Wowhead's 2017 Year in Review and Happy New Year

geposted 31.12.2017 um 08:56 von perculia

Warcraftour Warcraft Year In Review PostSite Featuresnew front pageToday in Broken Islespartnering with JeevesBotnews webhookAttunement ToolFlying ToolDressing Room received major updatesdisplays top builds, legendaries and trinketsMythic+ Guideslaunched Korean WowheadWowhead NewsDDersereiNeryssaGumdropsdatamining Antorus spoilerscorrectly predictingVoid ElfNightborneBlizzConWoW's 13th AnniversaryAntorus7.3.5 PTRmore than tripleWowhead Guides

Our class guide writers provided a variety of updates, including Netherlight Crucible recommendations, boss tips for Tomb of Sargeras, Mage Tower Challenges, and Quick Tips for New Level 110s.

With the announcement of the Mythic Dungeon Invitational, we completely revamped our Mythic Dungeon guides. In addition to displaying statistics from Raider.IO, we had Voulk of Questionably Epic partner with Squishei to provide information on the best route as well as tips for each notable affix.

Tomb of Sargeras was the first major raid tier in which FatbossTV wrote all boss guides for Wowhead.

In addition to providing guides for each major patch topic, we expanded our new player guide offerings, with topics like Tips for Alts in Legion, Leveling in Legion, Attunements for Fresh 110s, and What To Do As A Level 1 Player.

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Voxxel continued to provide guides for new Legion zones, including the Comprehensive Argus Guide.

Nightswifty of the Achievements Discord has written a variety of detailed guides and comments, including Glory of the Argus Raider and how to acquire the Lucid Nightmare.

Pwuebear wrote the comprehensive Brawler's Guild Guide with tips for all new bosses for Legion.

Nirnaeth101 wrote A Month in the Maelstrom; Farming Cataclysm Mounts and Pets at lvl100+ and The Littlest Mountain: An overview of ALL Mounts and Pets in the game!

PurgatoryWolf has some great writeups of complicated mounts like Seeking the Long-Forgotten Hippogryph and Riddle Me This Mount.

Keldesh continues to write great transmogrification guides, like Show Your Allegiance Transmogs and Show Your Allegiance Transmogs .

Sivation has a comprehensive overview to Getting Started with Legion PvP while Flamebreaker has a guide to Honor and Prestige Farming in Legion.

The Mage Tower Challenges were quite tricky at launch. Special thanks to all the users who shared tips for Ein Auge zudrücken, Ein unmöglicher Feind, Zorn der Gottkönigin, Sturz der Teufelstotems, Rückkehr des Hochlords, Das Ende der erwachten Bedrohung, and Zwillinge bezwingen.

BoxofBeer continued to leave comments with coordinates and videos on most every quest and treasure page! This came in handy especially for achievements like Shoot First, Loot Later! and NPCs like The Many-Faced Devourer.

Jjanchan has faithfully maintained the Guide to Artifact Weapons and Guide to Legion Legendaries, as well as a slew of other comments, throughout the year--no mean feat with the variety of changes both systems faced.

Squirekel continues to write and maintain dozens of guides on Wowhead! Some of her more recent ones are Adventurer of the Broken Isles and Glory of the Orgrimmar Raider.

Wowhead StaffAnshlun (News Writer and Translator)2017 was amazing, as it was my first year frequently writing for Wowhead. I would like to thank everyone for their support, compliments, and feedback. I had a blast covering the last few patches from Legion and BlizzCon, loving its madness! May 2018 be even better, with more craziness and speculations to cover! A Happy New Year to everyone!Calligraphy (Datamining Developer)This was my first full year datamining with Wowhead, which means I finally felt much more integrated with the team. While we’ve worked on a ton of neat stuff this past year, probably the most exciting for me will be released next year (so I don’t get to talk about that just yet!), in general the data we’ve found on Legion has been neat to sniff out. In particular, a few of our internal tools were revamped this year (which.. probably is more exciting to the team than some of you 😉 ).

In terms of what’s been fun to mine in particular: finding neat clues in broadcast text that allowed conversations projecting what may happen in Battle for Azeroth, but also combing spells and noticing the Dark Titan Transformation spell (and what that indicated in relation to Antorus). We also added legendary spells to our patch “diff” page, refined some of our other “diff” related scripts, and also added a ton of new things that we didn’t used to track.

