On April 1st, there were numerous April Fools’ jokes related to World of Warcraft. We show you what Blizzard came up with.
Yesterday was April 1st and as usual, developers and community managers used online games to successfully fool players for April Fools. Blizzard is particularly known for its April Fools’ jokes around World of Warcraft and came up with several ideas. We look back at the April Fools’ jokes of 2018.
Micro-holidays – Crazier than ever
On the official WoW website, there was a new blog post introducing the new micro-holidays for 2018. Want some examples?
We are all Elves now: For three days, all player races turn into new elf races. So Tauren become “Hoof Elves”, while Orcs become “very angry Elves” and Goblins become “Girl Elves”. There simply aren’t enough elves in WoW.
Only with RP gang goes forward: For one day, all characters in the game can only walk and not run. A holiday especially for role players who have surely waited long for this.
Future Timewalking: Instead of rehashing old content with timewalking of the past, Blizzard now goes the opposite way – timewalking into the future. Here you can experience dungeons from future expansions!
Boom and Crash!: Miners have a new currency, as they can use “Brockchain” technology to mine “Kritcoin”. The value of Kritcoin varies at groundbreaking speed, fluctuating between 15,000 gold and three stones. You can shop with Kritcoin, at least if you find a vendor that accepts it.
Via Twitter, the developers informed that there will be even more crazy mounts in WoW in the future. With Battle for Azeroth, there will be “extremely realistic mounts” whose in-game graphics should be hardly distinguishable from reality. In fact, it looked like this:
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As usual, Blizzard also always publishes a lot of “fake patch notes” on April 1st, supposedly expanding the game with numerous things. Some ideas are just silly, some reference popular memes from the community, and others are even slightly teasing. Here are some translated excerpts:
New feature: Appear Online
Those who want to can now set their Battle.net account to be displayed as online permanently. Even when the PC is off, it looks for friends as if you have been farming battlegrounds or dungeons all day.
New feature: Royale Battlegrounds
A free-for-all match for 100 players that goes until the last survivor.
Everyone starts without equipment, talents, and class abilities. These are spread across the map and must be collected (or looted from enemies) to survive.
There are special cosmetic gears and titles, such as the “Fort Knight” title.
This will also come soon for Android and iOS!
Adjustments for mounts
The drop rates for mounts from raids and dungeons have been adjusted to ensure that the one mount you’ve been farming for three years drops immediately for the latest member of your guild.
Class changes Priest
Discipline
Atonement no longer requires the target to strip its clothes and walk naked through the streets of Stormwind. Shame!
Prayer of Mending is now 25% less pathetic.
Shadow
Your knife (Xal’atath) now speaks to you twice as often.
You can no longer put your knife on the ignore list. You really shouldn’t have done that.
A bug was fixed where you and your knife never had a good idea for dinner.
Your knife now speaks to you three times as often.
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