3vs3 Arena Tournament starts today, Blue Posts, Telia
The World of Warcraft worldwide Arena Tournament begins today. Many teams around the world will fight for the big prizes; a total of $200,000. There's Global and Regional finals.
Among the news we have today: Recently the dispute Telia had with Cogent was resolved.
3vs3 Arena Tournament starts today
As we’ve moved into Daylight Saving Time since the publication of the Arena Tournament Official Competition Rules, we’d like to clarify that the intended opening time for the Arena Tournament is 10:00 GMT, i.e. 12:00 (noon) CEST (Paris time) and thus 11:00 BST (London time).
Update 12:20 CEST: There has been a delay in opening the tournament realms. We will update you with new information as soon as possible.
Telia resolve internet dispute with Cogent
"We are happy to have signed a new contract with Cogent and regret that some of our customers have been affected by the dispute," said Malin Frenning CEO of Telia Sonera International Carrier, Dagens Nyheter (DN) writes.
The dispute began at around 11pm on March 13th when Cogent decided to cut off communications with Telia Sonera in protest at the "degraded" service it claimed was experienced by its customers. By 6.30pm on Friday the connection was re-established and Cogent customers in the USA could once again access sites hosted by Telia, such as World of Warcraft."
Blue Posts (made by Blizzard employees)
Falling through Karazhan Chess Floor
We've identified an issue that is teleporting people to the wrong location when they initially take control of a piece and are working on a fix.
Regarding quest item(s) credit on bosses
You need to be in the instance and within 100 yards of the NPC when it dies to get credit for the quest drop. It's been this way for quest items on bosses for a long time in order to prevent people exploiting quest drops.
In the future I would suggest not releasing your spirit while the quest NPC is still alive, and then not looting the corpse until everyone has returned. The body will not decay for 1 hour if it still has not been looted.
No plans on fixing the creative 'exploit' to duel in Ironforge
A certain spot near Ironforge's bank allows the game to see you in Dun Morogh, not Ironforge, and the dueling ban is avoided.
As fixing this would require rebuilding the Ironforge terrain, something that could potentially cause new worse issues, we will not be changing it.