I’m looking forward to another year working on our datamining tools, and another year of seeing how Azeroth shapes up!Dirtside (Senior Software Engineer)Greetings, fellow Azerothians! I've spent the last several months tinkering with the innards of Wowhead's servers, and you'd be amazed how many gnomish engineering devices there are crammed into this thing. Discombobulators! Flame turrets! De-weaponized death rays! Anyhow, assuming those dastardly goblins don't wreck all my careful work, by this time next year Wowhead should either be able to transform into a 90-foot-tall mechagnome, or open a portal between any two bars on Azeroth. Hmm, that gives me an idea for a voice-activated, self-brewing, fel-powered keg...Jerek (Lead Developer)Thanks to all of our users who contribute to or visit the site! We try to bring all of you the best site features, but it's you using those tools, leaving comments on database pages and news posts, submitting all sorts of guides, and sharing the site with others that makes Wowhead what it is!Ketsuki (Assistant Site Producer)Thank you to all our readers and supporters for making 2017 fantastic! This year for me has been a nonstop hype train of excitement. I started this year with a few ideas and articles that were out of the box and community driven. Warcraft is more than just a game to us and many of us have taken it outside of the game and tailored it to be included in our other hobbies! My hope going into 2018 is to work even harder and bring even more article series to Wowhead that cover even a broader community base!

Big shout out to all who have worked with me this year to make this year a memorable one!

Nobbel, Fatboss, Lulaboo, Straya Obscura, Lady Rosse, Cally Kari Shokka, Runesael, Tsepish, Euphyley, & Nevirra!
All of our Class Guide & Guide writers!
J!NX Crew, Discord, Twitch & Blizzard
Panser for all you have done this year!
AnnieFuchsia whom I look forward to working with this year!

I also want to especially thank those who work alongside me on the Wowhead Team, for I have never seen a team who works so hard, day and night and even holidays. You guys are the best. Perculia (Site Producer)So...this is a little weird since I wrote the main post and now I'm writing a quote within the post I made...but I wanted to write something more personal in addition to the site summary :) Pepe told me to.

I want to thank everyone for embracing our vision for news and guides this past year. I felt strongly we needed to revamp Wowhead's front page and news schedule after seeing the changes in Legion, and we've had overwhelming support with the new site layout and around-the-clock news coverage. PTR updates are my favorite type of news to cover, nothing beats the feeling of discovering something and sharing it with everyone. We've seen a ton of growth and interest in our PTR coverage in 2017--thank you for all your support.

I also want to thank our expanded content team. With more writers on board, I had more time to focus on long-term improvements for the site, and create articles on topics I feel passionate about with less stress and time-constraints. I'm really proud of our expanded BlizzCon 2017 coverage.

2017 was a challenging year on the datamining front as we never got a break from the PTR. Historically we'd have some time to patch up parts of the site in between PTRs, but now it's more of a juggling act to provide PTR updates and live feature improvements at the same time. Thank you to the Wowhead dataminers for keeping up with all the changes, and to all our users for being patient as we adapted to the new Legion schedule.

I also want to thank all of our contractors and collaborators that joined us in 2017. Thank you for choosing Wowhead as your home for sharing information. We try to highlight as many contributions as possible, reaching a wide-ranging audience, through news spotlights, more-frequent guest posts, increased social media, and guide highlights. I also want to give Panser a special shoutout for her work on Wowhead Weekly and helping me adopt my rescue my cat, Brightpaw :)

Thanks for all your support in 2017 and look forward to sharing all the Battle for Azeroth updates with you in 2018!

Sas148 (Community Manager)I want to take a moment to thank everyone for helping to make our Discord server such a huge success, whether you're using our News Webhook, participating in our own official server, supporting one or more of the community servers we work with, utilizing JeevesBot, or just hanging out for your opportunity to win various prizes throughout the year; I appreciate that the endeavor to build upon this medium has helped to further reinforce how great our community can be towards one another.

Let's not forget the many contractors that help to keep our class guides updated and provide news & other resources for the community. Thanks to Lulaboo for her amazing monthly cooking show, and the artists we feature each month in this year's new Artist's Corner Feature. Even though she's stepping down from her role on Wowhead Weekly, thank you to Panser for all her efforts with it this past year and welcome to anniefuchsia who will be taking over in the new year!

I'd also like to thank each of our volunteer staff; those of you who help to moderate our forums and Discord, manage the spam and filter through the tens of thousands of screenshots and videos we receive each year, Localizers who help to translate the database, guides and other odds and ends into their respective languages for the benefit of our non-English users, and everyone in between. In addition, thank you to all the users who take the time to report forum issues and spam to our moderation team, those efforts help to expedite the process of cleaning things up for the betterment of everyone. Thank you!

Volunteers:

Pegasus2141, Onyx1831, Thulm, CalaelenDT, Kangi, Rankkor, Intervencion, wrlwnd, withkittens, thaia, Hilad, CaptnJay, Saphir, asakawa, FunkyJam, wooway777, Merylyan, Sparanoid, Chaari, strandmaus, DieZZzz.

Top 3 Users for Moderator Reports (All Time):

Nulgar, SoCalWoWGal, Adamsm.

Thank you for the enthusiasm and support of our newest collector's guides for Funko Pop!s and Cute But Deadly Figures, as well as the continued support for our Blizzard Pin Trading guide! I truly hope you all find them useful in your efforts to acquire or learn more about them! I've really enjoyed putting them together for all of you!

