and two are upgrades of existing normal Scenarios.</li>
</ul><blockquote><ul><li>Battle of the High Seas</li>
<li>Blood in the Snow</li>
<li>Dark Heart of Pandaria</li>
<li>The Secrets of Ragefire</li>
<li>Crypt of Forgotten Kings</li>
<li>A Brewing Storm</li>
</ul></blockquote>As well is the introduction of the <b>Quest Campaign: Escalation</b><ul><li>The Darkspear Trolls are in open rebellion against the Warchief! Aid your faction in preparing to rout Garrosh Hellscream from Orgrimmar</li>
</ul><blockquote><ul><li>Alliance heroes will scout Orgrimmar's outskirts and engage in SI:7 espionage to weaken Garrosh&#8217;s power structure.</li>
<li>Horde heroes will help Vol&#8217;jin&#8217;s insurgency survive a Kor&#8217;kron assault and advance towards the Horde capital.</li>
</ul></blockquote><ul><li>Visit Lorewalker Cho at the Seat of Knowledge in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms to begin questing.</li>
</ul>Along with the <b>Battlefield: Barrens</b><ul><li>Put the stranglehold on Orgrimmar by undermining the Kor&#8217;kron supply chain in Northern Barrens.</li>
</ul><blockquote><ul><li>Collect resources by killing Kor&#8217;kron loyalists and their supporters.</li>
<li>Get a group together to kill Kor&#8217;kron leaders for bonus resources.</li>
<li>Escort your faction&#8217;s caravans across the zone for even more additional resources.</li>
</ul></blockquote><ul><li>The Darkspear Rebellion will reward your efforts to undermine the Warchief by helping you upgrade Latent Kor&#8217;kron Armor into useable gear.</li>
<li>Participate in the Escalation Quest Campaign to learn how to engage in the Barrens conflict.</li>
</ul><b>The Legendary Quest Continues</b><ul><li>Journey with Wrathion to the four corners of Pandaria to speak with the August Celestials.</li>
<li>Champions will have had to complete Wrathion&#8217;s earlier tasks (including &#8220;Heart of the Thunder King&#8221;) to continue.</li>
</ul>And there are <b>Brawler&#8217;s Guild Updates:</b><ul><li>Test your might against two new tiers of bosses in the Brawl&#8217;gar Arena in Orgrimmar or Bizmo&#8217;s Brawl Pub in Stormwind.</li>
<li>New VIP areas are now accessible for brawlers at or above rank 8.<br />
Bizmo has raised the floor in his arena to hide the bodies. Or... maybe to improve the sight lines. We&#8217;ll never know for sure.</li>
<li>Special &#8220;Challenge Cards&#8221; can now be acquired from mobs or reward satchels, allowing you to unlock unique bonus bosses.</li>
<li>Brawlers that manage to prove their mettle and reach Rank 9 will receive an additional invitation to the Brawler's Guild that can be traded or given to a friend.</li>
</ul>Also of interest is that the Experience needed to increase from level 85 to level 90 has been reduced by 33%.<br />
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<a href="http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/9679398/53_Escalation_Patch_Notes-5_20_2013" target="_blank">Source and full patch notes</a><br />
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Be sure to also check out Wowhead's Patch 5.3 Guide:<br />
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			<title>In-game Browser and Support Tools in 5.3</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 22:41:19 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Blizzard has announced that they are adding a feature-limited web browser to World of Warcraft that will replace the in-game support system with a direct portal to the Battle.net Support site. Their aim is to give players in-game easy access to the site’s robust knowledge base and support contact...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Blizzard has announced that they are adding a feature-limited web browser to World of Warcraft that will replace the in-game support system with a direct portal to the Battle.net Support site. Their aim is to give players in-game easy access to the site’s robust knowledge base and support contact system.<br />
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<a href="http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/9445382/In-game_Browser_and_Support_Tools_in_53-4_9_2013" target="_blank">Source and full details</a><br />
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<font size="1">(No, this one isn't an April Fools joke.)</font></div>

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			<title>Major changes coming to the UI in 5.4</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 05:04:53 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Edit: April Fools!
Hope you all had fun and we've restored all the deleted posts. :)

We have managed to get our hands on an alpha client for patch 5.4 and it has major changes for the User Interface.  When we extracted the UI files as per usual, we discovered that all of the default Blizzard UI...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Edit: <font color="Red"><font size="4">April Fools!</font></font><br />
Hope you all had fun and we've restored all the deleted posts. :)<br />
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We have managed to get our hands on an alpha client for patch 5.4 and it has major changes for the User Interface.  When we extracted the UI files as per usual, we discovered that all of the default Blizzard UI files are now swf and js files.  Apparently they are switching to a flash based UI!<br />
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Here is a screenshot of the new addon folder:<br />
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We asked our contacts at Blizzard what was going on and they had this to say:<br />
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				<div style="font-style:italic">We here at Blizzard have always been keenly aware of our addon community.  We&#8217;ve noticed that addon creation has stagnated as of late so we wanted to do something to help revive the community.  We looked around the gaming industry to see which games still have thriving UI communities and how they are maintaining their communities&#8217; interest.  The most novel approach we saw was Funcom&#8217;s The Secret World use of a Flash based UI, so we are going to try taking a page out of their book.  We will be doing the actual WoW UI application in Java, to maintain cross-platform useability.<br />
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We hope that this will give the UI community a good shot in the arm.  Going to a Flash based UI with Java will provide a lower entry barrier to new modders wanting to be able to write addons for WoW.  Hopefully our addon author community will agree and embrace this opportunity to revive their existing addons and pursue new ideas.<br />
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When 5.4 is ready to go on the Public Test Realms, we will run a longer than usual test phase.  We've been testing this in-house for some time now, but we realize this is quite the change.  By running a longer than usual test phase it will allow for a thorough testing of the new default base UI.  As well, this will help the authors who will have quite a lot of work to do in order to bring their addons into compliance with the new system.</div>
			
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We have uploaded the new dev kit in our Developer Utilities section so you guys can get a head start on converting your existing addons over to the new system.  We will be updating it as any changes are made to those files.  You can get it <a href="http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info22220-5.4AddOndevkit.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>

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			<title>Patch 5.2, The Thunder King, live 5 March 2013</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:46:32 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Blizzard has just confirmed (http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/8713870/Patch_52_The_Thunder_King-_Live_March_5-3_4_2013) that WoW’s 5.2 patch, The Thunder King, will be live tomorrow, 5 March 2013.  Here’s an overview of what to expect, courtesy our friends over on Wowhead...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Blizzard has <a href="http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/8713870/Patch_52_The_Thunder_King-_Live_March_5-3_4_2013" target="_blank">just confirmed</a> that WoW’s 5.2 patch, The Thunder King, will be live tomorrow, 5 March 2013.  Here’s an overview of what to expect, courtesy our friends over on <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/news" target="_blank">Wowhead</a>:<br />
<ul><li>A new <b>troll-themed raid tier</b> has been added—<a href="http://ptr.wowhead.com/zone=6622" target="_blank">Throne of Thunder</a>. Bosses drop ilvl 502 gear on LFR, ilvl 522 gear on Normal, and ilvl 535 gear on Heroic.</li>
<li>There is a <b>server-wide War Effort</b> on the <a href="http://ptr.wowhead.com/zone=6507" target="_blank">Isle of Thunder</a> in which players unlock new content features by completing daily quests.</li>
<li>On the new <a href="http://ptr.wowhead.com/zone=6661" target="_blank">Isle of Giants</a>, players can participate in a variety of <b>dinosaur-themed content</b>, including farming up mounts and pets.</li>
<li><b>Season 13 has begun</b> for arena and rated battlegrounds. There is new faction-specific Tyrannical Gladiator's gear, as well as crafted ilvl 458 gear and Honor ilvl 476 Malevolent gear.</li>
<li>The new <b>legendary questline</b> reward for 5.2 is a legendary metagem.</li>
<li>Some <b>professions are getting major additions</b>: Blacksmiths have a new way to level up and can make new vanity weapons, while fishermen get a new Fish of the Day daily event.</li>
<li><b>Transmog weapon restrictions have been loosened</b>, and players can collect troll-themed gear in the style of unobtainable drops from old Zul'Gurub and Zul'Aman.</li>
</ul>Check out Blizzard's <a href="http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/8713870" target="_blank">official patch guide</a> for more information!<br />
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As always, we here at WoWInterface will have our <a href="http://www.wowinterface.com/survivalguide.php" target="_blank"><b>AddOn Survival Guide</b></a> up and running to help you find when and where your favourite addons are updated for 5.2.  Authors please note that we’ve got the <b>5.2 compatible tag</b> enabled now.</div>

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