Lastly, I've made a lot of effort to increase the frequency and variety of giveaways we host on Wowhead, and our other ZAM sites, and I want to thank everyone who've participated; if you've won, that's awesome, but an even bigger thank you to those of you who've not been so lucky but have still shown great sportsmanship to those who have and continue to smile and hope for better luck the next time. Your enthusiasm is greatly appreciated! Those of you who've won and been kind enough to send a photo over for our new Winners' Gallery, the biggest thank you of all goes to you. Here's a list of some of our bigger giveaways for 2017:

Winter Veil, BlizzCon, The Great Noblegarden Egg Hunt, Love is in the Air, Month of Gratitude, and several Virtual Ticket Giveaways!

From my family to yours, have a Happy New Year! I look forward to continuing to serve you as your Community Relations Manager in 2018 and beyond! *hugs for all*

Stiven (Dataminer/Content Assistant)Thanks everyone who is following us on Youtube and likes our datamining and other content videos. We had a great time updating our Dressing Room to support all new Blizzard features added in Legion, so you could use our tool to check out your future characters in their favorite transmogs. Can't wait to see you next year with Battle for Azeroth datamining! Looking forward to datamining broadcast text for BFA ending :)Squishei (News and Guide Writer)I want to say thank you to the community for a fantastic year of working at Wowhead. I started helping with front page news and guides in April of this year and it’s been an exciting time that has been full of WoW content - from Patch 7.2’s Mage Tower Challenge scenarios all the way to 7.3.2’s Post-Antorus Raid Cinematic and the Wound in the World (Spoiler!). It was super fun trying to complete the Antorus raid as fast as possible to allow everyone to see how Legion was going to end.

Of course, we can’t forget about BlizzCon 2017. It was amazing to see all the comments discussing every detail about the upcoming expansion. The Wowhead team spent many hours summarizing panels and even more in the demo room trying to note down all the details about BFA’s Class Changes, Class Buffs and the upcoming Dungeon Journal. I had a ton of fun compiling it into posts for everyone to see (and watch people freak out a bit at some of the changes!). The biggest highlight of the WoW panels was having Ion Hazzikostas mention the ending of Legion being spoiled by datamined broadcast text.

My favorite set of articles this year involved datamined broadcast text - It’s almost like a bunch of puzzle pieces that you have to try to fit together. We had quite a few of these, but my favorites were the Antorus Dialogue Analysis and the Quest Chains for the Allied Races: Highmountain Tauren, Lightforged Draenei, Nightborne, Void Elves. My second favorite set of articles this year was the “First Look” articles for the last boss of the raid tiers: Kil’jaeden and Argus. We know that people are excited to see what the final boss of each raid tier has in store on the Mythic difficulty. I love seeing discussions in the comments on how hard the boss appears to be or how cool the bosses look. I’m glad the Wowhead community loves these articles as much as I love putting these articles together.

2017 was a fantastic year for WoW with lots of content, updates and news to the game. I’m excited to jump into the new content for 7.3.5 and eventually Battle for Azeroth which will hopefully be soon! Thanks to everyone who chats in our Discord server, contributes to the Wowhead Client and the database, uses the class and raid guides, and anyone who visits the website; have a Happy New Year and I look forward to more WoW in 2018!The biggest thank you goes to all of YOU out there that continue to use, love, support all of Wowhead and all of us. We hope 2018 is an even better year for us here, with new features, tools, giveaways and more to come!

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Kommentar von angeleyedHappy new year guys and girls! I hope next year our community will be even bigger! Health and happiness for 2018!Kommentar von DramanGreat job this year guy, can't wait to see what next year brings! Happy New Year!Kommentar von GoldenGirl1951Great year! Thank you for all you do. Daily, I rely on your site to enhance my gameplay, and you never disappoint. Many happy returns to you and yours in 2018.Kommentar von wbeylisHAPPY NEW YEAR! Have a fantastic 2018...can't wait for BFA!Kommentar von jjanchanKeep up the good work, Wowhead team! The community would not be what it is without this site and all involved.
I especially appreciate the fact that you continue to labour for us users day in and day out, despite the (unwarranted) flak you have to deal with sometimes! Kudos!Kommentar von YswarHappy new year to the Wowhead staff and to every Wowhead user!Kommentar von TalihawkThanks for this site. Wow would be incredibly frustrating without all the wonderful guides and info you provide!Kommentar von natyarafdnThank you so much for all you do! Happy new year, guys! You rock!
Hugs all the way from Brazil to you <3Kommentar von kodora1316Happy New Year y’all!Kommentar von Nithael014Happy new year everyone!Kommentar von fathom81Thanks for everything guys and gals ;)Kommentar von JaceDraccusHappy New Year, all!Kommentar von Purgatorywolf<3 happy new year yall!Kommentar von SilverDragon234Is that your tabby cat, perc?Kommentar von perculiaIs that your tabby cat, perc?Kommentar von NinaevaThank you guys for making this site filled with the info we need, for all of your hard work! Happy New 2018., may it bring happiness and joy to each and every one of you. <3Kommentar von PelontirThanks for all the great work in 2017 and Happy New Year to you all! :-)

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